MACARANG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Macarang, Mangatarem, Pangasinan

Diagnostic Test

Name: ______________________________ Grade & Section: ______________ Score: _______

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is the next term in the geometric sequence 5, 10, 20, 40,…?
A. 60 B. 70 C. 80 D. 90
2. Find the common difference in the arithmetic sequence 10, 7, 4, 1, -2,…
A. 2 B. -2 C. 3 D. -3
3. Which set of numbers is an example of a harmonic sequence?
A. 1⁄2, 1⁄5, 1⁄8, 1⁄11,… B. 1⁄3, 1⁄6, 1⁄12, 1⁄24,…
C. 5, 5, 5, 5,… D. 1, 5, 9, 13,…
4. What is the sum of the first 75 terms of the sequence 8, -8, 8, -8,… ?
A. -8 B. 8 C. 0 D. 600
5. Find the common ratio in the geometric sequence 3, -3, 3, -3,…
A. 3 B. -3 C. 1 D. -1
6. What is the 12 term in the Fibonacci sequence 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,…?
th

A. 55 B. 89 C. 134 D. 166
7. During a free-fall, a skydiver jumps 16 feet, 32 feet, and 64 feet on the first, second, and third fall,
respectively. If he continues to jump at this rate, how many feet will he have jumped during the tenth fall?
A. 4653 B. 8192 C. 9456 D. 8182
8. Which of the following is a polynomial?
1
i. 4x3 + 9x – 5x2 + 7 ii. 2x-5 + x-2 + x-3 + 2x + 5 iii. 𝑥 2 +3𝑥+6
A. i only C. i and ii B. ii only D. i and iii
9. The following are examples of polynomials, EXCEPT
A. x2 – 4x + 5 B. 4x-3 + 8x-2 + 10x – 7 C. 3x4 – 5x3 + 2x – 1 D. x3 – y3
10. The leading coefficient of the polynomial 5x10 + 4x12 + 4x6 + x4 – x is
A. 4 B. 5 C. 10 D. 12
11. What is the quotient when x2 – 25 is divided by x – 5?
A. x – 5 B. x – 25 C. x + 5 D. x + 25

For items 5 to 8, use the illustration on long division that follows: Divide (5x2 + 14x – 24) by (x + 4).

12. What is the remainder?

A. 5x – 6 B. x + 4 C. – 6 D. 0
16. Which is the divisor?
A. x + 4 B. 5x – 6 C. 5x2 + 14x – 24 D. 0
14. Which is the quotient?
A. x + 4 B. 5x – 6 C. 5x2 + 14x – 24 D. 0
15. What is the process used to obtain the 2nd line?
A. Subtracting 5x from (x + 4) B. Dividing 5x by (x + 4) C. Adding 5x to (x + 4) D.
Multiplying 5x by (x + 4)
16. 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
17. Which of the following is an example of a polynomial function?
3
4 3
A. f(x)=𝑥 3 + 3x-1 B. f(x)=2𝑥 2 - 2x2 C. f(x)=√7𝑥 - 2x6
D. f(x)=x3 + √3𝑥 -5
18. What is the leading coefficient of the polynomial function f(x)= 2x + x3 + 4?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
19. How should the polynomial function f(x)= 2x + x3 + 3x5 + 4 be written in standard form?
A. f(x)= x3 + 2x + 3x5 + 4 B. f(x)= 4 + 3x5 + 2x + x3 C. f(x)= 4 + 2x + x3 + 3x5
D. f(x)= 3x + x + 2x + 4
5 3

20. Which of the following could be the graph of the polynomial function y= x3 - 4x2 + 3x - 12?

21. 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
22. An arc of a circle measures 30°. If the radius of the circle is 5 cm, what is the length of the arc?
A. 2.62 cm B. 2.3 cm C. 1.86 cm D. 1.5 cm
23. 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
24. If an inscribed angle of a circle intercepts a semicircle, then the angle is _________.
A. acute B. right C. obtuse D.
straight
25. At a given point on the circle, how many line/s can be drawn that is tangent to the circle?
A. one B. two C. three D. four
26. What are the coordinates of the midpoint of a segment whose endpoints are (-1, -3) and (11, 7)?
A. (2, 5) B. (6, 5) C. (-5, -2) D. (5, 2)

27. What figure is formed when the points A(3, 7), B(11, 10), C(11, 5), and D(3, 2) are connected
consecutively?
A. parallelogram B. trapezoid C. square D. rectangle
28. What is the center of the circle x + y - 4x + 10y + 13 = 0?
2 2

A. (2, 5) B. (–2, 5) C. (2, –5) D. (–2, –5)

29. Point F is 5 units from point D whose coordinates are (6, 2). If the x-coordinate of F is 10 and lies in the
first quadrant, what is its y-coordinate?
A. -3 B. -1 C. 5 D. 7
30. Which of the following represents the distance d between the two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2)?

31. Choosing a subset of a set is an example of ___.

A. combination B. differentiation C. integration D. permutation
32. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?
A. matching shirts and pants B. forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane,
no three of which are collinear
C. assigning telephone numbers to subscribers D. forming a committee from the members of a
club
33. 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
34. Two different arrangements of objects where some of them are identical are called _______.
A. distinguishable permutations B. unique combinations C. circular permutations
D. circular combinations
35. 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. 1 680 B. 840 C. 420 D. 120
36. In how many ways can 8 people be seated around a circular table if two of them insist on sitting beside
each other?
A. 360 B. 720 C. 1440 D. 5040
37. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word PASS.
A. 4 B. 12 C. 36 D. 144
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?
7 4 3 4 3 7 7 4
A. 10 + 10 B. 10 + 10 C. 10 + 10 D. 10 - 10
39. The spinner on the right is spun. What is the probability of a spin that results in
an even number or a number less than 4?
A. 1/4 B. 3/8 C. 4/8 D. 5/8
40. 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. 3/4 C. 2/3 D. 3/8
41. 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) T T T T T T T T (II) H H T H T T H H
A. I B. II C. Neither I nor II D. Either I or II
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. A married couple agreed to continue bearing a new child until they get two boys, but not more than 4
children. Assuming that each time that a child is born, the probability that it is a boy is 0.5, independent
from all other times. Find the probability that the couple has at least two girls.
A. 1/2 B. 5/16 C. 5/8 D. 4/15
44. The median score is also the _____________.
A. 75th percentile B. 5th decile C. 3rd decile D. 1st quartile
45. 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
46. The lower quartile is equal to ______________.
A. 50th percentile B. 25th percentile C. 2nd decile D. 3rd quartile
47. 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. Thirty percent of the class got scores
of 55 and above.
C. If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the test. D. Her score is below the 5th
decile.
48. 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
49. In a 70-item test, Melody got a score of 50 which is the third quartile. This means that:
A. she got the highest score. B. her score is higher than 25% of her
classmates.
C. she surpassed 75% of her classmates. D. seventy-five percent of the class did
not pass the test.
50. In a group of 55 examinees taking the 50-item test, Rachel obtained a score of 38. This implies that her
score is ______________.
A. below the 50th percentile B. at the upper quartile
C. the 55th percentile D. below the 3rd decile

Prepared by:

MARLON C. DELA CRUZ

Teacher III

Checked by:

GLORIA G. DOLATRE
Master Teacher III