Choose the letter of the best answer.

5. 2  7  8  14 
1 1
1. 15  5 
3 2 A. – 11
B. –1
2 C. 1
A. 8 D. 11
3
1 E. 31
B. 9
3 6. What is the product of -1.54 and -
5 1.64?
C. 9
6
1 A. 252.56
D. 10
3 B. 25.256
5 C. 2.5256
E. 10 D. – 2.5256
6
E. – 25.256
16
2.  7. –4 [8 – (5 – 2)] –3 =
5
A. 15
A. 3.2%
B. 17
B. 3.25%
C. -17
C. 32.5%
D. -20
D. 320%
E. -23
E. 325%
8. (x3y2)4 =
3. 5.75 = _____
A. x7y6
A. 11/2
B. x12y8
B. 17/3
C. x8y6
C. 23/4
D. x3y8
D. 29/5
E. x3y6
E. 35/6
9. Which of the following has the
1
4. Divide 42 by 3 lowest value?
3
3 3
A. 12 A.
5 8
2 B. 0.22
B. 14
3 2
C. 15 C.
25
1 D. 10%
D. 16
5 E. 1.69
E. 17
10. Which of the following has the 3 5 7 9
14.    
largest value? 5 7 9 11

A. 0.7 3
B. 0.77 A.
11
C. 0.777
15
D. 0.077 B.
E. 0.707 99
63
C.
11. (42) (52) 35
105
D.
A. 92 385
B. 94 9
C. 204 E.
5
D. 200
E. 400 ?
15.  0.875
12. Which of the following has the 32
greatest value?
A. 16
2 B. 18
A. C. 24
3 D. 28
5 E. 30
B.
8
3 4 1 3 41
C. 16.    ,x?
4 5 2 x 20
D. 0.675
E. 72 ½ % A. 4
B. 5
13. Which of the following fractions has C. 6
the smallest value? D. 7
E. 8
7
A.
4 m
17. If  0.625 , what is the numerical
8 24
B.
5 value of m?
27
C. A. 12
20
47 B. 13
D. C. 14
40
D. 15
67
E. E. 16
60
18. What part of y is x? 22. 42 + 40 + 4-4 =
1
A. 16
A. xy 4
x 1
B. B. 17
y 4
y C. 12
C.
x D. 13
1 E. 21
D.
xy
23. 0.489 x 0.592 x 0.798 x 0.875 x 0.23
x is approximately equal to
E.
100 y
2
19. Which of the following groups of A.
25
numbers are multiples of 6 between 7
81 and 100? B.
125
1
A. 84, 90 C.
B. 86, 92 5
C. 84, 90, 96 3
D.
D. 86, 92, 98 500
E. 88, 94, 100 27
E.
625
mn
20. What is the value of when m
mn 2
24. What is 75% of ?
1 3 3
equals and n equals ?
3 4
2
A.
2 3
A. 
7 3
B.
5 4
B. 
13 1
C.
1 2
C. 3
2 1
D.
3 3
D. 2
5 1
E.
4 4
E.
7
25. The product of -3 and -6 is how
21. 20 is 125% of what number? much larger than the sum of -2 and -
7?
A. 7
B. 9 A. 9
C. 10 B. 12
D. 16 C. 15
E. 19 D. 21
E. 27

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26. Which expression has the largest 31. If a and b are both odd numbers,
value? then which of the following must be
an odd number?
A. 7
A. 2ab
B.  7 B. a+b
C. 7  2 C. ab + 1
D. 2a + 4b
D. 2  7 E. a+b+3
E.  7  2
32. Last week, Vince read from page
27. What is the weight, in kilograms of 139 to page 225 inclusive in his
26 sacks of sugar if 156 sacks History book. How many pages did
weigh 12 kg? he read?

