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MARCH 2017
MATHEMATICS
4. Sand is pouring to form a conical pile such that its altitude is always twice its
radius. If the volume of a conical pile is increasing at a rate of 25 pi cu. ft./min,
how fast is the radius is increasing when the radius is 5 feet?
A. 0.5 ft/min B. 0.5pi ft/min C. 5 ft/min D. 5pi ft/min
𝑥+4
5. Evaluate lim as x approaches to infinity.
𝑥−4
A. 1 B. 0 C. 2 D. infinite
8. In how many ways can you pick 3 dogs from a pack of 7 dogs?
A. 32 B. 35 C. 30 D. 36
10. Peter can paint a room in 2 hrs and John can paint the same room in 1.5 hrs.
How long can they do it together in minutes?
A. 0.8571 B. 51.43 C. 1.1667 D. 70
12. A cylindrical container open at the top with minimum surface area at a given
volume. What is the relationship of its radius to height?
A. radius = height B. radius = 2height
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13. A water tank is shaped in such a way that the volume of water in the tank is V
= 2y3/2cu. in. when its depth is y inches. If water flows out through a hole at the
bottom of the tank at the rate of 3(sqrt. Of y) cu. in/min. At what rate does the
water level in the tank fall?
A. 11 in/min B. 1 in/min C. 0.11 in/min D. 1/11 in/min
14. A family’s electricity bill averages $80 a month for seven months of the year
and $20 a month for the rest of the year. If the family’s bill were averaged over
the entire year, what would the monthly bill be?
A. $45 B. $50 C. $55 D. $60
15. When a baby born he weighs 8 lbs and 12 oz. After two weeks during his
check-up he gains 6 oz. What is his weight now in lbs and oz?
A. 8 lbs and 10 oz B. 9 lbs and 4 oz
C. 9lbs and 2 oz D. 10 lbs and 4 oz
20. There is a vector v = 7j, another vector u starts from the origin with a
magnitude of 5 rotates in the xy plane. Find the maximum magnitude of u x v.
A. 24 B. 70 C. 12 D. 35
21. Find the coordinates of the centroid of the plane area bounded by the parabola
y = 4 + x2 and the x-axis
A. (0, 1.5) B. (0, 1) C. (0, 2) D. (0, 1.6)
24. An audience of 450 persons is seated in rows having the same number of
persons in each row. If 3 more persons seat in each row, it would require 5
rows less to seat the audience. How many rows?
A. 27 B. 32 C. 24 D. 30
25. The volume of a cube becomes three times when its edge is increased by 1
inch. What is the edge of a cube?
A. 2.62 B. 2.26 C. 3.26 D. 3.62
26. What is the angle of the sun above the horizon, when the building 150 ft high
cast a shadow of 405 ft?
A. 21.74 B. 68.26 deg C. 20.32 deg D. 69.68 deg
27. Water ir running out of a conical tunnel at the rate of 1 cu. in/sec. If the radius
of the base of the tunnel is 4 in and the altitude is 8 in, find the rate at which
the water level is dropping when it is 2 in from the top.
A. -1/9pi in/sec B. -1/2pi in/sec C. 1/2pi in/sec D. 1/9pi in/sec
29. Jun rows has banca a river at 4 km/hr. What is the width of the river if he goes
at a point 1/3 km.
A. 5.33 km B. 2.25 km C. 34.25 km D. 2.44
30. Find the volume generated by revolving about the x-axis, the area bounded by
the curve y = cosh x from x = 0 to x = 1.
A. 5.34 B. 3.54 C. 4.42 D. 2.44
37. Find the volume generated when the area bounded by y = 2 x – x and y = (x –
1)2 is revolved about the x-axis
A. 2.34 B. 3.34 C. 4.43 D. 1.34
39. How many 5 poker hands are there in a standard deck of cards?
A. 2,595,960 B. 2,959,960 C. 2,429,956 D. 2,942,955
40. A biker is 30 km away from his home, he travel 10 km and rest for 30 mins. He
travel the rest of the distance 2kph faster. What is his original speed?
A. 7 kph B. 10 kph C. 8 kph D. 12 kph
5 5 11 17
41. Cup A = 9 full, cup B = 6 full, cup C = 12 full, cup D = full. If the 4th cup is used
to fill the three cups, what is left in the cup?
A. 1/2 B. 3/4 C. 1/4 D. 19/36
43. Using power series expansion about 0, find cosx by differentiating from sinx
A. 1- (x^2/2!)+(x^4/4!)-(x^6/6!)+ B. x-(x^2/2!)+(x^4/4!)-(x^5/5!)+
C. 1- (x^3/3!)+(x^5/5!)-(x^7/7!)+ D. x-(x^3/3!)+(x^5/5!)-(x^7/7!)+
44. Find the area bounded by y = √4𝑥in the first quadrant and the lines x = and x
=3
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46. An interior designer has to design two offices, each office containing 1 table, 1
chair, 1 mirror, 2 cabinets. A supplier gives him options between 4 tables, 5
chairs, 5 mirrors and 10 cabinets. In how many ways can he design the offices
assuming there is no repetition?
A. 14100 B. 2400 C. 21600 D. 1740
47. What is the equation of a circle that passes through the vertex and the points
of latus rectum of y2 = x
A. x2 + y2 + 4x + 2y = 0 C. x2 + y2 + 4y + 2x = 0
2 2
B. x + y + 10x = 0 D. x2 + y2 - 10x = 0
51. The value of all the quarters and dimes in a parking meter is $18. There are
twice as many quarters as dimes. What is the total number of dimes in the
parking meter?
A. 40 B. 20 C. 60 D. 80
52. A ball is dropped from height of 12 m and it rebounds ½ of the distance it falls.
If it continues to fall and rebound in this way, how far will it travel before coming
to rest?
A. 36 m B. 30 m C. 48 m D. 60 m
53. At t = o, a particle starts at rest and moves along a line in such a way that at
time t its acceleration is 24t2 feet per second per second. Through how many
feet does the particle move during the first 2 seconds?
A. 32 B. 48 C. 64 D. 96
54. If a trip takes 4 hours at an average speed of 55 miles per hour, which of the
following is closest to the time the same trip would take at an average speed of
65 miles per hour?
A. 3.0 hours B. 3.4 hours
C. 3.8 hours D. 4.1 hours
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55. A laboratory has a 75-gram sample of radioactive materials. The half-life of the
material. The half life on the material is 10 days. What is the mass of the
laboratory’s sample remaining after 30 days?
A. 9,375 grams B. 11.25 grams
C. 12.5 grams D. 22.5 grams
56. The unit normal to the plane 2x + y + 2z = 6 can be expressed in the vector
form as
A. i3 + j2 +k2 B. i2/3 + j1/3 + k2/3
C. i1/3 + j1/2 + k1/2 D. i2/3 + j1/3 + k1/3
𝑑
57. (ln e2x) is
𝑑𝑥
1 2
A. 𝑒 2𝑥 B. 𝑒 2𝑥 C. 2x D. 2
58. Determine where, if anywhere, the tangent line to f(x) = x3 – 5x2 + x is parallel
to the line y = 4x + 23
A. x = 3.61 B. x = 3.23 C. x = 3 D. x = 3.43
61. When the area in sq. units of an expanding circle is increasing twice as fast as
its radius in linear units, the radius is
1 1 𝟏
A. 4𝜋 B. 4 C. 𝝅 D. 1
62. If the function f is defined by f(x0 = x5 – 1, then f-1, the inverse function of f, is
defined by f-1(x) =
1 1 5 𝟓
A. 5 B. 5 C. √𝑥 − 1 D. √𝒙 − 𝟏
𝑥−1
√ √𝑥+1
63. A school has 5 divisions in a class IX having 60, 50, 55, 62, and 58 students.
Mean marks obtained in a History test were 56, 64, 72, 63 and 50 by each
division respectively. What is overall average of the marks per student?
A. 56.8 B. 58.2 C. 62.4 D. 60.8
65. Find the equation of the line that passes through (3, -8) and is parallel to 2x +
3y = 2
A. 2x + 3y = -18 B. 2x + 3y = 30
C. 2x + 3y = -30 D. 2x + 3y = 18
67. In how many ways can 5 red and 4 white balls be drawn from a bag containing
10 red and 8 white balls?
A. 11760 B. 17640 C. 48620D. none of these
68. The area of a right triangle is 50. One of its angles is 45°. Find the hypothenuse
of the triangle
A. 10 B. 5√2 C. 10√𝟐 D. 10
69. Each side of the square pyramid is 10inches. The slant height, H, of this
pyramid measures 12 in. What is the area in square inches, of the base of the
pyramid?
A. 100 B. 144 C. 120 D. 240
tan 25°+tan 50°
70. Find the exact value of 1−tan 25° tan 50°
75. If this graph of y = (x – 2)2 – 3 is translated 5 units up and 2 units to the right,
then the equation of the graph obtained is given by
A. y = x2 + 2 B. y = (x-2)2 + 5
C. y = (x + 2)2 + 2 D. y = (x – 4)2 + 2
77. Find the area of the largest circle which can be cut from a square of edge 4 in.
A. 12.57 B. 3.43 C. 50.27 D. 16
80. A man 1.60 m tall casts a shadow 4 m long. Nearby, a flagpole casts a shadow
18 m long. How high is the flagpole?
A. 6.4 m B. 7.2 m C. 4.5 m D. 11.25 m
82. A box contains 20 balls, 10 white, 7 blue, 3 red. What is the probability that a
ball drawn at random is red?
A. 3/20 B. 10/20 C. 7/20 D. 13/20
83. What is the probability of a three with a single die exactly 4 times out of 5
trials?
A. 25/776 B. 125/3888 C. 625/3888 D. 1/7776
84. A man is on a wharf 4 m above the water surface. He pulls in a rope to which
is attached a coat at the rate of 2 m/sec. How fast is the angle between the
rope and the water surface changing when there are 20 m of rope out?
A. 0.804 rad/sec B. 0.0408 rad/sec
C. 0.0402 rad/sec D. 0.0204 rad/sec
85. Find the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in the ellipse
25x^2 + 16x^2 = 400
A. 30 B. 40 C. 10 D. 20
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5. Find the change in volume of a sphere if you increase the radius from 2 to
2.05 units.
A.2.51 B.1.52 C.1.25 D.2.15
8. if e^2x-3e^x + 2 = 0 , find x.
A. ln2 B. ln4 C.ln3 D.
10. Joy is 10 percent taller than joseph and joseph is 10 percent taller than tom.
How many percent is joy taller than tom?
A. 18 percent B. 20 percent C. 21 percent D. 23 percent
11. An army food supply truck can carry 3 tons. A breakfast ration weights 12
ounces, and the other two daily meals weigh 18 ounces each assuming each
soldier gets 3 meals per day, on a ten day trip how many soldiers can be
supplied by one truck?
A. 100 soldiers B. 150 soldiers C. 200 soldiers D. 320 soldiers
12. Find the area enclose in the second and third quadrants by the curve x=t -1,
y= 5t^3(t^2-1)
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A. 8/5 B. 8/7 C. 8/3 D.18/5
13. csc520֯=?
A. cos20֯ B. csc20֯ C. sin20֯ D. sec20֯
14. From past experience it is known 90 percent of one year old children can
distinguish their mothers voice of a similar sounding female. A random sample of
one years old are given this voice recognize test. Find the probability that atleast
3 children did not recognize their mothers voice.
A. 0.677 B. 0.323 C. 0.729 D.0.271
15. ln y = mx + b what is m?
A. slope B. x-intercept C. y-intercept D. asymptote
16.Find the area bounded by the parabola sqrt of x + sqrt of a and the line x + y =
a
A. a^2 B. a^2/2 C. a^2/4 D. a^2/3
18. The geometric mean and the arithmetic mean of number is 0 and 10
respectively what is the harmonic mean?
A. 7.5 B. 5.7 C. 6.4 D. 4.6
22. A man who is on diet losses 24 lb in 3 months 16 lb in the next 3 months and
so on for a long time. What is the maximum total weight loss?
A. 72 B. 64 C. 54 D. 81
24. Each of the following figures has exactly two pairs of parallel sides except a
A. parallelogram B.rhombus C. trapezoid D. square
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25. A points A and B are 100 m apart and are of the same elevation as the foot of
the building. The angles of elevation of the top of the building from points A and
B are 21 degrees and 32 respectively. How far is A from the building?
A. 259.28 B. 265.42 C. 271.62 D. 277.92
26. What is the area in sq.m. of the zone of a spherical segment having a volume
of 1470.265 cu.m if the diameter of the sphere is 30m.
A. 655.487 B. 565.487 C. 756.847 D. 465.748
28. Where is the center of the circle x^2 + y^2 -10x + 4y – 196 = 0
A. (2,-5) B. (-2,5) C. (-5,2) D. (5,-2)
29. Two ships leave from a port. Ship A sails west for 300 miles and ship B sails
north 400 miles. How far apart are the ships after their trips?
A. 300 miles B. 400 miles C. 500 miles D. 900 miles
30. if the radius of a sphere is increasing at the constant rate of 3m per second
how fast is the volume changing when the surface area is 10 sq.mm?
A. 16 cu mm. per sec. B. 20 cu. mm. per sec.
C. 30 cu.mm per sec. D. 40 cu. mm per sec.
31. The sum of the base and altitude of an isosceles triangle is 36cm. Find the
altitude of the ttriangle if its area is to be a maximum.
A. 16cm B. 17cm C. 18cm D. 19cm
32. An insurance policy pays 80 percent of the first P20,000 of a certain patients
medical expenses, 60 percent of the next P40,000 and 40 percent of the P40,000
after that. If the patients total medical bill is P92,000 how much will the policy pay?
A. 36,800 B. 49,600 C. 52,800 D. 73,600
33. A scientist found 12mg of radioactive isotope is a soil sample. After 2 hours,
only 8.2 mg of the isotope remained. Determine the half life of the isotope?
A. 2.64hr B. 4.64hr C. 3.64hr D. 5.64hr
34. find the area bounded the curves r = 2cosѲ and r = 4cosѲ.
A. 6.28 B. 9.42 C. 12.57 D. 15.72
A. 5 B. -5 C. 15 D. -15
38. The cross product of vector A=4i + 2j with vector B=0. The dot product A·B=30,
Find B.
A. 30 B. 28 C. 36 D. 32
40. Find the equation of the curve that passes through (4,-2) and cuts at right
angles every curve of the family 𝑦 2 = 𝐶𝑥 3 .
A. 2𝑥 2 − 3𝑦 2 = 44 B. 3𝑥 2 − 2𝑦 2 = 44
𝟐 𝟐
C. 𝟐𝒙 + 𝟑𝒚 = 𝟒𝟒 D. 3𝑥 2 + 2𝑦 2 = 44
41.Find the area of circle with center at (1,3) and tangent to the line 5x – 12y – 8
= 0.
A. 27.28 B. 28.27 C. 29.36 D. 26.39
43. A hemispherical tank with a diameter of 8 ft is full of water find the work done
in ft-lb in pumping all the liquid out of the top of the tank.
A. 15,246 B. 12,546 C. 10,628 D. 16,210
𝑑2 𝑦
44. If 𝑥 = 3𝑡 − 1 , 𝑦 = 1 − 3𝑡 , 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑥 2
A. -1/3 B. -2/3 C. -1 D. -4/3
46. It takes a typing student 0.75 seconds to type one word. At this rate, how
many words can the student type in 60 seconds?
A. 8 B. 45 C. 75 D. 80
47. A chord, 6 inches long from the center of a circle. Find the length of the
radius of the circle.
A. 8 in B. 9 in C. 7 in D. 10 in
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48. A train is moving at the rate of 8 mph along a piece of circular track of radius
2500 ft. Through what angle does it turn in 1 min?
A. 16 deg 8 min B. 15 deg 6 min C. 18 deg 9 min D.17 deg 10 min
49. The diagonal of a face of a cube is 10 ft. The total area of the cube is
A. 100 sq.ft B. 150 sq.ft C. 200 sq.ft D. 300 sq.ft
50. The volume of the sphere is 36 pi cu. m. The surface area of this sphere in
sq.m. is:
A. 24pi B. 36pi C. 12pi D. 16pi
53. Find the coordinates of an object that has been displaced from the point (-4,
9) by the vector 4i-5j).
A. (0,4) B. (0,-4) C. (4,0) D. (-4,0)
54. Find the work done in moving an object along a vector r= 3i + 2j - 5k if the
applied force F = 2i – j – k.
