PLUMBING ARITHMETIC 7. A factor repeated to produce a power is?

1. If the total fall of house sewer is 24 inches a. Numerator

per 120 feet. What is the slope per foot in b. Square
sewer? c. Quotient
a. 0.01 d. root
b. 0.02
c. 0.03 8. A polygon with ten sides is?
d. 0.04 a. Dodecagon
b. Undecagon
2. Find the area at the cross section of a pipe c. Decagon
with the inside diameter of 14 inches and d. tendicagon
outside diameter of 17 inches?
a. 38.92 sq.in 9. A rectangle reservoir has the following
b. 73.04 sq. in dimensions, L=4m, W=2m, H=3m. what is the
c. 153.94 sq. in maximum volume of water that can be
d. 220.42 sq. in accomadated in the tank?
a. 24,000 liters
3. The amount of heat required to change ice b. 1,000 cu.m.
to liquid water is? c. 813 cu. Ft.
a. 344 Btu d. 240 cu.m
b. 144 Btu
c. 114 Btu 10. Two angles having the same vertex and the
d. 214 Btu side of one is the prolongation of the side of
the other is?
4. For any two triangles, if an angle of one a. Acute angle
triangles is congruent to an angle of the other b. Scalene angle
and if the two sides of one triangle are c. Obtuse angle
proportional to two sides of the other, they are d. Vertical angle
what kind of triangles?
a. Complementary 11. A water supply system is to be installed at
b. Supplementary a distance of 54 meters using 6 meters long
c. Similar PVC pipe with a diameter of 100mm.
d. Dissimilar determine the Number of length of PVC pipe to
be used?
5. A temperature of 1800 F is approximately a. 7
equal to? b. 8
a. 52.220C c. 9
b. 62.220C d. 10
c. 72.220C
d. 82.220C 12. What is the number of horsepower
required to raise 25,000 lbs of water for a
6. An angle inscribe in a semi-circle is always? height of 30 meters within 10 minutes?
a. Unaligned a. 5 hp
b. More than 900 b. 6 hp
c. Less than 900 c. 7 hp
d. 900 d. 8 hp
13. A city of 25,000 uses 15 gallons of water 19. A drainage pipe line 1000 ft long is laid at a
per day per capita. If it is required to raise this slope of 2%. What is the total drop of the
water 150 feet, what is the number of lower end?
horsepower required? a. 10 ft
a. 9 hp b. 15 ft
b. 10 hp c. 20 ft
c. 11 hp d. 25 ft
d. 12 hp
20. What is the travel length of a plastic pipe
14. Twenty less than four times a certain 4” in diameter if the offset angle is 11.250 and
number is 4. Determine the number the offset length is 60 cm.
a. 6 a. 2m
b. 5 b. 3m
c. 4 c. 4m
d. 3 d. 5m

15. What is the number of the horsepower to 21. A 150 mm diameter pipe, 50 ft long is
lift 10,000 gallons of water per hour top to a installed vertically. It is filled with water at
height of 90 ft? assume the weight of water to atmospheric pressure, what is the total
be 8- ½ lbs per gallon pressure in psi at the bottom?
a. 3.56 a. 20.65 psi
b. 3.86 b. 21.66 psi
c. 4.86 c. 22.66 psi
d. 4.56 d. 23.65 psi

16. How many gallons of water can a 75 hp 22. What is the pressure in pounds per square
engine raise 150 ft in 5 hours? One gallon of inch at the base of a 10 foot water cylinder?
water weights 8-1/2 lbs. a. 0.433 psi
a. 595,238 gallons b. 4.33 psi
b. 594,238 gallons c. 4.36 psi
c. 593,238 gallons d. 4.63 psi
d. 594,328 gallons
23. If the total working area of the plunger of a
17. One cubic foot of water is assumed to pump is 10 sq. in. What is the total pressure in
weight 62.5 lbs. what is the weight of one pounds on the plunger when pumping against
cubic inch of water? 125 lbs per square inch?
a. 0.0361 a. 11.5 lbs
b. 0.0316 b. 12.5 lbs
c. 0.0416 c. 13.5 lbs
d. 0.0461 d. 14.5 lbs

18. A man bought plumbing tools worth 2100. 24. 350 is to be divided between Jones and
The sales tax was 8%. How much did the man Smith so that jones will receive 25 more than
pay? Smith. How much Jones received?
a. 2368 a. 185.50
b. 2268 b. 187.50
c. 2278 c. 178.50
d. 2378 d. 186.50
25. 350 is to be divided between Jones and 30. What is the radius of a circle the area of
Smith so that jones will receive 25 more than which is equal to that of a rectangle whose
Smith. How much Smith received? sides are 26.9 and 12.5 inches respectively?
a. 167.50 a. 10.34 in
b. 155.50 b. 11.54 in
c. 165.50 c. 12.24 in
d. 162.50 d. 12.44 in

26. Find two consecutive even integers such 31. What is the weight of a solid ball of brass
that the square of the larger is 44 greater that 6inches in diameter? Assume specific gravity of
the square of the smaller integers. 8.4?
a. 8 and 10 a. 33.3 lbs
b. 10 and 12 b. 34.3 lbs
c. 12 and 14 c. 35.3 lbs
d. 10 and 11 d. 36.5 lbs

