MATHEMATICS

Choose the letter of the best 7. 7 + 0i is

answer in each questions. A. irrational number
1. How many significant digits do B. real number
10.097 have? C. imaginary number
A. 2 D. a variable
B. 3
C. 4 8. The number
D. 5 0.123123123123……… is
A. irrational
2. Round off 0.003086 to three B. surd
significant figures. C. rational
A. 0.003 D. transcendental
B. 0.00308
C. 0.0031 9. Round off 6785768.342 to the
D. 0.00308 nearest one-tenth.
A. 6785768
3. Round off 34.2841 to four B. 6785768.4
significant figures. C. 6785768.3
A. 34.2814 D. None of these
B. 34.281
C. 34.28 10. Express decimally: Fourteen
D. 34.0 Ten thousandths
A. 0.0014
4. Which number has three B. 0.00014
significant figures? C. 0.014
A. 0.0014 D. 0.14
B. 1.4141
C. 0.01414 11. MCMXCIV is equivalent to
D. 0.0141 what number?
A. 1964
5. Round off 149.691 to the B. 1994
nearest integer C. 1984
A. 149.69 D. 1974
B. 149.7
C. 150 12. Express decimally: Forty-
D. 149 Seven millionth
A. 0.00000047
6. Round off 2.371 x 10-8 to two B. 0.0000047
significant figures C. 0.000047
A. 2.4 x 10-8 D. 0.000000047
B. 2.37 x1 0-8
C. 0.2371 x 10-9
D. 0.002371 x 10-11

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13. Express decimally: Seven A. 135
hundred twenty-five hundred B. 270
thousandths C. 235
A. 0.000725 D. 142
B. 0.00725
C. 0.0725 20. How many degrees Celsius is
D. 0.725 100 degrees Fahrenheit?
A. 2.667°C
14. Express decimally: Four and B. 1.334°C
two tenth C. 13.34°C
A. 0.042 D. 37.8°C
B. 4.02
C. 4.2 21. What is the absolute
D. 0.42 temperature of the freezing point
of water in degree Rankine?
15. Express 45o in mils A. 492
A. 80 mils B. 0
B. 800 mils C. 460
C. 8000 mils D. 273
D. 80000 mils
22. What is the Fahrenheit
16. What is the value in degrees equivalent of 100 degrees
of 1 radian? Celsius?
A. 90 A. 200
B. 57.3 B. 180
C. 100 C. 212
D. 45 D. 100

17. 3200 mils is equivalent to how 23. The Temperature 45°C is

many degrees? equal to
A. 45 A. 45°F
B. 90 B. 113°F
C. 180 C. 57°F
D. 270 D. 81°F
18. An angular unit equivalent to
1/400 of the circumference of a 24. How many degrees Celsius is
circle is called 80 degrees Fahrenheit?
A. mil A. 13.34
B. degree B. 1.334
C. radian C. 26.67
D. grad D. 2.667

19. 4800 mils is equivalent to 25. 10 to the 12th power is the

____ degrees. value of the prefix

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A. Micro 32. How many feet difference is 1
B. Femto nautical mile and 1 statute mile?
C. Tera A. 100 feet
D. Atto B. 200 feet
C. 400 feet
26. The micro of m means D. 800 feet
A. 10-2
B. 10-6 33. In a hydrographic survey, a
C. 10-3 certain point below the surface of
D. 10-12 the water measures 12 fathoms.
27. The prefix pico means It is equivalent to a deep of how
A. 10-12 of a unit many feet?
B. 10-6 of a unit A. 72
C. 10-15 of a unit B. 60
D. 10-9 of a unit C. 48
D. 36
28. The prefix nano is opposite to
A. mega 34. The legendary ship, Titanic
B. giga that sunk in 1912 was estimated
C. tera to be at the sea bottom at a deep
D. hexa of 18 cables. How deep it is in
feet?
29. 1 foot is to 12 inches as 1 A. 12,000
yard is to ____ spans B. 12,343
A. 4 C. 12,633
B. 6 D. 12,960
C. 9
D. 24 35. How many square feet is 100
square meters?
30. A one-inch diameter conduit A. 328.1
is equivalent to B. 929
A. 254 mm C. 32.81
B. 25.4 mm D. 1076
C. 100 mm
D. 2.54 mm 36. A certain luxury ship cruises
Cebu to Manila at 21 knots. If it
31. If a foot has 12 inches, then will take 21 hours to reach Manila
how many hands are there in one from Cebu, the distance traveled
foot? by the ship is nearly
A. 3 A. 847.5 km
B. 4 B. 507.15 statute mile
C. 6 C. 441 statute mile
D. 8 D. 414 nautical mile

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37. Carry out the following 43. How many cubic meters is
multiplication and express your 100 cubic feet
answer in cubic meter: 8 cm x 5 A. 3.785
mm x 2 m. B. 28.31
A. 8 x 10-2 C. 37.85
B. 8 x 102 D. 2.831
C. 8 x 10-3
D. 8 x 10-4 44. Ten (10) cubic meters is
equivalent to how many stare?
38. Which of the following is A. 5
equivalent to 1 hectare? B. 10
A. 100 acres C. 20
B. 2 acres D. 100
C. 100 square meters
D. 60000 square feet 45. The standard acceleration
due to gravity is
39. Ten square statute mile is A. 32.2 ft./s2
equivalent to _____ sections. B. 980 ft./s2
A. 100 C. 58.3 ft./s2
B. 5 D. 35.3 ft./s2:
C. 10
D. 20 46. A 7 kg mass is suspended in
a rope. What is the tension is the
40. The land area of the province rope is SI?
of Cebu is 5088.39 sq. km. This A. 68.67 N
is equivalent to B. 70 N
A. 5088.39 hectares C. 71 N
B. 1964.64 sq. miles D. 72 N
C. 2257907.2 acres
D. 5.08839 acres 47. A 10-liter pail is full of water.
Neglecting the weight of the pail,
41. How many cubic feet is 100 how heavy is its water content?
gallons of liquid? A. 5 kg
A. 74.80 B. 6.67 kg
B. 1.337 C. 10 kg
C. 13.37 D. 12.5 kg
D. 133.7
48. The unit of work in mks
42. How many cubic meters is system is known as Joules (J)
100 gallons of liquid? and the unit of work in the cgs
A. 1.638 system is erg. How many ergs
B. 3.785 are there in 1 J?
C. 0.164 A. 106
D. 0.378 B. 107

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C. 105 B. 11/9 , 8/9
D. 104 C. 14/9 , 8/9
D. 3/2 , 5/3:
49. One horsepower is equivalent
to 55. Solve for the value of x and y,
A. 746 watts 4x + 2y = 5
B. 7460 watts 13x – 3y = 2
C. 74.6 watts A. y = 1/2 , x = 3/2
D. 7.46 watts B. y = 3/2 , x = 1/2
C. y = 2 , x = 1
50. How many horsepower is 746 D. y = 3 , x = 1
kilowatts
A. 500 56. Solve the simultaneous
B. 74.6 equations:
C. 100 2x^2 – 3y^2 = 6
D. 1000 3x^2 + 2y^2 = 35
51. If 16 is 4 more than 4x. Find A. x = 3 or -3 , y = 2 or -2
5x – 1. B. x = 3 or -3 , y = -2 or 1
A. 14 C. x = 3 or -3 , y = -2 or -1
B. 3 D. x = 3 or -3 , y = 2 or -3
C. 12
D. 5 57. Find the value of w in the
following equations:
52. Find the value of x in (x + 1)/3 3x – 2y + w = 11
+ 2x/4 = 47 – 2x x + 5y – 2w = -9
A. 16.47 2x + y – 3w = -6
B. 12.87 A. 3
C. 18.27 B. 2
D. 20.17 C. 4
D. -2
53. Find the value of x in the
equations: 58. Solve the value of x.
10[A/x + A/y] = A 2x – y + z =6
2[3(A/x) – 4(A/y)] = A x – 3y – 2z = 13
A. 50/9 2x – 3y – 3z = 16
B. 80/9 A. 4
C. 70/9 B. 3
D. 60/9 C. 2
D. 1
54. Find the values of x and y
from the equations: 59. Solve simultaneous equation:
x – 4y +2 = 0 x + y = -4
2x + y -4 = 0 x + z -1 = 0
A. 11/7 , -5/7 y+z+1=0

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A. x = -1, y = -5, z = 3 C. y^(5/2) / x^2
B. x = 1, y = 2, z = -3 D. y^(3/2) / x^2
C. x = -1, y = -3, z = 2
D. x = -2, y = -3, z = -1 65. Simplify:
7^(a + 2) – 8*7^(a + 1) + 5*7^a +
60. Multiply the following: 49*7^(a – 2)
(2x + 5y)(5x – 2y) A. -5a
A. 10x^2 – 21xy + 10y^2 B. -3a
B. -10x^2 + 21xy + 10y^2 C. -7a
C. 10x^2 + 21xy – 10y^2 D. -4a
D. – 10x^2 – 21xy – 10y^2
66. Solve for x:
61.Determine the sum of the x = ((b^2 – 4b + 16)(b^2 –
positive valued solution to the 16)/(b^3 + 64))
simultaneous equations: A. b + 4
xy = 15 , yz = 35 , zx = 21 B. (b – 4) / (b + 2)
A. 15 C. (b^2 – 4 )/ (b+2)
B. 13 D. b – 4
C. 17
D. 19 67. Solve for y:
x/(b – c) = y/(a – c) = z/(a – b) = 1
62. Simplify: A. x – z
((x^2y^3z^-2)^-3(x^-3yz^3)^(- B. x + z
1/2))/(xyz^-3)^(-5/2) C. a + b
A. 1/(x^2y^7z^5) D. a – b
B. 1/ (x^2 y^7 z^3)
C. 1/ (x^2 y^5 z^7) 68. Resolve (x + 2)/(x^2 – 7x +
D. 1/ (x^5 y^7 z^2) 12) into partial fraction.
A. (6/(x – 4)) – (2/(x – 3))
63. Simplify the following B. (2/(x – 4)) – (5/(x – 3))
equation: C. (6/(x – 4)) – (5/(x – 3))
(5x/(2x^2 + 7x +3)) – ((x + D. (7/(x – 4)) – (5/(x – 3))
3)/(2x^2 – 3x – 20) + ((2x +
1)/(x62 + x – 6)) 69. Find the value of A in the
A. 4/(x + 3) equation:
B. 2/(x – 3) (x^2 + 4x + 10)/(x^3 = 2x^2 +5x)
C. 4/(x + 3) = A/x + (B(2x + 2))/(x^2 + 2x +
D. 2/(x+3) 5)+ C/(x^2 + 2x + 5)
A. -2
64. Simplify: B. 1/2
{x^(2/3)[x^(-1/3)y^(-1/2)(x^2y^(- C. -1/2
2))^(-2/3)]^(1/2)}^6 D. 2
A. y^(5/2) / x
B. y^(3/2) / x

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70. The value of (3 to 2.5 power) 76. Factor the expression x^2 +
square is equal to 6x + 8 as completely as possible
A. 729 A. (x + 4)(x + 2)
B. 140 B. (x – 4)(x + 2)
C. 243 C. (x – 4)(x – 2)
D. 81 D. (x + 6)(x + 2)

71. Evaluate: 64^x . 4^y 77. (a – b)^3= ?

A. 256^(xy) A. a^3 – 3(a^2)b + 3ab^2 + b^3
B. 4^(x +3y) B. a^3 – 3(a^2)b – 3ab^2 – b^3
C. 64^(x +3y) C. a^3 + 3(a^2)b + 3ab^2 – b^3
D. 4^(3x + y) D. a^3 – 3(a^2)b + 3ab^2 – b^3

72. Solve for x in the following 78. Find the value of k so that
equations 4x^2 + 6x + k is a perfect square
27^x = 9^y A. 36
81^y * 3^-x = 243 B. 2.5
A. 1 C. 9
B. 1.5 D. 2.25
C. 2
D. 2.5 79. Factor the expression:
3x^3 – 3x^2 – 18x
73. Evaluate: y = (((4*5^(2n+1))- A. 3x (x – 3)(x + 2)
3)-10*5^(2n-1))/2*5^(2n) B. 3x (x + 3)(x + 2)
A. y = 5^n C. 3x (x + 3)(x – 2)
B. y = 9 D. 3x (x – 3)(x – 2)
C. y = 5^2n
D. y = 18 80. If p – q = 5 and pq = (k/2),
then p^2 + q^2 equals
74. Given: (a^n) (a^m) = 100,000 A. k
a^n / a^m = 10^1 B. 25k
Find a: C. 25 + k
A. 12 D. k/25
B. 9
C. 11 81. Simplify: b^(m/n)
D. 10 A. (sqrt(b^m))/n
B. b^(m+n)
75. Give the factors of a^2 – x^2 C. (b^m)^(1/n)
A. 2a – 2x D. b^m/n
B. (a + x)(a – x)
C. (a +x)(a + x) 82.Find the value of x which will
D. 2x – 2a satisfy the following expression:
sqrt(x-2) = sqrt(x+2)
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B. 9/4 C. n!
C. 18/6 D. (n – 1)^n
D. None of these
89. What is the least common
83. Simplify: sqrt(ab/(ab)^(1/3)) multiple of 15 and 18?
A. (ab)^(1/3) A. 3
B. (ab)^1(1/2) B. 5
C. ab/(ab)^(1/2) C. 90
D. (ab)/(ab)^(1/3) D. 270

84. If x to the 3/4 power equals 8, 90. What is the lowest common
x equals factor of 10 and 32?
A. -9 A. 320
B. 6 B. 2
C. 9 C. 180
D. 16 D. 90

85. Solve for x: sqrt((x+2) 91. The numbers 12 and 16 has

(sqrt(2x+3)))-3 = 0 the greatest common divisor of
A. 3 A. 2
B. 23 B. 4
C. 3 and 23 C. 6
D. 20 D. 192

86. Solve for x for the given 92. The polynomial x^3+ 4x^2 –
equation: 3x + 8 is divided by x – 5, then
(8^(1/4)(((2)^(1/3))(sqrt(8x)))) the remainder is,
A. 4 A. 175
B. 2 B. 140
C. 3 C. 218
D. 5 D. 200

87. If f(x) = 2x^2+ 2x + 4, What is 93. Find the quotient of 3x^5 –

f(2)? 4x^3+ 2x^2+ 36x + 48 divided by
A. 4x + 2 x^3 – 2x^2 + 6
B. 16 A. 3x^2 – 4x – 8
C. x^2 + x + 2 B. 3x^2 + 4x + 8
D. 8 C. 3x^2 – 6x – 8
D. 3x^2 + 6x – 8
88. If n is any possible integer,
when (n – 1)(n – 2)(n – 3)……(3) 94. Find the remainder if we
(2)(1) = ? divide 4y^3+ 16y^ 2+ 6y -4 by (2y
A. e^(n – 1) + 3)
B. (n – 1)! A. 10

