Past Board Exam Problems 6. CE Board Exam May 1992 B.

45°
sin θ + cos θ tan θ 11. EE Board Exam October 1997 C. 60°
in Trigonometry Find the value of If sin x cos x + sin 2x = 1, what are the values D. 90°
cos θ
A. 2sin θ of x?
B. 2cos θ A. 32.2°, 69.3° 17. EE Board Exam March 1998
1. CE Board Exam November 1993 B. -20.67°, 69.3° Solve for x in the equation: arctan (x + 1) +
If sin 3A = cos 6B then C. 2tan θ
D. 2cot θ C. 20.90°, 69.1° arctan (x – 1) = arctan (12).
A. A + B = 90° D. -32.2°, 69.3° A. 1.50
B. A + 2B = 30° B. 1.34
C. A + B = 180° 7. CE Board Exam May 1994
If coversed sin θ = 0.134, find the value of θ. 12. EE Board Exam April 1997 C. 1.20
D. none of these Solve for G if csc (11G – 16 degrees) = sec D. 1.25
A. 30°
B. 45° (5G + 26 degrees)/
2. CE Board Exam November 1993 A. 7 degrees 18. EE Board Exam October 1997
If cos 65° + cos 55° = cos θ, find θ in radians. C. 60°
D. 90° B. 5 degrees The sides of a triangular lot are 138 m, 180 m
A. 0.765 C. 6 degrees and 190 m. The lot is to be divided by a line
B. 0.087 D. 4 degrees bisecting the longest side and down from the
C. 1.213 8. CE Board Exam November 1997
opposite vertex. Find the length of the line.
D. 1.421 The angle of elevation of the top of tower B
13. EE Board Exam April 1992 A. 120 m
from the top of the tower A is 28° and the
angle of elevation of the top of tower A from What is the value of A between 270° and 360° B. 130 m
