Experiment 2

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1. Three transformers are directly proportional to the KVA cost P30,000. The cost
of each transformer is directly proportional to the KVA rating and each has a
constant of proportionally of 0.9, 0.8 and 0.6, respectively. Find the cost of the
KVA transformer.
b. P13,500

2. What is the sum of the following sequence of terms 18, 25, 32, 39, . . . ,67?
b. 380

3. A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident which detains it an

hour, after which it proceeds at 3/5 of its former rate and arrives three hour
after the time; but had the accident happened 50 miles farther on yhe line, it
would have arrived one and one-half hour sooner. Find the length of the journey.
b. 800/9 miles

4. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. Determine the number.
d. 6

5. The roots of a quadratic equation are 1/3 and 1/4. What is the equation?
c. 12x2 - 7x + 1=0

6. The geometric mean of 4 and 64:

d. 16

7. A certain company manufactures two products, X and Y, and each of these products
must be processed on two different machines. Product X requires 1 minute of work
time per unit on machine 1 and 4 minutes of work time on machine 2. Product Y
requires two minutes of work time per unit on machine 1 and 3 minutes of work time
per unit on machine 2. Each day, 100 minutes are available on machine 1 and 200
minutes are available on machine 2. To satisfy certain customers, the company must
produce at least 6 units per day of product X and at least 12 units of product Y.
If the profit of each unit of product X is P50 and the profit of each unit of
product Y is P60, how many of each product should be produced in order to maximize
the company's profit?
a. X = 20 units, Y = 40 units

8. If 4y3 + 18y2 + 8y - 4 is divided by 2y + 3, the remainder is:

c. 11

9. The square of a number increased by 16 is the same as 10 times the number. Find
the number.
a. 8, 2
10. The seating section in a coliseum has 30 seats in the first row, 32 in the
second row, 34 seats in the third row and so on, until the tenth row is reached,
after which there are ten rows each containing 50 seats. Find the total number of
seats in the section.
c. 890

11. If the roots of an equation is zero, then they are classified as

b. trivial solutions

12. An airplane went 360 miles in 2 hours with the wind and, flying back the same
route, it took 3 3/5 hours against the wind. What was its speed in still air?
c. 140 mph

13. Find the fourth proportion to 3, 5 and 21.

d. 35

14. Two jet planes travelling towards each other take off at the same time from two
airports located 3000 miles apart. If they passed each other after two hours,
determine the speed of each plane if one plane is flying at a speed 100 mph faster
than the other.
a. 700 and 800 mph

15. Round off 0.003086 to three significant figures.

d. 0.00309

16. It is sequence of numbers that successive terms differ by a constant.

b. arithmetic progression

17. At 2:00 pm, an airplane takes off at 340 mph on an aircraft carrier. The
aircraft carrier moves due south at 25 kph in the same direction as the plane. At
4:05 pm, the communication between the plane and aircraft carrier was lost.
Determine the communication range in miles between the plane and the carrier.
b. 557 miles

18. A manufacturing firm maintains one product assembly line to produce signal
generators. Weekly demand for the generators is 25 units. The line operates for 7
hours per day, 5 days per week. What is the maximum production time per unit in
hours required for the line to meet the demand?
b. 1 hour

19. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In5 years, the product of their age is 1.5
times the product of their product ages. How old is Beth now?
a. 20

20. A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol solutions of different

strengths, 30% alcohol and 60% alcohol, respectively. How many cubic meters of each
strength must be used in order to produce a mixture of 50 cubic meters that contain
40% alcohol?
b. 33 1/3, 16 2/3 m3

21. Subtracting 2.6 x 103 from8.26 x 104 is:

a. 8.0 x 104

22. The time requires by an evaluator to lift a weight varies directly with the
weight and the distance through which it is to be lifted and inversely as the power
of the motor. If it takes 30 seconds for 10 hp motor to lift 100 lbs through 50
feet, what size of motor is required to lift 800 lbs in 40 seconds through a
distance of 40 feet?
d. 48 hp

23. Find the 30th term of the arithmetic progression 4, 7, 10, . . .

b. 941

24. Convergent series is a sequence of decreasing numbers or when the succeeding

term is _______ than the preceding term.
d. lesser

25. In the equation x2 + x = 0, one root is x equal to:

d. none of these.

26. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of 89% hydrochloric acid
solution to reduce its strength to 75%?
b. 6.53 liters

27. Round off 34.2814 to four significant figures.

c. 34.28

28. Solve algebraiclly:

11y2 - 3x2 = 41
4x2 + 7y2 = 32.
b. (� 1, � 2)

29. Determine the sum of the progression if there are 7 arithmetic means between 3
and 35.
c. 214

30. Crew No. 1 can finish installation of an antenna tower in 200 man-hour while
Crew No. 2 can finish the same job in 300 man-hour. How long will it take both
crews to finish the same job, working together?
a. 120 man-hour

31. In how many minutes after 3:00 P.M will the minute hand of a clock coincide
with the hour hand?
c. 16.364

32. In a class of 40 students, 27 students like Calculus and 25 like Geometry. How
many students liked both Calculus and Geometry?
a. 12

33. The electric power which a transmission line can transmit is proportional to
the product of its design voltage and current capacity, and inversely to the
transmission distance. A 115 - kilovolt line rated at 100 amperes can transmit 150
megawatts over 150 km. How much power, in megawatts can a 230 kilovolt line rated
at 150 amperes transmit over 100 km?
b. 675

34. The electrical resistance of a wire varies as its length and inversely as the
square of its diameter. If a 100 m long and 1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance of
30 ohms, find the length of the wire of the same material whose resistance and
diameter are 25 ohms and 0.74 mm respectively.
c. 30 m

35. What time after 3 o'clock will the hands of the clock be together for the first
time?
c. 3:16.36

36. A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours. Another pump can pump out
water from the same tank in 20 hours. How long will it take both pumps to pump out
water in the tank?
d. 7 hours

37. If the sum is 220 and the first term is 10, find the common difference if the
last term is 30.
d. 2

38. Equal volumes of two different liquids evaporated at different but constant
rates. If the first is totally evaporated in 6 weeks and the second in 5 weeks,
when will the second be one-half the volume of the first?
d. 4 2/7 weeks

39. MCMXCIV is a Roman numeral equivalent to:

a. 1994

40. Find the 100th term of the sequence 1.01, 1.00, 0.99, . .
b. 0.02

41. At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and minute hand of the clock
first form an angle of 120o?
a. 12:21.818

42. Solve the simultaneous equations:

3x - y = 6
9x - y = 12.
b. ( 1, -3 )

43. A merchant has three items on sale: namely, a radio for P50, a clock fo P30,
and a flashlight for P1. At the end of the day, she has sold a total of 100 of the
three items and has taken exacly P1000 on the total sales. How many radios did he
sale?
d. 16

44. What is the sum of the first 10 terms of the geometric progression 2, 4, 8, 16,
. . . ?
b. 2046

45. In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons on brand preferences, 120 were
found to prefer brand x only, 200 persons prefer brand y only, 150 persons prefer
brand z only, 370 prefer either brand x or y but not z, 450 prefer brand y or z but
not x, and 370 prefer either brand z or x but not y, and none prefer all the three
brands at a time. How many persons have no brand preference with any of the three
brands?
c. 280

46. Which number has four significant figures?

d. 0.01414

47. A club of 40 executives, 33 likes to smoke Marlboro and 20 likes to smoke

Philip Morris. How many like both?
b. 13

48. The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two numbers namely 250 and 850 are
removed, what is the arithmetic mean of the remaining numbers?
b. 42.31

49. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The sum of the progreesion is:
b. 341

50. If a two digit number has X for its unit digit and Y for its tenth digit,
represent the number.
d. 10Y + Y

51. In the series 1, 1, 1/2, 1/6, 1/24, . . . , determine the 6th term.
b. 1/120

52. Round off 149.691 to the nearest integer.

d. 150

53. The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number twice the other. Find the numbers.
b. 7 & 14

54. The probability for the ECE board examinees from a certain school to pass the
Mathematics subject is 3/7 and that for the Communication subject is 5/7. If none
of the examinees failed in both subjects, how many examinees from the school took
the examination?
d. 28

55. Solve for x that satisfies the equation 6x2 - 7x - 5 = 0.

c. 5/3 or -1/2

56. Three transformers are rated 5 KVA, 10 KVA and 25 KVA, respectively. The total
cost of the three transformers is P15, 000.00. If the cost of each transformer is
proportional to its KVA rating multiplied by the factor 1, 0.8 and 0.6
respectively, find the cost of the 10 KVA transformer.
a. P4,286
57. Solve the simultaneous equations:
2x2 - 3y2 = 6
3x2 + 2y2 = 35.
b. x3 or -3; y2 or -2

58. The sum of the progression 5, 8, 11, 14, . . . Is 1025. How many terms are
there?
a. 25

59. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 when y = 7 and z = 2,

find the value of x when y = 16 and z = 4.
c. 16

60. The arithmetic means of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers are added to the
progression, the new set of the numbers will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What
are the two numbers if their difference is 4?
b. 23, 27

61. The sum of Kim's and Kevin's ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim will be twice as old
as Kevin. What are their ages now?
a. 5, 13

62. The intensity of sound varies directly as the strength of the source and
inversely as the square of the distance from the source. Write the equation to the
describe relation.
b. I=k/d2

63. Determine the sum of the infinite series 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 +. . .
c. �

64. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of 10% solution. You find 7% and
12% solutions on the shelf. How much of the 7% solution you mix with the
appropriate amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution?
b. 2

65. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2 - 10x + 2 = 0

d. 2

66. Maria is 36 years old. Maria was twice as old as Anna was when Maria was as old
as Anna is now. Jow old is Anna now?
d. 24

67. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric progression if the sum is 2 and the
first term is 1/2.
c. �

68. A tank is fitted with two pipes. The first pipe can fill the tank in 10 hours.
But after it has been open for 3 hours, the second pipe is opened and the tank is
filled up in 4 hours more. How long would it take the second pipe alone to fill tha
tank?
d. 13.33 hr

69. How many kg of cream containing 25% butter fat should be added to 50 kg of milk
containing one percent butter fat to produce milk containing 2% butter fat?
b. 2.174

70. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire varies directly as the
length and inversely as the square of the diameter of the wire. Compare the
electrical resistance offered by two pieces of wire of the same material, one being
100 m long and 8 mm in diameter, and the other 50 m long and 3 mm in diameter.
a. R1 = 0.28 R2

71. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom layer, 58 bricks in the second
layer, 55 bricks in the third layer, and so on until there are 10 bricks in the
last layer. How many bricks are there all together?
b. 639

72. A 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (p = 790 kg/cu.m.). What is
the specific volume of the resulting mixtures? Assuming that the two fluids mix
completely.
d. 1.20 cu cm/g

73. One number is 5 less than another. If the sum is 135, what are the numbers?
a. 65, 70

74. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the numerator.
If 7 is added to both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find
the original fraction.
c. 5/13

75. An inexperienced statistical clerk submitted the following statistics to his

manager on the average rate of production of transistorized radios in an assenbly
line: "1.5 workers produced 3 radios in 2 hour." How many workers are employed in
the assembly line working 40 hours per week if weekly production is 480 radios?
a. 12

76. Find the mean proportion of 4 and 36.

a. 12

77. An automobile is travelling at a velocity of 10 mph. If the automobile mileage

meter already reads 20 miles, find the mileage meter reading after 3 hours.
c. 50 miles

78. Find the sum of 1, -1/5, 1/25, . . .

c. 5/6

79. A man is 41 years old and his son is 9. In how many years will the father be
three times as old as his son?
a. 7

80. A tank is fitted with an intake pipe that will fill it in 4 hours, and an
outlet pipe that will empty it in 9 hours. If both pipes are left open, how long
will it take to fill the empty tank?
a. 7.2 hr

81. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent to 1785/9999 starting from the
decimal point.
d. 8

82. A mechanical engineer who was awarded a P450,000.00 contract to install the
machineries of an oil mill failed to finish the work on time. As provided for in
the contract, he has to pay a daily penalty equivalent to one-fourth of one percent
of the contract price for the first ten days of the delay, one-half percent per day
for the next ten days and one percent per day for every day thereafter. If the
total penalty paid was P60,750.00, how many days was the completion of the contract
delayed?
b. 26 days

83. A man started driving his car at a certain time froma certain place. On arrival
at his destination at the precise appointed time, he said, "If I had averaged 6
miles per hour faster, I would have been 5 minutes early. But if I had averaged 5
mph slower, I would have been 6 minutes late." Find how far he had driven.
d. 15 miles

84. Pedro started running at a speed of 10kph. Five minutes later, Mario started
running in the same direction and catches up with Pedro in 20 minutes. What is the
speed of Mario?
a. 12.5 kph

85. The equation whose roots are the reciprocal of the solutions of 2x2 - 3x - 5 =
0.
c. 5x2 + 3x - 2=0

86. In certain Board Examination, 119 examinees too the Shop Machinery subjected,
104 examinees took thye Power Plant Machinery subject and 115 examinees took the
Industrial Plant Machinery subject. Seventy-eight (78) conditioned examinees took
only Shop Machinery and Power Machinery subjects. Seventy-one (71) conditioned
examinees took only the POwer Plant Machinery and Industrial Plant Machinery
subjects. Eighty-five (85) conditioned examinees took only Industrial Plant
Machinery and Shop Machinery subjects. Fifty-four took all the three subjects. How
many examinees took the Certified Plant Mechanic board examination?
c. 158

87. If a train passes as many telegraph poles in one minute as it goes miles per
hour, how far apart are the poles?
d. 88 ft.

88. A man 38 years old has a son of ten years old. In how many years will the
father be three times as old as his son?
c. 4
89. In Algebra, the operation of root extraction is called as _____.
d. evolution

90. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% faster than Pilar and
together they can paint a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take Pedro to
paint the same fence if he had to work alone?
c. 10

91. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The sum of the progression is:
b. 341

92. The number 1.123123123. . . Is

c. rational

93. Which of the following numbers should be changed to make all the numbers from
an arithmetic progression when properly arranged?
c. 20/14

94. How many significant digits do 10.097 have?

b. 5

95. Find the sum of the infinite geometric progression 6, -2, 2/3, . . .
a. 9/2

96. The time required for two examinees to solve the same problem differ by two
minutes. Together they can solve 32 problems in one hour. How long will it take for
the slower problem solver to solve the problem?
b. 5 minutes

97. An equipment installation job in the completion stage can be completed in 50

days of 8 hours day work, with 50 men working. With the contract expiring in 40
days, the mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 15 men on the job, overtime
not being permitted. If the liquidated damages is P5,000 per day of delay, and they
are paid P150 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job on time? Would
he save money with the addition of workers?
b. Yes, P44,750 savings

98. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours
in flying back. What was the wind velocity in kph?
d. 50

99. If a = b, then b = a. This illustrates which axiom in Algebra?

c. Symmetric Axiom

100. The ten's digit of a certain two digit number exceeds the unit's digit by four
and is one less than twice the unit's digit. Find the number.
c. 65
101. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe can fill the same in tank
in 3 hours. A drain pipe can empty the tank in 24 hours. With all three pipes open,
how lomg will it take to fill in the tank?
a. 2.18 hrs

102. An equipment installation job in the completion stage can be completed in 40

days of 8 hours day work with 40 men working. With the contract expiring in 30
days, the mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 10 men on the job, overtime
not being permitted. If the liquidated damages is P2,000 per day of delay, and the
men are paid P80 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job on time?
d. Yes, P16,000 would be saved

103. It takes Butch twice as it takes Dan to do a certain piece of work. Working
together they can do the work in 6 days. How long would it take Dan to do it alone?
b. 9 days

104. Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. However, "y" years ago, Robert
was twice as old as Stan. If Stan is now "b" years old b.y, find the value of (b-
y).

c. 15

105. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7 hours, respectively. What
fraction of the yard can they mow in 1 hour if they work together?
b. 84/47 hr

106. The volume of hemisphere varies directly as the cube of its radius. The volume
of a sphere with 2.54 cm radius is 20.75 cm3. What is the volume of a sphere with
3.25 cm radius of the same kind?
c. 43.47 cm3

107. Add the following and express in meters: 3 m + 2 cm + 70 mm.

d. 3.09 m

108. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the same day, the minute hand of
a standard clock describe an arc of:
c. 540o

109. A clock has dial face 304.80 mm in radius. The minute hand is 228.60 mm long
while the hour hand is 152.40 mm long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is
50.80 mm above the plane of rotation of the hour hand. Find the distance between
the tips of the hands of the clock at 5:40 AM.
d. 233 mm

110. A certain manufactured part can be defective because it has one or more out of
the three possible defects: insufficient tensile strength, a burr, or a diameter
outside of tolerance limit. In a lot of 500 pieces: 19 have a tensile strength
defects, 17 have a burr, 11 have an unacceptable diameter, 12 have tensile strength
and burr defects, 7 have tensile strength and diameter defects, 5 have burr and
diameter defects and 2 have all three defects. Determine:
How many of the pieces have no defects?
How many pieces have only burr defects?
How many pieces have exactly 2 defects?
a. 475, 2, 18

111. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana waswhen Mary was as old as
Ana is now. How old is Ana?
a. 18

112. The electrical resistance of wire made of a certain material varies as its
length and inversely as the square of the diameter. If the wire 200 meters long and
1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance of 60 ohms, find the length of the wire of the
same material, whose resistance and diameter are 5 ohms and 0.65 mm, respectively.
b. 4.51 m

113. A man leaving his office on one afternoon noticed the clock at past two
o'clock. Between two three hours, he returned to his office noticing the hands of
the clock interchanged. At what time did he leave the office and the time that he
returned to the office?
d. 2:26.01, 5:12.17 P.M.