A. 9 B. 15 C. 10 D. 16
55. Find the value of k for which the line 2x + ky = 6 is parallel to the y-axis.
A. k=0 B. k=1 C. k=2 D. k=3
56. Find the area inside one petal of the four leaved rose r = sin2theta.
A. pi/2 B. pi/4 C. pi/6 D. pi/8
58. In how many ways can 6 people be lined up to get on a bus if certain 3 persons
refuse to follow each other?
A.144 B. 120 C. 72 D. 480
59. The bases of a frustum of a pyramid are 18cm by 18cm and 10cm by 10cm.
Its lateral area is 448 sq. cm. what is the altitude of the frustum?
A. 26.39cm B. 6.93cm C. 5.96cm D. 5.69cm
60. A store advertises a 20 percent off sale. If an article marked for sale at $24.48,
what is the regular price?
A. $34.80 B. $28.65 C. $30.60 D. $36.55
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61. IF the area of the equilateral triangle is 4 (sqrt. of 3), find the perimeter.
A. 16 B. 12 C. 18 D. 14
62. Dave is 46 yrs old. Twice as old as rave. How old is rave?
A. 30 yrs B. 28 yrs C. 23 yrs D. 18 yrs
63. The angles of elevation of the top of a tower at two points 30 m and 80 m from
the foot of the tower, on a horizontal line are complementary. What is the height of
the tower?
A. 46m B. 47m C. 49m D. 48m
64. A large tank filled with 500 gallons of pure water. Brine containing 2 pounds of
salt per gallon is pumped into the tank at a rate of 5 gal/min. The well-mixed
solution is pumped out at the same rate. What is the concentration of the solution
in the tank at t = 5 min?
A. 0.0895 lb/ gal B. 0.0985 lb/ gal C. 0.0795 lb/ gal D. 0.0975 lb/ gal
65. The intensity I of light at a depth of x meters below the surface of a lake satisfies
the differential dldx = (-1/4)I. At what depth will the intensity be 1 percent of thtat
at the surface?
A. 2.45m B. 2.29m C. 2.28m D. 2.87m
67. Find the percentage error in the area of a square of side s caused by increasing
the side by 1 percent.
A. 1 percent B. 2 percent C. 3 percent D. 4 percent
68. What is the height of a right circular cone having a slant height of 3.162 m
and base diameter of 2 m?
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
69. In how many orders can 7 different pictures be hung in a row so that 1
specified picture is at the center?
A. 360 B. 2880 C. 1440 D. 720
70. What is the x-intercept of the line passing through (1,4) and (4,1)?
A. 4.5 B. 5 C. 4 D. 6
71. One ball is drawn at random from a box containing 3 red balls, 2 white balls,
and 4 blue balls. Determine the probability that is not red.
A. 1/3 B. 2/3 C. 2/9 D. 7/9
72. An airplane flying with the wind took 2 hours to travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours
flying back. What was the wind velocity in kph?
A. 50 B. 60 C. 70 D. 40
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73. In how many ways can a person choose 1 or more of 4 electrical appliances?
A. 15 B. 16 C. 12 D. 17
75. If 7 coins are tossed together, in how many ways can they fall with most three
heads?
A. 63 B. 64 C. 65 D. 66
77. A rubber ball is made to all from height of 50 ft and is observed to rebound 2/3
of the distance it falls. How far will the ball travel before coming to rest if the ball
continues to fall in this manner?
A. 250 ft B. 200 ft C. 300 ft D. 350 ft
78. In a class of 40 students, 27 like calculus and 25 like Chemistry. How many
like calculus only?
A. 12 B. 15 C. 13 D. 27
81. Find the inclination of the line passing through (5,3) and (10,7)
A.14.73֯ B. 14.93֯ C.14.83֯ D.14.63֯
82. An ellipse has an eccentricity of 1/3. Find the distance between the two
directrix if the distance between the foci us 4.
A.36 B. 18 C. 24 D. 32
84. Find the area of the triangle having vertices at -4 -I, 1 +2i, 4-3i.
A.15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18
89. For what value of the constant k is the lie x + y = k normal to the curve 𝑦 = 𝑥 2
A. 3/4 B. 1/2 C. 2/3 D. 3/5
91. The points Z1,Z2,Z3,Z4 in the complex plane are vertices of parallelogram
taken in order if and only if
A. Z1+ Z4 = Z2 + Z3 B. Z1+ Z2 = Z3 + Z4
C. Z1+ Z3 = Z2 + Z4 D. none of these
92. If the points (-1,-1,2),(2,m,5) and (3,11,6) are collinear, find the value of m.
A. 8 B. 2 C. 10 D. 6
95. Tickets number 1 to 20 are mixed up then and then a ticket is drawn has a
number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
A. 1/2 B. 2/5 C. 8/15 D. 9/20
96. A car travels 90 kph. What is its speed in meter per second?
A. 2 B. 30 C. 25 D. 50
99.From the given values A and B, find the vector cross product of A and B, if:
A=2i – 5k, B=j
A. 5i + 2k B. 4i - 2k C. 3i – 4j + 2k D. 3i – 2j
100. If a place on the earth is 12 degrees south of the equator, find its distance in
nautical miles from the north pole.
A. 6,021 B. 6,102 C. 6,210 D. 6,120
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1. Given a conic section, if B2-4AC=0, it is called?
A. circle B. parabola C. hyperbola D. ellipse
5. Two engineers facing each other with a distance of 5km from each other, the
angles of elevation of the balloon from the two engineers are 56 degrees and
58 degrees, respectively. What is the distance of the balloon from the two
engineers?
A. 4.45km,4.54km C.4.64km,4.54km
B. 4.54km,4.45km D. 4.46km,4.45km
6. Joy is 10% taller than joseph is 10% taller than Tom. How many percent is Joy
taller than Tom?
A. 18% B. 20% C. 21% D. 23%
7. In a hotel it is known than 20% of the total reservation will be cancelled in the
last minute. What is the probability that these will be fewer than 2 reservations
cancelled out of 4 reservations?
A. 0.6498 B. 0.5629 C. 0.3928 D. 0.8192
8. Find the area of the region inside the triangle with vertices (1,1),(3,2), and (2,4)
A. 5/2 B. 3/2 C. ½ D. 7/2
9. The cost per hour of running a boat is proportional to the cube of the speed of
the boat. At what speed will the boat run against a current of 8kph in order to
go a given distance most economically?
A. 15kph B. 14kph C. 13kph D. 12kph
10. What is the unit vector which is orthogonal both to 9i+9j and 9i+9k?
A. B.
C. D.
11. In polar coordinate system the distance from a point to the pole is known as
A. Polar angle C. x-coordinate
B. radius vector D. y-coordinate
13. If sinA= and cotB= 4, both in Quadrant III, the value of sin(A+B) is
A. -0.844 B. 0.844 C. -0.922 D. 0.922
14. Two stores are 1 mile apart and are of the same level as the foot of the hill.
The angles of depression of the two stores viewed from the top of the hill are
5 degrees and 15 degrees respectively. Find the height of the hill
A. 109.01m B. 209.01m
C. 409.01m D. 309.01m
15. A fair coin is tossed three times and it appeared always exactly three heads.
Find the probability in a single toss it will appear head.
A. ½ B. ¼ C. 1/6 D. 1/16
16. The product of the slopes of any two straight lines is negative 1, one of these
lines are said to be
A. Perpendicular B. parallel C. non intersecting D. skew
21. A sinking ship makes a distance signal seen by three observers all 20m
inland from the shore. First observer is perpendicular to the ship, second
observer 100m to the right of the first observer and the third observer is
125m to the right of the first observer. How far is the ship from the shore?
A. 60m B. 80m C. 100m D. 136.2m
22. A die and a coin are tossed. What is the probability that a three and a head
will appear?
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A. ¼ B. ½ C. 2/3 D. 1/12
25. What would happen to the volume of a sphere if the radius is tripled?
A. Multiplied by 3 C. multiply by 27
B. multiply by 9 D. multiply by 6
26. A container is in the form of a right circular cylinder with an altitude of 6in and
a radius of 2in. If an asbestos of 1in thick is inserted inside the container
along its lateral surface, find the volume capacity of the container.
A. 12.57 cu. in B. 12.75 cu. in C. 18.58 cu. in D. 18.85 cu. In
28. If the sides of a right triangle is in arithmetic progression, what is the ratio of
its sides?
A. 1,2,3 B. 4,5,6 C. 3,4,5 D. 2,3,4
29. What is the area bounded by the parabola x2 = 8y and its latus rectum?
A. 54/3 s.u. B. 8/3 s.u. C. 16/3 s.u. D. 31/3 s.u.
31. The volume of a cube becomes three times when its edge is increased by
1inch. What is the edge of a cube?
A. 2.62 B. 2.26 C. 3.26 D. 3.62
32. The areas if a regular pentagon and a regular hexagon are equal to 12
sq.cm. What is the difference between their perimeters?
A. 0.02 B. 0.03 C. 0.2 D. 0.3
33. Evaluate limx-
A. 4 B. 6 C. 8 D. 16
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34. The length of a rectangle is seven times of its width. If its perimeter is 72cm,
find its width
A. 3 B. 3.5 C. 4 D.15
35. A family’s electricity bill averages $80 a month for seven months of the year
and $20 a month for the rest of the year. If the family’s bill were averaged
over the entire year, what would the monthly bill be?
A. $45 B. $50 C. $55 D. $60
36. In order to pass a certain exam, candidates must answer 70% of the last
questions correctly. If there are 70 questions on the exam, how many
questions be answered correctly in order to pass
A. 46 B. 52 C. 56 D. 60
37. A firefighter determines that the length of hose needed to reach a particular
building is 131m. If the available hoses are 47m long, how many sections of
hose when connected together will it takes to reach the building?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
38. If the average person throws away 38.6 pounds of trash every day, how
much trash would the average person throw away in one week?
A. 270.2 pounds B. 207.2 pounds C. 290.6 pounds D. 209.6 pounds
?
A. ½ B. ¼ C. 2/5 D. 5/2
42. Water is flowing into a conical vessel 10ft high and 2ft radius at the rate of 50
cu. Ft per minute. If the deep of the wateris 6ft, how fast is the radius
increasing?
A. 2.12 ft/min B. 12 ft/min C. 2.21 ft/min D. 11 ft/min
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43. A steel grinder 8m long is moved on rollers along a passageway 4m wide and
into a corridor at right angles with the passageway. Neglecting the width of
the girder, how wide must the corridor be?
A. 3.6 m B. 1.4 m C. 1.8 m D. 2.8 m
46. Remy earns P10 an hour for walking the neighbor’s dog. Today she can only
walk the dog for 45. How much will Remy make today?
A. P10.00 B. P7.25 C. P7.60 D. P6.75
47. When a baby born the weighs 8 lbs. and 12 oz. After two weeks during his
checkup he gains 8 oz. What is his weight now in lbs. and oz.?
A. 8 lbs. and 10 oz.
B. 9 lbs. and 4 oz.
C. 9 lbs. and 2 oz.
D.10 lbs. and 4 oz.
49. Michael’s favorite cake recipe calls for 0.75 pounds of flour, he has a 5 pound
bag. He wants to make several cakes for the school bake sale. How many
cakes can he make?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
Solution: 5/0.75 = 6.67. the answer is 6 since .67 is equal only to 50.25 pound
and not enough to make a single piece of cake.
51.
52.
53. Find the general solution of y’’+10y’+41y=0
A.𝑦 = 𝑒−5(𝐶1𝑐𝑜𝑠4𝑥 + 𝐶2𝑠𝑖𝑛4𝑥) C. 𝑦 = 𝑒−4(𝐶1𝑐𝑜𝑠5𝑥 +𝐶2𝑠𝑖𝑛5𝑥)
56. Find the equation of the line that passes through (1,3) and tangent to the
curve y=
A. 4x+y-7=0 B. 24x+y-27=0
C. 4x-y+7=0 D. 24x-y+27=0
57. The ceiling in a hallway 10m wide is in the shape of a semi-ellipse and is 9m
high in the center and 5m high at the side walls. Find the height of the ceiling
2m from either wall.
A. 11.7 m B. 8.4 m C. 6.4 m D. 17.5 m
58. If in the Fourier series of a periodic function, the coefficient a 0=0 and a=0,
then it must be having _____ symmetry.
A. Odd B. Odd-quarter wave
C. Even D. Either A or B
59. If the Fourier coefficient b0 of a periodic function is zero then it must possess
______ symmetry.
A. Even B. Even-quarter-wave C. Odd D. Either A or B
60. Find the area of the region between the x-axis and y=(x-1)2 from x=0 to x=2
A. 1/3 B. 2/3 C. ½ D. ¼
61. Find the slope of the line through the points (-2,5) and (7,1)
A. 4/9 B. -4/9 C. 9/4 D. ¼
62. A train is moving at the rate of 8mi/h along a piece of circular track of radius
2500 ft. Through what angle does it turn in 1min? A. 16 deg. 8 min. B. 15 deg. 6
min.
C. 18 deg. 9 min.
D. 17 deg. 10 min.
63. An artist wishes to make a sign in the shape of an isosceles triangle with a 42
degrees vertex angle and a base of 18m. What is the area of the sign?
A. 109 sq. m B. 209 sq. m C. 112 sq. m D. 211 sq. m
66. Find the volume of a cube if its total surface area is 54 sq. cm.
A. 21 cu. m B. 30 cu. m C. 27 cu. m D. 54 cu. M
67. A girl is flying a kite which is at a height of 120ft. The wind is carrying the kite
horizontally away from the girl at a speed of 10ft/sec. How fast must be kite
sizing be let out when the sizing is 150 feet long?
A. 4 ft./s B. 5 ft./s C. 8 ft./s D. 6 ft./s
70. Robert has 50 coins all in nickels and dimes amounting to $3.50. How many
nickels does he have?
A. 20 B. 30 C. 15 D. 35
71. The equation of the folium of Descartes is x2+y2=34xy. Find the area
enclosed by the loop
A. B. C. D.
72. Find the acute angle of intersection of the curves x2+y2=5 and x2-y26x=15
A. 53.14 B. 52.13 C. 36.86 D. 37.87
73. For what value of k will the line kx+5y=2k have y-intercept 4?
A. -10 B. 10 C. 9 D. -9
74. Find the volume formed by revolving the triangle whose vertices are
(1,1),(2,4) and (3,1) about the line 2x-5y=10
A. 49 B. 94 C. 65 D. 56
75. A tank contains 760 liters of fresh water. Brine containing 2.5N/liter of salt
enters the tank at 15 liter/min, and the mixture kept uniform by stirring runs
out at 10liters/min. Find the amount of salt in the tank after 30 minutes?
A. 1028.32 N B. 649.52 N C. 949.75 N D. 864.88 N
76. Find the volume of the solid generated when the region bounded by y=x2-
4x+6 and y=x+2 is revolved about the x-axis
A. 100.89 B. 104.60 C. 103.04 D. 101.79
77. The rate at which a body cools is proportional to the difference in temperature
between it and the surrounding atmosphere. If in air at 60 deg. C a body
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cools from 90 deg. C to 80 deg. C in 10min, find its temperature 10 minutes
later?
A. 80 deg. C B. 73.3 deg. C C. 90 deg. C D. 64.4 deg. C
78. A sector of a circle has a central angle of 80 degrees and radius of 5m. What
is the area of the sector?
A. 16.5 sq. m B. 17.5 sq. m C. 15.8 sq. m D. 18.8 sq. m
79. A grocer bought a number of cans of corn for $14.40. Later the price
increased 2 cents a can and as a result she received 24 fewer cans for the
same amount of money. How many cans were in his first purchase?
A. 142 B. 140 C. 144 D. 143
80. Find the area inside the cardiod r=1+costheta and outside the circle r=1.
A. 2.79 B. 2.97 C. 3.98 D. 3.89
82. If 7 coins are tossed together in how many ways can they fall with at most 3
heads?
