MATHEMATICS 2 14.

A tank that holds 400 gallons of water can be

filled by one pipe in 15 minutes and emptied by
1. Find the GCF of 120, 80 and 140. another in 40 minutes. How long would it take to fill
a. 4 b. 12 c. 10 d. 20 the tank if both pipes are functioning?
2. When Joseph sorts his collection of marbles into a. 28 min b. 21 min
groups of 2, 3, 4 or 8, there is always one marble left. c. 24 min d. 23 min
What is the smallest number of marbles Joseph have? 15. Linda paid P 360.00 for 12 notebooks but she was
a. 35 b. 28 c. 25 d. 21 given 3 additional notebooks for free. In effect, what
3. Two brothers and their young sister are to divide rate of discount did she enjoy?
an inheritance worth P300,000 in the ratio of 5:6:4, a. 50 % b. 40%
with the girl getting the least share. How much is the c. 18% d. 20%
share of the sister? 16. A clock is 4 minutes ahead every 8 hours. If the
a. P20,000 b. P80,000 clock is set correctly at 8:00 a.m. Monday, what time
c. P100,000 d. P40,000 will be shown in this clock at 8:00 p.m. Friday?
4. Which of the following statements is FALSE? a. 8:48 am b. 8:54 am
a. If a number is a multiple of 9, then it is c. 9:08 am d. 8:56 am
also a multiple of 3 17. What is the LEAST positive integer that has 6.8
b. If a number is divided by 9, then it is and 10 as factors?
divisible by 3 a. 240 b. 80
c. If 9 is a divisor of a number, then 3 is also a c. 120 d. 300
divisor of the number 18. Jose walks M miles in H hours. At the same rate
d. If a number is divisible by 3, then it is how many miles will he walks in J hours?
divided by 9. a. J b. M c. MJ d. MH
5. Find 1 2/5 x (1 ¼ ÷ 7/16) MH H-J H J
a. 1/5 b. ¾ c. 4 d. 4/5 19. What numbers is NOT exactly divisible by 8?
6. Which of the following numbers is the difference of a. 7304 b. 5000
two consecutive prime numbers less than 41? c. 3584 d. 5218
a. 8 b. 2 c. 9 d. 6 20. The bus stops are equally spaced along a bus
7. Employees in a firm are entitled to 1 – day leave route. The distance from the first to the third stops is
for every 20 working days. If in 2007, this firm had 600 meters. How far is the distance from the first stop
280 working days, how many days of vacation leave to the last stop?
are the employees entitled to? a. 2100 meters b. 2400 meters
a. 20 days b. 15 days c. 900 meters d. 2700 meters
c. 24 days d. 14 days 21. Three out of every 24 flashlights turned out by a
8. What is the perimeter of a square whose area is particular factory are found to be effective. If the
256 m2? factory turns out 1248 flashlights in a week, how
a. 1024 m b. 64 m many are defective?
c. 32 m d. 16 m a. 72 b. 18
9. How much bigger is 36 than 63 ? c. 416 d. 156
a. 27 b. 235 c. 513 d. 729 22. If ab + cd = 12ad, and ad = O, then b + c =
10. Three brothers inherited a cash amount of P __________ d a
120,000 and they divided it among themselves in the a. ab + cd b. 12
ratio of 5:2:1. How much more is the largest share c. 12a + 12d d. 12 ac
than the smallest share? 23. What must be the value of x in the arithmetic
a. P15,000 b. P30,000 progression x – 7, x – 2, x + 3 so that its 10th term
c. P60,000 d. P75,000 will be 40?
11. The simplest expression 240 is ____________. a. 3 b. 2
420 c. 1 d. 4
a. 4 b. 1 20 24. The roots of the equation (x – 5)(x – 3) = 0 are
2 __________
c. 1 d. 2 a. 3 or -5 b. 3 or 5
12. 40% of 35 is what percent of 140? c. -3 or 5 d. -3 or -5
a. 29% b. 28% 25. The average of m and n is 9, and p – 12. What is
c. 10% d. 14% the average of m, n, and p?
