SEQUENCE ALGEBRA

1. -2, -3, 1, -4, 5, -9, 14, -23, ...

t
A. 17 D. -21 11. The expression is equivalent to
B. 37 E. 18 A. ½
C. 24 B. x – 2
C. -¼ x
2. 125, 243, 16, 16, 3, 1, ... D.
A. 2 D. 9
E.
B. 1 E. 3
C. 4 t
12. If a + = , what the value of a?
3. 300, 101, 100, 111, 20, 10, 30, 110, ... A. a = –1, a = 10
A. 120 D. 121 B. a = 1, a = –10
B. 1000 E. 200 C. a = 2, a = –5
C. 40 D. a = –2, a = 5
E. a = –5, a = 0
4. , , 1 , 2, 2 , 3 , 4, ...
t 13. If –3a – 9b = –6 and 5a + 6b = –8, what is
A. 1 D. 4 the value of b?
A. 6
B. t E. 2 B. -5
C. 8 C. 4
D. -3
E. 2
5. 2, 7, 29, 115, 461, ...
A. 1821 D. 1840 14. Find the positive value of x that makes the
B. 1843 E. 1882 t
expression undefined
C. 1842
A. -9
6. B C D P O M D E F M L … …
B. 9
A. K G D. J F
C. 3
B. J G E. J K
D. -3
C. K F
E. 6
7. X, W, U, V, T, S, Q, R, P, O, …, …
15. If a3/2 = 512, then what is a2/3?
A. M, N D. L, M
A. 8
B. N, M E. N, L
B. 16
C. M, L
C. 32
D. 64
8. L M N Q O R S T … …
E. 128
A. W U D. U W
B. W V E. V W
16. If 2x = y = 3z and x.y.z = 288, what the
C. U V
value of z ?
A. 2
9. C D L M E F G N O P H I J … …
B. 4
A. Q R D. K Q
C. 6
B. Q L E. K R
D. 8
C. K L
E. 10
10. A B C E H ... 17. 45 2  108 2  …
A. J D. M A. 113
B. K E. N B. 117
C. L C. 123
D. 127
E. 133
 18. If x2 – y2 – 4x + 4 = 0, what the D. 14
value of y in term of x? E. Cannot be determined from
A. x/2 infomation given
B. x - 2
C. x + 2 22. If the circle inscribed in square
D. x2 – 2 ABCD has a radius of r, what is the
E. cannot be determined from size of the shaded area in terms of r?
information given

19. If 16 16 16 ....  2 x , then x = …

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
E. 6 A. r2 – πr2
B. 2r – πr2
20. Two sets of 4 consecutive positive
integers have exactly one integer in C. - t
common. The sum of the integers in D. r -
2
the set with greater numbers is how t

much greater than the sum of the E. t

integers in the other set?
A. 4 23. Bria and Lindsay play tennis on a
B. 7 rectangular court with an area of
C. 8 2,000 ft.2. If the length of the court is
D. 12 80 ft., what is the perimeter of the
E. Cannot be determined from court in feet?
information given A. 180
B. 200
GEOMETRY C. 210
21. In the diagram below, line CD is a D. 240
tangent and line EO is a secant. If E. 320
arc AB = 60° and the radius of the
circle is 7 units, what is the length of 24. In the diagram below, if the radius of
line EO? the circle is 25 units, what is the
length of arc AB?

A. 0.4 π
B. 5π
A. 7 C. 10 π
B. 14 D. 50 π
C. 14 E. 250 π
25. Triangles ABC and DEF are similar. in the surface area of the resulting
Each side of ABC is three times the cubes?
length of its corresponding side of A. 4%
triangle DEF. If the area of triangle B. 166%
ABC is 72 square units, what is the C. 266%
area of triangle DEF in square units? D. 300%
A. 8 square units E. 400%
B. 24 square units 29. A cube of side 7 cm is coloured on
C. 216 square units pair of opposite faces by Red, Green
D. 648 square units and Yellow shades. The cube is then
E. 688 square units cut into unit cubes. How many of the
26. unit cubes will have exactly two
coloured faces?
A) 150
B) 125
C) 60
D) 49
E) 40

30. A pyramid has a square base of 6 cm,

and the four lateral faces are four
Which of the following could be a congruent equilateral triangles. What
value of x, in the diagram above? is the total surface area of the
A. 10 pyramid in square cm?
B. 20
C. 40 (A) 36 + 18
D. 50 (B) 36 + 36
E. any of the above (C) 72
(D) 72 + 36
27.
(E) 72 + 72

Comparison

31. The average (arithmetic mean) of

four numbers is 36
X = The sum of the same four
V, W, X and Y are points on the numbers
circumference of a circle, center O. Y = 140
Chords VX and WY intersect at the A. X > Y
B. X < Y
point Z. ∠XVW = 72° and ∠VXY
C. X = Y
= 38°. What is the size of ∠VZW? D. Cannot be determined from
A. 38 information given
B. 70
C. 60 32. n is an integer more than 0
D. 72 X = 1/n + n
E. 83 Y=2
A. X > Y
28. If a 4 cm cube is cut into 1 cm cubes, B. X < Y
then what is the percentage increase
 C. X = Y D. Cannot be determined from
D. Cannot be determined from information given
information given
38. X = The sum of the even numbers
33. X = The diagonal of a rectangle from 2 to 100 inclusive
Y = Half the perimeter of the same Y = 52 x 50
rectangle A. X > Y
A. X > Y B. X < Y
B. X < Y C. X = Y
C. X = Y D. Cannot be determined from
D. Cannot be determined from information given
information given
39. A is 3 less than B
34. x + y = 5 X=A+5
y-x=3 Y=B+2
A. X > Y A. X > Y
B. X < Y B. X < Y
C. X = Y C. X = Y
D. Cannot be determined from D. Cannot be determined from
information given information given
35. X = The distance between the points
with rectangular coordinates (0,5) 40. X = The sum of all the integers from
and (0,10) -10 to 12 inclusive.
Y = The distance between the points Y = 23
with rectangular coordinates (1,8) A. X > Y
and (-3,5) B. X < Y
A. X > Y C. X = Y
B. X < Y D. Cannot be determined from
C. X = Y information given
D. Cannot be determined from
information given

36. X = The percentage of the multiples

of 2 that are also multiples of 5
Y = The percentage of the multiples
of 5 that are also multiples of 2
A. X > Y
B. X < Y
C. X = Y
D. Cannot be determined from
information given

37. Fred is now 10 years older than

George was 5 years ago
X = Fred's age 5 years ago
Y = George's age now
A. X > Y
B. X < Y
C. X = Y