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13. For how many integers x does a triangle with side lengths
1. From a group of 5 women and 7 men, how many different 12, 25 and x has all its angles acute?
committees consisting of 3 women and 4 men can be A. 4 C. 6
formed if two of the men refuse to serve on any of the B. 5 D. 7
committee together? 14. Find the eigenvalues of the matrix |
1 2|.
A. 250 C. 350 4 3
B. 300 D. 275 A. 5 and -1 C. 3 and 1
2. Kyla, Jericho and Trixie take turns flipping a coin in their B. -5 and 1 D. -3 and -1
respective order. The first one to flip head wins. What is the 15. A dice is loaded so that the probability of a number coming
probability that Trixie will win? out is directly proportional to the number. When the die is
A. 1/8 C. 2/7 rolled, what is the probability that a prime number comes
B. 1/7 D. 1/4 out?
3. A tank contains 150 L of mango puree and 50 L of water. A. 2/7 C. 3/7
Then 40 L of the mixture is removed and is replaced by 40 B. 10/21 D. 8/21
L of water. What is the percentage of mango puree in the 16. Points A and B are 100 meters apart and are of the same
final mixture? elevation as the foot of the building from points A and B are
A. 50% C. 60% 21 and 32 degrees respectively. How far is A from the
B. 55% D. 65% building?
4. In how many ways can you arrange the word ALGEBRA A. 259.28m C. 158.62m
such that the consonants are in alphabetical order? B. 286.23m D. 345.41m
A. 2520 C. 210 17. If the GCF of 2 numbers is 48 and their LCM is 336, what is
B. 105 D. 5040 the product of the numbers?
5. Mary is 42 years old. Mary was twice as old as Ann was A. 16128 C. 4032
when Mary was as old as Ann is now. How old is Ann? B. 8064 D. 2016
A. 24 C. 26 18. A wooden cone of altitude 10 cm is to be cut into two parts
B. 21 D. 28 of equal weight. How far from the vertex should the cut
6. If electricity power failures according to a Poisson parallel to the base be made?
distribution with an average of 3 failures every twenty A. 9.74cm C. 7.94cm
weeks, calculate the probability that there will not be more B. 4.79cm D. 7.49cm
than 1 failure during a particular week. 19. A triangle has 2 sides measuring 2018 cm and 2019 cm.
A. 0.86 C. 0.99 How many triangles are possible with the 2 sides given
B. 0.92 D. 0.95 such that the 3rd side is also having an integral length?
7. An ellipse, major axis 8 and minor axis 6 is revolved about A. 4034 C. 4035
its minor axis. Find the volume of the solid of revolution in B. 4036 D. 4037
terms of pi? 20. Find the angle whose supplement exceeds six times its
complement by 20 degrees
A. 48𝜋 C. 32𝜋
B. 64𝜋 D. 24𝜋 A. 76° C. 64°
8. James jogs every morning, while Dina cycles on the same B. 38° D. 72°
route. If Dina’s speed is 3.5 times that of James, and Dina 21. A 100 kg salt solution originally 4% by weight NaCl in water
starts 2 hours after James, how many minutes does Dina is evaporated until the concentration is 5% by weight NaCl.
cycle before she overtakes James? What percentage of water in the original solution is
A. 42 mins C. 45 mins evaporated?
B. 48 mins D. 51 mins A. 20% C. 80%
9. A closed cylindrical tank container has a capacity of 128 pi B. 20.83% D. 79.17%
cubic meters. Determine the minimum surface area. 22. How many minutes after two o’clock will the hands of a
A. 96𝜋 C. 64𝜋 clock form a 60 degrees angle?
A. 22.85 C. 23.45
B. 32𝜋 D. 128𝜋
B. 21.82 D. 24.56
10. A curve has a parametric equation of y = 4(t+2) and x =
𝑑 2𝑦 23. A circle is inscribed in rhombus whose diagonals are 30 cm
2𝑡 2. Find 𝑑𝑥 2. and 40 cm. What is the value of the radius of the circle?
