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INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following

18. If xyz  20 and y2z  25 , what is the value of x/y?
questions. Mark ONLY ONE ANSWER for each item by shading the box
corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. A. 5/3 B. 3/5
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only. C. 4/5 D. 2/5
2
19. A piece of wire is shaped to enclose a square whose area is 169 cm .
1. A line is divided into 10 equal parts. If the length of each part is a It is then reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 15 cm. The
prime number, which of the following is the possible length of the line? area of the rectangle is nearest to:
2 2
A. 390 B. 290 A. 156 cm B. 165 cm
2 2
C. 330 D. 210 C. 170 cm D. 175 cm
2. Given that k  0 , and m and n are not equal to zero. What is the sign 20. A purse has thirty-six 10-peso coins, twenty 5-peso coins, and twenty-
nine 1-peso coins. Three coins are drawn in succession without
of m4 k3 n2  ? replacement. Find the probability that the three are 1-peso coins.
A. Negative B. Positive A. 0.0370 B. 0.0237
C. Negative or positive D. Cannot be determined C. 0.0719 D. 0.0151
3. The perimeter of a rectangle is 148 feet. Its two longest sides add up 21. Determine the ordinate of the centroid of the area bounded by the
to 86 feet. What is the length of each of its two shortest sides? lines x = 6, 5x – y = 0, 3x + 5y – 28 = 0, and the x-axis.
A. 31 feet B. 42 feet A. 1.67 B. 1.83
C. 62 feet D. 72 feet C. 2.67 D. 2.83
4. Evaluate the integral of xydx from x = 0 to x = 8 when x  t3 and 22. A janitor with a bunch of 9 keys is to open a door but only one key can
open. What is the probability that he will succeed in 3 trials without
y  t2 . returning the keys drawn?
A. 69 B. 96 A. 0.333 B. 0.575
C. 112 D. 211 C. 0.298 D. 0.425
5. The supplement of an angle is thrice its complement. Find the angle. 23. The diagonals of a parallelogram measure 72 cm and 106 cm. If they
A. 30 B. 45 intersect at an angle of 63°, find the smallest interior angle of the
C. 60 D. 85 parallelogram.
6. A fixed circle with center at (8, 6) has a radius of 5 units. Determine A. 42.49° B. 55.88°
the equation of the locus of points connecting the center of circles C. 66.01° D. 78.05°
tangent to the given fixed circle and the x-axis. 24. Given an angle  in standard position, the terminal side of the given
A. x2  16x  22y  75  0 B. x2  16x  22y  75  0 angle, when sin   0 and sec   0 , will lie in quadrant:
A. Quadrant I B. Quadrant II
C. x2  16x  22y  75  0 D. x2  16x  22y  75  0
C. Quadrant III D. Quadrant IV
7. If f  x  = 2x3  x + 7 and d  x  = x2 + 5x , find R(x) so that 25. A parabola passes through (3, 4). It has a vertex at the origin and
f  x  = d  x  Q  x  + R(x) . focus on the y-axis. Find the length of the latus rectum of the
parabola.
A. 2x + 1 B. 49x + 7 A. 1.13 B. 2.25
C. 3x + 4 D. 39x – 4 C. 2.67 D. 5.33
When the given function f(x)  cx  3x  dx  4 is divided by
3 2 16
8.  1 
26.
th
Find the 6 term in the expansion of   3
 x  2 , the remainder is −34. When it is divided by  x  2 , the  2a 
remainder is 2. What is the value of d? 11332 66339
A.  B. 
A. 1 B. 2 128a11 128a11
C. 3 D. 4 99663 11332
C.  D. 
9. Determine the value of b so that  x  2 and  x  5  are factors of 256a11 256a11

The coefficients of the middle term in the expansion of 1  x 

4
27. and
4x3  6x2  ax  b .
A. 58 B. −58 1  x 6
are the same if  equals
C. 60 D. −60
A. −5/3 B. −3/10
10. Solve for B in the given equation:
C. 3/5 D. 10/3
x  15x  32x  12x  14
4 3 2
A B C Dx  E 28. A few books are laid out on a desk in the library. Two are Hydraulics,
   

 x  1 x  2 x  3  x2  2  x  1 x  2 x  3 x2  2 three are Mathematics, one is Design, and four are Surveying.
Student A selects a Hydraulics book and student B then selects a
A.0 B. −1 Surveying book. Both students took their selections to the classroom
C.2 D. −3 to study. If student C then selects a book at random, what is the
11. Solve for m: 2 m  3  5 m  1  12 probability that he selects a Surveying book?
A. 1/8 B. 3/8
A. m  13 7 B. m  13 7
C. 1/5 D. 3/5
C. m  7 13 D. m  7 13 29. A parallelogram has the following properties: area = 130 cm ,
2

12. Given two curves y  sin x and y  cos x . Find the area bounded by perimeter = 56 cm, and angle of intersection of the diagonals = 49°.
the given curves in the first quadrant above the x-axis and below the Find the dimension of the shorter side of the parallelogram.
given curves from 0 to /2. A. 7.91 cm B. 8.46 cm
A. 0.4141 sq. units B. 0.5858 sq. units C. 9.07 cm D. 9.96 cm
C. 0.6262 sq. units D. 0.8686 sq. units 30. The sum of four numbers in an arithmetic progression is 98. The sum

