REVIEWER for COLLEGE ENTRANCE TEST

MATHEMATICS SET 1
Name: _________________________________________________ Score: ________________
Instructions: Solve the following problems correctly. Write your final answer with the space
provided.
_______________ 1. If

and

_______________ 2. If

, what is a/b?

) and

), what is A/B ?

_______________ 3. Write 210,000 in scientific notation.

_______________ 4. A room 5.10m by 3.00m is to be tiled by square tiles of side 15cm. How
many tiles are needed?
_______________ 5. Which is bigger, 3/13 or 4/17 ?
_______________ 6. From a 100 cm by 100cm by 60cm block of marble, a pyramid with a
square base of 100cm and a height of 60cm was carved. What is the
volume of the carved pyramid expressed in scientific notation?
_______________ 7. In problem no. 6, write in scientific notation the volume of marble
removed.
_______________ 8. The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is 13:5. If the perimeter is
72m, what is the width of the rectangle?
_______________ 9. If 42% of a school population is made up of 630 boys, how many are girls
are in that school?
_______________ 10. Simplify: (
_______________ 11. Evaluate (

)
)

[(
(

) at x = 2.

_______________ 12. What is the remainder when

_______________ 13. Solve for x in the inequality (

is divided by
) (

_______________ 14. Simplify

_______________ 15. Factor:
_______________ 16. A stone is thrown up so that its height above the ground after seconds is
feet. After how many seconds is it first 112 feet above the
ground?
_______________ 17. Two vertices of an isosceles
are A(0, 2) and B(2, 2) and AB is the
base. Find the vertex C if it is on the x-axis.
_______________ 18. Express 2520 as a product of prime factors using exponents.
_______________ 19. What is least common multiple of 210 and 330?

_______________ 20. Which of the following is/are not rational numbers?

a.
_______________ 21. If

c. 0.020020002

b. -1/7
and

d. 0.435435435435

, what is a/b ?

_______________ 22. Change 0.0625 to a fraction in lowest terms.

_______________ 23. Simplify (
exponents.

) (

) into an expression with positive

_______________ 24. An 18 dm diameter is cut from 2m by 2m material. How much clothing

material is wasted?
_______________ 25. A temperature of

is how many degrees in Celcius?

_______________ 26. A salesman receives basic salary of Php 10,000 and a commission of 5%
on all sales. Find his total sales in a month when he earned Php 25,000?
_______________ 27. A bakery sold 250 cakes and 400 breads yesterday. The number of cakes
sold today decreased by 10% and that of bread increased by 15%. Find
the total number of cakes and breads sold today.
_______________ 28. What is the absolute value of

at

_______________ 29. Add

to
.

_______________ 30. A square lobby is to be tiled at a cost of Php160 per sq. meter. If the
lobby were 2m narrower and 2m longer, the cost of tiling would be
Php35,360. Find the dimensions of the lobby.
_______________ 31. A trapezoid ABCD has an area of 25 sq. units. Three of its coordinates
B(1,8), C(2,3) and D(-6,3). Find the coordinates of A.
_______________ 32. Square MNOP is removed from rectangle PQRS, leaving an area of
. If
and
, find the area of
the PQRS.
_______________ 33. Find an equation of the line parallel to
and passing through (-2,3).
_______________ 34. For what values of x is |
_______________ 35. Factor

_______________ 36. What is the vertex of the graph of

_______________ 37. What is the surface area of a beach ball with radius 7dm ?
_______________ 38. How many cubic feet of water must be pumped into a swimming pool 80
ft. long, 45 ft. wide to raise the water by 2 ft.
_______________ 39. Find the area bounded by the x and y axes and the line

