Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education

GRADE 10 MATHEMATICS
FIRST QUARTER PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
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GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space provided
before the number.

____ 1. What do you call a succession of numbers in specific orders?

A. sequence B. term C. pattern D. nth term
____ 2. What is the next term number in the pattern 120, 90, 60, ____?
A. 50 B. 20 C. 30 D. 40
4 1 −2
____ 3. What is the next term in the sequence , , , ,…?
5 5 5
3 5 5
A. B. C. −1 D.−
5 3 3
____ 4. Given the set of figures, what are the next three figures in the set of shapes?

i. ii. Iii

A i only B. ii only C. both I and ii are correct D. iii only

____ 5. What is the next number in the series 720, 720, 360, ____ 30, 6?
A. 180 B. 120 C. 90 D. 60
____ 6. ABC = 28, A, B, and C are distinct integers. Which of the following could be equal to A + B + C?
A.11 B. 30 C. 17 D. 24
____ 7. What is the general term of the sequence 5, 8, 11, 14,..?
A. an = 3n + 2 B. an = 3n C. an = n + 32 D. an = n + 2
1 1 1 1 1
____ 8. What is the explicit form of the sequence , , , , …?
2 3 4 5 6
1 1
A. 𝑎𝑛 = B.𝑎𝑛 = 2𝑛 C. 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑛2 D.𝑎𝑛 =
𝑛+1 2𝑛

____ 9. What is the recursive form of the sequence 8, 14, 26, 50,…
A. an = 2an-1 – 2 B. an = 4an-1 + 2 C. an = an-1 + 4 D. an = 10an-
1–2
____ 10. What is the recursive form of the sequence 3,10,24,52,…?
A. an = 3an-1 + 1 B. an = (-1)n (3an-1) C. an = (1)n (3an-1) D. an = (1)n (-3an-1)

