PART 3 – MATHEMATICS MAJOR

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

1. This test booklet contains 100 test questions for Mathematics Major. Examinees shall manage to use the 3 ½
hours.
2. Shade only one (1) box for each question on your answer sheets. Two or more boxes shaded will invalidate
your answer.
3. In case you find no correct answer, please shade option ‘E’.
4. AVOID ERASURES

1. What is the prime factorization of 540?

a. 2x3x5 b.22 x 32 x 5 c. 9x6x5x2 d. 54x10

2. Perform the operation given that:

A= B= find A B = ?
a. c.
b. d.

3. There are 120 freshmen in the group of 300 students. What percentage of the group are freshmen?
a. 45% b. 40% c. 38% d. 42%

4. Simplify the given exponential expression: (6a2b) (-2a3b5)

a. 2a6b5 b. -4a6b5 c. -12a5b6 d. 4a5b6

5. Factor the expression 144 p7 – 36 p5.

a. 12 p5 (12 – 3 p5) c. 12 p5 (12 p2 – 3 p5)
b. 12 p5 (12 p2 – 3) d. 12 (12 p2 – 3)

6. Thirty percent of 65 is what percent of 120?

a. 12.75% b. 18% c. 16.25% d. 14.50%

7. Twelve employees can work on the task in eight days. How many employees can be assigned to work on the task
if it must be completed in six days?
a. 32 b. 9 c. 16 d. 18

8. A big container contains twelve liters when it is 30% full. How much does it contain when it is 90% full?
a. 64 liters b. 48 liters c. 42 liters d. 36 liters

9. Simplify:
a. a b. a – 5 c. –a d. 5 – a

10. Simplify this expression: *

a. b. c.

11. Factor over the integers by grouping: 3x3 + x2 + 6x + 2

a. (3x + 1) (x2 + 2) c. (3x – 1) (x2 + 2)
b. (3x + 1) (x2 – 2) d. (3x2 + 1) (x + 2)

12. Solve this rational expression: +3=

a. x = 1/3 b. x = -3 c. b. x = -1 d. x = 3
13. Simplify this complex fraction:

a. c. d.
14. By inspection, determine whether each percentage is greater than, equal to, less than, or less than and equal to the
base; 100% of 0.12.
a. Percentage is less than the base. c. Percentage is equal to the base.
b. Percentage is less than and equal to the base. d. Percentage is greater than the base.

15. Three fourths of the participants in a regional training program are from private universities. Two thirds of these
are from Teacher Education Institutions. If there are 96 participants, how many of them represent private Teacher
Education Institutions?
a. 72 b. 18 c. 48 d. 24

16. If f (x) = 2x – 3 and g (x) = x2 – 1, Find (f o f) (x)

a. 4x2 – 12 + 8 b. 2x2 – 5 c. 4x – 9 d. x4 – 2x2

17. A total of Php 75,000.00 is deposited into two simple interest accounts. In one account the annual simple interest
rate is 5%, and in the second account the annual simple interest rate is 7%. The amount of interest earned for 1
year was Php 4,050.00. How much was invested in each?
a. At 5% = Php 60,000.00; At 7% = Php 15,000.00
b. At 5% = Php 50,000.00; At 7% = Php 25,000.00
c. At 5% = Php 55,000.00; At 7% = Php 20,000.00
d. At 5% = Php 15,000.00; At 7% = Php 60,000.00

18. The intersection of Sets A and B is defined by A ∩ B = {x/xϵA and ϵB}

If A = {a, b, c, d, e}, B = {a, c, f, g}, find A ∩ B
a. {b, c, g} b. {a, f, g} c. {a, c} d. {a, b, c, g}

19. The same number is subtracted from the numerator and denominator of the fraction . If the resulting fraction is

equivalent to , what is the number subtracted?

a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8

20. Which of the following is the remainder when 4x3-6x2-3x+1 is divided by x-1?
a. -4 b. 4 c. 6 d. -5

21. A card is selected at random from a box of 30 cards numbered 1 to 30. What is the probability that the number is a
multiple of 4?

a. b. c. d.

