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1. If 6x2 + 36x + k = 6(x + a)2, what is the value of k? 13. Pedro is as old as Juan was when Juan is twice as old
A. 54 C. 12 as Pedro was. When Pedro will be as old as Juan is
B. 36 D. 18 now, the difference between their ages is 6 years. Find
2. Solve for y if 8x = 2(y+2) and 16(3x-y) = 4y. the age of each now.
A. 1 C. 3 A. Juan = 24, Pedro = 18 C. Juan = 26, Pedro = 20
B. 2 D. 4 B. Juan = 32, Pedro = 28 D. Juan = 24, Pedro = 24

3. When the given function f(x) = cx3 - 3x2 + dx – 4 is 14. At what time between 2:00 and 3:00 will the angle
divided by (x+2), the remainder is -34. When divided by between the hands of the clock be bisected by the line
(x-2), the remainder is 2. What is the value of d? connecting the center of the clock and the 3 o’clock
A. 1 C. 3 mark?
B. 2 D. 4 A. 2:21 3/11 C. 2:23 7/13
B. 2:18 6/13 D. 2:19 7/13
4. Find the value of constant “h” in the 2x2 – hx2 + 4x + 5h
= 0 so that the product of the roots is 5. 15. A motor is travelling from town A to town B at 60kph
A. 4 C. 6 and returns from town B to town A at 30kph. His
B. 12 D. 1 average velocity for the roundtrip is,
A. 45 kph C. 35 kph
5. Find the term independent of y in the expansion of (2y 2
B. 40 kph D. 60 kph
– 3y-1)9.
A. 217,728 C. -734,832 16. How much silver and how much copper must be added
B. -326,592 D. 489,888 to 20 kg of an alloy containing 10% silver and 25%
copper to obtain an alloy containing 36% silver and
6. Find the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of (3x-
38% copper?
2y-1)35.
A. 14 kg, 12 kg C. 12 kg, 10 kg
A. -1 C. 1
B. 16 kg, 14 kg D. 16 kg, 18 kg
B. -2 D. 2
17. A cask containing 20 gallons of wine was emptied on
7. If (5x – 3), (x + 2), and (3x – 11) form an arithmetic
one-fifth of its content and then is filled with water. If
progression, find the fourteenth term.
this is done 6 times, how many gallons of wine remain
A. – 86 C. – 81
in the cask?
B. – 79 D. – 84
A. 5.121 C. 5.010
8. Find the common ratio of a geometric progression B. 5.243 D. 5.343
whose first term is 1 and for which the sum of the first
18. A man can do a job with his son in 30 days. If after
6 terms is 28 times the sum of the first 3 terms.
working together for 12 days, the son worked alone and
A. 4 C. 5
finished the job in 24 more days, how long will it take
B. 3 D. 2
the son to do the job alone?
9. A rubber ball is dropped from a height of 15 meters. On A. 55 days C. 40 days
each rebound, it rises 2/3 of the height from which it B. 45 days D. 50 days
last fell. Find the distance traversed by the fall before it
19. A project activity can be done by 25 men in 60 days. At
comes to rest. The geometric progression occurs after
the end of the 5th day, 6 men were laid off. At the start
the first rebound.
of the 33rd day, 12 more men were hired to finish the
A. 96 m C. 100 m
job. How many days is the project advanced/ delayed?
B. 85 m D. 75 m
A. 0.81 advanced C. 0.19 advanced
10. In a given series of numbers 1, 1, ½, 1/6, 1/24,…, a n. B. 0.81 delayed D. 0.19 delayed
Find the 7th term.
20. The sum of the digits of a 2-digit number is 10. If the
A. 1/245 C. 1/360
number is divided by the units’ digit, the quotient is 3
B. 1/130 D. 1/720
remainder is 4. Find the number.
11. A survey was conducted by SWS to find out which of A. 37 C. 46
the three presidentiables they liked best. The results B. 28 D. 19
indicated that 500 liked Noynoy, 470 liked Villar, and
430 liked Estrada. But of these, 180 liked both Noynoy SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
and Estrada, 140 liked both Noynoy and Villar, and 210 21. Consider the sequence:
liked both Estrada and Villar. Only 60 liked all the 1, -2, 3, -4, 5, -6, … , whose nth term is (-1)n+1(n).
presidentiables. How many persons responded to the What is the average of the first 200 terms of the
survey? sequence?
A. 910 C. 960 A. -1 C. 0
B. 980 D. 930 B. -0.5 D. 1
12. Maria is twice as old as Ana was when Maria was as 22. A can do a job in 4 days, B can do the job in 6 days and
old as Ana is now. If Maria is 24 years old now, how old C can do the job in 8 days. How long will it take to do
is Ana now? the job if A and B work for 1 day then B and C finish the
A. 18 C. 12 job?
B. 16 D. 15 A. 1 C. 4
B. 2 D. 3
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23. Sept. 1976 at the recent Olympic Games in Montreal, 35. The average of 2013 numbers is 2014. If a number is
Canada, a team which participated in 1600 meters neglected, the new average becomes 2013. What was
relay event had the following individual speed. First the number neglected?
runner, 24 kph, second runner, 20 kph, third runner, 22 A. 2013 C. 2012
kph and fourth runner 23 kph. What was the team’s B. 4026 D. 4024
speed?
