MATHEMATHICS

1. What acute angle does a line of slope -2/3 makes with the vertical line?
a. 34 degrees b. 56 degrees c. 72 degrees d. 28 degrees
2. A spherical snowball is melting in such a way that its surface area decreases at the rate of
1in.squared/min. How fast is its volume shrinking when its radius is 3 in?
a. -2/3 b. -3/2 c. -5/2 d. -2/5
3. From a point on a level ground, the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the GMA tower
situated on the top of the hill are measured as 48 degrees and 40 degrees, respectively. Find the
height of the hill if the height of the tower is 116 feet.
a. 348.56m b. 368.36m c. 258.96m d. 358.49m
4. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two partially overlapping circles, each of radius
9m. If the center each circle lies on the circumference of the other, find the perimeter of the
swimming pool.
a. 85.7m b. 75.4m c. 56.5m d. 96.8m
5. A particle moves on a straight line with a velocity v = (4-2t)^3 at time t. Find the distance
travelled from t = 0 to t = 3.
a. 32 b. 36 c. 34 d. 30
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6. The focus of the parabola y =4 x is at :
a. (4,0) b. (1,0) c. (0,4) d. (0,1)
7. Find the relative error in the computed volume of a cube due to an error of 2 percent in
measuring the edge of the cube.
a. 0.05 b. 0.04 c. 0.06 d. 0.07
8. Robin flies to San Francisco from Santa Barbara in 3 hours. He flies back in 2 hours. If the wind
was blowing from the North at a velocity of 40 mph going, but change to 20 mph from the North
returning, what was the airspeed of the plane?
a. 160mph b. 140mph c. 170mph d. 150mph
9. If an altitude of a triangle lies in the exterior of the triangle, the triangle must be
a. acute b. obtuse c. isosceles d. right
10. How do you call the axis of the hyperbola that passes through the center, the foci and vertices?
a. Transverse axis b. conjugate axis c. asympototic axis d. major axis
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11. What is the value of k to make the expression kx −3 kx+ 9 a perfect square?
a. 2 b. 4 c. 3 d. 5
12. If the daily wage of CPM and a Plumber are in the ratio 2:1. In a day, a CPM has to work 8 hours
but the Plumber only 6 hours. Determine the ratio of their hour wages.
a. 4:3 b. 5:3 c. 3:2 d. 8:3
13. It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and twenty minutes the minute hand will be as much as the
hour-hand as it is now behind it. What is the time now?
a. 3:06.36 b. 3:03.66 c. 3:36.06 d. 3:30.66
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14. Determine the diameter of a circle, x + y −6 x +4 y−12=0 .
a. 9 b. 11 c. 12 d. 10
15. The volume of the cube is increasing at a rate of 5 cu. m per minute. Determine the rate at
which the surface area is increasing, in m2/min, when its side is 10 m.
a. 0.5 b. 1.75 c. 1.5 d. 2
16. The roots of the quadratic equation are 1/3 and 3/2. What is the equation?
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a. 6 x + 5 x +3=0 b. 6 x 2−7 x +3=0 c.6 x 2+ 7 x−3=0 d. 6 x 2+ 7 x+3=0
17. The water tank in Calamba Water District can be filled by pipe A in half the time the pipe B can
empty the tank. When both pipes are operating, the tank can be filled in 1 hour and 12 minutes.
Determine the time, in hours, for pipe A to fill the tank alone.
a. 0.6 b. 0.7 c. 0.75 d. 0.8
18. A farmer is to plant rice in a rectangular field 30 meters by 40 meters. He started on the edge
and plant around the perimeter. How wide a strip should he plant for each side in order to do
half the work?
a. 5m b. 2.5m c. 3m d. 5.5m
19. How many terms of the sequence–9,-6,-3, … must be taken so that the sum is 66?
a. 11 b. 6 c. 4 d. 9
20. There are 6 geometric means between 4 and 8748. Find the sum of all terms.
a. 12,310 b. 12,130 c. 13,210 d. 13,120
21. A pole cast a shadow 15-m long when the angle of elevation of the sun is 61°. If the pole has
lean 15° from the vertical directly toward the sun, what is the length of the pole?
a. 54.23m b. 48.64m c. 36.84m d. 64.84m
22. A certain angle has a supplement five times its compliment. What is the angle?
a. 186 b. 168.5 c. 67.5 d. 157.5
23. A 100-kg salt solution originally 4 % by weight salt in water is boiled to reduce water content
until the concentration is 5 % by weight salt. How much water is evaporated?
