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FIRST EVALUATION EXAMINATION REVIEW FOR MAY 2021 CE BOARD EXAM

1. A road’s annual maintenance will cost P500,000 on its first 9. Compute the probable area of the triangle from the
5 years, and then P200,000 thereafter. To fund the previous problem.
maintenance, an amount X is invested today earning 6% A. 72.65 cm2 C. 34.98 cm2
interest. Determine the amount X invested. B. 68.03 cm2 D. 31.12 cm2
A. 2,106,182 C. 5,439,516
B. 3,333,333 D. 4,597,043 10. If sin2x + y = m and cos2x + y = n, find y.
A. (m + n + 1)/2 C. (m + n – 2)/2
2. Innovative Construction Corporation purchased a heavy duty B. (m + n – 1)/2 D. (m + n + 2)/2
truck for P3,000,000, with a useful life of ten years. The
salvage value is estimated to be P600,000. Determine its book 11. A clock has a minute hand of 16 cm long and an hour hand
value after 8 years using double declining balance 11 cm long. Find the distance between the outer tips of the
depreciation method. hands at 2:30 o’clock.
A. 600,000 C. 827,837 A. 19.6 cm C. 21.6 cm
B. 503,316 D. 1,080,000 B. 20.6 cm D. 22.6 cm

3. Engr. Bombom bought a small condo unit at ZUGO 12. At a certain instant, a lighthouse is 4 miles north of a ship
residences paying P500,000 down payment and promising to which is traveling directly east. If after 10 minutes, the
pay P30,280 every three months for the next ten years. The bearing of the lighthouse is found to be North 21 degrees
seller figured interest at 12% compounded quarterly. 15 minutes West, find the speed of the ship in miles per
Determine the cash price of the unit? hour.
A. P1.0 M C. P1.5 M A. 11.3 mph C. 9.3 mph
B. P1.2 M D. P1.8 M B. 10.3 mph D. 8.3 mph

4. If P5,000 becomes P7,925 after 3 years and 3 months, what 13. A tree stands vertically on a hillside which makes an angle
is the simple interest rate? of 22 degrees with the horizontal. From a point 60 ft down
A. 10% C. 18% the hill directly from the base of t he tree, the angle of
B. 15% D. 20% elevation of the top of the tree is 55 degrees. How high is
the tree?
A. 56.97 ft C. 59.76 ft
5. An asset is purchased for 9,000 has a book value of P7,545.45 B. 57.96 ft D. 57.69 ft
after 1 year. Its estimated life is 10 years. Find its salvage
value if sum of the year’s digits method is used. 14. A fisherman at sea observed that the angle of elevation of
A. P3,000 C. P1,000 a cliff is 120. If the height of the cliff above sea level is 30m,
B. P2,000 D. P500
how far is he from the shore?
A. 144.29 m C. 141.14 m
6. A man borrows P10,000 from a loan firm. The rate of simple B. 144.92 m D. 114.41 m
interest is 15%, but the interest is to be deducted from the
loan at the time the money is borrowed. At the end of one 15. Simplify the value of
year he has to pay back P10,000. What is the actual rate of [(𝑛 + 1)!]2
interest?
A. 17.65% C. 15.00% 𝑛! (𝑛 − 1)!
B. 15.22% D. 12.25% A. n(n + 1) C. (n + 1)2
B. n(n + 1)2 D. n2(n + 1)
7. A machine cost P100,000 with a salvage value of P20,000 at
16. A boatman rows to a place 48 miles distant and back in 14
the end of 8 years. Which of the following gives the
hours. He finds that he can row 4 miles with the stream
depreciation on the s6th year using sinking fund method if
money is worth 6% annually. in the same time as 3 miles against the stream. Find the
A. P56,380.63 C. P7,766.13 rate of the stream.
B. P43,619.34 D. P8,082.88 A. 1 mph C. 2 mph
B. 0.5 mph D. 1.5 mph
Situation 1. Two sides of the triangle ABC has side AB = 22
cm and side AC = 8 cm. 17. Benjie and Jerwin is running in opposite directions in a 400-
meter circular track and meet each other every 35 seconds. If
8. Compute the probable perimeter of the triangle.
A. 60 cm C. 44 cm Benjie can complete one track in 65 seconds. How long does
B. 61 cm D. 45 cm it take for Jerwin to run 400 meters?
A. 58.7 sec C. 87.5 sec
B. 75.8 sec D. 64.9 sec
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18. If the farmer sells 75 of his chickens, his stock of feed will 26. A capillary tube of a uniform bore is dipped vertically in
last for 20 more days than planned, but if he buys 100 water which rises 7 cm in the tube. Find the radius of the
more chickens, he will run out of feed 15 days earlier than capillary, in mm, if the surface tension is 0.07 N/m.
planned. If no chickens are sold or bought, the farmer will A. 0.4 C. 0.6
be exactly on schedule. How many chickens does he B. 0.2 D. 0.8
have?
A. 300 B. 500 27. If the surface tension of water at 20 degrees Celsius is
C. 200 D. 400 0.0739 N/m, what is the pressure inside a water droplet
0.5 mm in diameter.
19. On a fence are sparrows and pigeons. When 5 sparrows A. 645 C. 148
leave, there remain two pigeons for every sparrow. Then B. 591 D. 296
twenty-five pigeons leave, and there now three sparrows
28. Two pipes on the same elevation convey water and oil of
for every pigeon. Find the original number of sparrows.
A. 40 C. 30 specific gravity 0.88 respectively. They are connected by
C. 50 D. 20 a U-tube manometer with the manometric liquid having a
specific gravity of 1.25. If the manometric liquid in the
20. During the last barangay election, the total number of limb connecting the water pipe is 2 m higher than the
votes in Brgy. 400 of Sampaloc Manila was 12,400. Had other find the pressure difference in two pipes, in kPa, if
2/5 of the supporters of administration candidate stayed h = 3 m.
away from the polls and 1/2 of the supporters of A. 11.1 C. 12.1
opposition candidate behaved likewise, the B. 9.9 D. 10.8
administration candidate’s majority over the other would
have been reduced by 100. How many votes did
administration candidate received?
A. 5400 C. 7000
B. 6000 D. 6400

