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Chapter 1- Algebra

Fundamentals

1. If a negative number is divided by a positive number, which of the following must be a quotient?

A. negative C. integer
B. positive D. fraction

2. Which of the following can be a product of an even prime number and odd prime number?

A. 4 C. 6
B. 12 D. 8

Situation 1 – Answer the following questions:

3. The product of three negative numbers:

A. positive C. negative
B. imaginary D. cannot be determined

4. The quotient of negative and positive number:

A. negative C. imaginary
B. cannot be determined D. positive

5. The product of x and y where x < 0 and y ≠ 0.

A. negative C. positive
B. negative or positive D. cannot be determined

6. If a x b + c is odd, and a, b, and c are integers, which of the following must be correct if b is even:

A. b + c is odd C. a + c is odd
B. a + c is even D. a x b x c is positive

7. If a < 0 and b and c are not equal to zero, what is the sign of b 4 x a3 x c2?

A. negative C. can be positive or negative

B. positive D. it depends

8. If p x q is divisible by r, which of the following cannot be correct?

A. p is a prime number C. pq + r is odd and r is even

B. q is divisible by r D. p is not divisible by r

9. Which of the following must be true for the product of (x +1) (x) (x-1) when x is a positive integer.

A. it is either odd or even C. it can be negative

B. it is always divisible by 3 D. it is always divisible by 4
 10. A line is divided into 10 equal parts. If the measure of each part is integer, what is the possible
length of the line?

A. 150 C. 90
B. 210 D. 230

11. Which of the following is equivalent to [ 16a 4b6 ]1/4?

A. 3ab2/3 C. 4ab3/2
B. 2ab3/2 D. 4ab2/3

12. Solve for x if 481/x = 4 x 31/x

A. 2 C. 1
B. 4 D. 3

13. If logb x=y, then:

A. bx = y C. xy = b
B. by = x D. xb = y

14. If log 3 to base b = x + 1, what is log 9 to base b?

A. x2 + 2 C. x + 2
B. 2x + 1 D. 2x + 2

15. If x ≠ 0, which of the following is equivalent to (4x) -2?

A. 4/x2 C. 1/16x
B. 1/16x2 D. 16/x2

Simultaneous Equation

16. Given the following equations: a x b = 1/8 a x c = 3 b x c = 6

Find the product of a, b, and c.

A. 3/2 C. 9/4
B. 2/3 D. 3/4

17. If xyz = 8 and y2 z =12, what is the value of x/y?

A. 2/3 C. 3/2
B. 1/3 D. ¾

18. What is the value of x – y from the following linear equations?

3x – 5y = 14; 6x – 3y = 21

A. 4 C. 5
B. 3 D. 2
 19. The sum and product of three distinct positive integers are 15 and 45, respectively.
What is the largest integer?

A. 5 C. 15
B. 9 D. 7

Inequality

20. If the absolute value of x is greater than the absolute value of y, which of the following is always
true?

A. xy > 0 C. x – y > 0
B. y2 > x2 D. x2 > y2

21. If abc – de is positive, which of the following is always correct?

A. abc + de < 0 C. abc + de > 0

B. abc ≥ de D. abc – de > 0

22. Given that a < b < 0 < c < d, what is the sign of abc/d?

A. it depends C. negative
B. can be positive or negative D. positive

23. Give the 32a x 11b = 274x x 332x, express an in terms of x.

A. 2x C. 7x
B. 5x D. 3x

24. Given the following inequalities; -3 < x < 3, x 2 < 9, and 1/x < 1/3. Which of the following is a
common value of x?

A. 3 > x > 0 C. -3 < x < 0

B. x < -3 D. -3 > x > 0

25. Let “a” and “b” be ranges of numbers in a number line such that -1 ≤ a ≤ 5 and 6 ≤ b ≤ 10. If “a” is
shifted 6 units to the right and “b” is shifted 2 units to the right, how many common units will
the shifted “a” and “b” share?

A. 2 C. 1
B. 3 D. 4

Polynomials, Roots, Fractions

26. Find the non-zero solution to the equation 3x 4 – 30x3 = 0.

A. 10 C. 15
B. 5 D. 3
27. If x/y gives a remainder of 0 and z/y gives a remainder of 3, what is the remainder of xz/y?

A. 0 C. 2
B. 3 D. 1

28. If f(x) = x5 – 2x2 + 3/x, then f(-1) is equal to:

A. -6 C. -4
B. -5 D. -8

29. Which of the following gives the expansion of (x/5 – 5/2) 2?

A. x2/25 + x – 25/4 C. x2 + x + 25/4

B. x2/25 + 2x – 25/4 D. x2 – x + 25/4

30. What is the middle term in the expansion of (x + 2/x) 6?

A. 60x2 C. 192x2
B. 160 D. 12x4

31. Describe the roots of the equation 7x2 – 6x + 12 = 0.

A. real and unequal C. imaginary

B. real and equal D. none of these

32. How many rational roots have the following function?

f(x) = x5 – 5x4 + 5x3 + 15x2 – 36x + 20

A. 1 C. 3
B. 2 D. 0

33. How many possible positive real roots have the following function?
f(x) = 7x7 + 5x6 +3x3 + x

A. 0 C. 2
B. 1 D. 3

34. In the function f(x) = x2n – 1, assuming n is a natural number, how many are the positive roots?

A. 2 C. 0
B. 1 D. 3

35. If (x2 + 9x + 14)/(x2 – 49) is divided by (3x + 6)/(x2 +5x – 56), the quotient is:

A. x+8 C. (x + 8)/3
B. x+3 D. (x + 3)/8

36. Which of the following is a factor of x3 – 3x2 + 6x – 4?

A. x2 + 2x – 4 C. x2 + 2x +4
B. x2 – 2x -4 D. x2 – 2x + 4
 37. Divide (2x2/3 + x/2) by x/2.

A. 4x/3 + ½ C. 4x/3 + 1
B. 3x/4 + 2 D. 3x/4 + ½

38. When f(x) = x4 + ax3 + 7x2 + bx + 6 is divided by (x-2) the remainder is 16 and when divided by
(x+1) the remainder is 10. What is the value of a?

A. -7 C. -5
B. 11 D. 3

39. Which of the following is equivalent to 1/x + 1/(x+1)?

A. (2x + 1)/(x2 + 1) C. (2x + 3)/(x2 + 4)

B. (2x – 1)/(x2 + x) D. (2x + 1)/(x2 + x)

7 x−3 A B
40. Solve for B: = + .
x ( x−1) x x−1
A. -3 C. 3
B. -4 D. 4

7 x−3 A B C
41. Solve for A: = + 2+ .
x (x−1) x x x −1
2

A. -3 C. 4
B. 3 D. -4

3 x−2 k 2 1
42. Solve for k if = + .
x + x−6 x +3 x−2
2

A. 2 C. -1
B. ½ D. -1/2

43. What is the value of E in the following equation?

2 x 4 +3 x 3+ 7 x2 +10 x+ 10 A Bx +C Dx+ E
2
= + +
2
( x−1 ) ( x +3 ) x−1 x2 +3 ( x2 +3 ) 2

A. 2 C. 0
B. 3 D. -1

Proportion, Variation

44. Given that y: x = x: 15, find x if y = 4x.

A. 30 C. 45
B. 75 D. 60

45. If x: y as 13:21.2 and y: z as 24.5:35, find x when z = 42.7

 A. 15.478 C. 16.852
B. 18.329 D. 19.652

46. If x: y as 10:15 and y: z as 18:6, find x when z = 32.

A. 64 C. 48
B. 52 D. 68

47. X and Y are inversely proportional with each other. Given that X = 15,000 when Y = 162,500. Find
X when Y = 328,400.

A. 7,422.35 C. 7,849.56
B. 6,567.45 D. 8,956.32

Situation 3 – y is inversely proportional to x and y = 14.3 when x = 0.6

48. What is the value of the constant of proportionality?

A. 8.58 C. 6.87
B. 9.64 D. 5.72

49. When x = 1.5, what is the value of y?

A. 5.72 C. 9.64
B. 6.87 D. 8.58

50. When y = 2.5, what is the value of x?

A. 2.478 C. 5.245
B. 4.225 D. 3.432

51. For a gas at constant temperature, the volume of a fixed mass of gas is inversely proportional to
its absolute pressure. If a gas occupies a volume of 1.5 m 3 at a pressure of 200 x 103 Pascals,
determine the pressure when the volume is 1.25m 3.

A. 220 x 103 Pa C. 230 x 103 Pa

B. 240 x 103 Pa D. 250 x 103 Pa

Situation 4 – Ohm’s law states that the current flowing in a fixed resistor is directly proportional to the
applied voltage. When 30 volts is applied across a resistor the current flowing through the resistor is 2.4
x 10-3 amperes. Determine the following:

52. The constant of proportionality

A. 16 x 10-4 C. 8 x 10-5
B. 12 x 10-4 D. 4 x 10-5

53. The current when the voltage is 52 volts.

A. 2.84 x 10-3 amperes C. 4.16 x 10-3 amperes

B. 6.82 x 10-3 amperes D. 4.85 x 10-3 amperes

54. The voltage when the current is 3.6 x 10 -3 amperes.

 A. 45 volts C. 60 volts
B. 40 volts D. 50 volts
Situation 5 – Charle’s law states that for a given mass of gas at constant pressure the volume is directly
proportional to its thermodynamic temperature. A gas occupies a volume 2.25 at 300°K. Determine the
following:

55. The constant of proportionality,

A. 0.00625 C. 0.0075
B. 0.00525 D. 0.0058

56. The volume at 420°K

A. 3.25 liters C. 2.85 liters

B. 3.15 liters D. 3.85 liters

57. The temperature when the volume is 2.625 liters.

A. 340°K C. 360°K
B. 380°K D. 350°K

Average

58. What is the arithmetic mean of the following set of numbers? -14, -4, -10, 5, -1, -12

A. -6 C. 5
B. 6 D. -5

59. Given the following set of numbers: Set A = (12, 16, 17): Set B = (X, 7.2, 22). If the average of A
and B are equal, what is the value of X?

A. 14.6 C. 15.8
B. 13.2 D. 16.2

60. The average of 12 numbers is 11. If one number is removed, the new average is 9. What number
was removed?

A. 32 C. 35
B. 34 D. 33

61. Three-fourth of the students in the class have an average IQ of 120 and the rest have an average
IQ of 160. What is the average IQ in the class?

A. 140 C. 130
B. 150 D. 125

Situation 6 – Answer the following problems:

62. The average of A and B is 50 and the average of B and C is 80. Find C-A.

A. 80 C. 70
B. 60 D. 50
 63. The sum of eight numbers is 168. If 28 is eliminated, what is the new average?

A. 22 C. 18
B. 20 D. 24

64. The average of 11 number is 330. If -10 is removed, what is the new average?

A. 364 C. 366
B. 362 D. 360

65. Tanya produced three lanterns on her first hour of work. Her boss told her, “DO IT FAST”. This
made her work even slower making only two lanterns per hour for the next two hours. When
her friend Michelle told her “YOU CAN DO IT”, it motivated her to make 5 lanterns on the fourth
hour. What is her average production speed in lanterns per hour?

A. 2.5 C. 3.5
B. 4 D. 3

66. A player averages 140 points in his last 8 games. His total average including his last 2 games is
increased by 10%. What is his average in the last two games?

A. 110 C. 105
B. 220 D. 210

67. A salesman gets P10,000 commission on a sale of a certain item. This amount raised his average
commission by P1,500. If his new average commission is P4,000, what is his total commission?

A. P30,000 C. P25,000
B. P15,000 D. P20,000

68. A salesman gets P10,000 commission on a sale of a certain item. This amount raised his average
commission by P1,500. If his new average commission is P4,000, how many sales did he make?

A. 5 C. 6
B. 4 D. 7

Simple Equations

69. A certain substance can be expressed by the equation s = a + bx where s = 110 when x = 120 and
s = 130 when x = 145. Find the value of b.

A. 0.80 C. 1.20
B. 0.60 D. 0.40

70. The molar heat capacity of a solid compound is given by the equation c = a + Bt, where a = and b
are constants. When c = 52, t = 100 AND WHEN C = 172, t = 400. Determine the value of a.

A. 0.8 C. 0.4
B. 10 D. 12
 71. When Kirchoff’s law are applied to a certain electrical circuit the current I 1 and I2 ar connected by
the following equations:

27 = 1.5I1 + 8(I1 – I2)

-26 = 2I2 – 8(I1 – I2)

Find the current I2.

A. 2 C. -2
B. -1 D. 1

72. The resistance R ohms of copper wire at t°C is given by R = R 0(1 + αt), where Rα is the resistance
at 0°C and α is the temperature coefficient of resistance. If R= 25.44Ω at 30°C and R = 32.17Ω at
100°C, find α.

A. 0.00426 C. 0.00624
B. 0.00264 D. 0.00462

73. The population of bacteria at any time “t” is given by A n = A0 e0.584t. If A0 = 4, find t when
An = 2500.

A. 13.23 C. 9.36
B. 6.54 D. 11.02

Situation 7 – A car moves according to the equation S = u t + ½ a t 2, where S is the distance in meters, u
is the initial velocity in m/s, a is the acceleration in m/s 2, and t is the time in seconds. Given that when
t = 3 sec, S = 96.25 m and t = 10 sec, S = 291.667 m, determine the following:

74. The value of u in kph.

A. 120 C. 100
B. 110 D. 130

75. The value of “a” in kph/sec.

A. 6 C. 3
B. -6 D. -3

76. The value of S when t = 15 s.

A. 426.67 m C. 406.25 m
B. 385 m D. 352.33 m

Situation 8 – A body moves according to the equation S = u t + ½ a t 2 where S= 42 m when t =2s and
s = 144 m when t =4s.

77. Find “a”

A. 12 m/s2 C. 18 m/s2
B. 15 m/s2 D. 24 m/s2
 78. Find the velocity of the body when t = 1.2 s.

A. 24 m/s C. 18 m/s
B. 20 m/s D. 28 m/s

79. Find s when t = 3s.

A. 85.5 m C. 78.5 m
B. 92.3 m D. 63.4 m

Age, Work, & Other Worded Problems

80. A boy is one-third as old as his brother and 8 years younger than his sister. The sum of their ages
is 38 years. How old is the boy?

A. 6 C. 18
B. 14 D. 12

81. A goldsmith needs 120 grams of gold alloy, of 75% pure gold. Only to alloys of gold are available,
the first being 80% pure gold, and the other 60% pure gold. How many grams of 80% pure gold
must he use to suit his requirements?

A. 30 C. 80
B. 90 D. 40

82. It is now 10:00 o’clock. How many minutes from now will the hands of the clock be
perpendicular for the first time?

A. 5.256 C. 5.454
B. 5.325 D. 5.121

83. If 8 mean can cut 28 trees in a day, how many trees can 20 mean can cut in a day?

A. 80 C. 70
B. 90 D. 60

84. Kim can do a work in 1 hour, Ken can do it in 2 hours, and Karla can do it in 3 hours. Working
together from start, how long can they do the work?

A. 0.5455 hr C. 0.4562 hr
B. 0.5623 hr D. 0.6175 hr

85. A water tank can be filled in 52 minutes by two pipes running simultaneously. By the larger pipe,
it can be filled in 15 minutes less time than by the smaller pipe. Find the time required by the
larger pipe to fill the tank.

A. 87 min C. 127 min

B. 91 min D. 112 min
 86. One student can solve a math problem in 6 minutes. Another student can solve a problem in 5
minutes. How long can they solve 110 problems?

A. 300 minutes C. 270 minutes

B. 330 minutes D. 290 minutes

87. Eight men can dig 150 ft of trench in 7 hours. Three men can backfill 100 ft of trench in 4 hours.
How long will it take 6 men to dig and fill 200 ft of trench, in hours?

A. 16.445 C. 15.765
B. 12.345 D. 14.875

88. Maria can do a job in 6 hours. Jhul can do the same job in 4 hours more while Vince can do it
twice the time. How many hours can they finish the job if they work together from start?

A. 2.758 C. 2.785
B. 2.857 D. 2.587

89. Three persons can do a work in the ratio 2:3:5. Working together, they can finish the work in 120
minutes. What is the difference of the time to finish between the slowest and the fastest
person?

A. 372 minutes C. 124 minutes

B. 248 minutes D. 324 minutes

Situation 9 – A building contractor is faced with a problem of possibly paying liquidated damages of
P20,000 per day in the completion of his work. Given the following information:

1. Number of days left on contract time is 30 days

2. The working force at present is:
40 skilled workers with daily wage of P400 each
20 unskilled workers with daily wage of P320 each
3. The daily wage is based on an 8-hour day’s work
4. If he maintains the present workforce, he will finish the work in 50 days
5. Overtime rate is 25% more than the regular rate.

90. If he allows the present working force to overtime for two hours a day, in how many days will he
finish the work?

A. 35 C. 45
B. 40 D. 38

91. How much will he save (in pesos) if he allows the present working force to work overtime for
two hours a day?

A. 144,000 C. 187,000
B. 158,000 D. 120,000

92. If the contractor put additional men (maintaining the ratio of 2 skilled to 1 unskilled), how many
skilled workers will he add to finish the work on time without working overtime?

A. 30 C. 24
 B. 36 D. 28
93. A company has N machines of equal capacity that produces a total of 180 pieces each work day.
If two machines break down, the work load of the remaining machines is increased by 3 pieces
each per day to maintain production. Find N.

A. 12 C. 10
B. 11 D. 9

94. The sum of two integers multiplied by the sum of their squares is 3667, and their difference
multiplied by the difference of their squares is 475. Find the product of the two integers.

A. 72 C. 84
B. 64 D. 96

95. A merchant purchased a pen at wholesale price of P75.00 and sells it at 30% markup. If a
discount of 20% is given to a customer, how much profit can the merchant get?

