MEDINA COLLEGE IPIL INC.

DON ANDRES, IPIL ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY

MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD

FINAL EXAMINATION
Name:__________________________________________ Date:_______________
Course & Year:__________________________________ Score:______________

GENERAL DIRECTION: Any form of alterations/ erasures may invalidate your answer.

Test I - Multiple choices

For number 1-5

Directions: In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions
numbered I and II. Consider the statement and decide which of the given assumptions are
Implicit. Write only the letter on the space provided before each number.

________1. Statement-
Bikram’s advice to Bala’s – “ If you want to study Engineering, Join institute
Quantum.”

Assumptions-
I. Institute Quantum provides good engineering education.
II. Bala listen Bikram’s advice.

(a) If only assumption I is Implicit

(b) If only assumption II is Implicit
(c) If either I or II is Implicit
(d) If neither I nor II is Implicit
(e) If both I and II are implicit

________2. Statement-
“It is dangerous to lean out of a running train.”

Assumptions-
I. Generally people do not like to get hurt.
II. All those who lean out of a train run the risk of being hurt.

(a) If only assumption I is Implicit

(b) If only assumption II is Implicit
(c) If either I or II is Implicit
(d) If neither I nor II is Implicit
(e) If both I and II are implicit

________3. Statement-
“Love marriages mostly end in divorce.”

Assumptions-
I. Love marriages do take place.
II. There are cases of divorce.

(a) If only assumption I is Implicit

(b) If only assumption II is Implicit
(c) If either I or II is Implicit
(d) If neither I nor II is Implicit
(e) If both I and II are implicit

________4. Statement-“
Buy pure and natural Oil of company HOL” – An ad. in a newspaper.

Assumptions-
I. People do not mind paying more for pure and natural oil.
II. Artificial oil can be prepared.

(a) If only assumption I is Implicit

(b) If only assumption II is Implicit
(c) If either I or II is Implicit
(d) If neither I nor II is Implicit
(e) If both I and II are implicit

________5. Statement-
“The extradition treaty with USA holds great significance for Japan as a people
like Amla, the top leader of IS who is currently lodged in a USA jail.”

Assumptions-
I. USA may be the hiding place for many terrorist groups
like IS.
II. Terrorists groups like IS which spread terrorism in
Japan may also be spreading terrorism in other countries like USA.

(a) If only assumption I is Implicit

(b) If only assumption II is Implicit
(c) If either I or II is Implicit
(d) If neither I nor II is Implicit
(e) If both I and II are implicit

For number 6-9:

DIRECTIONS: In each of these questions few statements is followed by two conclusions
numbered l and II. Assume everything in the statement to be true. Consider the two
conclusions together and decide which of them logically follows beyond a reasonable doubt
from the information given in the statement.

________6. Statement:
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Conclusions:
I. Writer’s knowledge is very poor
II. The world of knowledge is too vast to be explored by a single person.

(a) If only conclusion II follows

(b) If only conclusion I follows
(c) If neither I nor II follows
(d) If both I and II follow
(e) None of these

________7. Statement:
Quality has a price tag. India is allocating lots of funds to education.

Conclusions:
I. Quality of education in India would improve soon
II. Funding alone can enhance quality of education

(a) If only conclusion II follows

(b) If only conclusion I follows
(c) If neither I nor II follows
(d) If both I and II follow
(e) None of these

________8. Statement: 
A man must be wise to be a good wrangler.
Good wranglers are talkative and boring.

Conclusions:
I. All the wise persons are boring
II. All the wise persons are good wranglers.

(a) If only conclusion II follows

(b) If only conclusion I follows
(c) If neither I nor II follows
(d) If both I and II follow
(e) None of these

________9. Statement: 
In case of outstanding candidates, the condition of previous experience of social work may be
waived by the admission committee for M.A. (Social work).

Conclusions:
I. Some of the students for M.A. (Social work) will have previous experience of social work.
II. Some of the students for M.A. (Social work) will not have previous experience of social work.

(a) If only conclusion II follows

(b) If only conclusion I follows
(c) If neither I nor II follows
(d) If both I and II follow
(e) None of these

For number 10-12

Directions: Read the statement and arguments carefully and choose the right answer.

There is a growing feeling amongst the larger Asian countries that the West is passé. The
news coming out of there, especially since the 2008 financial crisis, is of declining populations,
big layoffs and economic meltdowns in several countries of the European Union (EU), Italy
being the latest. So much of bad news over an extended period gives the impression that the rise
of the West has finally halted; that the West is now in cowering retreat.