A. 2 A. 86
B. 3 B. 87
C. 4 C. 88
D. 5 D. 89
E. 6 E. 90

33. Anne will be P years old in Q years.

28. 64x 7  Her age R years ago was

A. 8x 3 A. P+Q–R
B. 4x 3 B. P–Q+R
C. 8x x C. P+Q+R
D. P–Q–R
D. 8x 2 x E. Q–P–R
E. 8x 3 x
34. If a jeepney ride costs P8.50 for the
29. If m – 4 = 9, then 3m – 5 = first four kilometers and P1.50 for
each additional kilometer or fraction
A. 10 thereof, then how much would a
B. 17 passenger pay for a 12 km ride?
C. 20
D. 34 A. P10.00
E. 39 B. P18.00
C. P18.50
30. The point with coordinates (-5, 3) is D. P20.50
in quadrant E. P26.50

A. I 35. (5x2 – 4x + 3) – (3x2 +4x – 3) =

B. II
C. III A. 2x2
D. IV B. – 2x2
E. any of these C. 2x2 – 8x
D. 2x2 – 8x + 6
E. – 2x2 – 8x – 6

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36. If 6x – 15 < 4 + 5, then 41. What percent profit was made on a
A. x > 6 pair of pants that was bought for
B. x < 6 P250 and sold for P350?
C. x < 4
D. x < –4 A. 5%
E. x > –2 B. 10%
C. 20%
37. How far can Jaiah go on her scooter D. 30%
from 3:35 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. at 30 km E. 40%
per hour?
42. If y < – 2, which of the following
A. 20 km must have the greatest value?
B. 18 km
C. 17 ½ km 2
D. 16 km A.
y
E. 15 ½ km y
B.
a a 2
38.   2
b c C.
y 1
1 2
A. D.
bc y 1
a y 1
B. E.
bc 2
1
C. 43. (3x + 2)(4x – 5) =
bc
ab  ac
D. A. 12x2 – 10x
bc
B. 12x2 + 10x – 0
ac  ab
E. C. 12x2 – 7x – 10
bc D. 12x2 – 23x – 10
E. 12x2 + 10x – 3
39. 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, ?
44. If 0.002x = 2, then 2.2x =
A. 175
B. 201 A. 2002
C. 216 B. 2020
D. 225 C. 2200
E. 289 D. 2202
E. 2220
40. Which equation is not satisfied by x
= –3?

A. x2 – x – 6 = 0
B. x2 + x – 6 = 0
C. x2 – 9 = 0
D. x2 + 6x + 9 = 0
E. all of these

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 mn nm 49. Mark Caguioa scored an average of
45. Find the value of  if m
m n 29 for his first three games and an
is 20 and n is 10. average of 32 for his next four
games; then his average so far is
A. –½ about
B. 0
C. ½ A. 27
D. 1 B. 28
E. 2 C. 29
D. 30
y 1 E. 31
46.
y2 1
50. Ning is 8 years younger than her
brother Michael. Twenty-eight years
1 ago, she was half as old as Michael.
A.
y How old is Michael now?
1
B. A. 44
y 1
B. 36
1
C. C. 40
y 1 D. 42
1 E. 34
D. 2
y
y 51. If the triangle below is an isosceles
E. 2 with a as the vertex angle, which set
y
of numbers could be values of a, b,
and c?
47. What is the average of all even
integers from 2 to 40? A. (50, 65, 65) a
B. (50, 50, 80)
A. 20 C. (50, 60, 70)
B. 21 D. (60, 60, 60)
C. 22 E. (45, 65, 75) b c
D. 23
E. 24 52. What is the area of a square
inscribed in a circle having a
48. Review Masters increases its diameter of 4 cm?
enrollees by 25% yearly. What is the
ratio of the enrollees in one year to A. 4 cm2
the enrollees in the previous year? B. 8 cm2
C. 4 cm2
A. 1:4 D. 8 cm2
B. 4:1 E. 16 cm2
C. 5:4
D. 4:5
E. 1:5
53. A triangle has the following points 57. A telephone pole is 9 meters tall.
as vertices: (0, 0), (3, 4), and (6, 0). What is the length of a piece of wire
This triangle is which extends from the top of the
pole to a point that is 12 meters
A. a scalene triangle from the base of the pole?
B. an isosceles triangle
C. a right triangle A. 21
D. an equilateral triangle B. 18
E. an equiangular triangle C. 15
D. 12
54. The diameter of a wheel is 6 cm. E. 9
How many complete revolutions will
the wheel make if it rolls a distance 58. If the measures of the angles of a
of 108 cm? triangle are in the ratio 2:3:4, what is
the degree measure of the smallest
A. 6 angle?
B. 12
C. 18 A. 20
D. 24 B. 30
E. 30 C. 40
D. 60
55. The length, width, and height of a E. 80
large box are thrice those of a
smaller box. The volume of the large 59. The width of a rectangular rug is 4
box is feet. If the perimeter is 20 feet, what
is the length of the rug?
A. thrice that of the smaller box
B. 6 times that of the smaller box A. 4 feet
C. 9 times that of the smaller box B. 5 feet
D. 27 times that of the smaller box C. 6 feet
E. 8 times that of the smaller box D. 16 feet
E. 24 feet
56. On a number line, if one endpoint of
a line segment is at –12, and its 60. If AC = 18, BE = 13, DE = 3 and D
midpoint is at –4, then the other is the midpoint of CE, what is AB?
endpoint is at A B C D E
A. –8
B. 0 A. 10
C. 12 B. 11
D. 8 C. 12
E. 4 D. 13
E. 14

