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1. A fruit grower can use two types of fertilizer in an orange grove, brand A and brand B. Each bag of brand A
contains 8 lbs of nitrogen and 9 lbs of phosphoric acid. Each bag of brand B contains 4 lbs of nitrogen and 7
lbs of phosphoric acid. Tests indicate that the grove needs 860 lbs of nitrogen and 1080 lbs of phosphoric
acid. How many bags of brand A to be combined with brand B is used to provide the required amounts of
nitrogen and phosphoric acid?
A. 1445 B. 950 C. 1940 D. None in list
2. What is the required number of bag of brand B must be combined to brand A from the previous problem?
A. 1445 B. 1940 C. 495 D. 555
SIT 1: SIT ALG1: y is inversely proportional to x and y=22 when x=0.7.
3. What is the constant of proportionality?
A. 15.4 B. 31.4 C. 8.6 D. None in list
4. When x=1.5, what is y?
A. 10.3 B. 20.9 C. 5.7 D. None in list
5. When y=2.5, what is x?
A. 3.4 B. 12.56 C. 6.2 D. None in list
SIT 2: From a building across, the angle of depression of the base of the front edifice is 23.5 and the angle of
elevation to the top is 52.78. The height of observation is 14 m.
6. What is the height of edifice?
A. 56.39 m B. 76.58 m C. 68.74 m D. 42.23 m
7. How far is the building from the edifice?
A. 36.7 m B. 45.6 m C. 24.8 m D. 32.2 m
8. What is the angle of elevation of the top of the edifice from the foot of the building in degrees?
A. 65.37 B. 60.27 C. 78.96 D. 54.76
9. The polynomial x^3x^24x+4 is divided by x-5. Which of the following gives the remainder?
A. 81 B. 82 C. 83 D. 84
10. From the previous problem, if the polynomial is divided by one of its factors, which of the following gives the
remainder?
A. 0 B. 1 C. -2 D. 2
11. In triangle ABC, AB=25 and BC=10. Which of the following may be the length of AC?
A. 35 B. 14 C. 15 C. 16
12. The distance 180 m observer sees the top of a castle at angle of elevation 39 and its bottom at an angle 36.
Find the height of the castle.
A. 17.21 m B. 12.35 m C. 10.54 m D. 14.98 m
SIT 3: Two trains are running in the same direction on two parallel tracks. The trains are 85 m and 65 m,
respectively, and running at 120 kph and 240 kph. If the trail end of the first train is 210 m ahead of the front end
of the second train.
13. Determine the time required for the front end of the second train to reach the tail end of the first train.
A. 4.6 s B. 5.7 s C. 6.3 s D. 7.8 s
14. Determine the total distance traveled by the second train from the initial position when it has completely
overtaken the first train.
A. 720 m B. 756 m C. 845 m D. 810 m
15. Determine the distance traveled by the first train from the initial position until both ends of the two trains
abreast each other.
A. 276 m B. 280 m C. 295 m D. 305 m
16. I was jogging near Harbor Point at steady rate of 8kph. Five minutes later, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and
Tim Duncan jogged at 10 kph to follow me. How long did it take for the big three to catch me?
A. 20 min B. 25 min C. 30 min D. 15 min
17. The price of 8 calculators ranges from P200 to P1000. If their average price is P950, what is the lowest
possible price of any one of the calculators?
A. 908 B. 500 C. 600 D. 200