 
of their squares is 3006. Find the third number.
13. Evaluate: tan arc sec 5  arc cot 2 A. 35 B. 32
A. 3/7 B. 3/5 C. 30 D. 27
C. 3/4 D. 3/6 2
31. Determine the length of arc of the polar curve r  from  = 0
2 1  cos 
14. In the equation x  kx  9  0 , find k if the roots are equal.
to  = /2.
A. 9 B. 8 A. 2.00 B. 2.30
C. 7 D. 6 C. 4.00 D. 4.59
15. If ab = 6, bc = 3, and ac = 1/8, what is one possible value of abc?
32. Given the complex number z  2  2i , what is its argument?
A. 0.375 B. 0.75
A. 135° B. 45°
C. 1.50 D. 2.25
C. 225° D. 60°
16. Consider the curve 9y2  4x3 . Determine the length of the part of the 33. The area of a triangle inscribed in a circle having a radius of 9 cm is
2
curve from x  0 to x  3 . equal to 43.23 cm . If one of the sides of the triangle is 18 cm,
A. 4.67 B. 5.33 determine the length of one of the other sides.
C. 6.48 D. 7.84 A. 18.67 cm B. 17.29 cm
6x C. 12.33 cm D. 6.00 cm
17. If 8x  3 , find the value of 2 . 34. The average of 90 whole numbers is 70. If two numbers are removed,
A. 3 B. 9 28 and 68, determine the new average.
C. 64 D. 256 A. 69.5 B. 70.5
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35. A colony of bacteria is increasing at the rate of 40% per hour. If there 52. If sin A  3 / 5 and sin(A  B)  1 , find cosB .
were originally 25000 bacteria in the colony, how many will there be at A. 1/5 B. 3/5
the end of 4 hours?
C. 4/5 D. 2/5
A. 49000 B. 66800
C. 96040 D. 134456 3 2 1 4
3 2 2 1 5 7
36. Evaluate

