MOCK BOARD EXAMINATION: RETAKE SET

MATHEMATICS, SURVEYING AND B

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING
MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF CEGE

INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one
answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the
answer sheet provided. If your answer is not among the choices provided shade the
box corresponding to letter E.STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.

1. In the order of direct proportionality, x:y as 7.5:9.5 on the other hand y:z as 12.5:3.5. if
z has an original value of 76.48, find the value of x.
A.123.64 C. 384.14
B.215.50 D. 403.14

2. A rectangle ABCD is given such that AB is 5 units of measure while BC is 2 units. A solid
is to be formed by rotating the rectangle around side AB. Determine its volume in
square units.
A.61.23 cu.units C. 61.43 cu.units
B.62.83 cu.units D. 65.46 cu.units

3. Given the two conics: x^2+3y^2=4 and x^2+y^2=3. Which of the following is their
point of intersection?
A. (-0.707, 2.5) B. (0.707, 2) C. (0.5, 2.5) D. (-0.5, -2.5)

4. A water tank is in the form of a sphere. It is filled with water to a depth of 30 cm. the
inner diameter of the tank is 45 cm, what is the volume of water in it in liters?
A.18.25 liters C. 28.49 liters
B. 21.61 liters D.35.34 liters

5. A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle having an area of 158 square cm. Find the
area of the circle not covered by hexagon.
A. 32.34 B. 27.34 C. 22.98 D. 45.63

6. The surface area of a sphere is 3217 square cm. Determine the volume of the sphere in
cu m.
A. 13982 B. 15092 C. 17157 D. 14764

7. Jim and Joe, working together can print this preboard in 6 and 2/3 hours. Jim became
intoxicated with alcohol after 3 hours of working with Joe, and Joe finished the
printing alone in 8.25 hours. How long will Joe do the printing alone?
A. 12 hours B. 13 hours C. 14 hours D. 15 hours

8. A 100-meter tape is used to measure a horizontal distance. The reading at the other
end is 15.25 m. If the plumb bob at one end was 0.65 m lower than the horizontal,
what is the correct distance?
A. 15.24 B. 15.26 C. 15.23 D. 15.22

9. The sum of the 100 terms of an arithmetic progression is 20100. If the first term of the
progression is 3, find the 50th term.
A. 195 B. 199 C. 203 D. 207

10. A triangle has side lengths 7cm, 9 cm and 13 cm. Find the area of the circumcircle.
A. 29.95 B. 146.80 C. 73.40 D. 293.60

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11. Find the period of tan3x.

A. π B. 2π/3 C. π/3 D. None in the
list
12. Determine the equation of the line passing through (-1,3) and perpendicular to the
line 4x-y +5=0.
A. y - 4x - 7=0 B. x + 4y - 11=0 C. x - 4y + 13=0 D. x + 4y +11=0

13. If x, (x-1), and (x+1) forms the sides of a right triangle, then the area of the triangle is
A.4 B.6 C. 9 D. 12

14. If the plane angles of the faces are called face angles, find the sum of the face angles of
a hexagonal prism.
A.2880 B.2160 C. 1440 D. 3600

15. Given a certain angle A, such that Cos A is equal to 4/5. What should be the value of
Cos (2A)?
A.3/25 C.7/25
B.11/25 D.13/25

16. Consider the sequence 9, -3, 1, …, which term is -1/243?

A. 7th B. 8th C.9th D. None in list

17. Determine the equation of the line having x and y intercepts 3 and -4 respectively.
A. 4x+3y-12=0 B. 4x+3y+12=0 C. 4x-3y-12=0 D. 4x-3y+12=0

18. Find the area of the largest triangle that can be inscribed in a regular hexagon with
side 5.
A. 24.36 B. 26.77 C. 33.21 D. 32.48

19. If sin x= 3/4 and tan y =1/5, what is sin (x+y).

A. 0.365 B. 0.862 C. 0.516 D. 0.781

20. How many minutes after 3:00 pm will the hands of the clock be at 180o?
A. 45.6 C. 46.7
B. 50.2 D. 49.1

21. From a point A, the angle of elevation of the top of the pole is measured as 37.1˚.
measured from the point B on the opposite side but along the same straight line, the
angle of elevation of its top is 35.9˚. if points A and B are 124 m apart, find the height of
the pole.
A.36.74 m C.59.12 m
B. 45.86 m D. 62.57 m

