ALGEBRA3
1. A building has 4 outside doors. In how many
ways can a person enter and leave:
a. By different door?
b. By any door?
2. In how many ways can you elect a president and
a vice president from 3 presidentiables and 4
candidates for vice president?
3. Three persons rode a mini bus with 6 vacant
seats on each side. In how many ways can they
be seated if one insists on sitting at the right
side?
Permutation & Combination
4. In how many different ways can 4 persons be
seated in consecutive seats in a row of 7 seats?
5. In how many different orders can 7 books be
arranged on a shelf if a certain 3-volume book is
not to be separated?
6. In how many ways can 5 children line up to drink
water in a drinking fountain if two children don’t
want to follow each other?
7. Given 10 differently colored beads, how many
different bracelets can be formed?
8. In how many ways can 5 engineers & 4 nurses be
arranged in a round table if the nurses insist to
be sitting side by side?
9. In how many ways can a committee of 3 men
and 2 women be chosen from 7 men and 5
women?
Progression Problems
10. The 6th term of an AP is 3 and the 23rd term is 54.
Find the 35th term.
11. Find the 5th term of an AP if the 3rd term is 10
and the 10th term is -4.
12. How many terms in the expression 3, 5, 7 must
be taken in order that their sum will be 2600?
13. If the 4th term of GP is 8 and the 7th term is 1,
find the 2nd term.
14. A man on a strict diet loss 18 pounds in 2
months, 12 pounds in the next 2 months, 8
pounds in the next two months and so on for a
long time. If the man initially weighs 190 lbs.,
what will be the resulting weight?
15. The 2nd and the 4th terms of a HP are 4/5 and -4.
Find the 5th term?
Variation Problems
16. If x varies as y and inversely as z and x = 14 when
y = 7 and z = 2. Find the value of x when y = 16
and z = 4.
17. The electrical resistance of a wire made of a
certain material varies as its length and inversely
as the square of the diameter. If a wire 100 m
long and 1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance
of 30 ohms, find the length of a wire of the same
material whose resistance and diameter are 25
ohms and 0.75 mm respectively.
Coin Problem
18. A boy has a number of coins in his pocket
consisting of nickels, dimes and pennies. There
are two more nickels than dimes and three times
as many pennies as dimes. If the boy has a total
of 64 cents, how many pennies are there?
Diophantine Equation Problem
19. A man bought 20 chickens for ₱200. The cocks
cost ₱30 each, the hens ₱15 each and the chicks
at ₱5 each. How many cocks did he buy?
VENN DIAGRAM PROBLEMS
20. In a survey of 100 ME reviewees regarding on
what board subject they liked, revealed the
following results:
30 like both Math and Design;
35 like Math and Power;
35 like Power and Design;
70 like Math;
60 like Power; and
20 like all three board subjects.
How many like Design?
PLANE TRIGONOMETRY
1. Which of the following is equal to 100 grads?
a. 1.5 pi radians
b. ½ revolutions
c. 1500 mils
d. 90 deg
2. If the supplement of an angle θ is 5/2 of its
complement, find the value of θ?
3. A certain angle has an explement 5 times the
supplement. Find the angle.
4. A vertical pole 8 ft tall cast a shadow 5 ft long on
level ground. Find the angle which the rays of
the sun make with the horizontal.
5. A boat which can travel at the rate of 4 mph in
still water and pointed directly across a stream
having a current of 3 mph. What will be the
actual speed of the boat?
6. At certain point, the angle of elevation of the top
of a flagpole, which stands on level ground is 35
deg. Seventy-five feet nearer the pole, the angle
of elevation is 50 deg. How high is the pole?
7. Simplify
cos θ
− tan θ
sin θ + 1
8. In which quadrant will angle A terminates if sec
A is positive and csc A is negative?
9. An airplane having a speed of 120 miles an hour
in calm air is pointed in a direction 30 deg east
of north. A wind having a velocity of 15 miles an
hour is blowing from the northwest. Find the
speed of the airplane relative to the ground.
10. A pole cast a shadow 15 m long when the angle
of elevation of the sun is 61°. If the pole is
leaned 15° from the vertical directly towards the
sun, determine the length of the pole.
11. Find the area of a circle circumscribing an
equilateral triangle having each side measuring
10 cm.
12. Find the area of the largest circular garden which
can be made from a triangular lot measuring 5,
7 and 10 m respectively.
13. Determine the sum of the angles of the vertices
of a regular 5 – pointed star inscribed in a circle.
14. An oblique triangle is inscribed in a circle. If one
side of the triangle has a length of 5 cm and the
angle subtended by the side is 15°, determine
the area of the circle.
15. A cyclic quadrilateral has the sides AB = 8 cm, BC
= 10 cm and CD = 12 cm respectively. The fourth
side DA is the diameter of the circle. Find the
area of the circle.
16. The vertices A and B of a quadrilateral lie on a
circle and are collinear with external point P. A
secant is drawn to the circle intersecting at C and
D. Angle BPC is 30 deg. If secants PA and PD have
lengths of 100 m and 90 m, respectively and the
external segment PB is 50 m, determine the area
of the quadrilateral ABCD?
STATISTICS

1. Find the median of the set of numbers:

2, 3, 9, 25, 10, 13, 6, 6, 7

2. Find the median of the set of numbers:

1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 35 & 46

3. Find the mode of the set of numbers:

2, 3, 9, 25, 10, 13, 6, 6, 7

4. Find the mean of the following scores 8, 10, 9, 6,

4, 7, 5, 8.

5. What is the standard deviation of the set of

numbers 2, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8.

6. What is the range of the set of numbers 2, 4, 4,

5, 7, 8?