Excel Review Center ECE Weekly Exam Algebra 1 and 2

1. A circle having a diameter of 8 cm is A. 58,123 C. 57,420 19. Find the area of the shaded circle shown.
inscribed in a sector of a circle whose B. 59,319 D. 56,890
central angle is 80. Find the area of the
sector. 1
11. Simplify tan 2arcsin .
2 2 3
A. 82.92 cm C. 72.92 cm
B. 75.92 cm2 D. 82.08 cm2
4 2 2 2
A. C.
2. The sides of a triangular lot are 130 m, 7 7 r r r r
180 m and 190 m. The lot is to be 2 2 4 2
divided by a line bisecting the longest B. D. 4 2
side and drawn from the opposite 9 9 A. r 2 C. r
9
vertex. What is the length of the dividing
12. Two bottles of equal volume contain 1 2 2
line? B. r D. r 2
alcohol and water. The ratio of the 3 7
A. 125 m C. 126 m amount of alcohol to the amount of water
B. 127 m D. 128 m in the first bottle is 6:1 and 3:5 in the 20. A cylinder has a base radius of 2 and a
second. The contents of the two are then height of 9. To the nearest whole number,
3. Compute the IQR of the sample: 1, 2, 5, mixed. What will be the new ratio of by how much does the lateral area
11, 6, 9, 10, 11, 1, 11, 23, 25. alcohol to water? exceed the sum of the areas of the two
bases?
A. 7 C. 6 A. 69:43 C. 20:43
B. 11 D. 1 B. 96:34 D. 25:69 A. 101 C. 88
B. 96 D. 81
4. A circle with area 254.469 sq. cm is 13. Twice the sum of two numbers is 28. The
circumscribed about a triangle whose sum of the squares of the two numbers is 21. Find the lateral area in sq. m of a closed
area is 48.23 sq. cm. If one side of the 100. What is the product of the two cylinder 2 m in height and 3 m in
triangle measure 18 cm, determine the numbers? diameter.
length of the shorter leg of the triangle in
cm. A. 48 D. 30 A. 2 C. 8
B. 84 D. 60 B. 4 D. 6
A. 5.64 cm C. 5.21 cm
B. 5.73 cm D. 5.91 cm a3 22. If a square prism is inscribed in a right
14. Express the logarithm of 5 2
in terms of circular cylinder of radius 3 and height 6,
c b
i the volume inside the cylinder but outside
5. A fair coin is to be tossed 10 times. Let log a, log b and log c.
the prism is
j
, in lowest terms, be the probability that A. 3/2 log a 5 log c 2 log b
A. 61.6 C. 21.9
heads never occur on consecutive B. 3/2 log a 2/5 log c 5/2 log b
B. 16.2 D. 52.3
tosses. Find i + j. C. 3 log a 5 log c 2 log b
D. 3 log a 5/2 log c log b
23. Form the figure shown, angle ABC = 18
A. 22 C. 54 and angle BAD = 36. Compute the angle
B. 73 D. 88 15. What is the quadratic equation if the
COD. B
product and sum of its roots 32 and 4,
6. Given f(x) = 2x 3 and g(x) = x2 1 find respectively?
(fg)(x).
A. x2 + 4x 32 = 0
2 B. x2 - 4x + 32 = 0 O D
A. 3x 2x + 3
B. 2x3 3x2 2x + 3 C. x2 - 4x 32 = 0
A. 27
C. x2 + 2x 4 D. x2 + 4x + 32
B. 40
D. x C. 72
16. What is the nature of the roots of 4x2
D. 57 A C
7. A man whose eye is 1.5 m above his 12x + 9 = 0?
sole stands on a 48.5 m high building. 24. Find the difference of the area of the
The angle of depression of the top and A. Rational and equal
square inscribed in a semi-circle having
foot of a nearby building are 50 and 80 B. Rational and unequal
C. Irrational and unequal a radius of 15 m. The base of the
respectively. Find the height of the
D. Imaginary square lies on the diameter of the semi-
second building.
circle.
A. 49.5 m C. 50.0 m 17. Reserved seat tickets to a Benefit
B. 34.4 m D. 39.5 m Concert in Manila are P 6 more than the A. 167.5 cm2 C. 173.5 cm2
general admission tickets. Dr. Wells finds B. 155.5 cm2 D. 123.5 cm2
8. The area of a triangle is 8346 sq. m and that he can buy general admission tickets
two of its interior angles are 3725 and for his whole family of five for only P 3 25. If an aviator flies around the world at a
5617. What is the length of the longest more than the cost of the reserve tickets distance 3 miles above the equator,
side? for himself and his wife. How much does estimate how many more miles he will
the general admission tickets costs? travel than a person who travels along
A. 171.5 m C. 181.5 m the equator.
B. 191.5 m D. 200.5 m A. 4 C. 6
B. 3 D. 7 A. 18.85 mi C. 12.6 mi
9. The sides of a right triangle are in B. 15,83 mi D. 16.3 mi
arithmetic progression whose common 18. A superhero derives an income of P309
difference is 6 cm. What is its area in from some money invested at 3% and 26. If the equation x 2 + 2 ( k + 2 ) x + 9k = 0 has
cm2? some at 4.5%. If the amounts of the equal roots, find k.
respective investments were
A. 210 C. 224 interchanged, he would receive P 336. A. 1 C. 3
B. 216 D. 220 How much did he originally invest at 3%? B. 1 or 4 D. 1 or 3

