Basic Engineering Correlation (Algebra Reviewer) c. 24 b.

trivial solutions
d. 16 c. conditional solutions
1. Three transformers are directly proportional to the KVA d. extraneous solutions
cost P30,000. The cost of each transformer is directly 7. A certain company manufactures two products, X and Y,
proportional to the KVA rating and each has a constant of and each of these products must be processed on two 12. An airplane went 360 miles in 2 hours with the wind and,
proportionally of 0.9, 0.8 and 0.6, respectively. Find the cost different machines. Product X requires 1 minute of work time flying back the same route, it took 3 3/5 hours against the
of the KVA transformer. per unit on machine 1 and 4 minutes of work time on wind. What was its speed in still air?
a. P7,500 machine 2. Product Y requires two minutes of work time per a. 120 mph
b. P13,500 unit on machine 1 and 3 minutes of work time per unit on b. 150 mph
c. P15,500 machine 2. Each day, 100 minutes are available on machine 1 c. 140 mph
d. P9,000 and 200 minutes are available on machine 2. To satisfy d. 130 mph
certain customers, the company must produce at least 6 units
2. What is the sum of the following sequence of terms 18, 25, per day of product X and at least 12 units of product Y. If the 13. Find the fourth proportion to 3, 5 and 21.
32, 39, . . . ,67? profit of each unit of product X is P50 and the profit of each a. 27
a. 280 unit of product Y is P60, how many of each product should be b. 65
b. 380 produced in order to maximize the company's profit? c. 56
c. 320 a. X = 20 units, Y = 40 units d. 35
d. 340 b. X = 30 units, Y = 40 units
c. X = 20 units, Y = 50 units 14. Two jet planes travelling towards each other take off at
3. A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident d. X = 40 units, Y = 60 units the same time from two airports located 3000 miles apart. If
which detains it an hour, after which it proceeds at 3/5 of its they passed each other after two hours, determine the speed
former rate and arrives three hour after the time; but had the 8. If 4y3 + 18y2 + 8y - 4 is divided by 2y + 3, the remainder is: of each plane if one plane is flying at a speed 100 mph faster
accident happened 50 miles farther on yhe line, it would have a. 10 than the other.
arrived one and one-half hour sooner. Find the length of the b. 12 a. 700 and 800 mph
journey. c. 11 b. 600 and 700 mph
a. 850/9 miles d. 9 c. 700 and 900 mph
b. 800/9 miles d. 800 and 500 mph
c. 920/9 miles 9. The square of a number increased by 16 is the same as 10
d. 910/9 miles times the number. Find the number. 15. Round off 0.003086 to three significant figures.
a. 8, 2 a. 0.0031
4. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. Determine b. 6, 2 b. 0.00308
the number. c. 4, 2 c. 0.003
a. 5 d. 2, 2 d. 0.00309
b. 7
c. 4 10. The seating section in a coliseum has 30 seats in the first 16. It is sequence of numbers that successive terms differ by
d. 6 row, 32 in the second row, 34 seats in the third row and so on, a constant.
until the tenth row is reached, after which there are ten rows a. geometric progression
5. The roots of a quadratic equation are 1/3 and 1/4. What is each containing 50 seats. Find the total number of seats in b. arithmetic progression
the equation? the section. c. harmonic progression
a. 12x2 + 7x + 1=0 a. 1290 d. finite progression
b. 12x2 - 7x - 1=0 b. 1080
c. 12x2 - 7x + 1=0 c. 890 17. At 2:00 pm, an airplane takes off at 340 mph on an
d. 12x2 + 7x - 1=0 d. 980 aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier moves due south at 25 kph
in the same direction as the plane. At 4:05 pm, the
6. The geometric mean of 4 and 64: 11. If the roots of an equation is zero, then they are classified communication between the plane and aircraft carrier was
a. 30 as lost. Determine the communication range in miles between
b. 34 a. hypergolic solutions the plane and the carrier.
a. 785 miles c. 58 hp 29. Determine the sum of the progression if there are 7
b. 557 miles d. 48 hp arithmetic means between 3 and 35.
