PREBOARD EXAM #1 (MATH) SET A DURATION: (3.5 HRS) DIRECTIONS: SHADE YOUR ANSWER ON THE ANSWER SHEET PROVIDED. GOOD LUCK! PLEASE ANSWER HONESTLY! 1. When the sun is 20 degrees above the horizon, how long is the shadow cast by a building 150 ft high? A. 550 ft Cc. 405 £t B. 580 ft D. 450 ft 2.Find the acute angle between vectors 2; = 3-4i and 2:=4-3i. A. 18 deg 18 min B. 15 deg 15 min C. 17 deg 17 min D. 16 deg 16 min 3. Evaluate: limit of (x-2)/(0>-4) as % approaches 2. A. 1/4 c. 0 B. 1/2 D. infinity 4.A triangular pole whose edges are 5, 5, and 8 m long is placed vertically in water with its longest edge uppermost, horizontal, and 3 m below the water level. Calculate the force on a side of the plate. A, 235.2 kN Cc. 470.4 KN B. 940.8 kN D. 1,881.6 kN 5.A triangle with three sides. A, Equilateral Triangle B. Isosceles Triangle C. Equiangular Triangle D. Scalene Triangle unequal 6.A club of 40 executives, 33 like to smoke Marlboro and 20 like to smoke Philip Morris. How many like both? A. 13 c. 10 B. 11 D. 12 7. Find the area of the triangle having vertices at ~4-i, 142i, 4-31. A. 15 c.17 B. 16 D. 18 8.A collection of coins has a value of 64 cents. There are two more nickels than dimeo and three timco as many pennies as dimes. How many dimes are there? A. 2 c. 4 Be D. 5 9. Find the equation of the family of curves at every point of which the tangent line has a slope of 2y. A. C. xeCe*2y B. yaCerx D. y=Cen2x 10. The orbit of the Halley’s Comet around the sun is an ellipse with the sun as a focus and eccentricity e=0.967. The position where the comet is closest to the sun to the position where it is farthest from the sun is approximately 3.365 x 10 raised to 9 miles. Approximately how closed the comet gets to the sun in million miles? A. 20 c. 13 B. 48 D. 56 11. If 3x=4y, then 4y>>/3:>> is equal to: A. 3/4 G YA B, 2/3 D. 3/2 12.A contractor wishes to build 9 houses, each different in design. In how many ways can be place these houses on a street if 6 lots are on one side of the street and 3 lots are on the opposite side? A. 2160 c. 4320 B. 362,880 D. 60,480 13. I£ the line kx + 3y + 5 = 0 has a slope of 2/3, determine k. A. -3 c. 3 B.-2 D. 2 14. Through how many radians does the minute hand of the clock turn in 24 minutes? A. 0.2 c. 0.4 B. 0.6 D. 0.8 15. Evaluate: f(7x*3 — 4x*2)dx A. 7x*4/4 ~ 4492/3 + C B. 7x*4/4 + 4x°2/3 + ©. TxA4/4 + 4x43/3 + D. 7x"4/4 - 4x°3/3 + aca 16. What is the length of the shortest line segment in the first quadrant drawn tangent to the ellipse b2x2 + a2y2=a2b2 and meeting to the coordinate axes? A. a/b c. ab B. atb D. b/a 17, Carla and Maria were hired on a summer job. Each of them works 15 hours per week. Carla was absent for one week and Maria has to take her ahife. I¢ they work for @ weeks, what is the total number of hours did Maria work? A. 120 c. 67.5 B. 135 D. 60 Page 1 of 6PREBOARD EXAM #1 (MATH) SET A 18. Find the work done by a force F=- 33 (pounds) applied to a point that moves on a line from (1,3) to (4,7). Assume the distance is measured in feet. A. 6 ft-lb c. -12 ft-1b B.