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1) Miss Roxas bought 20 blouses for PHP1800 and marked them to sell at PHP110 each. After selling 16 pieces at this rate, she decided to sell the remaining blouses at a lower price. At what price may she sell each remaining blouse and still realize a gross profit of PHP360 on the 20 blouses?

2) The Philippines and 19 other Asian nations decide to cut their oil consumption by two million barrels a day. If this is 5% of their daily oil consumption, how many barrels are consumed by these countries in one day?

3) A development project which was financed by ecological organizations amounted to PHP3.6 million. If there had been two more contributors, and the expenses were shared equally, it would have cost each organization PHP300,000 less. How many organizations contributed to the project?

4) There are 36 reams of mimeographing paper in the drawer. If 1 ¹/₄ dozens of reams of paper were to be used in printing, how many reams should be left in the drawer?

5) A group of men went on fishing trip, agreeing that each should pay the same amount. The total bill was PHP 168. If there had been two fewer men, each man would have had to pay 2 pesos more. How many men went fishing?

6) The ceiling of a building, 18 meters by 15 meters, is to be painted. How many gallons of paint are required for this ceiling if a gallon can cover 15 square meters?

7) A square and a rectangle have equal areas. If the rectangle is 36 by 16, what is a side of a square?

8) Ana gets a commission of 10% for each bottle of lotion she sells. If a bottle of lotion sells for PHP87.50, how many bottles will Ana have to sell to receive a commission of PHP 210?

9) What is the sum of series of arithmetic progression having a common difference of 3.5, if the first term is 0.5 and the last term is 25?

10) If the sum of 5 consecutive numbers is 95, what is the third number?

11) Two numbers are in the ratio of 3 to 5. The lesser number is 42. Find the greater number.

12) The total area of a cube is the sum of its lateral area and the area of its bases. If the edge of a cube is 4, find its total area.

13) If a can of paint will cover approximately 60 square yards, what length of the wall can be painted if the wall is 8 feet high?

14) One million is to be divided among the 3 children of a widower in the ratio of 10:12:18. By how much is the largest share greater than the smallest share?

15) Division and section heads of agency Y who come late during their monthly staff meetings are fined. The first latecomer pays PHP0.50, the second latecomer pays PHP1.00, the third pays PHP1.50, the fourth pays PHP2.00 and so forth. If 13 came late during their last meeting, how much money was collected from them?

16) In an illustration, one unit represents a line 85 centimeters long. How many meters long of a line will be represented by 150 units?

17) If the management of a parking lot charges its customer PHP10.00 for the first two hours and PHP5.00 for each additional hour or a part thereof; then the cost for parking for 4 hours and 45 miutes is __________.

18) A bureau director has an appointment at 9 A.M. in a nearby province. If he travels at 40 kph., he will arrive at 8 AM. If he drives at 30 kph., he will not arrive until 8:45 A.M. How far away is the province?

19) Which of the following has the greatest discounts?

1. a discount of ¹/₃ of the selling price of PHP200
2. 33.3% of the selling price of PHP200
3. 0.3 discount of the selling price of PHP200
4. a discount of PHP200
5. none of the above

20) Nena has applied for employment in the next three different countries namely: Hong Kong; Malaysia and Brunei. In Hong Kong the monthly salary in HK $500; Malaysia Ringgit 300 and Brunei $200 consider the following:

1 HK $ = PHP2.90
1 Br $ = PHP12.15
1 Mal RM = PHP8.40
Which country has the best offer?

21) Which of the following commodities has the least increase U.S. $ per pound from 1987 – 1990.

22) Which of the following is the biggest?

23) A family budget provides that the monthly outlaws for food and house is PHP 1,810.00. If the amount spent for food is three times that of the rent, how much is the monthly rental?

24) After driving 3 ¹/₂ hours, a motorist covered 120 km. At this rate, how long will it take him to drive 360 km.?

25) Mrs. Renoso is planning to buy curtains for their new house. She will need 23 floor length pieces, each piece 2 meters and 50 cm. Long. How many meters should she buy.

26) An employee spends about PHP1,330.00 a month. This sum is 70% of his monthly salary. How much does he receives a month?

27) Which pair of numbers below has 120 as a product?

