GENERAL EDUCATION

MATHEMATICS

Directions: Answer the following questions: Provide solutions on a separate sheet of paper.
Write legibly.

1. Erika spends 15 % of her monthly income for house rental, 10 % for electric bill and 2 5 %
for food and other miscellaneous expenses. She paid all these expenses, and she still
has Php 5,400 left. What was her salary every month?
a. Php 10 , 800
b. Php 15,000
c. Php 12,000
d. Php 13,500
2. Jeriel answered 30 % of the 6 0 items correctly in an Algebra Test. How many items did
he answer incorrectly?
a. 18
b. 24
c. 30
d. 54
3. For every seven households, five have cable TV. Clover City has 42,000 households that
have TV, how many do not have cable TV?
a. 21,000
b. 12 , 000
c. 30 , 0 00
d. 32,000
4. What are the values of x ?
2
4 x −9 x+ 2=0

1
a. x=2, x=
4
−1
b. x=2, x=
4
1
c. x=3 , x=
3
−1
d. x=3 , x=
3
5. The product of the sums of x and y and y and z is 5 translates to:
a. x +2 y+ z =5
b. xy + yz=5
c. ( x + y ) ( y+ z ) =5
d. x + y + y + z=5
6. A ladder is 5 m long. The bottom of the ladder is 2 m from the foot of a wall and the top
leans against the wall. How high is the top of the ladder above the ground?
a. 3
b. √ 21
c. 21
d. √ 25
7. If 8 x +12=24 , what is the value of 24 x +36 ?
a. 72
b. 18
c. 24
d. 0
8. Maria makes money by commission rates. She gets 18 % of everything she sells. If
Maria sold 23,000 pesos worth of items this month, what is her salary for the month?
a. Php 4,520
b. Php 41,400
c. Php 4,140
d. Php 3,250
9. What is the diameter of a circle whose area is 25 π squared meter?
a. 10 cm
b. 2.5 cm
c. 5 cm
d. 2 5 cm
10. A coat regularly priced at Php 89.95 is on sale at 40 % off. What is the sale price of the
coat?
a. 34.56
b. 53.97
c. 83.34
d. 76.48
11. A delivery box has dimensions of 18 cm wide and 27 cm long, what is the ratio of its
length to its width?
a. 27 :18
b. 3 :2
c. 2 :3
d. 18 :27
12. What are the prime factors of 273 ?
a. 3 ×17 ×11
b. 3 ×6 × 9 ×1 1
c. 3 ×7 × 13
d. 3 ×3 ×7 × 7
13. It takes 4 men 6 hours to repair a road. How long will it take 12 men to do the job if they
work at the same rate?
a. 3 hours
b. 1 hour
c. 2 hours
d. 4 hours
14. What is the difference between the largest prime number and the smallest prime
number between 1 and 100 ?
a. 97
b. 95
c. 96
d. 94
15. The maximum load of a plane can carry is 605 kg . How many passengers of weight
50.5 kg should there be in order for it not to overload?
a. 11.9
b. 11
c. 12
d. 10
16. Which of the following is always false?
a. Two intersecting lines form two pairs of vertical angles.
b. Compliment of congruent angles are congruent.
c. Two adjacent right angles are supplementary.
d. Angles that form a linear pair are complimentary angles.
17. The measure of the angles of a triangle are in the ratio of 2 :3 :4 . Find the measure of
the middle angle.
a. 20 °
b. 60 °
c. 40 °
d. 80 °
18. A contestant must draw a ball at random from a box containing 3 red balls, 4 white balls
and 5 blue balls. What is the probability that the ball drawn is not white?
8
a.
12
4
b.
12
1
c.
3
2
d.
3
19. What is the least common multiple of 20 and 80 ?
a. 80
b. 240
c. 160
 d. 20