A. 63 B. 64 C. 65 D. 62
83. The eccentricity if the hyperbola having the rectangular equation 3x2-
4y2-24x+16y+20=0
A. 1.12 B. 1.22 C. 1.32 D. 1.42
84. Find the slope of the tangent line to the parabola y2=4x+1 at the point (2,3)
A. 1/3 B. 2/3 C. ¼ D. ¾
86. Find the equation of the line through the point (3,4) which cuts from the first
quadrant a triangle of maximum are
A.4x+3y-24=0 C. 3x+4y-25=0
B.4x-3y+24=0 D. 3x-4y+25=0
87. Find the moment of inertia with respect to the y-axis of the plane area
between the parabola y=2-x^2 and the x-axis
A. 243/5 B. 234/5 C. 342/5 D. 324/5
88. A man drives 500ft along a road which is inclined 20 degrees to the
horizontal. How high above the starting point is he?
A. 171 ft. B. 182 ft. C. 470 ft. D. 162 ft.
89. An angle is 30 degrees more than one-half its complement. Find the angle
A.20 degrees C. 60 degrees
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B.50 degrees D. 75 degrees
91. What is the diameter of a sphere for which its volume is equal to its surface
area?
A. 4 B. 6 C. 5 D. 7
92. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are A(4,2,3) B(7,-1,4) and (3,-4,6)
A. sqrt of 156 B. sqrt of 155 C. 13.5 D. 15.5
93. If the second term of a geometric progression is 6 and the fourth term is 64.
How many terms must be taken for their sum to equal 242?
A. 4 B. 6 C. 5 D. 7
94. Convert the point (r, , Φ) = (10, pi/2, 0) from spherical to Cartesian
coordinates
A. (10, 0, 1) B. (10, 1, 1)
C. (10, 1, 0) D. (10, 0, 0)
95. The probability that A can solve a given problem is 4/5 that B can solve it is
2/3 and that C can solve it is 3/7. If all three try, compute the probability that
the problem will be solved.
A. 101/305 B. 101/105 C. 102/305 D. 102/105
2. Sand is pouring to form a conical pile such that its altitude is always twice its
radius. If the volume of a conical pile is increasing at rate of 25pi cu. Ft/min,
how fast is the radius is increasing when the radius is 5 feet?
A. 0.5 ft./min B. 0.5pi ft./min C. 5ft./min D. 5pi ft./min
4. A machine only accepts quarters. A bar of candy cost 25ȼ, a pack of peanuts
cost 50ȼ and a bottle of a coke cost 75ȼ. If Marie bought 2 candy bars, a pack
of peanuts and a bottle of coke, how many quarters did she pay?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
8. Find the coordinates of the centroid of the plane area bounded by the
parabola y=4 - x˄2 and the x-axis.
A. (0,1.5) B. (0,1) C. (0,2) D. (0, 1.6)
9. In how many ways can you pick 3 dogs from a pack of 7 dogs?
A. 32 B. 35 C. 30 D. 36
13. Nannette has a ribbon with a length of 13.4 m and divided it by 4. What is the
length of each part?
A. 3.35 m B. 3.25 m C. 3.15 m D. 3.45 m
14. The area in the second quadrant of the circle x˄2 + y˄2 = 36 is revolved
about the line y+ 10 = 0. What is the volume generated?
A. 2208.53 B. 2218.33 C. 2228.83 D. 2233.48
17. A coin is tossed in times. If it is expected that 7 heads will occur, how many
times the coin is tossed?
A. 12 B. 14 C. 16 D. 10
19. Totoy is 5 ft. 11 in. Nancy is 6 ft. 5 in. What is the difference in their height?
A. 5 in B. 6 in C. 7 in D. 8 in
20. 5 years-old Tomas can tie his shoelace in 1.5 min and his right shoelace in
1.6 min. How long will it take him to tie both shoe lace?
A. 2.9 min B. 3 min C. 3.1 min D. 3.2 min
21. The area enclosed by the ellipse 4x˄2+9y˄2 = 36 is revolved about the line x
= 3, what is the volume generated?
A. 370.3 B. 360.1 C. 355.3 D. 365.1
27. The cost of operating a vehicle is given by C(x) = 0.25x + 1600, where x is in
miles. If Jam just bought a vehicle and plan to spend between P5350 to
P5600. Find the range of distance she can travel.
A.14000 to 15000 B. 15000 to 16000
C. 16000 to 17000 D. 13000 to 14000
28. A 20-ft lamp casts a 25 ft. shadow. At the same time, a nearby building casts
a 50 ft. shadow. How tall is the building?
A. 20 ft. B. 40 ft. C. 60 ft. D. 80 ft.
29. Three circle of radii 3, 4, and 5 inches, respectively, are tangent to each other
externally. Find the largest angle of a triangle found by joining the centers of
the circle.
A. 72.6 degrees B. 75.1 degrees
C. 73.4 degrees D. 73.5 degrees
34. Find the minimum distance from the point (4, 2) to the parabola y² = 8x.
A. 3 sqrt. of 3 B. 2 sqrt. of 3 C. 3 sqrt. of 2 D. 2 sqrt. of 2
35. From the past experience, it is known 90 percent of one year old children can
distinguish their mother’s voice of a similar sounding female. A random sample of
one year’s old are given this voice recognize test. Find the standard deviation that
all 20 children recognize their mother’s voice?
A. 0.12 B. 1.34 C. 0.88 D. 1.43
36. An equilateral triangle is inscribed in the parabola x² = 8y such that one of its
vertices is at the origin. Find the length of the side of the triangle.
A. 22.51 B. 24.25 C. 25.98 D. 27.71
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37. Mary’s father is four time as old as Mary. Five years ago he was seven times
as old. How old is Mary now?
A. 8 B. 9 C. 11 D.10
38. The lateral area of a right circular cylinder is 77 sq. cm. and its volume is 231
cu. cm. Find its radius.
A. 4 cm B. 5 cm C. 6 cm D. 7 cm
39. A weight of 60 pounds rest on the end of an 8-foot lever and is 3 feet from the
fulcrum. What weight must be placed on the other end of the lever to balanced 60
pound weight?
A. 36 pounds B. 32 pounds C. 40 pounds D. 42 pounds
40. The average of six scores is 83. If the highest score is removed, the average
of the remaining scores is 81.2. Find the highest score.
A. 91 B. 92 C. 93 D. 94
41. A point moves on the hyperbola x²- 4y² = 36 in such a way that the x-coordinate
increase at a constant rate of 20 unit per second. How fast is the y-coordinate
changing at a point (10, 4)?
A. 30 units/sec C. 30 units/sec
B. 30 units/sec D. 30 units/sec
42. If the tangent of angle A is equal to the square root of 3, angle A in the 3rd
quadrant, find the square of the tangent A/2.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
43. A stone, projected vertically upward with initial velocity 112 ft./sec, moves
according to s = 112t – 16t², where s is the distance from the starting point.
Compute the greatest height reached.
A. 196 ft. B. 100 ft. C. 96 ft. D. 216 ft.
44.) A cylinder of radius 3 is cut through the center of the base by a plane making
an angle of 45 degrees with the base. Find the volume cut off.
A. 15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18
45.) Find the diameter of a circle with the center at (2, 3) and passing through the
point (-1, 5).
A. 3.6 B. 7.2 C.13 D. 16
46.) Find the value of x for which the tangent to y = 4x-x² is parallel to the x-axis.
A. 2 B. -1 C. 1 D. -2
47. Find the surface area generated by rotating the parabolic arc about the x-axis
from x = 0 to x = 1.
A. 5.33 B. 4.98 C. 5.73 D. 4.73
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48. A group of students plan to pay equal amount in hiring a vehicle for an
excursion trip at a cost of P 6, 000. However, by adding 2 more students to the
original group, the cost of each student will be reduced by P 150. Find the number
of each students in the original group.
A. 10 B. 9 C. 8 D. 7
49. What is the allowable error in measuring the edge of the cube that is intended
to hold 8 cu. m., if the error of the computed volume is not to exceed 0.03 cu.m.
A. 0.002 B. 0.003 C. 0.0025 D. 0.001
50. Find the value of x for which y = 2x³- 9x² + 12x – 2 has a maximum value.
A. 1 B. 2 C. -1 D. -2
51. At a height of 23,240 ft., a pilot of an airplane measures the angle of depression
of a light at an airport as 28 deg 45 min. How far is he from the light?
A. 20,330 ft. B. 26,510 ft. C. 11, 180 ft. D. 48, 330 ft.
53. A tower 150m high is situated at the top of a hill. At a point 650m down the hill,
the angle between the surface of the hill and the line of sight to the top of the tower
is 12 deg 30 min. Find the inclination of the hill to a horizontal plane.
A. 7 deg 50 min B. 20 deg 20 min
C. 77 deg 30 min D. 12 deg 55 min
54. A telephone company has a profit of $80 per telephone when the number of
telephones in exchange is not over 10,000. The profit per telephone decreases by
$0.40 for each telephone over 10, 000. Find the numbers of telephone that will
yield the largest possible profit.
A. 13,000 B. 14,000 C. 15,000 D. 16,000
55. Find the work done in moving an object along the vector a = 3i + 4j if the force
applied is b = 2i +j.
A. 11.2 B. 10 C. 12.6 D. 9
56. A man is paid P 1, 800 for each day he works and forfeits P 300 for each day
he is idle. If at the end of 40 days, he nets P 53, 100, how many days was he idle?
A. 6 B. 7 C. 8 D. 9
57. By stringing together 9 differently color beads, how many different bracelets
can be made?
A. 362,880 B. 20,160 C. 40,320 D. 181,440
58. In a circle of diameter 26 cm, a chord 10 cm in length is drawn. How far is the
chord from the center of the circle?
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A. 5 cm B. 12 cm C. 13 cm D. 24 cm
59. Find the slope of the line passing through the pair of points (-2, 0) and (3, 1).
A. 1/3 B. 1/4 C. 1/6 D. 1/5
60. Find the inverse of the function f(x) = sqrt. of (2x – 3).
A.sqrt. of (2y-3) B. 1/ sqrt. Of (2x-3)
C. ½(x2+3) D. ½ (y2+3)
61. If f (3) =7, f’ (3) = -2, g (3) =6 and g’ (3) = -10, find the (g/f)’ (3).
A. -82/49 B. -49/82 C. -49/58 D. -58/49
62. The length of the median drawn the hypotenuse of a right triangle is 12 inches.
Find the length of the hypotenuse.
A. 24 in B. 20 in C. 23 in D. 25 in
68. A pole is on top of a building. At a point 240 meters from the base of the
building, the angle of elevation of the base and top of the pole are 42 degrees and
44 degrees respectively. Find the height of the pole.
A. 15.8m B. 18.5m C. 16.9m D. 19.6m
74. The polynomial 𝑥 2 + 4𝑥 + 4 is the area of a square floor. What is the length of
its side?
A. x + 2 B. x – 2 C. x + 1 D. x – 1
75. If there are 2 computers for every 4 students, how many computers are
needed .For 60 students?
A.24 B.26 C.30 D.32
76. From Pagasa island in the Spratlys, two helicopters travel to two different
islands.One helicopter travels 185 km N 65 deg E to island A and the other travels
at S 25 deg E for 120 km to island B. What is the distance between the two
islands?
A. 198.5 km B. 187.3 C. 235.2 D. 202.5
80. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are (4,2,3), (7,-2,4) and (3,-4, 6).
A. 15.3 B. 13.5 C. 12.54 D. 12.45
81. Find the moment of inertia of the area bounded by the curve 𝑥 2 = 8𝑦, the line
x =4 and the x-axis on the first quadrant with respect to y-axis.
A.25.6 B. 21.8 C. 31.6 D. 36.4
82. If 8 oranges cost Php 96, how much do 1 dozen at the same rate?
A. Php 144 B. Php 124 C. Php 148 D. Php 168
83. A particle moves in simple harmonic in accordance with the equation s = 3sin
8pit + 4cos 8 pit, where s and t are expressed in feet and seconds, respectively.
What is the amplitude of its motion?
A. 3ft B. 4ft C. 5ft D. 8ft
88. Find the mass of a 1.5-m rod whose density varies linearly from 3.5 kg/m
from end to end
A. 3.5 kg B. 2.5kg C. 4.5kg D. 5.0kg
89. Find the area bounded by the parabola y = x2, the tangent line to the
parabola at the point (2, 4) and the x axis.
A. 9/2 B. 2/3 C. 8/5 D. 9/4
90. Find the coordinates of an object that has been displaced from the point (-4,
9) by the vector (4i – 5j)
A. (0, 4) B. (0, -4) C. (4, 0) D. (-4, 0)
92. A car travels 90kph. What is its speed in meter per second?
A. 43 B. 30 C. 25 D. 50
93. The vertices of the base of the isosceles triangle are (1, -2) and (1, 4). If the
third vertex lies on the line 4x + 3y = 12. Find the area of the triangle.
A. 8 B. 15 C. 12 D. 10
94. Assume that f is a liner function. If f(4) = 10 and f(7) = 24, find f(100).
A.98 B. 144 C. 576 D.458
95. The line y = 3x +b passes thru the point (2, 4). Find b.
A. 2 B. 10 C. -2 D. -10
96. How far is the directrix of the parabola (x - 4)2 = -8(y - 2) from the x-axis?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 1
98. Find the point where the normal to y = x + x1/2 at (4, 6) crosses the y-axis.
A. 5.75 B. 9.2 C. 23 D. 11
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99. There are four geometric mean between 3 and 729. Find the sum of the
geometric progression.
A. 1092 B. 1094 C. 1082 D. 1084
100. Find the area of a circle inscribed in a rhombus whose perimeter is 100
inches and whose longer diagonal is 40 inches.
A. 364. 43 sq. in C. 452. 39 sq. in.
B.590. 62 sq. in. D. 389. 56 sq. in.
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1. Sand is pouring to from a conical pile such that its radius is always twice its
height. If the volume of a conical pile is increasing at the rate of 2 cu. m/sec.
how fast is the height is increasing when the height is 4m?
A. 1/16pi m/s B. 1/32 pi m/s C. 1/64 pi m/s D. 1/8 pi m/s
3. Joy is 10% taller than Joseph and Joseph is 10% taller than Tom. How many
percent is Joy taller than Tom?
A. 18% B. 20% C. 21% D. 23%
4. What is the length of the shortest line segment in the first quadrant drawn
tangent to the ellipse b2 x2 + a2 y2 = a2 b2 and meeting to the coordinate axes?
A. a/b B. a + b C. ab D. b/a
5. What is the area of largest rectangle that can be inscribed in an ellipse with
equation 4x^2+y^2=4?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 2 D. 1
7. Find the radius of the circle inscribed in the triangle determined by the lines
y=x+4, y=-x-4 and y=7x-2.
A.5/sqrt of 2 B. 5(2sqrt of 2) C. 3/R D. 3/(2sqrt of 2)
9. Using original diameter, d, what is the new diameter when the volume of the
sphere is increased 8 times?
A. 2d B.3d C.4d D. 5d
10. In a hotel it is known that 20% of the total reservation will be cancelled in the
last minute. What is the probability that there will be less than 2 reservations
cancelled out of 4 reservations?
A. 0.6498 B. 0.5629 C. 0.3928 D. 0.4096
11. Find the area of the region inside the triangle with vertices (1,1), (3,2) and (2,4)
A. 5/2 B. 3/2 C. ½ D. 7/2
12. The three sides of trapezoid are each 10m long. How long must the fourth side
be to make the area a maximum?
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A. 20m B. 50m C. 52m D. 45m
15. Find the moment of inertia of the area bounded by the parabola y^2=4x and the
line x=1 with respect to the x-axis
A. 2.133 B. 1.333 C. 3.333 D. -1
16. The cost per hour of running a boat is proportional to the cub of the speed of
the boat. At what speed will the boat run against a current of 8 kph in order to
go a given distance most economically?
A. 15kph B. 14kph C. 13kph D. 12kph
17. What is the unit vector which is orthogonal both to 9i+9j and 9i+9k?
A. i/sqrt3+i/sqrt3+k/sqrt3 B. i/sqrt3+jsqrt3+k/3 C. i/sqrt3-jsqrt3- ksqrt3
18. A train running at 60 kph decelerated at 2.5m/min 2 for 12 minutes. Find the
distance traveled in km within the period.
A. 1.182 B. 11.82 C. 1.812 D. 2.282
19. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than one (1) is known as:
A. A parabola B. an ellipse C. a circle D. a hyperbola
20. A transmitter with a height of 15m is located on top of a mountain whis is 3.0
km high. What is the farthest distance on the surface of the earth that can be
seen from the top of the mountain? Take the radius if the earth to be 6400 km.