10. A triangular lot ABC have AB = 400 and A. P5200 C. P3400 27. What is the sum of the roots of the
angle B = 50. The lot is to be B. P2500 D. P2400 equation x4 10x2 + 9 = 0?
segregated by a dividing line DE parallel
to BC and 150 m long. The area of the A. 10 C. 9
segment BCDE is 50,977.4 sq. m. Find B. 0 D. 1
the area of the lot ABC in sq. m.

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28. Determine the sum of the positive value A. 1,008,320 C. 2,169,420 47. Steve walks down to the bottom of an
solution to the simultaneous equations: B. 4,670,080 D. 3,953,520 escalator that is moving up and he counts
xy = 15, yz = 35 and xz = 21. 150 steps. His friend, Tony walks up to
38. A bracelet has 7 charms. How many the top of the escalator and counts 75
A. 12 C. 15 arrangements of the charms are steps. If Steves speed of walking (in
B. 13 D. 14 possible? steps per unit time) is three times Tonys
walking speed, how many steps are
29. Find the value of x to satisfy the following A. 720 C. 340 visible on the escalator at a given time?
equations: x + y = 7; x2 + 2y2 = 34 B. 520 D. 640 Assume that this value is constant.

A. 3 C. 2 39. A man tosses 1 five peso coin, 2 one A. 120 C. 140

B. 4 D. 5 peso coins, 3 twenty-five centavo coins, B. 130 D. 150
4 ten centavo coins among 10 boys. In
30. A sequence of integers u1,u2 ,u3 L is how many different ways can the boys 48. If 3x 3y = 27 and 2x + y = 5, find y.
profit if each is to get a coin?
chosen so that un = un1 un 2 for each
A. 1 C. 3
n 3 . What is the sum of the first 2001 A. 12,600 C. 14,500
B. 4 D. 5
terms of this sequence if the sum of the B. 13,200 D. 16,800
first 1492 terms is 1985 and the sum of 49. Find the constant term in the expansion
the first 1985 terms is 1492? 40. What is the median of the following set 9
of items: 8, 12, 5, 6 13 and 15? 1
of 2x 2 + .
A. 986 C. 973 x
B. 965 D. 994 A. 8 C. 8 and 12
B. 12 D. 10 A. 664 C. 682
31. Assume that a, b, c and d are positive B. 672 D. 648
41. How many permutations can be made
integers such that a5 = b4 , c3 = d2 and
from the letters in the word MONDAY if
c a =19. Determine d b. 50. If 9 x = 27 y and 8 y = 16 z , then what is
all letters are used but the first is a
vowel? the value of x:y:z?
A. 757 C. 777
B. 737 D. 747 A. 140 C. 160 A. 1:3:6 C. 6:2:1
B. 280 D. 240 B. 3:1:2 D.6:4:3
32. What is the sum of the solutions to the
12 42. Jan and Michael play a game in which 51. If a + b 2c = 12 and 3a + 3b + c = 22,
equation 4 x = . how much is c?
74x they take turns tossing a fair coin. The
winner of a game is the first person to
obtain a head. Jan and Michael play this A. 10 C. 2
A. 322 C. 354 B. 34 D. 0
B. 337 D. 364 game several times with the stipulation
that the loser of a game goes first in the
x 1 x 3
33. In a parlor game, the magician asks one next game. Suppose that Jan goes first a b
in the first game, and that the probability 52. If = , then the value of x
of the participants to think of a digit b a
number (abc) where a, b and c that he wins the sixth game is m/n,
where m and n are relatively prime is:
represents digits in base 10 in the order
indicated. The magician then asks this positive integers, what are the last three