22. A triangular piece of land has vertices A, B and C and is surveyed producing the
following data. A=30˚, C = 50˚ and AC = 13 m. what should be the length of side AB?
A.10.11 m C.30.33 m
B.20.22 m D.40.44 m

23. What is the area bounded by the line with x and y intercepts 3 and -4, and the
coordinate axes?
A. 6 C. 5
B. 10 D. 12

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24. A triangle has two sides with length 3 and 4 cm. Which of the following could be the
length of the third side
A. 1 C. 2
B. 7 D. 8

25. A steel structural member has a mass of 400 kg. if each of its dimensions are reduced
by 30%, determine its new mass.
A.112.0 kg C. 137.2 kg
B. 127.3 kg D. 148.61 kg

26. What is the slope of the line which is defined by the equation 4y+3x+16=0.
A.-3/4 C.1/3
B.-1/4 D.-2/3

27. How many diagonals does dodecagon have.

A.44 C. 45
B.54 D. 66

28. The sum of two numbers is 6 and their product is 2. Find the sum of their reciprocals?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

29. How many gallons of paint are required to paint the walls of a building 50 ft long, 40 ft
wide and 80 ft high, if 1 gallon of paint will cover 500 square feet of the wall??
A. 28.8 B. 34.2 m C. 34.9 m D. 32.6 m

30. If a<0 and b<0. What is the value of ab^3?

A. less than 0 B. greater than 0 C. 0 D. none in list

31. A point on a circle inscribed in a square is 1 and 2 units from the two closest sides of
the square. What is the area of the square?
A. 25 B. 50 C. 100 D. 200

32. One pipe can fill a tub in 12 minutes. Another pipe can fill it in only 6 minutes. How
long would it take both pipes to fill the tub?
A. 4 mins B. 5 mins C. 7 mins D. 8 mins

33. Rex ordered a pizza and asked to slice it in crisscross manner so that many of his
friends can dig in. If Rex ate 1/6 of the pizza, Jesus Thomas ate 1/2 of it and Allen ate
1/4 of it, there are 4 slices leftover which Mark ate. How many slices were there?
A. 36 B. 42 C. 46 D. 48

34. What is the area of largest equilateral triangle that can be inscribed in a regular
hexagon with side 2.5 cm?
A.4.33 B. 8.12 C. 5.2 D. 4.67

35. John is 500 m behind Juan but he walks 1kph faster than the latter. If Juan walks at
3kph, find the distance that John will walk before catching up with Juan.
A. 2 km B. 3.3 km C. 2.5 km D. 1 km

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36. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x=14 when y=7 amd z=2, find x when
z=4 and y=16.
A. 16 B. 14 C. 4 D. None in the list

37. Find the area bounded by the lines 5x-6y-30=0, 2y+3x-6=0 and the y-axis.
A. 13.71 B. 8.57 C. 18 D. 18.67

38. The vertices of the heptagon are as follows: (1, 4), (3, 2), (2, -2), (1, -5), (-3, -4), (-4, 1),
and (-2, 2). Which of the following gives the distance of the centroid from origin?
A. 0.286 B. 0.331 C. 0.389 D. 0.404

39. How many seconds longer is 3% of an hour than is 20% of a minute?

A. 80 B. 108 C. 96 D. 88

𝑓(𝑥)
40. Given that f(0)=0, f’(0)=0 and f’’(0)=1, evaluate the limit: lim .
𝑥→0 𝑥 2

A. 0 B. 1 C. 1/2 D. Does not exist

41. What is the volume of a rectangular box with face areas 5 cm2, 18 cm2 and 10 cm2?
A. 15 B. 22 C. 30 D. 45

42. If sin3A=cos15B, find csc(A+5B).

A. 0 B. 1.414 C. 0.5 D. 2

43. The average of 2013 numbers is 2012. When a number was removed the average of
the remaining became 2011. What was the number removed?
A. 1006 B. 2012 C. 2013 D. 4024

44. A surveyor is sighting a building from a certain horizontal distance and found out that
the angle of elevation to the top of the building is 66°. He moved 300 ft farther and the
angle of elevation to the top of the building is 54°. What is the height of the building?
A. 1267 ft B. 726 ft C. 988 ft D. 1066 ft

45. A polynomial P(x) satisfies that P(0)=3, P(2)=2, P(1)=5. If the polynomial P(x) is
divided by x-1, what is the remainder?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5

46. Find the equation of the line with slope 2/3 and which passes through the point of
intersection of the lines 4x – 2y + 1=0 and x – 2y +4=0.
A. 4x – 6y +9 = 0 B. 6x – 4y + 9 = 0 C. 6x – 4y + 9 = 0 D. 4x – 6y + 11 = 0

