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6. Two alcohol solutions consist of 40 12. A certain rope is divided into 8 m, 7 m, 5 17. Determine the number of possible
PLEASE ANSWER!!! gallons of 35% alcohol and other solution m. What is the percentage of 5 m with negative real roots are there in the
containing 50% alcohol. If the two the original length? polynomial: x^4 - 3x^3 + 2x^2 + x - 5
ALGEBRA solutions are combined together, they A. 20 C. 10 =0
will have a mixture of 40% alcohol. How B. 15 D. 25 A. 2 C. 1
1. If A was four times as old as B 8 years many gallons of the solutions containing B. 3 D. 0
ago, and if A will be twice as old as B 8 40% alcohol? 13. The average of six scores is 83. If the
years hence, how old is B now? A. 18 C. 30 highest score is removed, the average of 18. Mogz can paint his car 2 hours, and Mike
A. 12 C. 16 B. 20 D. 28 the remaining scores is 81.2. Find the can paint a similar one in 3 hours. How
B. 14 D. 40 highest score. long would it take them to paint one
7. What is the sum of the coefficients in the A. 91 C. 92 together?
2. Jade is 10% taller than Mark and Mark is expansion of (x + y – z)4? B. 90 D. 94 A. 1.5 hours C. 1.4 hours
10% taller than Brad. How many percent A. 1 C. 3 B. 1.3 hours D. 1.2 hours
is Jade taller than Brad? B. 2 D. 4 14. Determine the number of possible
A. 15% C. 21% positive real roots are there in the 19. Solve k if (x – 2) is a factor of x^3 – kx^2
B. 24% D. 22% 8. A and B can do piece of work is 5 days, polynomial: x^4 - 3x^3 + 2x^2 + x - 5 + 7x – 10.
B and C in 4 days while A and C in =0 A. 2 C. 5
3. A car goes 14 kph faster than a truck and 2.5days in how many days can all of them A. 0 or 2 C. 1 or 3 B. 3 D. 4
requires 2 hours and 20 minutes less time do the work together? B. 0 or 1 D. 0
to travel 300 km. Find the rate of the car. A. 40/11 C. 30/17 20. If there are 2 computers for every 4
A.30 kph C.40 kph B. 30/11 D. 40/17 15. A second-hand scientific calculator was students, how many computers are
B.50 kph D.60 kph sold to Bus for P600. The original price of needed for 60 students?
9. Number 142 is divided into two parts the item was P800. How many percent A.24 C.30
4. Jeffrey flies to Davao from Manila in 3 such that when the greater part is divided discount was given to him? B.26 D.32
hours. He flies back in 2 hours. If wind by the smaller, the quotient is 3 and the A. 25 C. 40
was blowing from north at velocity of 40 remainder is 14. What are these parts? B. 35 D. 20 21. In a group of 80 children, there are 22
mph going, but changed to 20 mph from A. 110 C. 120 more girls than boys. How many girls are
the north returning, what was the B. 130 D. 200 16. An insurance policy pays 80 percent of there in the group?
airspeed of the plane? the first P20,000 of a certain patients A. 36 C. 48
A.140 mph C. 150 mph 10. Which term of the arithmetic sequence 2, medical expenses, 60 percent of the next B. 43 D. 51
B. 160 mph D. 170 mph 5, 8, … is equal to 227? P40,000 and 40 percent of the P40,000
A. 74 C. 75 after that. If the patients total medical bill 22. A number is 1 more than twice another.
5. If x varies directly as y and inversely as B. 76 D. 77 is P92,000 how much will the policy pay? Their squares differ by 176. What is the
z, and x = 14, when y = 7 and z = 2, find A.38,600 C.52,800 smaller number?
x when y = 16 and z = 4. 11. What is the discriminant of the equation B.44,600 D.63,600 A. 10 C. 8
A. 4 C. 8 4x^2 = 8x −5? B. 7 D. 9
B. 14 D. 16 A. 8 C. 16
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23. The sum of two numbers is 30. If the A. 33.51m C. 7.58m sample of twenty(20) one-years old are
larger number is divided by the smaller B. 47.3m D. 30.57m 34. A political scientist asked a group of given this voice recognize test. Find the
number the quotient is equal to the people how they felt about two political probability that at least 3 children did not
smaller number. Find the numbers. policy statements. Each person was to recognize their mothers voice.
