PRE-TEST

MATHEMATICS 10
DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the best answer.
1. What is the next term in the geometric sequence 4,-12, 36?
A. -42 B. -54 C. -72 D. -108
13 7 15
2. Find the common difference in the arithmetic sequence 3 , 4 , 2 , 4 ,…
A. ¼ B. ¾ C. 5/2 D. 4
3. Which set of numbers is an example of a harmonic sequence?
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2
A. , , , , B. 2
, -1, 2, -4 C. , , , D. 2 , , ,7
2 2 2 2 3 9 27 81 3 5
4. What is the sum of all the odd integers between 8 and 26?
A. 153 B. 151 C. 149 D. 148
5. If three arithmetic means are inserted between 11 and 39, find the second arithmetic mean?
A. 18 B. 25 C. 32 D. 46
6. If three geometric means are inserted between 1 and 256, find the third geometric mean.
A. 64 B. 32 C. 16 D. 4
1 1 1 1
7. What is the next term in the harmonic sequence , , , ,....? 11 15 19 23
A. 27 B. 25 C. 1/25 D. 1/27
8. Which term of the arithmetic sequence 4 , 1 -2, -5 , …. is -29?
A. 9th term B. 10th term C. 11th term D. 12th term
2 2
9. What is the 6th term of the geometric sequence , , 2 , 10 ,…?
25 5
A. 25 B. 250 C. 1250 D. 2500
10. The first term of an arithmetic sequence is 2 while the 18th term is 87. Find the common difference of the
sequence. A. 7 B. 6 C. 5 D. 3
11. What is the next term in the Fibonacci sequence 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,….?
A. 13 B. 16 C. 19 D. 20
12. Find the sum of the geometric sequence where the first term is 3 , the last term is 46 875 , and the common
ratio is 5. A. 58 593 B. 58 594 C. 58 595 D. 58 596
13. Find the eight term of a geometric sequence where the third term is 27 and the common ratio is 3.
A. 2187 B. 6561 C. 19 683 D. 59 049
14. Which of the following is the sum of all the multiples of 3 from 15 to 48?
A. 315 B. 360 C. 378 D. 396
15. The following are examples of polynomials, EXCEPT
A. x2 – 4x + 5 B. 4x-3 + 8x-2 + 10x -7 C. 3x4 – 5x3 + 2x – 1 D. x3 – y3
16. The leading coefficient of the polynomial 5x + 4x + 4x + x – x is
10 12 6 4

A. 4 B. 5 C. 10 D. 12
17. Find the remainder when (x9 + 2x8 + 3x7 + ….. + 9x) is divided by ( x -1 )
A. 45 B. 90 C. 180 D. 360
18. What is the remainder when (5x100 + 5 ) is divided by ( x-1)?
A. 5 B. 10 C. -19 D. -11
19. Which of the following polynomial is exactly divisible by (3x + 1)?
A. 6x2 + 17x + 5 B. 9x2 + 6x +1 C. 3x3 + 4x2 -8x -3 D. all of the above
20. Which polynomial gives a quotient of (3x + 2x +4) and a remainder of 19 when divided by (2x – 3)?
2

A. 6x3 – 5x2 + 2x B. 6x3 – 5x2 +4x +7 C. 6x3 – 5x2 + 2x +7 D. 6x3 + 5x2 +2x + 7
21. If (7x – 5x – 7x +2x – 3 ) is divided by ( x +3) using synthetic division , the number in the first row would be
4 5 3

A. -5 7 -7 0 2 -3 B. -7 -7 -5 0 2 -3 C. 1 7 -7 0 2 -3 D. -3 7 -7 0 2 -5
22. Find the sum of the first six terms of the geometric sequence with first term 40 and common ratio ½.
315 315 315
A. B. C. D. 315
4 2 8
23. If the remainder after dividing polynomial (5x3 – 3x2 + k) by (x+1) is 4, which of the following must be the
value of k? A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
24. What is the remainder when (9x + 8x2 + 7x3 + …. x9) is divided by (x-1)?
A. 45 B. 90 C. 180 D. 360
25. Given P (x) = 3x3+ 2x2 –x. What is the value of P (2)?
A. 20 B. 30 C. 40 D. 50
26. What should n be if f(x) = 𝑥 𝑛 defines a polynomial function?
A. an integer B. a nonnegative integer C. any number D. any number except 0
27. Which of the following is an example of a polynomial function?
3
4 3
A. f(x) = 𝑥 3 + 3x-1 B. f(x) = 2𝑥 2 - 2 𝑥 2 C. f(x) =√7x -2𝑥 6 D. f(x) = x³ + √3𝑥 -5
28. What is the leading coefficient of the polynomial function f(x) = 2x + x³ + 4?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
29. How should the polynomial function f(x) = 2x + x³ + 3𝑥 5 + 4 be written in standard form?
A. f(x) = x³ + 2x + 3𝑥 5 + 4 C. f(x) = 4 + 2x + x³ + 3𝑥 5
5
B. f(x) = 4 + 3𝑥 + 2x + x³ D. f(x) = 3𝑥 5 + x³ + 2x + 4

