CE BOARD reviewer
ALGEBRA 
Zherrinore 
 
 
1.  A salesman get P1000 commission on a small scale, 
one of The many that he accomplished in a period of 
time. The commission raised his average commission 
by P150. If the salesman new average commission is 
P400, how many sales did he make? 
2.  You are given  numbers which add up to 18. One of the 
numbers is 2. Calculate the average of the other 7 
numbers. 
3.  He average of 11 numbers is 10. One number is 
eliminated leaving only 10 numbers. He average of teh 
remaining number is 7.5. what number is eliminated? 
4.  A certain curve has the equation y=sinA in comparison 
to this cure, which of the following has twice the 
amplitude and half the period. 
5.  What is the value of y in the equation: 2x+5+yi-15-3i=0 
6.  Find he arithmetic mean of the following: 14,-4,-10,-
12,5,-1 
7.  When the expression x
4
+ax
3
+5x
2
+bx+6 is divided by (x-
2) the remainder is 16, when it is divided by (x+1) the 
remainder is 10. Find the value of a 
8.  The following data of road accident versus drivers age 
form a quadratic equation: 
Age of driver  #of accidents in a year 
20    250 
40    150 
60    200 
a. determine the coefficient of x
2
 
b. determine the coefficient of x 
c. determine the number of accidents per year in 
which 30 year old might be involved 
9.  Determine the number of positive roots of he following 
equation p(x)=x
2n
-1 
10.  A polynomial has an equation x
5
-5x
4
+5x
3
+15x
2
-3x+20. 
How many rational roots does it have? 
11.  How many positive real roots are there for the 
polynomial 7x
7
+5x
5
+3x
3
+x 
12.  Find the 6th term of the expansion (2x-y
2
)
10
 
13.  Solve for x in he equation 3ix-5+3i+(3-i)+i 
14.  xy is inversely proportional to yz when xy is equal to 
12.54, yz=15000, find xy if yz is 12900 
15.  AB is proportional o BC in the ratio 13 to 17. Also BC is 
proportional to CD in the same ratio. How long is AB if 
CD is 280m long 
16.  Two values A and B are related to each other in an 
inverse manner such that when one increases, the 
other decreases, always with a constant inerse 
proportionality when the value of A is 1200, B is 
recorded to have 144720. Find the value of A when B 
reaches 256000 
17.  ab=1/8, bc=6 and ac=3, if all of the above statements 
are true, what one possible value of abc? 
18.  If xyz=4 and y
2
z=5, what is he value of x/y? 
19.  What is a non zero solution to the equation 2x
5
-30x
4
=0 
20.  If the sum of 7 consecutive integers is zero, what is the 
smallest of the 7 integers 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CE BOARD reviewer 
ALGEBRA 
Zherrinore 
 
 
21.  The area of a park in a map is 500 mm
2
. If he scale of 
he map is 1:40000, determine the true area of park in 
hectares 
22.  Mario has 4 more hats than Alex and half as many as 
Miguel. If the three together have 24 hats, how many 
hats does Miguel have? 
23.  A shipment of 3200 items is divided into two portions 
such that the difference between the portions is one 
half of their average. What is the ratio of the smaller to 
larger portions? 
24.  Find the tenth term of the series 5,10,20,40 
25.  Determine the sum of the first 7 terms of the series 
0.25, 0.75, 2.25,6.75 
26.  The first term of a  GP is 4 and the 6
th
 terms is 128. 
What is the 11
th
 term? 
27.  There are 37 applicants for civil engineering aide 
positions in a construction company consisting of an 
odd number of male applicants. If an equal number of 
male and female engineers  shall be hired for gender 
equality, 3 ladies left ou. How many men applied? 
28.  A sine wave being emitted is monitored on a 
laboratory diagram and is found to follow the function 
f(t)=
 
a.  Calculate the amplitude 
b.  Calc. The period 
c.  Calc. The frequency