27. A messenger traveling 65 miles per hour 32. One cubic yard can give a volume
pursues a truck which has a start of 2 hours equivalent to?
and over tacks it in 3 hours. Find the trucks’ a. 0.7651 cu.m
speed? b. 0.2835 cu.m.
a. 37 miles/hr c. 0.9232 cu.m
b. 38 miles/hr d. 0.2024 cu.m
c. 39 miles/hr
d. 40 miles/hr 33. Find the diameter of a circle whose area is
equal to the difference between the area of an
28. A motorboat went 70 miles in 4 hours 8-inch circle and the area of a 4-inch circle?
when traveling at full speed upstream on a a. 5.26 in
river whose current flows at the rate of 6 miles b. 6.93 in
per hour. How fast can the boat travel in still c. 12.5 in
water? d. 3.79 in
a. 21.5 miles/hr
b. 22.5 miles/hr 34. One gallon is equal to?
c. 23.5 miles/hr a. 2.31 cu.m
d. 24.5 miles/hr b. 0.0023 cu.m
c. 3.65 liters
29. Two coats of paint are required for an d. 22.8725 mm
elevated water pipe line 7 inches in diameter
(outside diameter) and 200 ft long. If a gallon 35. 11/16 of an inch is equal to?
of paint covers 200 sq. ft. on the first coat and a. 16.2350 mm
250 sq. ft. on the second coat, how many b. 12.3375 mm
gallons are needed? c. 17.4625 mm
a. 30 gallons d. 22.8725 mm
b. 31 gallons
c. 32 gallons
d. 33 gallons
36. The volume of a cube is equal to the cube 42. How many feet can one horsepower raise a
of the measure of its? Weight of 33 lbs within one hour?
a. Angle a. 10 ft
b. Corner b. 100 ft
c. Edge c. 1,000 ft
d. Diagonal d. 10,000 ft

37. If each of two lines is perpendicular to the 43. A space that is devoid of matter and in
same line, then the lines are? which the pressure is zero?
a. Perpendicular a. Block hole
b. Parallel b. Outer space
c. Tangent c. Vacuum
d. Converging d. Inner space

38. Is a branch of mathematics dealing with 44. Decrease in the value of a physical property
integers and more generally, numeral due to the passage of time?
computation? a. Inflation
a. Algebra b. Depletion
b. Trigonometry c. Recession
c. Geometry d. Depreciation
d. Arithmethic
45. We may classify an interest rate which
39. One pound per square inch is equivalent to specifies the actual rate of interest on the
how many feet of water? principal for one year as?
a. 4.21 ft a. Nominal rate
b. 3.27 ft b. Rate of return
c. 1.24 ft c. Exact interest rate
d. 2.31 ft d. Effective rate

40. The power to which a number is raised is 46. The ratio of the interest payment to the
indicated by a small superior figure called? principal for a given unit of time and usually
a. Logarithm expressed as a percentage of the principal?
b. Increment a. Interest
c. Exponent b. Interest rate
d. Mantissa c. Investment
d. Rate
41. A number that be exactly divided by two
is? 47. Additional information of prospective
a. Real bidders on contract documents issued prior to
b. Original bidding date?
c. Integer a. Depict
d. Even b. Escalate
c. Assessment
d. Bid bulletin
48. What is the corresponding effective rate of 54. The place where buyers and sellers come
18 % compound semi-quarterly? together?
a. 19.25% a. Market
b. 19.48% b. Business
c. 18.46% c. Recreation center
d. 18.95% d. Buy and sell section

49. Find the present worth of future payment 55. A market whereby there is only one buyer
of 100,000 to be made in 10 years with an of an item for which there are no goods
interest of 12% compounded quarterly? substitute
a. 30,444.44 a. Monopsony
b. 33,000.00 b. Oligopoly
c. 30,655.68 c. Monopoly
d. 30,546.01 d. Oligopsony

50. You loan from a firm an amount of 100,000 56. It is a series of equal payments occurring at
with a rate of simple interest of 20 % but the equal interval of time where the first payment
interest was deducted from the loan at the is made after several periods, after the
time the money was borrowed. If at the end of beginning of the payment
one year, you have to pay the full amount of a. Perpetuity
100,000, what is the actual rate of interest? b. Ordinary annuity
a. 18.8% c. Annuity due
b. 25.0% d. Deferred annuity
c. 27.5%
d. 30.0% 57. The total income equal the total operating
cost
51. The paper currency issued by the Central a. Balance sheet
Bank which forms part of the country’s money b. In place value
supply? c. Check and balance
a. T-bills d. Break even no gain no loss
b. Bank note
c. Check 58. Kind of obligation which has no condition
d. Coupon attached.
a. Analytic
52. Reduction in the level of national income b. Pure
and output usually accompanied by the fall in c. Gratuitous
the general price level? d. Private
a. Devaluation
b. Delation 59. Direct Labor cost incurred in the factory
c. Inflation and direct material costs are the costs of all
d. Depreciation materials that go into production. The sum of
these two direct cost is known as:
53. It is a series of equal payment occurring at a. GS and A expenses
equal interval of time? b. Operating and maintenance cost
a. Annuity c. Prime Cost
b. Debt d. O and M costs
c. Amortization
d. Deposit
60. An index of short term paying ability is 66. The quantity of a certain commodity that is
called offered for sale at a certain price at a given
a. Receivable turn-over place and time
b. Profit margin ratio a. Demand
c. Current ratio b. Supply
d. Acid-test ratio c. Stocks
d. Goods
61. An artificial expenses that spreads
purchase price of an asset or another property 67. Work-in process is classified as
over number of years. a. An asset
a. Depreciation b. A liability
b. Singking fund c. An expenses
c. Amnesty d. An owner’s equity
d. Bond
68. What is the highest position in the
62. Estimated value at the end of the useful life corporation?
a. Market value a. President
b. Fair value b. Board of directors
c. Salvage value c. Chairman of the board
d. Book value d. Stockholders