13. The initial temperature of an object was 27°C. a. 7 b. 21
After exposing the object to different surrounding c. 10 d. 18
media, its temperature decreased by 7°C, then 26. An angle of 7π radians is equal to ___________
increased by 10°C and then finally decreased by a. 115° b. 225°
25°C. What was the final temperature of the objects? c. 105° d. 89°
a. 15°C b. 20°C 27. What is the value of x in ½ + 2/3 – 1/x – 1/6?
c. 5C d. 5°C a. 2 b. 3
c. 1 d. 4
28. M varies inversely as N. If M = 25 when N = 2, 40. Which statement is TRUE?
what is M when N = 5? I. 1 m is longer than 1 km
a. 16 b. 10 II. I mm is longer than I in
c. 5 d. 2 III. 1 gallon is heavier than 1 lb
29. Which of the following expressions always gives IV. 1 gallon is more than 1 liter
an odd number? a. I only b. I and IV
a. (N – 1) (N – 5) b. 5N – 1 c. I and III d. III and IV
2
c. (2N + 1) d. N2 -1 x y
41. If 3 = 81 and 4 = 64. What is (x-y)?
30. Three circles are tangent to each other extremely. a. 17 b. 1
What is the perimeter of the triangle formed by c. 0 d. -1
connecting the centers if the areas of the circles are 42. Two buses leave the same station at 9:00 pm one
9π, 16π and 25 π respectively? bus travels north at the rate of 30kph and the other
a. 24cm b. 12cm travels east at 40 kph. How many kilometers apart
c. 50cm d. 25cm are the buses at 10 pm?
31. A falling body strikes to the ground with a a. 100 km b. 70 km
velocity V, which varies directly as the square root of c. 50km d. 140km
the distance d it falls. If the body that falls 100 feet 43. Which of the following is a factor of x 4 – 4x3 – 6x2
strikes the ground with a velocity of 80ft./sec.. with + 3x + 10?
what velocity will a ball dropped from a height of 550 a. (x – 2) b. (x + 5)
ft. strike the ground? c. (x + 1) d. (x – 5)
a. 150ft/sec b. 190ft/sec. 44. If X is an even number and Y is odd number,
c. 170ft/sec d. 188ft/sec which of these expressions will always give an even
32. Which of the following is true identity? number?
a. sin2 θ = cos2 θ b. cos2 θ + 1 = sin2 θ a. X+Y b. XY
c. tan2 θ = sec2 θ – 1 d. cos2 θ – 1 = sin2 θ c. X ÷ Y d. X – Y
33. The same number is subtracted from the 45. Which of these is NOT factorable?
numerator and denominator of the fraction 8/11. If a. 6x2 – 5x – 6 b. 6x2 – 13x + 6
2
the resulting fraction is equivalent to 2/3, what is the c. 6x – 7x – 6 d. 6x2 – 35x – 6
number subtracted? 46. What is the value of x in this equation?
a. 5 b. 2 1 + 2 - 1 = 1
c. 3 d. 4 2 3 x 6
34. What is 4 √256? a. 4 b. 2
a. 5.4 b. 4 c. 1 d. 3
c. 16 d. 6 47. If 16 is 4 more than 3x, then what is the value of
35. Given this table of numbers relating x to y, what 2x – 5?
is x when y is 45? a. 2 b. 4
c. 5 d. 3
X 0 4 8 12 16 48. What is the area of the shaded portion as shown
y 3 9 15 21 27 in the figure?
36. Madel spent one – sixth of her money in one 4
store. In the next store she spent three times as much
as she spent in the first store, and had P80.00 left.
How much money did she have at the start? 2
a. P240.00 b. P360.00
c. P252.00 d. P380.00
37. Which gives the quantity “the time it takes to red a. 8 – π b. π c. 8 - 4 π
a book that is x page long at a rate of y ages per d. 8 - 2 π
hour”? 49. Which of these could be the measures of the
a. y/x hours b. xy hours angles of an isosceles triangle?
c. x/y hours d. (x+ y) hours a. 60°, 60°, 80° b. 32°, 32°, 116°
2
38. If x/y = 4/z, then 16y equals c. 51°, 98°, 51° d. 45°, 45°, 100°
a. x2 z2 b. x2 c. x3 z d. x2z2 50. A box is 12 in. in width, 16 in. in length, and 6 in.
