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NMAT REFRESHER REVIEW: 101616 11. A lot whose area is 72 square meters is to be fenced
QUANTITATIVE with barbed wire. If the width of the lot is one-half its
length, how long will the required barbed wire be to fence
DIRECTIONS: Select the best answer to each of the the lot using 5 rows?
following questions and blacken the appropriate space on a. 36 m b. 60 m c. 180 m d. 360m
your answer sheet.
12. Each year, a car depreciates a certain fraction of its
I. FUNDAMENTAL OPERATIONS value. During the first year, it depreciates
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of its value,
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1
Directions: Choose the best answer to each of the while during the second year, it depreciates of its value,
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following questions. 1
and during the third year, it depreciates of its value.
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1. 180 ÷ 3 × 8 ÷ 24 × 3 = What fraction of its original value is the value of the car at
a. 30 b. 50 c. 58 d. 60 the end of the third year?
2 3 13 59
a. b. c. d.
6 4 5 5 60 50
√8 × √4
2. √ =
2−3 −3−2
13. In the Boom-Boom Toy factory, the average time
a. √12 b. 6 c. 12 d. 1444 required for each of n production workers to assemble a
train set is t minutes. If all the workers work full time, how
many hours of plant operation will be required to fill an
3𝑛 +2 + 9
3. = order for 300 of these train sets?
3𝑛 +1 5𝑡 𝑛𝑡 5𝑛 18,000𝑛
a. 3 b. 9 c. 18 d. 27 a. b. c. d.
𝑛 5 𝑡 𝑡

14. A flower shop purchased 250 plants for Php 10.00

4 7
+
7 4 each. It is estimated that 10% of the plants will have to
4. 13 = be discarded without being sold. What should the selling
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65 28 price of a plant be if a gross profit of 20% of the cost on
a. b. c. 7 d. 5 the whole shipment is desired?
28 13
a. Php 15.00 b. Php 13.50 c. Php 12.0 d. Php 10.70

5. 6 √23 + 4(5 − 3) =? 15. A 3,900-sq m field is to be fertilized with a fertilizer

a. 20 b. 24 c. 30 d. 2 that can only be bought by the bag at Php 90 per 10-kg
bag or Php 70 per 7-kg bag. The bags come in only two
sizes and 1 kg is needed for every 60-sq m area. What
6. 3 x 23 + 6 ÷ 4 = ? would be the minimum cost to effectively fertilize the
a. 55.5 b. 10.5 c. 30 d. 25.5 field?
a. Php 585 b. Php 590 c. Php 610 d. Php 630

22 +3 𝑥 4 16. A survey company randomly called 200 people to get

7. 1 =? their opinion on a certain product. Of the 200 people, 125
÷2
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a. 64 b. 112 c. 16 d. 10 liked the product and 75 did not like it. If this same trend
continues, how many people should like the product out of
1000 people?
4 4 2 a. 625 b. 475 c. 550 d. 700
8. + 335 ÷ 412 ÷ 4(5)(3) =?
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7 3 11 3 17. When Jose attempts a free throw, he succeeds 59.4%
𝑎. 𝑏. 𝑐. 𝑑. of the time. If Jose attempts 31 free throws, estimate how
48 4 24 10
many times he will succeed.
a. 15 b. 18 c. 28 d. 52
𝑎−2 +𝑏−2
9. =
𝑎−2 −𝑏−2 18. John can finish a job two hours longer than Cris. After
𝑎+𝑏 𝑎 𝑎2 +𝑏2 𝑎2 +𝑏2 working for one hour, Cris joins him and they complete the
a. b. c. 2 2 d. 2 2
𝑎−𝑏 𝑏 𝑎 −𝑏 𝑏 −𝑎 job in 3 more hours. How long would it take John to finish
the job if he worked alone?
II. PROBLEM SOLVING a. 5 hrs b. 6 hrs c. 8 hrs d. 10 hrs

10. Lanie predicts that the sum of a pair of dice will be 19. Ten measurements of the diameter of a cylinder
equal to 6 for 2 consecutive throws. Oscar predicts that recorded by a scientist were as follows: 3.88, 4.09, 3.92,
the sum will be equal to 5 for the same number of throws. 3.97, 4.02, 3.95, 4.03, 3.92, 3.98 and 4.06 inches. Find
What is the probability of Lanie’s prediction? the arithmetic mean of the measurements.
25 5 7 1
a. b. c. d. a. 3.92 c. 4.00
1296 36 10 9 b. 3.98 d. 3.97
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20. Two numbers differ by 13. Twice the smaller plus the 26. The contribution of the Accounting & Services
other gives 49. What are the numbers? Divisions is how many percent of the contributions of the
a. 32, 45 c. 24, 37 Sales % Marketing Division?
b. 12, 25 d. 29, 42 a. 46.15% b. 38.46% c. 30% d. 7%

