MATHEMATICS (CALTECH)

1. The 6th term of an AP is 17 and the 13th term is 38. Determine the 19th term.
A. 21 B. 56 C. 40 D. 48

2. Determine the number of the term whose value is 22 in the series: 2.5, 4, 5.5, 7...
A. 10 B. 12 C. 14 D. 16

3. Insert five arithmetic means between 20 and 32.

A. 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 C. 23, 25, 26, 27, 30
B. 21, 22.5, 24, 27.5, 30 D. 22, 25, 27, 29, 30

4. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the series 5, 9, 13, 17...
A.602 B.515 C.324 D. 150

5. Find the number of terms of the series 5,8, 11, ... of which the sum is 1025.
A. 21 B. 56 C. 25 D. 13

6. Find the sum of all the numbers between 5 and 250 which are exactly divisible by 4.
A. 2046 C. 1023 B. 1596 D. 7808

7. If the 3rd term of a G.P. is 20 and the 6th term is 160, what is the first term?
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8

8. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the geometric progression 2, 4, 8, 16, ...
A. 2046 B. 1596 C. 1023 D.7808

9. If one third of the air in a tank is removed by each stroke of an air pump, what fractional part of the total
air is removed after 6 strokes?
A. 0.7122 B. 0.9122 C. 0.6122 D. 0.8122

10. A culture of bacteria doubles every 2 hours. If there are 5 bacteria at the beginning, how many bacteria
will there be after 24 hours?
A. 24080 B. 28400 C. 20480 D. 24800

11. The radius of a sphere is 6 m. Find the volume of the spherical segment of height 4 m.
A. 234.57 cu. m. C. 145.69 cu. m. B. 256.58 cu. m. D. 124.58 cu. m.

12. A conical vessel has a height of 24 cm and a base diameter of 12 cm. It holds water to a depth of 18 cm
above its vertex. Find the volume of its content in cc.
A. 387.4 B. 381.7 C. 383.5 D. 385.2

13. Find the derivative of the given function:

f(x) = x 2sin(2x)
A. 2x(sin(2x) + x cos(2x)) C. x2(sin(2x) + 2x cos(2x)) B. 2x(cos(2x) + x sin(2x)) D. x 2(cos(2x) + 2x sin(2x))

14. Find the second derivative of the function:

sqrt( x 2+ 1¿
A. ( x 2+ 1¿−2.5 C. ( x 2+ 1¿ 1.5
D. ( x 2+ 1¿−1.5 D. ( x 2+ 1¿ 2.5

15. Find the third derivative of y = x In x.

A. -1/x B. -1/ x 3 C. -1/ x 2 D. -1
2 2
16. Determine y ' implicitly: xe( x + y )=5.
2 2 2 2
−2 x +1 −x +1 2 x +1 x +1
A. B. C. D.
2 xy xy 2 xy xy

2
u −1
17. Given y= 2 and u=√3 x 2 +2, solve for dy/dx.
u +1
8x
A. C. 8 x ¿
3u ¿ ¿
8u
B. D. 8 u ¿
3x ¿¿

18. Find dy/dx if y=t 3−2 t+ 1 and t = cos (x - π /6) when x = π /2.
A. 0.433 B. 1.083 C. 0.866 D. 1.732

19. Integrate: ∫ x e x dx
A. x e x −e x +C C. x e x + e x + C
B. x 2 e x −e x +C D. x 2 e x + e x +C

20. Integrate: ∫ arcsin (3 x )dx

A. Arcsin (3x) + (1/3)√ (1−9 x 2)+ C
B. x Arcsin (3x) + (1/2)√ (1+ 9 x 2 ) + C
C. x Arcsin (3x) + (1/3)√ (1−9 x 2) + C
D. Arcsin (3x) + (1/2)√ (1+ 9 x 2 )+ C

21. Compute for the value of determinant:

2 −3 4 2
3 4 2 5
−5 −2 3 −4
−3 2 0 −5
A. -814
B. 814
C. 680
D. 0

22. What is the 11th term of the harmonic progression if the first and the third terms are 6 and 3
respectively?
A.2 B.1 C.1/2 D.1/4

23. Solve: 127 mod 11.

A.2 B.4 C.6 D.8
24. Solve: 500 mod 12.
A.2 B.4 C.6 D.8

25. If 2345 is divided by 11, determine the remainder.

A.10 B.5 C.2 D.5

26. If today is Sunday, what day of the week will it be, 32021 days after today?
A. Friday B. Wednesday C. Tuesday D. Thursday

27. Two transmission towers 40 feet high are 200 feet apart. If the lowest point of the cable is 10 feet
above the ground, the vertical distance from the roadway to cable 50 feet from the center is:
A. 17.25 ft B. 17.5 ft C. 17.75 ft D. 18 ft

