Learning Strand 2

SECONDARY LEVEL
1. Orly has 300 mangoes to sell. He sells 75 mangoes each day for 3 days. If you were to solve
how many mangoes does he have left to sell after 3 days, what mathematical equation best suits
to solve the problem?
a. 300 – (75 x 3) b. (75 x 3 ) – 300 c. 300 + (75 x 3) d. (75 x 3) + 300

2. Mr. and Mrs. Balboa invited their High School friends for a get together. Mr. Santos reserved
for 3 cups of Java rice, 5 cups of Plain rice, 2 cups of Garlic rice, 2 orders of each viand, 4
orders of leche flan, 5 Buko Pandan, a fruit salad, 6 bottles of water, 2 glasses of soft drinks and
a lemonade.
RICE VIANDS DESSERT DRINKS
Plain rice - Adobo – Leche Flan – Bottled Water -
Php 12.00 Php 40.00 Php 20.00 Php 15.00
Fried rice – Sinigang – Fruit salad – Soft drinks
Php 13.00 Php 50.00 Php 30.00 Php 25.00
Java rice – Pakbet – BukoPandan – Lemonade
Php 15.00 Php 45.00 Php 25.00 Php 20.00
Bagoong rice – Fried Fish –
Php 15.00 Php 30.00
Garlic rice – Fried Chicken –
Php 15.00 Php 45.00

If Mrs. Balboa paid Php 1,000.00, how much change will she receive?
a. 25 Php b. 50 Php c. 75 Php d. 100Php
2 3
3. Erby bought 72 mangoes and ate of them. Choi bought 90 mangoes and ate of them.
3 5
How many more mangoes does Choi ate than Erby?
a. 3 b. 6 c. 12 d. 24

For items 4-5Mr.Oliverio owns a meat shop. Table 1 shows his sales of chicken and beef for 4
days.

Table 1 . Market Sales for Four Days

Day Chicken (in kg) Beef (in kg)

Saturday 357.30 409.54

Sunday 375.681 398.204

Wednesday 190.021 187.234

Thursday 134.09 154.34

4. On what day did Mr.Oliverio have the best sale?

a. Saturday b. Sunday c. Wednesday d. Thursday

5. What is the difference between the highest and the lowest sale of chicken?
a. 285.279 kg b. 241.591 kg c. 223.21 kg d. 221.341 kg

6. The tax on Php20 item is Php1. Find the tax on Php 12,000?
a. Php 240 c. Php 600
b. Php 480 d. Php 1,200

For numbers 7-8, refer to information in the table below

Janah’s monthly salary is Php20 000. She had a surplus if she spends less than her
salary. She has deficit if she spends more than her salary. She recorded the surplus (+) and
deficit (-) from January to June
Month Jan Feb March April May June
Surplus/Deficit +1 000 +2 500 -3 000 +1 800 -1 500 +1 200

7. On what month did Janah spend the least?

a. January b. February c.March d. May
8.Did she have a surplus or deficit? By how much?
a. surplus, Php 1,700 c. deficit, Php 4,500
b. surplus, Php 2,000 d. deficit, Php 6,500

9. The foot of the ladder is 5𝑚 away from a 12𝑚 high

building. Find the length of the ladder leaning
against the wall of the building.
a. 10
b. 13
c. 16
d. 20

10. What is the circumference of a roulette wheel that has a radius of 24 cm?

a. 150.7 cm
b. 75.4 cm
c. 48 cm
d. 12 cm

11.What is the radius of a bicycle wheel that has a diameter of 23 inches?

a. 7.3 inches
b. 11.5 inches
c. 23 inches
d. 46 inches

12. What is the area of a rectangular farm that has a length of 57 𝑚 and a width of 42 𝑚?

a. 198 𝑚2
b. 380.86 𝑚2
c. 1197𝑚2
d. 2394𝑚2

13. A rectangular prism has a length of 7.5 cm, width of 3.5 cm and height of 4.7 cm. Find its
volume.
a. 123.38 cm³ c. 131. 54 cm³
b. 113. 45 cm³ d. 132.38 cm³

