Problem Set # 1

General Education (Mathematics)

_____1. The price of glassware was P160.00 per set. _____13. The product of 2 whole numbers is 36, and
After a day the price was raised by 10% what was the their ratio is 1:4. Which of these is the smaller number?
final price of the glassware? A. 9 B. 12
A. P176.00 B. P196.00 C. 3 D. 2
C. P166.00 D. P276.00 _____14. The edge of a rectangle solid has these
_____2. How many cubic meters of sand will be measures: 1.5 feet x ½ feet by 3 inches. What is its
required to fill a reclamation area of 6 hectares with 1.5 volume in cubic inches?
meters depth? A. 225 B. 272
A. 90, 900 m3 B. 90, 000 m3 C. 324 D. 27
C. 110, 000 m3 D. 100, 000 m3 _____15. A water tank contains 8 liters when it is 20%
_____3. What prize will each receive from a first prize of full. How many liters does it contain when it is 75% full?
P45, 000,000? There were 15 recipients of the jackpot? A. 58 B.15
A. P2, 500, 000.00 B. P3, 000, 000.00 C.30 D.60
C. P3, 100, 000.00 D. P45, 000.00 _____. If x= 3 and y= 2, then 2x + 3y =__________.
_____4. Four mangoes cost P29.00. At that price what A. 14 B. 10
will 2 ½ dozen mangoes cost? C. 12 D.5
A. P217.50 B. P188.50 _____17. Tess spent one-sixth of her money in store. In
C. P 348.50 D. P 870.00 the next store, she spent three times as much as she
_____5. Mr. Garcia owns a 10 ½ hectares tract of land. spent in the first store, and had 80 pesos left. How
He plans to subdivide this tract into ¼ hectare lots. He much money did she have at the start?
must first set aside 1/6 of the total land for roads. How A. 252 pesos B. 240 pesos
many lots will this tract yield? C. 300 pesos D. 360 pesos
A. 30 B. 35 _____18. The vertex angle of an isosceles triangle is 30
C. 42 D. 45 deg. What is the measure of one of the base angles?
_____6. During a recent shopping spree, Tomas and A. 70° B. 75°
Nena bought some new accessories for their apartment. C. 150° D. 60°
Nena chose a crocheted throw pillow at P24.95, and _____19. Which of these has a value different from the
Thomas Purchased a rural landscape painting for other three?
P135.00. How much did they actually spend if they paid A. 1/5 B. 15/75
7% sales tax on their purchase? C. 4/20 D. 15%
A. P171.15 B. P139.25 _____20. What is floor area of a 4-story apartment if
C. P148.75 D. P159.95 each floor is made of 12 by 23 meters?
_____7. P 8,000 is invested at 12% single interest. What A. 1111 sq m B. 1104 sq m
is the amount at the end of 2 years? C. 1444 sq m D. 1004 sq m
A. P9,600 B. P8,960 _____21. Which decimal is equal to 3/100 + 2/10 +
C. P8,240 D. P9,920 5/1000?
_____8. A senior class of 50 girls and 70 boys sponsored A. 0.235 B. 0.325
a dance. If 40% of the girls and 50% of the boys C. 0.0523 D. 0.532
attended the dance, approximately what percent _____22. Liza received her grades in PEHM. For the
attended? fourth grading period, the grades were 83, 86, 80 and
A. 44 B. 46 88. What is her average grade?
C. 42 D. 40 A. 85 B. 84
_____9. Which of the following is exactly divisible by 3 C. 86 D. 84 ¼
and 11? _____23. All the seats in bus are occupied and six
A. 3570404 B. 114345 persons are standing. At the next bus stop, 13
C. 991111 D. 135792 persons got off and 5 got in. How many seats were
_____10. An employee earning P9, 200 a month will empty at this stop?
receive a 15% increase next month. How much will A. 3 B. 4
his/her new salary be? C. 0 D. 2
A. P10,500 B. P10,530 _____24. By how much is 35% of P 220 greater than
C. P 10,580 D. P 10,560 55% of P 140?
_____11.40% of 35 is what percent of 140? A. P 16.00 B.P 480,000
A. 28% B. 29% C. P 20.00 D. P 0.00
C. 10% D. 14% _____25. A rectangular tank is 2m long and 1.5m wide
_____12. In a certain school, the ratio of boys to girls is and 1m deep. If you fill the said tank half-full, how many
3 to 7. If there are 150 boys and girls in the school, how cubic meters will it have?
