Arithmetic Progression 14.

A man finds the angle of elevation of

the top of a tower to be 30 degrees. He
1. Find the 30th term of an A.P. 4, 7, 10, . . .
walks 85 m nearer the tower and find
2. Find the 22nd term in the AP if the 4 th
its angle of elevation to be 60 degrees.
term is 8 and the 10th term is 29.
What is the height of the tower?
3. Find the sum of the odd numbers from
1 to 61. Perimeters and areas of Triangle

Geometric Progression 15. The sides of a triangle are 195, 157, and
210, respectively. What is the area of
4. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the
the triangle?
geometric progression 2, 4, 8, 16, . . .
16. The sides of a triangular lot are 130 m,
5. If the 3rd term of GP is 20, and the 6 th
180 m, 190 m. this lot is to be divided
term is 160, what is the first term?
by a line bisecting the longest side and
6. Determine x, so that: 2x, 2x +4, 10x – 4
drawn from the opposite vertex. Find
will be a geometric progression.
the length of this line.
Infinite Geometric Progression
Problems involving Triangles
7. Find the sum of the infinite geometric
17. The sides of a triangle are 8 cm, 10 cm,
progression 6, -2, 2/3, . . .
and 14cm. Determine the radius of the
8. A rubber ball is made to fall from a
inscribed and circumscribing circle.
height of 50 ft and is observed to
18. Find the radius of the small circle as
rebound 2/3 of the distance it falls.
shown:
How far will the ball travel before
coming to rest if the ball continues to
fall in this manner?
Trigonometric Identities
9. What is the fraction in lowest term
equivalent to 0.77777…? 19. Simplify cos (30˚ – A) – cos (30˚ + A) as a
function of angle A only.
Harmonic Progression
Inverse Trigonometric Functions
10. The 3rd term of a harmonic progression
is 15 and the 9th term is 6. Find the 11 th 20. Solve for x in the equation: arctan (x+a)
term. + arctan (x-1) = arctan (12).
11. The arithmetic mean of two numbers is
4, and their harmonic mean is 15/4.
What are the number? Polygon

Right and Oblique Triangles 21. A decagon has how many diagonals?
22. What is the number of the sides of the
12. The sides of a right triangle are in polygon if the sum of the measure of
arithmetic progression whose common the angles of a convex polygon is 900?
difference is 6. Find the hypotenuse. 23. How many sides are in a polygon if each
13. A ladder 5m long leans on a wall and interior angle is 165 degrees?
makes an angle of 30degrees with the 24. Find the area of a regular hexagon
horizontal. Find the vertical height from inscribed in a circle oof a radius 1.
the top to the ground.
Areas of Plane Geometric Figures 34. The segment from (-1,4) to (2, -2) is
extended three times its own length.
25. The length of a side of a rhombus is 5
Find the terminal point.
cm. if its shorter diagonal is of length 6
35. Determine the coordinates of the point
cm. what is the area of the rhombus?
which is three-fifths of the way from
26. The perimeter of a sector is 8 cm, and
the point (2, -5) to the point (-3, 5).
its angle is 2 radians, what is the area of
the sector in cm2?
Areas of Polygons by Coordinates
Areas and Volumes of Common Solids
36. Given 3 vertices of a triangle whose
27. Find the length of the diagonal of a
coordinates are A(1,1), B(3,-3), and C(5,-
cube of edge a. answer is in terms of a.
3). Find the are of the triangle.
28. A large 15 m diameter cylindrical tank
sits on the ground is to be painted. If Straight line
one liter of paint covers 10 m2. How
37. A line passes through (1, -3) and (-4, 2).
many liters are required if it is 10 m
What is the equation of the line?
high? (Include the top)
38. What is the equation of the line that
29. What is the area of a lune whose angle
passes through (4,0) and is parallel to
is 80degrees on a sphere of radius 60
the line x – y – 2 = 0?
cm?
30. A wedge is cut from a cylinder of radius Distance between a point and a line
3 cm by two planes. One perpendicular
to the axis of cylinder and the other 39. Find the distance between the lines, 3x
passing through the diameter of the + y – 12 = 0 and 3x + y – 4 = 0.
section made by the first plane and Angle formed by two lines
inclined to this plane at an angle of 45
degrees. Find the volume of the wedge. 40. Find the angle from the line 2x + y – 8 =
0 to the line x +3y +4 = 0.
Polyhedrons
Circle
31. Find the surface area of regular
icosahedron when each edge is of 41. Find the equation of the circle whose
length 5. center is at (3, -5) and whose radius is 4.
42. What is the center of the curve x 2 +y2 –
Similar Solids 2x – 4y – 31 = 0?
32. If the edge of the cube is decreased by Ellipse
10%, by what percent is the surface
area decreased? 43. Find the center and major axis of the
33. If the surface area of a sphere is ellipse x2 + 4y2 – 2x – 8y + 1 = 0.
increased by 30%, by what percent is 44. The major axis of the elliptical path in
the volume of the sphere increased? which the earth moves around the sun
is approximately 186,000,000 miles and
Division of line segment the eccentricity of the ellipse is 1/60.
Determine the apogee of the earth.
Hyperbola

45. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x 2 –

4y2 – 36x + 8y = 4.
46. Find the location of the vertex of the
hyperbola 16y2 – 9x2 + 36x + 96y -36 = 0.

Parabola

47. Compute the focal length and the

length of latus rectum of parabola y 2 +
8x – 6y + 25 = 0.
48. Find the equation of the parabola with
vertex at (5, -2) and focus at (5, -4).

Polar Coordinate System

49. What is the polar equation of the circle

of radius 3 units and center at (3, 0)?
50. Determine the length of the latus
rectum of the curve rcos2ɵ – 4cos ɵ =
16 sinɵ.