A. 225km B.152km C.196km D. 205km
21. A political scientist asked a group of people how they felt about two political
policy statements. Each person was to respond A (agree) (N) neutral or (D)
disagree to each NN, NA, DD, DN, DA, AA, AD and AN. Assuming each
response combination is equally likely, what is the probability that the person
being interviewed agrees with exactly one of the political policy statements?
A. 1/9 B. 2/5 C. 2/9 C. 4/9
23. Find the area of a quadrilateral having vertices at (2,-1), (4.3), (-1,2) and (-3,-
2)
A. 16 B. 18 C. 17 D. 14
24. In a 15 multiple choice test questions with five possible choices of which only
one is correct, what is the standard deviation of getting a correct answer?
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A. 1.55 B. 1.07 C. 1.50 D. 1.65
25. In polar coordinate system the distance from a point to the pole is known as:
31. A and B can do piece of work is 5 days, B and C in 4 days while A and C in
2.5days in how many days can all of them do the work together?
A. 40/11 B. 30//11 C. 30/17 D. 40/17
32. Chona the golden retriever gained 5.1 pounds is one month. She weights 65.1
pounds now. What is the percent weight gain of Chona in one month?
A. 7.3% B. 8.2% D. 7.8% D. 8.5%
33. What is the center and radius of a circle with an equation x2+y2-1/4x-1/4y=1/64?
A. C (1,1/2) R=4 B. C(1,1), R=sqrt5/9
C. C(1/2-1/2 R=sqrt2/5 D. C (1/8, 1/8) R=sqrt 3
34. A machine only accepts quarters. A bar of candy cost 25c a pack of peanuts
cost 50c and the bottle of coke cost 75c. If Marie bought 2 candy bars a pack
of peanut and a bottle of coke how many quarters did she pay?
A. 5 B. 6 C.7 D. 8
36. There are a set of triplets. If there are 11 generations how many ancestors do
they have if duplication is not allowed?
38. From the top of a building the angle of depression of the floor of a pole is 48
deg 10min. from the foot of a building the angle of elevation of the top is 18 deg
50 min, both building and pole are on a level ground. If the height of a pole is
4m, how high is the building?
A. 13.10m B. 12.10 C. 10.90 D. 11.60
39. The towers of a parabolic suspension brindge 300m long are 60 m high and
the lowest point of a cable is 20m above the roadway. Find the vertical distance
from the roadway to the cable at 100m from the center
A. 17.78 B.37.78 C.12.86 D. 32.86
40. Find the centroid of the plane area bounded by the parabola y=4-x^2 and the
x-axis
A. (0 3/2) B. (0,1) C. (0 , 12/5) D. (0,8/5)
41. Evaluate the double integral 1/(x-y) dxdy with inner bounds of 2y to 3y and
outer bounds of 0.2.
A. Ln3 B. ln4 C. ln2 D ln8
42. Write the equation of a line with x-intercepts a=8 and y intercept b=-1
A. 8x+y-8=0 B. 8x-y+8=0 C. 8x+y+8=0 D. 8x-y-8=0
44. Find the ration of the surface area of a cube to its volume if the side is s.
A. 21/2 B. 15/2 C. 17/2 D.5/s
46. The sum of the first 7 terms of an A.P is 98 and the sum of the first 12 terms is
288. Find the sum of the first 20 terms
A. 980 B. 800 C. 880 D. 980
47. When the sun is 20 degrees above the horizon, how long is the shadow cast
by a building 150 ft high?
A. 550 ft B. 580ft C. 405ft D. 450ft
50. A car goes 14kph faster than a truck and requires 2 hours and 20 minutes less
time to travel 300km. Find the rate of the car.
A. 40kph B. 50kph C. 60kph D. 70kph
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1. Given a conic section, if B2 - 4AC = 0, it is called?
A. Circle B. Parabola C. Hyperbola D. Ellipse
5. All circle having the same center but with unequal radii are called
A. encircle
B. tangent circles
C. concyclic
D. concentric circles
8. Find the height of a right circular cylinder of maximum volume which can be
inscribed in a sphere of radius 10 cm.
A. 11.55 cm B. 14.55 cm C. 12.55 cm D. 18.55 cm
10. A waiter earned tips for a total of $17 for 4 consecutive days. How much he
earned per day?
A. $4.25 B. $4.50 C. $3.25 D. $3.50
12. The length of the latus rectum of the parabola y2 = 4px is:
A. 4p B. 2p C. p D.-4p
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13. A post office can accept for mailing only if the sum of its length and its girth (the
circumference of its cross section) is at most 100 in. What is the maximum
volume of a rectangular box with square cross section that can be mailed?
A. 5432.32in3 B. 1845.24in3 C. 2592.25in3 D. 9259.26in3
14. Water is running out of a conical funnel at the rate of 1 cu. In/sec. If the radius
of the base of the funnel is 4 in. and the altitude is 8 in, find the rate at which
the water level is dropping when it is 2 in. from the top.
A. -1/9pi in/sec B. -1/2pi in/sec C. 1/2pi in/sec D. 1/9pi in/sec
15. A ball is dropped from a height of 18m. On each rebound it rises 2/3 of the
height from which it last fell. What distance has it traveled at the instant it strikes
the ground for the 5th time?
A. 37.89 m B. 73.89 m C. 75.78m D. 57.78 m
16. 3 randomly chosen senior high school students was administered a drug test.
Each student was evaluated as positive to the drug test (P) or negative (N).
Assume the possible combinations of the three student’s drug test evaluation
as PPP, PNP, NPN, NNP, NNN. Assuming each possible combination is
equally likely, what is the probability that all 3 students get positive results?
A. 1/8 B. 3/4 C. 1/4 D. 1/2
17. The cost per hour of the running the boat is proportional to the cube of the
speed of the boat. At what speed will the boat run against a current of 4 kph in
order to go a given distance most economically?
A. 6 kph B. 12 kph C. 20 kph D. 24 kph
18. Ben is two years away from being twice Ellen’s age. The sum of Ben’s age and
thrice Ellen’s age is 66. Find Ben’s age now.
A. 19 B. 20 C. 18 D. 21
19. The cable of suspension bridge hangs in the form of a parabola when the load
is uniformly distributed horizontally. The distance between towers is 150 m, the
points of the cable on the towers are 22m above the roadway, and the lowest
point on the cable is7 m above the roadway. Find the vertical distance to the
cable form a point in the roadways 15m from the foot of a tower.
A. 16.6 m B. 9.6 m C. 12.8 m D.18.8 m
21. Find a∙b if lal = 26 and lbl =17 and the angle between them is pi/3.
A. 221 B. 212 C. 383 D.338
22. The side of a square is 5 cm less than the side of the other square. If the
difference of their areas is 55cm2, what is the side of the smaller square?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
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23. The area bounded by the curve y2= 12x and the line x= 3 is revolved about the
line x= 3. What is the volume generated?
A. 186 B. 179 C. 181 D. 184
24. Evaluate the integral of (sinx) raised to the 6th power and the limits from 0 to
pi/2.
A. 0.49087 B. 0.48907 C. 0.96402 D. 0.94624
26. Two engineers facing each other with a distance of 5km from each other, the
angles of elevation of the balloon from the two engineers are 56 degrees and
58 degrees, respectively. What is the distance of the balloon from the two
engineers?
A. 4.46 km, 4.54km B. 4.64, 4.45km C. 4.64km, 4.54km D.4.46km, 4.45km
28. Find the area of the triangle having vertices at -4-I, 1+2i, 4-3i.
A. 15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18
29. How many even numbers of three digits each can be made with the digits
0,2,3,5,7,8,9 if no digit is repeated?
A. 102 B. 126 C. 80 D. 90
30. What is the angle subtended in mils of arc length of 10 yards in a circle of radius
5000 yards?
A. 1.02 B. 2.40 C. 4.02 D. 2.04
31. How many 5 poker hands are there in a standard deck of cards?
A. 2,598,960 B. 2,958,960 C. 2,429,955 D. 2,942,955
32. In delivery of 14 transformers, 4 of which are defective, how many ways those
in 5 transformers at least 2 are defective?
A. 940 B. 920 C. 900 D. 910
33. A point is chosen at random inside the circle of diameter 8 in. What is the
probability that it is at least 1.5 in away from the center of the circle?
A. 53/64 B. 55/64 C. 52/64 D. 56/64
34. A student did not study for his upcoming examination on which is 15 multiple
choice test questions, with five possible choices of which only one is correct,
what is the expected number of correct answers he can get?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
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36. A boy, 1.20m tall, is walking directly away from the lamp post at the rate of 0.90
m/sec. If the lamp is 6m above the ground, find the rate at which his shadow is
lengthening.
A. 2.25 m/sec B. 0.225 m/sec C. 1.125 m/sec D. 0.235 m/sec
37. A painter needs to find the area of the gable end of the house. What is the area
of the gable if it is a triangle with two sides of 42.0 ft. that meet at a 105 degrees
angle?
A. 852 sq. ft. B. 825 sq. ft. C. 892 sq. ft. D. 829 sq. ft.
38. A sector of a circle has a central angle of 50 degrees and an area of 605 sq.
cm. Find the radius of the circle
A. 34.6 cm B. 36.4 cm C. 37.2 cm D. 32.7 cm
41. Find the slope of the line tangent to 3y2 - 2x2 = 5xy at the point (1,2).
A. -1 B.-2 C. 1 D.2
42. The volume V in3 of unmelted ice remaining from the melting ice cube after t
seconds is given by V(t)=2000-40t+0.2t2. How fast is the volume changing
when t= 40 seconds?
A.-26 in3 /sec B. -24in3 /sec C. -20in3 /sec D. -8in3 /sec
43. The radius of a circle is measured to be 3 cm correct to within 0.02 cm. Estimate
the propagated error in the area of the circle.
A. 0.183 cm B. 0.213 cm C. 0.285 cm D. 0.377 cm
45. A solid is formed by revolving about the axis, the area bounded by the curve
x3 = y, the y-axis and the line y = 8. Find its centroid.
A. (0, 4.75) B. (0, 4) C. (0, 5.25) D. (0, 5)
46. Find the area in the first quadrant that is enclosed by y = sin 3x and the x-axis
from x = 0 the first x-intercept on the positive x-axis.
A. -1/4 B. 2/3 C. 1 D.2
47. Let f(x) = x3 + x + 4 and let g(x) = f-1 (x). Find g’(6)
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A. -1/4 B. -4 C. 1/4 D. 4
49. A recipe calls for 1 cup of milk for every 2-1/2 cups of flour to make a cake that
would feed 6 people. How many cups of both flour and milk need to be
measured to make a similar cake for 8 people?
A. 1-1/3 B. 2-1/3 C. 1-1/2 D.2-1/2
51. Find the volume of a cone to be constructed from a sector having a diameter
of 72 cm and a central angle of 150 degrees.
A. 7711.82 B. 5533.32 C. 6622.44 D. 8866.44
52. A and B are points on the opposite sides of a certain body of water. Another
point C is located such that AC= 200 meters, BC= 160 meters and angle BAC=
50 degrees. Find the length of AB.
A. 164.67 m B. 174.67 m C. 184.67 m D.194.67 m
2 2
53. Find the area of the ellipse 4x + 9y = 36.
A. 15.71 B. 18.85 C. 12.57 D. 21.99
54. A couple plans to have 7 children. Find the probability of having at least one
boy.
A. 0.1429 B. 0.1667 C. 0.9922 D. 0.8571
55. A person has 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents and soon. How
many ancestors during the 15 generations preceding his own, assuming no
duplication?
A. 131070 B. 65534 C. 32766 D. 16383
56. A vendor buys an apple for Php 10 and sells it for Php 15. What percent of the
selling price of apple is the vendor’s profit?
A. 50 B. 33.33 C. 25 D. 66.67
58. Determine the sum of the first 12 terms of the arithmetic sequence: 3, 8, 13,..
A. 366 B. 363 C. 379 D. 397
59. In how many ways can 5 letters be mailed if there are 3 mailboxes available?
A. 60 B. 80 C. 243 D. 326
60. James is 20 years old and john is 5 years old. In how many years will James
be twice as old as john?
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A. 15 B. 10 C. 12 D. 8
62. If cos A = 4/5 and angle A is not in Quadrant I, what is the value of sin A?
A. 0.6 B. -0.6 C. 0.75 D. -.75
63. Find the area of a circle inscribed in a rhombus whose perimeter is 100 in. and
whose longer diagonal is 40 in.
A. 116 pi in2 B. 128 pi in2 C. 144 pi in2 D. 188 pi in2
64. A ranger’s tower is located 44 m from a tall tree. From the top of the tower, the
angle of elevation to the top of the tree is 28 degrees, and the angle of
depression to the base of the tree is 36 degrees. How tall is the tree?
A. 48 m B. 62 m C. 55 m D. 99 m
65. In an ellipse, a chord which contains a focus and is in line perpendicular to the
major axis is a:
A. latus rectum
B. minor
C. focal width
D. Conjugate axis
66. Find the force on one end of a parabolic trough full of water, if depth is 2ft,
and with across the top is 2 ft. Use 𝜔 = 62.5 lb/ft3
A. 125 lbs B. 133.33 lbs C. 200 lbs D. 208.33 lbs
68. If the half-life of a substance is 1,200 years, find the percentage that remains
after 240 years.
A. 76% B. 77% C. 87% D. 97%
69. Robin flies to San Francisco from Santa Barbara in 3 hours. He flies back in 2
hours. If wind was blowing from north at velocity of 40 mph going, but changed
to 20 mph from the north returning, what was the airspeed of the plane?
A. 140 mph B. 150 mph C. 160 mph D. 170 mph
70. A tree is broken over by a windstorm. The tree was 90 feet high and the top of
the tree is 25 feet from the foot of the tree. What is the height of the standing
part of the tree?
A. 48.47 ft. B. 41.53 ft. C. 45.69 ft. D. 44.31 ft.
71. In a frustum of cone of revolution the radius of the lower base is 11 in, the
radius of the upper base is 5 in, and the altitude is 8 in. Find the total area in
square inches.
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A. 80pi B. 160pi C. 226pi D. 306pi
72. A cask containing 20 gallons of wine emptied on one-fifth of its content and
then is filled with water, if this is done 6 times, how many gallons of wine remain
in the cask?
A. 5.242 B. 5.010 C. 5.343 D. 5.121
73. Goods cost a merchant $ 72. At what price should he mark them so that he
may sell them at a discount of 10% from his mark price and still make a profit
of 20% on the selling price?
A. $ 150 B. $ 200 C. $ 100 D. $ 250
74. Determine the length of the latus rectum of the curve r= 4(1-sin theta).
A. 6 B. 9 C. 8 D. 7
75. Find the radius of the curvature of r= tan theta at theta= 3pi/4.
A. sqrt. of 3 B. sqrt. of 5 C. sqrt. of 6 D. sqrt. of 2
76. Given A= 5i+3j and B=2i+kj where k is a scalar, find k such that A and B are
parallel.
A. 3/5 B. 3 C. 6/5 D. 6
77. What is the x-intercept of the line whose parametric equations are x= 2t -1 and
y= 6t+11?
A. -2/3 B. -5/3 C. -7/3 D. -14/3
78. What is the coefficient of the (X-1)3 term in the Taylor series expansion of f(x)=
lnx expanded about x= 1?
A. 1/6 B. 1/4 C. 1/3 D. 1/2
79. The position of a particle moving along the x-axis at any time t is given by x(t)=
2t3 - 4t2 + 2t - 1. What is the slowest velocity achieved by the particle?
A. 17/4 B. 3 C. -2/3 D. -3/2
80. For what value of k will the line kx +5y= 2k have y-intercept 4?
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11
82. Find the slope of the curve x=t2+et, y=t+et. At the point (1,1).
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
84. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 34 cm. Find the length of the two legs, if
one leg is 14 cm longer than the other.
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A. 15 and 29 B. 16 and 30 C. 18 and 32 D. 17 and 31
85. John’s factory has 60 workers. If 4 out of 5 workers are married, how many
workers are not married?
A. 12 workers B. 24 workers C. 48 workers D. 60 workers
86. Find the equation of the line whose slope is-3 and the x-intercept is 5.
A. y= -3x+5 B. 3x-y=5 C. 3x+y=15 D. y=3x+15
87. The positive value of k which will make 4x2-4kx+4k+5 a perfect square trinomial
is
A. 6 B. 5 C. 4 D. 3
90. The area of a circle is six time its circumference. What is the radius of the circle?
A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
91. Twelve round holes are bored through a piece of steel plate. Their centers are
equally spaced on the circumference of a circle 18 cm in diameter. What is the
difference between the centers of two consecutive holes?