47. The corners of a cubical block touch the closed spherical shell that encloses it. The
volume of the box is 27000 cc. What volume in cc, inside the shell is not occupied by
the block?
A. 46461 B. 32987 C. 54873 D. 28652

48. The sum of two numbers is a and the sum of their reciprocal is b. The product of two
numbers is
A. a/b B. b/a C. ab D. a+b

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49. The sum of the digits of a 3 digit number is 14. The hundreds digit being 4 times the
unit digit. If 594 is subtracted from the number the order of the digits will be reversed.
Find the ten’s digit of the number?
A. 8 B. 2 C. 4 D. 6

50. The area of a rectangle is 810 cm2. Given that the width is 3 cm less than the length,
what is the length of the rectangle?
A. 27 B. 33 C. 30 D. 36

51. The upper and lower bases of the frustum of a rectangular pyramid are 3 m by 4 m
and 6 m by 8 m, respectively. If the volume of the solid is 140 m3, how far apart are the
bases?
A. 4 cm B. 5 cm C. 6 cm D. 7 cm

52. To excavate for a basement, 7 m by 12 m, a man had the earth removed to a depth of 3
m. How much did this cost at P100 per cubic meter of earth removed?
A. 2520 B. 2550 C. 2430 D. 2160

53. A hemispherical tank of radius 15 m is being filled with oil at the rate 510 cum/sec.
How fast is the water rising when it is half filled?
A. 0.962 m/s B. 0.820 cm/s C. 0.889 cm/s D. 0.986 cm/s

54. If a steel ball is immersed in an 8 cm diameter cylinder, it displaces water to a depth of

2.25 cm. Find the surface area of the ball
A. 57 B. 113 C. 38 D. 125

55. The graphs of x^2 + y = 12 and x + y = 12 intersect at two points. What is the distance
between these points?
A. 1 B. 1.4 C. 1.6 D. 14.87

56. How many diagonals does dodecagon have?

A. 44 B. 55 C. 54 D. 64

SITUATIONAL
I. From the top of an edifice, the angle of depression of the bottom of a nearby building is
54° and the angle of depression of the top of the building is 32°. The building is 150 m
from the edifice.
57. What is the height of the building in m?
A. 100.45 B. 120.23 C. 112.72 D. 115.67

58. What is the height of the edifice in m?

A. 206.46 B. 202.12 C. 198.54 D. 214.55

59. What is the angle of depression from the top of the building to the bottom of the
edifice?
A. 53.07° B. 36.92° C. 37.63° D. 52.36°
II. Three circles A, B and C are externally tangent to each other. The length of lines
segments are AB=7, BC=9 and AC=8.
60. What is the radius of the largest circle?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

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61. What is the radius of the smallest circle?

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

62. What is the area of the region enclosed by the circles?

A. 2.4 B. 2.3 C. 2.2 D. 2.1

III. y = (x+2)(x-3) and P(-1,-4)

63. Find the equation of the tangent to the curve at P.
A. 2x + 3y + 11 = 0 B. 3x + y + 7 = 0 C. x + 2y + 7 = 0 D. x + 3y + 11 = 0

64. Find the equation of the normal to the curve at P.

A. 3x – 2y = 5 B. 3x + 2y = 5 C. x – 3y = 11 D. x + 3y = 11

65. Find the ordinate of the vertex of the curve.

A. 1.5 B. -5.75 C. -6.25 D. None in list

IV. Given the circle x^2+y^2-6x+12y+9=9

66. What is the radius of the circle?
A. 6.71 B. 4.85 C. 5.16 D. 7.23

67. Where is the center of the circle?

A. (3, -6) B. (-3, -6) C. (3, 6) D. (-3, 6)

68. Find the shortest distance from the line y=2x+10 to the center of the circle.
A. 9.84 B. 10.24 C. 8.49 D. 6.87

V. Given the triangle ABC with sides a=4, b=3 and c=6.
69. Find the angle B in degrees.
A. 26.38 B. 36.33 C. 117.27 D. None in list

