16.

The sum of 3 numbers is 94, if the first number

is 3/5 of the second number and the second
number is 4/3 of the third. What are the three
numbers?
a. 20, 44, 30 c. 24, 40, 30
MATHEMATICS 1 b. 15, 40, 35 d. 24, 30, 35
SEPTEMBER 2018 17. Mary has finished reading 40% of a 540-page
1. A sales agent gets 400 pesos for every 700 peso novel. How many pages has she read?
sales. In this method of sharing scheme, how a. 202 c. 205
much would he get if the total sales is 56,000? b. 203 d. 216
a. 14000 c. 30000 18. Juan and Pedro arrive late for a show and miss
b. 28000 d. 32000 10% of it. The show is 120 minutes long. How
2. A group of 65 employees attended a party, puto many minutes did they miss?
were served with soft drinks. It was found out a. 13 b. 12 c. 11 d. 10
that 45 puto cheese and 50 puto bibingka were 19. A group of 30 employees of Cadre A has a mean
consumed. When the group were on their way age of 27. A different group of 70 employees of
home, 35 confessed that they ate 1 puto cheese Cadre B has a mean age of 23. What is the mean
and 1 puto bibingka each. How many went home age of the employees of the two groups
eating any of the puto? together?
a. 7 b. 5 c. 3 d. 10 a. 23 b. 24.2 c. 25 d. 26.8 e. 27
3. In one bag of feeds there are 5 pigs eating it in 1 20. n a set of three numbers, the average of first two
week. In how many weeks do 3 pigs consume numbers is 2, the average of the last two
the feeds? numbers is 3, and the average of the first and
a. 1 3/7 b. 1 1/5 c. 1 2/3 d. 1 3/4 the last number is 4. What is the average of
4. What is the greatest numerical value? three numbers?
a. 2 b. 2.5 c. 3 d. 3.5 e. 4
a 3/8 b. 3/4 c. 2/3 d. 5/6 21. In the figure, what is the value of y if x: y= 2 : 3
5. A perimeter of a rectangle is 25 feet. If the width ?
of the rectangle is 10 ft. How many square Feet a. 16 b. 32 c. 48 d. 54 e. 72
is the area of the rectangle?
a. 30 b. 15 c. 25 d. 7 22. In the figure, ABCDis a rectangle and points E, F,
6. Which of the following is equal to 1 ? G and Hare midpoints of its sides. What is the
a 1/0 b. 0/0 c. 0/1 d. none ratio of the area of the shaded region to the area
of the un-shaded region in the rectangle?
7. What is 0.716 rounded to the nearest tenth?
a. 1 : 1 b. 1 : 2 c. 2 : 1 d. 1 : 3 e. 3 : 1
a. 0.72 b.0.7 c. 0.76 d. 0.1
23. In Figure 1, y= 3xand z= 2x. What is the ratio
8. Which of these has a 9 in the thousandths place?
p: q: rin Figure 2?
a. 1:2:3 b.3:1:2 c.1:32:1 d.2:3:1 e.
a. 3.0095 c. 3.9005
3:2:1
b. 3.0905 d. 3.0059
9. Which of the following has the least numerical
value? 24.If n equals 105 + (2x103) + 106, then the
a. 6+3x4 b. 4+3x6 c. 4x6+3 d. 3x6+4 number of zeros in the number n is
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5 e. 6
10. What is another way to write 2.75 ×1002?
25. If x= 2 and y= –1, which one of the following
a. 275 b. 2,750 c. 27,500 d. 270,000
expressions is greatest?
11. Fifteen students from the 200-student senior a. x+ y d. x– y– 1
class at Magalang High School have received
b. xy e. –x– y
awards and academic distinctions. What
c. –x+ y
percentage of the senior class received awards
and academic distinctions? 26. If b is one-fourth of a, then what is the value of
a. 2% b. 4% c. 7.5% d. 25%
12. Suppose that the time now is 9:30 a.m. What
will be the time 16 hours from now?
a. 12:30 am c.2:30 am
b. 1:30 am d.11:30 pm
a. 1/5 b. 1/3 c. ½ d. 1 ½ e. 2 ½
13. What number when increased by 90% of itself
equals 133? 27.
a 30 b. 43 c. 70 d. 119
14. Mila bought a calculator and sold it at 40% more
a. 1/5 b. 1/3 c. 1 d. 3 e. 5
than its original cost. How much did Mila earn if
the original cost of the calculator was A? 28. If 500% of a equals 500b, then a=
a. A+40% c. 40% x A a b/100 d. 10b
b. A + (A x 40%)A d. 40% /A b b/10 e. 100b
15. If a portrait, 6 inches wide and 12 inches long, is c c. b
enlarged such that the ratio of the width to the 29. 8 is 4% of a, and 4 is 8% of b. cequals b/a. What
length is maintained, how many inches long will is the value of c?
