Review Day 9

Mr. Marunong is the school head at Mathalino National High School, one of the leading math schools in the provinces. He wants to determine the number of students at the school for the past five years to develop a program that will benefit the students, teachers, and school. One of the teachers gave him a graph that shows the information for the school years 2016-2020.

What year does the school have the highest number of enrollees?

• 2017

• 2018

• 2019

• 2020

The number of students is increasing over a period of 5 years.

• True

• False

There was a decrease in students during 2019.

• True

• False

The year 2020 has the highest number of students.

• True

• False

Grade 10 was the least number of students among grade levels.

• True

• False

Sarah joined a community outreach last Sunday. She was in-charge of packing fruits particularly ponkans before putting them in crates. Each crate weighs 3 kilograms when empty, an individual ponkan averages 0.2 kilograms. When the crate is full it weighs 12 kilograms.

What is the total weight of ponkan placed in the crate?

• 3 kg

• 6kg

• 9kg

• 12 kg

Answer explanation

a1. is at the unistructural level as it requires one arithmetic operation (a subtraction involving two numbers given in the question). In addition respondents need to identify important data that are needed, and ignoring the data that are irrelevant, and having a plan/approach to solve the problem.

Sarah joined a community outreach last Sunday. She was in-charge of packing fruits particularly ponkans before putting them in crates. Each crate weighs 3 kilograms when empty, an individual ponkan averages 0.2 kilograms. When the crate is full it weighs 12 kilograms.

How many ponkans can Sarah place in a full crate?

• 30 ponkans

• 35 ponkans

• 40 ponkans

• 45 ponkans

Answer explanation

The level is multistructural as the respondent is expected to undertake a number of single sequential steps to reach a solution drawing on relevant pieces of information. This differs from the first question as it only required a single step or operation. In the case of a multistructural question the steps are in a known sequential order.

Sarah joined a community outreach last Sunday. She was in-charge of packing fruits particularly ponkans before putting them in crates. Each crate weighs 3 kilograms when empty, an individual ponkan averages 0.2 kilograms. When the crate is full it weighs 12 kilograms.

At another farm, the packers found that they could fit 50 ponkans in a crate with the same weight. How much did their ponkans weigh?