ALGEBRA 1: Fundamentals (50 Items) B.

(-2x-y)2
C. (-2x+y)2
1. (ME Board) D. –(2x-y)2
Change 0.222… common fraction.
A. 2/10 9. Factor x4 – y2 + y – x2 as completely as possible.
B. 2/9 A. (x2 + y)(x2 + y -1)
C. 2/13 B. (x2 + y)(x2 – y -1)
D. 2/7 C. (x2 -y)(x2 – y -1)
D. (x2 -y)(x2 + y -1)
2. (ME Board)
Change 0.2272722… to a common fraction. 10. (ME April 1996)
A. 7/44 Factor the expression x2 + 6x + 8 as completely as
B. 5/48 possible.
C. 5/22 A. (x+8)(x-2)
D. 9/34 B. (x+4)(x+2)
C. (x+4)(x-2)
3. (ME Board) D. (x-8)(x-2)
What is the value of 7! or 7 factorial?
A. 5040 11. (ME October 1997)
B. 2540 Factor the expression x3 + 8.
C. 5020 A. (x-2)(x2+2x+4)
D. 2520 B. (x+4)(x2+2x+2)
C. (-x+2)(-x2+2x+2)
4. (ME October 1994) D. (x+2)(x2-2x+4)
The reciprocal of 20 is:
A. 0.50 12. (ME October 1997)
B. 20 Factor the expression (x4 – y4) as completely as
C. 0.20 possible.
D. 0.05 A. (x+y)(x2+2xy+y)
B. (x2+y2)(x2-y2)
5. If p is an odd number and q is an even number, which C. (x2+y2)(x+y)(x-y)
of the following expressions must be even? D. (1+x2)(1+y)(1-y2)
A. p+q
B. p-q 13. (ME October 1997)
C. pq Factor the expression 3×3+3×2-18x as completely as
D. p/q possible.
A. 3x(x+2)(x-3)
6. (ECE March 1996) B. 3x(x-2)(x+3)
MCMXCIV is a Roman Numeral equivalent to: C. 3x(x-3)(x+6)
A. 2974 D. (3×2-6x)(x-1)
B. 3974
C. 2174 14. (ME April 1998)
D. 1994 Factor the expression 16 – 10x + x2.
A. (x+8)(x-2)
7. (ECE April 1998) B. (x-8)(x-2)
What is the lowest common factor of 10 and 32? C. (x-8)(x+2)
A. 320 D. (x+8)(x+2)
B. 2
C. 180 15.Factor the expression x6 – 1 as completely as
D. 90 possible.
A. (x+1)(x-1)(x4+x2-1)
8. 4xy – 4×2 –y2 is equal to: B. (x+1)(x-1)(x4+2×2+1)
A. (2x-y)2 C. (x+1)(x-1)(x4-x2+1)
D. (x+1)(x-1)(x4+x2+1) C. 3
D. 4
16. What are the roots of the equation (x-4)2(x+2) =
(x+2)2(x-4)? 23. When (x+3)(x-4) + 4 is divided by x – k, the
A. 4 and -2 only remainder is k. Find the value of k.
B. 1 only A. 4 or 2
C. -2 and 4 only B. 2 or -4
D. 1, -2, and 4 only C. 4 or -2
D. -4 or -2
17. If f(x) = x2 + x + 1, then f(x) – f(x-1) =
A. 0 24. Find k in the equation 4×2 + kx + 1 = 0 so that it will
B. x only have one real root.
C. 2x A. 1
D. 3 B. 2
C. 3
18. Which of the following is not an identity? D. 4
A. (x-1)2 = x2-2x+1
B. (x+3)(2x-2) = 2(x2+2x-3) 25. Find the remainder when (x12 + 2) is divided by (x –
C. x2-(x-1)2 = 2x-1 √3)
D. 2(x-1)+3(x+1) = 5x+4 A. 652
B. 731
19. (ME October 1997) C. 231
Solve for x: 4 + ((x + 3)/(x – 3)) – ((4×2)/(x2 – 9)) = ((x + D. 851
9)/(x + 3)) .
A. -18 = -18 26. (CE November 1997)
B. 12 = 12 or -3 = -3 If 3×3 – 4x2y + 5xy2 + 6y3 is divided by (x2 – 2xy + 3y2),
C. Any value the remainder is
D. -27 = -27 or 0 = 0 A. 0
B. 1
20. (ME October 1997) C. 2
Solve the simultaneous equations: 3x – y = 6; 9x – y = D. 3
12.
A. x = 3; y = 1 27. (CE November 2007 & May 1999)
B. x = 1; y = -3 If (4y3 + 8y + 18y2 – 4) is divided by (2y + 3), the
C. x = 2; y = 2 remainder is:
D. x = 4; y = 2 A. 10
B. 11
21. (ME April 1998) C. 12
Solve algebraically: D. 13
4×2 + 7y2 = 32
11y2 – 3×2 = 41 28. (ECE April 1999)
A. y = 4, x = ±1 and y = -4, x = ±1 Given f(x) = (x+3)(x-4) + 4 when divided by (x-k), the
B. y = +2, x = ±1 and y = -2, x = ±1 remainder is k. Find k.
C. x = 2, y = 3 and x = -2, y = -3 A. 2
D. x = 2, y = -2 and x = 2, y = -2 B. 3
C. 4
22. (CE May 1997) D. -3
Solve for w from the following equations:
3x – 2y + w = 11 29. (EE March 1998)
x + 5y – 2w = -9 The polynomial x3 + 4×2 -3x + 8 is divided by x-5. What
2x + y – 3w = -6 is the remainder?
A. 1 A. 281
B. 2 B. 812
C. 218 38. (ME April 1996)
D. 182 Solve the simultaneous equations:
y – 3x + 4 = 0
30. Find the quotient of 3×5 – 4×3 + 2×2 + 36x + 48 y + x2/y = 24/y
divided by x3 – 2×2 + 6. A. x = (-6 + 2√14)/5 or (-6 – 2√14)/5
A. -3×2 – 4x + 8 y = (2 + 6√14)/5 or (-2 + 6√14)/5
B. 3×2 + 4x + 8 B. x = (6 + 2√15)/5 or (6 – 2√15)/5
C. 3×2 – 4x – 8 y = (-2 + 6√14)/5 or (-2 – 6√15)/5
D. 3×2 + 6x + 8 C. x = (6 + 2√14)/5 or (6 – 2√14)/5
y = (-2 + 6√14)/5 or (-2 – 6√14)/5
31. If 1/x = a + b and 1/y = a – b, then x – y is equal to: D. x = (6 + 2√14)/5 or (6 – 2√14)/5
A. 1/2a y = (-6+ 2√14)/5 or (-6 + 2√14)/5
B. 1/2b
C. 2a/(a2 – b2) 39. (CE May 1996)
D. 2b/(a2 – b2) Find the value of A in the equation. ((x2 = 4x + 10)/(x3 +
2×2 + 5x)) = A/x + ((B(2x + 2))/(x2 + 2x + 5)) + (C/(x2 + 2x
32. If x-1/x = 1, find the value of x3 – 1/x3. + 5))
A. 1 A. 2
B. 2 B. -2
C. 3 C. -1/2
D. 4 D. ½

33. If 1/x + 1/y = 3 and 2/x – 1/y = 1. Then x is equal to: 40. Find A and B such that ((x + 10)/(x2 – 4)) = (A/(x – 2))
A. ½ + (B/(x + 2))
B. 2/3 A. A = -3; B = 2
C. ¾ B. A = -3; B = -2
D. 4/3 C. A = 3; B = 2
D. A = 3; B = 2
34. Simplify the following expression: ((5x)/(2×2 + 7x +
3)) – ((x + 3)/(2×2 – 3x – 2)) + ((2x + 1)/(x2 + 6 – 6)). 41. (ME October 1996)
A. 2/(x-3) Resolve ((x + 2)/(x2 – 7x + 12) into partial fraction.
B. (x-3)/5 A. (6/(x – 4)) – (2/(x – 3))
C. (x+3)/(x-1) B. (6/(x – 4)) + (7/(x – 3))
D. 4/(x+3) C. (6/(x – 4)) – (5/(x – 3))
D. (6/(x – 4)) + (5/(x – 3))
35. If 3x = 4y then ((3×2)/(4y2)) is equal to:
A. ¾ 42. (ECE April 1998)
B. 4/3 The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two
C. 2/3 numbers namely 250 and 850 are removed what is the
D. 3/2 arithmetic mean of the remaining numbers?
A. 42.31
36. Simplify: (a+1/a)2 – (a – 1/a)2. B. 57.12
A. -4 C. 50
B. 0 D. 38.62
C. 4
D. -2/a2 43. (ECE April 1998)
The arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers
37. (ECE November 1996) are added to the progression, the new set of number
The quotient of (x5 + 32) by (x + 2) is: will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What are the two
A. x4 – x3 + 8 numbers if their difference is 4?
B. x3 +2×2 – 8x + 4 A. 21, 29
C. x4 – 2×3 + 4×2 – 8x + 16 B. 23, 27
D. x4 + 2×3 + x2 + 16x + 8 C. 24, 26
D. 22, 28 ALGEBRA 2: Quadratic Equations, Binomial
Theorem & Logarithms (50 Items)
44. If 2x – 3y = x + y, then x2 : y2 =
A. 1:4 1. If ((log10x)/(1 – log102)) = 2, what is the value of z?
B. 4:1 A. ¼
C. 1:16 B. 25
D. 16:1 C. 4
D. 5
45. If 1/a :1/b : 1/c = 2 : 3 : 4, then (a + b + c) : (b + c) is
equal to: 2. (EE October 1992)
A. 13:7 Solve for x: log 6 + x log 4 = log 4 + log (32 + 4x)
B. 15:6 A. 1
C. 10:3 B. 2
D. 7:9 C. 3
D. 4
46. Find the mean proportional to 5 and 20.
A. 8 3. Which of the following cannot be used as a base of a
B. 10 system of logarithm?
C. 12 A. e
D. 14 B. 10
C. 2
47. Find the fourth proportional of 7, 12, and 21. D. 1
A. 36
B. 34 4. If log5.21000 = x, what is the value of x?
C. 32 A. 4.19
D. 40 B. 5.23
C. 3.12
48. (ECE November 1997) D. 4.69
If (x + 3):10 = (3x – 2) : 8, find (2x –1)
A. 1 5. Find the value of a in the equation loga2187 = 7/2.
B. 2 A. 3
C. 3 B. 6
D. 4 C. 9
D. 12
49. Solve for x: -4 < 3x – 1 < 11.
A. 1 < x < -4 6. If log 2 = x and log 3 = y, find log 1.2.
B. -1< x < 4 A. 2x + y
C. 1 < x < 4 B. 2xy/10
D. -1 < x < -4 C. 2x + y – 1
D. xy – 1
50. Solve for x: x2 + 4x > 12.
A. -6 > x > 2 7. ((logxy)/logyx)) is equal to:
B. 6 > x > -2 A. xy/yx
C. -6 > x > -2 B. y log x – x log y
D. 6 > x > 2 C. (y log x)/(x log y)
D. 1

