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ALGEBRA
1. Solve for x and y from the given system of equations.
x2y + y = 17 Equation (1)
x4y2 + y2 = 257 Equation (2)

2. Solve for x, y, and z from the following simultaneous

equations.
x2 – yz = 3 Equation (1)
y2 – xz = 4 Equation (2)
z2 – xy = 5 Equation (3)

3. Find two numbers such that their sum multiplied by the sum of
their squares is 5500, and their difference multiplied by the
difference of their squares is 352.

4. In an organization there are CE’s, EE’s and ME’s. The sum of

their ages is 2160; the average age is 36; the average age of CE’s
and EE’s is 39; the average age of EE’s and ME’s is 32 and 8/11; the
average age of the CE’s and ME’s is 36 and 2/3. If each CE had been
1 year older, each EE 6 years and each ME 7 years older, their
average age would have been greater by 5 years. Find the number of
CE, EE, and ME in the group and their average ages.

5. In 1930, the following question was proposed: A man's age at

death was one twenty-ninth of the year of his birth. How old was he
in the year 1900?

6. When I am as old as my father is now, I shall be five times as

old as my daughter is now. By then my daughter will be eight years
older than I am now. The combined ages of my father and myself are
100 years. How old is my daughter now?

7. A year ago, Eze got a crush with Dane, where the product of
their ages was 156. Fortunately, they are now both sweethearts; and
they plan to marry 12 years after, where the product of their ages
will be 650. Knowing that Dane is older than Eze, find the present
age of Eze.

8. A policeman is pursuing a snatcher who is ahead by 72 of his

own leaps. The snatcher takes 6 leaps while the cop takes 5 leaps,
but 4 leaps of the snatcher are as long as 3 leaps of the cop. How
many leaps will the cop make before he catches the snatcher?
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9. Find the term that is independent of x in the expansion of

(2 + 3/x2)(x – 2/x)6.

10. A battleship started on a 500-mile voyage but was brought to

full stop an hour after starting for military reasons, delaying it
for full hour, after which it was ordered to proceed at a reduced
velocity equivalent to 75% of its former rate. The ship arrived at
its destination 3 hours and 3 quarters after scheduled time. If it
was desired for the ship to arrive one hour and a quarter sooner,
how far from the destination should the ship have been ordered
stopped?

11. Find the sum of the coefficients of the expansion (x + 2)4.

12. Working together, observation planes A, B and C can map a

certain region in three hours. After working for one hour, A
developed engine trouble and had to stop. As a consequence, B and C
had to continue working for the next four hours to complete the job.
It turned out however that half of the photographs taken by A were
spoiled. The following day, C was sent to photograph that part of
the region for which A’s photographs were spoiled. It took C one and
a half hours to complete the task. How long will it take each plane
to map the region alone?

13. A businessman left his office for an appointment and noticed

the hands of the wall clock at past 8 o’clock. After more than two
hours he returned and noticed that the hands of the clock were
interchanged. At what time did he leave and at what time did he
return?

14. When looking at two buildings at the same time, the length of
the buildings’ shadows, s, varies directly as their height, h. If a
5-story building has a 20 m long shadow, how many stories high would
a building that has a 32 m long shadow be?

15. A small boy was assisted by his older brother to ride a swing
in the park. His brother made his first swing to pass through an arc
of 18 m. With each swing, the small boy passes through an arc 2/3
of the length of arc of the previous swing. What is the total
distance the small boy travelled when he waited for the swing to
stop before he disembark?
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PLANE TRIGONOMETRY
1. Determine the amplitude, period and phase shift of the
function:
y = 4sin (2x+ π/2)

2. An airplane starts to take off when it is 240 m away from a

wall at the end of the runway which is 12 m high. If the plane takes
off at an angle of 8o, by what vertical distance will it clear the
wall?

3. Points A and B 1000 m apart are plotted on a straight highway

running East and West. From A, tower C is 32o N of W and from B,
tower C is 26o N of E. Compute the shortest distance of tower C to
the highway.

4. The side of a mountain slopes upward at an angle of 21014’. At

a point on the mountain side, a mine tunnel is constructed at an
angle of 15027’ downward from the horizontal. Find the vertical
distance to the surface of the mountain from a point 250 meters down
the tunnel.

5. The obelisk of a certain Rizal monument rises to some height

above its dais; the angles of elevation of the top and bottom of the
obelisk from two stations A and B on the same horizontal plane as
the base of the dais are 450 and 300 respectively. The corresponding
horizontal angles to the common center of both dais and obelisk from
the ends of the base line AB 25 meters long are 750 and 600
respectively. Find the height of the obelisk.

