1.

Find the sum of all positive integers between 84 and one does not distinguish among trees of the same
719 which are exactly divisible by 5. 10. Resolve into partial fraction. kind?
A. 23,750 C. 50,800* A. 1260 * B. 1620 C. 1026 D. 1062
B. 45,680 D. 38,460 A. C. *
B. D. 20. Suppose a die is rolled three times. What is the
2. Find the sum of the first 100 positive integers probability that all three rolls are the same?
exactly divisible by 7. A. 1/36 * B. 1/216 C. 5/36 D. 5/216
11. Find k so that the expression kx2 – 3kx + 9 is a
A. 35,350 * C. 25,536
perfect square.
B. 2,053 D. 53,350 21. In how many ways can a hostess select six
A. 3 B. 4 * C. 12 D. 6
luncheon guests from 10 women if she is to avoid
3. Find the quadratic mean of the numbers 8,9,9,13. having particular two of them together at the
12. The roots of the equation 2x2 – 3x + 20 = 0 are
A. 9.76 C. 9.94 * luncheon?
A. real and equal C. complex and equal
B. 9.35 D. 9.11 A. 210 B. 84 C. 140* D. 168
B. real and unequal D. complex and unequal*
4. The geometric mean and the harmonic mean of two 22. A card is chosen from pack of playing cards. What
13. The value of k for which the roots of 8x2+8kx+3k+2
numbers are 12 and 36/5 respectively. What are the is the probability that it is either red or a picture
= 0 are real and equal is
numbers? card?
A. 3 B. 1 C. 2* D. 4
A. 36 & 4* C. 36 & 8 A. 8/13* B. 10/13 C. 19/26 D. 8/15
B. 72 & 8 D. 72 & 4
14. Solve for this equation:
23. The captain of a baseball team assigns himself to
5. The 1st, 4th, 8th terms of an A.P. are themselves the 4th place in the batting order. In how many ways
geometric progression (G.P.). What is the common can he assign the remaining places to his eight
A. x= -1/2, x = -5 C. x= -1/2, x = 5*
ratio of the G.P.? teammates if just three men are eligible for the first
B. x= 1/2, x = 5 D. x= 1/2, x = 5
A. 4/3* D. 7/3 position?
B. 5/3 C. 2 A. 2160 B. 40320 C. 5040 D. 15120*
15. A number between 1 and 10000 is randomly
selected. What is the probability that it will be
6. The sum of a geometric series is as follows: 24. Rhazel draws 3 candies in succession from a jar
divisible by 4 and 5?
S  1.0  1.1 1.21 1.331 ...up to the 50th term containing 5 Kopiko candies, 6 Maxx‟s candies and
A. 0.03 B. 0.04 C. 0.05* D. 0.06
A. 1163.91 * C. 1180.73 7 Stork candies. Find the probability of drawing
B. 1276.56 D. 1422.34 these candies in order: Kopiko, Maxx, Stork.
16. How many 4-digits even numbers can be formed
A. 67/389 B. 19/253 C. 33/785 D. 35/816 *
from the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 if each
7. If n is a positive integer such that n! / (n - 2)! = 342, digit is to be used only once in each number?
find n. 25. In a dice game, one fair is used. The player wins
A. 5,000 B. 3,256 C. 2,520* D. 5,986
A. 19* „B. 17 C. 18 D. 16 P20.00 if he rolls either 1 or 6. He losses P10.00 if
he turns up any other face. What is the expected
17. Two dice are tossed. What is the probability that the
8. Find the value of x which will satisfy the equation winning for one roll of the die?
sum of the two dice is greater than 3?
A. P40.00 C. P20.00
x  2 x  1. A. 3/4 B. 5/6 C. 11/12* D. 1/4
B. P0.00* D. P10.00
A. 1 B. 1,4 C. 4 * D. 0,4
18. In how many ways can a caravan of 9 covered
26. A certain protocol uses 10 bits per message block.
9. Which of the following is not an identity? wagons from India be arranged in a circle?
If the number of 1‟s per block is limited to exactly
A. (x-1)2 = x2-2x+1 A. 40230 B. 40203 C. 42300 D. 40320 *
four, how many different message blocks can be
B. x2-(x-1)2 = 2x-1 generated?
C. (x+3)(2x-2) = 2(x2+2x-3) 19. In how many ways can 3 acacias, 4 narras, and 2
A. 120 C. 3628800
D. 2(x-1)+3(x+1) = 5x+4* mahoganies be arranged along a property line if
B. 210 * D. 5040
27. To avoid arrest, a syndicate places 7 narcotic that the profit of 20% is made by selling the mixture
