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Preliminary Examination
MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
A.Y. 2018-2019; 2nd SEMESTER
Name: Date:
Course: Score:

MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. Shade the letter of the
correct answer. If applicable, show your solutions on the space provided.

Items 1 – 10: (1 point each)

1. Regular, repeated or recurring forms or designs that refer to usual types of procedures or rules that can
be followed.
a. Sequence c. Patterns
b. Growth d. Symmetry

2. The quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis. It is exhibited
when two or more parts are identical after a flip, slide or turn.
a. Symmetry c. Rotation
b. Patterns d. Flexibility

3. The ratio of two consecutive terms of the series that was discovered by Leonardo Fibonacci, which has
a value of 1.618.
a. Fibonacci Sequence c. Pi
b. Phi d. The amazing ratio

4. This term in mathematics that applies to sentences which means to get a different name for the
expression, which in some way is simpler.
a. Synonym c. Sentence
b. Simplify d. Similarity

5. It is a basic concept of mathematics which means a collection of objects.

a. Variables c. Ordered pairs
b. Functions d. Sets

6. It is a correct arrangement of mathematical symbols that states a complete thought.

a. Expression c. Sentence
b. Equation d. Noun

7. The smallest angle that a figure can be rotated while preserving the original formation.
a. Angle of rotation c. Angle of order
b. Angle of incidence d. Angle of symmetry

8. Type of symmetry that is indicated when you can draw an imaginary line across an object and the
resulting parts are mirror images of each other.
a. Rotational c. Circular
b. Bilateral d. Ordered

9. It is a correct arrangement of mathematical symbols used to represent a mathematical object of

interest.
a. Expression c. Equation
b. Sentence d. Noun

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10. The most popular “verb” used in mathematical sentences.

a.  c. 
b.  d. 

Items 11 – 30: (2 points each)

11. What completes the following pattern?

CSD, ETF, GUH, __ __ __, KWL
a. HIJ c. TUV
b. IXM d. IVJ

12. What number comes next?

1, 8, 27, 64, 125, ___
a. 216 c. 275
b. 220 d. 260

13. Which figure completes the series?

a. c.

b. d.

14. Which figure completes the statement?

a. c.

b. d.

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Tel. No: 820-4276/ Telefax: 829-8615
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15. What type of symmetry does the figure have? If applicable, what is its angle of rotation?

a. Bilateral, no angle c. 6-fold rotational, 60°

b. 4-fold rotational, 60° d. 6-fold rotational, 45°

For items 16 – 17: The exponential growth model A  30e0.02t describes the population of a city in the
Philippines in thousands, t years after 2018.

16. What is the current population of the city?

a. 0 c. 300
b. 30 d. Cannot be determined.

17. What is the population growth rate of the city?

a. 2% c. 0.2%
b. 0.02% d. 20%

For items 18 – 20:

Complete the table. Choose your answer from the following:
a. 23.5 c. 1.5
b. 1.7 d. 1.8

ITEM LENGTH WIDTH RATIO

Index Card (18) 1.1 m 1.64
Picture Frame 8.5 in. 5 in. (19)
Monitor 38 cm (20) 1.62

For items 21 – 30, classify the following as an EXPRESSION or a SENTENCE. For each sentence, determine
if it is true, false or sometimes true/sometimes false. Choose your answers from the following:
a. Expression c. False sentence
b. True sentence d. Sometimes true/sometimes false sentence

1 26. x  3  2
21.
2 27. 1  2  x  x  1  2
22. x  1 28. 0  1
23. x  1  3 29. x 2  3  9
24. 1  2  x 30. x  0
25. x  3

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Tel. No: 820-4276/ Telefax: 829-8615
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