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9. I am 27 years old. In how many years will my future age be 16 years more than my past
age when I was the same number of years younger?
6𝑎(2𝑎2 𝑏−𝑎𝑏2 +3𝑏) A. 3 B. 5 C. 8 D. 12
1.What is the simplified form of ?
−6𝑎𝑏
10. Which value will satisfy √2 + 𝑥 = 2 − √𝑥 ?
A. −2𝑎2 + 𝑎𝑏 − 3 C. −2𝑎2 + 𝑎𝑏 − 2𝑎 A. -1/4 B. ¼ C. ½ D. 0
B. 2𝑎3 − 𝑎𝑏 − 2𝑎 D. – (2𝑎2 ) − 𝑎𝑏 + 3
11. What is the solution set of the inequality |𝑥 2 − 5𝑥 + 6| ≤ 0?
2. Twenty-five workers can make 50 engines in 2 weeks. How many engines will be made by
A. { } B. all real C. {2,3} D. {𝑥|2 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 3}
30 workers in 7 days assuming that they work at the same rate?
A. 20 B. 25 C. 30 D. 40
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12. The simplified form of 1 is
3. What are the x-intercepts of ℎ(𝑥) = 2𝑥 2 + 𝑥 − 10? 1− 1
A. 5/2, -2 B. 2, -5/2 C. -10, 1 D. -1, 10 1− 1
1−
𝑦+1
3 𝑥 −2(5𝑥−𝑦2 )0 𝑦5 −1
1
4. √ √( ) in its simplest form is equal to A. 1+y B. y-1 C.
1
D. 𝑦−1
𝑥 3 𝑦 −2 𝑥 −1 𝑦 6 1+𝑦
13. Ang isang anggulo ng tatsulok ay triple ang laki sa pinakamaliit, at ang isa pang anggulo
𝑦 6 𝑦 𝑦 6 5 ay nakalalamang naman ng 5⁰ sa triple ng pinakamaliit. Ano ang sukat ng pinakamaliit na
A. 2 √𝑥 c. √𝑥 𝑦 anggulo?
𝑥 𝑥3
A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25
6 𝑦 𝑦 6
B. 𝑦 √ D. 8 √𝑥 5 𝑦 40
𝑥 𝑥 14. If sin 𝜃 < 0 𝑎𝑛𝑑 tan 𝜃 = − 9
, what is cos 𝜃?
A. -40/41 B. -9/41 C. 9/41 D. 40/41
5. The solution set of 𝑥 4 − 3𝑥 2 + 2 = 0 is
A. {1, √2} C. {1, −1, √2, −√2} 15. Gaano karaming tubig ang dapat na pasingawin mula sa isang 100mL tubig alat na may
B. {1, −1} D. {2, −2, √2, −√2} 35% na asin upang maitaas ang konsentrasyon nito sa 40%?
A. 12mL B. 12.5 mL C. 14 mL D. 14.5 mL
6. The square of a positive number increased by another number equals 36. If the sum of
the two numbers is 16, what is the greater number? 16. An inlet pipe can fill a tank in 4 hours. An outlet pipe can drain the same tank in 12
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11 hours. How long will it take to fill the tank if both pipes are open?
A. 6 hrs B. 8 hrs C. 10 hrs D. 12 hrs
7. What is the product of the GCF and LCM of 12 and 18?
A. 96 B. 216 C. 108 D. 432 17. Ang sukat laki (area ng isang parihaba) ay 240 metro kuwadrado at nag kanyang
diyagonal ay 26 metro ang haba. Ano ang dimensyon ng parihaba?
8. What is one-fourth of 216 ? A. 12 at 20 metro C. 8 at 30 metro
B. 10 at 24 metro D. 6 at 40 metro
A. (1/2)16 B. 28 C. 24 D. 214
18. In the diagram, 𝑚∡3 = 110 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚∡2 = 130. What is 𝑚∡1? 23. Three angles have measures 2x-4; 5x and 7x + 2. If their mean is 60, what is the measure
of the smallest angle?
