14. MDCCCCXV is _____ 5,450?

A. Greater than
B. Lesser than
C. Equal to
D. The Roman Numeral is incorrect

COMPREHENSIVE 15. MCDLXXXIV is equal to?

A. 1584 C. 1234
NUMERICAL REASONING B. 5134 D. 1334
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17. The sum of its interior angle is 540°, what is this polygon?
1. 7, 9, 11, 11, 15, 13, 19, 15, 23, 17, 27, 19, 31, ___, ___ A. Octagon C. Nonagon
A. 21, 35 C. 23, 35 B. Heptagon D. None of the above
B. 23, 33 D. 21, 33
18. All the best seats in a bus are occupied and five persons are
2. 1, 4, 4, 8, 16, 12, 64, 16, 256, 20, 1024, 24, ___, ___ standing. At the next stop, 13 persons got off and three persons
A. 4096, 28 C. 4096, 64 got in. how many seats are vacant after everyone has seated?
B. 28, 1028 D. 2048, 28 A. 0 C. 3
B. 2 D. 5
3. 2/1, 1/2, 1, 1 1/4, 1/2, 2 1/4, 1/4, 3 1/2, 1/8, 5
A. 1/16, 6 ¾ C. 1/12, 6 3/4 19. If Kia can divide her students into groups of 4’s, 5’s or 6’s, what
B. 1/16, 6 ½ D. 1/64, 6 is the least possible number of students does she have?
A. 12 C. 30
4. 1/3, 3/1, 2/3, 3/2, 3/3, 3/3, 2/3, 3/2, ___, ___ B. 20 D. 60
A. 1/3, 3/1 C. 2/3, 3/2
B. 3/3, 3/3 D. 1/3, 2/3 20. After dividing the participants into groups of 4’s, 6’s and 8’s,
there are always two participants left without a group. If there
5. 1.1, 1.15, 1.3, 2.30, 1.5, 3.45, 1.7, 4.60, 1.9, 5.75, 2.1, 6.90, are more than 50 participants, what is the least number of
___, ___ participants possible?
A. 2.3, 8.05 C. 2.5, 8.05 A. 50 C. 74
B. 2.3, 7.05 D. 2.1, 7. 15 B. 52 D. 98

6. If a=2, b=1 and c=3, then 3a + 2b –c has a value of ______. For 21 and 22: Marcus has 50 light bulbs in a carton. He knows
A. 11 C. 0 that five bulbs are defective but the defective bulbs are not
B. 5 D. 7 marked. He begins testing the bulbs. As he tests the bulbs he
does not return into the carton.
7. If 5/6 < x and x< 7/4, then x could be _______.
A. 3/2 C. ½ 21. What is the probability that he selects a defective bulb on the
B. 2 D. 2/3 first draw?
A. 1/50 C. 1/10
8. (1/3) x (27/8) x (16/9) equals _______. B. 1/5 D. ½
A. 4 C. 2
B. 9 D. 3 22. What is the probability that he selects a defective bulb on each
of the first two draws?
9. Which of the following is not greater than 7/16? A. 1/10 C. 2/5
A. ½ C. 31/62 B. 2/245 D. 3/16
B. 3/8 D. 15/17
23. What is the average of ½, ¼, 1/3?
10. Which of the following numbers has the largest value? A. 13/36 C. 13/24
A. -20 C. -85 B. 13/29 D. 13/27
B. -12 D. -43
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11. Which of the following is exactly divisible by 3 and 11?
A. 357404 C. 119999 Students Math English Science
B. 543411 D. 297531 A 78 87 88
B 89 92 93
12. All numbers are composite except _______? C 89 86 84
A. 57 C. 91
D 80 85 83
B. 87 D. 97
E 83 90 87
13. MMDCIX is _____ 2609?
24. What is the average grade in Math?
A. Greater than
A. 88 C. 86
B. Lesser than
B. 89 D. Cannot be determined
C. Equal to
D. The Roman Numeral is incorrect
25. What is the average grade in Math and Science?
A. 84.5 C. 856/10
B. 85.4 D. None of the above

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26. Who has the highest average grade among the students? 39. Which of the following is the longest?
A. C C. B A. 6540 mm C. 9.25
B. D D. A B. 934 cm D. 0.009 km

