Mathematics

1) A piece of cardboard in a form of sector of a circle of radius 50 cm and central angle of 75 0 is rolled into a cone the
volume of which is as large as possible. Find the height of the cone.

a) 15.98 b) 10.74 c) 12.53 d) 14.43 e) None

2) Find the length of a side of an equilateral triangle which is inscribed in a circle of radius 18 cm.

a) 31.18 b) 36.24 c) 33.21 d) 34.57 e) None

3) Find the perimeter of the largest pentagon that can be inscribed in a circle of radius 10 cm.

a) 38.78cm b) 42.78 cm c) 53.78cm d) 58.78 cm e) none

4) The area of three adjacent surfaces of a rectangular block are 8 sq.cm, 10 sq.cm and 20 sq.cm. The volume of the rectangular
block is?

a) 10 cm3 b.) 20 cm3 c.) 40 cm3 d) 30 cm3 e) None

5) The tower, 36.75 m high, and a building, 12 m high, are both standing on a level ground. At a point on the ground,
midway between the tower and the building, the angle of elevations of the top of the tower and the roof of building are
complementary. What is the horizontal distance between the building and the tower?

a) 42 m b) 32 m c) 27m d) 53m e) None

6) According to the record 20% of the smokers want to quit smoking. If a random sample of 18 smokers, what is the chance
that exactly 5 want to quit smoking?
a) 0.0556 b) 0.2000 c) 0.1507 d) 0.2778 e) None
7) The center of the square moves along a diameter of a given circle of radius 9 cm. The plane of the square being
perpendicular to this diameter, and its magnitude varying in such a way that the two opposite vertices move along the
circumference of the given circle. Find the volume of the solid form in cu.cm.
a) 1944 b)1903 c) 1983 d) 1998 e) None
8) A rod, 4 feet long, is suspended from the ceiling in a horizontal position by two equal vertical strings 5 feet long attached
to its ends. The rod is then rotated through an angle of 90 0, remaining horizontal, so that its center C rises in a vertical
line. Find the distance that C rises.
a) 0.345 ft b) 0.538 ft c) 0.777 ft d) 0.877ft e) None
9) The slant height of a right circular cone is 5ft. If the volume of the cone is 37.70 cu. ft, find its base diameter.
a) 3ft b) 4ft c) 5 ft d) 6 ft e) None
10) The area of a regular nonagon is 79.2 sq. cm. Find the area of the circle that can be inscribed in the nonagon.
a) 68 sq.cm. b) 70 sq. cm. c) 76 sq.cm. d) 78 sq.cm. e) None
11) A class in Algebra is comprised of 10 MEs, 30 CEs, and 10 ChEs. The final grades showed that 3 of MEs, 10 of the
CEs, and 5 of the ChEs received an A for the course. If a student is chosen at random from this class and is found to have
earned an A, what is the probability that he or she is a CE?
a) 5/34 b) 30/49 c)3/5 d) 5/9 e) None

12) A circular cylindrical container, fully filled with water and placed in upright position, is 0.6 m in diameter and 1.2 m
high. The container was tilted, and its axis is now inclined 15 0 to the vertical. How much water has been spilled?

a) 0.0345 cu.m b) 0.0227 cu.m c) 0.0122 cu.m d)0.0082 cu.m e) None

13) Points A, B, and C are, consecutively, on the circle. A tangent line is drawn at A while a secant line is drawn passing B
and C. The two lines intersect at point O which is outside of the circle. Knowing that segment OA = 12 cm and BC=10
cm, determine the length of segment OB.
a) 7cm b) 8 cm c) 9cm d) 10 cm e) None
 14) A solid right circular cone has a base radius equal to 2cm and an altitude of 8cm. The cone is cut through at mid height
by passing a horizontal plane to form two solids: one is a smaller cone and the other is a frustum of cone. Find the lateral
area (in sq.cm.) of the resulting smaller cone.
a) 7.025 b) 8.213 c)9.125 d) 10.213 e) None
15) A coin is biased so that a head is twice as likely to occur as a tail. If a coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability of
getting two tails and 1 head?
a) 1/8 b) 2/9 c)1/3 d) 4/7 e) None

