DIAGNOSTIC TEST

MATHEMATICS GRADE 11

NAME SCORE

GRADE AND
SECTION

DIRECTION: Read and analyze each item. Write the LETTER of the correct answer on your
answer sheet.

1. What is the next term in the geometric sequence 4, - 12, 36?

A. -42 B. -54 C. -72 D. -108
13 7 15
2. Find the common difference in the arithmetic sequence 3, , , ,…
4 2 4
1 3 5
A. B. C. D. 4
4 4 4
3. Which set of numbers is an example of a harmonic sequence?
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
A. , − , , − B. , −1, 2, −4 C. , , , D. 2, , ,
2 2 2 2 2 3 9 27 81 3 5 7
4. What is the sum of the odd integers between 8 and 26?
A. 153 B. 151 C. 149 D. 148
5. If three arithmetic means are inserted between 11 and 39, find the second arithmetic mean.
A. 18 B. 25 C. 32 D. 46
6. Which of the following is a polynomial?
i. 4𝑥 3 + 9𝑥 − 5𝑥 2 + 7
ii. 2𝑥 −5 + 𝑥 −2 + 𝑥 −3 + 2𝑥 + 5
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iii.
𝑥 2 +3𝑥+6
A. i only B. ii only C. i and ii D. i and iii
7. The following are examples of polynomials except one. Which is it?
A. 𝑥 2 − 4𝑥 + 5 C. 3𝑥 4 − 5𝑥 −3 + 2𝑥 − 1

B. 4𝑥 −3 + 8𝑥 −2 + 10𝑥 − 7 D. 𝑥 3 − 𝑦 3

8. What is the leading coefficient of the polynomial 5𝑥 10 + 4𝑥 12 + 4𝑥 6 + 𝑥 4 − 𝑥?

A. 4 B. 5 C. 10 D. 12
9. What is the quotient when 𝑥 2 − 25 is divided by 𝑥 − 5?
A. (𝑥 − 5) B. (𝑥 − 25) C. (𝑥 + 5) D. (𝑥 + 25)
9 8 7
10. What is the remainder when (𝑥 + 2𝑥 + 3𝑥 + ⋯ + 9𝑥) is divided by (𝑥 − 1)?
A. 45 B. 90 C. 180 D. 360
11. What should be the value of 𝑛 if 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 𝑛 defines a polynomial function?
A. an integer C. any number
B. a nonnegative integer D. any number except 0
12. Which of the following is an example of a polynomial function?
4
A. 𝑓(𝑥) = + 3𝑥 − 1 C. 𝑓(𝑥) = √7𝑥 − 2𝑥 6
𝑥3
3
3
B. 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 2 − 𝑥 2 D. 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 + √3𝑥 − 5
2
13. What is the leading coefficient of the polynomial function 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 + 𝑥 3 + 4?

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 A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
14. How should the polynomial function 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 + 𝑥 + 3𝑥 5 + 4 be written in standard form?
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A. 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 + 3𝑥 5 + 4 C. 𝑓(𝑥) = 4 + 2𝑥 + 𝑥 3 + 3𝑥 5
3 5
B. 𝑓(𝑥) = 2𝑥 + 𝑥 + 3𝑥 + 4 D. 𝑓(𝑥) = 3𝑥 5 + 𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 + 4