114. A medium unshaded lamp hangs 8 m directly above the table. To what distance
should it be lowered to increase the illumination to 4.45 times the former value?
Illumination intensity varies inversely to the square of the distance.
c. 3.79 m

115. Roberto is 25 years younger than his father. However, his father will be twice
his age in 10 years. Find their ages now.
a. 15 and 40

116. A storage battery discharges at a rate which is proportional to the charge. If

the charge is reduced by 50% of its original value at the end of 2 days, how long
will it take to reduce the charge to 25% of its original charge?
c. 3

117. Prior to the last IBP elections, a survey was conducted in a certain barangay
in Metro Manila to find out which of three political parties they like best. The
results indicated that 320 like KBL, 250 like LABAN and 180 liked INDEPENDENTS. But
of these, 160 like both KBL and LABAN, 100 liked both LABAN and INDEPENDENTS and 70
like both KBL and INDEPENDENTS. Only 30 said they like all the three parties and
none admitted that they did not like any party. How many voters are there in the
barangay?
c. 450

118. A man left his home at past 3:00 o'clock P.M as indicated in his wall clock.
Between 2 and 3 hours after, he returned home and noticed the hands of the lock
interchanged. At what time the man leave his home?
c. 3:31.47 P.M

119. Given: f(x) = ( x+ 3) (x - 4) +4. When f(x) is divided by (x - k), the

remainder is k. Find k.
c. 4
120. A & B working together can finish painting the house in six days. A working
alone, can finish it in five days less than B. How long will it take each of them
to finish the work alone?
d. 10 days for A
15 days for B

121. A statistical clerk submitted the following reports: "The average rate of
production of radios is 1.5 units for every 1.5 hours of work by 1.5 workers." How
many radios were produced in one month by 30 men working 200 hours during the
month?
a. 4000

122. A piece of paper is 0.05 in thick. Each time the paper is folded into half,
the thickness is doubled. If the paper was folded 12 times, how thick in feet the
folded paper will be?

c. 17.06

123. A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. Five workers started the
job. They were reinforced with four more workers at the beginning of the 6th day.
Find the total number of days it took them to finish the job.
b. 20.56 days

124. Six times the middle digit of a three-digit number is the sum of the other
two. If the number is divided by the sum of its digits, the answer is 51 and the
remainder is 11. If the digits are reversed the number becomes smaller by 198, find
the number.
c. 725

125. Given that "w" varies directly as the product of x and y and inversely as the
square of z and that w = 4 when x = 2, y = 6 and z = 3. Find tha value of "w" when
x = 1, y = 4 and z = 2.
c. 3

126. A man driving his car at a certain speed from his house will reach his office
in 6 hours. If he increased his speed 15 mph, he would reach his office 1 hour
earlier. Find the distance from his office to his house.
b. 450 miles

127. Determine x, so that x, 2x + 7, 10x - 7 will be a geometric progression.

d. 7, -7/6

128. Solve for the values of x and y in 4x + 2y = 5 and 13x - 3y = 2.

d. ( 1/2, 3/2 )

129. Determine the k so that the equation 4x2 + kx + 1 = 0 will have just one real
root.
c. 4

130. An airplane travels from points A and B with the distance of 1500 km and a
wind along its flight line. If it takes the airplane 2 hours from A to B with the
tailwind and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, what is the velocity?
b. 675 kph

131. How many numbers between 10 and 200 are exactly divisible by 7? Find their
sum.
e. 27 numbers; sum

132. A gasoline tank of a car contains 50 liters of gasoline and alcohol, the
alcohol comprising 25%. How much of the mixture must be drawn off and replaced by
alcohol so that the tank will contain a mixture of which 50% is alcohol?
c. 16.67 liters

133. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one more log than the layer above and
the top contains just one log. If there are 105 logs in the pile, how many layers
are there?
b. 14

134. Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to be made by mixing a

steel containing 14% nickel with anothercontaining 6% nickel. How much of each is
needed?
b. 500 kg, 1500 kg

135. A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with the stream and black in 14 hours,
but that he can row 14 miles with the stream in the same time as 3 miles against
the stream. Find the rate of the stream.
c. 0.8 mile per hour

136. Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 ft in the first second, 48.3 ft in the 2nd
second, 80.5 ft in the 3rd second. How far did the body fall during the 10th
second.

b. 305.9 ft

137. Solve for x : 10x2 + 10 x2 + 1 = 0.

d. -0.113, -0.887

138. An airplane travels from points A and B with a distance of 1500 km and a wind
along its flight line. If it takes the airplane 2 hours from A and B with the
tailwind and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, What is the velocity?
b. 675 kph

139. A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five minutes later, a
second jogger starts the same course at 10 kph. How long will it take the second
jogger to catch the first?
d. 20 min
140. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 50 ft. and is observed to
rebound 2/3 of the distance it falls. How far will the ball travel before coming to
rest if the ball continues to fall in this manner?
d. 250

141. The resistance of the wire varies directly with its length and inversely with
its area. If a certain piece of wire 10 m long and 0.10 cm in diameter has a
resistance of 100 ohms, what will its resistance be if it is uniformly stretched so
that its length becomes 12 m?
a. 144

142. Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 25 liters of 35% salt solution are poured
into a drum originally containing 30 liters of 10% salt solution. What is the
percent concentration of salt in the mixture?
a. 0.1955

143. A & B can do the job in 42 days, B & C for the same job in 31 days, C & A also
for the same job in 20 days. If A & C work together, how many days can they do the
same job?
a. 19

144. A pipe can fill a tank in 14 hours. A second pipe can fill the tank in 16
hours. If both pipes are left open, determine the time required to fill the tank?
c. 7.47 hr

145. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5mph and upstream at the rate of 2mph.
How far downstream should he go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?
a. 2.5 miles

146. Solve for the value of x.

2x - y + z = 6
x - 3y - 2z = 13
2x - 3y - 3z = 16
c. 2

147. Find the value of w in the following equations:

3x - 2y + w = 11
x + 5y - 2w = -9
2x + y - 3w = -6.
c. 3

148. A boat travels downstream 2/3 of the time as it goes going upstream. If the
velocity of the river's current is 8 kph, determine the velocity of the boat in
still water.
d. 40 kph

149. A survey of 100 persons revealed that 72 of them had eaten at restaurant P and
that 52 of them had eaten at restaurant Q. Which of the following could not be the
number of persons in the surveyed group who had eaten at both P and Q?
c. 24

***Basic Engineering Correlation (Solid Mensuration Reviewer)

1. It is a quadrilateral two and only two of whose sides are parallel
c. trapezoid

2. Five pointed figure in a

b. star

3. The volume of any cone is equal to

c. 1/3 Bh

4. It is a polyhedron whose six faces are all squares.

a. cube

5. What is the length of the diagonal of a cube of edge 7 cm

a. 12.12 cm

6. A section of a sphere when a plane passing through the center and diameter.
Creating the
largest section called
b. great circle

7. Each of the faces of a regular hexahedron is a

a. square

8. A cone and a cylinder have the same heightand the same volume. Find the ratio of
the radius
of the cone to the radius of the cylinder.

b. 1.732

9. The volume of a water in a spherical tank having a diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3.

Determine the
depth of the water in the tank.
a. 1.0 m

10. It is desired that the volume of the sphere be tripled. By how many times will
the raduis be
increased?
a. 31/3

11. In Heron's formula, the symbol 's' stands for

d. (a+b+c)/2

12. Find the measure of the diagonal of a rectangular parallelepiped of dimensions

2 x 3 x 8.
c. 0.07

13. In a plane figure, diamond is also known as

b. rhombus

14. Find the weight of a snowball 1 ft. in diameter if the wet compact snow of
which the ball is made weighs 25 lbs/ cu. ft.
c. 13.09 lb

15. The area for a trapezoid is represented by

c. bh
16. An Egyptians pyramid of the Giza has a square base of edge 6miles. If its
altitude is 15miles., determine the
c. 180 cu.mi

17. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 540o. Find the number of sides.
c. 6

18. Prisms are named according to their?

a. bases

19. The approximate surface area of an ellipse is

c. Fir2

20. It is desired that the volume of the sphere be tripled. By how many times will
the raduis be increased?
d. 31/3

21. The bounding cylindrical surface of a cylinder is called

a
b. lateral surface

22. It is the perpendicular distance between the two bases of a frustum of a cone.
b. altitude

23. Points on the same

d. collinear

24. What is the area, in inches2, of a parabola with a base if 15 cm and height of
20 cm.
a. 200

25. If a lateral area of a right circular cylinder is 88 cm3 and its volume is 220
cm3, find its radius.
b. 5 cm

26. A cone has a base area of 30in? and a lateral area which is 4.5 times bigger
than the base area. The surface area of the cone in in' is
c. 75

27. How many elements are needed in solving a truncated cylinder?

c. 2

28. It is a rectangle whose length is equal to its width

a. square

29. a solid bounded by a conical surface (lateral surface) whose directrix is a

closed curve, and a plane (base) which cuts all the elements.
c. cone
30. The lateral area of a cylinder with a circumference of 50 cm and a height of 4
cm is
d. 282.8 units

31. What is the distance, in cm, between two vertices of a cube that are farthest
from each other if an edge measures 8 cm?
d. 13.86

32. If the radius of the circle is decreased by 20%, by how much is the area
decreased?
c. 0.56

33. Find the volume a right circular cone to be obtained from a sector of radius 26
cm and whose central angle measure 138.5�?
d. 700 n

34. A quarter circle has a radius of 8 units. What is its area?

b. 16n sq. units

35. A prism whose lateral edges are perpendicular to its bases; its lateral faces
are rectangles
a. prism

36. A window glass is 5 ft by 7 ft. What is its area?

b. 35ft

37. A regular hexagon pyramid has a slant height of 4 cm and the length of each
side of the base is 6 cm. Find the lateral area.
a. 72 cm

38. A central angle of 45o subtends an arc 12 cm. What is the ratio of the circle?
a. 15.28 cm

39. A portion of the prism included between the base and a plane not parallel to
the base cutting all the edges.
c. truncated prism

40. It is a polyhedron having for bases two polygons in parallel planes and for
lateral faces triangles or trapezoids
b. prismatoid

41. It is a part of a circle bounded by a chord and an arc.

d. segment

41. One of the diagonals of a rhombus is 25 units and its area is 75 units2.
Determine the length of the side.
b. 12.85 units
42. It is a solid bounded by a closed surface every point of which is equidistant
from a fixed point called the center.
c. sphere

43. The area of a circle is 89.42 in2. What is the length of the side of a regular
hexagon inscribed in a circle?
d. 5.335 in.

44. It is a solid which is bounded by planes

b. polyhedron

45. These are the intersections of the edges in a polyhedron

a. Vertices

46. The area of the rhombus is 132 m2. If its shorter diagonal is 12 m, find the
longer diagonal.
c. 22 m

47. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of raduis 24. Find the perimeter
of the dodecagon.
d. 153.25 units

48. Every section of a cone made by a plane passing through its vertex & containing
two points of base is a
a. triangle

49. Water flows in a pipe 1/4 ft in diameter and 24 ft in length. What is the
volume of the water in the pipe?
a. 8n/3 ft3

50. Determine the volume of a right truncated triangular prism. The base has sides
loft, 9ft and 12ft. The sides perpendicular to the base have the height of 8.6 ft,
7.1 ft, and 5.5 ft., respectively
b. 311 ft3

51. A certain angle has a supplement 4 times its complement. What is the angle
a. 60�

52. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 24. Find the perimeter
of the dodecagon.

b. 149.08 units

53. The lateral area of the right circular water tank is 92 cm2 and its volume is
342 m3. Determine its radius.
d. 7.43 cm

54. The mean proportional between bases is

c. 13.sort(b)
55. A metal washer 1-inch in diameter is pierced by a 1/2-inch hole. What is the
volume of the washer if it is 1/8-inch thick?
d. 0.074-inch

56. Two triangles have equal bases. The altitude of one triangle is 3 units more
than its base while the altitude of the other is 3 units less than its base. Find
the altitudes if the areas of the triangles differ by 21 units2.
a. 4 and 10

57. A right circular cone has a base radius of 10 m. and an altitude of 20 m.

Determine its volume.
a. 666n

58. In plane geometry, two circular arcs that together make up a full circle are
called?
c. conjugate arcs

59. The volume of a water in a spherical tank having a diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3.
Determine the depth of the water in the tank.
a. 1.0 m

60. It is a polyhedron of which two faces are equal polygons in parallel planes and
the other faces are parallelograms.
c. prism

61. A section of a sphere when a plane passing through the center and diameter.
Creating the largest section called
a. great circle

62. The ratio of the volume of the two spheres is 27:343 and the sum of their radii
is 10. Find the radius of the smaller sphere.
b. 3

63. Find the increase in volume of a spherical balloon when its radius is increased
from 2 to 3 inches.
b. 79.59 in3

64. Which formula cannot be used to compute the area for a circle
b. Eld2/4

d. n r2

65. The circumference of a great circle of a sphere is 18 p. Find the volume of the
sphere.
c. 3053.6 units3

66. Assuming that the earth is a sphere whose radius is 6400 km, find the distance
along a 3o arc at the equator of the earth's surface.
b. 335.10 km
67. Find the area, in cm2, of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle of raduis 10
cm.
a. 283

68. The side of a triangle are 8 cm. 10 cm and 14 cm. Determine the raduis of the
inscribed circle.
c. 2.45cm

69. The side of a triangle are 8 cm. 10 cm and 14 cm. Determine the raduis of the
circumscribing circle.
b. 7.14 cm

70. The side of a right triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units. If each side is doubled,
how many units2 will the area of the new rectangle?
c. 240

71. What is the volume of a frustum of a cone whose upper base is 15 cm in diameter
and lower base is 10 cm in diameter with an altitude of 25 cm
b. 3180.87 cm3

72. A regular hexagonal pyramid has a slant height of 4 cm and the length of each
side of the base is 6 cm. Find the lateral area.
a. 72 cm2

73. The area of the region bounded by two concentric circles is called?
b. annulus

74. A cone and a cylinder have the same heightand the same volume. Find the ratio
of the radius of the cone to the radius of the cylinder.
b. 1.732

75. A piece of wire of length 50 m is cut into two parts. Each part is then bent to
form square. It is found that the total area of the square is 100 m2. Find the
difference in length of the sides of the two squares.
a. 6.62 m

76. A rectangular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 10. Find the area of
the octagon.
b. 282.8 units

77. A piece of wire is shaped to enclose a square whose area is 169 cm2. It is then
reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 15 cm. The area of the rectangle
is?
d. 165 cm2

78. The apothem of a polygon is the ______ of its inscribed circle.

d. radius

79. The lateral faces are equal isosceles trapezoids.

c. frustum of pyramid

80. The tangent and a secant are drawn to a circle from the same external point. If
the tangent is 6 inches and the external segment of the secant is 3 inches, then
the length of the secant is ______ inches.

c. 12

81. Find the increase in volume of a spherical balloon when its raduis is increased
from 2 to 3 inches.
d. 79.59 in

82. The angle of a sector is 30o and the raduis 15 cm. What is the area of the
sector in cm2
a. 58.9

83. A rectangle ABCD, which measures 18 cm by 24 cm, is folded once perpendicular

to diagonal AC so that the opposite vertices A and C coincide. Find the length of
the fold.
c. 22.5 cm

84. If an equilateral triangle is circumscribed about a circle of raduis 10 cm,

determine the side of the triangle?
a. 34.64 cm

85. If a regular polygon has 27 diagonal, then it is a?

c. nonagon

86. The volume of a sphere is 36 &#960 m3. The surface area of this sphere in m2
is?
d. 36 p

87. Polygons are classified according to the number of?

b. sides

88. One side of a regular octagon is 2. Find the area of the region inside the
octagon.
c. 19.3

Basic Engineering Correlation (Trigo Reviewer)

1. What will be the length of the two other sides of a right triangle if the
opposite side of a 60 degrees angle is 4V cm _____"
a. 8cm, 4 cm

2. The expression sin16� sin14� + cos16� cos14� is equivalent to

d. Cos 2�

3. If tan a = 1/2 � and tan = -3/5, then the value of tan(a +,8) is
d. 11/7
4. What is the value of sin [3 if cos p = 3/5?
a. sec 0 = 0.8