____ 11. Jin is offered P20,000 as starting salary for a job, with a raise of P2,000 at the end of each year of
outstanding performance. If he maintains continuous outstanding performance, what will his salary be at the
end of 6 years?
A. P26,000 B. P 28,000 C. P 30,000 D. P32,000
____ 12. What is a sequence where every term after the first term is obtained by adding a constant called the
common difference?
A. Arithmetic Sequence C. Fibonacci Sequence
 B. Geometric Sequence D. Harmonic Sequence
____ 13. Which of the following is not an arithmetic sequence?
A. 11, 2, -8, -19 C. 4, 7, 10, 13
B. 57, 51, 45, 39 D. -3, -5, -7, -9
____ 14. What is the common difference of the arithmetic sequence 57,51,45,39?
A. 6 B. -6 C. 4 D. -4
____ 15. What is the next term of the Arithmetic sequence 4, 9, 14, 19?
A. 24 B. 25 C. 29 D. 30
____ 16. In the sequence 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, what is the common difference?
A. 3 B. 4 C. -3 D. -4
____ 17. What is the general term of the Arithmetic sequence whose first term is 2 and the common
difference is 3?
A. 𝑎𝑛 = 3𝑛 + 1 C. 𝑎𝑛 = 3𝑛 + 2
B. 𝑎𝑛 = 3𝑛 − 1 D. 𝑎𝑛 = 3𝑛 − 2
____ 18. Find the nth term of the Arithmetic Sequence -2, 1, 4, 7…?
A. 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑛 − 2 C. 𝑎𝑛 = −2𝑛 + 3
B. 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑛 + 3 D. 𝑎𝑛 = 3𝑛 − 5
____ 19. What is the fiftieth term of the arithmetic sequence 3, 7, 11, 15…?
A. 53 B. 151 C. 199 D. 203
____ 20. What is the twentieth term of the arithmetic sequence 21, 18, 15, 12, ... ?
A. -39 B. -36 C. 1 D. 78
____ 21. The fifth term of an arithmetic sequence is 11 and the tenth term is 41. What is the first term?
A. -19 B. -13 C. -9 D. 6
____ 22. What is the thirty-second term of the arithmetic sequence -12, -7, -2, 3, ... ?
A. 143 B. 148 C. 153 D. 167
____ 23. Find the tenth term of the arithmetic sequence 1, 6, 11, 16…
A. 40 B. 42 C. 44 D. 46
th
____ 24. Find the 27 term of the arithmetic sequence -4, -1, 2, 5, 8.
A. 70 B. 72 C. 74 D. 76
____ 25. What is the sum of the first sixteen terms of the arithmetic sequence 1, 5, 9, 13. ?
A. 62 B. 496 C. 528 D. 992
____ 26. Calculate the sum of the arithmetic series 3 + 7 + 11 + ... + 123.
A. 141 B. 1,953 C. 7,560 D. 3,906
____ 27. What are the three arithmetic means between 2 and 14.
A. 4, 6, 8 B. 6, 10, 14 C. 4, 8, 12 D. 5, 8, 11
____ 28. A display of cans on a grocery shelf consists of 20 cans on the bottom, 18 cans in the next row, and
so on in an arithmetic sequence, until the top row has 4 cans. How many cans, in total, are in the display?
A. 100 B. 108 C. 116 D. 124
____ 29. JK is a track and field representative of the ENHS – Annex, San Jose Campus for the Palarong
Pambansa. He begins training by running 5 miles during the first week, 6.5 miles during the 2 nd week and 8
miles on the 3rd week. Assume this pattern continues, how far will he run on the tenth week?
A.18.5 miles B. 20 miles C. 21.5 miles D. 23 miles
____ 30. What is the value of x, if 2x+2, 3x+5, 7x-1 forms an Arithmetic Sequence?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
____ 31. A gardener plans to construct a trapezoidal shaped structure in his garden. The longer side of
trapezoid needs to start with a row of 97 bricks. Each row must be decreased by 2 bricks on each end and the
construction should stop at 25th row. How many bricks does he need to buy?
A. 1000 B. 1115 C. 1200 D. 1225
____ 32. On his birthday, RM received a clock from his friend Jimin. If the clock strikes once at 1'o clock, twice
at 2'o clock and so on. How many times will it strike a day?
A. 144 B. 156 C. 180 D. 196
____ 33. A sequence where every term after the first is obtained by multiplying the preceding term by a non-
zero constant.
A. Arithmetic sequence C. Geometric sequence
B. Harmonic sequence D. Fibonacci sequence
____ 34. Which of the following is a geometric sequence?
 A. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 B. 2, 1, 4, 2, 6 C. ½, ¼, 1/6,1/9 D. 3, 9, 27, 81
____ 35. Which sequence represents a finite geometric sequence?
A. 4, 12, 36, 108, 324, … C. 3, 6, 9, 12, 15
B. 25, 125, 625, 3125 D. 3, 9, 27, 81, …
____ 36. An r in the geometric sequence is referred to a common ratio, which among the following best
describes it?
A. It is the fixed amount multiplied.
B. To find the common ratio, divide the second term by the first term.
C. It cannot be equal to zero.
D. ALL OF THE ABOVE.
____ 37. Which of the following is a sequence with an explicit formula of a n=2(2n)?
A. 4, 8, 16, 32 B. 4, 16, 32, 64 C. 4, 8, 64, 124 D. 8, 16, 32, 64
____ 38. What is the quotient when the 4th term is divided by the 3rd term, 3rd term is divided by the 2nd term
and 2nd term is divided by the 1st term of the sequence 4, 12, 36, 108?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 6 D. 18
____ 39. Given the first term 1250 and the common ratio as 0.2, what is second, third and fourth term of the
sequence?
A. 250, -50, 10 B. 250, -150, -100 C. 250, 200, -10 D. 250, 50, 10
____ 40. Hobi works as a fisherman. He harvested 150 kg of fishes on Monday. If each day the amount of
fishes, he harvested increased by 10%, how much fish could he harvest on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday?
A. Tuesday: 155kg; Wednesday: 160kg; Thursday: 165kg; Friday: 170kg
B. Tuesday: 160.5kg; Wednesday: 170.5kg; Thursday: 180.5kg; Friday: 190.5kg
C. Tuesday: 165kg; Wednesday: 181.5kg; Thursday: 199.65kg; Friday: 219.615kg
D. Tuesday: 165kg; Wednesday: 170.5kg; Thursday: 180kg; Friday: 195.5kg

– End of Test –

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TABLE OF SPECIFICATION FOR FIRST PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT

MATHEMATICS 10
S.Y. 2020 - 2021

Item Placement
Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis
COMPETENCY Evaluation Synthesis TOTAL
15% 47.50% 15% 22.50%

generates patterns
1 2,3,4,5,6 11 7,8,9,10 11
illustrates an
arithmetic
sequence 12,13 14,15,16 17,18 7
determines
arithmetic means,
nth term of an
arithmetic
sequence and sum
of the terms of a
given arithmetic 19,20,21,22,
sequence. 23,24,25,26, 27 28,29,30 31,32 14
illustrates a
geometric
sequence. 33,34,35 36,37 38,39 40 8

TOTAL 6 19 6 9 40

Prepared by:

ROSELYN B. SANTIAGO
Teacher II

Checked by:

RAUL L. POJAS
OIC – School Head
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