A. 5 and 25 C. 6 and 24 29. If the area of the equilateral triangle is 4 respond A (agree) (N) neutral or (D) A.0.677 C.0.729
B. 4 and 26 D. 7 and 23 (sqrt. of 3), find the perimeter. disagree to each NN, NA, ND, DD, DN, B.0.323 D.0.271
A. 16 C. 12 DA, AA, AD and AN. Assuming each
24. If 10 is subtracted from the opposite of a B. 18 D. 14 response combination is equally likely, 39. From the past experience, it is known 90
number, the difference is 5. What is the what is the probability that the person percent of one year old children can
number? 30. An angle is 30 degrees more than one- being interviewed agrees with exactly distinguish their mother’s voice of a
A.5 C.-5 half its complement. Find the angle one of the political policy statements? similar sounding female. A random
B.15 D. -15 A.20 degrees C. 60 degrees A. 5/9 C. 1/9 sample of one year’s old are given this
B.50 degrees D. 75 degrees B. 2/9 D. 4/9 voice recognize test. Find the standard
25. How many liters of a 25% antibiotic deviation that all 20 children recognize
solution should be added to 10 liters of a 31. Find the area of the triangle having 35. How many even numbers of three digits their mother’s voice?
60% antibiotic solution in order to get a vertices at -4-i, 1+2i, 4-3i. each can be made with the digits A. 0.12 C. 0.88
30% antibiotic solution? A. 15 C. 17 0,2,3,5,7,8,9 if no digit is repeated? B. 1.34 D. 1.43
A. 50 liters C. 80 liters B. 16 D. 18 A. 102 C. 80
B. 70 liters D. 60 liters B. 91 D. 120 40. The probability that A can solve a given
32. If tan x = 1/2, tan y = 1/3, what is the problem is 4/5 that B can solve it is 2/3
26. What amount should an employee value of tan (x + y)? 36. Arwind Santos, star player of Los Angeles and that C can solve it is 3/7. If all three
receive a bonus so that she would net A. 1 C. 3 Beermen has free throw shooting of try, compute the probability that the
$500 after deducting 30% from taxes? B. 2 D. 4 83%. The game is tied at 97-97. He is problem will be solved.
A. $ 714.29 C. $ 624.89 fouled and given 2 free throws. What is A. 101/305 C. 102/305
B. $814.93 D. $ 538.62 the probability that the game will go B. 101/105 D. 102/105
PROBABILITY overtime?
A. 0.9711 C. 0.0289 41. A box contains 20 balls, 10 white, 7 blue,
33. A statistic department is contacting B. 0.6889 D. 0.0311 3 red. What is the probability that a ball
TRIGONOMETRY alumni by phone asking for donations to drawn at random is red?
help fund a new basketball court. Past 37. An urn contains 7 red marbles and 3 A. 3/20 C. 7/20
27. Simplify cos^2 x + sin^2 x + tan^2 x history shows that 80% of the alumni white marbles. Three marbles are drawn B. 10/20 D. 13/20
A. cos2x C. sec2x contacted in this manner will make a from the urn one after other. Find the
B. sin2x D. csc2x contribution of at least P100.00. A probability that the first two are red and 42. A club of 40 executives, 33 like to smoke
random sample of 20 alumni is selected. the third is white. Winston, and 20 like to smoke Hope. How
28. A PLDT tower and a monument stand on What is the probability that between 14 A.7/24 C. 7/40 many like to smoke Hope only?