8. If 10ax+b = P, what is the value of x?

A. (1/a)(log P-b)
B. (1/a) log ( P-b)
C. (1/a) P10-b
D. (1/a) log P10
9. Find the value of log(aa)a. 18. Which of the following is correct?
A. 2a log a A. -2 log 7 = 1/49
B. a2 log a B. log7 (-2) = 1/49
C. a log a2 C. log7 (1/49) = -2
D. (a log a)a D. log7 (1/49) = 2

10. Solve for x: x = logb a ∙ logc d ∙ logd c 19. (ME April 1996)
A. logb a Log of nth root of x equals log of x to the 1/n power and
B. loga c also equal to:
C. logb c A. (log (x))/n
D. logd a B. n log (x)
C. (log (x)1/n)/n
11. Find the positive value of x if logx 36 = 2. D. (n-1) log (x)
A. 2
B. 4 20. (ME April 1996)
C. 6 What is the natural logarithm of e to the xy power?
D. 8 A. 1/xy
B. 2.718/xy
12. Find x if logx 27 + logx 3 = 2. C. xy
A. 9 D. 2.718xy
B. 12
C. 8 21. (ME April 1997)
D. 7 What expression is equivalent to log x – log (y + z)?
A. log x + log y + log z
13. Find a if log2 (a+2) + log2 (a-2) = 5 B. log [ x/(y + z) ]
A. 2 C. log x –log y –log z
B. 4 D. log y + log (x + z)
C. 6
D. 8 22. (ME April 1997)
What is the value of log base 10 of 10003.3?
14. Solve for x if log5 x = 3. A. 9.9
A. 115 B. 99.9
B. 125 C. 10.9
C. 135 D. 9.5
D. 145
23. If logx 2 + log2 x = 2, then the value of x is:
15. Find log P if ln P = 8. A. 1
A. 2980.96 B. 2
B. 2542.33 C. 3
C. 3.47 D. 4
D. 8.57
24. (CE November 1997)
16. If log8 x = -n, then x is equal to: Log6 845 =?
A. 8n A. 4.348
B. 1/8-n B. 6.348
C. 1/8n C. 5.912
D. 81/n D. 3.761

17. If 3 log10 x – log10 y = 0, find y in terms of x. 25. (CE May 1998, similar with November 1998)
A. y = 3√x The logarithms of the quotient and the product of two
B. y = √x3 numbers are 0.352182518 and 1.556302501,
C. y = x3 respectively. Find the first number?
D. y = x A. 9
B. 10 B. 126720
C. 11 C. 63360
D. 12 D. 506880

26. The sum of two logarithms of two numbers is 33. The middle term in the expansion of (x2 – 3)8 is:
1.748188 and the difference of their logarithms is - A. -70×8
0.0579919. One of the numbers is: B. 70×8
A. 9 C. -5760×8
B. 6 D. 5760×8
C. 8
D. 5 34. The term involving x9 in the expansion of (x2 +
2/x)12 is:
27. (CE November 199) A. 25434×9
Solve for y: y = ln (ex/ex – 2). B. 52344×9
A. 2 C. 25344×9
B. x D. 23544×9
C. -2
D. x – 2 35. The constant term in the expansion of ( x +
(1/x3/2)15 is:
28. (ECE April 1998) A. 3003
What is the value of (log 5 to the base 2) + (log 5 to the B. 5005
base 3)? C. 6435
A. 3.97 D. 7365
B. 7.39
C. 9.37 36.
D. 3.79 Find the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of (x +
2y – z)8.
29. (ME October 1997) A. 256
The logarithm of negative number is: B. 1024
A. irrational number C. 1
B. real number D. 6
C. imaginary number
D. complex number 37. Find the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of
(x + 2y + z) 4 (x + 3y) 5 is:
30. (ME April 1998) A. 524288
38.5 to the x power = 6.5 to the x – 2 power, solve for x B. 65536
using logarithms. C. 131072
A. 2.70 D. 262 144
B. 2.10
C. -2.10 38. (ECE April 1995)
D. -2.02 What is the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of
(x + y -z) 8 is:
31. (CE November 1996) A. less than 2
Find the 6th term of the expansion of (1/2a – 3)16. B. above 10
A. –(22113/256a11) C. from 2 to 5
B. –(66339/128a11) D. from 5 to 10
C. –(22113/128a11)
D. –(66339/256a11) 39. (ECE November 1995)
What is the sum of the coefficients of the expansion of
32. (ECE April 1998) (2x -1)20?
In the expansion of (x+4y) 12, the numerical coefficient A. 1
of the 5th term is. B. 0
A. 253440 C. 215
D. 225 D. 12×2 – 7x – 1 = 0

40. 47. Find k so that the expression kx2 – 3kx + 9 is a

In the quadratic equation Ax2 + Bx + C = 0, the product perfect square.
of the roots is: A. 3
A. C/A B. 4
B. –B/A C. 12
C. –C/A D. 6
D. B/A
48. (EE October 1990)
41. If ¼ and -7/2 are the roots of the quadratic equation Find k so that 4×2 + kx + 1 = 0 will only have one real
Ax2 + Bx + C = 0, what is the value of B? solution.
A. -28 A. 1
B. 4 B. 4
C. -7 C. 3
D. 26 D. 2

42. In the equation 3×2 + 4x + (2h – 5) = 0, find h if the 49. The only root of the equation x2 – 6x + k = 0 is:
product of the roots is 4. A. 3
A. -7/2 B. 2
B. -10/2 C. 6
C. 17/2 D. 1
D. 7/2
50. Two engineering students are solving a problem
43. If the roots of ax2 + bx + c = 0, are u and v, then the leading to a quadratic equation. One student made a
roots of cx2 + bx + a = 0 are: mistake in the coefficient of the first-degree term, got
A. u and v roots of 2 and -3. The other student made a mistake in
B. –u and v the coefficient of the constant term got roots of -1 & 4.
C. 1/u and 1/v What is the correct equation?
D. -1/u and -1/v A. x2 – 6x – 3 = 0
B. x2 + 6x + 3 = 0
44. If the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = C. x2 + 3x + 6 = 0
0 are 3 and 2 and a, b, and c are all whole numbers, find D. x2 – 3x – 6 = 0
a + b + c.
A. 12
B. -2
C. 2
D. 6

45. (ECE March 1996)

The equation whose roots are the reciprocals of the
roots of 2×2 – 3x – 5 = 0 is:
A. 5×2 + 3x – 2 = 0
B. 3×2 – 5x – 3 = 0
C. 5×2 – 2x – 3 = 0
D. 2×2 – 5x -3 = 0

46. (ECE November 1997)

The roots of a quadratic equation are 1/3 and ¼. What
is the equation?
A. 12×2 + 7x + 1 = 0
B. 12×2 + 7x – 1 = 0
C. 12×2 – 7x + 1 = 0
ALGEBRA 3: Age, Work, Mixture, Digit & Motion fifteen years the sum of the parent’s ages will be equal
Word Problems (100 Items) to the sum of their children’s ages. How many children
were in the family?
1. Two times the father’s age is 8 more than six times A. 2
his son’s age. Ten years ago, the sum of their ages was B. 3
44. The age of the son is: C. 4
A. 49 D. 5
B. 15
C. 20 8. Two thousand kilogram of steel containing 8% of
D. 18 nickel is to be made by mixing steel containing 14%
nickel with another steel containing 6% nickel. How
2. Peter’s age 13 years ago was 1/3 of his age 7 years much of the steel containing 14% nickel is needed?
hence. How old is Peter? A. 1500 kg
A. 15 B. 800 kg
B. 21 C. 750 kg
C. 23 D. 500kg
D. 27
9. A 40-gram alloy containing 35% gold is to be melted
3. A man is 41 years old and in seven years he will be with a 20-gram alloy containing 50% gold. How much
four times as old as his son is at that time. How old is his percentage of gold is the resulting alloy?
son now? A. 40%
A. 9 B. 30%
B. 4 C. 45%
C. 5 D. 35%
D. 8
10. In what radio must a peanut costing P240.00 per kg
4. A father is three times as old as his son. Four years be mixed with a peanut costing P340.00 per kg so that
ago, he was four times as old as his son was at that the profit of 20% is made by selling the mixture at
time. How old is his son? 360.00 per kg?
A. 36 years A. 1:2
B. 24 years B. 3:2
C. 32 years C. 2:3
D. 12 years D. 3:5

