Civil Service Math Proficiency

Directions: This is a test of your proficiency in math. Choose the best answer and shade the circle above the letter that
corresponds to your answer.

1. Which is the following is the greatest?

A. 2150

B. 3125

C. 4100

D. 975

2. how many perfect squares can be displayed on a 12-digit calculator?

A. 6000

B. 4444

C. 5 000

D. 999 999

3. How many numbers between ¼ and ½ can be displayed on an 8-digit calculator?

A. 24 999 999

B. 99 999 999

C. 25 000 000

D. 10 000 000

4. The positive integers are written in order starting with 1: 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728…

A. 1

B. 2

C. 5

D. 6

5. The radius of a unicycle wheel is 30 cm. When the unicycle travels continuously in one direction for 1km, the wheel
makes n revolutions. Of the following, which is the best approximation of n?

A. 53

B. 530

C. 5 300

D. 53 000

6. Two numbers have a production of 1 872 and a sum of 88. Without knowing the numbers, find their difference.

A. 9

B. 14

C. 16

D. 18

7. A spoonful of ice cream is taken from a cup of cream and put into a cup of coffee and stirred. Then a spoonful of this
mixture is taken and put into the cup of cream. Which of the following result is true?

A. There is now more cream in the coffee cup.

B. There is now more coffee in the cup of cream.

C. The amount of coffee in the cup of cream is equal to the amount of cream in the coffee cup
D. There is no way to compare amount of coffee in the cup of cream to the amount of cream in the coffee cup

8. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of all the multiples of 5 from 1 to 9 999?

A. 5 000

B. 5 005

C. 4 950

D. 10 000

9. P is a positive integer. When P + 3 is divided by 8, the remind is 5. What is the remainder when P is divided by 8?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

10. Two candles of the same height and diameter burn at the same uniform rate. Each takes 6 hours to be consumed. If
the first candle is lit at 6:00 p.m. and the other at 8:00 p.m., at what time will the second candle be twice as tall as the
first?

A. 8:30 pm

B. 9:30 pm

C. 9:45 pm

D. 10:00 pm

11. Which of the following cannot be weighed using a balance scale and these unit weights: 1,2,5,7 and 10?

A. 14

B. 23

C. 28

D. 25

12. How many positive two-digit numbers are possible such that the number and the sum of its digits are divisible by 7

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 4

13. The product of a and b is a constant. If the value of a is decreased by 25%, by how many percent must the value of b
be increased?

A. 10%

B. 25%

C. 33 1/3%

D. 40%

14. half the sum of two numbers is 18. If one of the numbers is 25, what is the product of the two numbers?

A. 275

B. 550

C. 720

D. 900
15. What is the maximum number of squares that can be made from a piece of wire 100 meters long if the area of each
square is 9 square meters?

A. 12

B. 10

C. 11

D. 8

16. If d is a positive integer greater than 1 and if the remainders are the same when 11 and 19 are each divided by d,
then d =?

A. 6

B. 7

C. 8

D. 9

17. Joshua had a flat tire after biking 2/3 of his way home. He walked the rest of the way home. If his walking time was
three times his biking time, how many times faster is his biking speed than his walking speed?

A. 2

B. 4

C. 3

D. 6

18. A group of more than ten and fewer than thirty people all paid the same amount for a ticket to the Lea Salonga’s The
Broadway Concert. If the total cost was P16 490, how many people are there in the group?

A. 12

B. 15

C. 17

D. 97

19. Glenly instead of cleaning the bathroom unwound a new bathroom tissue, counted the sheets and found out that
there are really 300 sheets in a roll as indicated in the label. Each sheet measures 11cm. She got another new roll and
found out further that a full roll has a diameter of approximately 10.5 cm and the diameter of the cardboard is 4 cm.
Now she like to know how many times does the paper wind around the cardboard but doesn’t like to count manually by
unwinding another roll and trust her mathematical ability instead. How did she do it and what answer did she get?

A. 125

B. 145

C. 180

D. 225

20. How many minutes is it until six o’clock if 45 minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past four o’clock?

A. 15

B. 20

C. 18

D. 25

21. A Geometry quiz consists of 10 true or false question. How many Different patterns are possible?

A. 2

B. 20
C. 100

D. 1 024

( n−2 ) x 180
22. The formula A ¿ relates to the measure of an interior angle, A, of a regular polygon to the number of
n
sides, n. Find the number of sides if an interior angle of a regular polygon measure 120 o

A. 4

B. 6

C. 12

D. 36

23. When a certain number is divided by 8 there is no remainder. If when the number is divided by 16 there is a
remainder, the remainder must be

A. 1

B. 4

C. 6

D. 8

24. If 1 is subtracted from eight times a certain number the result is the same as if 89 is added to three times the
number. Find the number.

A. 18

B. 20

C. 24

D. 30

25. The difference of two numbers is 67. The larger number is 43 less than six times the smaller number. Find the larger
number.

