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INSTRUCTION: Select the best answer to each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading
the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.
Use pencil no. 2 only

Situation I

Line A passes trough ( 5, 1) and ( 8, -7). and Line B passes 11. A line passing trough ( 5,3) has a slope of 3/2. Find the
trough ( 7, -1) and slope = -2/3. distance measured along the line, from the point (5,3) to the Y
axis.
1. The y intercept of line A. a. 9.014 b. 9.103 c. 8.450 d. 8.015
a. 43/4 b. 43/3 c. 43/5 d. 43/1
12. Determine the shortest distance from point (4,2) to the
2. The equation of line B. parabola y2 = 4x.
a. y = 11/3 -2/3x b. y = 11/4 2/3x
c. y = 11/3 + 2/3x d. y = 11/4 -2/3x a.2.8284 b. 3.5454 c. 4.4545 d. 1. 9825

3. The intersection of line A and Line B.

a. (16/3, 1/9) b. (16/4, 1/9) 13. Find the angle of intersection of the curves x + xy = 1 and
c. (16/3, 1/8) d. (16/4, 1/8) y3 = (x+1)2
a. 70.3790 b. 75.3790
Situation II c. 77.1230 d. 74.3800
The 10th term of a GP is 39366 and the 4th term is 54.
14 Find the slope of r = tan θ at θ = π/4
4. Find the common ratio. a. 2 b. 5 c. 3 d. 7
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2
15. If sin A = 4/5 , A in quadrant 2 , sin B = 7/25 B in
5. Find the 1st term. quadrant 1. Find cos ( A – B )
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2 a. 123/25 b. -44/125
c. 112/25 d. – 23/125
6. Find the 7th term.
a. 1548 b. 1458 c. 1845 d. 1438
17 If cos 650 + cos 550 = cos θ , what is θ in radians?
a. 0.0823 b. 0.087
Situation IIII c. 0.922 d. 0.783
Given : 9x2 + 25y2 – 18x + 100y – 116 = 0
18. The rectangular coordinates of a point having the polar
7. The center is at ? coordinate ( 7, 380 ) is
a. (1,-2) b. (1,-4) c. (1,-1) d. (1,3) a. ( 5.52, 4.23) b. ( 9.8, 4.31)
c. ( 4.56, 3.45) d. ( 5.52, 4.31)
8. The area of the ellipse is ?
a. 48.12 b. 47.12 c. 46.13 d. 45.18 19. The polar coordinate of ( 3, -6) is
9. The distance between the foci is ? a. ( 6.71, -51.230 ) b. ( 6.71, -63.430)
a. 7 b. 8 c. 6 d.9 c. ( 7.23, 51.230) d. ( 7.23, -51.230)

20. Find the value of x if x∟30 0 + y∟ 45 0 =

Problem 10. The slope of the curve at any point is given by 9.91788∟39.00830
6x – 2 and the curve passes trough ( 5,3). The equation of the
curve is a. 3 b. 4 c. 5 d. 6
21. How many sides are in an equiangular polygon if
a. 3x2 – 2x – y – 62 = 0 b. 3x2 – 2y + x - 12 = 0 each of its interior angle is 1650?
c. 3x2 – 2x – x – 65 = 0 d. 3x2 – 2y + y - 12 = 0 a. 20 b. 22
c. 24 d. 26
22. If the edge of the cube is increased by 30%, by how
much is the surface area increased?
a. 67% b. 69%
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c. 81% d. 45% c. 2 4 d.  2  5

30. Find the critical points and tell if the point is a

relative maximum or a relative minimum.
f(x) = 2 + 12x - x3
23. The volume of water in a spherical tank having a
diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3. Determine the depth of water a. (2,18 ) and (-2,-14) b. (2, 20) and (-2,-18)
in the tank.
a. 1.2 m b. 1 m
c. (2,16 ) and (-2,-14) d. (2, 18 ) and (-2,-19)
c. 0.8 m d. 1.3 m
24. What is the slope of the curve y = 4 cos x + sin 2x
when x = 2 rad.
a. 4.94 b. 2.89
c. 3.67 d. 5.34

25. Find the slope of the curve x 2 + y2 -6x + 10y + 5 = 0

at the point ( 1, 0)?
a. 3/5 b. 2/5
c. 1/4 d. 3/7

tan 2 x  2 sin x
26. Evaluate lim x 0
x3
a. 3 b. 2
c. 1 d. 4

27. Find the radius of curvature of the parabola y 2 -4x “ IN EVERYTHING

= 0 at the point ( 4,4)?

a. 24.5 b. 20.56
YOU DO, PUT GOD
FIRST, AND HE
c. 23.76 d. 22.36

x
28. Find the angle of intersection of y and

x2
1 x 2
WILL DIRECT YOU
y  at the point (0,0)?