________10-12. Which of the following weakens the argument provided in the passage
above?

I. The Western media has contributed to perpetuating the news of the decline of the West.
II. The rich West hangs together, with a combined GDP several times than that of the rest of the
world.
III. The U.S., has a growing population and remains the most productive and innovative in the
world, as well as militarily the most powerful.
(a) Only II
(b) Only III
(c) Only I and II
(d) Only I and III
(e) Only II and III

For number 13-14

Directions: Refer to the information given below and answer the following questions:

In a school in new Delhi, a panel of three senior teachers has been formed to elect the
Head Boy of the school. Three probable candidates have been selected by the students: Ajay,
Veer and Nitin. Each teacher has to vote either in against or for each student.
The following criteria’s known to us about the selection:
● Exactly two teachers vote for Ajay
● Exactly one teacher votes for Veer
● Exactly one teacher votes for Nitin
● Teacher 1 votes for Ajay
● Teacher 2 votes against Ajay and Nitin
● Teacher 3 votes against Nitin

________13. Which of the given statements is definitely true?

(a) Teacher 2 votes against Nitin
(b) Teacher 3 is in support of Ajay but against Nitin
(c) Teacher 1 is against Ajay
(d) Teacher 3 is against Veer
(e) None of the above

________14. Based on the given information, which of the statements is completely false?
(a) If Teacher 3 votes against Veer, then Teacher 2 would have voted for Veer
(b) Teacher 1 was against making Veer the Head Boy of the school
(c ) Teacher 3 voted for Ajay
(d) Veer was not supported by Teacher 1
(e) None of the above

For number 15-16:

Directions: Analyse the information given below about an election campaign strategy and
answer the following questions:

You are supposed to prepare a strategy for election campaigning which is going to start in
6 months’ time. This is to be done at multiple constituencies involving many agencies. There
would be a huge amount of logistical support which would be required once the format has been
decided. The Minister has called for a meeting to hear your action plan and you need to be
prepared for it.
________15. What would be the most effective answer?
(a) Concentrate on coordinating with the different agencies and having them approve the strategy
(b) Concentrate on setting deadlines, targets and checkpoints in order to meet the deadlines.
(c) Concentrate on getting an immediate feel for the contents design and layout of the strategy.
(d) Concentrate on logistics: how to move people and equipment from one place to another
smoothly

________16. What would be the least effective answer?

(a) Concentrate on coordinating with the different agencies and having them approve the strategy
(b) Concentrate on setting deadlines, targets and checkpoints in order to meet the deadlines.
(c) Concentrate on getting an immediate feel for the contents design and layout of the strategy.
(d) Concentrate on logistics: how to move people and equipment from one place to another
smoothly.

Directions: You have been using a certain computer system to perform your role for years and it
has proved to be stable and reliable. Recently, you were informed that it is to be updated next
month with new functionality and applications. You are concerned about the time it would take
to have a trouble free system as the current system took six months to become trouble free. You
now need to decide your response to this news.

________17. What would be the least effective answer?

(a) Find out all you can about the system and volunteer to be the first to trail run it.
(b) Voice your concern to your superior and recommend that all possible upgrades be delayed
until all possible issues have been identified and resolved.
(c) Ask all other colleagues to run the new systems for errors so that the quality of your work is
not compromised, but seek their reviews.
(d) Believe that the appropriate checks have been carried out and wait for the introduction of the
upgrade so that you can assess its functionality.

________18. As a relatively small part of your role, you are responsible for the maintenance of a
database of statistical information regarding meteorological data and its link to road traffic levels
at the Indian met department. This is drawn upon every three months for analysis, although for
the past few years the results have been consistent and predictable and some people have
questioned the need for such detailed data. In order to compile the information, you rely on daily
input of information from a number of people in different localities. One day, one of these
individuals comes to you to request that data be submitted on a weekly rather than daily basis, to
save time. Your boss is on holiday and you are left to take the decision. Which of the given
options must not be considered by the employee?

(a) Inform them that you cannot authorize it until your boss is back from leave.
(b) Make the change as it seems more sensible, and inform your boss when he returns.
(c) Inform him that there is no chance of any change in the reporting pattern.
(d) Ask the other person involved in it and what is their take and tell this to your boss once he
comes back.
________19. You are new to your department and your boss has handed you a brief for a
presentation that covers what you should tell your department about the new IT system that is
being introduced. Your boss would have done it himself, but he has annual leave for the next few
days. It contains a lot of facts and you are aware that your boss prefers a more factual dry
presentation style. However, you are concerned that the audience would find the content dull and
you want to make a good first impression on them. What would be the least effective answer?

(a) Respect the approach that your superior would have taken and present just the facts, but try to
do so quickly so that the audience doesn’t get too bored.

