ASSIGNMENT No.

01 MATHEMATICS
15. The mean of x and y is a, the mean of y and z is b, and the
1. If 16 is 4 more than 4x, find 5x – 1.
mean of x and z is c. What is the mean of x, y, and z?
a. 14 c. 12
a. (a+b+c)/3 c. (a+b+c)/abc
b. 3 d. 5
b. (a+b+c)/2 d. abc/(a+b+c)
2. Find the value of x in the equations:
16. The arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers are
[ ] added to the progression, the new set of numbers will have an
arithmetic mean of 19. What are the two numbers if their
[ ] difference is 4?
a. 21, 25 c. 8, 12
a. 50/9 c. 70/9
b. 23, 27 d. 16, 20
b. 80/9 d. 60/9

3. Determine the sum of the positive valued solution to the 17. Solve for the value of “x” in the equation
a. ±2 c. ±4
simultaneous equations: xy = 15, yz = 35, zx = 21.
b. ±3 d. ±5
a. 15 c. 17
b. 13 d. 19
18. Determine the value of k so that the equation
4. Find the value of A in the equation: will have just one real solution.
( ) a. 3 c. 5
b. 4 d. 6
a. -2 c. -1/2
b. 1/2 d. 2 19. If 1/3 and -3/2 are the roots of a quadratic equation, the
equation is
5. Evaluate: 64 ∙ 4
x y a. c.
a. 256
xy
c. 64
x+3y b. d.
x+3y 3x+y
b. 4 d. 4
20. What is the discriminant of the equation ?
6. Solve for x in the following equations: a. 8 c. 16
b. -16 d. -8

a. 1 c. 2 21. Given the equation . What is the value of

b. 1.5 d. 2.5 B so that the roots of the equation are equal?
a. 4 c. 10
( ) ( ) b. 8 d. -12
7. Evaluate: ( )
n 2n
a. y=5 c. y = 5 22. Find the term involving in the expansion of ( ) .
b. y=9 d. y = 18 a. c.
b. d.
8. Given: ( )( )
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23. Find the 5 term of the expansion ( )
a. 12 c. 11 a. c.
b. 9 d. 10 b. d.