digits of m + n? A. 0.5 C. 1
person to form the number (acb), (bca), B. 2 D. 3.5
(bac), (cab) and (cba), to add these five
numbers, and to reveal their sum N. If C. 093 C. 073
D. 083 D. 063 53. Given that 100.48 = x, 100.70 = y and xz =
told the value of N, the magician can y2, then the value of z is close to:
identify the original number, (abc). Play
the role of the magician and determine 43. If f(x) = x3 4, then the inverse of f =
A. 1.45 C. 1.88
the (abc) if N = 3194. B. 2.9 D. 3.7
1
A. x3 + 4 C.
A. 250 C. 358 x3 4 54. Kali mixed together 9 gal of Brand A fruit
B. 385 D. 448 drink and 6 gal of Brand B fruit drink
B. 3
x+4 D. 3
x4
which contains 5% fruit juice. Find the
34. A baseball diamond (square in shape) percent of fruit juice in Brand A if the
has four bases that are 90 feet apart. 44. A drawer contains a mixture of red
mixture contained 11% fruit juice.
The pitchers mound is 60.5 feet from socks and blue socks, at most 1991 in
the home plate. Find the distance from all. It so happen that when two socks
A. 11% C. 10%
the pitchers mound to the second base. are selected randomly without
B. 15% D. 22%
replacement, there is a probability of
A. 60.8 C. 62.8 exactly 1/2 that both are red or both are
55. Kristin wants to make 6 gal of 34%
B. 64.2 D. 66.8 blue. What is the largest possible
alcohol solution by mixing together a
number of red socks in the drawer that
24% alcohol solution and a 64% alcohol
35. Find the distance and angle to the final is consistent with this data?
solution. How much of the 24% alcohol
position for a person who travels 6 m at solution must she use?
20 north of east and then 8 m at 50 C. 990 C. 480
north of east. D. 568 D. 820
A. 4.5 gal C. 6 gal
B. 10.5 gal D. 9.0 gal
A. 11.5 m C. 14.5 m 45. An ordered pair (m,n) of non-negative
B. 12.5 m D. 13.5 m integer is called simple if the addition m
56. The greater of two numbers is twice the
+ n in base 10 requires no carrying. Find
less, and the sum of the numbers is
36. The sides of a triangle are 8 cm, 10 cm the number of simple ordered pairs of
129. What are the numbers?
and 14 cm. Determine the radius of the non-negative integers that sum to 1492.
circumscribed circle. A. 43, 86 C. 44, 89
A. 337 C. 300
B. 34, 89 D, 23, 43
A. 7.44 cm C. 7.88 cm B. 234 D. 246
B. 7.14 cm D. 7.67 cm 57. A man bought a horse and carriage for
46. Find 3x 2 y2 , if x and y are integers such $500, paying three times as much for
37. How many ways are there to select 3 the carriage as for the horse. How much
juniors and 4 seniors from school chorus that y 2 + 3x 2 y2 = 30x 2 + 517 .
did the horse cost?
with 10 freshmen, 15 sophomores, 18
juniors and 20 seniors to sing in an all- A. 554 C. 563
A. $125 C. $375
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more leaps will the cat take before it is line of travel. Find the bearing of the
58. Two brothers, counting their money, overtaken if she takes 5 leaps while the airport.
found that together they had $186, and dog takes 4 leaps, but 2 of the dogs
that John had five times as much as leaps are equivalent to 3 of the cats A. 330 C. 300
Charles. How much John had? leaps? B. 320 D. 310

