CE PRE-B0ARD EXAMINATION

MATH

SET A
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one
answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer
sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only. SHOW YOUR
SOLUTIONS.

1. A semiconductor will hire 7 men and 5 women. In how many ways can the company choose from 9 men
and 6 women?
a. 678 b. 216 c. 324 d. 560
2. Find the probability that a person flipping a coin gets the 3rd head on the 7th flip.
a.0.1144 b.0.1172 c.0.1221 d.0.1344
3. Find the probability that a person flipping a coin gets the 1st head on the 4th flip.
a. 0.035 b.0.0012 c.0.0625 d.0.1122
4. The probability that a student pilot passes a written test for his private pilot’s license is 0.7. Find the
probability that a person passes the test before the 4th try.
a.0.973 b.0.812 c.0.922 d.0.954
5. On the average, a certain intersection results in 3 traffic accidents per month. What is the probability that
in any given month at the intersection, exactly 5 accidents will occur?
a.0.0091 b.0.2112 c.0.1221 d.0.1008
6. What is the probability of a family with 5 children of having 3 boys and 2 girls?
a.5/16 b.1/4 c.3/16 d.3/8
7. A player tosses two pair coin. He wins P1 if head appears. P2 if 2 heads appear. On the other hand, he
losses P5 if no head appear. Determine the expected value of the game.
a.-0.50 b.0.75 c.0.25 d.-0.25
8. Find the value of y in (3x+4yi)(6-7i)=3+5i
a.1/20 b.1/10 c.3/20 d.1/5
9. What is the angle between the two vectors A and B if A = 4i + 12j + 6k and and B = 24i – 8j + 6k?
a.94.560 b.78.330 c.84.320 d. 44.560
10. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices are (2, -1, 3) , Q(1,2,4) and R(3,1,1)?
a.3.45 b.7.51 c.4.74 d.5.11
11. Find the volume of the parallelepiped whose edges are represented by A = 2i – 3j + 4k, B = I + 2j – k
and C = 3i – j + 2k
a.4 b. 5 c.6 d.7
[ 3 -4 ¿] ¿ ¿¿
12. Compute the eigenvectors of A= ¿
a.<1,2> and <4,1> b.<2,-1> and <3,2> c.<4,-1> and <-3,1>d.<1,-4> and <4,-2>
13. Two faces of a cube lie in the planes 2x-y+2z-3=0 and 6x-3y+6z+8=0.Find the volume of the cube.
a.4411/125 b.245/343 c.4913/729 d.111/71
Given the points A(5,-2,7) and B(3,2,8)
14. The parametric equation of AB is
a.x=3-2t,y=2+4t,z=8+t b.x=4-4t,y=7+2t,z=12-4t
c.x=3-2t,y=12-3t,z=11+2t d.x=4+2t,y=11+2t,z=-19+3t
15. The point where AB pierces the xy plane is
a.(15,-23,-0) b.(19,-30,0) c.(12,21,0) d.(-11,23,0)
16. The direction number of AB is
 a.<-2 4 1> b.<2 1 7> c.<1 2 3> d.<8 1 -1>
17. The direction cosine of AB is
a.<-0.436 0.8728 0.2182> b.<-0.476 0.8912 0.2456>
c.<0.436 0.8999 0.2188> d.<-0.496 0.8798 0.2182>
18. r(1+cosθ )=1 in Cartesian Form is
a.y2+2x=1 b.y+2x2=1 c.y2+4x=1 d.y2+x=2
19. lim x → 1 ¿
2
2π
a.e
π
b. e c.0 d.DNE
20. Find the slope of the curve r=sin2 θ at θ = π / 3 ?
a.4.5 b.-5.2 c.2.33 d.-4.5
21. Find the slope of the ellipse x2+4y2-10x-16y+5=0 at x=7.
a.-0.1463 b.-0.1538 c.-0.1654 d.-0.1768
22. Find the radius of curvature at any point of the curve y+In cos x =0
a.cos x b.sec x c.1.211 d.1
23. Find the angle between the radius vector and the tangent line to the curve r=θ at θ = π
a.57.50 b.34.20 c.45.20 d.33.10
24. A particle moves along the path whose parametric equation are x=t3 and y=12t2 .What is the acceleration
when t=2 sec?
a.26.83 b.32.12 c.33.43 d.41.22
25. A car starting 12:00 Noon travels west at speed of 30 kph. Another car starting from the same point at
2:00 PM travels north at 45 kph. Find how fast are the two cars separating at 4:00 PM?
a.57 kph b.51 kph c.81 kph d.44 kph
26. A revolving searchlight in a lighthouse 2 km offshore is following a car traveling slowly along the shore.
When the car is 1 km from the point on the shore that is closest to the light house, the searchlight is