a level plane. The angles of depression of to 18 alumni will make a contribution of B.63/500 D. 147/1000 A. 33 C. 20
the top and bottom of the monument at least P100.00? B. 13 D. 7
viewed from the top of the PLDT tower A. 0.721 C. 0.844 38. From past experience it is known 90
are 13° and 35° respectively. The height B. 0.529 D. 0.401 percent of one-year old children can
of the tower is 50m. Find the height of distinguish their mothers voice of a
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43. In how many ways can 4 coins be tossed? 47. Lily frequents one of two fast food
A. 8 C. 16 restaurants, choosing McDonald 25% of 5. An army food supply truck can carry 3 9. How many terms are there in the
B. 12 D. 20 the time and Burger King 75% of the tons. A breakfast ration weights 12 expansion of (x + y)7?
time. Regardless of where she goes, she ounces, and the other two daily meals A. 6 C. 8
44. Three randomly chosen senior high buys French Fries on 60% of her visits. weigh 18 ounces each. Assuming each B. 7 D. 9
school students was administered a drug The next time Lily goes into a fast food soldier gets 3 meals per day, on a ten
test. Each student was evaluated as restaurant, what is the probability that day trip, How many soldiers can be 10. A man rows upstream and back in 12
positive to the drug test (P) or negative she goes to McDonald and orders a supplied by one truck? hours. If the rate of the current is 1.5
(N). Assume the possible combinations of French Fries? A. 100 soldiers C.200 soldiers kph and that of the man in still water is
the three student’s drug test evaluation A. 0.25 C. 0.35 B. 150 soldiers D.320 soldiers 4kph, what was the time spent
as PPP, PPN, PNP, NPP, NPN, PNN, NNP, B. 0.15 D. 0.20 downstream?
NNN. Assuming each possible A. 2.75 hours C. 3.75 hours
combination is equally likely, what is the PREBOARD QUESTIONS 6. Determine the equation that expresses B. 1.75 hours D. 4.75 hours
probability that all 3 students get positive that G is proportional to k and inversely
results? ALGEBRA proportional to C and Z symbols a,b, and 11. Ramil bought 400 hotdogs for the school
A. 1/8 C. 1/4 C are constants picnic. If they were contained in
B. 3/4 D. 1/2 1. The polynomial x”-4x +4 is the area of A. G = ck/GG C. G = ck/zC packages of 8 holdings, how many total
square floor. What is the length of its B. G = a/bc D. G = bc/zk packages did he buy?
45. Two hundred single-sport athletes were side? A. 50 C. 20
cross-classified according to gender as A. x+2 C. x+1 7. A chicken framer has 750 eggs, 4% of the B. 5 D. 10
follows: B. x-1 D. x-2 eggs are cracked, 5% of the reminder
are found to be defective. How many 12. Seven people are the beach for a
2. If I just sold my two books at P990 each. eggs could be sold if only eggs without clambake. They have dug 12.6 pounds
On one I gained 10% and on the other cracks and defects are sold? of clams. They eat the following
I lost 10%. Then, A. 483 C. 458 amounts of clams: 0.34 pounds, 1.6
A. I lost P20 C. I gained P19.8 B. 508 D. 684 pounds, 0.7 pounds, 1.265 pounds, 0.83
If the athlete is known to be a runner, what B. I gained P198 D. None of this pounds, 1.43 pounds. How many
is the probability that the athlete is female? 8. On a certain day, the nurses at the pounds of calms are left?
A. 0.45 C. 0.65 3. A job can be done in as many days as hospital worked the following number of A. 7.892 pounds C. 5.945 pounds
B. 0.55 D. 0.35 there are men in the group. If the hours: Nurse Howard worked 8 hours ; B. 4.666 pounds D. 6.655 pounds
number of men is reduced by 3, the job Nurse pease worked 10 hours; Nurse
46. The plate number of a vehicle consists of will be delayed by 4 days. How many Campbell worked 9 hours; Nurse grace 13. If log64 x = 3/2
5 alphanumeric sequence is arranged men are there originally in the group? worked 8 hours; Nurse McCarthy A. 512 C. 253
such that the first 2 characters are A. 6 C. 20 worked 7 hours; and Nurse murphy B. 521 D. 258
alphabet and the remaining are 3 digits. B. 12 D. 30 worked 12 hours. What is the average
How many arrangements are possible if number of hours worked per nurse on 14. The first term of a geometric sequence
the first character is a vowel and 4. If Rita can run around the in block in 5 this day? is 375 and the fourth term is 192. Find
repetition is not allowed? times in 20 mins., how many times can A. 7 C. 9 the common ratio.