0 1
xy  x  y  dxdy 53. Determine the determinant of:
0 5 2 6
A. 12 B. 18 1 2 1 0
C. 24 D. 36
A. 418 B. 136
37. You collect hockey trading cards. For one team there are 25 different
C. −418 D. −136
cards in the set, and you have all of them except for the starting
goalie card. To try and get this card, you buy 8 packs of 5 cards each. 54. How many ways can a group of 3 or more girls be formed from a
All cards in a pack are different and each of the cards is equally likely group of 8 girls?
to be in a given pack. Find the probability that you will get at least one A. 255 B. 219
starting goalie card. C. 240 D. 210
A. 0.200 B. 0.168 55. According to statistics, 30% of smokers want to quit smoking. In a
C. 0.800 D. 0.832 random sample of 12 smokers, determine the probability that the
38. An engineer places his transit at point P along the line tangent to a number of those who want to quit smoking is at most 3.
circle at point A such that PA = 200 m. He locates another point B on A. 0.4925 B. 0.7486
the circle and finds that PB = 80 m. If a third point C on the circle lies C. 0.2397 D. 0.4075
along the prolongation of PB, how far from point B will it be? 56. Two tangents OA and OB to a circle intersect at point O outside the
A. 420 m B. 485 m circle. If the area of the smaller segment intercepted by the arc AB is
C. 535 m D. 580 m 30% the area of the circle, find the measure of BOA.
39. Solve for x in the equation 2x  5y  3yi  15  3i  0 . A. 32.91° B. 37.29°
C. 43.33° D. 46.67°
A. 1 B. −10
57. In a spherical triangle ABC, a = 120, b = 7315’, and c = 6245’. Find
C. −4 D. 5
the value of angle A.
40. An area is bounded by the curve x2  4y and the line x  4  0 and A. 11537’ B. 13756’
the x-axis. Determine the moment of inertia with respect to the x-axis. C. 15313’ D. 16173’
A. 5.72 B. 7.25 58. Two numbers differ by 40 and their arithmetic mean exceeds their
C. 12.19 D. 19.12 geometric mean by 2. Determine the harmonic mean of the two
41. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two intersecting numbers.
identical circles having a radius of 9 m. The distance between their A. 101/9801 B. 9801/101
centers is 9 m. Find the area common to the two circles. C. 1010/11 D. 11/1010
2 2
A. 73.85 m B. 80.27 m 59. Find the fifth term of the series whose sum of the first n terms is
2 2
C. 99.50 m D. 107.11 m 3n  2  6 .
42. The sum of an infinite geometric series is 8. Each term in the series is
A. 3160 B. 1458
four times the sum of all terms that follows it. Find the fourth term.
A. 8/625 B. 16/625 C. 2348 D. 4374
60. How many circular arrangements can be made out of 8 objects if 5
C. 32/625 D. 64/625
objects are taken at a time?
43. A box contains 20 green balls, 25 blue balls, and 30 white balls. Three
A. 1344 B. 1580
balls are drawn from the box in succession without replacement.
Determine the probability that the three balls drawn are of different C. 1844 D. 5870
2
colors? 61. The area of a rhombus is 132 m . If it has one diagonal which
A. 300/2701 B. 500/2701 measures 12 m, find the measure of the acute angle between its
sides.
C. 600/2701 D. 800/2701
A. 46.42° B. 48.42°
44. The cross-section of a pipe is bounded by two concentric circles such
2
that the bigger circle circumscribes a square of area 324 cm and the C. 51.22° D. 57.22°
smaller circle is inscribed in the same square. Find the cross-sectional 62. The volume of a cone varies jointly as its height and the square of its
area of the pipe. radius. If the volume of a cone is 32 cubic inches when its radius is 4
2 2 inches and its height is 6 inches, determine the volume of a cone
A. 254.47 cm B. 228.89 cm
C. 508.94 cm
2
D. 457.78 cm
2 when its radius is 3 inches and its height is 5 inches.
A. 10 cubic inches B. 15 cubic inches
45. If ex sec   0.346 , then the value of  is equal to:
C. 25 cubic inches D. 30 cubic inches
A. 32.07 B. 36.97
63. Because of the 10% oil price increase, Albert decided to reduce his
C. 42.02 D. 47.98 fuel consumption by 10%. By what percent would his fuel expenses
46. If the first arc made by the tip of a pendulum is 8 cm and each one be changed?
thereafter is three quarters as long as the one just before it, how far A. decrease by 10% B. increase by 1%
does it move before coming to rest?
C. decrease by 1% D. unchanged
A. 24 cm B. 28 cm
64. In how many ways can 5 cards be dealt from a deck of 52 cards if the
C. 32 cm D. 36 cm selection consists of 3 aces and 2 kings?
47. If a carpenter spends ₱1000 in one month for nails costing ₱200 per
A. 12 B. 16
carton and spends another ₱1000 a month later for the same kind of
nails that now cost ₱300 per carton, how much did he pay per carton C. 18 D. 24
on the average for the nails he purchased? 65. The base width of a trapezoidal channel is 3 m and the sides are
A. ₱300 B. ₱280 sloping at 2 vertical to 1 horizontal. Water is flowing at a depth of 1.2
m. Find the area of flow.
C. ₱260 D. ₱240 2 2