c. 412 miles a. 98
d. 656 miles b. 304
23. Find the 30th term of the arithmetic progression 4, 7, c. 214
18. A manufacturing firm maintains one product assembly 10, . . . d. 171
line to produce signal generators. Weekly demand for the a. 94
generators is 25 units. The line operates for 7 hours per day, b. 941 30. Crew No. 1 can finish installation of an antenna tower in
5 days per week. What is the maximum production time per c. 81 200 man-hour while Crew No. 2 can finish the same job in
unit in hours required for the line to meet the demand? d. 104 300 man-hour. How long will it take both crews to finish the
a. 3 hours same job, working together?
b. 1 hour 24. Convergent series is a sequence of decreasing numbers or a. 120 man-hour
c. 2.25 hours when the succeeding term is _______ than the preceding b. 140 man-hour
d. 0.75 hour term. c. 100 man-hour
a. equal d. 160 man-hour
19. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In5 years, the product of b. slightly more
their age is 1.5 times the product of their product ages. How c. greater 31. In how many minutes after 3:00 P.M will the minute hand
old is Beth now? d. lesser of a clock coincide with the hour hand?
a. 20 a. 15.455
b. 25 25. In the equation x2 + x = 0, one root is x equal to: b. 17.273
c. 18 a. 1 c. 16.364
d. 27 b. ¼ d. 18.182
c. 5
20. A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol d. none of these. 32. In a class of 40 students, 27 students like Calculus and 25
solutions of different strengths, 30% alcohol and 60% alcohol, like Geometry. How many students liked both Calculus and
respectively. How many cubic meters of each strength must 26. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of Geometry?
be used in order to produce a mixture of 50 cubic meters that 89% hydrochloric acid solution to reduce its strength to 75%? a. 12
contain 40% alcohol? a. 4.83 liters b. 13
a. 20, 30 m3 b. 6.53 liters c. 11
b. 33 1/3, 16 2/3 m3 c. 7.33 liters d. 10
c. 21 1/3, 28 2/3 m3 d. 5.34 liters
d. 10, 40 m3 33. The electric power which a transmission line can transmit
27. Round off 34.2814 to four significant figures. is proportional to the product of its design voltage and
21. Subtracting 2.6 x 103 from8.26 x 104 is: a. 34.8214 current capacity, and inversely to the transmission distance.
a. 8.0 x 104 b. 34 A 115 - kilovolt line rated at 100 amperes can transmit 150
b. 10.86 x 104 c. 34.28 megawatts over 150 km. How much power, in megawatts can
c. 8.0 x 103 d. 34.281 a 230 kilovolt line rated at 150 amperes transmit over 100
d. 10.86 x 103 km?
28. Solve algebraiclly: a. 595
22. The time requires by an evaluator to lift a weight varies 11y2 - 3x2 = 41 b. 675
directly with the weight and the distance through which it is 4x2 + 7y2 = 32. c. 485
to be lifted and inversely as the power of the motor. If it a. (-2, 2) and (2, -2) d. 785
takes 30 seconds for 10 hp motor to lift 100 lbs through 50 b. (± 1, ± 2)
feet, what size of motor is required to lift 800 lbs in 40 c. (± 1, ± 4) 34. The electrical resistance of a wire varies as its length and
seconds through a distance of 40 feet? d. (2, 3)and ( -2, -3) inversely as the square of its diameter. If a 100 m long and
a. 56 hp 1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance of 30 ohms, find the
b. 50 hp
length of the wire of the same material whose resistance and b. 0.02
diameter are 25 ohms and 0.74 mm respectively. c. 0.03 46. Which number has four significant figures?
a. 25 m d. 0.04 a. 1.414
b. 35 m b. 0.0014
c. 30 m 41. At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and c. 0.141
d. 40 m minute hand of the clock first form an angle of 120o? d. 0.01414
a. 12:21.818
35. What time after 3 o'clock will the hands of the clock be b. 12:22.818 47. A club of 40 executives, 33 likes to smoke Marlboro and
together for the first time? c. 12:18.818 20 likes to smoke Philip Morris. How many like both?
a. 3:02.30 d. 12:24.818 a. 12
b. 3:17.37 b. 13
c. 3:16.36 42. Solve the simultaneous equations: c. 14
d. 3:14.32 3x - y = 6 d. 11
9x - y = 12.
