MATHEMA TI CS PRACTICE PROBLEMS – PART 1 – 2017

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following 15. Given two angles A and B such that sinA = 4/5 and tanB = 5/12. Both
questions. Mark ONLY ONE ANSWER for each item by shading the box angles are in quadrant I. What is the value of sin (A + B)?
corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. A. 16/65 B. 63/16
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only. C. 63/65 D. 65/16
16. Find the volume generated by revolving a semi-circle of radius 9 cm
1. At the birth of a girl, what amount should her mother invest in order to about one end of its radius and parallel to its diameter.
provide the daughter with ₱25,000.00 at the age of 21 years if money A. 4141.31 cm3 B. 3232.52 cm3
earns 4 3/8% compounded quarterly? 3
C. 5678.75 cm D. 6789.19 cm3
A. ₱10,025.32 B. ₱8,250.50
17. A man borrowed ₱300,000 from a lending institution which will be
C. ₱685.23 D. ₱2,801.57 paid after 10 years at an interest rate of 12% compounded annually. If
2. Along Harrison Road, two rectangular billboards were erected. They money is worth 8% per annum, how much should he deposit to a
are of similar sizes with their sides having a ratio of 5:4. The bigger bank at the end of each month in order to discharge his debt 10 years
billboard requires 250 m2 of material to cover the entire billboard. How hence?
much material in m2 is needed for the smaller billboard? A. ₱9317.5 B. ₱7823.1
A. 120 B. 150
C. ₱5172.8 D. ₱2910.4
C. 160 D. 190 18. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle whose diameter is 20 cm.
3. Given f  x    x  3  x  5   3 . When f(x) is divided by x  r , the Find the area of the six segments of the circle formed by the sides of
the hexagon.
remainder is r. Find the value of r.
A. 259.81 cm2 B. 314.16 cm2
A. 5 B. −3 2
C. 87.52 cm D. 54.35 cm2
C. 2 D. −4
19. The terminal point of an angle  is at (3, 8). Find sin .
4. A flagpole 3 m high stands on top of a pedestal 2 m high above the
ground. At a distance “x” meters from the base of the pedestal and on A. 3 / 73 B. 8 / 73
the same horizontal plane as the pedestal, the flagpole and pedestal C. 3 / 73 D. 8 / 73
subtends an equal angle. Determine the distance “x”. 20. Engineer Istanislao bought an equipment for ₱500,000. He spent an
A. 8.85 m B. 13.37 m additional amount of ₱30,000 for installment and other expenses. The
C. 4.47 m D. 20.00 m estimated useful life of the equipment is 10 years. The salvage value
5. A parabola passes through (3, 4). It has a vertex at the origin and is x% of the first cost. Using straight line method of depreciation, the
focus on the y-axis. Find the length of the latus rectum of the book value at the end of 5 years will be ₱291,500. What is the value
parabola. of x?
A. 1.13 B. 2.25 A. 10 B. 5
C. 2.67 D. 5.33 C. 20 D. 15
6. What is the difference in pesos between the total simple interest and 21. The average of 90 whole numbers is 70. If two numbers are removed,
the total compound interest on a saving of ₱100,000 pesos at 7.5% 28 and 68, determine the new average.
interest per annum for a period of 5 years? A. 69.5 B. 70.5
A. ₱6062.93 B. ₱5093.26 C. 71 D. 72
C. ₱4356.29 D. ₱3925.64 22. A hemispherical bowl was filled to a depth of 6 inches with a mixture
7. A side and a diagonal of a parallelogram are 12 inches and 19 inches compounded from equal parts of two liquids, one white and the other
respectively. The angle between the diagonals, opposite the given black. After standing for a short time the mixture separated, the black
side, is 124°. Find the length of the other diagonal. liquid settling below the white. If the thickness of the segment of white
A. 3.74 in B. 7.48 in liquid is 2 inches, find the volume of liquid in the bowl.
