ME BOARD EXAMINATION TRAINING SESSIONS 1 11. The length of the side of a square is increased by 100%.

The
PROBLEM SET 03 perimeter is increased by

1. How many gallons are there in 10 cubic meters of liquid? A. 25% C. 200%
B. 100% D. 150%
A. 748 gal C. 2641.7 gal
B. 74.80 gal D. 7.480 gal 12. If the edge of the cube is increased by 20%, find the
percentage increase in volume.
2. How many sides are there if a polygon has 54 diagonals?
A. 72.8% C. 76.3 %
A. 18 C. 10 B. 83.2% D. 63.3%
B. 15 D. 12
13. The interior angles of a polygon are in arithmetic
3. A regular hexagon with an area of 93.53 square progression. The least angle is 120° and the common difference
centimeters is inscribed in a circle. The area in the circle
is 5°. Find the number of sides.
not covered by the hexagon is:
A. 8 C. 11
A. 18.38 cm2 C.16.72 cm2
B. 9 D. 10
B. 19.57 cm2 D. 15.68 cm2
14. A circle of radius 10 cm is inscribed in a regular hexagon.
4. A polygon has 170 diagonals. Compute the number of sides? Find the area of the hexagon
A. 20 C. 18
A. 346.41 C. 132.32
B. 25 D. 26
B. 432.32 D. 234.32
5. The volume of a regular pyramid whose base area is a regular
15. How many diagonals are there in a dodecagon?
hexagon is 156 cm3. If the altitude of the pyramid is 5 cm,
determine the length of the sides of the base. A. 27 C. 54
A. 4 cm C. 3 cm B. 20 D. 30
B. 5 cm D. 6 cm
16. A cubical container measuring 50.8 mm on a side is
6. What is the distance between two points of a sphere is the tightly packed with eight marbles. The container is filled
smaller arc of the great circle between them? with water. All eight marbles are in contact with the walls
of the container and the adjacent marbles. Considering
A. spherical arc C. spherical distance
that the marbles are of the same size, compute the
B. spherical polygon D. spherical angle
volume of water in the container.
7. The lengths of two corresponding sides of two similar
polygons are 4 and 7. If the perimeter of the smaller polygon is A. 62,454.54 C. 68,641.97
20, find the perimeter of the larger polygon B. 45,312.34 D. 131,096

A. 20 C. 10 17. In a circle with a diameter of 10 m, a regular five-

B. 35 D. 15 pointed star touching its circumference is inscribed. What
is the area of the part not covered by the star?
8. The bases of a right prism are a hexagon with one side 6 cm
long. If the volume of the prism is 450 cm3, how far are the A. 60.2 m2 C. 50.48 m2
bases? B. 45.24 m2 D. 71.28 m2
A. 4.81 cm C. 5.32 cm
18. The volume of a sphere is 36n cm3. Determine the
B. 4.22 cm D. 5.06 cm
surface area of the sphere.
9. Polyhedrons are classified according to their ____.
A. 36pi C. 24pi
A. bases C. faces B. 28pi D. 30pi
B. sides D. vertices
19. Find the area of the spherical lune whose angle is 75°
10. The volume of a right circular cone is equal to one-third the on a sphere of radius 30 cm.
product of its base by its altitude
A. 2356.19 cm2 C. 2054.34 cm2
A. axiom C. theorem
B. 2052.52 cm2 D. 2257.26 cm2
B. postulate D. corollary
20. A room is 12 ft wide, 15 ft long, and 8 ft high. If an air A. 1086.69 cm2 C. 1204.23 cm2
conditioner changes the air once every five minutes, how B. 1042.52 cm2 D. 1102.62 cm2
many cubic feet of air does it change per hour?
29. Find the total surface area of a regular triangular
A. 17,280 C. 14,522 pyramid if each edge of the base measures 6 inches and
B. 19,553 D. 16,733 each lateral edge of the pyramid measures 5 inches.

21. What is the spherical excess of the spherical polygon A. 51.59 in2 C. 54.42 in2
of four sides whose angles are 95°, 112°, 134° and 78°. B. 50.23 in2 D. 50.21 in2

A. 60° C. 67° 30. Find the length of the side of a regular pentagon
B. 54° D. 59° inscribed in a circle of radius 10 cm.

22. Three spheres of radii 10, 20 and 30 cm respectively, A. 10.34 cm C. 12.42 cm

are melted and formed into a single sphere. Find the B. 11.76 cm D. 35.22 cm
volume of the single sphere.
31. The area of a zone of a spherical segment is 1/4 that of
A. 48,000pi C. 50,000pi a sphere. What is the ratio of the radius to the altitude of
the spherical zone?
B. 45,000pi D. 42,000pi
A. 3:1 C. 2:3
23. A polygon has 170 diagonals. How many sides does it
B. 2:1 D. 3:4
have?
32. The portion of a sphere included between two parallel
A. 20 C. 25 planes.
B. 30 D. 28
A. spherical wedge C. spherical segment
24. What is the volume of a right circular cylinder B. spherical pyramid D. spherical sector
inscribed in a cube of edge 10 cm?
33. The volume of two spheres is in the ratio of 27:343 and the
A. 200pi C. 220pi sum of their radii is 10. Find the radius of the smaller sphere.

