Cometa, Kenneth Marshall V.
A13-GED102
QUIZ 1
1. Identify what type of reasoning is applied in the following arguments. Write Inductive or
Deductive.
a. I have to review only the topics that Mr. Cruz discussed in class. My friends who had
been in his class said he never gave a test on topics that he never discussed in class.
- Inductive
b. Why is Aling Vicky so forgetful? The only reason that I can think of is that she is not
getting enough sleep lately. Lack of sleep makes a person forgetful.
-Deductive
c. Don will make a good president. After all, he did great as a mayor.
-Deductive
d. The heat outdoors must have triggered my blood pressure to go up. Why not? I had it
all normal while I was indoors with the air conditioning on.
- Inductive
2. Four young children are seated next to each other on a bench. The child on the left cannot
be older than the child on the right. The ages of the 1st and 3rd children differ by 8 years. No
child is below 2 years old, neither any of them is older than 10 years old. The 2nd child is 7
years younger than the 4th child. What are the ages of the four children?
1st child- 2 years
2nd child- 3 years
3rd child- 10 years
4th child- 10 years
3. The reciprocal of 7 is a repeating, non-terminating decimal. What is the 12th digit in the
decimal form of the reciprocal of 7?
The reciprocal of 7 is 1/7, or 0.1428571428571429. the 12th digit in the decimal form of
the reciprocal of 7 is 7.
4. How many times does the number 5 appear if you write all numbers from 1 to 200?
5, 15, 25, 35, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 65, 75, 85, 95, 105, 115, 125,
135, 145, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 165, 175, 185, 195
The number 5 appeared 40 times.
5. Each letter represents one of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. The leading digits are
non-zero digits. What digit is represented by each letter?
1
A is 1, B is 9, D is 0. Therefore, 1+99=100
+99
100