36. A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours. a. ( -1, 3 ) 48. The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two numbers
Another pump can pump out water from the same tank in 20 b. ( 1, -3 ) namely 250 and 850 are removed, what is the arithmetic
hours. How long will it take both pumps to pump out water in c. ( 1, 3 ) mean of the remaining numbers?
the tank? d. ( -1, -3 ) a. 41.25
a. 6 hours b. 42.31
b. 6 1/2 hours 43. A merchant has three items on sale: namely, a radio for c. 44.25
c. 7 1/2 hours P50, a clock fo P30, and a flashlight for P1. At the end of the d. 40.21
d. 7 hours day, she has sold a total of 100 of the three items and has
taken exacly P1000 on the total sales. How many radios did 49. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The
37. If the sum is 220 and the first term is 10, find the common he sale? sum of the progreesion is:
difference if the last term is 30. a. 4 a. 374
a. 3 b. 80 b. 341
b. 4 c. 20 c. 320
c. 5 d. 16 d. 337
d. 2
44. What is the sum of the first 10 terms of the geometric 50. If a two digit number has X for its unit digit and Y for its
38. Equal volumes of two different liquids evaporated at progression 2, 4, 8, 16, . . . ? tenth digit, represent the number.
different but constant rates. If the first is totally evaporated a. 1696 a. 10Y + X
in 6 weeks and the second in 5 weeks, when will the second b. 2046 b. X + Y
be one-half the volume of the first? c. 1024 c. XY
a. 3.5 weeks d. 1846 d. 10Y + Y
b. 3 weeks
c. 4 weeks 45. In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons on brand 51. In the series 1, 1, 1/2, 1/6, 1/24, . . . , determine the 6th
d. 4 2/7 weeks preferences, 120 were found to prefer brand x only, 200 term.
persons prefer brand y only, 150 persons prefer brand z only, a. 1/60
39. MCMXCIV is a Roman numeral equivalent to: 370 prefer either brand x or y but not z, 450 prefer brand y or b. 1/120
a. 1994 z but not x, and 370 prefer either brand z or x but not y, and c. 1/150
b. 2174 none prefer all the three brands at a time. How many persons d. 1/90
c. 3974 have no brand preference with any of the three brands?
d. 2974 a. 200 52. Round off 149.691 to the nearest integer.
b. 100 a. 149
40. Find the 100th term of the sequence 1.01, 1.00, 0.99, . . c. 280 b. 149.7
a. 0.01 d. 70 c. 149.69
d. 150 c. 28 c. 1.5
d. 29 d. 3
53. The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number twice the
other. Find the numbers. 59. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 when 65. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2 - 10x + 2 = 0
a. 9 & 12 y = 7 and z = 2, find the value of x when y = 16 and z = 4. a. -2
b. 7 & 14 a. 4 b. ½
c. 8 & 13 b. 8 c. -1/2
d. 65 & 70 c. 16 d. 2
d. 14
54. The probability for the ECE board examinees from a 66. Maria is 36 years old. Maria was twice as old as Anna was
certain school to pass the Mathematics subject is 3/7 and 60. The arithmetic means of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers when Maria was as old as Anna is now. Jow old is Anna now?
that for the Communication subject is 5/7. If none of the are added to the progression, the new set of the numbers will a. 26
examinees failed in both subjects, how many examinees from have an arithmetic mean of 19. What are the two numbers if b. 31
the school took the examination? their difference is 4? c. 29
a. 30 a. 18, 22 d. 24
b. 27 b. 23, 27
c. 29 c. 10, 14 67. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric progression if the
d. 28 d. 31, 35 sum is 2 and the first term is 1/2.
a. 2/3
55. Solve for x that satisfies the equation 6x2 - 7x - 5 = 0. 61. The sum of Kim's and Kevin's ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim b. 1/6
a. 3/5 or ¾ will be twice as old as Kevin. What are their ages now? c. ¾
b. 3/2 or 3/8 a. 5, 13 d. ¼
c. 5/3 or -1/2 b. 7, 11
d. 7/5 or -7/15 c. 6, 12 68. A tank is fitted with two pipes. The first pipe can fill the
d. 4, 14 tank in 10 hours. But after it has been open for 3 hours, the
56. Three transformers are rated 5 KVA, 10 KVA and 25 KVA, second pipe is opened and the tank is filled up in 4 hours
respectively. The total cost of the three transformers is P15, 62. The intensity of sound varies directly as the strength of more. How long would it take the second pipe alone to fill tha
000.00. If the cost of each transformer is proportional to its the source and inversely as the square of the distance from tank?