9. Find the value of k so that is a perfect square. 24. What is the numerical coefficient of the term next to
a. 36 c. 9 ?
b. 2.5 d. 2.25 a. 660 c. 990
b. 792 d. 1100
2 2
10. If p – q = 5 and pq = k/2, then p + q equals,
a. k c. 25 + k 25. What is the coefficient of the term free of x of the expansion
b. 25k d. k/25 of ( ) ?
a. 256 c. 265
11. The polynomial is divided by , then b. 526 d. 625
the remainder is,
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a. 175 c. 218 26. Find the 6 term of ( ) .
b. 140 d. 200 a. c.
b. d.
12. Find the quotient of divided by
. 27. What is the sum of the coefficients of the expansion of
a. c. ( ) ?
b. d. a. 0 c. 2
b. 1 d. 3
13. Given: f(x) = (x + 3)(x – 4) + 4. When f(x) is divided by (x – k),
the remainder is k. What is the value of k? 28. What is the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of (x + y -
a. 2 c. 6 z)^8?
b. 4 d. 8 a. 0 c. 2
b. 1 d. 3
14. The expression when divided by (x
– 2) leaves a remainder of 16 and when divided by (x + 1) 29. If what is the value of ?
leaves a remainder of 10. Find a and b. a. 2 c. 6
a. 5, 7 c. -5, -7 b. 4 d. 8
b. -5, 7 d. 5, -7
30. Given: ( ). Find x.
a. 2 c. 4
b. 3 d. 6
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31. The sum of Kim’s and Kevin’s ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim will be 42. Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 15 liters of 35% salt solution
twice as old as Kevin. What are their ages now? are poured into a drum originally containing 30 liters of 10%
a. 4, 14 c. 7, 11 salt solution. What is the percent concentration of salt in the
b. 5, 13 d. 6, 12 mixture?
a. 19.55% c. 27.05%
32. Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. However, “y” b. 22.15% d. 25.72%
years ago, Robert was twice as old as Stan. If Stan is now “x”
years old and x>y, find the value of (x – y). 43. A goldsmith has two alloys of gold, the first being 70% pure
a. 15 c. 17 and the second being 60% pure. How many ounces of the 60%
b. 16 d. 18 pure gold must be used to make 100 ounces of an alloy which
will be 66% gold?
33. A girl is one-third as old as her brother and 8 years younger a. 40 c. 45
than her sister. The sum of their ages is 38 years. How old is b. 35 d. 38
the girl?
a. 4 c. 6 44. 2,000 kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to be made by mixing
b. 5 d. 7 a steel containing 14% nickel with another 6% nickel. How
much of each is needed?
34. A father tells his son, “I was your age now when you were a. 1500 kg with 14% nickel, 500 kg with 6% nickel
born”. If the father is now 38 years old, how old was his son 2 b. 750 kg with 14% nickel, 1250 kg with 6% nickel
years ago? c. 500 kg with 14% nickel, 1500 kg with 6% nickel
a. 15 c. 19 d. 1250 kg with 14% nickel, 750 kg with 6% nickel
b. 17 d. 21
45. How much water must be evaporated from 10 kg solution
35. At present, the sum of the parents’ ages is twice the sum of which has 4% salt to make a solution of 10% salt?
the children’s ages. Five years ago, the sum of the parents’ a. 4 kg c. 6 kg
ages was 4 times the sum of the children’s ages. Fifteen years b. 5 kg d. 7 kg
hence, the sum of the parents’ ages will be equal to the sum
of the children’s ages. How many children are there? 46. Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted from its terms it
a. 3 c. 5 becomes ¼, but if 4 is added to the terms it becomes ½.
b. 4 d. 6 a. 3/5 c. 5/14
b. 5/12 d. 6/13
36. A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours. Another
pump can pump out water from the same tank in 20 hours. 47. If 3 is subtracted from the numerator of a certain fraction, the
How long will it take both pumps to pump out the water in the value of the fraction becomes 3/5. If 1 is subtracted from the
tank? denominator of the same fraction, it becomes 2/3. Find the
a. 7 hours c. 7.5 hours original fraction.
b. 6 hours d. 6.5 hours a. 35/55 c. 3/7
b. 36/55 d. 32/41
37. A tank can be filled in 9 hours by one pipe, 12 hours by a
second pipe and can be drained when full by a third pipe in 15 48. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice
hours. How long will it take to fill an empty tank with all pipes the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of the fraction, the
in operation? resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original fraction.
a. 7 hours and 12 minutes c. 7 hours and 42 minutes a. 8/5 c. 5/13
b. 7 hours and 32 minutes d. 7 hours and 50 minutes b. 13/5 d. 3/5

38. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% faster 49. Find the product of two numbers such that twice the first
than Mark, and together they can paint a given fence in 4 added to the second equals 19 and three times the first is 21
hours. How long will it take Pedro to paint the same fence if more than the second.
he had to work alone? a. 24 c. 18
a. 6 c. 10 b. 32 d. 20
b. 8 d. 12
50. The ten’s digit of a number is 3 less than the units’ digit. If the
39. A and B working together can finish painting a house in 6 days. number is divided by the sum of the digits, the quotient is 4
A working alone can finish it in 5 days less than B. How long and the remainder is 3. What is the original number?
will it take each of them to finish the work alone? a. 36 c. 58
a. 8, 13 c. 6, 11 b. 47 d. 69
b. 10, 15 d. 7, 12
51. The second of the four numbers is three less than the first, the
40. A farmer can plow the field in 8 days. After working for 3 days, third is four more than the first, and the fourth is two more
his son joins him and together they plow the field in 3 more than the third. Find the fourth number if their sum is 35.
days. How many days will it require for the son to plow the a. 10 c. 12
field alone? b. 11 d. 13
a. 10 c. 12
b. 11 d. 13 52. A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five minutes
later, a second jogger starts the same course at 10 kph. How
41. On one job, two power shovels excavate 20,000 cubic meters long will it take the second jogger to catch the first?
of earth, the larger shovel working 40 hours and the smaller a. 20 min c. 22 min
for 35 hours. On another job, they removed 40,000 cubic b. 21 min d. 18 min
meters with the larger shovel working 70 hours and the
smaller working 90 hours. How much earth can each remove 53. A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with the stream and
in 1 hour working alone? back in 14 hours, but finds that he can row 14 miles with the
a. 169.2, 287.3 c. 173.9, 347.8 stream in the same time as 3 miles against the stream. Find
b. 178.3, 294.1 d. 200.1, 312.4 the rate of the stream?
a. 1.5 mph c. 0.8 mph
b. 1 mph d. 0.6 mph
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54. Two planes leave Manila for a Southern City, a distance of 900 66. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one more log than the
km. Plane A travels at a ground speed of 90 kph faster than layer above and the top contains just one log. If there are 105
the plane B. Plane A arrives in their destination 2 hours and 15 logs in the pile, how many layers are there?
minutes ahead of plane B. What is the ground speed of plane a. 11 c. 13
A? b. 12 d. 14
a. 205 kph c. 240 kph
b. 315 kph d. 287 kph 67. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom layer, 58 bricks in
the second layer, 55 bricks in the third layer, and so on until
55. A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident which there are 10 bricks in the last layer. How many bricks are there
detains it an hour, after which it proceeds at 3/5 of its former all together?
rate and arrives three hour after time; but if the accident a. 638 c. 639
happened 50 miles farther on the line, it would have arrived b. 637 d. 640
one and one-half hour sooner. Find the length of the journey.
a. 910/9 miles c. 920/9 miles 68. A besiege fortress is held by 5700 men who have provisions
b. 800/9 miles d. 850/9 miles for 66 days. If the garrison losses 20 men each day, for how
many days can the provision hold out?
56. What time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and minute a. 72 c. 76
hand of the clock first form an angle of 120°? b. 74 d. 78
a. 12:18.818 c. 12:22.818
b. 12:21.818 d. 12:24.818 69. A Civil Engineering student got a score of 30% on test 1 of the
five number tests in Surveying. On the last number he got 90%
57. At what time between 8:00 and 9:00 o’clock will the minute in which a constant difference more on each number that he
hand coincide with the hour hand? had on the immediately preceding one. What was his average
a. 8:42.5 c. 8:43.6 score in Surveying?
b. 8:43.2 d. 8:43.9 a. 50 c. 60
b. 55 d. 65
58. A man left his home at past 3:00 o’clock PM as indicated in his
wall clock. Between 2 to 3 hours after, he returns home and 70. Once a month, a man puts some money into the cookie jar.
noticed the hands of the clock interchanged. At what time did Each month he puts 50 centavos more into the jar than the
the man leave his home? month before. After 12 years, he counted his money, he had
a. 3:31.47 c. 3:46.10 P5,436. How much money did he put in the jar in the last
b. 3:21.45 d. 3:36.50 month?
a. P 73.50 c. P 74.50
59. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the same day, b. P 75.50 d. P 72.50
the minute hand of a standard clock describes an arc of
a. 60° c. 180° 71. A boy on a bicycle coasts downhill covers 4 feet the first
b. 90° d. 540° second, 12 feet the second second, and in general, 8 feet
more each second than the previous second. If he reaches the
60. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 when y = 7 bottom at the end of 14 seconds, how far did he coasts?
and z = 2, find the value of x when y = 16 and z = 4. a. 782 feet c. 784 feet
a. 14 c. 16 b. 780 feet d. 786 feet
b. 4 d. 8
72. How many times will a grandfather’s clock strikes in one day if
61. The selling price of a TV set is double that of its cost. If the TV it strikes only at the hours and strike once at 1:00 o’clock,
set was sold to a customer at a profit of 25% of the net cost, twice at 2:00 o’clock, thrice at 3:00 o’clock and so on?
how much discount was given to the customer? a. 210 c. 156
a. 33.7% c. 37.5% b. 24 d. 300
b. 35.7% d. 34.7%
73. Find the fourth term of the progression ½, 0.2, 0.125, . . . .
62. A merchant has three items on sale namely a radio for P50, a a. 1/10 c. 0.102
clock for P30, and a flashlight for P1. At the end of the day, he b. 1/11 d. 0.099
sold a total of 100 of the three items and has taken exactly
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P1000 on the total sales. How many radios did he sale? 74. Find the 9 term of the harmonic progression 3, 2, 3/2, . . . .
a. 16 c. 18 a. 3/5 c. 4/5
b. 20 d. 24 b. 3/8 d. 4/9

