Mathematics – Algebra

1. Simon is twice as old as Cassandra, If 16 is added to Cassandra’s age

and 16 is subtracted from Simon’s age, their ages will then be equal.
How old is Cassandra?
A. 32 B. 64 C. 30 D. 48

2. A Girl Scout troop has 20 pounds of candy worth 80 cents per pound. It
wishes to mix it with candy worth 50 cents per pound so that the total
mixture can be sold at 60 cents per pound without any gain or loss. How
much of the 50 cents candy must be used?
A. 40 B. 34 C. 30 D. 42

√5𝑥𝑦 × √15𝑥3 𝑦
3. Simplify:
√3
5𝑥 2𝑦
A. 5x2y B. 3 C. 5x4y2 D. 10xy
√
4. A hospital needs to dilute a 50% boric acid solution to a 10% solution
using water. If it needs 25 liters of the 10% solution, how much of the
50% solution should it use?
A. 20 B. 10 C. 15 D. 5

5. Alfred is 22 years older than Jack. When Jack is as Alfred is now, he will
be three times his present age. How old is Alfred now?
A. 33 B. 31 C. 35 D. 30

6. A father and his son can do a certain job in 3 hours. On a given day,
they work together for 1 hour then the son left and the father finishes the
rest of the work in 8 more hours. How long will it take for the father to do
the job alone?
A. 12 hours B. 8 hours C. 10 hours D. 15 hours
7. A chemist needs a solution of tannic acid that is 70% pure. How much
distilled water must she add to 5 gallons of acid which is 90% pure to
obtain the 70% solution?
A. 2 2/3 B. 1 3/5 C. 1 3/7 D. 1 ¾

8. Peter and John working together can finish a certain job in 3 days. If
Peter can do the same job working alone in 8 days, how long would it
take John to do the job alone?
A. 4.5 days B. 4.2 days C. 4.8 days D. 5 days
9. What is the value of x if logx36 = 2?
A. 8 B. 4 C. 10 D. 6

10. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2-10x+2=0.

A. -1/2 B. 2 C. -2 D. ½

33𝑥 × 812𝑥
11. Simplify: 94𝑥 × 27𝑥
A. 3-x B. 3x C. 0 D. 1x

12. If log2=x and log3=y, what is log2.4 in terms of x and y?

A. 2x+y-2 B. x+3y-3 C. 3x+y-1 D. 2x-y-1
13. A 100 kg salt solution originally 4% by weight. Salt in water is boiled
to reduce water content until the concentration is 5% by weight salt. How
much water is evaporated?
A. 20 kg B. 15 kg C. 17 kg D. 18 kg

14. Ronald can finish a certain job in 10 days if his sister Lorna will help
him for 6 days. The same work can be done by Lorna in 12 days if
Ronald will help her for 6 days. How long will it take them finish the job
if they work together at the same time?
A. 8.4 days B. 7.5 days C. 8.9 days D. 9.2 days
15. The polynomial x3+4x2-3x+8 is divided by (x-5). What is the
remainder?
A. 220 B. 218 C. 215 D. 230

16. A tank is filled with 2 pipes. The first pipe can fill the tank in 10
hours. But after it has been opened for 3.5 hours, the second pipe is
opened and the tank is filled in 4 hours more. How long would it take the
second pipe alone to fill the empty tank?
A. 15 hours B. 17 hours C. 16 hours D. 18 hours

17. Solve for x: log 5 log (x+4) – log 3 log (x+4) = log 3 log 5.
A. 27.86 B. 28.76 C. 26.87 D. 25.43
18. A job can be completed by three workers working alone in 4, 5, and
6 hours respectively. What fraction of the job is completed if they worked
together for one hour?
A. 37/60 B. 39/60 C. 35/60 D. 36/60

19. A man is four times as old as his son. In three years, the farmer will
be three times as old as his son. How old is the man?
A. 20 B. 28 C. 30 D. 24

20. Solve for x: log2x + logx2 = 2

A. 1 B. 2 C. 0 D. 4
21. A merchant purchased two lots of shoes. One lot he purchased for
P32 per pair and the second lot he purchased for P40 per pair. There
were 50 pairs in the first lot. How many pairs were in the second lot if he
sold them all at P60 per pair and made a gain of P2800 on the entire
transaction?
A. 100 B. 80 C. 90 D. 70

22. A job can be done by 11 workers in 15 days. Five workers started

the job. At the beginning of the 6th day, 4 more workers reinforced the
job. Find the total number of days it took them to finish the job.
A. 20.56 B. 25.32 C. 22.43 D. 28.56

23. Solve for x: √𝑥 + √𝑥 − √1 − 𝑥 = 1

A. 13/25 B. 17/25 C. 16/25 D. 22/25
24. What is the remainder when x4-10x2-9x-20 is divided by x-4?
A. 40 B. 44 C. 42 D. 45

25. Bob can dig a ditch in 4 hours. John can dig the same ditch in 3
hours. How long would it take them to dig it together?
A. 1 2/3 B. 1 4/5 C. 1 5/7 D. 1 5/8