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B. 11 removed, what is the arithmetic
C. 15 mean of the remaining numbers?
D. 13 A. 42.31
B. 50
95. Given: f(x) = (x + 3)(x – 4) + C. 38.62
4. When f(x) is divided by (x – D. 57.12
k), the remainder is k. Find: k
A. 2 100. The arithmetic mean of 6
B. 4 numbers is 17. If two numbers
C. 6 are added to the progression, the
D. 8 new set of numbers will have an
arithmetic mean of 19. What are
96. The expression x^4 + ax^3 the two numbers if their
+5x^2 + bx + 6 when divided by difference is four?
(x – 2) leaves a remainder of 16 A. 21, 25
and when divided by (x + 1) B. 23, 27
leaves a remainder of 10. Find a C. 8, 12
and b. D. 16, 20
A. a = 5, b = 7
B. a = -5, b = 7 101. The equation of whose roots
C. a = -5, b = -7 are the reciprocal of the roots of
D. a = 5, b = -7 2x^2 – 3x – 5  = 0 is,
A. 5x^2 + 3x – 2 = 0
B. 2x^2 + 3x – 5 = 0
97. The mean of x and y is a, the C. 3x^2 – 3x + 2 = 0
mean of y and z is b and the D. 2x^2 + 5x – 3 = 0
mean of x and z is c. What is the
mean of x, y and z? 102. In the equation x^2 + x = 0,
A. (a + b + c)/3 one root is x equal to
B. (a + b + c)/2 A. 1
C. (a + b + c)/(a*b*c) B. 5
D. (a*b*c)/(a + b + c) C. 1/4
D. None of these
98. Find the mean proportional of
4 and 36 103. Solve the value of “a” in the
A. 72 equation a^8 – 17a^4 + 16 = 0.
B. 24 A. ± 2
C. 12 B. ± 3
D. 20 C. ± 4
D. ± 5
99. The arithmetic mean of 80
numbers is 55. If two numbers 104. Solve for x that satisfies the
namely 250 and 850 are equation 6x^2 – 7x – 5 = 0.
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B. 3/2 or 3/8 A. 8
C. 7/5 or -7/15 B. -16
D. 3/5 or ¾ C. 16
D. -8
105. Find the values of x in the
equation 24x^2 + 5x – 1 = 0. 111. Given the equation 3x^2 +
A. (1/6 , 10 Bx + 12 = 0. What is the value of
B. (1/6 , 1/5) B so that the roots of the equation
C. (1/2 , 1/5) are equal?
D. (1/8, 1/3) A. 4
B. 8
106. Determine k so that the C. 10
equation 4x^2 + kx + 1 = 0 will D. -12
have just one real solution.
A. 3 112. Find the term involving y5 in
B. 4 the expansion of (2x^2+ y)^10.
C. 5 A. 8064x^10 y^5
D. 6 B. 8046 x^5 y^5
C. 8046 x^10 y^5
107. Solve for x: 10x^2 + 10x +1 D. 4680 x^5 y^5
=0
A. -0.113, -0.887 113. Find the 5th term of the
B. -0.331, -0.788 expansion of (x^2 + 1/x)^10
C. -0.113, -0.788 A. 260x^6
D. -0.311, -0.887 B. 5040x^6
C. 210x^6
108. If 1/3 and -3/2 are the roots D. 420x^6
of a quadratic equation, then the
equation is 114. In the expression of (x +
A. 6x^2 + 7x – 3 = 0 4y)^12, the numerical coefficient
B. 6x^2 – 7x + 3 = 0 of the 5th term is,
C. 6x^2- 7x – 3 = 0 A. 63,360
D. 6x^2- 7x + 1 = 0 B. 126,720
C. 506,880
109. Which of the following is a D. 253,440
root of this quadratic equation,
30x^2 + 49x + 20 = 0? 115. What is the fourth term of
A. 0.6 the expansion of (x + x^2)^1000?
B. -0.6 A. 1650x^103
C. -0.8 B. 161700x^103
D. 0.75 C. 167100x^103
D. 167100x^103
110. What is the discriminant of
the equation 4x^2 = 8x – 5?

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116. What is the numerical D. 3
coefficient of the next term next to
495x^8y^4? 122. Find the value of log848
A. 660 A. 1.86
B. 792 B. 1.68
C. 990 C. 1.78
D. 1100 D. 1.98

117. Find the 6th term of the 123.Evaluate the log6 845 = x.
expression of ((1/2a) – 3)^16 A. 3.76
A. -66939/256a^11 B. 5.84
B. -66339/128a^11 C. 4.48
C. -33669/256a^11 D. 2.98
D. -39396/128^11
124. What is the value of log to
118. What is the coefficient of the the base 10 of 1000^3.3?
term free of x of the expression of A. 10.9
(2x – 5y)^4? B. 99.9
A. 256 C. 9.9
B. 526 D. 9.5
C. 265
D. 625 125. What is the value of (log 5 to
the base 2) + (log 5 to the base
119. Find the 6th term of (3x – 3)?
4y)^6. A. 7.39
A. -148,288x^3y^5 B. 3.79
B. -548x^3y^5 C. 3.97
C. -154,288x^3y^5 D. 9.37
D. -1,548,288x^3y^5
126. Find the value of log4 (log3 5)
120. What is the sum of the A. 1.460
coefficients of the expansion of B. 0.275
(2x – 1)^20? C. 1.273
A. 0 D. 0.165
B. 1
C. 2 127. Given: log4 7 = n
D. 3 Find: log4 (1/7)
A. 1/n
121. What is the sum of the B. n
coefficients of the expansion of (x C. -1/n
+ y – z)^8 D. –n
A. 0
B. 1 128. IF loga 10 = 0.25, what is the
C. 2 value of log10 = a?

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A. 2 B. 16
B. 4 C. 4
C. 6 D. 2
D. 8
135. Given: log3 (x2 – 8x) = 2
129. Given: logb y = 2x + logb x. Find: x
Which of the following is true? A. -1
A. y = b^2x B. 9
B. y = 2xb C. -1 and 9
C. y = (2x/b) D. 1 and -9
D. y = xb^2x
136. Solve for the value of x in
130. Which value is equal to log the following equation: x3logx =
to the base e of e to the -7x 100x.
power? A. 12
A. -7x B. 8
B. 10 to the -7x power C. 30
C. 7 D. 10
D. -7 log to the base 10
137. Given: log 6 + log 4 = log 4
131. Log of the nth root x equals log (32 + 4^x). Find: x
log of x to 1/n power and also A. 2
equal to: B. 3
A. log x / n C. 4
B. n log x D. 6
C. log(x to the base 1/n power)/n
D. (n – 1)log x 138. If log of 2 to the base 2 plus
log of x to the base 2 is equal to
132. Log (MN) is equal to: 2, then the value of x is,
A. Log M – N A. 4
B. Log M + N B. -2
C. N Log M C. 2
D. Log M + Log N D. -1

133. What expression is 139. Find the value of x if log12 x

equivalent to log(x) – log(y + z)? = 2.
A. log x + log y + log z A. 144
B. log [x / (y + z)] B. 414
C. log x – log y – log z C. 524
D. log y + log (x + z) D. 425

