ADAMSON UNIVERSITY COURSE INTEGRATION Set - A

1
College of Engineering Comprehensive Exam
Chemical Engineering Department Date: August 11, 2020 Score

Name: _________________ Student No.____________Section_________ Instructor________

Instruction : Read each question carefully. Answer as required. Encircle the letter of choice.
Include the scan copy of your solution.

Part I : General Engineering

1. Given the equation: 2y^3 = 3x^2 -5. Determine the slope of the line tangent at (4,1).

A) 4 C) 2
B) 3 D) 1

2. The sum of the two-digit number is 12. If the digits are reverse, the new number is 18 more than
the original number. Find the original number.

A) 66 C) 39
B) 57 D) 48

3. Find the area enclosed by the curve r 2=32cos2θ .

A) 64 sq. units C) 48 sq. units

B) 32 sq. units D) 16 sq. units

4. Determine x so that, x, 2x+7, 10x-7 will be a geometric progression.

A) 7 and -7/6 C) 5 and 7/6

B) 6 and -7/6 D) 4 and 7/6

5. The cable of a suspension bridge hangs in the form of a parabola. The distance between two
towers is 800 ft. and the points of support of the cable on the towers are 170 ft. above the
roadway and the lowest point on the cable is 10 ft. above the roadway. Find the vertical distance
to the cable from a point in the roadway 100 ft. from the foot of the tower.

A) 80ft C) 100ft
B) 90ft D) 110ft

6. A tree is broken 3m above the level ground. The top strikes the ground 4m from the foot, while
the other end of the broken part remains attached to the stump. How high is the tree?
 A) 8m C) 6m
B) 7m D) 5m

7. Evaluate the integral of (cos 3A)8 dA from 0 to pi/6.

A) 35/384 C) 35/1152
B) 35pi/768 D) 105 π /768

8. A pole tilts towards the sun in an angle of 75 0 with the ground and casts a shadow of 8m. The
angle of depression from the top of the post to the tip of the shadow is 30 0. Find how long the
pole is.

A) 5.66m C) 16.97m
B) 11.31m D) 22.63m

9. Three poles on a level ground. Their bases form an equilateral triangle with sides 8m long. If the
heights of the poles are 4,6 and 10 meters, find the dimensions of the triangle formed by their
tops.

A) 2√ 10 , 2√ 5 and 15m C) 2√ 13 , 5√ 5 and 20m

B) 2√ 17 , 4√ 5 and 10m D) 2√ 12 , 4√ 5 and 30m

10. If the complement of the angle theta is 2/5 of its supplement, then theta is ______.

A) 45 degrees C) 60 degrees
B) 75 degrees D) 30 degrees

11. What is the numerical coefficient of the term containing x 3yz2 in the expansion of (x-y+z-1)8?
A) 3360 C) 1680
B) -3360 D) -1680

12. Find the perpendicular height of an equilateral triangle with sides 8 in.
A) 6.94 in C) 12.04 in
B) 10.34 in D) None of these

13. Find the area of the hexagon ABCDEF formed by joining the points A(1,4), B(0,-3), C(2,3), D(-1,2),
E(-2,-1), and F(3,0).

A) 24 C) 22
B) 20 D) 15

14. Coastguard station A is 12km west of coastguard station B along a straight coastline. A ship is
sited by the crew at station A to the northeast of the station at 35 0 with the coastline and by the
 crew at station B to the northeast of the station at an angle of 46 0 with the coastline. Find the
distance of the ship to each station.

A) 8km, 7.8km C) 8km, 8.7km

B) 7km, 8.7km D) 7km, 7.8km

15. An equilateral hyperbola has an equation of x 2-y2=9.Compute the eccentricity of the equilateral
hyperbola.

A) 2 C) 3.14
B) 1.414 D) 5.34

16. The moon’s orbit is an ellipse with the earth at one focus. The length of the major axis is 478000
miles and the eccentricity e=0.055. Find the least distance from the earth to the moon.

A) 239,000 C) 210,755
B) 225,855 D) 190,255

17. If the edge of a cube decreases by x%, its volume decreases by 48.8%. Find the value of x.

A) 10 C) 16
B) 20 D) 25

18. The volume of the regular pyramid whose base is a regular hexagon is 156cu.m. If the altitude of
the pyramid is 5m, find the sides of the bases.