63. consists of the actual counting or 69. Type of ownership in business here
determination individuals exercise and enjoy the right in their
of the actual quantity of the materials on hand own interest.
as of a given date. a. Equitable
a. Physical inventory b. Public
b. Material update c. Private
c. Technological assessment d. Pure
d. Material count
70. Decrease in the value of a physical property
64. Additional information of prospective due to the passage of time.
bidders on contract documents issued prior to a. Inflation
bidding date b. Depletion
a. Delict c. Recession
b. Escalatory d. Depreciation
c. Technological assessment
d. Bid bulletin 71. An association of two or more individuals
for the purpose of operating a business as co-
65. A series of uniform accounts over a period owners for profit
of time a. Sole proprietorship
a. Depreciation b. Company
b. Annuity c. Partnership
c. Perpetuity d. Corporation
d. Inflation
 77. These are products or services that are
72. We may classify an interest rate, which required to support human life and activities
specifies the actual rate of interest on the that will be purchased in somewhat the same
principal for one year as; quantity even though the price varies
a. Nominal rate considerably
b. Rate of return a. Utilities
c. Exact interest rate b. Necessities
d. Effective rate c. Luxuries
d. Product goods and services
73. It is defined to be the capacity of a
commodity to satisfy human want. 78. A condition where only few individuals
a. Discount produce a certain product and that any action
b. Luxury of one will lead to almost the same action of
c. Necessity others.
d. Utility a. Oligopoly
b. Semi-monoploy
74. It is the amount which a willing buyer will c. Monopoly
pay to willing seller for a property where each d. Perfect competition
has equal advantage and is under no
compulsion to buy or sell 79. Grand total of the assets and operational
a. Fair value capability of a corporation.
b. Market value a. Authorized capital
c. Book value b. Investment
d. Salvage value c. Subscribed capital
d. Money market
75. This occurs in a situation where a
commodity or service is supplied by a number 80. The worth of the property equals to the
of vendor by a number of vendors and there is original cost less depreciation
nothing to prevent additional vendors entering a. Scrap value
the market b. Face value
a. Perfect competition c. Market value
b. Oligopoly d. Book value
c. Monopoly
d. Elastic demand 81. Money paid for the use of borrowed capital
a. Discount
76. These are products or services that are b. Credit
desired by human and will be purchase if c. Interest
money is available after the required necessities d. profit
have been obtain
a. Utilities 82. liquid assets such as cash and other assets
b. Necessities that can be converted quickly into cash, such as
c. Luxuries accounts receivable and merchandise are called
d. Product goods and services a. total assets
b. fixed assets
c. current assets
d. none of the above
83. the length of time which the property may 89. a market situation where there is one seller
be operated at a profit with many buyer
a. physical life a. monopoly
b. economic life b. monopsony
c. operating life c. oligopoly
d. all of the above d. oligopsony

84. the provision in the contract that indicates 90. a market situation where there is one seller
the possible adjustment of material cost and and one buyer
Labor cost a. monopoly
a. secondary clause b. monopsony
b. escalatory clause c. oligopoly
c. contingency clause d. oligopsony
d. main clause
91. A market situation where there are few
85. the present worth of all depreciation over sellers and few buyers
the economic life of the item is called a. oligopoly
a. book value b. oligopsony
b. capital recovery c. bilateral oligopoly
c. depreciation recovery d. bilateral oligopsony
d. sinking fund
92. A market situation where there are only two
86. gross profit, sale less cost of goods sold, as a buyers with many sellers
percentage of sales is called a. duopoly
a. profit margin b. oligopoly
b. gross margin c. duepsony
c. net income d. oligopsony
d. rate of return
93. Define as the future value minus the present
87. worth of the property as shown in the value.
accounting records of an enterprise a. Interest
a. fair value b. Rate of return
b. market value c. Discount
c. salvage value d. capital
d. book value
94. The ratio of the interest payment to the
88. those funds that are required to make the principal for a given unit of time and usually
enterprise or project a going concern expressed as percentage of the principal
a. initial investment a. interest
b. current accounts b. interest rate
c. working capital c. investment
d. subscribed capital d. all of the above
95. Scrap value of an asset is sometimes known 101. Which of the following depreciation
as methods cannot have a salvage value of zero?
a. book value a. Declining balance method
b. salvage value b. Sinking fund method
c. replacement value c. Straight line method
d. future value d. SYD method

96. A type of annuity where the payments are 102. The lessening of the value of an asset due
made at the end of payment period starting to the decrease in the quantity available
from the first period preferring to the natural resources?
a. ordinary annuity a. Depreciation
b. annuity due b. Depletion
c. deferred annuity c. Inflation
d. perpetuity d. Incremental cost

97. Bond to which attached coupons are 103. An increase in the value of a capital asset is
indicating the interest due and the date when called
such interest is to be paid a. Profit
a. registered bond b. Capital gain
b. coupon bond c. Capital expenditure
c. mortgage bond d. Capital stock
d. collateral trust bond
104. Lands, buildings, plant and machinery are
98. When free competition exist the price of a example of
product will be that value where supply is equal a. Current assets
To the demand’ b. Trade investments
a. Law of diminishing return c. Fixed assets
b. Law of supply d. Intangible assets
c. Law of demand
d. Law of supply and demand 105. One gallon is equal to:
a. 2.31 cu.in
99. The ratio of the net income to the owners’ b. 0.0023 cu.m
equity is known as c. 3.65 liters
a. Price-earning ratio d. 22. 8725 mm
b. Profit margin ratio
c. Return of investment 106. If each edge of a cube is decreased by 50%,
d. Gross margin how much percentage will the volume be
decreased?
100. Capitalized cost of any property is equal to a. 87.50 %
the b. 85 %
a. Annual cost c. 83.60 %
b. First cost + interest of the first cost d. 80 %
c. First cost+ cost of perpetual maintenance
d. First cost+ salvage value
107. The hour hand of a huge clock is 100 cm 113. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2
long. What is the circumferential speed of the hours to travel 1000km. and 2.5 hours to fly
tip of this hand in cm/hr? back. What was the wind velocity in kph?
a. 45.5 cm/hr a. 50 kph
b. 50.25 cm/hr b. 45 kph
c. 52.36 cm/hr c. 58 kph
d. 55.45 cm/hr d. 55kph

