Surprise Evaluation Exam

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1) How many line segments can be formed with 25 distinct points, no three of which are collinear?

A) 2300 B) 300 C) 177100 D) 53130

2) Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 ft in the first second, 48.3 in the 2nd second, 80.5 in the 3rd second. How far did
the body fall during the 10th second?
A) 308.1 ft B) 241.5 ft C) 305.9 ft D) 248.7 ft

3) Sin A cos B – cos A sin B is equivalent to :

A) cos2(A – B) B) Sin (A – B) C) Cos (A – B) D) tan (A – B)

4) What is the probability that a player will make exactly 6 of his next 19 shots if he sunk 50% of all his shots?
A) 0.052 B) 0.152 C) 0.252 D) 0.352

5) If cos 65o + cos 55o = cosθ, find θin radians

A) 1.421 B) 0.765 C) 1.213 D) 0.087

6) The bases of a right prism is a hexagon with one of each side equal to 6 cm. The bases are 12 cm apart. What is the volume of the prism?
A) 1,211.50 cm3 B) 1,122.4 cm3 C) 1211.6 cm3 D) 2,211.7 cm3

7) How many degrees is 7,995 mils ?

A) 625.7 deg B) 442.8 deg C) 142,133.33 deg D) 449.72deg

8) Given that “w” varies directly as the product of “x” and “y” and inversely as the square of “z” and that w=4 when
x=2, y=6 and z=3. Find the value of “w” when x=1, y=4, and z=2.
A) 3 B) 5 C) 4 D) 6

9) In how many ways can 3 differently colored marbles be arranged in a row?

A) 7 B) 5 C) 8 D) 6

10) What is the fraction in lowest term equivalent to 0.133133133?

A) 133/777 B) 133/888 C) 133/999 D) 133/666

11) If the volume of a sphere is 345 cm3 . Solve for its diameter .
A) 6.70 cm B) 8.70 cm C) 9.70 cm D) 7.70 cm

12) A frustum of a regular pyramid has an upper base of 8 m x 80 m and a lower base of 10 m ? 100 m and an altitude of 5 m. Find the volume
of the pyramid.
A) 6066.67 m3 B) 4066.67 m3 C) 7066.67 m3 D) 5066.67 m3

13) One side of a rectangle, inscribed in a circle of diameter 17 cm, is 8 cm. Find the length of the other side.
A) 13 B) 14 C) 15 D) 16

14) A composite number has at least ________ divisors.

 A) 2 B) 4 C) 3 D) 1

15) A girl is one-third as old as her brother and 8 years younger than her sister. The sum of their ages is 38 years.
How old is the girl?
A) 6 B) 4 C) 5 D) 7

16) Given a triangle of sides 22 cm and 27 cm an included angle of 60?. Find the area of the triangle.
A) 257.21 B) 514.42 C) 258.21 D) 259.21

17) The angle or inclination of ascend of a road having 16% grade is _____
A) 9.091 B) 17.746 C) 9.247 D) 86.43

18) A box containing 16 red,11 white, and 22 blue balls. If three balls are drawn at random, determine the probability that all are red
A) 0.327 B) 0.03 C) 0.393 D) 0.035

19) Compute the lateral surface area of the cone having a slant height of 9 cm and a diameter of 37 cm
A) 623.575 cm2 B) 533.075 cm2 C) 524.625 cm2 D) 523.075 cm2

20) Find the radius of the base of a conical paper weight with 28 cm in height and 182 cm3 in volume.
A) 2.992 cm B) 3.292 cm C) 2.492 cm D) 3.492 cm

21) If the length of a rectangle is decreased by 10% and the width increased by 10%, what is the percentage change in the area?
A) decreased by 1% B) increased by 1% C) decreased by 10% D) increased by 10%

22) The covered water reservoir in a certain town is 18 m high with a base diameter of 6 m. Find the volume of water it contains when full in
liters.
A) 590,838 liters B) 580,938 liters C) 530,598 liters D) 508, 938 liters

23) The area of a triangle inscribed in a circle is 39.19 sq. cm and the radius of the circumscribed circle is 7.14 cm. If
the two sides of the inscribed triangle are 8 cm and 10 cm, respectively, find the third side.
A) 14 cm B) 12 cm C) 13 cm D) 11 cm

24) A parcel of land in the form of a triangle has sides 151 m and 582 m long respectively. The included angle
is 81°30’. Find the area of the land.
A) 43,830.93sq.m. B) 43,458.06 sq. m. C) 43,922.26 sq. m D) 26,297.46sq.m.