3. CE Board Exam November 1992 if 2sin2 A – sin A = 1? C. 125 m
the base of the tower is B is 46°. The two
 15  A. 300° D. 128 m
Find the value of sin  arccos  towers lie in the same horizontal plane. If the
 17  height of the tower B is 120 m, find the height B. 320°
A. 8/11 of tower A. C. 310° 19. EE Board Exam October 1997
B. 8/19 D. 330° The sides of a triangle are 195, 157 and 210
A. 66.3 m
C. 8/15 respectively. What is the area of the triangle?
B. 79.3 m
D. 8/17 14. EE Board Exam October 1991 A. 73,250 sq. units
C. 87. 2 m
The sine of a certain angle is 0.6. Calculate B. 10,250 sq. units
D. 90.7 m
4. CE Board Exam November 1992 the cotangent of the angle. C. 14,586 sq. units
If tan x = 1/2, tan y = 1/3. What is the value of A. 4/3 D. 11,260 sq. units
9. CE Board Exam November 1997
tan (x + y)? Points A and B are 100 m apart and are of the B. 5/4
A. 1/2 same elevation as the foot of a building. The C. 4/5 20. ECE Board Exam November 1998
B. 1/6 angles of elevation of the top of the building D. 3/4 Solve for A in the given equation cos2 A = 1 –
C. 2 from points A and B are 21° and 32° cos2 A.
D. 1 respectively. How far is A from the building? 15. EE Board Exam March 1998 A. 45, 125, 225, 335 degrees
A. 259.28 m 1 B. 45, 125, 225, 315 degrees
If sec 2 A = , determine the angle A in C. 45, 135. 225, 315 degrees
5. CE Board Exam November 1993 B. 265.42 m sin13 A
Find the value of y in the given equation: y = C. 271.64 m degrees. D. 45, 150, 220, 315 degrees
(1 + cos 2θ)tan θ D. 277.29 m A. 5 degrees
A. sin θ B. 6 degrees 21. ECE Board Exam April 1991
B. cos θ 10. EE Board Exam October 1996 C. 3 degrees Evaluate the following:
C. sin 2θ Solve for x if tan 3x = 5 tan x. D. 7 degrees sin0° + sin1° + sin2° + L + sin89° + sin90°
D. cos 2θ A. 20.705° cos0° + cos1° + cos 2° + L + cos89° + cos90°
B. 30.705° 16. EE Board Exam October 1992 A. 1
C. 15.705° Evaluate arc cot [2cos (arc sin 0.5)] B. 0
D. 35.705° A. 30° C. 45.5
 D. 10 D. 384 m Csc 520° is equal to The captain of a ship views the top of the
A. cos 20° lighthouse at ant angle of elevation of 60° with
22. ECE Board Exam April 1991 27. ECE Board Exam November 1998 B. csc 20° the horizontal at an elevation of 6 meters
Simplify the following: Two triangles have equal bases. The altitude C. tan 45° above sea level. Five minutes later, the same
cos A + cosB sin A + sinB of one triangle is 3 units more than its base D. sin 20° captain of the ship views the top of the same
+ and the altitude of the other is 3 units less lighthouse at an angle of 30° with the
sin A − sinB cos A − cosB
A. 0 than its base. Find the altitude, if the areas of 33. ECE Board Exam April 1993 horizontal. Determine the speed of the ship if
B. sin A the triangles differ by 21 square units. Solve for θ in the following equation: sin 2θ = the telescope is known to be 50 meters above
A. 6 and 12 cos θ sea level.
C. 1
D. cos A B. 3 and 9 A. 30° A. 0.265 m/sec
C. 5 and 11 B. 45° B. 0.155 m/sec
D. 4 and 10 C. 60° C. 0.169 m/sec
23. ECE Board Exam April 1991
D. 15° D. 0.210 m/sec
2sin θ cos θ − cos θ
Evaluate: 28. ECE Board Exam April 1999
1 − sin θ + sin2 θ − cos 2 θ Sin (B – A) is equal to ____, when B = 270° 34. ECE Board Exam March 1996 38. ECE Board Exam November 1998
A. sin θ and A is an acute angle. Solve for x in the given equation: If an equilateral triangle is circumscribed
B. cos θ A. -cos A π about a circle of 10 cm, determine the side of
C. tan θ B. cos A arctan(2x) + arctan(x) = the triangle.
4
D. cot θ C. -sin A A. 34.64 cm
A. 0.149
D. sin A B. 0.281 B. 64.12 cm
24. ECE Board Exam April 1994 C. 36.44 cm
Solve for the value of “A” when sin A = 3.5x C. 0.421
29. ECE Board Exam April 1999 D. 0.316 D. 32.10 cm
and cos A = 5.5x. If sec2 A is 5/2, the quantity 1 – sin2 A is
A. 32.47° equivalent to 39. ECE Board Exam November 1998
B. 33.68° 35. ECE Board Exam April 1998
A. 2.5 The two legs of a triangle are 300 and 150 m
C. 34.12° A man finds the angle of elevation of the top
B. 1.5 each, respectively. The angle opposite the
D. 35.21° of a tower to be 30 degrees. He walks 85 m
C. 0.40 150 m side is 26°. What is the third side?
nearer the tower and finds its angle of
D. 0.60 elevation to be 60 degrees. What is the height A. 197.49 m
25. ECE Board Exam November 1996 B. 218.61 m
If sin A = 2.511x, cos A = 3.06x and sin 2A = of the tower?
30. ECE Board Exam April 1999, November 2000 A. 76.31 m C. 341.78 m
3.939x, find the value of x. (cos A)4 – (sin A)4 is equal to D. 282.15 m
A. 0.265 B. 73.31 m
A. cos 4A C. 73.16 m
B. 0.256 B. cos 2A 40. ECE Board Exam April 1997
C. 0.562 D. 73.61 m
C. sin 2A The sides of a triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units.
D. 0.626 D. sin 4A If each side is doubled, how many square
36. ECE Board Exam April 1994
A pole casts a shadow 15 m long when the units will the area of the new triangle be?
26. ECE Board Exam April 1998 31. ECE Board Exam April 1999 A. 240
Points A and B 1000 m apart are plotted on a angle of elevation of the sun is 61°. If the pole
Of what quadrant is A, if sec A is positive and B. 420
plotted on a straight highway running east and csc A is negative? is leaned 15° from the vertical directly towards
C. 320
west. From A, the bearing of a tower C is 32 A. IV the sun, determine the length of the pole.