134. Given: logb 1024 = 5/2 140. Solve for the value of x:

Find: b log 2x^3 + log (6/x) = 6.278
A. 2560 A. 379.65

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B. 365.97 than her sister. The sum of their
C. 397.56 ages is 38 years. How old is the
D. 356.79 girl?
A. 4
141. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is B. 5
twice as old as Ann was when C. 6
Mary has as old as ANN is now. D. 7
How old is Ann now?
A. 16 146. Paula is now 18 yrs. old and
B. 18 her colleague Monica is 14 yrs.
C. 12 old. How many years ago was
D. 15 Paula twice as old as Monica?
A. 5
142. The sum of Kim’s and B. 7
Kevin’s ages is 18. In 3 years, C. 8
Kim will be twice as old as Kevin. D. 10
What are their ages now?
A. 4, 14 147. A father tells his son, “I was
B. 5, 13 your age now when you where
C. 7, 11 born”. If the father is now 38 yrs.
D. 6, 12 old, how old was his son 2 years
ago?
143. Robert is 15 years older A. 15
than his brother Stan. However B. 17
“y” years ago, Robert was twice C. 19
as old as Stan. If Stan is now “b” D. 21
years old and b>y, find value of (b
– y)? 148. Six years ago, Karen was
A. 15 five times as old as Gina. In five
B. 16 years, Karen will be three times
C. 17 as old as Gina. What is the
D. 18 present age of Gina?
A. 17
144. JJ is three times as old as B. 16
Jan – Jan. Three years ago, JJ C. 15
was four times as old as Jan – D. 14
Jan. The sum of their ages is
A. 20 149. At present, the sum of the
B. 24 parents’ ages is twice the sum of
C. 28 the children’s ages. Five years
D. 36 ago, the sum of the parents’ ages
was 4 times the sum of the
145. A girl is one-third as old as children’s ages. Fifteen years
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ages will be equal to the sum of
the children’s ages. How may
children are there?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
150. Nhicole is now twice as old
as Vryan. Four years ago,
Nhicole was three times as old as
Vryan then. How old is Nhicole?
A. 14
B. 16
C. 18
D. 24
151. A pump can pump out water
from a tank in 11 hours. Another
pump can pump out water from
the same tank in 20 hours. How
long will it take both pumps to
pump out the water in the tank?
A. 7 hours
B. 6 hours
C. 7 1/2 hours
D. 6 1/2 hours
152. A 400-mm pipe can fill the
tank alone in 5 hours and another
600-mm pipe can fill the tank
alone in 4 hours. A drain pipe
300-mm can empty the tank in 20
hours. With all the three pipes
open, how long will it take to fill
the tank?
A. 2.00 hours
B. 2.50 hours
C. 2.25 hours
D. 2.75 hours
153. A tank is filled with an intake
pipe in 2 hours and emptied by
an outlet pipe in 4 hours. If both
pipes are opened, how long will it
take to fill the empty tank?
A. 3 hours
B. 4 hours
C. 5 hours
D. 6 hours
154. A tank can be filled in 9
hours by one pipe, 12 hours by
second pipe and can be drained
when fully by a third pipe in 15
hours. How long will it take to fill
an empty tank with all pipes
operation?
A. 7 hrs and 12 mins.
B. 7 hrs and 32 mins.
C. 7 hrs and 42 mins.
D. 7 hrs and 50 mins.
155. If A can do the work in “x”
days and B in “y” days, how long
will they finish the job working
together?
A. (x + y)/xy
B. (x + y)/2
C. (xy)/(x + y)
D. Sqrt(x)
156. Pedro can paint a fence
50% faster than Juan and 20%
faster than Pilar, and together
they can paint a given fence in 4
hours. How long will it take Pedro
to paint the same fence if he had
to work alone?
A. 6
B. 8
C. 10
D. 12
157. Glenn can paint a house in 9
hours while Stewart can paint the
same house in 16 hours. They
work together for 4 hours. After 4
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hours, Stewart left and Glenn
finished the job alone. How many
more days did it take Glenn to
finish the job?
A. 2.75 hours
B. 2.50 hours
C. 2.25 hours
D. 3.00 hours
158. It takes Butch twice as long
as it takes Dan to do a certain
piece of work. Working together
they can do the work in 6 days.
How long would it take Dan to do
it alone?
A. 9 days
B. 10 days
C. 11 days
D. 12 days
159. A and B working together
can finish painting a house in 6
days. A working alone can finish
it in 5 days less than B. How long
will it take each of them to finish
the work alone?
A. 8, 13
B. 10, 15
C. 6, 11
D. 7, 12
160. A and B can do a piece of
work in 42 days, B and C in 31
days and C and A in 20 days. In
how many days can all of them
do the work together?
A. 19
B. 17
C. 21
D. 15
161. It takes Myline twice as long
as Jeana to do a certain piece of
work. Working together, they can
finish the work in 6 hours. How
long could it take Jeana to do it
alone?
A. 9 hours
B. 18 hours
C. 12 hours
D. 14 hours
162. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow
the lawn in 4, 6 and 7 hours
respectively. What fraction of the
yard can they mow in 1 hour if
they work together?
A. 47/84
B. 45/84
C. 84/47
D. 39/60
163. A farmer can plow the field
in 8 days. After working for 3
days, his son joins him and
together they plow the field in 3
more days. How many days will it
require for the son to plow the
field alone?
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
164. Crew no.1 can finish
installation of an antenna tower in
200 man-hour while Crew no.2
can finish the same job in 300
man-hour. How long will it take
both crews to finish the same job,
working together?
A. 100 man-hour
B. 120 man-hour
C. 140 man-hour
D. 160 man-hour
165. On one job, two power
shovels excavate 20,000 cubic
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meters of earth, the larger shovel
working 40 hours and the smaller
for 35 hours. On another job, they
removed 40,000 cubic meters
with the larger shovel working 70
hours and the smaller working 90
hours. How much earth can each
remove 1 hour working alone?
A. 169.2, 287.3
B. 178.3, 294.1
C. 173.9, 347.8
D. 200.1, 312.4
166. Ten liters of 25% salt
solution and 15 liter of 35% salt
solution are poured into a drum
originally containing 30 liters of
10% salt solution. What is the
percent concentration of salt in
the mixture?
A. 19.55%
B. 22.15%
C. 27.05%
D. 25.72%
167. A Chemist of a distillery
experimented on two alcohol
solutions of different strength,
35% alcohol and 50% alcohol,
respectively. How many cubic
meters of each strength must he
use in order to produce a mixture
of 60 cubic meters that contain
40% alcohol?
A. 20 m^3 of solution w/ 35%
alcohol, 40 m^3 of solution w/
50% alcohol
B. 50 m^3 of solution w/ 35%
alcohol, 20 m^3 of solution w/
50% alcohol
C. 20 m^3 of solution w/ 35%
alcohol, 50 m^3 of solution w/
50% alcohol
D. 40 m^3 of solution w/ 35%
alcohol, 20 m^3 of solution w/
50% alcohol
168. A goldsmith has two alloys
of gold, the first being 70% pure
and the second being 60% pure.
How many ounces of the 60%
pure gold must be used to make
100 ounces of an alloy which will
be 66% gold?
A. 40
B. 35
C. 45
D. 38
169. Two thousand (2000) kg of
steel containing 8% nickel is to
made by mixing a steel
containing 14% nickel with
another containing 6% nickel.
How much of each is needed?
A. 1500 kg of steel w/ 14% nickel,
500 kg of steel w/ 6% nickel
B. 750 kg of steel w/ 14% nickel,
1250 kg of steel w/ 6% nickel
C. 500 kg of steel w/ 14% nickel,
1500 kg of steel w/ 6% nickel
D. 1250 kg of steel w/ 14% nickel,
750 kg of steel w/ 6% nickel
170. How much water must be
evaporated from 10 kg solution
which has 4% salt to make a
solution of 10% salt?
A. 4 kg
B. 5 kg
C. 6 kg
D. 7 kg
171. If a two digit number has x
for its unit’s digit and y for its ten’s
digit, represent the number
A. 10x + y
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B. 10y + x D. 6/13
C. yx
D. xy 177. The product of 1/4 and 1/5
of a number is 500. What is the
172. One number is 5 less than number?
the other. If their sum is 135, A. 50
What are the numbers? B. 75
A. 85, 50 C. 100
B. 80, 55 D. 125
C. 70, 65
D. 75,60 178. If 3 is subtracted from the
numerator of a certain fraction,
173. Ten less than four times a the value of the fraction became
certain number is 14. Determine 3/5. If 1 is subtracted from the
the number. denominator of the same fraction,
A. 6 it becomes 2/3. Find the original
B. 7 fraction.
C. 8 A. 35/55
D. 9 B. 36/55
C. 3/7
174. The sum of two numbers is D. 32/41
21 and one number is twice the
other. Find the numbers. 179. The denominator of a certain
A. 6, 15 fraction is three more than twice
B. 7, 14 the numerator. If 7 is added to
C. 8, 13 both terms of the fraction, the
D. 9, 12 resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the
original fraction.
175. If eight is added to the A. 8/5
product of nine and the numerical B. 13/5
number, the sum is seventy-one. C. 5/13
Find the unknown number. D. 3/5
A. 5
B. 6 180. Find the product of two
C. 7 numbers such that twice the first
D. 8 added to the second equals 19
and three times the first is 21
176. Find the fraction such that if more than the second.
2 is subtracted from its terms A. 24
becomes 1/4, but if 4 is added to B. 32
its terms it becomes 1/2. C. 18
A. 3/5 D. 20
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181. The tens’ digit of a number
is 3km than the units ‘, digit. If the
number is divided by the sum of
the digits, the quotient is 4 and
the remainder is 3. What is the
original number?
A. 36
B. 47
C. 58
D. 69
182. The second of the four
numbers is three less than the
first, the third is four more than
the first and the fourth is two
more than the third. Find the
fourth number if their sum is 35?
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
183. A jogger starts a course at a
steady rate of 8 kph. Five minutes
later, a second jogger starts the
same course at 10 kph. How long
will it take the second jogger to
catch the first?
A. 20 min
B. 21 min
C. 22 min
D. 18 min
184. A boat man rows to a place
4.8 miles with the stream and
back in 14 miles with the stream
in the same time as 3 mile
against the stream.
A. 1.5 mile per hour
B. 1 mile per hour
C. 0.8 mile per hour
D. 0.6 mile per hour
185. A man rows downstream at
the rate 5 mph and upstream at
the rate of 2 mph. How far
downstream should he go if he is
to return 7/4 hours after leaving?
A. 2.5 miles
B. 3.3 miles
C. 3.1 miles
D. 2.7 miles
186. An airplane flying the wing,
took 2 hours to travel 1000 km
and 2.5 Hours in flying back.
What was the wind velocity in
kph?
A. 50
B. 60
C. 70
D. 40
187. A boat travels downstream
in 2/3 of the time as it goes going
upstream. If the velocity of the
river’s current is still water.
A. 40 kph
B. 50 kph
C. 30 kph
D. 60 kph
188. Two planes level Manila for
a southern city, a distance of
900km. Plane A travels as a
ground speed of 90 kph faster
than the plane B. Plane A arrived
in their destination 2 hours and
15 min ahead a plane B. What is
the ground speed of plane A?
A. 205 kph
B. 315 kph
C. 20 kph
D. 287 kph
189. A train, an hour after
starting, meets with accidents
which detain it an hour, after
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which if proceeds at 3/5 of its b. 3:17.37
former rate and arrives three hour c. 3:14.32
after time; but had the accident d. 3:16.36
happened 50 miles farther on the
line, it would have arrived a one 194. At what time after 12:00
and one-half hour sooner. Find noon will the hour hand and
the length of the journey. minute hand of the clock first form
A. 910/9 miles an angle of 1200?
B. 800/9 miles a. 12:18.818
C. 920/9 miles b. 12:21.818
D. 850/9 miles c. 12:22.818
d. 12:24.818
190. On a certain trip, Edgar drive
231 km in exactly the same time 195. At what time between 8 and
as Erwin drive 308 km. If Erwin’s 9 o’clock will the minute hand
rate exceeded that of Edgar by coincide with the hour hand?
13 kph, determine the rate Erwin. a. 8:42.5
A. 39 kph b. 8:43.2
B. 44 kph c. 8:43.6
C. 48 kph d. 8:43.9
D. 52 kph
196. A man left his home at past
191. In how many minutes after 2 3:00 o’clock PM as indicated in
o’clock will the hands of the clock his wall clock, between 2 to 3
extend in opposite directions for hours after, he returns home and
the first time? noticed the hands of the clock
a. 42.4 minutes interchanged. At what time did
b. 42.8 minutes the man leave his home?
c. 43.2 minutes a. 3:31.47
d. 43.6 minutes b. 3:21.45
c. 3:46.10
192. In how many minutes after 7 d. 3:36.50
o’clock will the hands be directly
opposite each other for the first 197. From the time 6:15 PM to
time? the time 7:45 PM of the same
a. 5.22 minutes day, the minute hand of a
b. 5.33 minutes standard clock describe an arc of
c. 5.46 minutes a. 60°
d. 5.54 minutes b. 90°
c. 180°
193. What time after 3 o’clock will d. 540°
the hands of the clock be
together for the first time? 198. A storage battery discharge
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the charge. If the charge is
reduced by 50% of its original
value at the end of 2 days, how
long will it take to reduce the
charge to 25% of its original
charge?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
199. The resistance of a wire
varies directly with its length and
inversely with its area. If a certain
piece of wire 10 m long and 0.10
cm in diameter has a resistance
of 100 ohms, what will its
resistance be if it is uniformly
stretched so that its length
becomes 12 m?
a. 80
b. 90
c. 144
d. 120
200. Given that “w” varies directly
as the product of “x” and “y” and
inversely as the square of “z” and
that w = 4 when x = 2, y = 6 and z
= 3. Find the value of “w” when x
= 1, y = 4, and z = 2.
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
201. If x varies directly as y and
inversely as z, and x = 14 when y
= 7 and z = 2, find the value of x
when y = 16 and z = 4.
a. 14
b. 4
c. 16
d. 6
202. The electric power which a
transmission line can transmit is
proportional to the product of its
design voltage and current
capacity, and inversely to the
transmission distance. A 115-
kilovolt line rate at 100 amperes
can transmit 150 megawatts over
150 km. how much power, in
megawatts can a 230 kilovolt line
rate at 150 amperes transmit over
100 km?
a. 785
b. 485
c. 675
d. 595
203. The time required for an
elevator to lift a weight varies
directly with the weight and the
distance through which it is to be
lifted and inversely as the power
of the motor. If it takes 30
seconds for a 10 hp motor to lift
100 lbs. through 50 feet, what
size of motor is required to lift 800
lbs. in 40 seconds through 40
feet?
a. 42
b. 44
c. 46
d. 48
204. The selling price of TV set is
double that of its cost. If the TV
set was sold to a customer at a
profit of 25% of the net cost, how
much discount was given to the
customer?
a. 33.7%
b. 35.7%
c. 37.5%
d. 34.7%
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 the females 70% are literate.
205. A group of EE examinees What is the female population?
decided to hire a mathematics a. 850
tutor from Excel Review Center b. 500
and planned to contribute equal c. 550
amount for the tutor’s fee. If there d. 600
were 10 more examinees, each
would have paid P 2 less. 209. A merchant has three items
However, if there were 5 less on sale, namely a radio for P 50,
examinees, each would have a clock for P 30 and a flashlight
paid P 2 more. How many for P1. At the end of the day, he
examinees are there in the sold a total of 100 of the three
group? items and has taken exactly P
a. 14 1,000 on the total sales. How
b. 16 many radios did he sale?
c. 18 a. 16
d. 20 b. 20
c. 18
206. A bookstore purchased a d. 24
best selling price book at P
200.00 per copy. At what price 210. The arithmetic mean of a
should this book be sold so that and b is
giving a 20% discount, the profit a. (a + b)/2
is 30%? b. sqrt(ab)
a. P 450 c. (ab)/2
b. P 500 d. (a – b)/2
c. P 357
d. P 400 211. The sum of three arithmetic
means between 34 and 42 is
207. Jojo bought a second hand a. 114
Betamax VCR and then sold it to b. 124
Rudy at a profit of 40%. Rudy c. 134
then sold the VCR to Noel at a d. 144
profit of 20%. If Noel paid P 2,856
more than it cost to Jojo, how 212. Gravity causes a body to fall
much did Jojo paid for the unit? 16.1 ft. in the first second, 48.3 in
a. P 4,000 the 2nd second, 80.5 in the 3rd
b. P 4,100 second. How far did the body fall
c. P 4,200 during the 10th second?
d. P 4,300 a. 248.7 ft.
b. 308.1 ft.
208. In a certain community of c. 241.5 ft.
1,200 people, 60% are literate. Of d. 305.9 ft.
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213. If the first term of an 218. A stack of bricks has 61
arithmetic progression is 25 and bricks in the bottom layer, 58