A. 4.23 m B. 4.32 m
48. The perimeter of a circular sector, whose angle is 1.5 radians, is 14 2 2
inches. Determine the radius of the circle. C. 6.48 m D. 6.84 m
66. Determine the equation of the radical axis of the circles
A. 1 inch B. 2.65 inches
C. 3.2 inches D. 4 inches x2  y2  12x  9y  50  0 and x2  y2  25  0 .
49. Given a certain acute angle , such that cos is equal to 4/5. What A. 4x – 3y = 25 B. 4x + 3y = 25
should be the value of cos(2)? C. 3x – 4y = 25 D. 3x + 4y = 25
A. 3/25 B. 7/25 67. A tank containing liquid is filled with 40 L of 70% salt solution. What
C. 12/25 D. 24/25 volume of the solution to be taken and be filled up with 10 L of water
to make the concentration 50% salt solution?
50. A curve has an equation of y  ex . Determine the centroid from the y-
A. 12 L B. 15 L
axis of the area bounded by the curve from x = 0 to x = 1 and the
C. 18 L D. 21 L
coordinate axes.
68. Determine the radius of gyration with respect to the x-axis of the area
A. 0.582 units B. 0.782 units
C. 0.882 units D. 0.982 units bounded by the curve x  y3 and the lines x = 4 and y = 0..
51. Given one large coin with 5 cm in diameter and many small coins with A. 0.487 units B. 0.748 units
2 cm in diameter. Determine the number of small coins that maybe C. 0.667 units D. 1.333 units
arrange tangentially around the large coin without overlapping.
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69. Three circles whose radii are 6 m, 8 m, and 12 m are tangent 86. A quadrilateral ABCD has sides AB = 57 m, BC = 32 m, CD = 41 m,
2
externally to each other. Find the radius of the smallest circle that and DA = 25 m. If its area is 1300 m , find one possible measure of
contains the three centers. the angle A.
A. 8.76 m B. 10.30 m A. 122.28° B. 103.91°
C. 12.23 m D. 13.10 m C. 89.97° D. 68.69°
70. The sum of the ages of Maria and Anna is 35. When Maria was two- 87. Express sin  2arccos x  in terms of x.
thirds her present age and Anna was three-fourths of her present age,
the sum of the ages was 25. How old is Maria now? A. 2x 1  x2 B. 3x 1  x2
A. 10 B. 15 C. 2x 1  x2 D. 3x 1  x2
C. 20 D. 25
2
71. The area of a triangle is 65 ft and its perimeter is 48 ft. Find the 88. What kind of symmetry, if there is, does the graph of y2  4ax have?
radius of the inscribed circle. A. It is symmetrical with respect to the x-axis
A. 1.72 ft B. 2.71 ft B. It does not have any symmetry
C. 1.83 ft D. 3.81 ft C. It is symmetrical with respect to the y-axis
72. Determine the length of the chord common to the circles x2  y2  64 D.
It is symmetrical with respect to both the x-axis and the
y-axis
and x2  y2  16x  0 . 3
89. The volume of a spherical wedge is 172.80 cm and the area of its
2
A. 13.86 units B. 13.25 units lune is 86.40 cm . Find the radius of the sphere.
C. 12.82 units D. 12.28 units A. 5m B. 6m
73. How soon after 12:00 will the hour hand and the minute hand of the C. 8m D. 9m
clock form an angle of 120° for the second time? 90. 28 men can finish a certain project in 60 days. At the start of the
43 minutes and 38 21 minutes and 49 sixteenth day, five men resigned and after forty-five days ten more
A. B.
seconds seconds men were hired. How many days can the men delay in finishing the
35 minutes and 45 15 minutes and 21 project?
C. D.
seconds seconds A. 2.27 days B. 3.47 days
74. Witness to a hit and run accident told the police that a license number C. 4.23 days D. 5.42 days
contained the letters GGA followed by 3 digits, the first of which is a 91. Twenty workers can finish a work in thirty days. After how many days
5. If the witness cannot recall the last 2 digits, but is certain that all 3 should five workers leave the job so the work is completed in thirty-
digits are different, find the maximum number of automobile five days?
registrations that the police may have to check. A. 10 days B. 15 days
A. 72 B. 84 C. 20 days D. 30 days
C. 64 D. 36 92. The area bounded by the curve y  cos(2x) and the x-axis is
75. An automatic machine produces, on average, 10% of its components revolved about the x-axis. Determine the volume generated from x =
outside of the tolerance required. In a sample of 10 components from /4 to x = /2.
this machine, determine the probability of having 3 components
A. 0.62 cu. units B. 0.85 cu. units
outside of the tolerance required by assuming a binomial distribution.
A. 0.0436 B. 0.0574 C. 1.23 cu. units D. 2.46 cu. units
93. The probability that a doctor correctly diagnoses a particular illness is
C. 0.0671 D. 0.0813
0.7. Given that the doctor makes an incorrect diagnosis, the
76. At what time between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM are the hands of the
probability that the patient enters a law suit is 0.9. What is the
clock coincident? probability that the doctor makes an incorrect diagnosis and the
A. 4:24:33 PM B. 4:25:27 PM patient sues?
C. 4:21:49 PM D. 4:28:11 PM A. 0.21 B. 0.27
2 1 2