D. 200
degrees W of N and from B the bearing of C is B. II A. 54.23 m
26 degrees N of E. Approximate the shortest C. III B. 48.23 m
41. ECE March 1996
distance of tower C to the highway. D. I C. 42.44 m
The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 34 cm.
A. 364 m D. 46.21 m
Find the lengths of then two legs if one leg is
B. 374 m 32. ECE Board Exam November 1998 14 cm longer than the other.
C. 394 m 37. ECE Board Exam November 1991
 A. 17 cm, 31 cm A railroad is to be laid-off in a circular path. D. 4 58. ECE April 2001
B. 16 cm, 30 cm What should be the radius if the track is to The measure of 2.25 revolutions
C. 18 cm, 32 cm change direction by 30 degrees at a distance 53. ECE April 2000 counterclockwise is
D. 15 cm, 29 cm of 157.08 m? If A + B + C = 180° and tan A + tan B + tan C A. -810°
A. 300 m = 5.67, find the value of (tan A)(tan B)(tan C). B. 810°
42. ECE March 1996 B. 200 m A. 1.89 C. 805°
If sin A = 4/5, in quadrant II, sin B = 7/25, B is C. 150 m B. 5.67 D. 825°
quadrant I. Find sin (A + B). D. 250 m C. 1.78
A. 3/5 D. 6.75 59. ECE November 2001
B. 4/5 48. ECE November 1999 If cot 2A cot 68 = 1, then tan A is equal to
C. 3/4 If (2 log4 x) – (log4 9) = 2, find x. 54. ECE April 2000 ____.
D. 2/5 A. 10 Three times the sine of a certain angle is twice A. 0.194
B. 13 of the square of the cosine of the same angle. B. 0.914
43. ECE March 1998 C. 12 Find the angle. C. 0.419
If 77° + 0.40x = arctan (cot 0.25x), solve for x. D. 11 A. 30° D. 491
A. 10° B. 10°
B. 30° 49. ECE November 1999, November 2001 C. 60° 60. ECE April 2002, April 1999
C. 20° If arctan (x) + arctan (1/3) = π/4, the value of x D. 45° Assuming that the earth is a sphere whose
D. 40° is radius is 6400 km. Find the distance along a 3
A. 1/2 55. ECE April 2001 degree arc at the equator of the earth’s
44. ECE November 1997 B. 1/4 Solve A of an oblique triangle ABC, if a = 25, b surface.
Find the value of x in the equation csc x + cot C. 1/3 = 16 and C = 94.1°. A. 335.10 km
x = 3. D. 1/5 A. 52 degrees and 40 minutes B. 533.10 km
A. π/4 B. 50 degrees and 30 minutes C. 353.10 km
B. π/2 50. ECE November 1999 C. 54 degrees and 30 minutes D. 353.01 km
C. π/3 If tan 4A = cot 6A, then what is the value of D. 49 degrees and 32 minutes
D. π/5 angle A? 61. ECE November 2002
A. 9° 56. ECE April 2001 A certain angle has an explement 5 times the
45. ECE April 1998 B. 12° If sin A = 2.5x and cos A = 5.5x, find the value supplement. Find the angle.
Find the angle in mils subtended by a line 10 C. 10° of A in degrees. A. 67.5 degrees
yards long at a distance of 5000 yards. D. 14° A. 24.44° B. 108 degrees
A. 1 mil B. 54.34° C. 135 degrees
B. 2.04 mils 51. ECE November 1999, November 2001 C. 42.47° D. 58.5 degrees
C. 4 mils A central angle of 45° subtends an arc of 12 D. 35.74°
D. 2.5 mils cm. What is the radius of the circle? 62. ECE November 2002
A. 15.28 cm 57. ECE April 2001 Find the height of a tree if the angle of
46. ECE April 1999 B. 12.82 cm Triangle ABC is a right triangle with right elevation of its top changes from 20° to 40° as
How many degrees is 4800 mils? C. 12.58 cm angle at C. If BC = 4 and the altitude to the the observer advances 23 meters toward the
A. 135 deg D. 15.82 cm hypotenuse is 1, find the area of the triangle base.
B. 270 deg ABC. A. 13.78 m
C. 235 deg 52. ECE November 1999 A. 2.43 B. 16.78 m
D. 142 deg Given: y = 4cos 2x. Determine its amplitude. B. 2.07 C. 14.78 m
A. square root of 2 C. 2.70 D. 15.78 m
47. ECE November 1999 B. 8 D. 2.11
C. 2 63. ECE November 2002
 A wheel, 3 ft in diameter, rolls down an Find the value of (sec A + tan A)/(sec A – tan D. 1.414 change direction by 30 degrees at a distance
inclined plane 30 degrees with the horizontal. A), if csc A = 2. of 300 m?