A. P3.00 C. P4.50
B. P7.50 D. P5.00

96. In a certain fast food, Karla ordered 4 fried chickens and 3 iced teas and paid P615.00. Kim
ordered 3 fried chickens and 5 iced teas and paid P585.00. How much is the fried chicken?

A. P150.00 C. P120.00
B. P60.00 D. P45.00

Situation 10 – Given four numbers such that the sum of the first, second, and third exceeds the fourth by
6, the sum of the squares of third and fourth exceeds the sum of the squares of first and second by 36,
the sum of the product of first and second to the product of third and fourth is 42, and the cube of the
fourth equals the sum of the cubes of the other numbers.

97. What is the largest number?

A. 5 C. 8
B. 7 D. 6

98. What is the smallest number?

A. 3 C. 4
B. 2 D. 5

99. What is the average of the four numbers?

A. 6.5 C. 5.5
B. 4.5 D. 7.5

100. A poultry farm has only chickens and pigs. When the manager of the poultry counted the heads
of the stock in the farm, the number totaled up to 200. However, when the number of legs was
counted, the number totaled up to 540. How many chickens were there in the farm?

A. 70 C. 120
B. 130 D. 80
 101. The shipment of items is divided into two portions. If the difference between the portions is
half of their average, what is the ration of the larger portion to the smaller portion?

A. 4 C. 2
B. 5 D. 3

102. Mario’s hat is four more than Alex’s hat and one-half that of Miguel’s hat. If the number of has
is 24, how many hats does Miguel have?

A. 14 C. 7
B. 3 D. 16

Situation 11 – A man has three sums of money invested, one at 12%, one at 10%, and one at 8%. His
total annual income from the three investments is P21,000.00. The first investment yields as much as the
other two combined. If he should receive one percent more on each investment, his annual income
would be increased by P2,025.00

103. How much does he have invested at 12%?

A. P84,300 C. P80,400
B. P88,800 D. P87,500

104. How much does he have invested at 10%?

A. P63,200 C. P64,200
B. P60,200 D. P65,000

105. How much does he have invested at 8%?

A. P50,000 C. P55,000
B. P45,000 D. P60,000

106. A new civil engineer invested at SMPH (SM Prime Holdings) which has an annual gain of 10%
and at ALI (Ayala Land) which has an annual gain of 20%. If his total annual gain in the two
investments is 14%, which of the following statements is true?

A. the amount invested at SMPH is equal to that in ALI

B. the amount invested at SMPH is greater than that in ALI
C. the amount invested at SMPH is less than that in ALI
D. None of these statements is true

Situation 12 – The following date of road accident versus driver’s age form a quadratic equation:

Age of Driver Accident per year

20 250
40 150
60 200

107. Find the coefficient an of x2.

A. 0.1875 C. 0.2125
B. 0.1575 D. 0.1765
 108. Find the coefficient b of x.

A. -14.75 C. -17.75
B. -15.25 D. -16.25

109. Find the number of accidents per year for an age of 30.

A. 154.75 C. 189.65
B. 254.25 D. 181.25

Motion & Rate Problems

110. If a car can travel “x” km in “y” hours, how many hours can it travel a distance of “z” km?

A. xy/z C. xz/y
B. yz/x D. xyz

111. A car travelled for p hours with a velocity of magnitude q kph, then travels the same direction
for r hours with velocity of magnitude s kph. What is the average velocity during the travel?

A. (pq + rs)/(p + r) C. (pr + qs)/(q + s)

B. (pr + qs)/(p + r) D. (pq + rs )/(q + s)

112. At 2:25 PM, an engineer and his girlfriend walks along Osmeña Boulevard for 30 minutes at a
speed of 3 kph. They waited for a taxi 10 minutes which brought them back to where they start
at 3:15 PM. What was the average speed of the taxi?

A. 4.75 kph C. 9.00 kph

B. 6.25 kph D. 2.25 kph

113. A boat takes 2/3 as much time to travel downstream from C to D, as to return. If the rate of the
river’s current is 8 kph, what is the speed of the boat in still water?

A. 40 kph C. 41 kph
B. 38 kph D. 39 kph

114. Obama and Romney are 20 km apart and walk towards each other. Obama walks at constant
rate and is 2 kph faster than Romney. Romney’s rate is 3 kph and started walking 15 minutes
ahead of Obama. Find the distance walked by Obama when they meet.

A. 7.031 km C. 12.031 km
B. 14.587 km D. 6.524 km

Situation 13 – Two trains A & B are moving on parallel tracks in the same direction and at different
speeds. Train B, 180 m long, is moving at 120 kph. Train A, 120 m long is behind train b AND MOVING AT
180 KPH. At a certain time, the clear distance between tha trains is 550 m.

115. Find the distance travelled by train B when the front end of train A caught up with its tall end?

A. 1650 m C. 1100 m
B. 1350 m D. 1850 m
 116. Find the distance travelled by train A when its front caught up with the tall end of train B?

A. 1850 m C. 1350 m
B. 1100 m D. 1650 m

117. How long will it take for train A to completely overtake train B?

A. 51 s C. 48 s
B. 55 s D. 39 s

118. It takes 12 seconds for two trains to pass each other when moving in opposite directions. The
faster train which is 130 m long is moving at 13.5 m/s. What is the speed of the slower train
which is 120 m long?

A. 7.33 m/s C. 8.33 m/s

B. 7.67 m/s D. 8.67 m/s

Situation 14 – A freight train leaves a station and travels at the rate of 30 kph. Two hours later, an
express train leaves the same station traveling in the same direction at a rate of 50 kph.

119. In how many hours will the express train be 10 km behind the freight train?

A. 3.5 C. 4
B. 5 D. 4.5

120. In how many hours will the express train overtake the freight train?

A. 5 C. 4.5
B. 3.5 D. 4

121. Bitoy and Boloy are 500 m apart. Bitoy walks 1 kph faster than Voloy and it tries to catch Boloy.
If Boloy walks 3 kph, find the distance travelled by Bitoy when it catches Boloy?

A. 2 km C. 2.5 km
B. 1.5 km D. 3 km

Situation 15 – A train takes four hours and thirty minutes to travel from station A to station B. How long
will the journey be if:

122. The train’s speed is increased to 1.5 times its original speed.

A. 2 hrs C. 4 hrs
B. 3 hrs D. 5hrs

123. The train’s speed is increased to 3.75 times its original speed.

A. 1.8 hrs C. 2.4 hrs

B. 1.5 hrs D. 1.2 hrs

124. The train’s speed is decreased to 0.75 times its original speed.

A. 6 hrs C. 5 hrs
B. 8 hrs D. 7 hrs
 125. On a straight road, a rabbit is 54 m behind the tortoise. They run at uniform speeds. The rabbit
is four times as fast the tortoise and it wants to overtake the tortoise. Determine the distance
the rabbit must run before overtaking the tortoise?

A. 84 m C. 64 m
B. 56 m D. 72 m

126. A salesman started walking from office A at 9:30 am at the rate of 2.5 kph. He arrived office B
12 seconds late. Had he started at A at 9:00 am and walked at 1.5 kph, he would have arrived at
B one minute before the required time. At what time was he supposed to be at B?

A. 10:13 am C. 10:22 am
B. 10:16 am D. 10:18 am

127. Heide and Hembler are running a 1000 m race. Heide runs 3 m/s and Hembler at 5 m/s.
Hembler gave Heide a 15-second head start. How many seconds can Hembler overtake Heide?

A. 22.5 s C. 26.5 s
B. 15 s D. 18 s

128. Mary has a collection of 120 stamps and plans to have x stamps per day for y weeks. How many
stamps will she have?

A. 120 + 7xy C. 120 + xy/7

B. 120 + xy D. 120/7 + 7xy

Progression, Sequence

129. The nth term of an arithmetic progression is a n = 3n + 5. What is the common difference?

A. 3 C. 5
B. -3 D. -5

130. The sum of seven consecutive integers is zero. What is the smallest integer?

A. -4 C. -3
B. -1 D. -2

131. There are seven arithmetic means between 3 and 35. Find the sum of all terms.

A. 169 C. 167
B. 171 D. 173

132. P36,000 is to be divided among Arturo, Bernardo, and Caloy such that their shares in the same
order, form an arithmetic progression. Bernardo’s share is three times that of Arturo’s. How
much is Bernardo’s share?

A. P6,000 C. P18,000
B. P12,000 D. 10,000
 133. The nth term of a sequence is 8n + 4. Find the sum of all terms from n = 3 to n =15.

A. 928 C. 988
B. 864 D. 1020

134. A sequence of numbers is described by the equation a n = 3 x 1.53n. What is the common ratio?

A. 33/5 C. 26/7
B. 27/8 D. 28/7

135. What is the 15th term of the progression 12, 18.5, 25, …?

A. 109.5 C. 103
B. 96.5 D. 106

136. If a, b, 27 form a geometric progression and 6, a, b forms and arithmetic progression, what is
the value of b?

A. 12 C. 103
B. 18 D. 106

137. Given three positive numbers a, b, and c such that a, b, c is in geometric progression. Which of
the following is correct?

A. 2 log b = log a – log c C. 2 log b = log a x log c

B. 2 log b = log (a + c) D. 2 log b = log a + log c

138. Find the sum of 12 geometric means between 3 and 24,576.

A. 49,149 C. 12,258
B. 24,570 D. 36,872

139. What is the 12th term of the sequence: 5, 10, 20, …

A. 10,240 C. 5,120
B. 20,480 D. 40,960

140. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the following sequence: 0.25, 0.75, 2.25 …

A. 820 C. 2,460.25
B. 22,143.25 D. 7,381

141. The fourth term of a geometric progression is 1.5 and the 8 th term is 24. What is the 14th term?

A. 768 C. 3072
B. 6144 D. 1536

Situation 16 – Answer the following progression problems:

142. The 8th term of a progression whose 12 th, 13th, and 14th terms are 79.5, 86, and 92.5
respectively.

A. 66.5 C. 53.5
 B. 60 D. 47
143. The tenth term of the progression is 18, 54, 162 …

A. 13122 C. 118098
B. 1062882 D. 354294

144. The arithmetic mean of two numbers whose geometric mean is 4 and harmonic mean is 1/8.

A. 128 C. 98
B. 144 D. 64

Situation 17 – Two consecutive terms in a progression are 2 and 8.

145. If the terms form an arithmetic progression, what is the sum of the all the terms from the 6 th to
the 15th terms.

A. 558 C. 616
B. 590 D. 504

146. If the terms form a geometric progression, what is the 9 th term?

A. 126432 C. 32768
B. 524288 D. 131072

147. If the terms form a harmonic progression, what is the fourth term?

A. 5/8 C. 8/5
B. -5/8 D. -8/5

Situation 18 – Answer the following problems?

148. The 3rd, 11th, and 19th term of a progression is 33, 85, and 137, respectively. What is the 35 th
term?

A. 228 C. 247.5
B. 234.5 D. 241

149. The harmonic mean of two numbers is 16 and their geometric mean is 12. What is their
arithmetic mean?

A. 8 C. 13
B. 9 D. 15

150. What is the sum of all the even integers between 10 and 500?

A. 62730 C. 62220
B. 62520 D. 63230

151. The price of houses increases at 105 per year. A house is currently priced at P8,000,000. After
how many years will its price be double what it is now?

A. 7.93 C. 7.27
B. 6.87 D. 8.32
 152. A pendulum is brought to rest by air resistance, each swing being 11/12 as much as the
preceding one. If the lower end of the pendulum describes an arc 80 cm long in the first swing,
what will be the total length of the path which the pendulum describes before it comes to rest?

A. 960 cm C. 1040 cm
B. 820 cm D. 720 cm

153. The jth term of a sequence is (3/2) 3 j. What is the sum of all the terms between j = 6 to j = 11?

A. 245,362 C. 131,220
B. 187,456 D. 398,034

154. What is the sum of the first six terms of the progression 15, -60, 240, …?

A. -12285 C. 49155
B. 3075 D. -196605

155. What is the sum of the infinite geometric progression 24, 18, 13.5, …?

A. 112 C. 72
B. 81 D. 96

Permutation, Combination, Probability & Statistics

156. If the domain of y = 3x + 2 is -3 ≤ x ≤ 5, which of the following is not in the range of y?

A. -5 C. 4
B. -1 D. 18

157. Set M and N have 20 pairs where each element in M is paired with one in N such that the
element of M is always greater than its pair from N. Which of the following is always true?

A. range of M > range of N C. mean of M > mean of N

B. mode of M > mode of N D. median of M > median of N

158. Given the following data set: 14, 19, 20, 1, 2, 7, 10, 24, 10, 11, 23, 24, 3, 4, 7, 26. What is the
ratio of the second quartile to the third quartile.

A. 21/40 C. 23/43
B. 21/43 D. 23/40

159. A group of musicians is composed of three drummers, four pianists, and five guitarists. How
many ways can a trio are formed with 1 pianist, 1 drummer, and 1 guitarist?

A. 60 ways C. 40 ways
B. 90 ways D. 120 ways

160. To make a ham and cheese sandwich you are given a choice of 3 kinds of ham, 5 kinds of
cheese, and 2 kinds of bread. How many different sandwiches can you make?

A. 30 C. 15
 B. 10 D. 45
Situation 19 – The letters in the word TRIANGLE are to be arranged.

161. How many ways can these letters be arranged in a line?

A. 50240 C. 40320
B. 362880 D. 5040

162. In part 1, how many of those do the letters E and G appear in adjacent positions?

A. 10080 C. 11540
B. 12030 D. 9080

163. How many ways can these letters be arranged in a circle?

A. 4020 C. 6210
B. 5230 D. 5040

164. Without repeating any letter, how many three-letter words can be made out of the letters in the
word DOUBLE. Note: The word may have any meaning.

A. 120 C. 80
B. 60 D. 90

Situation 20 – Give the following digits: 4, 3, 5, 8, 9, & 1.

165. How many three-digit numbers can be made without repeating any digit?

A. 120 C. 90
B. 60 D. 180

166. How many four-digit even numbers can be made without repeating any digit?

A. 60 C. 120
B. 90 D. 180

167. How many three-digit numbers less than 500 can be made without repeating any digit?

A. 180 C. 90
B. 60 D. 120

168. How many four-digit numbers greater than 8500 can be made without repeating any digit?

A. 62 C. 180
B. 124 D. 84

169. The seven-digit telephone number of a certain town starts with 350. If the last four digits
cannot begin or end with zero, how many telephone numbers can be assigned?

A. 7290 C. 6561
B. 10000 D. 8100
 170. A certain lotto game consists of 30 different balls numbered 1 to 30. If five balls are drawn at
random without replacement, how many possible winning combinations can be made?

A. 345,762 C. 189,982
B. 142,506 D. 17,100,720

171. The captain of a chess team assigns himself to board 1. If there are six players (including the
captain), how many ways can the ream be assigned to the boards if there are six chessboards.

A. 720 C. 240
B. 120 D. 60

172. If four coins are tossed, how many possible ways are there for at least one coin showing head?

A. 15 C. 31
B. 7 D. 25

173. For boys and four girls form a circle with the boys and girls alternating. In how many ways can
they form a circle?

A. 72 C. 144
B. 576 D. 1152

174. About how many times out of 12,000 attempts would a person roll all the same numbers using
five dice?

A. 50 C. 2
B. 4 D. 9

175. Two bags each contain 2 black balls, 1 white ball, and 1 red ball. What is the probability of
selecting the white ball from the first bag or the red ball from the second bag?

A. 1/2 C. 1/4
B. 7/16 D. 1/16

Situation 21 – An examination has two types of questions as follows:

Type A: 10 points at 3 minutes each
Type B: 15 points at 6 minutes each
There are 16 questions in the exam for a total time of 60 minutes.

176. How many Type A questions are there in the examination?

A. 4 C. 10
B. 12 D. 6

177. How many type B questions are there in the examination?

A. 12 C. 4
B. 10 D. 6
 178. What is the maximum score of this exam?

A. 160 points C. 190 points

B. 180 points D. 170 points

179. The following books are available on the shelf. Three Fluid Mechanics book, two Structural
book, four Mathematics, and two Geotechnical book. John came and took one Fluid Mechanics
and one Mathematics. Peter came and select a book at random. What is the probability that he
selects a Mathematics book?

A. 1/3 C. 4/9
B. 2/9 D. 1/9

180. In the latest survey by SWS on 400 voters, 130 said they will vote for candidate A, 120 will vote
for candidate B, and 150 will vote for candidate C. What is the probability that a registered voter
will vote for candidate B?

A. 0.375 C. 0.325
B. 0.285 D. 0.3

Situation 22 – Answer the following probability problems.

181. In a family of five children, what is the chance that there are three boys and two girls?

A. 7/16 C. 5/16
B. 3/8 D. 3/16

182. A basketball player averages 65% in a free-throw line. What is the probability of missing one for
two free throws?

A. 0.523 C. 0.574
B. 0.455 D. 0.486

183. A store has three kinds of toys given in every purchase. What is the probability of getting all
three toys in five purchase?

A. 0.617 C. 0.685
B. 0.542 D. 0.752

184. Find the probability that a couple having three children will have at least one girl?

A. 7/8 C. 1/2
B. 5/8 D. 3/4

Situation 23 – A generator has a probability of 0.80 to operate satisfactorily while that of the welding
machine is 0.75. What is the probability that:

185. Both the generator and welding machine operates satisfactorily?

A. 0.50 C. 0.70
B. 0.60 D. 0.40
 186. Only the generator will operate satisfactorily?

A. 0.15 C. 0.20
B. 0.30 D. 0.25

187. Only the welding machine will operate satisfactorily?

A. 0.20 C. 0.30
B. 0.25 D. 0.15

Situation 24 – A box contains 24 red balls, 27 green balls, and 30 blue balls. If three balls are drawn in
succession without replacement, what is the probability that:

188. All three balls are red?

A. 0.024 C. 0.034
B. 0.062 D. 0.048

189. All three balls are green?

A. 0.062 C. 0.048
B. 0.034 D. 0.024

190. All three balls are blue?

A. 0.062 C. 0.024
B. 0.048 D. 0.034

Situation 25 – A piggy bank has twenty 10-peso coin, thirty 5-peso coins, and twenty-four 1-peso coin.
Three coins are drawn without replacement?