many boys are there? A.1.5 m3 B. 5 m3
A. 45 B. 90 C. 3 m 3
D. 6 m3
C. 105 D. 75
 Problem Set # 2
General Education (Mathematics)
_____26. One angle of a parallelogram is 35? What are _____39.What number is next in this sequence? 11120,
the measures of the three other angles? 11260, 11420, 11600
A. 45°, 65°, 170° B. 85°, 135°, 140° A. 11820 B. 11760
C. 145°, 35°, 145° D. 35°, 65°, 65° C. 11720 D. 11800
_____27. A room of 10m by 7m. There is a 7.5m by 5m _____40. A picture 10cm x 8 ½ cm is mounted on a
carpet in the middle. What percent of the room is piece of hard cardboard. If there is a margin of 2 1/2 cm
uncovered? around the picture, what is the perimeter of the
A. 46.4% B. 53.6% cardboard used?
C.48% D. 80% A.47 cm B. 57 cm
_____28. Simplify: 2 (3r-7t) – 5 (2r+3t)+ (5r+t) C. 37cm D.67cm
A. r+28t B. 28t-r _____41. Elena’s grades in 3 math quizzes are 82, 78
C. –r-28t D. r-28t and 86. What grade should she get next in her quiz
_____29. Which of the following has the largest value? to raise average to 85?
A. 75 B. 39 A. 94 B. 90
C. 64 D. 93 C. 88 D. 97
_____30. Three times a certain number less 25 equals _____42. 259:37 as ______.
twice the number less 15. What is number? A. 84: 12 B. 25:4
A. 12 B. 10 C. 5:1 D. 63:441
C. 20 D. 15 _____43. Which common fraction is equivalent to .216?
_____31.Which of these three fractions has the largest A. 53/250 B. 27/125
value? C. 21/50 D. 108/375
A. 4/15 B. 3/4 _____44. What value of x will make this proportion
C. 12/25 D. 5/12 correct? 13:x = 3.25 : 8.00
_____32. A sales representative Appliance Company is A. 2 B. 3.5
given 20% of the total sales she makes every week. C. 32 D. 20
What are her earnings if her sales total P67,850.00. _____45. A kitchen is to be covered by linoleum. The
A. P6780 B.P13570 area is 2m wide and 3.6m long. A roll of linoleum is sold
C.P135.70 D.P1357 only per sq. meter at P12.60 per sq meter. How much
_____33. In one section, the ratio of boys to girls is 4:3. does the owner need to spend to cover the entire
If there are 42 students in a class, how many are girls? kitchen floor with linoleum?
A.6 B.18 A. P90.72 B. P100.80
C.24 D.36 C. P88.2 D. P 95.15
_____34. The cost of the first 3 minutes for an _____46. If 20 people won prizes in a state lottery, how
overseas call to the US is P302. Every minute many ways were there for these 20 to win 1st, 2nd 3rd
thereafter costs P62. At this rate, how much will a and 4th, prize? Assume there were no ties.
10-minute call cost? A. 1,168 B. 5,120
A. P620 B. P922 C. 116,280 D. 180,200
C. P860 D. P736 _____47. A bomb was dropped in an area where rebels
_____35. What is the value of 12 1/6 – 2 3/8 – 7 2/3 were hiding. The perimeter of the damaged area was
+19 3/4? 480 meters and the width was 15 meters. What was the
A. 21 1/8 B. 22 length of the damaged area?
C. 21 7/8 D. 21 A. 200meters B.425 meters
_____36. Which of these math sentences is NOT C. 125 meters D. 225 meters
CORRECT? _____48. The BIR sold 20, 400 documentary stamps at
A. 1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12 B. 1/7 + 2/3 = 3/21 P0.30 per document. She remitted at the end of the day
C. 1/2 + 1/3 = 5/6 D. 1/6 + 1/8 = P5,800. What is left with the seller?
14/48 A. P3,200 B. P3,150
_____37. In buying a house, Man pays P 100,000 cash C. 32 D. 320
and agrees to pay P 75,000 two years later. At 6% _____49. If the value of a diamond ring appreciates
compounded semi-annually, find the cash value of the exponentially at yearly rate of 18%, how much will be its
house. cost in 5 years time if the initial cost of the ring is Php
A. P 166,500.00 B. P 156,636.50 25,000.00.
C. P 16,663.65 D. P 166,636.50 A. P 147,000.00 B. P 57,194.00
_____38. If 8 - √x + 2 = 4, what is the value of x? C. P 47,500.00 D. P 60,175.00
A. 6 B. 14 _____50. Between January 2008 and August 2008, the
C. 18 D. 2 price of gasoline rose from 28.40 to 52.90 per liter.
What is the percent of increase over the 8-month
period?