28. The arch of the bridge is in the shape of a semi-ellipse having a horizontal span of 40 m and a height of
16 m at the center. How high is the arch 9 m to the right or to the left from the center?
A. 14.288 m B. 10.144 m C. 7.144 m D. 12.288 m

29. A certain radioactive material is known to decay at a rate proportional to the amount present. If initially
there is 50 milligrams of the material present and after two hours it is observed that the material has lost
10 percent of its original mass, determine the mass of the materials after four hours.
A. 45.0 g B. 40.5 g C. 36.0 g D. 30.6 g

30. A certain radioactive material is known to decay at a rate proportional to the amount present. If initially
there is 50 milligrams of the material present and after two hours it is observed that the material has lost
10 percent of its original mass, determine the time at which the material has decayed to one half of its
initial mass.
A. 11.21 hours C. 13.16 hours B. 12.35 hours D. 14.23 hours

31. A body at a temperature of 50°F is placed outdoors where the temperature is 100°F. If after 5 minutes
the temperature of the body is 60°F, determine the temperature of the body after 20 minutes.
A. 75.9°F B. 79.5°F C. 95.7°F D. 97.5°F

32. A body at a temperature of 50°F is placed outdoors where the temperature is 100°F. If after 5 minutes
the temperature of the body is 60°F, determine how long will take the body to reach a temperature of 75°F.
A. 13.6 mins C. 15.4 mins B. 14.5 mins D. 16.3 mins

33. Suppose that a corpse was discovered in a room at midnight and its temperature was 80°F. The
temperature of the room is kept constant at 60°F. Two hours later the temperature of the corpse dropped
to 75°F. Estimate the time of death of the corpse.
A. 7:26 PM B. 11:30 PM C. 5:14 PM D. 9:45 PM

34. Solve for the argument of 5+12i

A. 22.62° B. 36.87° C. 53.13° D. 67.38°

35. Evaluate (1 - j¿12

A. 64i B. -64 C. -64i D. 64
36. Solve for the natural logarithm of (2+i)
A. 0.46 + 0.80i C. 0.80 + 0.46i B. 0.46 - 0.80i D. 0.80 - 0.46i

37. Solve for e^(2 – j)

A. 3.99 + 6.22i C. 6.22 + 3.99i
B. 3.99 – 6.22i D. 6.22 - 3.99i

38. Evaluate (2 – j)^(1 + i)

A. 0.34 + 1.27i C. 1.27 + 0.34i B. 1.19 + 3.35i D. 3.35 + 1.19i

39. A student receive his grades as follows:

What is the student’s weighted average?

A. 1.6 B. 1.7 C. 1.75 D. 1.65

40. Suppose that we took 7 mice and measured their body weight and their length from nose to tail.

Determine the correlation coefficient.

A. 0.9014 B. 0.2412 C. 0.5215 D. 0.9115

41. Solve for the general solution of the differential equation y' - y = 2
A. y = ce x + 2 C. y = ce x - 2 B. y = ce− x + 2 D. y = ce− x + 2
42. Obtain the particular solution for the following differential equation: y' - 3y = 6 with x = 0 and y = 6.
A. y = 8e 3 x - 2 C. y = 5e 3 x + 1 B. y = 4e 2 x + 2 D. y = 9 e 2 x – 3

43. Convert the following binary number to its decimal equivalent: 1010 0110 1011 001 12
A. -22861 B. -24125 C. 42675 D. 12403

44. Find the sum of natural numbers between 250 and 1000 which are exactly divisible by 3.
A. 175365 B. 167535 C. 165375 D. 156375

45. A basket contains 500 eggs. Out of these eggs, 4% are cracked. How many of these eggs are in good
condition?
A. 400 B. 450 C. 480 D. 460
46. An electrical firm manufactures light bulbs that have a life, before burn-out, that is normally distributed
with mean equal to 800 hours and a standard deviation of 40 hours. Find the probability that a bulb burns
between 778 and 834 hours.
A. 0.5111 B. 0.2546 C. 0.6215 D. 0.3615

47. A certain machine makes electrical resistors having a mean resistance of 40 ohms and a standard
deviation of 2 ohms. Assuming that the resistance follows a normal distribution and can be measured to
any degree of accuracy, for a total of 300 resistors made, about how many will have a resistance exceeding
43 ohms?
A. 34 B. 20 C. 150 D. 90

48. At a certain instant, the dimensions of a rectangular parallelepiped are 4, 5 and 6 feet and they are
increasing, respectively, at the rates 1, 2 and 3 feet per second. At what rate is the volume increasing?
A. 183 B. 381 C. 138 D. 318

49. Two resistors R1and R2are connected in parallel in an electric circuit. If R1, is decreasing at the rate of 1
ohm/sec and R2is increasing at the rate of 0.5 ohm/sec, at what rate is RT changing when R1 = 75 ohms and
R2 = 50 ohms?
A. 0.50 ohm/sec C. 0.05 ohm/sec B. 0.08 ohm/sec D. 0.02 ohm/sec