1. Students A and B are requested to solve the same quadratic equation.

Student A misread the linear term and gets the roots 3 and 8. Student B
misreads the constant term and gets the roots 1 and 5. Find the equation.
2

a.

x 2 x +5=0

b.

x 26 x+ 24=0

2. If

log 2 m=x

and

x +3 x +24=0

c.

d.

log 2 n= y , then

mn

x +y

a.

b.

2x y

3. Find

a.

x=

log b
loga2logc3logb

b.

x=

log b
logalogc3 logb

x=

log b
loga2logclogb

x 2+3 x5=0

c.
d.
x

from the equation a c

2 x

x+ y

x y

=b3 x +1 .
c.

x=

3 log b
loga2logclogb

d.

4. An experienced worker can unload a truck in one hour forty minutes. When
he works together with a trainee, they can unload the truck in one hour. How
long would the trainee need to unload the truck if he works alone.
a. 2.5 hrs
b. 5 hrs

c. 7.5 hrs
d. 3.5 hrs

5. With a wind of 15 km/hr, an airplane can travel 1,325 km. In the same time,
the plane can travel 1,175 km against the same wind. Find the speed in
km/hr, of the plane in still air.
a. 260
b. 250

c. 240
d. 280

6. A cyclist traveled a certain distance at her usual speed. If her speed had been
2 mi/hr faster, she could have travelled the distance in 1 hr less time. If her
speed had been 2 mi/hr slower, she would have taken 2 hr longer. Find her
usual speed.
a. 6 mph
b. 7mph

c. 8 mph
d. 9 mph

7. A boatman rows to a place 48 miles distance and back in 14 hours. He finds

that he can row 4 miles with the stream in the same time as 3 miles against
the stream. Find the rate of the stream.
a. 2 mph
c. 3 mph
b. 1 mph
d. 4 mph

8. A boat going across a lake 8km wide proceeds 2km at a certain speed and
then completes the trip at a speed kph faster. By doing this, the boat
arrives 10 minutes earlier than if the original speed had been maintained.
Find the original speed of the boat.
a. 4kph
b. 5kph

c. 6kph
d. 7kph

9. The electric power which a transmission line can transmit is proportional to

the product of its design voltage and current capacity, and inversely to the
transmission distance. A 115 kV line rate at 1000 A can transmit 150 MW
over 150 km. How much power in MW can 230 kV line rated at 1500 A
transmit over 100 km.
a. 675 MW
b. 765 MW

c. 576 MW
d. 567 MW

10.In a research pond, 80 fish were caught, tagged and return to the pond. A few
days later, 100 were caught, of which 4 fish were found to have been tagged.
If the fractional part of the tagged fish in the second catch approximates the
fractional part of the tagged fish in the pond, how many fish are there in the
pond.
a. 2000 fish
b. 5000 fish
11.If p

is an odd number and q

c. 3000 fish
d. 1500 fish
is an even number, which of the following

expressions must be even?

a.

p+q

c.

pq

b.

pq

d.

p/q

12.The pressure of the wind on a sail varies jointly as the area of the sail and the
square of the winds velocity. When the wind is 15 miles per hour, the
pressure on a square foot is one pound. What is the velocity of the wind when
the pressure on a square yard is 25 pounds?
a. 25 mph
b. 20 mph

c. 15 mph
d. 18 mph

13.Marlon has a total of 33 goats and chickens. If the total of their feet is 90,
how many goats does Marlon have?
a. 24
b. 8

c. 7
d. 12

14.The ratio of men to women in a certain party was 5:3. Twenty-four men got
drunk and decided to leave the party. When twenty-four more women joined
the party, the ratio between men to women was interchanged, how many
men were left in the party?
a. 24
c. 36
b. 15
d. 42
15.A Chinese writer Sun Tsu Pao put these words into the mouth of a woman
washing dishes in the river. I dont know how many guests there were but
every two used a dish for rice between them, every three a dish for broth and
every four a dish for meat and there were 65 dishes in all. How many guests
were there?
a. 50
b. 60

c. 70
d. 80

16.A ________ is a function that can be written as the ratio of two polynomials
where the denominator isnt zero.
a. Trivial Function
b. Irrational Function

c. Rational Function
d. Step Function

17.Every polynomial in one variable of degree n, n>0, has at least one real or
complex zero.
a.
b.
c.
d.

Corollary to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

Remainder Theorem
Descartes Rule of Signs
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

18.When a polynomial function f is divided by x k, the remainder r is f(k).

a.
b.
c.
d.

Descartes Rule of Signs

Remainder Theorem
Number Theory
Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

19.Two or more lines are said to be ________ if they intersect in a single point.

a. Parallel
b. Concurrent
c. Collinear
d. Perpendicular
20.The chord through a focus parallel to the directrix of a conic section section is
called the ________.
a. Trisectrix
b. Major Axis
c. Latus Rectum
d. Asymptote