IME1-Performance Task 1.

College Algebra and Trigonometry

Name: Date:
Year and Section: Engr. Romeo D. Solitario Jr.

Solve the following problems in an A4 sheet of bond paper. Any form of erasure/alteration is considered
wrong. Box only your final answer.

1. The set A consists of elements (1,3,6) and the set B consists of elements (1,2,6,7). Both sets
come from the universe of (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8). What is the intersection?
2. What is the solution of the equation 50 x 2+5 (x−2)2 =−1, where is a real-valued variable?
3. What are the roots of cubic equation x 3−8 x−3=0?
4. The salary of an employee’s job has five levels, each one 5% greater than the one below it. Due
to circumstances, the salary of the employees must be reduced from the top (fifth) level to the
second level, which results in a reduction of P122.00 per month. What is the employee’s present
salary per month?
5. If sin α =x , what is secα ?
6. If the sine of angle A is given as K, what is the tangent of angle
A?

7. What is the sum of the squares of the sine and cosine of an

angle?

8. A transit set up of 40m from the base of a vertical chimney reads 32o 32' with the crosshairs set
on the top of a chimney . With the telescope level, the vertical rod at the base of the chimney is
2.1m. Approximately how tall is the chimney?

9. At approximately what time between the hours of 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm would the angle
between the hour hand and the minute hand of a continuously driven clock be exactly at 180
degrees?
10. What is the exponential form of the complex number 3+ 4 i?
11. A man wishes to fence in a rectangular board for a model kit. If he uses material costing P1.70 a
centimeter for the front of the board and material costing P1.40 per cm for the other three
sides, the fence will cost P890.00. If he uses the cheaper material for all four sides of the lot, the
fence will cost P854.00. Find the dimensions of the board.
12. During the last election, the total number of votes recorded in a certain municipality was
P8,600.00. Had one-third of RM’s supporters stayed away from the polls and one-half of EQ’s
behaved likewise, RM’s majority over EQ would have been reduced by 200. How many votes did
RM and EQ received?
13. The diagonal of a rectangle is 2 inches greater than its length and 9 inches greater than its width.
What is the dimension of the rectangle?
14. The horsepower that can be safely transmitted by a shaft varies jointly as the number of
revolutions it makes per minute and the cube of its diameter. If a 3-inch shaft making 250
revolutions per minute (rpm) can safely transmit 180 hp, what HP can be safely transmitted by a
2-inch shaft on the same material making 300rpm?
15. The weight of an object above the surface of the earth varies inversely as the square of its
distance from the center of the earth. If it were possible to project an object weighing 9 pounds
at the surface of the earth to a point 2,000 miles above the surface, what would it weight at that
height? (Assume the radius of the earth to be 4,000 miles).
16. If London’s Big Ben chimes as many times as the hour (on the hour), represent in sigma notation
the number of chimes Big Ben makes from 1:00am to 12:00 noon, inclusive. Find the total
number of chimes Big Ben makes during this (inclusive) hours.
17. From a lighthouse 41.5m above the water, the angle of depression of the front of an
approaching ship is 0.75 rad and the angle of depression of the rear of the ship is 0.58 rad. Find
the length of the ship.
18. From a window of one building, the angle of depression to the base of the second building is
29o30’ and the angle of elevation to the top is 47 o50’. If the buildings are 200m apart, how high
is the second building?
19. From a point 49.5m to the base of a flagpole, the angle of elevation to the top is 43 o12’. Find the
height of the flagpole.
20. From point A, the angle of elevation of the top of a tree is 46 o10’, while from point D, which is 50
m farther from A on the same level, the angle of elevation of the top of the tree is 27 o45’. How
high is the tree?