Basic Engineering Correlation (Algebra Reviewer) satisfy certain customers, the company must produce at

least 6 units per day of product X and at least 12 units of

1. Three transformers are directly proportional to the KVA product Y. If the profit of each unit of product X is P50 and
cost P30,000. The cost of each transformer is directly the profit of each unit of product Y is P60, how many of
proportional to the KVA rating and each has a constant of each product should be produced in order to maximize the
proportionally of 0.9, 0.8 and 0.6, respectively. Find the company's profit?
cost of the KVA transformer. a. X = 20 units, Y = 40 units
a. P7,500 b. X = 30 units, Y = 40 units
b. P13,500 c. X = 20 units, Y = 50 units
c. P15,500 d. X = 40 units, Y = 60 units
d. P9,000
8. If 4y3 + 18y2 + 8y - 4 is divided by 2y + 3, the remainder
2. What is the sum of the following sequence of terms 18, is:
25, 32, 39, . . . ,67? a. 10
a. 280 b. 12
b. 380 c. 11
c. 320 d. 9
d. 340
9. The square of a number increased by 16 is the same as
3. A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident 10 times the number. Find the number.
which detains it an hour, after which it proceeds at 3/5 of a. 8, 2
its former rate and arrives three hour after the time; but b. 6, 2
had the accident happened 50 miles farther on yhe line, it c. 4, 2
would have arrived one and one-half hour sooner. Find the d. 2, 2
length of the journey.
a. 850/9 miles 10. The seating section in a coliseum has 30 seats in the
b. 800/9 miles first row, 32 in the second row, 34 seats in the third row
c. 920/9 miles and so on, until the tenth row is reached, after which
d. 910/9 miles there are ten rows each containing 50 seats. Find the total
number of seats in the section.
4. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. a. 1290
Determine the number. b. 1080
a. 5 c. 890
b. 7 d. 980
c. 4
d. 6 11. If the roots of an equation is zero, then they are
classified as
5. The roots of a quadratic equation are 1/3 and 1/4. What a. hypergolic solutions
is the equation? b. trivial solutions
a. 12x2 + 7x + 1=0 c. conditional solutions
b. 12x2 - 7x - 1=0 d. extraneous solutions
c. 12x2 - 7x + 1=0
d. 12x2 + 7x - 1=0 12. An airplane went 360 miles in 2 hours with the wind
and, flying back the same route, it took 3 3/5 hours against
6. The geometric mean of 4 and 64: the wind. What was its speed in still air?
a. 30 a. 120 mph
b. 34 b. 150 mph
c. 24 c. 140 mph
d. 16 d. 130 mph

7. A certain company manufactures two products, X and Y, 13. Find the fourth proportion to 3, 5 and 21.
and each of these products must be processed on two a. 27
different machines. Product X requires 1 minute of work b. 65
time per unit on machine 1 and 4 minutes of work time on c. 56
machine 2. Product Y requires two minutes of work time d. 35
per unit on machine 1 and 3 minutes of work time per unit
on machine 2. Each day, 100 minutes are available on 14. Two jet planes travelling towards each other take off at
machine 1 and 200 minutes are available on machine 2. To the same time from two airports located 3000 miles apart.
If they passed each other after two hours, determine the c. 21 1/3, 28 2/3 m3
speed of each plane if one plane is flying at a speed 100 d. 10, 40 m3
mph faster than the other.
a. 700 and 800 mph 21. Subtracting 2.6 x 103 from8.26 x 104 is:
b. 600 and 700 mph a. 8.0 x 104
c. 700 and 900 mph b. 10.86 x 104
d. 800 and 500 mph c. 8.0 x 103
d. 10.86 x 103
15. Round off 0.003086 to three significant figures.
a. 0.0031 22. The time requires by an evaluator to lift a weight varies
b. 0.00308 directly with the weight and the distance through which it
c. 0.003 is to be lifted and inversely as the power of the motor. If it
d. 0.00309 takes 30 seconds for 10 hp motor to lift 100 lbs through 50
feet, what size of motor is required to lift 800 lbs in 40
16. It is sequence of numbers that successive terms differ seconds through a distance of 40 feet?
by a constant. a. 56 hp
a. geometric progression b. 50 hp
b. arithmetic progression c. 58 hp
c. harmonic progression d. 48 hp
d. finite progression

17. At 2:00 pm, an airplane takes off at 340 mph on an 23. Find the 30th term of the arithmetic progression 4, 7,
aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier moves due south at 25 10, . . .