tablets in a bottle containing 10 vitamin pills that are 34. A bus is guaranteed to arrive at the bus stop at 360.00 per kg?
similar in appearance. If the customs official selects between 8:00 am and 8:15 am. It is no more likely A. 1:2 B. 3:2 C. 2:3* D. 3:5
3 of the tablets at random for analysis, what is the to arrive at any time than any other time in this
probability that the traveler will be arrested for illegal interval (i.e. the probability density function is 42. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire
possession of narcotics? uniform). What is the probability that the bus will varies directly as the length and inversely as the
A. 13/17 B. 11/17 C. 14/17 * D. 15/17 arrive at 8:05 am to 8:10 am? square of the diameter of the wire. Compare the
A. 0 B. 1/3 * C. 1/15 D. 1/5 electrical resistance offered by two pieces of wire of
28. The probability that a person, living in a certain the same material, one being 100 m long and 5 mm
town, owns a cat is estimated to be 0.3. Find the 35. A bus is guaranteed to arrive at the bus stop diameter, and the other is 50 m long and 3 mm in
probability that the ninth person randomly between 8:00 am and 8:15 am. It is no more likely diameter.
interviewed in that town is the fourth one to own a to arrive at any time than any other time in this A. R1 = 0.57 R2 C. R1 = 0.84 R2
cat. interval (i.e. the probability density function is B. R1 = 0.72 R2* D. R1 = 0.95 R2
A. 0.089 B. 0.019 C. 0.076 * D. 0.034 uniform). What is the probability that the bus will
arrive at 8:05 am? 43. The volume of a hemisphere varies directly as the
29. A certain 20 – item examination has only two A. 0* B. 1/3 C. 1/15 D. 1/5 cube of its radius. The volume of the hemisphere
choices per question. What is the probability of with 2.54cm, radius is 20.75 cm3. What is the
getting exactly 15 correct answers? volume of a sphere with 3.25cm.radius of the same
A. 787/33101 C. 671/11823 36. It is known that 3 out of 10 television sets are kind of material?
B. 969/65536 * D. 183/19310 defective. If 2 television sets are selected at random A. 43.46 B. 57.64 C. 86.92 * D. 76.95
from the 10, what is the probability that 1 of them is
30. What is the probability that a five-card poker hand defective? 44. A boat takes 2/3 as much time to travel downstream
contains two pairs (that is, two of each of two A. 7/15* B. 1/10 C. 1/2 D. 1/3 from C to D, as to return, If the rate of the river‟s
different kinds and a fifth card of a third kind)? current is 8 kph, what is the speed of the boat in still
A. 197/4165 C. 198/4165 * 37. In an election, one of the two candidates got 42% of water?
B. 194/4165 D. 193/4165 the total votes and still lost by 3,680 votes. Find the A. 38 B. 39 C. 40* D. 41
total number of votes.
31. The probability that an examinee passes the board A. 33,000 C. 23,000* 45. Arcadio Corporation‟s gross margin is 45% of sales.
examination is 0.8. Find the probability that the B. 43,000 D. 34,000 Operating expenses such sales and administration
examinee will pass the examination on the fourth are 15% of sales. Arcadio is in 40% tax bracket.
try. 38. If two events A and B are mutually exclusive events What percent of sales is their profit after taxes?
A. 3/625 C. 8/625 and the probability that A or B will happen is A. 15% B. 30% C. 18% * D. 20%
B. 4/625 * D. 9/625 A. Pa + Pb* C. Pa - Pb
B. Pa x Pb D. Pa/Pb 46. The velocity of an airplane in still air is 125 kph. The
32. The odds that A can solve a given problem are 5 to velocity of the wind due east is 25 kph. If the plane
7, and the odds that B can solve it are 3 to 6. Find 39. A group of 7 friends are having lunch together. travels east and returns back to its base again in 4
the probability that either A or B can solve the Each person eats at least 3/4 of a pizza. What is the hours, at what distance does the plane travel due