25) A fair coin is tossed 11 times. What is the probability of getting exactly 3 heads?
A) 0.081 B) 0.103 C) 0.3 D) 0.203

26) 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 Phil. Postal office earn
if minimum postage costs P 4 per letter?
A) P 2,222,220 B) P 4,444,440 C) P 6,000,000 D) P 60,000

27) Jojo bought a second hand Betamax VCR and then sold it to Rudy at a profit of 40%. Rudy then sold the VCR to
Noel at a profit of 20%. If Noel paid P 2,856 more than it cost to Jojo, how much did Jojo paid for the unit?
A) P 4,200 B) P 4,000 C) P 4,100 D) P 4,300

28) How many triangles are determined by the vertices of a regular 21 side polygon?
A) 21 B) 210 C) 1330 D) 420
29) Given the three sides of the triangle: 2, 3, 4. What is the angle in radians opposite the side with length 3?
A) 0.81 B) 0.41 C) 0.55 D) 0.11

30) Log x = ____ ln x

A) 10 B) 0.434 C) e D) 2.303

31) Find the volume of a cone to be constructed from a sector having a diameter of 72 cm and a central angle of 1500
A) 5533.32 sq. cm B) 8866.44 sq. cm C) 6622.44 sq. cm D) 7710.82 sq. cm

32) Find the area of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle of radius 21 cm.
A) 1,247.336 cm2 B) 1,250.336 cm2 C) 1,248.236 cm2 D) 1,249.336 cm2

33) Find the area of zone of sphere of radius 40 cm if the altitude of the zone is 18 cm.
A) 1,443 pi sq. cm B) 1,443.14 pi sq. cm C) 1,441 pi sq. cm D) 1,440 pi sq. cm

34) A merchant has three items on sale, namely a radio for P 50, a clock for P 30 and a flashlight for P1. At the end of
the day, he sold a total of 100 of the three items and has taken exactly P 1,000 on the total sales. How many
radios did he sale?
A) 24 B) 20 C) 16 D) 18

35) In a portion of an electrical railway cutting, the areas of cross section taken every 50 m are 2556, 2619, 2700,
2610 and 2484 sq. m. Find its volume.
A) 520, 500 cu. m B) 534,200 cu. m C) 540,600 cu. m D) 522,600 cu. m

36) What is the angle of a spherical wedge if its volume is 1,280 cm3 , and the volume of the sphere is 7,200 cm3?
A) 64 ? B) 46 ? C) 54 ? D) 45 ?

37) The Great Pyramid of Egypt has a square base 175 m on a side and 776 m high. What is the volume?
A) 7,921,766.667 m3 B) 7,921,686.667 m3 C) 7,922,666.667 m3 D) 7,921,666.667 m3

38) If cot 2A cot 32° = 1, then tan A is equal to ____

A) 1.109 B) 1.918 C) 1.6 D) 0.554

39) The volume of the water in a spherical tank is 1470.265 cm3 . Determine the depth of water if the tank has a diameter of 30 cm.
A) 10 cm B) 4 cm C) 6 cm D) 8 cm

40) Two sides of a triangle are 13 and 21, respectively, and its area is 126 sq. units. Find the third side.
A) 30, 38.6 B) 40, 48.6 C) 10, 18.6 D) 20 , 28.6

41) A chord is 18 cm long and its midpoint is 20 cm from the midpoint of its shorter arc. Find the radius of the circle.
A) 12.025 B) 14.025 C) 13.025 D) 15.025

42) In a certain community of 1,200 people, 60% are literate. Of the males, 50% are literate and of the females 70%
are literate. What is the female population?
A) 500 B) 600 C) 850 D) 550