a. 20 b. 25 c. 15 d. 22.5
24. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 when y = 7 and z = 2, find the value of x
when z = 4 and y = 16.
a. 12 b. 18 c. 14 d. 16
25. A cubical container that measures 50.8 mm on a side is tightly packed with eight marbles and is
filled with water. All eight marbles are in contact with the walls of the container and the
adjacent marbles. All of the marbles are the same size. What is the volume of water in the
container?
a. 131 096.51 mm3 b. 62 454.54 mm3 c. 68 641.97 mm3 d. 131 960.51 mm3
26. Five years ago the father is three times as old as his son. Ten years from now, the father will be
twice as old as his son. How old is the son twelve years from now?
a. 32 b. 20 c. 50 d. 38
27. From the top of tower A, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower B is 46o. From the foot of
tower B the angle of elevation of the top of tower A is 28o. Both towers are on a level ground. If
the height of tower B is 120 m, how high is tower A?
a. 40.7m b. 44.2m c. 42.3m d. 38.6m
28. Determine the distance between the foci of a hyperbola if the lengths of the transverse and
conjugate axes are 10 m and 8 m, respectively.
a. 20.8m b. 12.8m c. 13.8m d. 25.6m
29. Think of a number. Double the number. Subtract 6 from the result and divide the answer by 2.
The quotients will be20. What is the number do you think?
a. 12 b. 20 c. 23 d. 32
30. A cross-section of a trough is a semi-ellipse with width at the top 18cm and depth 12dcm. The
trough is filled with water to a depth of 8cm. Find the width at a surface of the water.
a. 5(sqrt.of 2) cm b. 12(sqrt.of2)cm c. 7(sqrt. of 2)cm d. 6(sqrt.of2)cm
31. A man on a wharf (pier) is pulling a rope tied to a raft at a time rate of 0.60 m/sec if the hands of
the man pulling the rope are 3.66 m above the level of the water, how fast is the raft
approaching the wharf if there are 6.10m of rope out?
a. -0.75m/sec b. -0.35m/sec c. -0.45m/sec d. -0.65m/sec
32. Jeremy ate 3 ounces of a 16-ounce carton of ice cream. What percentage of the carton did he
eat?
a. 18.75% b. 17.35% c. 19.50% d. 16.75%
33. Find the equation of a circle with center at the origin and passes through the point (-3,4).
a. X2+y2=16 b. x2+y2=25 c. x2+y2=9 d. x2+y2=36
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34. If sin ϴ= a and cos ϴ=b then what is the value of sin ϴ-2cosϴ?
I. a2+2 sqrt of b III. b2 + 2sqrt of a
II. a2- sqrt of b IV. b2 – 2sqrt of a
a. I and II only b. III only c. III and IV only d. I only
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35. The parabola defined by the equation 3y + 4x = 0 opens _________________.
a. Upward b. downward c. to the left d. to the right
36. Find the domain of the following function: f(x) = 3x, -6 ≤ x ≤ 8.
a. (-6,8) b. [-18,24] c. (-18,24) d. [-6,8]
37. What is the equation of the directrix of the parabola x2= 4 (y-2)?
a. X= -1 b. x= 1 c. y= -1 d. y=1
38. The velocity attained by an object falling freely a distance h feet rest is given by v=sqrt of (64.4h)
ft/sec. Estimate the error in v due to an error of 0.5 ft when h is measured as 100ft.
a. 0.1 ft/sec b. 0.2 ft/sec c. 0.3 ft/sec d. 0.4 ft/sec
39. The base of an isosceles triangle is 20.4 and the base angles are 48°40’. Find the altitude of the
triangle.
a. 11.6 b. 15.6 c. 15.4 d. 12.8
40. In a certain community of 1,200 people, 60% are literate. Of the males, 50% are literate, and of
the females 70% are literate. What is the female population?
a. 850 b. 500 c. 550 d. 600
41. Equal- sized spheres are contained in a regular tetrahedron (with equilateral triangle for each
Face), such that along of the 6 sides of the tetrahedron, there are 4 spheres in line. How many
total spheres are there?
