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2. Two times the mother’s age is 8 more than six times her daughter’s age. Ten years ago, the sum of
their ages was 44. What is the daughter’s age?
a) 15 yrs old* b) 18 yrs old
c) 12 yrs old d) 16 yrs old
3. Determine the accumulated value of P2,000.00 in 5 years it is invested at 11% compounded quarterly.
a) P3,440.00* b) P3,404.00
c) P3,044.00 d) P4,304.00
4. Cleofas borrowed P2,000.00 from a bank and agreed to pay the loan at the end of one year. The bank
discounted the loan and gave him P1950 in cash. Determine the rate of discount.
a) 3.75 % b) 3.12 %
c) 2.5 %* d) 1.2 %
5. Solve for the value of x from the following equation: .
a) 1.258925* b) 1.892525
c) 1.85925 d) 1.528925
6. Determine the absolute value of resultant vector of the following vectors: F1 = 4i + 7j + 6k; F2 = 9i + 2j +
11k, F3 = 5i – 3j – 8k.
a) 21* b) 18
c) 25 d) 9
7. Determine the diameter of a circle, x²+y²-6x+4y-12=0.
a) 9 units b) 11 units
c) 12 units d) 10 units*
9. A ball is dropped from a height of 60 meters above ground. How long does it take to hit the ground?
a) 4.5 seconds b) 3.5 seconds*
c) 2.5 seconds d) 1.5 seconds
10. It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and twenty minutes the minute hand will be as much as the hour-
hand as it is now behind it. What is the time now?
a) 3:06.36* b) 3:03.66
c) 3:36.06 d) 3:30.66
11. How do call an energy required to move 1 Coulomb of charge through an element.
a) Current b) Voltage*
c) Power d) Resonance
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12. This is a number sequence where the succeeding term is obtained by adding the last pair of preceding
terms such as the sequence (1, 1, 2, ,3 5, 8 …). How do you call this number sequence?
a) Euler’s number b) Fermat number
c) Fibonacci number* d) Fourier series
13. If the roots of an equation are zero, then, how do you classify the solutions?
a. Extraneous solutions b. Trivial solutions*
c. Conditional solutions d. Ambiguous solutions
15. This law in electrical circuits states, “The algebraic sum of currents entering a node (or a closed
boundary) is zero”. How do you call this law?
a) Kirrchoff’s current law* b) Ohm’s current law
c) Kirchhoff’s voltage law d) Ohm’s voltage law
16. This law in electrical circuits state, “The algebraic sum of all voltages around a closed path (or loop) is
zero”. How do you call this law?
a) Kirrchoff’s current law b) Ohm’s current law
c) Kirchhoff’s voltage law* d) Ohm’s voltage law
17. This is a point where the concavity of a curve changes or when the slope of the curve is neither
increasing nor decreasing. What is this point commonly called?
a) Maximum point b) Minimum point
c) Point of tangency d) Point of inflection*
18. What is a number, which could not be expressed as a quotient of two integers?
a. Natural b. Rational
c. Irrational* d. Surd
20. How do you call the distance of a point from the y-axis?
a) Polar distance b) Coordinate
c) Abscissa* d) Ordinate
21. Which of the following situations has a conventional cash flow so that an internal rate of return can
be safely calculated and used?
• Your company undertakes a mining project in which the land must be reclaimed at the end of the
project.
• You invest in a safe dividend stock and receive dividends each year.*
• You lease a car and pay by the month
• Your company invests heavily in a new product that will generate profits for two years. To keep
profits high for 10 years, the company plans to reinvest heavily after two years.
22. What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always required to do during repayment?
a) Pay exactly the same amount of principal each payment
b) Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time*
c) Pay exactly the same amount of interest each payment
d) Pay the interest only whenever failure to pay the principal
23. What is the indirect product cost (IPC) spending variance?
• The IPC volume adjusted budget minus the total IPC absorbed
• The IPC volume adjusted budget [fixed + volume (variable IPC rate)]
• The difference between actual IPC and IPC volume adjusted budget*
• The difference between actual IPC and IPC absorbed
24. A prefix denoting a multiple of ten times any of the physical units of the system international.
a. Deka* b. Nano
c. Hecto d. Exa
25. This is the case of a solution of a plane triangle where the given data leads to two solutions. How do
you call this case?
a) Ambiguous case* b) Quadratic case
c) Extraneous case d) Conditional case
26. It is a type of polygon in which each interior angle must be less than or equal to 180°, and all vertices
'point outwards' away from the interior. How do you call this polygon?