191. What is the probability that the three are 10-peso coins?

A. 0.048 C. 0.031
B. 0.063 D. 0.018

192. What is the probability that the three are 5-peso coins?

A. 0.031 C. 0.048
B. 0.018 D. 0.063

193. What is the probability that three are 1-peso coins?

A. 0.018 C. 0.031
B. 0.063 D. 0.048

Situation 26 – A large batch of electric light bulbs have a mean time to failure of 2400 hours and the
standard deviation of 60 hours for a batch of 4200 bulbs.

194. How many light bulbs will likely last more than 2500 hours?

A. 201 C. 183
B. 256 D. 154
 195. What percentage of the total number of bulbs will likely last between 2200 hours to 2500
hours?

A. 92.74% C. 95.18%
B. 85.64% D. 96.35%

196. What is the probability that any light bulb will last for 2450 hours?

A. 0.0054 C. 0.0063
B. 0.0031 D. 0.0047

Situation 27 – A function is normally distributed with mean value of 8 and standard deviation of 2.

197. What percentage of the observation will be greater than 5?

A. 93.32% C. 56.32%
B. 85.64% D. 75.41%

198. What percentage of the observation will be greater than 10?

A. 13.26% C. 15.87%
B. 12.89% D. 18.75%

199. What percentage of the observation will have a value less than 3?

A. 2.387% C. 1.256%
B. 0.968% D. 0.621%

200. Suppose that the amount of time a passenger spends in paying a terminal fee is exponentially
distributed with mean 20 seconds. What is the probability that a passenger will spend more than
25 seconds in the booth?

A. 0.2354 C. 0.3421
B. 0.2916 D. 0.2865

201. Studies of a machine component showed that the time the component operates before
breaking down is exponentially distributed with a mean of 1000 hours. Calculate the maximum
operating hours if the reliability is to be above 99%?

A. 9.54 hours C. 10.05 hours

B. 6.58 hours D. 12.67 hours

202. At a certain stretch of highway, the speeds of vehicles were found to have a normal distribution
with a mean of 54 kph and a standard deviation of 3 on a sample of 25 vehicles. What is the
upper two-standard deviation average speed?

A. 52.8 kph C. 53.2 kph

B. 55.2 kph D. 58.2 kph
 203. The observed error “E” in a series of measurements s normally distributed with mean of 0.
Approximately 2% of the error are -10 or less. Approximately what fraction of the measurements
have errors between 0 and 5.

A. 0.287 C. 0.425
B. 0.348 D. 0.397

Situation 28 – A manufacturer estimates that 1.5% of his output of a small item is defective. Find the
probabilities that in a pack of 200 items:

204. None is defective

A. 0.0498 C. 0.224
B. 0.1494 D. 0.3528

205. Two are defective.

A. 0.224 C. 0.3528
B. 0.1494 D. 0.0498

206. Three or more are defective.

A. 0.224 C. 0.1494
B. 0.0498 D. 0.3528

Sets, Matrices, Complex Number

207. Given the following set of numbers arranged from smallest to largest:
{1, x, 4, 6, x2}
If the range of range of the set is 8, what is the average of the set?

A. 4.8 C. 4.6
B. 4.2 D. 5.2

208. Which of the following sets give the meaning of (5,8)?

A. {x € R | 5 ≤ x < 8} C. {x € R | 5 ≤ x ≤ 8}
B. {x € R | 5 < x < 8} D. {x € R | 5 < x ≤ 8}

209. Twenty (20) GERTC students was surveyed about the size of their memory cards. Twelve
students said they have 8 MB, five said they have both 8 MB and 16 MB, two said they neither
have 8 MB nor 16 MB, and the rest have 16 MB only. How many students have 16 MB memory
cards only?

A. 8 C. 10
B. 6 D. 4
Situation 29 – A survey was conducted by SWS to find out which of the three presidentiables they liked
best. The results indicated that 500 liked Noynoy, 470 liked Villar, and 430 like Estrada. But of these, 180
liked both Noynoy and Estrada, 140 liked both Noynoy and Villar, and 210 liked both Estrada and Villar.
Only 60 liked all the three presidentiables.

210. How many liked Noynoy above?

A. 260 C. 180
B. 240 D. 100

211. How many like Villar alone?

A. 180 C. 100
B. 260 D. 180

212. How many persons responded to the survey?

A. 910 C. 960
B. 680 D. 930

Situation 30 – Given the following matrices:

2 −3 4 3

[
A= 1 −1 7 B= 4
5 6 8 9 ] []
213. What is the determinant of the matrix A?

A. -64 C. -137
B. 64 D. 137

214. What is the cofactor of the 7 entry of matrix A?

A. 27 C. 32
B. -27 D. -32

215. What is the product of A & B?

36 15

[][]
A . 24 C . 52
84 96

26 30

[][ ]
B . 38 D. 62
8 111
Situation 31- Given the Matrix A and its inverse matrix B:

2 1 3
[
A= 0 −1 2
4 3 1 ]
1 x 8 y
B=
6
4 [
8 −10 −4
z −2 ]
216. Determine the value of x.

A. -2 C. 1
B. 5 D. -7

217. Determine the value of y.

A. 1 C. -7
B. 5 D. -2

218. Determine the value of z.

A. -2 C. 5
B. -7 D. 1

219. i51 =

A. –I C. 1
B. i D. -1

220. Which of the following is equivalent to √ −3 x √ −1/ 27 ?

A. 1/9 C. imaginary
B. 1/3 D. -1/3

221. Solve for y from the following complex equation:

2x + 5y + 3yi + 15 – 3i = 0

A. 2 C. -10
B. -5 D. 1

222. (1 – 2i)-1 can be written as:

A. 1/5 +2/5 I C. -1/3 -2/3 i

B. 1/5 – 2/5 I D. -1/3 + 2/3 i
 223. The product of the complex numbers (2 + 4i) and (1 – 7i) is:
A. 30 – 10i C. 3 + 19i
B. 22 + 8i D. 10 – 24i
224. Convert the following complex number to rectangular form: 480 < -135°
A. -339.4 – 339.4i C. 339.4 – 339.4i
B. -339.4 + 339.4i D. 339.4 + 339.4i
225. Find the value of x in the equation (x + yi) (1 – 2i) = 7 – 4i.
A. 1 C. 4
B. 3 D. 2
226. The roots of a cubic equation with real coefficients are 2 + 3i and 3. What is the equation?
A. x3 + 7x2 + 25x + 39 =0 C. x3 + 7x2 – 25x – 39 = 0
B. x3 – 7x2 + 25x – 39 = 0 D. x3 + 7x2 – 25x + 39 = 0

Vectors
Situation 32 – Vectors are drawn from the origin to points P(3, -2) and Q(1, 5).
Indicating these vectors by ⃗OP= A∧⃗ OQ by B :
227. Find A + B.
A. 2i – 7j C. 4i – 3j
B. 4i + 3j D. -2i + 7j
228. Find A – B.
A. 4i – 3j C. 2i – 7j
B. -2i + 7j D. 4i + 3j
229. Find B – A.
A. -2i + 7j C. 4i + 3j
B. 2i – 7j D. 4i – 3j
Situation 33 – A line segment is drawn from point P(1, 3) to point Q(4, -3).
230. Find the coordinates of the first trisection point from P to Q.
A. (2,1) C. (3, -1)
B. (3,2) D. (2.5,0)

231. Find the coordinates of the second trisection point from P to Q.

A. (3, -1) C. (3,2)
B. (2.5,0) D. (2,1)
232. Find the coordinates of the midpoint from P to Q.
 A. (2,1) C. (2.5,0)
B. (3, -1) D. (3,2)

Situation 34 – Two vectors A and B have the following values:

A = 6.7i + 8.35j
B = -2.57i – 5.55j

233. Determine the magnitude of the resultant of A and B.

A. 6.45 C. 5.34
B. 4.99 D. 4.21

234. If the tail of the resultant vector is at (0,0), where is the head of the resultant vector?

A. (2.8, 4.13) C. (3.45, 6.43)

B. (4.13, 2.8) D. (6.43, 3.45)

235. What is the angle of the resultant vector from the x-axis?

A. 34.14° C. 28.76°
B. 32.12° D. 38.45°

236. Find the eigenvalues associated with the matrix [31 64]
A. 3 or 6 C. 3 or 4
B. 1 or 4 D. 6 or 1

Situation 35 – Given the following vectors: A = 2i + 4j; B =1 + 5j

237. What is the cross product A x B?

A. 2i – 3j + 6k C. 0i + 0j + 6k
B. 4i + 2j – 7k D. 8i + 0j + 0k

238. What is the dot product A • B?

A. 11 C. 33
B. 22 D. 44

239. What is the angle between A and B?

A. 15.26° C. 14.21°
B. 18.32° D. 12.47°

240. Find the projection of A on B if A = 12i + 6k and B = -4j + 3k.

 A. 4.2 C. 3.6
B. 3.9 D. 5.4

Situation 36 – A vector (line segment) is drawn from P(2, 4, -1) to Q(3, 0, 5).

241. What is the magnitude of PQ?

A. 5.42 C. 8.95
B. 7.83 D. 7.28

242. What is the coordinate of the point that is ¾ of the way from P to Q?

A. 11/4 i + 2j – 7/2 k C. 11/4 i – 2j - k

B. 11/4 i + j + 7/2 k D. 11/4 i – j – 7/2 k

Situation 37 – Given the following vectors:

A = 6i – 3j + 2k
B = -2i + j + 2k

243. What is the dot product A • B?

A. -13 C. -11
B. -10 D. -12

244. What is the cross product A x B?

A. -8i – 16j C. 8i + 16j

B. 8i – 16j D. -8i + 16j

245. What is the angle between the vectors?

A. 121.58° C. 87.43°
B. 134.67° D. 104.43°

246. What is the scalar projection of B on A?

A. -11/7 C. -10/7
B. 12/7 D. 9/7

247. What is the vector projection of B on A?

A. 1.35i + 0.674j – 0.45k C. 1.35i – 0.674j – 0.45k

B. -1.35i + 0.647j – 0.45k D. -1.35i + 0.674j + 0.45k

Situation 38 – Given the following vectors:

A = (xy)i + (2yz)j + (3xz)k
 B = (yz)i + (2zx)j + (3xy)k

248. Determine the magnitude of vector A at (3, 2, -4).

A. 28.17 C. 43.91
B. 39.85 D. 49.22

249. Determine the magnitude of the resultant vector at (3, 2, -4).

A. 43.91 C. 39.85
B. 49.22 D. 28.17

250. Determine the angle between the vectors at (3, 2, -4).

A. 69.32° C. 104.61°
B. 87.65° D. 134.72°
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Situation 1 – For the following questions. Θ is the angle from the origin.

1. Which quadrant/s is sec θ < 0?

A. III & IV C. II
B. III D. II & III

2. Which quadrant/s is tan θ < 0?

A. IV C. II & III
B. II & IV D. II

3. Which quadrant/s is csc θ < 0?

A. III & IV C. IV
B. II & III D. III

Situation 2 – Determine which quadrant does the terminal side of the angle for the following conditions:

4. tan θ > 0 and sin θ < 0.

A. III quadrant C. II quadrant

B. I quadrant D. IV quadrant

5. cos θ > 0 and csc θ < 0.

A. I quadrant C. IV quadrant
B. II quadrant D. quadrant

6. sec θ < 0 and cot θ < 0.

A. IV quadrant C. III quadrant

B. I quadrant D. II quadrant

Situation 3 – Solve the following:

7. tan ( 11 Π √ 6 ¿ =

A. √ 3/2 C. −√ 3/3
B. −√ 3/2 D. √ 3/3

8. tan (-7Π/6)

A. −√ 3/3 C. √ 3/3
B. √ 3/2 D. −√ 3/2
9. tan Π =
 A. 1 C. undefined
B. 0 D. infinity

10. If sin θ = 2/3 and cos θ < 0, find tan θ.

A. 2 √ 5 /5 C. √ 5/3
B. −2 √ 5 /5 D. −3/ √ 5
11. If cos θ = 3/5 and csc θ < 0, find cot θ.

A. −3 √ 73 /73 C. 8 √ 73/73
B. 3 √ 73 /73 D. −8 √ 73/73

12. If tan θ = -8/3 and csc θ < 0, find sin θ.

A. −4 √73 /73 C.8 √ 73/73

B. 4 √73 /73 D. −8 √ 73/73

13. Solve x from the following equation: cos 6x = 1/ csc(3x + 9) . Note: all units are in degrees.

A. 9° C. 18°

B. 8° D. 12°

14. If csc (A +x) = sec (B + 2y), then A + B is:

A. 90° - (y – 2x) C. 90° - (x – 2y)

B. 90° - (2y – x) D. 90° - (x + 2y)

15. Find the value of θ in the equation cosh 2 θ – sinh2 θ = 3sin θ.

A. 19.47° C. 36.21°
B. 25.63° D. 12.78°

16. For an acute angle θ, cos θ = 4/5. What is the value of cos 2θ?

A. 13/25 C. 7/25
B. 8/25 D. 9/25

17. sin x = 3/5, tan y = 2/5. Find sin (x + y)

A. 0.485 C. 0.548
B. 0.845 D. 0.854

18. sin x = 0.5. Find cos 2x.

A. 0.732 C. 0.5
B. 0.654 D. 0.866

19. Find the value of x such that the tangent of angle (2x + 18) is equal to the cotangent of the angle
(4x – 12).
 A. 16 C. 13
B. 15 D. 14

20. (sec A – 2)(2 csc A – 1) = 0. What quadrant does A terminates?

A. IV only C. I & IV
B. II & III D. I only

Situation 4 – Which of the following is equivalent to the given trigonometric expressions?

21. (csc x)(cot x)

A. cos x / (sin2x – 1) C. cos x / (cos2x -1)

B. sin x / (sin2x -1) D. sin x / (cos2x – 1)

22. (1 / sin x)(cot x)

A. csc2 x / sec x C. csc2 x / sec2 x

B. csc x / sec2 x D. csc2 x / sec2 x

23. Which of the following is equivalent to sec 2 x – 1?

A. csc2 x C. cot2 x
B. cos2 x D. tan2 x

Situation 5 – Answer the following problems:

24. ½ (sin 9t + sin 5t) =

A. sin 2t cos 7t C. sin 3t cos 5t

B. sin 5t cos 3t D. sin 7t cos 2t

25. 4 cos 3x cox =

A. 2(cos 4x + cos 2x) C. 4(cos 3x + cos x)

B. 4(cos 4x + cos 2x) D. 2(cos 3x + cos x)

26. (cos 6x + cos 2x)/(sin 6x + sin 2x) =

A. cot 5x C. cot 4x
B. cot 3x D. cot 2x

27. If a = 4 cos x + 6 sin x and b = 6 sin x – 4, what is the value of a 2 + b2?

A. 32 + 40 sin2 x C. 40 + 32 sin2x
B. 16 + 20 sin2x D. 20+16 sin2x

28. If sin θ = k, which of the following is not correct:

A. cos θ = √ k 2−12 C. tan θ = √ 1−k 2

B. sec θ = √ 1−k D. csc θ = 1/k
 29. If arcsin (6x + 4y) = 1.5708 and arccos (2x + y) = 1.0472, find x.

A. 1/2 C. -3/2
B. 2/3 D. -1/2
30. What is the angle between the hands of a clock at 3:25 pm?

A. 49.3° C. 47.5°
B. 45.7° D. 48.6°

31. If coversine θ = 0.344, what is the value of θ?

A. 58° C. 41°
B. 62° D. 34°

Triangles

32. A 6-m long ladder leans against a vertical wall. If the top of the ladder is 4.8 m above the floor,
how far is the foot from the wall?

A. 3.6 m C. 3.4 m
B. 3.8 m D. 3.2 m

33. In measuring the distance AB, the tape was not accurately levelled and that one end is 0.85 m
lower than the other end. If the measured distance is 28.63 m, what is the correct distance?

A. 28.617 m C. 29.127 m
B. 28.643 m D. 28.357 m

34. The interior angles of a triangular lot ABC are A = 80 ° and B = 60°. Which of the following is
correct? (Note: a, b, and c are the corresponding sides opposite angles A, B, and C, respectively)

A. b < a < c C. c < b > a

B. c < b < a D. a < c > b

35. Given a triangle ABC such that A = 40°, a = 10 m, and b = 15 m. How many possible triangles can
be formed?

A. 1 C. 3
B. 2 D. 0

36. Given the sides of a triangle ABC: a = 36.3 cm, b = 23.9 cm, c = ?. The angle opposite side a is
102.7°. Compute the value of side c in centimeters.

A. 15.25 C. 25.78
B. 22.57 D. 20.45

37. The perimeter of a triangle is 271 cm. The interior angles measure 50°, 60°, and 70° respectively.
What is the length of the longest side of the triangle?

A. 80.72 cm C. 99.02 cm
B. 91.26 cm D. 93.65 cm
 38. Given the properties the sides and an angle of a triangle: a = 22 cm, c =16 cm, C = 35°. How
many distinct triangles can be formed?

A. 1 C. 0
B. 2 D. undefined

39. Given the properties the sided and an angle of a triangle: a = 31 cm, b = 26 cm, C = 48°. How
many distinct triangles can be formed?

A. 1 C. 0
B. 2 D. undefined

40. A triangle lot ABC has the following data: Angle A = 40 °, angle C = 60°, and side AC = 24 m. hat is
the length of side BC?

A. 21.105 cm C. 19.567 cm
B. 15.665 cm D. 17.853 cm

41. The length of the sides of a triangle are AB = 20 cm, BC = 24 cm, and AC = 17. What is the angle
opposite to side BC?

