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Department of Electrical Engineering
EECE0322 – COMPETENCY ENHANCEMENT 1
Group Assignment No. 1: BASIC ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS, Part 1
COLLEGE ALGEBRA and TRIGONOMETRY
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following TEST items. Mark only one answer for
each item by encircling the corresponding letter of your choice. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWE D
1. The excess of the sum of the fourth and the fifth parts over the difference of the half and the third parts of a number is 119. Find the
number. A. 240 B. 420 C. 320 D. 430
2. Thrice the smaller number exceeds the larger by 12. Find the larger number if the two numbers are consecutive odd integers.
A. 7 B. 11 C. 9 D. 8
3. Find the remainder if (4y3 + 18y2 + 8y – 4) is divided by ((2y + 3).
A. 10 B. 11 C. 15 D. 13
4. What number completes the square of the expression x2 – 12x?
A. -36 B. +36 C. -16 D. +16
5. If 3a = 7b, then 3a2 / 7b2 is equal to:
A. 1 B. 3 / 7 C. 7 / 3 D. 49 / 9
6. In what quadrant will the angle ϴ terminate if sin ϴ is positive and sec ϴ is negative.
A. 1st quadrant B. 2nd quadrant C. 3rd quadrant D. 4th quadrant
7. If log x + log 5 = log (x + 5), determine the value of x.
A. 0 B. 1.25 C. 1.5 D. 2
8. If sin x cos x > 0, then x may lie in which quadrant?
A. 1st and 2nd quadrants B. 1st and 3rd quadrants C. 2nd and 3rd quadrants D. 3rd quadrants only
2 cos x
9. Find the value of x in the equation (√5) = 5.
A. 0 degree B. 55 degrees C. 30 degrees D. 60 degrees
10. If the angles of a triangle are 2x, x + 15, and 2x + 15, find the smallest angle in mils.
A. 600 mils B. 800 mils C. 900 mils D. 700 mils
11. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of the fraction, the resulting
fraction is 3 / 5. Find the original fraction.
A. 8 / 5 B. 5 / 13 C. 3 / 5 D. 13 / 5
12. A number is divided into two parts such that when the greater part is divided by the smaller, the quotient is three and the remainder
is 5. Find the smaller number if the sum of the two numbers is 37.
A. 8 B. 12 C. 32 D. 16
13. Find the value of C in the expression 5x2 – 2x + C to make it a perfect square trinomial.
A. 1 / 5 B. 25 C. 1 / 4 D. 16
14. Two students solve a quadratic equation in x. One student made a mistake in the coefficient of the linear term and found the roots
to be 1 and 2, while the other made a mistake in the constant term and found the roots to be -1 and 2. What was the correct quadratic
equation?
A. x2 – x – 2 = 0 B. x2 + x – 1 = 0 C. x2 – x – 1 = 0 D. x2 – x + 2 = 0
15. If y varies directly as x and inversely as z, and y = 5 when x = 2 and z = 4, find y when x = 3 and z = 6.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 5 D. 6
16. If sin ϴ - cos ϴ = 1 / 3, determine the value of sin ϴ cos ϴ.
A. 5 / 4 B. 5 / 9 C. 4 / 9 D. 4 / 5
17. Three circles of radii 6, 8, and 10 meters, respectively are tangent to each other externally. Find the largest angle of a triangle formed
by joining the centers.
A. 72.60 B. 75.10 C. 73.40 D. 71.30
18. From the top of a light house 53 m above the water, the angle of depression of a boat due south is 18 056’47”. Calculate the speed
of the boat, if after it moves due west for 2 minutes the angle of depression is 14 020’.
A. 69.26 meters/min B. 48.17 meters/min C. 87.35 meters/min D. 29.47 meters/min
19. Find the length of the cord of a circle of radius 20 cm subtended by a central angle of 150 degrees.
A. 29.7 cm B. 25.4 cm C. 38.6 cm D. 18.8 cm
20. A tower standing on a level ground is due north of point A and due west of point B, a distance 150 ft from A. If the angles of
elevation of the top of the tower as measured from A and B are 20 and 40 degrees, respectively, find the height of the tower.
A. 50 ft B. 60 ft C. 80 ft D. 75 ft
21. A tiger is now 50 of her leap ahead of an elephant, which is pursuing her. How many more leaps will the tiger take before it is
overtaken if she takes 5 leaps while the elephant takes 4 leaps, but 2 of the elephant’s leaps are equivalent to 3 of the tiger’s leaps?