A. 150,000 C. 468,000 she run around the block in one hour? B. 8 D. 10 A. 5/4 C. 4/5
B. 250,000 D. 90,000 A. 10 C. 15 B. 3/2 D. 3/2
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A. 1.81 C. 16.22 27. A rubber ball is dropped from a height of 34. From the top of a building 100 m high,
15. A number is more than twice another. B. 20.87 D. 11.25 81 m. Each time it strikes the ground, it the angles of depression of two cars due
Their squares differ by 176. What is the rebounds two-thirds of the distance of the observer are 32 degrees 25’ and
larger number? 22. Irene has 48 pieces of candy. She ate through which it last fell. Find the total 58 degrees 33’ respectively. Find the
A. 9 C. 15 25% of it. She gave the 25% of the distance it travels in coming to rest. distance between the two cars.
B. 7 D. 16 remaining candies to her friends. How A. 243 C.405 A. 106.00 m C. 9.63 m
many candies were left? B. 162 D.324 B. 96.30 m D. 63.91 m
16. If 3^x 3^y = 27 and 2x + y = 5, find x A. 48 C. 27
A. 3 C. 2 B. 24 D. 36
B. 4 D. 1 TRIGONOMETRY PROBABILITY & STATISTICS
23. A can do a job in 4 days, B can do the
17. Martin, a motel house keeper, has job is 6 days and C can do the job in 8 28. csc 520 1/2 =? 35. A card is drawn from an ordinary deck
finished cleaning about 40% of the 32 days. How long will it take to do the job A. cos 20 1/2 C. sin 20 1/2 of 52 cards. Find the probability that the
rooms he’s been assigned. About how if A and B work for 1 day then B and C B. csc 20 1/2 D. sec 200 ½ card is a face card and heart.
many more rooms does he have left to finish the job? A. 11/26 C. 3/18
clean? A. 1 C. 2 29. If sec” A = 5/2 then 1-sin”A =? B. 3/52 D. 1/4
A. 29 C. 21 B. 3 D. 4 A. 0.2 C. 0.4
B. 25 D. 19 B. 0.3 D. 0.5 36. One ball is drawn at random from a box
24. If x + y = 2, x” + y” = 3, find the value containing 3 red balls, 2 white balls, and
18. If x varies directly as y and inversely as of x’4 + y’4. 30. If sin A = 4/5 and sin B = 7/25, what is 4 blue balls. Determine the probability
z, and x=14, when y=7 and z=2,find x A. 6.65 C. 8.5 sin (A +B) if A is in the 3rd quadrant and that is not red.
when y=16 and z=4. B. 6.55 D. 8.75 B is in the 2nd quadrant. A. 1/3 C. 2/9
A. 10 C. 8 A. -3/5 C. 2/5 B. 2/3 D. 7/9
B. 14 D. 16 25. How many liters of water must be added B. 3/5 D. 4/5
to 1 liter of 35% boric acid solution in 37. In delivery of 14 transformers, 4 of
19. A shopkeeper offers a 25% discount on order to produce 20% boric acid 31. What is the value of x in arctan 3x + which are defective, how many ways
the marked price of an item. In order to solution? Arctan 2x = 45 degrees? those in 5 transformers at least 2 are
now cost $48, what should the marked A. 0.75 liter C. 0.5 liter A. 1 C. 1/6 defective?