16) The upper base of a frustum of a regular triangular pyramid is an equilateral triangle with and edge of 3m. The volume of
the frustum is 84.44 cu.m. and its altitude is 5 m. What is the lower base edge in meter?
a) 11 m b) 10 m c) 9m d) 8m e) None
17) A circular sector has an arc length of 100 cm. If the radius of the sector is 80 cm, find its area.
a)3000 sq cm b) 4000 sq cm c) 5000 sq cm d) 2500 sq cm e) None
18) A box contains 70 pens. Ten of which have blue ink, 20 black, and the rest are red. If three pens are taken at random (not
seen), what is the probability that the three are of the same color?
a) 0.0208 b) 0.1425 c) 0.1520 d) 0.2035 e) None
19) The probability that a doctor correctly diagnoses an illness is 0.7. Given that the doctor makes an incorrect diagnosis, the
probability that a patient enters a lawsuit is 0.9. What is the probability that the doctor makes an incorrect diagnosis and
the patient sues?
a) 0.63 b) 0.27 c) 7/9 d) 1/3 e) None
20) How many sides does a regular polygon have if each of its interior angle is 165 degrees?
a)24 b) 32 c) 28 d) 36 e) None
21) What is the fair price to pay for a lottery ticket if there are 100 tickets and 5 prizes of P500 each, 10 prizes of P250 each,
and 20 prizes of P50 each?
a) P65.00 b)P70.00 c)P60.00 d) 50.00 e) None
22) The volume of water in a spherical tank 1470.265 cu.cm. If the diameter of the tank is 30 cm, find the depth of the water.
a) 4cm b) 5cm c) 6 cm d) 7 cm e) None
23) A circle having an area of 201 sq ft. is cut into two segments by a chord located 3 ft from the center of the circle. Find the
area of the smaller segment.
a) 53.65 sq ft b) 62.85 sq ft c) 75.91 sq.ft. d) 41.65 sq.ft. e) None
24) A spherical sector is cut from a sphere of radius 12 cm. If the central angle of the sector is 30 degrees, find the volume of
the sector.

a) 123.3 cu.cm b) 213.2 cu.cm. c) 162.3 cu.cm. d) 200.2 cu.cm. e) None

25) An amount of P75,000 is invested at a rate of 5% per year coumpounded continously. Find the time, in years, required
for the money to double.
a) 13.863 b) 21.324 c) 16.428 d) 12.543 e) None
26) A man deposits P1000 at the end of each quarter for 15 years to an account that pays 6% compounded annually. What is
the worth of the deposits at the end of the 15 th year?
a) 97,315.08 b) 121,324 c) 93,103.88 d) 68,800 e) None
27) An equipment has a value now of P50,000,000 and estimated to have a value of 750,000 after 45 years. Using sum of
years digit method, calculate the book value of the equipment 26 years from now.
a) 40,208,937.20 b) 21,324,042.68 c) 13,103,000.80 d) 9,791,062.80 e) None
28) An interest rate is quoted as 12% compounded monthly. What is the corresponding effective interest rate per month?
a) 1.000% b) 1.057% c) 1.128% d) 1.098% e) None
29) An investor requires to have 10% effective interest rate, what is the required nominal rate for continuous compounding?
a) 11.00% b) 9.10% c) 9.53% d) 10.52% e) None
30) A box contains 4 white balls, 3 blue balls, and 3 green balls. If three balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that
they are of different colors?
a) 0. 4 b) 0.5 c) 0.3 d) 0.6
31) The probability that Sharon will visit the parlor and the doctor today is 0.15. If the probability that she visits the doctor is
0.55, what is the probability that she visits the parlor given she has visited the doctor?
a) 0.85 b) 0.45 c) 1/3 d) 0.27
32) An equipment was acquired for a cost Php 100,000,000 and installation cost of 10,000,000. The salvage value is 800,000
life of 50 years. Estimate the total depreciation after 30 years using Sum-of-years digit method.
a) 68,377,312.22 b) 91,214,117.65 c) 82,768,754.45 d) 106,723,421.55
33) To estimate the height of the mountain above the plain, the angle of elevation to the top of the mountain is measured to be
380. Forty meter closer to the mountain the angle of elevation is 42 0. Estimate the height of the mountain.

a) 123.3 m b) 213.2 m. c) 162.3 m. d) 236.2 m.