27. Find the Mode for Math grades: 40. One hectare is equivalent to 10,000 square meters. How many
A. 89 C. 83 hectares are in a rectangular field which is 750 m wide and
B. 78 D. 83.8 800 m long?
A. 120 C. 60
28. Which among the subjects has the largest range of score? B. 56 D. 40
A. Math C. Science 41. What is the volume of a cube if one face has a perimeter of
B. English D. The data is not sufficient. 36 cm?
A. 729 cu. cm. C. 46,656 cu.
For 29 - 35, please refer to this diagram: B. 216 cu. Cm D. 5,832 cu.cm

42. The width of a rectangular carpet is 4 ft. less than the length.
Find its length if the perimeter is 72 ft.
A. 12 ft. C. 18 ft.
B. 16 ft. D. 20 ft.

43. The Subiron family has a pool 40 ft long and 30 ft wide. There is
a walkway 4.5 ft around the pool. What is the perimeter of the
outer side of the walkway?
A. 158 ft C. 167 ft
B. 176 ft D. 185 ft

44. How much ribbon remains if 66 pieces of 13.5cm in length are

cut from a 27m long ribbon?
A. 1809 cm C. 891 cm
B. 1891 cm D. 981 cm
29. How many like Music?
A. 9 C. 11 45. Which has the largest area?
B. 23 D. Cannot be determined A. A trapezoid with an area of 28cm²
B. Square with a 5.5cm side.
30. How many likes Art only? C. A rectangle with 4cm x 7.3cm sides.
A. 20 C. 8 D. A triangle with a base of 8cm and a height of 5.5cm.
B. 9 D. None of these
46. What is the hypotenuse of a right triangle if its legs measure 5
31. How many likes Sports and Art? and 12 meters?
A. 11 C. 13 A. 7 m C. 13 m
B. 12 D. 14 B. 17 m D. 60 m

32. How many likes all 3 subjects? 47. Jinx Real Estate firm sold 450 town houses whose area is 80
A. 19 C. 9 square meters. How big is the area in hectare?
B. 10 D. 6 A. 4.6 C. 3.2
B. 4 D. 3.6
33. How many do not like any of the 3 subjects?
A. 11 C. 9 48. If the area of one circle is twice of another circle, what is the
B. 10 D. 8 ratio in percent of the smaller to larger circle?
A. 70% C. 75%
34. The total number of students is: B. 25% D. 50%
A. 52 C. 50
B. 51 D. Cannot be determined 49. A senior class of 50 girls and 70 boys sponsored a prom. If 40%
of the girls and 50% of the boys attended the prom,
35. That diagram is called? approximately what percent attended?
A. Ben Diagram C. Ven Diagram A. 44% C. 42%
B. Benn Diagram D. Venn Diagram B. 46% D. 40%