kph in the same direction as the plane. At 4:05 pm, the a. 94
communication between the plane and aircraft carrier was b. 941
lost. Determine the communication range in miles c. 81
between the plane and the carrier. d. 104
a. 785 miles
b. 557 miles 24. Convergent series is a sequence of decreasing numbers
c. 412 miles or when the succeeding term is _______ than the
d. 656 miles preceding term.
a. equal
18. A manufacturing firm maintains one product assembly b. slightly more
line to produce signal generators. Weekly demand for the c. greater
generators is 25 units. The line operates for 7 hours per d. lesser
day, 5 days per week. What is the maximum production
time per unit in hours required for the line to meet the 25. In the equation x2 + x = 0, one root is x equal to:
demand? a. 1
a. 3 hours b. ¼
b. 1 hour c. 5
c. 2.25 hours d. none of these.
d. 0.75 hour
26. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of
19. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In5 years, the product 89% hydrochloric acid solution to reduce its strength to
of their age is 1.5 times the product of their product ages. 75%?
How old is Beth now? a. 4.83 liters
a. 20 b. 6.53 liters
b. 25 c. 7.33 liters
c. 18 d. 5.34 liters
d. 27
27. Round off 34.2814 to four significant figures.
20. A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol a. 34.8214
solutions of different strengths, 30% alcohol and 60% b. 34
alcohol, respectively. How many cubic meters of each c. 34.28
strength must be used in order to produce a mixture of 50 d. 34.281
cubic meters that contain 40% alcohol?
a. 20, 30 m3
b. 33 1/3, 16 2/3 m3
28. Solve algebraiclly: b. 35 m
11y2 - 3x2 = 41 c. 30 m
4x2 + 7y2 = 32. d. 40 m
a. (-2, 2) and (2, -2)
b. (± 1, ± 2) 35. What time after 3 o'clock will the hands of the clock be
c. (± 1, ± 4) together for the first time?
d. (2, 3)and ( -2, -3) a. 3:02.30
b. 3:17.37
29. Determine the sum of the progression if there are 7 c. 3:16.36
arithmetic means between 3 and 35. d. 3:14.32
a. 98
b. 304 36. A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours.
c. 214 Another pump can pump out water from the same tank in
d. 171 20 hours. How long will it take both pumps to pump out
water in the tank?
30. Crew No. 1 can finish installation of an antenna tower a. 6 hours
in 200 man-hour while Crew No. 2 can finish the same job b. 6 1/2 hours
in 300 man-hour. How long will it take both crews to finish c. 7 1/2 hours
the same job, working together? d. 7 hours
a. 120 man-hour
b. 140 man-hour 37. If the sum is 220 and the first term is 10, find the
c. 100 man-hour common difference if the last term is 30.
d. 160 man-hour a. 3
b. 4
31. In how many minutes after 3:00 P.M will the minute c. 5
hand of a clock coincide with the hour hand? d. 2
a. 15.455
b. 17.273 38. Equal volumes of two different liquids evaporated at
c. 16.364 different but constant rates. If the first is totally
d. 18.182 evaporated in 6 weeks and the second in 5 weeks, when
will the second be one-half the volume of the first?
32. In a class of 40 students, 27 students like Calculus and a. 3.5 weeks
25 like Geometry. How many students liked both Calculus b. 3 weeks
and Geometry? c. 4 weeks
a. 12 d. 4 2/7 weeks
b. 13
c. 11 39. MCMXCIV is a Roman numeral equivalent to:
d. 10 a. 1994
b. 2174
33. The electric power which a transmission line can c. 3974
transmit is proportional to the product of its design d. 2974
voltage and current capacity, and inversely to the
transmission distance. A 115 - kilovolt line rated at 100 40. Find the 100th term of the sequence 1.01, 1.00, 0.99, . .