26. A pipe can fill a tank in 3 hours, if the drain is open. If the pipe runs
with the drain open for one hour, and the drain is then closed, the tank
is filled in 40 minutes more. How long does it take the pipe to fill the tank
if the drain is closed?
A. 1.5 hrs B. 2 hrs C. 1 hr D. 1.25 hrs
27. A mechanic and his helper can repair an engine if the mechanic
works 6 hours and helper works 12 hours or they can do it if the
mechanic works 9 hours and the helper works 8 hours. How many hours
will it take for the helper to repair the engine alone?
A. 15 B. 18 C. 20 D. 24

28. If (x-2)(x+3)=k, then (x-4)(x+5) is equal to

A. k-9 B. k-14 C. 2k-9 D. k-18

29. A reservoir can be filled by an inlet pipe in 24 hours and emptied

by an outlet pipe in 28 hours. The foreman starts to fill the reservoir but
he forgets to close the outlet pipe. Six hours later he remembers and
closes the outlet. How long in hours does it take altogether to fill the
reservoir?
A. 23 1/7 B. 24 1/5 C. 22 ½ D. 20 ¾
30. A squirrel and a half eat a nut and a half in a day and a half. How
many nuts do six squirrels eat in 6 days?
A. 20 B. 24 C. 30 D. 26

31. Two thousand kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to be made by

mixing steel containing 14% nickel with steel containing 6% nickel. How
much of the steel containing 14% nickel is needed?
A. 400 kg B. 500 kg C. 450 kg D. 510 kg
32. Eight men can excavate 15 cu.m. of drainage open canal in 7
hours. How long will it take 10 men to excavate 30 cu.m. in the same
project?
A. 11.2 hrs B. 10.8 hrs C. 9.8 hrs D. 9.1 hrs

33. What expression is equivalent to log [x/(y+z)]?

A. logx – logy – logz B. logx – log(y+z)
C. logx / (logy + logz) D. ex/(y+z)

34. If one root of 8x2+kx-15 is ¾, find the value of k.

A. 12 B. 14 C. 15 D. 20
35. Find the value of k so that x+2 is a factor of 3x3-kx2+2x-4.
A. -10 B. -12 C. -8 D. -9

36. A, B, and C can do a piece of work in 10 days, A and B can do it in

12 days, A and C in 20 days. How many days would it take A to do the
work alone?
A. 28 B. 25 C. 20 D. 30

37. What is the value of log381?

A. 5 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6
38. If the sum of the roots of a quadratic equation is 12 and the product
is 36, then what is the difference of the roots?
A. 1 B. 0 C. 3 D. 6

39. A boy is one-third as old as his brother and 8 years younger than
his sister. The sum of their ages is 38 years. How old is the boy?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 4 D. 3

40. Judy is six years older than Helen. In three years, Helen’s age will
be two-thirds that of Judy’s. How old is Helen now?
A. 10 B. 14 C. 9 D. 15
41. Eight years ago, Nick was three times as old as Kent. Now he is
only twice as old as Kent. How old is Nick?
A. 32 B. 16 C. 30 D. 24

42. A florist wishes to make bouquets of mixed flowers. Each bouquet

is to be made up of tulips at P30 a bunch and daffodils at P21 a bunch.
How many bunches of tulips should she use to make 15 bunches which
she can sell for P24 a bunch?
A. 10 B. 6 C. 8 D. 5

43. A father can paint a certain room in 1 day. His daughter can paint
it in 2 days. After the father has been working for several hours, his
daughter helped him and together they finished the job in 3 hours. How
many hours did the father work alone? Assume an 8-hour working day.
A. 3 hours B. 4 hours C. 2.5 hours D. 3.5 hrs
44. Twenty-eight persons can do a job in 60 days. They all start
complete. Five persons quitted the job at the beginning of the 16 th day.
They were reinforced with ten persons at the beginning of the 45 th day.
How many days the job was delayed?
A. 5.78 B. 1.97 C. 1.14 D. 2.45

45. What is the product of the roots of the equation 2x2+x-10=0?

A. 5 B. -1/2 C. -5 D. ½

46. A farmer wants to mix milk containing 3% butterfat with cream

containing 30% butterfat to obtain 900 gallons of milk which is 8%
butterfat. How much of the 30% butterfat must he use?
A. 733 1/3 B. 166 2/3 C. 532 ¼ D. 145 ¾
47. Ana’s age is three times as Darna’s. If 20 is added to Darna’s age
and 20 is subtracted from Ana’s, their ages will be equal. How old is Ana
now?
A. 50 B. 90 C. 75 D. 60

48. Your father told you “I was your age now when you were born”. If
you are 21 years old today, how old is your father?
A. 50 B. 48 C. 42 D. 44

49. Find x: √1 + 𝑥 − √1 + 𝑥 − √1 + 𝑥 = √1 + 𝑥
A. 1 B. 2 C. -1 D. -24
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1 2 1
50. Solve for x of the following equation: 4(2𝑥−3) = [(16) ]3
A. 2/3 B. 3 C. 3/2 D. 2