5. The ages of the mother and her daughter are 45 and 11. A 100-kilogram salt solution originally 4% by weight.
5 years, respectively. How many years will the mother Salt in water is boiled to reduce water content until the
be three times as old as her daughter? concentration is 5% by weight salt. How much water is
A. 5 evaporated?
B. 10 A. 10
C. 15 B. 15
D. 20 C. 20
D. 25
6. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana was
when Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is Ana? 12. A pound of alloy of lead and nickel weights 14.4
(ECE November 1995) ounces in water, where lead losses 1/11 of its weight
A. 16 and nickel losses 1/9 of its weight. How much of each
B. 18 metal is in alloy?
C. 19 A. Lead = 7.2 oz; Nickel = 8.8 oz
D. 20 B. Lead = 8.8 oz; Nickel = 7.2 oz
C. Lead = 6.5 oz; Nickel = 5.4 oz
7. The sum of the parent’s ages is twice the sum of their D. Lead = 7.8 oz; Nickel = 4.2 oz
children’s ages. Five years ago, the sum of the parent’s
ages is four times the sum of their children’s ages. In
13. An alloy of silver and gold weighs 15 oz. in air and 14 C. ½
oz. in water. Assuming that silver losses 1/10 of its D. 2/3
weight in water and gold losses 1/18 of its weight, how
many oz. at each metal are in the alloy? 19. A father and his son can dig a well if the father
A. Silver = 4.5 oz.; Gold = 10.5 oz. works 6 hours and his son works 12 hours or they can
B. Silver = 3.75 oz.; Gold = 11.25 oz. do it if the father works 9 hours and son works 8 hours.
C. Silver = 5 oz.; Gold = 10 oz. How long will it take for the son to dig the well alone?
D. Silver = 7.8 oz.; Gold = 4.2 oz. A. 5 hours
B. 10 hours
14. (ME April 1998) C. 15 hours
A pump can pump out a tank in 11 hours. Another D. 20 hours
pump can pump out the same tank in 20 hours. How
long it will take both pumps together to pump out the 20. Peter and Paul can do a certain job in 3 hours. On a
tank? given day, they work together for 1 hour then Paul left
A. ½ hour and Peter finishes the rest work in 8 more hours. How
B. ½ hour long will it take for Peter to do the job alone?
C. 6 hours A. 10 hours
D. 7 hours B. 11 hours
C. 12 hours
15. Mr. Brown can wash his car in 15 minutes, while his D. 13 hours
son John takes twice as long as the same job. If they
work together, how many minutes can they do the 21. (ECE November 1995)
washing? Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20%
A. 6 faster than Pilar and together they can paint a given
B. 8 fence in 4 hours. How long will it take Peter to paint the
C. 10 same fence if he had to work alone?
D. 12 A. 10 hrs.
B. 11hrs.
16. One pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and another pipe C. 13hrs.
can fill the same tank in 4 hours. A drainpipe can empty D. 15hrs.
the full content of the tank in 20 hours. With all the
three pipes open, how long will it take to fill the tank? 22. Nonoy can finish a certain job in 10 days if Imelda
A. 2 hours will help for 6 days. The same work can be done by
B. 2.5 hours Imelda in 12 days if Nonoy helps for 6 days. If they work
C. 1.92 hours together, how long will it take for them to do the job?
D. 1.8 hours A. 8.9
B. 8.4
17. A swimming pool is filled through its inlet pipe and C. 9.2
then emptied through its outlet pipe in a total of 8 D. 8
hours. If water enters through its inlet and
simultaneously allowed to leave through its outlet, the 23. A pipe can fill up a tank with the drain open in three
pool is filled in 7 ½ hours. Find how long will it take to hours. If the pipe runs with the drain open for one hour
fill the pool with the outlet closed. and then the drain is closed it will take 45 more minutes
A. 6 for the pipe to fill the tank. If the drain will be closed
B. 2 right at the start of filling, how long will it take for the
C. 3 pipe to fill the tank?
D. 5 A. 1.15 hrs.
B. 1.125 hrs
18. Three persons can do a piece of work alone in 3 C. 1.325 hrs.
hours, 4 hours and 6 hours respectively. What fraction D. 1.525 hrs.
of the job can they finish in one hour working together?
A. ¾ 24. Delia can finish a job in 8 hours. Daisy can do it in 5
B. 4/3 hours. If Delia worked for 3 hours and then Daisy was
asked to help her finish it, how long will Daisy have to 30. In one day (24 hours), how many times will the hour
work with Delia to finish the job? hand and minute hand of a continuously driven clock be
A. 2/5 hours together
B. 25/14 hours A. 21
C. 28 hours B. 22
D. 1.923 hours C. 23
D. 24
25. (CE November 1998)
A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. Five 31. How many minutes after 3:00 will the minute hand
workers started the job. They were reinforced with four of the clock overtakes the hour hand?
more workers at the beginning of the 6th day. Find the A. 14/12 minutes
total number of days it took them to finish the job. B. 16-11/12 minutes
A. 22.36 C. 16-4/11 minutes
B. 21.42 D. 14/11 minutes
C. 23.22
D. 20.56 32. How many minutes after 10:00 o’clock will the
hands of the clock be opposite of the other for the first
26. On one job, two power shovels excavate 20000 m3 time?
of earth, the larger the shovel working for 40 hours and A. 21.41
the smaller shovel for 35 hours. Another job, they B. 22.31
removed 40000 m3 with the larger shovel working for C. 21.81
70 hours and the smaller working 90 hours. How much D. 22.61
earth can the larger shovel move in one hour?
A. 173.91 33. What time between the hours of 12:00 noon and
B. 347.83 1:00 pm would the hour hand and the minute hand of a
C. 368.12 continuously driven clock be in straight line?
D. 162.22 A. 12:33 pm
B. 12:30 pm
27. (EE April 1996) C. 12:37 pm
A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in 31 D. 12:287 pm
days, and A and C in 20 days. Working together, how
many days can all of them finish the work? 34. (GE February 1997)
A. 18.9 At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and
B. 19.4 the minute hand of a clock first form a n angle of 120°?
C. 17.8 A. 21.818
D. 20.9 B. 12:21.818
C. 21.181
28. D. 12:21.181
Eight men can dig 150 ft of trench in 7 hrs. Three men
can backfill 100ft of the trench in 4 hrs. The time it will 35. (GE February 1994)
take 10 men to dig and fill 200 ft of trench is: From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the same
A. 9.867hrs. day, the minute hand of a standard clock describes an
B. 9.687hrs. arc of:
C. 8.967hrs. A. 360°
D. 8.687hrs. B. 120°
C. 540°
29. D. 720°
In two hours, the minute hand of the clock rotates
through an angle of : 36. It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and in twenty
A. 45° minutes the minute hand will be as much as the hour-
B. 90° hand as it is now behind it. What is the time now?
C. 360° A. 3:06.06
D. 720° B. 3:07.36
C. 3:09.36 43. Twice the middle digit of a three-digit number is the
D. 3:08.36 sum of the other two. If the number is divided by the
sum of its digit, the answer is 56 and the remainder is
37. (EE October 1990) 12. If the digits are reversed, the number becomes
A man left his home at past 3:00 o’clock PM as indicated smaller by 594. Find the number.
in his wall clock. Between two to three hours after, he A. 258
returned home and noticed that the hands of the clock B. 567
interchanged. At what time did he left his home? C. 852
A. 3:27.27 D. 741
B. 3:31.47
C. 3:22.22 44. The product f three consecutive integers is 9240.
D. 3:44.44 Find the third integer.
A. 20
38. The sum of the reciprocals of two numbers is 11. B. 21
Three times the reciprocal of one of the numbers is C. 22
three more than twice the reciprocal of the other D. 23
number. Find the numbers.
A. 5 and 6 45. The product if two numbers is 1400. If three (3) is
B. 7 and 4 subtracted from each number, their product becomes
C. 1/5 and 1/6 1175. Find the bigger number.
D. 1/7 and ¼ A. 28
B. 50
39. If a two digit number has x for its unit’s digit and y C. 32
for its ten’s digit, represent the number. D. 40
A. yx
B. 10y + x 46. The sum of the digits of the three-digit number is
C. 10x + y 14. The hundreds digit being 4 times the units digit. If
D. x + y 594 is subtracted from the number, the order of the
digits will be reversed. Find the number.
40. One number if five less than the other number. If A. 743
their sum is 135, what are the numbers? B. 563
A. 70 & 75 C. 653
B. 60 & 65 D. 842
C. 65 & 70
D. 75 & 80 47. (ECE March 1996)
The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number is twice
41. In a two-digit number, the unit’s digit is 3 greater the other. Find the numbers.
than the ten’s digit. Find the number if it is 4 times as A. 7 and 14
large as the sum of its digits. B. 6 and 15
A. 47 C. 8 and 13
B. 58 D. 9 and 12
C. 63
D. 25 48. (ECE March 1996)
Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.
42. Find two consecutive even integers such that the Determine the number.
square of the larger is 44 greater than the square of the A. 4
smaller integer. B. 5
A. 10 & 12 C. 6
B. 12 & 14 D. 7
C. 8 & 10
D. 14 & 16 49. (ECE November 1997)
The denominator of a certain fraction is three more
than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of
the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the 55. Juan can walk from his home to his office at the rate
original fraction. of 5 mph and back at the rate 2 mph. What is his
A. 8/5 average speed in mph?
B. 5/13 A. 2.86
C. 13/5 B.3.56
D. 3/5 C.4.12
D.5.89
50. Three times the first of the three consecutive odd
integers is three more than twice the third. Find the 56. Kim and Ken traveled at the same time at the rate of
third integer. 20 m/min,from the same point on a circular track of
A. 9 radius 600 m. If Kim walks along a circumference and
B. 11 Kim towards the center,find their distance after 10
C. 13 minutes.
D. 15 A.193 m
B.202 m
51. Nonoy left Pikit to drive to Davao at 6:15 PM and C.241 m
arrived at 11:45 PM averaged 30 mph and stopped 1 D.258 m
hour for dinner, how far is Davao from Pikit.
A. 128 57. Two ferryboats ply back and forth across a river with
B. 135 constant but different speeds, turning at the river banks
C. 160 without loss of time. They leave the opposite shores at
D. 256 the same instant, meet for the first time 900 meters
from one shore, and meet for the second time 500
52. meters from the opposite shore. What is the width of
A man fires a target 420 m away hears the bullet strikes the river?
to 2 second after he pulled the trigger. An observer 525 A. 1500 m
m away from the target and 455 m from the man heard B. 1700 m
the bullet strike the target one second after he heard C. 2000 m
the report of the rifle. Find the velocity of the bullet. D. 2200 m
A. 525 m/s
B. 360 m/s 58. (CE May 1998)
C. 350 m/s A boat takes 2/3 as much time to travel downstream
D. 336 m/s from C to D, as to return, If the rate of the river’s
current is 8 kph, what is the speed of the boat in still
53. A man travels in a motorized banca at rate of 12 kph water?
from his barrio to the poblacion and come back to his A. 38
barrio at the rate of 10 kph. If his total time of travel B. 39
back and forth is 3 hours and 10 minutes, the distance C. 40
from the barrio to the poblacion is : D. 41
A. 17.27 km
B. 17.72 km 59. (ECE November 1998)
C. 12.77 km A man rows downstream at the rate of 5mph and
D. 17.32 km upstream at the rate of 2 mph. How far downstream
should he go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?
54. It takes Michael 60 seconds to run around a 440- A. 2 mi
yard track. How long does it take Jordan to run around B. 3.5 mi
the track if they meet in 32 second after they start C. 3 mi
together in a race around the track in opposite D. 2.5 mi
direction?
A. 58.76 seconds 60. (EE April 1997)
B. 68.57 seconds A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five
C. 65.87 seconds minutes later, a second jogger the same course at 10
D. 86.57 seconds
kph. How long will it take for the second jogger to catch C. 8000 m
the first? D. 9000 m
A. 20 min
B. 25 min 66. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire
C. 30 min varies directly as the length and inversely as the square
D. 35 min of the diameter of the wire. Compare the electrical
resistance offered by two pieces of wire of the same
61. (CE May 1999) material, one being 100 m long and 5 mm diameter, and
At 2:00 pm, an airplane takes off at 340mph on an the other is 50 m long and 3 mm in diameter.
aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier moves due south at A. R1 = 0.57 R2
25kph in the same direction as the plane. At 4:05 pm, B. R1 = 0.72 R2
the communication between the plane and aircraft C. R1 = 0.84 R2
carrier was lost. Determine the communication range in D. R1 = 0.95 R2
miles between the plane and the carrier.
A. 656 miles 67. The time required for an elevator to lift a weight
B. 785 miles varies directly with the weight and the distance through
C. 557 miles which it is to be lifted and inversely as the power of the
D. 412 miles motors. If it takes 20 seconds for a 5-hp motor to lift 50
lbs. through 40 feet, what weight can an 80-hp motor
62. A boat going across a lake 8 km wide proceed 2 km lift through a distance of 40 feet within 30 seconds?
at a certain speed and then completes the trip at a A. 1000 lbs.
speed 1/2 kph faster. By doing this, the boat arrives 10 B. 1150 lbs.
minutes earlier than if the original speed had been C. 1175 lbs.
maintained. Find the original speed of the boat. D. 1200 lbs.
A. 2 kph
B. 4 kph 68. (ECE November 1995)
C. 9 kph The time required by an elevator to lift a weight, vary
D. 5 kph directly with the weight and the distance through which
it is to be lifted and inversely as the power of the motor.
63. (CE May 1993) If it takes 30 seconds for a 10-hp motor to lift 100lbs
Given that w varies directly as the product of x and y through 50 feet, what size of motor is requires to lift
and inversely as the square of z and that w = 4 when x = 800 lbs. in 40 seconds through a distance of 40 feet?
2, y = 6, and z = 3. Find w when x = 1, y = 4 and z = 2. A. 48 hp
A. 4 B. 50 hp
B. 2 C. 56 hp
C. 1 D. 58 hp
D. 3
69. In a certain department store, the salary of saleslady
64. (ECE November 1993) is partly constant and varies as the value of her sales for
If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 the month, when the value of her sales for the month is
when y = 7 and z = 2, find x, when z = 4 and y = 16. P10000.00, her salary for that month is P900.00. When
A. 14 her sales goes up to P 2000.00 her monthly salary goes
B. 4 up to P1000.00. What must be the value of her sales for
C. 16 the month so that her salary for that month will be
D. 8 P2000.00?
A. P25000.00
65. The electrical resistance of a cable varies directly as B. P28000.00
its length and inversely as the square of its diameter. If C. P32000.00
a cable 600 meters long and 25 mm in diameter has a D. P36000.00
resistance of 0.1 ohm, find the length of the cable 75
mm in diameter with resistance of 1/6 ohm. 70. A man sold 100 eggs, eighty of them were sold at
A. 6000 m gain of 30% while the twenty eggs were sold at a loss of
B. 7000 m
40%. What is the percentage gain or loss of the whole B grew up by 840, the enrollment at college B was how
eggs? much greater than the enrollment in college A in 1985?
A. 14% A. 650
B. 15% B. 504
C. 16% C. 483
D. 17% D. 540

