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SECTION 9: NUMERICAL ABILITY NAME: ____________________________

Time -– 25 minutes SCHOOL: _________________________
25 Questions (321 – 345) SIMULATED EXAM – SET A

For each question, decide which is the best answer choice, and darken the corresponding oval on the answer sheet.

321. Albert can finish a job in 6 hours. Johnny can 325. A road map has a scale of 1 cm : 25 km. How
finish the same job twice as fast as Albert. long is a 1200-km road on the map?
Working together, how long would it take Albert A. 48 cm
and Johnny to finish the same job? B. 45 cm
A. 2 hours C. 42 cm
B. 3 hours D. 38 cm
C. 4 hours
D. 5 hours 326. A man walks from A to B at an average speed of
3 kph and then from B to C at an average speed
322. Mr. Richards, a businessman, invested P dollars of 4 kph. If the total travel time is 3 hours and
at r% per annum simple interest. After t years, the distance from A to C is 10 km, what is the
Mr. Richards got back three times his original distance between A and B?
investment. Express t in terms of P and r. A. 5 km
A. 2/r B. 7 km
B. 3P/r C. 8 km
C. 2P/r D. 6 km
D. 200/r
327. In Mr. Bernardo’s class, there are 8 more girls
323. My mother buys a refrigerator that regularly sells than boys. If the ratio of boys to girls in his class
for P12,000 tax excluded at a 15% discount. If is 4:5, how many girls are there?
the sales tax is 3%, how much does my mother A. 28
pay for the refrigerator? B. 32
A. P9,986 C. 36
B. P9,892 D. 40
C. P10,506
D. P10,954 328. In a 200-m race, Andrew beats Benzie by 8
seconds. On the contrary, if Andrew would give
324. Twelve years ago, the sum of the ages of X and Y Benzie a head start of 32 meters, then they
is 56 years. What will be the sum of their ages in would finish the race at the same time. How long
5 years? does Andrew take to run the 200-meter race?
A. 73 years A. 30 seconds
B. 78 years B. 42 seconds
C. 88 years C. 50 seconds
D. 90 years D. 58 seconds

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329. The price of a calculator in a certain store is 333. A coin purse contains 24 coins in 5-centavo, 10-
subjected to two successive discounts of 20% and centavo, and 1-peso coins. There are twice as
10%. If the regular price of the calculator is many 10-centavo coins as 5-centavo coins. The
P1,200, how much would the discount be? total value of the coins is P10.25. How many 1-
A. P288 peso coins are there?
B. P336 A. 6
C. P398 B. 8
D. P405 C. 9
D. 10
330. In a certain school, there are 240 boys and 360
girls. If 40% of the boys have blonde hair and 60% 334. The average of ten scores is 50. The average
of the girls have blonde hair, what percentage of increases by 2 when two new scores are added to
the students has blonde hair? the first ten scores. What is the average of the
A. 48% two new scores?
B. 52% A. 40
C. 64% B. 50
D. 68% C. 52
D. 62
331. A father and his son are painting a house. The
son could paint the whole house alone in 12 335. Jerry, a furniture merchandiser, earns P8,000 a
hours. The father could paint the whole house month plus a 5% commission on his furniture
alone in 8 hours. The father starts painting at 8 sales in a month. Jerry earns P12,400 this month.
a.m. and his son joins him at 10 a.m. At what What is his total furniture sales this month?
time will they finish painting the house? A. P64,000
A. 1:36 p.m. B. P72,000
B. 2:00 p.m. C. P88,000
C. 2:20 p.m. D. P120,000
D. 3:36 p.m.
336. A bus traveling at 60 kph passes a gasoline

332. Tickets in a certain movie house cost P200.00 station at 1 pm. A car traveling at 96 kph and

each. Senior citizens receive 20% discount. One following the same route as the bus passes the

day, the movie house sold 100 tickets and same gasoline station at 2 pm. At what time will

collected a total of P19,200.00. How many senior the car catch up with the bus?

citizens went to the movie house that day? A. 2:45 pm

A. 10 B. 3:00 pm

B. 15 C. 3:30 pm

C. 20 D. 3:40 pm

D. 30

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337. Three pairs of pants and 5 shirts cost P1,250, D. 13 1/3
while a pair of pants and 3 shirts cost P550. What 342. A box is formed from a sheet of rectangular
is the cost of 2 pairs of pants and 4 shirts? cardboard 20 inches by 12 inches by cutting a 2-
A. P1,800 inch square from each corner and folding up the
B. P1,550 sides. Find the volume of the box.
C. P1,000 A. 180 in3
D. P900 B. 360 in3
C. 128 in3
338. The sum of two numbers is 9 and the difference D. 256 in3
of their squares is 45. Find the difference
between them. 343. Worker A can lift 10 boxes in 5 minutes. Worker
A. 5 A and worker B together can lift 10 boxes in 2
B. 9 minutes. How many boxes can worker B lift in 4
C. 24 minutes?
D. 36 A. 3
B. 6
339. A man invested $15,000 at 8% simple interest. C. 9
How much should he invest at 6% simple interest D. 12
to earn the same interest as the first investment?
A. $16,000 344. In a certain class, the number of boys to girls is

B. $20,000 in the ratio 3:5. How many students are there in

C. $24,000 the class if the number of girls is six less than

D. $25,000 twice the number of boys?

A. 48

340. A man invests $1,000 at 20% compounded semi- B. 36

annually. After how many years will his money C. 30

earn $210? D. 18

A. 1 year
B. 1.5 years 345. Andrew can paint a wall in 4 hours. If Vince

C. 2 years would help him, together they can do the job in

D. 2.5 years just 3 hours. How long would it take Vince to

finish the job alone?
341. Fifty kilograms of rice is enough for ten workers A. 6 hours
for 20 days. In how many days can 50 kg of rice B. 8 hours
last if five workers added to the group? C. 9 hours
A. 30 D. 12 hours
B. 25
C. 20 1/3

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