A. 4.71 cm B. 4.66 cm C. 4.32 cm D. 4.55 cm
92. What is the minimum possible perimeter for a rectangle whose area is 100 sq.
in?
A. 50 in. B. 60 in. C. 30 in. D. 40 in.
93. Find the work done by the force of F= 3i + 10j newton’s in moving an object 10
meters north.
A. 104.40J B. 100J C. 106J D. 108.60J
94. Find the abscissa of a point having an ordinate of 4 of a line that has a y-
intercept of 8 and slope of 2.
A. -2 B. +2 C. -3 D. +3
95. Find arch of an underpass semi-ellipse 60ft wide and 20ft high. Find the
clearance at the edge of a lane if the edge is 20 ft. from the middle.
A. 18.2 ft. B. 12.8 ft. C. 14.9 ft. D. 16.8 ft.
96. Find the moment of inertia with respect to the y-axis of the first-quadrant area
bounded by the parabola x2= 4y and the line y=x.
A. 34/5 B. 24/5 C. 54/5 D. 65/5
97. What is the length of the transverse axis of the hyperbola whose equation is
9y2-16x2=144?
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A. 6 B. 9 C. 8 D. 7
98. Find the mass of lamina in the given region and density function:
pi
D[(x, y)], 0 ≤ x ≤ , o ≤ y ≤ cosx and ρ = 7x
2
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
99. How many cubic inches of lumber does a stick contain if it is 4 in. by 4 in. at
one end, 2 in. by 2 in. at the other end, and 16ft long?
A. 1729 B. 1927 C. 1972 D. 1792
100. A goat is tied to a corner of 30ft by 35ft building. If the rope is 40ft and the
goat can reach 1ft farther than the rope length, what is the maximum area
the goat can cover?
A. 4840.07 B. 4084.07 C. 4804.07 D. 4408.07
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1. What is the differential equation of the family of parabolas having their vertices
at the origin and their foci on the x-axis?
A. 2xdy – ydx = 0 C. 2ydx –xdy = 0
B. ydx + ydx = 0 D. dy/dx – x = 0
3. A reflecting telescope has a parabolic mirror for which the distance from the
vertex to the focus is 30 ft. If the distance across the top of the mirror is 64 in.,
how deep is the mirror of the center?
A. 32/45 in. B. 30/43 in. C. 32/47 in. D. 35/46 in.
5. Evaluate L { t^n }.
A. n!/s^n B. n!/s^(n+1) C. n!/s^(n-1) D. n!/s^(n+2)
arcsin 9𝑥
7. Evaluate lim ( )
𝑥→0 2𝑥
A. 9/2 B. π C. ∞ D. -∞
9. Find the area bounded by the parabola sqrt. of x + sqrt. of y = sqrt. of a and the
line x + y = a.
A. a2 B. a2/2 C. a2/4 D. a2/3
10. Ben is two years away from being twice Ellen’s age. The sum of twice Ben’s
age and thrice Ellen’s age is 66. Find Ben’s age now.
A. 19 B. 20 C. 16 D. 21
11. What percentage of the volume of a cone is the maximum volume right circular
cylinder that can be inscribed in it?
A. 24% B. 34% C. 44% D. 54%
12. A balloon rising vertically, 150 m from an observer. At exactly 1 min, the angle
of elevation is 29 deg 28 min. How fast is the balloon using at that instant?
A. 104m/min B. 102m/min C. 106m/min D. 108m/min
13. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than one (1) is known as:
A. a parabola B. an ellipse
C. a circle D. a hyperbola
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14. A tangent to a conic is a line
A. which is parallel to the normal
B. which touches the conic at only one point
C. which passes inside the conic
D. all of the above
15. A die and a coin are tossed. What is the probability that a three and a head will
appear?
A. 1/4 B. 1/2 C. 2/3 D.1/12
16. Find the integral of 12sin5xcos5xdx if lower limit = 0 and upper limit = pi/2.
A. 0.8 B.0.6 C.0.2 D.0.4
18. The Ford company increased its assets price from 22 to 29 pesos. What is the
percentage of increase?
A.24.14% B.31.82% C.41.24% D.28.31%
19. Find the area bounded by outside the first curve and inside the second curve,
r = 5, r = 10sinθ
A. 47.83 B.34.68 C.73.68 D.54.25
20. In two intersecting lines, the angles opposite to each other are termed as:
A. opposite angles C. horizontal angles
B. vertical angles D. inscribed angles
21. The area in the second quadrant of the circle x^2 + y^2 = 36 is revolved about
the line y + 10 = 0. What is the volume generated?
A. 2932 c.u. B. 2392 c.u. C. 2229 c.u. D. 2292 c.u.
23. A retailer bought a number of ball pens for P90 and sold all but 3 at a profit P2
per ball pen. With the total amount received she could buy 15 more ball pens
than before. Find the cost per ball pen.
A. P2 B. P3 C.P4 D.P5
24. What is –i^i?
A.4.81 B.-4.81 C.0.21 D.-0.21
25. A balloon travel upwards 6m, North and 8m, East. What is the distance
traveled from the starting point?
A. 7 B. 10 C.14 D. 20
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26. What do you call the integral divided by the difference of the abscissa?
A. average value C. abscissa value
B. mean value D. integral value
27. Water is running out of a conical funnel at the rate of 1 cubic inch per sec. If the
radius of the base of the funnel is 4 in. and the altitude is 8 in., find the rate at
which the water level is dropping when it is 2 in. from the top.
` A. -1/pi in./sec B. -2/pi in./sec C. -1/9pi in./sec D.-2/9pi in./sec
29. A rectangular trough is 8 ft. long, 2 ft. across the top, and 4 ft. deep. If water
flows in at a rate of 2 cu. ft./min., how fast is the surface rising when the water
is 1 ft. deep?
A. 1/5 ft./min B. 1/8 ft./min
C. 1/6 ft./min D. 1/16 ft./min
30. Five tables and eight chairs cost $115; three tables and five chairs cost $70.
Determine the total cost of each table.
A. $15 B. $30 C. $25 D. $20
32. Find the slope of the line through the points (-2, 5) and (7, 1).
A. 9/4 B. -9/4 C. 4/9 D. -4/9
33. For what value of k will the line kx +5y = 2k have a y-intercept 4?
A. 8 B. 7 C. 9 D.10
34. If a bug moves a distance of 3pi cm along a circular arc and if this arc subtends
a central angle of 45 degrees, what is the radius of the circle?
A. 8 B. 12 C. 14 D. 16
35. Two vertices of a rectangle are on the positive x-axis. The other two vertices
are on the lines y = 4x and y = -5x + 6. What is the maximum possible area of
the rectangle?
A.2/5 B.5/2 C.5/4 D. 4/5
37. A certain radioactive substance has half-life of 3 years. If 10 grams are present
initially, how much of the substance remain after 9 years?
A.2.50g B.5.20g C. 1.25g D.10.20g
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38. A cubical box is to built so that it holds 125 cu. cm. How precisely should the
edge be made so that the volume will be correct to within 3 cu. cm.?
A.0.02 B.0.03 C.0.01 D.0.04
39. Find the eccentricity of the ellipse when the length of its latus rectum is 2/3 of
the length of its major axis.
A.0.62 B. 0.64 C.0.58 D.0.56
40. Find k so that A = <3, -2> and B =<1, k> are perpendicular.
A. 2/3 B.3/2 C.5/3 D.3/5
B.
41. Find the moment of inertia of the area bounded by the curve x^2 = 8y, the line
x = 4 and the x-axis on the first quadrant with respect to y-axis.
A.25.6 B. 21.8 C.31.6 D.36.4
42. Find the force on one face of a right triangle of sides 4m and altitude of 3m.
The altitude is submerged vertically with the 4m side in the surface.
A.62.64 kN B.58.86 kN C.66.27 kN D.53.22 Kn
44. The arc of a sector is 9 units and its radius is 3 units. What is the area of the
sector?
A.12.5 B.13.5 C.14.5 D.15.5
45. The sides of a triangle are 195, 157, and 210, respectively. What is the area of
the triangle?
A.73,250 B.10,250 C.14,586 D.11,260
46. A box contains 9 red balls and 6 blue balls. If two balls are drawn in succession,
what is the probability that one of them is red and the other is blue?
A.18/35 B.18/37 C.16/35 D.16/37
47. A car goes 14 kph faster than a truck and requires 2 hours and 20 minutes less
time to travel 300 km. Find the rate of the car.
A.40 kph B.50 kph C.60 kph D.70 kph
49. The probability of John’s winning whenever he plays a certain game is 1/3. If
he plays 4 times, find the probability that he wins just twice.
A.0.2963 B.0.2936 C.0.2693 D.0.2639
50. A man row upstream and back in 12 hours. If the rate of the current is 1.5 kph
and that of the man in still water is 4 kph, what was the time spent downstream?
A.1.75 hr B.2.75 hr C.3.75 hr D. 4.75 hr
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51. If cot A = -24/7 and A is in the 2nd quadrant, find sin 2A.
A.336/625 B.-336/625 C.363/625 D. -363/625
52. The volume of a square pyramid is 384 cu. cm. Its altitude is 8 cm. How long
is an edge of the base?
A.11 B.12 C.13 D.14
55. If the equation of the directrix of the parabola is x – 5 = 0 and its focus is at (1,
0), find the length of its latus rectum.
A.6 B.8 C.10 D.12
57. A club of 40 executives, 33 like to smoke Marlboro, and 20 like to smoke Philip
Morris. How many like both?
A. 13 B. 10 C. 11 D. 12
58. The area of the rhombus is 264 sq. cm. If one of the diagonals is 24 cm long,
find the length of the other diagonal.
A. 22 B. 20 C. 26 D. 28
59. How many sides have a polygon if the sum of the interior angles is 1080
degrees?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
60. The line segment connecting (x, 6) and (9, y) is bisected by the point (7, 3).
Find the value of x and y.
A. 5, 0 B. 4, 0 C. 5, 2 D. 4, 1
61. What is the height of the parabolic arch which has span of 48 ft. and having a
height of 20 ft. at a distance of 16 ft. from the center of the span?
A. 30 ft. B. 40 ft. C. 36 ft. D. 34 ft.
66. The volume of the sphere is 36pi cu. m. The surface area of this sphere in sq.
m is:
A. 36pi B. 24pi C. 18pi D. 12pi
69. A store advertised on sale at 20 percent off. The sale price was $76. What was
the original price?
A. $95 B. $96 C. $97 D. $98
70. Find the equation of the straight line which passes through the point (6, -3) and
with an angle of inclination of 45 degrees.
A. x + y = 8 B. x – y = 8 C. x + y = 9 D. x – y = 9
71. A freight train starts from Los Angeles and heads for Chicago at 40 mph. Two
hours later a passenger train leaves the same station for Chicago traveling at
60 mph. How long will it be before the passenger train overtakes the freight
train?
A. 3 hrs. B. 5 hrs. C. 4 hrs. D. 6 hrs.
72. The number of board feet in a plank 3 inches thick, 1 ft. wide, and 20 ft. long
is:
A. 30 B. 60 C. 120 D. 90
73. Boyles’s law states that when a gas is compressed at constant temperature,
the product of its pressure and volume remains constant. If the pressure gas is
80 lb/sq.in. when the volume is 40 cu.in., find the rate of change of pressure
with respect to volume when the volume is 20 cu.in.
A. -8 B. -10 C. -6 D. -9
74. Find the average rate of change of the area of a square with respect to its side
x as x changes from 4 to 7.
A. 8 B. 11 C. 6 D. 21
76. A merchant purchased two lots of shoes. One lot he purchased for $32 per
pair and the second lot he purchased for $40 per pair. There were 50 pairs in
the first lot. How many pairs in the second lot if he sold them all at $60 per pair
and made a gain of $2800 on the entire transaction?
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A. 50 B. 40 C. 70 D. 60
77. The diagonal of a face of a cube is 10 ft. The total area of the cube is
A. 300 sq. ft. B. 150 sq. ft. C. 100 sq. ft. D. 200 sq. ft.
78. A ship is sailing due east when a light is observed bearing N 62 deg 10 min E.
After the ship has traveled 2250 m, the light bears N 48 deg 25 min E. If the
course is continued, how close will the ship approach the light?
A. 2394 m B. 2934 m C. 2863 m D. 1683 m
79. If f(x) = 1/(x – 2), (f g)’(1) = 6 and g’(1) = -1, then g(1) =
A.-7 B. -5 C. 5 D. 7
80. Find the work done by the force F = 3i + 10j newtons in moving an object 10
meters north.
A.104 40 J B. 100 J C.106 J D. 108.60 J
81. The volume of a frustum of a cone is 1176pi cu.m. If the radius of the lower
base is 10m and the altitude is 18m, compute the lateral area of the frustum of
a cone
A.295pi sq. m. B. 691pi sq. m.
C.194pi sq. m. D. 209pi sq. m.
83. With 17 consonant and 5 vowels, how many words of four letters can be four
letters can be formed having 2 different vowels in the middle and 1 consonant
(repeated or different) at each end?
A.5780 B. 5785 C. 5790 D. 5795
85. A particle moves along a line with velocity v = 3t^2 – 6t. The total distance
traveled from t = 0 to t = 3 equals
A.8 B. 4 C. 2 D. 16
86. An observer at sea is 30 ft. above the surface of the water. How much of the
ocean can he sea?
A.124.60 sq. mi. C. 154.90 sq. mi.
B.142.80 sq. mi. D. 132.70 sq. mi.
87. There are three consecutive integers. The sum of the smallest and the largest
is 36. Find the largest number.
A.17 B. 18 C.19 D. 20
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88. If y = sqrt. of (3 – 2x), find y.
A.1/sqrt. of (3 – 2x) C. 2/sqrt. of (3 – 2x)
B. -1/sqrt. of (3 – 2x) D. -2/sqrt. of (3 – 2x)
89. The logarithm of MN is 6 and the logarithm of N/M is 2, find the value of
logarithm of N.
A.3 B. 4 C. 5 D.6
90. A woman is paid $20 for each day she works and forfeits $5 for each day she
is idle. At the end of 25 days she nets $450. How many days did she work?
A.21 days B. 22 days C. 23 days D.24 days
91. Francis runs 600 yards in one minute. What is his rate in feet per second?
A.25 B. 30 C.35 D.40
94. There are 8 different colors, 3 of which are red, blue and green. In how many
ways can 5 colors be selected out of the 8 colors if red and blue are always
included but green is excluded?
A.12 B.11 C. 10 D.9
95. Five cards are drawn from a pack of 52 well – shuffled cards. Find the
probability that 3 are 10’s and 2 are queens.
A. 1/32 B. 1/108,290 C. 1/54,350 D.1/649,740
7 7 7
96. If ∫1 𝑓(𝑥)𝑑𝑥 = 4 and ∫1 𝑔(𝑥)𝑑𝑥 = 2, find ∫1 [3𝑓(𝑥) + 2𝑔(𝑥) + 1]𝑑𝑥.
A. 23 B. 22 C. 25 D. 24
97. When the ellipse is rotated about its longer axis, the ellipsoid is
A. spheroid B. oblate C. prolate D. paraboloid
98. If the distance between points A(2, 10, 4) and B(8, 3, z) is 9.434, what is the
value of z?
A. 4 B. 3 C. 6 D. 5
99. A line with equation y = mx + b passes through (-1/3, -6) and (2, 1). Find the
value of m.
A. 1 B. 3 C. 4 D. 2
100. For the formula R = E/C, find the maximum error if C = 20 with possible error
0.1 and E = 120 with a possible error of 0.05.
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A. 0.0325 B. 0.0275 C. 0.0235 D. 0.0572
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1. What percentage of the volume of a cone is the maximum right circular cylinder
that can be inscribed in it?
A. 24% B. 34% C. 44% D. 54%
2. A railroad curve is to be laid out on a circle. What radius should be used if the
track is to change direction by 30 degrees in a distance of 300 m?
A. 566 m B. 592 m C. 573 m D. 556 m
5. A ladder leans against the side of a building with its foot 12 ft. from the building.
How long is the ladder if it makes of 70 degrees with the ground?