AND CROWN YOUR

1 x

a. 36 b. 45
c. 34 d. 30
EFFORTS WITH
29. The point of inflection of the curve f(x) = x 2 ex is at
a.  2  3 b.  2  2
SUCCESS“.
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:00 a. m. – 12:00 nn.
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MATHEMATICS AND SURVEYING (SET B)

INSTRUCTION: Select the best answer to each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading
the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED.
Use pencil no. 2 only
ex  1
1. Evaluate the integral:
e x
1
dx 8. The area in the first quadrant, bounded by the curve y =
2x, the y-axis and the line y – 6 = 0 is revolved about the line
y =6. Find the centroid of the solid formed.
  xC   xC
2 2
a. ln ex  1 c. ln ex  1
a. (1.8,6) c. (1.75,6)
b. ln  e  1  x  C d. ln  e  1  x  C
x x b. (2.2,6) d. (1.6,6)

9. The sides of a triangle ABC are AB = 15 cm, BC = 18 cm,

2. A parabola has an equation of y  3 x . Determine the and CA = 24 cm. Determine the distance from the point of
surface area of the solid generated by revolving about the intersection of the angular bisectors to line AB.
line y = 0.
a. 149.35 cm2 c. 153.94 a. 4.73 cm c. 3.78
b. 194.56 d. 125.06 b. 5.26 d. 5.06

3. At a certain instant in an ant colony, the ratio of the 10. A wood block weighing 44.75 N rests on a rough
number of working class to soldier class is 2:3. If one horizontal plane, the coefficient of friction being 0.40. If a
hundred new soldier class are born, the number of soldier bullet weighing 0.25 N is fired horizontally into the block
class will increase to 68% of the total number of ants. Find with a velocity of 600 m/s, how far will the block be
displaced from its initial position? Assume that the bullet
a. 380 c. 420 remains inside the block.
b. 350 d. 400
a. 1.98 m c. 1.89
4. Determine the divergence of the vector
b. 2.24 d. 1.41
 