A. 13 B. 22 C. 26 D. 65
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24. If the operation * is defined by 𝑎 ∗ 𝑏 = − 𝑏, then what is x in x * 18 = 14?
3
A. -4 B. 7/9 C. 1 D. 5
25. What is the measure of the acute angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of
the clock at 3:30 AM?
A. 45 B. 60 C. 75 D. 90
A.20 B. 50 C. 110 D. 160
26. Given the diagram below, what is cos A?
5
19. In sin 𝐴 = , what is the area of ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶?
8
20. A pair of dice is rolled. What is the probability of getting an even sum?
A. 1/36 B. ½ C. ¼ D. 2/3
21. What is the mean, median and mode of the given data?
38, 39, 37, 37, 38, 39, 35, 38, 40, 34
A.37, 38.5, 38 C. 37.5, 39.5, 37
B. 37.5, 38, 38 D. 38, 39, 38
1𝑥 A.132 B. 33 C. 32 D. 16
256 2 3
22. If ( ) = , what is the value of ?
81 4 28. ABCD is a square with side AB = 4 inches and arcs AEB and CED are tangent
A. -3/2 B. -1/2 C. 1/4 D. 1/2 semicircles. What is the area of the shaded portion in square inches?
A. 9 B. 10 C. 11 D. 12
34. There are 3 buildings A, B and C with heights 500 ft, 700 ft and 300 ft, respectively. C is
between A and B. C and B are 200 ft apart. On the top of building C is a fountain that if a
bird flew from the roof of building A or B, it would travel the same distance. Find the
distance from C to A?
A. 600 B. 400 C. 300 D. 200
35. If 3 is subtracted from the numerator of a certain fraction, the value of the fraction
becomes 3/5. If 1 is subtracted from the denominator of the same fraction, it becomes 2/3.
A. 8-π B. 8-2π C. 16-2π D. 16-4π Find the original fraction.
A. 35/55 B. 36/55 C. 4/7 D. 6/11
29. In the figure, what is 𝑚∡𝐴 + 𝑚∡𝐷?
36. A deli has five types of meat, two types of cheese, three types of bread. How many
different sandwiches, consisting of one type of meat, one type of cheese and one type of
bread, does the deli serve?
A. 10 B. 25 C. 30 D. 75
30. A certain number of students were grouped into three with the ratio 3:7:8. Which of the
following is a possible total number of students?
A. 32 B. 40 C. 64 D. 90
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31. What is the exact value of 8−0.33 ?
A. 1/8 B. 2 C. 1/2 D. 8-3/10
4 A.-2/7 B. -1 C. 3 D. 4
32. Given √8 3√2√8𝑥 = 2 . Find x.
A. 5 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2 38. Solve the compound inequality. Other than ø, use interval notation to express the
solution set and graph the solution set on a number line.
-24 ≤-5x + 1 < -9
33. Country A has a population of 7200, which is decreasing at a rate of 80 people per year.
Country B has a population of 5000 and is gaining 120 people per year. In how many years
will the population of country A and B be the same? A.
B. A. 4π B. 3π C. 5π D. 8π
43. In the figure below, AC is parallel to DE. AE, FG and CD intersect at the point B. FG is
perpendicular to AC and DE. The length of DE is 5 inches, the length of BG is 8 inches and the
D. length of AC is 6 inches. What is the area, in square inches, of triangle ABC?
39. What is the domain and the range based on the graph below?
A. 28.8 B. 20 C. 24 D. 15
44. Points A, B and C are defined by their coordinates in a standard rectangular system of
axes. What positive value of b makes triangle ABC a right triangle with AC its hypotenuse?
40. What is the equation of a line passing through (3, 4) and perpendicular to the line whose
equation is y = 6x + 7? .
A. y - 3 =-1/6(x - 4) C. y = - 6x - 27
B. y - 4 =-1/6(x+3) D. y-4=-1/6(x - 3) A. 4 B. 6 C. √6 D. 1 + √6
41. In the standard (x,y) coordinate plane, the graph of (x + 3)2 + (y + 5)2 = 16 is a circle. 45. Line L passes through the points (-2,0) and (0,a). Line LL passes through the points (4,0)
What is the circumference of the circle, expressed in coordinate units? and (6,2). What value of a makes the two lines parallel?
