QUIZ 1 IN REVIEW

SUBJECT: ALGEBRA, TRIGO (PLANE AND SPHERICAL)

1. Jones can paint a car in 8 hours, Smith can paint the same car in 6 hours. They start to paint the car
together. After 2 hours, Jones leaves for lunch and Smith finishes painting the car alone. How long does it
take Smith to finish?
2. Find the tenth element of the given sequence 11,4,-3,-10,…
3. If (6 - x),(13 - x), and (14 - x) are the lengths of the sides of a right triangle, find the area of a triangle.
4. Mr. Manuel makes a business trip from his house to Laguna in 2 hours. One hour lately, he returns home
in a traffic at a rate of 20 kph less than his rate going. If Mr. Manuel is gone a total of 6 hours, what was his
rate going to Laguna?
5. Terry bought some gum and some candy. The number of packages of gum was one more than the number
of mints. The number of mints was three times the number of candy bars. If gum was 24 cents a package,
mints were 10 cents each, and candy bars were 35 cents each, how many gums did he get for $5.72?
6. An airplane flies at a speed of 240 mph is still air S30° W with a wind speed of 40 mph due west. What is the
new bearing?
7. Bill, Bob, and Barry are hired to paint signs. In 8 hours Bill can paint 1 sign, Bob can paint 2 signs, and
Barry can paint 1 1/3 signs. They all come to work the first day, but Barry doesn’t like the job and quits
after 3 hours. Bob works half an hour longer than Barry and quits. How long it will take Bill to finish the
two signs they were supposed to paint?
8. The horizontal angle from the ground to the top of a palm tree some unknown distance away is 46.18 ° At a
point 40m directly behind the first point, the horizontal angle to the top of the tree is 29.23 ° What is the
distance from the palm tree to the first point?
9. The sum of three numbers in arithmetic progression is 33.if the numbers are increased by 2, 1, and 6,
respectively. The new numbers will be in geometric progression. Find the product of the three numbers in
arithmetic progression.
10. Two cities are 270 miles apart lie on the same meridian. What is the difference in latitude, if the radius of
the earth is 3,960 miles?
11. If an alloy containing 30% silver is mixed with a 55% silver alloy to get 800 pounds of 40% alloy, how
much 30% silver alloy?
12. An equilateral triangle is circumscribed about a circle of radius 10 cm. Find the length of each side of the
triangle.
13. A florist wishes to make bouquets of mixed spring flower. Each bouquet is to be made up of
chrysanthemum (mums) at Php 30 a bunch and roses at Php 21 a bunch. How many bunches of mums
should she use to make 15 bunches which she can sell Php 24 a bunch?
14. Given the curve y = 4 cos 2x, find the period.
15. Without expanding, find the coefficient of a10b5 in the expansion of (a2 + b)10.
16. The first term of a geometric series is 256 and the last term is 81. Its sum is 781, what is the geometric
ratio?
17. The date of the same plane at 8:00 a.m. GMT is July 30, 2019, what is the time and date in the hawaii,
which is located at 150° West Longitude?
18. If the date and time in the Philippines now is July 30, 2019, 11:30am respectively which is located in 120 0
East longitude of the GMT. What is the time and date of new York, USA which is located in 75 0 West
Longitude?

ENGR. VILLORENTE