71. The population of the country increases 5% each 77. A group consists of n boys and n girls. If two of the
year. Find the percentage it will increase in three years. boys are replaced by two other girls, then 49% of the
A. 5% group members will be boys. Find the value of n.
B. 15% A. 100
C. 15.15% B. 49
D. 15.76% C. 50
D. 51
72. Pedro bought two cars, one for P600000.00 and the
other for P400000.00. He sold the first at a gain of 10% 78. On his Christmas Sale, a merchant marked a pair of
and the second at a loss of 12%. What was his total slipper P180.00, which is 20% off the normal retail price.
percentage gain or loss? If the retail price is 50% higher than the whole sale
A. 6% gain price, what is the wholesale price of the slipper?
B. 0% gain A. P18.00
C. 1.20% gain B. P17.00
D. 6% loss C. P15.00
D. P22.50
73. A grocery owner raises the prices of his goods by
10%. Then he starts his Christmas sale by offering the 79. A certain XEROX copier produces 13 copies every 10
customers a 10% discount. How many percent of seconds. If the machine operates without interruption,
discount does the customers actually get? how many copies will it produce in an hour?
A. nothing A. 780
B. 1% discount B. 46800
C. 9% discount C. 1835
D. they pay 1% more D. 4680

74. Kim sold a watch for P3500.00 at a loss of 30% on 80. At a certain printing plant, each of the machines
the cost price. Find the corresponding loss or gain if he prints 6 newspapers every second. If all machines work
sold it for P5050.00. together but independently without interruption, how
A. 1% loss many minutes will it take to print the entire 18000
B. 10% loss newspapers? ( Hint: let x = number of machines)
C. 1% gain A. 50x
D. 10% gain B. 3000/x
C. 50/x
75. By selling balut at P5.00 each, a vendor gains 20%. D. 3000x
The cost price of egg rises by 12.5%. If he sells the balut
at the same price as before, find his new gain in 81. (ME April 1996)
percent. A manufacturing firm maintains one product assembly
A. 7.5% line to produce signal generators. Weekly demand for
B. 5% the generators is 35 units. The line operates for 7 hours
C. 8% per day, 5 days per week. What is the maximum
D. 6.25% production time per unit in hours required for the line
to meet the demand?
76. The enrollment at college A and college B both grew A. 1 hour
up by 8% from 1980 to 1985. If the enrollment in B. 0.75 hour
college A grew up by 800 and the enrollment in college C. 3 hours
D. 2.25 hours
82. Of the 316 people watching a movie, there a re 78 B. 2027
more children than women and 56 more women than C. 2021
men. The number of men in the movie house is: D. 2025
A. 176
B. 98 88. Determine the unit digit in the expansion of 3855.
C. 42 A. 3
D. 210 B. 9
C. 7
83. A certain department store has an inventory of Q D. 1
units of a certain product at time t=0. The store sells the
product at a steady rate of Q/A units per week, and 89. (ECE April 1998)
exhausts the inventory in A weeks. The amount of Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent of
product in inventory at any time t is: 1785/9999 starting from the decimal point.
A. Q – (Q/A) t A. 1
B. Q + (Q/A) t B. 7
C. Qt – Q/A C. 8
D. Qt – (Q/A) t D. 5

84. (ECE March 1996) 90. Find the sum of all positive integral factors of 2048.
A merchant has three items on sale: namely, a radio for A. 4095
P50, a clock for P30, and a flashlight for P1. At the end B. 3065
of the day, she has sold a total of 100 of three items and C. 4560
has taken exactly 1000 on the total sales. How many D. 1254
radios did he sale?
A. 80 91. In how many ways can two integers be selected
B. 4 from the numbers 1,2,3,…50 so that their difference is
C. 16 exactly 5?
D. 20 A. 50
B. 5
85. The price of 8 calculators ranges from P200 to C. 45
P1000.If their average price is P950,what is the lowest D. 41
possible price of any one of the calculators?
A. 500 92. A box contains 8 balls, 6 black balls.a8 red balls, and
B. 550 13 yellow balls. How many balls must be drawn to
C. 600 ensure that there will be three balls of the same color?
D. 650 A. 8
B. 9
86. A deck of 52 playing cards is cut into two piles. The C. 10
first pile contains 7 times as many black cards as red D. 11
cards. The second pile contains the number of red cards
that is an exact multiple as the number of black cards. 93. A shore sells 10 different sizes of shoes, each in both
How many cards are there in the first pile. high-cut and low-cut variety, each either rubber or
A. 14 leather, and each with white or black color. How many
B. 15 different kinds of shoes does he sell?
C. 16 A. 64
D. 17 B. 80
C. 72
87. (ECE November 1997) D. 92
The population of the Philippines doubled in the last 30
years from 1967 to 1997.Assuming that the rate of 94. (ME October 1999)
population rate increase will remain the same in what An engineer was told that a survey had been made on a
year wills the population triple? certain rectangular field but the dimension had been
A. 2030 lost .An assistant remembered that if the field had been
100 ft longer and 25 ft narrower, the area would have A. 2.3567
been increased by 2500 sq. ft, and that if it had been B. 2.4495
100 ft shorter 50 ft wider, the area would have been C. 3.2256
decreased 5000 sq.ft. What was the area of the field? D. 3.8876
A. 25.000 ft2
B. 15,000 ft2 100. Three cities are connected by roads forming a
C. 20,000 ft2 triangle, all of different lengths. It is 30 km around the
D. 22,000 ft2 circuit. One of the roads is 10 km long and the longest is
10 km longer than the shortest. What is the length of
95. (EE April 1994) the longest road?
A 10-meter tape is 5 mm short. What is the correct A. 5 km
length in meters? B. 10 km
A. 9.995 m C. 15 km
B. 10.05 m D. 20 km
C. 9.95 m
D. 10.005 m

96. (ME OCTOBER 1997)

The distance between two points measured with a steel
tape was recorded as 916.58 ft. later. The tape was
checked and to be only 99.9 ft long. What is the true
distance between the points?
A. 035.66 ft
B. 966.15 ft
C. 955.66 ft
D. 915.66 ft

97. (ME April 1996)

A certain steel tape is known to be 100000 feet long
when the temperature of 70°F . When the tape is at a
temperature of 10°F, what reading corresponds to a
distance of 90 ft? Coefficient of linear expansion of the
tape is 5.833 x 10-6 per °F.
A. 85.935
B. 88.031
C. 90.031
D. 93.031

98. (ME April 1996)

A line was measured with a steel tape when the
temperature was 30°C. The measured length of the line
was found to be 1,256.271 feet. The tape was
afterwards tasted when the temperature was 10°C and
it was found to be 100.042 feet long. What was the true
length of the line if the coefficient of expansion of the
tape was 0.000011 per °C?
A. 1,275.075 feet
B. 1,375.575 feet
C. 1,256.547 feet
D. 1,249.385 feet

99. (ME April 1997)

The standard deviation of the numbers 1, 4, &7 is:
ALGEBRA 4: Clock, Variations & Progression (50 A. 1
Items) B. 2
C. 3
1. (ECE November 1996) D. 4
How many terms of the sequence -9, -6, -3 … must be
taken so that the sum is 66? 8. The sum of five arithmetic means between 34 & 42 is:
A. 13 A. 150
B. 12 B. 160
C. 4 C. 190
D. 11 D. 210

