MATHEMATICS

1. What is the value of x so that the sequence {4x-3, 3x – 2, 4, …} forms an arithmetic sequence?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 1.5 d. 2.5
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2. What is the value of 𝒍𝒐𝒈𝟐 𝟖 + 𝒍𝒐𝒈𝟓 𝟓 ?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. -3

3. Seven different weights are used to balance small masses in a laboratory. These weights are in geometric progression. What
is the greatest weight if the lightest is 0.5g and the median (middle) weight is 4g?
a. 24 g b. 30 g c. 32 g d. 42 g

4. What is the sum of the geometric series 0.3 + 3 + 30 + … + 300,000?

a. 3, 333.3 b. 33,333.3 c. 333,333.3 d. 3,333,333.3

5. If log x = 1, what is the value of x ?

a. 0 b. 10 c. 1 d. -1

6. What is value of x if log x = 1 + 2log 2?

a. 40 b. 4 c. -4 d. 10

7. What is the value of x in the equation 5𝑥+2 + 5𝑥+1 + 5𝑥 = 3875 ?

a. 5 b. 3 c. 9 d. 25

8. Which of the following ordered pairs belong to the polynomial functions 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 4 − 4𝑥 3 + 3𝑥 − 2 ?
a. (1, 0) b. (-1, 4) c. (0, -2) d. (1, 4)

9. What is the value of k in 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 + 3𝑥 2 + 12𝑥 + 𝑘 so that x – 2 is a factor ?

a. 9 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5

10. One diagonal of a rectangle is 10 cm long. The rectangle’s length is 8cm. What is the area of the rectangle?
a. 24𝑐𝑚2 b. 36𝑐𝑚2 c. 48𝑐𝑚2 d. 80𝑐𝑚2

11. A rectangular piece of cardboard is 70 cm by 50 cm. A 10-cm square is cut from each corner and the four flaps are folded up
to form an open box. What is the volume of the box?
a. 1,500 𝑐𝑚2 b. 15,000 𝑐𝑚2 c. 24, 000 𝑐𝑚2 d. 80𝑐𝑚2

12. What is the third term of the expansion (𝑥 2 + 3𝑦)5 ?

a. 15𝑥 2 𝑦 b. 90𝑥 2 𝑦 2 c. 270𝑥 2 𝑦 2 d. 15𝑥 2 𝑦 2

13. If 212𝑥 = 9 , what is the value 21−𝑥 ?

a. 3 b. 1/3 c. -1/3 d. - 3

14. What is the value of x if 16𝑥 𝑥+2 = 642𝑥−1 ?

a. 7/4 b. 2 c. ¼ d. – 2

15. The volume V of a cube varies directly as the cube of its edge E, if the value of E doubled, what happens to the value of V?
a. 4 times as great b. 8 times as great c. 6 times as great d. 12 times as great

16. What are the roots of 𝑥 2 + 8𝑥 − 15 ?

a. {3, 5} b. {-3. 5} c. {-3, -5} d. { 3, -5}

17. what is the missing term in 𝑥 4 + 6𝑥 + ____ so that the resulting expression is a perfect square trinomial?
a. 1 b. 6 c. 9 d. 3

18. A tank contains 243 L of gasoline. Each time that a valve is opened, one-third of the gasoline is released. How much gas
will be in the tank after the valve is opened 5 times?
a. 32 L b. 48 L c. 53 L d. 54 L

19. What is the first term of the geometric progression whose 7th term is 512 and 8th term is 1,024?
a. 4 b. 8 c. 12 d. 16

20. What is the number of bacteria produced from 500 bacteria at the end of 4 hours if simple fission (splitting into two) occurs
every 12 minutes?
a. 524 million c. 584 million b. 560 million d. 420 million
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PRE-TEST

1. How many line segments are there in line PX if it has six (6) determined points?
a. 5 b. 6 c. 15 d. 21

2. What will happen to the area of a square if its side is doubled?

a. 50% smaller c. 75% bigger
b. 50% bigger d.100% bigger

3. Which of the following sets of numbers are considered Pythagorean triple?

I. 3, 4, 5 II. 6, 8, 10 III. 5, 12, 17

a. I and ll b. ll and lll c. l and lll d. l, ll and lll

4. Segments AB and XY are divided proportionally by points C and Z respectively.

If AC = 10, XZ = 4 and ZY = 24, find CB.
a. 10 b. 24 c. 60 d. 240

5. A ladder 13 m long leans against a building and reaches a point 12m above the ground. How far is the ladder from
the base of the building?
a. 25 m b. 13 m c. 12 m d. 5 m

4. KITE is a parallelogram and point X is the intersection point of the diagonals. If KX = 2x + 9 and TX = 6x – 3, how
long is KT?
a. 30 b. 18 c. 15 d. 3

5. The center of the circle defined by the equation x² + 4x + 4 + y² + 10y + 25 = - 28 is

a. (2, 5) b. (-2, -5) c. (-2, 5) d. (2, -5)

6. The volume of a rectangle water tank is 27 cubic meters. Express its volume in centimeter.
a. 270 cm³ b. 2,700 cm³ c. 27,000 cm³ d. 270,000 cm³

7. In parallelogram KIND, m  I = 85. What is m  D?

a. 85  b. 95  c. 105  d. 115 

8. WISE is a parallelogram whose diagonals intersect at P. If the

length of WP is 6 cm and the length of EP is 9 cm, what is the
total measure of the two diagonals?
a. 12 cm b. 15 cm c. 18 cm d. 30 cm

9. What is the probability of getting at least 1 head if two coins are tossed?
a. 1 b. 1/2 c. 1/4 d. ¾

10. How many sets of answer are possible for a true or false quiz of 10 questions?
a. 2 b. 20 c. 625 d. 1,024

11. Into how many ways you can arrange 3boys and 2 girls in a row if the girls must be seated beside each other?
a. 120 b. 48 c. 24 d. 6

12. Given the scores: 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12 Evaluate:  (x  2)

i=5
i

a. 58 b. 56 c. 10 d. 48

13. Norman, Jayson and Elmer put a capital to a internet café business at a ratio of 1:2:3, respectively. How much did
Jayson spend if the total capital is amounting to P400, 000.00?
a. P66,666.67 b.P133,333.33 c. P200,000.00 d. P100,000.00

14. What is the amount if P10,000 earned 9% interest rate compounded semi-annually after 5 years?
a. P10,950.25 b. P10,905.00 c. P15,529/69 d. P17,100.33

15. What is 1/5 of 1/2 of 1/4 of 40?

a. 1 b. 2 c.10 d.20

16. Find the interest after 6 months of P1,000 deposited in a bank that offers 3% simple interest rate.
a. P30.50 b. P31.00 c.P350.00 d. P340.50
17. What is the geometric mean of 8 and 2?
a. 4 b. 5 c. 10 d.16

18. The length and width of the volleyball court are 12m and 6m, respectively. What is the distance from one corner of
the said court to its opposite corner?
a. 18m b. 8m c. 9 50 d. 6 5

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19. If Q(r) = what is its domain?
r 1
2

a. ( ,  ) b. (1, ) c. {r 1 r = 1} d. {r r  1}

20. What is the slope of a tangent line to the graph of the functions f(x) = 2x + 10?
a. 2 b. 4 c. 10x d. 4x