MECORREL1 – ALGEBRA

Instruction: Solve the following problem

14. The sum of Kim’s & Kevin’s ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim
1. Evaluate √ −5( √ −6) will be twice as old as Kevin. What are their ages now?
A. √ 30 C. 30 A. 11 & 7 C. 5 & 13
B. −√ 30 D. −30 B. 6 & 12 D. 8 & 10

15. Mary is 24 years old. Mary was twice as old as Ann

2. Solve for x: x = √ 1−√ 1−√ 1−¿ ….. ¿ was when Mary was old as Ann is now. How old is
A. -1 C. 1
Ann?
B. 0.734 D. 0.618
A. 20 C. 16
xx
x.
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B. 14 D. 18
3. Solve for x: x = 10
A. 2.36 C. 10 16. The age of Diophantus, a Greek mathematician may be
B. 1.26 D. 8.62 calculated from the epitaph which reads as follows:
“Diophantus passed 1/6 of his life in childhood, 1/12 in
4. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent to
1785/9999 starting from decimal point. youth, 1/7 as a bachelor. Five years after his marriage
A. 8 C. 7 was born a son who died 4 years before his father at
B. 1 D. 5 half his father’s final age.” How old was Diophantus
when he died?
5. What is the greatest common factor of 108 and 60? A. 81 C. 83
A. 12 C. 6 B. 82 D. 84
B. 18 D. 24
17. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.
6. The orange bulbs of a light flash every 8 seconds, the
red bulbs flash every 9 seconds and the green bulbs Determine the number.
flash every 10 seconds. If they all start flashing A. 6 C. 8
together, in every how many seconds will they flash B. 7 D. 9
simultaneously together again?
A. 300 C. 270 18. Lita has ten bills in her wallet. She has a total of 40
B. 360 D. 540 pesos. If she has one more 5 peso bills than 10 peso
bills and two more 1 peso bills than 5 peso bills, how
7. What is the remainder if the polynomial
4 3 2 many 10 peso bills does she have?
3 x +2 x −4 x + x+ 4 is divided by (x-2)? A. 4 C. 2
A. 60 C. 3
B. 54 D. 16 B. 3 D. 5

8. If (x + 4) is a factor of x 3 + 2x2 – 7x + k, what is the 19. A book is bought by a company for 200 pesos per
value of k? copy. What will be the selling price if a discount of 20 %
A. 12 C. 4 and a profit of 30 % is to be made?
B. 9 D. 8 A. 340 C. 420
B. 325 D. 300
9. Find the value of x in the equation 24x2 + 5x -1 = 0.
A. 1/6 & 1 C. 1/2 & 1/5
20. Jojo bought a second hand Betamax VCR and the sold
B. 1/6 & 1/5 D. 1/8 & -1/3
it to Rudy at a profit of 40 %. Rudy then sold the VCR
10. If one root of 9x2 – 6x + k = 0 exceeds the other by 2, to Noel at a profit of 20 %. If Noel paid 2,856 pesos
find the value of k. more than it cost to Jojo, how much did Jojo paid for
A. 4 C. -8 the unit?
B. -4 D. 8 A. 4000 C. 4200
B. 4100 D. 4300
11. Determine the sum of the positive valued solution to the
simultaneous equations: xy = 15, yz = 35 and zx = 21. 21. If an alloy containing 30% silver is mixed with a 55 %
A. 15 C. 17 silver alloy to get 800 pounds of 40% silver alloy, how
B. 13 D. 19 much of the 30 % silver alloy must be used?
A. 480 C. 300
12. In the expansion of (x+4y) 12, the numerical coefficient B. 540 D. 360
of the 5th term is?
A. 126,720 C. 495 22. A 100 kg salt originally 4 % by weight salt in water is
B. 7920 D. 253,440 boiled to reduce the water content until the
12 concentration is 5 % by weight salt. How much water is
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13. What is the term free of x6 of the expansion
( x2+
x ) ? evaporated?
A. 20 C. 15
A. 624x6 C. 924x6
B. 25 D. 22.5
B. 824x6 D. 724x6

