CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION REVIEW 2022 – MATHEMATICS PRE-TEST

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1.) The value of 5 in the number 357.21 is

A. 5 tenths C. 5 tens 18.) 36 is 4/7 of what number?
B. 5 ones D. 5 hundreds A. 72 B. 81 C. 64 D. 80 E. 63
19.) Which of the following is the most appropriate unit
2.) 3 4/5 expressed as a decimal is for expressing the weight of a pencil?
A. 3.4 B. 3.45 C. 3.5 D. 3.8 A. pounds C. quarts
B. ounces D. pints
3.) Which of the following is the greatest
common factor of 18, 24 and 36? 20.) If two apples cost 25 pesos, how many apples can
A. 6 B. 18 C. 36 D. 72 be purchased for 100 pesos?
A. 1/4 dozen C. 1/3 dozen
4.) What is the average of 0.6 , 6.6 , 0.4 , and 2.4 ? B. 1/2 dozen D. 2/3 dozen
A. 1 C. 2 ½ E. 12
B. 10 D. 2 21.) Which of the following is the best estimate for
4,286 × 390?
5.) 20 % of 2 is equal to  A. 12,000,000 C. 1,200,000
A. 0.2  B. 0.02 C. 0.4  D. 0.04 B. 1,600,000 D. 16,000

6.) 3x - 4(x + 6) =_______ 22.) Which of these fractions is equal to ¾?

A. x + 6 C. 7x + 6 A. 15/16 C. 21/28
B. -x - 24 D. -7x – 24 B. 9/16 D. 12/20 E. 21.32

7.) What is the average of A, B, C? 23.) During a semester, a student received scores of
A. ABC/3 C. 3(A+B+C) 76, 80, 83, 71, 80, and 78 on six tests. What is the
B. (A+B+C)/3 D.ABC/A+B+C student's average score for these six tests?
A. 76 C. 78
8.) Which of the following is NOT a prime number? B. 77 D. 79
A. 11 B. 21 C. 31 D. 41
24.) A man bought a shirt at a sale.  He saves P30 on
9.) If  -2 < -½x < 4 ,  then the normal price when he paid P120 for the shirt. What
A. 4 > x < -8 C. 4 < x < -8  was the percentage discount on the shirt?
B. 4 < x > -8  D. 4 > x > -8 A. 20 B. 25 C. 33 1/3 D. 80

10.) Which of the following represents 25.) If an increase of 20% will change the price of an
numbers between -3 and 6 ? item to P480, what is the original price of the item?
A. {x : -3 > x > 6} C. {x: -3 < x < 6} A. P384 B. P400 C. P432 D. P576
B. {x: -3 ≥ x ≥ 6} D. {x: -3 ≤ x ≤ 6}
26.) Profits in the partnership of Bess, Bill and Bob are
11.) The expression –105 + (–14) + 34 simplifies to shared in the ratio 1 : 2 : 3.  If Bill's share of the
which of the following? profits is P300, what is Bob's share?
A. –57 C. –85 A. P150 B.P 450 C. P600 D. P900
B. –75 D. 143 E. 153
27.) Rob uses 1 box of cat food every 5 days to feed
12.) If   3(4 - x)  ≤ 4x + 5, then his cats. Approximately how many boxes of cat food
A. x ≤ 1 B. x ≥ 1 C. x ≥ 6 D. x ≤ 6 does he use per month?
A. 2 boxes C. 5 boxes E. 7 boxes
13.) The expansion of  (x−2)2 is _______. B. 4 boxes D. 6 boxes
2
A. x  – 4 C. x 2 + 4x - 4
2
28.) Items bought by a trader for P80 are sold for
B. x   + 4 D. x 2  - 4x + 4 P100. The profit expressed as a percentage of cost
price is
14.) 3.54 is multiplied by 10 to the fifth power, what A. 2.5% B. 20% C. 25% D. 50%
should be the value?
A. 3,054 C. 305.40 For items 29-31, refer to the information below:
B. 30.54 D. 354,000 The table shows the time, in minutes, taken by 35
students to solve a problem.
15.) The number 0.0417 in scientific notation is Time
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A. 4.17 x 10−4 C. 4.17 x 10−2 (min)
−3 −1
B. 4.17 x 10 D. 4.17 x 10 Students 1 10 4 0 2 7 0 5 6
16.) What is the value of  u  in the sequence
29.) The range of the time, in minutes, taken is
2 , 7 , 14 , 23 , 34 , u ?
A. 1 B. 5 C. 8 D. 9
A. 45 B. 46 C. 47 D. 53
30.) The modal time, in minutes, is
17.) What is the value of a in the statement 3ab = 15
A. 2 B. 5 C. 9 D. 10
if b = 5?
A. 3 B. 1 C. 2 D. 5