the fourth term is 13, what is the bricks in the second layer, 55
third term? bricks in the third layer, and so on
a. 17 until there are 10 bricks in the last
b. 18 layer. How many bricks are there
c. 19 all together?
d. 20 a. 638
b. 637
214. Find the 30th term of the c. 639
arithmetic progression 4, 7, 10… d. 640
a. 75
b. 88 219. Determine the sum of the
c. 90 progression if there are 7
d. 91 arithmetic mean between 3 and
35
215. How many terms of the a. 171
progression 3, 5, 7… must be b. 182
taken in order that their sum will c. 232
be 2600? d. 216
a. 48
b. 49 220. A besiege fortress is held by
c. 50 5700 men who have provisions
d. 51 for 66 days. If the garrison losses
20 men each day, for how many
216. In a pile of logs, each layer days can the provision hold out?
contains one more log than the a. 72
layer above and the top contains b. 74
just one log. If there are 105 logs c. 76
in the pile, how many layers are d. 78
there?
a. 11 221. In the recent “Gulf War” in
b. 12 the Middle east, the allied forces
c. 13 captured 6400 of Saddam’s
d. 14 soldiers and with provisions on
hand it will last for 216 meals
217. What is the sum of the while feeding 3 meals a day. The
progression 4, 9, 14, 19… up to provision lasted 9 more days
the 20th term? because of daily deaths. At an
a. 1030 average, how many died per
b. 1035 day?
c. 1040 a. 15
d. 1045 b. 16
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d. 18
222. A Geodetic Engineering
student got a score of 30% on
Test 1 of the five number test in
Surveying. On the last number he
got 90% in which a constant
difference more on each number
that he had on the immediately
preceding one. What was his
average score in Surveying?
a. 50
b. 55
c. 60
d. 65
223. If the sum is 220 and the
first term is 10, find the common
difference if the last term is 30.
a. 2
b. 5
c. 3
d. 2/3
224. Once a month, a man puts
some money into the cookie jar.
Each month he puts 50 centavos
more into jar than the month
before. After 12 years, he
counted his money, he had P
5,436. How much money did he
put in the jar in the last month?
a. P73.50
b. P75.50
c. P74.50
d. P72.50
225. A girl on a bicycle coasts
downhill covering 4 feet the first
second 12 feet the second
second, and in general, 8 feet
more each second than the
previous second. If she reaches
the bottom at the end of 14
seconds, how far did she coasts?
a. 782 feet
b. 780 feet
c. 784 feet
d. 786 feet
226. When all odd numbers from
1 to 101 are added, the result is
a. 2500
b. 2601
c. 2501
d. 3500
227. How many times will a
grandfather’s clock strikes in one
day if it strikes only at the hours
and strike once at 1 o’clock, twice
at 2 o’clock, thrice at 3 o’clock ad
so on?
a. 210
b. 24
c. 156
d. 300
228. To conserve energy due to
the present energy crisis, the
Meralco tried to readjust their
charges to electrical energy users
who consumes more than 2000
kw-hours. For the first 100 kw-hr,
they charged 40 centavos and
increasing at a constant rate
more than the preceding one until
the fifth 100 kw-hr, the charge is
76 centavos. How much is the
average charge for the electrical
energy per 100 kw-hr?
a. 58 centavos
b. 60 centavos
c. 62 centavos
d. 64 centavos
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229. The 3rd term of a harmonic d. 7, -7/6
progression is 15 and the 9th
term is 6. Find the 11th term 235. If one third of the air in a
a. 4 tank is removed by each stroke of
b. 5 an air pump, what fractional part
c. 6 of the total air is removed in 6
d. 7 strokes?
a. 0.7122
230. Find the fourth term of the b. 0.9122
progression 1/2, 0.2, 0.125… c. 0.6122
a. 1/10 d. 0.8122
b. 1/11
c. 0.102 236. A product has a current
d. 0.099 selling of P 325.00. If its selling
price is expected to decline at the
231. Find the 9th term of the rate of 10% per annum because
harmonic progression 3, 2, 3/2… of obsolescence, what will be its
a. 3/5 selling price four years hence?
b. 3/8 a. P 213.23
c. 4/5 b. P 202.75
d. 4/9 c. P 302.75
d. P 156.00
232. Find the sum of 4 geometric
means between 160 and 5 237. The number 28, x + 2, 112
a. 130 form a geometric progression.
b. 140 What is the 10th term?
c. 150 a. 14336
d. 160 b. 13463
c. 16433
233. The fourth term of a d. 16344
geometric progression is 216 and
the 6th term is 1944. Find the 8th 238. The sum of the first 10 terms
term of a geometric progression 2, 4,
a. 17649 8… is
b. 17496 a. 1023
c. 16749 b. 2046
d. 17964 c. 225
d. 1596
234. Determine x so that: x, 2x +
7, 10x – 7 will be a geometric 239. If the first term of a
progression geometric progression is 9 and
a. 7, -7/12 the common ratio is -2/3, find the
b. 7, -5/6 fifth term
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b. 16/9
c. 15/7
d. 13/4
240. The seventh term is 56 and
the twelfth term is -1792 of a
geometric progression. Find the
common ratio and the first term.
Assume the ratios are equal.
a. -2, 5/8
b. -1, 5/8
c. -1, 7/8
d. -2, 7/8
241. A person has 2 parents, 4
grandparents, 8 great
grandparents and so on. How
many ancestors during the 15
generations preceding his own,
assuming no duplication?
a. 131070
b. 65534
c. 32768
d. 16383
242. In the PBA three-point
shootout contest, the committee
decided to give a prize in the
following manner; A prize of P 1
for the first basket made, P 2 for
the second, P 4 for the third, P 8
for the fourth and so on. If the
contestant wants to win a prize
no less than a million pesos, what
is the minimum number of
baskets to be converted?
a. 20
b. 19
c. 18
d. 21
243. In a benefit show, a number
of wealthy men agreed that the
first one to arrive would pay 10
centavos to enter and each later
arrive would pay twice as much
as the preceding man. The total
amount collected from all of them
was P 104,857.50. How many
wealthy men paid?
a. 18
b. 19
c. 20
d. 21
244. A man mailed 10 chain
letters to ten of his friends with a
request to continue by sending a
similar letter to each of their ten
friends. If this continue for 6 sets
of letters and if all responded,
how much will the Phil. Postal
office earn if minimum postage
costs P 4 per letter?
a. P 6,000,000
b. P 60,000
c. P 2,222,220
d. P 4,444,440
245. Determine the sum of the
infinite series s = 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27
+…+ (1/3)^n
a. 4/5
b. 3/4
c. 2/3
d. ½
246. Under favorable condition, a
single cell bacteria divided into
two about every 20 minutes. If the
same rate of division is
maintained for 10 hours, how
many organisms is produced
from a single cell?
a. 1,073,741
b. 1,730,740
c. 1,073,741,823
d. 1,037,417
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247. A rubber ball is made to fall with an equilateral triangles as
from a height of 50 feet and is base, find the total number of
observed to rebound 2/3 of the spheres in the pile if each side of
distance it falls. How far will the the base contains 4 spheres.
ball travel before coming to rest if a. 15
the ball continues to fall in this b. 20
manner? c. 18
a. 100 feet d. 21
b. 125 feet
c. 150 feet 253. Find the 6th term of the
d. 175 feet sequence 55, 40, 28, 19, 13….
a. 10
248. What is the fraction in lowest b. 9
term equivalent to 0.133133133? c. 8
a. 133/666 d. 11
b. 133/777
c. 133/888 254. In the series 1, 1, 1/2, 1/6,
d. 133/999 1/24… determine the 6th term
a. 1/80
249. Find the sum of the infinite b. 1/74
geometric progression 6, -2, c. 1/100
2/3… d. 1/120
a. 9/2
b. 5/2 255. Find the 1987th digit in the
c. 7/2 decimal equivalent to 1785/9999
d. 11/2 starting from the decimal point
a. 8
250. Find the sum of 1, -1/5, b. 1
1/25… c. 7
a. 5/6 d. 5
b. 2/3
c. 0.84 256. In a class of 40 students, 27
d. 0.72 like Calculus and 25 like
Chemistry. How many like both
251. Find the ratio of an infinite Calculus and Chemistry?
geometric progression if the sum a. 10
is 2 and the first term is 1/2 b. 11
a. 1/3 c. 12
b. 1/2 d. 13
c. 3/4 257. A club of 40 executives, 33
d. ¼ like to smoke Marlboro and 20
like to smoke Philip Morris. How
252. If equal spheres are piled in many like both?
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b. 11
c. 12
d. 13
258. A survey of 100 persons
revealed that 72 of them had
each at restaurant P and that 52
of them had eaten at restaurant
Q. which of the following could
not be the number of persons in
the surveyed group who had
eaten at both P and Q?
a. 20
b. 22
c. 24
d. 26
259. The probability for the ECE
board examinees from a certain
school to pass the subject
Mathematics is 3/7 and for the
subject Communications is 5/7. If
none of the examinees fails both
subject and there are 4
examinees who pass both
subjects, find the number of
examinees from the school who
took the examinations.
a. 20
b. 25
c. 30
d. 28
260. In a commercial survey
involving 1000 persons on brand
preference, 120 were found to
prefer brand x only, 200 prefer
brand y only, 150 prefer brand z
only, 370 prefer either brand x or
y but not z, 450 prefer brand y or
z but not x and 370 prefer either z
or x but not y. How many persons
have no brand preference,
satisfied with any of the three
brands?
a. 280
b. 230
c. 180
d. 130
261. A toothpaste firm claims that
in a survey of 54 people, they
were using either Colgate, Hapee
of Close-up brand. The following
statistics were found: 6 people
used all three brands, 5 used only
Hapee and Close-up, 18 used
Hapee or Close-up, 2 used
Hapee, 2 used only Hapee and
Colgate, 1 used Close-up and
Colgate, and 20 used only
Colgate. Is the survey worth
paying for?
a. Neither yes or no
b. Yes
c. No
d. Either yes or no
262. How many four-letter words
beginning and ending with a
vowel without any letter repeated
can be formed from the word
“personnel”?
a. 40
b. 480
c. 20
d. 312
263. Five different mathematics
books, 4 different electronics
books and 2 different
communications books are to be
placed in a shelf with the books of
the same subject together. Find
the number of ways in which the
books can be placed.
a. 292
b. 5760
c. 34560
d. 12870
264. The number of ways can 3
nurses and 4 engineers be
seated on a bench with the
nurses seated together is
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a. 144 270. A PSME unit has 10 ME’s, 8
b. 258 PME’s and 6 CPM’s. If a
c. 720 committee of 3 members, one
d. 450 from each group is to be formed,
265. If 15 people won prizes in how many such committees can
the state lottery (assuming that be formed?
there are no ties), how many a. 2,024
ways can these 15 people win b. 12,144
first, second, third, fourth and fifth c. 480
prizes? d. 360
a. 4,845 271. In how many ways can a
b. 116,260 PSME Chapter with 15 directors
c. 360,360 choose a President, a Vice-
d. 3,003 President, a Secretary, a
266. How many 4 digit numbers Treasurer and an Auditor, if no
can be formed without repeating member can hold more than one
any digits from the following position?
digits: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6? a. 360,360
a. 120 b. 32,760
b. 130 c. 3,003
c. 140 d. 3,603,600
d. 150 272. Four different colored flags
267. How many permutations are can be hung in a row to make
there if the letters PNRCSE are coded signal. How many signals
taken six at a time? can be made if a signal consists
a. 1440 of the display of one or more
b. 480 flags?
c. 720 a. 64
d. 360 b. 66
268. In how many ways can 6 c. 68
distinct books be arranged in a d. 62
bookshelf? 273. In how many ways can 4
a. 720 boys and 4 girls be seated
b. 120 alternately in a row of 8 seats?
c. 360 a. 1152
d. 180 b. 2304
269. What is the number of c. 576
permutations of the letters in the d. 2204
word BANANA? 274. There are four balls of four
a. 36 different colors. Two balls are
b. 60 taken at a time and arranged in a
c. 52 definite order. For example if a
d. 42 white and red balls are taken, one
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red second, and another 279. In how many ways can you
arrangement is red first, white invite one or more of your five
second. How many such friends in a party?
arrangements are possible? a. 15
a. 24 b. 31
b. 6 c. 36
c. 12 d. 25
d. 36 280. In how many ways can a
275. How many different ways committee of three consisting of
can 5 boys and 5 girls form a two chemical engineers and one
circle with boys and girls mechanical engineer can be
alternate? formed from four chemical
a. 28,800 engineers and three mechanical
b. 2,880 engineers?
c. 5,600 a. 18
d. 14,400 b. 64
276. There are four balls of c. 32
different colors. Two balls at a d. None of these
time are taken and arranged any 281. In Mathematics examination,
way. How many such a student may select 7 problems
combinations are possible? from a set of 10 problems. In how
a. 36 many ways can he make his
b. 3 choice?
c. 6 a. 120
d. 12 b. 530
277. How many 6-number c. 720
combinations can be generated d. 320
from the numbers from 1 to 42 282. How many committees can
inclusive, without repetition and be formed by choosing 4 men
with no regards to the order of the from an organization of a
numbers? membership of 15 men?
a. 850,668 a. 1390
b. 5,245,786 b. 1240
c. 188,848,296 c. 1435
d. 31,474,716 d. 1365
278. Find the total number of 283. A semiconductor company
combinations of three letters J, R, will hire 7 men and 4 women. In
T taken 1, 2, 3 at a time how many ways can the company
a. 7 choose 9 men and 6 women who
b. 8 qualified for the position?
c. 9 a. 680
d. 10 b. 540
c. 480
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284. There are 13 teams in a 289. In a throw of two dice, the
tournament. Each team is to play probability of obtaining a total of
with each other only once. What 10 or 12 is
is the minimum number of days a. 1/6
can they play without any team b. 1/9
playing more than one game in c. 1/12
any day? d. 1/18
a. 11 290. Determine the probability of
b. 12 drawing either a king or a
c. 13 diamond in a single draw from a
d. 14 pack of 52 playing cards.
285. There are five main roads a. 2/13
between the cities A and B, and b. 3/13
four between B and C. in how c. 4/13
many ways can a person drive d. 1/13
from A to C and return, going 291. A card is drawn from a deck
through B on both trips without of 52 playing cards. Find the
driving on the same road twice? probability of drawing a king or
a. 260 red card.
b. 240 a. 0.5835
c. 120 b. 0.5385
d. 160 c. 0.3585
286. There are 50 tickets in a d. 0.8535
lottery in which there is a first and 292. A coin is tossed 3 times.
second prize. What is the What is the probability of getting
probability of a man drawing a 3 tails up?
prize if he owns 5 tickets? a. 1/8
a. 50% b. 1/16
b. 25% c. 1/4
c. 20% d. 7/8
d. 40% 293. The probability of getting at
287. Roll a pair of dice. What is least 2 heads when a coin is
the probability that the sum of two tossed four times is
numbers is 11? a. 11/16
a. 1/36 b. 13/16
b. 1/9 c. 1/4
c. 1/18 d. 3/8
d. 1/20 294. A fair coin is tossed three
288. Roll two dice once. What is times. What is the probability of
the probability that the sum is 7? getting either 3 heads or 3 tails?
a. 1/6 a. 1/8
b. 1/8 b. 3/8
c. 1/4 c. 1/4
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295. The probability of getting a
credit in an examination is 1/3. If
three students are selected at
random, what is the probability
that at least one of them got a
credit?
a. 19/27
b. 8/27
c. 2/3
d. 1/3
296. There are 3 questions in a
test. For each question 1 point is
awarded for a correct answer and
none for a wrong answer. If the
probability that Janine correctly
answers a question in the test is
2/3, determine the probability that
she gets zero in the test.
a. 8/27
b. 4/9
c. 1/30
d. 1/27
297. In the ECE Board
Examinations, the probability that
an examinee will pass each
subject is 0.8. What is the
probability that an examinee will
pass at least two subjects out of
the three board subjects?
a. 70.9%
b. 80.9%
c. 85.9%
d. 89.6%
298. In a multiple choice test,
each question is to be answered
selecting 1 out of 5 choices, of
which only 1 is right. If there are
10 questions in a test, what is the
probability of getting 6 right of
pure guesswork?
a. 10%
b. 6%
c. 0.44%
d. 0.55%
299. From a box containing 6 red
balls, 8 white balls and 10 blue
balls, one ball is drawn at
random. Determine the
probability that it is red or white.
a. 1/3
b. 7/12
c. 5/12
d. 1/4
300. From a bag containing 4
black balls and 5 white balls, two
balls are drawn one at a time.
Find the probability that both balls
are white. Assume that the first
ball is returned before the second
ball is drawn.
a. 25/81
b. 16/81
c. 5/18
