First Periodical Examination

Business Mathematics
SY 2016-2017
Name: ___________________________ Score:_______________
Section:__________________ Date:________________
Direction: Write the letter of the correct answer on the blank before each number.
_______1. What is the greatest common factor of 24 and 30?
A. 6 B. 2 C. 120 D. 48
_______2. Which of the following number is divisible by 3
A. 1211 B. 1233 C. 1241 D. 1226
_______3. Which of the following pair is co-prime (relatively prime)
A. 6 and 8 B. 18 and 35 C. 7 and 35 D. 30 and 415
_______4.Find the least number which when divided by 6, 9 and 12 leave remainder 5 in each
case
A. 38 B. 40 C. 41 D. 45
_______5. Two neon lights are turned on at the same time. One blinks every 4 seconds and the
other blinks every 6 seconds. In 60 seconds, how many times will they blink at the
same time?
A.1 B. 3 C. 5 D. 6
_______6. There are 48 girls and 64 boys in the school choir.The choir teacher plans to arrange
the students in equal rows. Only girls or boys will be in each row. What is the
greatest number of students that could be in each row?
A. 16 B. 12 C. 8 D. 4
_______7. Beginning at 8:30 A.M., tours of the National Capitol and the White House begin at a tour agency.
Tours for the National Capitol leave every 15 minutes. Tours for the White House leave every 20
minutes. How often do the tours leave at the same time?
A. Every 15 minutes C. Every 30 minutes
B. Every 45 minutes D. Every 60 minutes
_______8. What is the smallest positive 2-digit whole number divisible by 3 and such that the
sum of its digits is 9? 
A. 27     B. 33     C. 72     D. 18
_______9. Find the LCM of 3, 6, and 5.
A. 10 B. 15 C. 30 D. 45
_______10. Round to the nearest hundredth. 11.6479
A. 11.7 B. 11.65 C. 11.64 D. 11.6
_______11. Dexter saved ninety five 25-centavo coins for Pondong Pinoy. How much in pesos
did he save?
A. ₱ 53.75 B. ₱ 23.75 C. ₱ 20.75 D. ₱ 24.25
_______12. Vincent has the following set of coins: 1 ten-peso coin, 2 five-peso coins, and 3
twenty-five centavo coins. How much money does he have in all?
A. ₱ 23.25 B. ₱ 23.75 C. ₱ 20.75 D. ₱ 24.25
_______13. Atet is planning to make a border for her slogan. If the length of the slogan is 11.25
centimeters and the width is 5.40 centimeters, what would be the perimeter of the
border?
A. 16.65 cm B. 33.3 cm C. 60.75 cm D. 28.35 cm
_______14. If a 10-foot piece of electrical tape has 0.037 feet cut from it, then what is the new
length of the tape?.
A. A. 9.963 ft. B. . 8.253 ft. C. 7.251 ft. D . 6.326 ft.

_______15. In a class of 40 students, 24 are from the city and 16 are from the provinces. What
fraction of the students are from the provinces?
A. 1/5 B. 2/5 C. 3/5 D. 4 /5
_______16. Which of the following fractions is equal to ¼
 12 48 36 26
A. B. C. D.
60 12 108 104
2 1
_______17. Alex spends of his monthly salary, saves of the remainder, and shares the rest
5 3
equally to his two sisters and a brother. If his monthly salary is ₱ 60,000, how
much does he give to his brother every month?
A. ₱ 12,000 B. ₱ 14,000 C. ₱ 16,000 D. ₱ 24000
_______18. 17 /3 can be written in mixed fraction as
A. 3 6 /2 B. 6 2/3 C. 2 6/3 D. 5 2/3
3 9
_______19. Divide: ÷
5 10
A. 2/3 B. 3/2 C. 3/5 D.2/5
_______20.The value of 2/3+3 / 4+1/2 is
A. 6 /9 B. 23/12 C. 21/12 D. 6 /12
2 3
_______21.Find the product: 1 •
3 5
A. 3 B. 3/5 C. 1 D. 5/3
_______22. The repeating decimal 0.6363... in fraction is
A. 63/100 B. 42/100 C. 81/9 D. 7/11
_______23. Write 12.34% as a decimal.
A. 1.234 B. 0 .1234 C. 12.34 D. 123.4
_______24. A Quarter can be written as ..
3
A. B. 25% C. 0.75 D. 0.5
4
_______25. Write 0.085 as percent.
A. 85% B. 8.5% C. 0.85% D. 850%
2
_______26. Write as percent
5
A. 4% B. 40% C. 80% D. 60%
_______27. Find 120% of 150
A. 160 B. 180 C. 30 D. 12
_______28.) 12 is what percent of 60?
A. 20% B. 25% C. 45% D. 75%
_______29. What is 6 ¾ % of ₱ 7,600.00