70. Find the perimeter of the triangle.

A. 7 B. 9 C. 12 D. 13

71. Find the area of the triangle.

A. 4.67 B. 5.12 C. 5.33 D. 6.2

VI. Given the ellipse: 9x^2+25y^2=225.

72. What is the perimeter of the ellipse?
A. 18.91 B. 25.53 C. 27.73 D. 20.12

73. What is the volume of the solid when ellipse is revolved about the x-axis.
A. 315.16 B. 176.31 C. 188.49 D. 251.33

74. What is the area of the maximum rectangle that can be inscribed in the ellipse?
A. 15 B. 20 C. 7.5 D. 30

VII. Solve the following analytic geometry problems.

75. Find the distance between the lines 4x-y+2=0 and 4x-y+9=0.
A. 1.6 B. 1.7 C. 1.8 D. 1.9

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76. Given the points A(3,2), B(-2,5), C(4,7) and D(-4,-5). Find the equation of the line
joining the midpoints of segments AB and CD.
A. 5x+y+1=0 B. 5x-y-1=0 C. 5x-y+1=0 D. 5x-y+1=0

77. What is the radius of the circle passing through (-3, 1), (0, 4) and (3, -6)?
A. 5.24 B. 4.80 C. 4.96 D. 5.33

VIII. In the next three questions, given are the terminal point of a line which passes
through the origin. Let angle A be measured from positive x-axis to the line.
78. (1, -1), find tanA.
A. 1 B. 0 C. -1 D. undefined

79. (2, 0), find cosA.

A. 1 B. 0 C. -1 D. undefined

80. (0, 2013), find cscA.

A. 1 B. 0 C. -1 D. undefined

IX. A triangular lot ABC is to be divided by a line DE parallel to BC. D is along AB while E is
along AC. The area of the lot is 2500 m2, DE=120 and BC=270.
81. Find the area of BCED.
A. 494 m2 B. 1980 m2 C. 2006 m2 D. 2231 m2

82. Find the area ADE.

A. 494 m2 B. 1980 m2 C. 2006 m2 D. 2231 m2

83. What part of ABC is ADE?

A. 20.21% B. 19.75% C. 18.67% D. 15.67%

X. A flagpole stands on top of a pedestal. From a point O at the same elevation as the base
of pedestal, the vertical angle of the top of the flagpole is 60° and the vertical angle of
the bottom of the flagpole is 52°. Point O is 14.8 meters away from the base of the
pedestal.
84. How high is the pedestal in meters?
A.18.94 B. 13.56 C. 16.87 D. 21.68

85. How long is the flagpole in meters?

A. 3.46 B. 5.32 C. 8.53 D. 6.69

86. What is the distance from O to the top of the flagpole?

A. 21.24 B. 29.6 C. 32.12 D. 44.6

XI. Solve the following algebra problems:.

87. What part of 90% alcohol solution must be replaced by an equal amount of pure
alcohol to make a 95% alcohol solution?
A. 45% B. 50% C. 40% D. 15%

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88. A mother is now three times as old as her daughter. In 4 years, the mother will be four
times as old as the daughter was, two years ago. How old is the daughter?
A. 12 B. 16 C. 10 D. 8

89. How much of a 7% solution should be mixed with an appropriate amount of a 12 %

solution to get 5 litres of a 10 % solution?
A. 2 L B. 3 L C. 3.5 L D. 1 L

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XII. If sin-1 (3x-4y)= 2 and cos-1 (x-y)= 3
90. Find the value of x.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

91. Find sin-1(x-y).

A. pi/8 B. pi/6 C. pi/3 D. pi/4

92. Find the value of y.

A. 2 B. 4 C. 1/2 D. ¼
XIII. Evaluate the following limits:
93. (x^2-1)/(x-1) as x approaches 1.
A. 4 B. 2 C. 1/2 D. 1/4

94. (x^3-2x^2+7)/(2x^3+x-3) as x approaches infinity.

A. 2 B. 1/2 C. 4 D. ¼

95. x^3/(x^2-1) as x approaches 1.

A. 3 B. Does not exist C. 0 D. 1
XIV. Determine the quadrant for which the angle being describe terminates.
96. cotθ > 0 and cscθ >0
A. I B. II C. III D. IV

97. secθ < 0 and tanθ > 0

A. I B. II C. III D. IV

98. cscθ > 0 and cosθ < 0

A. I B. II C. III D. IV

99. Container A contained a mixture that is 40% acid, while container B contained mixture
that is 60% acid. A chemist took some amount from each container and mixed them.
To produce 100 L of mixture that is 17% acid, she need to pour 70 L of pure water to
the mixture she got form containers A and B. How many liters did she take from
container A?
A. 5 B. 10 C. 25 D. 15

100. X is 12% older than Y while Y is 11% older than Z. By how much, in percent, is X
older than Z.
A. 24.32 B. 25.43 C. 21.78 D. 23.66

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