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SIT 4: What is the y-intercept of the following:
18. y=2sinx
A. 2 B. 0 C. 1 D. None in list
19. y=cosx+1
A. 2 B. 0 C. 1 D. None in list
20. y=2cotx+1
A. 2 B. 0 C. 3 D. None in list
21. Which of the following gives the domain of the function: () = 1 + 3 1
A. x=1/3 B. x1/3 C. x>1/3 D. x<1/3
22. Which of the following gives the range of the previous problem?
A. y>0 B. y0 C. y>1 D. y1
23. A turtle and a snail, initially 1 km apart, are racing towards each other with velocities 1 m/s and 0.5 m/s
respectively. A playful rabbit hops 5 m/s back and forth from the snail to the turtle, then back to the snail
and so on until the turtle and the snail met. If all started at the same time, what is the total distance traveled
by the rabbit?
A. 1000 m B. 2500 m C. 3333 m C. 3125 m
24. Boat A is heading due east of a port travelling at constant speed of 80 kph. After 45 minutes, boat B left the
port with constant speed of 100 kph. If after 2.75 hours when boat A left the port, the two are 112.5 km
apart, what was the direction of boat B?
A. S 30.6 E B. S 59.4 E C. S 23.4 E D. S 66.6 E
25. Which of the following gives the solution of 2 log( + 1) + log( 2) = log( 1)?
A. -1.8606 B. 1.8606 C. -0.2541 D. 2.1149
26. Haide and Heide are running 1 mile race. Since Haide can run faster than Heide, she gave her an eight-second
head start. If Haide and Heide can run at 5 m/s and 3 m/s respectively, in how many seconds after Heide
started running will Haide catch up with here?
A. 10 B. 12 C. 16 D. 20
27. It took a train 20 seconds to completely pass a 500-m iron bridge. When the train was passing through a
1200-m tunnel, it was invisible from outside of the tunnel for 30 seconds. If the speed of the train was
constant, what was the length of the train?
A. 180 m B. 160 m C. 140 m D. 120 m
28. A salesman gets a P 1,000 commission on a small scale, one of the many that he accomplished in a period of
time. This P 1,000 commission raised his average commission by P 150. If the salesmans new average
commission is now P 400, how many sales did he make?
A. 10 B. 5 C. 3 D. None in the list
SIT 5: Using a surveying instrument, the height of a hill is to be determined. Station A is set up 163 m north of
station B. From station A the angle of the top of the hill is 46.21 while that from B is 38.27. From the bottom of
the hill, station A and station B subtends an angle of 26.54.

29. How far is the station A from the hill?

A. 234.67 m B. 245.86 m C. 263.54 m D. 276.98 m
30. How far is the station B from the hill?
A. 348.47 m B. 356.48 m C. 364.29 m D. 398.21 m
31. What is the height of the hill?
A. 243.77 m B. 274.91 m C. 284.76 m D. 289.53 m
32. A drainage pump can empty a septic tank in 3 hrs without the inflow of sewer. With the maximum inflow of
sewer while the pump is off, it can fill the tank in 7 hrs. In how many hours can the pump empty the tank
during maximum inflow?
A. 5.35 hrs B. 5.25 hrs C. 4.2 hrs D. 6.50 hrs
33. A certain clock shows the time 9 oclock. If the hour hand only moves from hour to hour calibration, what is
the time after it moves 2013 times around the clock?
A. 5:00 B. 6:00 C. 8:00 D. 9:00