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61. If four lines are drawn in a plane, 65. When the length of a rectangle is
what is the maximum possible divided by 4 and the width is tripled,
number of points of intersection of the area of the new rectangle is the
the lines? area of the original one multiplied by
____.
A. 4
B. 5 A. 4
C. 6 B. 3
D. 7 C. 2
E. 8 D. ¾
E. ½
62. The perimeter of a triangle is 90 cm.
The measure of the longest side is 6 66. In parallelogram WXYZ, V is the
less than the sum of the measures midpoint of ZY. The area of WZV
of the other two sides. Four times is what percent of the area of
the measure of the shortest side WXYZ?
equals the sum of the measures of Z V
Y
the other two sides. What is the A. 20%
length in cm of the shortest side of B. 25%
the triangle? C. 30%
D. 33%
A. 36 cm E. 40% W
X
B. 30 cm
C. 24 cm 67. The figure has four squares placed
D. 20 cm side by side. How many rectangles
E. 18 cm are in the figure?

63. In the figure, KLMN is a A. 6

parallelogram with angle measures B. 8
as marked. Find x + y. C. 10
N D. 12
A. 75 M
x + 2y E. 14
B. 105
C. 115 68. An isosceles triangle with base 10
D. 120 cm has an area of 60 cm2. Find its
E. 135 3x – 2y 105 perimeter.
K L
64. What is the sum of the measures of A. 18 cm
the angles of this polygon? B. 36 cm
C. 40 cm
A. 720 D. 48 cm
B. 900 E. 60 cm
C. 1080
D. 1260
E. 1440

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69. If the sides of a quadrilateral are 8, 73. If a triangle has sides 4, 8 and 11,
14, 12, and 20 cm and the longest which could be the sides of a similar
side of a similar quadrilateral is 30 triangle?
cm, how long is the shortest side of
this quadrilateral? A. (2, 4, 5 ½)
B. (8, 16, 24)
A. 5 cm C. (7, 11, 14)
B. 12 cm D. (2, 6, 9)
C. 15 cm E. (2 ½ , 6 ½, 9 ½)
D. 16 cm
E. 18 cm 74. The area of the whole figure below
is 42. If four congruent squares
70. In the figure, the ratio of the area of each with a perimeter of 8 are cut to
triangle LEA to the area of rectangle form a cross as shown, what is the
LAST is area of the cross?
L A
A. 1:2 A. 20
B. 2:1 B. 24
C. 1:4 C. 26
D. 4:1 D. 30
E. 1:3 T E S E. 34

71. Point A(5,3) is the midpoint of line 75. In the figure, if AO = 5 and OB = 3,
OAK, where O is at the origin. The what is the area of the shaded
coordinates of K are: region?