A) 4 m C) 6 m
B) 8 m D) 3 m

19. Divide the number 60 into two parts so that the product of one part and the square of the other
is maximum. Find the smallest part.

A) 15 C) 25
B) 20 D) 10

20. The sides of a triangle are 12, 17, and 25 units. If each side is tripled, what will be the area of the
triangle?

A) 90 C) 810
B) 270 D) 1060
21. A regular triangular pyramid has an altitude of 9m and a volume of 187.06cu.m. What is the
base edge in meters?

A) 10 C) 12
B) 11 D) 13

22. The volume of the sphere is increasing at the rate of 6cm^3/hr. At what rate is its surface area
increasing (in cm^2/hr) when the radius is 50cm.

A) 0.50 C) 0.40
B) 0.30 D) 0.24

πx
tan
2
23. Evaluate: lim (2−x ) .
x →1

A) e 2 π C) 0
B) e 2/ π D) infinity

24. Find a point on the curve y=x^3 at which the tangent line is perpendicular to the line
3x+4y=4.

A) (1,1) C) (-1,2)
B) (1,-1) D) (-2,-1)

25. Which of the following characterizes the DE ?

A) 3rd order, 3rd degree nonlinear ODE C) 2nd order, 4th degree linear ODE
D) 3rd order, 2nd degree nonlinear ODE
B) 3rd order, 2nd degree linear ODE

26. The dependent and independent variables of the DE . are

respectively
A) y and z C) z and k
B) z and y D) y and k

27. The DE is NOT linear because of the coefficient

2
A) x of C) of sin x
B) sin x of D) ln x of y
28. A solution of a differential equation obtained from the general solution by assigning specific
values to the arbitrary constants.
A) Complementary solution C) Particular solution
B) Trivial solution D) Singular solution

y
f (x , y )=e y / x +3 tan
29. The function x is a homogeneous function of degree
A) 0 C) 2
B) 1 D) 3

30. The expanded form of the differential operator ( D+ x )( D−x ) is

2 2 2 2
A) D +x −1 C) D −x −1
2 2 2 2
B) D −x +1 D) D −x

31. Using the method of variation of parameters, what is the form of a particular solution yp of
3 2 5x
( D +4 D) y=x −3 e ?

A) C)
D)
2 3 5x
B) y p = Ax+Bx +Cx +Ee

32. What is the general solution of

A) C)
D)
B)

33. Using the method of undetermined coefficients, the modified form of a particular solution yp for
'' ' ' −x 2x
the nonhomogeneous differential equation y − y =4 e +3 e is

−x 2x −x 2x
A) y p = Ae +Be C) y p = Axe +Be
x −x
D) y p = A+Be +Ce
−x 2x
B)
y p = Ae +Bxe

34. The auxiliary roots of the auxiliary equation associated with a certain homogeneous LDE are
m=−2±3i repeated twice. What is the general solution?
−2 x −2 x
A) y=e (C 1 cos 3 x +C2 sin3 x )+xe (C 3 cos3 x+C 4 sin 3 x )
3x 3x
B) y=e (C 1 cos2 x+C2 sin 2 x )+xe (C 3 cos2 x +C 4 sin 2 x )
−2 x
C) y=(C1 +C 2 x )e +(C 3 +C 4 x )(cos3 x+sin3 x)
 2x 2x
D) y=e (C 1 cos3 x+C2 sin 3 x )+xe (C3 cos 3 x+C 4 sin 3 x )

35. If ℒ { f (t ) } = then what is f(t)?

2 2 2 t 2
A) t sin t C) t e sin t
2 −t 2 2 (1+t ) 2
B) t e sin t D) t e sin t

36. Evaluate ℒ .

A)
C)

B)
D)

37. A bag contains 25 balls marked 1 to 25. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that it
marked with a number of multiple of 5 or 6?

A) 20/25 C) 2/25
B) 9/25 D) 10/25

38. A bowl has 3 green marbles, 3 blue marbles and 4 white marbles. A marble is randomly selected. You do
this 6 times, without replacement. What is the probability of getting 2 of each color?

A) 0.0517 C) 0.2571
B) 0.0312 D) 0.2466

 
39. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most one tail?

