NAPOLCOM Practice — Mathematics (100 Questions)

Instructions: Answer all questions. No choices are provided. Show your workings on separate paper.
(Questions only — answer key not included)

1. If 5 workers can complete a job in 12 days, how many days will 8 workers take to
complete the same job (assuming same rate)?
2. Simplify: 3/4 + 5/12 - 1/6.
3. Solve for x: 2x + 7 = 19.
4. A car travels at 60 km/h. How far will it travel in 2 hours and 30 minutes?
5. Find the area of a triangle with base 10 cm and height 7 cm.
6. Evaluate: 9^2 - (6 × 7) + 5.
7. If the ratio of A:B is 3:5 and A + B = 64, find A.
8. Solve the quadratic equation: x^2 - 5x + 6 = 0.
9. Convert 0.375 to a fraction in simplest form.
10. A number is increased by 20% and becomes 180. What was the original number?
11. Find the perimeter of a rectangle with length 12 m and width 5 m.
12. Simplify: (2x^3)(3x^2) for x ≠ 0.
13. If a train leaves at 08:15 and arrives at 13:05 the same day, what is the travel time?
14. What is the greatest common divisor (GCD) of 48 and 180?
15. Evaluate: √(256).
16. Solve for y: 3(y - 2) = 2y + 5.
17. If the circumference of a circle is 31.4 cm (use π = 3.14), find the radius.
18. A store marks an item down 30% from its original price of ■1200. What is the sale
price?
19. Simplify: (4/9) ÷ (2/3).
20. If a bottle contains 2 liters and you pour out 750 ml, how much remains in liters?
21. Solve the system: 2x + y = 7 and x - y = 1.
22. If the angles of a triangle are in ratio 2:3:4, find the largest angle.
23. Find the simple interest on ■10,000 for 2 years at 6% per annum.
24. Expand: (x + 4)(x - 3).
25. If a number x satisfies 4x - 9 = 3(x + 2), find x.
26. What is 15% of 240?
27. A cylinder has radius 3 cm and height 10 cm. Find its volume (use π = 3.14).
28. If log10 1000 = k, find k.
29. Simplify: 7! / 5!.
30. The mean of five numbers is 12. If four of them are 10, 14, 9 and 13, find the fifth
number.
31. Convert 1500 meters to kilometers.
32. If sin θ = 1/2 for 0° < θ < 90°, find θ in degrees.
33. Solve: 5(x - 1) = 3x + 9.
34. A rectangle and a square have the same area 36 cm². If the rectangle's length is 12
cm, find its width and the side of the square.
35. Simplify: (2/5) + (3/10) - (1/4).
36. Find the distance between points (2, -1) and ( -2, 3 ) in the plane.
37. If a coin is tossed twice, what is the probability of getting exactly one head?
38. Solve for x: 1/(x+1) = 1/3.
39. Find the mode of the data set: {2, 4, 4, 6, 7, 4, 9}.
40. If a ladder leans against a wall making a right triangle with base 6 m and height 8 m,
what is the ladder length?
41. Evaluate: 2^5 × 2^3.
42. If 4 workers can do a job in 15 days, how many worker-days are required to finish the
job?
43. Solve for x: x^2 = 49, x > 0.
44. A bag contains 3 red, 2 blue and 5 green marbles. If one marble is picked at random,
what is the probability it is blue?
45. Express 7/20 as a percentage.
46. Simplify: (x^2 - 9)/(x - 3), for x ≠ 3.
47. The area of a circle is 154 cm² (use π = 3.14). Find the radius.
48. A runner completes one lap of 400 m in 72 seconds. What is her average speed in m/s?
49. Solve: 6/(x) = 2, for x ≠ 0.
50. Find the sum of the first 10 positive integers.
51. If a and b are in proportion a:b = 4:7 and a = 16, find b.
52. Simplify: (3x^2y)/(6xy^2).
53. A number when divided by 7 leaves remainder 3. If the number is less than 50, what are
the possible values?
54. Convert 3 hours 45 minutes into minutes.
55. Solve: 0.2x + 0.8 = 2.6.
56. If the probability of an event is 0.25, what are the odds in favor of the event?
57. Find the area of a parallelogram with base 14 cm and height 5 cm.
58. If the sum of interior angles of a polygon is 1260°, how many sides does it have?
59. Simplify: √(81) + √(49).
60. Find x if 3^x = 81.
61. Two consecutive integers multiply to give 132. Find the integers.
62. A mixture contains milk and water in the ratio 5:2. If total mixture is 49 liters, how
many liters of water are present?
63. Evaluate: (1/2)^3.
64. If the diagonal of a square is 10√2 cm, find the side length.
65. Simplify: 2(x - 3) + 4(2x + 1).
66. If a = 2 and b = -3, evaluate 4a^2 - 3ab + b^2.
67. A bus leaves at 9:20 AM and arrives at 1:05 PM. How long was the trip?
68. Solve for x: |x - 4| = 6.
69. If the volume of a cube is 27 cm³, find the length of one side.
70. What is the least common multiple (LCM) of 12 and 18?
71. A salesperson earns a 5% commission on sales. If she earns ■4,500 commission, what
were her total sales?
72. Simplify the expression: (x^3)^2.
73. If the sides of a triangle are 7 cm, 24 cm and 25 cm, determine whether it is a right
triangle.
74. Find the arithmetic mean of {8, 12, 15, 5, 10}.
75. If f(x) = 2x + 3, find f( -4 ).
76. Solve the inequality: 2x - 5 < 7.
77. A rectangular prism has dimensions 4 cm by 5 cm by 6 cm. Find its surface area.
78. How many different 3-letter arrangements can be formed from the letters A, B, C if
repetition is not allowed?
79. If the base angles of an isosceles triangle are 50° each, find the vertex angle.
80. Simplify: 1000 ÷ (10^2).
81. A loan of ■5,000 is repaid with simple interest at 8% per annum after 3 years. What is
the total amount paid?
82. Solve: (x/4) + (x/6) = 5.
83. If a clock shows 3:00, what is the smaller angle between the hour and minute hands?
84. The circumference of a circle is 2πr. If r = 7 cm, find the circumference numerically
(use π = 3.14).
85. Simplify: (x + 2) - (3x - 5).
86. If the probability of drawing a red card from a standard deck is 1/2, what is the
probability of drawing a black card?
87. Convert 5/8 to a decimal.
88. If y varies directly as x and y = 12 when x = 3, find y when x = 7.
89. Solve for x: 4x^2 - 20x = 0.
90. A rectangle's diagonal is 13 cm and one side is 5 cm. Find the other side.
91. Evaluate: 0! + 1! + 2! + 3!.
92. If the average of ten numbers is 16 and one number 26 is removed, what is the new
average?
93. Simplify: (6x - 2) / 2.
94. Solve: 2^3 × 3^2.
95. A right circular cone has radius 3 cm and height 4 cm. Find its volume (use π = 3.14).
96. If the sum of three consecutive odd numbers is 51, find the numbers.
97. Simplify: (5x^0) + 3.
98. If the population increases by 10% each year, what is the population after 1 year for
an initial population of 20,000?
99. Solve for x: 7x + 3 = 4x + 18.
100. A fruit basket contains apples and bananas in ratio 3:4. If there are 21 apples, how
many bananas are there?