it be if the new width is 12 inches? a. 1/32 b. ¼ c. 1 d. 4 e. 32
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30. Evans sold apples at 125% of what it cost him. 41. If Michael runs at a constant rate of 2.5 meters
What is the percentage of profit made by selling per second, how long will it take him to run 1
100 apples? kilometer?
a. 0% d. 33.3% a 4 mins c. 400 secs
b. 20% e. 50% b 40 mins d. 4,000 secs
c. 25% 42. There are 12 yards of twine on a roll. Danielle
31. Point M is located 8 miles East of point P. If point cuts off 2 feet of twine for a project. How many
P is located 6 miles North of another point A, feet of twine are left on the roll?
then how far is point A from point M? a. 2 ft. b. 34 ft. c. 36 ft. d. 142 ft.
a 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7 e. 10 43. How many six-inch square tiles are needed to tile
32. An old man distributed all the gold coins he had the floor in a room that is 12 feet by 15 feet?
to his two sons into two different numbers such a 180 tiles c. 360 tiles
that the difference between the squares of the b 225 tiles d. 720 tiles
two numbers is 36 times the difference between 44. One cubic centimeter of clay weighs 3 grams.
the two numbers. How many coins did the old How much would a cube weigh if it measured
man have? 5cm on each side?
a 24 b. 26 c. 30 d. 36 e. 40 a 15 gms c. 375 gms
33. In a zoo, each pigeon has 2 legs, and each rabbit b 125 gms d. 75 gms
has 4 legs. The head count of the two species 45. Ralph can hike 1.3 miles in 45 minutes. Which
together is 12, and the leg count is 32. How equation could be used to find d,the distance in
many pigeons and how many rabbits are there in miles that Ralph can hike in 3 hours?
the zoo?
a 4, 8 b. 6, 6 c. 6, 8 d. 8, 4 e. 8, 6
34. The annual exports of the company NeuStar
increased by 25% last year. This year, it
increased by 20%. If the increase in the exports
was 1 million dollars last year, then what is the
increase (in million dollars) this year?
a 0.75 b. 0.8 c. 1 d. 1.2 e. 1.25
35. Four machines can complete a job in 6 hours.
How long will it take 3 machines to complete the
same job? 46. If y=3, which of the following has the greatest
value?
a 4 hours c. 10 hours
a. y2 b. y3 c. 1/y2 d. 1 + y e. 1-y
b 8 hours d. 12 hours
47. What is the standard numerical value for 3.54 x
36. Caleb can type 60 reports in 3 hours. Ethan can
105 ?
type 110 reports in 6 hours. Working together,
a. 0.000354 b. 0.00354 c. 3, 3540
how fast will it take them to type 375 reports?
d. 35, 400 e. 354, 000
a 13 hours c. 10 hours
48. Of the following; 4/5, 41/50, 17/20, 75% the
b 12 hours d. 9 hours
element with the largest value is ____.
37. A tank containing fluid is half full. A pipe that can
a. 75% b. 4/5 c. 41/50 d. 17/20
fill 1/16 of the tank per minute begins letting
e. None, they are all equal
more fluid in. At the same time, a drain that can
empty 1/8 of the tank in one minute is opened. 49. What is the smallest positive number that will
How long will it take to empty the tank? give a remainder of 3 when it is divided by 4, 5,
or 10 ?
a 8 mins b. 16 mins c. 18 mins d. 32 mins
38. Pipe T leads into a tank and Pipe V drains the a. 63 b. 53 c. 43 d. 33 e. 23
tank. Pipe T can fill the entire tank in 6 minutes.
Pipe V can drain the entire tank in 4 minutes. At 50. 6 is to 15 as 36 is to ___________
a certain point in time, the valves leading to both a. 90 b. 82 c. 75 d. 72 e. 60
pipes are shut and the tank is ¼ full. If both 51. 9.12 __________ 18.13 16.15 13.18 9.22
valves are opened simultaneously, how long will a. 3.25 d. 6.29
it take for the pipe to drain? b. 4.27 e. 5.26
a 2 mins b. 3 mins c. 4 mins d. 6 mins c. 5.23
39. For every 10,000 liters of water that pass 52. If the following quantities were arrange from the
through a filtering system, 0.7 gram of a least to the greatest, which one would have the
pollutant is removed. How many grams of the second greatest value?
pollutant are removed when 106 liters have been a. 6/12 b. 5/12 c. 4/10 d. ¾ e. 2/6
filtered?