_______________ 40. A cake was cut into two parts in the ratio of 5:4. The smaller piece was
divided into two parts into the ratio of 3:5. If the smaller part of these two
pieces weighed 180g, find the weight of the whole cake.
_______________ 41. A man is planning to fence the front part of his property with posts 2 m
apart. Short of money, he decides to make the post 3 m apart and uses 3
posts less. How wide is the property?
_______________ 42. Ann had a bag of glass beads. She used half of them to make a necklace.
She and her sister used 1/6 and 1/7 of the remaining beads to make
bracelets. If 58 beads were left, find the original number of beads.
_______________ 43. How much pure acid must be added to 2 Liters of a 10% solution of acid
to obtain a mixture that is 20% acid?
_______________ 44. In a uniform circular motion, the central acceleration
linear speed
and the radius
as in the equation
happens to the value of if is halved?
_______________ 45. Simplify: (

)(

_______________ 46. Find the square of (

_______________ 47. Multiply: (

)(

varies with its

. What

)
).
)

_______________ 48. Factor completely:

_______________ 49. Factor
_______________ 50. Simplify the expression
_______________ 51. Does the set {(0, 1), (2, 2), (2,-2), (4, 1)} belong to a function?
_______________ 52. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 14. If the digits are
reversed, the number is increased by 18. Find the number.
_______________ 53. What is the equation of the line with 2 and 4 as y and x intercepts?
_______________ 54. Solve for x and y:
_______________ 55. Write

and
in the form

_______________ 56. What is the vertex of the graph of the function in No. 55?
_______________ 57. What is the axis of symmetry of the graph of
_______________ 58. If y varies directly as
and if the difference in the values of y when x =
1 and x = 3 is 32, find y when x = -2.
_______________ 59. The base of the triangle with a fixed area is inversely proportional to the
altitude. When the altitude is 10cm, the base is 10cm. What is the base
when the altitude is 8cm assuming the area is fixed?

_______________ 60. Express

with a rational denominator.

_______________ 61. Solve for x:

_______________ 62. Tom and Jerry together had Php 115. After Tom had spent Php 10, his
money was that of Jerry. How much did Jerry have?
_______________ 63. A man row 15km downstream in 1 hr and upstream for the same distance
in 3 hrs. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
_______________ 64. A 60cm piece of wire is bent to form a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is
26 cm, find the length of the longer side of the two legs of the right
triangle.
_______________________ 65.

Find the product (

)(

_______________ 66. What is the sum of the roots of

_______________ 67. For what values/s of k will

have real roots?

(

_______________ 68. For what values of k will

imaginary roots?

have two unequal

_______________ 69. Find the values of x and y that satisfies the given equations;

_______________ 70. Find the LCD of

and

_______________ 71. Subtract:

_______________ 72. Kris can paint a room with a brush in 8 hours. Gay can paint it with a
roller in 2 hrs. How long will it take to paint the room together?
_______________ 73. Find the equation of variation: y varies directly as x and y=0.6 when
x=0.4.
_______________ 74. S varies inversely as A. If S = 3 when A = 9, find S when A = 4.
_______________ 75. Simplify:
_______________ 76. The speed of light is approximately 300 000 000 m/s. how long will it
take light to travel 90 000 000 000 m?
_______________ 77. Rationalize the denominator: (

) (

_______________ 78. Simplify:

_______________ 79. Simplify:

_______________ 80. Three times the square root of 2 equals the square root of the sum of a
number and 10. Find the number.

_______________ 81. If 5 arithmetic terms are inserted between 5 and 23, what is the third term
to be inserted?
_______________ 82. The first and 15th term of an arithmetic progression are 2 and 58
respectively. Find the sum of the first 50 terms.
_______________ 83. If the second term is and the seventh term of a geometric progression is
1/64, find the tenth term.
_______________ 84. Pete has 120 m of fencing materials. What is the maximum area of a
rectangular garden that he can fence/
_______________ 85. X is a point between D and E. If DX = 6, XE = 9 and the coordinate of D
is -4, what is the coordinate of E.
_______________ 86. What is the supplement of an angle of
_______________ 87. In

and

, find

?
.

