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1. What number is of the way from −41 and 8?

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2. What number is midway between−63 and 41 ?
3. What is the sum of the first 40 positive even numbers?
4. What is the sum of the first 40 positive odd numbers?
5. By how much is the product of −7 and −9 less than 100?
6. How many positive integers less than 500 are all divisible by 2 , 3 , 4and 5?
7. Between what two consecutive integers can you find 4 √ 3 ?
8. How many multiples of 6 are there between 250 and 400 ?
9. What is the average of all the multiples of 7 from 1 to 300 ?
10.The average of 7 numbers is 17. The average of 4 of the numbers is 14 . What is the average of
the other 3 numbers?
11.How many days will it take the monkey to climb a cliff 50 ft high if it climbs 5 ft at day and slides
2 ft at night?
12.After a 25 % discount, a certain item was sold at ₱ 500 . What was the original price of the item?
13.What is the total number of divisors of 72 ?
14.The product of four consecutive positive integers is 3 , 024 . What is the largest integer?
15.The 7 th and 21 st terms of an arithmetic sequence are −4 and 112 respectively. What is the
common difference?
16.What is the measure of the exterior angle of a regular nonagon?
17.The measure of the exterior angle of a regular polygon is 18 °. How many sides does the polygon
have?
18.What is the 101 st term of the sequence 5.5 , 6.0 ,6.5 , 7.0 , …?
19.What is the maximum number of points at which 10 lines can intersect?
20.If y varies inversely as x and y=16 when x=4, find x when y=64 ?
21.What is the remainder when 5 x 3+ 4 x−3 is divided by x +2?
22.What is the equation of the line passing through the points ( 4 ,−1 ) and ( 2 ,−3 ) ?
23.What is the area of a triangle whose vertices have coordinates ( 1 ,2 ) , ( 2 ,3 ) and (−6 ,−2 ) ?
24.What is the sum of the roots of the quadratic equation 3 x 2−4 x +5=0 ?
25.Two 7 by 7 squares overlap, forming a 7 by 11 rectangle. What is the area of the region in which
the two squares overlap?
26.A polygon with 19 sides.
27.How far from the origin is the point ( 3 , 4 ) ?
28.5 points are on the coordinate of plane, no three of which are collinear. How many polygons can
be drawn with these points as vertices? [16]
29.In a class of 40 students, 20 have brothers, 15 have sisters, and 5 have both brothers and
sisters. How many students in the class are single child in the family? [10]
30.If x is 10% of y, and y is 40% of z, then z is how many percent of x? [2500%]
31.What is the y-intercept of 2x + 3y = 5. Answer: 5/3
32.How many degrees are there in 1 1/5 revolutions?Answer: 432 degrees
33.What is the vertex of the parabola y = x^2 + 2x + 3?
Answer: (-1,2)
34.How many multiples of 3 are there between 5 and 200? Answer: 65
35.What is the sum of all multiples of 4 between 10 and 30? [100]
36.In rolling a pair of dice, what is the probability of getting a sum of 5? [1/9]
37.If 5 arithmetic means are inserted between -15 and 9, what is the largest of such means? [5]
38.Factor completely the expression  . [x(x+1)(2x+3)]
39.If 9^x=10, what is 27^{2x}? [1000]
40.The first term of a geometric sequence is 32, and its common ratio is 2. What is the 5th term?
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41.A committee of 4 is to be formed from a group of 5 men and 3 women. In how many ways can
this be done if the committee must have at least 1 woman? [ 65]
42.Find the 12th term of an arithmetic series whose first term is 8 and third term is 2.
43.Suppose u varies directly as the square root of v. If u=3 when v=4, find u when v=10.
44.What is the area of an equilateral triangle whose side is 8m long?
45.The diagonal of a square is 20 m long. What is its area?
46.The diagonals of a rhombus are 22 cm and 36 cm respectively, find its area.
47.Find the height of a trapezoid if the sum of its bases is 52 cm and its area is 338 cm 2.
48.The surface area of a cube is 96 cm2. How long is its side?
49.How many squares are there in a standard chessboard? Ans. 204 solution: [n(n+1)(2n+1)]/6
50.There are 50 enrolled students in a class. When five girls are absent, there would be twice more
boys than girls. How many boys are enrolled in the class?
51.In an engineering class, if one male student is absent, the number of females will be one third of
the number of males. If the total number of students in the class is 53, how many are males?
52.The ratio of the interior angles of a triangle is 2 :3:5 . What is the measure of the smallest angle?
53.The slope of the points (x ,−2) and (1 , 3) is −5. What is the value of x ?
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54.The slope of the points ( 3 ,−4 ) and (−1 , y ) is . What is the value of y ?
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55.Each of the base angles of an isosceles triangle measures 50 °. If the vertex angle is ( 7 x+ 3 ) ° ,
what is x ?
56.In a quiz, 10 students got 15, 10 got 14 and 5 got 18. What is the average score of the students?

IV. Problem solving.

1. One number is 18 more than three times another number. The difference of the numbers is 54.
Find the numbers.
2. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 10. If the digits are reversed, the number is
increased by 36. What is the original number?
3. Three years ago, Mara’s age was one year more than thrice Clara’s age. Four years from now,
Mara’s age will be 2 years more than twice Clara’s age. How old are they?
4. Rizza’s age is 1 year more than twice Norie’s age. 8years ago, the sum of their ages was equal to
Rizza’s age ten years from now. How old are they now? How old are they last year?
5. One canned juice drink is 15% lemon juice, another is 5% lemon juice. How many liters of each
should be mixed together in order to get 10L that is 10% lemon juice?
6. How many pounds of peanuts at P40.00 per pound should be added to 100 pounds of cashew
nuts at P100.00 per pound if the mixture is to be worth P60.00 per pound?
7. Mr. Honda and Mr. Toyota arranged to meet on the highway connecting their hometowns. Mr.
Ford drives at 45 kph and Mr. Toyota at 35kph. They leave their homes which are 120 km apart
at the same time. In how many hours will they meet?
8. The Ateneo High School swimming pool has two inlet pipes. One pipe can fill the pool in 6 hours,
the other can fill it in 3 hours. The pool has one outlet that can empty the pool in 4 hours. One
day when filling the pool after it as cleaned, the outlet pipe was left open by mistake. How long
will it take to fill the pool?
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9. The sum of two numbers is but their difference is 7. What are the two numbers?
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10. Cynthia’s class number is a two-digit number. The sum of the digits is 12. If the digits are
reversed, the number will be 15 more than twice her class number. What is her class number?
11. Martin was born when Andrew was 2 years old. Ten years from now, the age of Andrew will be
twice the age of Martin three years ago. What are their present ages?
12. Elsa and Maria have been asked to type a report. If they worked together, they can finish the job
in two hours. If Maria works alone for four hours, Elsa can finish the rest of the job alone in 1
hour. How long would it take Maria to type the entire report alone?
13. Mang Isidro received P 70 000 as retirement pay. He invested part of it at 6% annual interest
and the rest at 8 ½ %. After one year, the income from the investment at 8 ½ % interest rate
was P 200 less than twice the income from the other investment. How much did he invest at
each rate?
14. When Johnny bikes with a tail wind, it takes him 1 hour to travel 15 km. He makes the return trip
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against the wind in 1 hours. What is Johnny’s speed on a windless day and what is the speed of
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the wind?
15. How many liters each of a 20% alcohol solution and an 80 % alcohol solution must be mixed to
obtain 15 liters of a 60 % alcohol solution?