x 2  4 x  10 A B(2 x  2) C

1. Find the value of A in the equation:   2  2

x  2 x  5x x x  2 x  5 x  2 x  5x
3 2

a. 2 c. -½
b. -2 d. ½

2. Solve B in the given equation

x 4  15 x 3  32 x 2  12 x  14 A B C Dx  E
    2
( x  1)( x  2)( x  3)( x  2) x  1 x  2 x  3 x  2
2

a. 2 c. 1
b. 0 d. -3

3. In an organization, there are Chemical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Electrical

Engineers. The sum of their ages is 2,160; The average age of the CHE and the ME is 39; of the
ME and EE, 32 & 8/11; the CHE and EE, 36 & 2/3. If each CHE ere 1 year older, each ME 6 years
older, and each EE 7 years older, their average age would have been increased by 5 years.
Determine the average age of the Chemical Engineers.
a. 40 c. 30
b. 35 d. 45

4. A farmer owns two square lots of unequal size, together containing 6,568 sq.m. If the lots are
contiguous, it would require 356 m of fence to enclose them in a single enclosure of six side.
Find the dimension of the smaller lot.
a. 20 c. 24
b. 22 d. 25

5. An Airplane, flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel 1,000 km and 2.50 hrs in flying back.
What was the wind velocity?
a. 40 kph c. 60 kph
b. 50 kph d. 70 kph

6. A man walks from his house to the office. If he leaves at 8:00 A.M. and walks at the rate of 2kph,
he will have arrived 3 minutes earlier, but if he leaves at 8:30 A.M> and walks at 3 kph, he will
have arrived 6 mins. Late. Find the Distance from his house to the office.
 a. 2.70 km c. 2.10 km
b. 2.40 km d. 1.80 km

Sit. 1. A car takes 7 hours and 30 mins to travel from A to B.

7. How long will the journey be if the speed is 1.50 times the original speed?
a. 6 hrs c. 4 hrs
b. 3 hrs d. 5 hrs
8. How long will the journey be if the speed is 4.25 times the original speed?
a. 2.57 hrs c. 1.76 hrs
b. 1.67 hrs d. 2.75 hrs

9. How long will the journey be if the speed is 0.75 times the original speed?
a. 9 hrs c. 8 hrs
b. 10 hrs d. 11 hrs

Situation 2. Two trains are running in the same direction on two parallel tracks. One train is
moving at 120 kph and the other train 120m long is moving at 180 kph. At a certain instance ,
the front end of the faster train is 600m behind the tail end of the slower train:

10. Find the Distance traveled by the slower train when the front end of the faster train caught up
with its tail end.
a. 1800 m c. 1600 m
b. 1500 m d. 1200 m

11. Find the Distance traveled by the faster train when its front end of the faster train caught up
with its tail end.
a. 1600 m c. 1200 m
b. 1500 m d. 1800 m

12. Find the time required for the faster train to completely overtake the slower train.
a. 51.60 s c. 43.20 s
b. 48.00 s d. 54.00 s

13. Eleven men can finish the job in 15 days. Five men started the job and after 6 days, 4 men were
added. Find the total number of days it took them to finish the job.
a. 18 days c. 21 days
b. 19 days d. 20 days
14. A can do a piece of work alone in 2 days. B alone in 3 days, and C alone in 6 days. If they work
together, how many days would take them to finish the work?
a. 1.5 days c. 0.50 days
b. 1.6 days d. 1 day

15. If 8 men can chop down 28 trees in a day, how many trees can 20 men chop down in a day?
a. 35 c. 11
b. 63 d. 70

16. How many terms of the progression 3,5,7,….. must be in order that their sum.
a. 48 c. 49 m
b. 51 d. 50 m

17. How many terms of the progression 3,4,7,9,… must be taken in order that their sum will be
2600?
a. 49 c. 48
b. 50 d. 47

18. What is the sum of the progression 4,9,14,19 up to 20th term?

a. 1045 c. 1030
b. 1035 d. 1040

19. There are nine arithmetic means bet. 11 and 51. Find the sum of all the terms.
a. 341 c. 345
b. 349 d. 337

20. P36,000 is to be divided among Arthur, Bernard, and Carlos such that their shares, in the same
order, form an arithmetic progression. Bernard’s share is three times that of Arthur’s. How
much is Bernard’s share?
a. 6000 c. 12000
b. 18000 d. 20000

21. The third term of an arithmetic progression is -7 and the eight term is 23. Find the sum of the
first twelve terms.
a. 280 c. 121
b. 221 d. 168

22. The nth term of an arithmetic sequence is given by 𝑎𝑛 =3n+5. Find the common difference of the
terms in this sequence.
a. -3 c. 5
 b. 3 d. -5

23. The numbers 28, x+2, 112,…. Form a geometric progression. What is the 10th term?
a. 13336 c. 16336
b. 14336 d. 15336

24. Find the sum of the infinite geometric series 1, -1/5, 1/25.
a. 3/4 c. 6/7
b. 4.5 d. 5/6

25. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the sequence 0.25, 0.75, 2.25, 7.75.
a. 7,381.00 c. 66,430.00
b. 22,143.25 d. 199,290.25