amperes can transmit 150 megawatts over 150 km. How a. 0.01
much power, in megawatts can a 230 kilovolt line rated at b. 0.02
150 amperes transmit over 100 km? c. 0.03
a. 595 d. 0.04
b. 675
c. 485 41. At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and
d. 785 minute hand of the clock first form an angle of 120o?
a. 12:21.818
34. The electrical resistance of a wire varies as its length b. 12:22.818
and inversely as the square of its diameter. If a 100 m long c. 12:18.818
and 1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance of 30 ohms, find d. 12:24.818
the length of the wire of the same material whose
resistance and diameter are 25 ohms and 0.74 mm 42. Solve the simultaneous equations:
respectively. 3x - y = 6
a. 25 m 9x - y = 12.
a. ( -1, 3 ) a. 374
b. ( 1, -3 ) b. 341
c. ( 1, 3 ) c. 320
d. ( -1, -3 ) d. 337

43. A merchant has three items on sale: namely, a radio 50. If a two digit number has X for its unit digit and Y for its
for P50, a clock fo P30, and a flashlight for P1. At the end tenth digit, represent the number.
of the day, she has sold a total of 100 of the three items a. 10Y + X
and has taken exacly P1000 on the total sales. How many b. X + Y
radios did he sale? c. XY
a. 4 d. 10Y + Y
b. 80
c. 20 51. In the series 1, 1, 1/2, 1/6, 1/24, . . . , determine the 6th
d. 16 term.
a. 1/60
44. What is the sum of the first 10 terms of the geometric b. 1/120
progression 2, 4, 8, 16, . . . ? c. 1/150
a. 1696 d. 1/90
b. 2046
c. 1024 52. Round off 149.691 to the nearest integer.
d. 1846 a. 149
b. 149.7
45. In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons on c. 149.69
brand preferences, 120 were found to prefer brand x only, d. 150
200 persons prefer brand y only, 150 persons prefer brand
z only, 370 prefer either brand x or y but not z, 450 prefer 53. The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number twice
brand y or z but not x, and 370 prefer either brand z or x the other. Find the numbers.
but not y, and none prefer all the three brands at a time. a. 9 & 12
How many persons have no brand preference with any of b. 7 & 14
the three brands? c. 8 & 13
a. 200 d. 65 & 70
b. 100
c. 280 54. The probability for the ECE board examinees from a
d. 70 certain school to pass the Mathematics subject is 3/7 and
that for the Communication subject is 5/7. If none of the
46. Which number has four significant figures? examinees failed in both subjects, how many examinees
a. 1.414 from the school took the examination?
b. 0.0014 a. 30
c. 0.141 b. 27
d. 0.01414 c. 29
d. 28
47. A club of 40 executives, 33 likes to smoke Marlboro
and 20 likes to smoke Philip Morris. How many like both? 55. Solve for x that satisfies the equation 6x2 - 7x - 5 = 0.
a. 12 a. 3/5 or ¾
b. 13 b. 3/2 or 3/8
c. 14 c. 5/3 or -1/2
d. 11 d. 7/5 or -7/15

48. The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two 56. Three transformers are rated 5 KVA, 10 KVA and 25
numbers namely 250 and 850 are removed, what is the KVA, respectively. The total cost of the three transformers
arithmetic mean of the remaining numbers? is P15, 000.00. If the cost of each transformer is
a. 41.25 proportional to its KVA rating multiplied by the factor 1,
b. 42.31 0.8 and 0.6 respectively, find the cost of the 10 KVA
c. 44.25 transformer.
d. 40.21 a. P4,286
b. P4,075
49. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The c. P4,101
sum of the progreesion is: d. P4,393
 much of the 7% solution you mix with the appropriate
57. Solve the simultaneous equations: amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution?
2x2 - 3y2 = 6 a. 2.5
3x2 + 2y2 = 35. b. 2
a. x-3 or 3; y2 or -1 c. 1.5
b. x3 or -3; y2 or -2 d. 3
c. x3 or -3; y-2 or 1
d. x3 or -3; y-2 or 3 65. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2 - 10x + 2 = 0
a. -2
58. The sum of the progression 5, 8, 11, 14, . . . Is 1025. b. ½
How many terms are there? c. -1/2
a. 25 d. 2
b. 24
c. 28 66. Maria is 36 years old. Maria was twice as old as Anna
d. 29 was when Maria was as old as Anna is now. Jow old is
Anna now?
59. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 a. 26
when y = 7 and z = 2, find the value of x when y = 16 and z b. 31
= 4. c. 29
a. 4 d. 24
b. 8
c. 16 67. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric progression if
d. 14 the sum is 2 and the first term is 1/2.
a. 2/3
60. The arithmetic means of 6 numbers is 17. If two b. 1/6
numbers are added to the progression, the new set of the c. ¾
numbers will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What are the d. ¼
two numbers if their difference is 4?
a. 18, 22 68. A tank is fitted with two pipes. The first pipe can fill the
b. 23, 27 tank in 10 hours. But after it has been open for 3 hours,
c. 10, 14 the second pipe is opened and the tank is filled up in 4
d. 31, 35 hours more. How long would it take the second pipe alone
to fill tha tank?
61. The sum of Kim's and Kevin's ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim a. 12.67 hr
will be twice as old as Kevin. What are their ages now? b. 10.55 hr
a. 5, 13 c. 14.89 hr
b. 7, 11 d. 13.33 hr
c. 6, 12
d. 4, 14
69. How many kg of cream containing 25% butter fat
62. The intensity of sound varies directly as the strength of should be added to 50 kg of milk containing one percent
the source and inversely as the square of the distance butter fat to produce milk containing 2% butter fat?
from the source. Write the equation to the describe a. 4.17
relation. b. 2.174
a. I = 1/d2 + k c. 5.221
b. I=k/d2 d. 3.318
c. I = kd2
d. I = d2/k 70. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire
varies directly as the length and inversely as the square of
63. Determine the sum of the infinite series 1/3 + 1/9 + the diameter of the wire. Compare the electrical resistance
1/27 +. . . offered by two pieces of wire of the same material, one
a. 1 being 100 m long and 8 mm in diameter, and the other 50
b. ¾ m long and 3 mm in diameter.
c. ½ a. R1 = 0.28 R2
d. 2/3 b. R1 = 0.84 R2
c. R1 = 0.57 R2
64. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of 10% d. R1 = 0.95 R2
solution. You find 7% and 12% solutions on the shelf. How
71. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom layer, 58 78. Find the sum of 1, -1/5, 1/25, . . .
bricks in the second layer, 55 bricks in the third layer, and a. 6/7
so on until there are 10 bricks in the last layer. How many b. 7/8
bricks are there all together? c. 5/6
a. 458 d. 8/9
b. 639
c. 724 79. A man is 41 years old and his son is 9. In how many
d. 538 years will the father be three times as old as his son?
a. 7
72. A 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (p = b. 8
790 kg/cu.m.). What is the specific volume of the resulting c. 6
mixtures? Assuming that the two fluids mix completely. d. 5
a. 0.63 cu cm/g
b. 0.88 cu. cm/g 80. A tank is fitted with an intake pipe that will fill it in 4
c. 0.82 cu cm/g hours, and an outlet pipe that will empty it in 9 hours. If
d. 1.20 cu cm/g both pipes are left open, how long will it take to fill the
empty tank?
73. One number is 5 less than another. If the sum is 135, a. 7.2 hr
what are the numbers? b. 6.8 hr
a. 65, 70 c. 6.2 hr
b. 60, 65 d. 7.4 hr
c. 75, 80
d. 70, 75 81. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent to
1785/9999 starting from the decimal point.
74. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more a. 1
than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of b. 5
the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original c. 7
fraction. d. 8
a. 8/5
b. 13/5 82. A mechanical engineer who was awarded a
c. 5/13 P450,000.00 contract to install the machineries of an oil
d. 3/5 mill failed to finish the work on time. As provided for in the
contract, he has to pay a daily penalty equivalent to one-
75. An inexperienced statistical clerk submitted the fourth of one percent of the contract price for the first ten
following statistics to his manager on the average rate of days of the delay, one-half percent per day for the next
production of transistorized radios in an assenbly line: "1.5 ten days and one percent per day for every day thereafter.
workers produced 3 radios in 2 hour." How many workers If the total penalty paid was P60,750.00, how many days
are employed in the assembly line working 40 hours per was the completion of the contract delayed?