A) 1/2 C) 1/6
B) 1/3 D) 3/4

40. How many ways can 8 people sit in a row if three of them insist on not sitting together?

A) 120 C) 4,320
B) 40,320 D) 36,000
41. In a group of 72 students, 14 takes neither English nor chemistry, 42 take English and 38 take chemistry.
What is the probability that a student chosen at random from this group takes both English and
chemistry?

A) 58 C) 22
B) 20 D) 16

42. A city installs 2000 electric lamps for street lighting. These lamps have a mean burning life of 1000 hours
with a standard deviation of 200 hours. The normal distribution is a close approximation to this case.
What is the probability that a lamp will fail in the first 700 burning hours?

A) 0.0668 C) 0.9473
B) 0.9332 D) 0.0527

43. A t-shirt manufacturer produces shirts with 5 different designs that come in 6 colors for S, M, and L sizes,
and in 3 different colors for XS and XL sizes. How many different types of shirts are made?

A) 540 C) 120
B) 190 D) 96

44. Next weekend, you are expecting a visit from Bonnie and Clyde. The probability that Bonnie will show up
is 0.4, whereas the probability that Clyde will show up is 0.8. What is the probability that at least one of
them will visit you the next weekend?

A) 0.32 C) 1.20
B) 0.88 D) 0.22

45. Find the probability that a person rolling a die gets the third 6 on the 8 th roll

A) 0.0391 C) 0.4432
B) 0.1042 D) 0.1142

46. In a school, 60% of pupils have access to the internet at home. A group of 8 students is chosen at
random. Find the probability that exactly 6 students have access to the internet.

A) 0.0167 C) 0.2289
B) 0.0467 D) 0.2090

47. Among twenty-five articles, nine are defective, six having only minor defects and three having major
defects. Determine the probability that an article selected at random has major defects given that it has
defects.

A) 3/25 C) 1/3
B) 1/2 D) 1/4
48. Goya Manufacturing Company produces Nips Chocolate Dispensers at a labor cost of PhP 280.00
each, material cost of PhP 100.00 each and variable cost of PhP 4.50 each. If the item has a unit
price of PhP 900.00, how many units must be manufactured each month for the company to
break-even if the monthly overhead is PhP 450,000.00?
A) 871 units C) 875 units
B) 873 units D) 877 units

49. It costs Virgin Air PhP 1,200 to run a scheduled flight, empty or full, from Cold foot to Frostbite.
Moreover, each passenger generates a cost of PhP 40. The regular ticket costs PhP 90. The plane
holds 65 people, but it is running only about 20 per flight. The sales director has suggested
selling introductory tickets for PhP 50 to people who have never flown Virgin Air. What is the
minimum number of introductory tickets that must be sold in order for a flight to breakeven?
A) 15 tickets C) 25 tickets
B) 20 tickets D) 30 tickets

50. Two workers, C and D, produce the same product on identical machines. C receives PhP 25 per
hour and he produces 100 units per hour. D is able to produce 120 units per hour. The machine
rate or cost of operation used by them is PhP 100 per hour. What is the hourly wage of Worker
D in order that his cost per piece will equal that of C?
A) PhP 20.00 C) PhP 40.00
B) PhP 30.00 D) PhP 50.00

51. Ms. Mercy borrowed PhP 20,000.00 from the BDO bank and promised to pay the amount after
one year. She received the amount of PhP 19,200.00 after the bank collected an advance
interest of PhP 800.00. What was the rate of discount (d) and the rate of interest (i) that the
bank collected in advance?
A) d=4.00%; i=4.17% C) d=5.00%; i=5.17%
B) d=4.17%; i=4.00% D) d=5.17%; i=5.00%

52. A debt of PhP 150,000 was paid for as follows: PhP 40,000 at the end of 3 rd month, PhP 50,000
at the end of 12th month, PhP 30,000 at the end of 15 th month, and a final payment B at the end
of 21 months. If the rate of interest is 12% compounded quarterly, find the final payment (F).
A) PhP 20,774.56 C) PhP 40,862.43
B) PhP 30,000.00 D) PhP 50,255.64