A. 22

B. 89

C. 67

D. 175

26. A condominium contains 230 unit each having one, two or three bedrooms. The number of two-bedroom unit is 10
more than three times of three-bedroom units. The number of one-bedroom units is twice the number of two-bedroom
units. How many three-bedroom units are there?

A. 10

B. 20

C. 70

D. 140

27. Five-six of a number plus three-fourths of the same number is 2 more than four-thirds of the number. Find the
number.

A.2

B. 4

C. 8

D. 12
28. Find the largest of three consecutive integers such that the sum of the first plus one-third of the second plus three-
eighths of the third is 25.

A.10

B. 16

C. 42

D. 58

29. Three numbers are such that the second is six less than the than three times the first, and the third is two more than
two-thirds of the second. If the sum of the number is 172, find the smallest number?

A. 30

B. 40

C. 58

D. 84

30. One angle of a triangle is four times as great as the second angle. The third angle measure 5 o more than twice the
second angle. Find the measure of the largest angle.

A. 55o

B. 100o

C. 120o

D. 140o

31. A piece of wire 100 cm long is to be cut into two pieces, and those two pieces are each to be bent to make a square.
The area of one square is to be 225 cm² greater than the other. What is the sum of the areas of the two squares?

A. 256 cm²

B. 289 cm²

C. 353 cm²

D. 7225 cm²

32. Vivian was 50 years old when Tina was born. Now she 2 years more than four times Tina’s age. How old is Tina now?

A. 12

B. 16

C. 56

D. 66

33.In a group of cows and chickens, the number of legs was 14 more than twice the number of heads. Find the number
of cows?

A. 4

B. 5

C. 7

D. 16

34. Two jets leave Manila at the same time, one flying east and one flying west. The rate of the second jet 100 km per
hour faster than the first. In three hours, they are 4 800 km apart. Find the rate of the faster jet?

A. 750 kph

B. 800 kph

C. 850 kph
D. 900 kph

35. A position number is mistakenly divided by 6 instead of being multiplied by 6. Based on the correct answer, what is
the percent error?

8
A. 92 ¿ %
9
2
B. 2 ¿ %
9
1
C. 7 ¿ %
9
2
D. 97 ¿ %
9
36. A. freight train leaves station and travels at a rate of 30 kph. Two hours later, an express train leave the same station
traveling in the same direction at a rate of 50 kph. In many hours will the express train overtake the freight train?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

37. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 15. The number is 9 less than the number obtained by reversing the
digits. Find the two-digits number.

A. 78

B. 87

C. 96

D. 69

38. A soccer team has won 8 games and lost 4 games. If the team wins the next x games, it would have won 75% of all
the games it played. What is the value of x?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

39. Q, R, S, and T are points on a line, with T the midpoint of segment RS. The lengths of segments QR, QS and RS are 16,
8, and 24 respectively. What is the length of segment ST?

A. 8

B. 12

C. 14

D. 16

40. The average weight of 8 boxes is 4.8 pounds. If each box weighs at least 4.3 pounds, what is the greatest possible
weight of one of these boxes?

A. 7.8

B. 8.3

C. 8.4

D. 9.2
41. Jenny can encode 600 words in 5 minutes less than it takes Amy to encode 600 words. If Jenny encodes at the rate of
20 words per minute faster than Amy, find the encoding rate of Amy in words per minute/

A. 15

B. 20

C. 40

D. 60

42. Knowing the specific gravity of the material that goes to make up a rock helps to identify the minerals in the rock.
find the specific gravity of pyrite if a simple weighs 400 grams in air and 320 grams in water. The formula for finding the
specific gravity is

wt .∈ air
Sp . gravity =
wt .∈ air−wt .∈water
A. 0.20

B. 5

C. 10

D. 20

43. Find the area of a triangle with sides of lengths 5, 6, and 7.

A. 2√3

B. 2√5

C. 4√6

D. 6√6
1 2 3
44. Find the sum of the infinite geometric series + + + … if has one.
7 7 7
A. 1

B. 2

C. 7

D. no sum

45. Find all possible values of x to make the expression √√x – x a real number.

A. 0≤ x ≤ 1

B. 0 < x < 1

C. 0 < x ≤ 1

D. 0 ≤ x < 1

46. Find all possible values of k for which the equation 3x² + 6x + k = 0 has a double root.

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 6

47. What is the equation of the axis of symmetry of y = | x – 1 | + 4.

A. y = 4

B. y = 1

C. x = 4
D. x = 1

48. If the parabola y – 4 = a(x + 2)² has the y-intercept -12, find a

A. a = 1

B. a = -1

C. a = 4

D. a = -4
2
x +4 x +3
49. Find the zeros f (x)= 2
x +5 x+ 6
A. {-1}

B. {-1, -3}

C. {1, -3}

D. {1, 3}

50. Find the zeroes of the function: y = x3+3x²-4x-12

A. ±2, 3

B. ±3, 2

c. -3, ±2