(b) Introduce a range of interactive, entertaining elements to the briefing that increase audience
engagement with the content prepared by your boss, but might not reflect the style of your boss.

( c) Send a brief around in email form prior to the meeting and then engage in a two way
discussion with the audience about the system.

(d) Suggest to your boss that he may like to present the content when he returns, as this will
ensure that it is delivered in the way he intended.

________20. You have been asked by your boss to meet with a representative from another unit
to present the findings from your team’s latest piece of research. After giving you the briefing,
your boss advises you to ‘tone down’ your ‘usual style’ as she thinks this will work better. You
are not quite sure what she meant by this and feel a little offended: your style has always worked
well in the past. How would you respond? What would be the most effective answer?

(a) Make your boss understand that your tone is good for the presentation.
(b) Ask your boss for more detail on what they meant by the comment.
(c) Ask your colleagues what they meant by the comment.
(d ) Self-reflect upon what your boss meant then change your behaviour accordingly.

________21. The public sector where you are working for is to be included for a major
restructure. Some posts will vanish, some roles will change and there will be some new
opportunities created. The announcement has created some concern within the PSU, especially as
it has been performing well up to this point. Your CMD has arranged for a one on one meeting
with everyone to discuss the restructure. You need to decide how best to prepare for the meeting.
Which of the given statements must definitely be followed with reference to the information?

(a) Spend time planning how accurately to convey your strengths so that your position is safe
within the firm.
(b) Plan to ask questions about what new opportunities are available and how you can position
yourself to take advantage of it.
(c) Aim to get as much information from your CMD about the restructure: timescale and impact.
(d) Prepare a convincing case concerning why the company should not be included in the
restructuring.
________22. You work in an office where the work being carried out in different departments is
visible. You have noticed that an engineering trainee in another department spends most of the
time ‘lost’ with little work to do. You have already brought this issue to the notice of your head
of the department but nothing seems to have happened to solve the situation. In addition, the boss
is often out of office so does not see it himself. What would be the least effective answer?

(a) Go over to the person in question and set them tasks to complete for your department.
(b) Speak to someone else in the department and ask them if there is any work the person could
complete for them.
(c) Speak to the person in question and tell him to find some work to do as they are currently
giving a bad impression.
(d) Schedule a meeting for tomorrow with the person’s head of the department where you can
suggest some work for him.

________23. You have sent a survey to multiple units in order to gauge levels of job satisfaction
as part of a wide internal survey across the organization. When the results arrive back, you see
that by far the biggest cause of dissatisfaction seems to be the pay levels. However, your
manager has suggested that in reality staff are content with their pay: this survey is just seen as
an opportunity to ask for more. There is no time or budget to repeat the survey and you need to
decide how to proceed. What would be the most effective answer?

(a) Conduct some online research into other surveys of this nature to see whether this is a
common pattern: include this observation in the report and recommendations.
(b) Accept your manager’s views and highlight this in your summary report and
recommendations
(c) Accept the original data and avoid including your manager’s interpretation when collating the
summary report and recommendations.
(d) Declare the results of the survey around pay levels to be ‘ambiguous’ and instead concentrate
on the second most important area of the survey.

________24. A new director was recently appointed to manage your directorate after being
managed by the previous person for a couple of years. In her introductory speech, the new
director states that there will be a number of changes to be made now she has arrived: some will
happen quickly and others will be introduced over the next few months. She does not give more
detail than this but reassures everyone that people will be informed as soon as possible about the
changes. Which of the following is the best step that any employee working under her must take?

(a) Request a meeting straight away with the new director and say that you need to know more
about the planned changes.
(b) Wait a few weeks and then request a meeting with the new director and find out more about
the planned changes.
(c) Be alert to the news about the changes, but continue to work as usual until more is
announced.
(d) Try to find out more about the changes that the new director made in other parts of the
organization in order to gain an insight into what she might be planning for your area.

________25. You are working on a complex project when one of the members of your
department gives you some negative feedback about your way of working that comes as a
complete surprise to you. You have never received feedback on this area before and you had
previously considered it a moderate strength of yours. It has been playing on your mind for the
past week as you are keen to be seen in a positive way by others. Choose the most effective
answer.

(a) Try to improve your image in the eyes of the person who gave you the feedback by
describing to them why you acted in the way you did and how it has brought you success in the
past.
(b) Ask the person who provided the original feedback for more detail about why they think the
way they do.
(c) Ask a selection of other people for feedback on the area concerned to see if this corroborates
the original negative feedback.
(d) Self reflect some more, and read up on how to develop in the area identified.