53. What is the present worth of PhP 60,000 borrowed today due in six years if money is worth 12%
and is compounded semi-annually?
A) PhP 20,731.79 C) PhP 30,397.87
B) PhP 29,818.16 D) PhP 38,429.36
54. For its maintenance, a bridge in NLEX requires PhP 250, 000 at the end of 3 years and annually
thereafter. If money is worth 8%, determine the capitalized cost of all future maintenance.
A) PhP 2,214,334.71 C) PhP 3,125,000.00
B) PhP 2,679,183.81 D) PhP 3,872,240.55

55. A project investment for a prefab or injection molding of PhP 3,000,000 can be made in a
business for the manufacture of pvc joints and elbows that will produce a uniform annual
revenue of PhP 1,200,000 for 5 years and then have a salvage value of 10% of the initial
investment. Operations and maintenance will be PhP 100,000 per year. Taxes and insurance will
be 5.00% of the first cost per year. The investors expect to earn not less than 20% before
income taxes. Is this a good investment? Use the annual cost method.
A) It is a bad investment - (PhP 12,825.20);
B) It is a bad investment - (PhP 587,174.80);
C) It is a good investment - PhP 1,200,000.00;
D) It is a good investment - PhP 1,787,174.80;

56. A proposed chemical manufacturing plant in Bataan will require a fixed capital investment of
PhP 6,000,000 and an estimated working capital of PhP 1,000,000. If the annual profit is PhP
3,000,000 determine the minimum simple payback period.
A) 2.03 years C) 3.03 years
B) 2.33 years D) 3.33 years

57. An Extrusion Machine for uPVC pipes costs PhP 80,000 and an estimated life of 10 years with a
salvage value of PhP 5,000. What is the book value after 5 years using the straight-line method?
A) PhP 37,500.00 C) PhP 55,000.00
B) PhP 42,500.00 D) PhP 70,000.00

58. Sea Oil Refinery developed an oil well pumping stations in Isabela which was estimated to
contain 7,000,000 barrels of oil at an initial cost of PhP 75,000,000. What is the depletion charge
during the year where it produces 1,000,000 barrels of oil? Use the Unit or Factor Method in
computing depletion.
A) PhP 5,360,000 C) PhP 7,500,000
B) PhP 7,000,000 D) PhP10,715,000

59. A typical capacity of a 12-V automobile battery is rated 115 Ampere-hours (Ah). If the voltage
stays constant, for how many hours will the 60-W headlight operate before the battery is
completely discharge?
A) 6.3 hrs C) 23 hrs
B) 10 hrs D) 575 hrs
60. The resistance of the copper wire in the armature of the motor is observed to be double when
the motor is running. If the initial temperature of the wire in the motor is 20 C, at what
temperature does the motor operate? Temperature coefficient of the copper at 20C is 4.27
x10-3/C.
A) 214C C) 254C
B) 234C D) 274C

61. A rod of 2.0-m length and a square (2.0 mm x 2.0 mm) cross section is made of a material with a
resistivity of 6.0 x10-8 Ω-m. If a potential difference of 0.50 V is placed across the ends of the rod,
at what rate is heat generated in the rod?
A) 1.3 W C) 5.3 W
B) 3.0 W D) 8.3 W

62. A 10-Ω resistor and a 20-Ω resistor are connected in parallel with a power source. If the current
through the 10-Ω resistor is 2 A, what is the current through 20-Ω resistor?
A) 0.5 A C) 4 A
D) 8 A
B) 1.0 A

63. A long straight wire in the horizontal plane carries a current of 50 A from North to South
direction. What is the magnitude and direction of the magnetic field at a point 2.5 cm east of the
wire.
A) 4.0 x 10−4 T , downward C) 4.0 x 10−6 T , downward
B) 4.0 x 10−4 T , upward D) 4.0 x 10−6 T , upward

64. An electron travels in a circular orbit with radius 4.68 mm due to the force exerted on it by a
magnetic field of magnitude 1.65 T and perpendicular to the orbit. What is the magnitude of the
linear momentum of the particle?
A) 2.1 x 10−7 kg m/ s C)1.24 x 10−21 kg m/s
B) 5.64 x 10−19 kg m/s D)4.54 x 10−24 kg m/ s

65. A conductor of length 5.0 m moves across the magnetic field of magnitude 3 x10 -4 T. The current
along the wire is 500 mA. What magnitude of force does the field exert on the rod as a result of
this current?
A) 3.0 mN C) 30 mN
B) 7.5 mN D) 75 mN