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34. Napoles takes the subway transit for the first time and she observes that all seats are occupied in the first
station. The next stop, about 1/8 of the passengers get off and 14 passengers get on, making all seats
occupied again with 6 people standing. How many people are now in the train?
A. 64 B. 65 C. 70 D. 74
35. There are 84 tons of water in pool A and 36 tons of water in pool B. If the water flows from pool A to pool B
at a rate of 2 tons per minute. How many minutes will the water in pool B twice that in pool A?
A. 22 B. 2 C. 20 D. None in list
36. The cost of a luxury towel varies jointly as its width and length. The cost is Php 1552 pesos for a 6x 8 towel.
How much is 9x 12 towel?
A. Php 3492 B. Php 3534 C. Php 3652 D. Php 3764
37. Mdel and Yabut have many marbles. Mdel tells Yabut, "If you give me 100 marbles, then I will have twice of
your number of marbles." Yabut tells Mdel, "If you give me 10 marbles, then my marbles will be 8 times of
yours." How many marbles does Yabut have in the beginning?
A. 54 B. 8 C. 32 D. 166
38. What is the 2013th number in the series: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 36, ...?
A. 14077 B. 14078 C. 14084 D. 14085
39. There are several kilograms of salt water and mixed with a certain amount of water. Then the concentration
is reduced to 3%. The same quantity of water is added to it again, and then the concentration is reduced to
2%. If the same quantity of water is added to it again, what will be the concentration of the salt water now?
A. 1% B. 1.5% C. 1.17% D. 1.66%
40. If logab=2, and loga=2.5 what is the value of b?
A. 10 B. 10000 C. 100000 D. 1000000
41. The extra time in minutes that would cover a distance of 100 km travelling at 50 kph instead of 60 kph is?
A. 12 B. 6 C. 33 D. 20
42. The three sides of a triangle are a, a+1, and a+2. Which of the following could be the possible value of a?
A. a > 0 B. a > 1 C. 0 < a < 1 D. a=1
43. When 5 new classrooms were built for MIT, the average class size was reduced by 6. When another 5
classrooms were built, the average class size reduced by another 4. If the number of students remained the
same throughout the changes, how many students were there at the school?
A. 560 B. 600 C. 650 D. 720
44. If n is an integer, which of the following must be an odd integer?
A. 2n^2+5 B. 5n C. n^2+5 D. n^3
45. How many minutes after 5:09 pm will the hands of the clock form 54 degrees for the first time?
A. 7.45 B. 8.45 C. 9.45 D. 10.45
SIT 4: Jordan and Jackson together can do a piece of work in 3 and 3/7 days. After working for 1 day, Jordan left
Jackson and Jackson did the work along in 4 days.
46. How many days will Jordan do the job alone?
A. 18 B. 4.23 C. 8.73 D. 5.65
47. How many days will Jackson do the job alone?
A. 18 B. 4.23 C. 8.73 D. 5.65
48. If Jackson work for 2 days alone, how many days more will Jordan need to finish the job?
A. 5.64 B. 4.35 C. 9.5 D. 3.76
49. The members of the soccer team are to share 350 pesos. After five members stated that they wont come, the
share increases by 1.25 each. How many members does the team have?
A. 285 B. 290 C. 40 D. 35
50. Which of the following gives the simplified value of (log23)(log34)(log45)(log20122013)?
A. 3.3038 B. 10.9751 C. 10.9744 D. 3.3036
SIT 5: Given the trigonometric function: y=11sinx+60cosx, where x and y are real numbers.
51. Which of the following gives the amplitude of the function?
A. 59 B. 60 C. 61 D. 71

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52. Which of the following gives the period?
A. 2 B. C. /2 D. 3/2
53. Which of the following gives the phase shift?
A. 79.44 B. 1.39 C. 88.25 D. 3.43
54. Laurence has 147 pesos and Lorenz has 57 pesos. How much money in pesos does Laurence need to give
Lorenz so that he would have twice as money left as Lorenz would have then?
A. 57 B. 11 C. 16.5 D. 33
55. Brando had a very odd clock. There are only 10 hours per day. It only have 5 numbers which is 1 to 5 arrange
in ascending order clockwise, with 5 taking the position of 12 in a 12-hour clock, and each is spaced evenly
around the clock. For every hour, there are 144 minutes. If the current time now is 3:61pm. After how many
minutes will the hour hand and minute hand form right angles with each other?
A. 1 min B. 2 mins C. 2.5 mins D. 2.67 mins
56. An airline company doesnt charge luggage fees if the luggage is under a certain weight limit. For every extra
kilogram, a fee is charged. The luggage of Jinggoy weighed 70kg and paid Php 1638. The luggage of Franklin
weighed 47kg and paid only Php 672. What is the maximum weight of luggage one passenger does not have
to pay for?
A. 29 kg B. 30 kg C. 31 kg D. 33 kg
57. A population of fungi in Einsteins backyard triples every two weeks. What was the population a month ago if
the population now is 5.21 B?
A. 579 M B. 1.74 B C. 193 M D. 64 M
58. If the abscissa is half the ordinate and the ordinate is a prime number and both are integers, what is their
sum?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 5 D. 7
59. If p, q, r and s are in geometric progression, which of the following is true?
A. p/q=s/r B. q/r=s/p C. q/p=s/r D. None in list
60. Mitoy is observing an approaching plane. He found out that the angles of elevation when he first saw it is
15.61. After 1 minute, the angle of elevation becomes 36.1. What is the speed of the plane if it is 1500 m
above ground?
A. 155 kph B. 189 kph C.211 kph D. 199 kph

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