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ELECTIVE 4: PRE-REVIEW
DIAGNOSTIC EXAM
Choose the best answer. Shade your answer properly on the 15. A farmer has 8 km of fencing wire, and wishes to fence a rectangular
given answer sheet. STRICTLY NO ERASURE. piece of land. One boundary of the land is the bank of a straight river. What
are the dimensions of the rectangle so that the area is maximized?
MATHEMATICS A. 1.5x5 km C. 2x4 km
1. A boat can travel 16 miles up a river in 2 hours. The same boat can travel B. 2x3 km D. 2x2 km
36 miles downstream in 3 hours. What is the speed of the current?
A. 3 mph B. 1.6 mph C. 2 mph D. 1.8 mph 16. Find the area of the region bounded above by y = x2 + 1, bounded below
by y = x, and bounded on the sides by x = 0 and x = 1.
2. How many liters of 20% alcohol solution should be added to 40 liters of a A. 2/3 B. 5/6 C. 3/2 D. 6/5
50% alcohol solution to make 30% solution?
A. 80 liters B. 40 liters C. 60 liters D. 75 liters 17. A compound curve has the following properties: I1=24°, D1=6°, I2=36°,
D1=4°. Compute the stationing of PCC if PC is at Station 10+420.
3. A ball was dropped from the height of 20 feet. It rebounds one-third the A. 10+550 C.10+600
distance on each bounce. What is the total distance it travels? B.10+450 D. 10+500
A. 40 feet B. 20 feet C. 25 feet D. 30 feet
18. Assume a line is measured three sections with errors in the individual parts
4. Once a month, a man puts some money into the cookie jar. Each month he equal to ±0.015 m, ±0.022 m, ±0.029m, respectively. Determine the
puts 50 centavos more into the jar than the month before. After 12 years, he anticipated error of the total length.
counted his money, he had P 5,436. How much money did he put in the jar in A. ± 0.039 C. ± 0.041
the last month? B. ± 0.058 D. ± 0.022
A. P 72.50 B. P 75.50 C. P 73.00 D. P 73.50
19. The tangent distance of a 3° simple curve is only ½ of its radius.
5. The angle of elevation of the top of the tower from point A is 25deg. From Compute the length of the curve.
another point B, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 56deg. If the A. 354.02 m B. 354.20 C. 345.02 D. 345.20
distance between A and B is 300m and both points are on the same horizontal
plane as the foot of the tower, determine the height of the tower if the horizontal 20. The table below displays the results of a survey regarding the number of
angle subtended by A and B at the foot of the tower is 70deg. pets each students in a class has. The average number of pets per student
A. 148.81 m B. 215.25 C. 307.35 D. 177.92 in this class is 2. Find the value of K.
No. of Pets 0 1 2 3 4 5
6. The area of a rhombus is 143 m2. If the longer diagonal is 26 m, find the No. of Students 4 6 10 0 K 2
angle opposite the shorter diagonal.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
A. 67.07° B. 45.86° C. 130.35° D. 134.14°
GEOTECHNICAL AND HYDRAULICS
7. What is the slope of the line perpendicular to 4y=3x+1
21. A stone weighs 468N in air. When submerged in water, it weighs 298N.
A. -4/3 B. 3/4 C. 1/3 D. 4/3
Find the volume of the stone in cubic meters
A. 0.0173 B. 0.0477 C. 0.0273 D. 0.0781
8. One endpoint of a line segment is A(6, 4), and the midpoint of the segment
is P(-2, 9). Find the coordinate of the other endpoint.
22. A rectangular plate of dimensions 0.60 m x 1.20 m is submerged vertically
A. (2, 6.5) C. (14, -10)
in water with its shorter at the liquid surface and parallel to it. Evaluate the total
B. (6.5, 2) D. (-10, 14)
force acting on one side of the plate, in kN.
A. 6.58 B. 5.96 C. 5.32 D. 4.24
9. What is the angle between two vectors A and B? A=4i+12j+6k; B=24i-8j+6k
A. 87.12 B. 84.32 C. 6.68 D. 74.61
23. If the absolute pressure in a tank is 140 kPa, determine the pressure
head in mm of mercury.
10. A bullet is fired at an initial velocity of 350 m/s and an angle of 50° with the
A. 1.05m B. 14.27m C. 3.94m D.0.29 m
horizontal. Neglecting air resistance, how long will the bullet travel before
hitting the ground?
24. A 600-mm non-rigid pipe takes water from a large reservoir. The velocity
A. 54.66 sec C. 56.55 sec
of flow in the pipe is 2.5 m/s. The flow is suddenly stopped by a quick-closing
B. 55.44 sec D. 65.66 sec
valve situated 400 m from the reservoir. The pipe is 20 mm thick and modulus
of elasticity of pipe material is 1.4x1011 Pa. Bulk modulus of elasticity of water
11. A 100 kN block slides down a place inclined at an angle of 30° with the
is 2.2x109 Pa. Compute the celerity of the pressure wave.
horizontal. Neglecting friction, find the force that causes the block to slide.
A. 1532 B. 1223 C. 1142 D. 1358
A. 45 kN B. 50 kN C. 35 kN D. 40 kN
25. A triangular gate of height 1.2 m and base 0.9 m is installed in a position
12. An item cost distribution has a given function of probability. What is the
that its plane is inclined 60 degrees with the horizontal with its vertex at the
expected cost?
top and the base parallel to the water surface. The vertex is at a depth 2 m
Cost in Pesos Probability vertically below the water surface. Fresh water is on one side of the gate.
1 0.20 Locate the point of action of the total hydrostatic force from the vertex on the
2 0.28 plane on the gate
3 0.18 A. 0.0257 B. 0.8257 C. 0.6845 D. 0.0964
4 0.23
5 0.11 26. Water flows through a circular conduit with outside diameter of 500mm and
A. 2.45 B. 2.68 C. 2.77 D. 2.82 wall thickness of 50mm at a velocity of 3m/s. Determine the discharge in m3/s.
A. 0.589 B. 0.477 C. 0.377 D. 1.51
13. How many ways can the letters in the word “MATHEMATICS” be
arranged? SITUATION. A 280 cc soil sample has a wet mass of 525 grams, moisture
A. 2960480 C. 4098240 content of 20%, and Gs = 2.72
B. 4989600 D. 9296800 27. Determine the dry unit weight of the soil
A. 16.25kN/m3 B. 15.325 C. 18.65 D. 17.56
14. Given the acceleration function a(t)=3t2-1, if the velocity at t=0 is 2, what
is the average velocity of a particle from t=2 to t=8. 28. Void ratio of the soil
A. 103 m/s B. 87 m/s C. 83 m/s D. 4.5 m/s A. 0.741 B. 0.471 C. 0.174 D. 0.417

