SECONDARY 3

SECONDARY 3

MULTIPLE – CHOICE QUESTIONS:

93 −4×72
1. Find the value of .
9×72 −25×4 2

(a) 3 (b) 7 (c) 13 (d) 17 (e) 21

2. Forty-three kids like blue or pink or both blue and pink. Among these
kids, there are 10 more kids who only like pink than those who only
like blue. If there are 7 kids who like both blue and pink, how many
kids only like blue?
(a) 10 (b) 13 (c) 15 (d) 23 (e) 36

3. Three mechanics can fix five cars in exactly ten days. At this same rate,
how many mechanics are needed to fix 10 cars in exactly 5 days?
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 10 (e) 12

4. A 10-cm by 5-cm image is enlarged proportionally to exactly fit a

picture frame with a visible area of 300 𝑐𝑚2 . How many times larger is
the diagonal of the enlarged image compared to the original?
1 √6
(a) (b) √6 (c) 6 (d) (e) 3
6 6

5. If 𝑓(3𝑥 − 7) = 2021𝑥, what is the value of 𝑓(2)?

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2020 (d) 2021 (e) 6063
 1 2 4
6. What is the sum of the geometric sequence − + − ⋯?
3 9 27
1 3 2
(a) (b) (c) 1 (d) (e) 0
5 5 3

7. The perimeters of two similar triangles are 63 𝑐𝑚 and 147 𝑐𝑚. What is
the ratio of the area of the smaller triangle to the area of the larger
triangle?
3 √21 3 9 7
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)
7 7 49 49 3

√5
8. In ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶, ∠𝐶 = 90° and sin 𝐵 = . Determine the value of tan 𝐴.
5

(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3 (e) √5

9. The mean of three numbers is 20 and the mean of another seven

numbers is 30. What is the mean of all these numbers?
(a) 26 (b) 27 (c) 28 (d) 29 (e) 30

10. What is the median of the numbers 𝑥 − 3, 𝑥 + 1, 𝑥 + 2, 𝑥 − 1, and 𝑥 −

9, if their mean is 2?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6 (e) 7
OPEN – ENDED QUESTIONS:

11. How many digits does 1002021 − 1 have when expanded?

12. Determine the value of 𝑥 − 𝑦 if 𝑥 and 𝑦 are positive integers, where

𝑥 > 𝑦 that satisfies the equation √18 − √260 = √𝑥 − √𝑦

13. If a man standing 6 feet away from a 20-foot-tall light post casts a
shadow of length 2 feet, how tall is the man in inches?

14. In five years, Bella will be 13 years older than Amy. If Amy is now
half as old as Bella, what is Amy’s age 5 years ago?

15. If 𝑎 and 𝑏 are the sum and product of the roots of (𝑥 − 3)(𝑥 + 7) +
(𝑥 + 2)(𝑥 − 1) = 0, respectively, what is the value of 𝑎 + 𝑏?

16. Given that the 7th and 21st terms of an arithmetic sequence are 27
and 83, respectively, what is the sum of the first six terms of the
sequence?

17. The area of a right triangle is 4√15 square units. If the ratio of the
lengths of its legs is √15: 3, how long is its hypotenuse?
18. In parallelogram ABCD, ∠𝐵𝐶𝐷 = 110° and ∠𝐴𝐷𝐵 = 30°. If a point E
is chosen on diagonal BD such that 𝐴𝐵 = 𝐴𝐸, determine ∠𝐷𝐴𝐸.

19. A student got an average score of 92 in his five tests with each test
having 100 as the highest possible score. What is the smallest possible
score the student could have gotten in a test?

20. If you randomly arrange all the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4 to form a four-
digit number, what is the probability that the number is divisible by 4?

𝑛+2
21. How many positive integers n will make integer?
𝑛−2

22. A certain liquid mixture is 70% alcohol. Some amount of water was
added to this mixture to make 300 L of new mixture. How many liters
of water was added if the new mixture is 21% alcohol?

23. Find the remainder of 𝑥 2021 − 𝑥 2020 when divided by 𝑥 3 − 𝑥.

24. In a convex quadrilateral ABCD, 𝐴𝐵 = 3, 𝐵𝐶 = 7, 𝐶𝐷 = 20, and 𝐴𝐷 =

21. How many possible integer lengths can diagonal BD have?

25. A box has 3 red balls, 3 orange balls, and 3 yellow balls. If two balls
are picked randomly from the box, one at a time and without
replacement, what is the probability that they have the same color?
26. Find the largest value of 𝑛 such that 6𝑛 divides 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × ⋯ ×
19 × 20 × 21.

27. A cyclist has travelled 60 km for a meeting and arrived one hour
earlier than the agreed meeting time. If she had driven 3 km/h slower,
she would have arrived exactly on time. How fast, in kilometers per
hour, did she drive?

28. If the numbers 𝑥 2 − 42, 𝑥 2 , and 𝑥 2 + 294 form a geometric

progression, what is the value of |𝑥|?

29. In ∆𝐴𝐵𝐶, a point D is chosen on side AB such that 𝐴𝐷 ∶ 𝐷𝐵 = 2 ∶ 3. If

the area of ∆𝐴𝐷𝐶 is 8 square units, what is the area of ∆𝐷𝐵𝐶?

30. In how many ways can you arrange the letters in the word PHIMO
such that all the consonants are in alphabetical order from left to
right?
Answer Key

1. (c) 13 16. 78
2. (b) 13 17. 8
3. (e) 12 18. 40°
4. (b) √6 19. 60
1
5. (e) 6063 20.
4
1
6. (a) 21. 4
5

7. (d)
9 22. 210
49
23. -1
8. (c) 2
24. 5
9. (b) 27
1
10. (a) 3 25.
4

11. 4042 26. 9

12. 8 27. 15

13. 60 28. 7

14. 8 years old 29. 12

15. -14 30. 20