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Mathematics 10
PRETEST, SY 2018-2019

Name:________________________________ Date:__________
Section:_________________________

I. Write the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheert . Show your solutions .

1. What is the next term in the geometric sequence 4, -12, 36?

A. -42 B. -54 C. -72 D. -108
2. Find the common difference in the arithmetic sequence 3, 13/4, 7/2, 15/4, …
A. ¼ B. ¾ C. 5/2 D. 4
3. Which set of numbers is an example of a harmonic sequence?
A. ½, -1/2, ½, -1/2 B. ½, -1, 2, -4 C. 1/3, 1/9, 1/27, 1/81 D. 2, 2/3, 2/5, 2/7
4. What is the sum of all the odd integers between 8 and 26?
A. 153 B. 151 C. 149 D. -148
5. If three arithmetic means are inserted between 11 and 39, find the second arithmetic mean.
A. 18 B. 25 C. 32 D. 46
6.Moses saved P5 in January. Suppose he saved twice the amount he saved in the previous month,
how much will he save at the end of one year?
A. Php 4,096.00 B. Php 20,475.00 C. Php 20,480.00 D. Php120,000

7. Which of the following is a polynomial?

i. 4x3 + 9x – 5x2 + 7 ii. 2x-5 + x-2 + x-3 + 2x +5 iii. 1/(x2 + 3x + 6)
A. I only B. ii only C. I and ii D. I and iii
8. The following are examples of polynomials, except:
A. x2 – 4x +5x B. 4x-3 + 8x-2 + 10x – 7 C. 3x4 – 5x3 + 2x – 1 D. x3 – y3
9. The leading coefficient of the polynomial 5x + 4x + 4x + x – x is
10 12 6 4

A. 4 B. 5 C. 10 D. 12
10. What is the quotient when x2 – 25 is divided by x – 5?
A. x – 5 B. x – 25 C. x + 5 D. x + 25
11. Which expression gives the remainder when P(x) = 4x2 + 2x – 5 is divided by x – 2?
A. P(-5) B. P(-2) C. P(2) D. P(5/4)
12. What should n be if f(x) = xn defines a polynomial function?
A. an integer B. a nonnegative integer C. any number D. any number except 0
13. Find the remainder when 4x +3x + 1 is divided by x + 3.
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A. 28 B. 27 C. 26 D. 25

14. Find the value of k so that (x+4) is a factor of x4+kx3-4x2.

A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

15. Which of the following is an example of a polynomial function?

A. f(x) = (4/x3) + 3x – 1 B. f(x) = 2x3/2 – 3/2x2 C. f(x) = (√7x) – 2x6 D. f(x) = x3 + (√3x) – 5
16. What is the leading coefficient of the polynomial function f(x) = 2x + x3 + 4?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
17. How should the polynomial function f(x) = 2x + x + 3x5 + 4 be written in standard form?
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A. f(x) = x3 + 2x + 3x5 + 4 B. f(x) = 4 + 3x5 + 3x + x3

C. f(x) = 4 + 2x + x3 + 3x5 D. f(x) = 3x5 + x3 + 2x + 4
18. If you will draw the graph of y = x(x+2) , how will you sketch it with respect to the x-axis?
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A. sketch it crossing both (-2,0) and (0,0) B. sketch it crossing (-2,0) and tangent at (0,0)
C. sketch it tangent at (-2,0) and crossing (0,0) D. sketch it tangent at both (-2,0) and (0,0)
19. What is an angle whose vertex is on a circle and whose sides contain chords of the circle?
A. central angle B. inscribed angle C. circumscribed angle D. intercepted angle
20. An arc of a circle measures 30o. If the radius of the circle is 5cm, what is the length of the arc?
A. 2.62cm B. 2.3cm C. 1.86cm D. 1.5cm
21. The opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are _______.
A. right B. obtuse C. complementary D. supplementary
22. What is the sum of the measures of the central angles of a circle with no common interior points?
A. 120 B. 240 C. 360 D. 480
23. Catherine designed a pendant. It is regular hexagon set in a circle. Suppose the opposite vertices are connected
by line segments and meet at the center of the circle. What is the measure of each angle formed at the center?
A. 22.5o B. 45o C. 60o D. 72o
24. Which of the following represents the distance d between the two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2)?
A. d = (√(x2 + x1)2 + (y2 + y1)2) B. d = (√(x2 + x1)2 – (y2 + y1)2)
C . d = (√(x2 – x1)2 + (y2 – y1)2 D. d = (√(x2 – x1)2 – (y2 – y1)2)
25. Point L is the midpoint of KM. Which of the following is true about the distances among K, L, and M?
A. KL = KM B. LM = KM C. KL = LM D. 2|KM| = KL + LM
26. A map is drawn on a grid where 1 unit is equivalent to 1km. on the same map, the coordinates of the point
corresponding San Vicente is (4,9). Suppose San Vicente is 13 km awat from San Luis. Which of the following
could be coordinates of the point corresponding to San Luis?
A. (-13,0) B. (16,4) C. (4, 16) D. (0,13)
27. What is the distance between points M(-3,1) and N(7, -3)?
A. 6 B. 2(√29) C. 14 D. 4(√29)
28. Which of the following represents the midpoint M of the segment whose endpoints are (x1, y1) and x2, y2)?
A. M = (((x1 - x2) / 2), ((y1 - y2) / 2))) B. M = (((x1 + x2) / 2), ((y1 + y2) / 2)))
C. M = (((X1 + y1) / 2), ((x2 + y2) / 2))) D. M = (((x1 – y1) / 2), ((x2 – y2) / 2)))
29. Choosing a subset of a set is an example of _____.
A. combination B. differentiation C. integration D. permutation