20. Which of the following statement is TRUE?

a. A parallelogram is a square.
b. A trapezoid is a rhombus.
c. A quadrilateral is a kite.
d. A rhombus is a parallelogram.
21. What is the volume of air in an atmospheric balloon with a diameter of 24 cm?
a. 18,432 π
b. 1,728 π
c. 144 π
d. 2,340 π
22. An employee’s hourly raise went up from Php 10 per hour to Php 12 per hour. What is the
rate of increase?
a. 0.2 %
b. 20 %
c. 16 %
d. 0.16 %
23. If a die is tossed, what is the probability of getting a number divisible by 1?
a. 0.1
1
b.
6
c. 1
6
d.
6
24. The faculty of University of Chicken Nuggets has only 14 male professors which
comprise of 35 % of the faculty. What is the total number of faculty members of the
university?
a. 40
b. 49
c. 35
d. 490
25. There are how many prime numbers between 2and 100?
a. 25
b. 23
c. 22
d. 24
26. What is the circumference of a circle that has a diameter of 3 meters?
a. 18.88
b. 18.84
c. 9.42
d. 28.26
27. A bomb was dropped in a rectangular area where rebels were hiding. The perimeter of
the damage area was 480 meters and width was 15 meters. What was the length of the
damaged area?
a. 450 m
b. 125 m
c. 225 m
d. 220 m
28. A ball is drawn at random from a box containing 6 blue balls, 5 white balls, and 3 red
balls. What is the probability of getting a blue ball?
1
a.
14
6
b.
14
3
c.
7
1
d.
6
29. If 75 is shared among the three children in the ration of 3 :7 :15, what is the size of the
smallest share?
a. 3
b. 21
c. 45
d. 9
30. How much greater is the sum of 20 counting numbers that the first 10 counting
numbers?
a. 167
b. 155
c. 135
d. 145
31. Miss Telma’s class has 20 boys and 15 girls in her English Class. What percent of the
student are girls?
a. 28 %
b. 50 %
c. 43 %
d. 44 %
32. The largest prime number less than 100 is?
a. 99
b. 93
c. 91
d. 97
33. What is the amount due at the end of 2 years if Php 10,000 is invested at 8 % annual
interest?
a. Php 1,600
b. Php 11,600
c. Php 1,400
d. Php 11,400
34. Ms. Jhane paid Php 159.75 for a bag after the original price was deducted a 25 %
discount. What was the original price of the bag?
a. Php 37.69
b. Php 603.00
c. Php 150.75
d. Php 201.00
35. Dianne is planning to take a walk around here rectangular garden which measures
27.7 m long and 21.5 m wide. The perimeter that Dianne has to walk is?
a. 48.7 m
b. 96.4 m
c. 98.4 m
d. 595.55 m
36. Five bananas weigh as much as 3 star apples. In this rate, how many star apples will
weigh as much as 45 bananas?
a. 33
b. 36
c. 27
d. 30
37. If July 12, 2003 fell on Tuesday, on what day will July 12, 2005 fall?
a. Friday
b. Thursday
c. Sunday
d. Monday
38. If one of the angles of a parallelogram measures 35 degrees , what is the sum of the
remaining angles?
a. 290 °
b. 325 °
c. 335 °
d. 35 °
39. A meter stick was cut into 2 at the 25 cm mark. What is the ratio of the smaller piece to
the larger piece?
a. 4 :5
b. 1 :3
c. 2 :5
d. 3 :4
40. If Feliz is 50 km due North of Ardente Church and Navidad is 120 km due East of Ardente
Church, what is their minimum distance?
 a. 1,300 km
b. 145 km
c. 130 km
d. 125 km

41. How many twenty thousand are there in one million?

a. 1,000
b. 100
c. 500
d. 50
42. Which among the following is equivalent to 0.07 % ?
a. 0.00007
b. 7
c. 0.7
d. 0.0007
43. How many 6 s are there in 1−100 ?
a. 19
b. 10
c. 20
d. 18
44. Factor the following polynomials.
2
4 x +11 x +6

a. ( 3 x+ 4 )( 4 x +2 )
b. ( 3 x+ 3 ) ( 4 x +2 )
c. ( 4 x+3 )( x +2 )
d. ( 5 x+ 3 ) ( x +2 )
45. If the sum of the interior angles of a regular polygon is 1,980 ° , how many sides does it
have?
a. 13
b. 14
c. 12
d. 11
46. Ariana is making bead necklaces. She has 45 green beads and 60 blue beads. What is
the greatest number of identical necklaces she can make if she wants to use all the
beads?
a. 15
b. 180
c. 5
d. 60
47. Two of the lights at stadium are flickering. They both just flickered at the same time.
One of the lights flicker every 7 seconds and the other flickers every 8 seconds. How
many seconds until both lights will flicker at the same time again?
 a. 56 seconds
b. 1 second
c. 48 seconds
d. 103 seconds
48. Which of the following is the LCM of 3 , 4 ,5 and 8?
a. 60
b. 80
c. 240
d. 120
49. Subtract 5 a−2 b from the sum of 7 a+ 5b and a+ b.
a. 3 a−14 b
b. 3 a+ 8 b
c. 8 a+ 6 b
d. 8 a+ 12b
50. Evaluate the following expression:
5+3 ( 42+7 )−7 ( 2+32 ×8 ) 0

a. 72
b. 152
c. 0
d. −444
51. A box contains red balls, green balls, and blue balls. The ratio of red, green, and blue
balls is 2 :5 :6 , respectively. If there are 52 marbles in a box, how many green marbles
are there?
a. 4
b. 20
c. 24
d. 8
52. A cube has an edge of 2 feet. Find its volume.
a. 6 cubic feet
b. 8 cubic feet
c. 10 cubic feet
d. 16 cubic feet
53. In the expression of 20 riased to the power of four plus 10 x , the exponent is:
a. 10
b. 20
c. 4
d. 14
54. Which of the following is not true about the sum of two consecutive odd integers?
a. It is divisible only by 12
b. It is divisible by 4
c. It is even.
d. It is always divisible by 1
55. The property of real numbers which describes ( 5+6 )−3=−3+(5+ 6) is?
a. Distributive
b. Associative
c. Commutative
d. Closure
56. If a polygon has 20 diagonals, how many sides does it have?
a. 7
b. 10
c. 8
d. 20
57. What is the measure of each interior angle of dodecagon?
a. 1800 degrees
b. 150 degrees
c. 720 degrees
d. 180 degrees
58. Hot cake recipe needs 3eggs for every 8 cups of flour. Chef Yuno will use 40 cups of
flour, how many eggs must he have?
a. 24
b. 16
c. 6
d. 15
59. What is the value of x in the equation, 8 x +12=24 ?
3
a.
2
b. 12
5
c.
3
4
d.
3
60. Julia can finish a project in 10 hours while Elenita can do the same project in 8 hours.
How long will it take them to finish the project together?
a. 4.44 hours
b. 18 hours
c. 4.00 hours
d. 3.44 hours