a) Concave Polygon b) Convex polygon*
c) Regular polygon d) Irregular polygon
27. How do you call the integral of any quotient whose numerator is the differential of the denominator?
a) Co-logarithm b) Logarithm*
c) Product d) Derivative
28. What is a regular polygon that has 27 diagonals?
a) Nonagon* b) hexagon
c) Pentagon d) Heptagon
29. What can you say about the present worth of all depreciation over the economic life of the item?
a) Maintenance b) Capital recovery
c) Depreciation recovery* d) Annuity
30. What do you think is the provision in the contract that indicates the possible adjustment of material
cost and labor cost?
a) Secondary clause b) Specification
c) Escalatory clause* d) General provision
31. These are used to produce consumer goods and services. Guess, what are these?
a) Consumer goods and services
b) Producer goods and services*
c) Necessity products and services
d) Luxury products and services
32. What do you think are those products or services that are required to support human life and
activities that will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies
considerably?
a) Consumer goods and services
b) Producer goods and services
c) Necessity products and services*
d) Luxury products and services
33. Which statement about a charge placed on a dielectric material is true?
• The charge increases the conductivity of the material
• The charge is confined to the region in which the charge was placed.*
• The charge is immediately lost to the atmosphere
• The charge is instantly carried to the material’s surface
39. In the problem of writing the equation of a certain curve with respect to another axes in which the
new axes are parallel to the original axes and similarly directed is known as:
a) Translation of axes* b) Reversal of axes
c) Notation of axes d) Relocation of axes
40. How do you call a ring shaped surface or solid obtained by rotating a circle about a coplanar line that
does not intersect?
a) Torus* b) Annulus
c) Circoloid d) Annular
41. Which of the following Common wealth Acts is known as the oldest Mechanical Engineering law?
a) Commonwealth Act 394 b) Commonwealth Act 594
c) Commonwealth Act 294* d)Commonwealth Act 8394
42. It is a statement that one mathematical expression is greater than or less than another. How do you
call this?
a) Conditional expression b) Inequality*
c) Interval d) Domain
43. It is a method of depreciation where a fixed sum of money is regularly deposited at compound
interest in a real or imaginary fund in order to accumulate an amount equal to the total depreciation of
an asset at the end of the assets estimated life. How do you call this depreciation?
a) Straight line method b) Declining balance method
c) SYD method d) Sinking fund method*
45. The angle that the line of sight to the object, makes with the horizontal, which is above the eye of the
observer, is called as:
a) Angle of elevation* b) Angle of depression
c) Acute angle d) Obtuse angle
46. In complex algebra, we use a diagram to represent a complex plane commonly called as:
a) Venn diagram b) Histogram
c) Argand diagram* d) Funicular diagram
50. If the specific weight of a liquid is 58.5 lbf per cubic foot, what is the specific volume of the liquid?
a) 1.0675 cm3/g* b) 0.5321 cm3/g
c) 1.5502 cm3/g d) 0.9504 cm3/g
51. The sum of P15,000.00, deposited in an account earning 4% per annum compounded quarterly, will
become P18,302.85. Determine the effective rate of interest per year.
a) 3.06 % b) 4.06 %*
c) 5.06 % d) 6.06 %
52. The atomic weight of hydrogen is 1 gram per gram-atom. What is the mass of a hydrogen atom?
a) 1.66 x 10-24 g/atom* b) 6.02 x 10-23 g/atom
c) 1 g/atom d) The mass is too small to calculate
53. A 5 meter extension ladder leans against the wall; the bottom is 3 m from the wall. If the bottom
stays at the same place, how much should the ladder be extended so that the top would lean against the
wall 1 meter higher?
a) 1.2 m b) 1.5 m
c) 0.5m d) 0.83095 m*
54. Determine the value of each interior angle of a regular pentagon.
a) 108°* b) 120°
c) 98° d) 135°
55. A machine was purchased under these terms: P30,000 down and P5,000 each month for 5 years. If
money is worth 12% compounded monthly, what is the cash price of the machine?
a) P144, 775.19 b) P245, 775.19
c) P542, 775.91 d) P254, 775.19*
56. Determine the amount that must be deposited every 3 months in a fund paying 12% compounded
quarterly in order to have P25,000 in 8 years.
a) P746.71 b) P476.17*
c) P674.71 d) P700.00
57. A situation whereby payment is made for work not done. The term also applies to the case where
more workers are used than a reasonable requirement for efficient operation.
a) Downtime pay* b) Check-in-pay
c) Feather bidding d) Moon lighting
58. A net force that will give to a mass of one gram an acceleration of 1 cm/s2 is said to be:
a) Newton b) Ergs
c) Kilogram force d) Dyne*
59. The index that gives the rate earned per share based on current price per share is called as:
a) Price-earning ratio b) Operating expense ratio
c) Dividend yield* d) Equity ratio
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60. A regular polyhedron having 12 regular pentagons is called as:
a) Icosahedron b) Octahedron
c) Dodecahedron* d) Tetrahedron
62. A leak from a faucet comes out in separate drops. Which of the following is the main cause of this
phenomenon?
a) Air resistance b) Gravity
c) Surface tension* d) Viscosity of the fluid
68. Firm A use full absorption costing while B was variable products costing. How will the finance
statements of these companies differ?