A. 32 ft B. 33 ft C. 34 ft D. 35 ft
6. If the 5th term in arithmetic progression is 17 and the 3rd is 10, what is the 8th
term?
A. 27.5 B. 24.5 C. 36 D. 38
7. A balloon is released of eye level and rises at the rate of 5 ft/s. An observer 50
ft away watches the balloon rise. How fast is the angle of elevation measuring
6 seconds after the moment of release?
A. 0.007 rad/s B. 0.07 rad/s C. 0.008 rad/s D. 0.08 rad/s
9. Points (6,-2) and (a,6) are on a line with a slope of 4/3. What is the value of a?
A. -2 B. 4.5 C. 9 D. 12
10. The foci of an ellipse are on the points (4,0) and (-4,0) and its eccentricity is
2/3. Find the equation of the ellipse.
A. x^2/36 + y^2/20 = 1 C. x^2/20 + y^2/16 = 1
B. x^2/20 + y^2/36 = 1 D. x^2/16 + y^2/20 = 1
13. A triangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 10. If two angles are 70 degrees and
50 degrees, find the length of the side opposite to the third angle.
A. 15.32 B. 16.32 C. 17.32 D. 18.365
14. Find the volume generated by revolving the area cut off from the parabola y=4x-
x^2 by the axis about the line y=6.
A. 295 B. 340 C. 286 D. 362
15. The axis of the hyperbola through its foci is known as:
A. conjugate axis B. transverse axis
C. major axis D. minor axis
16. From past experience it is known 90% of one year old children can distinguish
their mother’s voice of similar sounding female. A random sample of 20 one
year’s old given this voice recognize test. Find the probability that all children
recognize mother’s voice.
A. 0.122 B. 0.500 C. 1.200 D. 0.222
17. If the equation of the directrix of a parabola is x-5=0 and its focus is at (1,0),
find the length of its latus rectum.
A. 6 B. 8 C. 10 D. 12
2
19. Evaluate lim (( z – 1 – I )/( z2 -2z+2))
z―›1+i
A. ¼ B. -1/4 C. ½ D. -1/2
20. Nanette has a ribbon with a length of 13.4 m and divided it by 4. What is the
length of each part?
A. 3.35 m B. 3.25 m C. 3.15 m D. 3.45 m
22. If the area of a sector of a circle is 248 sq. m and the central angle is 135
degrees. Find the diameter of the circle.
A. 29 m B. 26 m C. 32 m D. 39 m
23. In how many ways can two lines intersect from given 6 lines?
A. 14 B. 15 C. 16 D. 17
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26. 3 randomly chose high school students were administered a drug test. Each
student was evaluate as positive to the drug test (P) or negative to the drug test
(N). Assume the possible combination of the 3 students drug test evaluation as
PPP, PPN, PNP, NPN, NNP, NNN. Assume the possible combination is equally
likely and knowing that 1 student get a negative results, what is the probability
that all 3 students get a negative result?
A. 1/8 B. 1/7 C. 7/8 D. ¼
27. A bridge is 1.4 kilometers long. A bus 10 meters long is crossing the bridge at
30 kph. How many minutes will it take the bus to completely cross the bridge?
A. 1.82 min B. 2.82 min C. 3.82 min D. 4.82 min
31. What is the area of an isosceles triangle whose base is 10 and its base angle
is 60 degrees?
A. 25 (sqrt of 3) B. 50 (sqrt of 3) C. 25 D. 50
33. What is the vector length 2 and direction 150 degrees in the form ai + bj.
A. 1.73i + j B. -1.73i – j C.1.73i - j D. -1.73i + j
34. If a man works at an average speed of 4 kph, what is the time consume to reach
250 m.
A. 0.25 min B. 2.50 min C. 3.75 min D. 4.25 min
35. N engineers and N nurses, if two engineers are replaced by nurses, 51% of the
engineers and nurses are nurses. Find N.
A. 100 B. 110 C.50 D.200
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36. A house has assessed value of P 720,000.00 worth which is 60% of the market
value. If the tax is P 3.00 for P 1,000.00 market value, how much is the tax?
A. P 3, 200.00 B. P 3,800.00 C. P 3,600.00 D. 3,400.00
38. In a hotel it is known that 20% of the total reservation will be cancelled in the
last minute. What is the probability that out of 15 reservatons there will be more
than 8 but less than 12 cancelled?
A. 0.00784 B. 0.0784 C. 0.000784 D. 0.784
40. Locate the midpoint of the line segment joining point 1 (2,15,4) and point 2
(6,3,-12)
A. (4,9,4) B. (4,-9,4) C. (4,94) D. (-4,9,4)
41. A conic section whose eccentricity is greater than one (1) is known as?
A. A parabola B. an ellipse
C. a circle D. a hyperbola
42. Find the distance travelled by the tip of a pendulum if the distance of the first
swing is 8 cm and the distance of each succeeding is 0.75 of the distance of
the previous swing.
A. 32 cm B. 28 cm C. 27 cm D. 30 cm
44. Find the area bounded by the curve 𝒚𝟐 = 𝟑𝒙 − 𝟑 and the line x = 4.
A. 10 B. 16 C. 15 D. 12
45. Helium is escaping a spherical balloon at the rate of 2 cm3 /min. When the
surface area is shrinking at the rate of 1/3 cm2 /min, find the radius of the
spherical balloon.
A. 14 cm B. 12 cm C. 16 cm D. 8 cm
46. What is the maximum area of the rectangle whose base is on the z-axis and
whose upper two vertices lie on the parabola 𝒚𝟐 = 𝟏𝟐 − 𝒙𝟐 .
A. 30 B. 32 C. 36 D. 40
47. A car racer covers 225 km in 2.5 hrs. How far can he go in 1.75 hrs?
A. 267.5 km B.168.75 km C. 394 km D. 157.5 km
48. Find the area of the triangle with vertices A (0,1), B (5,3), and C (-2,-2)
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A. 19 B. 19/2 C. 15 D. 15/2
51. How many tiles 10 cm on a side are needed to cover a rectangular wall 3 m by
4 m?
A. 1500 B. 1000 C. 1200 D. 1600
52. Find the equation of the line whose slope is -3 and the x-intercept is 5.
A. 𝒚 = −𝟑𝒙 + 𝟓 B. 𝟑𝒙 − 𝒚 = 𝟓
B. C. 𝒚 = 𝟑𝒙 + 𝟏𝟓 D. 𝟑𝒙 + 𝒚 = 𝟏𝟓
53. In how many ways can the letters of the word “CHACHA” be arranged by taking
the letters all at a time?
A. 120 B. 720 C. 85 D. 90
56. Determine k so that the points A (7,3), B (-1,0), and C (k,-2) are the vertices of
a right triangle with right angle at B.
A. -1 B. 1 C. -1/4 D. ¼
58. If the logarithm of MN is 6 and the logarithm N/M is 2, find the logarithm of N.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
=𝟒
59. If 4 electricians earn x pesos in 7 days, how much can 14 carpenters paid of
the same rate, earn in12 days?
A. 3x B. 4x C. 5x D. 6X
60. Write the differential equation of the family of circle with center at the origin.
A. 𝐱𝐝𝐲 + 𝐲𝐝𝐱 = 𝟎 B. 𝐱𝐝𝐲 − 𝐲𝐝𝐱 = 𝟎
C. 𝐱𝐝𝐱 + 𝐲𝐝𝐲 = 𝟎 D. 𝐱𝐝𝐲 − 𝐲𝐝𝐱 = 𝟎
61. Find the volume of a spherical segment, the radii of whose bases are 4 m and
5 m respectively with an altitude of 6 m.
A. 159 pi B. 165 pi C. 150 pi D. 145 pi
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62. A taxpayer’s state and the federal income taxes plus an inheritance tax totaled
$ 14,270. His California state income tax was $ 5,780 less than his federal tax.
His inheritance tax was $ 2, 750. How much did he pay in state tax?
A. $ 8,560 B. $ 2,870 C. $ 8,650 D. $ 2,780
63. The first term of a geometric sequence is 160 and the common ratio is 3/2. How
many consecutive terms must be taken to give a sum of 2110?
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
64. The total area of a cube is 150 sq. in. A diagonal of the cube is ______ in.
A. 5(sqrt of 2) B. 4(sqrt of 3) C. 5(sqrt of 3) D. 4(sqrt of 2)
65. In triangle ABC, sin (A+B) = 3/5. What is the value of sin C?
A. 2/5 B. 2/3 C. 3/5 D. ½
66. Find the slope of the curve whose parametric equations are x = -1 +t and y=2t.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 1 D. 4
67. Find the length of the latus rectum of the ellipse 25x^2 + 9^2 – 300x – 144y +
1251 = 0.
A. 3.4 B. 3.2 C. 3.6 D. 3.0
68. A triangular trough whose the edges are 5, 5, and 8 m long is place vertically
in water with its longest edege uppermost, horizontal, and 3 m below the water
level. Calculate the force on a side of the plate.
A. 235.2 kN B. 470.4 kN C. 940.8 kN D. 1,881.6 Kn
69. Find the area of the ellipse whose eccentricity is 4/5 and whose major axis is
10.
A. 12 pi B. 13 pi C. 14 pi D. 15 pi
70. Find the average rate of change of the area of a square with respect to its side
x as x changes from 4 to 7.
A. 14 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
71. Find the moment of inertia with respect to the y-axis of the area bounded by y
= x^2 and y = 2x.
A. 11/5 B. 9/5 C. 7/3 D. 8/5
73. What is the angle between -2.5 + j4.33 and 4.33 – j2.5?
A. 0 deg B. 30 deg C. 120 deg D. 150 deg
75. Find the initial poin of v = -3i + j +2k if the terminal point is (5, 0, -1).
A. (8,1, -3) B. (8, -1, 3) C. (8,-1,-3) D. (8,1,3)
77. A pair of dice is tossed. Find the probability of getting at most a total of 5.
A. 5/9 B. 5/16 C. 5/18 D. 5/36
78. On a day when the temperature is 30 deg C. a cool drink is taken from a
refrigerator whose temperature is 5 deg. C. If the temperature of the drink is 20
deg C after 10 minutes, what will its temperature be after 20 minutes?
A. 21 deg C B. 24 deg C C. 28 deg C D. 26 deg C
79. The positive value of k which will make 4x^2 – 4kx + 4k +5 a perfect square
trinomial is
A. 6 B. 5 C. 4 D. 3
80. A stone advertises a 20 percent-off sale. If an article is marked for the sale at
$24.48, what is the regular price?
A. $30.60 B. $34.80 C. $36.55 D. $28.65
81. For a given arithmetic series the sum of the first 50 terms is 200, the sum of the
next 50 terms is 2700. The first term of the series is:
A. -12.2 B. -21.5 C. -20.5 D. -25.2
82. The total area of a cube is 150 sq. in. A diagonal of the cube is:
A. 4 in B. 5 in C. 7.07 in D. 8.66 in
83. A tree is broken over by a windstorm. The tree was 90 feet high and the top of
the tree is 25 feet from the foot of tree. What is the height of the standing part
of the tree?
A. 48.47 ft B. 41.53 ft C. 45.69 ft D. 44.31 ft
84. Goods cost a merchant & 72. At what price should he mark them so that he
may sell them at a discount of 10% from his marked price and still make a profit
of 20% on the selling price?
A. $ 150 B. $ 200 C. $ 100 D. $ 250
85. An edge of the base of a regular hexagonal prism is 4 in. and a lateral edge is
9 in. Find the lateral area of the prism.
A. 216 sq. in. B. 299 sq. in. C. 206 sq. in. D. 288 sq. in.
86. In a potato race, 8 potatoes are place 6 ft apart on a straight line, the first being
6 ft from the basket. A contestant starts from the basket and puts one potato at
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a time into the basket. Find the total distance must run in order to finish the
race.
A. 423 ft B. 432 ft C. 428 ft D. 436 ft
87. Given that sin theta = 3/5 and theta is acute, find cos 2theta.
A. -7/25 B. -4/5 C. 7/25 D. 4/25
89. A window in Mr. Royce’s house is stuck. He takes an 8-inch screwdriver to pry
open the window. If the screwdriver rests on the still (fulcrum) 3 inches from the
window and Mr. Royce has to exert a force of 10 pounds on the other end to
pry open the window, how much force was the window exerting?
A. 12-2/3 B. 14-2/3 C. 18-2/3 D. 16-2/3
90. A boat, propelled to move at 25 mi/hr in still water, travels 4.2 mi against the
river current in the same time that it can travel 5.8 mi with the current. Find the
speed of the current in mi/hr.
A. 4 B. 5 C. 3 D. 2
91. An open-top cylindrical tank is made of metal sheet having an area of 43.82
square meter. If the diameter is 2/3 the height, what is the height of the tank?
A. 3.24 m B. 2.43 m C. 4.23 m D. 5.23 m
92. How much water must be added to 8 gallons of 80% boric solution to reduce it
to a 50% solution?
A. 4 gal B. 4-4/5 gal C. 5 gal D. 5-3/5 gal
93. The line y = 3x + b passes through the point (2, 4). Find the b.
A. 2 B. 10 C. -2 D. -10
96. If the measure of one angle of a regular polygon is 135 degrees, then the
number of sides of that polygon is ______.
A. 4 B. 6 C. 8 D. 9
99. The average of six scores is 83. If the highest score is removed, the average
of the remaining scores is 81.2. Find the highest score.
A. 91 B. 92 C. 93 D. 94
100. The sum of the base and altitude of an isosceles triangle is 36 cm. Find the
altitude of the triangle if its area is to be a maximum.
A. 18 cm B. 16 cm C. 9 cm D. 17 cm
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1. If the man sleeps from 6:48 PM up to 7:30 AM. The number of hours and
minutes he sleeps is.
A. 11 hrs and 42 min C. 13 hrs and 42 min
B. 12 hrs and 42 min D. 10 hrs and 42 min
2. The price of a ballpen rises from Php 4.00 to Php 12.00. What is the percent
increase in price?
A. 100 percent C. 150 percent
B. 120 percent D. 200 percent
𝜋𝑥
3. Evaluate lim(2 − 𝑥)^tan( 2 ).
𝑥→1
A. e^(2/pi) B. e^(pi/2) C. e^(2pi) D. 0
5. Roll a pair of dice. What is the probability that the sum of two numbers is
11?
A. 1/36 B. 1/9 C. 1/18 D. 1/20
8. In how many ways can 5 people be lined up if two particular people refuse
to follow each other?
A. 52 B. 62 C. 72 D. 82
11. The area of the circle is 89.42 sq. in. What is its circumference?
A. 32.25 in B. 33.52 in C. 35.33 in D. 35.55 in
12. If a truck parks in at 1 PM in a parking lot and leaves at 4 PM. Find the
number of hours it stayed at the parking lot.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
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13. If (x+3) : 10=(3x-2) : 8, find 2x-1.
A. 1 B. 3 C. 4 D. 2
17. The slope of the curve y^2-xy-3x=1 at the point (0, -1) is
A. -1 B. -2 C. 1 D. 2
18. Express Ten million forty three thousand seven hundred seventy one.
A. 10,403,771 B. 10,433,771
C. 10,430,771 D. 10,043,771
20. A pole which leans 11 degrees from the vertical toward the sun cast a
shadow 12 m long when the angle of elevation of the sun is 40 degrees.
Find the length of the pole.
A. 15.26 m B. 14.26 m C. 13.26 m D. 12.26 m
21. How long is the latus rectum of the elipse whose equation is 9x^2+16y^2-
576=0?
A. 7 B. 9 C. 10 D. 15
22. If the initial and final temperatures of an object are 97.2 and 99 deg F
respectively, find the change in temperature.
A. 1.7 deg F B. 1.8 deg F
C. 1.9 deg F D. 1.6 deg F
25. The GCF of two numbers is 34, and their LCM is 4284. If one of the number
is 204, the other number is
A.714 B. 716 C. 2124 D. 3125
26. Jonas, star player of Adamson University has free throw shooting of 83%.
The game is tied at 87-87. He is fouled and given 2 free throws. What is the
probability that the game will go overtime?
A. 0.3111 B. 0.6889 C. 0.0289 D. 0.9711
27. Find the work done in moving an object along a vector a = 31 + 4j if the
force applied is b = 21 + j.
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 12
29. Where does the normal line of the curve y = x - x^2 at the point (1,0)
intersect the curve a second time?