21. A watch which gains uniformly is 6 min slow at 5 p.m. on

Monday. On the following Monday at 9 am, it was 10 min
40 seconds fast. When was it correct?
A. 8:36 pm on Thursday
B. 2:36 am on Thursday
C. 2:36 pm on Thursday
D. 8:36 am on Thursday

22. A mercury barometer at the base of a mountain reads 736

29. Determine the unit weight (N/m3) of dry air at 6°C and at
mm. At the same time, another barometer at the top of the
93 kPa absolute. R = 287 J/kg•K.
mountain reads 590 mm. Assuming air weighs 12 N/m 3, A. 1.16 C. 12
the height of the mountain is nearest to: B. 11.38 D. 9.81
A. 1849 m C. 1623 m
B. 2708 m D. 2017 m 30. If the Philippine Trench is observed to be 10.5 km deep.
The pressure on the trench is greater than the
23. An open tank contains a liquid 5 m deep of unit weight 7
atmospheric pressure. What is the gage pressure at the
kN/m3. Water, of unit weight 9.81 kN/m3, is poured over
bottom of the ocean at that location. Use specific gravity
the liquid and the total depth of both liquids is 8 m. Obtain
of water = 1.03.
the gage pressure in kPa at the point 6 m from the surface: A. 968 atm C. 1017 atm
A. 44.8 C. 50.4 B. 997 atm D. 1047 atm
B. 64.4 D. 29.4
Situation 2. The saturated unit weight and water content in
24. A building is 82.5 m high above the street level. The water
the field are found to be 18.55 kN/m3 and 33%,
line at the top of the building requires a static pressure of
respectively. Determine the following:
2 kg/cm2. What must be the pressure in kPa in the main
31. Specific gravity of soil solids
waterline located 4.25 m below the street level? A. 2.74 C. 2.55
A. 956 C. 1120 B. 2.67 D. 2.61
B. 1568 D. 1047
32. Field void ratio
A. 88% C. 85%
25. A barometer reads 76 cm Hg and a pressure gage attached B. 92% D. 81%
to a tank reads 38 cm of Hg. Determine the absolute 33. Porosity of the soil sample.
pressure (kPa) in the tank. A. 47% C. 39%
A. 152 C. 148 B. 42% D. 33%
B. 164 D. 170

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Situation 3. The Atterberg limits of a clay sample are LL = A. 200 C. 260
75%, PL = 45% and SL = 25%. If the sample has a volume B. 130 D. 50
of 30 cm3 at the liquid limit and a volume of 16.6 cm3 at 42. the value of C, in lb-in.
the shrinkage limit. A. 1,440 C. 852
B. 1,944 D. 180
34. Which of the following most nearly gives the volume of
solids? Situation 6. The cable shown carries the uniformly
A. 10.9 cm3 C. 8.9 cm3 distributed load w0 = 80 N/m, where the distance is
B. 9.9 cm3 D. 11.9 cm3
measured along the horizontal. If the cable tension does
35. Which of the following most nearly gives the specific not exceed 10 000 N,
gravity of the solids?
A. 2.65 C. 2.67
B. 2.75 D. 2.71