B. 250pi D. 210pi A. 7 C. 5
B. 3 D. 7
25. A rhombus is formed by two radii and two chords of a
circle of diameter 20 units. What is the area of the 34. The portion of a sphere bounded by a spherical polygon and
the planes of its sides.
rhombus?
A. spherical wedge C. spherical pyramid
A. 56.78 C. 86.60 B. spherical segment D. spherical sector
B. 45.76 D. 221.70
35. A sphere of radius 10 m and a right circular cone of base
26. Calculate the volume of a tetrahedron of 10 inches in radius 10 m and height 15 m stands on a table. At what height
its sides. from the table should the two solids be cut in order to have
equal circular sections?
A. 131.35 C. 117.85
B. 124.30 D. 115.49 A. 3.14 m C. 3.44 m
B. 3.24 m D. 3.54 m
27. Find the length of the side of a pentagon if the line
perpendicular to its side is 12 units from the center. 36. The area of a zone of a spherical segment is 180n sq.m. and
has a volume of 468pi cu.m. Find the volume of the sphere.
A. 14.74 units C. 71.44 units
A. 4000pi C. 4800pi
B. 17.44 units D. 14.47 units
B. 4500pi D. 4200pi
28. The circumference of the base of a right circular 37. A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 10 inches.
cylinder is 48 cm and its altitude is 15 cm. Determine its Find the area of the octagon.
total surface area.
A. 282.8 C. 302.2
B. 265.5 D. 294.8
38. The Great Pyramid of Egypt has a square base 232 m on a 47. A goat is tied to a corner of a 30 ft by 35 ft building. If
side and 147 m high. Find its volume. the rope is 40 ft long and the goat can reach 1 ft farther
A. 2,768,334 m3 C. 2,632,242 m3 than the rope length, what is the maximum area the goat
B. 2,662,351 m3 D. 2,637,376 m3 can cover?

39. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 540°. Find the A. 4840.07 C. 8044.07
number of sides. B. 4804.07 D. 4084.07
A. 4 C. 5 48. A tetrahedron is a regular solid with equilateral
B. 6 D. 7 triangles for each of the three surfaces. If each side is 10
40. The bases of a right prism are regular hexagons with each cm, what is the volume of the tetrahedron?
side equal to 6 cm. The bases are 10 cm apart. What is the A. 116.21 cu. cm C. 91.67 cu. Cm
volume of the prism?
B. 117.85 cu. cm D. 83.33 cu. cm
A. 935.31 C. 783.22
49. The area of a spherical lune is 90 cm2. If the area of
B. 943.57 D. 893.73
the sphere is 810 cm2, what is the angle subtended by the
41. How many diagonals does a pentedecagon have: lune?
A. 60 C.70 A. 45° C. 48°
B. 80 D. 90 B. 40° D.42°
42. A pyramid with a square base has an altitude of 25 cm. 50. The diameter of a sphere and the base of a cone are
If the edge of the base is 15 cm. Calculate the volume of equal. What approximate percentage of that diameter
the pyramid. must the cone's height be so that both volumes are
A. 1785 cm3 C. 1875 cm3 equal?
B. 5178 cm3 D. 5871 cm3 A.133% C. 166 %
43. What is the measure of the interior angle of a regular 2000- B.150% D. 200 %
gon?
51. From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white balls, two
A. 180° C. 200° balls are drawn one at a time. Find the probability that both
B. 220° D. 178° balls are black. Assume that the 1st ball is returned before the
second ball is drawn.
44. A regular pentagon has sides of 20 cm. An inner pentagon
with sides of 10 cm is inside and concentric to the larger A. 4/9 C. 1/6
pentagon. Determine the area inside and concentric to the B. 16/81 D. 5/9
larger pentagon but outside of the smaller pentagon.
52. An urn contains 4 black balls and 6 white balls. What is the
A. 430.70 C. 573.26 probability of getting 1 black ball and 1 white ball in two
B. 473.77 D. 516.14 consecutive draws from the urn?