6. A piece of property in downtown Houston is advertised for sale

at Php45 per square foot. If the lengths of the sides of the
triangular lot are 220 feet, 234 feet and 160 feet, then what is the
asking price for the lot?
7. The area of a triangle inscribed in a circle is 42.23cm2. One
side of the triangle is 18cm. Find the length of one side of the
triangle if the radius of circumscribing circle is 9cm.

8. The radius of a circle circumscribing an isosceles triangle is

25 cm. If one of the equal interior angles of this isosceles
triangle measures 70o, what is the area of the triangle?
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9. A point outside an equilateral triangle is at distances of 20

cm, 20 cm, and 36 cm from the vertices. Determine the perimeter of
the triangle.

10. In a triangle ABC, if

Find Angle A.

.
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GEOMETRY
1. Determine the area of the quadrilateral having (8, -2), (5,
6), (4, 1) and (-7, 4) as consecutive sides.

2. Find the equation of the line passing through the point A (2,
-3) and perpendicular to the line having the parametric equations:
5x = 3t + 4 and 3y = 4t – 6

3. Find the coordinates of the point which is 3/8 of the way from
the point A (-1, 3) to the point B (4, -2).

4. Find the farthest distance from the point (12, 2) to the

circle x2 + y2 + 6x – 16y + 24 = 0.

5. A radio telescope has a parabolic dish with diameter of 100m.

The collected radio signals are reflected to one collection point,
called the focal point (the focus of the parabola). Find the depth
of the dish of the focal length is 45m.

6. An arch in the shape of an arc of a parabola measures 6m

across the base and its vertex is 2.50m above the base. Find the
length of the beam parallel to the base and 2m above it.

7. An earth satellite has an apogee of 2450 miles and a perigee

of 410 miles. Assuming that the earth’s radius is 400 miles, what is
the value of the eccentricity of ellipse, which form with the center
of the earth at one focus and whose apogee and perigee satisfy the
condition above?

8. A cross-section of a trough is a semi-ellipse with width at the

top 18cm and depth 12cm. The trough is filled with water to a depth
of 8cm. Find the width at the surface of the water.

9. The interior angle of a regular polygon is 165o. How many

diagonals does it have?
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10. In the figure shown below, determine the angle θ. AB is the

diameter of a circle.

11. Solve for the angle:

12. In a square with a side length of 20, quarter circles are

drawn between the corners of the square. Find the area of the
shaded region.

13. The distance between the centers of the circles which are
mutually tangent each other externally are 10 cm, 12 cm and 14 cm
respectively. Find the area of the largest circle.
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14. A rectangular lot 80 m x 40 m long is divided into two areas

by an arc whose center is at the mid-point of the shorter side. If
the radius of the arc is 30 m, what is the ratio of the area of the
smaller part to the area of the bigger part?

15. A truncated prism has a horizontal triangular base ABC, AB =

10cm, BC = 12cm, and CA = 8cm. The vertical edges through A, B and C
are 20cm, 12cm, and 18cm long respectively. Determine the volume of
the prism.

16. The volume of two spheres are in the ratio 27:343 and the sum
of their radii is 10. Find the ratio of the surface area of the
bigger sphere to the smaller sphere.

17. The ratio of the volume to the lateral area of the right
circular cone is 2:1. If the altitude is 15cm, what is the ratio of
the slant height to the radius?

18. The ratio of the surface area of sphere A to the surface area
of sphere B is 4. The ratio of the volume of sphere B to the volume
of sphere C is 3. Find the ratio of the volume of sphere A to the
volume of sphere C.

19. A salad bowl is in the form of a spherical segment with two

bases. The upper base is a great circle of radius 5”. The altitude
of the bowl is 2”. Find its capacity.

20. A hole 10 cm in diameter is to be punched out from a right

circular cone (base on top) having a diameter of 16 cm and a height
of 24 cm. Determine the total volume punched out.

21. How many bricks are contained in a chimney in the shape of a

frustum of a cone whose height is 18.30 m, whose outer diameters are
1.20 m and 2.40 m, respectively, and whose inner diameters are 1.0 m
and 2.20 m respectively? There are 530 bricks to a cubic meter of
chimney.

22. Two equal spheres overlap such that the surface of one sphere
passes the centroid of the other sphere. If the radius of each
sphere is 2 m, find the volume common to both spheres.
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23. A solid pyramid whose altitude is 1.5 m weighs 2000 kg. At

what distance from its base must it be cut by a plane parallel to
its base so that two solids of equal weight will be formed?

