PRELIM QUIZ

1. Find the area of a regular octagon of side 36 cm.

Area=2 a (1+ √ 2)
2

Area=2(36) (1+ √ 2)
2

Area=6257.64 cm

2. The bases of a trapezoid have lengths of 7.6 cm and 2.9 cm, and its altitude is 4 cm.
Compute the area in cm^2.

3. If a, b, 27 form a geometric progression and 6, a, b form an arithmetic progression, what

is the value of a + b?

4. If Aaron can do his chores in ¾ of an hour, and if Miriam and Aaron together can do
them in ½ of an hour, how long will it take Miriam to do it alone in minutes?

5. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is
now. How old is Ann now

6. Find the ratio of the volume of a regular hexahedron (cube) to its surface area one of its
sides measures 24 cm.

7. A rectangular pyramid has base dimensions 10 cm by 6 cm and an altitude 18 cm. Find

the volume of the pyramid.
8. Determine which quadrant does the terminal side of the angle for cos θ > 0 and csc θ < 0

9. The supplement of an angle is thrice its complement. Determine the angle. Hint:
Supplementary whose sum of 2 angles is 180 degrees while complementary whose sum
of 2 angles is 90 degrees.

10. A flagpole and a tower stand 36 meters apart on a horizontal plane. A person standing
successively at their bases observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is
twice that of the pole, but at a point midway between their bases the angles are
complementary. Find the height of the tower.
11. The third term of an arithmetic progression is -7 and the eight term is 23. Find the sum
of the first twelve terms

12. The ten’s digit of a number is 3 less than the unit’s digit. If the number is divided by the
sum of the digits, the quotient is 4 and the remainder is 3. What is the original number?

13. A square lot 1.5 kilometer on each side is divided into five equal parts. The parts consist
of four equal right triangles and a square at the center of the lot. What is the dimension
of the smaller square in meters?

14. A circular lake is located at a certain barangay in Tagaytay. An existing road runs
tangential to a circular lake. Twelve kilometers from the point of tangency, along the
existing road, a new road of 7 km length is constructed to the periphery of the lake at B.
The new road is extended to cross the lake. Compute the length of the bridge needed to
cross the lake.
15. Quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a 35-cm-diameter circle with side AB as a diameter.
Angle ACD is 30⁰ and CDB is 20⁰. Determine the length of side BC.

16. The angle of elevation of the top of a mountain is 29⁰. At another point 100 m closer,
the angle of elevation then becomes 36⁰. Find the height of the mountain.

17. The voltage E in an electrical circuit is modeled by 𝐸 = 5 cos(120𝜋 𝑡 + 3𝜋)+ 2 where t is

time measured in seconds. How many cycles are completed in 1 sec? Hint: Other
keyword, find the frequency.

18. A solid has a circular base 40 cm in diameter. Find the volume of the solid if every plane
section perpendicular to a certain diameter is an isosceles right triangle with one leg in
the plane of the base.

19. A rectangular prism of metal having dimensions 4.3 cm x 7.2 cm x 12.4 cm is melted
down and recast into a frustum of a square pyramid, 14% of the metal being lost in the
process. If the ends of the frustum are squares of the sides 3 cm and 8 cm, respectively,
find the thickness of the frustum in cm.
20. A sphere having a volume of 4000 cm^3 is cut by plane 4 cm from the center. What is
the volume of smaller segment cut by the plane in cm^3?
 PRELIM EXAM

1. Inlet pipes A and B can fill a tank in 6 hours, if the rate of pipe A is twice that of pipe B, find the
time of pipe B to fill the tank alone

2. In a company of CE, ME and EE, the sum of all their ages is 2160 and their average age is 36. The
average age of CE and ME is 39, of CE and EE is 110/3, and of EE and ME is 360/11. If the ages of
CE is increased by 1, of ME is increased by 6 and of EE is increased by 7, the average of all their
ages is increased by 5. How many CE are there?
3. Given four numbers such that the sum of the first, second, and third exceeds the fourth by 6,
the sum of the squares of third and fourth exceeds the sum of the squares of first and second by
36, the sum of the product of first and second to the product of third and fourth is 42, and the
cube of the fourth equals the sum of the cubes of the other numbers. What is the average of the
four numbers?
4. What is the sum of the infinite geometric progression 24, 18, 13. 5,…?

5. Joseph is 5 years older than Judah and 10 years younger than Simeon. In 8 years, their combined
ages will be 65. How old is Joseph?

6. Given the side b = 91, c = 62 and angle B = 101 degrees. Determine how many possible triangles
can be formed.
7. A tree stands on a horizontal plane. Find the height of the tree if the angle of elevation of its top
changes from 20° to 40° when the observer moves 90 feet to its base.

8. From the third floor of a tall building, the angle of depression of an object on the ground is
35°58’, while from the sixth floor window, 9.75 m above the first point. Of observation, the
angle of depression of the same object is 58°35’. Find the distance of the object from the
building

9. Two flies flew at the same time from the same point in different directions. One fly flew at 0.7
m/s and the other fly at 0.5 m/s. If the angle between their paths is 85°, find their distance after
2.5 seconds

10. In order to measure the height of a flagpole, an instrument is setup at A and the angle of
elevation to the top of the flagpole was measured as 27.5°. The instrument is then setup at B,
which is 56.3 m closer to the flagpole and on the same vertical plane as point A and the flagpole,
and measured the angle of elevation as 62.3°. What is the height of the flagpole?
11. Given a triangle ABC with points D, E and F as midpoints of sides AC, AB and BC, respectively. If
AB = 10 cm, AC = 18 cm and BC = 22 cm, what is the perimeter of BEDF?

12. The side of a triangle ABC are a = 38 cm, b= 22 cm, and c = 32 cm. Calculate the radius of the
circle tangent to side b and escribed about the given triangle.

13. In triangle ABC, c = 150 cm, angle C = 70⁰, and angle A = 45⁰. Determine the length of the
median drawn from the vertex A to the side “a”.
14. Given an equilateral triangle ABC. A point O inside the triangle is 6 m from A, 8 m B, and 10 m
from C. what is the area of the triangle?

15. Quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a 35-cm-diameter circle with side AB as a diameter. Angle ACD
is 30⁰ and CDB is 20⁰. Determine the length of side BC.
16. The top and bottom of a water reservoir are rectangular in shape with dimensions 12 m x 30 m
and 8 m x 20 m, respectively. If the reservoir is 5 m deep, determine its capacity in liters

17. A solid spherical steel ball of radius 6 cm is placed inside a 20 – cm diameter cylinder containing
15 cm deep of water. How deep is the water in the cylinder after immersion?

18. A loudspeaker diaphragm is in the form of a frustum of a cone. If the end diameters are 28.0 cm
and 6.00 cm and the vertical distance between the ends is 30.0 cm, find the area of material
needed to cover the curved surface of the speaker.
19. A cone was formed by rolling a thin sheet of metal in the form of a sector of a circle 75 cm in
diameter with a central angle 40, Find the radius of the cone in mm.

20. The volume of the cone varies jointly as its height and the square of its radius. If the volume of a
cone is 75𝜋 cm3 when the radius is 5 cm and the length is 9 cm, find the volume of a cone when
the radius is 6 cm and the height is 6 cm.