5. A central angle of 45 degrees subtends an arc of 12 cm. What is the radius of

the circle?
b. 15.82 cm

6. The exact radian measure of 180o is

a. p

7. Solve for x by logarithm, log x2 - log (2x/5 = 7.58.

c. 15207576

8. If arctan x + arctan (1/3) = p /4, the value of x is ______.

a. �

9. A road is tangent to a circular lake. Along the road and 12 miles from the point
of tangency, another road opens towards the lake. From the intersection of the two
roads to the periphery of the lake, the length of the new road is 11 miles. If the
new road will be prolonged across the lake, find the length of the bridge to be
constructed.
a. 2.09 miles

10. A strip of 640 sq. m is sold from a tirangular field whose sides are 96, 72 and
80 meters. The strip is of uniform width "h" and has one of its sides parallel to
the longest side of the field. Find the width of the strip.
a. 7.059 m

11. The expression sin25x sin5x is equivalent to

d. 2sin15xsin10x

12. The area of the sector determined by an angle of 60� in a circle of radius 5 cm
is

d. 13.09 cm2

13. Three times the sine of a certain angle is twice of the square of the cosine of
the same angle. Find the angle.
d. 30o

14. If sin A = 2.5x and cos A = 5.5x, find the value of A in degrees.
d. 42.47

15. One leg of a right triangle is 20 cm and the hypotenuse is 10 cm longer than
the other leg. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
d. 25 cm

16. Which of the following is an even function?

c. f (x)=5 COSx
17. The sides of a triangle lot are 130m, 180m, and 190m. This lot is to be divided
by a line bisecting the longest side and drawn from the opposite vertex. Find the
length of the line (1) and the area of each lot (A).
d. 1125 m, A5620 sq. m

18. If A is in the III quadrant and cos A = -15/17, find the value of cos (1/2)A.
c. -(1/17)1/2

19. Ship "A" started sailing N 40o 32' E at the rate of 3 mph. After 2 hours, ship
"B" started from the same port soing S 45o 18' E at the rate of 4 mph. After how
many hours wil the second ship be exactly south of ship "A"?
a. 4.37 hours

20. Two speedboats simultaneously sailed out from port A on a 10 km radius circle
lake towards point B directly opposite of port A. The first boat took the shortest
route and reached the destination in 1 hour. The boat has to pass by port C before
proceeding to port B. At what speed will it run in order to arrive at port B at the
same time with the first boat?
d. 27.32 kph

21. The reference angle of 0 = 210� is

d. 30�

22. If A is in the III quadrant and cos A = -15/17, find the value of cos (1/2)A.
d. -(1/17)1/2

23. The angle that is supplementary to 45o 15' 25" is

b. 44.743o

24. If 77o + 0.40x = arc tan (cot 0.25x), find x.

c. 20o

25. If A + B + C = 180o and tan A + tan B + tan C = 5.67, find the value of tan A
tan B tan C.
b. 5.67

26. The angle of elevation of the top point D of a tower A is 23o30'. From another
point B the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 55o30'. The points A and
B are 217.45 m. apart and on the same horizontal plane as the foot (point C) of the
tower. The horizontal angle subtended by A and B at the foot of the tower is 90o.
Find the height of the tower CD.
b. 90.59 m

28. The simplified form of sin4 0 �cos4 0 is

c. 2sin2 0-1

29. The simplified form of cos(A� B)�cos(A + B) is

d. 2sinAsinB
30. If cot 2A cot 68o = 1, then tan A is equal to _______.
a. 0.194

31. The exact degree measure of 0.5p is

b. 90o

32. Solve for G if csc (11G - 16o) = sec (5G + 26o).

a. 5 degrees

33. A ladder 5 m long leans against the wall of an apartment house forming an angle
of 50 degrees, 32 minutes with the ground. How high od the wall does it reach?
d. 3.86 m

34. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 24. Find the perimeter
of the dodecagon.
d. 149.08

35. The measure of 2.25 revolutions counterclockwise is

d. 805 degrees

36. Determine the amplitude and the phase shift for the function f(t)= 2 sin (3x +
4)
a. 2 and 4/3

37. Solve angle A of an oblique triangle with vertices ABC, if a = 25, b = 16 and C
= 94 degrees and 6 minutes.
b. 55 degrees and 32 minutes

38. The terminal side of the angle ? = 500o in standard position is in quadrant.
c. I

39. Determine the period of the curve y = sin(1/2)x

d. 720o

40. Solve for x in the given equation: arc tan(x +1) +arc tan (x - 1) = arc tan
(12).
c. 1.34

41. Two towers AB and CD are of equal height. At a point between them in the line
AC joining their bases, the angle of elevation of the nearer tower was observed to
be 60o. Then at 24 m from the same point in a direction perpendicular to AC, the
angle of elevation of the top of the towers are 45o for the nearer tower and 30o
for the other. Find the height of the towers (h) and their distance apart (x).
b. h=39.38m, x=61.83 m

42. If 3x = 9y and 27y = 81z, find x/z.

b. 8/3

43. Which of the following is a co terminal angle of ? = 265o?

a. �95o

44. The terminal side of 0 if cote > 0 and sec() >0 is in quadrant
b. I

45. Given: x = (cos B tan B - sin B) / cos B. Solve for x if B = D45 degrees.

d. 0

46. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 6.6824. Its area is

c. 2

47. Simplify: 4 cos y sin y (1 - 2 sin 2y)

d. sin 4y

48. The angle of elevation of the top of the tower A from the foot of tower B is
twice the angle of elevation of the top of tower B from the foot of tower A. At a
point midway between the two towers, the angles of elevations of the top of the
towers are complimetary. If the two towers are 120 m apart, what are the heights of
the towers?
d. 40 m and 90 m

49. Find the value of x in the equation csc x + cot x = 3.

d. p /5

50. Find the other parts of the triangle given a = 48�,1C = 57 degrees b = 47
units.
a. 75 �, 36.16 units

51. A clock has a dial face 12 inches in radius. The minute hand is 9 inches long
while the hour hand is 6 inches long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is 2
inches above the plane of rotation of the hour hand. Find the distance between the
tips of the hands of the clock at 5:40 a.m.
d. 9.17 in

52. The expression 2cos6x cos2x is equivalent to

c. Cos8x + cos4x

53. The solution set of the equation(tan x) 2 � 1 = 0 on the interval [0�, 360�) is
~{30�,90�,150�1}
a. {45�,135�,225�,315�1

54. If the terminal side of angle 13 contains the point (-5, -7) then 13 is equal
to

c. 234.46�

55. Simplify the expression: (sin B + cos B tan B) / cos B.

d. 2 tan B

56. A 40 m high tower stands vertically on a hillside (sloping ground) which makes
an angle of 18o with the horizontal. A tree also stands vertically up the hill from
the tower. An observer on top of the tower finds the angle of depression of the top
of the tree to be 26o and the bottom of the tree to be 38o. Find the height of the
tree.
d. 10.62 m

57. Triangle ABC is a right triangle with the right angle at C. CD is perpendicular
to AB. BC = 4, and CD = 1. Find the area of the triangle ABC.
b. 2.07

58. If sin A = 4/5, A is in quadrant II, sin B = 7/25, B is in quadrant I. Find sin
(A + B).
c. 3/5

59. A and B are summit of two mountains rise from a horizontal plain, B being 1200
m above the plain. Find the height of A, it being given that its angle of elevation
as seen from a point C in the plain (in the same vertical plane with A and B) is
50o, while the angle of depression of C viewed from B is 28o58' and the angle
subtended at B by AC is 50o.
d. 3002.33 m

60. 174 degrees is equivalent to _____ mils.

d. 3094

61. Which of the following is arccos(n)?

a. UNDEFINED

62. A cyclic quadrilateral has the sides AB = 8 cm; and CD = 12 cm. The fourth side
DA forms the diameter of the circle. Find the area of the circle.
d. 316.68 sq. cm

63. If tan 25 = m, find the value of tan (tan 155 - tan 115) / (1 + tan 115 x tan
155). ( Note: all angles are in degrees).
c. (1 - m2) / 2m

Basic Engineering Correlation (Analytic Geometry Reviewer)

1. The graph of the polar equation: r = 2cos0 is a

c. Circle

2. Classify the conic represented by the equation x2 + 4xy + 5 y2 - x + 2y + 1 = 0

b. ellipse

3. The graph of the polar equation: r = I l is

b. a parabola

4. What is the slope of the line 4x-5y +6 = 0?

c. 4/5

5. The point of intersection of the lines x � 2y+4 0 and �3x + y �2 =0 is

a. (0,2)

6. The conic given by the equation? +4xy+5y2 -x+ 2y+1 =0 is

d. hyperbola
7. Find the slope of a line having a parametric equation of y = 4t + 6 and x = t +
1.
c. 4

8. Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of 3 and a y-intercept of 1.

d. 3x - y + 1

9. An equation of the line with x and y intercepts 7 and -7, respectively, is

b. x �y-7 = 0

10. The line joining the points (3, -1) and (-3, 2) has equation
b. x+2y�l= 0

11. The set of all points in a plane such that the sum of the distances of a point
from some fixed points on the plane is a constant is a/an
b. ellipse
12. The distance from the point (5, 2) to the line 8x - 6y +2 = 0 is
a. 3

13. If (3,-5) is the midpoint of (-1,-3) and (x, y), then the values of x and y are

b. x=7, y= -7

14. The distance between the given lines 3x + 2y �2 =0 and 3x +2y-6 =0 is

b. 1.12

15. The major axis of the elliptical path in which the earth moves around the sun
is approximately 186,000,000 miles and the eccentricity of the ellipse is 1/60.
Determine the apogee of the earth.
a. 94,550,000 miles

16. A line 4x + 2y -2 = 0 is coincident with the line

h. 8x + 4y - 4

17. The length of the semi-transverse axis of the graph of --- 9 � 4 =1 is

a. 2

18. The equation of the line through (1, 2) and perpendicular to 6x - y +5 =0 is

c. x+6y-13=0

19. If the distance between the points (h, 2) and (0, 4) is 2 then the value of h
is
b. 0

20. The length of the latus rectum for the ellipse 16x2 + 25y2 = 400 is equal to1
c. 6.4

21. The graph of the polar equation: r = 2 + 2cos9 is a

c. cardioid

22. Find the angle formed by the lines 2x + y � 8 = 0 and x + 3y + 4 = 0

c. 45�

23. The equation of a line that intercepts the x-axis at x = 4 and the y-axis at y
= -6 is,
f. 3x - 2y

24. Find the distance between the lines 3x + y - 12 = 0 and 3x + y - 4 = 0

a. letter d) 8/the squareroot of 10
25. Find the polar coordinate of the point (-3,A/3 )
c. (012, 150�)

26. To simplify the equation x2 + 4y2 + 6x +16y + 21= 0 by translation of axes, the
origin must be moved to
a. (-3, -2)
27. Given the equation of the parabola x2 = 4y � 20 . Locate its vertex.
b. (0, 5)

28. Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of 1/2 and y-intercept 3.
c. x-2y+ 6 =
1

29. Determine the coordinates of the point which is two-fifths of the way from the
point (1,-5) to the point (6,10)
a. (3, 1)

30. Find the area of the circle whose equation is x2 + y2 = 6x - 8y.

a. 25 &

31. How far from the y-axis is the center of the curve 2x2 +2y2 + 10x - 6y - 55 =
0?
c. -2.5

32. Which of the following lines is parallel to the line 6x � 4y = 7?

c. 3x - 2y = 15

33. The slope of the line passing through (-2,2) and (3,12).
c. 2

34. A line 4x + 2y -2 = 0 is coincident with the line

e. 8x + 4y - 4

35. The parabolic antenna has an eqaution of y2 + 8x = 0. Determine the length of

the latus rectum.
a. 8

36. 14. A line through (-5, 2) and (1, -4) is perpendicular to the line through (x,
-7) and (8, 7). Find x.
a. -4
37. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 - 4y2 - 36x + 8y = 4
c. 1.8

38. If the points (0,0), (2, 0), and (1, k) are vertices of an equilateral triangle
then a value of k is
2

39. Find the inclination of the line passing through (-5, 3) and (10, 7).
d. 14.93

40. What is the equation of the line that passes thru (4, 0) and is parallel to the
line e. x - y - 4

41. What are the coordinates of the center of the curve x2 + y2 - 2x - 4y - 31 = 0

c. (1, 2)

42. If a line through (-5, 2) and (1, -4) is parallel to the line through (x, -7)
and (8, 7) then x =
c. 22

43. Find the distance between the given lines 4x - 3y = 23 and 4x - 3y = -7

c. 6

44. The equation of the directrix of the parabola y2 = 20x is

a. x = -5
45. The center of a circle is at (1, 1) and one point on its circumference is (-1,
-3). Find the other end of the diameter through ( -1, -3).
d. (3, 5)

46. Two vertices of a triangle are (2, 4) and (-2, 3) and the area is 2 square
units, the locus of the third vertex is
d. x - 4y =-10

47. The focus of parabola y2 = 16x is at:

d. (4, 0)

48. The diameter of a circle described by 9x2 + 9y2 = 16 is

c. 4

49. Find the distance between the points A (4, 7) and B (-1, -5).
c. 13

50. The equation 25x2 + 16y2 - 150x + 128y + 81 = 0 has its center at
a. (3, -4)

51. Find the equation of the line where x-intercept is 2 and y-intercept is -2.
a. x - y - 2

52. Find the inclination of the line passing through (-2,4) and (2,7)
c. 36.87

53. A horizontal line has a slope of

a. zero

54. To simplify the equation x2 + 4y2 + 6x +16y+ 21= 0 by translation of axes, the
origin must be moved to
a. (-3, -2)

55. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 �16y2 �144 = 0

d. 1.25

56. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 �16y2 �144= 0

b. 0.66

57. In the equation y = x2 + x + 1, where is the curve facing?

a. Downward

58. Find the acute angle of rotation such that the transformed equation of 6x2 +31y
+ 4y2 + x y = 0 will have no x' y' term.
c. 53.13�
d. 53.13�

59. The equation of the line through (1, 2) and perpendicular to 6x + y � 4 = 0 is

d. x- 6y+ 11 =
60. The equation of the line with a slope 47 and y-intercept -2 is
d. 4x-5y-20=0

61. The polar equation r = 1 when transformed into a rectangular equation is cos�
�4sin
d. x �4y = I

62. Given three vertices of a triangle whose vertices are A(1, 1), B(3, -3) and (5,
-3). Find the area of the triangle.
c. 4 sq. units

63. A line with slope equal to � 2 has an inclination of

a. 116.57�

64. What is the distance between the centers of the circle x2 + y2 + 2x + 4y - 3 =

0 and x2 + y2 - 8x - 6y + 7 = 0?
a. 7.07

65. The area of hexagon ABCDEF formed by joining the points A(1, 4), B(0, -3), C(2,
3), D(-1, 2), E(-2, -1) and F(3, 0) is _________ square units.
d. 20

66. Determine B such that 3x + 2y -7 = 0 is perpendicular to 2x - By + 2 = 0.

d. 3

67. Find the distance between the A (4, -3) and B (-2, 5).
a. 10

68. The equation of a line that intercepts the x-axis at x = 5 and the y-axis at y
= -4 is
a. 88x- l0y = 40

69. Find the value of k for which the equation x2 + y2 + 4x - 2y - k = 0 represents

a point circle.
d. -5

70. What is the length of the latus rectum of the curve x2 = 20y
b. 20

71. Find the acute angle of rotation such that the transformed equation of 6x2 +
3xy+ 4y2 +x-y =0 will have no x' y' term.
b. 28.15�

72. Find the coordinates of the point P(2, 4) with respect to the translated axis
with origin at (1,3).
a. (1, 1)

73. Determine the equation of the circle whose radius is 5, center on the line x =
2 and tangent to the line 3x - 4y + 11 = 0.
c. (x - 2)2 + (y + 2)2=25

74. The equation x2 + y1- 8x � 2y + 1 = 0 describes

d. an ellipse centered at (4, 1)

75. Find the equation of a circle whose center is at (3, -5) and whose raduis is 4.

a. (x - 3)2 + (y + 5)2

76. The line passing through the focus and is perpendicular to the directrix of the
parabola.
a. axis of the parabola

77. What is the equation of the line joining the points (3, -2) and (-7, 6)?
b. 4x + 5y - 0

78. The angle formed by the lines y = -2x +8 and y =1x- -4 is

a. 45�

79. In general quadratic equation, if the discriminant is zero, the curve is a

figure that represents a/an _______.
d. parabola

80. The directrix of a parabola is the line y = 5 and its focus is at the point (4,
-3). What is the length of the latus rectum?
b. 12

81. A line, which is perpendicular to the x-axis, has a slope to

a. infinity

82. A line passes thru (1, -3) and (-4, 2). Write the equation of the line in
slope-intercept form.
c. y- x - 2

83. The line segment connecting (x, 6) and (9, y) is bisected by the point (7, 3).
Find the values of x and y.
b. 5, 0

84. Determine the coordinates of the point which is three-fifths of the way from
the point (2, -5) to the point (-3, 5).
b. (-1, 1)

85. Which of the following points lie on the fourth quadrant?

)
b. (-4, 27r13)

86. The midpoint of the line segment between P1(x1, y1) and p2(-2, 4) is P(2, -1).
Find the coordinates of P1.
b. (6, -6)

87. A locus of a point which moves so that it is always equidistat from a fixed
point (focus ) to a fixed line (directix) is a _______.
d. parabola

