TUKURAN TECHNICAL – VOCATIONAL

HIGH SCHOOL
Tukuran, Zamboanga del sur
First Quarterly Assessment in Mathematics 10

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PART I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Direction: Encircle the letter of the correct 10. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the
answer. arithmetic sequence whose general term is
1. What are the next three shapes? , , , an=3n + 5.
, , , , , , , __, __, __, , , … A. 97 C. 208
A. , ,  C. , ,  B. 192 D. 294
B. , ,  D. , ,  11. Which of the following is an arithmetic
2. Which term of the arithmetic sequence sequence?
4, 1, -2, -5, . . . is -29? A. 6, 18, 54, 162, … C. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, …
A. 9th term C. 11th term B. 4, 10, 16, 22, … D. ½, ¼, 1/6, 1/8, …
th
B. 10 term D. 12th term 12. One of the choices is a geometric
3. The table below shows the number of sequence, which of these?
carabaos sold in the farm of Mang Tino A. 20, 24, 28, 32, … C. 10, 19/2, 9, 17/2, …
YEAR No. of carabao sold B. 5, 10, 15, 20, … D. -1, 1, -1, 1, …
2012 3 13. Using the nth term of the sequence, which
2013 13 of the following describes a geometric
2014 23 sequence?
2015 33 A. an = n+4 C. an = 12 – 3n
2016 43 B. an = 2n – 1 D. an = (-2)n
If pattern continues, in what year will he sold 14. Carl used an = 3 – 2n to get the first 5 terms
93 carabaos? of the sequence. Which do you think describes
A. 2019 C. 2021 the sequence answered by Carl?
B. 2020 D. 2022 A. It is an arithmetic sequence
4. Find the common difference in the arithmetic B. It is a geometric sequence
13 C. It is a harmonic sequence
sequence 3, , 7/2, 15/4,? D. It is a Fibonacci sequence
4
A. 4 C. 3/4 15.
B. 5/24 D.1/4
5. If three arithmetic means are inserted
between 11 and 39, find the second arithmetic
mean.
A. 18 C. 32 What happen to Sn as n goes larger and larger?
B. 25 D. 46 A. It forms a finite sequence
6. What is the sum of all the odd integers B. The sequence will have larger values
between 8 and 16? C. The sequence will form an infinite sequence
A. 53 C. 49 D. There will nothing happen to the sequence
B. 51 D. 48 16. What is the 6th term of the geometric
7. The sum of the first 10 terms of an arithmetic sequence where the 2nd term is 6 and common
sequence is 530. What is the first term if the ratio is 2?
last term is 80? A. 12 C. 48
A. 30 C. 24 B. 24 D. 96
B. 26 D. 22 17. If three geometric means are inserted
8. The third term of an arithmetic sequence is between 16 and 81, What is the second
–12 and the seventh term is 8. What is the sum geometric mean?
of the first 10 terms? A. 24 C. 48
A. -20 C. -70 B. 36 D. 54
B. -50 D. -80 18. What is the sum of the geometric sequence
9. Find the sum of the first 25 multiples of 8. where the first term is three, the last term is
A. 3,000 C. 2,600 46, 875, and 5 is the common ratio?
B. 2,800 D. 2,000 A. 58 594 C. 58 595
B. 58 593 D. 58 596
19.The sum to infinity of 1, √ 2, 2, 2√ 2,… is What is the remainder?
_____. A. 0 C. 5x - 6
A.-1 - √ 2 C. 1 - √ 2 B. x + 4 D. 5x2 + 14x – 24
B. -1 + √ 2 D. 1 + √ 2 27. What is the quotient when x2 – 25 is divided
20. The sum to infinity of a geometric by x – 5?
sequence is twice the first term. What is the A. 4 C. 10
common ratio? B. 5 D. 12
A. ½ C. 2 28. Which of the following is NOT a root of
B. 1 D. 4 X(x + 3)(x + 3)(x – 1)(2x + 1) = 0?
21. i. 0 iii. –1
ii. –3 iv. 1/2
1 1 A. i only C. i and ii only
A. C. B. ii only D. iii and iv only
n+1 2n
1 1 29. Allan used synthetic division to find the
B. D. quotient if (5x2 – 16x + 4x3 – 3) is divided by
n−1 4 n−2
22. Twelve days before Valentine’s day, Jared (x – 2). He obtained -19 as remainder. His
decided to give Trish flowers according to the solution is shown below.
Fibonacci sequence. On the first day, he sent
one red rose, on the second day, two red
roses, and so on. How many roses did Trish
receive during the tenth day?
A. 10 C. 89
B. 55 D. 144 What is the error?
23. A new square is formed by joining the
midpoints of the consecutive sides of a square
8 inches on a side. If the process is continued
until there are already six squares, find the
sum of the ares of all squares in square inches.
A. 96 C. 124
B. 112 D. 126
24. John bought a car for Php600,000. The
yearly depreciation of his car is 10% of its A. i only C. ii and iv only
value at the start of the year. What is its value B. ii only D. i and iii only
after 4 years? 30. Cassie will evaluate an 8th degree
A. Php438,000 C. Php393,660 polynomial in x at x = 10 using the Remainder
B. Php437,400 D. Php378,000 Theorem and synthetic division. How many
25. In Tukuran Technical-Vocational High coefficients of x will be written in the first row of
School, suspension of classes is announced the synthetic division procedure?
through text brigade. One stormy day, Dr. A. 8 C. 10
Castelo, the school principal, announces the B. 9 D. 11
suspension of classes to two teachers, each of 31. Find a cubic polynomial equation with roots
whom sends this message to two other -2, 2, and 4.
teachers and so on. Suppose the text A. x3 + 4x2 – 4x + 16 = 0
messages were sent in five rounds, counting B. x3 – 4x2 – x + 16 = 0
the principal’s text message as the first, how C. x3 – x2 – x + 16 = 0
many text messages were sent all in all? D. x3 – 4x2 – 4x + 16 = 0
A. 31 C. 63 32. If P(-2) = 0, which of the following
B. 32 D. 64 statements is true about P(x)?
26. Use the illustration on long division that A. x + 2 is a factor of P(x)
B. 2 is a root of P(x)
follows:
C. P(x) = 0, has two negative roots
Divide (5x2 + 14x – 24) by (x + 4) D. P(0) = -2
33. One dimension of a cube is increased by 1
inch to form a rectangular block. Suppose that
the volume of the new block is 150 cubic
inches. Find the length of an edge of the
original cube.
A. 12 inches C. 5 inches
B. 7 inches D. 2 inches
34. The dimensions of a rectangular metal box
are 3 cm, 5 cm, and 8 cm. If the first two
dimensions are increased by the same number
of centimeters, while the third dimension
remains the same, the new volume is 34 cm3
more than the original volume. What is the new
dimension of the enlarged rectangular metal
box?
A. 3.5 cm by 5.5 cm by 8.5 cm
B. 3.5 cm by 5.5 cm by 8 cm
C. 3.5 cm by 5 cm by 8 cm
D. 3 cm by 5 cm by 8 cm
35. The diagonal of a rectangle is 8 m longer
than its shorter side. If the area of the rectangle
is 60 m2, find its dimension?
A. shorter side = 3 m, longer side = 8 m
B. shorter side = 5 m, longer side = 10 m
C. shorter side = 3 m, longer side = 11 m
D. shorter side = 5 m, longer side = 12 m

PART II. SOLVING

Directions: Find all the real roots of the given
polynomial equation. Show your complete
solution. (5 points)

x3 – 2x2 + 4x – 8 = 0

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