A. 97.5% B. 86.27%
C. 24.5% D. 46.81%
 Problem Set # 3
General Education (Mathematics)
_____51. In the playground of kindergartens kids, 18 A. 10.8 sq. m B. 108 sq.m
children are riding tricycles or bicycles. If there are 43 C. 98 sq.m D. 9.8 sq.m
wheels in all, how many tricycles are there? _____What is the area of the wall that covered the
A. 7 B. 8 family in Marikina? After the recovery the men found
C. 9 D. 11 the height of the wall at 6 meters with a width of 12
_____52. Arlin works for 14 hours and earns P500. How meters. Determine the area of the fallen wall.
long must she work to earn P1,250?? A. 102 sq.m B. 72 sq.m
A. 30 hours B. 35 hours C. 720 sq. m D. 92 sq. m
C. 25 hours D. 20 hours _____65. How many feet of continuous paper will you
_____53. The edges of the cubical frame are made from need to print 2 copies of an 81-paged report if one
plastic straws. How much longer is the total length of page is 8 inches length?
the plastic edges of a cube whose edges is 10 cm A. 108 ft. B. 54 ft.
compared to a cube whose edge is 8 cm? C. 152 ft. D. 162 ft.
A. 24 cm B. 32 cm _____66. Ana is picking her things brought in
C. 16 cm D. 8 cm Singapore. She needs a box good for 75 cubic inches.
_____54. In a Mathematics test, 35 students passed and Which box would suit her need?
30% failed. How many students took the test? A. 4x4x4 inches B. 3x6x7 inches
A. 60 B. 50 C. 3x6x5 inches D. 3x5x5 inches
C. 40 D. 30 _____67. A new building is 360 meters high. There will
_____55. A pancake was cut into 8 pieces. Three be 120 storey’s is this building. What is the height of
brothers ate a piece each. What part of the cake was each storey?
left? A. 3.5 meters B. 5 meters
A. ¼ B. 2/8 C. 3 meters D. 4 meters
C.½ D. 5/8 _____68. A patient weights 160 lbs. he needs medicine
_____56. Each bag of rice contains 50 kg. What would of .03 cc/lb a day. How many cc’s are required for 6
be the increase in the price if the cost of one bag of rice days?
goes from P 950.00 to P1,200.00? A. 26.8 cc B. 25 cc
A. P250.00 B. P7.50 C. 26.4 cc D. 28.8 cc
C. P3.75 D. P5.00 _____69. The average of 5 different numbers is 10.
_____57. Two times a certain number added to 30 gives What is the highest possible value that one of the
the same result as three times the same number numbers can have?
subtracted from 90. What is the number? A. 20 B. 40
A. 20 B. 30 C. 30 D. 38
C. 15 D. 12 _____70. Rain fell on Sunday and the reading was 2.4
_____58. In the following numbers, which digit is in the cm. On Monday morning it read 5.2 cm. How much rain
thousandths place? 5672.13498 fell on Sunday night?
A. 6 B. 4 A. 3.8 cm B. 4.5 cm
C. 3 D. 9 C. 2.8 cm D. 4.8 cm
_____59. A traveler was helped by other passengers for _____71. There are 3 dozens of eggs sold at P2.28 each.
his extra weight kg 112kg. There were travelers who If a whole seller gets 5% discount, how much will be
gave their allotment of 25kg. How many more extra paid for all?
weight will be pay? A. P78.22 B. P77.98
A. 37kg B. 35kg C. P92.00 D. P82.08
C. 48kg D. 38kg _____72. A street vendor sells roasted peanuts at P5
_____60. How much greater is the sum of the first 20 per packet of 25 gm which she bought for P80 per
counting numbers greater than the sum of the first 10 kilo. She spent P20 for oil, fuel, and plastic bags.
counting numbers? What is her gain from selling all the peanuts if she
A. 110 B. 55 bought 3 kilos?
C. 155 D. 100 A. P480 B. P380
_____61. Write the ratio to the lowest term for 4 hours C. P340 D. 400
to 30 minutes. _____73. Gloria deposited P6000 at 8% compounded
A. 8:1 B. 4:2 annually interest for 4 years. What is total amount?
C.2:15 D. 4:30 A. P2, 162. 93 B. P7, 558.27
_____62. The youth in considered 55% of the voting C. P1, 558.27 D. P8, 162.93
population. Marikina 1.360 million voters. How many _____74. How much bigger is 29 than 92?