M  i x2 y  j  xy   k  xyz  at coordinates (3,2,1).
11. A homogenous sphere rolls down an inclined plane
a. 9 c. 7 making an angle of 30O with the horizontal. Determine the
b. 15 d. 12 minimum value of the coefficient of friction which will
5. A lawn in the form of a 30 O right triangle whose leg is 67 m prevent slipping.
on the long leg and 15 m from the short leg, is a peg to
which a goat is tied such that the farthest distance its mouth a. 0.362 c. 0.165
can reach is 30 m from the peg. Find the area on the lawn b. 0.625 d. 1.082
from which it can graze.
12. One side of a field measuring 75 m is parallel to the
a. 1066 sq m c. 1522 centerline of the adjoining road. The other sides, which are
b. 1703 d. 976 both perpendicular to the road, are 125 and 150 m
respectively. If the field is to be divided into two parts of
6. A company uses a type of truck which costs P2M, with life equal area by another perpendicular line, determine the
of 3 years and a final salvage value of P320,000. How much length of the dividing line.
could the company afford to pay for another type of truck for
the same purpose, whose life is 4 years with a final salvage a. 138.07 m c. 142.35
value of P400,000, if money is worth 4%? b. 127.80 d. 132.93
13. Two men A and B start from the same point S on the
a. P 2,805,120 c. P 2,585,870 circumference of a circle 100 m radius. A runs at 10 m/s
b. P 2,718,480 d. P 2,642,320 while B runs 8 m/s in the opposite direction. Find the rate at
which the distance between them is changing when the
7. The area in cut of two irregular sections 35 m apart are circular arc that they have jointly covered will subtend an
34m2 and 56 m2 respectively. The base width his 10 m and angle of 120O at the center of the circle.
the sides slope is 1:1. Find the corrected volume of cut in
m3, using prismoidal formula. (Gillesania CER V1 p32 #21) a. 7.65 m/s c. 9.00
b. 8.50 d. 9.80
a. 1249.26 m3 c. 1458.45 14. Buzz Lightyear boasts on being the fastest toy in the
b. 1564.84 d. 1368.48 world. Upon seeing a troop of green soldiers 7 mi long, he
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immediately took his flight from the rear end and rode to the deep in the cistern, find the work done in kJoules in
front of the troop, returning at once to the rear. Buzz and the pumping out the water. The water is raised to a point of
troop traveled at constant rates and the troop traveled a discharge 10 m above the top of the cistern.
distance of 24 mi during this time. What is the total distance
a. 68,167.00 kJ c. 61,772.26
traveled by Buzz Lightyear?
b. 54,884.00 d. 76,177.64
a. 21 mi c. 28
b. 32 d. 36 22. The side of one of the faces of a tetrahedron is equal to 6
cm. Compute the ratio of the volume of the tetrahedron to
15. Onin and Jeff run a mile race. In the first round, Jeff gave
the volume of the sphere inscribed in the given tetrahedron.
Onin a start of 11 yards and beat him by 57 seconds. In the
second round, Jeff gave Onin a start of 81 seconds and is a. 2.26 c. 3.96
beaten by 88 yards. In how many seconds can Jeff run the b. 3.35 d. 4.16
mile race?
23. Philippine Airlines flies at a speed of 400 nautical miles
a. 450 sec c. 400 per hour from Manila to Singapore on a direction of N 32 O W
b. 420 d. 440 with the wind blowing at a speed of 30 nautical miles per
hour on the direction due west. What is the speed of the
16. The foci of a hyperbola are at (4,0) and (-4,0). The
plane relative to the ground?
difference in lengths of the focal radii from any point is
always 6. Find the equation of the hyperbola. a. 389.83 nautical miles/hr c. 369.89
b. 426.98 d. 416.68
2 2 2 2
a. 4x  7y  28 c. 8x  9y  72
24. A clock has a dial face 12 cm in radius. The minute hand
2 2 2 2
b. 8x  5y  40 d. 7x  9y  63 is 9 cm long while the hour hand is 6 cm long. The plane of
rotation of the minute hand is 2 cm above the plane of
17. After a three-point plane table resection, a sight was rotation of the hour hand. Find the distance between the tips
taken to one of the three control points and the vertical of the hands of the clock at 5:40 pm.
circle of the alidade reads 30O57’. The telescope is then
a. 5.68 cm c. 8.13
brought horizontal by means of the striding level and the
b. 6.67 d. 9.17
vertical circle reads 29O53’. The distance to the sighted
control point is 3000 m. The elevation of the control point is 25. ABCD is a vertical wall of which AD = 3m high, AB = 10 m
850 m. Compute the elevation of the alidade making due long. The wall is built on a north south line on a horizontal
allowance for curvature and refraction. ground. If the elevation of the sun is 20O and its bearing is S
60O E, calculate the area of the shadow of the wall on the
a. 764.84 m c. 793.54
horizontal ground. CD is on the ground portion of the wall
b. 759.38 d. 783.92
and has a direction of due north.
18. From station 0 + 200 with center height of 1.40 m in fill,
a. 78.53 m2 c. 71.40
the ground line makes a uniform slope of 5% to station 0 +
b. 80.30 d. 73.45
260 whose center height is 2.80 m in cut. Assuming both
sections to be level sections with roadway of 10 m and side 26. The slope of Euler’s line passing through the centroid of
slope of 2:1 for both cut and fill, compute the difference in the triangle is equal to 4/3. the coordinates of the
the volume of cut and fill between the two stations. orthocenter is at (1,2). If the centroid of the triangle is at
(4,y), what is the equation of the Euler’s line?
a. 694.40 m3 c. 586.60
b. 498.40 d. 741.80 a. 4x  3y  2  0 c. 2x  3y  2  0
19. A highway curve having an angle of elevation of b. 3x  2y  3  0 d. x  3y  2  0
embankment of 9O moves around the curve at a speed of
27. A truck hauling a cylindrical tank has to pass under an
120 kph at which the car impends to overturn, where the
overhead parabolic arch bridge which ahs a span of 24 m at
friction is great enough to prevent skidding. The car weighs
the bottom and is 20 m high. If the tank is 16 m in diameter
15 kN and has its center of gravity at 0.80 m above the
and is placed in the tank with sides vertical and the top of
pavement and the distance between the front wheels is 1.20
the tank is 10 m above the street level, what is the smallest
m (thread). Compute the radius of the curve.
clearance from the top of the tank?
a. 450 m c. 400
a. 1.25 m c. 0.93
b. 420 d. 440
b. 1.11 d. 0.86
20. An unsymmetrical parabolic summit curve, AB has slope
28. Two ferry boats ply back and forth across a river with
of +7% on the back tangent and -4% on the forward tangent.
constant but different speeds, turning at the riverbanks
The length of curve on the side of the back tangent is 60 m
without loss of time. They leave the opposite shores at the
and 40 m on the side of the forward tangent. How far is the
same time, meet for the first time 900 meters from one
highest point of the curve from point B. The vertical offset at
shore, and meet for the second time 500 meters from the
the intersection of the tangents from the curve H = 1.32 m.
opposite shore. What is the width of the river?
a. 25.25 m c. 25.56
a. 2200 m c. 1700
b. 26.24 d. 24.24
b. 2000 d. 1500
21. A cistern in the form of an inverted right circular cone is
20 m deep and 12 m diameter at the top. If the water is 16 m
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29. A deck of 52 playing cards is cut into two piles. The first
pile contains 7 times as many black cards as red cards. The
second pile contains the umber of red cards that is an exact
multiple as the number of black cards. How many cards are
there in the first pile?
a. 14 c. 15
b. 17 d. 16
30. A box contains 8 white balls, 15 green balls, 6 black
balls, 8 red balls, and 13 yellow balls. How many balls must
be drawn to ensure that there will be three balls of the same
color?
a. 15 c. 11
b. 16 d. 17

“ IN EVERYTHING
YOU DO, PUT GOD
FIRST, AND HE
WILL DIRECT YOU
AND CROWN YOUR
EFFORTS WITH
SUCCESS”.
Situation I
The horizontal distance between the supports A and B of a cable
is 60 m with B 24 m below A. At a horizontal distances of 15m,
30m, 45 m measured from A , concentrated loads of 200 KN,
400 KN and 200 KN were applied respectively The cable sag at
the point where the 400 KN load is applied equal 15m measured
from chord connecting A and B.

1. Which of the following gives the reaction at A.

a. 877.27 KN b. 620.97 KN c.
567.97 KN d. 477.27 KN

2. Which of the following gives the reaction at B.