A. ₱ 513.00 B. ₱ 520.00 C. ₱ 456.00 D. ₱ 479.25

_______30. What number is 75% of 200?
A. 110 B. 130 C. 140 D. 150
_______31. The student answered correctly 76 questions on the mathematics test, which was
95%  of the total number of questions. How many questions were in the test? 
A. 60 B. 80 C. 100 D. 120
_______32. Thirty inches to 5 feet expressed as ratio in simplest form is
A. 30:5 B. 2:1 C. 6:1 D. 1:2
_______33. Assuming a firm has total liabilities of P450,000 and total assets of P900,000.
What is the debt ratio?
A. 15:7 B. 7:15 C. 2:1 D. 1:2
_______34. In a barangay 2, the 2010 population is 4780. Find the population in 2014 if the rate
of increase (2010 to 2014) is 40%.
A. 6692 B. 4971 C. 5860 D. 6889
_______35. Based on statistics, there are thrice as many baby girls as baby boys. Find the ratio
of boys to girls.
A. 1:3 B 3:1 C. 4:1 D. 1:4

_______36. Jay paid P3,687.40 for a magazine subscription in which P107.40 sales tax was
included. Determine the tax rate.
A. 30% B 15% C. 6% D. 3%
_______37. Given the Balance sheet below, merchandise inventory amounted to ₱ 430,000.00.
Find its equivalent in Common size statement
 A. 33% B 45% C. 43% D. 36%
_______38.Find the banker’s ratio (or working capital ratio) for a firm with the total current
assets (CA) of P300,000 and the total current liabilities (CL) of P150,000.
A. 15:7 B. 7:15 C. 2:1 D. 1:2
_______39. An investment of ₱ 38, 000 earns a net income of ₱ 13, 000. Assuming all factors
being equal, how much investment is needed to earn a net income of ₱ 26, 000?
A. ₱ 90, 000 B. ₱ 45, 000 C. ₱ 76, 000 D. ₱ 55, 000
_______40. A car salesman makes 10 percent commission on the first ₱ 10,000 and 12 percent
on all sales over ₱ 10,000. How much commission will be earned on ₱ 22,500.00
in sales?
A. ₱ 1,000 B. ₱ 2,700 C. ₱ 2,500 D. ₱ 2,600
_______41. Carl received cash from his relatives on his birthday. He got EUR 20 from his
mother, USD 12 from his sister, and JPY 2000 from his father. He was told that
USD 2 is equivalent to ₱ 92.20, USD 10 is equivalent to EUR 10, and ₱1 is
equivalent to JPY2.34. How much money does he have in pesos?
A. ₱ 3, 532.02 B. ₱ 1, 560.67 C. ₱ 2, 329.9 D. ₱ 2, 120.32
_______42. Eight tea bags are needed to make 5 liters of iced tea. How many tea bags are
needed to make 15 liters of iced tea?
A. 20 B. 22 C. 24 D. 26
_______43. A supply of food lasts for a week for 20 families. How long would the supply last if
3 more families have to be supplied?
A. 3 days B. 4 days C. 5 days D. 6 days
_______44. A toy manufacturer made 1424 stuffed animals. They made teddy bears, bunnies and
dogs in the ratio of 8 : 5 : 3. How many teddy bears stuffed animal did they make?
A. 712 B. 445 C. 267 D. 100
_______45. It is the amount by which the cost of the product is increased in order to derive the
selling price.
A. Profit B. Mark – on C. Mark – up D. Margin
_______46. The cost of a new pair of sunglasses is P4,500. The selling price is P8,000. What is
the rate of mark up based on cost?
A. 77.78% B. 43.75% C. 55.25% D. 23.47%
_______47. A new pair of shoes cost ₱ 5,500. The rate of markup based on the selling price is
15%. What is the selling price ?
A. ₱ 6, 523.45 B. ₱ 970.59 C. ₱ 6, 470.59 D. ₱ 6, 784.28
_______48. Find the markdown rate if the DVD was originally priced at ₱ 290 and it was sold at
₱240.
A. 20.15% B. 17.24% C. 20.83% D. 18.75%
_____49. Yvette’s Flower Shop imposes a 45% mark-up on flowers delivered to them for sale.
During All Saint’s Day, however, an additional mark-on of 25% of the regular
selling price is added on. Determine the unit price of 300 roses worth PHP15000
delivered to Yvette’s Flower Shop during All Saint’s Day. How much is the
selling price of each rose during All Saint’s Day at this flower shop?
A. ₱ 90.65 B. ₱ 72.50 C. ₱ 84.25 D. ₱ 56.38
______50. Super Mall paid PHP15000 for a set of dishes. Expenses are 18% of the selling price
while the required profit is 15% of the selling price. During an inventory sale, the
set of dishes was marked down by 30%.What was the profit or loss?
A. ₱ 3, 358.21 (Profit ) C. - ₱ 2, 348.42 (Loss)
B. ₱ 2, 348.42 (Profit) D. – ₱ 3, 358.21 (Loss)