66. Two parallel transmission lines are 1.5 km long. The spacing between the wires is 1.5 m and
carries a current of 50 A each. What is the magnitude of the magnetic force between the wires?
A) 0.01 N C) 0.5 N
B) 0.1 N D) 5 N

67. Light in air enters a glass plate whose index of refraction is 1.5 at an angle of incidence of 20°.
What is the angle between the glass and refracted ray?
 A)13.2° C) 20°
B) 30.9° D) 76.8°

68. Electromagnetic waves of wavelength 400 nm is travelling at a speed of 2.5 x108 m/s. What is
the frequency of the wave?
A) 1.6 x10-15 Hz C)3 x108 Hz
B) 100 Hz D) 6.25 x1014 Hz

69. A light passes from glass to water. If the index of refraction for glass is 1.54 and for water is 1.33,
what is the critical angle for this light to pass the glass.
A) 12.1° C) 30.3°
B) 29.2° D) 59.7°

70. It was found out that the speed of light in liquid is 80% of its speed in air. What is the index of
refraction of liquid?
A) 1.25 C) 1.46
B)1.33 D) 1.67

71. An object 3.4 cm tall is placed 25 cm from the vertex of a convex spherical mirror. The radius of
curvature of the mirror is 60 cm. What is the lateral magnification of the image form?

A) -0.55 C) -6.0
B) 0.55 D) 6.0

72. Determine the focal length of the converging lens which will project the image of lamp,
magnified 3 times, upon screen 16 m from the lamp.
A) 0.7 cm C) 2.2 cm
B) 1.4 cm D) 3.0 cm

73. How far is the object from the image formed by a converging lens of focal length 50 cm, if the
real image formed is 1.5 times larger than the object?

A) 168.45 cm C) 208.33 cm
B) 198.45 cm D) 298.43 cm

74. The absolute values of the radii of curvature of the lens surface are both equal to 10 cm and the
index of refraction is n = 1.52. What is the focal length of the diverging lens lens?
A) 6.6 cm C) 9.6 cm
B) 7.2 cm D) 15.2 cm

75. An observer sees a spaceship, measured 100 m long when at rest. He passed by in uniform
motion with the speed of 0.5c while the observer is watching the spaceship, a time of 2 s elapses
on a clock on board the ship, what is the length of the moving ship?
A) 76 m B) 83 m
C) 85 m D) 87 m

76. How much energy is needed to accelerate an electron to 0.95c?

A) 0.875 J C) 1.128 J
B) 2.345 J D) 3.457 J

77. A spacecraft is flying overhead at a great distance as you stand in your backyard. You see its
searchlight blink in for 20 ms. The officer on the spacecraft measures that the searchlight is on
for 12 ms. What is the speed of the spacecraft relative to the earth?
A) 0.65c C) 0.75c
B) 0.70c D) 0.80c

78. What is the speed of the particle so that its mass will be twice its rest mass?
A) 0.57c C) 0.87c
B) 0.77c D) 0.99c

79. A certain resistor has a resistance of 14.84 W at 20°C and a resistance of 15.12 W at 34°C. What
is its temperature coefficient () at 20°C?
A) 1.18 x10-3/⁰C C) 1.41 x10-3/⁰C
B) 1.35 x10-3/⁰C D) 1.65 x10-3/⁰C

80. Two similar charges of 1 Coulomb each are placed 1 m apart in air. Force of repulsion between
them would be nearly:

A) 1 N C) 9 x109 N
B) 4 N D) 8.85 x10-12 N
 ADAMSON UNIVERSITY COURSE INTEGRATION Set - A
1
College of Engineering Comprehensive Exam
Chemical Engineering Department Date: August 11, 2020 Score

Instruction : Read each question carefully. Answer as required. Encircle the letter of choice.
Include the scan copy of your solution.

Part II : General Chemistry/Nuclear Chemistry/Organic Chemistry/Analytical Chemistry

1) How is it that two atoms of different masses can be atoms of the same element?
a) The number of neutrons in each atom are the same and neutrons control
chemical reactions.
b) The numbers of protons in each atom are the same and protons control chemical reactions.
c) The numbers of electrons in each atom are the same and electrons control chemical
reactions.
d) The numbers of electrons and protons are the same for both atoms. Only the numbers
of neutrons in each atom are different.

