3. Suppose your father deposited in your bank remains after some time.

How much time has

account Php10,000 at an annual interest rate of passed?
0.5% compounded yearly when you graduate A. 1.69 mins.
from kindergarten and did not get the amount B. 16.9 mins.
until you finish Grade 12. How much will you C. 19.6 mins.
have in your bank account after 12 years? D. 24.5 mins.
A. Php1,297,463.38
B. Php17.958.56 12. Suppose that a couple invested Php50,000
C. Php10,060.17 in an account when their child was born, to
D. Php10,616.781 prepare for the child's college education. If the
average interest rate is 4.4% compounded
5. In order to save for her high school annually. Which of the following exponential
graduation. Marie decided to save Php200 at function models the situation.
the end of each month. If the bank pays 0.250% A. A 50,000(1.44)
compounded monthly, how much will her B. A 50,000(1.0044)
money be after 6 years? A Php14,507.002 C. A 50,000 (1.044)
B. Php15,407.002 D. A 50,000(1.0404)
C. Php7.596,453.002
D. Php7,596,397.002 14. The fee for hiring a guide to explore a cave is
Php700. A guide can only take a maximum of 4
6. One hundred meters of fencing is available to persons. and additional guides can be hired as
enclose a rectangular area next to a river, which needed. Which of the following functions
of the function listed below represents the area represents the cost of hiring guides as a
that can be enclosed, in terms of x? function of the number of tourists who wish to
A. A(x)=50x2-0.5x explore the cave?
B. A(x)=-50x2 +0.5x A. C(x) = 700 ()
C. A(x)=-0.5x2+50x B. C(x) = 700()
D. (x)= 0.5x2-50x C. C(x) = 700(4x)
D. C(x) = 4 (700)
7. If you study hard, you refine your
communication skills and build up your 7. Elisha wins Php20 whenever the outcome of
confidence. tossing two coins are both heads, but loses
If you refine your communication skills & build Php10 whenever the outcome is not both
up your confidence, then your job opportunities heads. What is Elisha's expected gain per toss?
increases. Hence, if you study hard, your job A. Php-12.50
opportunities increases. B. Php –2.50
Is the argument valid? Is it sound? C. Php2.50
A. Invalid and sound D. Php12.50
B. invalid & unsound
C. valid & unsound 18. It is the graphical presentation of the
D. valid & sound frequency distribution table in the form of
vertical bar graph? A. Box and Whisker
11. The half-life of Zn-71 is 2.45 minutes. B. Histogram
Initially, there were yo grams of Zn-71, but only C. Pareto
D. none of the choices 25. It is the measure of dispersion that accounts
for the average squared deviation of each
19. It is the level of measurement that deals observation from the mean.
with categorical variables wherein the values of A. deviance
the variables could be ranked. B. frequency
A. interval C. standard deviation
B. nominal D. variance

20. In the presence of extreme values or what is 2. All the details below describe the graph of
termed as the function:
central tendency. (x+2) 2(x+1)
A. maximum value EXCEPT:
ANSWER: -The graph has an oblique asymptote
B. minimum value
of y = 2x
C. ordinal
D. ratio 3. What do you call a polygon with 35
diagonals?
21. The mean age of 10 fulltime teachers is 35 ANSWER: - Decagon
years. Two new teachers, aged 28 and 30, are
hired. Five years from now, what would be the 4. The diagonal of the floor of a rectangular
average age of these 12 teachers? room is 7.50 m. The shorter side is 4.5 m. What
A. 38 is the area of the room?
B. 39 ANSWER: 27 sq.m.
C. 40
D. 41 5. The center of the ellipse 4x2+y2-16x-6y-430 is
at:
ANSWER: (2,-3)
22. It is the level of measurement in which one
unit differs by a certain amount of degree from
8. Ms. Uson gave an exam and found that the
another unit. average scores of the students is 50 with a
A. interval standard deviation σ = 8. She added 5 points to
B. nominal everyone's score. What is now the new value of
C. ordinal a?
D. ratio ANSWER: 8

23. Five persons were asked on the usual 9. The price of 8 calculators ranges from P200 to
number of hours they spent watching TV in a P1000. If their average price is P950, what is the
week. Their responses are: 5, 7, 3, 38 and 7 lowest possible price of any one of the
hours. What is the median? calculators?
A. Md=3
2. Let AB be a chord of circle C with radius 13 m.
B. Md=5
If the shortest distance of AB to the center C is 5
C. Md=7
m, what is the perimeter of AABC?
D. Md= 38 ANSWER: 50 m
3. Throw a fair coin five times. What is the
probability of getting three heads and two tails?
(Express answer in fraction)
ANSWER: 5/16

4. A man sold 100 eggs. 80 of them were sold at

a profit of 30%, while the rest were sold at a loss
of 40%. What is the percentage gain or loss on
the whole stock?
ANSWER: 16%

5. Find the value of k for which the equation x2+

y2+4x-2y= k represents a point circle.
ANSWER: -5

DIFFICULT
1. The sum of the first nine terms of an
arithmetic sequence is 99. If the ninth term is
23, find the sum of the first five terms of this
sequence.
ANSWER: 25

3. The initial size of a culture of bacteria is 1000.

After one hour, the bacteria population grows to
8000. After how many hours will the population
reach 25,000? (express answer in two decimal
places)
ANSWER: 1.55 hrs

4. What is the distance (in cm) between the

vertices of the following ellipse:
64x2+25y2 + 16x-16y= 648 (express answer in 2
decimal places)
ANSWER: 10.21 cm

5. Bong deposited P5 000 in a bank paying 5%

annual interest compounded monthly. His friend
Harry deposited the same amount to a different
bank paying 2.5% compounded quarterly. After
10 years, how much money do Bong earn more
than Harry?
(express answer in nearest peso)
ANSWER: 1820 pesos.