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__________ 1. Express 13,860 as a product of prime factors using exponents.
__________ 2. What is the greatest common factor of 420 and 630?
__________ 3. What is the least common multiple of 420 and 630?
__________ 4. What is the reciprocal of the sum of 2 3/7 and 4 2/3 ?
__________ 5. A radio is marked at P740. If a discount of 20% is given, the shopkeeper will lose P18. What is the cost
price of the radio?
__________ 6. A jar filled with water weighs 13 kg. When half of the water is poured out, the jar and its contents weigh
6 kg. What is the weight of the jar? 43
__________ 7. The total cost of 3 rulers at P9.50 each and a dozen similar notebooks is P322.50. How much does 8 of
the notebooks cost?
__________ 8. May guessed their classroom to be 9.5 m long. When measured, it was 10.3 m. What was her error
percent to the nearest tenth of a percent?
__________ 9. A salesman has a basic salary of P4,500 a month. He gets a commission of 6% of all sales above
P50,000. How much did he get in a month when his sales amounted to P497,550?
__________ 10. The cost of a watch including a tax of 25% is P937. If the watch was sold for P1087, how many
percent is this above the cost price, to the nearest whole percent?
__________ 11. An 18 cm by 24 cm picture is framed on colored cardboard so that there is a 5 cm margin at the bottom
along the 24 cm width and 4 cm on each of the other 3 sides. What area of the cardboard can be seen?
__________ 12. Lita has m pencils. Jim has 6n pencils, and Wendy has 3n more pencils that Lita. How many pencils do
they have altogether?
__________ 13. A piece of wire was 16 m long. Mr. Lin used 2 m 56 cm of it. What percent of the piece of wire was
left?
__________ 14. If n = 9, what is the value of {15 n}3 5n?
__________ 15. On a map with a scale of 4 cm : 1 km, an estate has an area of 12 cm2 on the map. How many square
meters is the area of the estate?
__________ 16. How many books, 25 cm long, 12 cm wide and 2.4 cm thick can be packed into a box 5 dm long, 3.7
dm wide and 2 dm high, internal dimensions?
__________ 17. There are 108 red, blue and green marbles in a box. Four more than one-third of the marbles are red.
There are 8 more green marbles than blue marbles. How many marbles of each kind are there?
__________ 18. What is the ones digit of 7345?
__________ 19. A speculator lost 35% of his capital in one operation, and lost 40% of the remainder in a second
operation. If he then had P15,600, how much had he at first?
__________ 20. The marked price of a pair of shoes is P680. If a discount of 30% is given, the shopkeeper will lose
P94. How much must he sell the shoes so that he has a gain of 20% on the cost price?
__________ 21. Lita and Rose start jogging on a 110 m circular track. They begin at the same point, but jog in opposite
directions. Lita at 8/3 meters per second and Rose 7/3 at meters per second. Find the number of times
that they will pass each other during the first 15 minutes of jogging.
__________ 22. Each of the numbers 622 and 831 have digits whose product is 24, i.e. 6 x 2 x 2 = 24. How many 3digit whole numbers have digits whose product is 24? Show all those you find.
__________ 23. What is the sum of all the 4-digit numbers that can be obtained by using each of the digits 3, 5, 7 and 9
once?
__________ 24. A typist can type an average of 85 words in 2 minutes. At this rate, how long would it take to type a
term paper of about 1232 words if a 5-minute allowance is given for change of paper? Give the answer
to the nearest minute.
__________ 25. The base of isosceles ABC is 3 cm less than a leg. If the 12 1/5 perimeter is 42 cm and the altitude to
the base is 12 cm, what is its area?
__________ 26. The outer dimensions of a picture frame are 36 cm by 24 cm. If the frame is uniformly 3 cm around a
picture, what is the area of the picture?

__________ 27. A park is 115 m long and 95 m wide. How many times must a jogger go around the park completely to
make sure he has run at least 5 kilometers?
__________ 28. A job can be done by 30 men in 35 days. After 10 days, 5 men left. How long will the remaining men
finish the job?
__________ 29. A car travels 140 km in 3.5 hours and a train travels 30 km in 50 min. Find the ratio of the speed of the
car to that of the train.
__________ 30. A can 2 dm long and 2 dm wide and 4 dm high is full of oil. How many 250 mL of oil can be
filled from it?
__________ 31. A boy cycles a certain distance for 42 minutes at 10 km/hr. If he tries to cover the same distance in 35
minutes, what must be his speed?
__________ 32. A machine can cap 1,800 bottles in one hour; another can cap 1,700 bottles an hour. There are 20,000
bottles to be capped. How long will it take the 2 machines to do the capping together?
__________ 33. A train travels 60 km in hour. If it maintains the same average speed, how far will it travel in 2
hours?
__________ 34. Nine small squares are put together to form a bigger square. If the perimeter of the big square is 192
cm, what is the area of each small square?
__________ 35. Two numbers are in the ratio 5:8. If the difference is 36, what is the larger of the two numbers?
__________ 36. One cube has an edge of 9 cm. A second cube has an edge 2/3 that of the first cube. What is the ratio of
the volume of the first cube to that of the second cube?
__________ 37. Five consecutive whole numbers have a sum of 225. What is the largest number?
__________ 38. 15 cm by 10 cm picture was enlarged so that its dimensions increased by 20%. What is the area of the
enlarged picture?
__________ 39. To what exponent should 2 be raised to give a value of 512?
__________ 40. Ellen uses 3.5 liters of water on her houseplants each week. Find the average number of milliliters of
water she uses a day.