36. If 8 secretaries can type 800 pages in 5 hours, how long would it 50. A sari-sari store ordered equal number of red and white eggs.
take for 12 secretaries to type 800 pages at the same rate? The delivery man delivered 20 extra white eggs, making the
A. 7 ½ hours C. 10 hours ratio of white eggs to red eggs 7:6. How many eggs did the
B. 3 1/3 hours D. 2 ½ hours store originally ordered?
A. 120 C. 180
37. A defective meter stick actually measures 95 cm. If a cloth is B. 140 D. 240
measured to 5 m long using this meter stick, what is the actual
length of the cloth? 51. If Php90,000 is divided among RJ, Jerico and Jenina in the ratio
A. 500 cm C. 4 m and 85 cm of 3:7:8 respectively, What amount will RJ receive?
B. 495 cm D. 4 m and 75 cm A. Php 10,000 C. Php 35,000
B. Php 15,000 D. Php 40,000
38. How much cloth is needed to cover a round table whose
diameter is 1.5 meters?
A. 1.676 sq.m C. 17.67 sq.m
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52. Teddy spent his monthly salary as follows: 3/5 for food and 64. A book trader buys books and marks them to sell for 40% more
allowances, 1/3 for his child’s education and house rental. If is than he paid for them. How much did he pay for a book that
monthly salary is P15, 000, how much would he left at the end sells for P119?
of the month? A. P70 C. P90
A. P1,000 C. P5,000 B. P85 D. P105
B. P2,000 D. P14,000
65. How much interest would be paid on a bank loan of P30,000 for
53. Wally and Paolo ran for President for their organization. Wally g 8 months at 12% annual interest?
ot 1/3 of the votes. If Paolo got 300 votes, how many students v A. P3,240 C. P2,800
oted for Wally? B. P2,400 D. P3,600
A. 900 C. 150
B. 200 D. 100 66. P8,000 is invested at 12% simple interest. What is the amount
at the end of 2 years?
54. James left home and drove at the rate of 50 km per hour for 2 A. P9,600 C. P8,240
hours. He stopped for lunch then drove for another 4 hours at 65 B. P8,960 D. P9,920
km/hr to reach Los Angeles. How many km did James drive to
reach his destination? 67. Mr. Cantoni invested Php50,000.00. A part of it is invested in a
A. 350km C. 115km bank at 2% yearly interest and another part of it in a mutual fund
B. 360km D. 400km at a 5% yearly interest. How much investment was made in the
mutual fund if his yearly income from the two is Php2800.00?
55. Two cars travel at opposite direction. Car A travels at a speed of A. 12000 C. 2500
70km/hr while Car B travels at 50km/hr. In how many hours will B. 25000 D. 1000
they be 540km apart?
A. 3hours C. 4.5 hours 68. How much water should be evaporated from 500 centiliters of
B. 4hours D. None of the above 60% salt solution to increase its concentration to 80%?
A. 100 cL C. 125 cL
56. One day Mr. Cabaclaan left home at 7: 35 A.M. and drove to his B. 120 cL D. 150 cL
office. If he arrived there at 9: 02 A.M. How long did he travel?
A. 1 hr and 33 min C. 2 hrs and 33 min 69. A jar contains 12L when it is 30% full. How much does it contain
B. 2 hrs and 27 min D. 1 hr and 27 min when it is 90% full?
A. 64 L C. 36 L
57. Uncle Eddie finds that he can travel 7 km. on a liter of gasoline. B. 42 L D. 48 L
After the tune-up, he uses only 5/7 as much gasoline. How
much farther in kilometers can be now drive in 1 L of gasoline? 70. Irish can finish a job in 3 hours. When working at the same time
A. 1 2/5 C. 1 5/7 with Cantoni, they can finish it in 2 hours. How long does it take
B. 2 4/5 D. 9 4/5 for Cantoni to finish the job alone?
A. 4 hours C. 6 hours
58. If the price of round trip fare to Dagupan is P240, how much will B. 5 hours D. None of the above
it cost a family of four if the husband pays full fare, the wife pays
2/3 of full fare and the two children each pays ½ of the regular p 71. A man started painting a wall at 8:00 a.m. and was able to finish
rice? painting 3/5 of it at 9:30 a.m. Continuing at this rate, at what
A. P400.00 C. P600.00 time will he finish?
B. P520.00 D. P640.00 A. 9:45 am C. 10:45 am
B. 10:30 am D. 11:15 am
59. Michael is 15 years older than his brother Rafael. However, y
years ago Michael was twice as old as Rafael. If Rafael is now x 72. One garden hose can fill an above-ground pool in 10 hours. A
years old and x > y, find the value of x-y. second hose can fill the pool twice as fast as the first one. If
A. 13 C. 15 both hoses are used together to fill the pool, how many hours
B. 14 D. 16 will it take?
A. 2 hours C. 4 hours
60. Mildred is twice as old as Shiela. Shiela is 5 years older than B. 3 hours D. 5 hours
Kate. In two years, the sum of their ages is 69. How old is
Mildred 3 years from now? 73. If a worker can wash all the glass windows of a building in 9
A. 25 C. 15 days, what part of the job can said workers finish in 6 days?
B. 26 D. 16 A. ¼ D. 2/3
B. 3/5 E. ¾
61. Majoy is ten years older than her brother Emmanuel. Ten years C. 1/3
ago of their ages was thirty. How old is Emmanuel now?
A. 15 C. 20 74. If x = 4, then find the value of y in 3x - 4y = 10
B. 25 D. 30 A. 3 C. 2
B. -2 D. 0
62. Jem has a dog and a cat. The cat is ¾ as old as the dog. The
difference between their ages is 7 months. How old is the cat in 75. What is the value of y in 2x - 2y = -14, if x = -6?
months? A. 4 C. 3
A. 14 C. 28 B. -4 D. -3
B. 21 D. 35
76. If x – 3 = y, then (y-3)3 = _______.
63. Maxene went to a mall for the 3-day sale. She bought a new A. -9 C. -27
pair of shoes and paid only P2, 600 discounted for 20% off. B. 9 D. 27
What was the original price of the shoes?
A. Php 2, 080 C. Php 3, 250
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77. How many times does the digit 7 appear in the numbers from 1
to 100? 92. An angle is 14 degrees more than its complement. What is the
A. 20 C. 11 angle?
B. 10 D. 12 A. 52 degrees C. 38 degrees
B. 78 degrees D. 104 degrees
78. In a PBA game, Terrence Romeo attempted forty shots and
made 65% of them. How many shots did he make? 93. Angle A is 46 degrees, what is the angle of its complement?
A. 30 C. 26 A. 46 degrees C. 134 degrees
B. 35 D. 24 B. 44 degrees D. 90 degrees