53. In a room of ten people, how many handshakes
a 7 gms b. 70 gms c. 700 gms d. 7,000 gms will there be if every person shakes hands with
40. Rudy forgot to replace his gas cap the last time everyone else exactly once?
he filled his car with gas. The gas is evaporating a. 10 b. 45 c. 54 d. 60 e. 81
out of his 14-gallon tank at a constant rate of
54. How many degrees are there in the angle made
1/3 gallon per day. How much gas does Rudy
by the hands of a clock at 4 o’clock?
lose in 1 week?
a. 150o b. 120 o c. 95 o d. 80 o e. 20 o
a 2gals c. 3 1/3gals
55. The co-operative trust fund is P500,000. Part of
b 2 1/3gals d. 4 2/3gals
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 rate of 8%. If the income from both investments a.
Average of two consecutive integers.
is P39,000, how much is invested at each rate? b.
Average of three consecutive integers.
a. P100,000 at 6% ; P400,000 at 8% c.
Average of four consecutive integers.
b. P80,000 at 6% ; P420,000 at 8% d.
Average of six consecutive integers.
c. P75,000 at 6% ; P425,000 at 8% e.
Average of 6 and 9
d. P50,000 at 6% ; P450,000 at 8% 69. The remainder when the positive integer m is
e. P25,000 at 6% ; P475,000 at 8% divided by n is r. What is the remainder when 2m
56. A tenant gets 4 sacks of palay for every 7 sacks is divided by 2n?
harvested. Following this ratio, how many sacks a. r d. m– nr
of palay would the tenant get if 560 sacks were b. 2r e. 2(m– nr)
harvested? c. 2n
a. 140 b. 280 c. 300 d. 320 e. 350 70. If (2x+ 1)2= 100, then which one of the following
57. 75% is to 1/2 as 45% is to ________ could equal x?
a. 3/11 b. 3/10 c. 3/4 d. 2/3 e. 3/5 a. –11/2 d. 13/2
58. 2 is to 50 as 3.2 is to _________ b. –9/2 e. 17/2
a. 60 b. 70 c. 80 d. 90 e. 160 c. 11/2
59. 0.30 is to 0.075 as 0.15 is to ______ 71. Nine workers working at the same pace can
a. 0.000375 d. 0.375 complete a job in 12 days. If this job must be
b. 0.00375 e. none completed in 3 days, how many workers should
be assigned?
c. 0.0375
a. 27 b. 30 c. 36 d. 48 e. 50
60. /5 is to 20% as ¾ is to ________
72. What is the maximum possible difference
a. 35.5% d. 39.0%
between two three-digit numbers each of which
b. 37.0% e. 36.5% is made up of all the digits 1, 2, and 3?
c. 37.5% a.156 b.168 c. 176 d. 196 e. 198
61. A development project which was financed by 73. In the figure, what is the value of a?
ecological organizations amounted to P 3.6 a. 16 b. 18 c. 36 d. 54 e. 72
million. If there had been two more contributors,
and the expenses were shared equally, it would
have cost each organization P300,000 less. How
many organizations contributed to the project?
74. ABCD is a square and one of its sides AB is also
a chord of the circle as shown in the figure.
a. 3 b.4 c. 6 d. 9 e. 12
What is the area of the square?
62. A group of men went on fishing trip, agreeing
that each should pay the same amount. The total
bill was P168. If there had been two fewer men,
each man would have had to pay 2 pesos more.
How many men went fishing?
a. 15 b. 14 c. 13 d. 12 e. 8
63. Ana gets a commission of 10% for each bottle of
lotion she sells. If a bottle of lotion sells for
P87.50, how many bottles will Ana have to sell to
receive a commission of P210?
a. 20 b. 24 c. 36 d. 38 e. 40
64. If the sum of 5 consecutive numbers is 95, what
is the third number?
a. 17 b. 18 c. 19 d. 20 e. 21
65. Two numbers are in the ratio of 3 to 5. The a. 3 b. 9 c. 12 d. 12√2 e. 18
lesser number is 42. Find the greater number. 75. In the figure, if AB = 8, BC = 6, AC = 10 and
a. 70 b. 75 c. 112 d. 126 e. 252 CD = 9, then AD = ?