C. 4.37 in D. 8.74 in A. 622.45 cubic inches B. 640.89 cubic inches
8. A line having an equation of y  2x  0 intersects the curve C. 603.18 cubic inches D. 656.67 cubic inches
23. Find the length of a latus rectum of an ellipse defined by the equation:
y 2  8x  0 . Determine the area bounded by the line and the curve.
A. 1.33 sq. units B. 0.67 sq. units
 x  12   y  22 1
C. 0.33 sq. units D. 1.67 sq. units
4 9
9. Miss Ang Daya wanted to receive end-of-month equal amount of A. 8/3 units B. 7/3 units
money in the next 5 years to pay her monthly car amortization C. 5/3 units D. 4/3 units
amounting ₱6,500.00 How much money does she need now and 24. What is the area bounded by the curve x 2  9y and the line
deposit on an account that pays 14% compounded monthly to be able
to pay her monthly amortization? y 1 0 ?
A. ₱279350.6 B. ₱339185.7 A. 2 sq. units B. 4 sq. units
C. ₱754512.5 D. ₱546987.1 C. 6 sq. units D. 8 sq. units
25. A company purchases an asset for ₱10,000 and plans to keep it for
10. If you are to multiply the expressions  21/2 and  1/ 81/2 , what will 20 years. If the salvage value is zero at the end of 20 th year and using
be the result? the SYD method, what is the depreciation charge during the third
A. 1/2 B. −1/2 year?
C. 2i D. −2i A. ₱285.17 B. ₱513.56
11. A fuel tank which is rectangular in cross-section has the following C. ₱857.14 D. ₱1236.98
dimensions: length = 10 m; width = 5 m; and height = 12 m. It is filled 26. In a right triangle ABC, angle B is the right angle, side AC can be
up to 2/3 of its capacity. If 50 m3 of fuel is added to the tank, what expressed as (x + y), and side BC can be expressed as (x – y). Find
percentage of the tank is filled? side AB in terms of x and y.
A. 33.33% B. 66.67% A. xy B. xy
C. 75% D. 85%
C. 2 xy D. xy / 2
12. Find the centroid of the area of a semi-circle of radius a.
27. A machine costing ₱45,000 is estimated to have a book value of
3 4a
A. B. ₱4,350 when retired at the end of 6 years. Depreciation cost is
4a 3 computed using a constant percentage of the declining book value.
4 3a What is the annual rate of depreciation?
C. D.
3a 4 A. 9.78% B. 15.32%
13. Bob will be celebrating his 21st birthday next month. As a debut gift, C. 23.52% D. 32.25%
his grandparents made equal semi-annual deposits over the last 15 28. At what time between 3 PM and 4 PM will the hands of the clock be
years so that Bob will have enough money to buy his dream car worth opposite to each other?
₱1.5 million. How much did his grandparents deposit every 6 months A. 3:15 PM B. 3:35 PM
if interest is 8% compounded semi-annually? C. 3:45 PM D. 3:49 PM
A. ₱46742.15 B. ₱53491.15 29. If sin A  3 / 5 and sin(A  B)  1 , find cosB .
C. ₱26745.15 D. ₱33198.15
A. 1/5 B. 3/5
14. A goat is tied outside a triangular fenced garden at point A. The sides
C. 4/5 D. 2/5
of the fence are AB = 8 m, BC = 9 m, and CA = 12 m. If the rope with
30. A diagonal of a cube is 6 m. Determine the total surface area of the
which the goat is tied is 14 m long, find the area over which the goat
can graze outside the fence. cube.
A. 597.34 m2 B. 565.87 m2 A. 36 m2 B. 44 m2
2
C. 532.64 m 2
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31. Given the equation of a hyperbola: x 2  8x  4y 2  64y  256 . Which 46. The bases of a trapezoid are 150 cm and 360 cm, respectively. The
angles of inclination of the sides are 60° and 48°, respectively.
of the following most nearly gives the distance between foci? Determine the shortest non-parallel side of the trapezoid.
A. 8.94 B. 9.48 A. 121.29 cm B. 140.96 cm
C. 4.89 D. 6.93 C. 164.09 cm D. 191.22 cm
32. An equipment costing ₱320,000 was purchased using a loan at 12% 47. Two numbers have an arithmetic mean of 9 and a geometric mean of