108. Find the 25th term of an arithmetic 114. How many three digit number can be
progression 5,8,11,14&. formed using digits 0-9?
a. 77 a. 100
b. 79 b. 115
c. 83 c. 150
d. 76 d. 120

109. In triangle ABC, angle A = 450 and angle 115. After how many minutes from 12;00
C=700. Find the side opposite angle A if line o’clock noon will the minute hand and the hour
AB=40m hand of an clock make an angle of 1200 for the
a. 33.64 m first time?
b. 31.70 m a. 23.40 min
c. 30.10 m b. 21.80 min
d. 29.20 m c. 20.00 min
d. 22.30 min
110. What is the radius and the centre of the
circle x2+y2-10x -4y-196=0 116. The bases of a right prism are pentagons
a. (5,5) r=5 with each side 6 cm long. The bases are 12 cm
b. (5,2) r=15 apart. What is the volume of the prism?
c. (-2,5) r=11 a. 630.85 cu.cm.
d. (5,5) r=8 b. 710.12 cu. cm.
c. 743.40 cu.cm
111. Find the area bounded by the line x-2y+4=0 d. 695.00 cu.cm
a. 4
b. 4.5 117. Find the area of a pentagon that is
c. 6 inscribed in a circle if the area of the circle is
d. 8 314 sq.m.
a. 237.60 sqm
112. A drop of falling water passes a point 300m b. 255.30 sqm
from the ground at a speed of 20m/s. how high c. 340.12 sqm
above the ground will it be 3 seconds later? d. 283.56 sqm
a. 198 m
b. 195.80 m
c. 104.20 m
d. 112 m
118. Plumber A can finish a plumbing job in 2 123. Find the distance from the origin to the
days. Plumber B can finish the job in 3 days. line x+2y-
Plumber C can do the job in 6 days. If they work 12=0
together, how long will it take for them to finish a. 5.37
the job? b. 5.90
a. 1 day c. 6.12
b. 1.50 days d. 6.30
c. 1.15 days
d. 1.25 days 124. Chenlee is as old as Kenneth was four years
ago. In two years, chenlee’s age will be eleven
119. Three liters of 20 % alcohol solution is more than half of kenneth’s age. How old is
mixed with one liter of an X% alcohol solution. If chenlee now?
new mixture contains 22.5%alcohol, what is the a. 24
value of x? b. 28
a. 20% c. 20
b. 24% d. 26
c. 28%
d. 30% 125. A line segment L was measured once, twice
and three times as follows: L= 55.210m,
120. What rate in percent compounded semi- 2L=110.431m,
annually is equivalent to 20% compounded 3L=165.634m
annually? a. 55.2100 m
a. 22.2 % b. 55.2113 m
b. 19.09% c. 55.2155 m
c. 18.56% d. 55.2125 m
d. 16.50%
126. What is the Fahrenheit equivalent of
121. At what rate of interest compounded 26.500 centigrade?
quarterly will an investment double in four a. 81.50
years? b. 82.340
a. 17.7% c. 79.70
b. 16.6% d. 80.120
c. 15.5%
d. 14.4% 127. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 34 cm.
find the length of the shorter leg if it is 14cm
122. Find the distance from the point (5,-3) to shorter than the other leg.
the line a. 15
7x-4y-28=0 b. 16
a. 3.10 c. 17
b. 3.45 d. 18
c. 2.75
d. 2.36 128. The measure of 1.5 revolutions counter
clockwise
a. 540
b. 520
c. 90
d. -90
 135. A spherical steel ball is placed into a
From the top of the tower A, the angle of vertical circular cylinder containing water,
elevation of the top of the tower B is 46 causing the water level to rise by 12 cm. if the
degrees. From the foot of tower B the angle of radius of the cylinder is 15 cm. what is the
elevation of the top of tower A is 28 degree. radius of the ball in cm?
Both towers are on a level ground. If the height a. 14.75
of tower B is 120m. b. 13.50
c. 12.65
129. An angle that measures from the d. 15
horizontal upward to an object is called _____
a. Right angle 136. What is the surface area of a sphere whose
b. Acute angle volume is 36 cu.m?
c. Angle of elevation a. 55.8 cum
d. Angle of depression b. 48.90 cum
c. 57.78 cum
130. How high is tower A? d. 52.70 cum
a. 38.6 m
b. 42.3 m The pressure in a tank is 50 psi
c. 44.1 m 137. Find the equivalent pressure head of water
d. 40.7m a. 115.38 ft
b. 125.33 ft
131. What is the distance between tower A and c. 110.40 ft
B? d. 130.25 ft
a. 756.456 138. Equivalent pressure head of fuel oil with
b. 76.654 sp. Gr.=
c. 76.564 0.92
d. 76.465 a. 120 ft
b. 136.23 ft
132. How many meters higher is tower B? c. 125.42 ft
a. 79.30 m d. 141.58 ft
b. 77.70 m 139. Equivalent pressure head of nectar
c. 81.40 m a. 39.25 ft
d. 75.90 m b. 44.30 ft
c. 37.55 ft
133. In an isosceles right triangle, the d. 42.63 ft
hypotenuse is how much longer than its sides?
a. 2 times A tank can be filled by pipe A in 3 hours and by
b. 2 ½ times pipe B
c. 1.5 times in 5 hours. When the tank is full, it can be
d. None of these drained by
pipe C in 4 hours.
134. Find the value of A if tan 4A=cot6A 140. What is the rate of Pipe A
a. 90 a. 1/12
b. 140 b. 1/8
c. 110 c. 1/3
d. 150 d. 1/4
141. What is the rate of pipe C
a. ¼
b. 1/12 c. -1 & 6
c. 1/3 d. 1 & -6