A. −1/𝑡 2 C. −1/4𝑡 3 A. 12.5cm C. 15cm
B. 1/𝑡 2
D. 1/4𝑡 3 B. 12cm D. 16cm
11. Find the volume of the solid formed by revolving the curve 24. Find the minimum distance of the parabola 𝑦 2 = 8x from
defined by 9𝑥 2 + 4𝑦 2 = 36 about the line x + y = 6. the point (4, 2).
A. 302.5 C. 502.5 A. 4√2 C. 2√2
B. 402.5 D. 602.5 B. 3√2 D. √2
12. A car headlight reflector is cut by a plane along its axis. 25. Find the smallest positive integer such that P(x) = 𝑥 4 - 2𝑥 3
The section is a parabola having the light center at the - 10𝑥 2 + 40 x – 90, this integer is an upper bound.
focus. If the distance of focus from vertex is 3/4 cm and if A. 5 C. 6
the diameter of the reflector is 10 cm, find its depth. B. 4 D. 7
A. 23/3 cm C. 29/3 cm
B. 22/3 cm D. 25/3 cm
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26. 12 men can finish a job in 16 days. 5 men were working at 38. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9𝑥 2 − 4𝑦 2 − 36𝑥 +
the start and after 8 days, 3 men were added. How many 8𝑦 − 4 = 0.
days will it take to finish the whole job? A. 1.6 C. 2.0
A. 19days C. 27days B. 1.8 D. 2.2
B. 24days D. 21days 39. In how many ways can 3 distinct numbers be chosen from
27. In how many equal parts should you divide 120 so that the the set {1, 2, 3,…,10} such that the sum of the numbers is
continue product of those equal parts will be maximum? odd?
A. 43 C. 33 A. 50 C. 60
B. 44 D. 34 B. 70 D. 80
28. Albert and Katie are painting a room. Katie paints half the 40. What is the sum of all the positive factors of 144?
room red. Albert paints half of the unpainted area blue. A. 400 C. 402
Katie paints half of the unpainted area red, and so on. If B. 401 D. 403
this process continues infinitely, what fraction of the room 41. How many regular polygons, with number of sides less
will be painted red? than 100, have interior angle measures whose values are
A. 2/3 C. 3/4 integer degrees?
B. 5/8 D. 4/7 A. 21 C. 19
29. The probability that A, B and C will hit the target are 0.2, B. 20 D. 22
0.4 and 0.9 respectively. What is the probability that at 42. If a, b and c are the roots of 𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 − 4 = 0,
least one of them will hit the bull’s eye? find the numerical value of 𝑎3 + 𝑏 3 + 𝑐 3 .
A. 0.812 C. 0.882 A. -2 C. 2
B. 0.922 D. 0.952 B. 3 D. 4
30. Find the radius of curvature at any point on the curve y = - 43. What is the area of a rhombus with side 12 cm whose
ln cos x. diagonals differ by 6 cm?
A. Sec x C. Tan x A. 135 sq.cm C. 128 sq.cm
B. Cos x D. Cot x B. 144 sq.cm D. 169 sq.cm
31. What is the differential equation of all the straight lines with 44. Triangle ABC has a right angle at B and contains a Point P
slope and y-intercept equal? for which PA = 10, PB = 8 and <APB = <BPC = <CPA. Find
A. ydx – (x + 1)dy = 0 PC.
B. ydx + (x + 1)dy = 0 A. 102 C. 103
C. (y + 1)dx + xdy = 0 B. 104 D. 105
D. (y + 1)dx – xdy = 0 45. The sum of the terms of an infinite geometric series is 6
32. Evaluate ln(3 + j4) while the sum of the squares of all the terms is 18. Find the
A. 1.46 + j0.10 C. 1.77 + j0.84 common ratio.
B. 1.61 + j0.92 D. 1.95 + j0.112 A. 1/2 C. 1/4
33. Find the volume of the largest open box that can be made B. 1/3 D. 1/5
by cutting off equal squares from the corners of a 20 cm by 46. How many digits are there when 20192018 is expanded?