21. A group consists of n boys and n girls. If 2 boys are 27. Of the total actual contributions, how many percent
replaced by other girls, then 49% of the group members was contributed by the personnel division?
will be boys. Find the value of n. a. 1.7% b. 16.9% c. 21% d. 89%
a. 100 b. 50 c. 49 d. 51
The age distribution of the population in a small town is
22. The perimeter of ABCD = 24. The area of the shaded given in percent as shown below:
portion is _____. TABLE 1
a. 27𝜋 Age (in years) Percent
b. 9𝜋 − 24 up to 20 38
c. 9𝜋 − 36 21-40 26
d. 36 − 9𝜋 41-60 21
61-80 11
III. DATA INTERPRETATION over 80 4

At the start of the year, Norman David Corporation sets a The present population size is 10,000.
goal for contributions from each division to the Community
Fund. From time to time, a bulletin is issued to employees 28. How many persons are at least 61 years of age?
showing the contributions to date and the goal to be a. 1100 b. 400 c. 500 d. 1500
reached for the year. At the end of July, the following
graph was issued. 29. How many are at most 10 years of age?
a. 1900 b. 3800 c. 100 d. cannot be determined

30. The number of persons who are at most 20 years of

age is what percent of those over 80 years of age?
a. 9.5 b. 950 c. 10.5 d. 3400

31. The number of persons who belong to the 41-60 age

brackets is what percent less than those who belong to
the 21-40 age brackets?
a. 19 b. 5 c. 82 d. 24

The following table shows the student population of a

university in 1978 and 1979:
TABLE VI
College 1978 1979
Arts & Sciences 465 581
Pharmacy 120 185
Dentistry 170 86
Engineering 225 220
23. Approximately how much more must the Warehousing Education 238 279
and Shipping Division contribute to meet its goal? Music 106 164
a. Php 2,000 c. Php 3,000 Medicine 375 479
b. Php 2,500 d. Php 3,500
32. The student population remained almost the same
24. Which two divisions need the least percentage of
from 1978 to 1979 in which college?
contributions to reach their goal?
a. Arts & Sciences c. Medicine
a. Accounting & Services and Personnel Divisions b. Music d. Engineering
b. Accounting & Services and Sales & Marketing Divisions
c. Sales & Marketing and Warehousing & Shipping
33. The student population from 1978 to 1979 increased
Divisions in how many colleges?
d. Warehousing & Shipping and Personnel Divisions
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2
25. The average monthly contribution of the Warehousing 34. For the period 1978 to 1979, the student population of
& Shipping Division to the total fund is approximately
the College of Dentistry decreased by what percent?
a. Php 1,857 b. Php 1,500 c. Php 750 d. Php 1,285
a. 98 b. 49 c. 84 d. cannot be determined
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35. Which of the following gives the ranking (from

highest to lowest) of the top three colleges with largest
increase in student population from 1978 to 1979?
a. Arts & Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy
b. Education, Music, Pharmacy
c. Engineering, Dentistry, Education
d. Arts & Sciences, Medicine, Dentistry

The pie charts below show the monthly budget of the

Marasigan family for 2004 and 2005. The family’s annual
income for 2004 and 2005 are P72,000 and P76,000,
respectively.

36. How much more did the family spend on medical

expenses in 2005 than in 2004?
a. P1,520 b. P1,920 c. P7,200 d. P9,120

37. How much was the percent increase in the family’s

expenses for food and drinks?
a. 4.0% b. 4.9% c. 5.0% d. 5.2%

38. The budget of the Reynoso for 2006 will be the same
as that of 2005. In 2006, if they will spend P5,950 for
entertainment, how much will their savings be?
a. P3,040 b. P3,400 c. P4,250 d. P8,500

39. If the family spent P10,500 for food in 2004, how

many percent did they spend on drinks?
a. 4.2% b. 3.4% c. 14.6% d. 9.0%

40. In 2004, how much did they pay for rent each month?
a. P24,320 b. P18,000 c. P2,026 d. P1,500