9ACET 2015 – Set A9

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 finish the B. 7 km
same job twice as fast as Albert. Working together, how C. 8 km
long would it take Albert and Johnny to finish the same job? D. 6 km
A. 2 hours
B. 3 hours 327. In Mr. Bernardo’s class, there are 8 more girls than boys. If
C. 4 hours the ratio of boys to girls in his class is 4:5, how many girls
D. 5 hours are there?
A. 28
322. Mr. Richards, a businessman, invested P dollars at r% per B. 32
annum simple interest. After t years, Mr. Richards got back C. 36
three times his original investment. Express t in terms of P D. 40
and r.
A. 2/r 328. In a 200-m race, Andrew beats Benzie by 8 seconds. On the
B. 3P/r contrary, if Andrew would give Benzie a head start of 32
C. 2P/r meters, then they would finish the race at the same time.
D. 200/r How long does Andrew take to run the 200-meter race?
A. 30 seconds
323. My mother buys a refrigerator that regularly sells for B. 42 seconds
P12,000 tax excluded at a 15% discount. If the sales tax is C. 50 seconds
3%, how much does my mother pay for the refrigerator? D. 58 seconds
A. P9,986
B. P9,892 329. The price of a calculator in a certain store is subjected to
C. P10,506 two successive discounts of 20% and 10%. If the regular
D. P10,954 price of the calculator is P1,200, how much would the
discount be?
324. Twelve years ago, the sum of the ages of X and Y is 56 A. P288
years. What will be the sum of their ages in 5 years? B. P336
A. 73 years C. P398
B. 78 years D. P405
C. 88 years
D. 90 years 330. In a certain school, there are 240 boys and 360 girls. If 40%
of the boys have blonde hair and 60% of the girls have
325. A road map has a scale of 1 cm : 25 km. How long is a blonde hair, what percentage of the students has blonde
1200-km road on the map? hair?
A. 48 cm A. 48%
B. 45 cm B. 52%
C. 42 cm C. 64%
D. 38 cm D. 68%

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 of 4 kph. If the total
travel time is 3 hours and the distance from A to C is 10 km,
what is the distance between A and B?
A. 5 km
331. A father and his son are painting a house. The son could
paint the whole house alone in 12 hours. The father could
paint the whole house alone in 8 hours. The father starts
painting at 8 a.m. and his son joins him at 10 a.m. At what
time will they finish painting the house?

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A. 1:36 p.m.
B. 2:00 p.m. 337. Three pairs of pants and 5 shirts cost P1,250, while a pair of
C. 2:20 p.m. pants and 3 shirts cost P550. What is the cost of 2 pairs of
D. 3:36 p.m. pants and 4 shirts?
A. P1,800
332. Tickets in a certain movie house cost P200.00 each. Senior B. P1,550
citizens receive 20% discount. One day, the movie house C. P1,000
sold 100 tickets and collected a total of P19,200.00. How D. P900
many senior citizens went to the movie house that day?
A. 10 338. The sum of two numbers is 9 and the difference of their
B. 15 squares is 45. Find the difference between them.
C. 20 A. 5
D. 30 B. 9
C. 24
333. A coin purse contains 24 coins in 5-centavo, 10-centavo, D. 36
and 1-peso coins. There are twice as many 10-centavo coins
as 5-centavo coins. The total value of the coins is P10.25. 339. A man invested $15,000 at 8% simple interest. How much
How many 1-peso coins are there? should he invest at 6% simple interest to earn the same
A. 6 interest as the first investment?
B. 8 A. $16,000
C. 9 B. $20,000
D. 10 C. $24,000
D. $25,000
334. The average of ten scores is 50. The average increases by 2
when two new scores are added to the first ten scores. What 340. A man invests $1,000 at 20% compounded semi-annually.
is the average of the two new scores? After how many years will his money earn $210?
A. 40 A. 1 year
B. 50 B. 1.5 years
C. 52 C. 2 years
D. 62 D. 2.5 years

335. Jerry, a furniture merchandiser, earns P8,000 a month plus a 341. Fifty kilograms of rice is enough for ten workers for 20
5% commission on his furniture sales in a month. Jerry days. In how many days can 50 kg of rice last if five
earns P12,400 this month. What is his total furniture sales workers added to the group?
this month? A. 30
A. P64,000 B. 25
B. P72,000 C. 20 1/3
C. P88,000 D. 13 1/3
D. P120,000 342. A box is formed from a sheet of rectangular cardboard 20
inches by 12 inches by cutting a 2-inch square from each
336. A bus traveling at 60 kph passes a gasoline station at 1 pm. corner and folding up the sides. Find the volume of the box.
A car traveling at 96 kph and following the same route as A. 180 in3
the bus passes the same gasoline station at 2 pm. At what B. 360 in3
time will the car catch up with the bus? C. 128 in3
A. 2:45 pm D. 256 in3
B. 3:00 pm
C. 3:30 pm 343. Worker A can lift 10 boxes in 5 minutes. Worker A and
D. 3:40 pm worker B together can lift 10 boxes in 2 minutes. How
many boxes can worker B lift in 4 minutes?
A. 3
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B. 6
C. 9 345. Andrew can paint a wall in 4 hours. If Vince would help
D. 12 him, together they can do the job in just 3 hours. How long
would it take Vince to finish the job alone?
344. In a certain class, the number of boys to girls is in the ratio A. 6 hours
3:5. How many students are there in the class if the number B. 8 hours
of girls is six less than twice the number of boys? C. 9 hours
A. 48 D. 12 hours
B. 36
C. 30
D. 18

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