price be? B. 1 liter D. 1.5 liters B. -1 D. -1/6 A. 940 C. 900
A. 12 C. 60 B. 920 D. 910
B. 36 D. 64 26. A group of EE examinees decided to hire 32. Find the ratio of the sides of triangle if
a mathematics tutor from CEERS Review its sides from an arithmetic progression 38. The probabilities that Gary will win the
20. A student already finished 70% of his Center and planned to contribute equal and one of the angle’s 90 degrees. preliminary, semi-final and final contest
homework in 42 minutes. How many amount for the tutor’s fee. If there were A. 4:5:6 C. 3:4:5 in singing are 3/8, 1/6 and 1/12,
minutes does she still have to work? 10 more examinees, each would have B. 1:2:3 D. 2:3:4 respectively. Failure in any one contest
A. 18 C. 20 paid P2 less. However, if there were 5 prohibits participation in the following
B. 15 D. 24 less examinees, each would have paid 33. Find the angle measurement between one. Find the probability that he will
P2 more. How many examinees are the hands of the clock at 4:44 reach the final contest.
21. What time between 6 and 7 o’clock will there in the group? A. 125 1/2 C. 130 1/2 A. 1/12 C. 1/16
the minute and hour hands of the clock A. 18 C. 20 B. 122 1/2 D. 145 1/2 B. 13/24 D. 1/192
form 60’ for the first time. B. 16 D. 15

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39. Five different books (A,B,C,D, and E) are A.0.677 C.0.729

to be arranged on a shelf. Books C and B.0.323 D.0.271 47. Which of the following statements is a
D are to be arrange first and second property of the binomial distribution?
starting from the right of the shelf. The 44. From past experience, it is known 90% A. The binomial distribution tends to
number of different orders in which of one- year old children can distinguish be more symmetric as the
books A, B, and E maybe arranged is their mother's voice from the voice of a probability of success p approaches
A. 5! C. 2! similar sounding female. A random 0.5.
B. 3! D. 3! x 2! sample of 20 one-year olds are given B. As the number of trials increase, the
this voice recognition test. Find the expected value of the random variable
40. The probability that a randomly chosen probability that all 20 children recognize decreases.
sales prospects will make a purchase is their mother's voice. C. As the number of trials increase for a
0.18. If a salesman calls on 5 prospects, A. 0.222 C. 1.000 given probability of success, the
what is the probability that the salesman B. 0.500 D. 0.122 binomial distribution becomes more
will make exactly 3 sales? skewed.
A. 0.0392 C. 0.0293 45. From past experience, it is known 90% D. The variance of a binomial random
B. 0.0239 D. 0.0329 of one year old children can distinguish variable decreases as the probability of
their mother voice from the voice of a success p approaches 0.5.
41. The probability that a certain man will be similar sounding female. A random
alive in 25 years hence is 3/7 and the sample of 20 one year olds are given
probability that his wife will be alive 25 this voice recognition test. Let the
years hence is 4/5. Determine the random variable x denote the number of
probability that 25 years hence, only the children who do not recognize their
man will be alive. Mother's voice. Find the mean of x.
A. 12/35 C. 4/35 A. 20 C. 4
B. 31/35 D. 3/35 B. 2 D. 1

42. The probability if A winning a game of 46. A secondary school is contracting its
chess against B is 1/3. What is the alumni asking for donations to help put up
probability that A will win at least 1 of new computer laboratory. Past records show
total of 3 games? that 80% of the alumni will make a
A. 11/27 C. 8/27 contribution of of at least P50.00. A random
B. 19/27 D. 16/27 sample of 20 alumni is selected. What is the
probability that exactly 15 alumni will make a
43. From past experience it is known 90 donation of at least P50.00?
percent of one year old children can A. 0.576 C. 0.174
distinguish their mothers voice of a B. 0.167 D. 0.204
similar sounding female. A random
sample of one years old are given this
voice recognize test. Find the probability
that at least 3 children did not recognize
their mothers voice.

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