 
C. 0.73 D. 0.79
77. Evaluate 3zr 2 sin dzdrd 2
0 0 0 94. The area of a triangle inscribed in a circle of radius 9 cm is 60 cm . If
A. 1 B. 2 one of the three sides of the triangle is 18 cm, compute the length of
one of the other two sides of said triangle.
C. 3 D. 4
A. 6.4 cm B. 5.0 cm
78. A hemispherical tank having a top diameter of 40 ft is filled with oil
3
having a density of 52.4 lb/ft . Find the work done in pumping all the C. 4.2 cm D. 7.3 cm
liquid out to the top of the tank. 95. If a  4sin   6cos  and b  4cos   6sin  , find the value of
6 6
A. 2.753210 ft-lb B. 3.522710 ft-lb a2  b2 .
6 6
C. 5.488610 ft-lb D. 6.584810 ft-lb A. 52 B. 36
79. From the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, how many three-digit numbers C. 24 D. 20
greater than 330 can be formed if each digit can used only once? 96. A factory is running at 80% efficiency with a fixed cost of ₱78,000.00,
A. 75 B. 90 variable cost per unit of ₱130.00, selling price per unit of ₱416.00,
C. 105 D. 120 and production capacity of 5000 units. What is the current profit of the
80. A wheel 3 ft in diameter rolls up an incline of 15°. When the point of factory if all products manufactured are sold?
contact of the wheel and the incline is 4 ft from the base of the incline, A. ₱1,066,000 B. ₱1,456,000
what is the height of the center of the wheel above the base of the C. ₱1,213,000 D. ₱1,146,000
incline? 97. Find the eccentricity of an ellipse when the length of the latus rectum
A. 2.48 ft B. 3.48 ft is 2/3 the length of the major axis.
C. 4.12 ft D. 5.64 ft A. 0.633 B. 0.333
81. For what value of “a” will the graph of x2  4ay pass through the point C. 0.577 D. 0.477
(4, 16)? 98. There are 14 players in a badminton singles tournament. Each player
A. 1/8 B. 1/6 is to play with each other only once. Determine the minimum number
of days can they all play without any player playing more than one
C. 1/5 D. 1/4
game in any day.
82. Determine the length of the latus rectum of the curve
A. 11 days B. 12 days
16x  9y  64x  144y  496  0 .
2 2
C. 13 days D. 14 days
A. 4.50 B. 6.50 99. A frustum of a sphere has base diameters of 12.60 cm and 20.40 cm.
C. 9.67 D. 10.33 The distance between the bases is 3.60 cm. Determine the radius of
83. The following set of 9 numbers are as follows: 190, 110, 200, 180, the sphere.
130, 150, 180, 100, 230 A. 9.07 cm B. 8.56 cm
What is the mode of the distribution? C. 10.65 cm D. 12.45 cm
A. 150 B. 160 100. Given the equations:
C. 170 D. 180 loga mn  6
84. The base diameter of a certain solid is 30 cm. Find the volume of the
solid if every cutting plane perpendicular to a given diameter is an n
equilateral triangle. loga 2
A. 5789.13 cm
3
B. 7794.23 cm
3 m
m
loga n  16
3 3
C. 10619.43 cm D. 14568.54 cm
85.
th
Determine the 5 principal root of  
3 i . Determine (a + n).
A. 18 B. 12
A. 1.156° B. 1.1578°
C. 4 D. 2
C. 1.15138° D. 1.15150°

