9 ACET 2014 - Set B 9 SECTION 9: NUMERICAL ABILITY NAME: _. Time -- 25 minutes SCHOOL: : 25 Questions (321 - 345) SIMULATED EXAM - SET B For each question, decide which is the best answer choice, and darken the corresponding oval on the answer sheet. 321. Mario wants to buy a gadget whose marked price | 325. If the salary of an employee increases by 10% is P4,800 exclusive of tax. If there were 25% every year, how many percent would the discount and 3% sales tax. how much would employee's salary increase in two years? Mario pay for the gadget? A. 19% A. P3615 8. 20K BL P3,708 c. 21% Cc. P3,724 D. 22.5% D. P3812 326. Charles works thrice as fast as John, Working 322. Mary was m years old when Barry was born. IF alone, John alone can finish the job in 12 days. If Barry was b years old now, how old will Mary be Charles and John would work together, how long in x years? ‘would it take them to finish the job? A. (b +m +x) years old A. 3 days B. (m+ x) years old B. 6 days Cb +x) years old C. 9 days D. (om + x) years old D. 12 days 323. The organizers of a certain concert were able to | 327. James invested a certain amount of money at 12% sold 300 tickets that cost P250 each. If they were er annum simple interest for t years. At the end to pay a 12% tax for the ticket sales, how much of t years, James got back three times his original would their tax be? investment. What is the value of 1? ‘A. P9,000 A. 12 years B. P9,250 8. 16 years and 8 months c. P10,500 C20 years and 6 months D. 11,200 D. 25 years 324. A man from city A travels towards city B at an | 328. In a 200-m race, Andrew beats Benzie by 8 average speed of 36 kph for 1 hour and 35 seconds. On the contrary, if Andrew would give minutes, What is the distance between the two Benzie a head start Of 32 meters, then they cities? would finish the race at the same time. How long A. 57 km does Andrew take to run the 200-meter race? 8. 48 km A. 30 seconds © 65 km B. 42 seconds D. 42km C. 50 seconds D. 58 seconds ACTS ACHI & ANIA, INC. @ 744-6250 ) 701-7018 a19 ACET 2014 - Set B 9 329, IF a 1200-km road is 3 cm long on the map, how | 333. Find the length of the base of a triangle whose long is a 800-km road on the map? area is 64 cm? and whose altitude is one-half of A. Lem : the base, 8. 1.5m A 16 © 2m 8. sa D. 2/3cm c. 24 D. 32 330, Out of ten students who took the Special Math quiz, three got a perfect score of 100. If the 334. A businessman invests part of $24,000 at 11% average of the scores of the ten students was 86, and the remainder at 8% How much does the what was the average score of those who did not businessman invest at 8% if the two investments get a perfect score? earn a total interest of $2,350? A 72 A. $9,000 8. 78 8. $11,000 c. 80 c. $12,000 D. 82 D. $13,000 331. Volume varies inversely with pressure. The | 335, A sales representative receives a basic salary of pressure inside a 500-ml air balloon is 3 atm. I P12,000 per month and an addtional 5% the volume of the air balloon were increased by commission on all his sales. If his total sales for 1000 ml, what would happen to the pressure this month were P25,000, how much would his inside the air balloon? total earnings be? ‘A. would decrease by 1 atm A. 12,750 8, would increase by 1 atm 8. P13.125 C. would decrease by 2 atm cc. P13,200 D. would increase by 2 atm D. P13,250 332. Gregg and James are armchair assemblers. Gregg | 336. A car travels 80 km/h and passes the welcome can assemble 24 armchairs in 1 hour. Working signage of a city at exactly 8:30 AM. Following together, Gregg and James can assemble 24 the same route, a bus traveling 60 km/h passes armchairs in 20 minutes. How many armchairs the same welcome signage at 9:00 AM of the can James make in 40 minutes? same day. At what time would the two vehicles A 24 be 90 km apart? 8. 32 A. 10:30 AM of the same day c. 40 8, 10:40 AM of the same day D. 48 C. 11:00 AM of the same day D. 11:30 AM of the same day ACTS ACHI & AMIA, INC @ 744-6250 / oo 701-70189 ACET 2014 - Set B 9 337. canoe went 30 km upstream in three hours and | 342, Tickets in a certain movie house cost P200.00 took an hour shorter for the returned trip. Find each. Senior citizens receive 20% discount, One the speed of the canoe in still water. . day, the movie house sold 100 tickets and AL 25 kph collected a total of P19,200.00. How many senior 8.7.5 kph citizens went to the movie house that day? c. 9.5 kph A 10 D. 12.5 kph 8.15 c. 20 338. Nine workers can paint 3 houses in 2 days. How b. 30 long would it take 12 workers to paint 4 houses? A. 2days 343. A small inlet pipe can fill the tank in 6 hours 8. 3 days while a larger inlet pipe can fill the same tank in c. 4days 4 hours. On the other hand, a drain pipe can D. 5 days empty a full tank in 8 hours. How long would it take to fill an empty tank if all three pipes were 339. If the price of rice increases by 20% and Aling open? petra intends to spend only 5% more on rice, by A. 111/13 hours how much percent should she reduce the 8. 21/Shours quantity of rice that she buys? ©. 24/7 hours Am D. 33/7 hours 8. 12.5% c. 15% 344. Anna has 20 coins consisting of one-peso and D. 25% five-peso coins. What is the maximum value of her coins if the number of one-peso coins is at 340. f the mean of numbers 34, x, 96, 352 and 1045 least twice the number of five-peso coins? is 323, then what is the mean of 54, 126, 392, AL P36 1165 and x? B. P40 A. 359 c. pa e365 D. pas c. a9 D. 424 345, The sum of the third and fifteenth term of an arithmetic progression is 18. What is the sum of 341, The average of five consecutive integers starting the first 17 terms of the arithmetic progression? with 5 is a. Find the average of nine consecutive Integers starting with s+ 2. A as3 Boat cars D. ate ACTS ACHL & AHIA, ING @ 744-6250 / 701 oa A. 108 12 141 B. c. D. 153 7018