A. 1/2 B. -2 C. 2 D. -1/2 52. ABCD is a parallelogram and MN is parallel to to DC. The length of BN is 1/3 of the length
of BC. What is the ratio of the area of triangle BNM to the area of the parallelogram ABCD?
46. If 60% of a is equal to 120% of b, then 2a - 4b = ?
A. 2a B. 0.5a C. 0 D. 3a
47. If x, y and z are positive numbers such that 5x = y/4, y/4 = z/5 and y + z = x/k, what is the
value of k?
A. 1/2 B. 1/25 C. 1/5 D. 1/45
48. In the figure below line l is parallel to line k and line g is parallel to line h. What is the .
value of y? A. 18:1 C. 1:18
B. 1:9 D. 1:36
54. If the product of two factors is 0, which of the following cannot be true?
A. One of the factors is 10.
B. Neither of the factors is 0.
C. One of the factors is 0.
D. Both of the factors are 0.
A. Cedric B. Kade C. Audrie D. Aldrei 10. Whenever one particle exerts a force on a second particle, the second particle
simultaneously exerts a force on the first particle with the same magnitude in _________
4. Refer to the figure above, who run with no acceleration? direction:
A. Cedric B. Kade C. Audrie D. Aldrei A. same C. parallel
B. opposite D. perpendicular
5. What is the equivalent of 1.00 kg/cm3?
11. Granting the volume is the same, which mass will yield the highest density?
A. 1.00 x 100 g/m3 C. 1.00 x 105 g/m3 A. 850 g B. 1.0 kg C. 1100 g D. 1.2 kg
B. 1.00 x 103 g/m3 D. 1.00 x 109 g/m3
12. A police officer living on a planet with no air resistance drops a pair of handcuffs and a
6. Which one of the following is a vector quantity? handkerchief at the same time. Which one will reach the ground first?
A. the age of the earth A. the handkerchief C. both will hit the ground at the same time
B. the mass of a football B. handcuffs D. cannot be determined
C. the earth's pull on your body
D. the temperature of an iron bar 13. A 50-kg table is sliding on a concrete floor and is pushed with a constant force of 50 N
over a distance of 5m. A frictional force of 50N opposes the table’s motion. What is the
7. Four members of the Main Street Bicycle Club meet at a certain intersection on Main acceleration of the table?
Street. The members then start from the same location, but travel in different directions.A A. 0m/s2 B. 5m/s2 C. 2.5m/s2 D. 10m/s2
14. On a velocity-versus-time graph, a horizontal straight line corresponds to ___________ 21. Kinetic energy is the greatest at point:
acceleration.
A. zero B. increasing C. constant D. decreasing
15. If you pull a cart, what is the force that causes you to move forward?
A. the force that the cart exerts on you
B. the force that you exert on the cart
C. the force you exert on the ground with your feet
D. the force the ground exerts
16. The acceleration due to gravity on the surface of Mars is about 1/3 the acceleration due
to gravity on Earth’s surface. The weight of a space probe on the surface of Mars is about:
A.9 times greater than its weight on Earth’s surface
B. 3 times greater than its weight on Earth’s surface
C. 1/3 its weight on Earth’s surface 22. You are traveling east by plane and cross three time zone boundaries. If your watch
D.The same as its weight on Earth’s surface reads 3:00pm when you arrive, to what time should you reset it to?
A. 6:00pm B. 12 nn C. 6:00am D. 12 midnight
17. According to the law of conservation of energy:
23. Which of the following characterizes a mineral?
A.Energy can neither be created nor destroyed
A. organic solid C. crystalline
B.Energy can be converted from one form to another
B. can be synthetically prepared D. has varying composition
C.Kinetic Energy can be changed into sound and heat
D.More than one of these
24. During nighttime, how does the air temperature over the ocean compare with that over
the land?