43) A frustum of a regular pyramid has an upper base of 8 m x 80 m and a lower base of 10 m x 100 m and an altitude of 5 m. Find the
volume of the pyramid.
A) 7066.67 m3 B) 6066.67 m3 C) 4066.67 m3 D) 5066.67 m3
44) What is the sum of the progression 4, 9, 14, 19… up to the 20th term?
A) 1045 B) 1035 C) 1030 D) 1040

45) What is the area of a lune whose angle is 800 on a sphere of radius 60 cm?
A) 4,200 pi sq. cm B) 2,400 pi sq. cm C) 3,200 pi sq. cm D) 2,300 pi sq.cm

46) In how many minutes after 2 o’clock will the hands of the clock extend in opposite directions for the first time?
A) 42.8 minutes B) 43.2 minutes C) 43.6 minutes D) 42.4 minutes

47) In the PBA three-point shootout contest, the committee decided to give a prize in the following manner; A prize of
P 1 for the first basket made, P 2 for the second, P 4 for the third, P 8 for the fourth and so on. If the contestant
wants to win a prize no less than a million pesos, what is the minimum number of baskets to be converted?
A) 18 B) 19 C) 21 D) 20

48) A pyramid has a square base of 8 m on a side and an altitude of 10 m. How many liters of water will it hold when full and inverted ?
A) 231,033 B) 223,330 C) 213,330 D) 232,033

49) Find the volume of a spherical wedge whose angle is 54 ? on the sphere of radius 27 cm.
A) 3,639.6 ? B) 6,339.6 ? C) 3,936.6 ? D) 6,933.6 ?

50) Compute the weight of a piece of lumber 692 mm by 332mm, 15.00 m long, if the lumber weights 633 kg/m3.
A) 2,183.419 kg B) 2,181.419 kg C) 2,182.419 kg D) 2,182.409 kg

51) The resistance of a wire varies directly with its length and inversely with its area. If a certain piece of wire 10 m
long and 0.10 cm in diameter has a resistance of 100 ohms, what will its resistance be if it is uniformly stretched
so that its length becomes 12 m?
A) 80 B) 144 C) 120 D) 90

52) A ladder 91 m long leans against the wall of an apartment house forming an angle of 50 degrees, 32 minutes with
the ground. How high up the wall does it reach?
A) 0.093m B) 70.253 m C) 140.506 m D) 3.86 m

53) In a triangle, find the side c if angle C = 111 deg, side b = 21 and side a = 20.
A) 33.944 B) 33.79 C) 32.961 D) 33.577

54) A rhombus has diagonals of 32 and 20 inches. Determine its area.

A) 360 in2 B) 280 in2 C) 320 in2 D) 400 in2

55) Find the mean proportional of 4 and 36

A) 72 B) 12 C) 24 D) 20

56) How many different committees can be formed by choosing 9 men from an organization that has a membership of 50 men?
A) 108,043,253,365,599.98 B) 2,505,433,700 C) 18,053,528,883,775 D) 909,171,781,056,000

57) An icosahedron is a regular polyhedron of ____ faces.

A) 16 B) 12 C) 14 D) 20

58) A quadrilateral have sides equal to 12 m, 20 m, 8 m, and 16.97 m respectively. If the sum of the two opposite angles is equal to 225, find the
area of the quadrilateral.
A) 100 B) 124 C) 158 D) 168
59) What is the volume of frustum of a cone whose upper base is 5 cm. in diameter and lower base is 23 cm in diameter with the altitude of 35
cm ?
A) 6,430.033 cm3 B) 6,130.033 cm3 C) 6,155.033 cm D) 6,230.033 cm3

60) Find the value of x in the equation csc x + cot x = 3.

A) /4 B) /3 C) /2 D) /5
Surprise Evaluation Exam
Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1) B

2) C

3) B

4) A

5) D

6) B

7) D

8) A

9) D

10) C

11) B

12) B

13) C

14) C

15) A

16) A

17) A

18) B

19) D

20) C

21) A
22) D

23) A

24) B

25) A

26) B

27) A

28) C

29) A

30) B

31) D

32) A

33) D

34) C

35) D

36) A

37) D

38) D

39) C

40) D

41) A

42) B

43) C

44) C

45) C
46) C

47) D

48) C

49) C

50) B

51) C

52) B

53) B

54) C

55) B

56) B

57) D

58) D

59) B

60) D