turning at the rate of 0.25 rev/hr. How fast in kph is the car traveling at this moment?
a.2.98 b.3.93 c.4.11 d.6.12
27. At 4:00 PM boat A left in the direction N 450E. At 4:30 PM boat B left the same pier in the direction S
300E at 32 mph. How fast were they separating at 5:00 PM in mph?
a.34.23 b.38.21 c.44.61 d.54.33
28. A right circular cylinder is inscribed in a right circular cone of radius 6
Find the radius of the cylinder if its volume is maximum.
a.3 b.4 c.6 d.2.5
29. At what point of the parabola y = x 2−3 x−5 is the tangent line parallel to 3x – y = 3?
A. (3, 5) B. (3, -5) C. (-3, -5) D. (-3, 5)
30. Find the point where the normal to y = x + √ x at (4, 6) crosses the y-axis.
a. (0, 4.2) B. (0, 7.8) C. (0, 5.2) D. (0, 9.2)
3 2
31. Find the angle of intersection of the curve: xy + y = 1; y =( x +1 )
a. 45° B. 11.31° C. 33.69° D. 78.69°
b. A clock has hands 1 and 1 -3/5 inches long respectively. At what rate are the ends of the hands
approaching each other when the time is 2 o’clock?
c. 5.70 in¿ s B. 3.29 in¿ s C. -5.70 in¿ s D. -3.29 in¿ s
32. A ladder 20 m long stands on a horizontal floor and leans against a vertical wall. If the top of the ladder
slides at the rate of ½ m/sec, find the rate at which the angle between the ladder and the wall is changing
when the foot of the ladder is 12 m from the wall.
A. 0.1 rad/s B. 0.3 rad/s C. 0.2 rad/s D. 0.4 rad/s
33. A conical glass whose radius is 5 m and altitude 12 m are being filled at the rate of 10 cu. m/sec. How
fast is the surface rising when the liquid is 6 m deep?
 A. 3.18 m/s B. 0.51 m/s C. 2.12 m/s D. 0.13 m/s
2 π
34. Find the radius of curvature of the curve r = :θ= .
1+ cos θ 2
a. 1.414 B. 5.657 C. 2.828 D. 2.121
35. A triangular corner lot has perpendicular sides of lengths 120 feet and 160 feet. Find the dimensions of
the largest rectangular building that can be constructed on a lot with sides parallel to the streets.
A. 5200 ft 2 B. 2800 ft 2 C. 1700 ft 2 D. 4800 ft 2
36. Find the area of the largest rectangle with sides parallel to the coordinate axes which can be inscribed in
the area bounded by the two parabolas y = 26 – x 2 and y = x 2+ 2.
A. 32 sq. units B. 16 sq. units C. 64 sq. units D. 72 sq. units
37. The area of a sector of a circle is 64 sq. cm. Find its radius if the perimeter is a maximum.
A. 8 cm B. 9 cm C. 10 cm D. 5 cm
38. Find the shortest distance from the point (3, 0) to the parabola y 2=4 x .
a. 1.414 B. 3.464 C. 2.828 D. 1.732
39. A lot 625 sq. m. in area is to be fenced on all four sides. Its dimensions require the least amount of
fencing. If the fence costs P 50.00 per linear meter, what is the total cost?
a. P 2500 B. P 5000 C. P 7500 D. P 3750
3 2
40. Find the total area between the cubic y = 2 x −3 x −12 x , the x-axis, and its maximum ordinates.
A. 30.622 B. 41.983 C. 8.360 D. 50.344
2
41. Find the volume generated by revolving the area bounded by the curve outside y = x , and between y =
2x – 1 and y = x + 2; about y-axis.
a. 256 π /15 B. 7 π /2 C. 31 π /30 D. 227 π /60
42. Find the length of the curve whose parametric equations are x = at 2 and y = at 3, from t = 0 and t = √ 5.
a. 10.764a B. 3.921a C. 12.407a D. 5.405a
43. Given that x = a cos θ and y = a sin θ , find the surface area when revolved about the y-axis.
a. 2 π a2 B. 4 π a2 C. π a2 D. 2 π a2 /3
44. Find the centroid of the area in the first quadrant under the curve y = 4 −x 2.
a. (5/8, 3/4) B. (3/4, 8/5) C. (1/2, 5/8) D. (3/2, 3/8)
π
45. Find the moment of inertia of the area under the curve y = sin x from x = 0 to x = , with respect to the
2
y-axis.
a. 4.2832 B. 2.1416 C. 3.1416 D. 1.1416
46. Solve the equation y(6y2 – x – 1)dx +2xdy = 0.