15. If you draw the graph of 𝑦 = 𝑥(𝑥 + 2)2 , how will you sketch it with respect to the x-axis?
A. Sketch it crowing both (-2,0) and (0,0).
B. Sketch it crossing (-2,0) and tangent at (0,0).
C. Sketch it tangent at (-2, 0) and crossing (0, 0).
D. Sketch it tangent at both (-2,0) and (0,0).
16. What is an angle whose vertex is on a circle and whose sides contain chords of the circle?
A. central angle C. circumscribed angle
B. inscribed angle D. intercepted angle
17. An arc of a circle measures 30°. If the radius of the circle is 5 cm, what is the length of the arc?
A. 2.62 cm B. 2.3 cm C. 1.86 cm D. 1.5 cm
18. The opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are _______________.
A. right C. complementary
B. obtuse D. supplementary
19. What is the sum of the measures of the central angles of a circle with no common interior points?
A. 120 B. 240 C. 360 D. 480
20. Catherine designed a pendant. It is a regular hexagon set in a circle. Suppose the opposite vertices
are connected by line segments and meet at the center of the circle. What is the measure of each
angle formed at the center?
A. 22.5° B. 45° C. 60° D. 72°
21. Which of the following represents the distance 𝑑 between the two points (𝑥1 , 𝑦1 ) and (𝑥2 , 𝑦2 )?
A. 𝑑 = √(𝑥2 + 𝑥1 )2 + (𝑦2 + 𝑦1 )2 C. 𝑑 = √(𝑥2 − 𝑥1 )2 + (𝑦2 − 𝑦1 )2
B. 𝑑 = √(𝑥2 + 𝑥1 )2 − (𝑦2 + 𝑦1 )2 D. 𝑑 = √(𝑥2 − 𝑥1 )2 − (𝑦2 − 𝑦1 )2
22. Point L is the midpoint of segment KM. Which of the following is true about the distances among K,
L and M?
A. KL = KM B. LM = KM C. KL = LM D. 2 lKMl = KL + LM
23. A map is drawn on a grid wher 1 is equivalent to 1 km. On the same map, the coordinates of the
point corresponding to San Vicente is (4,9). Suppose San Vicente is 13 km away from San Luis.
Which of the following could be the coordinates of the point corresponding to San Luis?
A. ( - 13, 0) B. (16, 4) C. (4, 16) D. (0,13)
24. What is the distance between the points M( - 3,1) and N(7, 3)?
A. 6 B. 2√29 C. 14 D. 4√29
25. Which of the following represents the midpoint 𝑀 of the segment whose endpoints are (𝑥1 , 𝑦1 ) and
(𝑥2 , 𝑦2 )?
𝑥1 −𝑥2 𝑦1 −𝑦2 𝑥1 +𝑦1 𝑥2 +𝑦2
A. ( , ) C. ( , )
2 2 2 2
𝑥 +𝑥 𝑦 +𝑦 𝑥 −𝑦 𝑥 −𝑦
B. ( 1 2 , 1 2) D. ( 1 1 , 2 2)
2 2 2 2
26. Choosing a subset of a set is an example of ______.
A. combination B. differentiation C. integration D. permutation
27. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?
A. matching shirts and pants
B. forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane, no three of which are collinear
C. assigning telephone numbers to subscribers
D. forming a committee from the members of a club
28. The product of a positive integer 𝑛 and all the positive integers less than it is _____.
A. powers of 𝑛 C. 𝑛 − factorials
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 B. multiples of 𝑛 D. 𝑛 factorial
29. Two different arrangements of objects where some of them are identical are called ______.
A. distinguishable permutations C. circular permutations
B. unique combinations D. circular combinations
30. How many different 4-digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1,3,5,6,8 and 9 if no
repetition of digits is allowed?
A. 1 680 B. 840 C. 420 D. 120
31. Brian likes to wear colored shirts. He has 10 shirts in the closet. Three of which are blue, four are
different shades of red, and the rest are of mixed or different colors. What is the probability that he
will wear a blue or a red shirt?
7 4 3 4 3 7 7 4
A. + B. + C. + D. −
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
32. Jody has four cans of juice – one can of orange, one of pineapple, one of calamansi, and one of
guyabano. She chooses three of these cans to take to school. If she chooses a calamansi, what is
the probability that she also chooses pineapple?
7 3 2 3
A. B. C. D.
8 4 3 8
33. A man tosses a fair coin eight times, and observes whether the toss yields a head (H) or a tail (T).
Which of the following sequences yields a head (H) on his next toss?
i. T T T T T T T
ii. H H T H T T H H
A. I B. ii C. neither I nor ii D. either I or ii
34. A baby has 5 blocks in a box. One block is red, one is yellow, one is green, one is blue and one is
black. The baby pulls out a block, looks at it, and puts it back in the box. If he does this 4 times
before he gets bored and crawls away, what is the probability that the 4 blocks selected are all of
the same color?
5 1 4 2
A. B. C. D.
54 54 54 54
35. A box contains 4 red balls and 6 blue balls. A second box contains 16 red balls and an unknown
number of blue balls. A single ball is drawn from each box. The probability that both balls are of the
same color is 0.44. How many blue balls are there in the second bow?
A. 4 B. 20 C. 24 D. 44
36. The median score is also the ______.
A. 75th percentile B. 5th decile C. 3rd decile D. 1st quartile
37. When a distribution is divided into hundred equal parts, each score point that describes the
distribution is called a ___________.
A. percentile B. decile C. quartile D. median
38. The lower queartile is equal to ___________.
A. 50th percentile C. 2nd decile
th
B. 25 percentile D. 3rd quartile
39. Rochelle got a score of 55 which is equivalent to 70 th percentile in a mathematics test. Which of the
following is not true?
A. She scored above 70% of her classmates.
B. Thirty percent of the class got scores of 55 and above.
C. If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the test.
D. Her score is below the 5th decile.
40. In the set of scores: 14, 17, 10, 22, 19, 24, 8, 12 and 19, the median score is __________
A. 17 B. 16 C. 15 D. 13

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 ANSWER KEY
1. D
2. A
3. D
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. D
9. C
10. A
11. B
12. C
13. A
14. D
15. C
16. B
17. A
18. D
19. C
20. C
21. C
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. B
26. A
27. C
28. D
29. A
30. D
31. B
32. C
33. D
34. A
35. A
36. B
37. A
38. B
39. D
40. A

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Written By: ZUZYN ROSE R. VILLANUEVA
Reviewed By: Mr. Ronilo E. Cadigal Jr.

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