Mathematics a.

50;210
(General Education Part 1) b. 40;160
c. 35;135
1. Two buses leave the same station at 8:00 pm. One d. 320;5120
bus travels north at the rate of 30 kph and the other
travels east at 40 kph. How many kilometers apart are 9. At what rate per annum should P2400 be invested so
the buses at 10 pm? that it will earn an interest of P800 in 8 years?
a. 140 km a. 6 ½ %
b. 100 km b. 5 ½ %
c. 70 km c. 4.17 %
d. 50 km d. 6 %

2. Calculate the mean absolute deviation of the 10. The area of a rectangle is (x2 + 2x - 8). If its length is
following numbers: 60, 80, 100, 75 and 95 x + 4, what is its width?
a. 12.4 a. x + 2
b. 14.2 b. x - 2
c. 16.1 c. x + 1
d. 18.9 d. x + 6

3. Which of the following is the factorization of the 11. What is the value of 12⅙ - 3 ⅜ - 5 ⅔ + 20 ¾?
binomial x2 - 42? a. 21 1/8
a. (x + 4)(x + 2) b. 22
b. (x – 4)2 c. 23 7/8
c. x(x + 2x + 2) d. 21
d. (x – 4)(x + 4)
12. The vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is 20°. What
4. What value of x will satisfy the equation: 0.4(5x - is the measure of one of the base angles?
1470) = x? a. 150°
a. 490 b. 60°
b. 2,130 c. 75°
c. 1470 d. 80°