29. Degree of saturation of the soil.

A. 115% B. 73% C. 130% D. 95%

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ELECTIVE 4: PRE-REVIEW
DIAGNOSTIC EXAM
30. A cohesionless soil specimen is subjected to a triaxial test. If the shear
stress that causes failure is 300 kPa and the normal stress at failure is only 40. Determine the maximum axial stress in the cable, in MPa.
475 kPa. Determine the angle of shearing resistance. A. 127.32 B. 135.42 C. 129.85 D. 132.14
A. 32.3deg B. 23.3deg C. 22.3deg D. 30.2deg

BASIC STRUCTURAL
SITUATION. Personal Space Person of mass ‘m’ walks on a plank resting on
rough surfaces A and B.

Given: m = 120 kg Coefficient of friction at A = 0.40

L=4m Coefficient of friction at B = 0.20
α = 30°
31. A what distance ‘x’ will the plank start to slide?
A. 2.33 m B. 1.69 m C. 1.62 m D. 2.29 m
32. What is the friction force at A, in N?
A. 135.6 B. 98.6 C. 256.7 D. 186.7

33. Find the vertical force at B, in N?

A. 493 B. 684 C. 235 D. 348

SITUATION. The 1.5-m concrete post is

reinforced with six steel bars, each with a 28-
mm diameter. Knowing that 𝐸𝑠 = 200𝐺𝑃𝑎
and 𝐸𝑐 = 25 𝐺𝑃𝑎, determine the normal
stresses in the steel and in the concrete when
a 1550-kN axial centric force P is applied to
the post.
34. The normal stress in the steel, in MPa.
A. 67.1 C. 70.0
B. 76.1 D. 80.5

35. The normal stress in the concrete, in

MPa.
A. 3.88 C. 8.88
B. 8.38 D. 3.33

36. A car is being towed uphill, inclined at

20-deg with the horizontal. What force (in
kilonewtons) parallel to the inclined plane is
needed to pull the car with an acceleration of
1.5 m/s². Weight of the car is 25 kN.
A. 14.39 B. 6.74 C. 12.37 D. 4.73

SITUATION. A 6-m long simply supported timber beam is subjected to a

uniform load of 20 kN/m. Given: b = 200 mm,
h = 500 mm, E = 8.33 GPa, Specific Gravity = 0.72.
37. Calculate the maximum moment, in kN-m.
A. 93.18 B. 86.82 C. 94.41 D. 90.00

38. What is the maximum flexural stress developed in the beam, in MPa?
A. 10.80 B. 11.33 C. 11.18 D. 10.42

SITUATION. The water supply pipe shown in Fig. EM-965 is suspended from
a 100 mmØ cable using a series of equally spaced hangers. The length of the
pipe that is supported by the cable is 50 meters and the total weight of the pipe
filled with water is 8 kN/m. If the sag of the cable at mid length is 2.5 m. Find
the maximum axial stress in the parabolic cable, in MPa.

“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past
and thereby change the future.”
Fig. EM-965
-Paulo Coelho

39. Determine the minimum tension in the cable, in kN.

A. 1000 B. 0 C. 1020 D. 200
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