2. (CE November 1997) 9. The positive values of a so that 4x, 5x + 4, 3×2 – 1will
The sum of the progression 5, 8, 11, 14 …. is 1025. How be in arithmetic progression is:
many terms are there? A. 2
A. 22 B. 3
B. 23 C. 4
C. 24 D. 5
D. 25
10. Solve for x if x + 3x + 5x + 7x + … + 49x = 625
3. (CE May 1998) A. ¼
There are seven arithmetic means between 3 and 35. B. ½
Find the sum of all terms. C. 1
A. 169 D. 1 ¼
B. 171
C. 167 11. The 10th term of the series a, a – b, a – 2b, … is:
D. 173 A. a – 6b
B. a – 9b
4. (CE May 1999) C. 2a – b
There are line (9) arithmetic means between 11 and 51. D. a + 9b
The sum of the progression is:
A. 279 12. If the sum of the first 13 terms of two arithmetic
B. 341 progressions are in the ratio 7:3, find the ratio of their
C. 376 corresponding 7th term.
D. 254 A. 3:7
B. 1:3
5. The sum of all even numbers from 0 to 420 is: C. 7:3
A. 43410 D. 6:7
B. 44300
C. 44310 13. If 1/x, 1/y, 1/z are in arithmetic progression, then y
D. 44130 is equal to:
A. X-z
6. (CE May 1997) B. ½(x+2z)
Which of the following numbers should be changed to C. (x+z)/2xz
make all the numbers form an arithmetic progression D. 2xz/(x+z)
when properly arranged?
A. 27/14 14. (ECE November 1997)
B. 33/28 Find the 30th term of the A.P. 4, 7, 10 …
C. 45/28 A. 88
D. 20/14 B. 91
C. 75
7. The first term of an arithmetic progression (A.P.) is 6 D. 90
and the 10th term is 3 times the second number. What
is the common difference? 15. (ECE November 1997)
Find the 100th term of the sequence 1.01, 1.00, 0.99…. 23. (CE May 1998)
A. 0.05 Determine the sum of the infinite geometric series of 1,
B. 0.04 -1/5,+1/25, …?
C. 0.03 A. 4/5
D. 0.02 B. 5/7
C. 4/6
16. The sum of all numbers between 0 and 10000 which D. 5/6
is exactly divisible by 77 is:
A. 546546 24. There are 6 geometric means between 4 and 8748.
B. 645568 Find the sum of all terms.
C. 645645 A. 13120
D. 645722 B. 15480
C. 10250
17. (ME April 1998) D. 9840
What is the sum of the following finite sequence of
terms? 18, 25, 32, 39, .., 67. 25. (ECE April 1998)
A. 234 Find the sum of the infinite progression 6, -2, -2/3 …
B. 181 A. 5/2
C. 213 B. 9/2
D. 340 C. 7/2
D. 11/2
18. Find x in the series: 1, 1/3, 0.2, x.
A. 1/6 26. (ECE April 1998)
B. 1/8 Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the Geometric
C. 1/7 Progression 2, 4, 8, 16 …
D. 1/9 A. 1023
B. 2046
19. (ECE November 1995) C. 1596
Find the fourth term of the progression ½, 0.2, 0.125, … D. 225
A. 0.102
B. 1/10 27. The 1st, 4th, 8th terms of an A.P. are themselves
C. 1/11 geometric progression (G.P.). What is the common ratio
D. 0.099 of the G.P.?
A. 4/3
20. The 10th term of the progression 6/4, 4/3, 3/2, … is: B. 5/3
A. 12 C. 2
B. 10/3 D. 7/3
C. 12/3
D. 13/3 28. Determine x so that x, 2x + 7, 10x – 7 will form a
geometric progression.
21. (ME October 1997) A. -7
The geometric mean of 4 and 64 is: B. 6
A. 48 C. 7
B. 16 D. -6
C. 34
D. 24 29. The fourth term of a geometric progression is 189
and the sixth term is 1701, the 8th term is:
22. (ME October 1997) A. 5103
The geometric mean of a and b is: B. 1240029
A. √ab C. 45927
B. (a+b)/2 D. 15309
C. 1/b
D. ab/2
30. The sum of the numbers in arithmetical progression 36. (CE May 1991)
is 45. If 2 is added to the first number, 3 to the second In the recent Bosnia conflict, The NATO forces captured
and 7 to the third, the new numbers will be in 6400 soldiers. The provisions on hand will last for 216
geometrical progression. Find the common difference in meals while feeding 3 meals a day. The provisions lasted
A.P. 9 more days because of daily deaths. At an average,
A. -5 how many died per day?
B. 10 A. 15.2
C. 6 B. 17.8
D. 5 C. 18.3
D. 19.4
31. The geometric mean and the harmonic mean of two
numbers are 12 and 36/5 respectively. What are the 37. To build a dam, 60 men must work 72 days. If all 60
numbers? men are employed at the start but the number is
A. 36 & 4 decreased by 5 men at the end of each 12-day period,
B. 72 & 8 how long will it take to complete the dam?
C. 36 & 8 A. 108 days
D. 72 & 4 B. 9 days
C. 94 days
32. If x, 4x + 8, 30x + 24 are in geometrical progression, D. 60 days
find the common ratio.
A. 2 38. (CE November 1994)
B. 4 In a benefit show, a number of wealthy men agreed
C. 6 that the first one to arrive would pay 10 centavos to
D. 8 enter and each later arrival would pay twice as much as
the preceding man. The total amount collected from all
33. (ECE April 1995) of them was P104857.50. How many wealthy men had
A besiege fortress is held by 5700 men who have paid?
provision for 66 days. If the garrison loses 20 men each A. 18
day, for how many days can the provision hold out? B. 19
A. 60 C. 20
B. 72 D. 21
C. 76
D. 82 39. Evaluate the following determinant:
A. 64
34. (ECE April 1999) B. 44
If one third of the air in the tank is removed by each C. 54
stroke of an air pump, what fractional part of the total D. -44
air is removed in 6 strokes?
A. 0.9122 40. The following equation involves two determinants:
B. 0.0877 The value of x is:
C. 0.8211 A. 1
D. 0.7145 B. 3
C. 4
35. D. 3
A rubber ball is dropped from a height of 15m. On each
rebound, it rises 2/3 of the height from which it last fell. 41. (CE November 1997)
Find the distance traveled by the ball before it becomes Evaluate the following determinant:
to rest. A. -24
A. 75 m B. 24
B. 96 m C. -46
C. 100 m D. 46
D. 85 m
42. (CE November 1996) 47. (EE October 1993)
Compute the value of x from the following: In a class of 40 students, 27 students like Calculus and
A. 27 25 like Geometry. How many students liked both
B. -28 Calculus and Geometry?
C. 26 A. 10
D. -29 B. 14
C. 11
43. Evaluate the following determinant: D. 12
A. 5
B. -4 48. A class of 40 took examination in Algebra and
C. 4 Trigonometry. If 30 passed Algebra, 36 passed
D. -5 Trigonometry, and 2 failed in both subjects, the number
of students who passed the two subjects is:
44. Find A + 2B. A. 2
B. 8
C. 28
D. 25

49. (ECE November 1992)

The probability for the ECE board examinees from a
certain school to pass the Mathematics subject is 3/7
and that for the Communications subject is 5/7. If none
of the examinees failed in both subjects and there are 4
examinees who pass both subjects, how many
examinees from the school took the examination?
A. 28
45. (CE May 1996) B. 27
C. 26
D. 32

50. (EE March 1998)

Find the elements of the product of the two matrices, In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons on brand
matrix BC. preferences, 120 were found to prefer brand x only, 200
persons prefer brand y only, 150 persons prefer brand z
only, 370 prefer either brand x or y not z, 450 prefer
brand y or z but not x, and 370 prefer wither brand z or
x but not y, and none prefer all the three brands at a
time. How many persons have no brand preference
with any of the three brands?
A. 120
B. 280
C. 70
D. 320
46. (CE Board)
Solve for x and y from the given relationship:
A. x = -2; y = 6
B. x = 2; y = 6
C. x = -2; y = -6
D. x =2; y = -6
ALGEBRA 5: Venn Diagram, Permutation, 8. In how many relative orders can we seat 7 people at
Combination & Probability (50 Items) a round table with a certain people side by side.
A. 144
1. How permutation can be made out of the letters in B. 5040
the world island taking four letters at a time? C. 720
A. 360 D. 1008
B. 720
C. 120 9. In how many ways can we seat 7 people in a round
D. 24 table with a certain 3 people not in consecutive order?
A. 576
2. (CE November 1996) B. 3960
How many 4 digit number can be formed without C. 5320
repeating any digit, from the following digit 1,2,3,4 & 6. D. 689
A. 150
B. 120 10. The captain of a baseball team assigns himself to the
C. 140 4th place in the batting order. In how many ways can he
D. 130 assign the remaining places to his eight teammates if
just three men are eligible for the first position?
3. How many permutations can made out of the letters A. 2160
of the word ENGINEERING? B. 40320
A. 39,916,800 C. 5040
B. 277,200 D. 15120
C. 55,440
D. 3,326,400 11. In how many ways can PICE chapter with 15
directors choose a president, a vice-president, a
4. How many ways can 3 men and 4 women be seated secretary, a treasurer, and an auditor, if no member can
on a bench if the women to be together? hold more than one position?
A. 720 A. 630630
B. 576 B. 3300
C. 5040 C. 5040
D. 1024 D. 15120

5. In how many ways can 5 people line up to pay their 12. How many ways can a committee of five be selected
electric bills? from an organization with 35 members?
A. 120 A. 324632
B. 1 B. 425632
C. 72 C. 125487
D. 24 D. 326597

6. In how many ways can 5 people line up to pay their 13. How many line segments can be formed by 13
electric bills, if two particular persons refuse to follow distinct point?
each other? A. 156
A. 120 B. 36
B. 72 C. 98
C. 90 D. 78
D. 140
14. In how many ways can a hostess select six luncheon
7. How many ways can 7 people be seated at a round guests from 10 women if she is to avoid having
table? particular two of them together at the luncheon?
A. 5040 A. 210
B. 120 B. 84
C. 720 C. 140
D. 840 D. 168
15. (ECE April 1998) D. 225/784
A semiconductor company will hire 7 men and 4
women. In how many ways can the company choose 22. In the problem 70, find the probability that all are of
from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the the same color.
position? A. 13/30
A. 680 B. 14/29
B. 840 C. 13/28
C. 480 D. 15/28
D. 540
23. The probability that both stages of a two-stage
16. How many ways can you invite one or more of five rocket to function correctly is 0.92. The reliability of the
friends to a party? first stage is 0.97. The reliability of the second stage is:
A. 25 A. 0.948
B. 15 B. 0.958
C. 31 C. 0.968
D. 62 D. 0.8924

17. A bag contains 4 red balls, 3 green balls, and 5 blue 24. Ricky and George each throw dice. If Ricky gets a
balls. The probability of not getting a red ball in the first sum of four what is the probability that George will get
draw is: less than of four?
A. 2 A. ½
B. 2/3 B. 5/6
C. 1 C. 9/11
D. 1/3 D. 1/12

