POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

STA. MESA, MANILA

MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
LONG Quiz NO. 1
NAME : _________________________________________________________________ SCORE :______
YEAR AND SECTION: ____________________STUDENT NUMBER: __________________DATE : _______
PROFESSOR: _____________________________________________________________ REMARKS: ___
DIRECTIONS: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only the answer for
each item by writing the letter on the space provided. If no answer is found in the choices, write N.
STRICKLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED in the Answer Sheet. Problems that need solutions should be solved
on separate paper and also required in the submission of the activity. Always keep your work clean and
double check your solution. Relax and keep cool!
_____ 1. Mathematical thinking often begins with the process of abstraction. Which of the following
supports this statement?
A. Discovering uncertain things or events
B. Noticing a similarity between two or more objects or events
C. Exploring two or more different things or events at the same time
D. Inferring the result based on the observable objects or events
_____ 2. Mathematicians, scientists, physicists, and engineers had often express ideas for mathematical
inquiries to solve problems based on their environs and phenomena in nature and facts of life.
Which of the following statements are true?
I. To represent some aspects of things abstractly.
II. To manipulate the abstractions by rules of logic to find new relationship between
them.
III. To see whether the new relationships are something useful about the original one.
IV. To predict the outcome of the relationships by the use of educated guess.
A. I and II only
B. II and III only
C. I, II and III only
D. All of them
_____ 3. Mathematics is a science of patterns and relationships. Which of the following statements
is/are true?
I. It explores the possible relationships among abstractions.
II. It derives equations of accidental facts and concepts to formulate ideas.
III. It concludes ideas with rational perspective.
IV. It changes interest in any corresponding values of relationship.
A. I only
B. I and II only
C. II, III and IV only
D. All of them
_____ 4. Mathematics is often called the language of the universe. Which of the following statements
supports the above ideas?
I. It is the only symbolic language that turned out to be extremely valuable for expressing
scientific ideas unambiguously.

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 II. It is the grammar of science that provides rules for analyzing scientific ideas.
III. It is the language of understandable characters, expresses ideals of honesty and
openness of critical importance to key discoveries.
IV. It is the language of profound logical chain connections to the world and the universe
by solving daunting problems using the nature of proofs.
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. All of them
_____ 5. It indicates that an imaginary line across an object and the resulting parts are mirror images of
each other.
A. Asymptote
B. Line division
C. Symmetry
D. Reflection
_____ 6. Which of the following is an example of chaotic pattern?
A. Snowflake
B. Mountain
C. Spiderwort
D. Honeycomb
_____ 7. Which of the following describes fractal pattern?
A. The arrangement of sunflower seeds
B. The height of the people
C. The weight of the animals
D. The flow of the river
_____ 8. The regular, repeated, or recurring forms or designs are called ________.
A. Stripes
B. Sequences
C. Arrays
D. Patterns
______9. Which of the following patterns of numbers follows recursive algorithms?
A. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, …
B. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, …
C. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, …
D. 10, 30, 90, 270, 810, 2430, …
______ 10. The ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers approach the number (phi), also known as the
________.
A. Golden Arc
B. Golden Number
C. Golden Ratio
D. Golden Globe
______ 11. Patterns found in the external appearances of the animals showed that it could affect the
orientation of these stripes by following variables:
I. The substance amplifies the density of stripe patterns.

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 II. The substance changes the parameters in stripe formations.
III. The physical change in the direction of the origin of the stripe affects the other
animals.
Which of the following orientations predict the correctness of these patterns?
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. All of them
_____ 12. Mathematics in our world showed patterns that people follow based on natures logical
structures. The scene on social media that creates social problems of using software to
address problems on certain issues can be solved using:
A. Mathematics for organization
B. Mathematics for prediction
C. Mathematics for control
D. Mathematics for indispensable
_____ 13. Weather forecasting, according to metreologists, should be based on historical patterns and
also day-to-day activities. However, experts become problematic to calculate the chance of
weather phenomena which is beyond their control. To generate idea and evaluate
interpretations, this issues and trends can be verified through:
A. Mathematics for organization
B. Mathematics for prediction
C. Mathematics for control
D. Mathematics for indispensable
_____ 14. If human could his behavior by not abusing the landscape created by the Mother Nature, then
the threat to climate change and global warming would not be catastrophic. This idea
generates that mathematics played as a/an ________ over us.
A. Indispensable
B. Predictive
C. Organization
D. Control
_____ 15. Gabriel Vryan had summer job packing sweets. Each pack should weigh 200 grams. Gabriel
Vryan had to make 15 packs of sweets. He checked the weights, in grams, correct to the
nearest gram. Following are his measurements:
212 206 203 206 199 196 197 197 209 206 198 191 196 206 207
What is the most frequent data in the patterns?
A. 196
B. 206
C. 197
D. 207
______16. If you have a wooden board that is 0.75 meters wide, how long should you cut it such that
the Golden Ratio is observed? Use 1.618 as the value of the Golden Ratio.
A. 0.2856 m C. 0.2865 m
B. 0.2586 m D. 0.2685 m