_______________ 88. How much air is enclosed in a tent with a rectangular base 4 m by 2.7 m
if the height is 5m.
_______________ 89. In
_______________ 90.

, the bisector of
, find
.

meets BC at D. If

and

is equilateral. If AM is median to BC, what is AMB?

_______________ 91. A room 6 m long and 4.8 m wide is carpeted so as to leave a border of
6dm all-round the edge. Find the cost of the carpet at Php 125 per sq.
meter.
_______________ 92. In
, AB = 14 cm and AC = 19 cm. What is the range of possible
value of the length of BC?
_______________ 93. In
of

, AB = 12 cm, AC = 10 cm and BC is 15cm. Arrange the angles

from smallest to largest.

_______________ 94. Write an equation of the line passing through (0, -1) and perpendicular to
the line
.
_______________ 95. In
, AB = AC = 13 cm and BC = 10 cm. Find the length of the
altitude.
_______________ 96. ABCD is a rectangle with diagonal AC. If BAC =
_______________ 97. In the figure, if OB = 10cm and OD = 6cm, find
BC.
_______________ 98. In the same figure, if BC = 30 cm and OD = 8cm,
find AB.
_______________ 99. In the same figure, if B = 48 , find arc BC?

, find BCA.

_______________ 100. In right triangle ABC, CD AB, AD

Find OD

and AB = 12.

_______________ 101. In the same figure and given, find AC.

_______________ 102. In the figure shown, AB and RS intersect at E so that
AE = 3, EB = 16 and SE = 6. Find RE.
_______________ 103. In the figure, EKG is a straight line and KG = 5cm.
Find the length of FG.
_______________ 104. The bisectors of the base angles of an isosceles
triangle meet at I. Find the angle between the
bisectors at their point of intersection if the vertex
angle is
.
,

_______________ 105. ABCD is inscribed in a circle. If

(
) , find D.

) and

____________________ 106. Find an equation of a circle in radius-center form, with center at (-3,
-5) and tangent to y-axis.
____________________ 107. Find each interior angle of a regular hexagon.
____________________ 108. Mang Julio has a rectangular field 450m by 250m. If he is offered 2
million pesos per hectare, how much will be the cost of his field.
____________________ 109. If the non-common sides of two adjacent angles are opposite rays,
what is the sum of the two angles?
____________________ 110. M is the midpoint of segment LN. If
how long is LN?
____________________ 111. An angle is

and

less than its supplement. Find the angle.

____________________ 112. If X is a point on the segment joining A(-5, 1) and B(7, 10) such that
AX:XB = 1:2, what are the coordinates of X?
____________________ 113. In
, if A is
find C.

more than B and C is

____________________ 114. In
, A
and B
from the shortest to the longest.
____________________ 115. What is the domain of

. Arrange the sides of the triangle

____________________ 116. Express the equation

.

in the form

____________________ 117. Find the roots of the quadratic equation

____________________ 118. What is the domain of

less than twice B,

____________________ 119. The population of a certain town is presently 100,000. If the

population grows 2% a year, what shall be the population after three
years to the nearest thousand.
____________________ 120. If log
____________________ 121. If log (

,
)

, what is x?

____________________ 122. If ( )

, what is

____________________ 123. If ( )

, what are the inverse relations?

____________________ 124. If

, what is

( )?

if A is in the 1st quadrant?

____________________ 125. Find the exact numerical value of

( )

( ).

____________________ 126. If the half-life of the substance is 15 hours, how long will it take for a
given amount to decay 25% of its original amount?
____________________ 127. Solve for the value of x in the given equation:
____________________ 128. What is the 3rd term of the expansion (

) ?

...

_______________ 129. Evaluate the expression:

_______________ 130. Determine the units digit in the expansion

_______________ 131. A multiple choice exam consists of 10 problems with each problem
having 4 choices. How many possible ways can a student perfect the
exam?
_______________ 132. The distance between the center of three circles which are mutually
tangent to each other externally are 10, 12 and 14 units. Determine the
area of the largest circle.