GE Math Practice Problems

General Education
Mathematics
Practice Problems
1. Simplify: (9 x 8) + 16 ÷ 2 - 22
A. 27
B. 67
C. 76
D. 112
2. What is the smallest prime number?

A. 0
B. 1
C. 2
D. -1
3. What is the largest prime number less than 100?

A. 99
B. 93
C. 97
D. 91
4. How many prime numbers are there between 1 and 100?

A. 23
B. 24
C. 25
D. 26
5. What are the prime factors of 90?

A. 2 x 15 x 3
B. 3 x 3 x 3 x 2
C. 2 x 2 x 2 x 3
D. 3 x 3 x 5 x 2
6. What are the prime factors of 225?

A. 9 x 5 x 5
B. 5 x 3 x 4 x 2
C. 3 x 3 x 25
D. 5 x 5 x 3 x 3
7. What is the greatest common factor of 12 and 24?

A. 2
B. 12
C. 3
D. 6
8. What is the least common denominator of 10 and 15?
A. 10
B. 15
C. 30
D. 45
9. What is the greatest common divisor of 16, 20, and 8?

A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
10. What is the LCM of 2, 5, and 7?

A. 35
B. 50
C. 65
D. 70
11. Madame Irene has 18 boys and 27 girls in choir. She wants them to stand in equal
rows. Only boys or girls will be in each row. What is the greatest number of students
that can stand in each row?
A. 18
B. 6
C. 3
D. 9
12. During summer, a lady visits Baguio every 6 days, and her best friend every 4 days.
If they visited Baguio on the last day of March, what was the EARLIEST DATE did both
of them visit Baguio again?
A. April 12
B. April 23
C. May 5
D. May 11
13. A recipe uses 5 cups of flour for every 2 cups of sugar. If I want to make a recipe
using 10 cups of flour, how much SUGAR do I use?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
14. 4 water pipes can fill a tank in 20 minutes. HOW LONG will it take to fill the tank with
8 water pipes open?
A. 5 minutes
B. 8 minutes
C. 10 minutes
D. 15 minutes
15. In a farm of 50 animals, the ratio of hens to roosters is 2:3. How many are hens?
How many are roosters?
A. 25 hens: 25 roosters
B. 24 hens: 26 roosters
C. 20 hens: 30 roosters
D. 12 hens: 13 roosters
16. The ratio of the three sides of a triangle is 1:2:3. What are the measurements of
each side if the perimeter of the triangle is 60 cm?
A. 10, 10, 40
B. 30, 30, 10
C. 10, 20, 30
D. 20, 20, 20
17. Among the given decimals, which is equivalent to 9%?

A. 9.0
B. .09
C. .009
D. .9
18. What percent of 50 is 25?

A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 50%
D. 38%
19. What is the 40% of 200?

A. 50
B. 75
C. 80
D. 95
20. 50% of the students in a class of 34 students has glasses or contacts. How many
students in the class have either glasses or contacts?
A. 10
B. 15
C. 17
D. 20
21. 60 is 30% of what number?

A. 100
B. 200
C. 300
D. 600
22. A student answered 120 problems on a test correctly and received a grade 60%.
How many PROBLEMS were on the test, if all the problems were worth the same
number of points?
A. 200
B. 250
C. 150
D. 400
23. What is the total amount due on P20,000 which has been invested for five years at
10% annual interest?
A. P15,000
B. P26,000
C. P30,000
D. P10,000
24. A computer store used a markup rate of 40%. Find the selling price of a computer
game that cost the retailer 25,000 pesos.
A. P15,000
B. P20,000
C. P30,000
D. P35,000
25. A bottle of perfume costs P10,000. If a discount of 10% is given, the bottle of
perfume will cost _______.
A. P6,000
B. P7,000
C. P8,000
D. P9,000
26. Skyway company manufactures tables and chairs. In its catalogue, a round table is
priced at P6,000 less 15%. What will Kathleen have to pay for the round table?
A. P5,000
B. P5,100
C. P5,200
D. P5,300
27. Lisa makes money by commission rates. She gets 22% of everything she sells. If
Lisa sold 30,000 pesos worth of items this month, what is her salary for the month?
A. P6,600
B. P7,600
C. P8,600
D. P9,600
28. Which Property of Multiplication is shown?

8 * (5 + 7) = 8 * 5 + 8 * 7
A. Distributive Property
B. Associative Property
C. Commutative Property
D. Identity Property
29. Which equation shows the Commutative Property of Multiplication?

A. 7 * 3 = 7 + 7 + 7
B. 9 * 5 = 5 * 9
C. 6 * 4 – 2 * 4 = (6 – 2) * 7
D. 3 * 1 = 3
30. Which equation shows the Identity Property of Multiplication?

A. a (b + c) = ab + ac
B. (a + b) + 3 = a + (3 + b)
C. a * 1 = a
D. a + 0 = a
31. The sum of any two real is always a real number. Example, 2 + 4 = 6 is a real
number. Which property of real numbers is being shown?
A. Commutative Property
B. Identity Property of Addition
C. Identity Property of Multiplication
D. Closure Property
32. Which Property of Number is shown?

8 + (5 + 7) = (8 + 5) + 7
A. Distributive Property
B. Associative Property
C. Commutative Property
D. Identity Property
33. Which equation shows the Commutative Property of Addition?

A. 2 (1 + 3) = 2(1) + 2(3)
B. 2 * 3 = 6
C. (1 + 2) + 3 = 1 + (2 + 3)
D. 3 + 2 = 2 + 3
34. Which equation shows the Associative Property of Addition?

A. 2 + 0 = 2
B. 2 * 3 = 3 * 2
C. 1 + (2 + 3) = (1 + 2) + 3
D. 2 (1 + 3) = 2(1) + 2(3)

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2. What is the smallest prime number?

3. What is the largest prime number less than 100?

4. How many prime numbers are there between 1 and 100?

5. What are the prime factors of 90?

6. What are the prime factors of 225?

7. What is the greatest common factor of 12 and 24?

9. What is the greatest common divisor of 16, 20, and 8?

10. What is the LCM of 2, 5, and 7?

17. Among the given decimals, which is equivalent to 9%?

18. What percent of 50 is 25?

19. What is the 40% of 200?

21. 60 is 30% of what number?

28. Which Property of Multiplication is shown?

29. Which equation shows the Commutative Property of Multiplication?

30. Which equation shows the Identity Property of Multiplication?

32. Which Property of Number is shown?

33. Which equation shows the Commutative Property of Addition?

34. Which equation shows the Associative Property of Addition?

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