a. x = y2(6 – ce-x) b. x = y3(6 – ce-x) c. x = y2(6 + ce-x) d. x = y3(6 + ce-x)

47. Find the equation of the curve which passes through (0, 2) and has a slope of 2 if y” = 2.

a. y = x2 + 5x + 5 b. y = x2 + 4x +4 c. y = x2 + 3x + 3 d. y = x2 + 2x + 2

48. What is the differential equation of the family of parabola having their vertices as the origin and their
foci on the x axis?

a. 2x dx – y dy = 0 b. y dx – 2x dy = 0 c. 2x dx + y dy = 0 d. y dx + 2x dy = 0

49. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of hyperbolas y2 = x2 + c

a. x2y = c b. x2 = cy c. xy = c d. x = cy
50. The population of a certain municipality increases at a rate equal to the square root of the population. If
the present population is 90,000, how long will it take for the population to reach 160,000?

a. 150 years b. 180 years c. 200 years d. 250 years

51. A certain radioactive element follows the “law of exponential change” and has a “half – life” of 38
hours. Find how long it takes for 90 % of the radioactivity of the element to be dissipated; (b) the
percentage of radioactivity that remains after 76 hours.

a. 180 hrs, 75 hrs b. 128 hrs, 25 hrs c. 306 hrs, 75 hrs d. 214 hrs, 25 hrs

52. If a thermometer is taken outdoors where the temperature is 50C from a room where the temperature is
200C, the reading drops to 100C in one minute. How long after its removal from the room will the
reading be 60C.

a. 2.47 min b. 3.56 min c. 4.56 min d. 5.56 min

53. At a certain time, a thermometer reading 700F is taken outdoors where the temperature is 150F. Five
minutes later, the thermometer reading is 450F. After another five minutes, the thermometer is taken
back indoors where the temperature is fixed at 700F. What is the thermometer reading ten minutes after it
was brought back indoors? When will the reading, to the nearest degree, return back to its original
reading of 700F?

a. 42.90F b. 58.50F c. 64.30F d. 60.40F

54. A tank initially contains 200 liters of fresh water. Brine containing 2.50 N/liter of dissolved salt runs into
the tank at the rate of 8 liters/min ad the mixture kept uniform by stirring runs out at the same rate. How
long will it take for the quantity of salt in the tank to be 180 N?

a. 11.16 min b. 17.03 min c. 13.52 min d. 15.35 min

55. Find the general equation of (D3 – 3D2 + 9D + 13)y = 0.

a. y = c1e-x + e3x(c2cos2x + c3sin2x) b. y = c1ex + e3x(c2cos2x + c3sin2x)

c. y = c1e-x + e3x(c2cos3x +c3sin3x) d. y = c1ex + e3x(c2cos3x + c3sin3x)

56. A spring is such that it would be stretched 6 inches by a 12-lb weight. Let the weight be attached to the
spring and pulled down 4 in below the equilibrium point. IF the weight is started with an upward
velocity of 2 ft/sec, determine the amplitude of the motion.

a. 4 in b. 5 in c. 3 in d. 6 in

57. Solve the initial value problem y” + y’ – 2y = -4 ; y(0) = 2 and y’ (0) = 3.

a. y = 2 – e2x + ex b. y = 2 – e2x – ex c. y = 2 – e-2x + ex d. y = 2 – e-2x – ex