d. 1/8 148. In how many ways can 11 women be
142. If the tank is initially empty and pipe A & seated in a
pipe B round table with eleven seats?
are open, how many hours will take to fill up a. 39,916,800
the b. 40,320
tank? c. 362,880
a. 1.587 hrs d. 3,628,800
b. 1.758 hrs 149. A single deck of playing cards is shuffled
c. 1.875 hrs well. One
d. 1.578 hrs card is drawn followed by another. What is the
143. If the tank is half full and pipe A & pipe C probability of getting two Aces?
are a. 8/52
open, how many hours will it take to fill up the b. 3/663
tank? c. 4/52
a. 7 hrs d. 2/104
150. The arithmetic mean of 50 numbers is 32.
b. 8 hrs If two
c. 9 hrs numbers namely 16 and 48 are eliminated.
d. 6 hrs Determine the new arithmetic mean
144. If the tank is initially empty and all three a. 32
pipe are b. 33
open, how many hours will it take to fill up the c. 34
tank? d. 36
a. 3.529 hrs 151. One period of a sine or cosine function is
b. 3.259 hrs called
c. 3.925 hrs one ____of the sine and cosine curve.
d. 3.592 hrs a. Cycle
b. Shift
145. Point C is ¾ of the way from A(1,-4) to B (- c. Amplitude
3,8). d. Phase
Determine the abscissa and ordinate of point C. 152. What is the volume of the sphere whose
a. (0,1) surface
b. (-1,4) area is 108 sq.m.?
c. (-3,4) a. 110.50 sq.m
d. (-2,5) b. 105.50 sqm
146. Plumber A is 8% taller than B, while B is 9% c. 115.00 sqm
taller d. 155.10 sqm
than C. by how much in percent is A taller than 153. Solve log3 (5x+7)= 2 for x
C? a. 1/5
a. 17.72% b. 2/5
b. 18.50% c. 2/3
c. 20.56% d. 1/3
d. 21.45% 154. Solve x4-9x2+8=0 for x
147. Find the values of x if 5-2x=7 a. + 8, + 1
a. 1 & 6 b. + 2, + 1
b. -1 & -6 c. + 6, + 1
d. + 4, + 2 b. 3/5
155. The first cost of a plumbing equipment is P c. 5/8
385,000. It has a life of 8 years and a salvage d. 5/3
value of P 70,000. Find the annual depreciation 162. Of Ted’s salary, 1/10 is spent for clothing,
using straight line method. and 1/3
a. P 48,125.00 for food and for rent. What part of the salary is
b. P 21,875.00 left for other expenditures and savings?
c. P 70,000.00 a. 17/30
d. P 39,375.00 b. 3/5
156. If x2 + y2 =2 and x2 – y2 =2, then x4-y4 = c. 19/30
a. 0 d. 2/3
b. 2 163. Susan is 4 times as old as Paul and 1 ½
c. 4 times as
d. 5 old as Mary. What fraction of paul’s age is
157. If 3x=2y and 6y=7z, what is the ratio of x to mary?
z? a. 3/8
a. 2:3 b. 2 2/3
b. 7:9 c. 3 ¾
c. 3:2 d. 6
d. 5:7 164. How much money would a man have to
158. Six consecutive integers are given. Then invest at
sum of the rate of 5% per year, to have P1,470 at the
the first three is 27. What is the sum of the last end of the year?
three? a. P70
a. 29 b. P700
b. 30 c. P1400
c. 32 d. P1540
d. 36 165. Find the value of x if the average of 1.0,
159. If the length of a rectangle is increased by 0.8, 0.2
20% and x is exactly 0.6
and the width is decreased by 20 %, what a. 0.2
percent b. 0.4
change occurs in the area? c. 0.66
a. It remains the same d. 1.3
b. It decreases 4 % 166. How many miles can a motorist travel from
c. It increases 5% 9:55
d. It decreases 2% am to 10:15 am at rate of 40 miles per hour?
160. A gasoline tank that is ½ full has 8 gallons a. 13 1/3
removed. The tank is then 1/10 full. What is the b. 15
capacity, in gallons, of the tank? c. 20
a. 2.5 d. 30
b. 6.4 167. A salesman travels for 2 hours at 30 miles
c. 15.8 per
d. 20 hour and then covers 60 miles in the next 3
161. A motion was adopted by a vote of 5 to 3. hours.
What What is the average rate for the entire trip?
part of the total vote was against the motion? a. 18
a. 3/8 b. 24
c. 36 b. 40
d. 45 c. 50
168. The elevator in a eleven-storey office d. 60
building 173. How many quartz of a 90% solution of
travels at the rate of one floor per ¼ min, which alcohol
allows time for picking up and discharging should be mixed with a 75% solution of alcohol
passenger. At the main floor and at the top in
floor, order to make 20 quarts of 78% solution?
the operator stops for 1 minute. How many a. 4
complete trips will an operator make during a 7 b. 9
hours period? c. 11
a. 20 d. 15
b. 30 174. A machine can cut some wood in 6
c. 60 minutes, and a
d. 76 man using a hand saw can do it in 18 minutes.
169. A vertical pole 6 ft high casts a shadow 4 ft After 4 minutes there is a power shortage and
long. the
At the same time a tree casts a shadow 64 ft wood must be cut by hand saw. How many
long. minutes must the man work to complete the
What is the height, in feet, of the tree? task?
a. 44 a. 2
b. 72 b. 6
c. 96 c. 12
d. 192 d. 14
170. If 4 men can clear the garbage near a 175. Three pipes are used to fill a pool with
school in 6 water. One
hours, how many hours will it take 12 men pipe alone can fill the pool in 9 hours. Another
