ALGEBRA

1. Find the LCM of the numbers 15, 21, 36.

a. 1260 b. 924 c.315 d. 3610
2. What is the GCF of 27, 81, and 108?
a. 27 b. 324 c.81 d. 3
3. What is 1978th digit to the right of the decimal point of 2012/9999?
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 9
4. If 3 =72, then x =
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
5. Find the inverse of y=x - 5.
a. y = X+5 b. y = x-5 c. y= (x-5) d. y=(x-5)
6. Find the remainder if we divide (4y + 18y + 8y – 4) by (2y + 3).
a. 10 b. 11 c. 15 d. 13
7. Find the value of k for which x+4 is a factor of x + 2x - 7x + k = 0
a. 7 b. 4 c. 5 d.3
8. Solve for the values of x, y and z in the following equations: xy= -8; zy= -2; zx=4
a. x= -4, y= 2, z= -1 c. x=2, y= 2, z= 4
b. x= 1, y=2, z=4 d. x= 4, y= 1, z= 2
9. If 3a= 7b, then 3a / 7b is equal to :
a. 1 b.3/7 c. 7/3 d. 49/9
10. If thrice the smaller number exceeds the larger by 12. Find the larger number if the two numbers
are consecutive odd integers.
a. 7 b. 11 c. 9 d. 8
11. The sum of the three consecutive even integers is 78. What is the smallest of the three integers?
a. 24 b. 28 c. 32 d. 30
12. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both
terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original fraction.
a. 8/5 b. 5/13 c. 3/5 d. 13/5
13. Rationalize: (4+3i) / (2-i).
a. 1 + 2i b. 1 – 2i c. 2 + 2i d. 2+i
14. In the equation 3x2 + (m+1) x + 24 = 0, find m if one root is twice the other.
a. -19, 17 b. -12, 18 c. 19, -17 d. 12, -18
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15. The equation (2k + 2) x + (4 – 4k) x + k – 2 = 0 has roots, which are reciprocals of each other. Find
the value of k.
a. 2 b. -2 c. -4 d. 3
16. Find the equation whose roots are numerically equal but opposite in sign to the roots of the
equation x + 7x + 11x + 5 = 0
a. x - 7x + 11x – 5 = 0 c. x + 7x + 11x – 5 = 0
b. x + 7x - 11x + 5 = 0 d. x - 7x - 11x + 5 = 0
17. From the equation 7x + (2k – 1) x – 3k + 2 = 0, determine the value of k so that the sum and
product of the roots are equal.
a. 2 b. 4 c. 1 d. 3
18. Find the sum of the roots of 5x - 10x + 2 = 0?
a. -1/2 b. -2 c. 2 d.1/2
19. Two students solve a quadratic equation in x. One student made a mistake in the coefficient of the
linear term and found the roots to be 1 and 2, while the other, made a mistake in the constant term and
found the roots to be -1 and 2. What was the correct quadratic equation?
a. x - x – 2 = 0 b. x + x -1=0 c. x -x – 1=0 d. x - x + 2 = 0
20. The Roman Numerals MCMLXXXIV is equivalent to
a. 1, 974 b. 1, 984 c. 1,934 d. 1,994
21. What is the discriminant of the equation 4x + x + 6 = 0
a. 96 b. 95 c. -96 d. -95
22. If y varies directly as x and inversely as z, and y=5 when x=2 and z=4, find y when x=3 and z=6
a. 2 b. 3 c. 5 d. 6
23. A certain number when divided by 222 leaves a remainder 35, another number when divided by 407
leaves a remainder 47. What is the remainder when the sum of these two numbers is divided by 37? A
a) 8 B. 9 C. 12 D. 17
24. Distance between two stations A and B is 778km. A train covers the journey from A to B at 84km per
hour and returns back to A with a uniform speed of 56km per hour. Find the average speed of train
during the whole journey. D
A. 60 km/hr B. 30.5 km/hr C. 57 km/hr D. 67.2 km/hr
25. In an acoustics class, 120 students are male and 100 students are female. 25% of the male
students and 20% of the female students are engineering students. 20% of the male engineering
students and 25% of the female engineering students passed the final exam. What percentage of
engineering students passed the exam? D
A. 5% B. 10% C. 16% D. 22%
26. The milk and water in two vessels A and B are in the ratio 4:3 and 2:3 respectively. In what ratio the
liquids in both the vessels be mixed to obtain a new mixture in vessel c consisting half milk and half
water? B
A. 8:3 B. 7:5 C. 4:3 D. 2:3
27. The age of Mr. Chetan in 2002 was 1/90 of his birth year. What is his age in 2006? C
A. 30 B. 28 C. 26 D. 22
28. Mary was 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana was when Mary was as old as Ana now. How
old is Ana?
A. 18 B. 16 C.15 D.12
29. A and B can do a piece of work in 45 days and 40 days respectively. They began to do the work
together but A leaves after some days and then B completed the remaining work in 23 days. The
number of days after which A left the work was (D)
A. 12 B. 11 C. 10 D. 9
30.. Two pipes can fill a tank in 20 and 24 minutes respectively and a waste pipe can empty 3 gallons
per minute. All the three pipes working together can fill the tank in 15 minutes. The capacity of the tank
in gallons is ?
A. 100 B. 110 C. 120 D. 140
31. 39 persons can repair a road in 12 days, working 5 hours a day. In how many days will 30 persons,
working 6 hours a day, complete the work? B
A. 10 B. 13 C. 14 D. 15
32. A train covers a distance in 50 min, if it runs at a speed of 48kmph on an average. The speed at
which the train must run to reduce the time of journey to 40min will be. B
A. 45 kmph B. 60 kmph C. 75 kmph D. None of these
33.. Two stations A and B are 110 km apart on a straight line. One train starts from A at 7 am and travel
towards B at 20 km/hr speed. Another train starts from B at 8 am and travel towards A at 25 km/hr
speed. At what time will they meet? B
A. 9 am B. 10 am C. 11 am D. None of these
34. A motorboat whose speed is 15 km/hr in still water goes 30km downstream and comes back in four
and a half hours. The speed of the stream is: D
A. 4.5 km/hr B. 6 km/hr C. 7 km/hr D. 5km/hr
35. How many terms in the progression 3,5,7... Must be in order that their sum will be 2600?
A. 49 B. 50 C. 48 D. 47
36. In a pile of logs, each layers contains one more log than the layer above and the top contains just
one log. If there are 105 logs in the pile, how many layers are there?
A. 14 B.12 C.10 D.8
37. The sum of the three numbers in AP is 33, if the sum of their squares is 461, find the numbers.
A. 4,11,18 B. 3,10,28 C. 5,12,16 D. 6,10 17
38. Find a positive value of x so that 4x, 5x+4 and 3x2-1 will be in AP.
A. 2 B. 4 C. 3 D. 5
39. If the 5 term in AP is 17 and the 3 term is 10, what is the 8th term?
th rd