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101. A pipe and a drain can fill up and empty a tank for a total of 10 hours. 118. Suppose a man receives an initial annual salary of ₱60,000,
If the pipe runs with the drain open for 12 hours, an empty tank will be increasing at the rate of ₱5,000 a year. If money is worth 10%,
filled up. How long will the pipe be able to fill an empty tank with the determine his equivalent uniform salary for a period of 8 years.
drain closed? A. ₱70,994.07 B. ₱75,022.39
A. 3 hours B. 4 hours C. ₱79,831.52 D. ₱85,007.88
C. 5 hours D. 6 hours 119. Two lines having equations of 4x  3y  11  0 and 5x  12y  2  0
102. Find the area bounded by the curve xy  2 and the line x  y  3 .
intersects each other. Find the equation of the line bisector of the
A. 0.22 sq. units B. 0.17 sq. units smaller angle formed by the intersection of the two lines.
C. 0.11 sq. units D. 0.05 sq. units A. 11x – 3y = 17 B. 3x + 11y = 17
103. Find the moment of inertia of the area in the first quadrant bounded by C. 3x + 11y = −17 D. 17x – 3y = 11
the parabola y2  4x and the line x  1 with respect to the y-axis. 120. A survey of 500 television viewers produced the following results:
285 watch football games
A. 0.175 B. 0.571
195 watch hockey games
C. 0.715 D. 1.507 115 watch basketball games
104. If the volume of a sphere is increased by 20%, by how many percent 45 watch football and basketball
will its surface area increases? 70 watch football and hockey
A. 12.92% B. 13.45% 50 watch hockey and basketball
C. 15.56% D. 16.67% 50 do not watch any of the three games
105. In how many ways can five students be seated in a row of eight seats How many watch football games only?
if a certain two students insist on sitting next to each other? A. 170 B. 190
A. 6720 B. 5040 C. 220 D. 230
C. 1680 D. 840 121. A curve has an equation of y  ex . Determine the volume generated
106. A lot is in the form of an equilateral triangle each of whose sides is
by the area bounded by the curve from x = 0 to x = 1 and the
300 m. Compute the length of the line parallel to one side that will
coordinate axes if revolved about the line x = 1.
divide the area into two equal parts.
A. 2.513 cu. units B. 4.513 cu. units
A. 141.42 m B. 212.13 m
C. 5.513 cu. units D. 7.513 cu. units
C. 281.97 m D. 345.68 m
122. The students in a class are selected at random, one after the other,
107. Two angles measuring P and Q are complementary. If 3P  2Q  40 , for an examination. Find the probability that the boys and girls in the
what is the measure of the smaller angle? class alternate if the class consists of 3 boys and 3 girls.
A. 40° B. 44° A. 0.05 B. 0.10
C. 46° D. 50° C. 0.02 D. 0.30
108. An equipment costs ₱1.2 million. At the end of its economic life of 5 123. Two sides of a triangle are 15 m and 17 m long. Find the perimeter of
years, its salvage value is ₱300,000. Using Sum of Years Digit the largest isosceles triangle that can be formed.
rd
method of depreciation, determine its book value at the end of the 3 A. 47 B. 49
year.
C. 51 D. 53
A. ₱360,000 B. ₱480,000
7
C. ₱540,000 D. ₱720,000 i
124. What is the rectangular form of the complex number 7.2e 13 ?
109. Determine the perimeter of the ellipse if its eccentricity is 2/3 and the
A. 7.15  0.87i B. 7.15  0.87i
distance between its directrices is 9 2 . 0.87  7.15i 0.87  7.15i
C. D.
A. 13.42 units B. 38.23 uints 125. An investment of ₱150,000 is expected to yield a regular annual net
C. 23.51 units D. 42.70 units income of ₱35,000 per year for ten years. Determine the cost-benefit
110. Determine the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle whose ratio if money is worth 12% per annum.
perimeter is 24 inches. A. 1.3333 B. 1.3184
A. 9.94 inches B. 7.94 inches C. 1.6571 D. 1.9842
C. 7.03 inches D. 6.94 inches 126. Jessy planned to spend ₱39,000 for fabric for her store. She found
111. In a spherical triangle, a = 52°, b = 63°, and A = 49°. Find its area her fabric on sale at 20 percent less per yard than she expected and
when the radius is 24 m. was able to buy 40 extra yards for a total cost of ₱41,600. What was
2 2
A. 378.63 m B. 349.65 m the original cost per yard?
C. 330.50 m
2
D. 312.18 m
2
A. ₱120 B. ₱300
112. Determine the capitalized cost of a research laboratory which requires C. ₱325 D. ₱215
₱5,000,000 for original construction; ₱100,000 at the end of every 127. There are 8 books on a shelf. How many ways can they be arranged
year for the first six years and then ₱120,000 each year thereafter for if 5 books are different and 3 are identical?
operating expenses; and ₱500,000 every 5 years for replacement of A. 2120 B. 4512
equipment with interest at 12% per annum. C. 5281 D. 6720
A. ₱6,573,645.74 B. ₱5,917,771.85 128. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle with a known diameter of
C. ₱5,655,873.88 D. ₱6,417,771.85 25 cm. Side AB is the diameter of the circle, angle ACD is 30°, and
113. Find the equation of a curve for which the slope of the tangent line at angle BDC is 20°. Determine the length of side BC.
any point P(x, y) is numerically equal to 1/2 the slope of the line from A. 8.55 cm B. 12.5 cm
the origin to the point. C. 6.04 cm D. 16.07 cm
A. x2  Cy B. 2x  y2  C
129. Find the general solution of D 4