88. A parabola having a span of 30m and a height of 20m has an area of
c. 400

89. An equation of the line that is parallel to 3x-6y = �land passes through the
point (2, 2) is
c. x-2y+2 =0

90. If the product of the slope of any two straight line is negative 1, one of
these lines are said to be
d. Perpendicular

91. Find the slope of the line defined by y - x = 5.

c. 1
Solve for G if csc (11G - 16�) = sec (5G + 26�).
5 degrees
Solve for x by logarithm, log x� - log (2x/5 = 7.58.
15207576
Two towers AB and CD are of equal height. At a point between them in the line AC
joining their bases, the angle of elevation of the nearer tower was observed to be
60�. Then at 24 m from the same point in a direction perpendicular to AC, the angle
of elevation of the top of the towers are 45� for the nearer tower and 30� for the
other. Find the height of the towers (h) and their distance apart (x)."
h=29.38 m, x=61.83 m
A and B are summit of two mountains rise from a horizontal plain, B being 1200 m
above the plain. Find the height of A, it being given that its angle of elevation
as seen from a point C in the plain (in the same vertical plane with A and B) is
50�, while the angle of depression of C viewed from B is 28o58' and the angle
subtended at B by AC is 50�."
3002.33 m
The reference angle of 0 = 210� is
30�
If cot 2A cot 68� = 1, then tan A is equal to
0.194
Determine the period of the curve y = sin(1/2)x
Which of the following is arccos(n)?
UNDEFINED
The measure of 2.25 revolutions counter clockwise is
805 degrees
Find the other parts of the triangle given a = 48�,1C = 57 degrees b = 47 units.
Determine the volume of a right truncated triangular prism. The base has sides
loft, 9ft and 12ft. The sides perpendicular to the base have the height of 8.6 ft,
7.1 ft, and 5.5 ft., respectively
311 ft3
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1. Three transformers are directly proportional to the KVA cost P30,000. The cost
of each transformer is directly proportional to the KVA rating and each has a
constant of proportionally of 0.9, 0.8 and 0.6, respectively. Find the cost of the
KVA transformer.
b. P13,500

2. What is the sum of the following sequence of terms 18, 25, 32, 39, . . . ,67?
b. 380

3. A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident which detains it an

hour, after which it proceeds at 3/5 of its former rate and arrives three hour
after the time; but had the accident happened 50 miles farther on yhe line, it
would have arrived one and one-half hour sooner. Find the length of the journey.
b. 800/9 miles

4. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. Determine the number.
d. 6

5. The roots of a quadratic equation are 1/3 and 1/4. What is the equation?
c. 12x2 - 7x + 1=0

6. The geometric mean of 4 and 64:

d. 16

7. A certain company manufactures two products, X and Y, and each of these products
must be processed on two different machines. Product X requires 1 minute of work
time per unit on machine 1 and 4 minutes of work time on machine 2. Product Y
requires two minutes of work time per unit on machine 1 and 3 minutes of work time
per unit on machine 2. Each day, 100 minutes are available on machine 1 and 200
minutes are available on machine 2. To satisfy certain customers, the company must
produce at least 6 units per day of product X and at least 12 units of product Y.
If the profit of each unit of product X is P50 and the profit of each unit of
product Y is P60, how many of each product should be produced in order to maximize
the company's profit?
a. X = 20 units, Y = 40 units

8. If 4y3 + 18y2 + 8y - 4 is divided by 2y + 3, the remainder is:

c. 11

9. The square of a number increased by 16 is the same as 10 times the number. Find
the number.
a. 8, 2

10. The seating section in a coliseum has 30 seats in the first row, 32 in the
second row, 34 seats in the third row and so on, until the tenth row is reached,
after which there are ten rows each containing 50 seats. Find the total number of
seats in the section.
c. 890

11. If the roots of an equation is zero, then they are classified as

b. trivial solutions

12. An airplane went 360 miles in 2 hours with the wind and, flying back the same
route, it took 3 3/5 hours against the wind. What was its speed in still air?
c. 140 mph

13. Find the fourth proportion to 3, 5 and 21.

d. 35

14. Two jet planes travelling towards each other take off at the same time from two
airports located 3000 miles apart. If they passed each other after two hours,
determine the speed of each plane if one plane is flying at a speed 100 mph faster
than the other.
a. 700 and 800 mph

15. Round off 0.003086 to three significant figures.

d. 0.00309

16. It is sequence of numbers that successive terms differ by a constant.

b. arithmetic progression

17. At 2:00 pm, an airplane takes off at 340 mph on an aircraft carrier. The
aircraft carrier moves due south at 25 kph in the same direction as the plane. At
4:05 pm, the communication between the plane and aircraft carrier was lost.
Determine the communication range in miles between the plane and the carrier.
b. 557 miles
18. A manufacturing firm maintains one product assembly line to produce signal
generators. Weekly demand for the generators is 25 units. The line operates for 7
hours per day, 5 days per week. What is the maximum production time per unit in
hours required for the line to meet the demand?
b. 1 hour

19. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In5 years, the product of their age is 1.5
times the product of their product ages. How old is Beth now?
a. 20

20. A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol solutions of different

strengths, 30% alcohol and 60% alcohol, respectively. How many cubic meters of each
strength must be used in order to produce a mixture of 50 cubic meters that contain
40% alcohol?
b. 33 1/3, 16 2/3 m3

21. Subtracting 2.6 x 103 from8.26 x 104 is:

a. 8.0 x 104

22. The time requires by an evaluator to lift a weight varies directly with the
weight and the distance through which it is to be lifted and inversely as the power
of the motor. If it takes 30 seconds for 10 hp motor to lift 100 lbs through 50
feet, what size of motor is required to lift 800 lbs in 40 seconds through a
distance of 40 feet?
d. 48 hp

23. Find the 30th term of the arithmetic progression 4, 7, 10, . . .

b. 941

24. Convergent series is a sequence of decreasing numbers or when the succeeding

term is _______ than the preceding term.
d. lesser

25. In the equation x2 + x = 0, one root is x equal to:

d. none of these.

26. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of 89% hydrochloric acid
solution to reduce its strength to 75%?
b. 6.53 liters

27. Round off 34.2814 to four significant figures.

c. 34.28

28. Solve algebraiclly:

11y2 - 3x2 = 41
4x2 + 7y2 = 32.
b. (� 1, � 2)

29. Determine the sum of the progression if there are 7 arithmetic means between 3
and 35.
c. 214
30. Crew No. 1 can finish installation of an antenna tower in 200 man-hour while
Crew No. 2 can finish the same job in 300 man-hour. How long will it take both
crews to finish the same job, working together?
a. 120 man-hour

31. In how many minutes after 3:00 P.M will the minute hand of a clock coincide
with the hour hand?
c. 16.364

32. In a class of 40 students, 27 students like Calculus and 25 like Geometry. How
many students liked both Calculus and Geometry?
a. 12

33. The electric power which a transmission line can transmit is proportional to
the product of its design voltage and current capacity, and inversely to the
transmission distance. A 115 - kilovolt line rated at 100 amperes can transmit 150
megawatts over 150 km. How much power, in megawatts can a 230 kilovolt line rated
at 150 amperes transmit over 100 km?
b. 675

34. The electrical resistance of a wire varies as its length and inversely as the
square of its diameter. If a 100 m long and 1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance of
30 ohms, find the length of the wire of the same material whose resistance and
diameter are 25 ohms and 0.74 mm respectively.
c. 30 m

35. What time after 3 o'clock will the hands of the clock be together for the first
time?
c. 3:16.36

36. A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours. Another pump can pump out
water from the same tank in 20 hours. How long will it take both pumps to pump out
water in the tank?
d. 7 hours

37. If the sum is 220 and the first term is 10, find the common difference if the
last term is 30.
d. 2

38. Equal volumes of two different liquids evaporated at different but constant
rates. If the first is totally evaporated in 6 weeks and the second in 5 weeks,
when will the second be one-half the volume of the first?
d. 4 2/7 weeks

39. MCMXCIV is a Roman numeral equivalent to:

a. 1994

40. Find the 100th term of the sequence 1.01, 1.00, 0.99, . .
b. 0.02
41. At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and minute hand of the clock
first form an angle of 120o?
a. 12:21.818

42. Solve the simultaneous equations:

3x - y = 6
9x - y = 12.
b. ( 1, -3 )

43. A merchant has three items on sale: namely, a radio for P50, a clock fo P30,
and a flashlight for P1. At the end of the day, she has sold a total of 100 of the
three items and has taken exacly P1000 on the total sales. How many radios did he
sale?
d. 16

44. What is the sum of the first 10 terms of the geometric progression 2, 4, 8, 16,
. . . ?
b. 2046

45. In a commercial survey involving 1000 persons on brand preferences, 120 were
found to prefer brand x only, 200 persons prefer brand y only, 150 persons prefer
brand z only, 370 prefer either brand x or y but not z, 450 prefer brand y or z but
not x, and 370 prefer either brand z or x but not y, and none prefer all the three
brands at a time. How many persons have no brand preference with any of the three
brands?
c. 280

46. Which number has four significant figures?

d. 0.01414

47. A club of 40 executives, 33 likes to smoke Marlboro and 20 likes to smoke

Philip Morris. How many like both?
b. 13

48. The arithmetic mean of 80 numbers is 55. If two numbers namely 250 and 850 are
removed, what is the arithmetic mean of the remaining numbers?
b. 42.31

49. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The sum of the progreesion is:
b. 341

50. If a two digit number has X for its unit digit and Y for its tenth digit,
represent the number.
d. 10Y + Y

51. In the series 1, 1, 1/2, 1/6, 1/24, . . . , determine the 6th term.
b. 1/120

52. Round off 149.691 to the nearest integer.

d. 150
53. The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number twice the other. Find the numbers.
b. 7 & 14

54. The probability for the ECE board examinees from a certain school to pass the
Mathematics subject is 3/7 and that for the Communication subject is 5/7. If none
of the examinees failed in both subjects, how many examinees from the school took
the examination?
d. 28

55. Solve for x that satisfies the equation 6x2 - 7x - 5 = 0.

c. 5/3 or -1/2

56. Three transformers are rated 5 KVA, 10 KVA and 25 KVA, respectively. The total
cost of the three transformers is P15, 000.00. If the cost of each transformer is
proportional to its KVA rating multiplied by the factor 1, 0.8 and 0.6
respectively, find the cost of the 10 KVA transformer.
a. P4,286

57. Solve the simultaneous equations:

2x2 - 3y2 = 6
3x2 + 2y2 = 35.
b. x3 or -3; y2 or -2

58. The sum of the progression 5, 8, 11, 14, . . . Is 1025. How many terms are
there?
a. 25

59. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 when y = 7 and z = 2,

find the value of x when y = 16 and z = 4.
c. 16

60. The arithmetic means of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers are added to the
progression, the new set of the numbers will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What
are the two numbers if their difference is 4?
b. 23, 27

61. The sum of Kim's and Kevin's ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim will be twice as old
as Kevin. What are their ages now?
a. 5, 13

62. The intensity of sound varies directly as the strength of the source and
inversely as the square of the distance from the source. Write the equation to the
describe relation.
b. I=k/d2

63. Determine the sum of the infinite series 1/3 + 1/9 + 1/27 +. . .
c. �
64. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of 10% solution. You find 7% and
12% solutions on the shelf. How much of the 7% solution you mix with the
appropriate amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution?
b. 2

65. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2 - 10x + 2 = 0

d. 2

66. Maria is 36 years old. Maria was twice as old as Anna was when Maria was as old
as Anna is now. Jow old is Anna now?
d. 24

67. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric progression if the sum is 2 and the
first term is 1/2.
c. �

68. A tank is fitted with two pipes. The first pipe can fill the tank in 10 hours.
But after it has been open for 3 hours, the second pipe is opened and the tank is
filled up in 4 hours more. How long would it take the second pipe alone to fill tha
tank?
d. 13.33 hr

69. How many kg of cream containing 25% butter fat should be added to 50 kg of milk
containing one percent butter fat to produce milk containing 2% butter fat?
b. 2.174

70. The electrical resistance offered by an electric wire varies directly as the
length and inversely as the square of the diameter of the wire. Compare the
electrical resistance offered by two pieces of wire of the same material, one being
100 m long and 8 mm in diameter, and the other 50 m long and 3 mm in diameter.
a. R1 = 0.28 R2

71. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom layer, 58 bricks in the second
layer, 55 bricks in the third layer, and so on until there are 10 bricks in the
last layer. How many bricks are there all together?
b. 639

72. A 100 g of water are mixed with 150 g of alcohol (p = 790 kg/cu.m.). What is
the specific volume of the resulting mixtures? Assuming that the two fluids mix
completely.
d. 1.20 cu cm/g

73. One number is 5 less than another. If the sum is 135, what are the numbers?
a. 65, 70

74. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the numerator.
If 7 is added to both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find
the original fraction.
c. 5/13

75. An inexperienced statistical clerk submitted the following statistics to his

manager on the average rate of production of transistorized radios in an assenbly
line: "1.5 workers produced 3 radios in 2 hour." How many workers are employed in
the assembly line working 40 hours per week if weekly production is 480 radios?
a. 12

76. Find the mean proportion of 4 and 36.

a. 12

77. An automobile is travelling at a velocity of 10 mph. If the automobile mileage

meter already reads 20 miles, find the mileage meter reading after 3 hours.
c. 50 miles

78. Find the sum of 1, -1/5, 1/25, . . .

c. 5/6

79. A man is 41 years old and his son is 9. In how many years will the father be
three times as old as his son?
a. 7

80. A tank is fitted with an intake pipe that will fill it in 4 hours, and an
outlet pipe that will empty it in 9 hours. If both pipes are left open, how long
will it take to fill the empty tank?
a. 7.2 hr

81. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent to 1785/9999 starting from the
decimal point.
d. 8

82. A mechanical engineer who was awarded a P450,000.00 contract to install the
machineries of an oil mill failed to finish the work on time. As provided for in
the contract, he has to pay a daily penalty equivalent to one-fourth of one percent
of the contract price for the first ten days of the delay, one-half percent per day
for the next ten days and one percent per day for every day thereafter. If the
total penalty paid was P60,750.00, how many days was the completion of the contract
delayed?
b. 26 days

83. A man started driving his car at a certain time froma certain place. On arrival
at his destination at the precise appointed time, he said, "If I had averaged 6
miles per hour faster, I would have been 5 minutes early. But if I had averaged 5
mph slower, I would have been 6 minutes late." Find how far he had driven.
d. 15 miles

84. Pedro started running at a speed of 10kph. Five minutes later, Mario started
running in the same direction and catches up with Pedro in 20 minutes. What is the
speed of Mario?
a. 12.5 kph

85. The equation whose roots are the reciprocal of the solutions of 2x2 - 3x - 5 =
0.
c. 5x2 + 3x - 2=0
86. In certain Board Examination, 119 examinees too the Shop Machinery subjected,
104 examinees took thye Power Plant Machinery subject and 115 examinees took the
Industrial Plant Machinery subject. Seventy-eight (78) conditioned examinees took
only Shop Machinery and Power Machinery subjects. Seventy-one (71) conditioned
examinees took only the POwer Plant Machinery and Industrial Plant Machinery
subjects. Eighty-five (85) conditioned examinees took only Industrial Plant
Machinery and Shop Machinery subjects. Fifty-four took all the three subjects. How
many examinees took the Certified Plant Mechanic board examination?
c. 158

87. If a train passes as many telegraph poles in one minute as it goes miles per
hour, how far apart are the poles?
d. 88 ft.