24. Determine the volume of a right prism with bases regular

pentagons of side 8 cm and altitude 12 cm.

25. A mixture compound of equal parts of two liquids, one white

and the other black, was placed in a hemispherical bowl. The total
depth of the two liquids is 6 inches. After standing for a short
time, the mixture separated; the white liquid settling below the
black. If the thickness of the black liquid is 2 inches, find the
radius of the bowl.
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CALCULUS
1. The number of newspaper copies produced from 1995 to 2002 is
given by C = 50t2 - 200t + 10,000, where t is the number of years
after 1995. Find the minimum copies of newspapers produced.

2. Find two numbers whose sum is 30, and the sum of whose cubes
is a minimum.

3. The strength of a rectangular beam varies directly to the

product of its width and the square of its depth. Find the depth of
the strongest beam that can be cut from a log whose diameter is 85
cm.

4. A farmer has 2400 ft of fencing and wants to fence off a

rectangular field that borders a straight river. He needs no fence
along the river. What are the dimensions of the field that has the
largest area?

5. Two vertical poles 15 ft and 20 ft above the ground and 21 ft

apart are to be reinforced by a wire connected to the top of the
pole and tied to a stake driven in the ground between the poles. At
what distance from the shorter pole should the stake be for the wire
to be of minimum length?

6. A steel pipe is being carried down a hallway 9 ft wide. At the

end of the hallway there is right angled turn into a narrower
hallway 6 ft wide. What is the length of the longest pipe that can
be carried horizontally around the corner?

7. A Norman window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a

semicircle. (Thus, the diameter of semicircle is equal to the width
of the rectangle.) If the perimeter of the window is 30 ft, find
the width of the window so that the greatest possible amount of
light is admitted.

8. Find the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed

in a semi-circle of radius 10 cm.

9. A girl on a wharf is pulling a rope tied to a raft at the rate

of 0.9 m/s. If the hands of the girl pulling the rope are 3.8 m
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above the level of water, how fast is the raft approaching the wharf
when there is 6 m of rope out?

10. A wall 10 ft high is 8 ft from a house. Find the length of the

shortest ladder that will reach the house, when one end rests on the
ground outside the wall.

11. Given the parametric equations: x = t3 - 1 and y = t2 + t, find

the second derivative.

12. A light is placed on the ground 32 ft from a building. A man 6

ft tall walks from the light toward the building at a rate of 6 feet
per second. Find the rate at which his shadow on the building is
decreasing when he is 16 feet from the building.

13. The total cost of producing a commodity is given by C = 60x2 -

0.01x3, where x is the number of units produced. Determine the value
of x so that the average unit cost is maximum.

14. The cost, in dollars, of producing x yards of certain fiber

optics is C(x) = 1200 + 12x - 0.1x2 + 0.0005x3 and the company finds
that if it sells x yards, it can charge P(x) = 29 - 0.00021x dollars
per yard for the optical fiber. Find the production level for
maximum profit.

15. Evaluate: 𝑥

16. Evaluate: 𝑒

17. According to Newton’s Second Law of Cooling, the rate at which

a substance cools in the air is directly proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the substance and that of air.
If the temperature of the air is 300 and the substance cools from
1000 to 700 in 15 minutes, how long will it take to cool 1000 to 500?

18. A thermometer which has been at the reading of 700 F inside a

house is placed outside where the air temperature is 100 F. Three
minutes later it is found that the thermometer reading is 250 F.
Find the thermometer reading after 6 minutes.
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19. A tank initially holds 100 gallons of salt solution in which

50 lbs of salt has been dissolved. A pipe fills the tank with brine
at the rate of 3 gpm, containing 2 lbs of dissolved salt per gallon.
Assuming that the mixture is kept uniform by stirring, a drain pipe
draws out of the tank the mixture at 2 gpm. Find the amount of salt
in the tank at the end of 30 minutes.

20. Classify the degree and order of the equation below:

(1 + y”)3/2 = 2x(y’)4

21. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional to the amount

present. If half of the original amount disappears after 1000 years,
what is the percentage lost in 100 years?

22. The population of a community is known to increase at a rate

proportional to the number of people present at time t. If an
initial population has doubled in 5 years, how long will it take to
triple?

23. Find the total area bounded by the curves y = x3 − 4x and y =

x2 + 2x.

24. Find the area enclosed by r = 2 sin2 θ.

25. Evaluate: i2024