18. A rock sitting at the edge of a cliff has_____ because of its position.
A. higher over the ocean C. lower over the ocean
A.Kinetic Energy C. Potential Energy
B. the same D. cannot be determined
B.Thermal Energy D. Atomic Energy
25. What does the point of orbit of the earth around the sun indicate?
19. If no friction acts on a diver during a dive, which of the following statements is
true?
A.The potential energy at the beginning is equal to the kinetic energy at the end
B.Some energy is converted to heat
C.Some energy is converted to sound
D.More than one of these
20. What does the fact that one side of the moon always faces the earth prove? A.aphelion B. perihelion C. apogee D. perigee
A. the moon rotates
B. the moon does not rotate 26. Why doesn't Venus have seasons like Mars and Earth do?
C. then moon deflects rather than emits light A. Its rotation axis is nearly perpendicular to the plane of the Solar System.
D. the moon has a distorted shape
B. It does not have an ozone layer. D. because they reflect light
C. It does not rotate fast enough.
D. It is too close to the Sun. 32. In Coriolis effect, where is the direction of the wind oriented in the Northern
hemisphere?
27. Comets are icy masses of frozen gases and dust particles. What happens when a comet A. south B. left C. north D. right
gets too close to the sun?
A. The gases catch fire, making the comet glow. 33. Which of the following is a sedimentary rock?
B. The ice begins to melt, leaving a trail of gases and debris. A. granite B. basalt C. limestone D. marble
C. The comet explodes, which is called a supernova.
D. The comet bounces off the sun’s magnetosphere. 34. How is the pressure over the land compare with that over the sea during daytime?
A. higher B. lower C. equal D. none of the above
28. What is remarkable about the rotation of Uranus?
A. its rotation period is very long (about 12 years) 35. Which layer of the atmosphere is the coldest?
B. its rotation axis lies in its orbital plane A. troposphere B. exosphere C. stratosphere D. mesosphere
C. its rotation axis always points at the sun
D. its rotation period varies wildly from year to year 36. The energy that drives the water cycle comes from _____.
A. the earth's own internal heat,
29. Use the diagram below to answer the next two questions. B. the sun,
C. the energy of rotation, combined with the Coriolis effect,
D. the heat energy created by friction as the earth spins upon its axis,
In which positions will the day and night hours be equal? 39. Why do magmas rise toward Earth's surface?
A. A and B C. B and C A) Magmas are more viscous than solid rocks in the crust and upper mantle.
B. C and D D. B and D B) Most magmas are richer in silica than most crustal and upper mantle rocks.
C) Magmas, being melts and having gases, are less dense than the adjacent solid rock.
30. What season is it at point A in the northern hemisphere? Assume the north pole is on D) Magmas have higher content of pyroxenes than the surrounding rocks.
top.
A. Winter B. Spring C. Summer D. Fall 40. An igneous rock contains a radioactive isotope that has a half-life of 10 million years.
Careful analysis shows that only one quarter of the original concentration of the parent
31.Why do stars seem to twinkle? isotope is left. How old is this igneous rock?
A. because the atmosphere bend their light rays A. 5 million years old C. 20 million years old
B. because they shine B. 40 million years old D. 2.5 million years old
C. because they undergo nuclear burning
41. What is the fraction of homozygous recessive offspring from a AaBb x AaBb cross? 50. Which of the following cannot be a possible genotype of a cross between a heterozygous
A. 1/16 B. 1/4 C. 1/2 D. 3/4 round pea with a homozygous wrinkled pea? (R-round, r-wrinkled)
A. RR B. Rr C. rr D. none
42. What are the offsprings produced when homozygous red flowers cross with
heterozygous red flowers? 51. Which of the following is correctly paired?
A. all homozygous red C. 1/2 homozygous red A. mitochondria: ATP synthesis C. ribosomes: lipid synthesis
B. all heterozygous red D. no offsprings produced B. nucleus: protein transport D. golgi body: carbohydrate storage
43. Which of the following can pass the human digestive tract chemically unchanged? 52. How does the liver act as an accessory organ of the digestive system?