working at the same rate to perform this task? can fill it in 6 hours. The third can fill it in 3
a. 2 hours.
b. 8 How many minutes will it take to fill this pool if
c. 12 all
d. 18 three pipes are used simultaneously?
171. An alloy of copper and tin is 20% copper. a. 1.63
How b. 11
many pounds of copper must be added to 20 c. 54
pounds of the alloy in order for the resulting d. 98
alloy 176. If three secretaries can type six
to be 50% copper? manuscripts in 12
a. 6 days, how many days will it take two secretaries
b. 12 to type three such manuscripts?
c. 12.5 a. 4
d. 13 b. 9
172. How much water, in cm3, must be added c. 12
to 100 d. 16
cm3 of 80% solution of boric acid to reduce it to Angle x=
a a. 400
50% solution? b. 450
a. 30 c. 500
d. 850 183. What is the distance from point A(3,4) to
178. An office equipment costing P42,000 point (-
depreciates 3,-4)
to P11,500 in 10 years. What is the annual a. 0
depreciation? b. 5
a. P3000 c. 10
b. P3050 d. 13
c. P2000 184. Point (-2,6) is the center of a circle that is
d. P1500 tangent
179. to the x-axis. The coordinates of the point of
tangency are
a. (-2,0)
b. (0,4)
c. (-2,-6)
d. (0,-2)
185. If ab=6 and a2 +b2 = 13, then (a+b)(a+b)=
Circle is inscribed in triangle ABC. BC=4, AF=3, a. 19
EC=5 b. 25
a. 12 c. 36
b. 15 d. 49
c. 17 186. In a certain office, 1/3 of the workers are
d. 24 women,
180. The width of a rectangle is 4/5 its length. If ½ of the women are married, and 1/3 of the
its married women have children. If ¾ of the men
perimeter is 72, what is its area? are
a. 160 married and 2/3 of the married men have
b. 250 children, what part of the workers is without
c. 280 children?
d. 320 a. 5/18
181. b. 4/9
c. 17/36
d. 11/18
In circle O, OA=6, angle AOB= 600. The area of 187.
the a+b b+a
shaded portion= a-b b-a
a. 2π a. -1
b. 4 π -3 b. 0
c. 6 π -9 3 c. 1
d. 36 π- 9 3 d. a+b
182. A rectangle lot 50 ft by 100 ft is surrounded 188. A bag of chicken feed 18 chickens for 54
in all days. For
sided by a concrete walk 5 ft wide. Find the how many days will it feed 12 chickens?
number of square ft in the surface of the walk a. 36
a. 1600 b. 37
b. 5250 c. 53
c. 5500 d. 72
d. 6100 189. A 14 cm inner diameter (i.d) water main
furnishes
water (through intermediate pipes) to a 1.00 cm d. h/x
id. Faucet pipe. It the average velocity in the 194. if is defined to equal xy-z, and +a=0, then
faucet pipe is 3 cm/sec, what will be the a=
average
velocity (in cm/s) it causes in the water main? a. xz-y
a. 0.0153 b. xz+y
b. 0.0110 c. z-xy
c. 0.135 d. xy-z
d. 1.0 195. A man travels 4 miles north, 12 miles east,
190. and
then 12 miles north. How far, to the nearest
mile,
is he from the starting point?
a. 17
In the figure above a,b,and c are in ratio 1:3:2. b. 20
The value of b is c. 21
a. 30 d. 28
b. 50 196. In the figure, the measure of A
c. 60 a. 15
d. 90 b. 45
191. Vicky buys a refrigerator that sells for c. 60
P4,800 d. 80
cash. She pays P2,000 down payment and 197. A pulley whose diameter is 9 inches is
promises to pay the balance in 36 monthly connected
equal by a belt to another pulley whose diameter is 6
payments. What is the size of her monthly inches. If the larger pulley runs at 1200
payment, if interest is charged at 6% revolutions per minutes, at how many
compounded monthly? revolutions
a. P80 per minutes does the smaller pulley run?
b. P85.18 a. 800
c. P90 b. 1080
d. 92.18 c. 1600
192. A marble with speed 20 cm/s rolls off the d. 1800
edge of 198. How many tiles are needed to cover a
the table 80 cm high. How far (in cm), bathroom
horizontally, from the edge does the marble floor 3 m long and 2m wide if each tile is a
strike square
the floor? of side 1 decimeter?
a. 7.8 a. 60
b. 8.1 b. 300
c. 8.3 c. 600
d. 8.5 d. 1200
193. If a pipe fills a cistern in h hours, how much 199. A tank is ¾ filled with oil. After 65 liters of
of the oil are
cistern does it fill in one hour? drawn out, the tank is still half full. How many
a. 1/h liters can the tank hold?
b. x/h a. 130
c. hx b. 195
c. 260 of his savings when he reaches age 21.
d. 360 a. P8762.50
200. There are 252 students in a school. If the b. P7862.50
ratio of c. P2678.50
female to male students is 3:4, how many d. P8276.50
female 206. A truck starts from rest and moves with
students are there? constant
a. 63 acceleration of 5 m/s2. what is its distance
b. 108 traveled after 4 seconds has elapsed?
c. 124 a. 20
d. 189 b. 30
201. A father willed that his three sons’s c. 40
inheritance d. 50
from him (starting from eldest) be in ratio 1:2:3. 207. A marble dropped from a bridge strikes the
If water
the middle sons’s inheritance was P27,000, how in 5 seconds. What is the height of the bridge?
