Evaluation Exam 8.Eight men can excavate 15 cu.

m of drainage open
Algebra canal in 7 hours. Three men can backfill 10 cu.m in 4
hours. How long will it take 10 men to excavate and
1. If 42x+1=1024,find the value of 4x back fill 20 cu.m in the same project?
a. 14 c. 18 a. 8.64 hhs c. 7.95 hhs
b. 16 d. 20 b. 6.84 hhs d. 9.87 hhs
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2. If 4x -9x-8x +7 is divided by (2x-3) the remainder is: 9.Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lawnin 4,6 and 7
a. -11 c. 11 hours, respectively. What fraction of the yard can they
b. -15 d. 15 mow in 1 hour if they work together?
3 2
3.When ax +2x -18x+7 is divided by (x+1) the remainder 84 35
a. a.
is -15. Find the value of a. 47 84
a. 42 c. 42 47 45
b. a.
b. 48 d. 45 84 47
4.The resistance of a wire varies directly with its length 10. Six times the middle digit of a three-digit number is
and inversely with its area. If a certain piece of wire 10 the sum of other two. If the number is divided by the
m long and 0.10 centimeter in diameter, has a sum of its digit, the answer is 51 and the remainder is
resistance of 100 ohms , what will its resistance be if it 11. If the digits are reversed , the number becomes
is uniformly stretched so that its length becomes 12 m. smaller by 198. Find the product of the cube of the ten’s
Assume diameter to be constant after it is being digit and the square of hundred’s digit.
stretched: a. 395 b. 389
a. 80 c. 140 c. 349 d. 392
b. 100 d. 120 11. The sum of two numbers is 35 and their product is
5.The value of W varies as the square root of x and 15, Find the sum of their reciprocal
inversely as z. When x=4, z=2 and W=100. Find W if 7 2
a. c.
x=36 and z=5. 3 7
a. 120 c. 150 2 1
b. a.
b. 140 d. 200 3 7
6 A tank is filled with 2 pipes. The first pipe can fill the 12. A piece of rope is cut into two segments and each
1 segment is form into circle. The sum of the areas of two
tank in 10 hours . But after it has been opened for 3
3 circles is 408.41sq.cm . If the length of the rope is
hours, the second pipe is opened and the tank is filled 100.53 cm long. Find the radius of smaller circle.
up in 4 hours more. How long would it take the second a. 2 c. 7
pipe alone to fill the tank? The two pipes have different b. 5 d. 9
diameters. 13. A boat travels upstream in two rivers A and B. The
a. 10 c. 12 velocity of the current in river A is 3 kph while that of B
b. 15 d. 17 is 1 kph . It takes 2 times longer to travel 18 km in river
7. A laborer can finish a job in 4 days. Another laborer A than it took to travel 10 km in river B. Calculate the
can finish the same job in 6 days. If both laborers plus speed of the boat in still water.
the third laborer can finish the job in 2 days, how long a. 21 kph c. 18 kph
will it take for the third laborer to finish the job alone? b. 30 kph d. 15 kph
a.6 c. 10 14.An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to
b.8 d. 12 travel 1000 km, and 2.5 hrs in flying back, what was the
wind velocity in kph?
a. 40 kph c. 60 kph
b. 50 kph d. 70 kph
 22. By selling balut P5 per dozen, a vendor gains 20%.
1
The cost price of the egg rises 12 .If he sells at the
15. Two turtles A and B start at the same time toward 2
each other at a distance of 150 m. The rate of A is 10 same price as before, Find his new gain in percent
m/sec . While that of B is 20m/sec. A fly flies from one a. 6.6% c.12.3%
turtle to another at the same time that the turtle starts b. 8.7% d. 10.2%
to move towards each other. The speed of the fly is 100 23. A merchant has three items on sale, namely a radio
m/sec. Find the total distance traveled by the fly until for P50.00, a clock for P30.00 and a flashlight for P1.00.
the turtles meet. At the end of the day, he has sold a total of 100 of the
a. 500 m c. 600 m three items and has taken exactly P1000.00 on the total
b. 550 m d. 650 m sales. How many radios did he sale?