A. 44.31° C. 55.26°
B. 83.54° D. 80.43°

42. A triangular lot ABC is to be made such that the range of angle A is from 55° to 65° and the range
of angle C is from 100° to 110°. What is the range of angle B?

A. 5° to 25° C. 5° to 35°
B. 15° to 35° D. 15° to 25°

Situation 6 – The second angle of a triangle is twice the first angle and the third angle is thrice the
second angle. The perimeter of the triangle is 250cm.

43. What is the value of the second angle of the triangle?

A. 20° C. 40°
B. 60° D. 120°

44. What is the length of the longest side of the triangle?

A. 116.98 cm C. 46.2 cm
B. 86.82 cm D. 132.76 cm

45. What is the length of the angle bisector to the longest side of the triangle?

A. 32.32 cm C. 28.54 cm
B. 30.15 cm D. 36.89 cm
 46. Two flies flew at the same time from the same point in difference directions. One fly flew at 0.7
m/s and the other fly at 0.5 m/s. If the angle between their paths is 85°, find their distance after
2.5 seconds.

A. 2.06 m C. 1.81 m
B. 2.34 m D. 3 m

47. Two side of a triangle measures 8 m and 12 m and the angle opposite the 8-m side is 30°. What
is the measure of the third side of the triangle?

A. 12.3 m C. 5.1 m
B. 6.2 m D. 9.6 m

48. The sides of a triangular lot are 28.45m, 47.12 m, and 35.64 m. What is the angle opposite the
42.12 m side?

A. 93.98° C. 82.34°
B. 98.51° D. 87.67°

Situation 7 – In triangle ABC, side AB is 54 cm, side AC is 78 cm, and angle A is 56°.

49. What is the measure of side BC?

A. 69.32 cm C. 72.12 cm
B. 65.49 cm D. 57.89 cm

50. What is the measure of angle B?

A. 84.56° C. 91.12°
B. 73.21° D. 80.86°

51. What is the measure of angle C?

A. 43.12° C. 38.67°
B. 49.43° D. 80.88°

52. A right triangle ABC have its right angle at B. If AC = x + y and AB = x – y, what is the value of side
BC?

A. 2xy C. 4xy
B. 4 √ xy D. 2 √ xy

53. The three sides of a triangle measure 36 cm, 18 cm, and 24 cm. What is the length of the median
drawn the longest side to opposite vertex?

A. 12.325 cm C. 10.125 cm
B. 11.225 cm D. 13.045 cm

54. If the perpendicular bisectors of two sides of a triangle meets at the third side, what kind of
triangle is being described?
 A. scalene triangle C. right triangle
B. obtuse triangle D. acute triangle
Application

55. A fisherman at sea observed that the angle of elevation of a cliff is 12°. If the height of the cliff
above sea level is 30 m, how far is from the shore?

A. 141.14 m C. 124.87 m
B. 163.52 m D. 104.58 m

56. In order to measure the height of a flagpole, an instrument is setup at A and the angle of
elevation to the top of the flagpole was measured as 27.5°. The instrument is then setup at B,
which is 56.3 m closer to the flagpole and on the same vertical plane as point A and the flagpole,
and measured the angle of elevation as 62.3°. What is the height of the flagpole?

A. 45.89 m C. 42.28 m
B. 50.91 m D. 40.33 m

57. A flagpole 3 m high stands at the top of a pedestal 2 m high located at one side of a pathway. At
the opposite side of the pathway directly facing the flagpole, the flagpole subtends the same
angle as the pedestal. What is the width of the pathway?

A. 4.47 m C. 6.28 m
B. 3.21 m D. 8.41 m

58. A flagpole stands on the edge of the top of a building. At a point 200 m from the building the
angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the pole are 32° and 30° respectively. Calculate the
height of the flagpole.

A. 8.60 m C. 9.50 m
B. 12.30 m D. 10.20 m

59. An observer finds the angle of elevation of a building from X on a level ground as 27°. After,
moving 120 m closer to the building the angle of elevation was 42°. Find the height of the
building.

A. 152.78 m C. 164.34 m
B. 148.56 m D. 140.85 m

Situation B – From a building across, the angle of depression of the base of the front edifice is 23.5° and
the angle of elevation of its top is 52.78°. The height observation is 14 m.

60. What is the height of the edifice?

A. 56.39 m C. 76.58 m
B. 68.74 m D. 42.23 m

61. How far is the building from the said edifice?

A. 38.7 m C. 45.6 m
B. 24.8 m D. 32.2 m

62. What is the angle of elevation of the top of the edifice from the foot of the building?
 A. 65.32° C. 60.27°
B. 78.96° D. 54.75°
63. An inaccessible cliff was sighted from point A. The angle of elevation was observed to be 18.45°.
The surveyor went closer to the edge of the cliff at point B. Point B is 425 m nearer but 25.6 m
lower than A. The angle of elevation was observed to be 36.3° from B. If the elevation of A is
602 m, what is the elevation of the top of the cliff?

A. 885.325 m C. 881.455 m
B. 883.075 m D. 880.325 m

64. Two stations A and B were setup to determine the height of a mountain. The angles of elevation
of the top of the mountain measured from stations A and B were 26.5° and 31.25°, respectively.
Station A is 75 m above station B. Station B is 450 m closer to the mountain. If the elevation of
station A is 563.54 m, what is the elevation of the top of the mountain in meters?

A. 2166.93 C. 2114.78
B. 2214.65 D. 2365.45

Situation 9 – Points A and B on opposite sides of a building are 124 m apart. The angles of depression
from the top of the building to A and B are 54.3° and 68.5°, respectively. Determine the following:

65. The height of the building.

A. 128.57 m C. 115.65 m
B. 98.75 m D. 111.46 m

66. Distance of point A from the building.

A. 43.91 m C. 41.55 m
B. 80.09 m D. 82.45

67. Distance of point B from the building.

A. 80.09 m C. 43.91 m
B. 82.45 m D. 41.55 m

68. From a window 7.4 m above the ground, the angle of elevation of the top of a nearby edifice is
54.25° and the angle of depression of its base is 21.42°. What is the height of the edifice?

A. 36.5 m C. 34.7 m
B. 33.6 m D. 32.1 m

69. A ladder 12 m length with its foot on the street rests against the wall of a house on one side of
the street 10 m high. By moving the ladder about its foot, it can reach the wall of the house on
the opposite side of the street, but 3 m back of the street line, at a point 6 m high. Find the
width of the street.

A. 13 m C. 12 m
B. 15 m D. 14 m
 70. The side of a hill makes an angle of 12° with the horizontal. A wire is to be run from the top of a
60-m tower on the top of the hill t a stake located 36 m down the hillside from the base of the
tower. What length of wire is needed in meters?

A. 79.65 C. 72.54
B. 76.12 D. 82.45

71. A hill slopes at an angle of 33° with the horizontal. A path leads up it, making an angle of 48°30’
with the line of steepest slope; find the inclination of the path with the horizontal.

A. 22°12’2” C. 21°9’17”
B. 20°24’2” D. 21°45’8”

Situation 10 – From a window “O” of a tall building 92 meters above a level ground, the angle of
depression of the top of a nearby tower is 38°. From the base of the building, the angle of elevation of
the top of the tower is 22°. Determine the following:

72. The height of the tower in meters.

A. 28.63 C. 25.47
B. 31.36 D. 35.65

73. The distance from the tower to the building in m.

A. 68.54 C. 77.62
B. 75.85 D. 96.32

74. The angle subtended by the tower from point O in degrees.

A. 12.54 C. 11.85
B. 13.86 D. 10.54

Situation 11- An Air Force pilot making preliminary aerial survey, first observed that when he flew
directly over a straight road connecting two coastal towns X and Y, the angles made by these towns with
the vertical were 30° and 60°, respectively. When he flew back directly over the same road for the
second observation, his altimeter indicated that he was 1,000 meters higher and noted that both towns
made and angle of 45° with the vertical.

75. What is the distance between the towns, in kilometers?

A. 13.678 C. 15.456
B. 14.928 D. 12.834

76. How high is the airplane when the first observation was made?

A. 6834 m C. 6464 m
B. 5678 m D. 6154 m

77. How high is the airplane when the second observation was made?

A. 7464 m C. 6678 m
 B. 7834 m D. 7154 m

78. A speedboat has a velocity in still water of 25 kph and heading of N 45° E. If its resultant
direction is N 54.9° E, what is the rate of the current which is moving due south?

A. 6.35 kph C. 4.75 kph

B. 5.25 kph D. 3.25 kph

79. A surveyor is 1190 m and 2290 m away from the two edges of a lake. If he angles between
measurements is 71°, what is the width of the lake?

A. 2,124.32 m C. 2,268.45 m

B. 2,321.78 m D. 2,210.38 m

80. A truck travels from point M northward for 30 min. then eastward for one hour, then shifted N
30° W. If the constant speed is 40 kph, how far directly from M, in km. will be it after 2 hours?

A. 43.5 C. 47.8
B. 45.2 D. 41.6

81. The side of a mountain slopes upward at an angle of 21° 14’. At point on the mountain side a
mine tunnel is constructed an angle of 15° 27’ downward from the horizontal. Find the vertical
distance to the surface of the mountain from a point 250 m down the tunnel.

A. 142.89 m C. 160.23 m
B. 187. 54 m D. 198.63 m

Situation 12 – The distances of a point C from two points A and B, which cannot be measured directly,
are required. The line CA is continued through A for a distance of 175 m to D, the line CB is continued
through B for 225 m to E, and the distances AB = 300 m, DB = 326 m, and DE = 488 m are measured.

82. What is the distance AC in meters?

A. 129.3 C. 145.4
B. 164.3 D. 132.8

83. What is the distance BC in meters?

A. 412.1 C. 376.3
B. 350.8 D. 389.9

84. What is the measure of angle ACB degrees?

A. 57.9° C. 51.1°
B. 68.3° D. 76.3°

85. From the top of 120-m tall tower, the angle of depression of point A south of the tower is 31.3°
and the angle of depression point B east of the tower is 54.2°. Point A and B are on the same
elevation at the base of the tower. Find the distance AB.

A. 215.5 m C. 198.3 m
B. 236.7 m D. 243.1 m
 86. The obelisk of a certain Rizal Monument rises to some height above its dais. The angles of
elevation of the top and bottom of the obelisk from two stations A and B on the same horizontal
plane as the base of the dais are 48° and 30°, respectively. The corresponding horizontal angles
to the common center of both dais and obelisk from the ends of the base line A-B, 25 meters
long are 75° and 60°, respectively. Find the height of the obelisk in meters.

A. 16.32 C. 12.58
B. 14.29 D. 18.74

Situation 13 – The angle of elevation of the top point D of a tower from A is 24.35°. From another point
B the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 56.21°. The points A and B are 287.6 m apart on the
same horizontal plane as the foot (point C) of the tower. The horizontal angle subtended by A and B at
the foot of the tower is 90°. Determine the following:

87. The distance AC in meters.

A. 65.4 C. 216
B. 275.3 D. 83.4

88. The distance BC in meters.

A. 275.3 C. 83.4
B. 65.4 D. 216

89. The height of the tower in meters.

A. 124.57 C. 97.73
B. 85.42 D. 108.75

Situation 14 – From the top of the building the angle of depression of a point A located due West of the
building is 22.5°. From the mid-height of the building the angle of depression of a point B located due
South of the building is 18.5°. A and B are on the same horizontal plane as the base of the building and
are 300 m apart.

90. What is the height of the building?

A. 112.41 m C. 123.63 m
B. 93.57 m D. 105.66 m

91. How far is the point B from the building?

A. 157.89 m C. 141.21 m
B. 169.81 m D. 136.58 m

92. At a point A south of a tower the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 50°. At another
point B, 200 meters east of A, the angle of elevation is 22°. Find the height of the tower.

A. 58.7 m C. 65.4 m
B. 98.7 m D. 85.9 m
Spherical Triangle

93. A spherical triangle has the following parts: B = 42° 30.2’, C = 128° 46.6’, a = 64° 26.4’. Find the
value of side b.

A. 57.24° C. 46.47°
B. 63.25° D. 103.99°

94. In the spherical triangle ABC, A = 116° 19’, B = 55° 30’, and C = 80° 37’. What is the value of side
b?

A. 54° 08’ C. 96° 51’

B. 56° 02’ D. 47° 08’

95. In spherical triangle, angle B = 81° 50’ and angle C = 94° 30’. If side c = 90°, what is the value of
angle A?

A. 56° 28’ C. 62° 24’

B. 57 ° 32’ D. 54° 18’

96. A spherical triangle has angles of 63°, 85°, and 54°. Find the area of the sphere has a surface area
of 16,286 square centimeters.

A. 365.8 cm2 C. 563.1 cm2

B. 287.4 cm2 D. 497.6 cm2

97. A triangle on the surface of a sphere has interior angles of 82°, 68°, and 105°. The volume of the
sphere is 145,124.72 cc. What is the area of the triangle in square cm.?

A. 1874 C. 1563
B. 1224 D. 1391

Situation 15 – An airplane will fly from Mactan Cebu (10° 18’ N, 123° 58’ E) to Wellington New Zealand
(41° 19’ S, 174° 48’ E) following a great circle path with an average speed of 800 kph.

98. At what longitude will it cross the equator?

A. 138° 43’ C. 132° 2’

B. 128° 15’ D. 130° 3’

99. What course should it leave Mactan?

A. S 38° 25’ E C. S 42° 26’ E

B. S 34° 43’ E D. S 36° 53’ E

100. How long will it travel in hours?

A. 8.645 C. 12.543
B. 9.675 D. 6.983
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Fundamentals in Plane Geometry & Triangles

1. The distance from A to B is 12 m, from B to C is 4 m, and from C to D is 5 m. What is the

minimum distance from A to D?

A. 11 m C. 3 m
B. 0 D. 7 cm

2. The area of park on a map is 500 mm 2. If the scale of the map is 1 to 40,000 determine the true
area of the park in hectares (1 hectare = 10 4 m2).

A. 40 C. 160
B. 80 D. 120

3. The scale of an Ordinance Survey map is 1:2500. A circular sports field has a diameter of 8 cm on
the map. Calculate its area in hectares, giving your answer correct to 3 significant figures (1
hectare = 104 m2)

A. 3.5623 C. 2.7843
B. 3.1416 D. 4.8932

4. If the measure of angle A of the triangle ABC is 3x, the measure of angle B is 5x, and the measure
of angle C is 4x, what is the value of x?

A. 15˚ C. 20˚
B. 12˚ D. 30˚

5. If the measure of angle A of the triangle ABC is 5x + 10, the measure of angle B is x + 10, and the
measure of angle C is 2x, which of the following is true of triangle ABC?

A. Triangle ABC is acute and scalene.

B. Triangle ABC is acute and not scalene.
C. Triangle ABC is right but not isosceles.
D. Triangle ABC is obtuse and scalene.

6. The altitude to the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 8 cm. Which of the following is a possible
pair of segments of the hypotenuse cut by this altitude?

A. 2 & 32 C. 2 & 34
B. 6 & 8 D. 4 & 24

7. An isosceles right triangle has a hypotenuse of x √6 units. What is the area of the triangle?

A. x √ 3 square units C. 3x square units

B. (3/2) x2 square units 2
D. 3x square units
 8. Two interior angles of a triangle measure 48˚ and 62˚. If the perimeter of this triangle is 84 cm,
find the longest side of the triangle.

A. 28.91 cm C. 30.76 cm
B. 34.56 cm D. 24.33 cm

9. Two sides of a triangle are measuring 20 cm and 28 cm, respectively. If the area of the triangle is
227.125 cm2, what is the measure of the third sides in cm?

A. 22 C. 24
B. 23 D. 25

10. If all midpoints of the sides of a triangle are connected, what fraction is the area of the smallest
triangle formed to the area of the original triangle?

A. 1/3 C. 1/8
B. 1/4 D. 1/2

11. Given a triangle whose sides are 10 cm, 24 cm, and 26 cm. Find the perimeter of a smallest
triangle that is similar to the given triangle whose shortest side is 6cm.

A. 32 C. 100
B. 48 D. 36

12. Three sides of a triangle measure 16 cm, 24 cm, and 20 cm, respectively. What is the median to
the 20-cm side?

A. 17.78 cm C. 16.92 cm
B. 18.32 cm D. 20.59 cm

13. The sides of a triangle are 18 cm, 24 cm, and 34 cm, respectively. Find the length of the bisector
of the smallest angle of the triangle, in cm.

A. 29.48 C. 25.57
B. 28.63 D. 27.15

Situation 1 – The perimeter of a triangle is 584 cm. The interior angles measure 50˚, 60˚, and 70˚,
respectively.

14. What is the length of the shortest side of the triangle in centimeters?

A. 173.95 C. 196.66
B. 213.39 D. 162.41

15. What is the area of the triangle in square centimeters?

A. 13,552 C. 15,452
 B. 17,860 D. 16,073
16. What is the radius of the largest circle that can be cut from this triangle in centimeters?

A. 55 cm C. 65
B. 114 D. 87

17. The sides of a triangle ABC are AB = 18 cm, BC = 14 cm, and CA = 8 cm. How far is its centroid
from vertex B?

A. 9.563 C. 10.413
B. 11.127 D. 10.875

18. Three posts are set in level ground in such a manner that their bases from an equilateral triangle
with sides 10 m long. If the heights of the posts are 6 m, 9 m, and 15 m, find the area of the
triangle formed by their tops.

A. 89.63 m2 C. 58.72 m2
B. 78.53 m2 D. 53.58 m2

Quadrilateral & Polygons

19. The perimeter of a small rectangular industrial lot is 180 m and its diagonal is 65 m. Find the
area of the lot in sq. m.