d. 40/81
301. A bag contains 3 white and
5 black balls. If two balls are
drawn in succession without
replacement, what is the
probability that both balls are
black?
a. 5/16
b. 5/28
c. 5/32
d. 5/14
302. A urn contains 4 black balls
and 6 white balls. What is the
probability of getting 1 black and
1 white ball in two consecutive
draws from the urn?
a. 0.24
b. 0.27
c. 0.53
d. 0.04
303. From a bag containing 4
black balls and 5 white balls, two
balls are drawn one at a time.
Find the probability that one ball
is white and one ball is black.
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Assume that the first ball is 303. A number is divided into two
returned before the second ball is parts such that when the greater
drawn. part is divided by the smaller part,
a. 16/81 the quotient is 3, and the
b. 25/81 remainder is 5. Find the smaller
c. 20/18 number if the sum of the two
d. 40/81 numbers is 37.
304. A group of 3 people enter a a. 8
theater after the lights had b. 29
dimmed. They are shown to the c. 22
correct group of 3 seats by the d. 16
usher. Each person holds a 304. Mary was four times as old
number stub. What is the as Lea ten years ago. If she is
probability that each is in the now twice as old as Lea, how old
correct seat according to the is Mary.
numbers on seat and stub a. 25
a. 1/6 b. 40
b. 1/4 c. 30
c. 1/2 d. 15
d. 1/8 305. The sum of three
305. From 20 tickets marked with succeeding odd integers is 75.
the first 20 numerals, one is The largest integer is
drawn at random. What is the a. 25
chance that it will be a multiple of b. 29
3 or of 7? c. 27
a. 1/2 d. 31
b. 8/15 306. A ship propelled to move at
c. 3/10 25 mi/ hr in still water, travels 4.2
d. 2/5 miles upstream in the same time
301. Find the harmonic mean that it can travel 5.8 miles
between the numbers 3/8 and 4. downstream. Find the speed of
a. 35/34 the stream.
b. 24/35 a. 4
c. 42/35 b. 6
d. 35/24 c. 8
302. The terms of a sum may be d. 10
grouped in any manner without 307. Jose’s rate of doing work
affecting the result. this is law three times as fast as Bong. On
known as: given day Jose and Bong work
a. Commutative Law together for 4 hours then Bong
b. Distributive Law was called away and Jose
c. Associative Law finishes the rest of the job in 2
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Bong to do the complete job d. 7
alone? 313. A circle with center (4,-5) is
a. 18 hrs. tangent to the y-axis in the
b. 22 hrs. standard (x,y) coordinate plane.
c. 16 hrs. What is the radius of this circle?
d. 31 hrs. a. 4
308. The length of a rectangle is b. 5
3 times its width. If the width of c. 16
the rectangle is 5 inches, what is d. 25
the rectangle’s area, in square 314. Angle A is an acute angle
inches? and sin(A) = 11/14. What is the
a. 15 value of cos(A)?
b. 20 a. √3 / 14
c. 30 b. 5√3 / 14
d. 75 c. √(3/14)
309. For all x >2, (2x2 + 2x – 12) / d. 5/14
(x – 2) simplifies to 315. What are the values of a and
a. 2(x + 3) b, if any, where – a|b + 4| > 0?
b. 2(x – 2) a. a > 0 and b ≠ 4
c. x + 3 b. a < 0 and b ≥ -4
d. 2(x + 3)(x – 2) c. a < 0 and b ≠ -4
310. If the hypotenuse of a right d. a < 0 and b ≤ -4
triangle is 10 inches long and one 316. In a shipment of televisions,
of its legs is 5 inches long, how 1/50 of the televisions are
long is the other leg? defective. What is the ratio of
a. 5 defective to non defective
b. 5 √3 televisions?
c. 5√5 a. 1/50
d. 7.5 b. 1/49
311. In the standard (x,y) c. 49/1
coordinate plane, the graph of (x d. 50/1
+ 3)2 + (y + 5)2 = 16 is a circle. 317. Which of the following is
What is the circumference of the divisible (with no remainder) by
circle, expressed in coordinate 4?
units? a. 214133
a. 4π b. 510056
b. 5π c. 322569
c. 3π d. 952217
d. 8π 318. A particle travels 1 x
312. How many solutions are 106 meters per second in a
there to the equation x2 – 7 = 0? straight line for 5 x 10-6 seconds.
a. 1 How many meters has it
b. 2 traveled?
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b. 5 lengths of the parallel bases. If a
c. 6 trapezoid has an altitude of 15
d. 7 inches, an area of 105 square
319. The length of sides AB and inches, and one of the bases 22
AC in the triangle below are inches, what is the perimeter, in
equal. What is the measure of inches, of the trapezoid?
angle ∠ A if angle ∠ C is 70°? a. 8
a. 70° b. 45
b. 55° c. 60
c. 40° d. 30
d. 110° 325. If you drove at average
320. ABC is an equilateral speed of 66 miles per hour, what
triangle. AH is perpendicular to distance, in miles, did you drive in
BC and has a length of 2√3 99 minutes?
inches. What is the area, in a. 65.34
square inches, of triangle Δ ABC. b. 108.9
a. 3√3 c. 150
b. 2√3 d. 90.45
c. 4√3 326. If x and y are any real
d. 8√3 numbers such that 0 < x < 2 < y ,
321. Find the value of k in the which of these must be true?
quadratic equation (2k + 2) x2 + (4 a. x < (xy)/2 < y
– 4k) x + k – 2 = 0 so that the b. 0 < xy < 2x
roots are reciprocal of each other. c. x < xy < 2
a. 4 d. 0 < xy < 2
b. 2 327. In the right triangle ABC
c. -4 below, what is the cosine of angle
d. -2 A if the opposite side is 3 and the
322. Solve for x if 8y = 3x – 11 adjacent side is 4.
a. 8/3) y + 11 a. 5/3
b. (8/3) y – 11 b. 5/4
c. (8y – 11)/3 c. 3/5
d. (8y + 11)/3 d. 4/5
323. When graphed in the (x, y) 328. In a triangle ABC with
coordinate plane, at what point do segment BD, B is on AD, ∠ BAC
the lines 2x + 3y = 5 and x = -2 and ∠ ACB measure 26° and
intersect? 131° respectively. What is the
a. (-2, 0) measure of ∠CBD?
b. (-2, 5) a. 26°
c. (0, 5) b. 157°
d. (-2, 3) c. 23°
324. The area of a trapezoid is d. 154°
0.5h(b1 + b2), where h is the 329. The total surface area of all
altitude, and b1 and b2 are the six sides of the rectangular box
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below is equal to 128 square d. 8
inches. What is x in inches? 335. There are n students in a
a. 6 school. If r% among the students
b. 4 are 12 years or younger, which of
c. 2 the following expressions
d. 8 represents the number of
330. ABC is a right triangle. students who are older than 12?
ABDE is a square of area 200 a. n(1 – r)
square inches and BCGF is a b. 100(1 – r)n
square of 100 square inches. c. n(1 – r) / 100
What is the length, in inches, of d. n(100 – r) / 100
AC? 336. The measures of angles A,
a. 10√3 B and C of a triangle are in the
b. 10√2 ratio 3:4:5. What is the measure,
c. 10√1 in degrees, of the largest angle?
d. 10 a. 75°
331. What is the slope of the line: b. 15°
4x = -3y + 8 c. 12°
a. 4 d. 90°
b. -3/4 337. If x + 4y = 5 and 5x + 6y = 7,
c. -4/3 then 3x + 5y = ?
d. 3 a. 12
332. Which of the following is b. 6
equal to √45 c. 4
a. 5√3 d. 2
b. 9√5 338. For all real numbers x, the
c. 3√5 minimum value of 1 + 2cos(4x) is
d. 3 a. 0
333. What is the smallest value of b. -1
x that satisfies the equation: x(x + c. -2
4) = -3 d. -4
a. 1 339. What is the largest possible
b. -1 product for 2 odd integers whose
c. 3 sum is equal to 32?
d. -3 a. 64
334. A group of 7 friends are b. 255
having lunch together. Each c. 256
person eats at least 3/4 of a d. 1024
pizza. What is the smallest 340. If (a + b)2 = 25 and (a –
number of whole pizzas needed b) 2 = 45, then a2 + b2 = ?
for lunch? a. 35
a. 7 b. 70
b. 5 c. 140
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341. If a = 3, then 2 / (1/7 + 1/a) = c. 35Pi
? d. 34Pi
a. 21 / 10 347. X and Y are acute angles
b. 21 / 5 such that tan y = cot x. What is
c. 21 / 15 the sum, in degrees, of the
d. 21 / 3 measures of the angles X and Y?
342. A company makes a profit a. 90°
equal to 25% of its sales. The b. 45°
profit is shared equally among the c. 60°
4 owners of the company. If the d. 30°
company generates sales of 348. What is the value of the
$5,000,000, how much money adjacent side if the opposite side
does each one of the owners is 1 inch and the 2 other angles of
get? the right triangle is 30° and 60°
a. 312,500 a. 1/√3
b. 500,000 b. √2
c. 1,250,000 c. √3
d. 12,500,000 d. 6/√3
343. If the expression x3 + 2hx – 349. Which of the lines below is
2 is equal to 6 when x = -2, what not parallel to the line 6x – 2y =
is the value of h? 10?
a. -2 a. 3x – y = 7
b. -4 b. -6x + 2y = 20
c. 4 c. 3x + y = 7
d. 6 d. 6x – 2y = 5
344. If -3/(a – 3) = 3/(a + 2), then 350. For what value of k the
a=? equation below has no value of x:
a. 1/2 2x + 3 = x – 2kx – 5
b. 1/4 a. 1
c. 1 b. -1
d. 2 c. 0.5
345. Which integer is nearest to d. -0.5
√2100 / √7 351. Find the value of x which will
a. 17 satisfy the equation √(x – 2) / √x =
b. 18 1
c. 19 a. -1, -4
d. 16 b. 1, 4
346. The two legs of a right c. 4
triangle measure 6 and 8 inches d. 0
respectively. What is the area of 352. Find the geometric mean
the circle that contains all 3 between the terms -4 and -9
vertices of the triangle? a. 6
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d. 36 AB. What is the slope of the line
353. What is the average value of segment BD?
7/8 and 3/4? a. 3
a. 5/4 b. 1/3
b. 5/8 c. -1/3
c. 5/16 d. -3
d. 13/16 359. What is the product of the
354. A solution is made of water two real solutions of the equation:
and pure acid. If 75% of the 2x = 3 – x2
solution is water, how many litters a. 2
of pure acid are in 20 liters of this b. -2
solution? c. 6
a. 10 d. -3
b. 5 360. The ratio of the
c. 25 circumference of any circle to the
d. 15 diameter of the circle is:
355. The diagonal of a square a. An integer
has a measure of 12 inches. b. An irrational number
What is the perimeter, in inches, c. A rational number
of this square. d. A whole number
a. 6√2 361. Find the sum and product of
b. 72 roots of the equation x3 + 2x2 –
c. 24√2 23x – 60 = 0.
d. 48 a. -2, 60
356. In the right triangle ABC, C b. 2, 17
is a right angle and the measure c. 17, -60
of angle B is 60°. If BC is 20 d. 2, -60
inches long, then how long is 362. The ratio of three numbers is
AC? 2:5:7. If 7 is subtracted from the
a. 20√3 second number, the resulting
b. 20 numbers form an arithmetic
c. √3 progression. Determine the
d. 20/√3 smallest of the three numbers.
357. If x = 2.0001, which of the a. 28
following expressions has the b. 15
largest value? c. 21
a. 2 / (x + 2) d. 70
b. 2 / (x – 2) 363. Determine the sum of the
c. (x + 2) / 2 first 4 terms of the sequence
d. 2 / x whose general term is given by
358. In the rectangle ABCD, the 3n – 2.
measure of the length AD is 3 a. 121
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d. 112 black balls and 5 white balls. If
364. Find the sum of all positive the first ball is returned before the
integers between 84 and 719 second ball is drawn, find the
which are exactly divisible by 5. probability that both balls are
a. 23,750 black.
b. 45,680 a. 0.198
c. 50,800 b. 0.898
d. 38,460 c. 0.167
365. If 3log x – log y = 0, express d. 0.264
y in terms of x. 370. There are 15 balls in a box:
a. y = x3 8 balls are green, 4 are blue and
b. y = x2 3 are white. Then 1 green and 1
c. y = x blue balls are taken from the box
d. y = 3x and put away. What is the
366. In a certain A.P. the first, probability that a blue ball is
fourth and eight terms are selected at random from the box?
themselves form a geometric a. 3/13
progression. What is the common b. 4/15
ratio of the G.P.? c. 3/15
a. 4/3 d. 4/13
b. 5/4 371. Which of the following is
c. 4/5 equivalent to (x)(x)(x)(x3), for all
d. 3/4 x?
367. Three men A, B, and C can a. 6x
do a piece of work in t hours b. x6
working together. Working alone, c. 4x6
A can do the work in 6 hours d. 4x4
more, B in 1 hour more, and C in 372. A number between 1 and
twice the time if all working 10000 is randomly selected.
together. How long would it take What is the probability that it will
to finish the work if all working be divisible by 4 and 5?
together? a. 0.03
a. 20 mins. b. 0.04
b. 30 mins. c. 0.05
c. 40 mins. d. 0.06
d. 50 mins. 373. What time after 2 o’clock will
368. Solve the z if the equation is the hands of the clock extend in
4 x 10-5 = z opposite directions for the first
a. – 40,000 time?
b. – 200 a. 2:43.64
c. 0.0004 b. 2:43.46
d. 0.00004 c. 2:34.64
369. Two balls are drawn one at d. 2:34.46
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374. What is the sum of the a. 3
geometric progression if there are b. 8
4 geometric means between 3 c. 6
and 729? d. 10
a. 1212 379. A club has 25 members, 4 of
b. 1092 whom are ECE’s. In how many
c. 1908 ways can a committee of 3 be
d. 1209 formed so as to include at least
375. A boy on his bicycle to arrive one ECE?
at a certain time to a market that a. 543
is 30 km from his school. After b. 126
riding 10 km, he rested for half an c. 970
hour, and as a result he was d. 314
obliged to ride the rest of the trip 380. If (x -3) is a factor of the
2 km/hr. faster. What was his polynomial x4 – 4x3 – 7x2 + kx +
original speed? 24, what is the value of k?
a. 7 km/hr. a. 11
b. 9 km/hr. b. 17
c. 10 km/hr. c. 22
d. 8 km/hr. d. 34
376. Find the equation whose 381. A guy has 8 flowers of
roots are two times the roots of different variety. In how many
the equation x3 – 6x2 + 11x – 6 = ways can he select 2 or more
0. flowers to form a bouquet?
a. x3 – 12x2 + 44x – 48 = 0 a. 128
b. x3 – 12x2 – 44x – 48 = 0 b. 247
c. x3 + 12x2 + 44x – 48 = 0 c. 110
d. x3 – 12x2 + 44x + 48 = 0. d. 540
377. How many 4-digits even 382. At a conference, after
numbers can be formed from the everyone had shaken hands with
digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and everyone else, it was found that
9 if each digit is to be used only 45 handshakes were exchanged.
once in each number? How many were at the
a. 5,000 conference?
b. 3,256 a. 10
c. 2,520 b. 30
d. 5,986 c. 20
378. Rukia has nickels, dimes, d. 40
and quarters amounting to $1.85. 383. A bag contains 4 white balls
If he has twice as many dimes as and 3 black balls. Another bag
quarters, and the number of contains 3 white balls and black
nickels is two less than twice the balls. If one ball is drawn from
number of dimes, how many each bag, determine the
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probability that the balls drawn upstream. If the velocity of the
will be 1 white and 1 black. river current is 3 MPH, find the
a. 27/58 speed of the yacht in still water.
b. 39/56 a. 12 MPH
c. 29/56 b. 16 MPH
d. 5/14 c. 15 MPH
384. If the sides of a right triangle d. 18 MPH
are in A.P., then what is the ratio 390. Determine the 5th term of
of its sides? the sequence whose sum of n
a. 3:4:5 terms is given by 2n+3 – 5.
b. 1:2:3 a. 258
c. 4:5:6 b. 218
d. 2:3:4 c. 128
385. If x: y: z = 4: -3: 2 and 2x + d. 15
4y – 3z = 20, find x, y, z. 391. Find the sum of the first five
a. 4, -5, 2 terms of the geometric
b. -8, 6, -4 progression if the third term is
c. 5, -6, 8 144 and the sixth term is 486.
d. 2, -7, 4 a. 844
386. How many numbers b. 972
between 3000 and 5000 can be c. 746
formed from the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, d. 548
4, 5, 6 if repetition is not allowed? 392. A and B working together
a. 96 can finish a job in 5 days, B and c
b. 128 together can finish the same job
c. 240 in 4 days, and A and C in 2.5
d. 144 days. In how days can all of them
387. Find the mean proportional do the job working together?
between a. 1.06 days
a. 3 b. 2.4 days
b. √2 c. 3.2 days
c. 6 d. 2.03 days
d. 2√2 393. If Chicago is 10% taller than
388. How many liters of a 25% Ishida and Ishida is 10% taller
acid solution must be added to 80 than Chad, then Ichigo is taller
liters of a 40% acid solution to than Chad by how many percent?
have a solution that is 30% acid? a. 31%
a. 160 L b. 41%
b. 190 L c. 21%
c. 150 L d. 11%
d. 120 L 394. After the price of petroleum
389. A yacht can travel 10 miles oil went up by 10%, a buyer
downstream in the same amount reduced his oil consumption by
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percent would his petroleum bill years ago, the sum of the
changed? parents’ ages was four times the
a. 1% sum of the children’s ages during
b. 11% that time. In fifteen years, the
c. 10% sum of the parents’ ages will be
d. 0.1% equal to the sum of their
395. Find the mean, median and children’s ages. How many
mode respectively of the following children are there in the family?
numbers: 13, 13, 14, 12, 11, 10, a. 5
9, 11, 8, 11, 5, and 15. b. 7
a. 10, 10, 10 c. 6
b. 10, 11, 10 d. 8
c. 10, 11, 11 400. z varies directly as x and
d. 11, 11, 11 inversely as y2. If x = 1 and y = 2,
396. There are 4 white balls and then z = 2. Find z when x = 3 and