problem. smallest number of whole pizzas needed for lunch? east?
A. 3/4 * B. 17/14 C. 11/18 D. 17/36 A. 7 B. 5 C. 6* D. 8 A. 240 km.* C. 320 km.
B. 180 km D. 200 km
33. A first bag contains 5 white balls and 10 black balls. 40. Find the third proportional to 4 and 12.
The experiment consists of selecting a bag and A. 48 B. 20 C. 36* D. 16 47. The second of the four numbers is three less than
then drawing a ball from the selected bag, find the the first, the third is four more than the first and the
probability of drawing a white ball from the first bag. 41. In what ratio must a peanut costing P240.00 per kg. fourth is two more than the third. Find the fourth
A. 5/6 B. 1/6 * C. 2/3 D. 1/3 be mixed with a peanut costing P340.00 per kg so number if their sum is 35?
 A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13* 62. A man is 41 years old and in seven years he will be
55. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana four times as old as his son is at that time. How old
48. An airplane flying the wing, took 2 hours to travel was when Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is his son now?
1000 km and 2.5 Hours in flying back. What was the is Ana? (ECE November 1995) A. 9 B. 4 C. 5* D. 8
wind velocity in kph? A. 16 B. 18* C. 19 D. 20
A. 50* B. 60 C. 70 D. 40 63. In a racing contest, there are 240 cars which will
56. A swimming pool is filled through its inlet pipe and have fuel provision that will last for 15 hours.
49. On a certain trip, Ben drive 231 km in exactly the then emptied through its outlet pipe in a total of 8 Assuming a constant hourly consumption for each
same time as Allan drive 308 km. If Allan‟s rate hours. If water enters through its inlet and car, how long will the fuel provision last if 8 cars
exceeded that of Ben by 13 kph, determine the rate simultaneously allowed to leave through its outlet, withdraw from the race every hour after the first
Allan. the pool is filled in 7 ½ hours. Find how long will it A. 25 hours* C. 23 hours
A. 39 kph B. 44 kph C. 48 kph D. 52 kph* take to fill the pool with the outlet closed. B. 22 hours D. 24 hours
A. 6 B. 2 C. 3* D. 5
50. White flour and whole wheat flour are mixed 64. A random sample of 20 pieces of cotton fiber is
together in a ratio of 5 parts white flour to 1 part 57. Mark has nickels, dimes, and quarters amounting to taken and the absorbency on each piece was
whole wheat flour. How many pounds of white flour $1.85. If he has twice as many dimes as quarters, measured. The following are the absorbency
are in 48 pounds of this mixture? and the number of nickels is two less than twice the values:
A. 8 pounds C. 40 pounds* number of dimes, how many quarters does he 18.71 21.41 20.72 21.81 19.29 22.43
B. 9.6 pounds D. 42 pounds have? 20.17 23.71 19.44 20.50 18.92 20.33
A. 3 * B. 8 C. 6 D. 10 23.00 22.85 19.25 21.77 22.11 19.77
51. Jose‟s rate of doing work three times as fast as 18.04 21.12
Bong. On given day Jose and Bong work together 58. What time between the hours of 12:00 noon and Calculate the median for the above sample values.
for 4 hours then Bong was called away and Jose 1:00 pm would the hour hand and the minute hand
finishes the rest of the job in 2 hours. How long of a continuously driven clock be in straight line? A. 20.62 B. 20.63 C. 20.64 D. 20.61 *
would it take Bong to do the complete job alone? A. 12:33 pm* C. 12:37 pm
A. 18 hrs. B. 22 hrs.* C. 16 hrs. D. 31 hrs. B. 12:30 pm D. 12:287 pm 65. Compute the mean value of the numbers from the
tabulated values shown.
52. Three men A, B, and C can do a piece of work in t 59. A father is three times as old as his son. Four years (Numbers) (Probability)
hours working together. Working alone, A can do ago, he was four times as old as his son was at that 5.3 0.38
the work in 6 hours more, B in 1 hour more, and C time. How old is his son? 1.8 0.49