A. 1937.5 C. 1600
B. 1237.5 D. 2145.5

20. A rectangular lot has a perimeter of 60 m. Find the area of the lot if one side is 6 m shorter than
the other.

A. 224 m2 C. 324 m2
B. 216 m2 D. 196 m2

21. If one side of a rectangle is increased by 25%, what is the effect on the other side to maintain the
same area?

A. decreased by 80% C. decreased by 30%

B. decreased by 20% D. decreased by 10%

22. The sides of two rectangular posters are in the ratio 5:4. If the bigger poster has an area of 50
square feet, what is the area of the smaller poster?

A. 40 ft2 C. 16 ft2
B. 24 ft2 D. 32 ft2
 23. Town houses 200 m by 300 m are built in a lot containing 81,600 square meters. A parking strip
of uniform width surrounds the houses. How wide is the strip?

A. 20 m C. 22 m
B. 21 m D. 19 m

Situation 2 – A square lot 1 kilometer on each side is divided into five equal parts. The parts consist of
four equal right triangles and a square at the center of the lot.

24. What is the dimension of the smallest square in meters?

A. 447.21 C. 200
B. 336.67 D. 420

25. If this process continued, what will be the dimension of the next smaller square in meters?

A. 336.67 C. 447.21
B. 420 D. 200

26. What is the ration of the area of the smallest square to the original square?

A. 0.2 C. 0.008
B. 0.04 D. 0.5

27. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle. If the sides of the quadrilateral are, respectively,
22.3 cm, 11.7 cm, 26.7 cm and 24.5 cm, find the area of the quadrilateral ABCD in sq. cm.

A. 400 C. 430
B. 425 D. 435

28. Given rectangle whose dimension is 12 cm x 16 cm. Find the diameter of the smallest circle than
can contain the rectangle.

A. 10 C. 15
B. 20 D. 12

29. How many circles of radius 4 cm can be cut from a rectangular sheet measuring 16 cm x 24 cm?

A. 4 C. 6
B. 12 D. 8

Situation 3 – Use the diagram below to answer the following questions. The semicircles to the left and
right of the center circle are each exactly half the size of the center circle, and the three figures are
adjacent within rectangle ABCD. The diagram is not to scale.
 30. If the length of AB is x units, what is the area of the center circle?

A. πx2/16 C. x2π
B. (x2π)/4π D. 2xπ

31. If the area of one semicircle is 4.5π square units, what is the area of the rectangle?

A. 72 C. 144
B. 108 D. 162

32. If the radius of the circle is 4 units, what is the size of the shaded area?

A. 72 – 16 π C. 128 – 32 π
B. 128 – 24 π D. 128 – 16 π

33. A rectangle has a perimeter of 30 m. If its length is twice its breadth, find the area of the
rectangle in square meters.

A. 50 C. 30
B. 25 D. 40

34. The base of a parallelogram is 154 cm and its diagonals make angles of 28˚ and 43˚ with the
base. Find the length of the longer diagonal.

A. 164.45 C. 209.18
B. 598.67 D. 222.16

Situation 4 – The bases of a trapezoid are 48 m and 98 m. The angles at the ends of the longer base are
63˚ 52’ and 71˚ 48’.

35. What is the altitude of the trapezoid in m?

A. 68.3 C. 48.8
B. 61 D. 51.3

36. What is the area of the trapezoid in m?

A. 3537 C. 4455.5
B. 4784 D. 3807.7

37. What is the perimeter of the trapezoid in m?

A. 288.1 C. 249
B. 261.8 D. 278.2
Situation 5 – A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a semicircle with side AD coinciding with the diameter
of the circle. Side AB = 8, BC = 10 cm, and CD = 12 cm.

38. What is the diameter of the circle in cm?

A. 22.3 C. 18.5
B. 20.1 D. 24.7

39. What is the length of the diagonal BD in cm?

A. 18.43 C. 20.14
B. 19.63 D. 17.52

40. What is the area of the quadrilateral in square cm?

A. 154.74 C. 128.75
B. 136.85 D. 189.63

41. A polygon has twenty-four sides. How diagonals have this polygon?

A. 222 C. 232
B. 212 D. 252

42. If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon equals 720˚, and the length of one side of
the polygon is 3x2, what is the perimeter of the polygon?

A. 18x2 C. 24x2
B. 18x12 D. 24x12

43. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle. The area in the circle outside the hexagon is 122.2912
cm2. What is the area of the circle in cm 2?

A. 804.25 C. 615.75
B. 530.93 D. 706.86

44. Find the area of regular octagon of side 30 cm.

A. 4,354.58 cm2 C. 4,105.45 cm2

B. 4,698.54 cm2 D. 3,856.36 cm2

45. Pentagons ABCDE and FGHIJ are similar. The ration of each side of pentagon ABCDE to its
corresponding side of pentagon FGHIJ is 4:1. If AB and FG are corresponding sides, and the
length of AB is 4x + 4, what is the length of FG?

A. x + 1 C. 4x + 4
B. 2x + 2 D. 16x + 16

46. Find the area of a rectangular hexagon if the width across the flat is 70 cm.
 A. 4,243.52 cm2 C. 3,875.45 cm2
B. 4,635.87 cm2 D. 4,498.63 cm2
47. A polygon has 104 diagonals. How many sides have the polygon?

A. 14 C. 17
B. 15 D. 16

48. The side of a rectangular pentagon is 32.2 cm long. Find the area between the circles inscribed in
the pentagon and the circle circumscribed about the pentagon.

A. 946.98 cm2 C. 814.33 cm2

B. 713.23 cm2 D. 876.56 cm2

49. The side of a regular hexagon is 9.74 cm long. Find the area between the circles inscribed in the
hexagon and the circle circumscribed about the hexagon.

A. 67.32 cm2 C. 98.32 cm2

B. 74.51 cm2 D. 103.99 cm2

50. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 9x 2. If x is 3 greater than the number of sides of the
polygon, how many sides does the polygon have?

A. 6 sides C. 7 sides
B. 10 sides D. 12 sides

51. A regular polygon is inscribed in a circle whose area is 101.876 cm 2. How many diagonals have
the polygon if the area in the circle that is outside the polygon is 80.69 cm 2?

A. 9 C. 18
B. 27 D. 36

Situation 6 – A regular hexagon have sides measure equal to “h”.

52. Find the area of the largest circle that can be inscribed in this hexagon.

A. 3.526 h2 C. 2.745 h2
B. 3.142 h2 D. 2.356 h2

53. Find the area of the largest equilateral triangle that can be inscribed in this hexagon?

A. 1.3 h2 C. 1.4 h2
B. 1.2 h2 D. 1.5 h2

54. Find the area of the largest hexagon that can circumscribe this hexagon.

A. 3.644 h2 C. 3.235 h2
B. 3.723 h2 D. 3.464 h2
Circles & Other Plane Figures

55. Two circles are tangent externally with each other. How many possible lines can be drawn that
are common tangents to the two circles?

A. 2 C. 1
B. 3 D. 0

56. Two circles are close to each other but not tangent with each other. How many possible lines can
be drawn that are common tangents to the two circles?

A. 4 C. 2
B. 3 D. 1

57. If the circumference of a circle triples, the area of the circle becomes

A. 9 times smaller C. 3 times bigger

B. 3 times smaller D. 9 times bigger

Situation 7 – An unfenced grass land is in the form of a right triangle ABC with AB = 4m, BC = 8m, and AC
as hypotenuse. A goat is tied to a 5-m long rope with its stake at point O which is 2m from side AB, and
2m from the prolongation of side BC through the corner B.

58. How far is O from C in meters?

A. 10.8 C. 10.2
B. 10.6 D. 11.3

59. Determine the area in which the goat can graze inside land ABC, in square meters.

A. 7.49m2 C. 6.81m2
2
B. 8.61m D. 9.47m2
60. If the land was fenced on side AB and BC, determine the area in which the goat can graze inside
the land ABC, in square meters.

A. 2.95 C. 3.54
B. 2.61 D. 3.24

61. What is the ratio of area of circle to its radius?

A. π C. 2 πr
B. r D. πr
 62. The perimeter of a triangle is 102 cm and its area is 431.1554 square centimeters. Find the
maximum diameter of a circle that can be inscribed in this triangle.

A. 7.63 cm C. 9.54 cm
B. 12.45 cm D. 8.45 cm

63. The area of a triangle inscribed in a circle is 42.23cm 2. One side of the triangle is 18cm. Find the
length of one side of the triangle if the radius of circumscribing circle is 9cm.

A. 18.321 cm C. 16.587 cm
B. 15.425 cm D. 17.327 cm

64. The sides of a triangle measures 59, 42 and 64. Find the radius of the inscribed circle.

A. 13.65 C. 13.87
B. 15.89 D. 14.61

65. A circle is circumscribed about a triangle. The radius of the circle is 9cm. The area of the triangle
is 43.23 cm2 and one of its side measure 18cm. Determine the measure of one of the other two
sides of the triangle.

A. 15.32 cm C. 13.25 cm
B. 8.98 cm D. 17.29 cm

66. Given a circle such that a cord of length 12 cm is 8 cm from its center. What is the area of the
circle?

A. 120 π cm2 C. 100 π cm2

C. 90 π cm2 D. 80 π cm2

67. Two wheels one 60 cm in diameter and the other 40 cm in diameter are rolling along the straight
line with the same linear speed. How many revolutions has the larger wheel made if the smaller
wheel has made 360 revolutions?

A. 200 C. 280
B. 240 D. 300

Situation 8 – Two speed boats simultaneously sailed out from port A, on a 10-km radius circular lake,
towards port B directly opposite port A. The first boat took the shortest route and reached the
destination in 100minutes. The second boat has to pass by port C, 8km from A, before proceeding to
port B.

68. What is the speed of the first boat in miles per hour?

A. 10.74 C. 6.32
B. 7.46 D. 9.21
 69. What is the distance CB in kilometers?

A. 15.67 C. 12.35
B. 12 D. 18.33

70. With what speed ( in kph ) should the second boat sail in order to arrive port B at the same time
with the first boat?

A. 19.8 C. 15.8
B. 14.5 D. 16.3

71. Three circles of different diameter are tangent externally. The triangle formed by the line joining
their centers have sides 16cm, 20cm, and 24cm, respectively. Find the area of the biggest circle
in square cm.

A. 897.67 C. 678.98
B. 543.21 D. 615.75

72. Three circles tangent externally to each other are tangent internally to a larger circle. If one the
three circles has a radius of 5 cm and the circumscribing circle has a radius of 10 cm, find the
radii of the two other equal circles.

A. 6.66 cm C. 7.77 cm
B. 4.44 cm D. 5.55 cm

73. A chord is 24 cm long and its mid – point is 8 cm from the midpoint of its shorter arc. Find the
radius of the circle.

A. 13 cm C. 8 cm
B. 5 cm D. 15 cm

74. A circle having an area of 50.27 is tangent to the coordinate axes. Find the area of the smaller
circle that is tangent to the given circle and the coordinate axes.

A. 1.02 sq. units C. 1.98 sq. units

B. 2.45 sq. units D. 1.48 sq. units

Situation 9 - The angle subtended by an arc of circle of radius 60 cm is 152 .̊

75. What is the length of the minor arc?

A. 178. 34 cm C. 159.17 cm
B. 234.86 cm D. 217.82 cm

76. What is the length of the major arc?

 A. 217.82 cm C. 178.34 cm
B. 159.17 cm D. 234.86 cm

77. What is the area of the bigger sector?

A. 7,234.98 cm2 C. 6,534.51 cm2

B. 6,321.39 cm2 D. 4,775.22 cm2

78. A circle having an area of 1809.6 square centimeters is cut into two segments by a chord 8 cm
from the center. What is the ratio of the area of the larger segment to the smaller segment?

A. 2.43 C. 1.85
B. 0.632 D. 0.412

79. A circle with radius with radius 10 has half its area removed by cutting off a border of uniform
width. Find the width of the border.

A. 2.93 C. 2.21
B. 1.65 D. 3.21

80. Find the area ( in square cm ) of a regular five-pointed star inscribed in a circle of radius 180 cm.

A. 34256 C. 42128
B. 36371 D. 38754

81. A Quonset hut 20 meters long has a parabolic cross-section. Its base is w40 feet and its height at
the center is 25 feet. A flat horizontal ceiling 12 feet above the base is to be constructed inside
the Quonset hut. How many sheets of 4’ x 8’ plywood will the ceiling require?

A. 60 C. 50
B. 55 D. 65

82. The axes of an elliptical track are 200 m and 100 m, respectively. Find the perimeter of the track
in meters.

A. 523.45 C. 443.87
B. 484.42 D. 632.58

83. An elliptical lot has a major axis of 300 m and minor axis of 250 m. If the cost of fencing the is
P1,500 per meter, what is the total cost of fencing the lot?

A. P 1,678,453.00 C. P 2,665,729.00
B. P 2,245,943.00 D. P 1,326,210.00

84. A race track is formed by two concentric ellipses. The outer ellipse has a major axis of 270 m and
minor axis of 170 m. The inner ellipse has a major axis of 250 m and minor axis of 150 m. Find
the area of the track
 A. 5,874,43 m2 C. 6,945.32 m2
B. 7,389. 59 m2 D. 6,587.35 m2

85. What is the area of an ellipse with an aspect ratio of 2 and total perimeter of 18 centimeters?

A. 21.69 C. 24.78
B. 22.54 D. 28.41

Fundamentals is Solid Geometry & Prisms

86. Given two planes A and B. Line C is perpendicular to plane A and also perpendicular to plane B.
Which of the following is true?

A. A and B intersect but not perpendicular

B. A and B are perpendicular
C. A and B are parallel
D. A and B are skew

87. Line A and B intersect at point O. Line C is perpendicular to both A and B at O. Which of the
following is true?

A. Line A and B are perpendicular

B. Line C is oblique to the plane described by lines A and B
C. Line C is parallel to the plane described by lines A and B
D. Line C is perpendicular to the plane described by lines A and B

88. A structural member has a mass of 400 kg. If all the dimensions of the member is reduced by
30%, what is the mass of the new member?

A. 280 kg C. 158.7 kg
B. 137.2 kg D. 321.4 kg

89. A car has a mass of 1000 kg. A model of the car is made to a scale of 1 to 50. Determine the mass
of the model if the car and its model are made of the same material.

A. 12 grams C. 6 grams
B. 8 grams D. 16 grams

90. A rectangular block has sides measuring 3 cm by 4 cm by 12 cm. Determine the perimeter of the
triangle formed by diagonals of three adjacent faces.

A. 29.50 cm C. 29.20 cm
B. 30.37 cm D. 30.02 cm
 91. The sides of the base of a pentagonal prism measure 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9 cm, respectively. A second
prism similar to the first has its shortest side equal to 2 cm, and lateral area of 144 cm 2. What is
the altitude of the first prism?

A. 11.432 cm C. 10.452 cm
B. 8.768 cm D. 9.765 cm

92. What is the volume of a cube of its total surface area 24x?

A. 8x3 C. 8x3/2
3
B. 4x D. 4x3/2
93. A rectangular tank 6 m wide, 12 m long and 8 m high is 2/3 full of water. If 120 m 3 of water is
added, how much (in percent) is the tank filled with water?

A. 72.45% C. 68.57%
B. 79.63% D. 75.93%
94. The area of one face of a cube is 9x square units. What is the volume of the cube?
A. 27 √ x cubic units C. 27x √ x cubic units
2
B. 27x cubic units D. 27x cubic units

95. A cube of side 2 cm is to be made. However, due to erroneous measurement, the actual side of
the cube is 2.1 cm. What is the relative error in the volume of the cube?

A. 16.32% C. 13.62%
B. 14.58% D. 15.76%

96. The entire surface of a solid cube with edge of length 12 cm, is painted. The cube is then cut into
smaller cubes each with edge of length 1 cm. How many of the smaller cubes have paint on
exactly one face?

A. 600 C. 580
B. 620 D. 480

Situation 10 – Imagine a block of wood to measure 20 cm by 30 cm by 40 cm and to have its total

surface area painted blue.

97. How many times must you cut completely through the block to make cubes which measure 10
cm on an edge?

A. 5 C. 6
B. 9 D. 8

98. How many of the cubes of question (1) will have two blue faces?
 A. 8 C. 24
B. 6 D. 12

99. How many of the cubes of question (1) will have no blue face?

A. 0 C. 1
B. 2 D. 3

100. Cubes with 1” on each sides were piled together to form a rectangular parallelepiped
measuring 6” x 8” x 4”. All six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped were painted red. How
many more cubes have two painted red than have three faces painted red?

A. 38 C. 48
B. 8 D. 40

101. The opposite faces of a cube are ABCD and EFGH. If the edge of the cube is 1 m, what is the
distance between the midpoint of edge AB and midpoint of edge DH.

A. 1.225 m C. 1.425 m
B. 1.325 m D. 1.125 m

102. A cubical block of wood 8 cm on each side is cut by a plane parallel to one face. What additional
surface area is produced?

A. the same C. 64 cm2

B. 256 cm2 D. 128 cm2

103. A swimming pool is rectangular in shape of length 12 m and width 5.5 m. It has a sloping
bottom and is 1 m deep on one end and 3.6 m deep on the other end. The water from a full
cylindrical reservoir 4 m in diameter and 10 m deep is emptied into the pool. Find the depth of
water at the deep end.

A. 2.8 m C. 3.1 m
B. 3 m D. 3.2 m

Situation 11 – The base of a truncated prism is a quadrilateral ABCD with AB = 15 cm, BC = 20 cm, CD =
18 cm, and DA = 10 cm. Angle A is 65°. The altitude at corners A, B, C, and D are h A = 8 cm, hB = 12 cm, hc
= 10 cm, and hD = 15 cm.