24 cm box and then turning up the sides. A. 6665 C. 6670
A. 774.16cc C. 456.12cc B. 6666 D. 6669
B. 325.55cc D. 875.12cc 47. Find the area of the largest rectangle that has its base on
34. A piece of wire 14 cm long is cut in two, one part being the x-axis and its 2 other vertices above the x-axis and
bent in the shape of an equilateral triangle and the other in lying in the parabola y = 12 - 𝑥 2 .
the form of a circle. Find the length of the piece of wire A. 24 C. 42
used for the triangle if the sum of the area of these two B. 32 D. 36
figures is to be minimum. 48. How many terms are there when (𝑎 + 𝑏 + 𝑐)8 is
A. 8.725cm C. 10.561cm expanded?
B. 12.771cm D. 11.453cm A. 45 C. 55
35. What is the sum of all the distinct solutions of the equation B. 36 D. 66
1 2 1 49. Francis has 12 marbles of different colors, including one
3 (𝑥 + ) − 16 (𝑥 + ) + 20 = 0?
𝑥 𝑥 red, one green and one blue marble. In how many ways
A. 4 C. 13/3 can he choose 4 marbles if exactly one of the chosen
B. 11/3 D. 10/3 marbles is red, green or blue?
36. Charles has a probability of 1/3 in winning a game against A. 84 C. 252
his younger sister. If they play four times, what is the B. 126 D. 495
probability that he will win at least twice? 50. There are two data values in class 21 to 26, five in class 27
A. 16/27 C. 11/27 to 32, and three in class 33 to 38. What is the mean?
B. 13/27 D. 14/27 A. 29.1 C. 31.1
37. Determine the coordinates of the point which is three-fifths B. 30.1 D. 32.1
of the way from the point (2, -5) to the point (-3, 5). 51. If 2 cards from a standard deck are selected randomly,
A. (-1, 1) C. (-1, -2) what is the probability that either 2 kings or at least 1 ace
B. (-2, -1) D. (1, -1) occurs?
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B. 2/13 D. 1/13 what time will the tail-end of the train come out of the
52. A point on the curve where the second derivative is greater tunnel?
than 0 is called: A. 4:04 PM C. 4: 05 PM
A. Maxima C. Inflection Point B. 4:03 PM D. 4: 06 PM
B. Minima D. Critical Point 65. One candle will burn completely at a uniform rate of 4
53. Find the remainder when 𝑥 8 is divided by 𝑥 2 − 𝑥 − 2. hours while another in 3 hours. At what time should the 2
A. 31x + 32 C. 63x + 64 candles be simultaneously lighted so that one will be half
B. 85x + 86 D. 15x + 16. the length of the other at 6:00 PM?
A. 2: 24 PM C: 4: 00 PM
54. Two tangents from a circle form an angle of 100 degrees. B. 3: 36 PM D. 4: 48 PM
What is the measurement of the larger intercepted arc? 66. Find the sum of all positive integers less than 45 which are
A. 240° C. 260° not divisible by 3.
B. 250° D. 280° A. 625 C. 675
55. Find the perimeter of a right triangle circumscribing a circle B. 650 D. 700
of radius 1.5 cm and hypotenuse 10 cm. 67. Let x, y, and z be positive real numbers such that x(y + z) =
A. 22cm C. 11cm 95, y(x + z) = 128 and z(x + y) = 143. Find xyz.
B. 23cm D. 11.5cm A. 330 C. 400
56. Three regular polygons fit exactly together around a point B. 440 D. 500
on a plane surface. One is a square and the other is a 68. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 20 cm. What is the
hexagon. How many sides does the third polygon have? maximum possible area in square cm?