voters are youth? A. 431 B. 175
A. 768, 000 B. 750, 000 C. 47 D. 73
C. 788, 000 D. 748, 000 _____75. Which of this numbers CANNOT possibly a
63. Ms. Yan tiled her new kitchen. The area is 3.5 square number?
meters by 2.8 meters, how many square meters will be A. 10217536 B. 35366809
tiled? C. 26275876 D. 2916488
 Problem Set # 4
General Education (Mathematics)
_____76. Evaluate: (12 ÷ 3/5) x .45 = _____89. Which of these fractions lies between 1/5 and
A. 4.5 B. 9 5/9?
C. 5.4 D. 3.24 A. 2/3 B. 3/5
_____77. A dinner menu offers choices of 7 appetizer, C. 1/6 D. ¼
12 main dishes, and 6 desserts. How many ways can you _____90. Which of these numbers does NOT belong to
choose one of each course? the group?
A. 72 B. 504 A. 83 B. 91
C. 25 D. 84 C. 71 D. 97
_____78. What are the two missing numbers in this _____91. A man started painting a wall at 9:00 am and
sequence?1, 2, 4, 7, 11, 16, ____, 29, ______, 46 was able to finish painting 3/5 of it at 10:30 am.
A. 22, 35 B. 23, 36 Continuing at this rate, at what time will he finish
C. 23, 38 D. 22, 37 painting the wall?
_____79. Convert into decimals 98 thousandths. A. 10:45 am B. 11:30 am
A. 98 B. 9.8 C. 11:45 pm D. 12:15 pm
C. .098 D. .0098 _____92.In a math class of 14 students, 9 students had
_____80. Aling Rosa spent P91.80 for ingredients and an average of 76, while the other 5 students had an
fuel to cook guinataan. She was able to sell what she average of 90. What is the average of the whole class?
cooked to 32 customers who paid P4.50 each. How A. 83 B. 88
much did she gain from her enterprise? C. 81 D. 85
A. P 14.40 B. P 42.20 _____93. Joann bought 120 handkerchiefs at 10 pesos
C. P 28.40 D. P 52.20 each. Then sold them at 3 handkerchiefs for P50. If
_____81. A dress marked P240 was put on sale at a she sold all the handkerchief, how much profit did
25% discount. Because no one bought it, its sale price she make?
was reduced further by 10%. What is the combined A. P 400 B. P 800
percent discount given? C. P 733 D. P 170
A. 27% B. 32.5% _____94. The product of two whole numbers is 36, and
C. 16.2% D. 35% their ratio is 1:4. Which of these is the smaller number?
_____82. The volume of a box is 480 cc. If its length is A. 9 B. 12
24cm and height is 5cm, what is its width? C. 2 D. 3
A. 5 cm B. 4 cm _____95. What are odds of getting two 5’s in a single
C. 6 cm D. 8 cm throw of pair of dice?
_____83. What are the next three numbers in this 2 1
sequence? 1/6, 1/3, ½, 2/3,…….. A. B.
35 35
A. 7/3, 4, 9/3 B. 5/6, 1, 7/6 35 1
C. 5/2, 7, 4/2 D. 5/6, 2/6, 7/3 C. D.
36 36
_____84. How much greater is ¾ of 96cm than 4/5 of
_____96. A rectangular solid have these measures; 1.5
80?
feet x ½ feet by 3 inches. What is its volume in cubic
A. 18 B. 12
inches?
C. 6 D. 8
A. 272 cu.in B. 324 cu.in
_____85. Square has an area of 400 sq. cm. what is its
C. 225 cu.in D. 27 cu.in
perimeter?
A. 20 cm B. 80 cm _____97. A 737-model jet plane has 29 rows with 5
C. 100 cm D. 40 cm seats per row, except for the last three rows which had
_____86. Three (3) cavans of rice will last a family of 6 3 seats each. What is the seating capacity of the plane?
members for 5 weeks. At this time rate, how many A. 144 B. 145
weeks will 3 cavans of rice last a family of 5 members? C. 139 D. 142
A. 7.5 B. 6 _____98. A faucet drips at the rate of 3 drops every 5
C. 5 D. 3 seconds, how many drops will in one minute?
_____87. In one senior class 1/3 of the students are A. 36 B. 60
honor students. Of these honor students 2/7 are varsity C. 15 D. 100
athletes. If there are four athletes in the class, how _____99. At what rate of interest should P2, 400 be
many students are there in the class? invested so that it will earn P880 in 8 months?