• Firm A has higher cost of good sold and therefore, smaller profit
• Firm A has a higher cost of goods sold, higher inventory value and higher retained earnings*
• Firm A has smaller cost of good sold and a larger profit
• There are nod difference
69. Companies A and B are identical except for their inventory accounting systems. Company A uses the
last-in, first-out convention while company B uses the first-in, first-out convention. How will their
financial statements differ in an inflationary environment?
• Company A’s profits will be higher and the book value of their inventory will be higher than for the
company B.
• Company A’s profits will be higher and the book value of their inventory will be lower than for
company B.
• Company B’s profits and inventory book value will be higher than for company A.*
• Company B’s profits will be higher than A’s, but inventory book value will be lower.
70. A type of annuity where the payments are made at the start of each period beginning from the first
period:
• Ordinary annuity b)Annuity due*
c) Deferred annuity d)Perpetuity
71. It is the amount which a willing buyer will pay to a willing seller for property each has equal
advantage and is under no compulsion to buy or sell
• Fair value b) Market value*
c) Book value d) Salvage value
72. It refers to a straight line, which a curve approaches closely, but never meets or touches the curve.
a) Asymptote* b) Directrix
c) Latus rectum d) Line segment
76. The study of motion without reference to the forces which causes motion is known as:
a) Kinetics b) Dynamics
c) Kinematic d) Statics
77. If the graph of the conic equation turns out to be just a pair of lines a single point or there has be no
graph at all. The conic section is called:
a) Regenerative conic b) Recursive conic
c) Ancillary conic d) Degenerative conic*
78. The sum of the two interior angles of the triangles is equal to the third angle and the difference of
the angles is equal to 2/3 of the third angle. Find the third angle.
a) 15° b) 75°
c) 90°* d) 120°
79. A payment made to an owner of an industrial property right for the grant of exclusive sell for profit
of the item concerned.
a) salary b) commission
c) royalty* d) all of these
80. An intangible itrem of value arising from the exclusive right of the company to provide a specified
product and service in a certain region of the country
a) marked value b) fair value
c) goodwill value d) franchise value*
82. How do you classify this interest rate, which specifies the actual rate of interest on the principal for
one year?
a) Nominal rate b) Rate of return
c) Exact interest rate d) Effective rate*
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*** What is an estimate of assets’ net market value at the end of its estimated life?
a) Market value b) Fair value
c) Salvage value* d) Book value
***Which of the following is true regarding the minimum attractive rate of return used in judging
proposed investments?
a) It is much smaller than the interest rate used to discount expected cash flows from investments
b) It is frequently a policy decision made by an organization’s management*
c) It is larger than the interest rate used to discount expected cash flow from investments
d) It is not relevant in engineering economy studies
• Working capital*
• Accumulated amount
• Banking
• Principal or present worth
***Liquid assets such as cash and other assets that can be converted quickly into cash, such as accounts
receivable and merchandise are called:
• Current assets*
• Fixed assets
• Total assets
• Land and buildings
***A type of bond, without any security behind them except a promise to pay by the issuing corporation
is known as:
a. Collateral trust bond b. Mortgage bond
c. Debenture bond* d. Joint bond
***It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal intervals of time where the first payment is made
after several periods, after the beginning of the payment. How do you call this payment?
a) Deferred annuity* b) Delayed annuity
c) Progressive annuity d) Simple annuity
***“Whenever a net force acts on a body, it produces acceleration in the direction of the resultant force,
an acceleration which is directly proportional to the resultant force and inversely proportional to the
resultant force and inversely proportional to the mass of the body”. How do you call this theory?
a) Newton’s First law of motion b) Newton’s Second Law of motion*
c) Farday’s law of forces d) Hook’s law of equilibrium
***The amount of company’s profits that the board of directors of the corporation decides to distribute
to ordinary shareholders:
a) Dividend* b) Return
c) Share of stock d) Par value
***What do you think is the output or sales at which income is insufficient to equal operating cost?
a) Break even point* b) Depreciation
c) Investment d) Cash flow
***What is an artificial expense that spreads the purchase price of an asset or other property over a
number of years?
a) Depreciation* b) Amnesty
c) Sinking fund d) Bond
***What type of curve is generated by a point, which moves in uniform circular motion about an axis,
while traveling with a constant speed, V, parallel to the axis?
a) A cycloid b) An epicycloids
c) A hypocycloid d) A helix*
***What do you call the possible outcome of an experiment?
a) A sample space b) A random point
c) An event* d) A finite set