-10 ft-lb D. 15 ft-lb 19.A bacteria has a growth rate constant of 0.02. Tf initially the number of bacteria is 1000, what is the time before reaches a population of 100,000. ‘A. 208.36 c. 205.87 B, 230.26 D. 209.22 20. Find the ratio of the surface area of a cube to its volume, if the side faeae A. 4/s c. 6/s B. 3/s D. 5/s 21. Two cards are drawn in succession from a deck without replacement. What is the probability that both cards are red? A. 26/102 B. 25/102 c. 23/102 D. 24/102 22. Find the distance from the point (4,7) to the line (3x + 4y = 1). A. 39/5 c. 42/5 B. 36/5 D. 46/5 23. If 24 mango trees are planted per hectare, each tree will produce 600 mangoes. per year. For each additional tree planted, the number of mangoes produced per tree diminished by 12. What is the number of trees per hectare for maximum harvest? AL 45 G. 37 B. 28 D. 38 24. The sum of the first 7 terms of an A.P. is 98 and the sum of the first 12 terms is 288. Find the sum of the first 20 terms. A. 980 c. 880 B. 800 D. 890 25. survey conducted to determine the SMOKERS: 56, 22.1, 47.6, 53.2, 48.1, 52.7, 34.4, 60.2, 43.8, ances: NON-SMOKERS: 28.6, 25.8, 26.4, 34.9, 29.8, 28.4, 36.5, 30.2, 30.6, 31.8, 41.6, 21.1, 36, 37.9, 13.9 Find the sample mean of the non- smoker and smoker. A. 29.56/42.28 Cc. B. 29.95/43.04 Db. 30.23/41.37 30.56/42.98 26. Find the length of the arc x>> + y>> = 25 from x=2 to x=4 in the first quadrant. A, 2.46 cee) B. 1.83 D. 1.96 27. The solution of the differential equation dy/dt=ky, with initial condition y=1 when t=0, is A. y=in kt c. yesin kt B. yre*kt D. y’=2t+k 28.I£ the volume of a sphere is 288D cu cm, then its surface area is equal to A. 140D sq. cm C. 142D sq. cm B. 144D sq. cm D. 146D sq. cm 29. Determine the value of c so that f(e;y)=clx-yl represents joint probability distributions of the vandom variables X and Y, if the random numbers are x = -2, 0 , 3, and y = 2, 3. A. 1/5 cue) B. 1/8 D. 1/3 30.A ship sailing due east when a light is observed bearing N 62 deg 10 min E. After the ship has traveled 2250 m, the light bears N 48 deg 25 min E. If the course is continued, how close will the ship approach the light? A. 2394 m C. 2863 m B. 2934 m D. 2683 m 31.With 17 consonants and 5 vowels, how many words of four letters can be formed have 2 different vowels in the middle and 1 consonant (repeated or different) at each end? A. 5440 c. 4540 B. 5780 D. 5790 32.A right circular cylindrical tank ‘of radius 2m and height 8 m is full of water. Find the work done in pumping the water to the top of the tank. A. 3.68 MJ c. 3.94 ms B. 4.62 MJ D. 5.28 Mo 33.1£ £(x)=1/(x-2), (£9)" (1)=6, and g!(1)=-1, then g(1)— A. -7 ie D. 5 7 Page 20f6PREBOARD EXAM #1 (MATH) SET A 34. The size of cabbage is directly proportional to the nutrients it receives and is inversely proportional to the number of cabbages surrounding it. If the size of cabbage is 27 inches, it receives 20 ounces of nutrients and 6 cabbages surround it. What is the size of the cabbage when it receives 10 ounces of nutrients and has 3 cabbage neighbors? A. 25 & GB B, 27 D. 28 35.What do you call a radical expressing an irrational number? ‘A. Surd B. Complex number C. Radix D. Index 36. Evaluate from -D to D. A. 3D c. 20/3 B. 5D Dd. 0 S(sin20cos30cosh40)d0 37.A certain radioactive substance has a half-life of 5 years. If 10 grams are present initially, how much of the substance remain after 9 years? A. 2.509 c. 1.28 g B. 5.209 D. 10.20 g 38. A box contains 9 red balls and 6 blue balls. If two balls are drawn in succession, what is the probability that one of them is red and another is blue? A. 18/35 c. 16/35 B. 18/37 D. 16/37 39. If cot A = -24/7 and A is in the 2s4 quadrant, find sin2a. A. 336/625 c. -336/625 B. 363/625 D. -363/625 40. Find the length of the chord of the circle x>> + y>> + 4x + 6y - 32 =0 if its distance from the center of the circle is 5 m. A. 9.84 c. 8.94 B. 7.89 D. 7.98 41. How many consecutive integers, beginning with 10, must taken for their sum to equal 2035? A. 53 c. 54 B. 55 D. 56 42. Evaluate the laplace transform of {t*n}. A. nl/stn B. n!