a. 14 b. 20 c. 22 d. 18
42. If f(x) is a function such that f(x) + 3 f (8-x) =x for all real number x, find the value of f(2).
a. 2 b. 6 c. 0 d. 4
43. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than one is known as:
a. Circle b. parabola c. hyperbola d. ellipse
44. Michael’s favourite cake recipe calls for a 0.75 pounds of flour; he has a 5 pound bag. He wants
to make several cakes for the school bake sale. How many cakes can he make?
a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8
45. A transmitter with a height of 15 m is located on top of a mountain, which is 3.0 km high. What
is the farthest distance on the surface of the earth that can be seen from the top of the
mountain? Take the radius of the earth to be 6400 km.
a. 225km b. 152km c. 196km d. 205km
46. There are a set of triplets. If there are 11 generations, how many ancestors do they have if
duplication is not allowed?
a. 4095 b. 4065 c. 4094 d. 4064
47. A railroad curve is to be laid out on a circle. What radius should be used if the track is to change
direction by 30 degrees in a distance of 300m?
a. 566m b. 592m c. 573m d. 556m
48. Points (6, -2) and (a, 6) are on a line with a slope of 4/3. What is the value of a?
a. -2 b. 4.5 c. 9 d. 12
49. The volume of the sphere is 36pi cu.m. The surface area of this sphere in sq.m is:
a. 36pi b. 24pi c. 18pi d. 12pi
50. A vendor goes to market to buy fruit for resale at his store. He spends half his money for
mangoes, and one-third of what remains for bananas. He spends 150 for other fruits and still
has 200 left from the amount he originally had. How much money did he have at the start?
a. 1050 b. 5100 c. 1500 d. 1250
51. A ball, 5 ft in diameter, rolls up an incline of 18deg20sec. What is the height of the center of the
ball above the base of the incline when the ball has rolled up 5ft up the incline?
a. 3ft b. 5ft c. 4ft d. 6ft
52. Lines L1 and L2 are perpendicular that intersect at the point (2, 3). If L1 passes through the point
(0,2), then line L2 must pass through the point
a. (0, 3) b. (1, 1) c. (3, 1) d. (5, 0)
53. If a is a simple constant, what is the derivative of y = xa?
a. ax a−1 b. ( a−1 ) x c. x a−1 d. ax
54. Anne has two containers for water: A rectangular plastic box with a base of 16 square inches,
and a cylindrical container with a radius of 2 inches and a height of 11 inches. If the rectangular
box is filled with water 9 inches from the bottom, and Anne pours the water into the cylinder
without spilling, which of the following will be true?
a. The cylinder will overflow.
b. The cylinder will be filled to an approximate level of 10 inches.
c. The cylinder will be exactly full.
 d. The cylinder will be filled to an approximate level of 8 inches.

55. A chemist mixed a solution that was 34% acid with another solution that was 18% acid to
produce a 30-ounce solution that was 28% acid. How much of the 34% acid solution did he use?
a. 27 b. 11.25 c. 18.75 d. 28
56. On a particular morning, the temperature went up to 1 degree every 2 hours. If the temperature
was 53 degrees at 5 A.M. at what time was it 57 degrees?
a. 12P.M b. 8 A.M c. 1 P.M d. 7A.M
57. Find the distance of the directrix of the ellipse from its center if the equation of the ellipse if
64x^2+100y^2 = 6400.
a. 52/3 b. 55/3 c. 50/3 d. 56/3
2 5 2
58. If sec A= , then1−sin A=¿
2
a. 0.20 b. 0.30 c. 0.40 d. 0.50
59. If the second term of geometric progression is 6 and the fourth term is 54, how many terms
must be taken for their sum to equal 242?
a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7
60. Find the harmonic mean of 3, 3, and 6.
a. 3.6 b. 2.6 c. 4.6 d. 5.6
61. The chord passing through the focus of the parabola and is perpendicular to its axis is termed as:
a. axis b. latus rectum c. directrix d. translated axis
x 6x
62. If 8 =3 , find the value 2 .
a. 8 b. 9 c. 6 d. 4
63. A man rows upstream and back in 12 hours. If the rate of the current is 1.5kph and that of the
man in still water is 4kph, what was the time spent downstream?
a. 2.75hrs b. 3.75hrs c. 1.75hrs d. 4.75hrs
64. Given a conic section, if B^2-4AC > 0, it is called?
a. circle b. parabola c. hyperbola d. ellipse
65. If tan x = ½, tan y = 1/3, what is the value of tan (x+y)?
a. 1 b. 2/3 c. 2 d.1/2