A. $31 C. $155 A. 250 C.300 78. In ABC, the sum of sides a and b is
B. $45 D. $90 B. 350 D.400 142, A = 48, and B = 32. Find the
side c.
59. Divide the number 64 into two parts so 68. The quantity z varies directly as the cube
that one part shall be seven times the of x and inversely as the square of y. z A. 108 C. 110
other. has the value of 14 when x and y are 4 B. 112 D. 114
and 6, respectively. Find the value of z
A. 8, 56 C. 9, 55 when x equals 2 and y equals 3. 79. Which of the following is equivalent to
B. 10, 54 D. 11, 53 100 grads?
A. 5 D. 7
60. A man walked 24 miles in a day. If he B. 6 D. 8 A. 3000 mils C. /3 radians
walked twice as far in the forenoon as in B. 3/4 revolutions D. 90 degrees
the afternoon, how far did he walk in the 69. According to Hookes law, the length of a
afternoon? spring, S, varies directly as the force, F, 80. From the top of a lighthouse 212 ft
applied on the spring. If a spring to which above a lake, the keeper spots a boat
A. 10 mi C. 23 mi Hookes law applies, a force of 18.6 lb sailing directly towards him. He
B. 8 mi D. 9 mi stretches the spring by 1.27 in. Find k, observes the angle of depression of the
the constant of proportionality. boat to be 6 13 and then later to be 13
61. For 72 cents Martha bought some 7. Find the distance the boat has sailed
needles and thread, paying eight times A. 14.64 C. 61.44 between the observations.
as much for the thread as for the B. 16.44 D. 146.4
needles. How much did she pay for the A. 1036.4 ft C. 1045 ft
needle? 70. Kara paid P 15.00 for a box of tomatoes. B. 1052 ft D. 1062 ft
She discarded 12% of the total weight as
A. 10 cents C. 11 cents damage and sold the remainder at P 0.25 81. Given two urns, suppose urn I contains
B. 8 cents D. 15 cents per pound. Her profit was P 7.00 How 4 black and 7 white balls. Urn II contains
many pounds of tomatoes did she 3 black, 1 white, and 4 yellow balls.
62. Six less than five times a number is the purchased? Select an urn and then select a ball.
same as seven times the number. What What is the probability that you obtain a
is the number? A. 120 C. 150 ball from urn II, given that the ball is a
B. 130 D. 100 black ball?
A. 3 C. 5
B. 8 C. 7 71. The set A consists of elements {1, 3, 6} 65 1
and the set B consists of elements {1, 2, A. C.
63. Brad is a waiter, and he gets paid $5.75 6, 7}. Both set come from the universe 88 2
per hour, and he can keep his tips. He of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}. What is the 1 33
B. D.
knows his tips average $8.80 per table. intersection A B ? 3 65
If he worked an eight-hour shift and took
home $169.20, how many tables did he A. {4, 5, 8} C. {1, 3, 6} 82. Seven leaders from different political
serve? B. {1, 3, 6, 7} D. {1, 6} parties entered a circular room. The only
furnishings are seven chairs arranged
A. 13 C. 8 3 around a circular table. How many ways
B. 14 D. 88 72. Evaluate: Tan arc sin tanarc cot 3 are there of arranging the leaders?
2
64. On May 18, 1990 the fastest speed of A. 720 C. 450
any national railroad was achieved by A. 1 C. 1 B. 120 D. 500
the French high speed train Train a B. 2 D. 3
Grande Vitess as it traveled over a 83. Find the area of the circle shown.
distance from Cortalain to Tours, 73. Given ABC. Find the length of the
France. A commentator said that this altitude from A to side BC, it a = 24 ft, b 2
speed was so fast that if it continued at = 14 ft and c = 18 ft. 5 5
that rate, the train would travel 6404
miles in 20 hours. How fast did the train A. 10 ft C. 11 ft
travel on that date? B. 12 ft D. 13 ft