30. What are the end behaviors of the graph of f(x) = -2x + x³ + 3𝑥 5 -4?
 A. rises to the left and falls to the right C. rises to both directions
B. falls to the left and rises to the right D. falls to both directions
31. If you will draw the graph of y= x (x +2)²how will you sketch it with respect to the x-axis?
A. Sketch it crossing both (-2, 0) and (0,0). C. Sketch it tangent at (-2, 0) and crossing (0,0).
B. Sketch it crossing (-2, 0) and tangent at (0, 0). D. Sketch it tangent at (-2, 0) and (0, 0)
32. A car manufacturer determines that its profit, P, in thousands of pesos, can be modeled by the function
P(x) = 0.00125𝑥 4 + x – 3, where x represents the number of cars sold. What is the profit when x = 300?
A. Php 101.25 B. Php 1,039,500.00 C. Php 3,000,000.00 D. Php 10,125,297.00
33. What is an angle whose vertex is on a circle and whose sides contain chords of the circle?
A. central angle B. inscribed angle C. circumscribed angle D. intercepted angle
34. An arc of a circle measures 30°. If the radius of the circle is 5 cm, what is the length of the arc?
A. 2.62 cm B. 2.3 cm C. 1.86 cm D. 1.5 cm
35. The opposite angles of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle are _____.
A. right B. obtuse C. complementary D. supplementary
36. What is the sum of the measures of the central angles of a circle with no common interior points?
A. 120 B. 240 C. 360 D. 480
37. Catherine designed a pendant. It is a regular hexagon set in a circle. Suppose the opposite vertices are
connected by line segments and meet at the center of the circle. What is the measure of each angle
formed at the center?
A. 22.5° B. 45° C. 60° D. 72°
38. If an inscribed angle of a circle intercepts a semicircle, then the angle is _________.
A. acute B. right C. obtuse D. straight
39. At a given point on the circle, how many line/s can be drawn that is tangent to the circle?
A. one B. two C. three D. four
40. Choosing a subset of a set is an example of ___.
A. combination B. differentiation C. integration D. permutation
41. Which of the following situations or activities involve permutation?
A. matching shirts and pants
B. forming different triangles out of 5 points on a plane, no three of which are collinear
C. assigning telephone numbers to subscribers
D. forming a committee from the members of a club
42. The product of a positive integer n and all the positive integers less than it is _____.
A. powers of n B. multiples of n C. n - factors D. n factorial
43. How many different 4-digit even numbers can be formed from the digits 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9 if no repetition
of digits is allowed?
A. 1680 B. 840 C. 420 D. 120
44. In how many ways can 8 people be seated around a circular table if two of them insist on sitting beside
each other?
A. 360 B. 720 C. 1440 D. 5040
45. Find the number of distinguishable permutations of the letters of the word PASS.
A. 4 B. 12 C. 36 D. 144
46. Ms. Santos asked Renz to draw all the diagonals of a certain polygon on the blackboard. Renz was able
to draw 27 diagonals which his teacher declared correct. What was the given polygon?
A. pentagon B. hexagon C. nonagon D. decagon
47. Rochelle got a score of 55 which is equivalent to 70th percentile in a mathematics test. Which of the following
is NOT true?
A. She scored above 70% of her classmates.
B. Thirty percent of the class got scores of 55 and above.
C. If the passing mark is the first quartile, she passed the test.
D. Her score is below the 5th decile.
48. In the set of scores: 14, 17, 10, 22, 19, 24, 8, 12, and 19, the median score is _______.
A. 17 B. 16 C. 15 D. 13
49. In a 70-item test, Melody got a score of 50 which is the third quartile. This means that:
A. she got the highest score.
B. her score is higher than 25% of her classmates.
C. she surpassed 75% of her classmates.
D. seventy-five percent of the class did not pass the test.
50. The 1st quartile of the ages of 250 fourth year students is 16 years old. Which of the following statements
is true?
A. Most of the students are below 16 years old.
B. Seventy-five percent of the students are 16 years old and above.
C. Twenty-five percent of the students are 16 years old.
D. One hundred fifty students are younger than 16 years.