88. A man 38 years old has a son of ten years old. In how many years will the
father be three times as old as his son?
c. 4

89. In Algebra, the operation of root extraction is called as _____.

d. evolution

90. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% faster than Pilar and
together they can paint a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take Pedro to
paint the same fence if he had to work alone?
c. 10

91. There are 9 arithmetic means between 11 and 51. The sum of the progression is:
b. 341

92. The number 1.123123123. . . Is

c. rational

93. Which of the following numbers should be changed to make all the numbers from
an arithmetic progression when properly arranged?
c. 20/14

94. How many significant digits do 10.097 have?

b. 5

95. Find the sum of the infinite geometric progression 6, -2, 2/3, . . .
a. 9/2

96. The time required for two examinees to solve the same problem differ by two
minutes. Together they can solve 32 problems in one hour. How long will it take for
the slower problem solver to solve the problem?
b. 5 minutes

97. An equipment installation job in the completion stage can be completed in 50

days of 8 hours day work, with 50 men working. With the contract expiring in 40
days, the mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 15 men on the job, overtime
not being permitted. If the liquidated damages is P5,000 per day of delay, and they
are paid P150 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job on time? Would
he save money with the addition of workers?
b. Yes, P44,750 savings

98. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours
in flying back. What was the wind velocity in kph?
d. 50

99. If a = b, then b = a. This illustrates which axiom in Algebra?

c. Symmetric Axiom

100. The ten's digit of a certain two digit number exceeds the unit's digit by four
and is one less than twice the unit's digit. Find the number.
c. 65

101. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe can fill the same in tank
in 3 hours. A drain pipe can empty the tank in 24 hours. With all three pipes open,
how lomg will it take to fill in the tank?
a. 2.18 hrs

102. An equipment installation job in the completion stage can be completed in 40

days of 8 hours day work with 40 men working. With the contract expiring in 30
days, the mechanical engineer contractor decided to add 10 men on the job, overtime
not being permitted. If the liquidated damages is P2,000 per day of delay, and the
men are paid P80 per day, will the engineer be able to complete the job on time?
d. Yes, P16,000 would be saved

103. It takes Butch twice as it takes Dan to do a certain piece of work. Working
together they can do the work in 6 days. How long would it take Dan to do it alone?
b. 9 days

104. Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. However, "y" years ago, Robert
was twice as old as Stan. If Stan is now "b" years old b.y, find the value of (b-
y).

c. 15

105. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7 hours, respectively. What
fraction of the yard can they mow in 1 hour if they work together?
b. 84/47 hr

106. The volume of hemisphere varies directly as the cube of its radius. The volume
of a sphere with 2.54 cm radius is 20.75 cm3. What is the volume of a sphere with
3.25 cm radius of the same kind?
c. 43.47 cm3

107. Add the following and express in meters: 3 m + 2 cm + 70 mm.

d. 3.09 m
108. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the same day, the minute hand of
a standard clock describe an arc of:
c. 540o

109. A clock has dial face 304.80 mm in radius. The minute hand is 228.60 mm long
while the hour hand is 152.40 mm long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is
50.80 mm above the plane of rotation of the hour hand. Find the distance between
the tips of the hands of the clock at 5:40 AM.
d. 233 mm

110. A certain manufactured part can be defective because it has one or more out of
the three possible defects: insufficient tensile strength, a burr, or a diameter
outside of tolerance limit. In a lot of 500 pieces: 19 have a tensile strength
defects, 17 have a burr, 11 have an unacceptable diameter, 12 have tensile strength
and burr defects, 7 have tensile strength and diameter defects, 5 have burr and
diameter defects and 2 have all three defects. Determine:
How many of the pieces have no defects?
How many pieces have only burr defects?
How many pieces have exactly 2 defects?
a. 475, 2, 18

111. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana waswhen Mary was as old as
Ana is now. How old is Ana?
a. 18

112. The electrical resistance of wire made of a certain material varies as its
length and inversely as the square of the diameter. If the wire 200 meters long and
1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance of 60 ohms, find the length of the wire of the
same material, whose resistance and diameter are 5 ohms and 0.65 mm, respectively.
b. 4.51 m

113. A man leaving his office on one afternoon noticed the clock at past two
o'clock. Between two three hours, he returned to his office noticing the hands of
the clock interchanged. At what time did he leave the office and the time that he
returned to the office?
d. 2:26.01, 5:12.17 P.M.

114. A medium unshaded lamp hangs 8 m directly above the table. To what distance
should it be lowered to increase the illumination to 4.45 times the former value?
Illumination intensity varies inversely to the square of the distance.
c. 3.79 m

115. Roberto is 25 years younger than his father. However, his father will be twice
his age in 10 years. Find their ages now.
a. 15 and 40

116. A storage battery discharges at a rate which is proportional to the charge. If

the charge is reduced by 50% of its original value at the end of 2 days, how long
will it take to reduce the charge to 25% of its original charge?
c. 3

117. Prior to the last IBP elections, a survey was conducted in a certain barangay
in Metro Manila to find out which of three political parties they like best. The
results indicated that 320 like KBL, 250 like LABAN and 180 liked INDEPENDENTS. But
of these, 160 like both KBL and LABAN, 100 liked both LABAN and INDEPENDENTS and 70
like both KBL and INDEPENDENTS. Only 30 said they like all the three parties and
none admitted that they did not like any party. How many voters are there in the
barangay?
c. 450

118. A man left his home at past 3:00 o'clock P.M as indicated in his wall clock.
Between 2 and 3 hours after, he returned home and noticed the hands of the lock
interchanged. At what time the man leave his home?
c. 3:31.47 P.M

119. Given: f(x) = ( x+ 3) (x - 4) +4. When f(x) is divided by (x - k), the

remainder is k. Find k.
c. 4

120. A & B working together can finish painting the house in six days. A working
alone, can finish it in five days less than B. How long will it take each of them
to finish the work alone?
d. 10 days for A
15 days for B

121. A statistical clerk submitted the following reports: "The average rate of
production of radios is 1.5 units for every 1.5 hours of work by 1.5 workers." How
many radios were produced in one month by 30 men working 200 hours during the
month?
a. 4000

122. A piece of paper is 0.05 in thick. Each time the paper is folded into half,
the thickness is doubled. If the paper was folded 12 times, how thick in feet the
folded paper will be?

c. 17.06

123. A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. Five workers started the
job. They were reinforced with four more workers at the beginning of the 6th day.
Find the total number of days it took them to finish the job.
b. 20.56 days

124. Six times the middle digit of a three-digit number is the sum of the other
two. If the number is divided by the sum of its digits, the answer is 51 and the
remainder is 11. If the digits are reversed the number becomes smaller by 198, find
the number.
c. 725

125. Given that "w" varies directly as the product of x and y and inversely as the
square of z and that w = 4 when x = 2, y = 6 and z = 3. Find tha value of "w" when
x = 1, y = 4 and z = 2.
c. 3
126. A man driving his car at a certain speed from his house will reach his office
in 6 hours. If he increased his speed 15 mph, he would reach his office 1 hour
earlier. Find the distance from his office to his house.
b. 450 miles

127. Determine x, so that x, 2x + 7, 10x - 7 will be a geometric progression.

d. 7, -7/6

128. Solve for the values of x and y in 4x + 2y = 5 and 13x - 3y = 2.

d. ( 1/2, 3/2 )

129. Determine the k so that the equation 4x2 + kx + 1 = 0 will have just one real
root.
c. 4

130. An airplane travels from points A and B with the distance of 1500 km and a
wind along its flight line. If it takes the airplane 2 hours from A to B with the
tailwind and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, what is the velocity?
b. 675 kph

131. How many numbers between 10 and 200 are exactly divisible by 7? Find their
sum.
e. 27 numbers; sum

132. A gasoline tank of a car contains 50 liters of gasoline and alcohol, the
alcohol comprising 25%. How much of the mixture must be drawn off and replaced by
alcohol so that the tank will contain a mixture of which 50% is alcohol?
c. 16.67 liters

133. In a pile of logs, each layer contains one more log than the layer above and
the top contains just one log. If there are 105 logs in the pile, how many layers
are there?
b. 14

134. Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to be made by mixing a

steel containing 14% nickel with anothercontaining 6% nickel. How much of each is
needed?
b. 500 kg, 1500 kg

135. A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with the stream and black in 14 hours,
but that he can row 14 miles with the stream in the same time as 3 miles against
the stream. Find the rate of the stream.
c. 0.8 mile per hour

136. Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 ft in the first second, 48.3 ft in the 2nd
second, 80.5 ft in the 3rd second. How far did the body fall during the 10th
second.

b. 305.9 ft

137. Solve for x : 10x2 + 10 x2 + 1 = 0.

d. -0.113, -0.887

138. An airplane travels from points A and B with a distance of 1500 km and a wind
along its flight line. If it takes the airplane 2 hours from A and B with the
tailwind and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, What is the velocity?
b. 675 kph

139. A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five minutes later, a
second jogger starts the same course at 10 kph. How long will it take the second
jogger to catch the first?
d. 20 min

140. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 50 ft. and is observed to
rebound 2/3 of the distance it falls. How far will the ball travel before coming to
rest if the ball continues to fall in this manner?
d. 250

141. The resistance of the wire varies directly with its length and inversely with
its area. If a certain piece of wire 10 m long and 0.10 cm in diameter has a
resistance of 100 ohms, what will its resistance be if it is uniformly stretched so
that its length becomes 12 m?
a. 144

142. Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 25 liters of 35% salt solution are poured
into a drum originally containing 30 liters of 10% salt solution. What is the
percent concentration of salt in the mixture?
a. 0.1955

143. A & B can do the job in 42 days, B & C for the same job in 31 days, C & A also
for the same job in 20 days. If A & C work together, how many days can they do the
same job?
a. 19

144. A pipe can fill a tank in 14 hours. A second pipe can fill the tank in 16
hours. If both pipes are left open, determine the time required to fill the tank?
c. 7.47 hr

145. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5mph and upstream at the rate of 2mph.
How far downstream should he go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?
a. 2.5 miles

146. Solve for the value of x.

2x - y + z = 6
x - 3y - 2z = 13
2x - 3y - 3z = 16
c. 2
147. Find the value of w in the following equations:
3x - 2y + w = 11
x + 5y - 2w = -9
2x + y - 3w = -6.
c. 3

148. A boat travels downstream 2/3 of the time as it goes going upstream. If the
velocity of the river's current is 8 kph, determine the velocity of the boat in
still water.
d. 40 kph

149. A survey of 100 persons revealed that 72 of them had eaten at restaurant P and
that 52 of them had eaten at restaurant Q. Which of the following could not be the
number of persons in the surveyed group who had eaten at both P and Q?
c. 24

***Basic Engineering Correlation (Solid Mensuration Reviewer)

1. It is a quadrilateral two and only two of whose sides are parallel

c. trapezoid

2. Five pointed figure in a

b. star

3. The volume of any cone is equal to

c. 1/3 Bh

4. It is a polyhedron whose six faces are all squares.

a. cube

5. What is the length of the diagonal of a cube of edge 7 cm

a. 12.12 cm

6. A section of a sphere when a plane passing through the center and diameter.
Creating the
largest section called
b. great circle

7. Each of the faces of a regular hexahedron is a

a. square

8. A cone and a cylinder have the same heightand the same volume. Find the ratio of
the radius
of the cone to the radius of the cylinder.

b. 1.732

9. The volume of a water in a spherical tank having a diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3.

Determine the
depth of the water in the tank.
a. 1.0 m

10. It is desired that the volume of the sphere be tripled. By how many times will
the raduis be
increased?
a. 31/3

11. In Heron's formula, the symbol 's' stands for

d. (a+b+c)/2

12. Find the measure of the diagonal of a rectangular parallelepiped of dimensions

2 x 3 x 8.
c. 0.07

13. In a plane figure, diamond is also known as

b. rhombus

14. Find the weight of a snowball 1 ft. in diameter if the wet compact snow of
which the ball is made weighs 25 lbs/ cu. ft.
c. 13.09 lb

15. The area for a trapezoid is represented by

c. bh

16. An Egyptians pyramid of the Giza has a square base of edge 6miles. If its
altitude is 15miles., determine the
c. 180 cu.mi

17. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 540o. Find the number of sides.
c. 6

18. Prisms are named according to their?

a. bases

19. The approximate surface area of an ellipse is

c. Fir2

20. It is desired that the volume of the sphere be tripled. By how many times will
the raduis be increased?
d. 31/3

21. The bounding cylindrical surface of a cylinder is called

a
b. lateral surface

22. It is the perpendicular distance between the two bases of a frustum of a cone.
b. altitude

23. Points on the same

d. collinear

24. What is the area, in inches2, of a parabola with a base if 15 cm and height of
20 cm.
a. 31

25. If a lateral area of a right circular cylinder is 88 cm3 and its volume is 220
cm3, find its radius.
b. 5 cm

26. A cone has a base area of 30in? and a lateral area which is 4.5 times bigger
than the base area. The surface area of the cone in in' is
c. 75

27. How many elements are needed in solving a truncated cylinder?

c. 2

28. It is a rectangle whose length is equal to its width

a. square

29. a solid bounded by a conical surface (lateral surface) whose directrix is a

closed curve, and a plane (base) which cuts all the elements.
c. cone

30. The lateral area of a cylinder with a circumference of 50 cm and a height of 4

cm is
d. 282.8 units

31. What is the distance, in cm, between two vertices of a cube that are farthest
from each other if an edge measures 8 cm?
d. 13.86

32. If the radius of the circle is decreased by 20%, by how much is the area
decreased?
c. 0.56

33. Find the volume a right circular cone to be obtained from a sector of radius 26
cm and whose central angle measure 138.5�?
d. 700 n

34. A quarter circle has a radius of 8 units. What is its area?

b. 16n sq. units

35. A prism whose lateral edges are perpendicular to its bases; its lateral faces
are rectangles
a. right

36. A window glass is 5 ft by 7 ft. What is its area?

b. 35ft

37. A regular hexagon pyramid has a slant height of 4 cm and the length of each
side of the base is 6 cm. Find the lateral area.
a. 72 cm

38. A central angle of 45o subtends an arc 12 cm. What is the ratio of the circle?
a. 15.82 cm
39. A portion of the prism included between the base and a plane not parallel to
the base cutting all the edges.
c. truncated prism

40. It is a polyhedron having for bases two polygons in parallel planes and for
lateral faces triangles or trapezoids
b. prismatoid

41. It is a part of a circle bounded by a chord and an arc.

d. segment

41. One of the diagonals of a rhombus is 25 units and its area is 75 units2.
Determine the length of the side.
b. 12.85 units

42. It is a solid bounded by a closed surface every point of which is equidistant

from a fixed point called the center.
c. sphere

43. The area of a circle is 89.42 in2. What is the length of the side of a regular
hexagon inscribed in a circle?
d. 5.335 in.

44. It is a solid which is bounded by planes

b. polyhedron

45. These are the intersections of the edges in a polyhedron

a. Vertices

46. The area of the rhombus is 132 m2. If its shorter diagonal is 12 m, find the
longer diagonal.
c. 22 m

47. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of raduis 24. Find the perimeter
of the dodecagon.
d. 153.25 units

48. Every section of a cone made by a plane passing through its vertex & containing
two points of base is a
a. triangle

49. Water flows in a pipe 1/4 ft in diameter and 24 ft in length. What is the
volume of the water in the pipe?
a. 8n/3 ft3

50. Determine the volume of a right truncated triangular prism. The base has sides
loft, 9ft and 12ft. The sides perpendicular to the base have the height of 8.6 ft,
7.1 ft, and 5.5 ft., respectively
b. 311 ft3

51. A certain angle has a supplement 4 times its complement. What is the angle
a. 60�

52. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 24. Find the perimeter
of the dodecagon.

b. 149.08 units

53. The lateral area of the right circular water tank is 92 cm2 and its volume is
342 m3. Determine its radius.
d. 7.43 cm

54. The mean proportional between bases is

c. 13.sort(b)

55. A metal washer 1-inch in diameter is pierced by a 1/2-inch hole. What is the
volume of the washer if it is 1/8-inch thick?
d. 0.074-inch

56. Two triangles have equal bases. The altitude of one triangle is 3 units more
than its base while the altitude of the other is 3 units less than its base. Find
the altitudes if the areas of the triangles differ by 21 units2.
a. 4 and 10

57. A right circular cone has a base radius of 10 m. and an altitude of 20 m.

Determine its volume.
a. 666n

58. In plane geometry, two circular arcs that together make up a full circle are
called?
c. conjugate arcs

59. The volume of a water in a spherical tank having a diameter of 4 m is 5.236 m3.
Determine the depth of the water in the tank.
a. 1.0 m

60. It is a polyhedron of which two faces are equal polygons in parallel planes and
the other faces are parallelograms.
c. prism

61. A section of a sphere when a plane passing through the center and diameter.
Creating the largest section called
a. great circle

62. The ratio of the volume of the two spheres is 27:343 and the sum of their radii
is 10. Find the radius of the smaller sphere.
b. 3
63. Find the increase in volume of a spherical balloon when its radius is increased
from 2 to 3 inches.
b. 79.59 in3

64. Which formula cannot be used to compute the area for a circle
b. Eld2/4

d. n r2

65. The circumference of a great circle of a sphere is 18 p. Find the volume of the
sphere.
c. 3053.6 units3

66. Assuming that the earth is a sphere whose radius is 6400 km, find the distance
along a 3o arc at the equator of the earth's surface.
b. 335.10 km

67. Find the area, in cm2, of a regular octagon inscribed in a circle of raduis 10
cm.
a. 283

68. The side of a triangle are 8 cm. 10 cm and 14 cm. Determine the raduis of the
inscribed circle.
c. 2.45cm

69. The side of a triangle are 8 cm. 10 cm and 14 cm. Determine the raduis of the
circumscribing circle.
b. 7.14 cm

70. The side of a right triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units. If each side is doubled,
how many units2 will the area of the new rectangle?
c. 240

71. What is the volume of a frustum of a cone whose upper base is 15 cm in diameter
and lower base is 10 cm in diameter with an altitude of 25 cm
b. 3180.87 cm3

72. A regular hexagonal pyramid has a slant height of 4 cm and the length of each
side of the base is 6 cm. Find the lateral area.
a. 72 cm2

73. The area of the region bounded by two concentric circles is called?
b. annulus

74. A cone and a cylinder have the same heightand the same volume. Find the ratio
of the radius of the cone to the radius of the cylinder.
b. 1.732
75. A piece of wire of length 50 m is cut into two parts. Each part is then bent to
form square. It is found that the total area of the square is 100 m2. Find the
difference in length of the sides of the two squares.
a. 6.62 m