much did the third (or youngest) son inherit? a. 123m
a. P13,500 b. 125m
b. P40,500 c. 120m
c. P54,000 d. 118m
d. P81,000 208. A plane is traveling eastward at an
202. Mercury boils at 6750 F. what is the boiling airspeed of
point 500 km/hr. but a 90 km/hr wind is blowing
of mercury in 0C? southward. What is the speed of the plane
a. 675 relative to the ground?
b. 357 a. 590 km/hr
c. 537 b. 410 km/hr
d. 735 c. 500km/hr
203. What is the area of the square inscribed in d. 508 km/hr
the 209. The specific gravity of cast iron is 7.20. find
quadrant if the radius of the circle is 10 cm? its
a. 100 cm weight density in lbs/ft2 of cast iron. Density of
b. 50 cm water is 62.4 lbs/ft3.
c. 50 2 cm2 a. 449
d. 25 2 cm2 b. 720
204. What amount should be paid on February c. 500
14, d. 450
1991 on a loan of P5,090 made October 7, 1990 210. A horizontal pipe has a constriction in it as
with shown
5 3/5% simple interest? in figure below. At point I the diameter is 6 cm,
a. P5,200 while at point 2 it is only 2 cm. At 1, v1=2m/s
b. P5190.56 and
c. P6000 P1=180 kpa. Calculate P2 (in kPa).
d. P5910.56
205. On a boy’s seventh birthday, his parents
deposited P5,000 in his name in a savings bank
paying 1 3/8% every three months. Find the a. 10
value b. 15
c. 20 a. 42
d. 25 b. 60
211. How high would water rise in the pipes of a c. 24
building if the water pressure gauge shown the d. 20
pressure at the ground floor to be 270 kPa? 217. What is the time after 1:00 o’clock will the
a. 25.5 m hands
b. 26 m of the clock forms a straight line?
c. 27.6 m a. 1:35:10
d. 28.3 m b. 1:38:11
212. A lead pipe 50 mm in outside diameter and c. 1:39:15
1.20m d. 1:30:00
is melted to form a cube of edge 10 cm. how 218. What is the time when the hands after 2:00
thick(mm) was the pipe? o’clock are perpendicular with each other?
a. 5 a. 2:27:36
b. 6.05 b. 2:28:16
c. 6.5 c. 2:26:15
d. 6.55 d. 2:28:30
213. Henry’s father is now twice as old as he is 219. The age of Dompoy divided by the age of
16 his son
years ago, he was four time as old. How old is gives a quotient of four remainder two 12 years
henry now/ hence, the sum of their ages is 66. Find the
a. 32 present age of the son.
b. 24 a. 34
c. 8 b. 12
d. 48 c. 10
214. The sum of reciprocal of two consecutive d. 8
even 220. Atmospheric pressure is about 1 x 105 Pa.
whole numbers is 13/84. Find the numbers. how
a. 6,8 large a force does the air in a room exert on the
b. 8,10 inside of a window pane that is 40 cm x 80 cm?
c. 10,12 a. 3.2 x 102
d. 12,14 b. 3.2 x103
215. A vertical pole was broken by the wind. c. 3.2 x104
The upper d. 3 x 104
part still attached, reached a point on the level 221. A plumber is to install 20 meters long pipe,
ground 4m from the base. If the upper part is the
2m length of pipe is 3.0 meters per piece. If the
longer than the lower part, how tall was the plumber has 4 pcs of pipe available, what is the
pole? total length of pipe he will have to install?
a. 5m a. 8
b. 3m b. 12
c. 8m c. 10
d. 6m d. 6
216. If the digits of a two-digit number are 222. The age of the father is 3 times that of his
reversed, son.
the number is three times their difference. The sum of their age is 60. How old is the son?
What a. 10
is the number? b. 12
c. 15 of 65?
d. 16 a. P12,990
223. The cost of purchasing a set of bathroom b. P12,890
fixture is c. P12,980
P15,000.00. if the purchase will be made d. P2,770
directly 228. A refrigerators cost P 15,000 when it is
with the manufacturer, a discount of 30% can new. It
be depreciates at the rate of 10% per year. What
availed of. What will be the cost of discounted would it worth after 10 years?
fixture? a. P5,130.18
a. P12,000 b. P5,330.00
b. P13,500 c. P5,240.18
c. P11,500 d. P5,230.18
d. P10,500 229. How much work is required to lift a 50
224. Two years from now, Pedro will be two pounds
times as weight 100 ft vertically from ground level?
old as Juan. If the sum of their age 2 years from a. 500 ft-lb
now is 60 years. How old is Pedro and Juan b. 5000 ft-lb
now. c. 50ft-lb
a. 17 d. None of these
b. 15 230. A swimming pool is 5 m wide, 20 m long
c. 20 and
d. 18 1.20m deep, is being filled up with a pipe at the
225. Car A which is running at the speed of 60 rate of 85 gallons per minutes. How long does it
km/hr take to fill the pool?
leaves station N which is 200 km away from a. 6 hrs
station S where it is heading. Car B leaves b. 6.2 hrs
station c. 7 hrs
S heading to station N at the speed of 40 km/hr. d. 5 hrs
how long will the two cars meet? 231. The radius of a circle whose area is equal
a. 2 to that
b. 1 of a rectangle whose side are 20 meters and 30
c. 1 ½ meters respectively is;
d. 3 a. 9.17 m