KVA rating multiplied by the factor 1, 0.8 and 0.6 respectively, the source. Write the equation to the describe relation. a. 12.67 hr
find the cost of the 10 KVA transformer. a. I = 1/d2 + k b. 10.55 hr
a. P4,286 b. I=k/d2 c. 14.89 hr
b. P4,075 c. I = kd2 d. 13.33 hr
c. P4,101 d. I = d2/k
d. P4,393
63. Determine the sum of the infinite series 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 69. How many kg of cream containing 25% butter fat should
57. Solve the simultaneous equations: +. . . be added to 50 kg of milk containing one percent butter fat to
2x2 - 3y2 = 6 a. 1 produce milk containing 2% butter fat?
3x2 + 2y2 = 35. b. ¾ a. 4.17
a. x-3 or 3; y2 or -1 c. ½ b. 2.174
b. x3 or -3; y2 or -2 d. 2/3 c. 5.221
c. x3 or -3; y-2 or 1 d. 3.318
d. x3 or -3; y-2 or 3 64. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of 10%
solution. You find 7% and 12% solutions on the shelf. How 70. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire varies
58. The sum of the progression 5, 8, 11, 14, . . . Is 1025. How much of the 7% solution you mix with the appropriate directly as the length and inversely as the square of the
many terms are there? amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution? diameter of the wire. Compare the electrical resistance
a. 25 a. 2.5 offered by two pieces of wire of the same material, one being
b. 24 b. 2
100 m long and 8 mm in diameter, and the other 50 m long c. 13 82. A mechanical engineer who was awarded a P450,000.00
and 3 mm in diameter. d. 14 contract to install the machineries of an oil mill failed to finish
a. R1 = 0.28 R2 the work on time. As provided for in the contract, he has to
b. R1 = 0.84 R2 76. Find the mean proportion of 4 and 36. pay a daily penalty equivalent to one-fourth of one percent of
c. R1 = 0.57 R2 a. 12 the contract price for the first ten days of the delay, one-half
d. R1 = 0.95 R2 b. 8 percent per day for the next ten days and one percent per
c. 16 day for every day thereafter. If the total penalty paid was
71. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom layer, 58 d. 9 P60,750.00, how many days was the completion of the
bricks in the second layer, 55 bricks in the third layer, and so contract delayed?
on until there are 10 bricks in the last layer. How many bricks 77. An automobile is travelling at a velocity of 10 mph. If the a. 30 days
are there all together? automobile mileage meter already reads 20 miles, find the b. 26 days
a. 458 mileage meter reading after 3 hours. c. 24 days
b. 639 a. 60 miles d. 28 days
c. 724 b. 30 miles
d. 538 c. 50 miles 83. A man started driving his car at a certain time froma
d. 40 miles certain place. On arrival at his destination at the precise
72. A 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (p = 790 appointed time, he said, "If I had averaged 6 miles per hour
kg/cu.m.). What is the specific volume of the resulting 78. Find the sum of 1, -1/5, 1/25, . . . faster, I would have been 5 minutes early. But if I had
mixtures? Assuming that the two fluids mix completely. a. 6/7 averaged 5 mph slower, I would have been 6 minutes late."
a. 0.63 cu cm/g b. 7/8 Find how far he had driven.
b. 0.88 cu. cm/g c. 5/6 a. 20 miles
c. 0.82 cu cm/g d. 8/9 b. 10 miles
d. 1.20 cu cm/g c. 25 miles
79. A man is 41 years old and his son is 9. In how many years d. 15 miles
73. One number is 5 less than another. If the sum is 135, will the father be three times as old as his son?
what are the numbers? a. 7 84. Pedro started running at a speed of 10kph. Five minutes
a. 65, 70 b. 8 later, Mario started running in the same direction and
b. 60, 65 c. 6 catches up with Pedro in 20 minutes. What is the speed of
c. 75, 80 d. 5 Mario?