22. If f (x) = 2x – 3 and g (x) = x2 – 1, find (g o g) (x)

a. 4x – 9 b. 2x5 – 5 c. x4 – 2x2 d. 4x2 – 12x + 8

23. Use absolute value to describe the given situation:

The distance between x and -2 is 4.
a. |x + 2| = -4 b. |x – 2| = 4 c. |x + 2| = 4 d. |x – 2| = -4

24. If f (x) = 2x – 3 and g (x) = x2 – 1, Find (g o f) (x)

a. 2x2 – 5 b. 4x2 – 12x - + 8 c. 4x – 9 d. x4 – 2x2

25. What is the amount at the end of four years if Php90, 000 is invested at 12% simple interest?
a. Php154,400 b. Php152,500 c. Php125,300 d. Php133,200

26. It costs a lady’s bag manufacturer Php 400.00 to produce a lady’s bag that sells for Php 550.00. How many lady’s
bag must be manufacturer sell to make a profit of Php 60,000.00?
a. 400 b. 150 c. 250 d. 200
27. Find the annual interest at 8% for 3 months on Ᵽ6,000.00
a. Ᵽ480.00 b. Ᵽ120.00 c. Ᵽ150.00 d. Ᵽ160.00

28. Four out of every five households have cellphone. If 10,000 households in a certain Barangay have cellphone,
how many do NOT have cellphone?
a. 7,500 b. 2,000 c. 9,500 d. 7,000
b.
29. Find the amount and compound interest converted quarterly in 5 years on Ᵽ20,000.00 at 8%.
a. Ᵽ19,600.95 b. Ᵽ29,718.95 c. Ᵽ25,600.00 d. Ᵽ22,700.00

30. Perform the indicated operation and reduce to lowest terms:

a. b. c.

31. Perform the indicated operations and reduce result to simplest form.

a. b. c. d.

32. Perform the indicated operation and reduce result to simplest form.

a. b. d.

33. Find the distance between the points (-3, 2) and (5, 3).
a. b. c. d.

34. Perform the indicated operation and reduce to lowest terms:

a.

b.

35. Find the equation of an ellipse in the standard form if the equation of the ellipse in the general form is given by:
9x2 + 16y2 + 18x – 96y + 9 = 0

a. c.

b.

36. Perform the indicated operations and reduce result to simplest form.

a. c. d.

37. Find the distance between the line 3x – y = 0 and the point (2, -4)
a. 10 b. c. -10 d.

38. The approximate shape of the earth is _______________.

a. sphere b. circle c. cone d. cube
39. The motion of a particle is given by the equation s = t3 – 3t – 5. Find the velocity when t = 2.
a. 9 b. 10 c. 3 d. 5

40. Area of the circle with equation: x2 + y2 = 4 is _______________.

a. b.

41. The surface on the earth between the tropic of cancer and the Arctic Circle is called ________.
a. plane b. circle c. cone d. zone

42. Nica received an aquarium as a graduation gift from her mother. It has length, width and height of 9 centimeters,
7 centimeters, and 5 centimeters, respectively. Find its volume.
a. 315 cubic meters c. 316 cubic meters
b. 314 cubic meters d. 318 cubic meters

43. The sum of the sides of a polygon is the ___________ of the polygon.
a. Perimeter b. leg c. area d. volume

44. How many square feet of paper would be needed to cover a box in all sides? The box 5 feet long, 3 feet wide and
1.5 feet high.
a. 27 b.54 c. 96 d.48

45. The first angle of a quadrilateral is 50, the second is twice the first and the third is equal to the second. What is the
fourth angle of the quadrilateral?
a. 108 b. 110 d. 111 d. 109

46. A slow moving snail traveled 4, 800 mm. How far did it travel in kilometers?
a. 0.0048 km b. 4. 8 km c.0.48 km d. 0.048 km
47. Sec A (sin A) is equal to
a. Cot A b. Tan A c. d. Csc A

