St. Paul College Foundation, Inc.

Bulacao Campus, Cebu City

College of Education
Final Examination
in
Mathematics in the Modern World

Name: ________________________ Program: _________________Score: __________

Class Schedule: __________________ Date: ___________ Instructor: Mr. Rennil Bornia

Read each question and choose the best answer.

1. The seventh-grade class at Miami- C. 518

Shores Middle School had to write an D. 882
essay. Betsy wrote one with a
hundred sixty-eight words, Sam
3. The cost for 50 bananas at the Sam’s
wrote one with a hundred twenty-
grocery store is $10. If Sara wants
eight words, Bill wrote one with a
to purchase only one banana, how
hundred fifty-two words, Susanne
much will it cost?
wrote one with a hundred fifty-six
words, and Jake wrote one with a A. 10 cents
hundred ninety-five words. What was B. 40 cents
the average number of words on all C. 30 cents
of the five essays? D. 20 cents
A. 380
B. 160 4. Mr. Rochman bought his wife 3½
C. 156 dozen white roses, which cost
D. 799 $22.80 per dozen. How much did the
white roses cost?
2. The chart below shows the number A. $68.40
of cars parked at the beach parking B. $77.40
lot on 4 consecutive dates. On July C. $79.80
5th there is a drop of 37% of the total D. $89.80
cars parked for all four of the
previous days. How many cars will
5. Dolly worked at a toy store during
be parked on the 5th of July?
her summer vacation from college.
She earned $950.40 by working a
total of 90 hours over a 15-day
period. What was her average hourly
rate of pay?
A. $7.04
B. $9.05
C. $10.56
D. $63.36

A. 530
B. 787
6. Carolyn bought 8 yards of cotton C. 51 ft.
fabric at the regular price and 19 D. 90 ft.
yards of the same fabric on sale. She
needs 2¼ yards of the fabric to
10. A package of 40 miniature Hershey
make 1 costume for the school play.
bars contains a total of 700 calories.
Which expression could Carolyn use
Each candy bar contains the same
to determine how many costumes
number of calories. How many
she could make with the fabric she
calories does each candy bar
purchased?
contain?
A. (19 - 8) × 2¼
A. 1.75 cal
B. (8 + 19) ÷ 2¼
B. 5.71 cal
C. (19 × 2¼) + 8
C. 17.5 cal
D. (19 - 2¼) + (8 - 2¼)
D. 57.1 cal

11. Mr. Ayres started a 6-week exercise

7. A recipe that makes 18 cookies calls program. The first week he jogged 1
for ¾ cup of sugar. How much sugar mile each day, the second week he
is needed to make 2 dozen cookies jogged 1¼ miles each day, and the
using this recipe? third week he jogged 1½ miles each
A. 3/8 c day. If the pattern continues, how
B. 1 c far will he jog each day of the sixth
C. 1 1/3 c week?
D. 1 ½ c A. 1 ¼ mi
B. 2 ¼ mi
8. Unleaded gasoline costs $1.19 9/10 C. 4 mi
per gallon. Mrs. Williams bought D. 5 ¾ mi
8.141 gallons of unleaded gasoline.
Which is the best estimate of the 12. A storm brought more than 2 inches
total cost of Mrs. William's purchase? of snow to 4 different towns. The
A. $5 chart shows the amount of snow
B. $6 each town received. Which list
C. $10 shows the towns in order from the
D. $16 greatest amount of snow received to
the least amount of snow received?

9. The Miami Shores swimming pool is

2½ times as long as it is wide. There Nu
are 6 swimming lanes running the mb
length of the pool. Each lane is 6 feet er
wide. What is the length of the pool? Town
of
Inc
hes

Pleas
antvill 2 5/8
e

New 2
A. 30 ft. York 7
/10
B. 36 ft.
 C. 237.29 in.
Chica
2 1/2 D. 237.92 in.
go

Tallah 16. Debbie has made a cake and frosted

2 3/4 the top and all sides but not the
assee
bottom of the cake. She cuts the
cake into 9 pieces. How many pieces
are frosted on only three sides?

A. Chicago, Pleasantville, New

York, Tallahassee
B. Tallahassee, Chicago, A. 3
Pleasantville, New York
B. 2
C. New York, Pleasantville,
C. 4
Tallahassee, Chicago
D. 5
D. Tallahassee, New York,
Pleasantville, Chicago
17. Education Today stock sold for 13
1/8 on the stock market. The stock
13. Jane’s Tailoring charges between
went up 3 1/2 points. What does the
$8.25 and $10.50 to hem a pair of
stock sell for now?
pants. Last week customers spent
$525 on this service. Which could be A. 16 5/8
the number of pairs of pants B. 16 2/5
hemmed at Jane’s Tailoring last C. 16 2/11
week? D. 16 1/5
A. 56
B. 66 18. Tallahassee’s annual tennis
C. 82 championship is only a week away
D. 83 and the coach knows she must buy
tennis balls. The balls are sold in
cans of 3. If she bought 483 tennis
14. Larry wants to enlarge a photograph
balls, how many cans did she buy?
to make a poster. The photograph
has a width of 4 inches and a length A. 163
of 6 inches. If the poster is to be 30 B. 161
inches wide, how long will it be? C. 151
A. 45 in. D. 121
B. 32 in.
C. 24 in. 19. Jacoby Company published 110
D. 40 in. books last year, and 8 of them
became best sellers. Which best
represents the percent of books the
15. The 3 cities with the greatest annual
company published last year that did
rainfall are Leesburg, with 105.18
NOT become best sellers?
inches; Denver, with 66.4 inches;
and Columbus, with 65.71 inches. A. 7% 
What is the total annual rainfall in B. 8% 
these 3 cities? C. 93% 
A. 226.29 in. D. 102% 
B. 236.29 in.
20. Renee's car gets 27.5 miles per B. 137.5 mi
gallon of gas. How far can Renee C. 302.5 mi
drive if she uses 15 gallons of gas? D. 380.5 mi
A. 412.5 mi