d. 70, 75 a. 12.5 kph
80. A tank is fitted with an intake pipe that will fill it in 4 b. 17.5 kph
74. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than hours, and an outlet pipe that will empty it in 9 hours. If both c. 20.5 kph
twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of the pipes are left open, how long will it take to fill the empty d. 15.0 kph
fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original fraction. tank?
a. 8/5 a. 7.2 hr 85. The equation whose roots are the reciprocal of the
b. 13/5 b. 6.8 hr solutions of 2x2 - 3x - 5 = 0.
c. 5/13 c. 6.2 hr a. 3x2 - 5x - 2=0
d. 3/5 d. 7.4 hr b. 5x2 - 2x - 3=0
c. 5x2 + 3x - 2=0
75. An inexperienced statistical clerk submitted the following 81. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent to d. 2x2 + 5x - 3=0
statistics to his manager on the average rate of production of 1785/9999 starting from the decimal point.
transistorized radios in an assenbly line: "1.5 workers a. 1 86. In certain Board Examination, 119 examinees too the
produced 3 radios in 2 hour." How many workers are b. 5 Shop Machinery subjected, 104 examinees took thye Power
employed in the assembly line working 40 hours per week if c. 7 Plant Machinery subject and 115 examinees took the
weekly production is 480 radios? d. 8 Industrial Plant Machinery subject. Seventy-eight (78)
a. 12 conditioned examinees took only Shop Machinery and Power
b. 10 Machinery subjects. Seventy-one (71) conditioned examinees
took only the POwer Plant Machinery and Industrial Plant c. Yes, P24,500 savings
Machinery subjects. Eighty-five (85) conditioned examinees 92. The number 1.123123123. . . Is d. No, P15,750 losses
took only Industrial Plant Machinery and Shop Machinery a. surd
subjects. Fifty-four took all the three subjects. How many b. transcendental 98. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel
examinees took the Certified Plant Mechanic board c. rational 1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying back. What was the wind
examination? d. irrational velocity in kph?
a. 153 a. 40
b. 165 93. Which of the following numbers should be changed to b. 70
c. 158 make all the numbers from an arithmetic progression when c. 60
d. 176 properly arranged? d. 50
a. 27/14
87. If a train passes as many telegraph poles in one minute as b. 45/28 99. If a = b, then b = a. This illustrates which axiom in
it goes miles per hour, how far apart are the poles? c. 20/14 Algebra?
a. 78 ft. d. 3/28 a. Transitive Axiom
b. 98 ft. b. Reflexive Axiom
c. 68 ft. 94. How many significant digits do 10.097 have? c. Symmetric Axiom
d. 88 ft. a. 4 d. Replacement Axiom
b. 5
88. A man 38 years old has a son of ten years old. In how c. 2 100. The ten's digit of a certain two digit number exceeds the
many years will the father be three times as old as his son? d. 3 unit's digit by four and is one less than twice the unit's digit.
a. 2 Find the number.
b. 3 95. Find the sum of the infinite geometric progression 6, -2, a. 59
c. 4 2/3, . . . b. 95
d. 5 a. 9/2 c. 65
b. 7/2 d. 85
89. In Algebra, the operation of root extraction is called as c. 3/2
_____. d. 11/2 101. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe can
a. revolution fill the same in tank in 3 hours. A drain pipe can empty the
b. resolution 96. The time required for two examinees to solve the same tank in 24 hours. With all three pipes open, how lomg will it
c. involution problem differ by two minutes. Together they can solve 32 take to fill in the tank?