104. What is the measure of angle C in degrees?

A. 101 C. 43
B. 151 D. 52

105. What is the area of the base in cm?

 A. 191 C. 209
B. 189 D. 241

106. Find the volume of the prism in cm?

A. 2355 C. 2123
B. 2148 D. 2707

107. A through, whose ends are isosceles right triangle with vertical axis, is 6 m long. If it contains
800 liters of water, how deep is the water in cm?

A. 54.8 C. 42.8
B. 21.4 D. 36.5

108. The base of a truncated prism is a rectangle with length twice its width. The corner edges have
heights of 12 m, 12 m, 16 m, and 16 m respectively. If the volume of the prism is 8,200 cu.m.,
find the length of its base.

A. 17.11 C. 28.62
B. 34.23 D. 14.32

Cylinders

109. The radius of a cylinder is 2x and the height of the cylinder is 8x + 2. What is the volume of the
cylinder in terms of x?

A. (16x2 + 4x) Π C. (32x2 + 8x) Π

B. (16x3 + 4x2) Π D. (32x3 + 8x2) Π

110. A larger 15-m diameter cylindrical tank that sits on the ground is to be painted. If one liter of
paint covers 12 square meters, how many liters are required to paint the outside of the tank if it
is 10 m high? (Include the top)

A. 54 C. 65
B. 58 D. 71

111. A log 8 √ 2 cm in diameter and 16 cm long is to be cut into equal cubes. If each cube is to be
4 cm on each side, determine the maximum volume of cubes that can be cut from the log.

A. 448 C. 1024
B. 256 D. 512

112. How long a wire 1.8-mm in diameter can be drawn from a block of copper 60 mm x 100 mm x
150 mm?
 A. 314.6 m C. 353.7 m
B. 258.7 m D. 412.5 m

113. A cylindrical boiler is to be made from a metal sheet having a total area of 456 square meter. If
the base diameter is ¾ its altitude, find the volume of the cylinder in cubic meter.

A. 983.7 C. 737.7
B. 634.2 D. 873.2

Situation 12 – A block of copper having a mass of 70 kg is drawn out to make 540 m of wire of uniform
cross-section. Given that the density of copper is 8.91 g/cm 3, calculate the following:

114. The volume of copper.

A. 7135.58 cm3 C. 7625.27 cm3

B. 7856.34 cm3 D. 8547.01 cm3

115. The cross-sectional area of the wire.

A. 13.21 mm2 C. 14.12 mm2

B. 14.55 mm2 D. 15.83 mm2

116. The diameter of the cross-section of the wire.

A. 4.10 mm C. 4.49 mm
B. 4.24 mm D. 4.30 mm

117. The volume of a closed cylinder is numerically equal to its lateral area. The height is 10 m. Find
the total surface area.

A. 32Π C. 52Π
B. 48Π D. 60Π

118. A model of a boiler is made having an overall height of 75 mm corresponding to an overall

height of the actual boiler of 6 m. If the area of metal required for the model is 12,500 mm 2
determine, in square meters, the area of metal required for the actual boiler.

A. 90 square meter C. 120 square meter

B. 80 square meter D. 40 square meter

119. A 6-m long steel pipe has an outside diameter of 12 cm and an inside diameter of 10 cm. Find
the volume of steel in the pipe.

A. 18,432.45 cm3 C. 21,897.67 cm3

3
B. 17,490.82 cm D. 19,905.13 cm3
120. Two vertical cylindrical tanks, one 8 m in diameter and the other 12 m in diameter, stand on the
same horizontal plane, and connected by a 150-mm pipe at their bases. When the valve in the
 pipe is closed, the depth of water in the smaller tank is 15 m and in the other tank is 4 m. If the
pipe valve is opened, what it is at equal depth in each tank?

A. 5.47 m C. 6.25 m
B. 7.85 m D. 7.38 m

121. A solid spherical steel ball of radius 6 cm is placed inside a 20-cm diameter cylinder containing
15 cm deep of water. How deep is the water in the cylinder after immersion?

A. 19.5 cm C. 18.3 cm
B. 17.9 cm D. 17.2 cm

122. A concrete block 70 cm x 80 cm x 90 cm is placed inside a tall cylindrical tank 1.5 m in diameter
containing 1.8 m deep of water. What is the rise in the water level?

A. 24.58 cm C. 36.54 cm
B. 32.96 cm D. 28.52 cm

123. A right circular cylinder has a diameter of 8 cm and altitude of 15 cm. Find the farthest possible
distance between any two points on the curved surface of the cylinder.

A. 15.62 cm C. 18.54 cm
B. 17.00 cm D. 15.00 cm

124. An 8-cm diameter (ID) pipe is filled to a depth equal to one-third of the diameter. What is the
area of flow?

A. 13.25 C.12.47
B. 14.67 D. 15.24

125. A closed circular cylinder 1 meter in diameter and 1-meter-tall is partially filled with water.
When lying in a horizontal position, the depth of water is 2/3 the diameter. When the cylinder is
in the vertical position, what is the depth of water?

A. 0.654 m C. 0.708 m
B. 0.854 m D. 0.985 m

126. A pressure tank is made of a cylinder of diameter 2 meters and height of 6 m, and two
hemisphere mounted on each end of the cylinder. What is the volume of the tank?

A. 23,038 liters C. 22,096 liters

B. 21,789 liters D. 25,578 liters

Cones, Pyramids, Frustum

 127. What is the total surface area including the base, of a 4-m high right circular cone with 3-m
base?

A. 27.2 C. 21.4
B. 34.5 D. 25.4

128. A right circular cone has a base radius of “a” and an altitude of “5a”. What is the lateral area?

A. 15.871 a2 C. 13.254 a2
B. 16.547 a2 D. 16.019 a2

129. What is the volume of a right circular cone having a slant height of 12x and base diameter of
2x?

A. 9.85x3 C. 12.52x3
B. 10.42x3 D. 13.47x3

130. What is the curved surface area of a cone with base diameter of 80 cm and altitude of 150 cm?

A. 21,985.34 cm2 C. 24,534.80 cm2

B. 19,508.25 cm2 D. 22,356.78 cm2

131. What is the volume of a cone with base diameter of 80 cm and altitude of 150 cm?

A. 251,327.41 cm3 C. 203,289.34 cm2

B. 289,453.21 cm2 D. 321,127.67 cm2

132. Salt is poured into a conical tank 100 cm in diameter on top and 70 cm high. If the volume of
salt is 30,000 cm3, what is the depth of salt in the tank?

A. 45.21 cm C. 31.25 cm
B. 38.29 cm D. 52.45 cm

133. A cone was formed by rolling a thin sheet of metal in the form of a sector of a circle 72 cm in
diameter with a central angle of 150 degrees. Find the volume of the cone in cc.

A. 7733 C. 7744
B. 7722 D. 7711

Situation 13 – The lateral area of a right circular cone is 634 square meters. Its diameter is two-thirds its
altitude.

134. Determine the base radius of the cone in meters.

A. 7.5 C. 8.5
B. 8 D. 9
 135. Determine the volume of the cone in cubic meters?

A. 1,986 C. 1,606
B. 1,747 D. 1,852

136. What is the volume of the largest sphere that can be inscribed in the cone in m?

A. 856.5 C. 801.7
B. 965.3 D. 1021.4

Section 14 – A conical vessel with lower base circular have a height of 120 cm and a full capacity of
113.097 liters.

137. What is the radius of the base in centimeter?

A. 32 C. 94.9
B. 30 D. 9.49

138. If the vessel is made of steel that is 8 mm thick, what is the dead weight of the tank in
kilograms? Density of steel is 7860 kilograms per cubic meter.

A. 112.4 C. 91.1
B. 145.8 D. 98.7

139. If 60 liters of water is the tank, what is the depth of water in centimeters?

A. 92.37 C. 26.73
B. 35.77 D. 84.23

140. A small cone is cut y meters from the vertex of a big cone that is 9 meters tall. The volume of
the small cone is one-third the volume of the big cone. What is the value of y?

A. 7.86 m C. 3 m
B. 6.24 m D. 5.34 m

141. A closed conical tank has a base diameter of 2 m and is 5 m tall. When standing in upright
position, the water in the tank is 3 m deep. How deep will the water stand in the tank when in
inverted position?

A. 3.87 m C. 4.89 m
B. 4.61 m D. 4.23 m

142. The altitude of a regular tetrahedron is 58 cm. Its volume is:

A. 34582 cc C. 28496 cc
B. 42243 cc D. 51785 cc
 143. The total surface area of a regular tetrahedron is 400 square cm. Find the volume of the
tetrahedron in cc.

A. 356.2 C. 487.5
B. 143.6 D. 254.2

144. What fraction of the volume of a pyramid must be cut off by a plane parallel to the base if the
pyramid thus formed has a lateral area equal to one-half of the lateral area of the original
pyramid?

A. 0.354 C. 0.563
B. 0.236 D. 0.425

Situation 15 - Determine the lateral area in cm2 of the following right pyramid:

145. Base is regular octagon of side 20 cm and altitude of 30 cm.

A. 3256.32 C. 3080.62
B. 2856.21 D. 2564.58

146. Base is regular hexagon of side 20 cm and altitude of 30 cm.

A. 2078.46 C. 1863.54
B. 2236.54 D. 2174.56

147. Base is regular hexagon of side 30 cm and slant height of 50 cm.

A. 4200 C. 3300
B. 4500 D. 4400

148. A square pyramid has base width of 6 cm and altitude of 18 cm. Find the volume.

A. 216 cc C. 248 cc
B. 261 cc D. 284 cc

149. A rectangular pyramid has base dimensions 10 cm by 6 cm and altitude 16 cm. Find the volume
of the pyramid.

A. 420 cc C. 360 cc
B. 480 cc D. 320 cc

150. A square pyramid has base width of 4 m and height of 10 m. A smaller pyramid is cut from this
pyramid by passing a plane 6 m from the base of the given pyramid. What is the volume of the
small pyramid?

A. 3.98 m3 C. 4.36 m3
B. 3.41 m3 D. 2.85 m3
151. The frustum of a regular triangular pyramid has equilateral triangles for its bases. The lower and
upper base edges are 9m and 3m, respectively. If the volume is 118.2 cubic meters, how far
apart are the base?

A. 9m C. 7m
B. 8m D. 10m

152. The upper base of a frustum of a pyramid is 2.5 m by 4 m and the lower base is 5 m by 8 m.
Find its volume if the distance between the base is 6m.

A. 160 m3 C. 130 m3
B. 140 m3 D. 120 m3

153. The measure of the edge of a solid regular tetrahedron is 50cm. Find the distance of its center
of gravity from its vertex.

A. 38.42 cm C. 32.54 cm
B. 40.43 cm D. 30.62 cm

154. The lower and upper bases of a frustum of a pyramid measure 18 cm x 18 cm and 10 cm x 10
cm, respectively. If the lateral surface area is 4.48cm2, find the altitude of the pyramid.

A. 9.36 cm C. 6.72 cm
B. 8 cm D. 6.93 cm

155. A pit 6 m deep was dug out from the ground. The pit is 3 m by 4 m at the top and 2 m by 3 m at
the bottom. What is the volume of earth removed in cubic meter?

A. 64 C. 87
B. 63 D. 53

156. A rectangular prism of metal having dimensions 4.3 cm by 7.2 cm by 12.4 cm is melted down
and recast into a frustum of a square pyramid. 10% of the metal being lost in the process. If the
ends of the frustum are squares of side 3 cm and 8 cm respectively, find the thickness of the
frustum.

A. 11.78 cm C. 9.43 cm
B. 10.69 cm D. 12.87 cm

157. A loudspeaker diaphragm is in the form of a frustum of a cone. If the end diameters are 28.0 cm
and 6.00 cm and the vertical distance between the ends is 30.0 cm, find the area of material
needed to cover the curved surface of the speaker.

A. 1,836.32 cm2 C. 1,706.52 cm2

B. 1,589.45 cm2 D. 1,645.32 cm2
 158. The upper base diameter of the frustum of a right circular cone is 2 m and the lower base
diameter is 4 m. If its altitude is 5 m, find its lateral area.

A. 55.21 m2 C. 48.06 m2
B. 43.98 m2 D. 32.87 m2

159. The upper base of a frustum, of a rectangular pyramid is 2.5 m x 4 m and its altitude is 5 m. If its
volume is 116.67 m3 what is the area of the lower base?

A. 38 m2 C. 44 m2
B. 40 m2 D. 64 m2

160. A cylindrical water tank is 2 m diameter and 4 m high. The tank is to be replaced with another
tank of the same capacity in the shape of a frustum of a cone with lower base diameter of 2 m
and upper base diameter of 1.4 m. What height of tank is required?

A. 4.87 m C. 5.48 m
B. 5.92 m D. 6.12 m

161. A right circular cylinder is inscribed in a right circular cone of altitude 12 cm, and radius of base
5 cm. Find the radius of the cylinder if its lateral area is equal to the lateral area of the small
cone which surmounts the cylinder.

A. 3.51 cm C. 3.24 cm
B. 2.43 cm D. 1.53 cm

162. The base of a pyramid is a triangle with sides of 8 cm, 10 cm, and 16 cm and its altitude is 20
cm. Find the volume of the inscribed cone.

A. 72.4 cc C. 73.4 cc
B. 75.3 cc D. 77.6 cc

Spheres

163. If the radius “r” of a sphere is increased by “x”, then its surface area is increased by:

A. 4Πrx + 8Πx2 C. Πrx + Πx2

B. 8Πrx + 4Πx2 D. 4Π(r + x)2

164. What is the surface area of a sphere having a volume of 1904 cubic meters?

A. 856.3 m2 C. 624.7 m2
B. 742.9 m2 D. 1056.2 m 2
165. A soft clay spherical in shape, has a radius of 10 cm. If cubes 2 cm on each side are to be made
out of this day, how many cubes can be made?

A. 522 C. 523
B. 524 D. 525

166. The surface area of a sphere is 2058.87 square centimeter. What is the volume in cubic inches?

A. 56674 C. 1362
B. 143953 D. 536

167. A metal sphere weighing 24 kg is melted down and recast into a solid cone of base radius 8.0
cm. If the density of the metal is 8000 kg/m 3 determine the height of the metal cone, assuming
that 15% of the metal is lost in the process.

A. 35.87 cm C. 32.89 cm
B. 41.23 cm D. 38.05 cm

168. The diameters of two spherical balls are in the ration 3:4. What is the ration of their volumes?

A. 0.5625 C. 0.4219
B. 0.3826 D. 0.4826

169. Spheres of the same size are piled in the form of a pyramid with an equilateral triangle as its
base. Compute the total number of spheres in the pile if each side contains 4 spheres.

A. 24 C. 18
B. 20 D. 28

170. The total volume of two spheres is 100Π cubic cm. The ratio of their areas is 4:9. What is the
volume of the largest sphere in cubic cm.?

A. 75.85 C. 71.79
B. 314.16 D. 242.22

171. The volume of a spherical sector with an angle of “x” in a sphere of radius 40 cm is 47,881 cc.
Find the x in degrees.

A. 80 C. 120
B. 100 D. 110

172. If 28.27 cubic meter of water is inside a spherical tank whose radius is 2 m, what is the wetted
area of the tank?

A. 28.7 m2 C. 42.8 m2
B. 58.6 m2 D. 37.7 m2
 173. A spherical tank 4.5 m in diameter contains water to a depth of 3 m. Find the volume.

A. 32.14 m3 C. 35.34 m3
3
B. 28.57 m D. 38.67 m3
Situation 16 – A solid sphere is cut by a plane 30 cm from its center. The area of the small circle cut by
the plane is 5026.55 cm2.

174. What is the volume of the sphere in cc?

A. 432287 C. 196338
B. 324568 D. 523599

175. What is the volume of the smallest segment in cc?

A. 54454 C. 469145
B. 67856 D. 423982

176. What is the total surface area of the larger segment is cm 2?

A. 25133 C. 35876
B. 30159 D. 22567

Situation 17 – A frustum of a sphere has base diameters of 18.2 cm and 32.9 cm. The thickness of the
frustum is 2.6 cm.

177. What is the volume of frustum?

A. 1539.3 cm3 C. 1342.7 cm3

B. 1624.5 cm3 D. 1452.6 cm3

178. What is the radius of the sphere?

A. 32.54 cm C. 34.86 cm
B. 38.51 cm D. 40.25 cm

179. What is the curved surface area of the frustum?

A. 629.02 cm2 C. 569.43 cm2

B. 732.65 cm2 D. 601.47 cm2

180. What is the curved surface of a spherical segment (with two base) if the diameters of the bases,
which are 25 cm apart, are 100 cm and 140 cm respectively?

A. 11,673.43 cm2 C. 13,783.34 cm2

B. 10,567.93 cm2 D. 12,328.75 cm2
Situation 18 – The frustum of a sphere of its 3.8 cm thick. The diameter of its bases are 13.2 cm and 20.5
cm. Determine the following:

181. The volume of the frustum.

A. 864.87 cm3 C. 1023.78 cm3

B. 923.87 cm3 D. 756.23 cm3

182. The radius of the sphere.

A. 11.98 cm C. 13.37 cm
B. 12.89 cm D. 10.43 cm

183. The surface area of the zone.

A. 267.43 cm2 C. 321.89 cm2

B. 421.85 cm2 D. 285.92 cm2

184. A hemispherical dome is 16 meters in diameter. If the bottom 1-meter strip of the dome’s
surface painted, what is the total painted area?

A. 50.135 m2 C. 87.672 m2
2
B. 23.875 m D. 98.432 m2
185. A solid sphere 60 cm in diameter is formed of a certain kind of wood whose specific gravity is ¾.
Find the depth to which the floating sphere will sink in water.

A. 45 cm C. 42.12 cm
B. 40.42 cm D. 41.23 cm

Situation 19 – A frustum of a sphere has base radii of 9.8 cm and 18.4 cm and thickness of 4.2 cm.