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23. A man sold half an egg more than half his eggs. He number, the difference is also 27. What is the original
then sold half an egg more than his remaining eggs. He number?
did the same for the third time. If he had 7 eggs left, A. 36 C. 93
how many eggs he originally has? B. 69 D. 63
A. 32 C. 50
B. 60 D. 63
33. In a class of 40 students, 27 like calculus and 25 like
24. Twelve men can finish a job in 16 days. Five men were chemistry. How many like both calculus and chemistry?
working together at the start and after 8days 3 men A. 14 C. 16
were added. How many days will it take to finish the B. 12 D. none of the above
job?
A. 19 C. 32 34. In a survey concerning the number of students enrolled
B. 27 D. 12 in Mathematics, it was found out that 30 students
enrolled in Algebra, Statistics and Trigonometry; 40 in
25. Aldrich can paint a fence 50 % faster than Jeano and Algebra and Trigonometry, 45 in Trigonometry and
20 % faster than Justin, and together they can paint at Statistics, 50 in Algebra and Statistics, 80 in Algebra
a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take Aldrich to and 70 in Statistics. If there are 130 students in all, how
paint the same fence if he had to work alone? many students enrolled only in Trigonometry.
A. 10 C. 11 A. 30 C. 45
B. 12 D. 9 B. 15 D. 20

26. The father can do a certain job in 9 days while his son 35. If x varies as y and inversely as z and x = 14 when y=7
can do the same job in 16 days. On a given day, they and z=2. Find the value of x when y=16 and z=4.
started working together, but after four days the son left A. 8 C. 24
and the father finished the job alone. How many more B. 16 D. 12
days did the father worked alone?
A. 1.5 C. 2.5 36. The 6th term of AP is 3 and the 23 rd term is 54. Find the
B. 2 D. 2.75 35th term.
A. 96 C. 60
27. How many minutes after 7 o’ clock will the hands of the B. 112 D. 90
clock be together?
A. 39.14 C. 32.72 37. How many terms in the expression 3, 5, 7 must be
B. 35.17 D. 38.18 taken in order that their sum will be 2600.
A. 30 C. 50
28. How many minutes after 7 o’ clock will the hands of the B. 40 D. 25
clock be opposite to each other?
A. 5.45 C. 5.56 38. If the 4th term of GP is 8 and the 7 th term is 1, find the
B. 5.25 D. 5.15 2nd term.
A. 30 C. 36
29. Two turtles A and B start at the same time move B. 32 D. 40
towards each other at a distance of 150 m. The rate of
turtle A is 10 m/s while that of B is 20 m/s. A fly flies 39. A friend on a strict diet loss 18 pounds in 2 months, 12
from one turtle to another at the same time that the pounds in the next 2 months 8 pounds in the next two
turtles start to move towards each other. The rate of fly months and so on for a long time. If the friend initially
is constant at 100 m/s. Determine the total distance weighs 190 lbs, what will be the resulting weight?
traveled by the fly when the two turtle met. A. 136 C. 145
A. 100 C. 100 B. 140 D. 163
B. 250 D. 500
40. The 3rd and the 9th term of a HP are 15 and 6,
30. A motorboat has an average speed of 20 kph in still respectively. Find the 11th term.
water. It can travel upstream 5 km against the river A. 5 C. 3
current at the same time that it can travel downstream B. 10 D. -3
7 km with the river current. What is the speed of the
current?
A. 5.33 C. 3.67
B. 3.33 D. 5.67

31. If 3 is subtracted from the numerator of a certain

fraction, the value of the fraction becomes 3/5. If one is
subtracted from the denominator of the same fraction,
the value of the fraction becomes 2/3. Find the original
fraction.
A. 32/55 C. 36/55
B. 37/55 D. 30/57

32. The difference of the squares of the digits of a two-digit

positive number is 27. If the digits are reversed in order
and the resulting number is subtracted from the original
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