d. evolution problems in one hour. How long will it take for the slower a. 2.18 hrs
problem solver to solve the problem? b. 2.23 hrs
90. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% a. 3 minutes c. 2.81 hrs
faster than Pilar and together they can paint a given fence in b. 5 minutes d. 2.32 hrs
4 hours. How long will it take Pedro to paint the same fence if c. 2 minutes
he had to work alone? d. 4 minutes 102. An equipment installation job in the completion stage
a. 15 can be completed in 40 days of 8 hours day work with 40
b. 13 97. An equipment installation job in the completion stage can men working. With the contract expiring in 30 days, the
c. 10 be completed in 50 days of 8 hours day work, with 50 men mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 10 men on
d. 11 working. With the contract expiring in 40 days, the the job, overtime not being permitted. If the liquidated
mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 15 men on damages is P2,000 per day of delay, and the men are paid
91. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The the job, overtime not being permitted. If the liquidated P80 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job on
sum of the progression is: damages is P5,000 per day of delay, and they are paid P150 time?
a. 374 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job on a. No, there would be no savings
b. 341 time? Would he save money with the addition of workers? b. No, P16,000 would be lost
c. 320 a. No, P20,500 losses c. Yes, there would just be break even
d. 337 b. Yes, P44,750 savings d. Yes, P16,000 would be saved
 113. A man leaving his office on one afternoon noticed the
103. It takes Butch twice as it takes Dan to do a certain piece 109. A clock has dial face 304.80 mm in radius. The minute clock at past two o'clock. Between two three hours, he
of work. Working together they can do the work in 6 days. hand is 228.60 mm long while the hour hand is 152.40 mm returned to his office noticing the hands of the clock
How long would it take Dan to do it alone? long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is 50.80 mm interchanged. At what time did he leave the office and the
a. 12 days above the plane of rotation of the hour hand. Find the time that he returned to the office?
b. 9 days distance between the tips of the hands of the clock at 5:40 a. 2:27.08, 5:11.19 P.M.
c. 10 days AM. b. 2:26.01, 5:10.01 P.M
d. 11 days a. 228 mm c. 2:26.01, 5:10.01 P.M.
b. 239 mm d. 2:26.01, 5:12.17 P.M.
104. Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. However, c. 243 mm
"y" years ago, Robert was twice as old as Stan. If Stan is now d. 233 mm 114. A medium unshaded lamp hangs 8 m directly above the
"b" years old b.y, find the value of (b-y). table. To what distance should it be lowered to increase the
a. 18 110. A certain manufactured part can be defective because it illumination to 4.45 times the former value? Illumination
b. 17 has one or more out of the three possible defects: insufficient intensity varies inversely to the square of the distance.
c. 15 tensile strength, a burr, or a diameter outside of tolerance a. 4.75 m
d. 16 limit. In a lot of 500 pieces: 19 have a tensile strength defects, b. 4.55 m
17 have a burr, 11 have an unacceptable diameter, 12 have c. 3.79 m
105. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7 hours, tensile strength and burr defects, 7 have tensile strength and d. 3.95 m
respectively. What fraction of the yard can they mow in 1 diameter defects, 5 have burr and diameter defects and 2
hour if they work together? have all three defects. Determine: 115. Roberto is 25 years younger than his father. However,
a. 47/84 hr How many of the pieces have no defects? his father will be twice his age in 10 years. Find their ages
b. 84/47 hr How many pieces have only burr defects? now.
c. 34/60 hr How many pieces have exactly 2 defects? a. 15 and 40
d. 45/84 hr a. 475, 2, 18 b. 10 and 35
b. 490, 4, 10 c. None of the choices
106. The volume of hemisphere varies directly as the cube of c. 465, 3, 7 d. 20 and 45
its radius. The volume of a sphere with 2.54 cm radius is d. 480, 4, 6
20.75 cm3. What is the volume of a sphere with 3.25 cm 116. A storage battery discharges at a rate which is
radius of the same kind? 111. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana proportional to the charge. If the charge is reduced by 50% of
a. 4056 cm3 waswhen Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is Ana? its original value at the end of 2 days, how long will it take to
b. 45.98 cm3 a. 18 reduce the charge to 25% of its original charge?
