Measures of Position: Quartiles, Deciles, and Percentiles

Measures of Position: Quartiles, Deciles, and Percentiles

4th Quarter - Week 1

Multiple Choice

1. The median score is also the ______.

• 75th percentile

• 5th decile

• 3rd decile

• 1st quartile

Multiple Choice

2. When a distribution is divided into hundred equal parts,

each score point that describes the distribution is called a _____.

• percentile

• decile

• quartile

• median

Multiple Choice

3. The lower quartile is equal to ______.

• 50th percentile

• 2nd decile

• 25th percentile

• 3rd quartile

Multiple Choice

4. It is the difference between the third quartile and the first

quartile.

• range

• 2nd quartile

• quantiles

• interquartile range

Multiple Choice

5. The nine score points which divide the distribution into 10

equal parts.

• Percentiles

• Deciles

• Quartiles

• Quantiles