28) A certain number is doubled and then divided by 8. If after subtracting 4 from this result, one gets 16, the original number is:

29) The numerator of a fraction is 4 less than its denominator, if 3 is added both the numerator and denominator, the resulting number is ³/₄. What is the original fraction?

30) Each box of ballpen contains 24 pieces. If an employee in an office given 3 ballpens. How many boxes will be needed for 168 employees?

31) Each box of ballpen contains 24 pieces. If an employee in an office given 3 ballpens. How many boxes will be needed for 168 employees?

32) An employee who receives PHP306.00 each payday saves PHP1.50 of every PHP9.00 of his earnings. If the employee is paid two times a month, how much he would save after four months?

33) If a can holds ³/₄ of a liter of gasoline. How many liters will 1 ¹/₂ dozens at the same size hold?

34) The ratio of males to females in an organization is M:F. How many males are there if there are T females?

35) Maria was born November 23, 1958. How old was she last April 23, 1980?

36) When any number is divided by 20, the largest remainder that can be attained is:

37) There are 115,000 hectares of land for cotton production. What should be the average yield in tons per hectare to produce a total of 138,000 tons of cotton?

38) An employee who receives PHP296.00 each payday, put PHP1.00 out of PHP8.00 into a special fund. How much does he put into that fund?

39) The United Arab Emirates has reduced its daily oil production by 80,000 barrels from 1.7 million barrels. Find its daily production in million barrels.

40) The buying power of 1972’s PHP1 had dropped as of June this year to 35.57 centavos. The present buying power of peso is, how many centavos less than that of 1972?

41) Divide 196 into 2 parts such that one part is ³/₄ of the other part. What are the two numbers formed?

42) The price of a pair of pants is PHP17.00 more than twice the price of the polo shirt. If the average price of these two items is PHP83.50, what is the price of the pants?

43) One-third of a certain number added to ¹/₅ of the next consecutive number is 5. What is the sum of the two numbers?

44) A man owns a piece of land worth PHP0.6 million. He is taxed on ³/₄ of its value at the rate of PHP7.00 per PHP1,000. How much is he paying for the tax of his property?

45) If each side of a square is decreased by 5 centimeters, its area will decreased by 175 square centimeters. Find the side of the original square in centimeters?

46) Twenty-seven school children were asked to form three groups such that the third group has 2 more members than the first group and the second group will have one member less than the third group. How many members will the first group have?

47) Concrete posts are to be put along a 560 meters road. If there are 15 posts, what would be the distance in meters between two successive posts?

48) A fish vendor makes it a point to realize a profit of 12 ¹/₂% of his sales. For how much a kilo should he sell 20 kilos of fish costing PHP320.00?

49) An employee drive a car at 30 kph from his residence reach his office at 8:00 a.m. If he drives at 7:50 a.m. how far is his office from his residence in km.?

50) Three stenographers will be selected from a pool of 6 equally qualified stenographers. How many different groups of three stenographers can be selected from the pool?

51) All of the following except one are units of measurement in the metric system.

52) A messenger traveling at 20 kph. was sent to pick a letter 10 km. away. If this messenger left at 8:30 a.m. rested for 10 minutes along the way, what time will he be back?

53) In an office the ratio of male employee to female employee is 1:3. If there are 12 male employees, how many employees are in that office?

54) In a certain map ¹/₄ of an inch represent 10 miles of the actual distance. If two barrios are 2 inches apart in the map, the actual distance between them is:

55) A mother divides ²/₃ of a cake equally among her 4 children. If one cake costs PHP3.60, the share of each child costs:

56) A man with 90 meters of fencing wishes to fence off an area in the space of a rectangle. What should be the dimension the enclosed space is to be as large as possible.

57) The income tax withheld from the wages of a certain employee amounted to PHP8, 561 last year. If this is PHP350 more than ³/₄ of the amount withheld this year, how much was withheld from his wages this year?

58) If six boys shared equally ¹/₂ of a pineapple pie, what part of a whole pie did each boy get?

59) At a party of 345 employees, sandwiches were served with softdrinks. It was found out that 120 chicken sandwiches and 240 cheese sandwiches were consumed. When the male employees were on their way home, 35 confessed that they ate 1 chicken sandwich and 1 cheese sandwich each. How many went home without eating any of the sandwiches?

60) A man has two investments totaling PHP40,000. On one he receives 12% interest and on the other he receives 10% interest. The 12% investment yield an annual income of PHP524 less than the 10% investment. How much is the difference between the two investments?