per annum. It requires ₱21,000 per year to maintain the usefulness of 4. These two numbers are the roots of the quadratic equation:
the equipment. What is the capitalized cost of using the machine?
A. ₱575,000 B. ₱438,000
A. x2  18x  16  0 B. x2  18x  16  0
C. ₱495,000 D. ₱543,000 C. x2  18x  16  0 D. x2  18x  16  0
33. Mario bought ₱21.44 worth of stamps at the post office. He bought 10 48. A spherical wooden ball 1 ft in diameter is used as a float for a boat. If
more 4-cent stamps than 19-cent stamps. The number of 32-cent the ball sinks to a depth of 7 in, determine the area of the wetted
stamps was three times the number of 19-cent stamps. He also surface.
bought two 1 peso stamps. How many 4-cent stamps did he A. 100.1 in2 B. 112.54 in2
purchase?
C. 245.67 in2 D. 263.89 in2
A. 26 B. 28
49. A rectangular poster with an area of 18 in2 must have margins of 0.5
C. 48 D. 56 in on each side and 0.75 in on the top and bottom. What should be
34. From point A on the ground, the angle of elevation of the top of a pole the dimensions, in inches, of the poster to maximize the printed area?
is measured as 37.1°. From a point B on the opposite side of the pole
A. 3 2 3 B. 2 3 3 3
and along the same level as point A, the angle of elevation of the top
of the pole is measured as 35.9°. If points A and B are 124 m apart, C. 23 D. 2 3 3
find the height of the pole. 50. If the points (−3, −5), (x, y) and (3, 4) lie on a straight line, determine
A. 60.64 m B. 70. 03 m the equation of the locus of the points.
C. 45.86 m D. 63.36 m A. 3x + 2y – 1 = 0 B. 2x – 3y + 1 = 0
35. A trough whose ends are symmetrical trapezoids with axis vertical is C. 2x + 3y – 1 = 0 D. 3x – 2y – 1 = 0
10 m long. The lower base of the trapezoid is 2 m, the upper base is 6 51. Witness to a hit and run accident told the police that a license number
m and the altitude is 4 m. If it contains 100 m3 of water, find the depth contained the letters GGA followed by 3 digits, the first of which is a
of water in the trough. 5. If the witness cannot recall the last 2 digits, but is certain that all 3
A. 3.60 m B. 3.22 m digits are different, find the maximum number of automobile
C. 2.90 m D. 1.75 m registrations that the police may have to check.
36. A contractor imported a bulldozer for his job, paying ₱250,000 to the A. 72 B. 84
manufacturer. Freight and insurance charges amounted to ₱18,000; C. 64 D. 36
custom’s and broker’s fees, ₱8500; taxes, permits, and other
52. Determine the distance of chord from the center of the circle
expenses, ₱25,000. If the contractor estimates the life of the bulldozer
to be 10 years with a salvage value of ₱20,000, determine the book x 2  y 2  24x  80  0 if the length of chord is 10.583.
value at the end of 6 years using sinking fund method of depreciation A. 4.5 B. 6
at 8% interest rate. C. 8 D. 9.2
A. ₱158,949.69 B. ₱158,994.69 53. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire varies directly as
C. ₱132,600.00 D. ₱79,036.42 the length and inversely as the square of the diameter of the wire.
37. Determine the value of the constant k in the quadratic equation Compare the electrical resistance offered by two pieces of wire of the
3x2  x  kx  7k  0 if one of the roots is −7/3. same material, one being 100 m in length and 5 mm in diameter, and
the other is 50 m in length and 3 mm in diameter.
A. 3 B. −3
A. R1 = 0.47 R2 B. R1 = 0.72 R2
C. 2 D. −2
C. R1 = 0.86 R2 D. R1 = 0.93 R2
38. A television camera is located 5000 ft from the base of a rocket
launching pad. The camera is designed to follow the vertical path of
the rocket. If the rocket’s speed is 500 ft/s when it has risen 2000 ft,
54. Determine the 5th principal root of  
3 i .