30. Solve the polynomial equation x3 + 4x2 – 15x – 18=0 ?

A. -1,-3 and -6 B. -1,-3 and -6 C. -1, 3 and -6 D. -1,-3 and 6

31. Which of the following is an example of polynomial function?

32. What are the x-intercepts of the function f(x)=(x+4)(x+2)(x-1)(x-3) ? x`

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

33. How many line/s can be drawn through a given point on a circle that is tangent to the circle?
A. one B . three C .two D. four

33. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?

A. matching shirts and pants B. forming different triangles out of five points
C. assigning telephone numbers to subscribers D. forming a committee from the members of a club
34. The product of a positive integer n and all the positive integers less than it is _____.
A. powers of n B. multiples of n C. n – factors D. n factorial
35. Two different arrangements of objects where some of them are identical are called _____.
A. distinguishable permutation B. unique combinations
C. circular permutations D. circular combinations

36. Refer to the figure on the right.

The international club of a school has 105 members, many of whom speak multiple languages. The most
commonly spoken languages in the club are English, Korean, and Chinese

What is the union of the number of students who speaks

English and Chinese
A. 21 C. 41
B. 37 D. 94

37. How many different 4-digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9 if no repetition of
digits is allowed?
A. 1680 B. 840 C. 1440 D. 120
38. Brian likes to wear colored shirts. He has 10 shirts in the closet. Three of these are blue, four are in different
shades of red, and the rest are of mixed or different colors. What is the probability that he will wear a blue or a red
shirt?
A. 7/10 + 4/10 B. 3/10 + 4/10 C. 3/10 + 7/10 D. 7/10 – 4/10
39. Jody has four cans of juice – one can of orange, one of pineapple, one of calamansi, and one of guyabano. She
chooses three of these cans to take to school. If she chooses calamansi, what is the probability she also chooses
pineapple?
A. 7/8 B. ¾ C. 2/3 D. 3/8
40. A man tosses a fair coin eight times, and observes whether the toss yields a head (H) or a tail (T). Which of the
following sequences of outcomes yields a head (H) on his next toss?
i. TTTTTTTT ii. H H T H T T H H
A. i B. ii C. neither i nor ii D. either i or ii
41. A baby has 5 blocks in a box. One block is red, one is yellow, one is green, one is blue, and one is black. The
baby pulls out a block, looks aat it, and puts it back in the box. If he does this four times before he gets bored and
crawls away, what is the probability that the 4 blocks selected are all of the same color?
A. 5/54 B. 1/54 C. 4/54 D. 2/54
42. A box contains 4 red balls and 6 blue balls. A second box contains 16 red balls and an unknown number of blue
balls. A single ball is drawn from each box. The probability that both balls are of the same color is 0.44. How many
blue balls are there in the second box?
A. 4 B. 20 C. 24 D. 44
43. The median score is also the _____.
A. 75th percentile B. 5th decile C. 3rd decile D. 1st quartile
44. When a distribution is divided into hundred equal parts, each score point that describes the distribution is
called a _____.
A. percentile B. decile C. quartile D. median
45. The lower quartile is equal to _____.
A. 50th percentile B. 25th percentile C. 2nd decile D. 3rd quartile
46. Rochelle got a score of 55 which is equivalent to 70th percentile in a mathematics test. Which of the following
is NOT TRUE?
A. She scored above 70% of her classmates B. 30% of the class got scores 55 and above
C. If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the test D. Her score is below the 5th decile
47. In the set of scores: 14, 17, 10, 22, 19, 24, 8, 12, and 19, the median score is _____.
A. 17 B. 16 C. 15 D. 13
48. A 5-person committee is formed from 5 juniors and 6 seniors. Find the probability that the committee consist
of exactly 3 seniors.
A. 100/231 B. 25/77 C. 1/77 D. 31/231
49. A card is drawn from a deck. What is the probability that the card is a face card?
A. 11/52 B. 3/13 C. 14/52 D. 5/13
50. A box contains 3 red balls, 4 blue balls and 5 green balls. Three balls are drawn from the box. Find the proba-
bility that the cards are of the same color.
A. 1/220 B. 1/55 C. 1/22 D. 3/44