Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI - Western Visayas
Schools Division of Silay City
District IX
NAPILAS INTEGRATED SCHOOL
City of Silay

SECOND QUARTER EXAMINATION

S. Y. 2019 – 2020

General Mathematics 11

I. Multiple Choices. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. What do you call to the person who or institution that invest the money or makes the funds
available?
a. Creditor b. Debtor c. Borrower d. Comaker

2. It is the amount of money borrowed or invested on the origin date.

a. Interest b. Principal c. Maturity Value d. Balance

3. It is the amount paid or earned for the use of money.

a. Interest b. Principal c. Maturity Value d. Balance

4. It is the interest that is computed on the principal amount and then added to it.
a. Maturity Value b. Simple c. Compound d. Complex

5. It is the interest that is computed on the principal amount and also on the accumulated past
interest.
a. Maturity Value b. Simple c. Compound d. Complex

6. It is type of logarithm with base 10.

a. Proper logarithm c. Common Logarithm
b. Natural Logarithm d. Inverse Logarithm

7. Rewrite log 5 125 = 3 in exponential form.

a. 53 = 125 b. 35 = 125 c. 1253 = 5 d. 1255 = 3

8. Rewrite 102 = 100 in logarithmic form.

a. log 2 100 = 10 b. log 2 10 = 100 c. log 2 = 100 d. log 100 = 2

9. Evaluate 𝑓(𝑥) = 3𝑥 at 𝑥 = −2.

1 1
a. 9 b. -9 c. 9
d. − 9

10. What is log 10?

a. 1 b. 2 c. 5 d. 10

11. Find log 5 1.

a. 0 b. 1 c. -1 d. 5

12. Find log 4 64.

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5

13. What is 5log5 2 ?

a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3

14. Solve the equation 4𝑥−1 = 16.

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
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15. Solve the equation 125𝑥−1 = 25𝑥+3 .
a. 3 b. 6 c. 9 d. 12
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16. Find the log 10𝑥 .
a. 𝑥 b. 𝑥 2 c. 𝑥 3 d. 𝑥 4

17. Solve the equation log 4 2𝑥 = log 4 10.

a. 2 b. 4 c. 5 d. 10

18. Solve the equation log 3 (2𝑥 − 1) = 2.

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5

19. Solve the exponential equation 3𝑥 = 81.

a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5

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20. Solve the exponential equation 7𝑥 = 49.
a. 2 b. -2 c. 7 d. -7

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21. The log 5 (125) is equal to _______________.
a. 3 b. -3 c. 5 d. -5

22. If an invested amount is compounded semi-annually, what is the frequency of conversion?

a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4

23. Solve for 𝑥 in log 4 𝑥 = 3?

a. 8 b. 16 c. 32 d. 64

24. log 3 𝑎2 is equal to _______________.

a. (log 3 𝑎)2 b. 3 log 𝑎2 c. 2 log 3 𝑎 d. 3log 2 𝑎

25. A bank offers 0.25% annual simple interest rate for a particular deposit. How much interest
will be earned if 1 million pesos is deposited in this savings account for 1 year?
a. Php 250, 000.00 b. Php 25, 000.00 c. Php 2, 500.00 d. Php 250.00

26. At 𝑡 = 0, there were initially 20 bacteria. Suppose that the bacteria doubles every 100
hours, write an exponential model for the bacteria as a function of 𝑡.
𝑡 100
a. 𝑦 = 20(2)100 c. 𝑦 = 20(2) 𝑡
𝑡 100
b. 𝑦 = 2(20)100 d. 𝑦 = 2(20) 𝑡

27. Using the problem in no. 26, what is the number of bacteria after 300 hours?
a. 40 b. 80 c. 160 d. 320

28. Suppose the half-life of a certain radioactive substance is 10 days and there are 10g
initially, give an exponential model for the amount of remaining substance after 𝑡 days.
𝑡 10
1 10 1 𝑡
a. a. 𝑦 = 10 (2) c. 𝑦 = 10 (2)
𝑡
10
1 10 1
b. 𝑦 = 2 (2) d. 𝑦 = 2 (10) 𝑡

29. Using the problem in no. 28, determine the amount of substance remaining after 30 days.
a. 10 grams b. 5 grams c. 2.5 grams d. 1.25 grams

30. When invested at an annual interest rate of 7%, the amount earned is Php 11, 200.00 of
simple interest in 2 years. How much money was originally invested?
a. Php 120, 000.00 c. Php 80, 000.00
b. Php 100, 000.00 d. Php 60, 000.00

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II. Write the following logarithmic expressions as a single logarithm.