16. A and B traveled from C to D and back. A starts two a. 20 c.18
hours after B has started. A overtakes B at a point 4 km b. 16 d. 24
from D and then meets B, 3 hrs and 12 minutes 24.A portion of P500 000.00 was invested at 5% in the
thereafter. If A reaches C 4 hours and 40 minutes ahead Bank and the remainder at 15% in a survey contract. If
of B. Find the rate of B in kph the total income from the money is P55 000.00, how
a. 1 kph c. 3 kph much was invested at 5% rate?
b. 2kph d. 4 kph a. P100 000 c. P300 000
17. Roberto is 25 year younger than his father. However b. P200 000 d. P400 000
his father will be twice his age in 10 years. Find the 25.What is the sum of the progression 4, 9, 14, 19… up
ages of Roberto and his father. to the 20th term?
a.15,40 c. 18,43 a.1045 c. 1030
b.12,37 d. 20,45 b.1035 d. 1040
18. Two alcohol solutions consists of a 40 gallons of 35% 26.How many terms of the progression 3,5,7… must be
and other solution containing 50% alcohol. If the two in order that their sum will be 2600?
solutions are combined together, they will have a a.49 c.48
mixture of 40% alcohol. How many gallons of the b.50 d.47
solutions containing 50% alcohol? 27.Find the sum of all the odd integers between 100
a. 18 c. 30 and 1000
b. 20 d. 28 a. 147560 c. 147507
Situation 1. b. 255501 d. 247500
It is now between 9 and 10 0’clock Situation 2
19. At what time after 9 o’clock will the minute hand The number 59, x+2, 531 form a geometric progression
and the hour hand be perpendicular for the first time? 28. What is the value of x
a. 9:32:73 c. 9:37:13 a.167 c. 170
b. 9:34:33 d. 9:39:03 b. 245 d.175
20. In 4 minutes, the hour hand of the clock will be 29. What is the 12 th term
directly opposite the position occupied by the minute 3 a. 20452073 c. 20461683
minutes ago. What time is it? b. 30551893 d. 10451673
a. 9:30 c. 9:15 30.What is the sum of the 12 th terms?
b. 9:25 d. 9:20 a.15677480 c.35677489
21. In a quarter of an hour the minute hand will be b.21657489 d.41657480
behind the hour hand by only half as much as it is now 31. A cask containing 20 liters of wine was emptied 1/5
behind it. What time is it? of its contents and then filled with water. If this was
a. 9:19.09 c. 9:28.29 done 5 times, How many liters of wine will remain in the
cask?
b. 9:15.19 d. 9:19.49
a. 8.19 liters c. 5.25 liters
 b.4.20 liters d. 6.55 liters a. x2-10x+9 c. x2+9x-10
32. A ball is dropped from the height of 48 feet and b. x2-10x-9 a. x2-8x+10
rebounds two-thirds of the distance it falls. If it
continues to fall and rebound in this way, how far will it
travel before coming to rest?
a. 144 c. 240
b. 192 d. 288
33.What is the fourth term of the expansion of 40. Find the value of k in the quadratic equation 3x 2-
( x+x2)100? kx+x-7k=0 if 3 is one of the roots
a.16700x103 c.1617000x103 a. 3 c. 12
b.161700x103 d.16170000x103 b. 6 d. 18
34.Find the 6th term of (3x-4y)6
a.-148,288 x3y5 c.-154,288 x3y5
b.-548 x2y5 d. -1,548,288 x3y5
35.What is the sum of the coefficients of the expansion
(2x-1)20?
a. 0 c. 2
b. 1 d. 3
1
36 Find the fourth term of the progression , 0.2,
2
0.125…
1 1
a. c.
10 11
b. 0.102 d. 0.999
37.Find the 12 th term of the progression
1 1 1
, , ….
2 6 10
1 1
a. c.
46 34
1 1
b. d.
30 40
38.Given the equation of partial fraction ,find A.
2
3 x + 4 x−1 A B C
= + +
( x+3 )( x−1 ) ( x−2 ) ( x+3 ) ( x−1 ) ( x−2 )
1 3
a. c.
5 5
2 4
a. d.
5 5
39.Two engineering students attempt to solve a
problem that reduces to a quadratic equation. One
students made a mistake only in the constant term of
the quadratic equation and gives an answer of 8 and 2
for the roots. The other student solving the same
problem made an error in the coefficient of the first
degree term only and give his answer as -9 and -1 for
the roots. If you are to check their solutions, what
would be the correct quadratic equations?