TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF THE PHILIPPINES

QUEZON CITY
CIVIL ENGINEERING
ALGEBRA
1. The terms of a sum may be grouped in any manner A. 96 m C. 100 m
without affecting the result. This law is known as: B. 85 m D. 75 m
A. Associative Law C. Reflexive Law
15. Find the tenth term in the sequence 1, 1, ½, 1/6, 1/24…
B. Commutative Law D. Distributive Law
A. 1/322560 C. 1/362880
2. The expression (x – 3)3 is identical to: B. 1/317520 D. 1/352800
A. x3 – 27 C. (x + 3) (x2 – 6x + 9)
16. A club of 40 executive, 33 likes to smoke Marlboro, and
B. (x – 3) (x – 3x + 9)
2 D. x3 – 9x2 + 27x – 27 20 likes to smoke Philip Morris. How many like both?
3. Solve for x if 8x = 2(y+2) and 16(3x-y) = 4y. A. 13 C. 11
A. 1 C. 3 B. 10 D. 12
B. 2 D. 4 17. When William was as old as Mae is now, the sum of
4. The simplest form of [(n+1)!]2 / [(n!)(n-1)!] is their ages was 51. When Mae will be as old as William
A. n(n+1) C. n2 is now, the sum of their ages will be 103. How many
B. n+1 D. n(n+1)2 years older is William than Mae?
A. 25 C. 19
5. Terms that differ only in numeric coefficients are known
B. 13 D. 32
as:
A. unlike terms C. equal terms 18. At what time between 2:00 and 3:00 will the angle
B. unequal terms D. like terms between the hands of the clock be bisected by the line
connecting the center of the clock and the 3 o’clock
6. When the given function f(x) = cx3 - 3x2 + dx – 4 is
mark?
divided by (x+2), the remainder is -34. When divided by
A. 2:21 3/11 C. 2:23 7/13
(x-2), the remainder is 2. What is the value of d?
B. 2:18 6/13 D. 2:19 7/13
A. 1 C. 3
B. 2 D. 4 19. A boat can go 12 kph in still water. Going full speed, it
goes 25 km upstream in the same time it takes to go
7. Find the value of constant “h” in the 2x2 – hx2 + 4x + 5h
35 km downstream. What is the rate of the current?
= 0 so that the sum of the roots is 2.
A. 3 kph C. 4 kph
A. 4 C. 6
B. 1 kph D. 2 kph
B. 12 D. 18
20. Ana can finish her differential equations homework in
8. The average of 2013 numbers is 2014. If a number is
30 minutes while Annie can do the same homework for
neglected, the new average becomes 2013. What was
26 minutes. If Ana did the homework for 12 minutes
the number neglected?
until Annie helped her, after how many minutes will
A. 2013 C. 2012
they finish the homework?
B. 4026 D. 4024
A. 12.36 C. 7.64
9. There are two numbers whose sum is 53. Three times B. 8.36 D. 10.72
the smaller number is equal to 19 more than the larger
number. What are the numbers? 21. If 20 bakers can bake 40 cakes in 8 hrs, how many
A. 16, 37 C. 18, 35 bakers can bake 10 cakes in 2 hours?
B. 20, 33 D. 24, 29 A. 20 C. 10
10. Find the term independent of y in the expansion of (2y2 B. 30 D. 40
– 3y-1)9. 22. The ratio or product of two expressions in direct or
A. 217,728 C. -734,832 inverse relation with each other is called:
B. -326,592 D. 489,888 A. ratio and proportion C. means
11. Find the sum of the coefficients in the expansion of (2x- B. extremes D. constant of variation
3y+1)35. 23. How much of a 7% solution should be mixed with
A. -1 C. 1 appropriate amount of 12% solution to get 5 liters of a
B. -2 D. 2 10% solution?
12. If (5x – 3), (x + 2), and (3x – 11) form an arithmetic A. 2 L C. 3 L
progression, find the fifteenth term. B. 2.5 L D. 4 L
A. – 86 C. – 81 24. An investor has ₱ 1, 100 income from bonds bearing
B. – 79 D. – 84 4% and 5% if the amount at 4% and 5% were
interchanged he would earn ₱ 50 more per year. Find
13. Find the common ratio of a geometric progression the total sum invested.
whose first term is 1 and for which the sum of the first A. ₱ 20, 000 C. ₱ 25, 000
6 terms is 28 times the sum of the first 3 terms. B. ₱ 30, 000 D. ₱ 35, 000
A. 4 C. 5 25. Equal volumes of different liquids evaporate at different
B. 3 D. 2 but constant rates. If the first is totally evaporated in 6
14. A rubber ball is dropped from a height of 15 meters. On week and the second is 5 weeks, when will the second
each rebound, it rises 2/3 of the height from which it be ½ the volume of the first?