2) Oxygen and element X react to form a compound that has the formula X5O2 and contains
11.72 g of X per 1.00 g of oxygen. What is the atomic mass of element X in amu?
a) 375 amu c) 75.0 amu
b) 188 amu d) 37.5 amu

3) A compound containing only phosphorus and hydrogen was fully combusted and yielded 17.9 g
of P4O10 and 4.80 g of H2O. What is the empirical (simplest) formula of the compound?
(P=30.97)
a) PH 3 c) P 6 H 5
b) P 3 H 5 d) PH 2

4) How much Al is required to react with an acid and produce 1.00 L of H2(g) at 700 torr and 350K?
a) 0.0320 g c) 0.865 g
b) 0.577 g d) 1.30 g

5) The energy sublevel that can contain the most electrons is specified by which of the following
quantum number descriptions?
a) n = 2, l = 1 b) n = 3, l = 2
 c) n = 4, l = 3 d) n = 5, l = 0

6) The formal charge on N in HNO3 is which of the following?

a) -1 c) +1
b) 0 d) +2

7) Which of the following best describes the VSEPR structure of PF5?

a) T-shaped c) Trigonal bipyamidal
b) Seesaw shaped d) Octahedral

8) A mole of HX, a diatomic molecule, is a gas at room temperature and dissolves in water to form a
strongly acidic solution. X must therefore be:
a) a Group IA element (alkali metal)
b) a Group IIA element (alkaline earth metal)
c) a Group VIIA element (halogen family)
d) a Group VIA element (oxygen family)

9) What is the oxidation state of Cr in K2Cr2O7?

a) 2 c) 6
b) 4 d) 8

10) Which of the following units of concentration will change in value for a particular solution if the
temperature changes?
a) mole fraction c) molality
b) molarity d) none of these will change

11) The following reaction is endothermic. What combination of changed conditions would cause it
to proceed more to the right as written?
2CO2(g) → 2CO(g) + O2(g)
a) raising the temperature and increasing the pressure
b) raising the temperature and decreasing the pressure
c) lowering the temperature and increasing the pressure
d) lowering the temperature and decreasing the pressure

12) The Lewis structure of SO32- has ___ lone pairs of electrons and ___ double bonds.

a) 6, 1 c) 9, 1
b) 6, 2 d) 9, 2
13) The beta decay of cesium-137 has a half-life of 30.0 years. How many years must pass to reduce
a 25 mg sample of cesium-137 to 8.7 mg?
a) 46 c) 3.2
b) 32 d) 52

14) The half-life of 131I is 0.220 years. How much of a 500.0 mg sample remains after 24 hours?
a) 496 mg c) 219 mg
b) 560 mg d) 405 mg

15) Which isotope has 45 neutrons?

a) 8036Kr c) 7834Se
b) 8035Br d) 3417Cl

16) Which type of radioactive decay results in no change in mass number and atomic number for
the starting nucleus?
a) alpha c) positron emission
b) beta d) gamma ray

17) This reaction is an example of __________.

41 41
20Ca → 19K + _____
a) alpha decay d) electron capture
b) beta decay
c) positron decay

18) Uranium-238 decays to form thorium-234 with a half-life of 4.5 × 10 9 years. How many years will
it take for 75% of the uranium-238 to decay?
a) 9.0 × 1010 years c) 4.5 × 1010 years
9
b) 4.5 × 10 years d) 9.0 × 109 years

19) Iodine-131 has a half-life of 8.1 days and is used as a tracer for the thyroid gland. If a patient
drinks a sodium iodide (NaI) solution containing iodine-131 on a Tuesday, how many days will it
take for the concentration of iodine-131 to drop to 5.0% of its initial concentration?
a) 19 days c) 8.1 days
b) 0.81 day d) 35 days

20) Carbon-14 measurements on the linen wrappings from the Book of Isaiah on the Dead Sea
Scrolls indicated that the scrolls contained about 79.5% of the carbon-14 found in living tissue.
Approximately how old are these scrolls? The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.
a) 570 years c) 1300 years
b) 820 years d) 1900 years
For Questions (21-24), refer to the given compound below:

21) Determine the formal charge on N.

a) +2 b) +1 c) 0 d) -1 e) -2

22) Determine the bond angle on the C without pi bonds.

a) 180° b) < 120° c) 120° d) < 109.5° e) 109.5°

23) Determine the hybridization on the C with a double bond.

a) sp b) sp2 c) sp3 d) sp4

24) Determine the molecular geometry on the N atom.

a) Tetrahedral c) Trigonal Planar

b) Bent d) Linear

25) Which of the following describes a hydride ion?

a) a negatively charged hydrogen ion containing a pair of electrons
b) a positively charged hydrogen ion
c) a hydrogen ion containing a single electron
d) a negatively charged OH ion
e) a proton containing an extra electron

26) Which of the following contain(s) polar covalent bonds?

a) NH3 d) KF
b) Na2O e) both A and C
c) H2

For Questions 27 - 30), Provide the reagents in facilitating the conversion of 1-butene to the following
compounds:
27) 2-chlorobutane
a) Cl2 in CCl4 c) Cl2, AlCl3
b) Cl2, uv d) HCl

28) 1-butanol
a) Oxymercuration c) Dilute Sulfuric Acid
b) Hydroboration d) KMnO4, dilute, cold.

29) Formaldehyde and propanal

a) KMnO4, dilute, cold. c) O3 in DMS
b) KMnO4, Hot, Acidic. d) Oxymercuration

30) 1,2-dibromobutane
a) HBr c) HBr, ROOR
b) Br2, uv d) Br2, CCl4

31) Which among the following acids is a weak acid?

a) HF b) HCl c) HBr d) HI

32) Express 5 M H2SO4 in terms of Normality (as an acid)

a) 2.5 N b) 5 N c) 10 N d) 20 N

33) A 0.0722 M acid has pH of 3.11, what is the Ka of the acid?

a) 4.2 x 10-6 b) 8.35 x 10-6 c) 8.35 x 10-7 d) 4.2 x 10-7

34) Introducing a common ion to a solution of a slightly soluble solid, would result to____
a) Higher solubility c) Lower solubility
b) No effect d) Can’t tell

35) Twenty milliliter of a 0.125 M HCl is mixed with 25 mL of 0.120 M NH 3. What is the resulting pH
of the mixture? Kb of NH3 = 1.8 x 10-5

a) 0.055 c) 7.52
b) 1.26 d) 8.56

36) The aluminum in a 759.08 mg of impure aluminum sulfate sample was precipitated as Al(OH) 3
and ignited at 1100°C to yield a precipitate of Al 2O3 weighing 387.953 mg. Express the result of
analysis in terms of %Al (MW = 27).
a) 27.05 b) 13.53 c) 18.67 d) 23.29
37) A base mixture sample weighing 976 mg was dissolved in sufficient water to make 100 mL
solution. This solution was titrated with 52.05 mL of 0.1004M HCl to the methyl red end point.
Another duplicate sample required 23.02 mL of the acid to the phenolphthalein endpoint.
Calculate the % composition of sample.
a) 25.1% NaHCO3, 5.2% Na2CO3 c) 12.5% NaHCO3, 20.5% Na2CO3
b) 5.2% NaHCO3, 25.1% Na2CO3 d) 20.5% NaHCO3, 12.5% Na2CO3

38) What is the molarity of AgNO3 solution used in the titration of a 150-mg sample that is 25.12%
wt AlCl3 (133.33) requiring 37.2 mL of the titrant?
a) 0.04215 M b) 0.0811 M c) 0.06837 M d) 0.02279 M

39) What is the molarity of a KMnO4 (KMnO4 to Mn2+) solution standardized against 1.356-gram
Na2C2O4 (Na2C2O4 to CO2) (134 g/mol) requiring 25.1 mL of the solution in acidic medium?
a) 0.161 M b) 0.403 M c) 1.008 M d) 0.856 M

40) A sample of impure salicylic acid, C6H4(OH)COOH (one titrable proton), is analyzed by titration.
What size sample should be taken so that the percent purity is equal to five times the milliliters
of 0.0500 M NaOH used to titrate it?
a) 140 mg b) 142 mg c)138 mg d)136 mg
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