76. A rectangular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 10. Find the area of
the octagon.
b. 282.8 units

77. A piece of wire is shaped to enclose a square whose area is 169 cm2. It is then
reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 15 cm. The area of the rectangle
is?
d. 165 cm2

78. The apothem of a polygon is the ______ of its inscribed circle.

d. radius

79. The lateral faces are equal isosceles trapezoids.

c. frustum of pyramid

80. The tangent and a secant are drawn to a circle from the same external point. If
the tangent is 6 inches and the external segment of the secant is 3 inches, then
the length of the secant is ______ inches.

c. 12

81. Find the increase in volume of a spherical balloon when its raduis is increased
from 2 to 3 inches.
d. 79.59 in

82. The angle of a sector is 30o and the raduis 15 cm. What is the area of the
sector in cm2
a. 58.9

83. A rectangle ABCD, which measures 18 cm by 24 cm, is folded once perpendicular

to diagonal AC so that the opposite vertices A and C coincide. Find the length of
the fold.
c. 22.5 cm

84. If an equilateral triangle is circumscribed about a circle of raduis 10 cm,

determine the side of the triangle?
a. 34.64 cm

85. If a regular polygon has 27 diagonal, then it is a?

c. nonagon

86. The volume of a sphere is 36 &#960 m3. The surface area of this sphere in m2
is?
d. 36 p

87. Polygons are classified according to the number of?

b. sides
88. One side of a regular octagon is 2. Find the area of the region inside the
octagon.
c. 19.3

Basic Engineering Correlation (Trigo Reviewer)

1. What will be the length of the two other sides of a right triangle if the
opposite side of a 60 degrees angle is 4V cm _____"
a. 8cm, 4 cm

2. The expression sin16� sin14� + cos16� cos14� is equivalent to

d. Cos 2�

3. If tan a = 1/2 � and tan = -3/5, then the value of tan(a +,8) is
d. 11/7

4. What is the value of sin [3 if cos p = 3/5?

a. sec 0 = 0.8

5. A central angle of 45 degrees subtends an arc of 12 cm. What is the radius of

the circle?
b. 15.82 cm

6. The exact radian measure of 180o is

a. p

7. Solve for x by logarithm, log x2 - log (2x/5 = 7.58.

c. 15207576

8. If arctan x + arctan (1/3) = p /4, the value of x is ______.

a. �

9. A road is tangent to a circular lake. Along the road and 12 miles from the point
of tangency, another road opens towards the lake. From the intersection of the two
roads to the periphery of the lake, the length of the new road is 11 miles. If the
new road will be prolonged across the lake, find the length of the bridge to be
constructed.
a. 2.09 miles

10. A strip of 640 sq. m is sold from a tirangular field whose sides are 96, 72 and
80 meters. The strip is of uniform width "h" and has one of its sides parallel to
the longest side of the field. Find the width of the strip.
a. 7.059 m

11. The expression sin25x sin5x is equivalent to

d. 2sin15xsin10x
12. The area of the sector determined by an angle of 60� in a circle of radius 5 cm
is

d. 13.09 cm2

13. Three times the sine of a certain angle is twice of the square of the cosine of
the same angle. Find the angle.
d. 30o

14. If sin A = 2.5x and cos A = 5.5x, find the value of A in degrees.
d. 42.47

15. One leg of a right triangle is 20 cm and the hypotenuse is 10 cm longer than
the other leg. Find the length of the hypotenuse.
d. 25 cm

16. Which of the following is an even function?

c. f (x)=5 COSx

17. The sides of a triangle lot are 130m, 180m, and 190m. This lot is to be divided
by a line bisecting the longest side and drawn from the opposite vertex. Find the
length of the line (1) and the area of each lot (A).
d. 1125 m, A5620 sq. m

18. If A is in the III quadrant and cos A = -15/17, find the value of cos (1/2)A.
c. -(1/17)1/2

19. Ship "A" started sailing N 40o 32' E at the rate of 3 mph. After 2 hours, ship
"B" started from the same port soing S 45o 18' E at the rate of 4 mph. After how
many hours wil the second ship be exactly south of ship "A"?
a. 4.37 hours

20. Two speedboats simultaneously sailed out from port A on a 10 km radius circle
lake towards point B directly opposite of port A. The first boat took the shortest
route and reached the destination in 1 hour. The boat has to pass by port C before
proceeding to port B. At what speed will it run in order to arrive at port B at the
same time with the first boat?
d. 27.32 kph

21. The reference angle of 0 = 210� is

d. 30�

22. If A is in the III quadrant and cos A = -15/17, find the value of cos (1/2)A.
d. -(1/17)1/2

23. The angle that is supplementary to 45o 15' 25" is

b. 44.743o

24. If 77o + 0.40x = arc tan (cot 0.25x), find x.

c. 20o
25. If A + B + C = 180o and tan A + tan B + tan C = 5.67, find the value of tan A
tan B tan C.
b. 5.67

26. The angle of elevation of the top point D of a tower A is 23o30'. From another
point B the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 55o30'. The points A and
B are 217.45 m. apart and on the same horizontal plane as the foot (point C) of the
tower. The horizontal angle subtended by A and B at the foot of the tower is 90o.
Find the height of the tower CD.
b. 90.59 m

28. The simplified form of sin4 0 �cos4 0 is

c. 2sin2 0-1

29. The simplified form of cos(A� B)�cos(A + B) is

d. 2sinAsinB

30. If cot 2A cot 68o = 1, then tan A is equal to _______.

a. 0.194

31. The exact degree measure of 0.5p is

b. 90o

32. Solve for G if csc (11G - 16o) = sec (5G + 26o).

a. 5 degrees

33. A ladder 5 m long leans against the wall of an apartment house forming an angle
of 50 degrees, 32 minutes with the ground. How high od the wall does it reach?
d. 3.86 m

34. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 24. Find the perimeter
of the dodecagon.
d. 149.08

35. The measure of 2.25 revolutions counterclockwise is

d. 805 degrees

36. Determine the amplitude and the phase shift for the function f(t)= 2 sin (3x +
4)
a. 2 and 4/3

37. Solve angle A of an oblique triangle with vertices ABC, if a = 25, b = 16 and C
= 94 degrees and 6 minutes.
b. 55 degrees and 32 minutes

38. The terminal side of the angle ? = 500o in standard position is in quadrant.
c. I

39. Determine the period of the curve y = sin(1/2)x

d. 720o

40. Solve for x in the given equation: arc tan(x +1) +arc tan (x - 1) = arc tan
(12).
c. 1.34

41. Two towers AB and CD are of equal height. At a point between them in the line
AC joining their bases, the angle of elevation of the nearer tower was observed to
be 60o. Then at 24 m from the same point in a direction perpendicular to AC, the
angle of elevation of the top of the towers are 45o for the nearer tower and 30o
for the other. Find the height of the towers (h) and their distance apart (x).
b. h=39.38m, x=61.83 m

42. If 3x = 9y and 27y = 81z, find x/z.

b. 3/8

43. Which of the following is a co terminal angle of ? = 265o?

a. �95o

44. The terminal side of 0 if cote > 0 and sec() >0 is in quadrant
b. I

45. Given: x = (cos B tan B - sin B) / cos B. Solve for x if B = D45 degrees.

d. 0

46. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 6.6824. Its area is

c. 2

47. Simplify: 4 cos y sin y (1 - 2 sin 2y)

d. sin 4y

48. The angle of elevation of the top of the tower A from the foot of tower B is
twice the angle of elevation of the top of tower B from the foot of tower A. At a
point midway between the two towers, the angles of elevations of the top of the
towers are complimetary. If the two towers are 120 m apart, what are the heights of
the towers?
d. 40 m and 90 m

49. Find the value of x in the equation csc x + cot x = 3.

d. p /5

50. Find the other parts of the triangle given a = 48�,1C = 57 degrees b = 47
units.
a. 75 �, 36.16 units

51. A clock has a dial face 12 inches in radius. The minute hand is 9 inches long
while the hour hand is 6 inches long. The plane of rotation of the minute hand is 2
inches above the plane of rotation of the hour hand. Find the distance between the
tips of the hands of the clock at 5:40 a.m.
d. 9.17 in
52. The expression 2cos6x cos2x is equivalent to
c. Cos8x + cos4x

53. The solution set of the equation(tan x) 2 � 1 = 0 on the interval [0�, 360�) is
~{30�,90�,150�1}
a. {45�,135�,225�,315�1

54. If the terminal side of angle 13 contains the point (-5, -7) then 13 is equal
to

c. 234.46�

55. Simplify the expression: (sin B + cos B tan B) / cos B.

d. 2 tan B

56. A 40 m high tower stands vertically on a hillside (sloping ground) which makes
an angle of 18o with the horizontal. A tree also stands vertically up the hill from
the tower. An observer on top of the tower finds the angle of depression of the top
of the tree to be 26o and the bottom of the tree to be 38o. Find the height of the
tree.
d. 10.62 m

57. Triangle ABC is a right triangle with the right angle at C. CD is perpendicular
to AB. BC = 4, and CD = 1. Find the area of the triangle ABC.
b. 2.07

58. If sin A = 4/5, A is in quadrant II, sin B = 7/25, B is in quadrant I. Find sin
(A + B).
c. 3/5

59. A and B are summit of two mountains rise from a horizontal plain, B being 1200
m above the plain. Find the height of A, it being given that its angle of elevation
as seen from a point C in the plain (in the same vertical plane with A and B) is
50o, while the angle of depression of C viewed from B is 28o58' and the angle
subtended at B by AC is 50o.
d. 3002.33 m

60. 174 degrees is equivalent to _____ mils.

d. 3094

61. Which of the following is arccos(n)?

a. UNDEFINED

62. A cyclic quadrilateral has the sides AB = 8 cm; and CD = 12 cm. The fourth side
DA forms the diameter of the circle. Find the area of the circle.
d. 316.68 sq. cm

63. If tan 25 = m, find the value of tan (tan 155 - tan 115) / (1 + tan 115 x tan
155). ( Note: all angles are in degrees).
c. (1 - m2) / 2m
Basic Engineering Correlation (Analytic Geometry Reviewer)

1. The graph of the polar equation: r = 2cos0 is a

c. Circle

2. Classify the conic represented by the equation x2 + 4xy + 5 y2 - x + 2y + 1 = 0

b. ellipse

3. The graph of the polar equation: r = I l is

b. a parabola

4. What is the slope of the line 4x-5y +6 = 0?

c. 4/5

5. The point of intersection of the lines x � 2y+4 0 and �3x + y �2 =0 is

a. (0,2)

6. The conic given by the equation? +4xy+5y2 -x+ 2y+1 =0 is

d. ellipse

7. Find the slope of a line having a parametric equation of y = 4t + 6 and x = t +

1.
c. 4

8. Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of 3 and a y-intercept of 1.

d. 3x - y + 1

9. An equation of the line with x and y intercepts 7 and -7, respectively, is

b. x �y-7 = 0

10. The line joining the points (3, -1) and (-3, 2) has equation
b. x+2y�l= 0

11. The set of all points in a plane such that the sum of the distances of a point
from some fixed points on the plane is a constant is a/an
b. ellipse
12. The distance from the point (5, 2) to the line 8x - 6y +2 = 0 is
a. 3

13. If (3,-5) is the midpoint of (-1,-3) and (x, y), then the values of x and y are

b. x=7, y= -7

14. The distance between the given lines 3x + 2y �2 =0 and 3x +2y-6 =0 is

b. 1.12

15. The major axis of the elliptical path in which the earth moves around the sun
is approximately 186,000,000 miles and the eccentricity of the ellipse is 1/60.
Determine the apogee of the earth.
a. 94,550,000 miles

16. A line 4x + 2y -2 = 0 is coincident with the line

h. 8x + 4y - 4

17. The length of the semi-transverse axis of the graph of --- 9 � 4 =1 is

a. 2

18. The equation of the line through (1, 2) and perpendicular to 6x - y +5 =0 is

c. x+6y-13=0
19. If the distance between the points (h, 2) and (0, 4) is 2 then the value of h
is
b. 0

20. The length of the latus rectum for the ellipse 16x2 + 25y2 = 400 is equal to1
c. 6.4

21. The graph of the polar equation: r = 2 + 2cos9 is a

c. cardioid

22. Find the angle formed by the lines 2x + y � 8 = 0 and x + 3y + 4 = 0

c. 45�

23. The equation of a line that intercepts the x-axis at x = 4 and the y-axis at y
= -6 is,
f. 3x - 2y

24. Find the distance between the lines 3x + y - 12 = 0 and 3x + y - 4 = 0

a. letter d) 8/the squareroot of 10

25. Find the polar coordinate of the point (-3,A/3 )

c. (012, 150�)

26. To simplify the equation x2 + 4y2 + 6x +16y + 21= 0 by translation of axes, the
origin must be moved to
a. (-3, -2)
27. Given the equation of the parabola x2 = 4y � 20 . Locate its vertex.
b. (0, 5)

28. Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of 1/2 and y-intercept 3.
c. x-2y+ 6 =

29. Determine the coordinates of the point which is two-fifths of the way from the
point (1,-5) to the point (6,10)
a. (3, 1)

30. Find the area of the circle whose equation is x2 + y2 = 6x - 8y.

a. 25 &

31. How far from the y-axis is the center of the curve 2x2 +2y2 + 10x - 6y - 55 =
0?
c. -2.5

32. Which of the following lines is parallel to the line 6x � 4y = 7?

c. 3x - 2y = 15

33. The slope of the line passing through (-2,2) and (3,12).
c. 2

34. A line 4x + 2y -2 = 0 is coincident with the line

e. 8x + 4y - 4

35. The parabolic antenna has an eqaution of y2 + 8x = 0. Determine the length of

the latus rectum.
a. 8

36. 14. A line through (-5, 2) and (1, -4) is perpendicular to the line through (x,
-7) and (8, 7). Find x.
a. -4
37. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 - 4y2 - 36x + 8y = 4
c. 1.8

38. If the points (0,0), (2, 0), and (1, k) are vertices of an equilateral triangle
then a value of k is
b. 2

39. Find the inclination of the line passing through (-5, 3) and (10, 7).
d. 14.93

40. What is the equation of the line that passes thru (4, 0) and is parallel to the
line e. x - y - 4

41. What are the coordinates of the center of the curve x2 + y2 - 2x - 4y - 31 = 0

c. (1, 2)

42. If a line through (-5, 2) and (1, -4) is parallel to the line through (x, -7)
and (8, 7) then x =
c. 22

43. Find the distance between the given lines 4x - 3y = 23 and 4x - 3y = -7

c. 6

44. The equation of the directrix of the parabola y2 = 20x is

a. x = -5
45. The center of a circle is at (1, 1) and one point on its circumference is (-1,
-3). Find the other end of the diameter through ( -1, -3).
d. (3, 5)

46. Two vertices of a triangle are (2, 4) and (-2, 3) and the area is 2 square
units, the locus of the third vertex is
d. x - 4y =-10

47. The focus of parabola y2 = 16x is at:

d. (4, 0)

48. The diameter of a circle described by 9x2 + 9y2 = 16 is

c. 4

49. Find the distance between the points A (4, 7) and B (-1, -5).
c. 13

50. The equation 25x2 + 16y2 - 150x + 128y + 81 = 0 has its center at
a. (3, -4)

51. Find the equation of the line where x-intercept is 2 and y-intercept is -2.
a. x - y - 2

52. Find the inclination of the line passing through (-2,4) and (2,7)
c. 36.87

53. A horizontal line has a slope of

a. zero

54. To simplify the equation x2 + 4y2 + 6x +16y+ 21= 0 by translation of axes, the
origin must be moved to
a. (-3, -2)
55. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 �16y2 �144 = 0
d. 1.25

56. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 �16y2 �144= 0

b. 0.66

57. In the equation y = x2 + x + 1, where is the curve facing?

a. Downward

58. Find the acute angle of rotation such that the transformed equation of 6x2 +31y
+ 4y2 + x y = 0 will have no x' y' term.
c. 53.13�

59. The equation of the line through (1, 2) and perpendicular to 6x + y � 4 = 0 is

d. x- 6y+ 11 =

60. The equation of the line with a slope 47 and y-intercept -2 is

d. 4x-5y-20=0

61. The polar equation r = 1 when transformed into a rectangular equation is cos�
�4sin
d. x �4y = I

62. Given three vertices of a triangle whose vertices are A(1, 1), B(3, -3) and (5,
-3). Find the area of the triangle.
c. 4 sq. units

63. A line with slope equal to � 2 has an inclination of

a. 116.57�

64. What is the distance between the centers of the circle x2 + y2 + 2x + 4y - 3 =

0 and x2 + y2 - 8x - 6y + 7 = 0?
a. 7.07

65. The area of hexagon ABCDEF formed by joining the points A(1, 4), B(0, -3), C(2,
3), D(-1, 2), E(-2, -1) and F(3, 0) is _________ square units.
d. 20