 6D3  9D2 y  0 .
C. y  Cx
2 D. 2y  x  C
2

114. A tank can be supplied by two pipes A and B and can be emptied by a A. y  c1  c2x  c3 x2  c 4 x3x B. y  c1  c2x  c3 x2  c 4 x3x
third pipe C. If the tank is empty and all pipes are opened, the tank
C. y  c1  c2 x   c3  c 4 x  e3x D. y  c1  c2 x   c3  c 4 x  e3x
can be filled in 25 hours. If the tank is full and pipes A and C are
opened, the tank can be emptied in 5.5 hours. If the tank is full and 130. The volume of water in a hemispherical tank having a radius of 2 m is
3
pipes B and C are opened, the tank can be emptied in 2.75 hours. 2.05 m . Find the depth of water in the tank.
Pipe A supplies 80 L/min more than pipe B. Determine the rate of pipe A. 0.5544 m B. 0.6022 m
B. C. 0.6849 m D. 0.7134 m
A. 97.6 L/min B. 177.6 L/min 131. How many distinct permutations can be formed from the letters of the
C. 257.6 L/min D. 337.6 L/min word “PHILIPPINES”?
115. A class of 40 took examination in Algebra and Trigonometry. If 30 A. 554400 B. 1108800
passed Algebra, 36 passed Trigonometry, and 2 failed in both C. 5540400 D. 11008800
subjects, determine the number of students who passed the two 132. A 600 ft radio tower is being supported by two cables running from the
subjects. top of the tower to the ground. The cables make an angle of 58° and
A. 24 B. 26 44° with respect to the horizontal. Find the distance between the
C. 28 D. 30 anchorages of the two cables on the ground.
116. The heights of 800 students are normally distributed having a mean A. 642.40 ft B. 264.99 ft
value of 66 inches and a standard deviation of 5 inches. How many C. 996.24 ft D. 404.26 ft
students are likely to have heights between 65 and 70 inches? 133. A certain company makes it a policy that for any new piece of
A. 506 B. 294 equipment the annual depreciation cost should not exceed 10% of the
C. 230 D. 63 original cost at any time with no salvage or scrap value. Determine
117. In ΔABC, a = 8, b = 9, and C = 135°. What is the area of ΔABC? the length of service life necessary if the depreciation method used is
A. 25.46 sq. units B. 50.91 sq. units sinking fund at 8% interest.
C. 18.00 sq. units D. 36.00 sq. units A. 7 yrs B. 8 yrs
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134. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of curves x (squared) – y 150. If a chord is selected at random on a fixed circle, what is the
(squared) = k. probability that its length exceeds the radius of the circle? (Hint:
A. xy = C B. 2(y squared) + x = C Assume that the end points of the chord are uniformly distributed over
C. x=C D. 2(x squared) + y = C the circumference of the circle.)
A. 1/4 B. 3/4
135. A circle has an equation of x2  y2  6x  10y  30  0 . Which of the
C. 1/3 D. 2/3
following point is outside the area of the circle? 151. The two sides of a triangle measure 45 cm and 52 cm. If it has an
A. (1, 2) B. (5, 12) 2
area of 992.22 cm , find the third side.
C. (4, 3) D. (3, 10) A. 84.91 cm B. 71.67 cm
136. A close inverted conical tank has a base diameter of 3 m and an C. 59.24 cm D. 46.40 cm
altitude of 4 m. It is filled with water to a depth of 1.3 m. If the tank is 152. Pinning Garcia invested her ₱1000000 in a rural bank. She was told
set upright, its base lying on the ground, find the new depth of water. that until her money’s interest exceeds ₱294000, she will enjoy a
A. 0.0463 m B. 0.1054 m simple interest of 7.35%. By the time the interest exceeds ₱294000,
C. 0.0287 m D. 0.0785 m the accumulated amount will enjoy the same interest but will be
137. A rectangular waterfront lot has a perimeter of 1000 ft. To create a compounded quarterly. How much is the lump sum of her money after
sense of privacy, the lot’s owner decides to fence along the three 8 years?
sides, excluding the waterfront side. An expensive fence along the A. ₱1731641.34 B. ₱173164.15
lot’s front length costs ₱25 per foot, and an inexpensive fence along C. ₱393433.28 D. ₱1338208.67
the two side widths costs only ₱5 per foot. The total cost of the fence 153. Which of the following is a differential equation whose general
along the three sides of the lot is ₱9500. Determine the area of the
solution is y  asinx  bcosx ?
lot.
A. 30,000.00 ft
2
B. 60,000.00 ft
2 A. y" y  0 B. y" y  0
C. 87,187.50 ft
2
D. 43,593.50 ft
2
C. y" y  0 D. y" y  0
138. An automobile head reflector in the form of a parabola having an 154. The sum of the coefficients of x and y in the equation Ax + By – 16 =
equation of y2  9x is cut by a plane having an equation of x = 4 0 is 14. If the slope of the line is equal to 8, find the value of B.
A. 16 B. −2
through its axis and revolved about the x-axis. Determine the lateral
surface area of the automobile head reflector. C. 8 D. −1
3
155. The volume of a regular tetrahedron is 20.70 m . Determine the
A. 76.97 square units B. 153.94 square units
dimension of its lateral edge.
C. 230.90 square units D. 307.88 square units
A. 5.2 m B. 5.4 m
139. If four cards are removed from a standard deck of playing cards, find
the probability that all four are face cards. C. 5.6 m D. 5.8 m
156. The percentage of adult height attained by a boy who is x years old
A. 99/54145 B. 11/4165
can be modeled by
C. 16/14554 D. 77/6514
140. In a triangle XYZ, side XY = 18 and side YZ = 6. Find the probable f  x   29  48.8log  x  1
length of side XZ. where x represents the boy’s age and f (x) represents the percentage
A. 10 B. 11 of his adult height. Approximately what percentage of his adult height
C. 12 D. 13 has a boy attained at age eight?
141. Find the equation of the hyperbola that has a focus at (5, 1) and the A. 74% B. 76%
lines y  2x  1 as asymptotes. C. 78% D. 80%
157. Determine the depth at which the intensity of the radiation passing
A. 4x2  y2  2y  21  0 B. 4x2  y2  2y  21  0 through a lead shield is reduced to 3% of the original intensity if the
value of k is 2.1.
C. 4x2  y2  2y  21  0 D. 4x2  y2  2y  21  0
3  I 
142. The volume of a pyramid whose base is a regular hexagon is 156 m . Use the formula: ln    kx
If the altitude of the pyramid is 5 m, find the length of one side of the  I0 
base. Where:
A. 4m B. 6m I = intensity of radiation
C. 8m D. 10 m I0 = initial intensity
143. A flagstaff stands on the top of a house 15 m high. From a point on k = constant measure dependent on the material
the plane on which the house stands, the angles of elevation of the x = depth in mm
top and bottom of the flagstaff are found to be 60° and 45° A. 1.33 mm B. 0.73 mm
respectively. Find the height of the flagstaff. C. 1.67 mm D. 0.44 mm
A. 10.98 m B. 11.87 m 12x
C. 12.76 m D. 13.25 m 158. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y  , the x-
x2  4
144. An unknown amount invested at an unknown interest rate
compounded semi-annually triples after 9 years. How many years will axis, x  1 , and x  4 .
it take for the same unknown amount to double? A. 12.17 B. 3.18
A. 7.349 years B. 5.678 years C. 16.25 D. 8.32
C. 6.293 years D. 8.765 years 159. If three coins are tossed in the air and allowed to fall, find the
probability that two coins will fall with head up.
145. Transform r sin2  6 into rectangular coordinates.
2
A. 5/13 B. 5/12
A. xy  3 B. xy3 C. 4/9 D. 3/8
160. Determine the angle between the asymptotes of the curve
C. x2  6y D. y2  3x
146. A lampshade is in the form of a frustum of a cone with height 7 4x2  16y2  64
inches, radii of bases 3 inches and 7 inches, respectively. How much A. 26.87 B. 53.13
material is used in its construction? C. 75.96 D. 37.98
2 2
A. 253.3 in B. 325.4 in 161. A circular piece of cardboard with a diameter of 1 meter will be made
2 2
C. 285.33 in D. 135.79 in into a conical hat 40-centimeter-high by cutting a sector off and joining
200 the edges to form a cone. Determine the central angle of the sector
147. Determine the inverse Laplace transform of removed.
s2  50s  10625
A. 162° B. 180°
A. 2e25t cos100t B. e25t cos200t C. 216° D. 312°
25t 2
C. 2e sin100t D. e25t sin200t 162. A quadrilateral having an area of 65 m is inscribed in a circle. Three
148. There were 104,830 people who attended a rock festival. If there were
of its sides measure 12 m, 8 m, and 5 m, consecutively. Determine
8,110 more boys than girls, and 24,810 fewer adults over 50 years of the measurement of the fourth side.
age than there were girls, how many adults over 50 years of age A. 8.84 m B. 6.80 m
attended the festival? C. 9.20 m D. 9.72 m
A. 48,620 B. 15,700 163. Two sides of a triangle are a = 23.90 m and b = 36.30 m. The angle
C. 12,400 D. 40,510 opposite side b is 102.70°. Determine the length of side c.
149. A curve has an equation y  cos x  0 . How far is the centroid of the A. 22.57 m B. 25.27 m
area bounded by the curve from x = 0 to x = /2 measured from the x- C. 25.72 m D. 27.25 m
axis? 164. What is the value of i
1995
 i1999 ?
A. 0.785 B. 0.596 A. 0 B. 2i
C. 0.492 D. 0.393 C. 2i D. i