c. 43.47 cm3 b. 16 a. 6
d. 39.20 cm3 c. 20 b. 4
d. 19 c. 3
107. Add the following and express in meters: 3 m + 2 cm + d. 5
70 mm. 112. The electrical resistance of wire made of a certain
a. 3.14 m material varies as its length and inversely as the square of the 117. Prior to the last IBP elections, a survey was conducted in
b. 2.90 m diameter. If the wire 200 meters long and 1.25 mm in a certain barangay in Metro Manila to find out which of three
c. 3.12 m diameter has a resistance of 60 ohms, find the length of the political parties they like best. The results indicated that 320
d. 3.09 m wire of the same material, whose resistance and diameter like KBL, 250 like LABAN and 180 liked INDEPENDENTS. But of
are 5 ohms and 0.65 mm, respectively. these, 160 like both KBL and LABAN, 100 liked both LABAN
108. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the same a. 3.96 m and INDEPENDENTS and 70 like both KBL and INDEPENDENTS.
day, the minute hand of a standard clock describe an arc of: b. 4.51 m Only 30 said they like all the three parties and none admitted
a. 90o c. 4.28 m that they did not like any party. How many voters are there in
b. 60o d. 5.72 m the barangay?
c. 540o a. 474
d. 180o b. 525
c. 450 d. 18.5 a. (1, 3)
d. 540 b. (3/2, 1/2)
123. A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. Five c. (1, 2)
118. A man left his home at past 3:00 o'clock P.M as indicated workers started the job. They were reinforced with four more d. ( 1/2, 3/2 )
in his wall clock. Between 2 and 3 hours after, he returned workers at the beginning of the 6th day. Find the total number
home and noticed the hands of the lock interchanged. At of days it took them to finish the job. 129. Determine the k so that the equation 4x2 + kx + 1 = 0 will
what time the man leave his home? a. 22.36 days have just one real root.
a. 3:24.73 P.M b. 20.56 days a. 5
b. 3:18.52 P.M c. 23.22 days b. 6
c. 3:31.47 P.M d. 21.42 days c. 4
d. 3:28.65 P.M d. 3
124. Six times the middle digit of a three-digit number is the
119. Given: f(x) = ( x+ 3) (x - 4) +4. When f(x) is divided by (x - sum of the other two. If the number is divided by the sum of 130. An airplane travels from points A and B with the distance
k), the remainder is k. Find k. its digits, the answer is 51 and the remainder is 11. If the of 1500 km and a wind along its flight line. If it takes the
a. 2 digits are reversed the number becomes smaller by 198, find airplane 2 hours from A to B with the tailwind and 2.5 hours
b. 6 the number. from B to A with the headwind, what is the velocity?
c. 4 a. 825 a. 700 kph
d. 8 b. 775 b. 675 kph
c. 725 c. 450 kph
120. A & B working together can finish painting the house in d. 875 d. 750 kph
six days. A working alone, can finish it in five days less than B.
How long will it take each of them to finish the work alone? 125. Given that "w" varies directly as the product of x and y 131. How many numbers between 10 and 200 are exactly
a. 15 days for A and inversely as the square of z and that w = 4 when x = 2, y = divisible by 7? Find their sum.
20 days for B 6 and z = 3. Find tha value of "w" when x = 1, y = 4 and z = 2. a. 2835
b. 10 days for A a. 5 b. 2840
25 days for B b. 4 c. 283
c. 15 days for A c. 3 d. 2830
20 days for B d. 2 e. 27 numbers; sum
d. 10 days for A f. 28 numbers; sum
15 days for B 126. A man driving his car at a certain speed from his house g. 26 numbers; sum
will reach his office in 6 hours. If he increased his speed 15 h. 26 numbers; sum
121. A statistical clerk submitted the following reports: "The mph, he would reach his office 1 hour earlier. Find the
average rate of production of radios is 1.5 units for every 1.5 distance from his office to his house. 132. A gasoline tank of a car contains 50 liters of gasoline and
hours of work by 1.5 workers." How many radios were a. 350 miles alcohol, the alcohol comprising 25%. How much of the
produced in one month by 30 men working 200 hours during b. 450 miles mixture must be drawn off and replaced by alcohol so that
the month? c. 520 miles the tank will contain a mixture of which 50% is alcohol?