how fast is the camera’s angle of elevation changing at this instant? A. 1.156° B. 1.1578°
A. 6.12°/s B. 5.28°/s C. 1.15138° D. 1.15150°
C. 4.94°/s D. 2.54°/s 55. How far from a vertex is the opposite face of a regular tetrahedron
2 3 2 having an edge of 3 m.
39. Evaluate

0 1 1
xy2zdzdydx A.
C.
2.45 m
4.17 m
B.
D.
3.81 m
5.48 m
A. 13 B. 26 56. Determine the ordinate of the point on the curve y  2x^(3/2) at
C. 16 D. 32 which the tangent is perpendicular to the line 2x  3y  6  0 .
40. Given an angle  in standard position, the terminal side of the given
A. 1/2 B. 1/3
angle, when cot   0 and csc   0 , will lie in quadrant:
C. 1/4 D. 1/5
A. Quadrant I B. Quadrant II 57. How many numbers greater than 8000, with no repeated digits, can
C. Quadrant III D. Quadrant IV be formed by use of the digits 0, 3, 5, 8, 4, 2?
41. The altitude and diameter of a cone are equal. Find the distance in A. 600 B. 1200
terms of the altitude from the base through which a cutting plane may C. 1260 D. 660
be passed that will divide the cone into two equal volumes.
58. A colony of bacteria is increasing at the rate of 40% per hour. If there
A. 0.2063H B. 0.3145H were originally 25000 bacteria in the colony, how many will there be at
C. 0.6855H D. 0.7937H the end of 4 hours?
42. Compute the longest distance from the point (26, 4) to the curve x 2 – A. 49000 B. 68600
16x + y2 + 16y + 64 = 0. C. 96040 D. 134456
A. 13.63 units B. 18.51 units 59. The supplement of an angle is thrice its complement. Find the angle.
C. 29.63 units D. 32.36 units A. 30 B. 45
43. A survey concerning a group of TV viewers show that: 56% watch C. D.
60 90
sports; 39% watch movies; 51% watch news; 16% watch sports and
60. The diameters of two spheres are in the ratio two is to three and the
movies; 19% watch movies and news; 30% watch sports and news;
sum of their volumes is 1260 cubic meters. If the radius of the larger
11% watch sports, movies and news. The rest are children who like
sphere is doubled, which of the following gives the increase in its
watching cartoons only. How many of the TV viewers are children?
surface area?
A. 15% B. 8%
A. 2 times B. 3 times
C. 12% D. 10%
C. 4 times D. 5 times
44. The power consumed in an electrical resistor is given by the function
61. Starting from a certain point A, a man walks eastward at the rate of 3
P  E R (in watts). If E = 200 volts and R = 8 ohms, by how much
2
km per hour. Twenty minutes later, a second man starting from point
does the power change if E decreases by 5 volts and R decreases by B, which is situated 5 km south and 20 km east of A, walks westward
0.2 ohm? at the rate of 4 km/hr. Determine the rate at which the two men are
A. 100 watts B. 125 watts approaching each other, 1 hour after the second man left point B
westward bound.
C. 250 watts D. 375 watts
A. −12.92 kph B. −6.46 kph
45. A chess team consists of 6 members including the captain. If the
captain assigns himself in board 1, in how many ways can the team C. −1.64 kph D. −19.87 kph
members be arranged if there are 6 boards?
A. 15 B. 24
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62. How many different signals each consisting of 6 flags hung in a 79. A central angle of 125° is subtended by an arc of a circle of radius 8.4
vertical pole can be formed from 4 identical red flags and 2 identical cm. Which of the following most nearly gives the length of the minor
yellow flags? arc?
A. 15 B. 21 A. 18.33 cm B. 22.17 cm
C. 27 D. 30 C. 34.45 cm D. 44 70 cm
63. Three circles whose radii are 6 m, 8 m, and 12 m are tangent 80. The logarithm of the product of M and N is 1.602059991 and the
externally to each other. Find the radius of the smallest circle that logarithm of their quotient is 0.397940008. Determine the value of N.
contains the three centers. A. 4 B. 6
A. 8.76 m B. 10.30 m C. 10 D. 12
A sine wave given by the function: f  t   3cos  2t  . Determine its
C. 12.23 m D. 13.10 m
81.
64. Juan can finish a job in 20 days. Jose can finish the same job in 15
days. Jojo can finish the same job in 16 days. If they all started frequency.
together to do the job but then Jojo left after 2 days, how long will it A. 1/ B. 1/2
take for Juan and Jose together to finish the job? C. 2/ D. 3/
A. 4 days B. 4.5 days 1 1
82. If y  x  sin2x , find x for which y’ = 0.
C. 5 days D. 5.5 days 2 4
65. A cable is to be run from a power plant on one side of a river 900 m A. /6 B. /4
wide to a factory on the other side 3 km away upstream. The cost of C. /3 D. /2
running the cable over land is $4.00 per meter while the cost under
water is $5.00 per meter. What total length of the cable must be run at 83. An area is bounded by the curve y  x 2 and the lines y = 0 and x = 2.
most economical cost? Find the volume of the solid formed if the area is revolved about the
A. 3100 m B. 3200 m line y = 4.
C. 3300 m D. 3400 m A. 26.81 cubic units B. 41.89 cubic units
66. How many ways can you invite one or more of your five friends to a C. 54.45 cubic units D. 46.91 cubic units
party? 84. The surface areas of two spheres are 24 cm2 and 96 cm2,
A. 25 B. 15 respectively. What is the ratio of their volume?
C. 31 D. 62 A. 1:4 B. 1:6
67. If ab = 6, bc = 3, and ac = 1/8, what is one possible value of abc? C. 1:8 D. 1:9
A. 0.375 B. 0.75 85. Determine the area enclosed by the curve
C. 1.50 D. 2.25 x 2  y 2  10x  4y  196  0 .
68. A 4 cm  6 cm rectangular pyramid of perpendicular height 12 cm.
A. 37.70 square units B. 47.12 square units
What is the volume?
C. 706.86 square units D. 452.39 square units
A. 48 cm3 B. 96 cm3
3 86. A box contains 5 defective and 195 non-defective cell phones. A
C. 72 cm D. 50 cm3
quality control engineer selects 2 cell phones at random without
69. A curve has an equation x 2  y 2  25 . Determine the point of replacement. What is the probability that exactly one cell phone is
tangency on the curve at the second quadrant if the tangent has a defective?
slope of 3/4. A. 0.049 B. 0.072
A. (−3, 4) B. (4, 3) C. 0.095 D. 0.014
C. (−5, 3) D. (3, 5) 87. Determine the area of the regular octagon circumscribing a circle
70. One ball is drawn at random from a bag containing four red balls and having an area of 126 m2.
five white balls. Compute the probability that it is not red. A. 123.90 m2 B. 132.90 m2
A. 4/9 B. 5/9 C. 109.32 m2 D. 190.23 m2
C. 6/9 D. 7/9 88. A tank containing liquid is filled with 40 L of 70% salt solution. What
volume of the solution to be taken and be filled up with 10 L of water