/s*(n-1) Cc. n!/s*(nt1) D. nt/s*(n/2) 43. A car goes 14 kph faster than the truck and requires 2 hours and 20 minutes less time to travel 300 km. Find the rate of the car. A. 40 kph C. 60 kph B. 50 kph D. 70 kph 44. triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle with radius R having its center at 0. If angle OBA is 48 degrees, find the angle ACB. A. 60 degrees C. 75 degrees B. 42 degrees D. 48 degrees 45. The charge in coulombs that passes through a wire after t seconds is given by the equation Q(t)=t*3 - 2t*2 + St +2. Determine the average current during the first two seconds. AOA oume ay B.S A D. Ga 46. Find the area inside one petal of the four leaved rose, r=sin 2 theta. A. D/2 c. D/6 B. D/4 D. D/8 47. In a population of 40, 26 are males and 14 are females. For male persons, the number of smokers and non-smokers are 24 and 2 respectively and for female persons, the number of smokers and non-smokers are 6 and 8 respectively. If you randomly pick one person, what are the chances that it is a male? A. 9/20 c. 11/20 B. 13/20 D. 17/20 48. Solve for x and y in xy +8 + 5 (x>>y + y) = de + 4 + jlxy>> + x). AL 2,2 case. aes) D. 3,4 49. Determine the differential equation of the family of lines thru (h, k) « A. (xth)dx - (y-k)dy = 0 B. (x-h) + (y-k) = dy/dx C. (x-h)dx = (y-k) dy = 0 D. (y-k)dx - (x-h)dy = 0 50.A chord is 36 cm long and its midpoint is 36 cm from the midpoint of the longer arc. Find the radius of the circle. A, 22.5 cm B. 28.5 cm c. 20.5 cm D. 24.5 cm Page 3 of 6PREBOARD EXAM #1 (MATH) SET A 51.A men’s store bought 500 shirts, some at Php 125 each, the rest at Php 200 each. If the total cost of the shirts was Php 77,500, how many shirts were purchased at Php 125 each? A. 350 B. 250 c. 400 D. 300 52. Find the area of the region between ‘the curve y=2*3 and lines y=» and aL 4/3 c. 3/4 B. 5/4 D. 4/5, 53. The curve 30> = y*3 + 9 is symmetric with respect to the A. y ~ axis ¢. origin B. x — axis D. both axes 54. In a hotel, it is known that 20v/o of the total reservation will be canceled in the last minute. What is the probability that there will be less than 2 reservations canceled out of 4 reservations? A. 0.6498 Cc. 0.3928 B. 0.5629 D. 0.4098 55. Given y=e*mx, what values of m (- infinity to +infinity) will satisfy the relationship 6y” - y’ - y = 0. A. -1/3, 1/2 B. 1/3, -1/2 C. 1/3, -1/2 Daal) 56. If the planes 5x - 6y - 7z = 0 and 3n + 2y - mz + 1 = 0 are parallel, find m. ez /2) c. -5/3 B. 4/3 D. -7/3 57. Two stones are 1 mile apart and are of the same level as the foot of the hill. The angles of depression of the two stones viewed from the top of the hill are 5 degrees and 15 degrees, respectively. Find the height of the hill. A. 109.1 m c. 209.1 m B. 409.1 m D. 309.1 m 58. Which of the middle term? A. (x-2y)*6 Ce (xty) +8 B. (x-v)*5 D. (x#2v) "4 following has no 59. One overnight case contains 2 bottles of aspirin and 3 bottles of thyroid tablets. A second tote bag contains 3 bottles of aspirin, 2 bottles of thyroid, and 1 bottle of laxative tablets. If 1 bottle of tablets is taken at random from each piece of luggage, find the probability that the 2 bottles contains different tablets. A. 1/5 c. 4/5 B. 3/5 D. 2/5 60.A particle has a position vector <2 cos 2t, 1 + sin t>. What is the speed of the particle at time t=D/47 A. 5.427 Gh Ge B. 7.245 D. 4.062 61. When the two columns of a matrix are interchanged, the determinant of the first matrix is to the negative of the second matrix. A. Greater than B. Less than C. Equal D. Not equal 62. What are the values of B1 and B2? 