18. Which of the following cannot be a probability? 25. Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability
A. 1 that the sum of the dice is divisible by 5?
B. 0 A. 7/36
C. 1/e B. 1/9
D. 0.434343 C. 1/12
D. ¼
19. (CE May 1996)
A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls are 26. (ME April 1996)
drawn in succession without replacement, what is the An um contains 4 black balls and 6 white balls. What is
probability that both balls are black? the probability of getting one black ball and white ball in
A. 5/28 two consecutive draws from the urn?
B. 5/16 A. 0.24
C. 5/32 B. 0.27
D. 5/14 C. 0.53
D. 0.04
20. A bag contains 3 white and 5 red balls. If two balls
are drawn at random, find the probability that both are 27. If three balls in drawn in succession from 5 white
white. and a second bag, find the probability that all are of one
A. 3/28 color, if the first ball is replaced immediately while the
B. 3/8 second is not replaced before the third draw.
C. 2/7 A. 10/121
D. 5/15 B. 18/121
C. 28/121
21. In problem 70, find the probability that one ball is D. 180/14641
white and the other is red.
A. 15/56 28. A first bag contains 5 white balls and 10 black balls.
B. 15/28 The experiment consists of selecting a bag and then
C. ¼
drawing a ball from the selected bag. Find the A. 5/32
probability of drawing a white ball. B. 5/16
A. 1/3 C. 1/32
B. 1/6 D. 7/16
C. 1/2
D. 1/8 36. (ECE March 1996)
The probability of getting credit in an examination is
29. In problem 78, find the probability of drawing a 1/3. If three students are selected at random, what is
white ball from the first bag. the probability that at least one of them got a credit?
A. 5/6 A. 19/27
B. 1/6 B. 8/27
C. 2/3 C. 2/3
D. 1/3 D. 1/3

30. If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find the 37. There are three short questions in mathematics test.
probability that will just have three heads. For each question, one (1) mark will be awarded for a
A. 33/128 correct answer and no mark for a wrong answer. If the
B. 35/128 probability that Mary correctly answers a question in a
C. 30/129 test is 2/3, determine the probability that Mary gets
D. 37/129 two marks.
A. 4/27
31. If seven coins are tossed simultaneously, find the B. 8/27
probability that there will be at least six tails. C. 4/9
A. 2/128 D. 2/9
B. 3/128
C. 1/16 38. A marksman hits 75% of all his targets. What is the
D. 2/16 probability that he will hit exactly 4 of his next ten shot?
A. 0.01622
32. (CE November 1998) B. 0.4055
A face of a coin is either head or tail. If three coins are C. 0.004055
tossed, what is are the probability of getting three tails? D. 0.001622
A. 1/8
B. ½ 39. A two-digit number is chosen randomly. What is the
C. ¼ probability that it is divisible by 7?
D. 1/6 A. 7/50
B. 13/90
33. The face of a coin is either head or tail. If three coins C. 1/7
are tossed, what is the probability of getting three tails D. 7/45
or three heads?
A. 1/8 40. One box contains four cards numbered 1, 3,5,and 6.
B. ½ Another box contains three cards numbered 2, 4, and 7.
C. ¼ One card is drawn from each bag. Find the probability
D. 1/6 that the sum is even.
A. 5/12
34. Five fair coins were tossed simultaneously. What is B. 3/7
the probability of getting three heads and two tails? C. 7/12
A. 1/32 D. 5/7
B. 1/16
C. 1/8 41. Two people are chosen randomly from 4 married
D. ¼ couples. What is probability that they are husband and
wife?
35. Throw a fair coin five times. What is the probability A. 1/28
of getting three heads and two tails? B. 1/14
C. 3/28 A. 0.3697
D. 1/7 B. 0.3967
C. 0.3796
42. One letter is taken from each of the words D. 0.3679
PARALLEL and LEVEL at random. What is the probability
of getting the same letter? 49. The UN forces for Bosnia uses a type of missile that
A. 1/5 hits the target with a probability of 0.3. How many
B. 1/20 missiles should be fired so that there is at least an 80%
C. 3/20 probability of hitting the target?
D. ¾ A. 2
B. 4
43. In a shooting game, the probability that Botoy & C. 5
Toto will hit a target is 2/3 and ¾ respectively. What is D. 3
the probability that the target is hit when both shoot at
it once? 50. (ME April 1997)
A. 13/5 In a dice game, one fair is used. The player wins P20.00
B. 5/13 if he rolls either 1 or 6. He losses P10.00 if he turns up
C. 7/12 any other face. What is the expected winning for one
D. 11/12 roll of the die?
A. P40.00
44. A standard deck of 52 playing cards is well shuffled. B. P0.00
The probability that the first four cards dealt from the C. P20.00
deck will be four aces is closes to: D. P10.00
A. 4 x 10-6
B. 2 x 10-6
C. 3 x 10-6
D. 8 x 10-6

45. A card is chosen from pack of playing cards. What is

the probability that it is either red or a picture card?
A. 8/13
B. 10/13
C. 19/26
D. 8/15

46. In a poker game consisting of 5 cards, what is the

probability of holding 2 aces and 2 Queens?
A. 5! /52!
B. 5/52
C. 33/54145
D. 1264/45685

47. Dennis Rodman sinks 50% of all his attempts. What

is the probability that he will make exactly 3 of his next
10 attempts?
A. 1/256
B. 3/8
C. 30/128
D. 15/128

48. There are 10 defectives per 1000 items of a product

in long run. What is the probability that there is one and
only one defective in random lot of 100?
ANSWER KEY: (Algebra 1) ANSWER KEY: (Algebra 2)

1. B. 2/9 1. B. 25
2. C. 5/22 2. C. 3
3. A. 5040 3. D. 1
4. D. 0.05 4. A. 4.19
5. C. pq 5. C. 9
6. D. 1994 6. C. 2x + y – 1
7. B. 2 7. C. (y log x)/ (x log y)
8. D. –(2x-y)2 8. A. (1/a)(log P-b)
9. D. (x2 -y)(x2 + y -1) 9. B. a2 log a
10. B. (x+4)(x+2) 10. A. logb a
11. D. (x+2)(x2-2x+4) 11. C. 6
12. C. (x2+y2)(x+y)(x-y) 12. A. 9
13. A. 3x(x+2)(x-3) 13. C. 6
14. B. (x-8)(x-2) 14. B. 125
15. D. (x+1)(x-1)(x4+x2+1) 15. C. 3.47
16. A. 4 and -2 only 16. C. 1/8n
17. C. 2x 17. C. y = x3
18. D. 2(x-1)+3(x+1) = 5x+4 18. C. log7 (1/49) = -2
19. C. Any value 19. A. (log (x))/n
20. B. x = 1; y = -3 20. C. xy
21. B. y = +2, x = ±1 and y = -2, x = ±1 21. B. log [ x/(y + z) ]
22. C. 3 22. A. 9.9
23. C. 4 or -2 23. A. 1
24. D. 4 24. D. 3.761
25. B. 731 25. A. 9
26. A. 0 26. C. 8
27. B. 11 27. A. 2
28. C. 4 28. D. 3.79
29. C. 218 29. D. complex number
30. D. 3×2 + 6x + 8 30. C. -2.10
31. D. 2b/(a2 – b2) 31. B. –(66339/128a11)
32. D. 4 32. B. 126720
33. C. ¾ 33. D. 5760×8
34. D. 4/(x+3) 34. C. 25344×9
35. B. 4/3 35. B. 5005
36. C. 4 36. A. 256
37. C. x4 – 2×3 + 4×2 – 8x + 16 37. D. 262 144
38. C. x = (6 + 2√14)/5 or (6 – 2√14)/5 38. A. less than 2
y = (-2 + 6√14)/5 or (-2 – 6√14)/5 39. B. 0
39. A. 2 40. A. C/A
40. C. A = 3; B = 2 41. D. 26
41. C. (6/(x – 4)) – (5/(x – 3)) 42. C. 17/2
42. A. 42.31 43. C. 1/u and 1/v
43. B. 23, 27 44. C. 2
44. D. 16:1 45. A. 5×2 + 3x – 2 = 0
45. A. 13:7 46. C. 12×2 – 7x + 1 = 0
46. B. 10 47. B. 4
47. A. 36 48. B. 4
48. C. 3 49. A. 3
49. B. -1< x < 4 50. D. x2 – 3x – 6 = 0
50. A. -6 > x > 2
ANSWER KEY: (Algebra 3) 51. B. 135
52. A. 525 m/s
1. B. 15 53. A. 17.27 km
2. C. 23 54. B. 68.57 seconds
3. C. 5 55. A. 2.86
4. D. 12 years 56. D.258 m
5. C. 15 57. D. 2200 m
6. B. 18 58. C. 40
7. D. 5 59. D. 2.5 mi
8. D. 500kg 60. A. 20 min
9. A. 40% 61. A. 656 miles
10. C. 2:3 62. B. 4 kph
11. C. 20 63. D. 3
12. B. Lead = 8.8 ounces; Nickel = 7.2 ounces 64. C. 16
13. B. Silver = 3.75 oz.; Gold = 11.25 oz. 65. D. 9000 m
14. D. 7 hours 66. B. R1 = 0.72 R2
15. C. 10 67. D. 1200 lbs.
16. B. 2.5 hours 68. A. 48 hp
17. C. 3 69. C. P32000.00
18. A. ¾ 70. C. 16%
19. D. 20 hours 71. D. 15.76%
20. C. 12 hours 72. C. 1.20% gain
21. A. 10 hrs. 73. B. 1% discount
22. B. 8.4 74. C. 1% gain
23. B. 1.125 hrs 75. D. 6.25%
24. D. 1.923 hours 76. D. 540
25. D. 20.56 77. A. 100
26. A. 173.91 78. C. P15.00
27. A. 18.9 79. D. 4680
28. A. 9.867hrs. 80. C. 50/x
29. D. 720° 81. A. 1 hour
30. B. 22 82. C. 42
31. C. 16-4/11 minutes 83. A. Q – (Q/A) t
32. C. 21.81 84. C. 16
33. A. 12:33 pm 85. C. 600
34. D. 12:21.181 86. C. 16
35. C. 540° 87. B. 2027
36. A. 3:06.06 88. C. 7
37. B. 3:31.47 89. C. 8
38. C. 1/5 and 1/6 90. A. 4095
39. B. 10y + x 91. C. 45
40. C. 65 & 70 92. D. 11
41. C. 63 93. B. 80
42. A. 10 & 12 94. C. 20,000 ft2
43. C. 852 95. A. 9.995 m
44. C. 22 96. D. 915.66 ft
45. B. 50 97. C. 90.031
46. D. 842 98. C. 1,256.547 feet
47. A. 7 and 14 99. B. 2.4495
48. C. 6 100. C. 15 km
49. B. 5/13
50. D. 15
ANSWER KEY: (Algebra 4) ANSWER KEY: (Algebra 5)