186. What is the volume of the sphere?

A. 87,455 cm3 C. 203,846 cm3

B. 182,724 cm3 D. 143,593 cm3

187. What is the radius of the sphere?

A. 27.54cm C. 36.51 cm
B. 35.20 cm D. 32.49 cm

188. What is the area of the zone?

A. 857.26 cm2 C. 963.46 cm2

B. 726.66 cm2 D. 840.49 cm2

189. A solid metal ball is immersed in a pail of paint and displaces 288Π cm 3 of paint. What is the
total area painted?
 A. 136Π C. 112Π
B. 72Π D. 144Π

Situation 20 – A sphere of radius 20 cm is cut by two horizontal planes. One plane is 8 cm below the
center of the sphere and the other is 14 cm above the center of the sphere. Determine the following:

190. The radius of the lower base.

A. 14.28 cm C. 18.33 cm
B. 12.67 cm D. 16.45 cm

191. The radius of the upper base.

A. 16.45 cm C. 12.67 cm
B. 18.33 cm D. 14.28 cm

192. The volume of the frustum formed between the cutting planes.

A. 24,236.34 cm3 C. 45,954.43 cm3

B. 25,512.98 cm3 D. 48,472.68 cm3

193. Find the volume of the largest cubical block that can be cut from a solid sphere having a surface
area of 7854 cm3.

A. 24056 cc C. 21762 cc
B. 27654 cc D. 29112 cc

194. How far from the center of a solid sphere of radius 20 cm must a cutting plane pass in order to
remove 10% of its volume?

A. 9.874 cm C. 6.578 cm
B. 12.168 cm D. 7.832 cm

Situation 21 – A sphere having a volume of 2000 cm3 is cut by a plane 4 cm from its center.

195. What is the area of the small circle cut by the plane?

A. 187.54 cm2 C. 125.47 cm2

B. 163.74 cm2 D. 141.65 cm2

196. What is the volume of the smaller segment cut by the plane?

A. 352.45 cm3 C. 254.78 cm3

B. 299.36 cm3 D. 247.9 cm2

197. What is the curved surface area of the smaller segment cut by the plane?
 A. 187.4 cm2 C. 145.2 cm2
B. 196.5 cm2 D. 247.9 cm2

Situation 22 – A frustum of a sphere has a thickness of 10 cm. If the base radii are 19 cm and 22 cm,
determine the following:

198. The volume of the frustum.

A. 1268.7 cm3 C. 1379.8 cm3

B. 1563.8 cm3 D. 14256.2 cm3

199. The radius of the sphere.

A. 23.56 cm C. 22.03 cm
B. 25.87 cm D. 26.98 cm

200. The total surface area of the frustum.

A. 4038.83 cm2 C. 4763.54 cm2

B. 1384.19 cm2 D. 3856.54 cm2

201. What is the area of the lune on the earth’s surface between the 35 th and 173rd
meridians. Radius of earth R = 6400 km.

A. 204.58 x 106 km2 C. 197.31 x 106 km2

B. 178.36 x 106 km2 D. 185.14 x 106 km2

202. Find the area of the lune of a spherical wedge of radius 12 cm if the volume of the wedge is
502.655 cm2.

A. 287.2 cm2 C. 112.1 cm2

B. 187.6 cm2 D. 125.7 cm2

203. A spherical sector has a radius of 60 cm and an angle of 30°. What is the volume?

A. 28,984.34 cm3 C. 15,414.79 cm3

B. 37,221.99 cm3 D. 13,873.23 cm3

204. A billiard ball, aimed at point A on the edge of the cushion of a horizontal billiard table, rolls
along a line making 18° with the cushion. If the cushion overhangs so that its edge is 4 cm above
the table and if the diameter of the balls is 5 cm, find the distance (measured along the edge of
the cushion) between point A and the point where the ball strikes the cushion.

A. 7.14 cm C. 6.16 cm
B. 5.87 cm D. 4.23 cm

Solids of Revolution & Miscellaneous Solids

 205. Given a rectangle ABCD, AB = 2, BC = 5. Find the volume if the area is revolved about a line
through side AD.

A. 25Π C. 15Π
B. 20Π D. 30Π

Situation 23 – A right triangle with base width of 6 and height of 3 have its right-angle corner at
coordinate (6,5).

206. What is the coordinate of the centroid of the triangle?

A. (8, 6) C. (7, 7)
B. (6, 8) D. (8, 7)

207. What is the volume generated when this triangle is revolved about the x-axis?

A. 321.9 C. 276.4
B. 339.3 D. 356.4

208. What is the total surface area generated when this triangle is revolved about the x-axis?

A. 584.99 C. 432.98
B. 653.21 D. 324.87

209. A line has an x intercept of (5, 0) and y intercept of (0, 3). Find the volume generated by the
area bounded in the first quadrant, revolved about x-axis.

A. 47.12 C. 65.24
B. 52.89 D. 78.54

Situation 24 – A triangle whose vertices are (1, 3), (3, 7), and (5, 4) is revolved about the line 2x + y + 2 =
0.

210. What is the area of the triangle in square units?

A. 8.5 C. 9.5
B. 9 D. 10

211. What is the coordinate of the centroid of the triangle?

A. (2, 4) C. (3, 4)
B. (3, 6) D. (2, 5)

212. What is the volume generated by the triangle in cubic units?

 A. 303.5 C. 324.7
B. 312.85 D. 285.2

213. A square ABCD has the following corners: A(0, 3), B(3, 0), C(0, -3), D(-3, 0). Find the volume if
the square is revolved about the y-axis.

A. 9Π C. 18Π
B. 15Π D. 6Π

Situation 25 – The area of the ellipse x2/16 + y2/25 = 1 is revolved about the line y + 8 = 0.

214. What is the area of the ellipse?

A. 62.8 C. 54.3
B. 76.5 D. 98.7

215. What is the volume generated?

A. 4567 C. 3675
B. 2876 D. 3185

216. What is the surface area generated?

A. 1564 C. 1987
B. 1120 D. 1426

217. Two cylinders with circular bases have a common upper base and tangent lower bases. If the
radius of each base is 10 cm and if the altitude of each solid is 30 cm find the volume of the part
common to the two cylinders, in cc.

A. 4000 C. 4200
B. 3800 D. 4300

218. A solid has a circular base of radius 40 cm. Find the volume in cc, of the solid if every plane
section perpendicular to a certain diameter is an isosceles right triangle with one leg in the plane
of the base.

A. 153333 C. 160333
B. 170667 D. 180667

219. A solid constructed with a circular base of radius 1 and such that every plane section
perpendicular to a certain diameter of the base is an isosceles triangle whose altitude is 2. Find
the volume of the solid.

A. 1.5Π C. 2Π
B. 0.5Π D. Π
220. A square hole 2” x 2” is cut through a 4-inch diameter log along its diameter and perpendicular
to its axis. Find the volume of wood that was removed in in 3.
A. 18.65 C. 16.58
B. 15.31 D. 17.32
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Lines, Points, Polygons y
1. If the distance between P1 (5x, -3) and P2 (3x, 5) is 10 units, what is the value of x?
A. 1 C. 3
B. 4 D. 2

2. The distance between the points A and B defined by A(cos A, -sin A) and B(sin A, cos A) is equal
to:

A. cos A C. √ 2
B. 1 D. 2 tan A

3. Two vertices of a square are (-3, 2) and (-3, -6). Which of the following is cannot be a vertex of
the square.

A. (-7, -2) C. (-11, -6)

B. (5, 2) D. (1, 2)

4. The centroid of a triangle whose vertices are at A (5, 6), B (-8, 12) and C (x, y) is at (2, 4). What is
the value of x?

A. 6 C. -6
B. -9 D. 9

5. Find the area of a quadrilateral ABCD having the following consecutive vertices: A(-1, -1), B(3, 1),
C(0, 3), D(1, -1).

A. 18 C. 12
B. 9 D. 16

6. ABCD is a parallelogram. If A = (-4, 1), B = (-6, -5), C = (1, -2), find the coordinate of D.

A. (3, 4) C. (4, 3)
B. (-1, -8) D. (2, 5)

7. What is the slope of a line connecting P1 (-20, 35) and P2 (18, -38).

A. -2.325 C. -1.921
B. -0.875 D. -1.524

8. A line has a slope of -5 and y-intercept of 4. What is the equation of the line?

A. y = 5x - 4 C. y = 4x - 5
B. y = -5x + 4 D. y = -4x + 5

9. What is the slope of the line 4y = 3x + 1?

A. -4/3 C. 4/3
 B. -3/4 D. 3/4

10. What is the slope-intercept form of the line 3x – 2y + 8 = 0?

2 2
A. x+2 C. x+4
3 3
3 3
B. x+2 D. x+4
2 2

11. Two straight lines are drawn in a way that they will never meet even if extended indefinitely. If
the equation of one of these lines is y = 5x – 3, which of the following must be the equation of
the other line?

A. y = -3x + 5 C. y = -5x - 3
B. y = 3x - 5 D. y = 5x + 9

12. Determine the equation of the straight line that passes through the point (6, -3) if it is
perpendicular to the line y = 2x – 3.

1
A. y = 2x - 15 C. y = - x
2
1 1
B. y = - x-6 D. y = x+6
2 2

13. What is the slope of the straight line whose nearest point to the origin is (-6, 8)?

A. 4/3 C. 3/4
B. -4/3 D. -3/4
Situation 1 – Line A has a slope of -4 and passes through (-25, -10). Line B has x-intercept of 10 and y-
intercept of 25.

14. Determine the distance of line A to point (8, -3).

A. 35.85 C. 30.21
B. 33.71 D. 28.54

15. Determine the point of intersection of lines A and B.

A. (-90, 240) C. (-80, 250)
B. (-90, 250) D. (-80, 240)
C.
16. Determine the equation of a line perpendicular to line B and passing through (-20, 10).

A. 2x – 5y – 90 = 0 C. 2x + 5y – 90 = 0
 B. -2x + 5y + 90 = 0 D. 2x – 5y + 90 = 0

17. Determine the value of K such that 3x + 2y – 7 = 0 is perpendicular to 2x – Ky + 2 = 0.

A. 3 C. 1
B. 2 D. 4

18. Find the x-intercept of a line passing through the point (3, 2) and parallel to the line 2y = 3x + 4.

A. -5/2 C. -5/3
B. 5/3 D. 5/2

19. How far is (5, -4) from the line 6x – 5y + 7 = 0?

A. 7.3 C. 7.8
B. 6.5 D. 5.4

20. The angle from L1, whose slope is -1/3, to line L2, is 135˚. Find the slope of L2.

A. -1/2 C. 2
B. 1/2 D. -2
21. Two vertices of a triangle are at (2, 4) and the area is 2 square units. The locus of the third vertex
is:

A. x + 4y – 10 = 0 C. x – 2y – 5 = 0
B. x – 4y + 10 = 0 D. x + 2y – 5 =0

22. Find the equation of the line bisecting the acute angle between the lines x + y = 3 and 7x – y + 4
= 0.

A. 12x + 4y – 11 = 0 C. 6x – 4y – 11 = 0
B. 2x – 6y + 19 = 0 D. 3x – 6y + 11 = 0

23. Find the equation of the line with slope of 2/3 and which passes through point of intersection of
the lines 4x – 2y + 1 = 0 and x – 2y + 4 = 0.

A. 4x – 6y + 9 = 0 C. 6x – 4y + 11 = 0
B. 6x – 4y + 9 = 0 D. 4x – 6y + 11 = 0

Situation 2 – A line on the xy-plane has an equation 5x + 2y = 60. A uv-plane of the same origin has its u-
axis rotated at an angle of +arctan (4/3) from the x-axis.

24. Find the uv-coordinates of the y-intercept of the given line.

A. (4, 3) C. (4, 5)
 B. (5, 4) D. (3, 4)

25. Find the uv-coordinates of the x-intercept of the given line.

A. (36/5, -48/5) C. (19/5, -37/5)

B. (27/5, -52/5) D. (41/5, -39/5)

26. Find the equation of the given line in the uv-plane.

A. 68u + 21v = 335 C. 63u + 16v = 300

B. 68u + 21v = 288 D. 16u + 63v = 300

Circles and Parabola

27. What is the circumference of the circle 2x 2 + 2y2 – 3x + 5y + 2 = 0.

A. 7.21 C. 5.24
B. 3.58 D. 6.67

28. Given the circle: (x + 3)2 + y2 = 13. Find the center and radius.

A. Center (3, 0), radius = 3.724 C. Center (3, 0), radius = 3.606
B. Center (-3, 0), radius = 3.724 D. Center (-3, 0) radius = 3.606

29. What is the equation of a circle with center at (-3, 4) and passing through (3, 6)?

A. x2 + y2 + 6x – 8y – 15 = 0 C. x2 + y2 – 6x + 8y – 19 = 0

B. x2 + y2 + 8x – 6y - 15 = 0 D. x2 + y2 – 6x – 8y – 19 = 0

30. Where is the center of the circle x2 + y2 + 14x – 6y + 22 = 0?

A. (3, -7) C. (-7, 3)

B. (-3, 7) D. (7, -3)

31. The radius of a circle is 5 and its center is at (-3, -4). Find the length of chord that is bisected at (-
11/2, -13/2)

A. 7.1 C. 8.3
B. 5.2 D. 6.4

32. Find the farthest distance from the point (12, 2) to the circle x 2 + y2 + 6x – 16y + 24 = 0.

A. 16.155 C. 23.155
B. 18.155 D. 9.155
 33. What is the equation of the radical axis of the circles x 2 + y2 = 3 and x2 + y2 -6x + 6y + 11 = 0.

A. 3x + 2y – 2 = 0 C. 3x – 3y – 2 =0
B. 3x – 3y – 7 = 0 D. 3x + 3y + 2 = 0
34. Find the equation of the radical axis of the circles x 2 + y2 – 6x + 4y – 10 = 0 and 3x2 + 3y2 – 3x + 6y
– 20 = 0.

A. 6x + 5y + 10 = 0 C. 15x – 6y + 10 = 0
B. 6x – 15y + 10 = 0 D. 15x + 6y + 10 = 0

Situation 3 – Given the circle x2 + y2 + 4x – 6y -12 = 0.

35. What is the location of the center of the circle?

A. (-2, 3) C. (2, 3)
B. (2, -3) D. (-2, -3)

36. Find the area of the circle.

A. 157.08 C. 83.87
B. 78.54 D. 132.98

37. Find the slope of the line to the circle at (2, 6).

A. -3/4 C. -4/3
B. ¾ D. 4/3

Situation 4 – A point P(x, y) moves such that is always twice as far from (-5, -6) as it is from (2, -3).

38. What is the equation of the locus of P.

A. 3x2 + 3y2 – 26x + 12y – 9 = 0 C. 4x2 + 3y2 + 25x – 12y + 9 = 0

B. 3x2 + 3y2 + 26x – 12y – 9 = 0 D. 4x2 – 3y2 + 26x – 12y – 9 = 0

39. Where is the center of the locus of P?

A. (4.33, -2) C. (3.23, 2)

B. (5.43, -2) D. (3.67, 2)

40. What is the area bounded by the locus of the point?

A. 78.32 C. 87.65
B. 80.98 D. 102.34

41. Find the equation of the line joining the points of intersection of the circles x 2 + y2 – 4x – 20y + 68
= 0 and x2 + y2 – 20x – 8y + 52 = 0.
 A. 4x – 3y + 4 = 0 C. 4x + 3y – 4 = 0
B. 4x + 3y + 4 = 0 D. 4x – 3y – 4 = 0

Situation 5 – Given the circle x2 + y2 – 6x + 12y + 9 = 0

42. What is the radius of the circle?

A. 7.21 C. 6.28
B. 6.71 D. 8.63

43. Where is the center of the circle?

A. (3, -6) C. (-3, 6)

B. (-3, -6) D. (3, 6)

44. Find the shortest distance from the line y = 2x + 10 to the center of the circle.

A. 6.87 C. 8.49
B. 10.24 D. 9.84

Situation 6 – Two conic sections have the following equations:

x2 + y2 – 8x + 4y – 16 = 0
y2 – 16x + 4y + 68 = 0

45. Which of the following defines these conics?

A. ellipse and parabola C. circle and ellipse

B. circle and parabola D. ellipse and hyperbola

46. Which of the following is a point of intersection of the conics?

A. (5, 3.66) C. (6, 3.66)

B. (6, 2.32) D. (5, 2.32)

47. What is the distance between their points of intersection?

A. 11.875 C. 11.314
B. 10.932 D. 12.342

48. The curve y = x2 + 1 is symmetric with respect to:

A. the origin C. x - axis

B. x & y-axes D. y – axis

49. What is focal length of the parabola y2 + 8x – 6y + 25 = 0?

 A. 6 C. 4
B. 8 D. 2

50. Find the x-intercept of the line tangent to the parabola x = 2y 2 at the point (2, 1).

A. ½ C. 7
B. -7 D. -2

51. Where is the vertex of the parabola x 2 + 4x – 6y – 14 = 0?

A. (-2, -3) C. (2, -3)

B. (2, 3) D. (-2, 3)

52. Find the vertex of the parabola y = (x + 1) 2 + 7.

A. (1, -7) C. (-1, 7)

B. (7, -1) D. (-7, 1)

53. Find the vertex of the parabola y = x 2 + 8x + 63.

A. (1, 72) C. (4, 111)

B. (-2, 51) D. (-4, 47)

54. Determine the coordinates of the focus of the curve y 2 = 8x + 4y – 12,

A. (3, -2) C. (3, 2)

B. (-2, 3) D. (2, 3)

55. A parabola with axis horizontal and focus along x-axis passes through (3, 4). What is the area
bounded by the parabola and its latus rectum?

A. 3.54 C. 5.63
B. 8.42 D. 4.74

56. Given the parabola y = x2 – 2x + 3. What is the abscissa of the point in the parabola where the
tangent is normal to the line x + 3y + 3 = 0?

A. -5/2 C. 2/5
B. -2/5 D. 5/2

57. A circle with radius of 5 has its center at (4, 8). Find the equation of the centers of family of
circles tangent to the given circle and the X-axis.