week if weekly production is 480 radios? a. 30 days
a. 12 b. 26 days
b. 10 c. 24 days
c. 13 d. 28 days
d. 14
83. A man started driving his car at a certain time froma
76. Find the mean proportion of 4 and 36. certain place. On arrival at his destination at the precise
a. 12 appointed time, he said, "If I had averaged 6 miles per
b. 8 hour faster, I would have been 5 minutes early. But if I had
c. 16 averaged 5 mph slower, I would have been 6 minutes
d. 9 late." Find how far he had driven.
a. 20 miles
77. An automobile is travelling at a velocity of 10 mph. If b. 10 miles
the automobile mileage meter already reads 20 miles, find c. 25 miles
the mileage meter reading after 3 hours. d. 15 miles
a. 60 miles
b. 30 miles 84. Pedro started running at a speed of 10kph. Five
c. 50 miles minutes later, Mario started running in the same direction
d. 40 miles and catches up with Pedro in 20 minutes. What is the
speed of Mario?
a. 12.5 kph
b. 17.5 kph 91. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The
c. 20.5 kph sum of the progression is:
d. 15.0 kph a. 374
b. 341
85. The equation whose roots are the reciprocal of the c. 320
solutions of 2x2 - 3x - 5 = 0. d. 337
a. 3x2 - 5x - 2=0
b. 5x2 - 2x - 3=0 92. The number 1.123123123. . . Is
c. 5x2 + 3x - 2=0 a. surd
d. 2x2 + 5x - 3=0 b. transcendental
c. rational
86. In certain Board Examination, 119 examinees too the d. irrational
Shop Machinery subjected, 104 examinees took thye
Power Plant Machinery subject and 115 examinees took 93. Which of the following numbers should be changed to
the Industrial Plant Machinery subject. Seventy-eight (78) make all the numbers from an arithmetic progression
conditioned examinees took only Shop Machinery and when properly arranged?
Power Machinery subjects. Seventy-one (71) conditioned a. 27/14
examinees took only the POwer Plant Machinery and b. 45/28
Industrial Plant Machinery subjects. Eighty-five (85) c. 20/14
conditioned examinees took only Industrial Plant d. 3/28
Machinery and Shop Machinery subjects. Fifty-four took all
the three subjects. How many examinees took the 94. How many significant digits do 10.097 have?
Certified Plant Mechanic board examination? a. 4
a. 153 b. 5
b. 165 c. 2
c. 158 d. 3
d. 176
95. Find the sum of the infinite geometric progression 6, -2,
87. If a train passes as many telegraph poles in one minute 2/3, . . .
as it goes miles per hour, how far apart are the poles? a. 9/2
a. 78 ft. b. 7/2
b. 98 ft. c. 3/2
c. 68 ft. d. 11/2
d. 88 ft.
96. The time required for two examinees to solve the same
88. A man 38 years old has a son of ten years old. In how problem differ by two minutes. Together they can solve 32
many years will the father be three times as old as his son? problems in one hour. How long will it take for the slower
a. 2 problem solver to solve the problem?
b. 3 a. 3 minutes
c. 4 b. 5 minutes
d. 5 c. 2 minutes
d. 4 minutes
89. In Algebra, the operation of root extraction is called as
_____. 97. An equipment installation job in the completion stage
a. revolution can be completed in 50 days of 8 hours day work, with 50
b. resolution men working. With the contract expiring in 40 days, the
c. involution mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 15 men on
d. evolution the job, overtime not being permitted. If the liquidated
damages is P5,000 per day of delay, and they are paid
90. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% P150 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the
faster than Pilar and together they can paint a given fence job on time? Would he save money with the addition of
in 4 hours. How long will it take Pedro to paint the same workers?
fence if he had to work alone? a. No, P20,500 losses
a. 15 b. Yes, P44,750 savings
b. 13 c. Yes, P24,500 savings
c. 10 d. No, P15,750 losses
d. 11
98. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel c. 15
1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying back. What was the wind d. 16
velocity in kph?
a. 40 105. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7
b. 70 hours, respectively. What fraction of the yard can they
c. 60 mow in 1 hour if they work together?
d. 50 a. 47/84 hr
b. 84/47 hr
99. If a = b, then b = a. This illustrates which axiom in c. 34/60 hr
Algebra? d. 45/84 hr
a. Transitive Axiom
b. Reflexive Axiom 106. The volume of hemisphere varies directly as the cube
c. Symmetric Axiom of its radius. The volume of a sphere with 2.54 cm radius is
d. Replacement Axiom 20.75 cm3. What is the volume of a sphere with 3.25 cm
radius of the same kind?