16 16 in height. How many square inches of paper would be
39. Marlyn copied x + y2 instead of (x + y) 2. required to cover it on all sides?
Compute the amount of her error if x = 8 and y = 3. a. 900 b. 192
a. 12 b. 0 c. 720 d. 360
c. 104 d. 96 51. What is the total length of fencing needed to
enclose a rectangular area 46 feet by 34 feet?
a. 48 yd b. 26 yd.1 ft
c. 53 1/3 yd d. 52 yd 2ft
52. If the area of a square is 81x2, what will represent 64. P is 7 less than the square of the sum of the
the perimeter of the square? quotient of x and y and the product of x and y. Which
a. 18x2 b. 81x equation expresses this relationship?
c. 9x2 d. 36yd 2ft a. P = (7 – x/y + xy)2 c. P = 7 (x/y + xy)2
2
53. The vertices of a triangle are (2.1), (2.5), and b. P = (x/y + xy – 7) d. P= (x/y + xy)2 - 7
(5.1). What is the area of a triangle? 65. What is 135° in radians?
a. 10 b. 8 a. 3π/4 b. 5 π/8
c. 5 d. 6 c. 2 π d. 3
54. Four small squares are put together to form a 3 4π
bigger square. If the perimeter of the big square is 66. A square is inscribed in a circle with radius r.
256, what is the side of each of the smaller squares? Find the area of the shaded region.
a. 24 b. 16
c. 32 d. 8 r
55. These segments have lengths a, b and c, with a  *
b  c. Under what conditions could these segments
be used to form a triangle?
a. a + b > b b. b + c > a a. (2 – π)r2 b. (π – 2) r2
2
c. a + c < b d. a + b > c c. π – 2 r d. πr2 – 2
56. The measure of each interior angle of a regular 67. If the first derivative of f (x) is 3x 2 + 2x, what is
polygon is 165 degrees. How many sides does it f(x)?
have? a. 3 x3 + 2x b. x3 + x2
a. 12 b. 15 c. 6 x3 + 2 x2 d. 3 x3 + x
c. 24 d. 29 68. What are the endpoints of the major axis of 9 (x –
57. What happens to the circumstance of a circle if 3)2 + 25 (y – 2)2 – 225?
the length of the radius is doubled? a. (1, - 2) and ( - 7, -2) c. (-1, 2) and
a. It becomes 3 times longer (7,2)
b. It becomes 4 times longer b. (0, 2) and (6,2) d. (-2, 2) and (8, 2)
c. It is doubled 69. What is the equation of a straight line with a
d. It is halved gradient – 1 and y – intercept 4?
58. Which of the following equations is parallel to a. 2y = x + 4 b. 4y = x + 1
3x – 2 = 4 and has a y – intercept of -3? c. y = 2x + 5 d. y = -x + 4
3 2
a. y = 2x – 3 b. 2x – 3y = 6 70. If f(x) = 5x – x + 3, find the second derivative
c. 2x – 3y = 4 d. 3x – 2y = 6 of f(x)
59. Which line in the figure has an underlined slope? a. 45x2 – 2x b. 30x – 2
c. 3x2 – 2x d. 15x3 – 2xy
71. Evaluate: lim √ 3x2 – 4 is ___________
x 2
2
a. – 4 b. 4
1 3 4 c. 2 d. √ 10
a. 3 b. 4 72. What is the second derivative of y = (x3 + 2)2?
c. 2 d. 1 a. 2x2 (x3 – 2) b. 6x (x3 + 2)
60. All of the quadrilaterals have two pairs of c. 6 (x5 + 3x2) d. 6x2 ( 5x2 + 8)
opposite sides parallel EXCEPT 73. The cost C (x) in the thousand of pesos of
a. Rectangle b. Trapezoid producing x thousand math textbooks is given by C
c. Square d. Rhombus (x) = 30 + 20x – 0.5x2. What is the marginal cost of
61. The area of a circle is 49π. What is its producing 12,000 textbooks?
circumstances in terms of π? a. P 12,000 b. P16,000
a. 49 π b. 14 π c. P10,000 d. P8,000
c. 28 π d. 98 π 74. Determine the equation of the line parallel to 3x –
62. What is the slope of the line that passes through 8y + 11 – 0 and passing through (8,10)
the points (-1,2) and (3, - 4)? a. 8x – 3y – 34 = 0 b. 3x – 8y + 56 = 0
a. 3/2 b. 3 c. 3x – 8y – 104 = 0 d. 3x + 8y + 56 = 0
c. 2 d. -3/2 75. What is the equation of the line with an x –
63. A rectangular bin 4 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 intercept of 5 and y – intercept of 2?
feet high is solidly packed with bricks whose a. 5y + 2x = 4 b. 2y + 5x = 25
dimensions are 8 inches, 4 inches and 2 inches. How c. 2y + 5x = 10 d. 5y + 2x = 10
many bricks are there in the bin? 76. A particular car run 100 km on x liters of
a. 54 b. 848 gasoline. If the car travels a fixed route of 20km per
c. 648 d. 320 day, how many liters of gasoline will the car consume
in 365 days?