66. Determine B such that 3x + 2y -7 = 0 is perpendicular to 2x - By + 2 = 0.

d. 3

67. Find the distance between the A (4, -3) and B (-2, 5).
a. 10

68. The equation of a line that intercepts the x-axis at x = 5 and the y-axis at y
= -4 is
a. 88x- l0y = 40

69. Find the value of k for which the equation x2 + y2 + 4x - 2y - k = 0 represents

a point circle.
d. -5

70. What is the length of the latus rectum of the curve x2 = 20y
b. 20

71. Find the acute angle of rotation such that the transformed equation of 6x2 +
3xy+ 4y2 +x-y =0 will have no x' y' term.
b. 28.15�

72. Find the coordinates of the point P(2, 4) with respect to the translated axis
with origin at (1,3).
a. (1, 1)

73. Determine the equation of the circle whose radius is 5, center on the line x =
2 and tangent to the line 3x - 4y + 11 = 0.
c. (x - 2)2 + (y + 2)2=25

74. The equation x2 + y1- 8x � 2y + 1 = 0 describes

d. an ellipse centered at (4, 1)

75. Find the equation of a circle whose center is at (3, -5) and whose raduis is 4.

a. (x - 3)2 + (y + 5)2

76. The line passing through the focus and is perpendicular to the directrix of the
parabola.
a. axis of the parabola

77. What is the equation of the line joining the points (3, -2) and (-7, 6)?
b. 4x + 5y - 0

78. The angle formed by the lines y = -2x +8 and y =1x- -4 is

a. 45�

79. In general quadratic equation, if the discriminant is zero, the curve is a

figure that represents a/an _______.
d. parabola

80. The directrix of a parabola is the line y = 5 and its focus is at the point (4,
-3). What is the length of the latus rectum?
b. 12

81. A line, which is perpendicular to the x-axis, has a slope to

a. infinity

82. A line passes thru (1, -3) and (-4, 2). Write the equation of the line in
slope-intercept form.
c. y- x - 2

83. The line segment connecting (x, 6) and (9, y) is bisected by the point (7, 3).
Find the values of x and y.
b. 5, 0

84. Determine the coordinates of the point which is three-fifths of the way from
the point (2, -5) to the point (-3, 5).
b. (-1, 1)

85. Which of the following points lie on the fourth quadrant?

)
b. (-4, 27r13)

86. The midpoint of the line segment between P1(x1, y1) and p2(-2, 4) is P(2, -1).
Find the coordinates of P1.
b. (6, -6)
87. A locus of a point which moves so that it is always equidistat from a fixed
point (focus ) to a fixed line (directix) is a _______.
d. parabola

88. A parabola having a span of 30m and a height of 20m has an area of
c. 400

89. An equation of the line that is parallel to 3x-6y = �land passes through the
point (2, 2) is
c. x-2y+2 =0

90. If the product of the slope of any two straight line is negative 1, one of
these lines are said to be
d. Perpendicular

91. Find the slope of the line defined by y - x = 5.

c. 1

92. The equation x2 +y2 - 4x+ 6y -6 = 0 describes

"a circle of radius 13 centered at (2, -3)"

93. The point of intersection of the lines x 2y+4 0 and 3x + y 2 =0 is

"(0,2)"

94. The equation x2 + y1- 8x 2y + 1 = 0 describes

"an ellipse centered at (4, 1)"

95. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x2 -16y2 -144 = 0

1.25

96. "The equation of the line through (1, 2) and perpendicular to 6x + y 4 = 0 is"
c.
x- 6y+ 11 =

97. "The line segment connecting (x, 6) and (9, y) is bisected by the point (7, 3).
Find the values of x and y."
"5,0"

98. The parabolic antenna has an equation of y� + 8x = 0. Determine the length of

the latus rectum.
8

99."A point P(x, 2) is equidistant from the points (-2, 9) and (4, -7). The value
of x is"
11/3

100. A five pointed star is also known as?

pentagon
Basic Engineering Correlation (Calculus Reviewer)

1. The depth of water in cylindrical tank 4 m in diameter is increasing at the rate

of 0.7 m/min. Find the rate at which the water flows into the tank.
d. 8.8

2. The volume of the sphere is increasing at the rate of 6 cm3 / hr. At what is its
surface area increasing (in cn2/hr) when the radius is 50cm?
b. 0.24
3. Find the height of aright circular cylinder of maximum volume, which can be
inscribed in a sphere of radius 10 cm.
b. 11.55 cm.

4. find the area in the first quadrant bounded by the parabola y2 = 4x, x = 1 and x
= 3
c. 5.595

5. Find the maximum point of y = x + 1/x

c. (-1, -2)
6. ___________ is the concept of finding the derivative of composite functions.
d. Chain Rule

7. Find the area bounded by the curve defined by the equation x2 = 8y and its latus
rectum.
b. 32/3

8. If y = x lnx. Find
b. 1/x

9. Car A moves due east at 30 kph, at the same instant car B is moving S 30o E with
the speed 60 kph. The distance from A to B is 30 km. Find how fast is the distance
between them separating after 1 hour
c. 45 kph

10. A box is to be constructed from a piece of zinc 20 sq. in. by cutting equal
squarea from each corner and turning up the zinc to form the side. What is the
volume of the largest box that can be so constructed?
a. 592.59 cu. in.

11. Find the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola y = x2 - 4x + 1 by making

use of the fact that at the vertex, the slope of the tangent is zero.
d. (2, -3)

12. Given the function f(x) = x3 - 6x +2. Fnd the first derivative at x = 2
c. 6

13. If the first derivative of the function is constant, then the function
is__________.
b. Logarithmic

14. Using the two existing corner sides of an existing wall, what is the maximum
rectangular area that can be fenced by a fencing material 30 ft. long?
b. 225 sq.ft.

15. The velocity of a body is given by v(t) = sin(xt), where the velocity is given
in meters per second and " t " is given in seconds. The distance covered in meters
between t =1/4 and 1/2 second is close to
d. 0.2551 m

16. Differentiate y = ex cos x2

a. ex(cosx2 - 2x sinx2)

17. Three sides of a trapezoid are each 8 cm. long. How long is the fourth side
when the area of the trapezoid has the greatest value?
c. 16
18. Differentiate y = sec(x2 + 2)
d. 2xsec(x2 + 2)tan(x2 + 2)

19. A statue 3 m high is standing on a base of 4 m high. If an observer's eye is

1.5 m above the ground, how far should he stand from the base in order that the
angle subtended by the statue is a maximum.
d. 3.71 m

20. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in a semi-
circle of radius 10?
b. 100

21. Find the partial derivative with recpect to x of the funcyion xy2 - 5y + 6
d. y2

22. In the curve 2 + 12x - x3, find the critical points.

d. (2,18) & (-2,-14)

23. A man on a wharf 3.6 m above sea level is pulling a rope tied to a raft at 0.60
m/sec. How fast is the raft approaching the wharf when there are 6 m of rope out?
b. -0.75 m/sec

24. Find of y = 3sin 2x

d. 6 cos 2x

25. If the distance x from the point of departure at a time t is defined by the
equation x = -16t2 + 5000t + 5000, what is the initial velocity?
b. 5000

26. Find the slope of the tangent to the curve x2 + y2 - 6x + 10y + 5 = 0 at the
point (1,0)
b. 2/5

27. Differentiate y = arc sin cos x

d. -1

28. Evaluate the limit lnx/x as x approaches positive infinity.

d. infinity

29. Determine the diameter of a closed a closed cylindrical tank having a volume of
11.3 cu. m. to obtain minimum surface area.
d. 2.44

30. Divide the number 120 into two parts such that the product of one and the
square of the other is maximum.
c. 40 and 80

31. Evaluate: Lim (2 - x)tan

a. b e
32. Water is running into a hemispherical bowl having a radius of 10 cm. at a
constant rate of 3 cu. cm/ min. When the water is x cm. deep, the water level is
rising at the rate of 0.0149 cm./min. What is the value of x?
b. 4

33. Find the area bounded by the line x - 2y + 10 = 0, the x-axis, the y-axis and x
= 10
b. 75

34. Find the area bounded by the y - axis and x = 4 = y2/3

a. 12.8

35. A triangle has variable sides x, y, z subject to the constaint such that the
perimeter is fixed to 18 cm. What is the maximum possible area for the triangle?
b. 15.59 sq. cm.

36. The cost of a product is a function of the quantity x of the product: C(x) = x2
- 400x + 50. Find the quantity for which the cost is minimum.
a. 2000
37. Find the slope of the line tangent to the curve y = x3 - 2x + 1 at x = 1.
b. 1

38. Water is running out in a conical funnel at the rate of 1 cu. In. per second.
If the radius of the base of the funnel is 4 inches and the altitude in 8 inches,
find the rate at which the water level is dropping when it is 2 inches from top.
c. -1/9pin./sec.

39. What is the area between y = 0, y = 3x2, x = 0 and x = 2?

c. 8

40. If y = (t2 + 2)2 and t = x1/2, datermine

b. 2(x + 2)

41. Find the area between the curve y = cosh x and the x-axis from x = 0 and x = 1
Select one:
d. 1.175 sq. units

42. Find the second derivative of y by implicit differentiation from the equation
a. -9/4y3

43. Find the area in sq. units bounded by the parabolas x2 - 2y = 0 and x2 + 2y - 8
= 0
c. 10.7

44. What is the second derivative of a function y = 5x3 + 2x + 1?

a. 30x

45. Evaluate the limit of lim(x2 + 3x - 4) as x approaches 3.

b. 14
46. The rate of change of function y with respect to x equals 2-y and y = 8 when x
= 0. Find y when x = ln2
d. 5

47. If y = 4 cos x + sin 2x, what is the slope of the curve when x = 2 radians?
a. -4.94

48. Differentiate y = log10(x2 + 1)2

c. None of the choices
None of the choices

49. Given a cone of diameter x and altitude of h. What percent is the volume of the
largest cylinder which can be inscribed in the cone to the volume of the cone?
b. 2.25

50. Find the minimum distance from the point (4,2) to the parabola y2 = 8x
b. 2 v 3

51. Find the area enclosed y the curve x2 + 8y + 16 = 0, the x - axis, the y-axis
and the line x - 4 = 0
c. 10.67 sq. units

52. Find the equation of the normal to x2 + y2 = 1 at the point (2,1).

d. x = 2y

53. A poster is to contain 300 cm. sq. of printed matter with margins of 10 cm. at
the top and bottom and 5 cm at each side. Find the overall dimensions if the total
area of the poster is minimum.
a. 22.24, 44.5

54. Find the equation of the normal to i>x2 + y2 = 5 at the point (2, 1)
a. x = 2y

55. Find the equation of the curve at every point of which the tangent line has a
slope of 2x.
b. y = x2 + C

56. The radius of spheres is r inches at time t seconds. Find the radius when the
rates of increase of the surface area and the radius are numerically equal.
d. 1/8p in

57. Given a cone of diameter x and altitude of h. What percent is the volume of the
largest cylinder which can be inscribed in the cone to the volume of the cone?
b. 0.44

58. The area enclosed by the ellipse (image) is revolved about the line x = 3. What
is the volume generated?
d. 355.3

59. If y = 2x + sin 2x, find x if y' = 0

a. p/2
60. A Norman window is in the shape of a rectangle surmountedby a semi-circle. What
is the ratio of the width of the rectangle to the total height so that it will
yield a window admitting the most light for a given perimeter?
a. 1
61. Find the area bounded by the parabola, x2 = 4y, and y = 4.
b. 21.33

62. The area bounded by the curve y = 2x1/2, the line y = 6 and the y-axis is to be
revolved at y = 6. Determine the centroid of the volume generated.
c. 1.8

63. Find the volume generated if the area between y = cosh x and x - axis from x =
0 to x = 1 is is revolved about the x - axis.
b. 4.42 cu. Units

64. What is the area bounded by the curve y = x3, the x-axis and the line x = -2
and x = 1?
d. 4.25

65. Find the approximate increase by the use of differentials, in the volume of the
sphere if the radius increases from 2 to 2.05 in one second.
b. 2.51

66. The integral of cos x wuth respect to x is

x + C
d. sin x + C

67. Evaluate: Lim

b. 1

68. The distance of a body travels is a function of time t and is defined by: x(t)
= 18t + 9t2.What is its velocity at t=3?
d. 72
Basic Engineering Correlation (ADMATH and DE Reviewer)

1. Solve the equation y"+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5.
b. y = (-7x-4) e-3x

2. Solve the homogenous equation (x2+y2) dx+2xydy=0

d. x(x2<+3y2) =c

3. The expression equivalent to ?01+I 6z2 dz is equivalent to

d. 4+4i

4. What can be concluded about the function that the graph below depicts?

d. The following shows an odd function.

5. If A = 25 ep/42 i and B = CiS p\4 then A + B is_____"

d. 32.26+23.11i

6. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

y" + y' = 0 ?
a.
7. The differential equation dv = (y2 - 3vy)dy is said to be
c. linear in V

8. The laplace transform of t is

d. 1/s2

9. Determine the value of the Legendre's polynomial function P2(2).

d. P2(2)=1

10. The rate at which a solid substance dissolves varies directly has the amount of
undissolved solid present in the solvent and as the difference between the
saturation concentration of the substance and the instantaneous concentration of
the solution Five grams of A are placed in solvent B .the solution when saturated
will hold ten grams of A. If 2 grams of A dossolved in 1 hr, how many grams of A
will be in solution in 2 hrs?
d. 3 g

11. Find the differential equation whose general solution is y = C1x + C2 ex.
d. (x - 1)y" - xy' + y = 0

12. A cylindrical tank is 12ft. In diameter and 8=9 ft high. Water flows into the
tank at the rate of /10 cuft/sec. It has a hole radius 1/2 inch at the bottom. The
time the tank will be full if initially it is empty is
b. 65 min

13. The indicial equation of the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' + (x2 - 9) y =0 is
a. r2 - 9 = 0

14. The solution to the equation x2y'+xy'+x2y=0 if x=0.5 is approximately equal to

b. 0.5118

15. The different equation y" + 3y' - 4y =2x is

c. second order homogenous linear different equation

16. The series is equivalent to the function

a. f(x) = e3x

17. The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to

a. -2035- 828i

18. What is the order of the differential equation (4 + y")1/3 = e2x

d. two

19. The indicial equation of ODE 2xy"+(l+ x)y'-2y=o is

a. 2r2 - r =0

20. The population of a certain municipality increases at a rate 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?
c. 200 years

21. Find the equation of the curve at every point at which the tangent line has a
slope of 2x.
a. y = x2 + C

22. The order of the different equation

a. 2
23. A water container whose circular cross section is 6 ft in diameter and whose
height is 8 ft. is filled with water. It has a hole at the bottom of radius 1 inch.
The time it will take if the tank rests on support so that its 8 ft height is in a
horizontal direction and the hole in its bottom is
d. 24.95 min

24. Determine the values of the constants r in the indicial equations of the given
ordinary differential equation (2x2 � 24"-2,942y = 0 when Frobenius' method is
applied.
c. = 1,r2= 2

25. Find a power series for the function

d. x+x3+x5+...

26. The order of the differential equation is

d. 2
27. The expression ?0pi cos z dz is equivalent to
d. 11.55i

28. Solve (cos x cos y - cot x)dx - sin x sin y dy = 0

b. sin x cos y = ln (C sin x)

29. The ganeral solution of the ordinary different equation with c = constant is
d. 2 y = 1 + ce-x2

30. The differential equation given is correctly described by which one of the
following choices: d2y/dx2 + bxy dy/dx = f(x)
d. linear. Second order, non homogenous

31. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of f(x)= x if -p
= x = p the value of f(p/2) is

d.

32. Sugar decomposes in water at a rate proportional to the amount still unchanged.
If there were 50 kg of sugar present initially and at the end of 5 hours this is
reduced to 20 kg, how long will it take until 90% os the sugar is decomposed.
a. 12.56 hr

33. In the higher-order differential equation (4 � x2 )y'''-4y1+y = 0 , x = �2 is

a/an point.
c. regular

34. Evaluate cos(3 + 5i)

c. -73.47 -10.47i

35. A new water pump has a capacity of 60 cu m/day. If its capacity goes down by
15% every year, in how many years will the capacity go down to 20 cu m/day?
b. 7.32 yrs.

36. Which of the following is the solution to the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' +
(x2 - y2) y=0
a.
c.

37. A certain quantity increases at a rate proportional to q itself. If q = 25 when

t = 0 and q = 75 when t =2, find q when t = 6.
a. 675

38. Calculate the time in hrs, that it will take to reach the fatal conc. Of 40%
methane in a kitchen measuring 15 ft x 12.5 ft x8 ft for a leaking stove. The rate
of leak is 15 cuft of 100% methane/hr. Assume no fresh air is coming in. The gas
rate is measured at the rate conditions prevailing in the kitchen.
a. 40 hrs.

39. Determine the Fourier coefficient a() of the function f (x) = 3x2 + 4, �1 < x
<1.
d. as=10

40. The differential equation (x2 +4xy+y2)dx-xydy=0 is

d. homogenous

41. The differential equation can be classified as

c. linear but not homogenous

42. A spherical tank whose inner diameter is 2 meters is filled with water (density
1 g/cc). If a tank has a hole 1 cm in diameter at the bottom, the time the tank
will be totally empty is
d. 6.31 hrs.

43. The simplified form of (3 + 2i) is

c. -2,035-828i

44. The radius of conversence of the power series

a. infinity

46. Find the differential equations og the family of lines through the origin.
a. xdy - ydx = 0

47. Solve the equation

c.