A. 8 C. 15 A. 200 C. 150
B. 12 D. 10 B. 100 D. 200
57. Find the volume formed by revolving the triangle whose 69. The sum of two numbers is 4. Find the maximum possible
vertices are (1, 1), (2, 4) and (3, 1) about the line 2x – 5y = value of the product of the square of one and the cube of
10. the other.
A. 52 C. 56 A. 26.3 C. 19.8
B. 63 D. 60 B. 35.4 D. 55.7
58. A body moves such that its acceleration as a function of 70. If 15 men can build a wall 108 meters long in 6 days, what
time is a = 2 + 12t, where a is in meters per second square. length of similar wall can be built by 25 men in 3 days?
If its velocity after 1 second is 11m/s, find the distance A. 45m C. 60m
traveled after 5 seconds. B. 90m D. 120m
A. 290m C. 340m 71. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 80 feet and is
B. 256m D. 420m observed to rebound 2/3 of the height from which it falls.
59. In how many ways can you write 7 as the sum of 1’s and How far will the ball travel before coming to rest if the ball
2’s?. continues to fall in this manner?
A. 20 C. 19 A. 240 ft C. 400ft
B. 21 D. 18 B. 320 ft D. 360ft
60. By selling a balut at 12 pesos each, a vendor gains 19.7%. 72. If a dice is rolled once, what is the expected value of the
The cost price of the the balut rises by 12.5%. If he sells sum of the faces?
the balut at the same price as before, what is his new gain A. 3 C. 4
in percent? B. 3.5 D. 3.75
A. 6% C. 6.4% 73. Two vertices of a triangle are (2, 4) and (-2, 3) and the area
B. 6.2% D. 6.6% is 2 square units. What is the locus of the third vertex?
61. In triangle ABC, the length BC is the average of the lengths A. 4x – y = 14 C. 4x + 4y = -14
of the other sides. If cos A = AC/AB, find the numerical B. x + 4y = 12 D. x – 4y = -18
value of cos A. 74. How long is the shortest chord that can be drawn through a
A. 1/3 C. 3/5 point 20 cm from the center of a circle whose radius is 29
B. ½ D. 4/5 cm long?
62. In square ABCD, a point P is chosen such that it is A. 21cm C. 42cm
equidistant from three points: A, B and midpoint of CD. If B. 24cm D. 48cm
𝑥
this distance is 5 cm, find the side length of square ABCD 75. What is the period of the graph of 𝑦 = tan 3 ?
A. 8cm C. 10cm A. 𝜋 C. 3𝜋
B. 9cm D. 11cm B. 2𝜋 D. 6𝜋
63. In how many ways can 7 people be lined up in a row for a
picture if two of them should have at least 2 people 76. Alan, Ben and Carlo can do a piece of work in 20, 30 and
between them? 60 days respectively. In how many days can Alan do the
A. 1200 C. 3600 work if he is assisted by Ben and Carlo on every third day?
B. 2400 D. 4800 A. 12 C. 10
64. An MRT train 0.2 km long travels at a steady speed of 24 B. 15 D. 18
kph. It enters a tunnel 1 km long at exactly 4:00 PM. At 77. During an engineering board examination, there were 350
examinees from Luzon, 250 from the Visayas and 400 from

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Mindanao. The results of the exam revealed that the
flunkers from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao were 3%, 5% 89. What is the largest possible remainder when a 2 digit
and 7% respectively. If the name of a flunker is picked at number is divided by the sum of its digits?
random, what is the probability that he/she is from Luzon? A. 14 C. 16
A. 0.33 C. 0.55 B. 15 D. 13
B. 0.44 D. 0.64 90. If there are three positive integers x, y, and z such that
78. Some birds are sitting in an oak tree. Ten more birds land. 28x + 30y + 31z = 365. Find x + y + z.
More birds arrive until there are a total of four times as A. 12 C. 18
many birds as the oak tree had after the ten landed. A B. 14 D. 24
nearby maple tree has 16 fewer than 12 times as many 91. A 4-digit number is created by using each of the digits 3, 4,
birds as the oak tree had before the 10 landed. If both 5 and 8 exactly once. What is the probability that the
trees now have the same number of birds, how many birds number is not divisible by 4?
