NAME:________________________________________ 10. A tank contains 16 gallons of water.

Four gallons of water

are drawn off and replaced by pure alcohol, then four
COURSE CORRELATION- QUIZ 1
gallons of the solution are drawn off and replaced by pure
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct (or nearest) answer for each alcohol, then four gallons of the solution are drawn off and
of the following questions. Encircle the letter of your choice. replaced by pure alcohol, and so on, until 20 drawings and
Show your solutions. replacements have been made. How many gallons of
water are there in the final solution?
1. The middle term in the expansion of (𝑎3 + 2𝑏 2 )𝑛 is a. 0.0401 b. 0.0507
C𝑎18 𝑏12 . Find C.
c. 0.0204 d. 0.0317
a. 50,688 b. 59,136
c. 792 d. 1,584 11. If a train passes as many electric posts in a minute and 40
seconds as it goes kilometres per hour, how far apart are
2. Find the value of k in the equation 7x2 + kx – 4 = 0 given the posts?
that the quotient of the roots is -9/28. a. 16.67 m b. 23.33
a. 17/3 b. 16/3 c. 27.78 d. 24.23
c. 19/3 d. 1,584
12. I was walking along the road at 6kph when a car dashed
3. Simplify: (-27x2y3)2 (-5x2y4z6)3 ÷ (-3xyz)5 past me and only missed me by a few inches. From the
a. 405x5y13z13 b. 375x5y13z13 moment it passed me to its disappearance round a corner,
c. 375x5y13z23 d. -405x5y13z13 I took thirty one steps and walking on reached that corner
with four hundred and thirty four steps more. Assuming
4. If 93x = y2, then 27x/2 + 2 is equal to that I walked and the car ran at uniform speeds, what was
a. 729y1/2 b. 9y the speed of the car?
c. 27y 3
d. Nota a. 60 kph b. 70 kph
c. 84 kph d. 90 kph
9
5. Find the coefficient of the term containing x in the
expansion of (3x2 + 2/x)12 13. If 1/(y-x), 1/2y, and 1/(y-z) form an arithmetic progression,
a. 792 b. 55,427,328 which of the following is true?
c. 69,984 d. 45,126,230 a. 1/x, 1/y, 1/z are in harmonic progression
b. x, y, and z are in geometric progression
6. Find the sum of the coefficients in the terms of expansion c. x, y, and z are in harmonic progression
of (3a - 5)7 d. 1/x, 1/y, and 1/z are in geometric progression
a. 77,997 b. -78,253
14. Given: f(x) = (x + 3) (x – 4) + 4. When f(x) is divided by (x-
c. -128 d. 78,253
k), the remainder is k. Find k.
a. 2 b. 6
7. How old is a man if ¾ of his age 6 years ago equals 3/8 of
his age 18 years from now? c. 4 d. 8
a. 20 b. 30
15. In correcting board examination papers, the Professional
c. 40 d. 50
Regulation Commission uses three scanners A, B and C of
different speeds. Together, the three scanners can
8. The sides of a triangle are in arithmetic progression whose
complete the correction of test papers in one board
common difference is 6. Find the perimeter of the triangle.
subject in 4 hours. After operating for one hour, scanner A
a. 68 b. 72 suddenly bogged down. As a result, scanners B and C had
c. 88 d. 76 to continue operating for the next 5 hours and 24 minutes
to complete the job. It turned out that a quarter of the job
9. Edwin, his father, and his grandfather have an average age done by A was spoiled. The following day, scanner B was
of 53. One-half of his grandfather’s age plus one-third of used to redo the job done by A which was spoiled. It took
his father’s age, plus one-fourth of Edwin’s age is 65. If 4 scanner B 20 minutes to do the task. How long will it take
years ago, Edwin’s grandfather was four times as old as
scanner C to do the job alone?
Edwin then, how old is his grandfather now?
a. 6 hrs b. 12
a. 80 b. 24
c. 9 d. 18
c. 84 d. 86
16. The excess of the sum of the fourth and the fifth parts over 25. If 1/3 and -3/2 are the roots of a quadratic equation, then
the difference of the half and the third parts of a number the equation is:
is P. Find the number in terms of P. a. 6x2 + 7x – 3 =0 b. 6x2 - 7x + 3 =0
a. 21P/7 b. 60P/17 c. 6x2 - 7x – 3 =0 d. 6x2 - 7x + 1 =0
c. 23P/5 d. None of these
26. If 8 is added to the product of 9 and the numerical
17. The last term of a GP is 26,244 and the first term is 4. If the number, the sum is 71. Find the unknown number.
sum of all the terms is 39,364, find the middle term. a. 5 b. 6
a. 324 b. 972 c. 7 d. 8
c. 108 d. 624
27. An airplane flying with the wind, took two hours to travel
18. A student finds the average of 10 positive integers. Each 1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying back. What was the wind
integer contain two digits. By mistake, the boy velocity in kph?
interchanges the digits of one number, say ba for ab. As a a. 40 b. 50
consequence, the average becomes 1.8 less than what it c. 60 d. 70
should have been. What was the difference of the two
digits a and b? 28. If p is an odd number and q is an even number, which of
a. 8 b. 6 the following expressions must be even?
c. 4 d. 2 a. p + q b. pq
c. P-q d. p/q
19. The present ages of a man and his wife are as 6:4. Five
years ago, their ages were in the ratio 5:3. What is the age 29. If the roots of ax2 + bx + c =0 are 2 and 3 and a, b, and c
gap of the couple? are whole numbers, find a + b + c.
a. 10 b. 12 a. 12 b. 2
c. 15 d. 16 c. -2 d. 6

20. Find the 14th term in 5m+8n, 6m+6n, 7m+4n, …..

30. The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two numbers
a. 16m-8n b. 16m-18n namely 250 and 850 are removed, what is the arithmetic
c. 18m-18n d. 18m-16n mean of the remaining numbers?
a. 42.31 b. 50
21. Find the sum of the coefficients of the terms in the c. 38.62 d. 57.12
expansion of (7x – 5y)4.
a. 12 b. 16
c. 18 d. 20

22. The arithmetic mean of two numbers is 10 and their

geometric mean is 8. Find their harmonic mean.
a. 6.1 b. 6.2
c. 6.3 d. 6.4

23. Two faucets can fill a tank in 3 and 4 hours, respectively. If

the faster faucet is opened 40 minutes ahead of the slower
faucet, when will the tank be filled?
a. 1 hr b. 2 hrs
c. 3 d. 4

24. A father tells his son, “ I was your age now when you were
born.” If the father is now 38 years old, how old was his
son 2 years ago?
a. 15 b. 17
c. 19 d. 21