66. One million is to be divided among the 3 children 12 b. 13 c. 15 d. 17 e. 24
of a widower in the ratio of 10:12:18. By how
much is the largest share greater than the
smallest share?
a. P300,000 d. P100,000
b. P200,000 e. P50,000
c. P150,000
67. The first day, a contractor hired 11 carpenters, 3
masons and 5 helpers. The second day, he hired
6 carpenters, 5 masons and 2 helpers. The third
day, he hired 5 carpenters, 3 masons, and 3
73. In the figure. O is the center of the circle. Which
helpers. If his payroll was 194 the first day, P137
one of the following must be true about the
the second day, and P112 the third day, how
perimeter of the triangle shown? a. Always less
much did he pay each mason a day?
than 10
a. P8 d. P12
b. Always greater than 40
b. P29 e. none of these
c. Always greater than 30
c. P10
d. Always less than30
68. Which one of the following could be an integer?
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? denominator. If 3 added to both the numerator
a. 900/992 d. 31/32 107. Dr. Martin sees an average of 2.5 patients
b. 30/32 e. 992/900 per and the denominator the resulting number is
c. 30/31 ¾. What is the original fraction?
75. In the figure to the right, the radius of the larger a. 8.14 b. 9/12 c. 10/12 d. 9/13
circle is twice that of the smaller circle. If the 89. A man can climb a pole at the rate of 10 ft. per
circles are concentric, what is the ratio of the minute and return at 20 ft. per minute. If it took
shaded region’s area to the area of the smaller minutes to climb and return, what is the height
circle? of the pole?
a. 10:1 a.20 ft. b. 18 ft. c. 15 ft. d. 13 ft.
b. 9:1 90. The entrance fee in a carnival is P50 for an adult
c. 3:1 P25 for a child. Ferdie pays P225 for the entrance
d. 2:1 fee of his family. If his family has equal number
of adults and children, how many are they in the
e. 1:1
family?
a. 12 b. 10 c. 8 d. 6
91. Which of the following numbers is the largest?
79 In a country, 60% of the male citizen and 70% a. 6% of 20 b. 8% of 16 c. 10% of 15
of the female citizen are eligible to vote. 70% of d. 12% of 12 e. none of these
male citizens eligible to vote voted, and 60% of 92. Mrs. Dizon’s 33 acres of sugar beefs yielded 495
female citizens eligible to vote voted. What bushels. What was the average yield per acre?
fraction of the citizens voted during the election?
a 15 d. 12
b 14 e. none of these
c 13
93. Attendance in a big rally was estimated to be one
and a half million people. Written out, this is the
same as:
a 1, 000,000 d. 1,050,000
b 1, 500,000 e. none
c 1,005, 000
94. Find the square of the number in the number
series which appears most of the time. 7 3 4
5 6 1 7 2 3 7
a. 3 b. 6 c. 9 d. 36 e. 49
95. The smallest prime number greater than 48 is
a 49 b. 50 c. 51 d. 53
a. 0.42 b. 0.48 c. 0.49 96. If the average of 2x and 4x is 12, then x =
d. 0.54 e. 0.60 a 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
80 If (a+ 2)(a– 3)(a+ 4) = 0 and a> 0, then a= 97. The average of x, y, and z is 8 and the average
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 e. 5 of y and z is 4. What is the value of x?
81 If 2x+ 3y= 11 and 3x+ 2y= 9, then x + y = a 4 b. 9 c. 16 d. 20
4 b. 7 c. 8 d. 9 e. 11 98. If the ratio of two numbers is 6 and their sum is
82 1/3 is to 2/18 as 1/12 is to ________ 21, what is the value of the larger number?
a. 2/72 b. 2/48 c. 3/36 d. 1/36 a 1 b. 5 c. 18 d. 17
83 There are 30 boys in a class. If the ratio of the 99. If y = 3x, then the value of 10% of y is
boys to girls is 3:5, how many girls are in the a .003x b. .3x c. 3x d. 30x
class? 100. A particular carmaker sells four models of
a. 35 b. 50 c. 55 d. 45 cars, and each model comes with 5 options.
84. A factory reduced the number of its workers from How many different types of cars does the
6, 900 to 3, 795. What percent of the total carmaker sell?
number of employees was laid off? a. 18 b. 19 c. 20 d. 21
a. 25 b. 35 c. 55 d. 45
85. If twelve men can assemble 5 cars in a week,
how many men are needed to assemble 15 cars
in a week?
a. 23 b. 36 c. 33 d. 43
86. 30% is to 3/5 as 80% is to ________.
a. 1 1/5 b. 1 2/5 c. 1 3/5 d. 1 4/5
87. The United States of America decide to cut their
oil consumption by two million barrels a day. If
this is 5% of their daily oil consumption, how
many barrels are consumed by these countries in
one day?
a.400,000,000 b.10,000,000 c.40,000,000
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