48. How long is the diameter of

a. 4 units b. units c. units d. 2 units

49. Which of the following CANNOT be the ratio of the sides of a triangle?
a. 2 : 2 : 3 b. 2 : 5 : 5 c. 1 : 2 : 3 d. 10 : 15 : 20
50. A box is 10 in. in width, 14 in. in length and 6 in. in height. How many square inches of paper would be required
to cover it on all sides?
a. 568 b. 840 c. 1,680 d. 3,360

51. What is the value of x if x=log327?

a. 3 b. 27 c. 9 d. -3

52. Find the length of the circular arc which subtends an angle of 30 degrees at the center of a circle with radius of 4?

a. b. c. d.

53. In how many ways may a radiologist assign 5 patients to undergo a screening test for pulmonary
Tuberculosis x-ray?
a. 5 b. 10 c. 120 d. 60
54. What is the third side of the triangle if b=47, c=58 and =63o?
a. 8048.2 b. 5573 c. 3090 d.

55. The statement of 3=log10 (x+8) implies ____________.

a. 103 = x + 8 b. 33 = x + 8 c. (x+8)10=3 d. (x+8)3=10

56. The figure shows what relationship?

 a. Same negative correlation c. perfect negative correlation
b. Perfect positive correlation d. same positive correlation

57. The given multiplication table represents a cyclic group.

* a b c d
A c a d b
B a b c d
C d c b a
D b d a c
Find b2.
a. a b. d c. b d. c

58. If sin = 4/5, and 0 < /2, then cos is equal to _____________.
a. 24/25 b. 7/25 c. -7/25 d. 44/125

59. When a logarithm is expressed as an integer plus a decimal, the integer is called the _________.
a. mantissa b. characteristic c. base d. antilogarithm

60. Let matrix A= and matrix B= . Which of the following matrices shows A+B?

a. b. c. d.

61. Which of the following is a true identity?

a. cos2x = sin2x b. sin2x=cos2x+1 c. sec2x-1=tan2x d. cos2x-1=sin2x

62. The logarithm of the product of two numbers is equal to the ___________ of the logarithms of the factors.
a. Sum b. product c. difference d. quotient

2
63. What is the simplest form of ( ?
a. 1 - sin x b. 1 + cos x c. 1 – cos x d. 1 + sin x

64. Cos (- ) is equal to _____________.

a. c. d.

65. Which of the following is equal to 2 sin cos ?

a. sin b. sin c. sin d. 2 sin

66. What is the area of a square lot whose diagonal is 8 meters?

a. 64 sq. m. b. 32 sq. m. c. 128 sq. m. d. 72 sq. m.

67. What is the exact value of ?

a. b. c. d.
68. If sin A = , what is sin 2A?

a. b. c. d.

69. If tan =1/3, then cot 2 equals _____________.

a. 4/3 b.3/2 c. 2/3 d.3/4

A random sample of 200 adults are classified by sex and their level of education attained.

Education Male Female

Elementary 38 45
Secondary 28 50
College 22 17

If a person is picked at random from this group, find the probability that the person is female.
a. 95/112 b. 11/25 c. 14/39 d. 45/25

70. A subset of the sample space is ______________.

a. Discrete variable c. Event
b. outcomes d. Continuous variable

71. A ball is drawn at random from a box containing 6 red balls, 4 white balls and 5 blue balls.
Find the probability that it is white.
a. 1/3 b. 4/5 c. 4/15 d. 4/13

72. The interest of a loan of ₱ 4,500.00 is ₱150.00 . If the loan is to be paid after 120 days, what is the rate of interest
charged?
a. 5% b. 7 % c. 8% d. 10%

73. Manny sold his car for ₱ 200,000.00. This means losing 20% of the price he paid for it. What was the cost of the
car when he bought it?
a. ₱230,000 b. ₱ 220,000 c. ₱250,000 d. ₱240,000