31. log 𝑎 + 2log 𝑏

32. log 2 4 − log 2 𝑥
33. log 5 7 + 3 log 5 𝑥 + 2 log 5 𝑦 − 2 log 5 𝑎 − log 5 𝑧

III. Expand the following logarithmic expressions as the sum or difference of two or more
logarithms.

34. log 2 3𝑦
4𝑎
35. log 2
𝑏
8𝑎2 𝑏3
36. log 5 𝑥𝑦 2

IV. Complete the table below by finding the unknown variable in a simple interest.

Principal (𝑃) Rate (𝑟) Time (𝑡) Interest (𝐼𝑠 )

(37) 2.5% 4 1, 500
36, 000 (38) 1.5 4, 860
250, 000 0.5% (39) 245
500, 000 12.5% 10 (40)

V. Solve and decide!

Problem:

Mr. Marvin Balintang, as a business-minded person, wanted to start a poultry business

but has a financial problem. He went to different banks to try if he can borrow Php 100, 000.00
as initial capital to start his business. The following are the loan details of 4 different banks.

Bank Principal Amount Interest Rate Interest Term

Compounded
BDO Php 100, 000.00 12% Annually 3 years
BPI Php 100, 000.00 6% Semi-annually 5 years
Metrobank Php 100, 000.00 7.5% Quarterly 3 years
PNB Php 100, 000.00 3.5% Monthly 6 years

If you are a concern neighbor of Mr. Balintang, which of the following banks is more
favorable to suggest to him. Explain comprehensively.

Please refer the rubric on the next page for scoring your answer.

“The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself…

The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.”
- Warren Buffet

______________________ God Bless! ______________________

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Rubric for Scoring:

CATEGORY 10 8 6 4 Score

Explanation Explanation
Explanation Explanation
shows shows very
shows complete shows some
substantial limited
understanding of understanding of
understanding of understanding of
the the
Mathematical Concepts the the underlying
mathematical mathematical
mathematical concepts needed
concepts used to concepts needed
concepts used to to solve the
solve the to solve the
solve the problem(s) OR is
problem(s). problem(s).
problem(s). not written.
Uses complex
Uses effective Some evidence Little evidence of
and refined
Mathematical Reasoning mathematical of mathematical mathematical
mathematical
reasoning reasoning. reasoning.
reasoning.
Almost all (85-
90-100% of the Most (75-84%) More than 75%
89%) of the
steps and of the steps and of the steps and
steps and
Mathematical Errors solutions have solutions have solutions have
solutions have
no mathematical no mathematical mathematical
no mathematical
errors. errors. errors.
errors.
Explanation is
difficult to
Explanation is a
understand and
Explanation is little difficult to
Explanation is is missing
Explanation detailed and understand, but
clear. several
clear. includes critical
components OR
components.
was not
included.

The work is The work

The work is The work is
presented in a appears sloppy
presented in a presented in an
neat and and
Neatness and neat, clear, organized
organized unorganized. It
Organization organized fashion but may
fashion that is is hard to know
fashion that is be hard to read
usually easy to what information
easy to read. at times.
read. goes together.

All but one of All but two of Several of the

All problems are
Completion the problems are the problems are problems are not
completed.
completed. completed. completed.

Correct Correct
Correct
terminology and terminology and There is little
terminology and
notation are notation are use, or a lot of
Mathematical notation are
usually used, used, but it is inappropriate
Terminology and always used,
making it fairly sometimes not use, of
Notation making it easy to
easy to easy to terminology and
understand what
understand what understand what notation.
was done.
was done. was done.

Sometimes uses
Typically, uses
Typically, uses an effective Rarely uses an
an efficient and
an effective strategy to solve effective
Strategy/Procedures effective
strategy to solve problems, but strategy to solve
strategy to solve
the problem(s). does not do it problems.
the problem(s).
consistently.

Total

Average
(Note: If with
decimal part,
round up)

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