A. (-3,-12) B. (0,0) C. (-2,-6) D. (-1,-2)
1+tan2 𝑥
30. Simplify 1+cot2 𝑥
A. sec2x B. tan2x C. csc2x D. cot2x
31. Jodi wishes to use 100 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden.
Determine the maximum possible area of her garden.
A. 850 sq. ft. B. 1250 sq. ft.
C. 625 sq. ft. D. 1650 sq. ft.
34. The locus of a point that moves so that the sum of its distances between
two fixed points is constant called:
A. a parabola B. a circle
C. an elipse D. a hyperbola
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35. Michael’s age is seven-tenths of Richard’s age. In four years Michael’s age
will be eight-elevenths of Richard’s age. How old is Michael?
A. 26 yrs. B. 28 yrs. C. 40 yrs. D. 48 yrs.
36. A conic section whose eccentricity is equal to one (1) is known as:
A. a parabola
B. an elipse
C. a circle
D. a hyperbola
37. The angle of a sector is 30 degrees and the radius is 15 cm. What is the
area of a sector?
A. 59.8 sq. cm. B. 58.9 sq. cm.
C. 89.5 sq. cm. D. 85.9 sq. cm.
38. In a conic section, if the eccentricity is greater than (1), the locus is:
A. a parabola B. an elipse C. a circle D. a hyperbola
40. Two stones are 1 mile apart and are of the same level as the foot of a hill.
The angles of depression of the two stones viewed from the top of the hill
are 5 degrees and 15 degrees respectively. Find the height of the hill.
A. 109.1 m B. 209.1 m C. 409.1 m D. 309.1 m
41. What is the equation of the line, in the xy-plane, passing through the point
(6, 4) and parallel to the line with parametric equations x = 5t + 4 and y = t –
7?
A. 5y – x = 14 B. 5x – y = 26
C. 5y – 4x = -4 D. 5x – 4y = 14
43. How far is the directrix of the parabola (x-4)^2 = -8(y-2) from the x-axis?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 1
46. Steve earned a 96% on his first math test, a 74% his second test, and 85%
on 3 tests average. What is his third test?
A. 82% B. 91% C. 87% D. 85%
47. The base radius of a right circular cone is 4 m while its slant height is 10 m.
What is the surface area?
A. 124.8 sq. m. B. 128.6 sq. m.
C. 226.8 sq. m. D.125.7 sq. m
48. Ian remodel a kitchen in 20 hrs and Jack in 15 hours. If they work together,
how many hours to remodel the kitchen?
A. 8.6 B. 7.5 C. 5.6 D. 12
49. If 15% of the bolts produced by a machine will be defective, determine the
probability that out of 5 bolts chosen at random, at most 2 bolts will be
defective.
A. 0.9754 B. 0.9744 C. 0.9734 D. 0.9724
50. Find the average rate of the area of a square with respect to its side x as x
changes from 4 to 7.
A. 9 B. 3 C. 11 D. 18
51. The equations for two lines are 3y – 2x = 6 and 3x + ky = -7. For what value
of k will the two lines be parallel?
A. -9/2 B. 9/2 C. -7/3 D. 7/3
54. A fair coin is tossed three times. Find the probability that there will appear
three heads.
A. 1/4 B. 1/2 C. 1/8 D. 1/6
55. A spherical balloon inflated with r = 3(cube root of t) as t is greater than zero
and t is less than equal or equal to 10. Find the rate of change of volume in
cubic cm at t = 8.
A. 37.70 B. 150.80 C. 113.10 D. 75.40
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56. Joe and his dad are bricklayers. Joe can lay bricks for a well in 5 days. With
his father’s help, he can build it in 2 days. How long would it take his father
to build it alone?
A. 3-1/4 days B.3-1/3 days
C. 2-1/3 days D.2 -2/3 days
57. Find x so that the line containing (x, 5) and (3, -4) has a slope of 3.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
61. The area of a square is 32 square feet. Find the perimeter of the square.
A. 27. 71 feet B. 55. 43 feet
C. 45. 25 feet D. 22.63 feet
62. If cos theta = -3/4 and tan theta is negative, the value of sin theta is
A. -4/5 B. – (sqrt. of 7)/4 C. (4 sqrt. of 7)/7 D. (sqrt. of 7)/4
63. What is the numerical coefficient of the term containing x^3y^2 in the
expansion of (x+2) ^5?
A. 10 B. 20 C. 40 D. 80
67. The height (in feet) at anytime t (in seconds) of a projectile thrown vertically
is h(t) = -16t^2 + 256t. What is the projectile’s average velocity for the first 5
seconds of travel?
A. 48 fps B. 96 fps C. 176 fps D. 192 fps
71. The probability that a man, age 60, will survive to age 70 is 0.80 the
probability that a woman of the same age will live up to age 70 is 0.90. What
is the probability that only one of the survives?
A. 0.72 B. 0.26 C. 0.28 D. 0.0
73. Find the base of an isosceles triangle whose vertical angle is 65 degrees
and whose equal sides are 415 cm.
A. 530 cm B. 464 cm C. 350 cm D. 446 cm
77. Determine the moment of inertia of the area enclosed by the curved x^2 +
y^2 = 36 with respect to the line y = 8.
A. 8628 B. 8256 C. 7642 D. 7864
78. A man sleeps on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for
8, 6, 7, 4, and 5 hours, respectively. Find the number of hours he slept for 5
days.
A. 35 B. 31 C. 30 D. 25
81. Timothy leaves home for Legaspi City 400 miles away. After 2 hours, he has
to reduce his speed by 20 mph due to rain. If he takes 1 hour for lunch and
gas and reaches Legaspi City 9 hours after left home, what was his initial
speed?
A. 63 mph B. 62 mph C. 65mph D. 64 mph
82. How many arrangements of the letters in the word “VOLTAGE” begin with a
vowel and end with a consonant?
A. 1490 B.1440 C.1460 D.1450
83. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel 1000 km and 2.5
hours in flying back. What was the wind velocity in kph?
A. 50 B. 60 C. 70 D. 40
84. A woman is paid $ 20 for each day she works and the forfeits $ 5 for each
day she is idle. At the end of 25 days she nets $ 450. How many days did
she work?
A. 21 B. 22 C.23 D.24
85. Find the centroid if the solid formed by revolving about x = 2 bounded by y =
x^3, X = 2 and y = 0.
A. (2, 10/30) B. (2, 10/7) C. (2, 10/9) D. (2, 10)
87. The positive value of k which make 4x^2 – 4kx + 4k + 5 a perfect square
trinomial is
A. 6 B. 5 C. 4 D. 3
88. A tree is broken over by a windstorm. The tree was 90 feet high and the top
of the tree is 25 feet from the foot of the tree. What is the height of the standing
part of the tree?
A. 48.47 ft B. 41.53 ft C. 45.69 ft D. 44.31 ft
89. The Rotary Club and the Jaycee Club had a joint party. 120 members of the
Rotary Club and 100 members of the Jaycees Club also attended but 30 of
those attended are members of both clubs. How many persons attended the
party?
A. 190 B. 220 C. 250 D. 150
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90. If sin 3A = cos 6B, then
A. A + B = 90 deg C. A + B = 180 deg
B. A + 2B = 30 deg D. A +2B = 60 deg
93. The number of ways can 3 nurses and 4 engineers be seated in a bench
with the nurses seated together is
A. 144 B.258 C. 720 D. 450
94. Find the distance from the plane 2x + y – 2z + 8 = 0 to the point (-1, 2, 3).
A. 1/3 B. 2/3 C. 4/3 D. 5/3
98. The edge of a cube has length 10 in., with a possible error of 1 %. The
possible error, in cubic inches, in the volume of cube is
A. 3 B. 1 C. 10 D. 30
99. What is the rate of change of the area if an equilateral triangle with respect
to its side s when s = 2?
A. 0.43 B. 0.50 C.10 D. 1.73
6. Find the differential equations of the family of lines passing through the origin.
A. xdx – ydy = 0 C. xdx + ydy = 0
B. xdy – ydx = 0 D. ydx + xdy = 0
7. A chord passing through the foci’s of the parabola y^2 = 8x has ones end at the
point (8,8). Where is the other end of the chord?
A. (1/2, 2) B. (-1/2, -2) C. (-1/2, 2) D. (1/2, -2)
8. Find the radius of the circle inscribed in the triangle determined by the line y =
2
x + 4, y = -x – 4, and y = 7 𝑥 + 2
A. Multiplied by 3 C. Multiplied by 27
B. Multiplied by 9 D. Multiplied by 6
10. Six non-parallel lines are drawn in a plane. What is the maximum number of
point of intersection of these lines?
A. 20 B.12 C. 8 D. 15
11. In a triangle ABC where AC=4 and angle ACB=90 degrees, an altitude t is
drawn from C to the hypotenuse. If t = 1, what is the area of the triangle ABC?
A. 1.82 B. 1.78 C. 2.07 D. 2.28
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12. In a 15 multiple choice test questions, with five possible choices if which only
on is correct, what is the standard deviation of getting a correct answer?
A. 1.55 B. 1.65 C. 1.42 D. 1.72
13. What is the area bounded by the curve y = tan2 x and the y = 0 and x = pi/2?
A. 0 B. infinity C. 1 D. Ɵ
𝑒𝑥
14. What is the power series of 1−𝑥 about x = 0?
5 8 5 8
A. 1 − 2𝑥 + 𝑥2 − 3 𝑥3 + ⋯ C. 2𝑥 − 𝑥2 + 3 𝑥3 + ⋯
2 2
𝟓 𝟖 5 8
B. 𝟏 − 𝟐𝒙 + 𝒙𝟐 + 𝟑 𝒙𝟑 + ⋯ D. 2𝑥 + 𝑥2 − 3 𝑥3 + ⋯
𝟐 2
19. A force of 100 m perimeter such that its width is 6m less than thrice its length.
Find the width?
A. 28 m B. 14 m C. 36 m D. 40 m
21. An air balloon flying vertically upward at constant speed is situated 150m
horizontally from an observer. After one minute, it is found that the angle of
elevation from the observer is 28 deg 50 min. what will be then the angle of
elevation after 3 minutes from its initial position?
A. 48 deg B. 56 deg C. 61 deg D. 50 deg
22. If m is jointly proportional to G and x, where a,b,c and d are constant. Therefore.
A. M = aG + bx C. m = aG
B. m = aGz D. m = bG
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23. In how many ways can a student going to abroad accompanied by 3 teachers
selecting from 6 teachers?
A. 16 B. 24 C. 20 D. 12
24. If a man travels 1 km north, 3 km west, 5 km south, and 7 km east, what is his
resultant displacement vector?
A. 5.667 km, 45 deg above + x-axis C. 5.667 km, 225 deg above + x-axis
B. 5.667 km, 45 deg above – x-axis D. 5.667 km, 225 deg above – x-axis
26. Marsha is 10 years older than John, who is 16 years old. How old is Marsha?
A. 24 yrs. B. 26 yrs. C. 6 yrs. D. 12 yrs.
28. The plane rectangular coordinate system is divided into four parts which are
known as:
A. octants B. quadrants C. axis D. coordinates
29. A student already finished 70% of his homework in 42 minutes. How many
minutes does she still have to work?
A. 18 B. 15 C. 20 D. 24
30. In how many ways can 5 people be lined up to get on a bus, if a certain 2
persons refuse to follow each other?
A. 36 B. 48 C. 96 D. 72
31. Water is being pumped into a conical tank at the rate of 12 cu.ft/mins. The
height of the tank is 10 ft and its radius is _ ft. How fast is the water level rising
when the water height is _ ft?
A. 2/3 pi ft/min B. 3/2 pi ft/min C. 3/4 pi ft/min D. 4/3pi ft/min
32. Write the equation of a line with x intercept a = -1, and y intercept b = 5
A. 8x + y – 8 = 0 C. 8x + y + 8 = 0
B. 8x – y + 8 = 0 D. 8x – y – 8 = 0
33. In a single throw of a pair of dice, find the probability that the sum is 11
A. 1/12 B. 1/16 C. 1/36 D. 1/18
34. Find the area bounded by one arch of the companion to the cycloid x = a theta,
y = a (1 – cos theta) and the y-axis
A. 2pi a^2 B. 4pi a ^2 C. pi a ^2 D. 3pi a^2
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36. Michael is four times as old as his son Carlos. If Michael was 18 years old when
Carlos was born, how old is Michael now?
A. 36 yrs. B. 20 yrs. C. 24 yrs D. 32 yrs.
37. In polar coordinate system, the distance from a point to the pole is known as:
A. polar angle C. x-coordinate
B. radius vector D. y-coordinate
38. A certain man sold his balot at Php1.13 per piece. If there 100 balot sold all in
all, how much is his total collection?
A. Php 113.00 C. Php 112.00
B. Php 115.00 D. Php 116.00
39. A certain population of bacteria grows such that its rate of change is always
proportional to the amount present. It doubles in 2 years, if in 3 years there are
20,000 of bacteria present, how much is present initially?
A. 9,071 B. 10,071 C. 7,071 D. 8,071
41. What is the distance between at any point P(x ,y) on the ellipse b 2x2 + a2y2 =
a2b2 to its focus.
A. by ±ax B. b ± ay C. ay ± bx D. a ± ex
42. Calculate the eccentricity of an ellipse whose major axis and latus rectum has
length of 10 and 32/5, respectively.
A. 0.4 B. 0.5 C. 0.8 D. 0.6
45. Two vertical poles are 10 m apart. The poles are 5 m and 8 m, respectively.
They are to be stayed by guy wires fastened to a single stake on the ground
and attached to the tops of the poles. Where should the stake be placed to use
the least amount of wire?
A. 6.15 m from 5 m pole C. 6.51 m from 5 m pole
B. 6.15 m from 8 m pole D. 6.51 m from 8 m pole
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46. A and B are points on circle Q such that triangle AQB is equilateral. If AB = 12,
find the length of arc AB.
A. 15.71 B. 9.42 C. 12.57 D. 18.85
47. The area under the portion of the curve y = cosx from x = 0 to x = pi/2 is revolved
about the x-axis. Find the volume of the solid generated.
A. 2.47 B. 2.74 C. 3.28 D. 3.82
48. Find the length of arc of r = 2/(1 +costheta) from theta = 0 to theta = pi/2.
A. 2.64 B. 3.22 C. 2.88 D. 3.49
49. Find the equation of the straight line which passes through the point (6, -3) and
with an angle of inclination of 45 degrees.
A. x + y = 3 B. 4x – y =27 C. x- 2y = 12 D. x – y = 9
52. In an arithmetic progression whose first term is 5, the sum of 8 terms is 208.
Find the common difference.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
54. What is the area of the ellipse whose eccentricity is 0.60 and whose major axis
has a length of 6?
A. 40.21 B. 41.20 C. 42.10 D. 40.12
55. Tickets to the school play sold at $4 each for adults and $1.50 each for children.
If there were four times as many adult’s tickets sold as children’s tickets, and
the total were $3500. How many children’s tickets were sold?
A. 160 B. 180 C. 200 D. 240
57. The Rotary Club and the Jaycees Club had a joint party. 120 members of the
Rotary Club attended and 100 members of the Jaycees Club also attended but
30 of those who attended are members of both parts. How many persons
attended the party?
58.
A. 190 B. 220 C. 250 D. 150
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59. Find the value of k for which the graph of y = x^3 + kx^2 + 4 will have an
inflection point at x = -1.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 2 D. 1
61. An observer wishes to determine the height of a tower. He takes sights at the
top of the tower from A and B, which are 50 ft apart at the same elevation on a
direct line with the tower. The vertical angle at point A is 30 degrees and at
point B is 40 degrees. What is the height of the tower?
A. 85.60 ft B. 143.97 ft C. 110.29 ft D.92.54 ft
62. If four babies are born per minute, how many babies are born in one hour?
A. 230 B. 250 C. 240 D. 260
63. What was the marked price of a shirt that sells at P 225 after a discount of
25%?
A. P 280 B. P 300 C. P 320 D. P 340
65. If s = t^2 – t^3, find the velocity when the acceleration is zero
A. 1/4 B. 1/2 C. 1/3 D. 1/6
67. A lady gives a dinner party for six guest. In how many may they be selected
from among 10 friends?
A. 110 B. 220 C. 105 D. 210
68. A wheel 4 ft in diameter is rotating at 80 rpm. Find the distance (in ft) traveled
by a point on the rim in 1 s.