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165. Determine the coordinates of one of the foci of the hyperbola 181. The half-life of the radioactive element plutonium-239 is 25,000 years.
If 16 grams of plutonium-239 are initially present, how many grams
9x  4y  90x  189  0 .
2 2
are present after 75,000 years?
A. (1.39, 0) B. (−1.39, 0) A. 4 grams B. 2 grams
C. (0, 1.39) D. (0, −1.39) C. 0.5 gram D. 0.25 gram
166. The horizontal base of a truncated prism is a rectangle with length 182. A projectile is fired upward to the right on top of a 50-m high building
twice its width. The edges perpendicular to the base are 4 m, 5 m, 6 with a velocity of 200 m/s at an angle of 60° with the horizontal. Wind
m, and 7 m, consecutively. If the volume of the truncated prism is is blowing to the right at 5 m/s. Which of the following most nearly
3
2400 m , find the width of its base. gives the time when the projectile reaches its highest point?
A. 20.75 m B. 17.53 m A. 16.84 sec B. 17.15 sec
C. 14.77 m D. 11.66 m C. 17.66 sec D. 17.92 sec
167. A business organization wishes to set up a Scholarship Foundation by 183. In a survey concerning the smoking habits of consumer, it was found
making uniform end of period semi-annual deposits of ₱5000 for 20 that 50% smoke cigarette A, 55% smoke cigarette B, 40% smoke
years. The fund is to provide the foundation 5 equal end of year cigarette C, 30% smoke cigarettes A and B, 20% smoke cigarettes A
th
withdrawals starting at the end of the 16 year. At 8% compounded and C, 12% smoke cigarettes B and C, and 10% smoke all three
semi-annually, find the uniform amount to be withdrawn? cigarettes. What percent smoke exactly two brands of cigarettes?
A. ₱67,003.8 B. ₱36,800.70 A. 2% B. 10%
C. ₱80,730.60 D. ₱102,789.10 C. 20% D. 32%
168. A light bulb is placed at a certain distance from the surface of a 184. Two identical balls collide head-on. The initial velocity of one ball is
spherical globe of radius 20 cm. If it illuminates one-third of the total +0.75 m/s, while that of the other ball is −0.43 m/s. If the collision is
surface of the globe, how far is it from the surface? perfectly elastic, what is the final velocity of each ball?
A. 30 cm B. 35 cm A. −0.43 m/s and +0.75 m/s B. −0.53 m/s and +0.95 m/s
C. 40 cm D. 60 cm C. −0.18 m/s and +0.85 m/s D. −0.23 m/s and +0.55 m/s
169. The population of a certain community increases at the rate 185. A solid material in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped 3 m x 4 m x
proportional to the population itself. If the present population of the 5 m is painted blue. How many cubes will have 2 blue faces if the
community is 144,000 and ten years ago it was 100,000, after how block is to cut to form cubes 1 m x 1 m x 1 m.
many years relative as of the present time will the population be A. 6 B. 8
duplicated? C. 22 D. 24
A. 8 years B. 19 years 186. Two objects fly toward each other. When they are 1200 m apart, their
C. 32 years D. 55 years velocities and accelerations are V1 = 40 m/s, V2 = 15 m/s, a1 = 0.50
170. A line of slope 3 passes through the point (7, 10). If a point on the line 2 2
m/s , a2 = 1.30 m/s . A third object left the first object and moves with
has an abscissa 2, determine its ordinate. constant velocity of 50 m/s towards the second object. Upon reaching
A. 6 B. 5 the second object, it flies back to the first object and so on until the
C. −6 D. −5 first and second objects collide. Find the total distance traveled by the
171. A student of mass 50 kg decides to test Newton’s laws of motion by third object.
standing on a bathroom scale placed on the floor of an elevator. A. 882.56 m B. 868.25 m
Assume that the scale reads in Newtons. Determine the scale reading C. 825.86 m D. 852.86 m
2
when the elevator is accelerating upwards at 0.50 m/s . 187. The cost of running a coffee shop is made up of the following:
A. 490.5 N B. 540.5 N
Rental = 40%
C. 515.5 N D. 465.5 N
172. A cylindrical tank has a base diameter of 14 m and is half filled with Labor = 35%
water. A solid rectangular block is totally submerged into the tank. If Materials = 20%
the block has dimensions 7 m  9 m  11 m, determine the height that Miscellaneous = 5%
the water will rise inside the tank.
A. 1.13 m B. 3.11 m If the office rental increased by 24%, labor increased by 15%, cost of
materials increased by 20% and miscellaneous costs are unchanged,
C. 4.50 m D. 5.40 m determine the percentage of increase in the cost of running the shop.
173. Find the volume generated by the circle x2  y2  4x  6y  12  0 if it A. 13.85% B. 18.85%
is revolved about the line 2x  3y  12  0 . C. 21.85% D. 24.85%
A. 3241.67 cubic units B. 3331.67 cubic units 188. One meter curved strip around and above the base of a hemispherical
C. 3421.67 cubic units D. 3591.67 cubic units dome is to be painted with two coats of enamel which has a spreading
2
capacity of 200 ft per gallon. Determine the number of gallons of
174. An 8 gram bullet is fired horizontally into a 9 kg block of wood and
paint needed if the diameter of the dome is 16 m.
sticks in it. The block which is free to move, has a velocity of 40 cm/s
after impact. Find the velocity of the bullet before impact. A. 2.70 gal B. 3.21 gal
A. 450.4 m/s B. 550.6 m/s C. 5.39 gal D. 6.42 gal
189. Starting from a certain point A, a man walks eastward at the rate of 3
C. 380.1 m/s D. 250.0 m/s
km per hour. Twenty minutes later, a second man starting from point
175. Given ABC: A = 32°, C = 77°, and a = 14 inches. Determine the
B, which is situated 5 km south and 20 km east of A, walks westward
area of ABC. at the rate of 4 km/hr. Determine the rate at which the two men are
2 2
A. 150 in B. 160 in approaching each other, 1 hour after the second man left point B
2 2
C. 170 in D. 180 in westward bound.
176. Find the period of the graph of y  9  2cos5x A. −12.92 kph B. −6.46 kph
A. 144° B. 108° C. −1.64 kph D. −19.87 kph
C. 72° D. 36° 190. It is now past 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The minute hand three
177. In the equation of a line y  mx  b , m is the slope and b is the y- minutes from now will be directly opposite the position of the hour
hand nine minutes ago. What time is it now?
intercept of the line. Find the value of m when x1 = 7.50, x2 = 12.50, y1
A. 3:48 B. 3:36
= 8.50, and y2 = 20.60.
C. 3:39 D. 3:45
A. 9.65 B. 2.42
 /6
0 cos3A  dA
8
C. −9.65 D. −2.42 191. Evaluate
178. Two spherical balls, one 8 cm in diameter and the other 5 cm in
diameter, is placed in a cylindrical jar 10 cm in diameter. Find the 27 35
A. B.
volume of water necessary to cover them. 363 768
3 3
A. 670.16 cm B. 607.16 cm 23 12
C. 538.48 cm
3
D. 583.48 cm
3 C. D.
765 81
179. The probability of the students passing Algebra and Trigonometry are 192. An asphalt road requires no upkeep until the end of 2 years when
50% and 70%, respectively. None of the students failed in both ₱60,000 will be needed for repairs. After this, ₱90,000 will be needed
subjects. If 8 of them passed both subjects, how many students took for maintenance at the end of each year for the next five years, then
the exam? ₱120,000 at the end of each year for the next ten years. If money is
A. 20 B. 30 worth 4.8% compounded annually, what is the equivalent uniform
C. 40 D. 50 annual cost for the 17-year-period?
180. Determine the constant of integration for the separable differential A. ₱2,408,143.799 B. ₱51,746.667
equation xdx  6y5dy  0 , where it is known that x  0 when y  2 . C. ₱235,689.333 D. ₱94,830.526
A. 12 B. 16
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193. Diophantus spent 1/12 of his life in childhood, 1/6 in youth, and 1/7 as
a bachelor. Five years after his marriage was born a son who died
four years before him at half his final age. How old is he when he
died?
A. 84 B. 89
C. 94 D. 108
194. You commute to work a distance of 40 miles and return on the same
route at the end of the day. Your average rate on the return trip is 30
mph faster than your average rate on the outgoing trip. If the round
trip takes 2 hours, what is your average rate on the outgoing trip to
work?
A. 10 mph B. 20 mph
C. 30 mph D. 40 mph
195. A survey concerning a group of TV viewers show that: 56% watch
sports; 39% watch movies; 51% watch news; 16% watch sports and
movies; 19% watch movies and news; 30% watch sports and news;
11% watch sports, movies and news. The rest are children who like
watching cartoons only. How many of the TV viewers are children?
A. 15% B. 8%
C. 12% D. 10%
196. Determine the resultant of the following coplanar forces: 300 N, 30°;
200 N, 160°; 200 N, 240°; and 300 N, 295°.
A. 374.18 N B. 317.30 N
C. 140.92 N D. 247.23 N
197. A flywheel rotates at an angular speed   0.5t , where  is in
3

rad/sec and t is in seconds. How many revolutions will it make at the

end of 20 seconds?
A. 2445 B. 3183
C. 3526 D. 4658
198. A projectile of weight W is fired from a certain point O at 30° from the
horizontal. It lands at another point A, a distance of 200 m from point
O, as measured along an inclined plane downward to the right at a
slope of 3 vertical and 4 horizontal. Which of the following most nearly
gives the initial velocity?
A. 12.51 m/s B. 25.14 m/s
C. 28.08 m/s D. 36.51 m/s
199. An automobile has a power output of 1 hp. When it pulls a cart with a
force of 300 N, what is the automobile’s velocity?
A. 2.15 m/s B. 2.49 m/s
C. 3.73 m/s D. 3.24 m/s
200. The plane rectangular coordinate system is divided into four parts
which are known as:
A. octants B. axes
C. quadrants D. quadrilateral

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