in twice the time if all working together. How long A. 36 years C. 32 years -2.6 0.13
would it take to finish the work if all working B. 24 years D. 12 years* A. 2.767 B. 2.887 C. 2.558 * D. 2.312
together?
A. 20 mins. C. 30 mins. 60. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 66. On his first three quizzes, Patrick earned a 15, 18,
B. 40 mins.* D. 50 mins. 20% faster that Pilar and together they can paint a and 16. (A perfect score would have been 20
given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take Pedro points.) What does he need to earn on the next
53. How many liters of a 25% acid solution must be to paint the same fence if he had to work alone? quiz to have a mean score of at least 17?
added to 80 liters of a 40% acid solution to have a A. 10 hrs* B. 13 hrs C. 11 hrs D. 15 hrs A. 20 B. 19* C. 18 D. 21
solution that is 30% acid?
A. 160L* B. 190L C. 150L D. 120L 61. In how many minutes after 2 o‟clock will the hands 67. Find the median of the set of numbers – 21, 3, 7,
of the clock extend in opposite directions for the first 17, 19, 31, 46, 20 and 43.
54. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In 5 years, the time? A. 19 B. 20* C. 3 D. 167
product of their ages is 1.5 times the product of their A. 2: 43min & 0.636 sec C. 2: 43 min & 38 sec *
present ages. How old is Beth now? B. 2: 48.636 sec D. 2: 46 min & 30 sec 68. The following represents age distribution of
A. 25 B. 20* C. 15 D. 30 students in an elementary class. Find the mode of
 the values – 7, 9, 10, 13, 11, 7, 9, 19, 12, 11, 9, 7, 75. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of a
9, 10, 11. tower to be 30 degrees. He walks 85 m. nearer the 85. Given the right spherical triangle whose given parts
A. 7 B. 9* C. 10 D. 11 tower and finds its angle of elevation to be 60 are a = 82º, b = 62º and c = 90º. What is the value of
degrees. What is the height of the tower? the side opposite the right angle?
69. There are 500 staffs in a company. The hours used A. 76.31 meters C. 73.31 meters A. 84º 30‟ B. 84º 45‟ C. 86º 15‟ D. 85º 15‟
in leisure per week by 5 of the employees is 5, 2, 8, B. 73.61 meters D. 73.16 meters
10, 7. Find the sample variance. 86. Find the distance in nautical miles between Manila
A. 7.3 B. 6.3 C. 9.3* D. 2.3 76. Two towers are 60 m apart from each other. From and San Francisco. Manila is located at 14° 36‟N
the top of the shorter tower, the angle of elevation of latitude and 121° 05‟ E longitude. San Francisco is
70. The weight of chocolate bars from a particular the top of the taller tower is 40°. How high is the situated at 37° 48‟ N latitude and 122° 24‟ W
chocolate factory has a mean of 8 ounces with taller tower if the height of the smaller tower is 40m? longitude.
standard deviation of .1 ounce. What is the z-score A. 90m B. 100m C. 80 m D. 70 m A. 7856.2 nautical miles C. 6326.2 nautical miles
corresponding to a weight of 8.17 ounces? B. 5896.2 nautical miles D. 6046.2 nautical miles
A. 1.5 B. 1.6 C. 1.7* D. 1.8 77. The area of the triangle whose angles are 61°9‟32”,
34°14‟46”, and 84°35‟42” is 680.60. the length of the 87. What is the maximum value of 3 – 2 cos Ө?
71. The temperature is recorded at 60 airports in a longest side is: A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
region. The average temperature is 67 degrees A. 35.53 B. 54.32 C. 52.43 D. 62.54
Fahrenheit with standard deviation of 5 degrees. 88. What is the product of the real roots of the equation
What is the z-score for a temperature of 68 78. Evaluate cot-1 [2cos (sin-10.5)]. √ ?
degrees? A. 20° B. 45° C. 30° D. 60° A. 10
A. 0.1 B. 0.2* C. 0.3 D. 0.4 B. 20*
79. If coversine Ѳ is 0.134, find the value of Ѳ. C. 30
72. The mean growth of the thickness of trees in a A. 60° B. 45° C. 30° D. 20° D. 40
forest is found to be .5 cm/year with a standard
