QUIZ 1 (1Q1920)

1. A bridge is 1.4 kilometers long. A bus 10 meters long is crossing the bridge at 30 kilometers per
hour. How many minutes will it take the bus to completely cross the bridge?
2.80 min 2.82 min 3.82 min 4.82 min
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2. Two cars started together and travel the same direction, one going twice as fast as the other. At
the end of 3 hours, they are 96 km apart. Find the rate of the car.
30 kph 31 kph 32 kph 33 kph
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3. After selling 2 hectares more than 60 percent of his own land, a man was left with 15.5 hectares
fewer than 50 percent of his land. How many hectares of land did he initially own?
115 125 135 145
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4. Three numbers are in the ratio of 3:5:8. If 13 is subtracted from the 3rd number, the resulting
number will be an arithmetic progression. Find the largest of the original numbers.
91 65 104 117
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5. If the fist term of a geometric progression is x2 and the common ratio is x4, which term is x22?
9th term 8th term 7th term 6th term
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6. The following data were obtained from the results of a college scholarship examination covering
three subjects A, B, and C.
37% failed A 14% failed A and B
32% failed B 13% failed A and C
30% failed C 11% failed B and C

if 30% passed all subjects, how many percent failed all of the subjects A, B, and C?

6% 7% 8% 9%

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7. A group of students plan to pay equal amount in hiring a vehicle for an excursion trip at a cost of
P6000. However, by adding 2 more students to the original group, the cost of each student will
be reduced by P150. Find the number of students in the original group.
10 9 8 7
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8. If Jose is 10% taller than Pedro, and Pedro is 10% taller than Mario, then Jose is taller than Mario
by ___%
18% 20% 21% 23%
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9. A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in 30 days, while A and C in 20 days. In how
many days can all of them work together?
16.65 17.66 18.67 19.68
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10. If the second term of a geometric progression is 6 and the fourth term is 54, how many terms
must be taken for their sum equal to 242?
4 5 6 7
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11. Without expanding (2x + y)13. Find the coefficient of the 9th term.
41,481 41,841 41,184 41,418
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12. If the sum to infinity of 1/x, 1/4x, 1/16x, … is 2/3. Find x.
3 5 2 4
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13. A, B and C present ages is 20. Five years ago, A was 7 times as old as B was then. Four years from
now, B is as old as C now. How old is A now?
7 10 8 6
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14. What is the difference of the sum of the first 80 odd integers when subtracted from the sum of
first 80 even integers?
75 80 85 90
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15. At what time after 3 pm will the six o’clock mark bisect the angle formed by the minute hand
and hour hands?
3:40:44 3:41:54 3:42:34 3:43:22
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16. How much must a merchant mark a sofa which costs him $120 in order that he can give 20%
discount on the marked price and still have 25% gain on the selling price?
$400 $350 $300 $200
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17. The sum of seven digits of the telephone number of Cris is 27. From the left, the second, third
and sixth digits are all 5. The sum of the first digit and the fifth digit is also 5. The middle digit is
zero. If the first digit is 3 less than the last digit, then the first digit of the telephone number of
Cris is.
6 7 4 3
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18. A man rows upstream and back in 12 hours. If the rate of the current is 1.5 kph and that of the
man in still water is 4 kph, what was the time spent downstream?
1.75 hr 2.75 hr 3.75 hr 4.75 hr
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19. If the logarithm of MN is 6 and the logarithm of N/M is 2, find the logarithm of N.
3 4 5 6
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20. If 4 electricians earn x pesos in 7days, how much can 14 carpenters, paid at the same rate, earn
in 12 days?
3x 4x 5x 6x
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21. A pile of logs has 24 logs in the bottom layer, 23 logs in the second layer, 22 logs in the 3rd layer
and so on, the topmost layer containing 10 logs. Find the number of logs.
252 logs 253 logs 254 logs 255 logs
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22. Find the sum of the infinite series 6, -2, -2/3, …

9/2 5/2 11/3 2/3
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23. A man can do a job in 6 hours and his son can do the same job in 10 hours. The man begins the
work and after two hours is joined by his son. How many more hours will they complete the job?
1.5 hr 2.5 hr 3.5 hr 4.5 hr
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24. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of a 10% solution. You find 7% and 12% solution
on the shelves. How much of the 7% solution should you mix with the appropriate amount of
12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution?
1.5 L 2.0 L 2.5 L 3.0 L

25. The positive value of K which will make 4x2 – 4kx + 4k + 5 a perfect square trinomial is.
6 5 4 3
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QUIZ 1 (ALGEBRA 30/30)

