Parañaque National High School-Main

Kaytalise St. San Dionisio,Parañaque City

First Preliminary Examination in Math 10

Name:__________________________ Score : _____________

I Multiple Choice: Select the best answer of the given choices of each item and write the letter of your choice
on the answer sheets provided.
. 15. Find the sum of the arithmetic series
1. A list of numbers that often form a pattern. 1,2,3,4,………99,100.
a. Term b. sequence c. series d. graph a. 510 b. 5010 c. 5050 d. 5000
2. Martha and Yolanda are writing number 16. Describe the pattern in the sequence .Find
sequences, Yolanda wrote the following the next two terms of 13,15,17,19,__,__.
number sequence 35.0, 34.7, 33.5,__,31.1. a. 23,25 c. 17,15
What’s the unknown term in this sequence? b. 38,76 d. 21, 23
a. 32.3 b. 32.2 c. 32.0 d. 31.2 17. For the sequence 2,3,6,11,18,....Find the 6th
3. What is the common difference in the term.
arithmetic sequence 3, 12, 21, 30,….? a. 25 b. 26 c. 27 d. 28
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a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 9 18. What is the 31 term of the sequence
4. Complete the series C, E, H, L, ___? 1,4,7,10,…?
a. O b. P c. Q d. R a. 90 b. 91 c. 92 d. 93
5. The series obtained by adding the term of 19. What type of series is 32+16+8+4+2+1?
Arithmetic sequence is called ______. a. Finite arithmetic series
a. Harmonic series c. arithmetic series b. Finite geometric series
b. Geometric series d. infinite series c. Infinite arithmetic series
6. By inspection, the sequence 2,4,6,8,10,… d. Infinite geometric series
What kind of sequence implies? 20. Find the common ratio of the given
a. Geometric sequence c. Geometric series sequence 1,2,4,8,16,….
b. Arithmetic sequence d. Arithmetic series a. 4 b. 3 c. 2 d. 1
7. If three arithmetic means are inserted 21. How many terms are in the geometric
between 11 and 39, find the second sequence have a first term 2,a last term 32
arithmetic mean. and a common ratio 2?
a. 18 b. 25 c. 32 d. 46 a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
8. Which term of the arithmetic sequence 22. How many terms are in the series 5+7+9+
4, 1, -2, -5,….is -29? …..+99+101?
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a. 9 term c. 11 term a. 46 b. 47 c. 48 d. 49
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b. 10 term d. 12 term 23. Joe wishes to calculate the sum
9. What is the nth term of the arithmetic 1+8+15+22+29 using the formula for
sequence 7,9,11,13,15,17,….? arithmetic sequence. What number should
a. An=3n+4 c. an= n+2 he use to multiply the variable n in the
b. An=4n+3 d. an=2n+5 formula?
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10. What is the 21 term of the sequence given a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7
by an=4n-3? 24. The first term of the geometric sequence is
a. 6 b. 72 c. 81 d. 87 -2, the common ratio is 3. What is the third
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11. What is the 5 term, of the sequence term of the sequence?
an=2n+1? a. -16 b. -17 c. -18 d. -19
a. 11 b. 12 c. 13 d. 14 25. What is next term in the geometric
12. For the sequence defined by an=n²-5n+2, sequence 4, -12, 36?
What is the smallest value of n for which an a. -42 b. -54 c. -72 d. -108
is positive? 26. What is the sum of all the odd integers
a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6 between 8 and 26?
13. Given 3,10,17,24,31,38,….What is the next a. 153 b. 151 c. 149 d. 148
number in the above sequence? 27. Find the next two terms of the given
a. 43 b. 44 c. 45 d. 46 arithmetic sequence a₁=3 and d=5.
14. What is the missing value for this number a. 3, 8 b. 3, 9 c. 3, 10 d. 3,11
pattern? 11,17,23,___, 35,41. 28. Given sequence 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40,….find
a. 28 b. 29 c. 30 d. 31 the common difference.
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
29. In an arithmetic progression, the terms 46. Given the geometric equation
between any two non successive terms is 48=3(r)².What is the last term ?
called a. 2 b. 3 c. 48 d. r
a. Arithmetic series c. arithmetic seq. 47. Which of the following terms of the
b. Arithmetic means d. arithmetic sum geometric sequence 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 is the
30. What is the number between 2 and 22? fifth term?
a. 11 b. 12 c. 13 d. 14 a. 16 b. 8 c. 2 d. 1
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31. Insert one arithmetic mean between 24 and 48. What is the 6 term of the geometric
68? sequence 3, 12, 48,…..?
a. 54 b. 34 c. 46 d. 85 a. 48 b. 768 c. 3072 d. 192
32. What is the first three terms if a₁=4 and 49. Find the missing term for geometric
d=2? sequence 5x² , __, 5x⁶, 5x⁸.
a. 6, 8,10 c. 5, 7, 8 a. 5x c. 5xᶾ
b. 4, 6, 8 d. 7, 9, 11 b. 5x² d. 5x ⁴
33. In the given sequence 10,14,18,22,…find 50. If the equation for certain geometric
the equation for the nth terms. sequence is 36=4r², what is the value of the
a. An= 3n +6 c. an=2n+6 common ratio?
b. An = 4n+6 d. an= n+6 a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
34. How many even number are there from 10
to 40?
a. 13 b. 14 c. 15 d. 16
35. How many integers between 6 and 60 are
divisible by 2?
a. 25 b. 26 c. 27 d. 28
36. The following are geometric sequence, Except
a. 2, -6, 18, -54 c. 1, ½, ¼, 1/8 Prepared by: Grade 10 faculty
b. 1, 2, 4, 8 d. 12, 9, 6, 3
37. Insert four arithmetic means between 12
and -3.
a. 9. 6, 3, 0 c. 9, 7, 5, 3
b. 8, 7, 6, 5 d. 8, 6, 4, 2
38. What is the next term if the first term is x
and the common difference is x+2?
a. 5x + 5 c. 3x+ 3
b. 4x + 4 d. 2x + 2
39. Find the first four terms of the sequence
given the nth term of an=n+4?
a. 5, 6, 7, 8 c. 5, 6, 8, 11
b. 5, 7, 9, 11 d. 5, 10, 15, 20
40. What is the nth term of the sequence
3,4,5,6,7?
a. An= n + 5 c. an = n + 3
b. An= n + 5 d. an= n + 2
41. Find the missing term in ___, 4, 10, 16.
a. -2 b. 0 c. 2 d. 1
42. What is the sum of the terms of finite
sequence 1, 4, 7, 10?
a. 20 b. 21 c. 22 d. 23
43. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the
arithmetic sequence 5, 9, 13, 17,……
a. 210 b. 220 c. 230 d. 240
44. Which of the following is/are arithmetic
sequence?
a. 48, 24, 12, 6 c. 3, 7, 11, 15
b. 4, 16, 64, 256 d. 1, 4, 9, 16
45. Insert two terms of geometric means
between 1 and 81?
a. 3, 9 b. 4, 8 c. 5, 7 d. 4, 3
Key
1. B
2. A
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. B
8. D
9. D
10. C
11. A
12. C
13. C
14. B
15. C
16. D
17. C
18. B
19. B
20. C
21. D
22. D
23. D
24. C
25. D
26. A
27. A
28. D
29. B
30. B
31. C
32. B
33. B
34. D
35. D
36. D
37. A
38. D
39. A
40. D
41. A
42. C
43. C
44. C
45. A
46. C
47. C
48. C
49. C
50. C