61) A bin containing 80 sacks of flour is ¹/₅ full. How many sacks will be in the bin when it is ³/₄ full?

62) In a social hall of a building, there are 150 seats arranged in rows, with 5 more seats per row than the number of rows. How many seats are there in each row?

63) Which of the following is the biggest?

64) Which of the following has the greatest discount?

1. a discount of ¹/₃ of the selling price of PHP200.00
2. 33%discount of the selling price of PHP200.00
3. 0.3 discount of the selling price of PHP200.00
4. a discount of PHP60.00
5. 1¹/₃% discount of the selling price of PHP200.00

65) The members of a barangay set our 432 pechay plants. The number of plants in each row was six more than the number of rows. How many plants were there in each row?

66) The larger of two numbers is seven times the smaller number. What is the larger number if their sum is 56?

67) In a school of 1,302 students, 798 are girls. What is the ratio of the number of boys to the number of girls?

68) An amount of PHP18,400 was requested for the purchase of office supplies. How much was released if 15% of the amount requested was not granted?

69) A supply officer distributes 80 business envelopes among 13 employees, giving half the number to the female employees and the other half to the male employees. Each female employee received 3 more than each male. How many male employees are there?

70) Each boarder is charged PHP3,800 a month for board and lodging. If there are 12 boarders, how much will he owner of the boarding house earn in one half year?

71) If ¹/₄ of a land were divided into 3 equal lots, then each lot would be what part of the land?

72) A chess player will play 7 rounds in a chess tournament. If he were to compete with 6 opponents in every round, how many opponents would he have played with after 7^th round?

73) A man makes a deposit of PHP800.00. If his deposit consists of 25 bills, some fifty-peso bills and the rest are twenty-peso bills, how many twenty-peso bills he have?

74) Suppose you were selling magazines and were paid 25% of your sales. What should your commission be for a day in which your sales amounted to PHP11.68?

75) How would you divide P40.00 between two student in the ratio of 3 is to 5?

76) Ice placed in an ice box losses 15% of its weight before being used. How many tons of ice must be placed in an ice boxes so as to have 850 tons for use?

77) A telephone company charges a customer PHP33.50 for the first 100 calls a month, and 25 centavos per call in excess of 100 calls. If the total bill of a customer for a certain month is PHP55.25, find the total number of calls made by the customers.

78) Mr. Cruz bought some merchandise worth PHP1,500. He sold ²/₅ of it at 25% profit, ²/₅ of the remaining merchandise at 15% profit and the rest at 10% profit. How much did he earn from the whole transaction?

79) A boy is to meet his teacher in the principal’s room at 7:30 in the morning. If it takes the boy 30 min. to take a bath, 15 min. to eat his breakfast, 5 min. to brush teeth, 20 min. other morning activities, 25 min. to dress up and 10 min. walking to the school principal’s room. What will be the latest time that he can get up to meet his teacher on time?

80) Five percent of a batch of items from a manufacturing company are defective. If there are 150 defective items in the whole batch, how many items in the whole batch are not defective?

81) What is the greatest numerical value?

82) What is the standard numerical value for 3.54 × 10 the 5^th power?

83) Which of the following has the least numerical value?

84) The formula for covering Fahrenheit thermometer reading to centigrade reading is C=⁵/₉ ( F-32). What is the equivalent of 95 degrees Fahrenheit?

85) A farmer has seven hectares of land for rice production. What should be the average yield in cavans per hectare of the land to produce a total of 525 cavans?

86) Mang Romy can climb a coconut tree at the rate of 10ft. per minute and return at 20 ft. per minute. If it took him 3 minutes to climb and return. What is the height of the coconut?

87) Basketball team lost 40% of its first 40 games, how many of its remaining 20 games, must it win to raise its winning percentage to 65%

88) The sum of 3 numbers is 94, if the first number is ³/₅ of the second number and the second number is c of the third. What are the three numbers?

89) A certain elevator has a maximum weight capacity of 1,300 lbs. If 5 employees with an average weight of 120 lbs. entered the elevator with a box weighing 250 lbs. How much is the additional weight?

90) In one bag of chicken feeds there are 24 chickens eating it in 45 days. In how many days do 15 chickens consume the feeds?

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