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Michaels College College of Education

Preliminary Examination
CCME 01 First Semester [July 6, 2015]

C.

100
101

D.

3
6

Directions: Read each statement carefully then, choose

the letter of the best answer.
1. What numbers that follow one another without
interruptions?
A. counting numbers
B. natural numbers
C. integers
D. consecutive numbers

15. Which fraction is reduced to its simplest

expression?
A. 21/14
B. 32/48
C. 31/35
D. 28/58

2. Which of the following is a decimal fraction?

A.
B. 2/10
C.
D. 1/4

16. The expression 5 ( 7 + 2 ) = 5 (7) + 5 (2) is an

example of what property?
A. Distributive Property
B. Commutative Property of Addition
C. Commutative Property of Multiplication
D. Associative Property of Multiplication

3. What are positive and negative numbers referred

to?
A. real numbers
B. rational numbers
C. natural
D. signed numbers
4. Which is the set of natural numbers?
A.{ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,)
B. {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, }
C. {-1,0,1,2,3,}
D. { 1,2,3,4,-5,}

5. Any number which can be written in the form

m
n

, where m and n are integers and n 0, is can be

referred to what number?
A. irrational number
B. rational number
C. integers
D. real numbers
6. The following are examples of rational numbers
except which number below?
A. 5
B. 0.131331331
C. 7.25
D. 24
7. What is the result when 4 is added to 2 ?
A. 24
B. 14
C. 6
D. 20
8. How much larger is 25 than the product of -12 and
-2 ?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
9. What property justifies the statement of equality in
y+2=2+y?
A. Associative
B. Identity
C. Commutative
D. Distributive

17. Which of the following is a mixed number?

A. 0.43
B. 4
C. 2/3
D.
18. Evaluate 20 2 { 5 [ 3 5 (6 2)] }.
A. 24
B. -24
C. 20
D. -20
19. Solve: 13 x = 103. What does x stand for?
A. x =90
B. x =116
C. x = -116
D. x = -90

20. Find

3
16

simplest form?
A.
C. 15/16

5
16 . What is the sum in the
B.
D. 3/5

21. Solve the equation 6 (-8) = b. What is the

difference?
A. 2
B. -2
C. 12
D. 14
22. Which of the following number is not a prime
number?
A. 13
B. 37
C. 49
D. 67
23.In the equation 725 543 = 182, what is 182?
A. the quotient
B. the difference
C. the sum
D. the product

10. What number is neither prime nor composite?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3

24. Which set contains the first 6 counting numbers?

A. X = {0,1,2,3,4,5}
B. X ={0,2,4,6,8,10}
C.X = {1,3,5,7,9,11}
D. X ={1,2,3,4,5,6}

11. How many prime numbers are there between 1 and

100?
A. 20
B. 25
C. 30
D. 35

25. What do 2,3,5,7 represent in the following

example: 210 = 2 x 3 x 5 x 7 ?
A. the factors of 210
B. the numbers of 210
C. the multiples of 210
D. the products of 210

12. Tim is baking an apple pie. He needs 9 apples to

make one pie. If Tim has 100 apples, about how many
pies can he make?
A. 10
B. 100
C. 1000
D. 1

26. 535, 647, 178, 591, 223, and 344 are examples of
what number?
A. two-digit number
B. three-digit number
C. one-digit number
D. four digit number

13. It serves as the identity element of addition. Which

number below satisfies this property?
A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. 3
14. Which is an improper fraction?
A.

B.