A. 84 B. 42 A. 6 ½% B. 5 ½%
C. 52 D. 60 C. 5% D. 6%
_____88. The school cafeteria raised the price of a plate _____100. Three brothers inherited a cash amount of P
of rice from P8 to 10. If the same rate of increase was 120, 000 and they divided it among themselves in the
applied to regular order of viand which used to cost ratio of 5:2:1. How much more is the largest share than
P20, how much does an order of viand cost now? the smallest share?
A. P 26 B. P 25 A. P75, 000 B. P60, 000
C. P 24 D. P 22 C. P15, 000 D. P30, 000
 Problem Set # 5
General Education (Mathematics)

_____101. How many seconds are there in a 24-hour

day?
A. 85, 000 B. 1440 _____115. A store lost P 252, 000 last year. What was
C. 86, 400 D. 1540 its average loss per month?
_____102. What part of an hour has passed from 2:48 A. P21, 000 B.P20,500
pm to 3:20 pm? C. P21, 500 D. P20,000
A. 8/2.5 B. 7/8 _____116. What is the counting number that is less
C. 8/15 D. 1/3 than 15 and when divided by 3 has a remainder of 1,
_____103. Forty people joined a picnic. If the ratio of but when divided by 4 has a reminder of 2?
adults to children is 5:3, how many children joined A. 5 B. 12
the picnic? C. 8 D. 10
A. 25 B. 15 _____117. How many integers between 1 and 150 are
C. 8 D. 5 divisible by both 4 and 5?
_____104. Which of these weights is heaviest? A. 9 B. 10
A. 5 pounds B. 2.5 kg C. 8 D. 7
C. 4200 mg D. 2250 gm _____118. What is the average of ½, ¼ and 1/3
_____105. How many vertices does a rectangular solid A. 13/12 B. 13/24
have? C. 13/36 D. 13/29
A. 8 B. 6 _____119. Give the product of (1/4 +1/2) multiplied by
C. 4 D. 12 2/3.
_____106. If July 12, 2003 fell on a Tuesday, on what A. 1/2 B. 3/4
day will July 12, 2005? C. 4 D. 1 1/2
A. Monday B. Thursday _____120. A bus will travel from Baguio to Abra. If the
C. Sunday D. Friday bus travels at 67kph and the distance from Baguio to
_____107. The weight of an object is 1/6 its weight on Abra is 300 kilometers, how may hours will it take the
the earth. Give the total “moon weight” of a bus to reach Abra?
hamburger which has an earth weight of 1/3 lb A. 4 hrs and 28 mins B. 5 hours
A. 1/9 lbs B. 1/18 lbs C. 4 hours and 44 mins D. 4 hours
C. 3 lbs D. 1/6 lbs _____121. Which of the fraction has the LEAST value?
_____108. Write in simple form (3ab)2. A. 7/12 B. 8/9
A. 3ab3b3 B. 9a2b2 C. 6/17 D. 7/8
C. 3a2b D. 27a2b _____122. The surface area of a cube is 150 sq. cm.
_____109. Cecil weighs 84 kilos. How will she weigh in What is the volume of the cube?
pounds? A. 100 cu.cm. B. 625 cu.cm.
A. 184.8 lbs B. 213.36 C. 125cu.cm. D. 270cu.cm
C. 38.18 D. 168 _____123. A Cessna plane flies 400 miles in 5 ½ hours a
_____110. The first 5 number in a sequence are day. Give the average speed in the flight.
5,6,8,11 and 15. What are the 8th and 10th numbers in A. 72.72 B. 72.73
the sequence? C. 72.8 D. Any of these
A. 32 and 49 B. 26 and 49 _____124. There are 18 Tagalog maids and 12 Visayan
C. 27 and 42 D. 33 and 50 maids serving in a hotel. Give ratio of the Tagalog to the
_____111. A recipe which is good for 4 persons calls for entire group.
2/3 cup of milk. How much milk will be needed by a A. 3/5 B. 2/5
recipe for 6 persons? C. 3/2 D. 2/3
A. 4 cups B. 1 cup _____125. Ana and Beth do a job together in two
C. 2 cups D. 8 cups hours. Working alone, Ana does the job in 5 hours. How
_____112. How much would be paid on a bank loan of long will it take Beth to do the job alone ?
P30, 000 a year at 12% annual interest? A. 3 hours B. 3 1/3 hours
A. P3, 240 B. P33,600 C. 2 hours D. 2 1/3 hours
C. P2, 800 D. P3, 600
_____113. Which of the following has the largest value?
A. 2 + 22 + (2 + 2) 2 B. 43
2 2
C. [(2 + 2) ] D. (2 + 2 + 2) 2
_____114. What number subtracted from each of 71
and 58 will result in two perfect squares?
A. 22 B. 42
C. 35 D. 33