A. cellulose B. starch C. lipid D. protein A. digest proteins found in meat C. secretes bile to digest lipids
B. secretes gastric juice to digest fats D. collects water from undigested food
44. Colorblindness is a sex-linked recessive trait. Is it possible for a father with normal color
vision to have a colorblind daughter? 53. When a body acquires an infection, which of the following usually increases in number?
A. Yes B. No C. information not enough D. Maybe A. white blood cells C. red blood cells
B. platelets D. hemoglobin
45. What is the cell division process that produces four new cells?
A. meiosis B. mitosis C. osmosis D. oogenesis 54. After meeting an accident, a man suddenly experiences inability to move his body. What
part of the brain is mostly likely been injured?
46. Human body (somatic cells) contain _____ chromosomes and the gametes (sex cells) A. cerebrum C. cerebellum
contain ______ chromosomes. B. medulla oblongata D. skull
A. 23, 46 B. 46, 23 C. 23, 23 D. 46, 46
55. Which of the following is part of the endocrine system?
47. Which best describes the metaphase stage? A. pancreas C. spinal cord
A. chromosomes migrate to opposite poles B. skin D. epididymis
B. chromosomes reach the poles of the cell
C. chromosomes align at the cell’s equatorial plate 56. Which of the following is a sex-influenced trait?
D. none of the above A. hemophilia C. baldness
B. baldness D. large comb in roosters
48. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
A. Hormones are released in the blood stream. 57. What antigen is present in blood type O?
B. The right atrium receives red oxygenated blood from the lungs. A. A C. AB
C. Enzyme action starts in the mouth during digestion. B. B D. none
D. The blood entering the left atrium from the lungs is characterized by high oxygen content
and low carbon dioxide. 58. Which of the following blood type is considered to be the universal recipient?
A. A B. B C. AB D. O
49. A normal daughter of a hemophiliac man marries a man without hemophilia. What is the
probability that their son will not have hemophilia? 59. Which organisms are most closely related?
A. 100% B. 50% C. 25% D. 0% A. organisms of the same family
B. organisms of the same kingdom
C. organisms of the same order
D. organisms of the same class 68. Which naturally occurring radioactive particles are negatively charged?
A. alpha particles
60. Which of the following did not help Darwin formulate his theory of evolution? B. beta particles
A. fossil evidence that species had changed over time C. gamma radiation
B. closely related species on oceanic islands D. neutrons
C. belief that the earth was several thousand years old D. evidence of artificial selection in
domestic animals 69. When a solution of ethanol, C2H5OH, is formed in water, the ethanol molecules
A. are attracted to the nonpolar water molecules.
61. A compound has a molecular weight of 78 g/mol and contains 92.3% C and 7.74% H. B. form hydrogen bonds to the polar water molecules.
What is the formula of the compound? (AW (g/mol): H:1, C:12) C. form covalent bonds to the polar water molecules.
A. C2H2 B. C6H6 C. CH4 D. C5H10 D. are not attracted to the polar water molecules.
62. Which of the following has the highest number of moles? (AW (g/mol): C: 12, O:16) 70. A 0.25 M aqueous solution of sodium chloride, NaCl, is tested for conductivity using
A. 2.8 g CO B. 3.0 g O2 C. 4.0 g C D. 4.4 g CO2 the type of apparatus shown. What do you predict will happen?
63. What is the percentage composition of oxygen in potassium carbonate? (AW (g/mol): K:
39, C:12, O:16)
A. 8.69% B. 34.73% C. 56.52% D. 86.25%
78. Gas A and B contain the same number of molecules and are at the same temperature.
The external pressure on Gas A is twice that of Gas B. What can be said of the volume of gas
A compared with gas B? STOP! END OF SECTION. IF YOU HAVE ANY
A. twice that of gas B C. one-half that of gas B TIME LEFT, GO OVER YOUR WORK IN THIS
B. four times that of gas B D. same as that of gas B
SECTION ONLY. DO NOT WORK IN ANY OTHER
79. If the size of the fluorine atom is compared to the size of the fluoride ion, SECTION OF THE TEST.
A. they would both be the same size
B. the atom is larger than the ion
C. the ion is larger than the atom
D. the size difference depends on the reaction
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