7) [Ba] [2 fr lle!]~ El A. Bl=-1/20, B2=7/20 i 20, B2=-1/20 . B1=-1/20, B2=-7/20 0, B2=20 63. Find the area of the isosceles triangle with a base of 19.2 in and base angles of 23 deg 10 min each. A. 19.7 in2 c. 78.9 in2 B. 36.3 in2 D. 39.4 in2 64. Find the distance of the directrix of the ellipse from its center if the equation of the ellipse is 64x>> + 100y>> = 6400. A. 52/3 c. 50/3 B. 55/3 D. 56/3 65. Four married couples have bought & seats in a row for a concert. In how many different ways can they be seated if all the men sit together to the right of all the women? A. 768 c. 576 B. 384 D. 1152 66. When the ellipse is rotated about its shorter axis, the ellipsoid is A. Spheroid C. Oblate B. Prolate D. Paraboloid 67. 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 30 deg C and the substance cools from 100 deg © to 70 deg C in 15 minutes, how much time will it take to cool from 100 deg C to 50 deg C? A. 45.30 min C. 43.50 min B. 35.59 min D. 33.59 min Page 4 0f6PREBOARD EXAM #1 (MATH) SET A 68.What is the area bounded by the curve y=tan’x and the lines y=0 and x=D/2. A. 0 c. 2D ingest 69.A real estate agent has & master keys to open several new homes. Only 1 master key will open any given house. If 40v/o of these homes are usually left unlocked, what is the probability that the real estate agent can get into a specific home if the agent selects 3 master keys at random before leaving the office? A. 1/2 c. 3/4 B. 3/8 D. 5/8 70. Find the radius of curvature x=4t, yrt2-1 at tol. A, 3(sqrt. of 3) B. 3(sqrt. of 5) C. S(sqrt. of 5) D. S(sart. of 3) 71. What is the numerical coefficient of the term containing x*3y*2 in the expansion (x+2y) "5? A. 10 c. 20 B. 40 D. 80 12. What is -i*i? A. 4.81 ©. 0.21 B. -4.81 D. -0.21 73. Find the orthogonal trajectories of the family of parabolas y>> = 2x +c A. y=Ce*x c. y=ce*2x B. y=Ce*=x D. y=Ce*-2x 74, Two variable resistances are ‘connected in parallel. ‘The Tenis tance fcc sche Miers) increasing at a rate of 0.12/s while the resistance of the second is decreasing at a rate of 0.08/s. Find the rate of change of the total resistance when the first is 4 ohms and the second is 2 ohms. A. -0.022 Cc. -0.028 B. -0.034 D. -0.043 75. Find the centroid of the areas bounded by 2x + y x=0, and y= peaiie merce) B. (1, 5/2) D. (1, 3/2) 76. Find the slope of the curve x=3t- 1, y=9t"2-3t, when a4 c. 6 B.5 Db. 3 77. The scores on a otandardized teot follow a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. what is the probability that a randomly selected student scored below 85? A. 0.1587 c. 0.3413 B. 0.8413 D. 0.4331 78, 1£ zl=1-i, 22=-2+4i, z3-sqrt3-2i, evaluate Re{2z1*3 + 3z2°2 - 523°2} A. 35 c. -35 Basi D. -35i, 79. Tony inherited Php 2,000,000 which he invested in stocks and bonds. The stocks returned 6 percent and the bonds 8 percent. If the return on the bonds was Php 8,000 less than the return on the