71. Determine the equivalent Cartesian equation of   . to make the concentration 50% salt solution?
3 A. 12 L B. 15 L
A. yx B. y  3x C. 18 L D. 21 L
C. 3y  3x D. y  3x 89. The triangle ABC has a perimeter of 400 m. Two of its interior angles
are A = 34° and B = 58°. Find the measurement of CA.
72. A line having an equation of y  2x  0 intersects the curve
A. 125.33 m B. 140.95 m
y 2  8x  0 . Determine the location of the centroid of the area from C. 70.89 m D. 92.94 m
the y-axis. 90. A 4 diameter open cylindrical tank, 6 m high, is filled with water. The
A. 0.40 B. 0.80 tank is tilted to a position such that its water surface will cut the
C. 1.00 D. 2.00 diameter of the base. Determine the volume of water left in the tank.
73. The probabilities that a service station will pump gas into 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, A. 13 m3 B. 14 m3
or 5 or more cars during a certain 30-minute period are 0.03, 0.18, C. 16 m3 D. 17 m3
0.24, 0.28, 0.10, and 0.17, respectively. Find the probability, that in 3x3  2x  4
this 30-minute period, more than two cars receive gas. 91. What is the limit of as x approaches +?
A. 0.55 B. 0.79 5  3x2  2x3
C. 0.83 D. 0.45 A. 3/5 B. −3/2
74. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two intersecting C. 3/2 D. −3/5
identical circles having a radius of 9 m. The distance between their 92. The polar equation of a curve is expressed as r  2 / (1  sin ) .
centers is 9 m. Find the area common to the two circles. Determine the length of the latus rectum.
A. 73.85 m2 B. 80.27 m2 A. 1 B. 2
C. 99.50 m2 D. 107.11 m2 C. 3 D. 4
75. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the 6 3
numerator. If 7 is added to both the numerator and denominator, the
resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original fraction.
93. Evaluate