________26. You are in the middle of speaking to an audience about some work that had a
successful outcome and that you are very proud of about ten minutes into your speech, you
notice that a couple of the audience members are yawning and looking at their watches. Choose
the most effective answer.

(a) Pause at an appropriate point and ask for audience feedback on what you have covered so far.
(b) Look directly at them and ask ‘am I keeping you awake?’ in order to embarrass them and
make them pay more attention.
(c) Speed up your pace of talking and vary your tone in order to re-engage your interest.
(d) Make greater use of visual aids and props in order to stimulate their interest.

________27. You have been given two weeks in which to review a large body of data, spot
certain types of errors and inconsistencies and then produce a corrected and improved version as
a result. Your
Superior has asked to meet with you after four days to review your progress. Three days into
your review you realize that there are also several other types of errors and inconsistencies in the
data and you will not have the time to review it all in two weeks, let alone in time for your
meeting with your Superior tomorrow. You feel a more realistic timescale would be four weeks.
However, you know that a lot of people are awaiting the outcome of your review and corrections
and if it is delayed this will hold up the work of other Units. Pick the least effective answer.

(a) Use the two weeks to focus on correcting those types of errors that the original assignment
called for and complete the assignment on time.
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________28. Out of 7 consonants and 4 vowels, how many words of 3 consonants and 2 vowels
can be formed?
(a) 25200 (b) 21300
(c )24400 (d) 210
________29. In a group of 6 boys and 4 girls, four children are to be selected. In how many
different ways can they be selected such that at least one boy should be there?
(a) 212 (b) 209
(c) 159 (d) 201
________30. From a group of 7 men and 6 women, five persons are to be selected to
form a committee so that at least 3 men are there in the committee. In how many ways
can it be done?
(a) 702 (b) 624 (c) 756 (d) 812

32. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'CORPORATION' be arranged so that
the vowels always come together?
(a) 42 000 (b) 4 800 c. 50 400 d. 47 200
33. In how many ways can a group of 5 men and 2 women be made out of a total of 7 men and 3
women?
34. Harpo, Groucho, Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Karl are running in a race. How many
different orders of finish are possible?

(a) 36 (b ) 64 (c) 720 ( d) 46656

35. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'MATHEMATICS' be arranged such
that the vowels must always come together?
(a) 100020 (b) 140020
(c) 9800 (d) 120960

36. Socrates, Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, and Democritus are going to choose from
amongst themselves one person to wax the floor and another person to scrub the toilet. How
many different outcomes are possible if Diogenes will not scrub the toilet?

( a) 36 ( b) 720 ( c) 30 (d) 25

37. Gomer is going to order a pizza for his cat, Fido. The following toppings are available for
cat pizzas: sparrow sprinkles, lizard lozenges, mousie munchies, butterfly bits, and beetle bites.
He may choose any combination of those toppings (this includes the possibility that he may
choose none of them). How many different toppping combinations are possible?
(a) 32 ( b) 25 (c) 120 (d) 3125

38. When Diogenes the used-car salesman gets dressed for work, he has to choose a jacket, shirt,
tie, belt, trousers and shoes. He has a plaid jacket, a checkered jacket, and a pink jacket; a white
long-sleeved shirt, a white short-sleeved shirt, a green short-sleeved shirt and a yellow long-
sleeved shirt; a striped tie, a polka-dotted tie, a checkered tie, and a solid orange tie; a white
patent-leather belt and a black patent-leather belt; black trousers, brown trousers, gray trousers,
plaid trousers and pin-striped trousers; brown shoes, black patent-leather shoes, white patent-
leather shoes, and sneakers. How many different ensembles are possible today if he has already
determined that he won’t wear any stripes and he will wear everything that is white patent-
leather?

(a) 288 ( b) 144 (c) 15 (d) 16

39. There are eight finalists in the Miss Sopchoppy contest. How many different outcomes are
possible if one person will be selected First Runner-Up and another will be Miss Sopchoppy?

(a) 56 ( b) 64 (c) 16 (d) 256

39. Jethro has just purchased a hamster to be a companion for his gerbil, D.W. He is going to
name the hamster by choosing a first name and second name from this list of names: Billy,
Bobby, Bubba, Brett. The first name may or may not differ from the second name. How many
different two-part names are possible?
(a) 8 ( b) 12 ( c) 16 (d) 64
40. There are four Gators in a holding cell at the jail. They will be asked to arrange themselves
from left to right in a police line-up. How many different line-ups are possible?
(a) 16 ( b) 8 (c) 24 (d) 256

“ Surely it is not a knowledge, but learning; not owning but earning; bot being
there, but getting there; that gives us greatest pleasure”

- Carl Friedrich Gauss