A. 27/7 C. 33/7
last fell. Find the distance traversed by the fall before it
B. 30/7 D. 29/7
comes to rest. The geometric progression occurs after
the first rebound.
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QUEZON CITY
CIVIL ENGINEERING
SUPPLEMENTARY PROBLEMS
26. Which of the following is the value of xy if x-y=2, x2 + 36. A project activity can be done by 25 men in 60 days. At
2xy + y2 = 3? the end of the 5th day, 6 men were laid off. At the start
A. -1/4 C. 1/4 of the 33rd day, 12 more men were hired to finish the
B. -4 D. Not in the choices job. How many days is the project advanced/ delayed?
27. Consider the sequence: A. 0.81 advanced C. 0.19 advanced
1, -2, 3, -4, 5, -6, … , whose nth term is (-1)n+1(n). B. 0.81 delayed D. 0.19 delayed
What is the average of the first 200 terms of the 37. A survey was conducted by SWS to find out which of
sequence? the three presidentiables they liked best. The results
A. -1 C. 0 indicated that 500 liked Noynoy, 470 liked Villar, and
B. -0.5 D. 1 430 liked Estrada. But of these, 180 liked both Noynoy
28. A figure is 30 cm high is reduced by 19% in a copier. and Estrada, 140 liked both Noynoy and Villar, and 210
The height of the figure in the resulting copy will be liked both Estrada and Villar. Only 60 liked all the
A. 5.7 cm C. 24.3 cm presidentiables. How many persons responded to the
B. 27 cm D. 13.08 cm survey?
A. 910 C. 960
29. Yoyet reads the clock differently such that he
B. 980 D. 930
recognizes the hour hand as the minute hand and the
minute hand as hour hand. How many minutes after 5 38. La Immaculada High School has 85 seniors, each of
o’clock will he read the time correctly? whom plays on at least one of the school’s three varsity
A. 26.55 C. 28.92 sports teams: football, baseball, and basketball. It so
B. 27.27 D. 28.66 happen that 74 are on the football team; 26 are on the
baseball team; 17 are on both the football and
30. A cask containing 20 gallons of wine was emptied on
basketball teams; 18 are on both the baseball and
one-fifth of its content and then is filled with water. If
football teams; and 13 are on both the baseball and
this is done 6 times, how many gallons of wine remain
basketball teams. Determine the number of seniors
in the cask?
playing all three sports given that twice this number is
A. 5.121 C. 5.010
members of the basketball team.
B. 5.243 D. 5.343
A. 10 C. 22
31. A man wishes to buy a piece of land worth 15 million B. 11 D. 20
pesos. If it were possible for him to save one peso for 39. The sum of the digits of a 2-digit number is 10. If the
the first day, two pesos on the second day, 4 pesos on number is divided by the units’ digit, the quotient is 3
the third day and so on. In how many days would he remainder is 4. Find the number.
save enough money to buy the land? A. 37 C. 46
A. 20 C. 24 B. 28 D. 19
B. 23 D. 27
40. A number is less than 100 and its tens’ digit is 2 more
32. What part of 90% alcohol solution must be replaced by than its units’ digit. If the number with the digits
an equal amount of pure alcohol to make a 95% alcohol reversed is subtracted from the original number, the
solution? remainder is 3 times the sum of the digits. Find the
A. 50% C. 25% number.
B. 45% D. 5% A. 42 C. 75
33. Pure tin and pure iron was added to a 50 kg of an alloy B. 53 D. 64
containing 10% tin and 20 % iron. The process
produced a new alloy containing 20% tin and 50% iron.
What is the weight of the new alloy?
A. 66.67 kg C. 116.67 kg
B. 86.25 kg D. 153.33 kg
34. 9 liters of wine are taken from a container full of wine.
It is then filled with water. Then 9 liters of the mixture
are taken and the container is again filled with water. If
the ratio of the quantity of the wine now in the container
to the quantity of the water in it is 16/9, what is the
capacity of the container?
A. 60 L C. 45 L
B. 54 L D. 36 L
35. A can do a job in 4 days, B can do the job in 6 days and
C can do the job in 8 days. How long will it take to do
the job if A and B work for 1 day then B and C finish the
job?
A. 1 C. 4
B. 2 D. 3