58. A plane is flying directly at an observer at 500 mph at an altitude of 4 miles. How fast is the plane’s
distance from the observer increasing at the moment when the plane is flying over a point on the ground
3 miles from the observer?
a. 100 mph b. 150 mph c. 200 mph d.300 mph
59. A businessman wants to sell a certain number of n products in order to maximize his profit. His market
research showed that if he set the price at P225, he will be able to sell 7500 items, and for every P15
reduction in the price of the product, he will be able to sell another 1500 items. His start-up costs is
 computed to be P300,000 and the cost of production per item is P75. Determine the maximum profit the
businessman can get.
a. P965,625 b. P1,225,850 c. P1,125,650 d. P1,025,275
60. Two airplanes A and B are flying horizontally at the same altitude. Plane B is southwest of plane A,
20km south and 20km west from A. If plane A is flying due west at 16km/min and plane B is flying due
north at 64/3 km/min. What will be their closest distance?
a. 4km b. 6km c. 4.5km d. 5.4km
61. The strength of a rectangular beam varies directly as the product of the width and the square of the depth.
Find the depth of the strongest beam that can be cut from a log whose diameter is 43cm.
a. 38.1cm b. 35.1cm c. 41.6cm d. 36.6cm
62. An orchard yields 25 baskets of fruit per tree when planted with 40 trees. Due to overcrowding, the yield
per tree (for each tree in the orchard) is reduced by ½ basket for each additional tree that is planted. How
many trees should be planted to maximize the total yield of the orchard?
a. 40 b. 45 c. 48 d. 54
63. The motion of a body moving vertically upwards is defined by the equation y = 47.04t – 4.90t^2, where
y is in meters and t is in seconds. Determine the maximum height attained by the body.
a. 112.700 m b. 112.896 m c. 112.112 m d. 109.760 m
64. A car plate is composed of 6 characters, the first three are letters from the alphabet and the next three are
numbers. How many of these car plates end in 123?
a. 108 b. 312000 c. 15600 d. 17576
65. In a 10-pin bowling, how many ways in knocking down the pins will there be if one ball throw is made?
a. 10 b. 55 c. 1023 d. 1024
66. A classroom contains 71 students. Of these students, 10 are Chinese, 24 are Japanese and 37 are
Filipinos. If 3 students are randomly asked to get out of the classroom, one after the other, find the
probability that all three students are Japanese.
a. 0.0354 b. 0.330 c. 0.0403 d. 0.0433
67. A box contains 100 washers, 24 of which are brass, 36 are copper, and the remainder 40 are steel. If one
washer is taken at random, retained, and a second washer similarly drawn, find the probability that both
washers are steel.
a. 0.160 b. 0.1560 c. 0.1576 d. 0.1616
68. 12 percent of cellphone parts produced by a manufacturer are defective. Find the probability that a
sample of 20 parts contains more than 4 defective ones.
a. 0.0886 b. 0.2127 c. 0.1299 d. 0.0827
69. A smartphone battery manufacturer knows that for large quantities, the lifetime of the battery is normally
distributed with an average lifetime of 500 days, and a standard deviation of 61 days. What percent of a
huge stock of batteries will have a lifetime greater than 561 days?
a. 15.87% b. 84.13% c. 22.13% d.18.67%
70. A large set of data has a normal distribution with mean of 56 and a standard deviation of 5. Which of the
following intervals do approximately 95.4% of all cases lie?
a. 56 – 71 b. 46 – 56 c. 51 – 61 d. 46 – 66
71. The average number of flaws in a 100m optic cable is 2.2. If the number of flaws follows a Poisson
distribution, find the probability of at least three flaws in a 100m cable?
a. 0.2337 b. 0.2130 c. 0.3773 d. 0.3310
72. The number of cars passing in a certain stretch of road follows a Poisson distribution. If the average
number of cars passing per minute is 12, find the probability that there are 6 or fewer cars in one minute?
a. 0.0319 b. 0.0258 c. 0.0458 d. 0.0381