1. D. 11 1. A. 360
2. D. 25 2. B. 120
3. B. 171 3. B. 277,200
4. B. 341 4. B. 576
5. C. 44310 5. A. 120
6. C. 45/28 6. B. 72
7. B. 2 7. C. 720
8. C. 190 8. A. 144
9. C. 4 9. A. 576
10. C. 1 10. D. 15120
11. B. a – 9b 11. D. 15120
12. C. 7:3 12. A. 324632
13. D. 2xz/(x+z) 13. D. 78
14. B. 91 14. C. 140
15. D. 0.02 15. D. 540
16. C. 645645 16. C. 31
17. D. 340 17. B. 2/3
18. C. 1/7 18. C. 1/e
19. C. 1/11 19. D. 5/14
20. A. 12 20. A. 3/28
21. B. 16 21. B. 15/28
22. A. √ab 22. C. 13/28
23. D. 5/6 23. A. 0.948
24. A. 13120 24. D. 1/12
25. B. 9/2 25. A. 7/36
26. B. 2046 26. C. 0.53
27. A. 4/3 27. C. 28/121
28. C. 7 28. C. 1/2
29. D. 15309 29. B. 1/6
30. D. 5 30. B. 35/128
31. A. 36 & 4 31. C. 1/16
32. C. 6 32. A. 1/8
33. C. 76 33. C. ¼
34. A. 0.9122 34. A. 1/32
35. A. 75 m 35. B. 5/16
36. B. 17.8 36. A. 19/27
37. A. 108 days 37. C. 4/9
38. C. 20 38. A. 0.01622
39. D. –44 39. B. 13/90
40. C. 4 40. A. 5/12
41. C. –46 41. D. 1/7
42. B. –28 42. A. 1/5
43. D. –5 43. D. 11/12
44. D 44. A. 4 x 10-6
45. A 45. A. 8/13
46. A. x = -2; y = 6 46. C. 33/54145
47. D. 12 47. D. 15/128
48. C. 28 48. A. 0.3697
49. A. 28 49. C. 5
50. B. 280 50. B. P0.00
PLANE TRIGONOMETRY (81 Items)
8. Given three angles A, B, and C whose sum is 180°. If
1. Find the supplement of an angle whose compliment the tan A + tan B + tan C = x, find the value of tan A x
is 62°. tan B x tan C.
A. 28° A. 1 – x
B. 118° B.√x
C. 152° C. x/2
D. None of these D. x

2. A certain angle has a supplement 5 times its 9. What is the sine of 820°?
compliment. Find the angle. A. 0.984
A. 67.5° B. -0.866
B. 157.5° C. 0.866
C. 168.5° D. -0.500
D. 186°
10. csc 270° = ?
3. The sum of the two interior angles of the triangle is A. -√3
equal to the third angle and the difference of the two B. -1
angles is equal to 2/3 of the third angle. Find the third C. √3
angle. D. 1
A. 15°
B. 75° 11. If coversine Ѳ is 0.134, find the value of Ѳ.
C. 90° A. 60°
D. 120° B. 45°
C. 30°
4. The measure 0f 1 ½ revolutions counter-clockwise is: D. 20°
A. 540°
B. 520° 12. Solve for cos 72° if the given relationship is cos 2A =
C. +90° 2 cos2 A – 1.
D. -90° A. 0.309
B. 0.258
5. The measure of 2.25 revolutions counterclockwise is: C. 0.268
A. -835° D. 0.315
B. -810°
C. 805° 13. If sin 3A = cos 6B then:
D. 810° A. A + B = 180°
B. A + 2B = 30°
56. Solve for θ: sin θ – sec θ + csc θ – tan 2θ = –0.0866 C. A – 2B = 30°
A. 40° D. A + B = 30°
B. 41°
C. 47° 14. Find the value of sin (arcos 15/17).
D. 43° A. 8/17
B. 17/9
7. What are the exact values of the cosine and tangent C. 8/21
trigonometric functions of acute angle A, given that sin D. 8/9
A = 3/7?
15. Find the value of cos [arcsin (1/3) + arctan (2/√5)]
16. If sin 40° + sin 20° = sin Ѳ, find the value of Ѳ. 24. If cos Ѳ = √3/2, what is the value of x if x = 1 – tan2
A. 20° Ѳ.
B. 80° A. -2
C. 120° B. -1/3
D. 60° C. 4/3
D. 2/3
17. How many different value of x from 0° to 180° for
the equation (2sin x – 1)(cos x + 1) = 0? 25. If sin Ѳ – cos Ѳ = -1/3, what is the value of sin 2 Ѳ?
A. 3 A. 1/3
B. 0 B. 1/9
C. 1 C. 8/9
D. 2 D. 4/9

18. For what value of Ѳ (less than 2π) will the following 26. If x cos Ѳ + y sin Ѳ = 1 and x sin Ѳ – y cos Ѳ = 3, what
equation be satisfied? is the relationship between x and y?
sin2 Ѳ + 4sinѲ + 3 = 0 A. x2 + y2 = 20
A. π B. x2 – y2 = 5
B. π/4 C. x2 + y2 = 16
C. 3π/2 D. x2 + y2 = 10
D. π/2
27. If sin x + 1/sin x = √2 , then sin2 x + 1/sin2 x is equal
19. Find the value of x in the equation csc x + cot x = 3. to:
A. π/4 A. √2
B. π/3 B. 1
C. π/2 C. 2
D. π/5 D. 0

20. If sec2 A is 5/2, the quantity 1 – sin2 A is equivalent 28. The equation 2 sin Ѳ + 2 cos Ѳ – 1 = √3 is:
to: A. An identity
A. 2.5 B. A parametric equation
B. 0.6 C. A conditional equation
C. 1.5 D. A quadratic equation
D. 0.4
29. If x + y = 90°, then ((sin x tan y)/(sin y tan x)) is equal
21. Find sin x if 2 sin x + 3 cos x – 2 = 0. to:
A. 1 & -5/13 A. tan x
B. -1 & 5/13 B. cos x
C. 1 & 5/13 C. cot x
D. -1 & -5/13 D. sin x

22. If sin A = 4/5, A in quadrant II, sin B = 7/25, B in 30. if cos Ѳ = x / 2 then 1 – tan2 Ѳ is equal to:
quadrant I, find sin (A + B). A. (2×2 + 4)/x2
A. 3/5 B. (4 – 2×2)/x2
B. 2/5 C. (2×2 – 4)/x
C. 3/4 D. (2×2 – 4)/x2
D. 4/5
31. Find the value in degrees of arcos (tan 24°).
23. If sin A = 2.571x, cos A = 3.06, and sin 2A = 3.939x, A. 61.48
find the value of x. B. 62.35
A. 0.350 C. 63.56
B. 0.250 D. 60.84
C. 0.100
D. 0.150 82. arctan [2 cos ((√3)/2)] is equal to:
A. π/3 D. 1 – 2 sin 2x
B. π/4
C. π/6 41. Find the value of y: y = (1 + cos 2θ) tan θ.
D. π/2 A. cos θ
B. sin θ
33. Solve for x in the equation: arctan (2x) + arctan (x) = C. sin 2θ
π/4 D. cos 2θ
A. 0.821
B. 0.218 42. The equation 2 sinh x cosh x is equal to:
C. 0.281 A. ex
D. 0.182 B.e-x
C. sinh 2x
34. Solve for x from the given trigonometric equation: D. cosh 2x
arctan (1 – x) + arctan (1 + x) = arctan 1/8
A. 4 43. Simplifying the equation sin2 θ(1 + cot2 θ)
B. 6 A. 1
C. 8 B. sin2 θ
D. 2 C. sin2 θ sec2 θ
D. sin2 θ
35. Solve for y if y = (1/sin x – 1/tan x)(1 + cos x)
A. sin x 44. If tan θ = x2, which of the following is incorrect?
B. cos x A. sin θ = 1/√(1 + x4)
C. tan x B. sec θ = √(1 + x4)
D. sec2 x C. cos θ = 1/√(1 + x4)
D. csc θ = √(1 + x4) / x2
86. Solve for x: x = (tan θ + cot θ)2 sin2 θ – tan 2 θ.
A. sin θ 45. In an isosceles right triangle, the hypotenuse is how
B. cos θ much longer than its sides?
C. 1 A. 2 times
D. 2 B. √2 times
C. 1.5 times
37. Solve for x: x = 1 – (sin θ – cos θ)2 D. None of these
A. sin θ cos θ
B. -2 cos θ 46. Find the angle in mils subtended by a line 10 yards
C. cos 2θ long at a distance of 5000 yards.
D. sin 2θ A. 2.5 mils
B. 2 mils
38. Simplify cos4 θ – sin4 θ C. 4 mils
A. 2 D. 1 mil
B. 1
C. 2 sin2 θ + 1 47. The angle or inclination of ascend of a road having
D. 2 cos2 θ – 1 8.25% grade is _____degrees.
A. 5.12 degrees
39. Solve for x: x = ((1 – tan2 a)/(1 + tan2 a)) B. 4.72 degrees
A. cos a C. 1.86 degrees
B. sin 2a D. 4.27 degrees
C. cos 2a
D. sin a 48. The sides of a right triangle is in arithmetic prog-
ression whose common difference if 6 cm its area is:
40. which of the following is different from the others? A. 216 cm2
A. 2 cos 2x – 1 B. 270 cm2
B. cos 4x – sin 4x C. 360 cm2
C. cos 3x – sin 3x D. 144 cm2
49. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 34 cm. Find the 56. The sides of a triangle ABC are AB = 15 cm, BC = 18
length of the shortest leg if it is 14 cm shorter than the cm, and CA = 24 cm. Determine the distance from the
other leg. point of intersection of the angular bisectors to side AB.
A. 15 cm A. 5.21 cm
B. 16 cm B. 3.78 cm
C. 17 cm C. 4.73 cm
D. 18 cm D. 6.25 cm

50. A truck travels from point M northward for 30 min. 57. If AB = 15 m, BC = 18 m and CA = 24 m, find the
then eastward for one hour, then shifted N 30° W. if the point of intersection of the angular bisector from the
constant speed is 40 Kph, how far directly from M, in vertex C.
km. will be it after 2 hours? A. 11.3
A. 43.5 B. 12.1
B. 45.2 C. 13.4
C. 47.9 D. 14.3
D. 41.6
58. In triangle ABC, angle C = 70 degrees; angle A = 45
51. Two sides of a triangle measures 6 cm. and 8 cm. degrees; AB = 40 m. what is the length of the median
and their included angle is 40°. Find the third side. drawn from vertex A to side BC?
A. 5.144 cm A. 36.8 meters
B. 5.263 cm B. 37.1 meters
C. 4.256 cm C. 36.3 meters
D. 5.645 cm D. 37.4 meters

