1. A room has a dimension of 5m by 4m by 3m.

An ant is located at one corner of the ceiling in the

room. If it will travel on the walls and the floor, find the length of the shortest path it should
travel to reach the opposite corner on the floor.
a. 9.5 m b. 8.6 m c .9.8 m d. 8.3 m

2. What is the greatest distance on the surface of the earth that can be seen from the top of a
mountain which is 2.4 km high if the radius of the earth is 6370 km.
a. 157.9 km b. 174.8 km c. 179.7 km d. 189.7 km

3. The sides of a triangle are 5, 7, and 10 respectively. Find the radius of the inscribed and
circumscribed circle.
a. 1.48, 5.39 b. 2.48, 6.39 c. 3.48, 7.39 d. 4.48, 8.39

4. Find the area of a regular hexagon if each side is 8 cm long.

a. 316.37 b. 166.28 c. 133.37 d. 313.73
 5. The sides of a triangle are 5, 8 and 10 respectively. Find the length of the median line through
the side 10.
a. 4.42 b. 4.24 c. 6.82 d. 8.70

6. How many sides and diagonals have an equiangular polygon if each its interior angles is 165O?
a. 24, 252 b. 42, 522 c. 34, 282 d. 14,152

7. A man at a certain distance measure the angle of elevation of a tower. He then walks 20m on a level
ground towards the tower. The angle of elevation from this second station was then the complement of
the former angle. The man again walks 5m nearer to the tower in the same line and found the angle of
elevation to be doubled the first angle. How high is the tower?

a. 29.12m b. 22.19m c. 22.91m d. 27.7m

8. At noon, ship A is sailing on a course eastward at the rate of 20 knots. At the same instant, another
ship B, 100 nautical miles east of ship A is sailing on a course N30OW at the rate of 10 knots. How far
away from each other are the ships after one hour? Note 1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hr.

a. 55.7 nm b. 75.5 nm c. 57.5 nm d. 65.7 nm

9. The centers of two circles of radii 41cm each are 80 cm apart. Find the length of their common chord.
a. 14 cm b. 15 cm c. 16 cm d. 18 cm

10. An inscribed angle is π 4 radian and the chord of the circle subtended by this angle is 12 2 cm. Find
the radius of the circle.

a. 15 cm b. 14 cm c. 13 cm d. 12 cm

11. The base of a parallelogram is 57.5cm and its diagonals make angles of 24”20’ and 42”26’ with the
base. Find the length of the longest diagonal.

a. 56.16 cm b. 28.08 cm c. 83.04 cm d. 41.52 cm

12. If sin A = 3/5 and A is in the second quadrant, find cos 2A.

a. 7/5 b. 7/25 c. 5/7 d. 4/5

13. From a point on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top of a building is observed to be
twice the angle of elevation of the window one third of the wat up the building. Find the angle of
elevation of the top of the building.

a.56deg b.60deg c.65deg d.48deg

14. Find the area of a regular pentagon with apothem of 10 cm.

a. 363.72 sq.cm b. 363.57 sq. cm c. 363.27 sq.cm d. 365.27 sq.cm

15. An airplane is flying at an altitude of 1 km directly away from an observer on the ground, has an
angle of elevation of 48 degrees at a certain instant and angle of elevation of 20 degrees one minute
later. The speed of the airplane is nearest to

a. 115kph b. 112 kph c. 140 kph d. 111 kph

16. Solve for the values of y from the system of equations y sin x=3 and y cos x=4

a. 7 b. 5 c. 25 d. 1

17. An observer on top of a cliff 45.8 m high observes the angles of depression of two ships, which are
due north of him to be 20deg12 and 47deg39. Find the distance between ships.

a.73.82m b.87.32m c.82.73m d.83.72

18. At a point A south of tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 50 deg. At another point
B, 200 m east of A, the angle of elevation is 22 degrees. Find the height of tower.
a. 84 m b. 85 m c. 86 m d. 87 m

19. .Find the angle between the minute hand and hour hand of a wall clock at 3:25 pm.

a. 0.892 rad b. 0.829 rad c.0.982 rad d.0.928 rad

20. The angle of elevation 10 m from a tree of the top of the tree is three times the angle of elevaton at
a point 50 m from it. Find the height of the tree.

a. 25 m b. 23 m c. 21 m d. 19 m

21. The difference in area between the pentagram and the circumscribed circle with radius 10 cm is
nearest to

a.201 sq m b.202 sq m c.205 sq m d. 204 sq m

22. Find the amplitude of the sinusoidal curve y = 3 cos 2x – 4 sin 2x.

a. 1 b. 7 c. 5 d. 2
23. Find the angle whose supplement exceed 6 times the complement by 20 degrees.

a. 67 deg b. 76 deg c. 27 deg 54 deg

24. Find the number of sides does a polygon have if the sum of its interior angles equals the sum of its
exterior angles?

a. 10 b. 8 c.5 d. 4
25. Find the longest base of the trapezoid if the ratio of base is 4:5, altitude is 20 cm and the area is 180
sq. cm.

a. 10 cm b. 8 cm c. 15 cm d. 12 cm

26. A policeman is pursuing a thief who is ahead by 72 of his own leaps. The thief takes 6 leaps while the
policeman is taking 5 leaps, but 4 leaps of the thief are as long as 3 leaps of the policemen. How may
leaps were made by the policeman until he caught the thief?