6 red balls in a sack. If the balls y = 4.
are taken out successively (the a. 1.5
first ball is not replaced), what is b. 0.5
the probability that the balls c. 2.5
drawn are of different colors. d. 3.5
a. 23/90 401. When two dice are thrown,
b. 8/15 what is the probability that the
c. 24/103 sum of the two faces shown is 6?
d. 7/15 a. 1/36
397. Solve for x in the following b. 1/6
equation: x + 3x + 5x + 7x + … + c. 1/9
49x = 625 d. 5/36
a. 2 402. An ECE class of 40 students
b. 1 took examinations in Electronics
c. 1/2 and Communications. If 30
d. 1/3 passed in Electronics, 36 passed
398. An organization consists of n in Communication and 2 failed in
engineers and n nurses. If two of both subjects, how many
the engineers are replaced by students passed in both
two other nurses, then 51% of the subjects?
group members will be nurses. a. 28
Find the value of n b. 30
a. 70 c. 26
b. 110 d. 32
c. 50 403. The excess of the sum of
d. 100 the fourth and fifth parts over the
399. In a certain family, the sum difference of the half and third
of the parents’ ages is twice the parts of a number is 119. Find the
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a. 240 What is the area of the large
b. 320 circle?
c. 420 a. 64Pi
d. 230 b. 32Pi
View Answer: c. 156Pi
404. What is the area, in square d. 128Pi
feet, of the triangle whose sides 408. DE is parallel to CB and
have lengths equal to 10, 6 and 8 (length of AE / length of EB) is 4.
feet? If the area of triangle AED is 20
a. 24 square inches, what is the area,
b. 48 in square inches, of triangle
c. 30 ABC?
d. 40 a. 31.25
405. Solve for x if the equation is b. 80
3102 + 9*3100 + 3103/3 = x c. 320
a. 3101 d. 1,600
b. 3102 409. Round (202)2 to the nearest
c. 3103 hundred.
d. 3104 a. 48,000
406. Of the 80 students in class, b. 40,800
25 are studying German, 15 c. 42,000
French and 13 Spanish. 3 are d. 44,000
studying German and French; 4 410. If w workers, working at
are studying French and Spanish; equal rates, can produce x toys in
2 are studying German and n days, how many days it takes c
Spanish; and none is studying all workers, working at same equal
3 languages at the same time. rates, to produce y toys?
How many students are not a. y*w*c/(w*n)
studying any of the three b. y*w/(w*n*c)
languages? c. y*w*n / x
a. 18 d. y*w*n / (x*c)
b. 53 411. A number of the form 213ab,
c. 62 where a and b are digits, has a
d. 36 reminder less than 10 when
407. There were 2 small circles divided by 100. The sum of all the
C1 and C2 inside a large circle digits in the above number is
AB. AB is a diameter of the large equal to 13. Find the digit b.
circle. The centers C1 and C2 of a. 5
the smaller circles are on AB. The b. 7
two small circles are congruent c. 6
and tangent to each other and to d. 8
the larger circle. The 412. Find a negative value of x
circumference of circle C1 is 8Pi. that satisfies the equation: [(x+1)2
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a. -4 b. 325
b. -3 c. 420
c. -2 d. 250
d. -1 417. Line L passes through the
413. If thrice the smaller number points (-2, 0) and (0, a). Line LL
exceeds the larger by 12. Find passes through the points (4, 0)
the larger number if the two and (6, 2). What value of a makes
numbers are consecutive odd the two lines parallel?
integers. a. 1/2
a. 7 b. -2
b. 9 c. 2
c. 10 d. -1/2
d. 8 418. Solve for x if the equation is
414. Determine how much water 104(54 – 24) / 21 = x
should be evaporated from 50kg a. 209,000
of 30% salt solution to produce a b. 289,000
60% salt solution. All percentages c. 290,000
are by weight. d. 208,000
a. 25 kg 419. Two dice are tossed. What
b. 35 kg is the probability that the sum of
c. 15 kg the two dice is greater than 3?
d. 20 kg a. 3/4
415. A runs around a circular b. 5/6
track in 60 seconds, and in 50 c. 11/12
seconds. Five seconds after A d. 1/4
starts, B starts from the same 420. If L is a line through the
point in the same direction. When points (2,5) and (4,6), what is the
will they be together for the first value of k so that the point of
time, assuming they run around coordinates (7,k) is on the line L?
the track continuously? a. 5
a. 3.5 mins b. 6
b. 6.5 mins c. 15/2
c. 5.5 mins d. 11/2
d. 7.5 mins 421. Find a negative value of k so
416. An antelope is now 50 of her that the graph of y = x2 – 2x + 7
leaps ahead of a cheetah which and the graph of y = kx + 5 are
is pursuing her. How many more tangent?
leaps will the antelope take a. – 4√2
before it is overtaken if she takes b. – 2 – 2√2
5 leaps while the cheetah takes 4 c. – 2
leaps, but 2 of the cheetah’s d. – √2
leaps are equivalent to 3 of the 422. The circle of equation (x –
antelope’s leaps? 3)2 + (y – 2)2 = 1 has center O.
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another point on the circle so that 428. The domain of f(x) = √(4 –
angle MON has a size of 30°. x2) / √(x2 – 1) is given by the
Find the coordinates of point N. interval
a. (3 + √3/2 , 5/2) a. (-2 , 2) U (-1 , 2)
b. (5/2 , 3 + √3/2) b. (-2 , -1) U (1 , 2)
c. (3 – √3/2 , 3/2) c. (-2 , 2) U (-1 , 1)
d. (3/2 , 3 – √3/2) d. (-2 , -1) U (1 , 2)
423. Vectors u and v are given by 429. The area of the circle x2 +
u = (2 , 0) and v = (-3 , 1). What is y2 – 8y – 48 = 0 is
the length of vector w given by w a. 96Pi
= -u – 2v? b. 64Pi
a. 6 c. 48Pi
b. √26 d. 20Pi
c. 2√5 430. An investor has P100,000,
d. 2 part of which he invested at 12%
424. What is the smallest interest and the rest at 18%. He
distance between the point(-2,-2) received a total annual interest of
and a point on the circumference P15,300. How much did he invest
of the circle given by (x – 1)2 + (y at 18% interest rate?
– 2) 2 = 4? a. 65,000
a. 3 b. 60,000
b. 4 c. 55,000
c. 5 d. 75,000
d. 6 431. For what value of k will the
425. What is the equation of the two equations 2x + 4 = 4(x – 2)
horizontal asymptote of function: and -x + k = 2x – 1 have the
f(x) = 2/(x + 2) – (x + 3)/(x + 4)? same solution?
a. – 4 a. 6
b. – 2 b. 2
c. – 1 c. 17
d. 1 d. 20
426. The lines with equations x + 432. An object travels at fifteen
3y = 2 and -2x + ky = 5 are feet per minute. How many feet
perpendicular for k = ? does it travel in 24 minutes and
a. 1/3 40 seconds?
b. 2/3 a. 360
c. 2/4 b. 370
d. 1/4 c. 365
427. If f(x) = (x – 1)2 and g(x) = d. 375
√x, then (g o f)(x) = ? 433. Solve for x if the equation is
a. |x – 1| 4 / (√20 – √12) = x
b. x – 1 a. 1/2
c. 1 – x b. 4 / √8
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d. √5 + √3
434. DE is parallel to CB and
(length of AE / length of EB) is 4.
If the area of triangle AED is 20
square inches, what is the area,
in square inches, of triangle
ABC?
a. 31.25
b. 80
c. 320
d. 1,600
435. If a and b are both even
numbers, which of the following
could be and odd integer?
a. a2 + b2
b. (a + 1)2 + (b + 1)2
c. (a + 1)*(b + 1) – 1
d. (a + 1) / (b + 1)
436. If n is a positive integer such
that n! / (n – 2)! = 342, find n.
a. 19
b. 17
c. 18
d. 16
437. What is the sum of the
reciprocals of the solutions to the
equation: x2 – (3/5)x = -11/3
a. 5/3
b. 9/55
c. -11/3
d. 94/65
438. A number is given as
987562153ab where a and b are
digits. Which values of a and b,
such that a + b = 11 and a < b,
would result in 987562153ab
being divisible by 4?
a. a = 3 , b = 8
b. a = 7 , b = 8
c. a = 5 , b = 6
d. a = 3 , b = 4
439. AC is parallel to DE. AE, FG
and CD intersect at the point B.
FG is perpendicular to AC and
DE. The length of DE is 5 inches,
the length of BG is 8 inches and
the length of AC is 6 inches.
What is the area, in square
inches, of triangle ABC?
a. 28.8
b. 20
c. 24
d. 22
440. Points A, B and C are
defined by their coordinates in a
standard rectangular system of
axes. What positive value of b
makes triangle ABC a right
triangle with AC its hypotenuse?
a. 6
b. √6
c. 1 + √6
d. 1 + 2√3
441. A vendor goes to market to
buy fruits for resale at his store.
He spends half his money for
mangoes, and one-third of what
remains for bananas. He spends
150 for other fruits and still has
200 left from the amount he
originally had. How much money
did he have at the start?
a. 1050
b. 5100
c. 1500
d. 1250
442. Seven carpenters and 5
masons earn a total of 2,300 per
day. At the same rate of pay 3
carpenters and 8 masons earn
2,040. What are the wages per
day of the carpenter and a
mason?
a. 200 & 180
b. 300& 210
c. 210& 170
d. 270 &150
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443. A man and a boy can do 15 448. An audience of 540 people
days a piece of work which would is seated in rows having the
be done by 7 men and 9 boys in same number of persons in each
2 days. How long would it take row. If 3 more persons seat in
one man do it alone? each row, it would require 2 rows
a. 20 days less to seat the audience. How
b. 30 days many persons were in each row
c. 15 days originally?
d. 40 days a. 17
444. A certain two-digit numbers b. 30
is 1 less than five times the sum c. 27
of its digits. If 9 were added to the d. 31
number, its digits would be 449. Find the third proportional to
reversed. Find the number. 4 and 12.
a. 34 a. 48
b. 36 b. 20
c. 43 c. 36
d. 63 d. 16
445. If one root of 9x^2 – 6x + k = 450. How many terms of the
0 exceed the other by 2, find the progression 4, 7, 10, 13, … must
value of k. be taken so that the sum will be
a. 8 69.
b. 6 a. 6
c. -8 b. 9
d. -6 c. 8
446. Solve:  √(2x – 5) – √(x – 2) = d. 12
2. 451. Determine x so that 2x + 1,
a. 3 x2 + x + 1, 3x2 – 3x + 3 are
b. 18 consecutive terms of an
c. 9 arithmetic progression.
d. 27 a. 3
447. A speed boat going across a b. 2
lake 8 km wide proceeds 2 km at c. 5
a certain speed and then d. 4
completes the trip at a speed ½ 452. An equipment costs
km/hr faster. By doing this, the P50,000.00 and depreciates 20%
speed arrives 10 minutes earlier of the original costs during the
than if the original speed had first year, 16% during the second
been maintained. Find the year, 12% during the third year,
original speed of the speed boat. and so on, for 5 years. What is
a. 5 km/hr. the value at the end of 5 years?
b. 4 km/hr. a. 15,000
c. 7 km/hr. b. 25,000
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d. 20,000 c. 2 & 6
453. Find the sum of the first 100 d. 0 & 8
positive integers that is exactly 458. Find the real values of x and
divisible by 7. y satisfying the given equation:
a. 35,350 (2x + 3y) + i(3x – 5y) = 8 – i7.
b. 25,053 a. x = 1, y = -2
c. 53,350 b. x = -2, y = -1
d. 25,536 c. x = 2, y = 1
454. Find the 50th term of a d. x = 1, y = 2
geometric progression if the 20th 459. From the equation 12x3 –
term is 1200 and the 30th term is 8x2 + kx + 18 = 0, find the value
also 1200. of k if one root is the negative of
a. 1200 the other.
b. 2400 a. -17
c. 1400 b. -12
d. 4100 c. -27
455. A woman started a chain d. -36
letter by writing to four friends 460. In how many ways can a
and requesting each to copy the group of 6 people be seated on a
letter and send it to four other row of 6 seats if a certain 2 refuse
friends. If the chain was unbroken to sit next to each other?
until the 5th set of letters was a. 240 ways
mailed, how much was spent for b. 480 ways
postage at P8.00 per letter? c. 180 ways
a. 16,219 d. 320 ways
b. 10,912 461. How many different 8-digit
c. 21,835 numbers can be formed from the
d. 13,291 digits 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7?
456. A soccer ball is dropped a. 320
from height of 6 meters. On each b. 560
rebound it rises 2/3 of the height c. 520
from which it last fell. What d. 480
distance has it traveled at the 462. In how many ways can 10
instant it strikes the ground for different magazines be divide
the 7th time? among A, B, and C so that A gets
a. 27.89 m 5 magazines, B 3 magazines and
b. 19.86 m C 2 magazines?
c. 20.87 m a. 2,520
d. 24.27 m b. 2,250
457. The arithmetic mean of two c. 2,050
numbers is 4, and their harmonic d. 2,052
mean is 15/4. Find the numbers. 463. What is the probability of
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containing 9 white, 4 red, and 3 area of the two squares is 97cm2.
blue balls? Find the difference between the
a. 0.01 sides of each square.
b. 0.02 a. 3
c. 0.10 b. 5
d. 0.03 c. 4
464. Ten books consisting of 5 d. 6
mathematics books, 3 physics 468. Solve the trigonometric
books, and 2 chemistry books are equation: 3sec2x – 4 = 0
placed in a bookcase at random. a. Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi , 5Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi
What is the probability that the b. Pi / 6 + 2n*Pi , 11 Pi / 6 + 2n*Pi
same books are all together? c. Pi / 3 + n*Pi , 5Pi / 3 + n*Pi
a. 1/420 d. Pi / 6 + n*Pi , 11 Pi / 6 + n*Pi
b. 3/520 469. In what quadrant will the
c. 2/241 angle Ө terminate, if sin Ө is
d. 5/2463 positive and sec Ө is negative?
465. In a racing contest, there are a. I
240 vehicles which will have b. III
provisions that will last for 15 c. II
hours. Assuming constant hourly d. IV
consumption for each vehicle, 470. If sec (2x – 3) = 1 / [sin(5x –
how long will the fuels provisions 9)], determine the value x in
last if 8 vehicles withdraw from degrees.
the race every hour after the first? a. 14.57°
a. 63 b. 16.36°
b. 18 c. 18.65°
c. 20 d. 14.61°
d. 25 471. What is the maximum value
466. A clerk submitted the of 3 – 2 cos Ө?
following reports. The average a. 2
rate of production of radios is 1.5 b. 3
units for every 1.5 hrs. work by c. 4
1.5 workers. How many radios d. 5
were produce in one month by 30 472. Solve the trigonometric
men working 200 hrs. during the equation: 2cosx + 1 = 0
month? a. Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi , 5Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi
a. 4000 b. -1/2
b. 3800 c. 2Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi , 4Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi
c. 5000 d. Pi / 2 + n*Pi
d. 4200 473. If log x + log5 = log (x + 5),
467. A piece of rod of length 52 what is the value of x?
cm. is cut into two unequal parts. a. 0
Each part is then bent to form a b. 1.25
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d. 2 inches. The plane of rotation of
474. If the angles of the triangle the hour hand is 2 inches above
are 2x, x + 15, and 2x + 15, find the plane of rotation of the minute
the smallest of the angle in mills. hand. Find the distance between
a. 500 mils the tips of the minute and hour
b. 600 mils hand at 5:40 a.m.
c. 800 mils a. 7.48 in
d. 900 mils b. 6.48 in
475. If (log10x)2 = 3 – log10x2. c. 9.17 in
Which of the following choices d. 10.16 in
can be a value of x? 481. Two towers are 60 m apart
a. 10-3 from each other. From the top of
b. 102 the shorter tower, the angle of
c. x10 elevation of the top of the taller
d. 10x tower is 40°. How high is the
476. Find the value of x in the taller tower if the height of the
equation (√5)2cosx = 5. smaller tower is 40 m?
a. 0° a. 90 m
b. 45° b. 100 m
c. 30° c. 80 m
d. 60° d. 70 m
477. If ax = by and bp = aq , then 482. Considering the earth to be
a. px = qy a sphere of radius 6400 km, find
b. xy = pq the radius of the 60th parallel of
c. xp = yq latitude.
d. qx = py a. 3,200 km
478. Solve the trigonometric b. 1,300 km
equation: (3cosx + 7) (-2sinx – 1) c. 2,300 km
=0 d. 3,100 km
a. 7Pi / 6 + 2n*Pi , 11Pi / 6 + 483. Solve the trigonometric
2n*Pi equation: (6tan2x – 2) (2tan2x –
b. Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi , 2Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi 6) = 0
c. 7Pi / 6 + n*Pi , 11Pi / 6 + n*Pi a. Pi / 6 + n*Pi , 5Pi / 6 + 2n*Pi ,
d. -7 / 3 , -1 / 2 Pi / 3 + n*Pi , 2Pi / 3 + n*Pi
479. If the bearing of point A from b. Pi / 6 , 5Pi / 6
B is S 40° W, then the bearing of c. sqrt(3) , sqrt(3)
B from A is: d. Pi / 3 + n*Pi , 2Pi / 3 + n*Pi
a. N40° E 484. From a point on a level
b. S40° W ground, the angles of elevation of
c. N50° W the top and bottom of the ABS-
d. N50° E CBN tower situated on the top of
480. A clock has a dial face of 12 the hill are measured as 48° and
in. radius. The minute hand is 9 40°, respectively. Find the height
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of the hill if the height of the tower
is 116 feet.
a. 348.56 m
b. 368.36 m
c. 258.96 m
d. 358.49 m
485. A ladder, with its foot in the
street, makes an angle of 30°
with the street when its top rests
on a building on one side of the
street and makes an angle of 40°
with the street when its top rests
on a building on the other side of
the street. If the ladder is 50 ft.
long, how wide is the street?
a. 96.2 ft.
b. 81.6 ft.