were originally in the oak tree before the first 10 landed? A. 1/6 C. 5/6
A. 4 C. 16 B. 1/3 D. 2/3
B. 7 D. 24 92. Two fair 6-sided dice, colored red and white, are tossed.
79. The perimeter of a right triangle is 60 cm and the altitude What is the probability that the number on the red die is at
perpendicular to the hypotenuse is 12 cm. Find the longest least as large as that on the white die?
side of the triangle. A. 1/2 C. 5/12
A. 15cm C. 18cm B. 2/3 D. 7/12
B. 12cm D. 20cm 93. If Bill and Mary leave their houses at the same time,
80. How many ways can you arrange the letters of the word walking directly toward each other, each at their own
DIVISIBLE such that no two I’s are adjacent to each other? constant rate, they will meet after 5 minutes. If Bill leaves 3
A. 25200 C. 18900 minutes later than Mary, they meet after he has walked for
B. 12600 D. 6300 3 minutes. How many minutes would it take him to walk all
81. In a regular polygon, we call the intersection of two the way from his house to Mary’s?
diagonals a node. How many nodes are there in an A. 12 C. 10
octagon? B. 15 D. 18
A. 56 C. 28 94. In triangle ABC, angle A is 120 degrees, BC + AB = 21,
B. 70 D. 35 and BC + AC = 20. What is the length of BC?
82. How many ways can we group 9 people into three groups A. 11 C. 13
of 3 if three of them want to be in the same group? B. 12 D. 14
A. 30 C. 10 95. A flight of stairs has 9 steps. James can go 1 step or 2
B. 20 D. 14 steps at a time. The 4th step cannot be stepped since it is
83. Point P is inside regular octagon ABCDEF GH so that destroyed. How many ways are there for James to go up
triangle ABP is equilateral. How many degrees are in angle the stairs?
APC? A. 20 C. 21
A. 105° C. 125° B. 15 D. 13
B. 120° D. 112.5° 96. Given that x and y are acute angles such that sin y = 3
84. A rhombus has a 60 degree angle. What is the ratio of its cos(x + y) sin x. Find the maximum value of tan y.
area to that of a circle inscribed inside it? A. 4/3 C. 5/12
A. 1.47 C. 1.24 B. 3/4 D. 125
B. 1.55 D. 1.75 97. If x + 2y = 10, what is the minimum value of 𝑥 2 + 4𝑦 2?
85. In a group of five friends, the sums of the ages of each A. 50 C. 40
group of four of them are 124, 128, 130, 136, and 142. B. 100 D. 52
What is the age of the youngest? 98. If tan A + tan B = 20 and cot A + cot B = 16, what is the
A. 21 C. 23 numerical value of tan (A + B)?
B. 22 D. 24 A. 40 C. 80
86. An old receipt has faded. It reads 88 candies with a total B. -40 D. -80
price of $A4.2B, where A and B are unreadable digits. How 99. A, B, C and D are counting money in their savings. A has
much (in cents) does a candy cost? 18 pesos more than 9/7 of C. B has 108 pesos more than
A. 83 C. 93 2/3 of A. D has 20 pesos more than 9/8 of B. The total of
B. 63 D. 73 their savings is 2018 pesos. How much does C have?
87. What is the surface area generated by revolving the A. 558 C. 390
parabola 𝑦 = 𝑥 2 from x = 0 to x = √2 about the y – axis? B. 420 D. 650
A. 12.74 C. 11.65 100. What is the sum of all the roots of the equation 𝑥 3 − 3𝑥 +
B. 14.98 D. 13.61 1 = 0?
88. Find the centroid of the region bounded by y = 𝑥 2 , y = 0 A. 3 C. -3
and x = 1. B. 1 D. 0
A. (1/4, 2/3) C. (3/4, 3/10)
B. (2/3, 5/4) D. (3/5, 1/2)

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