52. Given a triangle: C = 100°, a = 15, b = 20. Find c: 59. The area of the triangle whose angles are 61°9’32”,
A. 34 34°14’46”, and 84°35’42” is 680.60. the length of the
B. 27 longest side is:
C. 43 A. 35.53
D. 35 B. 54.32
C. 52.43
53. Given angle A = 32°, angle B = 70°, and side c = 27 D. 62.54
units. Solve for side a of the triangle.
A. 24 units 60. Given a triangle ABC whose angles are A = 40°, B =
B. 10 units 95° and side b = 30 cm. find the length of the bisector of
C. 14.63 units angle C.
D. 12 units A. 21.74 cm
B. 22.35 cm
54. In a triangle, find the side c if the angle C = 100°, C. 20.45 cm
side b = 20, and side a = 15. D. 20.98 cm
A. 28
B. 27 61. The sides of a triangular lot are 130 m, 180 m, and
C. 29 190 m. the lot is to be divided by a line bisecting the
D. 26 longest side and drawn from the opposite vertex. The
length of this dividing line is:
55. Two sides of a triangle are 50 m. and 60 m. long. The A. 100 meters
angle included between these sides is 30 degrees. What B. 130 meters
is the interior angle (in degrees) opposite the longest C. 125 meters
side? D. 115 meters
A. 92.74
B. 93.74 62. From a point outside of an equilateral triangle, the
C. 94.74 distances to the vertices are 10m, 10m, and 18m. Find
D. 91.74 the dimension of the triangle.
A. 25.63
B. 45.68 68. From a point A at the foot of the mountain, the
C. 19.94 angle of elevation of the top B is 60°. After ascending
D. 12.25 the mountain one (1) mile to an inclination of 30° to the
horizon, and reaching a point C, an observer finds that
63. Points A and B 1000 m apart are plotted on a the angle ACB is 135°.
straight highway running East and West. From A, the A. 14386
bearing of a tower C is 32 degrees N of W and from B B. 12493
the bearing of C is 26 degrees N of E. Approximate the C. 11672
shortest distance of tower C to the highway. D. 11223
A. 264 meters
B. 274 meters 69. A vertical pole is 10 m from a building. When the
C. 284 meters angle of elevation of the sum is 45°, the pole cast a
D. 294 meters shadow on the building 1 m high. Find the height of the
pole.
64. An airplane leaves an aircraft carrier and flies South A. 0 meter
at 350 mph. The carrier travels S 30° E at 25 mph. If the B. 11 meters
wireless communication range of the airplane is 700 C. 12 meters
miles, when will it lose contact with the carrier? D. 13 meters
A. after 4.36 hours
B. after 5.57 hours 70. A pole cast a shadow of 15 meters long when the
C. after 2.13 hours angle of elevation of the sun is 61°. If the pole has
D. after 4.54 hours leaned 15° from the vertical directly toward the sun,
what is the length of the pole?
65. A statue 2 meters high stands on a column that is 3 A. 52.43 meters
meters high. An observer in level with the top of the B. 54.23 meters
statue observed that the column and the statue C. 53.25 meters
subtend the same angle. How far is the observer from D. 53.24 meters
the statue?
A. 5√2 meters 71. An observer wishes to determine the height of a
B. 2√5 meters tower. He takes sights at the top of the tower from A
C. 20 meters and B, which are 50 ft. apart, at the same elevation on a
D. √10 meters direct line with the tower. The vertical angle at point A
is 30° and at point B is 40°. What is the height of the
66. From the top of a building 100 m high, the angle of tower?
depression of a point A due East of it is 30°. From a A. 85.6 feet
point B due South of the building, the angle of elevation B. 143.97 feet
of the top is 60°. Find the distance AB. C. 110.29 feet
A. 100 + 3√30 D. 92.54 feet
B. 200 – √30
C. 100 (√30) / 3 72. From the top of tower A, the angle of elevation of
D. 100√3/ 30 the top of the tower B is 46°. From the foot of tower B
the angle of elevation of the top of tower A is 28°. Both
67. An observer found the angle of elevation of the top towers are on a level ground. If the height of tower B is
of the tree to be 27°. After moving 10m closer (on the 120m, how high is tower A in m?
same vertical and horizontal plane as the tree), the A. 38.6
angle of elevation becomes 54°. Find the height of the B. 42.3
tree. C. 44.1
A. 8.65 meters D. 40.7
B. 7.53 meters
C. 7.02 meters 73. Points A and B are 100 m apart and are on the same
D. 8.09 meters elevation as the foot of a building. The angles of
elevation of the top of the building from points A and B
are 21° and 32°, respectively. How far is A from the 79. A clock has a dial face 12 inches in radius. The
building in m? minute hand is 9 inches long while the hour hand is 6
A. 271.6 inches long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is
B. 265.4 2 inches above the plane of rotation of the hour hand.
C. 259.2 Find the distance between the tips of the hands at 5:40
D. 277.9 AM.
A. 9.17 inches
74. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of a B. 8.23 inches
tower to be 30 degrees. He walks 85 m. nearer the C. 10.65 inches
tower and finds its angle of elevation to be 60 degrees. D. 11.25 inches
What is the height of the tower?
A. 76.31 meters 80. If the bearing of A from B is 40° W, then the bearing
B. 73.61 meters of B from A is:
C. 73.31 meters A. N 40° E
D. 73.16 meters B. N 40° W
C. N 50° E
75. The angle of elevation of a point C from a pint B is D. N 50° W
29°42’; the angle of elevation of C from another point A
31.2 m directly below B is 59°23’. How high is C from 81. A plane hillside is inclined at an angle of 28° with the
the horizontal line through A? horizontal. A man wearing skis can climb this hillside by
A. 47.1 meters following a straight path inclined at an angle of 12° to
B. 52.3 meters the horizontal, but one without skis must follow a path
C. 35.1 meters inclined at an angle of only 5° with the horizontal. Find
D. 66.9 meters the angle between the directions of the two paths.
A. 13.21°
76. A rectangular piece of land 40m x 30m is to be B. 18.74°
crossed diagonally by a 10-m wide roadway. If the land C. 15.56°
cost P1,500.00 per square meter, the cost of the D. 17.22°
roadway is:
A. P401.10
B. P60,165.00
C. P601,650.00
D. 651,500.00

77. A man improvises a temporary shield from the sun

using a triangular piece of wood with dimensions of
1.4m, 1.5 m, and 1.3 m. with the longer side lying
horizontally on the ground, he props up the other
corner of the triangle with a vertical pole 0.9m long.
What would be the area of the shadow on the ground
when the sun is vertically overhead?
A. 0.5 m2
B. 0.75 m2
C. 0.84 m2
D. 0.95 m2

78. A rectangular piece of wood 4 cm x 12 cm tall is

titled at an angle of 45°. Find the vertical distance
between the lower corner and the upper corner.
A. 4√2 cm
B. 2√2 cm
C. 8√2 cm
D. 6√2 cm
SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY (5 Items)

82. Calculate the area of a spherical triangle whose

radius is 5 m and whose angles are 40°, 65°, and 110°.
A. 12.34 sq. m.
B. 14.89 sq. m.
C. 16.45 sq. m.
D. 15.27 sq. m.

83. A right spherical triangle has an angle C = 90°, a =

50°, and c = 80°. Find the side b.
A. 45.33°
B. 78.66°
C. 74.33°
D. 75.89°

84. If the time is 8:00 a.m. GMT, what is the time in the
Philippines, which is located at 120° East longitude?
A. 6 p.m.
B. 4 am
C. 4 p.m.
D. 6 am

85. An airplane flew from Manila (14° 36’N, 121° 05’E)

at a course of S 30° E maintaining a certain altitude and
following a great circle path. If its groundspeed is 350
knots, after how many hours will it cross the equator?
A. 2.87 hours
B. 2.27 hours
C. 3.17 hours
D. 3.97 hours

86. Find the distance in nautical miles between Manila

and San Francisco. Manila is located at 14° 36’N latitude
and 121° 05’ E longitude. San Francisco is situated at 37°
48’ N latitude and 122° 24’ W longitude.
A. 7856.2 nautical miles
B. 5896.2 nautical miles
C. 6326.2 nautical miles
D. 6046.2 nautical miles
ANSWER KEY: (Plane Trigonometry) 51. A. 5.144 cm
52. B. 27
1. C. 152° 53. C. 14.63 units
2. A. 67.5° 54. B. 27
3. C. 90° 55. B. 93.74
4. A. 540° 56. C. 4.73 cm
5. D. 810° 57. D. 14.3
6. D. 43° 58. C. 36.3 meters
7. B 59. C. 52.43
8. D. x 60. A. 21.74 cm
9. A. 0.984 61. C. 125 meters
10. B. –1 62. C. 19.94
11. A. 60° 63. B. 274 meters
12. A. 0.309 64. C. after 2.13 hours
13. B. A + 2B = 30° 65. B. 2√5 meters
14. A. 8/17 66. C. 100 (√30) / 3
15. D 67. D. 8.09 meters
16. B. 80° 68. B. 12493
17. A. 3 69. B. 11 meters
18. C. 3π/2 70. B. 54.23 meters
19. D. π/5 71. D. 92.54 feet
20. D. 0.4 72. D. 40.7
21. A. 1 & -5/13 73. C. 259.2
22. A. 3/5 74. B. 73.61 meters
23. B. 0.250 75. A. 47.1 meters
24. D. 2/3 76. C. P601,650.00
25. C. 8/9 77. A. 0.5 m2
26. D. x2 + y2 = 10 78. C. 8√2 cm
27. D. 0 79. A. 9.17 inches
28. C. A conditional equation 80. A. N 40° E
29. C. cot x 81. C. 15.56°
30. D. (2×2 – 4)/x2
31. C. 63.56
32. B. π/4 ANSWER KEY: (Spherical Trigonometry)
33. C. 0.281
34. A. 4 82. D. 15.27 sq. m.
35. A. sin x 83. C. 74.33°
36. C. 1 84. C. 4 p.m.
37. D. sin 2θ 85. A. 2.87 hours
38. D. 2 cos2 θ – 1 86. D. 6046.2 nautical miles
39. C. cos 2a
40. C. cos 3x – sin 3x
41. C. sin 2θ
42. C. sinh 2x
43. A. 1
44. A. sin θ = 1/√(1 + x4)
45. B. √2 times
46. B. 2 mils
47. B. 4.72 degrees
48. A. 216 cm2
49. B. 16 cm
50. C. 47.9