stocks, how much did he invest in the stock? ‘A. Php 1,250,000 B. Php 1,500,000 Cc. Php 1,200,000 D. Php 1,400,000 80. Find the general solution of y*11 + loy = 0. BR. y=Cleos (sqrt10x) + C2sin(sqrti0x) B, y=Cloos(sqrt5x) + C2sin(sqrtSx) c. y=Ccos(sart 10x) D. y=Csin(sqrt 10x) @1.The inclination of the line determined by the points (-5,3) and oma: A. 14.73 c. 14,83 B. 14.93 D. 14.63 82. Find the equation of the line ‘tangent to the graph at the given point: (x+ty)cubed =x + y + 6, (3,- 1). A.3x-y=6 Cc. xt 3 Begg 2 an y y 02. Find the slope of the tangent Line to the spiral r = theta at theta = D/3. fesse) comsedz B. -1.73 D. -3.42 84. Two women paint a barn. Barbara can paint it alone in 5 days, Sara in 8 days. They start to paint it together, but after 2 days Sara gets bored and Barbara finishes alone. How long does it take her to finish? erie ye} ions /a B.11/4 Dy d 172) 85. Find the laplace transform of £(t) = e*(3t+1) A. e/(s*2+3) — C. e/(s*2-3) B. e/(s+3) D. e/(s-3) 86. Which of the following is an exact DE? A. (x°2 + L)dx ~ xydy B. xdy + (3x - 2y)dx = 0 G. axyax + (2 + x2) dy = 0 D. x2ydy - ydx = 0 0 Page 5 of 6PREBOARD EXAM #1 (MATH) SET A 87. Find the eccentricity of the of a hyperbola whose transverse and conjugate axes are equal in length. ner c. sqrt. of 2 Ems) D. sart. of 3 88. Determine the value of c so that £(x,y)=clx-y| represents joint probability distributions of the random variables X and Y, if the random numbers are x = -2, 0, 3, and y = 2, 3. A. 4/15 cava) B. 1/15 D. 7/15 09. A motor boat moves in the direction N 40 deg E for 3 h at 20 mi/h. How far north does it travel? A. 46 mi Cc. 60 mi B. 39 mi D. 58 mi 90. A conical cistern is 10 feet across the top and 12 feet deep. If water is poured into the cistern at the rate of 1 cubic foot per second, how fast is the surface rising when the water is 8 feet deep? AL 24.4 Cc. 20.6 B. 28.3 D. 26.2 91. A store advertised dresses on sale at 20 percent off. The sale price was $76. What was the original price of the dress? A. $95 c. $59 B. $60.8 D. $80.80 92.What is the largest possible volume a right circular cylinder can have if it is inscribed in a sphere of radius 5? A. 350D/3sqrt3 C. 500D/3sqrt3 B. 250D/3sqrt3_ D. 485D/3sqrt3 93. Find the laplace transform where £(x)=2 when 03. A. 2/s + (e%=3s) (1/s*2 +1/s) B. 1/s*2 + (e*-3s) (1/s) C. 1/842 + (e%=3s) (1/s*2 +1/s) D. 2/s + 1/s*2 94. The probability that a randomly chosen sales prospect will make a purchase is 0.18. If a salesman calls on 5 prospects, what is the probability that the sales man will make exactly 3 sales? A. 0.0392 c. 0.0329 B. 0.0239 D. 0.0293 95. Find the vector perpendicular to the vector (2,5). A. (5,2) c. (5,-2) B. (4,-2) D. (2,-4) 96. Find the volume generated by revolving the area bounded by the parabola y>>=8x and its latus rectum about the latus rectum. A. 2500/15 c. 5120/15 B. 2560/15 D. 546D/15 97. Find the maximum area of the rectangle whose base is one the x- axis and whose upper vertices lie on the parabola y=12-x>>. A.B c. 24 B. 32 D. 36 98. Chona the golden retriever gained 5.1 pounds in one month. She weighs 65.1 pounds now. What is the percent weight gain of Chona in one month? A. 7.3v/0 C. 8.2v/0 B. 7.8v/o D. 8.5v/o 99. Find is the value of x for which y =x+1/x has a maximum point. Ad c. 2 B. D. -2 100. Simplify (cos B - 1)(cos B + 1) A. -1/sin2B Cc. -1/cos2B B. -1/csc2B D. -1/sec2B Page 6 of 6