100. The ten's digit of a certain two digit number exceeds a. 4056 cm3
the unit's digit by four and is one less than twice the unit's b. 45.98 cm3
digit. Find the number. c. 43.47 cm3
a. 59 d. 39.20 cm3
b. 95
c. 65 107. Add the following and express in meters: 3 m + 2 cm +
d. 85 70 mm.
a. 3.14 m
101. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe b. 2.90 m
can fill the same in tank in 3 hours. A drain pipe can empty c. 3.12 m
the tank in 24 hours. With all three pipes open, how lomg d. 3.09 m
will it take to fill in the tank?
a. 2.18 hrs 108. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the
b. 2.23 hrs same day, the minute hand of a standard clock describe an
c. 2.81 hrs arc of:
d. 2.32 hrs a. 90o
b. 60o
102. An equipment installation job in the completion stage c. 540o
can be completed in 40 days of 8 hours day work with 40 d. 180o
men working. With the contract expiring in 30 days, the
mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 10 men on 109. A clock has dial face 304.80 mm in radius. The minute
the job, overtime not being permitted. If the liquidated hand is 228.60 mm long while the hour hand is 152.40 mm
damages is P2,000 per day of delay, and the men are paid long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is 50.80
P80 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job mm above the plane of rotation of the hour hand. Find the
on time? distance between the tips of the hands of the clock at 5:40
a. No, there would be no savings AM.
b. No, P16,000 would be lost a. 228 mm
c. Yes, there would just be break even b. 239 mm
d. Yes, P16,000 would be saved c. 243 mm
d. 233 mm
103. It takes Butch twice as it takes Dan to do a certain
piece of work. Working together they can do the work in 6 110. A certain manufactured part can be defective
days. How long would it take Dan to do it alone? because it has one or more out of the three possible
a. 12 days defects: insufficient tensile strength, a burr, or a diameter
b. 9 days outside of tolerance limit. In a lot of 500 pieces: 19 have a
c. 10 days tensile strength defects, 17 have a burr, 11 have an
d. 11 days unacceptable diameter, 12 have tensile strength and burr
defects, 7 have tensile strength and diameter defects, 5
104. Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. have burr and diameter defects and 2 have all three
However, "y" years ago, Robert was twice as old as Stan. If defects. Determine:
Stan is now "b" years old b.y, find the value of (b-y). How many of the pieces have no defects?
a. 18 How many pieces have only burr defects?
b. 17 How many pieces have exactly 2 defects?
a. 475, 2, 18 d. 5
b. 490, 4, 10
c. 465, 3, 7 117. Prior to the last IBP elections, a survey was conducted
d. 480, 4, 6 in a certain barangay in Metro Manila to find out which of
three political parties they like best. The results indicated
111. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana that 320 like KBL, 250 like LABAN and 180 liked
waswhen Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is Ana? INDEPENDENTS. But of these, 160 like both KBL and LABAN,
a. 18 100 liked both LABAN and INDEPENDENTS and 70 like both
b. 16 KBL and INDEPENDENTS. Only 30 said they like all the
c. 20 three parties and none admitted that they did not like any
d. 19 party. How many voters are there in the barangay?
a. 474
112. The electrical resistance of wire made of a certain b. 525
material varies as its length and inversely as the square of c. 450
the diameter. If the wire 200 meters long and 1.25 mm in d. 540
diameter has a resistance of 60 ohms, find the length of
the wire of the same material, whose resistance and 118. A man left his home at past 3:00 o'clock P.M as
diameter are 5 ohms and 0.65 mm, respectively. indicated in his wall clock. Between 2 and 3 hours after, he
a. 3.96 m returned home and noticed the hands of the lock
b. 4.51 m interchanged. At what time the man leave his home?