A. 27.5 B. 36 C. 28 D. 24.5
40. The arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers are added to the progression, the new set
of number will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What are the two numbers if their difference is 4?
A. 21, 25 B. 23, 27 C. 24, 28 D. 22, 26
41. There are 4 geometric means between 3 and 729. Find the fourth term of the geometric
progression.
A. 81 B. 64 C. 234 D. 156
42. A certain ball when dropped from a height rebounds 2/3 of the distance from which it last fell. Find
the total distance traveled by the ball from the the tome it is dropped from a height of 60 meters until it
strikes the ground the 5th time.
A. 252.59 B. 249.1 C. 259.51 d. 261.32
43. The sides of a square is 16 cm long. A second square is inscribed by joining the midpoints of the
sides of the second square and so on. Find the sum of the areas of the infinite numbers of inscribed
square thus formed.
A. 72 B. 36 C. 144 D. 216
44. Two turtles A and B start at the same time towards each other at a distance of 150 m. The rate of A
is 10 m/sec. While that of B is 20 m/sec. A fly flies from one turtlr to another a the same time that the
turtle starts to move towards each other. The speed of the fly is 100m/sec. Find the total distance
traveled by the fly until the turtles meet.
A. 650 m B. 600 m C. 750 m D. 700 m
45.At how many minutes after 3 pm will the hands of the clock
i. be together for the first time.
ii. Opposite each other for the first time
iii. Perpendicular to each other for the first time

46. What is the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of (x+y-z)8.

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
47. Find the sum of the exponents in the expansion of (x3 + y2)4.
48. Find the coefficient of the expansion of (x-y)15 containing the term x4y11
A. -1365 B. -1275 C. -1465 D. -1165