GRACE MISSION COLLEGE

Catiningan Socorro Oriental Mindoro

NATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST

(Mathematics)
Name: ___________________________________
Direction: Read and analyze the situation below, encircle the letter of your choice.
1. What is the leading coefficient of the polynomial function f(x)=5x2 +3x5 + 7x - 2?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
2. How should the polynomial function f(x) =11x + 6x2 + x3 + 6 be written in standard form ?
A. f(x) = 6x2 +11x + x3 + 6 C. f(x)= 6+11x +6x2 + x3
B. f(x)= x3 + 6x2 + 11x + 6 D. f(x) =6 + x3 +6x2 + 11x
3. What is the degree of f(x) = x (x + 3) (x+ 2)?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
4. What is the value of the constant term of the polynomial function P(x) = 2x4 – 13x3 + 30x2 -28x + 8 ?
A. 2 B. 8 C. -13 D. 30
5. Which of the following is NOT a polynomial functions?
A. f(x) = 2x3 - 3x2+x-4 C. f (x) = x-3 +2x2 -7
B. f(x) = (x-5)(9x+1)2(x-4) D. f(x) = 2x4+x5– 3
6. A shopkeeper determines that its profit, P, in pesos, can be modeled by the function
P(x) = 6x2 – 7x – 5 , where x represents the number of shirts sold. What is the profit at x = 150 ?
A. Php 136,055 C. Php 2855
B. Php 133,945 D. Php 1800
7. It is a distance from the center to any point on the circle.
A. radius C. circumference
B. diameter D. perimeter
8. The distance between any two points on the circle which do not pass through the center.
A. radius C. circumference
B. chord D. diameter
9. A line that intersects the circle at exactly one point.
A. tangent C. secant
B. diameter D. chord
10. What is the other term for “permutation”?
A. arrangement/order C. choices
B. combination D. groupings
11. Which one from the following situations illustrates permutation?
A. selecting marbles from a bowl
B. listing the possible passwords of a phone
C. drawing two cards from a deck of playing cards
D. forming a group of 3 out of 100 persons
12. Three university scholars will arrange themselves in a row for picture taking. How many different
arrangements in a row can be formed by them?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 6 D. 8
8!
13. Simplify
5!
A. 16 B. 42 C. 120 D. 336
14. In how many ways can you arrange 5 potted plants in a row?
A. 100 B. 120 C. 150 D. 200
15. What is the value of 4! ?
A. 4 B. 12 C. 24 D. 36
16. In how many ways can 3 people arrange themselves in a row for picture taking?
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7
17. Evaluate P(5, 3).
A. 60 B. 75 C. 100 D. 125
18. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word GOOD.
A. 6 B. 9 C. 10 D. 12
19. In a town fiesta singing competition with 12 contestants, in how many ways can the organizer
arrange the first three singers?
A. 132 B. 990 C. 1320 D. 1716
20. If a combination lock must contain 5 different digits, in how many ways can a code be formed from
the digits 0 to 9?
A. 15 120 B. 30 240 C. 151 200 D. 1 000 000
21. In how many ways can 4 men and 3 women arrange themselves in a row for picture taking if the
men and women must stand in alternate positions?
A. 5040 B. 720 C. 144 D. 30
22. In a room, there are 10 chairs in a row. In how many ways can 5 students be seated in consecutive
chairs?
A. 720 B. 600 C. 252 D. 120
23. The following situations are examples of experiments except
A. tossing a coin C. randomly choosing a ball from a box
B. rolling a die D. counting numbers
24. The results of an experiment are called _____________.
A. experiments C. outcomes
B. sample space D. simple events
25. What does this symbol “U” represents?
A. intersection, “and” C. intersection, “or”
B. union, “and” D. union, “or”
27. A group of learners are given the following diagram below: Which best describes the event set of A B?

A. {7; 10; 11} C. {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11}

B. {7; 10} D. {1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10}
28. When you roll a die, which of the following is the sample space?
A. S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 6} C. S = {2, 4, 6}
B. S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} D. S = {3, 4, 5, 6}
29. What statement does the shaded region of
the figure at the right represent?

A. C or D C. C and D
B. C D. D
30. What statement does the shaded region
of the figure at the right represent?

A. A or B C. Not A
B. A and B D. Not B
Use the figure below to answer numbers 31 and 32

31. What event set represents the union of the sets A and B?
A. {2, 4, 8} C. {6, 12}
B. {5, 6, 7, 9, 12} D. {2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12}
32. What event set represents the intersection of the sets A and B?
A. {2, 4, 8} C. {6, 12}
B. {5, 6, 7, 9, 12} D. {2, 4, 6, 8, 12}
33. . Brian likes to wear colored shirts. He has 10 shirts in the closet. Three of these are blue, four are in
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 1 3 1
A. B. C. D.
10 3 10 10
34. The spinner on the right is spun.
What is the probability
of a spin that results in an even number
or a number less than 4?
 1 2
A. C.
2 3
3 4
B. D.
5 5

34. There are four batteries, and one of them is defective. Two are to be selected at random for use on a
particular day. Find the probability that the second battery selected is not defective, given that the first
was not defective.
1 1 1 2
A. B. C. D.
4 3 2 3
35. A bag contains 7 green marbles, 3 yellow marbles and 5 red marbles. You choose two marbles. What
is the probability of selecting a two yellow marbles?
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D.
10 20 35 50
35. In a box there are 5 red pens, 3 green pens, and 2 blue pen. What is the probability of picking a red
pen, replacing it, and then picking a blue pen?
1 1 1 1
A. B. C. D.
10 20 30 40
36. At Mathsagana NHS, the probability that a student joins VELG Club and Mathematics Club is 0.12.
The probability that a student joins VELG Club is 0.7. What is the probability that a student joins
Mathematics Club given that the student is taking VELG Club?
A. 0.36 B. 0.17 C. 0.14 D. 0.05
37. Out of 28 students of Grade 10 Taurus, 19 uses Facebook, 11 uses Instagram, and 5 uses both
Facebook and Instagram. What is the probability that a selected student uses Facebook or Instagram?
11 14 25 35
A. B. C. D.
28 28 28 28
38. Which of the following is an arithmetic sequence?
a. 21, 18, 15,… b. -6, -2, 2… c. 4, 2, 0 d. 80, 20, 5…
39. Which among the following is NOT a geometric sequence?
a. 5, 10, 20, 40 b. -11, 22, -44, 88 c. 2, 6, 18, 54 d. 3, 8, 13, 18

40. If 1, -1/2, ¼, -1/8 is a geometric sequence, what is the common ratio?

a. 1/2 b. -1/2 c. 1/4 d. -1/4

41. In the sequence 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, what is the common difference?
a. 3 b. 4 c. -3 d. -4
42. What is the sum of the first sixteen terms of the arithmetic sequence 1, 5, 9, 13. ?
a. 62 b. 496 c. 528 d. 992
43. What is the sum of the first 30 terms of the arithmetic sequence 50, 45, 40, 35?
a. -675 b. 275 c. 675 d. 3675
44. Carlos has twice as much money as Michael. Together they have P300.00. How much money does
each have?
 a. Carlos - 100 and Michael - 200
b. Carlos - 200 and Michael - 100
c. Carlos - 120 and Michael - 180
d. Carlos - 180 and Michael - 120
45. Ashley worked 5 more hours this week than she did last time week. Her total hours for both weeks
are 59. How many hours dis she work this week?
a. 30 hours b. 31 hours c. 32 hours d. hours