a. 73x b. x/73
c. 36x d.x/36
77. One end of a line segment is P(1,2). If the 91. Thirty people were asked a question answerable
midpoint of the segment is (4, 3), find the coordinate by yes or no and maybe, their responses were
of the other endpoint of the segment. recorded. Which measure of central tendency is
a. (6,9) b. (6,7) MOST appropriate for the recorded data?
c. (5,8) d. (7,8) a. Range b. Mode
78. What is the equation of the line through (4,1) and c. Mean d. Median
parallel to the line through (7,3) and (5,-1)? 92. Determine the length of the latus rectum of the
a. x – 4y = 0 b. 3x + y = 13 parabola. 5y2 + 20y – 6x + 20 = 0
c. 2x – y = 7 d. 5x – 6y = 14 a. 6 b. 3/5
79. What is the equation of a circle with center (- 5, c. 3/10 d. 6.5
7) and a diameter that is 20 cm? 93. Francisco received the following scores on tests
a. (x +5)2 + ( y – 7)2 in Calculus: 73,89,81,95, and 87. What is his mean
b. (x – 5)2 + (x + 7)2 = 100 score?
c. (x – 5)2 + (y + 7)2 a. 84 b. 85
d. (x+ 5)2 + (x – 7)2 – 100 c. 89 d. 87
80. Find the first derivative of (x2 + 2x) (x3) 94. How many ways can 3 books be selected from a
a. x4 + 6x3 b. 2x4 + 2x3 group of 7 books?
c. 5x4 + 8x3 d. 3x4 + 6x3 a. 42 b. 35
81. What is the equation of the line with slope – 6/11 c. 210 d. 21
and passing through C(4,9)? 95. The president of the senior class is authorized to
a. 6x + 11y – 75 = 0 b. 11x + 6y + 10 = 0 appoint a committee of 5 from 4 elected males and 8
c. 6x – 11y + 123 = 0 d. 6x + 11y – 123 = 0 elected females. How many different committees are
82. How long is the diameter of x2 – y2 – 10x + 14y = possible if 3 elected males are to be members?
-10? a. 32 b. 112
a. 128 units b. 16 units c. 120 d. 220
c. 8 units d. 64 units 96. How many different signals, each consisting of 7
83. In the graph of y = 2 – 2x2 – 4x, what is the flags hung in a vertical line, can be formed from 4
highest point? identical red flags and 3 identical green flags?
a. (1, - 4) b.(4, - 1) a. 7!/(4!3!) b. (7 – 4)!
c. (- 4, 1)) d. ( - 1, 4) c. 7! d. 4!3!
84. What are the coordinates of the point of 97. How many distinct permutations can be made
intersection of the tangent with slope equal to 2 the from the letters of the word INFINITY if all letters
curve y = - x2 – 4x + 7? are be taken?
a. ( - 3, 13) b. (- 3, 28) a. 3540 b. 4512
c. (-3, 10) d. (3,4) c. 3360 d. 3124
85. The derivative of y = 2x3 – 5x2 + 3x + 2 is 98. Four married couples have reserved eight seats in
_______ a row for a basketball game. In hw many ways can
a. y1 = 6x2 – 10x – 3 c. y1 = - 6x2 + 10x – 3 they be seated if each couple is sit together?
1 2
b. y = 6x – 6x + 3 d. y1 = 6x2 – 10x + 3 a. 350 b. 384
86. Which of the following quadratic functions will c. 320 d. 300
have a graph which opens downward? 99. A family has 3 children. What is the probability
a. y = 1 – (3x – x2) b. y = 5x (x – 1) + 3 that all children are boy?
c. y = 7x – (5x2 + 1) d. y = -4 (2 – x2) + 5x a. 3/8 b. ½
87. What is the median of the following set of c. 1/8 d. 1/6
numbers: 11,8,3,2,3,2,14,13,8,7,8,6? 100. A card is selected at random from a box of 20
a. 8.5 b. 7 cards numbered 1 to 20. What is the probability that
c. 7.8 d. 5 the number is multiple of 3?