A. 9.8 ft B. 19.6 ft C. 16.8 ft D. 18.6 ft
70. From the top of lighthouse, 120 ft above the sea, the angle of depression of a
boat is 15 degrees. How far is the boat from the lighthouse?
A. 444 ft B. 333 ft C. 222 ft D. 555 ft
71. If 8 men take 12 days to assemble 16 machines, how many days will it take 15
men to assemble 50 machines?
A. 16 B. 24 C. 16 D. 20
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72. Find the coordinate of the highest point of the curve x = 90t, y = 96t – 16t^2.
A. (288, 144) B. (144, 288) C. (288, -144) D.(-144, 288)
76. Determine the rate of a woman rowing in still water and the rate of the river
current, if it takes her 2 hours to row 9 miles with the current and 6 hours to
return against the current.
A. 1 mph B. 2 mph C. 3 mph D. 4 mph
78. What is the value of the circumference of a circle at the instant when the radius
is increasing at 1/6 the rate the area is increasing?
A. 3 B. 3/pi C. 6 D. 6/pi
79. A ball is thrown from the top of a 1200-foot building. The position function
expressing the height h of the ball above the ground at any time t is given as
h(t) = -16t^2 – 10t + 1200. Find the average velocity for the first 6 seconds of
travel.
A. -202 ft/sec B. -106 ft/sec C. -96 ft/sec D. -74 ft/sec
−1
80. ∫−2 |𝑥 3 |𝑑𝑥 =
A. -7/8 B. 7/8 C. -15/4 D. 16/4
81. The distance covered by an object falling freely rest varies directly as the
square of the time of falling. If an object falls 144 ft in 3 sec, how far will it fall
in 10 sec?
A. 1200 ft B. 1600 ft C. 1800 ft D. 1400 ft
82. For what values(s) of x will the tangent lines to f(x0 + ln x and g(x) = 2x^2 be
parallel?
A. 0 B. 1/4 C. 1/2 D. ±1/2
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83. What kind of graph has r =2 sec theta?
A. Straight line B. parabola C. ellipse D. hyperbola
84. The probability of A’s winning a game chess against B is 1/3. What is the
probability that A will win at least 1 of a total 3 games?
A. 11/27 B. 6/27 C. 19/27 D. 16/27
87. What is the slope of the line through (-1, 2) and (4, -3)?
A. 1 B. -1 C. 2 D. -2
88. The axis of the hyperbola through its foci is known as:
A. Conjugate axis B. major axis
C. transverse axis D. minor axis
91. What is the coefficient of the (x – 1)^3 term in the Taylor series expansion of
f(x) = ln x expanded about x = 1?
A. 1/6 B.1/4 C. 1/3 D. 1/2
94. In triangle ABC, AB = 40 m, BC = 60 m and AC = 80m. How far from a will the
other end of the bisector angle B located along the line AC?
A. 40 B. 32 C. 38 D. 35
95. What amount should an employee receive a bonus so that she would net $500
after deducting 30% from taxes?
A. $ 714.29 B. $814.93 C. $ 624.89 D. $ 538.62
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96. A rectangular trough us 8ft long, 2ft across the top, and 4 ft deep. If water flows
in at a rate of 2 cu. Ft per min. how fast is the surface rising when the water is
1ft deep?
A. 1/4 ft/min B. 1/6 ft/min C. 1/3 ft/min D. 1/5 ft/min
97. If the parabola y = x^2 + C is tangent to the line y = 4x + 3, find the value of C.
A. 4 B. 7 C. 6 D. 5
98. A parabola having its axis along the x-axis passes through (-3, 6). Compute the
length of latus rectum if the vertex is at the origin.
A. 12 B. 8 C. 6 D. 10
99. If the average value of the function f(x) = 2x^2 on the interval (0, c) is 6, then c
=
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
100. Find the volume of the tetrahedron bounded by the coordinate planes and
the plane z = 6 – 2x + 3y.
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 3
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1. The equation y^2 = cx is the general equation of:
A.y’ = 2y/x B. y’ = 2x/y C. y’ = y/2x D. y’ = x/2y
2. A line segment joining two points on a circle is called:
A. arc B. tangent C. sector D. chord
3. Sand is pouring to form a conical pile such that its altitude is always twice its
radius. If the volume of a conical pile is increasing at the rate of 25 pi
cu.ft/min, how fast is the radius is increasing when the radius is 5 feet?
A. 0.5 ft/min B. 0.5 pi ft/min C. 5 ft/min D. 5 pi ft/min
4. Evaluate ʃ ʃ 2r²sin Ө dr dӨ, 0 > r >sin Ө, > Ө > pi/2
A. pi/2 B. pi/8 C. pi/24 D. pi/48
5. A shopkeeper offers a 25% discount on the marked price on an item. In order
to now cost $ 48, what should the marked price be?
A. $ 12 C. $ 60
B. $ 36 D. $ 64
8. Find the area of the triangle which the line 2x – 3y + 6 = 0 forms with the
coordinate axes.
A.3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 2
9. Find the general solution of (D² - D + 2)y = 0
A. y = e^x/2 (C1 sin sqrt. 7/2 x + C2 cos sqrt. 7/2 x)
B. y = e^x/2 (C1 sin sqrt. 7/2 x - C2 cos sqrt. 7/2 x)
C. y = e^x/2 (C1 cos sqrt. 7/2 x + C2 sin sqrt. 7/2 x)
D. y = e^x/2 (C1 cos sqrt. 7/2 x - C2 sin sqrt. 7/2 x)
15. Find the volume of the solid formed by revolving the area bounded by the
curve y2 = (x3)(1-x) in the first quadrant about x-axis.
A.0.137 B. 0.147 C. 0.157 D.0.167
16. In the pile of logs, each layer contains one more log than the layer above and
the top contains just one log. If there are 105 logs in the pile, how many
layers are there?
A. 11 B. 12 C. 13 D. 14
17. A wall 8 feet high is 3.375 feet from a house. Find the shortest ladder that will
reach from the ground to the house when leaning over the wall.
A. 16.526 ft B. 15.625 ft C. 14.625 ft D. 17.525 ft
18. If f(x) = 10x + 1, then f(x+1) is equal to
A. 10(10x ) B. 9(10x) C. 1 D. 9(10x+1)
19. A particle moves on a straight line with a velocity v = (4 – 2t)3 at time t. Find
the distance traveled from t = 0 to t = 3.
A. 32 B. 36 C. 34 D. 30
20. The area enclosed by the ellipse 4x2 + 9y2 = 36 is revolved about the line x =
3, what is the volume generated?
A. 370.3 B. 360.1 C. 355.3 D. 365.10
21. If the vertex of y = 2x2 + 4x + 5 will be shifted 3 units to the left and 2 units
downward, what will be the new location of the vertex?
A. (-2, 1) B. (-5, -1) C. (-3,1) D. (-4,1)
22. A coat of paint of thickness 0.01 inch is applied to the faces of a cube whose
edge is 10 inches, thereby producing a slightly larger cube. Estimate the
number of cubic inches of paint used.
A. 4 B. 6 C. 3 D. 5
23. Find the mass of lamina in the given region and density function:
π
D[(x, y)], 0 ≤ x ≤ 2 , 0 ≤ y ≤ cos x and ρ = 7x
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
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24. Find the area of the region bounded by the curves y = x2 – 4x and x + y = 0
A. 4.5 B. 5.5 C. 6 D. 5
25. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than one is known as:
A. circle B. parabola C. hyperbola D. ellipse
26. The plate number of a vehicle consists of 5-alphanumeric sequence is
arranged such that the first 2 characters are alphabet and the remaining 3 are
digits. How many arrangements are possible if the first character is a vowel
and repetitions are not allowed?
A. 90 B. 900 C. 9,000 D. 90,000
27. The axis of the hyperbola, which is parallel to its directrices, is known as:
A. conjugate axis B. transverse axis
C. major axis D. minor axis
28. The minute hand of a clock is 8 units long. What is the distance traveled by
the tip of the minute hand in 75 minutes.
A. 10pi B. 20pi C. 25pi D. 40pi
29. Find k so that A = (3, -2) and B = (1, k) are perpendicular.
A. 2 B. 3 C. 1/2 D. 3/2
30. The probability of a defect of a collection of bolts is 5%. If a man picks 2 bolts,
what is the probability that does not pick 2 defective bolts?
A. 0.950 B. 0.9975 C. 0.0025 D. 0.9025
1
31. If f(x) = x−2 ,(f·g)’*(1) = 6 and g’(1) = -1, then g(1) =
A. -7 B. -5 C. 5 D. 7
32. 3 randomly chosen senior high school students were administered a drug test.
Each student was evaluated as positive to the drug test (P) or negative to the
drug test (N). Assume the possible combinations of the 3 students drug test
evaluation as PPP, PPN, PNP, NPP, PNN, NPN, NNP, NNN. Assuming each
possible combination is equally likely, what is the probability that at least 1
student gets a negative result?
A. 1/8 B. 1/2 C. 7/8 D. ¼
33. The tangent line to the function h(x) at (6, -1) intercepts the y-axis at y = 4.
Find h’ (6).
A. -1/6 B. -2/3 C. -4/5 D. -5/6
34. The cable of a suspension bridge hangs in the form if a parabola when the load
is uniformly distributed horizontally. The distance between two towers is 150m,
the points of the cable on the towers are 22 m above the roadway, and the
lowest point on the cables is 7 m above the roadway. Find the vertical distance
to the cable from a point in the roadway15 m from the foot of a tower.
A. 16.6 m B. 9.6 m C. 12.8 m D. 18.8 m
35. In how many ways different orders may 5 persons be seated in a row?
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A. 80 B. 100 C. 120 D. 160
36. The symbol “/” used in division is called.
A. modulus B. minus C. solidus D. obelus
37. Find the area of one loop r2 = 16 sin 2theta.
A. 16 B. 8 C. 4 D. 6
38. Find the centroid of the upper half of the circle x2 + y2 = 9.
A. (0, 3/pi) B. (0, 4/𝐩𝐢) C. (0, 5/pi) D.(0, 6/pi)
39. In polar coordinate system, the distance from a point to the pole is known as
A. polar angle C. radius vector
B. x-coordinate D.y-coordinate
45. Find the number of sides of a regular polygon if each interior angle measures
108 degrees.
A. 7 B. 8 C.5 D. 6
46. The integer part of common logarithm is called the________.
A. radicand B. root C. characteristic D.
mantissa
47. The constant “e” is named in honor of:
A. Euler B. Eigen C. Euclid D. Einstein
48. A man rows upstream and back in 12 hours. If the rate of the current is 1.5
kph and that of the man in still water is 4 kph, what was time spent
downstream?
A. 1.75 hrs B. 2.75 hrs. C. 3.75 hrs D.
4.75 hrs
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49. The probability that A can solve a given problem is 4/5, that B can solve it is
2/3, and that C can solve it is 3/7. If all three try, compute the probability that
the problem will be solved.
A. 101/105 B. 102/105 C. 103/105 D. 104/105
50. A steel ball at 110 deg C cools in 8 min to 90 deg c in a room at 30 deg C.
Find the temperature of the ball after 20 minutes.
A. 58.97 °C B. 68.97 °C C. 78.97 °C D. 88.97 °C
51. A freight train starts from Los Angeles and head for Chicago at 40 mph. Two
hours later passenger train leaves the same station for Chicago traveling at
60 mph. How long will it be before the passenger train overtakes the freight
train?
A. 3 hrs B. 4 hrs
C. 5 hrs D. 6 hrs
52. Given the triangle ABC in which A = 30 deg 30 min, b = 100 m and c = 200
m. Find the length of the side a.
A. 124.64 m B. 142.24 m
C. 130.50 m D. 103.00
54. Find the average rate of change of the area of a square with respect to its
side x as x changes from 4 to 7.
A. 14 B.6
C. 17 D. 11
55. If the distance x from the point of departure at time t is defined by the
equation x = -16t2 + 5000t + 5000, what is the initial velocity
A. 20000 B. 5000 C. 0 D. 3000
58. Mary is twice as old as Helen. If 8 is subtracted from Helen’s age and 4 is
added to Mary’s age, Mary will then be four times as old as Helen. How old is
Helen now?
A. 24 B. 36
C. 18 D. 16
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59. A point on the curve where the second the derivative of a function is equal to
zero is called.
A. maxima B. minima
C. point of inflection D. point of intersection
60. Find the area of the triangle whose sides are 25, 39, and 40.
A. 46 B. 684
C. 486 D. 864
66. What is the length of the line with a slope of 4/3 from a point (6, 4) to the y-
axis?
A. 10 B. 25 C. 50 D. 75
67. The inclination of the line determine by the points (4, 0) and (5√3) is
A. 30 degrees B. 45 degrees C. 60 degrees D. 90 degrees
68. A sequence of numbers where the succeeding term is greater than the
preceding term is called:
A. dissonant resonance C. Isometric series
69. Find the value of x for which y = 4 + 3x – 3x3 will have a maximum value.
A. 0 B. -3 C. -2 D. 1
73. A rectangular trough is 8 feet long, 2 feet across the top and 4 feet deep. If
water flows in at a rate of 2 ft3/min, how fast is the surface rising when the
water is 1 ft deep?
A. ¼ ft/min B. ½ ft.min C. 1/8 ft/min D. 1/6 ft/min
74. Find the point(s) on the graph of y = x2 at which the tangent line is parallel to
the line y = 6x -1.
A. (3, 17) B. (3, 9) C. (1, 2) D. (2, 4)
75. How many petals are three in the rose curve r = 3 cos 5theta?
A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 6
76. Find the acute angle between the vectors z1 = 3 – 4i and z2 = -4 + 3i.
A. 17 deg 17 min C. 15 deg 15 min
78. A motorboat moves in the direction N 40 deg E for 3 hours at 20 mph. How
far north does it travel?
A. 58 mi B. 60 mi C. 46 mi D. 32 mi
81. In debate on two issues among 32 people, 16 agreed with the first issue, 10
agreed with the second issue and of these 7 agreed with both. What is the
probability of selecting a person at random who did not agree with either
issue?
A. 1/32 B. 13/32 C. 3/8 D. 3/10
82. From the top of the lighthouse, 120 m above the sea, the angle of
depression of a boat is 15 degrees. How far is the boat from the lighthouse?
A. 448 m B. 428 m C. 458 m D. 498 m
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83. The cross section of a certain trough are inverted isosceles triangles with
height 6 ft and base 4 ft. Suppose the trough contains water to a depth of 3
ft. Find the total fluid force on one end.
A. 187.2 lb B. 178.2 lb C. 192.4 lb D. 129.4 lb
86. Find the length of the latus rectum of the curve rcos2 theta – 4cos theta =
16sin theta.
A. 4 B. 16 C. 12 D. 18
88. Find the equation of the line tangent to the curve y = x3 – 6x2 + 5x + 2 at its
point of inflection.
A. 7x – y B. -7x + y = 0 C. 7x +y = 10 D. -7x – y = 10
89. Find the area of the polygon with vertices at 2 + 3i, 3 + i, -2 – 4i, -1 + 2i.
A. 47/5 B. 47/2 C. 45/2 D.45/4
91. Determine the probability of throwing a total of 8 in a single throw with two
dice, each of whose faces is numbered from 1 to 6.
A. 1/3 B. 1/18 C. 5/36 D. 2/9
92. Find the distance between the point (3, 2, -1) and the plane 7x – 6y + 6z + 8
= 0.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
93. How many parallelograms are formed by a set of 4 parallel lines intersecting
another set of 7 parallel lines?
A. 123 B. 124 C. 125 D. 126
95. Find the area bounded by the curve defined by the equation x2 = 8y and its
latus rectum.
A. 11/3 B. 32/3 C. 16/3 D. 22/3
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96. Evaluate lim (i z 4 + 3z² − 10i)
z→2i
A. -12 +6i B. 12 - 6i C. 12 +6i D. -12 – 6i
98. If an aviator flies around the world at a distance 2km above the equator, how
many more km will he travel than a person who travels along the equator?
A. 12.6 km B. 16.2 km C. 15.8 km D. 18.5 km
99. Find the volume of a spherical whose central angle is pi/5 radians on a
sphere of radius 6 cm.
A. 90.48 cu. cmB. 86.40 cu. cm C. 78.46 cu. cm D. 62.48 cu. cm
100. What is the coefficient of the (x -1)3 term in the Taylor series expansion of
f(x) = lnx expanded about x = 1?