74. If a die is rolled, what is the probability of getting a number divisible by 3?

a. 1/6 b. ¼ c. ½ d. 1/3

75. For a sequence of events A, B, and C

P (A B C) = P (A), + P(B/A), + P (C/A B)
a. Subtraction rule b. General rule c. Addition rule d. Multiplication rule

76. For mutually exclusive events A and B.

P (A B) = P (A) + P (B)
a. Addition rule b. Subtraction rule c. General rule d. Multiplication rule

77. Find the area of the triangle with vertices: (-2,0), (2,3) and (5,1)
a. 12 ½ b. 12 c. 11 d. 10 ½

78. Find the derivative of f(x) = (x-3) (x+5)

a. 2x b. x+2 c. 2(x+1) d. x+1

79. Find the distance between the points (-3,2) and (5,3)
a. b. c. d.

80. What is the equation of a circle with center (-5,-7) and a diameter that is 16 cm?
a. (x+7)2+(y+5)2=256 c. (x+5)2+(y+7)2=256
 b. (x-5)2+(y-7)2=256 d. (x-7)2+(y-5)2=256

81. Find the pairs of lines that are parallel.

a. 2x-y+3=0, 2x-y-5=0 c. x-y=0, 2x+3y-5=0
b. x=1, y=5 d. 3x-y-5=0, x-3y+21=0
82. The distance of the line from point (1, 2).

a. b. c. d.

83. Find the equation of the line tangent to the curve at ( 1 , 3 ).

a. b. c. d.
84. What is the equation of the line through (3, 3) and parallel to the line through (6, 7) and (4,-11)?
a. 9x-y+24=0 b. 9x-y-24=0 c. x+9y-30=0 d. x+9y+30=0

85. What is the equation of the line with an x-intercept of 6 and a y-intercept of -4?
a. 2x+3y=12 b. 2x-3y=12 c. 2x-3y=-12 d. 2x+3y=-12

86. Find the domain of the function

a. b. c. d. R

87. What is the vertex of the parabola ?

a. (-1, 0) b. (0, 1) c. (1, 0) d. (0, -1)
88. Evaluate the limx→ -1 .
a. -4 b. -3 c. 4 d. 5

89. Evaluate
a. -1 b. 1 c. 0 d. 2

90. Evaluate

a. 39 1/3 b. 39 3/10 c. 39 3/5 d. 39 ½

91. What is the second derivative of

a. 12x b. 0 c. 6x d. 6
92. A tank that holds 500 gallons of water can be filled by one pipe in 20 minutes and emptied by another in 30
minutes. How long would it take to fill the tank if both pipes are functioning?
a. 45 min. b. 50 min. c. 55 min. d. 60 min.

93. Which is true for subgroups of a group?

a. Subgroups for a partition of a group
b. The intersection of two subgroups is empty
c. The of two subgroups is also a group
d. The intersection of two subgroups is also a group

94. Find the co-factor of

a. 23 b. 13 c. 30 d. -13

95. The average of m and n is 8, and p=11. What is the average of m, n, and p?
a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 d. 11

96. To express that there is significant difference between the income of Family A and that of the income of Family B
a. Ho: b. Ho: c. Ha: d. Ha:
b.
97. He was a 16th century mathematicians, who was the first to define that the probability of an event to happen is the
quotient of the number of the favorable outcomes and the number of all outcomes. Who was he?
a. George Cantor b. Blaise Pascal c. Girolamo Cardano d. Albert Girard

98. He has been described as the “might-have-been” in the history of mathematics.

a. George Cantor b. Blaise Pascal c. Girolamo Cardano d. Albert Girard

99. Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviations: sin, tan, sec, for
sine, tangent and secant?
a. John Napier b. Albert Girard c. George Canter d. Girolamo Cardano

100. An 18th Century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the “Law of Large Integers” in his (The Art of Conjecture).
In Statistics, this implies that the larger the sample, the more likely will the sample become representative of the
population. Who was he?
a. John Napier b. Albert Girard c. George Canter d. Girolamo Cardano

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