A. 350 B. 325 C. 420 D. 250
22. A fruit vendor goes to market to buy fruits for resale at her store. She spends half of her money for mangoes and one third of what
remains for bananas. She spends 150 for other fruits and still has 200 left from the amount she originally had. How much money
did she have at the start?
A. 1050 B. 5100 C. 1500 D. 1250
23. An electronics technician bought 24 boxes of ICs for P2200.00. There were three types of ICs bought. SSI costs P300 per box, MSI
costs P150 and LSI costs P50 per box. How many boxes of SSI ICs did he buy?
A. 4 B. 5 C. 2 D. 17
24. Harry is one-third as old as Ron and 8 years younger than Hermie. If Harry is 8 years old, what is the sum of their ages?
A. 40 B. 45 C. 48 D. 50
25. How many minutes after 2 o’clock will the hands of the clock are together for the first time?
A. 10. 360 min B. 10.022 min C. 10.909 min D. 10.455 min
26. Find the height of a lamp post if the angle of elevation of its top changes from 20 degrees to 40 degrees as the observer 1.8meters
tall advances 23 meters toward the base.
A. 13.78 meters B. 16.58 meters C. 14.78 meters D. 15.78 meters
27. If the complement of an angle theta is 2 / 5 of its supplement, find the value of theta.
A. 45 degrees B. 75 degrees C. 60 degrees D. 30 degrees
28. Two towers are 60 m apart. From the top of the shorter tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the taller tower is 40 degrees.
How high is the taller tower if the height of the lower tower is 40 m?
A. 90.35 m B. 100.24 m C. 86.76 m D. 75.84 m
29. Considering the earth as a sphere of radius 6400 km, find the radius of the 60 th parallel of latitude.
A. 3,200 km B. 1,300 km C. 2,300 km D. 3,100 km
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30. A ladder, with its foot on the street, makes an angle of 30 with the street when its top rests on a building on one side of the street
and makes an angle of 400 with the street when its top rests on a building on the other side of the street. If the ladder is 50 ft long,
how wide is the street?
A. 90.2 ft B. 81.6 ft C. 78.5 ft D. 54.3 ft
31. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 11. If the digits are reversed, the resulting number is 7 more than twice the original
number. What is the original number?
A. 38 B. 53 C.83 D. 44
32. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of 10% solution. You find 7% and 12% solution on the shelf. How much of the 7%
solution you mix with the appropriate amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution?
A. 1 B. 6 C. 3 D. 2
33. A tank contains 20 liters of a mixture of alcohol and water, which is 40% alcohol by volume. How much of the mixture should be
removed and replaced by an equal volume of water so that the resulting solution will be 25% alcohol by volume?
A. 7.5 liters B. 8.5 liters C. 10.5 liters D. 6.5 liters
34. Two friends A and B can run a circular track in 6 and 10 minutes, respectively. If they start at the same instant from the same place,
in how many minutes will they pass each other if they run around the track in the same direction?
A. 10 min. B. 20 min. C. 15 min. D. 25 min.
35. It takes an apprentice twice as long as it takes an experienced technician to do a certain electrical repair. Working together they can
do the work in 6 days. How long would it take for the apprentice to do the repair alone?
A. 12 days B. 18 days C. 22 days D. 32 days
36. From a helicopter flying at 30,000 feet, the angles of depression of two towns are 28 0 and 550. How far apart are the two towns?
A. 6.71 miles B. 7.61 miles C. 8.45 miles D. 9.46 miles
37. An observer 5 meters away from the base of a building finds that the angle of elevation of the top of a building is twice the angle of
elevation of the top of the same building when he is 25 m away from it. Find the height of the building.
A. 18.64 m B. 19.36 m C. 31.48 m D. 28.94 m
38. Two straight roads intersect to form an angle of 75 degrees. Find the shortest distance from one road to a gas station on the other
road 1 km from the junction.
A. 3.732 km B. 5.325 km C. 4.365 km D. 2.856 km
39. Four holes are to be spaced regularly on a circle of radius 20 cm. Find the distance “d” between the centers of two successive holes.
A. 20 √2 B. 10 √3 C. 15 √3 D. 10 √2
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40. If Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is 9 AM, what is the time in a place 45 W of longitude?
A. 7 AM B. 4 AM C. 6 AM D. 2 AM