c. 4.28 m a. 3:24.73 P.M
d. 5.72 m b. 3:18.52 P.M
c. 3:31.47 P.M
113. A man leaving his office on one afternoon noticed the d. 3:28.65 P.M
clock at past two o'clock. Between two three hours, he
returned to his office noticing the hands of the clock 119. Given: f(x) = ( x+ 3) (x - 4) +4. When f(x) is divided by
interchanged. At what time did he leave the office and the (x - k), the remainder is k. Find k.
time that he returned to the office? a. 2
a. 2:27.08, 5:11.19 P.M. b. 6
b. 2:26.01, 5:10.01 P.M c. 4
c. 2:26.01, 5:10.01 P.M. d. 8
d. 2:26.01, 5:12.17 P.M.
120. A & B working together can finish painting the house
114. A medium unshaded lamp hangs 8 m directly above in six days. A working alone, can finish it in five days less
the table. To what distance should it be lowered to than B. How long will it take each of them to finish the
increase the illumination to 4.45 times the former value? work alone?
Illumination intensity varies inversely to the square of the a. 15 days for A
distance. 20 days for B
a. 4.75 m b. 10 days for A
b. 4.55 m 25 days for B
c. 3.79 m c. 15 days for A
d. 3.95 m 20 days for B
d. 10 days for A
115. Roberto is 25 years younger than his father. However, 15 days for B
his father will be twice his age in 10 years. Find their ages
now. 121. A statistical clerk submitted the following reports:
a. 15 and 40 "The average rate of production of radios is 1.5 units for
b. 10 and 35 every 1.5 hours of work by 1.5 workers." How many radios
c. None of the choices were produced in one month by 30 men working 200
d. 20 and 45 hours during the month?
a. 4000
116. A storage battery discharges at a rate which is b. 3500
proportional to the charge. If the charge is reduced by 50% c. 4500
of its original value at the end of 2 days, how long will it d. 5000
take to reduce the charge to 25% of its original charge?
a. 6 122. A piece of paper is 0.05 in thick. Each time the paper
b. 4 is folded into half, the thickness is doubled. If the paper
c. 3
was folded 12 times, how thick in feet the folded paper 129. Determine the k so that the equation 4x2 + kx + 1 = 0
will be? will have just one real root.
a. 15.2 a. 5
b. 16.25 b. 6
c. 17.06 c. 4
d. 18.5 d. 3

123. A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. 130. An airplane travels from points A and B with the
Five workers started the job. They were reinforced with distance of 1500 km and a wind along its flight line. If it
four more workers at the beginning of the 6th day. Find the takes the airplane 2 hours from A to B with the tailwind
total number of days it took them to finish the job. and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, what is the
a. 22.36 days velocity?
b. 20.56 days a. 700 kph
c. 23.22 days b. 675 kph
d. 21.42 days c. 450 kph
d. 750 kph
124. Six times the middle digit of a three-digit number is
the sum of the other two. If the number is divided by the 131. How many numbers between 10 and 200 are exactly
sum of its digits, the answer is 51 and the remainder is 11. divisible by 7? Find their sum.
If the digits are reversed the number becomes smaller by a. 2835
198, find the number. b. 2840
a. 825 c. 283
b. 775 d. 2830
c. 725 e. 27 numbers; sum
d. 875 f. 28 numbers; sum
g. 26 numbers; sum
125. Given that "w" varies directly as the product of x and h. 26 numbers; sum
y and inversely as the square of z and that w = 4 when x =
2, y = 6 and z = 3. Find tha value of "w" when x = 1, y = 4 132. A gasoline tank of a car contains 50 liters of gasoline
and z = 2. and alcohol, the alcohol comprising 25%. How much of the
a. 5 mixture must be drawn off and replaced by alcohol so that
b. 4 the tank will contain a mixture of which 50% is alcohol?
c. 3 a. 10.67 liters
d. 2 b. 20.33 liters
c. 16.67 liters
126. A man driving his car at a certain speed from his d. 16.33 liters
house will reach his office in 6 hours. If he increased his
speed 15 mph, he would reach his office 1 hour earlier. 133. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one more log
Find the distance from his office to his house. than the layer above and the top contains just one log. If
a. 350 miles there are 105 logs in the pile, how many layers are there?