A. (2.5, 1.5) A. 16

B. (8, 8) B. 25
C. (-5, -3) C. 39 A O B
D. (10, 6) D. 64
E. (10, 8) E. 89
72. The perimeter of a square is 24. 1
What is the length of a diagonal of 76. If , x  1  then x = _____.
1
this square? 1
2
A. 6 6
A. –2
B. 6 2 B. –1
C. 2 C. 0
D. 24 2 D. 1
E. 6 E. 2

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77. Given: f(x) = 5x4 – 3x3 – x2 + 2x + 5. 81. If 2  a  4 and 3  b  6, what is the
Find f(–1) – f(1). greatest value of a2 – b2?

A. –1 A. –32
B. 0 B. –20
C. 1 C. 5
D. 2 D. 7
E. 3 E. 20
x
78. A biker took 2 hours to ride 24 km 82. The expression
( x  9)( x  5)
2

and then returned by the same

represents a real number for all real
route. If he rode at an average
values of x EXCEPT _____.
speed of 8 km/hr on the return trip,
what was his average speed in
A. –3
km/hr for the round trip?
B. 3
C. 5
A. 8
D. –5
B. 9.6
E. 0
C. 10
D. 10.5
83. If (63)(55) = 25(30k), then what is the
E. 11
value of k?

A. 3
79. If the sum of two positive integers is
B. 4
16 and the difference of their
C. 6
squares is 64, what is the difference
D. 8
of the two integers?
E. 9
A. 48 84. Simplify: 4
27x 2  9 x 4
B. 32
C. 16 A. 3x 3x
D. 8
B. 3 x
E. 4
C. 3x
80. Find the value of q so that D. 4 3x
q E. 9x 2
 2 x  3 has 4 as a root.
x
85. What is the remainder when 2x4 – x3
A. 2 + 3x – 1 is divided by x + 2?
B. 4
C. 20
D. 38 A. 0
E. 44 B. 2
C. –2
D. 33
E. –33

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86. If x = y + 4 and x = 20 – y, then what 90. Find the fourth term of the arithmetic
is the value of x2 – y2? progression x, y, 2y – x, . . .

A. 24 A. 2x – y
B. 80 B. 3x – y
C. 16 C. 3y – 2x
D. 5 D. 2x – 3y
E. 384 E. x – 2y

91. For any real number x, (x-3)5 – (x –

87. The sum of squares of two numbers 2)(x – 3)4 = ____.
is 225 and the square of their sum is
441. What is the reciprocal of their A. –1
product? B. (x – 3)4
C. –(x – 3)4
A. 108 D. –5(x – 3)4
1 E. 5(x – 3)4
B. A
108
C. 216 92. Which of the following has the same
1 value as i62?
D.
216
A. i
1
E. B. –1
432 C. 1
D. –i
88. If log10x + log108 = log1016, then x is E. –31
equal to ____.
93. The product of (–xm+1) and (–xm–1) is
A. 2
B. 4 A. x2m
C. 8 B. – x2m
D. 16 C. xm–1
E. 24 D. –xm+1
E. xm+1
89. The solution set of 3y + 2x  2 does
NOT include points in quadrant 94. If y is an integer and y + 3 > 0, what
____. is the least possible value of y?

A. I A. –3
B. II B. –2
C. III C. –1
D. IV D. 2
E. none of the above E. 3

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95. 2(2x3) is equal to _________. 99. If the reciprocal of x+1 is x – 1, then
what is x?
A. 4x3
B. 2x3 A.  2
C. 2x3 + 1 B. 2
D. 2x3 + 2 C. 0
E. 4x5 D. 2
E. –2
96. For what value of k does the graph
of y = x2 – 3x – k pass through the 100. If xy + yz + xz = –10 and xyz = 8,
point (–1, 2)? 1 1 1
then    ____.
A. 6 x y z
B. 2
C. 0 A. –80
D. –2 B. 
5
E. –6 4
4
C. 
5
97. If the ratio of x to y is 3:7, what is 4
the ratio of x+y to x? D.
5
5
A. 3:10 E.
B. 7:10 4
C. 10:3
D. 10:7
E. 7:3

98. What is the x-intercept of the line 2x

+ 7y + 15 = 0?

15
A.
7
2
B.
15
15
C. 
2
D. 15
15
E. 
7

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