45. A trapezoid has its 2 bases in meters in a ratio of 4:5 A. 0.04 C. 0.53
with an altitude of 20 meters. If the trapezoid has an area B. 0.27 D. 0.04
of 360 m2, find the two bases. 53. The probability of getting at least 2 heads when a fair coin is
tossed four times is:
A. 20, 25 C. 12, 15
B. 20, 16 D. 24, 30 A. 11/16 C. 1/4
B. 13/16 D. 3/8
46. The volume of water in a spherical tank having a
diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3. Determine the depth of the 54. Find the probability that a couple having 3 children will have
water in the tank. at least one girl.

A. 7/8 C. 3/4
A. 1.6 C. 1.4
B. 1/2 D. 5/8
B. 1.2 D. 1.0
55. Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the A. They are not identically distributed.
sum shown on the dice is divisible by 5? B. They are mutually exclusive.
C. They are uncorrelated.
A. 7/36 C. 1/12
D. (A) or (B)
B. 1/9 D. 1/4
65. A bag contains 100 balls numbered 1 to 100. What is the
56. Two cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52
probability that the number on the ball selected will be odd or
cards. Find the probability P that one is a spade and one is a
greater than 80?
heart.
A. 0.10 C. 0.60
A. 3/51 C. 13/102
B. 0.50 D. 0.70
B. 1/26 D. 2/51
66. Which of the following properties of probability is not valid?
57. A real estate agent has 8 master keys to open several
homes. Only 1 master key will open any given house. If 40% of A. The probability of an event is always positive and less than or
these homes are usually left unlocked, what is the probability equal to one.
that the real estate agent can get into a specific home if the B. If E0 is an event that cannot occur in the sample space, the
agent selects 3 master keys at random before leaving the office? probability of E0 is zero.
C. If events E1 and E2 are mutually exclusive, then the probability
A. 3/10 C. 5/8
of both events occurring is zero.
B. 2/7 D. 1/9
D. If events E1 and E2 are events from the same sample space,
58. What is the term that describes a possible outcome of an then P(E1 + E2) = P(E1) + P(E2) - P(E1E2).
experiment called?
67. What is the probability of throwing seven or a ten with two
A. a sample space C. an event dice?
B. a random point D. a finite set
A. 1/2 C. 1/7
59. Three dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the B. 1/4 D. 1/10
probability of getting 4 or 5 on each of the dice?
68. An electronic chip factory can have 5 defective chips for
A. 1/27 C. 1/108 every 100 it produces. If five chips are selected at random, what
B. 1/36 D. 1/216 is the probability of getting at least one defective?

60. A basketball player sinks 50% of all his attempts. What is the A. 0.22621 C. 0.2304
probability that he will make exactly 3 of his next 10 attempts? B. 0.7543 D. 0.2154

A. 1/256 C. 30 /128 69. What is the sample standard deviation for the data set (4, 6,
B. 3/8 D. 15 /128 9, 9,)?

61. What is the range of the set of numbers 2, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8? A. 2.1 C. 4.2

B. 2.4 D. 6.0
A. 6 C. 4
B. 8 D. 7 70. If the variable X has a Poisson distribution with parameter λ,
what is the expected value of X?
62. In a deck of 52 playing cards, 2 cards are drawn at random.
What is the probability of getting an ace and a king? A. λ2 C. λ-1
B. λ(1- λ) D. λ
A. 4/384 C. 8/663
B. 5/385 D. 7/663 71. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The player wins Php 10 if
he rolls either a 1 or a 6. He loses Php 5 if he turns up any other
63. In probability theory, what is the set of all possible face. What is the expected winning for one roll of the die?
outcomes of an experiment called?
A. Php 0 C. Php 5.00
A. a set of random events B. Php 3.33 D. Php 6.67
B. a cumulative distribution
C. a fuzzy set 72. How many triangles are determined by the vertices of a
D. a sample space regular hexagon?

64. If two random variables are independently distributed, what A. 10 C. 20

is their relationship? B. 15 D. 25
73. If two events A and B are mutually exclusive events and the A. 0.432 C. 0.467
probability that A will happen is Pa and the probability that B B. 0.475 D. 0.442
will happen is Pb, then the probability that A or B happen is
83. The odds against student A solving a problem are 3:2 and
A. Pa + Pb C. Pa/Pb the odds in favor of a student B solving the problem are 2:1.
B. Pa x Pb D. Pb/Pa What is the probability that the problem will be solved?