5. Which of the following has the greatest value: 13. Ana and Beth do a job together in three hours.
a. 3 + 32 + (3 + 3)2 Working alone, Ana does the job in 5 hours. How long
b. 33 will it take Beth to do the job alone?
c. [(3 + 3)2]2 a. 3 and 1/3 hours
d. (3 + 3 + 3)2 b. 2 and 1/3 hours
6. The average of 5 different counting numbers is 20. c. 3 hours
What is the highest possible value that one of the d. 7 and 1/2 hours
numbers can have?
a. 20 14. How much greater is the sum of the first 50
b. 40 counting numbers greater than the sum of the first 100
c. 30 counting numbers?
d. 90 a. 110
b. 3,775
7. Three brothers inherited a cash amount of P62,000 c. 3,155
and they divided it among themselves in the ratio of d. 1200
5:4:1. How much more is the largest share than the
smallest share? 15. Which of the following has the largest value?
a. P75,000 a. 85
b. P30,000 b. 39
c. P24,800 c. 65
d. 94
8. What is the missing terms in the series 5, 20, 80,
___,1280, ___, 20, 480? 16. A water tank contains 18 liters when it is 20% full.
How many liters does it contain when 50% full?
a. 60
b. 30 23. One side of a 45° - 45° - 90° triangle measures x cm.
c. 58 What is the length of its hypotenuse?
d. 45 a. X √3 cm
b. X cm
17. The edges of a rectangular solid have these c. (X √3)/2 cm
measures: 1.5 feet by 1½ feet by 3 inches. What is its d. X √2 cm
volume in cubic inches?
a. 324 24. The legs of one right triangle are 9 and 12, while
b. 225 those of another right triangle are 12 and 16. How much
c. 972 longer is the perimeter of the larger triangle than the
d. 27 perimeter of the smaller triangle?
a. 84
18. In a certain school, the ratio of boys to girls is 5 is to b. 7
7. If there are 180 boys and girls in the school, how c. 12
many boys are there? d. 14
a. 105
b. 90 25. Determine the midpoint of the line segment joining
c. 45 the points (7, -3) and (-1, 6).
d. 75 a. (2, 3/2)
b. (2, -3/2)
19. Ruben’s grades in 6 subjects are 88, 90, 97, 90, 91 c. (3, 3/2)
and 86? What is the least grade that he should aim for d. (1, 5/2)
in the 7th subject if he has to have an average of 88?
a. 92 26. Which of these has the longest perimeter?
b. 74 a. A square 21 cm on a side
c. 88 b. A rectangle 19 cm long and 24 cm wide
d. 85 c. An equilateral triangle whose side is 28 cm
d. A right triangle whose two legs are 24 and 32 cm
20. On a certain day, three computer technicians took
turns in manning a 24-hour internet shop. The number 27. How many square inches are in 2 square yard?
of hours Cesar, Bert, and Danny were on duty was in the a. 900
ratio 3:4:5, respectively. The shop owner pays them P50 b. 144
per hour. How much would Danny receive for that day? c. 1296
a. P 230 d. 2,592
b. P500
c. P160 28. In a playground for Kindergarten kids, 18 children
d. P480 are riding tricycles or bicycles. If there are 43 wheels in
all, how many tricycles are there?
21. A retailer buys candies for P90.25. The pack has 35 a. 8
pieces of candies. If she sells each candy for P2.25, how b. 9
much profit does she make? c. 7
a. P11.50 d. 11
b. P56.25
c. P37.50 29. Nelia takes ¾ hour to dress and get ready for school.
d. P18.75 It takes 4/5 hour to reach the school. If her class starts
promptly at 8:00 am; what is the latest time she can
22. An online shop sells a certain calculator for P950 jump out of bed in order not to be late for school?
and charges P150 for shipping within Manila, regardless a. 6:42 am
of the number of calculators ordered. Which of the b. 6:27 am
following equations shows the total cost (y) of an order c. 6:57 am
as a function of the number of calculators ordered (x)? d. 7:02 am
a. y = (950 + 150)x
b. y = 150x +950 30. Which common fraction is equivalent to 0.215?
c. x = 950y + 150 a. 43/200
d. y = 950x + 150 b. 27/125
c. 21/50
d. 108/375 8. 20, 10, 40, 10, 60, 20, 80, 60, 100, 240, 120, ____,
____
Answers: 1B 2A 3D 4D 5C 6D 7C 8D 9C 10B 11C 12D 13D A. 1200, 140
14 15A 16D 17C 18D 19B 20B 21 22D 23D 24C 25C 26D B. 480, 140
27D 28C 29B 30A C. 140, 480
D. 1200, 240
( General Education Part II )
9. What is the value of n in the statement 2mn = 50, if m
1. 120 is 4/5 of what number? = 1?
A. 150 A. 25
B. 96 B. 2
C. 30 C. 50
D. 24 D. 1
10. One store sold twice more apples in the afternoon
2. 45 is 60% of what number? that in the morning. The store sold 450 pieces of apples.
A. 75 How many apples are sold in the morning?
B. 27 A. 150
C. 15 B. 300
D. 18 C. 200
D. 350
3. What is the ratio of 1/5 to 5/15
A. 3:5 11. Joey gathered twice more marbles than Vic and Tito
B. 1:5 gathered 2 more marbles than Vic. They gathered 26
C. 5:15 marbles. How many marbles did Vic gather?
D. 15:75 A. 6
B. 12
4. What is the value of y is 2x + 2xy + 3y = 25, and x = 2? C. 8
A. 3 D. 14
B. 25
C. 2 12. A child has read 2/3 of a book. The read part of the
D. 12 book has 100 pages more than the unread. How many
pages is the book?
5. Ten nurses earn a total average monthly salary of A. 300
P120, 000. The total average income of 6 of them B. 200
amounts to P80, 000. What is the average total income C. 500
of each of the remaining workers? D. 150
A. P10, 000
B. P40, 000 13. A number is divided by 5. The result was subtracted
C. P400 by 154 and the difference is 6. What is the number?
D. P1, 000 A. 800
B. 160
6. 2 tablespoons is equivalent to 1 liquid ounce while 10 C. 200
tablespoons is equivalent to ½ cup. How many liquid D. 400
ounces are there in two cups?
A. 20 ounces 14. A container contains 23bottles and each bottle
B. 10 ounces contains 20 marbles. How many marbles are there in 10
C. 16 ounces bottles?
D. 8 ounces A. 460
B. 400
7. A taxi charges P50 for the first kilometer and charges C. 100
P3 for each additional mile. How far could P200 go? D. 200
A. 50 kilometers
B. 51 kilometers 15. It takes John 25 minutes to walk to the car park and
C. 66. 67 kilometers 45 to drive to work. At what time should he get out of
D. 4 kilometers the house in order to get to work at 9:00 a.m.?
A. 7:50 am
B. 8:00 am
C. 8:10 am
D. 8:20 am

16. Kim can walk 4 kilometers in one hour. How long

does it take Kim to walk 18 kilometers?
A. 4 ½ hours
B. 4 hours
C. 5 hours
D. 8 hours

17. A factory produced 2300 TV sets in its first year of

production. 4500 sets were produced in its second year
and 500 more sets were produced in its third year than
in its second year. How many TV sets were produced in
three years?
A. 11,800
B. 12, 800
C. 10, 800
D. 13, 800

18. Tom and Bob have a total of 49 toys. If Bob has 5

more toys than Tom, how many toys does Tom has?
A. 22
B. 27
C. 23
D. 26

19. John can eat a quarter of a pizza in one minute. How

long does it take John to eat one pizza and a half?
A. 6 minutes
B. 12 minutes
C. 9 minutes
D. 3 minutes

20. What is 150% of 298?

A. 447
B. 44.7
C. 4.47
D. 4470

Answers: 1A 2A 3A 4A 5A 6A 7B 8A 9A 10A 11A 12A 13A

14D 15A 16A 17A 18A 19A 20A
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