88. The scores of eight boys in an IQ Test are as a. 7/20 b. 3/20
follows: 100,120,101.107.116, and 101. What is the c. 5/20 d. 3/10
75 percentile? 101. How much interest would be collected on a loan
a. 120 b. 118 of P25,000 borrowed for 7 months at 10% per year?
c. 116 d. 117 a. P 1,485.33 b. P 1,548.33
89. A pair of dice is thrown. If the sum of the dots on c. P1,458.33 d. P 1,584.33
the two dice is 6, what is the probability that one of 102. A store is giving a 15% discount off marked
the dice is 2? price of electrical items, what is the discounted price
a. 1/18 b. 2/5 of a water dispenser marked at P3,000?
c. 1/6 d. 11/36 a. P3,150 b. P2, 550
90. If majority of the students in Statistics class was c. P 2,850 d. P 3,450
able to answer most of the questions given during the 103. If sin A = ½, what is tan 2A?
examination, the score is expected to be a. √ 3 /4 b. √ 3
____________ c. √ 3/2 d. 1/3
a. bimodal b. normally distributed
c. negatively skewed d. positively skewed
104. In a sale, Janice paid P 270.00 for a skirt 116. The interest of a loan of P6, 350.00 is P158.75.
originally marked P450.00. What was the discount If the loan is to be paid after 150 days, what is the
rate given? rate of interest charged?
a. 20% b. 60% a. 5% b. 7%
c. 50% d. 40% c. 6% d. 4%
105. In sin x + y = m, and cos2 x+ y = n, find y.
2
117. Which of these is equal to 1 + tan2 x?
a. m + n + 1 b. m – n – 1 a. sec2 x b. cos2 x
2
2 2 c. cot x d. sin2 x
c. m – n + 1 d. m + n – 1 118. What is the second derivative of y = (x3 + 2)2?
2 2 a. 6 (x5 + 3x2) b. 2x2 (x3 + 2)
106. Atty. Bravo collected P 10,750 from Mrs. Rivera c. 6x2 (x3 + 2) d. 6x (x3 + 2)
after deducting commission, the principal received P 119. Transform an angle of 190 deg to radian
8, 492.35. What was the attorney’s rate of measure
commission? a. 20π /18 radians b. π / 18radians
a. 27% b. 12% c. 3.39 radians d. 19 π radians
c. 21% d. 79% 18
107. In one Sophomore class, 1/3 of the students are 120. If sin A = √2, what is sin 2A?
honor students, 2/7 are varsity athletes. If there are 2
four athletes in the class, how many students are a. ½ b. 2
there in the class? c. 2√2 d. 1
a. 42 b. 54
c. 73 d. 62
108. How much money was borrowed at 15% simple
interest for 8 months if the interest paid was P3,500?
a. P36,500 b. P36,000
c. P35,000 d. P37,200
109. Which of these numbers CANNOT be the
hypotenuse of a right triangle whose sides are whole
numbers?
a. 10 b. 13
c. 26 d. 4
110. A man sold his car for P180,000. This means
losing 10% of the price he paid for it. What was the
cost of the car when he bought it?
a. P195,000 b. P190,000
c. P200,000 d. P210,000
111. What is the area of a square lot whose diagonal
is 6√2 m?
a. 28 sq.m b. 72 sq.m
c. 12 sq.m d. 36 sq.m
112. Find the value of tan α if sin α = - 5/13 and
tan α > 0
a. 5/13 b. 5/12
c. 1 d. 12/13
113. A businessman borrowed P50,000 from a rural
bank at 14% compound interest compounded semi-
annually, how much did he pay at the end of two
years?
a. P61,252.15 b. P57,245
c. P53,407.15 d. P65,539.80
114. An equilateral triangle is drawn with one vertex
at the origin and the two other vertices on the circle
x2 + y2 = 25. Find the area of the triangle
a. 12√2 b. 25√3
4
c. 5√3 d. 25
115. Jocelyn has P7,200 in the time deposit in a bank
which she receives 12% interest each year. How
much interest will she receive in five years?
a. P7,200 b. P4,320
c. P4,800 d. P5,200