A. 320.2 mph C. 640.4 mph 74. Find the 60th percentile from the sample:
B. 20 mph D. 50 mph 1, 2, 5, 11, 6, 9, 10, 11, 1, 11, 23, 25.
A. 154 C. 172
65. Two trains leave a train station at the A. 6 C. 11 B. 165 D. 118
same time. One train travels east at 50 B. 5 D. 1
mph. The other train travels west at 84. Find the radius of the spherical wedge
55mph. In how many hours will the two 75. What is the area of a triangular field that whose volume is 12 cu. m with a central
trains be 315 miles apart? is 529 ft on one side and 849 ft on angle of 1.8 radians.
another, if the angle between these
A. 2 C. 3 sides measures 102.7? A. 2.05 m C. 2.25 m
B. 10 D. 5 B. 2.15 m D. 2.35 m
A. 2 acres C. 3 acres
66. Together, The Thing and Human Torch B. 4 acres D. 5 acres 85. Two complementary angles are in the
can paint a wall in 18 minutes. Alone The ratio of 3:1. Find the larger angle.
Thing needs 15 minutes longer to paint 76. Find the exact value of tan A/2 if tan A =
the wall that Human Torch needs. How - 4/3 and A is in quadrant IV. A. 30 C. 67.5
much time does Human Torch need to B. 60 D. 75
paint the wall by himself? A. 1/2 C. 1/2
B. 1/3 D. 1/3
A. 20 min C. 30 min
B. 25 min D. 40 min 77. The pilot of a plane traveling on a
course of 30 sights the Mactan-Cebu
67. A cat is now 50 of her leaps ahead of a International Airport. The pilots line of
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86. A box of candy hearts contains 52 B. 83o D. 85o
hearts of which 19 are white, 10 are tan,
7 are pink, 3 are purple, 5 are yellow, 2 95. Find the value of
are orange, and 7 are green. If you
select 9 pieces candy randomly from the
( )
10cot cot 1 3 + cot 1 7 + cot 1 13 + cot 1 21
box, without replacement, give the A. 10 C. 15
probability that three of the hearts are B. 12 D. 17
white.
96. As shown in the figure, triangle ABC is
A. 29.17% C. 33.24% divided into six smaller triangles by lines
B. 12.50% D. 17.89% drawn from the vertices through a
common interior point. The areas of four
87. Eleven poker chips are numbered of these triangles are as indicated. Find
consecutively 1 through 10, with two of the area of the triangle ABC.
them labeled with a 6 and placed in a
jar. A chip is drawn at random. Find the A. 315 C. 325
odds of drawing a 6 from the jar above. B. 320 D. 330

A. 2 to 9 C. 2 to 11
B. 1 to 9 D. 1 to 11

88. Find the mode of the following test

scores {1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}.

A. 3 C. 2
B. 4 D. 1

89. Find the 30th percentile from the sample:

1, 2, 5, 11, 6, 9, 10, 11, 1, 11, 23, 25.
97. Find the domain of the function
A. 6 C. 11 x 1
B. 5 D. 1 h(x) = .
x5
90. The mean score of students is 65.3 and
the standard deviation is 20.15. Find the A. x=5 C. x 1
two values between which must lie at B. x5 D. x = 1
least 75% of the data.
98. Triangle ABC has right angle at B and
A. 32 and 103.4 contains a point P for which PA = 10, PB
B. 25 and 105.6 = 6 and APB = BPC = CPA . Find
C. 27 and 104.7 PC.
D. 30 and 108.3
A. 33 C. 31
91. Find the variance of the sample: 1, 2, 5, B. 35 D. 37
11, 6, 9, 10, 11, 1, 11, 23, 25. A

A. 60.26 D. 7.76
B. 60.45 D. 7.89
P
92. In the diagram below, angle ABC is a
right angle. Point D is on BC, and AD
bisects angle CAB. Points E and F are B C
on AB and AC, respectively, so that AE
= 3 and AF = 10. Given that EB = 8 and 5x + 1
FC = 27, the area of the quadrilateral 99. Let f(x) = 2x + 3 and g ( x ) = .
2x 3
DCFG is nearest to ______.
Determine ( g o f )( x ) .
A. 144 C. 148
B. 146 D. 150 10x + 16 16x 7
A. C.
4x + 3 2x 3
10x 7 16x + 16
B. D.
2x + 3 4x 3

100. A cylindrical bar of metal has a base

radius of 2 and a height of 9. It is melted
down and reformed into a cube. What is
the side of the cube?
93. Point B is on AC with AB = 9 and BC = A. 2.32 C. 4.84
21. Point D is not on AC so that AD = B. 3.84 D. 97.21
CD and AD and BD are integers. Find
the sum of all possible perimeters of
triangle ACD. God Bless!!!
A. 376 C. 378
B. 382 D. 380

94. Triangle ABC is an isosceles with AC =

BC and ACB = 106o . Point M is in the
interior of the triangle so that
MAC = 23o . Find the number of
degress in CMB .

A. 80o C. 75o
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