63. Determine the sum of three arithmetic means between 34 75. Find the sum of 4 geometric means between 160 and 5.
and 42. a. 130 c. 150
a. 114 c. 134 b. 140 d. 160
b. 124 d. 144
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76. The fourth term of a G.P. is 216 and the 6 term is 1944. Find
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64. Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 feet in the first second, 48.3 the 8 term.
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ft in the 2 second, 80.5 ft in the 3 second. How far did the a. 17649 c. 16749
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body fall during the 10 second? b. 17496 d. 17964
a. 248.7 ft. c. 241.5 ft.
b. 308.1 ft. d. 305.9 ft. 77. If one third of the pair in a tank is removed by each stroke of
an air pump, what fractional part of the total air is removed in
65. If the first term of an arithmetic progression is 25 and the 6 strokes?
fourth term is 13, what is the third term? a. 0.7122 c. 0.6122
a. 17 c. 19 b. 0.9122 d. 0.8122
b. 18 d. 20
78. The sum of the first 10 terms of a geometric progression 2, 4,
8, . . . is
a. 1023 c. 225
b. 2046 d. 1596
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79. The seventh term is 56 and the twelfth term is -1792 of a
geometric progression. Find the common ratio and the first
term. Assume the ratios are equal.
a. -2, 5/8 c. -1, 7/8
b. -1, 5/8 d. -2, 7/8

80. In the PBA three-point shootout contest, the committee

decided to give a prize in the following manner: A prize of P1
for the first basket made, P2 for the second, P4 for the third,
P8 for the fourth and so on. If the contestant wants to win a
prize of no less than a million pesos, what is the minimum
number of baskets to be converted?
a. 20 c. 18
b. 19 d. 21

81. A man mailed 10 chain letters to ten of his friends with a

request to continue by sending a similar letter to each of their
ten friends. If this continue for 6 sets of letters and if all
responded, how much will the Philippine Postal office earn if
minimum postage costs P4 per letter?
a. P 6,000,000 c. P 2, 222, 220
b. P 60,000 d. P 4, 444, 440

82. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 50 feet and is

observed to rebound 2/3 of the distance it falls. How far will
the ball travel before coming to rest if the ball continues to fall
in this manner?
a. 200’ c. 250’
b. 225’ d. 275’

83. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric progression if the sum is

2 and the first term is ½.
a. 1/3 c. 3/4
b. 1/2 d. 1/4
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84. In the series 1, 1, ½, 1/6, 1/24, . . . determine the 6 term
a. 1/80 c. 1/100
b. 1/74 d. 1/120

85. A 10 liter pail is full of water. Neglecting the weight of the pail,
how heavy is its water content?
a. 5 kg c. 10 kg
b. 6.67 kg d. 12.5 kg

86. How many cubic meters is 100 gallons of liquid?

a. 1.638 c. 0.164
b. 3.785 d. 0.378

87. In a hydrographic survey, a certain point below the surface of

the water measures 12 fathoms. It is equivalent to a deep of
how many feet?
a. 72 c. 48
b. 60 d. 36

88. How many degrees Celcius is 80 degrees Fahrenheit?

a. 13.34 c. 26.67
b. 1.334 d. 2.667

89. 3200 mils is equal to how many degrees?

a. 45° c. 180°
b. 90° d. 270°

90. MCMXCIV is equivalent to what number?

a. 1964 c. 1984
b. 1994 d. 1974

INSTRUCTION: Write your solution on a long bond paper (write on

one side only) and use pencil #2 only. Staple multiple
sheets.

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