QUANTITATIVE MODULE K (For 45 minutes only)

I. FUNDAMENTAL OPERATIONS
12. Evaluate (1.75)2 + ( 2.1)3 = ?
1. ( √2 − √3 )2 =?
A. 5 − 2√6 B. 5 + 2√6 C. 1 − 2√6 D. 1 A. 123.235 B. 12.3235 C. 123.35 D. 12323.50

2. 5845 + 24768 – 9651 – 7324 = ?

𝑥 2 +𝑥−6 𝑥 2 −4𝑥+4
A. 13638 B. 13648 C. 14438 D. 13748 13. ÷ =?
𝑥 2 −1 𝑥 2 −2𝑥+1

3. If f(x) = │(x² – 50) │, what is the value of f(-5) ? A.

(𝑥+3)(𝑥−2)
C.
(𝑥+3)(𝑥−1)
(𝑥+1)(𝑥−1) (𝑥+1)(𝑥−2)
A. 75 B. 25 C. 0 D. −25 (𝑥−1)(𝑥+1) (𝑥−3)(𝑥−1)
B. D.
(𝑥−2)(𝑥+3) (𝑥−1)(𝑥−2)
65 −64
*4. =?
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6 For numbers 14-15, consider the following situation, one
A. 5 B. C. 6³ D. 64
5 hundred housewives were surveyed regarding their
detergent soap preference. 50 use Brand X, 35 use Brand
5. If x² - y² = 55, and x - y = 11, then y = Y and 20 use both brands.
A. 8 B. 3 C. - 8 D. - 3
14. How many housewives use Brand X only?
A. 50 B. 15 C. 30 D. 20
*6. (3 x 104 ) + (2 x 10²) + (4 x 10) =
15. How many housewives do not use any of the 2 brands?
A. 0 B. 15 C. 25 D. 35
A. 302,400 B. 32,400 C. 30,240 D. 3,240
*16. There are 140 red balls and 60 blue balls in a bag that
(2𝑥 −2 𝑦 3 )2 (6𝑥) contains 200 balls. If only blue balls are added to the bag
*7. 3 =? so that the probability of randomly drawing a blue ball from
(32𝑦 5 )5 3
the bag becomes , how many blue balls must be added
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to the bag?
3𝑦 3 3𝑦 6 3𝑥 5 3𝑦 3
A. B. C. D. A. 24 B. 30 C. 40 D. 45
𝑥3 𝑥3 𝑦3 4𝑥 3
*17. Two equal circles are cut out of a rectangle of card of
dimensions 16 by 8. The circles have the maximum
*8. √294 + √24 + √150 =? diameter possible. What is the approximate area of the
paper remaining after the circles have been cut out?
A. 104 B. 78 C. 54 D. 27
A. 2√57 B. 14√6 C. 20√3 D. 38√6

2
√2 √2
9. ( + 𝑖) =
2 2

A. 1 + 𝑖 B. 2 + 2𝑖 C. 𝑖 D. 2𝑖
10. [(5 + 8 x 9 ÷ 12 – 32) x (56 ÷ 14 x 13 – 261 ÷ 87)1/2 ] ÷ 0.5 = *18. If the sum of two numbers is 2 and their difference is
21 1, what is their product?
A. −26 B. C. 7 D. 28 3
2
A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D.
4

7 4 3 3 *19. Gilson can finish painting a wall in 2 hours. Nelson

+ − can paint the same wall in 6 hours while Emerson can
10 5 7 5
*11. 3 3 𝑥 7 4 =? finish the same job in 3 hours. If they work together, how
+ − long will it take for them to finish painting the wall?
7 5 10 5
6 1 1
2 −5 −2 5
A. 1 hr B. hr C. hr D. hr
11 3 2
A. B. C. D.
5 2 5 2
20. If 6 workers can complete 9 identical jobs in 3 days,
how long will it take 4 workers to complete 10 such jobs?
A. 3 days B. 4 days C. 5 days D. 6 days

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21. In a local shop, Zsasha Garcia found a dress sold at
Pop Band Survey 1998-2000
25 % off. What was the original price of the dress she
bought if she paid P 960 for it? 15%
A. 1,140 B. 1,280 C. 1,360 D. 1,440
10%
*22. ABCD is a square of side 3, and E and F are the mid 21%
points of sides AB and BC respectively. What is the area 43% 3%
of the quadrilateral EBFD?
A. 2.25 B. 3 C. 4 D. 4.5
5%
E 16% 20%
A B 45%