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______17. If A.
B.
C. 35122
then D. 35104

______ 18. If A.
B.
C.
D.
then

_______ 19. If the patterns follow as indicated, what is the value of the ?

A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

_______ 20. If the patterns follow as indicated, what is the value of ?

A. 94 B. 64 C. 46 D. 49

_______ 21. If R E N T is written in a pattern as B9A5B7D5, then which word is written in a pattern as
D4C4A1B7 ?
A. C L A W B. P L A N C. P L A Y D. R A N T

_______ 22. If A. 43
B. 45
C. 48
Then D. 51
_______ 23. What number comes next in , , ______?
A. B. C. D.
_______ 24. Look at this pattern of numbers: . What number should come next?
A. 22 B. 24 C. 25 D. 26

______25. Look carefully for the pattern, then choose which pair of numbers comes next,

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 A. B. C. D.

______26. Look carefully for the pattern, then choose which pair of numbers comes next,

A. B. C. D.

______27. Look carefully for the pattern:

A. B. C. D.

______28. Look carefully for the pattern:

A. B. C. D.

______29. Look at this pattern: , , , , , …, What number should fill in the blank?
A. B. C. D.

______30. Look at this pattern: , what number should fill in the blank?
A.85 B. 97 C. 109 D. 178

______31. Look at this pattern: , what number should fill in the blank?
A. B. C. D.

______32. What should come at the place of the blank in the following number series or patterns on
?
A. 194 B. 192 C. 196 D. 195

______33. What should come at the place of the blank in the following number series or patterns on
?
A. 40 B. 38 C. 42 D. 50

______34. What should come at the place of the blank in the following number series or patterns on
A. B. C. 5 D.

______35. What should come at the place of the blank in the following number series or patterns on
?
A. 3172 B. 3414 C. 3192 D. 3429

_______36. Find the wrong number in the following series or patterns:

A. 40 B. 326 C. 2946 D. 29418

_______37. The exponential growth model describes the population of certain animal colony in
hundredths, t years after 2000. What is the population in 2050?

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 A. 130,500 B. 150,600 C. 160,700 D. 170,300

_______38. Substitute the given values in the formula to find the missing value of the quantity. Given:
A. 3,365,816 B. 3,572,681 C. 3,635,186 D. 3,851,633

_______39. Find the missing values using the formula . Given:

A. 175,260 B. 215,756 C. 260,661 D. 321,166

_______40. Find the missing values using the formula . Given:

A. 7.3% B. 6.8% C. 6.2% D. 5.8%

_______41. Given: What is the value of

A. 176 years B. 193 years C. 245 years D. 257 years

_______42. If what is
A. 28,657 B. 27,865 C. 26,857 D. 25,875

_______43. Let be the term of the Fibonacci sequence, with Find Fib(32).
A. 2,093,178 B. 2,178,309 C. 2,783,109 D. 2,890,317

_______44. Evaluate the following sums:

A. 4,676 B. 6,647 C. 7,664 D. 6764

_______45. Evaluate: , Round off your answer to whole number.

A. 3,918 B. 4,016 C. 4,181 D. 4,376
_______46. Evaluate: Round off your answer to whole number.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

______47.

______48.

______49.

_______50.
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_____54. Which of the following is the most dominant geometric figure?

A. Rectangle B. triangle C. pentagon D. trip

_____55. The figure below represents the pattern of

A. Symmetrical B. Unsymmetrical C. Fractal D. Rosette

_____56. The figure below represents the pattern of

A. Rosette B. Frieze C. Fractal D. Wallpaper

_____57. The figure below represents the pattern of

A. Symmetric B. Tessellation C. Wallpaper D. Rosette

____58. The figure below represents the pattern of

A. Wallpaper B. Symmetry C. Tessellation D. Frieze

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____59. The figure below represents the pattern of

A. Frieze B. Symmetric C. Wallpaper D. Tessellation

____60. The figure below represents the pattern of

A. Frieze B. Fractal C. Shadow D. meander

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 POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES
STA. MESA, MANILA
MATHEMATICS IN THE MODERN WORLD
LONG Quiz NO. 1
NAME : _________________________________________________________________ SCORE :______
YEAR AND SECTION: ____________________STUDENT NUMBER: __________________DATE : _______
PROFESSOR: _____________________________________________________________ REMARKS: ___
ANSWER SHEET
Strictly No Erasures

1. 16. 31. 46.

2. 17. 32. 47.

3. 18. 33. 48.

4. 19. 34. 49.

5. 20. 35. 50.

6. 21. 36. 51.

7. 22. 37. 52.

8. 23. 38. 53.

9. 24. 39. 54.

10. 25. 40. 55.

11. 26. 41. 56.

12. 27. 42. 57.

13. 28. 43. 58.

14. 29. 44. 59.

15. 30. 45. 60.

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