79. At a school parade, caps are given out in the order of blue, red, 94. The sum of the 2 interior angles of a triangle is 140 degrees,
red, green, green, green, blue, red, red, green, green, green and what is the measurement of the third interior angle?
so on. If this pattern continues, how many blue caps will have A. 50 degrees C. 220 degrees
been given out when a total of 100 caps had been distributed? B. 40 degrees D. None of these
A. 16 C. 18
B. 17 D. 19 95. One number is 10 more than another. The sum of twice the
smaller plus three times the larger is 55. What is the larger
80. If 1/3 of the number of red balls in a certain box is 1/9 of the total number?
number of balls, and 1/5 of the number of blue balls is 1/8of the A. 18 C. 13
total number of balls, then what is the ratio of the number of red B. 15 D. 10
balls to the number of blue balls?
A. 1 : 3 C. 3 : 8 96. 3, 10, 13, 23, 36, 58, 95. What is the wrong term in this
B. 8 : 15 D. 5 : 8 sequence?
A. 3 should be 7 C. 58 should be 42
81. The sum of three consecutive numbers is 78, what is thrice the B. 58 should be 59 D. 13 should be 17
largest number?
A. 27 C. 81 97. 2, 4, 7, 10, 16. What is the wrong term in this sequence?
B. 75 D. 78 A. 2 should be 1 C. 10 should be 11
B. 4 should 5 D. Nothing is wrong
82. If a is greater than b, b is greater than c, c is greater than d and
d is equal to e, which of the following represents the least 98. There are two numbers that when added the sum is 72. One
value? number is twice the other. What is the larger number?
A. b/a C. e/a A. 14 C. 36
B. c/a D. e/d B. 24 D. 48

83. 200 is the same as: 99. There are three consecutive even integers. Four times the
A. 40% of 500 C. ¼ of 1000 second is the same as five times the first. What is the smallest
B. 20% of 100 D. 0.200 of the three integers?
A. 6 C. 10
84. The number 8,187,000 written in scientific notation becomes B. 8 D. 12
______.
A. 8.187 x 103 C. 8.187 x 106 100. The sum of nine numbers is 3,812. If each number is decreased
B. 8,187 x 103 D. 8.187 x 104 by 50 and the resulting numbers are added, the sum will be
_____.
85. Express 786,000,000 in scientific notation: A. 3,362 C. 4,262
A. 7.86 x 10⁹ C. 7.86 x 10⁻⁸ B. 3,862 D. 5,282
B. 7.86 x 10⁸ D. 78.6 x 10⁸

86. What is the value of 7.77 multiplied by 10 to the seventh power?

A. 77700000 C. 77.7 x 10⁷ -END-
B. .00000777 D. 77777777

87. Photocopying costs P0.50 per page. How much would it cost to
photocopy pp.43-128?
A. P85 C. P42.50
B. P86 D. P43

88. What number should be on the blank so that 2/3 + ___ = 5/10?
A. 3/7 C. 7/13
B. -1/6 D. 7/6

89. What is 2/3 of 4/5 of 60,000?

A. 12, 000 C. 32, 000
“The greatest pleasure in life is
B. 48, 000 D. 40, 000 doing what people say you
90. What part of an hour has passed from 2:43 pm to 3:20 pm? cannot do.”
A. 7/8 C. 8/15
B. 1/3 D. 8/25

91. What is this counting number that is less than 15 and when
divided by 3 has a remainder of 1, but when divided by 4 has a
remainder of 2?
A. 10 C. 12
B. 11 D. 13
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