14.The price of a motorbike is P37,600 How much do you need to pay if you get 18% discount?
a. P30,832 c. P38,200
b. P33,780 d. P32,800

15. An entrepreneur borrowed P60,000 with 12.5% monthly interest. How much will he pay for
a year?
a. P80,000 c. P85,000
b. P90,000 d. P75,000

16. A builder draws a floorplan for different parts of a new building. On the drawing, the length
of a hallway measures 7.5 cm. What is the actual length of the hallway if the scale of the
drawing is 1 cm to 1 m?
a. 0.75 m b. 7.5 m c. 75 m d. 750 m

17. A map used a scale of 1 cm : 20 km. What is the scale distance between Quezon City and
Bulacan if Quezon City is 160 km away from Bulacan?
a. 3200 cm b. 320 cm c. 80 cm d. 8 cm

18. Dennis uses a map that has scale of 10 mm to 1 km to find the distance to the river. The
distance on the map is 65 mm. How far is it to the river?
a. 0.56 km b. 0.65 c. 5. 6 km d. 6.5 km
For items 19- 21.The pie chart shows the survey results from 500 Senior High School students
on their favorite nature parks in Quezon City.

Favorite Nature Parks in Quezon City

19. What is the most preferred nature and park in Quezon City?
a. Fernwood Garden
b. La Mesa Eco Park
c. Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center
d. Quezon Memorial Circle

20. How many students preferred the Sky Garden?

a. 90 b. 100 c. 110 d. 150

21. What percent of student population represent those who did not vote for Quezon
Memorial Circle?
a. 22% b. 39% c.56% d. 78%

For items 22-24. The budget allotted by the government to Barangay LagingHanda is
Php5 000 000.00 for one year as presented in the graph below.

22. Which item in the budget is allotted the least amount?

a. Salary c. Expenses
b. Projects d. Contigency

23. What percent of the budget is allotted for projects?

a. 5% c. 25 %
b. 20% d. 50 %

24. How much is allotted for salary?

a. Php1 000 000.00 c. Php 2 500 000.00
b. Php2 000 000.00 d. Php 3 000 000.00

25. A shirt costs P280 each. If you will buy 4 shirts, you will get 15% discount. How much you
will pay if you will buy 8 shirts?
a. P1,094 c. P1,944
b. P1,194 d. P1,904
26. Cigarette smoking harms nearly every organ in the body, causing many illnesses
and affecting health in general. The following are the NEGATIVE effects of
smoking in the circulatory system EXCEPT
A. arteriosclerosis C. increased heart rate
B. coronary heart disease D. tuberculosis

27. Which of the following shows how the heart and the lungs can work together?
A. The lungs are for breathing air while the heart is for circulating the blood.
B. The lungs and the heart exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body
C. The lungs take in the oxygen from the air as the heart pumps the oxygenated blood
to the body.
D. None of the above.

28. Which of the following is not a property of metal?

A. brittle B. ductile C. lustrous D. Sonorous
29. What can be said about the properties of compound?
A. They are not unique.
B. They are formed after a physical reaction.
C. They are identical from the properties of the elements that form the
compound.
D. They are different from the properties of the elements that form the
compound.

30. When does a volcano is considered to be inactive?

a. If a volcano has not erupted for the past 10 years
b. When plants are starting to grow
c. When there is no trace of gas emission
d. If the volcano has not erupted for the past 10,000 years

31. The chance of a volcano to erupt directly depends on what factor?

a. Temperature c. amount of gas emission
b. Amount of magma d. height

32. Which of the following is true about the constellation of the zodiac?
a. The Earth rotates and a certain constellation becomes visible
b. The constellations revolve around the earth
c. The stars move every month to form the symbol of a zodiac
d. The galaxy moves toward on an observable view from Earth

33. Which of the following is NOT true about stars?

a. Stars do not move from their position
b. Stars are made of the same material as the sun
c. Some stars are even bigger than the sun
d. Stars are of different color