36. A figure is 30 cm high is reduced by 19% in a copier.
A. 22.149 kph C. 23.149 kph
The height of the figure in the resulting copy will be
B. 22.25 kph D. 21.25 kph
A. 5.7 cm C. 24.3 cm
24. If A is 10% greater than B and B is 20% less than C, B. 27 cm D. 13.08 cm
then A in terms of percentage of C is,
37. A contractor estimates that he could finish a project in
A. 114% C C. 88.9% C
15 days if he has 20 men. At the start, he hired 10 men
B. 112.5% C D. 88% C
then after 6 days, 10 more men are added. How many
25. If the discriminant of a quadratic equation is greater days was the project delayed?
than zero, the roots of the equation are
A. 5 C. 6
A. real & equal C. imaginary & distinct
B. real & distinct D. complex & unequal B. 3 D. 4
38. A man wishes to buy a piece of land worth 15 million
26. The simplest form of [(n+1)!]2 / [(n!)(n-1)!] is
pesos. If it were possible for him to save one peso for
A. n(n+1) C. n2
the first day, two pesos on the second day, 4 pesos on
B. n+1 D. n(n+1)2
the third day and so on. In how many days would he
27. A rectangular waterfront lot has a perimeter of 1000 save enough money to buy the land?
feet. To create a sense of privacy, the lot’s owner A. 20 C. 24
decide to fence along three sides, excluding the side B. 23 D. 27
that fronts the water. An expensive fencing along the 39. Town A is 11 kilometers from town B. A boy walks from
lot’s front length costs ₱ 25 per foot, and an A to B at the rate of 3 kph and a man starting at the
inexpensive fencing along two side widths costs only ₱ same time walks from B to A at 4 kph. When will they
5 per foot. The total cost of the fencing along all three be 2 kilometer apart after meeting each other along the
sides comes to ₱ 9,500. What is the lot’s dimensions? way?
A. 300 feet by 100 feet C. 400 feet by 200 feet A. 1.76 hr. C. 1.66 hr.
B. 400 feet by 100 feet D. 300 feet by 200 feet B. 1.96 hr. D. 1.86 hr.
28. A boat can go 12 kph in still water. Going full speed, it 40. A number is less than 100 and its tens’ digit is 2 more
goes 25 km upstream in the same time it takes to go than its units’ digit. If the number with the digits
35 km downstream. What is the rate of the current? reversed is subtracted from the original number, the
A. 3 kph C. 4 kph remainder is 3 times the sum of the digits. Find the
B. 1 kph D. 2 kph number.
29. The ratio or product of two expressions in direct or A. 42 C. 75
inverse relation with each other is called: B. 53 D. 64
A. ratio and proportion C. means 41. If 20 bakers can bake 40 cakes in 8 hrs, how many
B. extremes D. constant of variation bakers can bake 10 cakes in 2 hours?
A. 20 C. 10
30. An investor has ₱ 1, 100 income from bonds bearing
4% and 5% if the amount at 4% and 5% were B. 30 D. 40
interchanged he would earn ₱ 50 more per year. Find 42. When William was as old as Mae is now, the sum of
the total sum invested. their ages was 51. When Mae will be as old as William
A. ₱ 20, 000 C. ₱ 25, 000 is now, the sum of their ages will be 103. How many
B. ₱ 30, 000 D. ₱ 35, 000 years older is William than Mae?
31. A salesperson earns $ 600 per month plus a A. 25 C. 19
commission of 20% of sales. Find the minimum amount B. 13 D. 32
of sales needed to receive a total income of at least $ 43. The first term of a geometric progression is 3 and the
1,500 per month. last term is 48. If each term is twice the previous term,
A. $ 1,500 C. $ 4,500 find the sum of the geometric progression.
B. $ 3,500 D. $ 2,500 A. 93 C. 91
32. If n is a perfect square, what is the next larger perfect B. 92 D. 90
square? 44. Yoyet reads the clock differently such that he
A. n2 + 2n + 1 C. n2 + n + 1 recognizes the hour hand as the minute hand and the
B. n2 + 1 D. n + 2√n + 1 minute hand as hour hand. How many minutes after 5
o’clock will he read the time correctly?
33. Which of the following is the value of xy if x – y = 2, x2
A. 26.55 C. 28.92
+ 2xy + y2 = 3?
B. 27.27 D. 28.66
A. -1/4 C. 1/4
B. -4 D. Not in the choices 45. Equal volumes of different liquids evaporate at different
but constant rates. If the first is totally evaporated in 6
34. The terms of a sum may be grouped in any manner week and the second is 5 weeks, when will the second
without affecting the result. This law is known as: be ½ the volume of the first?
A. Associative Law C. Reflexive Law A. 27/7 C. 33/7
B. Commutative Law D. Distributive Law B. 30/7 D. 29/7