226. A plumber covers a journey of 952,000 km b. 13.83 m
in 7 c. 15.92 m
days and 3 hours. Find his average speed in d. 14.92 m
km/s. 232. Find the height of a cylinder tank which is
a. 155 km/s filled
b. 1.55 km/s with water weighing 200 kg and its diameter of
c. 15.50 km/s the base is 4m (specific gravity of water=1)
d. 1550 km/s a. 13.92 m
227. A young plumber deposited P1,000 in the b. 16.92 m
bank at c. 15.92m
6% interest compounded annually when he d. 14.92 m
started plumbing at the age of 21. How much 233. A plumber crossed a river 30m wide but
will current
he get from the bank when he retires at the age
brought 40m beyond and further to the b. 480
opposite c. 600
bank. What is the total distance travelled? d. 840
a. 50 m 239. Two motorists start out from two twons
b. 60 m 420 km
c. 45 m apart and travel toward each other at the
d. 55 m hourly
234. A car 15 ft long overtakes a truck 30 ft. long rate of 30 and 40 km respectively. In jow many
which hours will they meet?
is traveling at a rate 45 mph. how fast must the a. 4 hrs
car travel to pass the truck in 3 seconds? b. 7 hrs
a. 90 c. 5 hrs
b. 60 d. 6 hrs
c. 91 240. Twenty seven coins composed of 5
d. 75 centavo-coins
235. If the numerator of a fraction is doubled and 25 centavo-coins have a total value of P
and the 4.95.
denominator is increased by 7, the valve How many 25 centavo-coins are there?
becomes a. 15
2/3. If the denominator is doubled and the b. 20
numerator is increased by 2, the value becomes c. 18
3/5. Find the original fraction. d. 12
a. 4/5 241. A boat travels a certain distance
b. ¾ downstream in 2
c. 5/6 hrs. on its return trip the same distance is
d. 4/7 covered
236. 3M/2N =125, what is the value of N in in 5 hours. If the speed of the current is 6 mph,
terms of what is the speed of the boat in still water?
M? a. 14 mph
a. 12 M b. 13 mph
b. 8 M c. 12 mph
c. 4 M d. 15 mph
d. M/4 242. What is the volume of the cylindrical tank
237. The square of the positive integer y is how with
much the flat ends, if the inside diameter is one meter
greater than the square of the integer and height is 2 m?
immediately preceding it. a. π/2
a. (y+4) 2 b. 2 π
b. 2y-1 c. Π
c. 2y+1 d. π/4
d. y2 + 1 243. if the lengths of the sides of the triangle
238. A crate of apples contain one bruised apple sail are
for 5m, 8m and 11m. find the area of the sail.
every 30 apples in a crate if 3 out of every 4 a. 18.33
bruised apples are considered unsaleable, there b. 19.75
are 12 unsaleable apples in a crate, how many c. 18.66
apples are there in a crate? d. 19.50
a. 270
244. Three years ago Juan was 1/5 as old as his followed 5 hrs later by a car which runs 60 kph.
father. In
Six years from now he will be 1/3 as old as his how many hours will the car overtake the
father. How old is Juan now? motorcycle?
a. 11 yrs. Old a. 10 hrs
b. 15 yrs. Old b. 5 hrs
c. 12 yrs. Old c. 12 hrs
d. 10 yrs. Old d. 15 hrs
245. Going against the wind, the plane can
travel 5/8 251. Points A and B 1000m apart are plotted on
of the distance it can travel in one hour if it is a
going with the wind. If the plane can fly 300 straight highway running east and west. From A,
mph the bearing of a tower C is 320 W of N and from
in calm wind, what is the velocity of the wind? B
a. 69 4/13 mph the bearing of C is 260 N of E. Approximate the
b. 71 mph shortest distance of tower C to the highway.
c. 73 mph a. 364 m
d. 50 mph b. 374 m
246. An office has 60 employees. If 4 out of c. 384 m
every 5 d. 394 m
employees are married, how many married 252. If cos 650 + cos 550 = cos Ɵ, find Ɵ in
employees are there? radians
a. 20 a. 0.765
b. 48 b. 0.087
c. 24 c. 1.213
d. 40 d. 1.421
247. Find the area of a regular hexagonal with 253. In how many ways can 6 distinct books be
perimeter 12 arranged in a bookshelf?
a. 14.70 a. 720
b. 10.39 b. 120
c. 5.6 c. 360
d. 9.25 d. 180
248. In the numeral 4, 7, 3, 8 , the digit 7 254. Roll a pair of dice. What is the probability
means? that the
a. 700 sum of two numbers is 11?
b. 7 a. 1/36
c. 7000 b. 1/9
d. 70 c. 1/18
249. The surface area of a cube is 96 sq.m. how d. 1/20
many 255. The formula for change of centigrade
cu.cm. are there in a cube? reading to
a. 96 Fahrenheit reading is?
b. 32 a. 0F= 5/9 0C + 32
c. 64 b. 0F= 9/5 0C -32
c. 0F= 9/5 0C +32
d. 0F= 5/9 0C -32
250. A man riding on a motorcycle runs 40 256. Two trains start from the same station and
km/r., is runs in
opposite directions. One runs at a uniform rate
33
kph while the other at 35 kph. In how many
hours
will they be 195 km apart?
a. 4 hrs
b. 2 ½ hrs
c. 3 hrs
d. 3 ½ hrs
257. In a class of 40 students, 27 like Calculus
and 25
like chemistry. How many like both Calculus and
Chemistry?
a. 20
b. 10
c. 17
d. 12