34. Which of the following is NOT true about Polaris?

a. It can always be found in the northern part of the earth
b. It is only composed of a single star
c. It is used as guide during the early civilization
d. It serves as a pivot point of all stars around it

35. Crustal plate A is moving away from crustal plate B. What type of plate boundaries is
happened between A and B?
A. continental drift C. divergent boundary
B. convergent boundary D. transform fault boundary

36. Fruit vendors in Marikina can often be seen with samples of calcium carbide (kalburo). Why
is this so?
A. Calcium carbide speeds up the ripening of fruits.
B. Calcium carbide slows down the ripening of fruits.
C. Calcium carbide prevents rat and other pests from eating fruits.
D. Calcium carbide provides the fruits with the shiny glaze to attract
buyers.

37. All of the following supports the Plate Tectonic Theory EXCEPT
A. The geographic features such as slopes and coast lines of different continents are the
product of different natural processes like weathering, deposition, siltation and delta
formation.
B. Fossils of animal incapable of swimming or flying are present in multiple continents
separated by seas and oceans.
C. Mountain ranges are similar in age and structure.
D. Presence of modern day creatures

38. Which of the following is the thickest layer of the Earth?

A. Crust C. Outer core
B. Mantle D. Inner core

39. Which layers of the internal structure of the Earth is the densest?
A. Crust C. Outer core
B. Mantle D. Inner core
40. Which part of the female reproductive sytem occurs the fertilization process of the egg and
sperm cells?
A.Fallopian Tubes C. Tube(vas deferens)
B. Penis D. Vagina

41. Which of the following is a problem not associated with population

growth?
I. Increased resource consumption
II. Environmental pollution
III. Food and energy storages
A. I only B. I and II C. II and III D. I, II and III

42. At an oceanic-oceanic convergent plate boundary, ____.

A. the crust separates C. the plates side past one another.
B. The new crust is created. D. the older crust is recycled by `
subduction

43. In relation to the continents, earthquakes and volcanoes are located _____________.
A. mostly if not entirely in the middle of a continent
B. mostly if not entirely in the north and south poles
C. mostly if not entirely along the edges of continents
D. mostly if not entirely along the edges of the Pacific plate
44. On Earth's surface, volcanoes and earthquakes seem to be __________.
A. randomly scattered
B. concentrated in zones
C. randomly scattered on oceanic plates only
D. randomly scattered on continental plates only

45. Which causes the level of progesterone and estrogen to drop off?
A. contraction C. menstruation
B. degeneration D. ovulation

46. What will happen if there is an increased amount of estrogen in the second feedback
loop?
A. causes the corpus luteum to deteriorate
B. drop in these hormones signals menstruation
C. hormones work together to start estrogen secretion
D. causes a positive feedback to occur on the LH cells in the pituitary

For number 47 to 48: Read the given case.

Peter walks from home to his office daily. He sweats a lot so he always brings
bottled water and face towel with him.

47. Which of the following explains his sweating considering that he has normal body
temperature?
A. He needs cool air C. His body becomes fatigued.
B. His body releases cool air D. His body becomes strong by walking.

48. Does his sweating help him?

A. Yes, because his body releases heat.
B. No, because sweating leads to bad odor.
C. Yes, because excess water from his body is released as sweat.
D. No, because water is lost from his body which will result to skin dryness.
49. The population of an endangered species can be increased by breeding in captivity of the
remaining individuals. However, this technique may also lead to species extinction.
Which if the following is the negative effect of thus breeding?
A. Breeding over a short period of time reduces genetic diversity.
B. Breeding over a short period of time increases beneficial mutations.
C. Breeding over a short period of time produces a different species
D. Breeding over a short period of time increases fertility

50. Eman’s rice fields are infested by rats. He was advised to use any of the following
techniques:
I. Use pesticide ( rodenticide)
II. Use nets in catching rats
III. Raise cats to catch rats
IV. Burn the whole fields after the harvest season

Which of the techniques can be effective in getting rid of the rats without harming farm
insects and the environment?

A. II only C. III only

B. II and IV D. III and IV only