34) A boy standing on a hill sees a flagpole that she knows is 20 m tall. The angle of depression to the bottom of the pole is
150 and the angle of elevation to the top of the pole is 25 0. Find the horizontal distance between the boy and the pole.

a) 12.7m b) 21.5m c) 17.3m d) 22.4m none

35) A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol solutions of different strengths, 18% alcohol and 40% alcohol. How
many liters of 18% alcohol solution should be used to obtain a mixture of 80 liters that contain 28% alcohol?
A) 40.3 B) 58.4 C) 36.5 D) 43.6
36) A ship follows a course described by the equation 3x-4y+12=0. A small boat is located at (5,-2), what is the shortest distance
between the ship and the small boat that could be recorded as the ship passes through?
a) 6 b) 5 c) 7 d) 4 e)none
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37) Find the area bounded by the curves 𝑦 = 3𝑥 , 3𝑦 + 𝑥 − 2𝑥 = 8 and the line 𝑦 = 0 in the first quadrant.
a) 7 b) 17/9 c) 80/9 d) not here
38) A man deposited P1000.00 at the end of each month for 5 years. If the account is earning annual interest of 12%
compounded quarterly. What is the worth of the deposit right after 5 years?

a) 55,796.74 b) 71,669.67 c) 80,611.12 d) 62,253.78

39) Determine the equivalent amount of 1000.00 monthly deposits made at the beginning of each month, considering a period
of one year. Use interest rate of 12% compounded monthly.

a) Php12,325.42 b) Php 11,260.825 c) Php 12,682.50 d) Php 13,809.32

40) Find tan  , where  is the acute angle between the lines 3x  4 y  15  0 and x  2 y  6  0 .
a) 10/11 b) 1/2 c) 7/8 d) 2/11
41) Two vertical conical tanks (both inverted) have their vertices connected by a short horizontal pipe. One tank, initially full
of water, has an altitude of 3m and a base diameter of 2m. The other tank, initially empty, has an altitude of 4m and a base
diameter of 1m. If the water is allowed to flow through the connecting pipe, find the level to which the water will
ultimately rise in the empty tank.
a) 1.875m b) 2.125m c) 1.5m d) 2.871m e)none
42) The diameter of a circle has endpoints (-3,2) and (1, y). Knowing that its area of the circle is 8𝜋 , what is the value of y? a)
5 b) -2 c) 3 d) -6 e) none
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43) A line has the equation 2 x  5 y  8 and the shortest distance from this line to a point (5,y) is known to be . Find
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the value of y.
a) -6/5 b) 2/3 c) 3/5 d) 4/3 e) none
44) On one side of the road is a building with a tower on top of it. The building is 12m high while the tower is 20 m tall. At a
point P on the ground located at the opposite side of the road, the building and the tower subtend equal angles. Determine
the horizontal distance between the building and point P.
a) 18 b) 24 c)35 d) 45 e) none
45) Two spherical metal balls, each has diameter 3 cm, are placed inside a cylindrical container having base diameter of 4 cm
and height of 8cm. Water is then poured into the container so as just to completely submerged the upper ball. Determine
the volume (cu.cm) of water poured in.
a) 44.97 b) 47.12 c) 53.35 d) 60.53 e) none
46) A machine was purchased with a first cost of P285,000, salvage value of P30,000 at the end of its economic life of 8
years. If interest rate of money is 16% per annum, determine the total depreciation at the end of the fifth year using
Sinking Fund method.
a) 168,442.75 b) 220,375.24 c) 198,558.45 d) 245,997.30 e) none
47) An airplane is flying parallel to the ground at an altitude of 2 km and at a speed of 270 kph. If the plane flies directly over
a point O on the ground, at what rate in km/min is the line-of- sight distance between the plane and point O changing 20
sec later?
a) 3.2 b) 0.75 c) 1.5 d) 2.7 e) none