1. A man piles 150 logs in layers so that the top layer contains 3 logs and each layer has one more
log than the layer above. How many logs are at the bottom?
17 16 19 81
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2. A policeman is pursuing a thief who is ahead by 72 of his own leaps. The thief takes 6 leaps while
the policeman is taking 5 leaps, but 4 leaps of the thief are as long as 3 leaps of the policemen.
How may leaps were made by the policeman until he caught the thief?
648 540 450 230
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3. If the 3rd term of a GP is 20 and the 8th term is 640, find the 10th term
2560 2650 5620 2065
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4. Find two numbers whose arithmetic mean is 20 and whose geometric mean is 16.
8, 32 10, 30 12, 28 6, 34
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5. A ball is dropped from a height of 128 cm. each time it strikes the ground, it rises to ½ of the
height from where it falls. Find the total distance travelled by the ball until it stops.
384 cm 483 cm 348 cm 438 cm
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6. An equilateral triangle has its side 20 cm. smaller equilateral triangle are formed by connecting
the midpoints of the sides of each of the other equilateral triangles and so on indefinitely. Find
the sum of the perimeters of all the triangles.
210 cm 230 cm 120 cm 150 cm
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7. Find two numbers such that their difference is equal to their product and the sum of their
reciprocals is 5.
½, 1/3 2, 3 3/2, 2 2/3, 3
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8. The sum of the squares of the two digits of a positive integral number is 89. The number itself is
7 more than 6 times the sum of its digits. Find the number.
58 38 49 85
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9. If 4 men take 6 days to assemble 8 machines, how many days will it take 3 men to assemble 10
machines?
10 12 11 15
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10. A car traveling at 75 kph leaves town A for town B. Two hours earlier, a truck left town A at a
speed of 45 kph. How far from town A will the car overtakes the truck?
252 km 225 km 552 km 215 km
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11. On a trip, James noticed that his car averaged 21 km per liter of gasoline except for the days he
used the aircon, and then it averaged only 17 km per liter. If he used 91 liters of gasoline to drive
1751 km, on how many km did he use the air-con?
680 860 780 870
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12. A plane was scheduled to fly from city A to city B. The flight was against the head wind of 10
kph. Threat of mechanical failure forced the plane to turn back and it returned to city A with a
tail wind of 10 kph landing 1.5 hrs after it had taken off. If the plane has a uniform speed of 150
kph, how far had it gone before turning back?
121 km 211 km 112 km 122 km
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13. Pedro can do a job in 6 hrs and Jose can do the same job in 10 hrs. if Pedro work 2 hrs and Jose
joined him, how many hrs more will the two boys finish the job together?
2½ 3½ 2¼ 2 1/6
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14. A tank can be filled in 30 min by two pumps working together. If the larger pump takes 25 min
less time than the smaller pump to fill the tank, what is the time needed by the larger pump to
fill the tank?
50 min 75 min 45 min 30 min
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15. How many grams of alloy containing 35% nickel must be melted with an alloy containing 65%
nickel in order to obtain 20 grams of an alloy containing 41% nickel?
16 18 14 15
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16. Find the value of k in the quadratic equation (2k + 2)x2 + (4-4k)x + k – 2 = 0 so that the roots are
reciprocal of each other
4 2 -4 3
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17. Determine the value of k so that the sum of the roots of 3kx2 + 3k2 -4kx = 5 – 3x exceeds the
product of the roots by 3.
2 -2 -4 3
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18. John’s rate of doing work is three times as fast as Bill. On a given day John and Bill work together
for 4 hrs then Bill was called away and John finishes the rest of the job in 2 hrs. how long would
it take Bill to do the complete job alone?
18 hrs 22 hrs 15 hrs 31 hrs
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19. Find the constant remainder when 3x4-4x3+5x2-5x +1 is divided by x + 1.

18 81 77
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20. Find the 5th term in the expansion of (x2-2y3)8

1120x8y12
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21. A class of 40 took examination in Algebra and Trigonometry. If 30 passed Algebra, 36 passed
Trigonometry and 2 failed in both subjects, find the number of students who passed the two
subjects.
23 25 28 30
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22. A ball is dropped from a height of 18m. on each rebound it rises 2/3 of the height from where it
last fell. What distance in meter has it travelled at the instant it strikes the ground for the fifth
time?
37.89 73.79 57.78 75.78
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23. There are 750 eggs, 4% of which have crack and 5% of the remaining has defects. How many
eggs can be sold to the market if only eggs without cracks and defects are accepted?
684 692 548 564
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24. If 2log3 base x + log2 base x = 2 + log6 base x find the value of x
2 sq.rt. of 3 sq.rt. of 2 3
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25. Two commuters leave the same place at the same time in opposite directions with a speed of 63
kph and 59 kph respectively. Find the time in hours when the distance between them is 610 km.
3 4 5 6
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26. If 8 men take 12 days to assemble 16 machines, how many days will it take 15 men to assemble
50 machines?
12 16 18 20
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27. There are 4 geometric means between 3 and 729. Find the sum of the geometric progression.
1092 1082 1084 1094
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28. Jam remodel a kitchen in 20hrs and Jack in 15 hrs. How long will it take in hours if they work
together to do the job?
5.6 8.6 12 7.5
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29. If f(x) = x2 and g(x) = 2x, find the value of f(g(-3)) – g(f(-3))
-18 -54 18
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30. How many liters of water must be added to a liter of 35% acid solution to produce a 20% acid
solution?
0.5 1.5 1.0 0.75
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