b. 450 miles a. 16
c. 520 miles b. 14
d. 250 miles c. 10
d. 12
127. Determine x, so that x, 2x + 7, 10x - 7 will be a
geometric progression. 134. Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing 8% nickel
a. 7, -15/6 is to be made by mixing a steel containing 14% nickel with
b. 7, -7/5 anothercontaining 6% nickel. How much of each is
c. 7, -5/6 needed?
d. 7, -7/6 a. 800 kg, 1200 kg
b. 500 kg, 1500 kg
128. Solve for the values of x and y in 4x + 2y = 5 and 13x - c. 600 kg, 1500 kg
3y = 2. d. 400 kg, 1600 kg
a. (1, 3)
b. (3/2, 1/2)
c. (1, 2)
d. ( 1/2, 3/2 )
135. A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with the stream c. 120
and black in 14 hours, but that he can row 14 miles with d. 90
the stream in the same time as 3 miles against the stream.
Find the rate of the stream. 142. Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 25 liters of 35% salt
a. 1 mile per hour solution are poured into a drum originally containing 30
b. 0.6 mile per hour liters of 10% salt solution. What is the percent
c. 0.8 mile per hour concentration of salt in the mixture?
d. 1.5 mile per hour a. 0.1955
b. 0.2572
136. Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 ft in the first second, c. 0.2215
48.3 ft in the 2nd second, 80.5 ft in the 3rd second. How far d. 0.2705
did the body fall during the 10th second.
a. 250.1 ft 143. A & B can do the job in 42 days, B & C for the same
b. 305.9 ft job in 31 days, C & A also for the same job in 20 days. If A
c. 529.45 ft & C work together, how many days can they do the same
d. 417.3 ft job?
a. 19
137. Solve for x : 10x2 + 10 x2 + 1 = 0. b. 17
a. -0.331, 0.788 c. 21
b. -0.311, -0.887 d. 15
c. -0.113, -0.788
d. -0.113, -0.887 144. A pipe can fill a tank in 14 hours. A second pipe can fill
the tank in 16 hours. If both pipes are left open, determine
138. An airplane travels from points A and B with a the time required to fill the tank?
distance of 1500 km and a wind along its flight line. If it a. 7.92 hr
takes the airplane 2 hours from A and B with the tailwind b. 8.47 hr
and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, What is the c. 7.47 hr
velocity? d. 6.53 hr
a. 700 kph
b. 675 kph
c. 750 kph 145. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5mph and
d. 450 kph upstream at the rate of 2mph. How far downstream
should he go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?
139. A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five a. 2.5 miles
minutes later, a second jogger starts the same course at 10 b. 3.3 miles
kph. How long will it take the second jogger to catch the c. 2.7 mlies
first? d. 3.1 miles
a. 22 min
b. 18 min 146. Solve for the value of x.
c. 21 min 2x - y + z = 6
d. 20 min x - 3y - 2z = 13
2x - 3y - 3z = 16
140. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 50 ft. a. 3
and is observed to rebound 2/3 of the distance it falls. b. 1
How far will the ball travel before coming to rest if the ball c. 2
continues to fall in this manner? d. 4
a. 300
b. 200 147. Find the value of w in the following equations:
c. 350 3x - 2y + w = 11
d. 250 x + 5y - 2w = -9
2x + y - 3w = -6.
141. The resistance of the wire varies directly with its a. 4
length and inversely with its area. If a certain piece of wire b. 2
10 m long and 0.10 cm in diameter has a resistance of 100 c. 3
ohms, what will its resistance be if it is uniformly stretched d. -2
so that its length becomes 12 m?
a. 144
b. 80
148. A boat travels downstream 2/3 of the time as it goes
going upstream. If the velocity of the river's current is 8
kph, determine the velocity of the boat in still water.
a. 70 kph
b. 60 kph
c. 30 kph
d. 40 kph

149. A survey of 100 persons revealed that 72 of them had

eaten at restaurant P and that 52 of them had eaten at
restaurant Q. Which of the following could not be the
number of persons in the surveyed group who had eaten
at both P and Q?
a. 23
b. 22
c. 24
d. 25