deviation of .1cm/year. What is the z-score 80. If sin A = 4/5, A in quadrant II, sin B = 7/25, B in 89. A man is three times as old as his son was at the
corresponding to 1 cm/year? quadrant I, find sin (A + B). time when the father was twice as old as his son will
A. 4 B. 5* C. -4 D. -5 A. 3/5 B. 2/5 C. 3/4 D. 4/5 be two years from now. Find the present age of the
man if today, their ages sum to 55.
73. Which of the following is a correct relationship for 81. . What is the period? A. 13 B. 16 C. 39* D. 48
any triangle whose sides are a, b, c and the
A. π B. 2 π C. 4 π D. 3 π
respective sides are a, b, c and the respective 90. Find the value of x if the 8th term of the expansion of
opposite angles are A, B and C.
82. Determine the period and amplitude of the function
x 
12
A. a2=b2+c2-bc cos A
3
1 is equal to 25952256.
y=2sin5x.
B. a2=b2+c2-2bc sin A
A. 2π/5, 2 C. π/5, 2 A. 2 * B. 4 C. 3 D. 5
C. a2=b2+c2-2bc cos A *
B. 3π/2, 2 D. 3π/10, 2
D. a2=b2+c2-2bc cos B cos C
91. An ECE class of 40 students took examinations in
83. A spherical triangle ABC as an angle C = 90º and Electronics and Communications. If 30 passed in
74. An observer found the angle of elevation of the top of
sides a = 50º and c = 80º. Find the value of “b” in Electronics, 36 passed in Communication and 2
the tree to be 27°. After moving 10m closer (on the
degrees. failed in both subjects, what is the probability of
same vertical and horizontal plane as the tree), the
A. 73.22° B. 74.33°* C. 75.44° D. 76.55° picking a student who passed in Electronics but not
angle of elevation becomes 54°. Find the height of
in Communications?
the tree.
84. Solve for the side b of a right spherical triangle ABC A.2 B. 28 C. 7/10 D. 1/20*
A. 8.65 meters C. 7.02 meters
whose parts are a = 46º, c = 75º and C = 90º.
B. 7.53 meters D. 8.09 meters
A. 72º B. 68º C. 48º D. 74º
92. The probability that a married man watches a certain 99 .Given three red balls, four green balls and five blue
television show is 0.4 and the probability that a balls, what is the probability that when you arrange
married woman watches the show is 0.5. The those balls, no blue balls are adjacent to each other.
probability that a man watches the show given that A. 7/99* B. 7/88 C. 7/66 D.7/55
his wife does, is 0.7. Find the probability that a wife
watches the show given that her husband does. 100. One percent of people have a certain genetic defect.
A. 0.875* C. 0.785 90% of tests for the gene detect the defect (true
B. 0.587 D. 0.875 positive). 9.6% of the tests are false positives. If a
person gets a positive test result, what are the odds
93. In a manufacturing process where glass products are they actually have the genetic defect?
produced, defects or bubbles occur, occasionally A. 4.65% B. 7.65% C. 3.65% D. 8.65%*
rendering the piece undesirable for marketing. It is
known that, on average, 1 in every 1000 of these
items produced has one or more bubbles. What is
the probability that a random sample of 8000 will
yield exactly 2 items possessing bubbles?
A. 0.0207 C. 0.0107*
B. 0.0307 D.0.0407

94. In a certain community, the BMI (body – mass index)

of males aged 60 has a mean of 29 and standard
deviation of 6. What is the probability that a male
aged 60 has BMI exceeding 35?
A. 0.8134 C. 0.1857
B. 0.8413 D. 0.1587*

95. Find the first quartile of the following data: 20, 30, 25,
23, 22, 32, 36,18
A. 22 B. 25 C. 32 D. 21*

96. Given the following data: 500, 850, 925, 800, 600,
750, 650, 625, 800, 400, 725 and 550. Find the
fourth decile.
A. 630* B. 632 C. 633 D. 634

97. Find the 20th percentile of the following data: 3, 13,

11, 11, 5, 4, 2
A. 3.6 B. 1.6 C. 2.6* D. 4.6

98 .A coin is biased so that a head is twice as likely to

occur as a tail. If the coin is tossed 3 times, what is
the probability of getting 2 tails and 1 head?
A. 1/9 B. 3/8 C. 4/9 D. 2/9*