A. y2 – 4x – 26y + 55 = 0 C. x2 – 9x – 24y + 55 = 0
B. x2 – 8x – 26y + 55 = 0 D. x2 + 8x – 20y + 64 = 0
Situation 7 – A circle is defined by the equation x2 + y2 +2x – 4y = 4.

58. The center of the circle is at:

A. (-1, 2) C. (1, -2)

B. (1, 2) D. (-1, 2)

59. Find the equation of the diameter of the circle that is parallel to the line 3x + 5y = 4.

A. 3x + 5y – 6 = 0 C. 3x + 5y – 7 = 0
B. 3x + 5y – 8 = 0 D. 3x + 5y – 3 = 0

60. Find the equation of the centers of family of circles that is tangent to the given circle and the Y-
axis.

A. y2 – 2x – 3y – 7 = 0 C. y2 - 8x – 4y – 5 = 0
B. y2 + 2x – 4y – 2 = 0 D. y2 + 8x – 4y – 4 = 0

Situation 8 – Given the following curves:

Curve 1: y = x2 + 7x + 6
Curve 2: x – 2y = 6

61. What are the points of intersection of the two curves?

A. (-2, -4) & (-4.5, 5.25) C. (2, 4) & (4.5. 5.25)

B. (-2, 4) & (4.5, 5.25) D. (-2, -4) & (-4.5, -5.25)

62. What are the slopes of curve 1 at point of intersection?

A. 3 & 2 C. -3 & 2
B. -3 & -2 D. 3 & -2

63. Which of the following statements defines the two curves?

A. ellipse and line C. parabola and line

B. hyperbola and line D. parabola and hyperbola

64. The directrix of the parabola is y – 5 = 0 and its focus is at (4, -3). Find the length of its latus
rectum.

A. 16 C. 2
B. 12 D. 4
Ellipse and Hyperbola

65. What conic section is represented by 8x2 – 4xy + 5x = 10?

A. a parabola C. an ellipse
B. a hyperbola D. a circle

66. The area of an ellipse is 188.496 and its perimeter is 57.757. Find length of its latus rectum.

A. 4.17 C. 4.57
B. 5.23 D. 3.75

67. A 100-m long track is to be built 50 m wide. If it is to be elliptical, what equation could describe
it?

A. 2x2 + y2 = 250 C. x2 + 4y2 = 2500

B. x2 + 2y2 = 250 D. 50x2 + 100y2 = 1000

68. The eccentricity of an ellipse is 0.6 and the distance between its foci is 6 units. Find the distance
between its directories.

A. 8.33 C. 16.67
B. 15.67 D. 21.33

Situation 9 – The area of an ellipse is 301.593 and its perimeter is 64.076.

69. Find the length of its latus rectum.

A. 9.54 C. 16.67
B. 12.45 D. 5.33

70. What is the eccentricity of the ellipse?

A. 0.788 C. 0.854
B. 0.632 D. 0.745

71. How far apart are the directrices of the ellipse?

A. 32.2 C. 16.1
B. 28.4 D. 37.4
Situation 10 – Given the ellipse 4x2 + 9y2 = 144.

72. What is the equation of the ellipse with respect to the pole whose coordinate is (-6, 4)?

A. 4x2 + 9y2 + 32x + 72y + 144 = 0

B. 4x2 + 9y2 + 32x – 64y + 144 = 0
C. 4x2 + 9y2 – 48x + 72y + 144 = 0
D. 4x2 + 9y2 – 48x – 56y – 144 = 0

73. What is the equation of the diameter bisecting the chords having equal slope of -1/3?

A. 3x – 4y = 0 C. 3x + 4y = 0
B. 4x – 3y = 0 D. 4x + 3y = 0

74. What is the equation of the diameter bisecting the chords having equal slope of ½?

A. 8x + 9y = 0 C. 9x – 8y = 0
B. 8x – 9y = 0 D. 9x + 8y = 0

75. Find the distance from the end of the major axis to the end of the minor axis of the ellipse 9x 2 +
25y2 – 225 = 0.

A. 5.83 C. 6.32
B. 4.27 D. 2.00

76. Determine the equation of the curve such that the sum of the distances of any point of the curve
from two points whose coordinates are (-3, 0) and (3, 0) is always equal to 8.

A. 4x2 + 49y2 – 343 = 0 C. 7x2 + 16y2 + 112 = 0

B. 7x2 – 16y2 – 112 = 0 D. 7x2 + 16y2 – 112 = 0

Situation 11 – For the curve 36x2 + 25y2 – 900 = 0

77. What is the equation of its diameter bisecting the chords having equal slope of ½?

A. 72x – 25y = 0 C. 72x + 25y = 0

B. 36x + 25y = 0 D. 72x – 50y = 0

78. What is the curvature of the curve at x = 3?

A. -1.25 C. -0.31
B. -0.67 D. -0.86
 79. What is the second eccentricity of the curve?

A. 0.524 C. 0.725
B. 0.663 D. 0.825

Situation 12 – Given the ellipse: 6x2 + 12xy + 11y2 = 17. Determine the following:

80. The angle that the axis of the ellipse with the x-axis.

A. 28.4o C. 33.7o
B. 56.8o D. 42.3o

81. The distance between the vertices of the ellipse:

A. 6.21 C. 4.25
B. 5.83 D. 7.14

82. The eccentricity of the ellipse:

A. 0.93 C. 0.63
B. 0.85 D. 0.74

83. A point moves so that the ratio of its distance from (2, 0) to its undirected distance from x = 6 is
1/3. Find the equation of the locus of the point.

A. x2 +2y2 – 4x = 0 C. 2x2 + 2y2 -35x = 0

B. x2 – 2y2 – 4x = 0 D. 8x2 + 9y2 – 48x = 0

84. What conic section is represented by 2x2 – 4xy + 5x = 10?

A. a parabola C. an ellipse
B. a hyperbola D. a circle

Situation 13 – The equation of the curve takes the form of Ax 2 + By2 + F = 0. If it passes through (10, 6)
and (38, 22).

85. Identify the curve.

A. circle C. ellipse
B. hyperbola D. parabola

86. What is the length of the latus rectum?

A. 7.1 C. 9.8
B. 6.8 D. 8.5

87. What is the eccentricity of the curve?

 A. 0.66 C. 0.5
B. 1.5 D. 2

Situation 14 – Given the hyperbola x2 – 8x – 4y2 – 16y = 256.

88. What is the distance between foci?

A. 35.78 C. 38.41
B. 43.23 D. 40.22

89. Find the coordinate of the center.

A. (4, -2) C. (-4, 2)

B. (-4, 2) D. (4, 2)

90. What is the distance between the vertices?

A. 33 C. 30
B. 32 D. 31

Situation 15 – Given the equilateral hyperbola xy = 8:

91. What is the length of the conjugate axis of the hyperbola?

A. 12 C. 8
B. 16 D. 4

92. How far apart are the vertices of the hyperbola?

A. 4 C. 16
B. 8 D. 12

93. Determine the eccentricity of the hyperbola.

A. 1.414 C. 1.368
B. 1.732 D. 1.521

Situation 16 – Given the equation of the curve:

9x2 – 4y2 – 36x + 8y = 4.

94. The center of the curve is at:

A. (-2, 1) C. (-2, -1)

B. (2, 1) D. (2, -1)

95. What is the eccentricity of the curve?

 A. 0.768 C. 1.803
B. 1.332 D. 1.765

96. What is the equation of the upward asymptote of the curve?

A. 2x – 3y + 4 = 0 C. 3x – 2y + 4 = 0
B. 3x – 2y – 4 = 0 D. 2x – 3y – 4 = 0

Slopes, Tangents and Normal

97. What is the equation of the tangent to the curve y = 3x 3 – 15 at x = 2?

A. 81x – y + 153 = 0 C. 81x – y – 153 = 0

B. 81x - y + 162 = 0 D. 81x + 2y – 153 = 0

98. A line is tangent to the circle x2 + y2 = 25 at (3, 4), find the length of the sub-tangent

A. 3 C. 3/16
B. 16/3 D. 4

99. Find the equation of a line normal to the curve x 2 = 25y at x =10.

A. 4x – 5y – 20 = 0 C. 5x + 4y – 66 = 0
B. 5x – 4y + 66 = 0 D. 4x + 5y + 20 = 0

100. A line tangent to the circle x2 + y2 + 6x + 24 = 0 passes through point A (12, 2). Find the distance
from the point of tangency to point A.

A. 14.56 C. 15.58
B. 13.21 D. 15.11

Polar Coordinates

Situation 17 – The vertices of a triangle ABC have polar coordinates A (0, 0), B(8, 45 o), C(-12, -60o).
Determine the following:

101. The rectangular coordinate of C.

A. (-6, -10.39) C. (6, 10.39)

B. (6, -10.93) D. (-6, 10.39)

102. The area of the triangle.

 A. 63.43 C. 64.36
B. 46.36 D. 43.66

103. The perimeter of the triangle.

A. 32.58 C. 28.54
B. 35.68 D. 39.65

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104. The polar curve r = is :
3+ 2cos θ

A. a circle C. a parabola
B. an ellipse D. a hyperbola

Situation 18 – Express the following into polar form:

105. y = x2 – 4

A. r2 sin2 ϴ + r sin ϴ - 4 = 0 C. r2 cos2 ϴ - r cos ϴ + 4 = 0

B. r2 cos2 ϴ - r sin ϴ - 4 = 0 D. r2 sin2 ϴ + r sin ϴ + 4 = 0

106. x = 5

A. r = 5 sec ϴ C. r = 5 csc ϴ
B. r = 5 cos ϴ D. r = 5 sin ϴ

107. y = -7

A. r = -7 cos ϴ C. r = -7 sec ϴ
B. r = -7 csc ϴ D. r = -7 sin ϴ

108. Transform r = 3/ 3 + 2 cos ϴ into Cartessian coordinates.

A. 5x2 – 9y2 + 12x + 9 = 0 C. 5x2 + 9y2 + 12x + 9 = 0

B. 5x2 + 9y2 – 12x – 9 = 0 D. 5x2 + 9y2 + 12x – 9 = 0

Space/Planes

109. Find the distance between (0, 0, 7) and (4, 1, 0).

A. 7.458 C. 9.325
B. 6.334 D. 8.124

110. Find the distance of the following in three-dimensional space: (0, 0, 0) and (5, 6, 7).
 A. 10.49 C. 11.76
B. 12.76 D. 9.54

111. Find the distance between (2, 3, 7) and (-4, y, 8) is 6.403, what is the value of y?

A. -5 C. -4
B. 5 D. 4

Situation 19 – A tetrahedron is bounded by the coordinate planes and the plane 8x + 12y + 4z – 48 = 0.
The base is on the x-y plane.

112. What is the base area of the tetrahedron?

A. 24 C. 36
B. 12 D. 48

113. What is the total surface area of the tetrahedron?

A. 129.83 C. 102.21
B. 145.67 D. 187.32

114. Find the volume of the tetrahedron.

A. 56 C. 48
B. 36 D. 132

115. Find the equation of the plane containing the point (2, -4, 1) and perpendicular to the vector N = 2i
– 3j + 4k.

A. 2x + 3y -4z + 12 = 0 C. 2x – 3y – 3z – 13 = 0
B. 2x – 3y + 4z – 20 = 0 D. 2x + 3y + 4z + 4 = 0

116. Find the angle between planes x – 4y + 2z = 8 and 3x – y + 4z = 5.

A. 54o C. 46o
B. 63o D. 50o

Situation 20 – The points A (1, 0, -1), B(3, -1, -5), and C(4, 2, 0) are vertices of a triangle.

117. What is the area of the triangle?

A. 8.57 C. 4.87
B. 9.67 D. 12.49

118. What is the distance from point C to the line through A and B?

A. 1.23 C. 3.74
 B. 2.89 D. 4.32

119. What is the angle between the planes 3x + 9y - 4z + 2 = 0 and x + y – 5z – 8 = 0?

A. 38.58o C. 43.21o
B. 62.87o D. 53.26o

120. Determine the equation of the plane containing the point (3, 1, -4) and perpendicular to the vector
A = 4i – j + 2k.

A. 4x – y + 2z – 3 = 0 C. 4x – y + 2z + 7 = 0
B. 4x – y + 2z + 3 = 0 D. 4x – y + 2z – 7 = 0

121. Find the angle between the planes 4x – 8y – z + 5 = 0 and x + 2y – 2z + 3 = 0.

A. 52.4o C. 78.2o
B. 74.6o D. 68.3o
122. What is the vector normal to the plane 5x – 6y + 2z = 0?

A. 2i + 5j – 6k C. -5i + 6j – 2k
B. 2i – 5j + 6k D. 2i + 3j – k

123. Find the vector that is perpendicular to the plane passing through the points a(1, 2, 6), b(4, 4, 1),
and c (2, 3, 5).

A. 3i – 2j – k C. 3i – 2j + k
B. 2i + 3j + k D. 2i + 3j – k

124. A sphere of radius 15 units have its center at the origin. Given three points P1 (6, 8, 9), P2(5, 8, 10),
and P3(4, 3, 12). Which of the following is/are inside the sphere?

A. P2 and P3 only C. P1, P2, and P3

B. P1 only D. p1 and P2 only

125. A sphere of radius 6 units have its center at the origin. Which of the following points is outside the
sphere?

A. (3, 1, 4) C. (3, 4, 3)
B. (2, 5, 1) D. (2, 4, 5)

126. Given that y = ax4 + bx2 and ab>0. Which of the following is true?

A. it always concaves upward C. it has no point of inflection

B. it always concaves downward D. it has no horizontal tangent

127. What is the image of a point (-4, 12) at a translated origin at (4, -3)
 A. (-8, 9) C. (-8, -9)
B. (8, -9) D. (8, 9)

128. The graph of the function f(x) = x2 is translated 3 units to the left and reflected over the x-axis. If the
resulting function Is represented by g(x), what is the value of g(5)(?

A. -64 C. -49
B. -9 D. -54

Situation 21- A circle passing through (-1, 1) and (1, 3) have its center on the x-axis.

129. Where is the center of the circle?

A. (3, 0) C. (-1, 0)
B. (2, 0) D. (-2, 0)

130. What is the equation of the circle?

A. x2 + y2 – 4x – 10 = 0 C. x2 + y 2 --4x – 6 =0
B. x2 + y2 + 4x – 8 = 0 D. x2 + y2 + 4x – 11 = 0

131. What is the equation of the circle with respect to translated axes whose origin at coordinates is (-5,
7)?

A. x’2 + y’2 – 14x’ + 14y’ + 88 = 0 C. x’2 + y’2 + 14x’ + 14y’ + 88 = 0

B. x’2 + y’2 – 14x’ – 14y’ – 88 = 0 D. x’2 + y’2 + 14x’ – 14y’ + 88 = 0

132. Find the rectangular equation of the following parametric equations:

x = tan ϴ
y = tan 2ϴ

A. x2y = y – 2x C. y2x = x – 2y
B. xy = x3 + y3 D. xy = x2 + y2

133. Which of the following curves has twice the amplitude but half the period than the curve y = sin x?

A. y = 2 sin (2x) C. y = sin (2x)

B. y= 2 sin (x/2) D. y = 2 sin (x)

134. What is the period of the graph y = sin 3x?

A. ᴨ/4 C. 3ᴨ/2
B. ᴨ/2 D. 2ᴨ/3

135. The frequency of a radio station is given by y = 8 sin 2x. What is the period of the wave?
 A. 2ᴨ C. ᴨ/2
B. ᴨ D. 2ᴨ/3

136. Given the sinusoidal curve y = a sin (bx + c) + d. Which of the following must be increased to
increase the amplitude & period of the curve?

A. d only C. a and b
B. b only D. a only

Situation 22 – Given the sinusoidal function f(t) = 3 sin 2t. Determine the following:

137. The amplitude of the curve.

A. 2 C.1
B. 3 D. undefined

138. The period of the curve.

A. ᴨ C. ᴨ/2
B. 2ᴨ D. ᴨ/3

139. The frequency of the curve.

A. undefined C. 1/ᴨ
B. 2/ᴨ D. 3

Situation 23 – Given the curve y = (ᴨ/2) sin (3t/2).

140. What is the period of the curve?

A. 3ᴨ/2 C. 3/4ᴨ
B. 2ᴨ/3 D. 4ᴨ/3

141. What is the frequency of the curve?

A. 1/4ᴨ C. 3/4ᴨ
B. 1/3ᴨ D. 4/3ᴨ

142. What is the amplitude of the curve?

A. ᴨ/4 C. ᴨ/8
B. ᴨ/2 D. ᴨ/6

143. Given the curve: y = (x2 + 1) / (x2 – 1). Which of the following is NOT true?

A. it has no y-intercept C. it has two vertical asymptotes

 B. it has no x-intercept D. it is symmetrical to the y-axis

144. The function f(x) = 2x2 + 6x – 9 / x2 – x – 2 will have vertical asymptote at:

A. x = 0 C. x= 2
B. x = -2 D. x = 1

Situation 24 - Given the ellipse x2 / 16 + y2/4 = 1.

145. What is the area of the ellipse?

A. 21.11 C. 23.43
B. 22.89 D. 25.13

146. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be cut from this ellipse?

A. 25 C. 20
B. 18 D. 16
147. What is the volume generated by revolving this ellipse about the line x = 8?

A. 1894.34 C. 1263.31
B. 1384.22 D. 1567.43

Situation 25 – The area of the ellipse x2/16 + y2/25 = 1 is revolved the line y + 8 = 0.

148. What is the area of the ellipse?

A. 62.8 C. 54.3
B. 76.5 D. 98.7

149. What is the volume generated?

A. 4567 C. 3675
B. 2876 D. 3158

150. What is the surface area generated?

A. 1564 C. 1987
B. 1120 D. 1426