a. 4000 d. 250 miles a. 10.67 liters
b. 3500 b. 20.33 liters
c. 4500 127. Determine x, so that x, 2x + 7, 10x - 7 will be a geometric c. 16.67 liters
d. 5000 progression. d. 16.33 liters
a. 7, -15/6
122. A piece of paper is 0.05 in thick. Each time the paper is b. 7, -7/5 133. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one more log than
folded into half, the thickness is doubled. If the paper was c. 7, -5/6 the layer above and the top contains just one log. If there are
folded 12 times, how thick in feet the folded paper will be? d. 7, -7/6 105 logs in the pile, how many layers are there?
a. 15.2 a. 16
b. 16.25 128. Solve for the values of x and y in 4x + 2y = 5 and 13x - 3y b. 14
c. 17.06 = 2. c. 10
d. 12 b. 18 min
c. 21 min
134. Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing 8% nickel is d. 20 min 145. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5mph and
to be made by mixing a steel containing 14% nickel with upstream at the rate of 2mph. How far downstream should
anothercontaining 6% nickel. How much of each is needed? 140. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 50 ft. and is he go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?
a. 800 kg, 1200 kg observed to rebound 2/3 of the distance it falls. How far will a. 2.5 miles
b. 500 kg, 1500 kg the ball travel before coming to rest if the ball continues to b. 3.3 miles
c. 600 kg, 1500 kg fall in this manner? c. 2.7 mlies
d. 400 kg, 1600 kg a. 300 d. 3.1 miles
b. 200
c. 350 146. Solve for the value of x.
135. A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with the stream d. 250 2x - y + z = 6
and black in 14 hours, but that he can row 14 miles with the x - 3y - 2z = 13
stream in the same time as 3 miles against the stream. Find 141. The resistance of the wire varies directly with its length 2x - 3y - 3z = 16
the rate of the stream. and inversely with its area. If a certain piece of wire 10 m long a. 3
a. 1 mile per hour and 0.10 cm in diameter has a resistance of 100 ohms, what b. 1
b. 0.6 mile per hour will its resistance be if it is uniformly stretched so that its c. 2
c. 0.8 mile per hour length becomes 12 m? d. 4
d. 1.5 mile per hour a. 144
b. 80 147. Find the value of w in the following equations:
136. Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 ft in the first second, c. 120 3x - 2y + w = 11
48.3 ft in the 2nd second, 80.5 ft in the 3rd second. How far did d. 90 x + 5y - 2w = -9
the body fall during the 10th second. 2x + y - 3w = -6.
a. 250.1 ft 142. Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 25 liters of 35% salt a. 4
b. 305.9 ft solution are poured into a drum originally containing 30 liters b. 2
c. 529.45 ft of 10% salt solution. What is the percent concentration of salt c. 3
d. 417.3 ft in the mixture? d. -2
a. 0.1955
137. Solve for x : 10x2 + 10 x2 + 1 = 0. b. 0.2572 148. A boat travels downstream 2/3 of the time as it goes
a. -0.331, 0.788 c. 0.2215 going upstream. If the velocity of the river's current is 8 kph,
b. -0.311, -0.887 d. 0.2705 determine the velocity of the boat in still water.
c. -0.113, -0.788 a. 70 kph
d. -0.113, -0.887 143. A & B can do the job in 42 days, B & C for the same job in b. 60 kph
31 days, C & A also for the same job in 20 days. If A & C work c. 30 kph
138. An airplane travels from points A and B with a distance together, how many days can they do the same job? d. 40 kph
of 1500 km and a wind along its flight line. If it takes the a. 19
airplane 2 hours from A and B with the tailwind and 2.5 hours b. 17 149. A survey of 100 persons revealed that 72 of them had
from B to A with the headwind, What is the velocity? c. 21 eaten at restaurant P and that 52 of them had eaten at
a. 700 kph d. 15 restaurant Q. Which of the following could not be the
b. 675 kph number of persons in the surveyed group who had eaten at
c. 750 kph 144. A pipe can fill a tank in 14 hours. A second pipe can fill both P and Q?
d. 450 kph the tank in 16 hours. If both pipes are left open, determine a. 23
the time required to fill the tank? b. 22
139. A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five a. 7.92 hr c. 24
minutes later, a second jogger starts the same course at 10 b. 8.47 hr d. 25
kph. How long will it take the second jogger to catch the first? c. 7.47 hr
a. 22 min d. 6.53 hr