601: MATHEMATICS QUIZ 4 JANUARY 25, 2020

Situation: Situation:
1. A car starting 12:00 Noon travels west at a speed 9. Two ships A and B are sailing away from the
of 30 kph. Another car starting from the same point O along routes such that the angle AOB is
point at 2:00 PM travels north at 45 kph. Find 120 deg. How fast is the distance between them
how fast are the two cars separating at 4:00 PM? changing if at a certain instant, OA=8mi,
a. 57 kph c. 51 kph OB=6mi, ship A is sailing at the rate of 20 mi/hr,
b. 81 kph d. 44 kph and ship B at the rate of 30mi/hr.
a. 22.45 mi/hr c. 42.74 mi/hr
b. 35.64 mi/hr d. 48. 51 mi/hr
Situation:
2. Car A moves due east at 30 kph at the same Situation:
instant Car B is moving S 300 E with a speed of 10. Given the coordinates of the triangle: (1,1),
60 kph. The distance from A to B is 30 km. Find (2,4), (3,1). Calculate the volume by revolving the
how fast is the speed between them are area about line with intercepts abscissa=5 and
separating after 1 hr. ordinate=-2.
a. 40 kph c. 35 kph a. 12.43π c. 17.83π
b. 45 kph d. 50 kph b. 15.25π d. 16.12π

Situation: Situation:
3. Find the radius of curvature at any point of the Given the area of the curve x2=8y bounded by the
curve y + ln cos x = 0. line y=2 and x=0.
a. cos x c. sec x 11. Compute the volume by revolving the area about y-
b. 1.211 d. 1 axis.
a. 12.43π c. 16π
Situation: b. 15π d. 16.52π
4. Find the angle between the radius vector and the 12. Compute the volume by revolving the area about x-
tangent line of the curve r = a sec 2θ and θ =
axis.
π/8.
a. 64π/5 c. 16π/3
a. 33.210 c. 26.560
b. 44π/2 d. 15π
b. 14.120 d. 11.230
13. Determine the moment of inertia with respect to
y-axis.
Situation:
a. 12.5 c. 17.07
5. A light is at the top of a pole 50ft high. A ball is
b. 13.65 d. 16.14
dropped from the same height from a point 30ft
away from the light. How fast is the shadow of
Situation:
the ball moving along the ground 0.5 sec later?
14. A trainee in a computer company takes 0.9
(assume the ball falls a distance s=16t2 ft in t
seconds.) times as long to assemble each computer as he
took to assemble the preceding computer. If it
a. -1500 ft/sec c. -1000 ft/sec
took him 30 minutes to assemble the first
b. +1100 ft/sec d. -1050 ft/sec
computer, find how long it takes him to
assemble the fifth computer.
Situation:
a. 102 min. c. 123 min.
6. A car drives east from point A at 30 kph. Another
b. 112 min. d. 213 min.
car B starting from B at the same time drives S
30° W toward A at 60 kph. B is 30 km away from
Situation:
A. How fast in kph is the distance between the
15. In November 1994, Intel announced that a
two cars changing after one hour?
“subtle flaw” in its Pentium chip would affect 1
a. 76.94kph c. 75.94kph
in 9 billion division problems. Suppose a
b. 78.94kph d. 77.94kph
computer perform 20 millions divisions (a not
Situation: reasonable number) in the course of a particular
program. What is the probability of no error? Of
7. Two railroad tracks are perpendicular to each
at one error?
other. At 12:00 pm there is a train at each track
a. 0.0000001111, c. 0.99778,
approaching the crossing at 50 kph, one being
0.00222 0.00222
100 km and the other 150 km away from the
b. 0.99999999989, d. 0.000011111,
crossing. How fast in kph is the distance
0.000000111 0.9999999998
between the two trains changing at 4:00 pm?
a. 67.08 c. 69.08
Situation:
b. 68.08 d. 70.08
16. Two particles repel each other with a force
inversely proportional to the square of the
Situation:
distance between them. If one particle remains
8. A man 6ft tall walks at the rate of 5ft/sec toward
a street light that is 16ft above the ground. At fixed at a point on the x-axis 2 units to the right
what rate is the length of his shadow increasing of the origin, find the work done in moving the
second along the x-axis from a point 3 units to
or decreasing when he is 10 ft from the base of
the left of the origin up to the origin if the
the light?
proportional constant is 10.
a. -3ft/sec c. -3.5 ft/sec
b. -4ft/sec d. -4.5 ft/sec a. 6.5 c. 3.5
b. 6 d. 3
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Situation: Situation:
17. Find an equation of a plane containing the 24. The population of the Philippines doubled in the
intersection of the planes 3x - 2y + 4z = 5 and last 30 years from 1956 to 1986. Assuming that
2x + 4y - z = 7 and passing through the point the rate of population increase will remain the
(2,1,2). same, in what year will our population triple?
a. 2x+3y-6z+1=0 c. 17x+26y-3z-54=0 a. Year 2000 c. Year 2023
b. 2x+2y-2z+12=0 d. 12x+y-6z+1=0 b. Year 2003 d. Year 3500

Situation:
18. The probability of having a baby boy is 0.51 and
0.49 for baby girl. You’re a researcher interested
in large families. As part of your latest project,
you’ve decided to interview 50 families in which
there are exactly 8 children. What is the
probability that, in at least one of the 50
families, the children will all be of the same
gender?
a. 0.6726 c. 0.3274
b. 0.395 d. 0.605
Situation:
25. A tank initially holds 100 gallons of salt solution
in which 6 lbs of salt has been dissolved. A pipe
fills the tank with brine at the rate of 2gpm,
containing 1 lb of dissolved salt per gallon.
Assuming that the mixture is kept uniform by
stirring, a drain pipe draws out of the tank the
mixture at 2gpm. Find the amount of salt in the
tank at the end of 1 hour.
a. 171.24 lbs c. 19.53 lbs
b. 71.69 lbs d. 64.44 lbs

Situation:
19. A 100 kg body initially at rest is acted upon by
a constant force of 80 N for 5 sec. after which an
opposite force of 54 N is applied. In what
additional time in seconds will the body come to
rest?
a. 4.17 c. 4.71
b. 7.41 d. 6.12

Situation:
20. A dive bomber is losing altitude at the rate of 600
km/hr. How fast is the visible surface of the
earth decreasing when the bomber is 1 km high?
Assume the radius of earth to be equal to 6400
km.
a. 14.12 x 106 km2/hr c. 44.12 x 106 km2/hr
b. 34.12 x 106 km2/hr d. 24.12 x 106 km2/hr

Situation:
21. A commercial lot rectangular in shape has an
area of 400 sq.m, if fencing on 3 sides cost
P300/m. while fencing on frontage cost P500/m,
find the length of frontage to cost minimum
fencing.
a. 19.23 c. 32.89
b. 17.32 d. 31.57

Situation:
22. According to Newton’s law of cooling, the rate at
which a substance cools in air is directly
proportional to the difference between the
temperature of the substance and that of air. If
the temperature of the air is 300 and the
substance cools from 1000 to 700 in 15 minutes,
how long will it take to cool 1000 to 500?
a. 33.59 min c. 35.39 min
b. 43.50 min d. 45.30 min

Situation:
23. An object falls from rest in a medium offering a
resistance. The velocity of the object before the
object reaches the ground is given by the
differential equation dV/dt + V/10=30, ft/sec.
What is the velocity of the object one second
after it falls?
a. 40.54 c. 30.45
b. 28.55 d. 34.12