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31.) What is the probability that a student chosen among 27 students, how many stickers will each
at random took 3 minutes or less to solve the student receive?
problem? A. 6 stickers C. 54 stickers
A. 2/7 B. 3/7 C. 4/7 D. 4/35 B. 9 stickers D. 81 stickers
32.) What is the simple interest earned on E. 162 stickers
P10 000 invested for 3 months at a rate of 5% per 42.) The figure, not drawn to scale, shows a triangle
annum? of height 4 cm cut from a shaded square of sides 5
A. P10 B. P125 C. P500 D. P1500 cm. What is the area, in cm2 of the remaining shaded
region of the square? 
33.) A man's regular pay is P3 per hour up to 40
hours.  Overtime is twice the payment for regular
time. If he was paid P168, how many hours overtime
did he work?
A. 8 B. 16 C. 24 D. 48

34.) The perimeter of a rectangle is 26 cm.  The

rectangle is converted to a square by tripling the width
and taking a quarter of the length.  What is the A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20
perimeter of the resulting square?
A. 9 cm B. 12 cm C. 20 cm D. 26 cm 43.) Liliana has a bag of marbles. The bag contains 18
black, 15 red, 11 blue, and 8 white marbles. Liliana
35.) Last week Mario walked 73/4 miles. This week he randomly takes a red marble from the bag and leaves
walked 155/6 miles. What is the difference between the marble on a table. What is the probability that she
the distance he walked this week and the distance he will next take a red or a white marble from the bag?
walked last week? A. 112/ 2601 C. 11/ 26
A. 8 miles C. 81/3 miles B. 2/17 D. 22 51
B. 81/12 miles D. 9 miles E. 91/12 miles E. 23/52

Items 36 - 38 refer to the pie chart which shows the 44.) A school committee consists of 2 teachers and 4
time a student spends on various activities over a 30 students. The number of different committees that can
hour period. be formed from 5 teachers and 10 students is 
A. 10  B. 15  C. 2100  D. 100800

45.) Kerri ran the same distance in four different

races. Her times were 18.04 seconds, 21.39 seconds,
12.99 seconds, and 14.14 seconds. If the individual
times are rounded to the nearest tenth of a second,
what is the estimate of Kerri's total time for all four
races?
A. 66.6 sec. C. 66 sec.
B. 66.5 sec. D. 65.5 sec. E.61.56 s

46.) Twelve employees can work on a task in eight

days. How many employees can be assigned to work
on the task if it must be completed in six days?
36.) What is the angle on the pie chart that represents A.32 C.9 B.16 D.18 E.10
the time spent on Science?
A. 18o B. 54o C. 72o D. 108o 47.) Five different books (A, B, C, D and E) are to be
arranged on a shelf. Books C and D are to be arranged
37.) How many hours does the student spend on first and second starting from the right of the shelf.
Sports, Science and Math combined? The number of different orders in which books A, B and
A. 4.5 B. 6 C. 9 D. 15 E may be arranged is 
A. 5!  B. 3!  C. 2!  D. 3! * 2!
38.) What is the probability that the student is
doing Languages or Computer Studies? 48.) If M is greater than N, N is greater than O, O is
A. 0.06 B. 0.2 C. 0.3 D. 0.5 equal to P, and P is greater than Q, which of the
following represents the largest value?
39.) A school district is proposing a 5% increase in the A. M B. M C. M D. N E. P
number of days in a school year. Currently there are N P Q P Q
180 days in a school year. How long would a school
year be with the proposed increase? 49.) A storekeeper bought three grades of pencils at
A. 181 days C. 185 days $2.00, $3.00, and $4.00 a dozen respectively. If he
B. 183 days D. 189 days E. 270 days paid a total of $72 for them, and bought the same
number of each grade, how many pencils did he buy?
40.) 2/6 < < 6/8 A. 306 C. 290
Which of the following values when entered in the box B. 288 D. 300 E. none of these
will satisfy the statement above?
A. 1/4 C. 1/2 50.) Keiko spent the day bird watching and counted 34
B. 1/3 D. ¾ E. 9/10 more birds in the morning than in the afternoon. If
she counted a total of 76 birds, how many birds did
41.) A teacher has three packages of stickers. One she count in the afternoon?
package contains 56 stickers, another package A. 21 birds C. 42 birds
contains 48 stickers, and the third package contains 58 B. 40 birds D. 55 birds E. 110 birds
stickers. If the teacher divides all the stickers equally

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