How high is the center of the wheel when it is A. 4 74. ECE November 2003 A. 300 m
5 ft from the base of the plane? B. 2 If arctan 2x + arctan 3x = 45 degrees, what is B. 573 m
A. 4 ft C. 3 the value of x? C. 275 m
B. 2.5 ft D. 1 A. 1/6 D. 325 m
C. 3 ft B. 1/3
D. 5 ft 69. ECE November 2003 C. 1/5 80. ECE Board Exam April 1995
If log 2 = x and log 3 = y, what is log 2.4 in D. 1/4 The angle which the line of sight to the object
64. ECE November 2002 terms of x and y? makes with the horizontal which is above the
If the complement of an angle A is 2/5 of its A. 3x + 2y – 1 75. ECE November 2003 eye of the observer is called
supplement, then A is ____. B. 3x + y - 1 If 2log 3 (base x) + log 2 (base x) = 2 + log 6 A. angle of depression
A. 45° C. 3x + y + 1 (base x), then x equals ____. B. angle of elevation
B. 75° D. 3x – y + 1 A. square root of 3 C. acute angle
C. 60° B. 3 D. bearing
D. 30° 70. ECE November 2003 C. 2
Simplify the expression 4 cos y sin y (1 – 2sin2 D. square root of 2 81. ECE Board Exam April 1995
65. ECE April 2003 y). The median of a triangle is the line connecting
One side of a right triangle is 15 cm long and A. sec 2y 76. ECE April 2004 the vertex and the midpoint of the opposite
the hypotenuse is 10 cm longer than the other B. cos 2y Given: log (2x – 3) = 1/2. Solve for the x if the side. For a given triangle, these medians
side. What is the length of the hypotenuse? C. tan 4y base is 9. intersects at a point which is called the
A. 13.5 cm D. sin 4y A. 3 A. Orthocenter
B. 6.5 cm B. 12 B. Circumcenter
C. 12.5 cm 71. ECE November 2003 C. 4 C. centroid
D. 16.25 cm What is the base B of the logarithm function D. 5 D. incenter
log 4 = 2/3?
66. ECE April 2003 A. 8 77. ECE November 2004 82. ECE Board Exam March 1996, April 1996
If tan A = 1/3 and cot B = 2, tan (A – B) is B. 2 What is the value of x if log (base x) 1296 = 4? The altitudes of the sides of a triangle
equal to ____. C. 3 A. 5 intersect at the point known as
A. 11/7 D. 5 B. 3 A. orthocenter
B. -1/7 C. 6 B. circumcenter
C. -11/7 72. ECE November 2003 D. 4 C. centroid
D. 1/7 If y = arcsec (negative square root of 2), what D. incenter
is the value of y in degrees? 78. ECE April 2004
67. ECE April 2003 A. 75° If sin A = 4/5, sin B = 7/25, what sin (A + B) if 83. ECE Board Exam April 1995
Three circle of radii 3, 4 and 5 inches, B. 60° A is in the 3rd quadrant and B is the 2nd The arc length equal to the radius of the circle