74. What is the mode of the set of numbers; 2, 2, 8, 20, 33? A. 2/13 C. 4/15
B. 3/7 D. 5/6
A. 2 C. 20
B. 8 D. 33 84. The probability that A hits the target is 1/3 and the
probability that B hits the target is 1/5. They both fire at the
75. What is the standard deviation of 1,4, and 7?
target. Find the probability that one of them hits the target.
A. 3.8 C. 4.5
A. 1/3 C. 8/15
B. 5.2 D. 2.45
B. 7/15 D. 2/5
76. A number between 1 and 1000 (inclusive) is randomly
85. Given the following statistical data, determine the standard
selected. What is the probability that it will be divisible by 4 and
deviation: (112, 132, 144, 156, 164, 176, 183, 197)
5?
A. 26.22 C. 28.84
A. 0.05 C. 0.075
B. 27.53 D. 30.15
B. 0.025 D. 0.010
86. A study gives the following results for a total sample size of
77. Solve the remaining side of the spherical triangle whose
6: 10, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15. The mean of the sample is 13. What is
given parts are A = B = 80 deg and a = b = 89 deg.
most nearly the sample standard deviation?
A. 168 deg. 31 min C. 134 deg. 45 min
A. 0.85 C. 1.6
B. 172 deg. 54 min D. 108 deg. 25 min B. 0.90 D. 1.8
78. Find the area of spherical triangle ABC whose parts are A =
87. If 15 people won prizes in the state lottery, in how many
93 deg 40 min, B = 64 deg 12 min, C = 116 deg 51 min with the
ways can these 15 people win first, second, third, fourth, and
radius of the sphere 100 km.
fifth prizes?
A. 15314 km2 C. 13451 km2
A. 4, 845 C. 360, 360
B. 16531 km2 D. 14321 km2
B. 116, 280 D. 3,003
79. If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find the probability
88. If the probability that a missile will hit the target is 3/5, find
that they will just have three heads.
the probability of exactly 4 hits out of 6 tries.
A. 33/128 C. 35/128
A. 0.354 C. 0.422
B. 30/129 D. 37/129
B. 0.311 D. 0.402
80. From a bag containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls, and 10 blue
89. A study has a sample size of 5, a standard deviation of 10.4,
balls, one ball is drawn at random. Determine the probability
and a sample standard deviation of 11.6. What is most nearly
that is red or white.
the variance?
A. 7/12 C. 1/5
A. 46 C. 110
B. 3/4 D. 1/3
B. 52 D. 130
81. A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of getting 3
90. Measurements of the water content of soil from a borrow
tails up?
site are normally distributed with a mean of 14.2% and a
A. 1/8 C. ¼ standard deviation of 2.3%. What is the probability that a
B. 1/16 D. 7/8 sample taken from the site will have a water content above 16%
or below 12%?
82. If the probability that the average freshman will not
complete 5 years of an engineering course is 2/5, what is the A. 0.13 C. 0.37
probability that 4 freshmen at least 3 will complete the 5-year B. 0.25 D. 0.42
course?
91. What is the probability of obtaining a poker hand (5 cards)
containing 2 aces?
A. 0.04 C. 0.08 A. 7/36 C. 1/9
B. 0.14 D. 0.24 B. 1/12 D. 1/4

92. The Arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers are

added to the progression, the new set of numbers will have an
arithmetic mean of 19. What are the two numbers if their
difference is 4?

A. 21, 29 C. 24, 26
B. 23, 27 D. 22, 28

93. There are 10 defectives per 1,000 items of a product in the

long run. What is the probability that there is one and only one
defective in a random lot of 100?

A. 99 x 0.0199 C. 0.99100
B. 0.01 D. 0.9999

94. A pair of fair dice is thrown independently three times.

What is the probability of getting a score of exactly 9 twice?

A. 1/2 C. 8/243
B. 1/9 D. 8/81

95. What is the probability that a player will make exactly 3 of

his next 4 shots if he sunk 50 % of all his shots?

A. 0.25 C. 0.0625
B. 0.125 D. 0.75

96. An anti-aircraft gun can take a maximum of four shots at any

plane moving away from it. The probability of hitting the enemy
plane at 1st, 2nd 3rd, and 4th shots are 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, and 0.1
respectively. What is the probability that at least one shot hits
the plane?

A. 0.0053 C. 0.6976
B. 0.3245 D. 0.9976

97. What is the probability that a number selected at random

from the set of numbers ( 1, 2, 3, ..., 99, 100) is a cube?

A. 1/25 C. 3/25
B. 2/25 D. 4/25

98. There are 7 persons to be seated in a row. What is the

probability that two particular persons are to sit next to each
other?

A. 5/7 C. 4/7
B. 2/7 D. 5/7

99. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The player wins P20.00 if
he rolls either 1 or 6. He loses P10.00 if he turns up any other
face. What is the expected winning for one roll of the die?

A. 40.00 C. P20.00
B. P0.00 D. P10.00

100. Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the
sum shown on the dice is divisible by 5?