a. 648 b. 540 c. 450 d. 230

27. If the 3rd term of a GP is 20 and the 8th term is 640, find the 10th term

a. 2560 b. 2650 c. 5620 d. 2065

28. Find two numbers whose arithmetic mean is 20 and whose geometric mean is 16.

a. 8, 32 b. 10, 30 c. 12, 28 d. 6, 34

29. A ball is dropped from a height of 128 cm. Each time it strikes the ground, it rises to ½ of the height
from where it falls. Find the total distance travelled by the ball until it stops.

a. 384 cm b. 483 cm c. 348 cm d. 438 cm

30. An equilateral triangle has its side 20 cm. Smaller equilateral triangle are formed by connecting the
midpoints of the sides of each of the other equilateral triangles and so on indefinitely. Find the sum of
the perimeters of all the triangles.

a. 210 cm b. 230 cm c. 120 cm d. 150 cm

31. Find two numbers such that their difference is equal to their product and the sum of their
reciprocals is 5.

a. ½, 1/3 b. 2, 3 c. 3/2, 2 d. 2/3, 3

32. The sum of the squares of two digits of a positive integral number is 89. The number itself is 7 more
than 6 times the sum of its digits. Find the number
a. 58 b. 38 c.49 d. 85

33. If 4 men take 6 days to assemble 8 machines, how many days will it take 3 men to assemble 10
machines?
a. 10 b. 12 c. 11 d. 15

34. A car traveling at 75 kph leaves town A for town B. Two hours earlier, a truck left town A at a speed
of 45 kph. How far from town A will the car overtakes the truck?
a. 252 km b. 225 km c. 552 km d. 215 km

35. On a trip, James noticed that his car averaged 21 km per liter of gasoline except for the days he used
the aircon, and then it averaged only 17 km per liter. If he used 91 liters of gasoline to drive 1751
km, on how many km did he use the air-con?
a. 680 b. 860 c. 780 d. 870
36. Find the value of k in the quadratic equation (2k+2)x2 + (4-4k)x +k -2 = 0 so that the roots are
reciprocal of each other

a. 4 b. 2 c. -4 d. 3

37. Determine the value of k so that the sum of the roots of 3kx2 + 3k2 -4kx = 5- 3x exceeds the product
of the roots by 3.

a. 2 b. -2 c. -4 d. 3

38. John’s rate of doing work is three times as fast as Bill. On a given day John and Bill work together
for 4 hrs then Bill was called away and John finishes the rest of the job in 2 hrs. How long would
it take Bill to do the complete job alone?
a. 18 hrs b. 22 hrs c. 15 hrs

39. Find the constant remainder when 3x4-4x3+5x2-5x+1 is divided by x +1.

 a. 18 b. 81 c. 77

40. Find the 5th term in the expansion of (x2-2y3)8

a. 2011x8y12 b. 1120x8y12 c. -1120x8y12

41. A plane was scheduled to fly from city A to city B. The flight was against the head wind of 10 kph.
Threat of mechanical failure forced the plane to turn back and it returned to city A with a tail wind of 10
kph landing 1.5 hrs after it had taken off. If the plane has a uniform speed of 150 kph, how far had it
gone before turning back?
a. 121 km b. 211 km c. 112 km d. 122 km

42. Pedro can do a job in 6 hrs and Jose can do the same job in 10 hrs. If Pedro work 2 hrs and Jose
joined him, how many hrs more will the two boys finish the job together?
a. 2 1/2 b. 3 ½ c. 2 ¼ d. 2 1/6
43. A tank can be filled in 30 min by two pumps working together. If the larger pump takes 25 min
less time than the smaller pump to fill the tank, what is the time needed by the larger pump to
fill the tank?
a. 50 min b. 75 min c. 45 min d. 30 min

44. How many grams of alloy containing 35% nickel must be melted with an alloy containing 65%
nickel in order to obtain 20 grams of an alloy containing 41% nickel?
a. 16 b. 18 c. 14 d. 15

45. X can do the job 50% faster than Y and 20% faster than Z. If they work together, they can finish
the job in 4 days. How many days will it take X to finish the job if he is to work alone?

a. 5 b. 8 c. 6 d. 10
46. If the rth term of (x2-2y3)n is kx8y12, find the value of k.
a. 2011 b. 1120 c. 2110 d. 1210

47. Identical spheres are piled to form a pyramid with square base having 8 pieces each side until a
sphere on top. How many spheres are on the pile?
a. 240 b. 230 c. 210 d. 204

48. The 9th term of an AP is 5 times the 2nd term and the 11th term exceeds the 6th term by 20. Find
the 13th term.
a. 51 b. 15 c. 71 d. 81

49. In a family of 8 children, two are twins. The youngest is 3 yrs old and the eldes is 21 yrs old.
Their ages are in AP. There are 3 children younger than two twins. How old are the twins?
a. 8 b. 10 c. 12 d. 6
50. A man piles 150 logs in layers so that the top layer contains 3 logs and each layer has one more
log than the layer above. How many logs are at the bottom?
a. 17 b. 16 c. 19 d. 81