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NOV 2023 CE BOARD EXAM REFRESHER MSTE 1

1. Noel Wentworth-Longmore, the famous 7. Ten friends met and each shook hands with
Oxford rower, was rowing upstream one every other. How many handshakes were
Sunday when his favorite rowing cap fell there?
in the water. So absorbed was he in one A. 90 B. 10 C. 45 D. 5
of Housman’s poems that it was ten minutes
8. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional
before he discovered his cap missing. He
to the quantity of radium present.
turned around and recovered the cap one
Suppose it is found that in 25 years
mile downstream from where he initially
approximately 1.1% of certain quantity of
lost it. Assuming constant speed, and no
radium has decomposed. Determine how
allowance for turnaround, how fast (in
long (in years) it will take for one-half
mph) was the river flowing?
of the original amount of radium to
A. 2 B. 3 C. 2.5 D. 4
decompose.
2. Near the town of Lunch, Nebraska there is A. 1983 B. 1512 C. 1567 D. 1600
a large triangular plot of land bounded
9. A tank initially contains 400 gallons of
by three straight roads which are 855,
brine in which 100 pounds of salt are
870, and 975 yards long respectively. The
dissolved. Pure water is running into the
owner of the land, a friend of mine, told
tank at the rate of 20 gallons per minute,
me that he had decided to sell half the
and the mixture (which is kept uniform by
plot to a neighbor, but that the buyer
stirring) is drained off at the same rate.
had stipulated that the seller of the land
How many pounds of salt remain in the tank
should erect the fence which was to be a
after 30 minutes?
straight one. The cost of fences being
A. 21.46 B. 20.72 C. 22.31 D. 23.83
high, my friend naturally wanted the
fence to be as short as possible. What is 10. What is the sum of the numerical
the minimum length the fence can be? coefficient of the expansion of (x2 +
A. 600 yards C. 500 yards 2/x)12?
B. 550 yards D. 650 yards A. 404,721 C. 326,721
B. 531,441 D. 658,161
3. My house is on a road where the numbers
run 1, 2, 3, 4... consecutively. My number 11. Evaluate (2 cis 20°)3.
is a three digit one and, by a curious
A. 4 + 6.9i C. 4 - 6.9i
coincidence, the sum of all house numbers
B. 6.638 D. 8.836
less than mine is the same as the sum of
all house numbers greater than mine. What 12. In an NBA championship series, the team
is my number? which wins four games out of seven will
A. 384 B. 288 C. 148 D. 204 be the winner. Suppose that team A has
probability 0.55 of winning over the team
4. Very few people are aware of the growth
pattern of Jack' beanstalk. On the first B and both teams A and B face each other
in the championship games. What is the
day it increased its height by 1/2, on
the second day by 1/3, on the third day probability that team A will win the
series?
by 1/4, and so on. How long (in days)
will it take to achieve its maximum height A. 0.185 B. 0.608 C. 0.292 D. 0.590
(100 times its original height)? 13. Water evaporates at the rate of two
A. 199 B. 100 C. 198 D. 200 liters per hour per one square meter of
surface. How long (min) will it take to
5. A man who lives at
the top left corner evaporate 30 liters of water from a
cylindrical swimming pool full of water
of a rectangular
with 6 m in diameter and 2 m depth?
gride of city
blocks works in an A. 32 B. 47 C. 56 D. 24
office building at 14. Given the following vectors:
the bottom right A = 6i – 2j – k P = 2i – 4j + k
corner. It is clear B = 2i + 5j + 2k Q = –6i + 12j – 3k
that the shortest path along which he can Which of the following is true?
walk to work is 10 blocks long. Bored with A. A & B are parallel; P & Q are parallel
walking the same route every day, he B. A & B are orthogonal; P & Q are orthogonal
begins to vary it. How many different 10- C. A & B are parallel; P & Q are orthogonal
D. A & B are orthogonal; P & Q are parallel
block routes are there connecting the two
spots? 15. Find the angle between A and B.
A. 200 B. 100 C. 210 D. 120 A = 2i + 2j – k and B = 6i - 3j + 2k
6. After M students took the test, there was A. 81.65° B. 76.53° C. 79.02° D. 83.11°
a total of 64% of correct answers. If the
test contains 50 questions, what is the 16. Find the volume of the parallelepiped
least number of questions that the next whose edges are represented by the
student have to get right to bring the following vectors:
total of correct answers to 70%?
A. 3M + 20 C. 4M + 15 A = 2i - 3j + 4k
B = I + 2j – k
B. 3M + 35 D. 4M + 20
C = 3i - j + 2k
A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8

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