73. A fair coin is tossed three times. If the probability of a head appearing 0, 1, 2 and 3 times are 1/3, 3/8,
3/8 and 1/3, respectively. The expectation is:
a. 1 b. 1.5 c. 1.75 d. 1.25
74. A fair coin is flipped once. You will be paid Php 10 if the result is heads and Php 20 if the result is tails.
Find the expected value you will be paid.
a. Php 14.5 b. Php 14 c. Php 15 d. Php 16
75. In a game of luck, a participant would roll two fair, 6-sided dice and if the sum is 6 or 11, the participant
wins, otherwise he will lose. The winner will be given Php 1000. Find the expected payout in the game.
a. Php 194.44 b. Php216.22 c. Php186.42 d. Php204.44
76. The average scores of 20 students in a class is 92. Then 10 students from another class having an average
score of 86 joins. What will be the average score of the class now?
a. 90 b. 88 c. 89.60 d. 88.40
77. The number of working days lost due to accidents in a factory in the 12-month period is listed as
follows: {4, 6, 1, 2 ,6, 3, 3, 1, 5, 2, 9, 9}. Determine the 3rd quartile value.
a. 3 b. 6 c. 7 d. 7.5
78. Determine the area of the region bounded above by y = 5 + x^2 and below by y = 1 + 2x^2.
a. 10.67 sq. units b. 12.67 sq. units c. 12.33 sq. units d. 10.33 sq. units
79. Find the centroid of the region bounded by the parabola y^2 = 2x and the line y = x – 4.
a. (3.4, 1.2) b. (3.2, 1.2) c. (3.4, 1) d. (3.2, 1)
80. A spring has a natural length of 10 in and a 30 lb force stretches it to a length of 12 in. Find the work
done in stretching the spring from 12 in to 14 in.
a. 72 lb – in b. 66 lb – in c. 84 lb – in d. 90 lb – in
81. As a flour sack is being raised a distance of 4m. Flour leaks out at such a rate that the number of pounds
lost is directly proportional to the square root of the distance travelled. If the sack originally contained
400 N of flour and it loses a total of 80 kg while being raised to 4m, determine the work done in raising
the sack.
a. 1452.33 N – m b. 1386.67 N – m c. 1633.33 N – m d. 1543.67 N – m
82. A tank in the form of an inverted right-circular cone is 4m across the top and 5m deep. The tank is filled
to a height of 3m with water. Find the work necessary to pump half of the water to the top of the tank.
a. 438171.29 N – m b. 483171.29 N – m c. 50721.79 N – m d. 50271.79 N – m
83. A cable 2kg/m is attached to a bucket that carries a barrel containing oil that weighs 300kgs. The barrel
is initially at the bottom of a 120m mine shaft. Determine the amount of work required to lift the barrel
all the way up the shaft.
a. 482264 N – m b. 494424 N – m c. 528264 N – m d. 500644 N – m
84. Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by the curves x = y^2 – 2 and x
= 6 – y^2 about the line x = 2.
a. 272.92 cu. Units b. 136.46 cu. Units c. 214.46 cu. Units d. 107.23 cu. units
85. Find the surface area of the solid obtained by revolving the region bounded by the curve y = 25−x 2√
and the lines x = -1 and x = 2 about the x-axis.
a. 60 π sq. units b. 30 π sq. units c. 20 π sq. units d. 40 π sq. units
86. A particle has acceleration given by a = 12t^2 + 1 where a is in m/sec^2. At t = 0, v = 0. At what time is
the velocity 12m/s?
a. 1.38 secs b. 2.18 secs c. 1.62 secs d. 1.53 secs
87. Given: x’(t)=2x+4y & y’(t)=-x+6y. Find x(t).
a. x = 2c1e4t+ c2 e4t (2t+1) c.x = 2c1e4t+ c2 e4t (2t-1)
4t 4t
b. x = 2c1e - c2 e (2t-1) d. x = c1e4t+ c2 e4t (2t-1)
88. Given: x’(t)=2x-5y & y’(t)=2x-4y> Find y(t)
a. y=e-t(c1cost+c2sint) c. y=e-t(-c1cost-c2sint)
-t
b. y=e (-c1cost+c2sint) d. y=e-t(c1cost-c2sint)d
89. x’(t)=x+y & y’(t)=9x+y. Find x(t)
a. x= c1e4t- c2 e-2t c. x= -c1e4t- c2 e-2t
4t -2t
b. x= -c1e + c2 e d. x= c1e4t+ c2 e-2t
90. A 1/4 slug mass is hung onto a spring, whereupon the spring is stretched 6 in from its natural length.
The mass is then started in motion from the equilibrium position with an initial velocity of 4 ft/sec in the
upward direction Find the subsequent motion of the mass, if the force due to air is −2 ẋ lb
 −1 −4 t −1 −4 t
a . x= √ 3 e sin 4 √3 t b. . x= √ 3 e sin 4 √3 t
2 3
−1 −4 t −1 −4 t
c. x= √ 3 e sin 4 √3 t d. x= √ 3 e sin 4 √3 t
4 5