respectively are tangent each other externally. C. 45° quadrant. is called
Find the largest angle of a triangle formed by D. 135° A. -3/5 A. 1 radian
joining the centers. B. 4/5 B. 1 quarter circle
A. 72.6 degrees 73. ECE November 2003 C. 3/5 C. π radian
B. 75.1 degrees If the tangent of an angle of a right triangle is D. 2/5 D. 1 grad
C. 73.4 degrees 0.75, what is the csc of the angle?
D. 73.3 degrees A. 1.732 79. ECE April 2005 84. GE Board Exam August 1994
B. 1.333 A railroad is to be laid-off in a circular path. A ship A started sailing S 42°35’ W at the rate
68. ECE April 2003 C. 1.667 What should be the radius if the track is to of 2 kph. After 2 hours, ship B started at the
 same point going N 46°20’ W at the rate of 7 C. sin2 A C. 110.29 ft
kph. After how many hours will the second D. sin A D. 143.97 ft SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY
ship be exactly north of ship A? 98. CE Board Exam May 1997
A. 3.68 89. ME Board Exam April 1998 93. ME Board Exam April 1993 A spherical triangle ABC has an angle C = 90°
B. 4.03  A PLDT tower and a monument stand on a and sides a = 50° and c = 80°. Find the value
 3 
C. 5.12 Evaluate Arc tan2 cos arcsin  level plane. The angles of depression of the of “b” in degrees.
D. 4.83   2  top and bottom of the monument viewed from A. 73.22
 
the top of the PLDT tower are 13° and 35° B. 74.33
A. π/3
85. ME Board Exam April 1991 respectively. The height of the tower is 50 m. C. 75.44
B. π/4
A man standing in a 48.5 meter building high, Find the height of the monument. D. 76.55
C. π/16
has an eyesight height of 1.5 m from the top A. 29.13 m
D. π/2
of the building, took a depression reading B. 30.11 m 99. EE Board Exam April 1997
from the top of another nearby building and C. 32.12 m A ship on a certain day is at latitude 20° N and
90. ME Board Exam April 1993
nearest wall, which are 50° and 80° D. 33.51 m longitude 140° E. After sailing for 150 hours at
An aerolift airplane can fly at an airspeed of
respectively. Find the height of the nearby a uniform speed along a great circle route, it
300 mph. If there is no wind blowing towards
building in meters. The man is standing at the 94. ME October 1997 reaches a point at latitude 10° S and longitude
the cast at 50 mph, what should be the
edge of the building and both buildings lie on In general triangles the expression (sinA)/a = 170° E. If the radius of the earth is 3959 miles,
plane’s compass heading in order for its
the same horizontal plane. (sin B)/b = (sin C)/c is called find the speed in miles per hour.
course to be 30°? What will be the plane’s
A. 39.49 A. Euler’s formula A. 17.4
ground speed if it flies in this course?
B. 35.50 B. Law of cosines B. 15.4
A. 19.7°, 307.4 mph
C. 30.74 C. Law of sines C. 16.4
B. 20.1°, 309.4 mph
D. 42.55 D. Pythagorean theorem D. 19.4
C. 21.7°, 321.8 mph
D. 22.3°, 319.2 mph
86. ME Board Exam October 1996 95. ME October 1997 100. ECE Board Exam April 1997
Angles are measured from the positive An angle more than pi radian but less than The area of a spherical triangle whose parts
91. ME Board Exam November 1994
horizontal axis, and the positive direction is 2*pi radians is are A = 93°40’, B = 64°12’ C = 116°51’ and
A wire supporting a pole is fastened to it 20
counterclockwise. What are the values of sin A. straight angle the radius of the sphere is 100 m is
feet from the ground and to the ground 15 feet
B and cos B in the 4th quadrant? B. obtuse angle A. 15613 sq. m
from the pole. Determine the length of the wire
A. sin B > 0 and cos B < 0 C. related angle B. 16531 sq. m
and the angle it makes with the pole.
B. sin B < 0 and cos B < 0 D. reflex angle C. 18645 sq. m
C. sin B > 0 and cos B > 0 A. 24 ft, 53.13° D. 25612 sq. m
D. sin B < 0 and cos B > 0 B. 24 ft, 36.87° 96.
C. 25 ft, 53.13°
87. ME Board Exam April 1996 D. 25 ft, 36.87° A. A.
Simplify the equation sin2 θ(1 + cot2 θ) B. B.
A. 1 C. C.
B. sin2 θ D. D.
C. sin2 θ sec2 θ 92. ME Board Exam April 1997
D. sec2 θ An observer wishes to determine the height of 97.
a tower. He takes sight at the top of the tower
88. ME Board Exam October 1995 from A to B, which are 50 ft apart at the same A.
Simplify the expression elevation on a direct line with the tower. The B.
sec A – (sec A) sin2 A. vertical angle at point A is 30° and at point B C.
A. cos2 A is 40°. What is the height of the tower? D.
B. cos A A. 85.60 ft
B. 92.54 ft