30% 25%
F

D C
50%
23. Helpers are needed to prepare for the fete. Each
helper can make either 2 large cakes per hour, or 35 small 2% 15%
cakes per hour. The kitchen is available for 3 hours and 20
large cakes and 700 small cakes are needed. How many
Spice Girls Backstreet Boys
helpers are required? Boyzone All Saints
A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25
West Life
24. If 15 men can build 5 houses in 3 days, in how many
days can a dozen of men build 8 houses
26. In 1999, one band had exactly the same number of fan
A. 6 B. 8 C. 9 D. 12
votes they had the previous year (1998). In 2000, another
band also had the same number of fan votes they had the
25. Father is aged three times more than his son Ronit.
previous year (1999). What are these two groups,
After 8 years, he would be two and a half times of Ronit's
respectively?
age. After further 8 years, how many times would he be of
A. Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys
Ronit's age?
1 3 B. Boyzone and All Saints
A. 2 times B. 2 times C. 2 times D. 3 times C. Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls
2 4
D. All Saints and Boyzone
III. DATA INTERPRETATION
27. Which group had the biggest percent decrease in fans
A. The donut charts below show yearly surveys of fans of between 1999 and 2000?
selected pop bands for the years 1998, 1999, and 2000, A. All Saints C. Spice Girls
with the innermost donut representing 1998 and the B. Backstreet Boys D. Westlife
outermost representing 2000. Each correspondent was
asked to choose one and only one band which they most 28. Which group was probably not yet in the industry in
preferred. 1998?
1998 (innermost donut) - 4,000 people surveyed A. Westlife C. Boyzone
1999 (middle donut) - 5,000 people surveyed B. Spice Girls D. All Saints
2000 (outermost donut) - 6,000 people surveyed
29. How many more people surveyed were Westlife fans
in 2000 than in 1999?
A. 1,625 C. 2,080
B. 1,980 D. 2,580

30. If, in 1998, 810 of the Spice Girl fans surveyed were
male, what % of everyone surveyed in 1998 were female
Spice Girl fans?
A. 75.25% C. 75%
B. 55% D. 24.75%

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Figure 2: For numbers Employees working in various Use Figure 3 for Questions 36 to 40
departments of A, B, C Ltd.
To aid the Scholarship Program of their organization, the
Executive Council of the UP Association of Biology Majors
Departments (Number of Employees) tasked the various committees to raise funds in any way
Years they could within 2 months. The amount to be raised by
Production Marketing Corporate Accounts Research
each committee depended on the number of people in
1999 150 25 50 45 75 each committee. After one month, the following graph was
posted for the benefit of the members.
2000 225 40 45 62 70

2001 450 65 30 90 73 9

(In Thousands of Pesos)

2002 470 73 32 105 70
8
7
2003 500 80 35 132 74 6

Amount
2004 505 75 36 130 75
5
4
3
31. In which year did the total number of employees reach
approximately twice the total number of employees that 2
the factory had in the year 1999? 1
A. 2000 B. 2001 C. 2002 D. 2003 0

32. In which department did the number of employees

approximately remain the same during the year 1999 and
2004?
A. Production C. Research
B. Corporate D. None of these Goal Raised
33. In how many years was the number of employees
working in the production department more than 50 36. Which committee has raised the highest amount of
percent of the total employees? money relative to its goal?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 A. Socio-Civic C. Finance
B. Externals D. Membership
34. In which year/years did each department have a larger
number of employees that it had in the immediately 37. About how many percent of the total goal of the entire
following year? organization has been raised?
A. 2002 B. 2004 C. 2001 D. 2003 A. 44.63% C. 55.37%
B. 53.69% D. 46.31%
35. Which department had less than 10 percent of the
employees through all the years shown in the table? 38. Which three committees need to raise the greatest net
A. Marketing C. Accounts amount of money to reach their goals?
B. Corporate D. None of these A. Academics, Biologue, and Externals
B. Externals, Finance, and Socio-Civic
C. Alumni Relations, Sports, and Secretariat
D. Biologue, Sports, and Secretariat

39. The combined amount that the Academics, Alumni

Relations, and Membership Committees still need to raise
to achieve their goals is equal to
A. ₱ 7,990.00 C. ₱ 17,000.00
B. ₱ 9,010.00 D. ₱ 25,885.00

40. The amount of money that the Externals Committee

has raised is about how many percent of the money that
the Finance Committee has raised?
A. 77.78% C. 112.50%
B. 88.89% D. 128.57%

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