c. 78.5 ft.
d. 64.3 ft.
486. A wall is 15 ft. high and 10 ft.
from a building. Find the length of
the shortest ladder which will just
touch the top of the wall and
reach a window 20.5 ft. above.
a. 42.54 m
b. 35.54 m
c. 54.45 m
d. 47.45 m
487. A poll tilts toward the sun at
an angle 10° from the vertical
casts a shadow 9 meters long. If
the angle of elevation from the tip
of the shadow to the top of the
pole is 43°, how tall is the pole?
a. 10.2
b. 7.54
c. 10.45
d. 8.25
488. If cos ϴ =√3 / 2, find 1 –
tan2Ө..
a. -1
b. -1/2
c. 2/3
d. 2
489. Solve the trigonometric
equation “-2sec2x + 4 = -2secx”
in the interval [0, 2Pi].
a. Pi / 3 , 5Pi / 3 , Pi
b. Pi
c. -1 , 2
d. Pi / 6 , 5Pi / 6 , Pi
490. Solve the trigonometric
equation 2sinx cos(-x) = 2sin(-
x)sin(x)” in the interval [0, 2Pi].
a. 0 , Pi , 3Pi / 4 , 7Pi / 4
b. 3Pi / 4 , 7Pi / 4
c. 0 , Pi / 2
d. Pi / 6 , 4Pi / 3
491. From a helicopter flying at
30,000 feet, the angles of
depression of two cities are 28°
and 55°. How far apart are the
two cities?
a. 35,415.56 ft.
b. 23,587.67 ft.
c. 53,452.67 ft.
d. 43,254.76 ft.
492. Two angles are adjacent
and form an angle of 120°. If the
larger angle is 20° less than three
times the smaller angle, find the
larger angle.
a. 75°
b. 30°
c. 85°
d. 65°
493. A pine tree broken over by
the wind forms a right triangle
with the ground. If the broken part
makes an angle of 50° with the
ground and the top of the tree is
now 20 ft. from its base, how tall
was the pine tree?
a. 55 ft.
b. 65 ft.
c. 45 ft.
d. 35 ft.
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494. A ball, 5 ft. in diameter, rolls 499. ABDE is a square section
up an incline of 18°20’. What is and BDC is an equilateral triangle
the height of the center of the ball with C outside the square.
above the base of the incline Compute the value of angle ACE.
when the ball has rolled up 5 ft. a. 30 deg.
up the incline? b. 60 deg.
a. 3 ft. c. 50 deg.
b. 5 ft. d. 20 deg.
c. 4 ft. 500. The angle of elevation of the
d. 6 ft. top of a tower from a point A is
495. If coversed Sin Ө = 0.134, 23°30’. From another point B, the
find the value of versed Sin Ө. angle of elevation of the top of
a. 0.8 the tower is 55°30’. The point A
b. 0.3 and B are 217.45 m apart and on
c. 0.5 the same horizontal plane as the
d. 0.2 foot of the tower. The horizontal
496. A vertical pole consists of angle subtended by A and B at
two parts, each one half of the the foot of the tower is 90
whole pole. At a point in the degrees. Find the height of the
horizontal plane which passes tower.
through the foot of the pole and a. 90.6 m
36 m from it, the upper half of the b. 86.7 m
pole subtend an angle whose c. 89.5 m
tangent is 1/3. How high is the d. 55.9 m
pole? 501. The y coordinates of all the
a. 72 points of intersection of the
b. 25 parabola y2 = x + 2 and the circle
c. 46 x2 + y2 = 4 are given by
d. 66 a. 2 , -2
497. Solve the trigonometric b. 0 , √3 , – √3
equation “sin2x = -sin(-x)” in the c. 1 , 2 , -1
interval [0, 2Pi]. d. 1 , -2 , 1
a. 0 , 2Pi 502. What is the smallest positive
b. 0 , Pi / 3 , Pi , 5Pi / 3 zero of function f(x) = 1/2 – sin(3x
c. 0 , Pi + Pi/3)?
d. Pi / 3 , Pi a. Pi/3
498. If the sides of the triangle b. Pi/6
are 2x+3, x2+3x+3, and x2+2x, c. Pi/18
find the greatest angle. d. Pi/36
a. 100 deg. 503. A cylinder of radius 5 cm is
b. 130 deg. inserted within a cylinder of
c. 120 deg. radius 10 cm. The two cylinders
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What is the volume of the region c. 1/4
between the two cylinders? d. -1/2
a. 500Pi 509. The sum of the sides of a
b. 1000Pi triangle is equal to 100 cm. If the
c. 1500Pi angles of the triangle are in the
d. 2000Pi continued proportions of 1:2:4.
504. A data set has a standard Compute the shortest side of the
deviation equal to 1. If each data triangle.
value in the data set is multiplied a. 17.545
by 4, then the value of the b. 19.806
standard deviation of the new c. 18.525
data set is equal to d. 14.507
a. 3 510. The sides of the triangular
b. 1 field which contains an area of
c. 2 2400 sq. cm. are in continued
d. 4 proportion of 3:5:7. Find the
505. A cone made of cardboard smallest side of the triangle.
has a vertical height of 8 cm and a. 45.74
a radius of 6 cm. If this cone is b. 63.62
cut along the slanted height to c. 95.43
make a sector, what is the central d. 57.67
angle, in degrees, of the sector? 511. In triangle ABC, angle A=80
a. 216 deg. And point D is inside the
b. 180 triangle. If BD and CD are
c. 90 bisectors of angle B and C, solve
d. 36 for the angle BDC.
506. If sin(x) = -1/3 and Pi ≤ x ≤ a. 100 deg.
3Pi/2, then cot(2x) = ? b. 130 deg.
a. 4√2 c. 120 deg.
b. 2√2 d. 140 deg.
c. √2 512. Simplify the equation Sin2x
d. 7/(4√2) (1 + cot2x).
507. If in a triangle ABC, sin(A) = a. 0
1/5, cos(B) = 2/7, then cos(C) = ? b. cos2x
a. (√45 – 2√24)/35 c. 1
b. (√45 + 2√24)/35 d. sec2xsin2x
c. (7√24 + 10)/35 513. Assuming the earth to be a
d. 0.85 sphere of radius 3960 mi, find the
508. What value of x makes the distance of point 36° N latitude
three terms x, x/(x + 1) and 3x/[(x from the equator.
+ 1)(x + 2)] those of a geometric a. 2844 mi
sequence? b. 2488 mi.
a. 1 c. 2484 mi.
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514. If sinx cosx + sin2x = 1, what b. 216
are the values of x in degrees? c. 361
a. 32.2, 69.3 d. 108
b. -32.2, 69.3 520. A quadrilateral has sides
c. 20.9, 69.1 equal to 12 cm, 20 cm, 8 cm, and
d. 20.9, -69.1 17 cm respectively. If the sum of
515. If sin3x = cos6y then: the two opposite angles is 225°,
a. x – 2y = 30 find the area of the parallelogram.
b. x + y = 180 a. 168.18
c. x + 2y = 30 b. 78.31
d. x + y = 90 c. 70.73
516. Evaluate cot-1 [2cos (sin- d. 186.71
1
0.5)]. 521. The sides of the cyclic
a. 20° quadrilateral are a = 3 cm, b = 3
b. 45° cm, c = 4 cm and d = 4 cm. Find
c. 30° the radius of the circle that can be
d. 60° inscribed in it.
517. An airplane can fly at a. 2.71 cm
airspeed of 300 mph. if there is a b. 3.1 cm
wind blowing towards the east at c. 1.51 cm
50 mph, what should be the d. 1.71 cm
planes compass heading in order 522. How many diagonals can be
for its course to be 30 degrees. drawn from a 12 sided polygon?
What will be the planes a. 66
groundspeed if it flies at this b. 48
course? c. 54
a. 21.7°, 321.86 mph d. 36
b. 31.6°, 351.68 mph 523. Find the area of a regular
c. 51.7°, 121.86 mph polygon whose side is 25 m and
d. 12.7°, 331.86 mph apothem is 17.2 m.
518. From the given parts of a a. 1075
spherical triangle ABC, compute b. 925
for angle A. (a = 120°, b = 73°15’, c. 1175
c = 62°45’) d. 1275
a. 127°45’ 524. Find the area of a pentagon
b. 115°26’ which is circumscribing a circle
c. 185°15’ having an area of 420.60 sq. cm.
d. 137°56’ a. 386.57
519. The diagonals of a b. 450.54
parallelogram are 18 cm and 30 c. 486.29
cm respectively. One side of a d. 260.24
parallelogram is 12 cm. Find the 525. As x increases from Pi/4 to
area of the parallelogram. 3Pi/4, |sin(2x)|
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b. always decreases
c. increases then decreases
d. decreases then increases
526. If ax3 + bx2 + cx + d is
divided by x – 2, then the
reminder is equal to
a. a – b + c – d
b. 8a + 4b + 2c + d
c. -8a + 4b -2c + d
d. a + b + c + d
527. A committee of 6 teachers is
to be formed from 5 male
teachers and 8 female teachers.
If the committee is selected at
random, what is the probability
that it has an equal number of
male and female teachers?
a. 140/429
b. 150/429
c. 160/429
d. 170/429
528. The range of the function
f(x) = -|x – 2| – 3 is
a. y ≥ 2
b. y ≤ -3
c. y ≥ -3
d. y ≤ -2
529. What is the period of the
function f(x) = 3sin2(2x + Pi/4)?
a. 3Pi
b. 2Pi
c. Pi/2
d. Pi/3
530. It is known that 3 out of 10
television sets are defective. If 2
television sets are selected at
random from the 10, what is the
probability that 1 of them is
defective?
a. 1/15
b. 1/10
c. 1/2
d. 1/3
531. In a triangle ABC, angle B
has a size of 50°, angle A has a
size of 32° and the length of side
BC is 150 units. The length of
side AB is
a. 232
b. 280
c. 260
d. 270
532. For the remainder of the
division of x3 – 2x2 + 3kx + 18 by
x – 6 to be equal to zero, k must
be equal to
a. 1
b. 5
c. -9
d. -10
533. It takes pump (A) 4 hours to
empty a swimming pool. It takes
pump (B) 6 hours to empty the
same swimming pool. If the two
pumps are started together, at
what time will the two pumps
have emptied 50% of the water in
the swimming pool?
a. 1 hour 12 minutes
b. 1 hour 20 minutes
c. 2 hours 30 minutes
d. 3 hours
534. The graph of r = 10 cos(Θ) ,
where r and Θ are the polar
coordinates, is
a. a circle
b. an ellipse
c. a horizontal line
d. a hyperbola
535. If (2 – i)*(a – bi) = 2 + 9i,
where i is the imaginary unit and
a and b are real numbers, then a
equals
a. 2
b. 1
c. 0
d. -1
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536. Lines L1 and L2 are
perpendicular that intersect at the
point (2, 3). If L1 passes through
the point (0, 2), then line L2 must
pass through the point
a. (0 , 3)
b. (1 , 1)
c. (3 , 1)
d. (5 , 0)
537. In a plane there are 6 points
such that no three points are
collinear. How many triangles do
these points determine?
a. 8
b. 10
c. 18
d. 12
538. In a circle with a diameter of
10 meters, a regular five pointed
star touching its circumference is
inscribed. What is the area of the
part not covered by the star?
a. 60.42
b. 40.58
c. 40.68
d. 50.47
539. Find the area of a hexagon
with a square having an area of
72 sq. cm. inscribed in a circle
which is inscribed in a hexagon.
a. 124.71 sq. cm.
b. 150.26 sq. cm.
c. 150.35 sq. cm.
d. 130.77 sq. cm.
540. The tangent and a secant
are to a circle from the same
external point. If the tangent is 6
inches and the external segment
of the secant is 3 inches,
compute the length of the secant.
a. 10
b. 13
c. 12
d. 14
541. Two circles with radii 8 and
3 m are tangent to each other
externally. What is the distance
between the points of tangency of
one of their common external
tangencies?
a. 7.8 m
b. 9.8 m
c. 10.7 m
d. 6.7 m
542. The diameters of the two
circles that are tangent internally
are 18 and 8, respectively. What
is the length of the tangent
segment from the center of the
larger circle to the smaller circle?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 3
d. 5
543. Three identical circles are
tangent to each other externally.
If the area of the curvilinear
triangle enclosed between the
points of tangency of the 3 circles
is 16.13 cm2, compute the radius
of each circle.
a. 10 cm
b. 13 cm
c. 9 cm
d. 15 cm
544. A semi – circle of radius 14
cm is bent to form a rectangle
whose length is 1 cm more than
its width. Find the area of the
rectangle.
a. 323.75 cm2
b. 322.32 cm2
c. 233.57 cm2
d. 233.75 cm2
545. A swimming pool is
constructed in the shape of two
partially overlapping circles, each
of radius 9 m. If the center each
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circle lies on the circumference of d. 9.4 kg
the other, find the perimeter of 550. A wooden cone of altitude
the swimming pool. 10 cm is to be cut into two parts
a. 85.7 m of equal weight. How far from the
b. 75.4 m vertex should the cut parallel to
c. 56.5 m the base be made?
d. 96.8 m a. 6.65 cm
546. The length of the side of a b. 3.83 cm
rhombus is 5 cm. If the shorter c. 7.94 cm
diagonal is of length 6 cm. What d. 8.83 cm
is the area of the rhombus?
a. 24 cm2
b. 14 cm2
c. 18 cm2
d. 25 cm2 Key Answer
547. Two squares each of 12 cm 1. D. 5
sides overlap each other such 2. B. 0.00308
that the overlapping region is a 3. C. 34.28
regular polygon. Determine the 4. D. 0.0141
area of the overlapping region 5. C. 150
thus formed. 6. A. 2.4 x 10-8
a. 110.9 cm2 7. B. real number
b. 119.3 cm2 8. C. rational
c. 121.5 cm2 9. C. 6785768.3
d. 117.4 cm2 10. A. 0.0014
548. The side of a regular 11. B. 1994
pentagon is 25 cm. If the radius 12. C. 0.000047
of its inscribed circle is 15 cm, 13. B. 0.00725
find the area of the pentagon. 14. C. 4.2
a. 937.5 cm2 15. B. 800 mils
b. 784.6 cm2 16. B. 57.3
c. 825.75 cm2 17. C. 180
d. 857.65 cm2 18. D. grad
549. The capacities of two 19. B. 270
hemispherical tanks are in the 20. D. 37.8°C
ratio 64:125. If 4.8 kg of paint is 21. A. 492
required to paint the outer surface 22. C. 212
of the smaller tank, then how 23. C. 57°F
many kilograms of paint would be 24. B. 1.334
needed to paint the outer surface 25. C. Tera
of the larger tank? 26. B. 10-6
a. 8.5 kg 27. A. 10-12 of a unit
b. 6.7 kg 28. B. giga
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30. B. 25.4 mm 74. D. 10
31. A. 3 75. A. 2a – 2x
32. D. 800 feet 76. A. (x + 4)(x + 2)
33. A. 72 77. D. a^3 – 3(a^2)b + 3ab^2 –
34. D. 12,960 b^3
35. D. 1076 78. A. 36
36. B. 507.15 statute mile 79. A. 3x (x – 3)(x + 2)
37. D. 8 x 10-4 80. C. 25 + k
38. A. 100 acres 81. C. (b^m)^(1/n)
39. C. 10 82. D. None of these
40. B. 1964.64 sq. miles 83. D. (ab)/(ab)^(1/3)
41. C. 13.37 84. D. 16
42. D. 0.378 85. A. 3
43. D. 2.831 86. B. 2
44. B. 10 87. B. 16
45. A. 32.2 ft/s2 88. C. n!
46. A. 68.67 N 89. C. 90
47. C. 10 kg 90. B. 2
48. B. 107 91. B. 4
49. A. 746 watts 92. C. 218
50. D. 1000 93. D. 3x^2 + 6x – 8
51. A. 14 94. C. 15
52. A. 16.47 95. B. 4
53. C. 70/9 96. B. a = -5, b = 7
54. C. 14/9 , 8/9 97. C. (a + b + c)/(a*b*c)
55. B. y = 3/2 , x = 1/2 98. C. 12
56. A. x = 3 or -3 , y = 2 or -2 99. C. 38.62
57. A. 3 100. C. 8, 12
58. A. 4 101. D. 2x^2 + 5x – 3 = 0
59. C. x = -1, y = -3, z = 2 102. D. None of these
60. C. 10x^2 + 21xy – 10y^2 103. A. ± 2
61. A. 15 104. B. 3/2 or 3/8
62. B. 1/ (x^2 y^7 z^3) 105. B. (1/6 , 1/5)
63. A. 4/(x + 3) 106. B. 4
64. B. y^(3/2) / x 107. B. -0.331, -0.788
65. C. -7a 108. C. 6x^2- 7x – 3 = 0
66. C. (b^2 – 4 )/ (b+2) 109. C. -0.8
67. B. x + z 110. B. -16
68. C. (6/(x – 4)) – (5/(x – 3)) 111. C. 10
69. D. 2 112. C. 8046 x^10 y^5
70. C. 243 113. C. 210x^6
71. D. 4^(3x + y) 114. C. 506,880
72. A. 1 115. C. 167100x^103
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117. B. -66339/128a^11 161. B. 18 hours
118. B. 526 162. A. 47/84
119. B. -548x^3y^5 163. C. 12
120. C. 2 164. B. 120 man-hour
121. C. 2 165. C. 173.9, 347.8
122. C. 1.78 166. A. 19.55%
123. C. 4.48 167. D. 40 m^3 of solution w/
124. C. 9.9 35% alcohol, 20 m^3 of solution
125. B. 3.79 w/ 50% alcohol
126. B. 0.275 168. A. 40
127. B. n 169. C. 500 kg of steel w/ 14%
128. A. 2 nickel, 1500 kg of steel w/ 6%
129. B. y = 2xb nickel
130. B. 10 to the -7x power 170. C. 6 kg
131. B. n log x 171. B. 10y + x
132. D. Log M + Log N 172. C. 70, 65
133. B. log [x / (y + z)] 173. A. 6
134. B. 16 174. B. 7, 14
135. C. -1 and 9 175. C. 7
136. B. 8 176. C. 5/14
137. A. 2 177. C. 100
138. C. 2 178. B. 36/55
139. C. 524 179. C. 5/13
140. A. 379.65 180. A. 24
141. B. 18 181. B. 47
142. B. 5, 13 182. D. 13
143. A. 15 183. A. 20 min
144. D. 36 184. D. 0.6 mile per hour
145. C. 6 185. A. 2.5 miles
146. D. 10 186. A. 50
147. B. 17 187. A. 40 kph
148. A. 17 188. C. 20 kph
149. C. 5 189. B. 800/9 miles
150. B. 16 190. D. 52 kph
151. A. 7 hours 191. d. 43.6 minutes
152. B. 2.50 hours 192. c. 5.46 minutes
153. B. 4 hours 193. d. 3:16.36
154. D. 7 hrs and 50 mins. 194. b. 12:21.818
155. C. (xy)/(x + y) 195. c. 8:43.6
156. C. 10 196. a. 3:31.47
157. A. 2.75 hours 197. a. 60°
158. A. 9 days 198. a. 3
159. B. 10, 15 199. d. 120
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201. c. 16 245. d. 1/2
202. c. 675 246. c. 1,073,741,823
203. d. 48 247. c. 150 feet
204. c. 37.5% 248. d. 133/999
205. b. 16 249. a. 9/2
206. c. P 357 250. a. 5/6
207. c. P 4,200 251. c. 3/4
208. d. 600 252. b. 20
209. a. 16 253. a. 10
210. a. (a+b)/2 254. d. 1/120
211. a. 114 255. a. 8
212. d. 305.9 ft 256. c. 12
213. a. 17 257. d. 13
214. d. 91 258. c. 24
215. c. 50 259. d. 28
216. d. 14 260. a. 280
217. a. 1030 261. c. No
218. c. 639 262. a. 40
219. a. 171 263. c. 34560
220. a. 72 264. c. 720
221. b. 16 265. c. 360,360
222. c. 60 266. a. 120
223. a. 2 267. c. 720
224. a. P73.50 268. a. 720
225. c. 784 feet 269. b. 60
226. b. 2601 270. c. 480
227. c. 156 271. a. 360,360
228. a. 58 centavos 272. a. 64
229. c. 6 273. c. 576
230. c. 0.102 274. c. 12
231. a. 3/5 275. b. 2,880
232. c. 150 276. c. 6
233. b. 17496 277. b. 5,245,786
234. d. 7, -7/6 278. a. 7
235. c. 0.6122 279. b. 31
236. a. P 213.23 280. a. 18
237. a. 14336 281. a. 120
238. b. 2046 282. d. 1365
239. b. 16/9 283. b. 540
240. d. -2, 7/8 284. c. 13
241. c. 32768 285. b. 240
242. a. 20 286. c. 20%
243. c. 20 287. c. 1/18
244. d. P 4,444,440 288. a. 1/6