9
8

27. Find the answer: 7123 190 = ___. What is the

result?
A. 6834
B. 6933
C. 6399
D. 6393
28. What is the smallest multiple of 6 and 9 ?
A. 27
B. 54
C. 18
D. 36
29. What is the biggest common factor of 60 and 85?
A. 15
B. 5
C. 25
D. 20

30. The absolute value of a positive number is a

positive number. The absolute value of a negative
number is a positive number. What conclusion can we
make about the absolute value of a number?
A. never negative
B. always negative
C. sometimes negative
D. seldom negative

42. What is 12 3 + 24 6 x 3?
A. 18
B. 28
C. 21
D. 24

31. Sarah works in a kitchen and makes breakfast. It

takes her about 4 1/2 minutes to make a meal. If she
has to make 12 meals, about how long will this take
her?
A. 60 minutes
B. 2 hours
C. 30 minutes
D. 45 minutes

43.Simplify 7 7 x 2 + 5 4.
A. 19
B. 17
C. 18
D. 15

32. Find all of the common factors of 16 and 75.

A. 1
B. 3
C. 1 and 8
D. 1 and 3

A. 5

33. Seth wants to cover a floor measuring 30 m by 36

m with square tiles of the same size. What would be
the largest possible length of each side?
A. 6m
B. 4m
C. 5m
D. 3m
34. What is the composite product of the prime
factors 2, 3, 5 and 7?
A. 21
B. 120
C. 105
D. 210
35. How many positive multiples of 15 are there less
than 100?
A. 6
B. 5
C. 7
D. 4

44. Which of the following is NOT a rational number?

C.

B.

5
9

45. Divide. 27.36 5.7.

A. 0.48
C. 4.8

23

D.

B. 4.81
D. 48

46. Jenny uses 10 1/2 cups of flour to make 30

servings of a recipe. How many flour will she need to
make 1 serving of the same recipe?
A.315

C.

20
7

B.

7
20

60
21

D.

36. Which describes relationships between numbers

and the operations being used ?
A. Equation
B. Inequality
C. Expression
D. Exponent

47. The repeating decimal 7.3232 lies between which

37.What is the numerical expression of Seven added

to the product of two and nine ?
A. (7 x 2) + 9
B. 7 + (2 x 9)
C. 7 + (2 + 9)
D. (2 x 9) - 7

48. Which of the following is NOT considered to be an

38. What is a number sentence having two equal

quantities?
A. exponent
B. Equation
C. Expression
D. Inequality
39. What is meant by 5 ?
A. 2 x 5
C. 5 x 5

B. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2
D. 5 + 5

40. What is 3 in 7 ?
A. Power
C. Equation

B. Exponent
D. Base

41. What is 15 in 15 ?
A. Exponent
C. Equation

B. Base
D. Power

42. Evaluate the expression 18 12 4

A. 12
B. 18
C. 15
D. 6.5
43. What is 167 + 3 x 9 ?
A. 194
C. 1563

two numbers on the number line?

A. 7.3 and 7.32
B. 7.32 and 7.34
C. 7.2 and 7.3
D. 7.0 and 7.32
approximation of pi?
A.

22
7

C.

44
14

44. Evaluate the expression 6 + (2 x 7 + 5).

A. 40
B. 35
C. 75
D. 45
41.What is (38 9) + 6 (4 x 3)?
A. 30
B. 32
C. 35
D. 40

355
113

D.

24
7

47. The repeating decimal 7.3232 lies between which

two numbers on the number line?

A. 7.3 and 7.32
B. 7.32 and 7.34
C. 7.2 and 7.3
D. 7.0 and 7.32
48. Car A covers a distance of 250 miles in 7 hours.
Another Car B covers 400 miles in 11 hours. Which
one is faster?
A. car A
B. car B
C. neither
D. both
49. The following is part of the list of multiples of 6.
What are the two missing values?...48, 54, __, __, 72,.
A. 60 and 66
C. 58 and 64

B. 630
D.104

B.

B. 62 and 68
D. 60 and 64

50. Which is the least common multiple of the

following three numbers: 4, 6 and 9?
A. 36
B. 24
C. 54
D. 12
ESSAY (5 points each)

1. What is your ideal learning environment for

Mathematics education?
2. What skills in Mathematics do you develop
among your pupils?
3. What are the strategies that you will use in
teaching Mathematics?

4. What do you want your pupils to become and

what values do you want them to possess?
Prepared by Enerio E. Ebisa, Ph.D.
#2014 Metrobank Outstanding Teacher of the Philippines