36. Which of the following most nearly gives the volume of

sample at plastic limit?
A. 24.92 cm3 C. 23.48 cm3
B. 26.59 cm3 D. 21.96 cm3

Situation 4. A 4 m high embankment, with a top width of 5 m

and side slopes of 1:1, has to be constructed by
compacting soil from a nearby borrow pit. The unit
weight and natural moisture content of the soil are 1800 43. Determine the slope at B (in degrees).
kg/m3 and 8% respectively. If the required dry density A. 62.98° C. 57.36°
and moisture content of the embankment soil be 1.82 B. 31.49° D. 28.68°
gm/cc and 18% respectively. Assume G = 2.70. 44. Determine the length of the shortest cable.
37. Determine the volume of the soil for a km of embankment A. 253.1 m C. 307.1 m
A. 33, 000 cu. m C. 39, 000 cu. m B. 334.1 m D. 280.1 m
B. 36, 000 cu. m D. 30, 000 cu. m 45. Determine the corresponding vertical distance H.
38. Determine the volume of earth to be excavated from the A. 68.4 m C. 109.2 m
burrow pit for every km. B. 90.8 m D. 131.6 m
A. 39, 312 cu. m C. 37, 502 cu. m
B. 38, 701 cu. m D. 40, 806 cu. m Situation 7. The overhead electric hoist C rides along a track
39. Determine the quantity of water to be added to it for on the horizontal beam AB. In addition to the 500-kN
every km of finished embankment soil. vertical force carried by the hoist, the beam also supports
A. 6112 cu. m C. 6767 cu. m the three vertical forces shown.
B. 6353 cu. m D. 6552 cu. m

Situation 5. The force system shown consists of the couple C

and four forces. If the resultant of this system is a 500 lb-
in. counter-clockwise couple, determine:

46. If x = 5 m, determine the resultant of the four forces

carried by the beam.
A. 1200 kN downward C. 120 kN downward
B. 1200 kN upward D. 120 kN upward
47. If x = 5 m, determine the location of the resultant force
from point A.
A. 6.34 m C. 10.66 m
40. the value of P, in lb. B. 9.84 m D. 7.16 m
A. 200 C. 260 48. Determine the distance x for which the resultant of the
B. 130 D. 50 four forces would act at the center of the span AB.
41. Determine the critical load F2 (in N) if F1 is twice the value A. 6.34 m C. 10.66 m
of F2. B. 9.84 m D. 7.16 m m

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Situation 8. A simple beam has a span of 10 m and supports B. W21  57 D. W18  71
a total uniformly distributed load of 10 kN/m.
Situation 11. A cantilever solid pole 280 mm in diameter
Properties of W 610x82: and 3 m high weighs 22 kN/m3. The pole is subjected to
A = 10500 mm2 Ix = 560.0 x 106 mm4 the following: vertical load, P = 3 kN at an eccentricity, e
bf = 178 mm tw = 10 mm = 100 mm from the centroid of the section; lateral force,
tf = 12.8 mm d = 599 mm H = 0.45 kN at the top of the pole increasing the base
49. Calculate the maximum moment in the beam in kN-m. moment.
A. 100 C. 125 58. What is the maximum compressive stress (MPa) at the
B. 150 D. 175 base?
50. Calculate the maximum bending stress in the beam in A. 0.75 C. 0.65
MPa. B. 0.88 D. 0.52
A. 65.1 C. 74.4 59. What is the maximum tensile stress (MPa) at the base?
B. 66.9 D. 81.1 A. 0.88 C. 0.75
51. Calculate the bending stress at a point 100 mm from the B. 0.52 D. 0.65
N.A. 60. What is the maximum shearing stress (kPa) in the pole?
A. 11.7 C. 24.8 A. 9.7 C. 13.2
B. 17.56 D. 22.3 B. 5.4 D. 11.5

Situation 9. A wide flange section has the following

properties:
bf = 150 mm tw = 9 mm ~o0o~
tf = 12 mm d = 350 mm Nothing Follows
Fy = 250 MPa
52. Determine the safe uniform load that the section could
carry if length of the beam is 10 m based on shear if F v =
0.4Fy.
A. 77.1 kN/m C. 67.3 kN/m
B. 99.6 kN/m D. 63.0 kN/m
53. Determine the moment capacity of the section if Fb =
0.6Fy.
A. 188 kN-m C. 110 kN-m
B. 123 kN-m D. 92.5 kN-m
54. Determine the shear flow of the portion of the flange 25
mm from the edge if V = 267840 N.
A. 105 N/mm C. 133 N/mm
B. 152 N/mm D. 128 N/mm

Situation 10. A simply supported steel beam is to be

supported over an 8-m span. It is to carry a total
uniformly distributed of 40 kN/m on the beam. Assume
the compression flange is laterally supported throughout
the whole span and the section is a compact section. Fy =
248 MPa and the allowable bending stress in tension and
compression flanges for a compact section is 0.66Fy.
Determine:
Section Ix (cm4) d(mm)
W24  55 56190 599
W21  57 48100 535
W21  62 55360 533
W18  71 48700 469
55. The required section modulus is nearest to:
A. 1805 cm³ C. 1955 cm³
B. 1915 cm³ D. 2100 cm³
56. The maximum moment of the beam.
A. 480 kN C. 320 kN
B. 500 kN D. 610 kN
57. Which of the following sections will you recommend?
A. W24  55 C. W21  62

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