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289. b. 1/9 328. b. 157°
290. c. 4/13 329. a. 6
291. b. 0.5385 330. a. 10√3
292. a. 1/8 331. c. -4/3
293. d. 3/8 332. c. 3√5
294. c. 1/4 333. d. –3
295. a. 19/27 334. c. 6
296. d. 1/27 335. d. n(100 – r) / 100
297. d. 89.6% 336. a. 75°
298. d. 0.55% 337. b. 6
299. b. 7/12 338. b. –1
300. a. 25/81 339. b. 255
301. d. 5/14 340. a. 35
302. c. 0.53 341. b. 21 / 5
303. d. 40/81 342. a. 312,500
304. a. 1/6 343. b. –4
305. d. 2/5 344. a. 1/2
301. b. 24/35 345. a. 17
302. c. Associative Law 346. b. 25Pi
303. a. 8 347. a. 90°
304. c. 30 348. a. 1/√3
305. c. 27 349. c. 3x + y = 7
306. a. 4 350. d. -0.5
307. b. 22 hrs. 351. c. 4
308. d. 75 352. c. -6
309. a. 2(x + 3) 353. d. 13/16
310. b. 5 √3 354. b. 5
311. d. 8π 355. c. 24√2
312. b. 2 356. a. 20√3
313. a. 4 357. b. 2 / (x – 2)
314. b. 5√3 / 14 358. c. -1/3
315. c. a < 0 and b ≠ –4 359. d. -3
316. b. 1/49 360. b. An irrational number
317. b. 510056 361. a. -2, 60
318. b. 5 362. a. 28
319. c. 40° 363. d. 112
320. c. 4√3 364. c. 50,800
321. c. –4 365. a. y = x3
322. d. (8y + 11)/3 366. a. 4/3
323. d. (-2, 3) 367. c. 40 mins.
324. a. 8 368. d. 0.00004
325. b. 108.9 369. a. 0.198
326. a. x < (xy)/2 < y 370. a. 3/13
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372. c. 0.05 416. d. 250
373. a. 2:43.64 417. c. 2
374. b. 1092 418. c. 290,000
375. d. 8 km/hr 419. c. 11/12
376. a. x3 – 12×2 + 44x – 48 = 0 420. c. 15/2
377. c. 2,520 421. b. – 2 – 2√2
378. a. 3 422. a. (3 + √3/2 , 5/2)
379. c. 970 423. c. 2√5
380. c. 22 424. a. 3
381. b. 247 425. c. – 1
382. a. 10 426. b. 2/3
383. c. 29/56 427. a. |x – 1|
384. a. 3:4:5 428. d. (-2 , -1) U (1 , 2)
385. b. -8, 6, -4 429. b. 64Pi
386. c. 240 430. c. 55,000
387. c. 6 431. c. 17
388. a. 160L 432. b. 370
389. a. 12 MPH 433. d. √5 + √3
390. c. 128 434. a. 31.25
391. a. 844 435. d. (a + 1) / (b + 1)
392. d. 2.03 days 436. a. 19
393. c. 21% 437. c. -11/3
394. a. 1% 438. c. a = 5 , b = 6
395. d. 11, 11, 11 439. a. 28.8
396. b. 8/15 440. c. 1 + √6
397. b. 1 441. a. 1050
398. d. 100 442. a. 200 & 180
399. a. 5 443. a. 20 days
400. a. 1.5 444. a. 34
401. d. 5/36 445. c. -8
402. a. 28 446. d. 27
403. c. 420 447. b. 4 km/hr
404. a. 24 448. c. 27
405. c. 3103 449. c. 36
406. d. 36 450. a. 6
407. a. 64Pi 451. b. 2
408. a. 31.25 452. d. 20,000
409. b. 40,800 453. a. 35,350
410. d. y*w*n / (x*c) 454. a. 1200
411. b. 7 455. b. 10,912
412. c. -2 456. a. 27.89 m
413. b. 9 457. a. 3 & 5
414. a. 25 kg 458. d. x = 1, y = 2
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460. b. 480 ways 499. a. 30 deg.
461. b. 560 500. a. 90.6 m
462. a. 2,520 501. b. 0 , √3 , – √3
463. a. 0.01 502. b. Pi/6
464. a. 1/420 503. c. 1500Pi
465. d. 25 504. c. 2
466. a. 4000 505. a. 216
467. b. 5 506. d. 7/(4√2)
468. d. Pi / 6 + n*Pi , 11 Pi / 6 + 507. a. (√45 – 2√24)/35
n*Pi 508. d. -1/2
469. c. II 509. b. 19.806
470. a. 14.57° 510. d. 57.67
471. d. 5 511. b. 130 deg.
472. c. 2Pi / 3 + 2n*Pi , 4Pi / 3 + 512. c. 1
2n*Pi 513. b. 2488 mi.
473. b. 1.25 514. c. 20.9, 69.1
474. c. 800 mils 515. c. x + 2y = 30
475. a. 10-3 516. c. 30°
476. a. 0° 517. a. 21.7°, 321.86 mph
477. a. px = qy 518. d. 137°56’
478. a. 7Pi / 6 + 2n*Pi , 11Pi / 6 + 519. b. 216
2n*Pi 520. a. 168.18
479. a. N40° E 521. d. 1.71 cm
480. c. 9.17 in 522. c. 54
481. a. 90 m 523. a. 1075
482. a. 3,200 km 524. c. 486.29
483. a. Pi / 6 + n*Pi , 5Pi / 6 + 525. d. decreases then increases
2n*Pi , Pi / 3 + n*Pi , 2Pi / 3 + 526. b. 8a + 4b + 2c + d
n*Pi 527. a. 140/429
484. d. 358.49 m 528. b. y ≤ –3
485. b. 81.6 ft. 529. c. Pi/2
486. a. 42.54 m 530. a. 1/15
487. a. 10.2 531. b. 280
488. c. 2/3 532. c. –9
489. a. Pi / 3 , 5Pi / 3 , Pi 533. a. 1 hour 12 minutes
490. a. 0 , Pi , 3Pi / 4 , 7Pi / 4 534. a. a circle
491. a. 35,415.56 ft 535. d. –1
492. c. 85° 536. c. (3 , 1)
493. a. 55 ft 537. c. 18
494. c. 4 ft 538. d. 50.47
495. c. 0.5 539. a. 124.71 sq. cm.
496. a. 72 540. c. 12
497. b. 0 , Pi / 3 , Pi , 5Pi / 3 541. b. 9.8 m
498. c. 120 deg. 542. c. 3

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543. a. 10 cm
544. a. 323.75 cm2
545. b. 75.4 m
546. a. 24 cm2
547. b. 119.3 cm2
548. a. 937.5 cm2
549. c. 7.5 kg
550. c. 7.94 cm

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