0 y 2
ydxdy

A. 8/5 B. 3/5 A. 15 B. 18
C. 5/13 D. 13/8 C. 21 D. 24
94. A mixture of candies contains 6 mints, 4 toffees and 3 chocolates. If 2
From the equation y  ax  bx  cx  d , the critical point is located
3 2
76.
candies are drawn in succession without replacement, find the
at the origin and the inflection point is at (2, 4). Find the value of “a”. probability of getting 2 candies of different types.
A. 1/4 B. −1/4 A. 9/13 B. 6/13
C. 3/2 D. −3/2 C. 1/4 D. 3/56
1
0 sin
1 95. In the expansion of (2x 2  3y3 )12 , find the term that involves x8.
77. Evaluate ydy

A. 0.6807 B. 0.6708 A. 51963120x 8 y 24 B. 52963120x 8 y 24

C. 0.5807 D. 0.5708 C. 41963120x 8 y 24 D. 21963120x 8 y 24
78. A purse has thirty-six 10-peso coins, twenty 5-peso coins, and twenty- 96. The lateral surface area of a frustum of a regular square pyramid is
nine 1-peso coins. Three coins are drawn in succession without 307.584 cm2. If the bases of the frustum are 6 m  6 m and 12 m  12
replacement. Find the probability that the three are 5-peso coins. m, respectively, find the altitude of the frustum.
A. 0.0367 B. 0.0723 A. 7.5 m B. 8.0 m
C. 0.0179 D. 0.0115 C. 8.5 m D. 9.0 m

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97. If the line 6x  y  k  0 touches the parabola x 2  y  16  0 , find

the value of k.
A. 7 B. 18
C. 25 D. 30
98. A curve has an equation y  cosx  0 . How far is the centroid of the
area bounded by the curve from x = 0 to x = /2 measured from the x-
axis?
A. 0.785 B. 0.596
C. 0.492 D. 0.393
99. A triangular lot was surveyed with a steel tape and found to have the
following length of each side: 23.56 m, 38.54 m, 33.40 m. Determine
the angle opposite the side 38.54 m.
A. 37.38° B. 83.24°
C. 59.38° D. 120.62°
100. The sum of the coefficients of x and y in the equation Ax + By – 16 =
0 is 14. If the slope of the line is equal to 8, find the value of B.
A. 16 B. −2
C. 8 D. −1

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