48. Solve the different equation

d. y=(x3 +11)2
49. Determine the general solution of xdy + ydx = 0
c. xy = c

50. Find the equation of the orthogonal trajectories of the system of parabolas
y2=2x+C.
b. y = C e-x

51. The principal 4th root of 5 + 12i

d. 1.82 + 0.55i

52. Evaluate 143 - 41).

d. 1.61- 0.931

53. Solve
a. y= -x5+cx6

54. What is the differential equation of a family of parabolas having their

vertices at the origin and their vertices on the x-axis?
c. 2xdy - ydx = 0

55. When a simple electric circuit, containing no condensers but having inductance
and resistance, has the electromotive force removed, the rate of decrease of
current is proportional to the current. The current is i amperes t seconds after
the cutoff, and i = 40 when t = 0. If the current dies down to 15 amperes in 0.01
sec, fid i after 0.1 sec.
d. 0.002amp

56. Solve the differential equation : x(y - x = 1,determine y when x = 2.

a. 1.55

57. How can the differential equation a d2x/dt2 + B(t) dx/dt + c = D(t) best be
described?
d. linear, second order and non homogenous

58. Evaluate sin ( 3 + 4i )

b. 3.85 - 27.02i

65. Evaluate cosh(5 + 6i)

c. 71.25-2073i

59. A body weighing 1960 N is pulled by a constant force of 492 N along a

horizontal plane where in the coefficient of friction between the body and the
plane id 0.20. Determine the velocity after 20 seconds.
d. 9.06 m/s

60. A tank and its contents weigh 100 lbs. The average heat capacity of the system
is 0.5 Btu/ lb.F. The liquid in the tank is heated by an immersion heater which
delivers 100 Btu/min. Heat is lost from the system at a rate proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the system (assumed uniform throughtout at
any instant) and the temperature of the surrounding air, the proportionality
constant being 2 Btu/minoF. If the air temperature remains constant at 70oF and if
the initial temperature of the tank and its contents is 55oF, the temperature of
the tank as a function of the is
c. T=120-65e-t/25

61. Which of the following is a solution of the wave equation

b. u =(x + at)6
62. A low radioactive material is used in biochemical process to induce biological
mutation. The isotope is made in the experimental reactor of the Philippine Atomic
Energy Commssion, now Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, and ship to the
chemical plant. It has a half life of 8.06 days. The plant receive the shipment of
the radioactive material which on arrival contain 1 gram of the radioactive
material. The plant uses the material at the rate of 0.1 gram per week. The time it
will take for the radioactivity to last is
b. 3.24 weeks

63. Solve the differential equation dy - xdx = 0, if the curve passes through (1,
0).
d. x2 - 2y -1 = 0

64. A 10-ohm resistor and a 5-henry inductor are connected in series with to a 50-
volt source at time t = 0. Express the current I as a function of time.
c. i = 5(1 - e-2t)

66. A 50 lb iron ball is heated to 200oF and then plunged immediately into a vessel
containing 100b lbs of water whose temperature is 40oF. The specific heat of iron
is 0.11 Btu/lboF. The common temperature, approached by the iron and water as time
approaches infinity is
c. 48.34oF

67. The rate f decay of radioactivity elements is usually assumed to be

proportional to the number of atoms that have not decayed, where &#955 is the
proportionality consatnt. If at time t=0 there are Xo atoms of a given elements,
the expression for the number of atoms, X, that have not decayed (as a function of
time,t,&#955, and Xo) is
c. Xoe-?t

68. Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution of
the higher order differential equation 3 y" �2 x y = 0
d. 1

74. Evaluatecos(2+3i).
d. -4.19-9.11i
69. The solution to the non homogeneous partial differential equation
c. u(x,y)=f(x)e-2y+2y-1

70. Find the general solution of y' = ysec x.

d. y = C (sec x + tan x)

71. Determine the value of c such that the function u(x,t) = e -256 sin 2x will be
a solution of the heat equation given by
c. 8

72. The expression.(5+2i)7 is equivalent to

c. -116615+60422i

73. Find the principal 5th root of 5+121.

d. 1.62+0.391
75. A body whose temperature is 180o is immersed in a liquid which is kept at a
constant temperature of 60o. In 10 minutes the temperature of the immersed body
decreased to 120o. How long will it take for the body's temperature to decrease to
90o?
b. 20 min.

76. the equation y2 = cx is the general solution of

c. y' = y/2x

77. Find the radius of the convergence of the series

b. |x| < �

78. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional to the amount at any instant. In 100
years, 100 mg of radium decomposes to 96 mg. How many mg will be left after 100
years?
c. 92.16

79. A certain subxtance increases at a rate proportional to the square of the

instantaneous amount. After 5 days the amount is doubled. Determine the time before
the amount is tripled.
c. 20/3

80. Evaluate sinh(6 + 5i)

a. 57.22 �193.43i

81. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of 17 3

c. ao=10

82. The solution to the homogeneous partial differential equation

b. u(x,y)=A(y)e3x +B(y)xe3x
83. Solve xy'(2y -1) = y(1-x)
a. ln (xy) = x + 2y + C

84. A tank initialy contains 400 liters of water. Salt solution, containing 1/8 kg
of salt per liter of solution flows into the tank at the rate of 8 li/min and the
solution, kept well-stirred, flows out of the tank at the rate of 4 li/min. Find
the amount of salt in the tank after 100 minutes.
c. 75 kg

85. A mothball loses mass by evaporation at rate that is proportional to the

surface area. If half tha mass is lost in 100 days, how long will it take the
radius to decreases to half its initial value?
c. 243 days

86. The laplace transform of et is

c. 1/(s-1)

87. Evaluate cosh ( 3 + 5i)

a. 2.86 + 9.61i

89. Evaluateln(5 +j3).

d. 1.76+ j0.54
88. If dy = x2dx, what is the equation of y in terms of x if the curve passes
through (1,1)?
a. x3 - 3y + 2 = 0

90. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

c. (4x)^m/m!

91. Solve the equation

b. y =cIe-5x+ c2e-3x

92. Evaluate In(3 + 5i)

Select one:
c. 1.76 + 1,03i
93. Using the first three terms of the Taylor polynomial for r is equal to
Select one:
a. 1.321

94.The coefficient of the x5 term in the Taylor polynomial for sin(2x) is

Select one:
a. 0.26667

Basic Engineering Correlation (ADMATH and DE Reviewer)

1. Solve the equation y"+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5.
b. y = (-7x-4) e-3x

2. Solve the homogenous equation (x2+y2) dx+2xydy=0

d. x(x2<+3y2) =c

3. The expression equivalent to ?01+I 6z2 dz is equivalent to

d. 4+4i
4. What can be concluded about the function that the graph below depicts?

d. The following shows an odd function.

5. If A = 25 ep/42 i and B = CiS p\4 then A + B is_____"

d. 32.26+23.11i

6. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

y" + y' = 0 ?
a.

7. The differential equation dv = (y2 - 3vy)dy is said to be

c. linear in V

8. The laplace transform of t is

d. 1/s2

9. Determine the value of the Legendre's polynomial function P2(2).

d. P2(2)=1

10. The rate at which a solid substance dissolves varies directly has the amount of
undissolved solid present in the solvent and as the difference between the
saturation concentration of the substance and the instantaneous concentration of
the solution Five grams of A are placed in solvent B .the solution when saturated
will hold ten grams of A. If 2 grams of A dossolved in 1 hr, how many grams of A
will be in solution in 2 hrs?
d. 3 g

11. Find the differential equation whose general solution is y = C1x + C2 ex.
d. (x - 1)y" - xy' + y = 0

12. A cylindrical tank is 12ft. In diameter and 8=9 ft high. Water flows into the
tank at the rate of /10 cuft/sec. It has a hole radius 1/2 inch at the bottom. The
time the tank will be full if initially it is empty is
b. 65 min

13. The indicial equation of the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' + (x2 - 9) y =0 is
a. r2 - 9 = 0

14. The solution to the equation x2y'+xy'+x2y=0 if x=0.5 is approximately equal to

b. 0.5118

15. The different equation y" + 3y' - 4y =2x is

c. second order homogenous linear different equation

16. The series is equivalent to the function

a. f(x) = e3x

17. The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to

a. -2035- 828i
18. What is the order of the differential equation (4 + y")1/3 = e2x
d. two

19. The indicial equation of ODE 2xy"+(l+ x)y'-2y=o is

a. 2r2 - r =0
20. The population of a certain municipality increases at a rate 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?
c. 200 years

21. Find the equation of the curve at every point at which the tangent line has a
slope of 2x.
a. y = x2 + C

22. The order of the different equation

a. 2
23. A water container whose circular cross section is 6 ft in diameter and whose
height is 8 ft. is filled with water. It has a hole at the bottom of radius 1 inch.
The time it will take if the tank rests on support so that its 8 ft height is in a
horizontal direction and the hole in its bottom is
d. 24.95 min

24. Determine the values of the constants r in the indicial equations of the given
ordinary differential equation (2x2 � 24"-2,942y = 0 when Frobenius' method is
applied.
c. = 1,r2= 2

25. Find a power series for the function

d. x+x3+x5+...

26. The order of the differential equation is

d. 2
27. The expression ?0pi cos z dz is equivalent to
d. 11.55i

28. Solve (cos x cos y - cot x)dx - sin x sin y dy = 0

b. sin x cos y = ln (C sin x)

29. The ganeral solution of the ordinary different equation with c = constant is
d. 2 y = 1 + ce-x2

30. The differential equation given is correctly described by which one of the
following choices: d2y/dx2 + bxy dy/dx = f(x)
d. linear. Second order, non homogenous

31. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of f(x)= x if -p
= x = p the value of f(p/2) is

d.

32. Sugar decomposes in water at a rate proportional to the amount still unchanged.
If there were 50 kg of sugar present initially and at the end of 5 hours this is
reduced to 20 kg, how long will it take until 90% os the sugar is decomposed.
a. 12.56 hr

33. In the higher-order differential equation (4 � x2 )y'''-4y1+y = 0 , x = �2 is

a/an point.
c. regular

34. Evaluate cos(3 + 5i)

c. -73.47 -10.47i

35. A new water pump has a capacity of 60 cu m/day. If its capacity goes down by
15% every year, in how many years will the capacity go down to 20 cu m/day?
b. 7.32 yrs.

36. Which of the following is the solution to the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' +
(x2 - y2) y=0
a.
c.

37. A certain quantity increases at a rate proportional to q itself. If q = 25 when

t = 0 and q = 75 when t =2, find q when t = 6.
a. 675

38. Calculate the time in hrs, that it will take to reach the fatal conc. Of 40%
methane in a kitchen measuring 15 ft x 12.5 ft x8 ft for a leaking stove. The rate
of leak is 15 cuft of 100% methane/hr. Assume no fresh air is coming in. The gas
rate is measured at the rate conditions prevailing in the kitchen.
a. 40 hrs.

39. Determine the Fourier coefficient a() of the function f (x) = 3x2 + 4, �1 < x
<1.
d. as=10

40. The differential equation (x2 +4xy+y2)dx-xydy=0 is

d. homogenous

41. The differential equation can be classified as

c. linear but not homogenous

42. A spherical tank whose inner diameter is 2 meters is filled with water (density
1 g/cc). If a tank has a hole 1 cm in diameter at the bottom, the time the tank
will be totally empty is
d. 6.31 hrs.

43. The simplified form of (3 + 2i) is

c. -2,035-828i

44. The radius of conversence of the power series (not sure yet)
a.

46. Find the differential equations og the family of lines through the origin.
a. xdy - ydx = 0

47. Solve the equation

c.

48. Solve the different equation

d. y=(x3 +11)2
49. Determine the general solution of xdy + ydx = 0
c. xy = c

50. Find the equation of the orthogonal trajectories of the system of parabolas
y2=2x+C.
b. y = C e-x

51. The principal 4th root of 5 + 12i

d. 1.82 + 0.55i

52. Evaluate 143 - 41).

d. 1.61- 0.931
53. Solve
a. y= -x5+cx6

54. What is the differential equation of a family of parabolas having their

vertices at the origin and their vertices on the x-axis?
c. 2xdy - ydx = 0

55. When a simple electric circuit, containing no condensers but having inductance
and resistance, has the electromotive force removed, the rate of decrease of
current is proportional to the current. The current is i amperes t seconds after
the cutoff, and i = 40 when t = 0. If the current dies down to 15 amperes in 0.01
sec, fid i after 0.1 sec.
d. 0.002amp

56. Solve the differential equation : x(y - x = 1,determine y when x = 2.

a. 1.55

57. How can the differential equation a d2x/dt2 + B(t) dx/dt + c = D(t) best be
described?
d. linear, second order and non homogenous

58. Evaluate sin ( 3 + 4i )

b. 3.85 - 27.02i

65. Evaluate cosh(5 + 6i)

c. 71.25-2073i

59. A body weighing 1960 N is pulled by a constant force of 492 N along a

horizontal plane where in the coefficient of friction between the body and the
plane id 0.20. Determine the velocity after 20 seconds.
d. 9.06 m/s

60. A tank and its contents weigh 100 lbs. The average heat capacity of the system
is 0.5 Btu/ lb.F. The liquid in the tank is heated by an immersion heater which
delivers 100 Btu/min. Heat is lost from the system at a rate proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the system (assumed uniform throughtout at
any instant) and the temperature of the surrounding air, the proportionality
constant being 2 Btu/minoF. If the air temperature remains constant at 70oF and if
the initial temperature of the tank and its contents is 55oF, the temperature of
the tank as a function of the is
c. T=120-65e-t/25

61. Which of the following is a solution of the wave equation

b. u =(x + at)6
62. A low radioactive material is used in biochemical process to induce biological
mutation. The isotope is made in the experimental reactor of the Philippine Atomic
Energy Commssion, now Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, and ship to the
chemical plant. It has a half life of 8.06 days. The plant receive the shipment of
the radioactive material which on arrival contain 1 gram of the radioactive
material. The plant uses the material at the rate of 0.1 gram per week. The time it
will take for the radioactivity to last is
b. 3.24 weeks

63. Solve the differential equation dy - xdx = 0, if the curve passes through (1,
0).
d. x2 - 2y -1 = 0
64. A 10-ohm resistor and a 5-henry inductor are connected in series with to a 50-
volt source at time t = 0. Express the current I as a function of time.
c. i = 5(1 - e-2t)

66. A 50 lb iron ball is heated to 200oF and then plunged immediately into a vessel
containing 100b lbs of water whose temperature is 40oF. The specific heat of iron
is 0.11 Btu/lboF. The common temperature, approached by the iron and water as time
approaches infinity is
c. 48.34oF

67. The rate f decay of radioactivity elements is usually assumed to be

proportional to the number of atoms that have not decayed, where &#955 is the
proportionality consatnt. If at time t=0 there are Xo atoms of a given elements,
the expression for the number of atoms, X, that have not decayed (as a function of
time,t,&#955, and Xo) is
c. Xoe-?t

68. Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution of
the higher order differential equation 3 y" �2 x y = 0
d. 1

74. Evaluatecos(2+3i).
d. -4.19-9.11i
69. The solution to the non homogeneous partial differential equation
c. u(x,y)=f(x)e-2y+2y-1

70. Find the general solution of y' = ysec x.

d. y = C (sec x + tan x)

71. Determine the value of c such that the function u(x,t) = e -256 sin 2x will be
a solution of the heat equation given by
c. 8

72. The expression.(5+2i)7 is equivalent to

c. -116615+60422i

73. Find the principal 5th root of 5+121.

d. 1.62+0.391
75. A body whose temperature is 180o is immersed in a liquid which is kept at a
constant temperature of 60o. In 10 minutes the temperature of the immersed body
decreased to 120o. How long will it take for the body's temperature to decrease to
90o?
b. 20 min.

76. the equation y2 = cx is the general solution of

c. y' = y/2x

77. Find the radius of the convergence of the series

b. |x| < �

78. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional to the amount at any instant. In 100
years, 100 mg of radium decomposes to 96 mg. How many mg will be left after 100
years?
c. 92.16

79. A certain subxtance increases at a rate proportional to the square of the

instantaneous amount. After 5 days the amount is doubled. Determine the time before
the amount is tripled.
c. 20/3

80. Evaluate sinh(6 + 5i)

a. 57.22 �193.43i

81. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of

c. ao=10

82. The solution to the homogeneous partial differential equation

b. u(x,y)=A(y)e3x +B(y)xe3x

83. Solve xy'(2y -1) = y(1-x)

a. ln (xy) = x + 2y + C

84. A tank initialy contains 400 liters of water. Salt solution, containing 1/8 kg
of salt per liter of solution flows into the tank at the rate of 8 li/min and the
solution, kept well-stirred, flows out of the tank at the rate of 4 li/min. Find
the amount of salt in the tank after 100 minutes.
c. 75 kg

85. A mothball loses mass by evaporation at rate that is proportional to the

surface area. If half tha mass is lost in 100 days, how long will it take the
radius to decreases to half its initial value?
c. 243 days

86. The laplace transform of et is

c. 1/(s-1)

87. Evaluate cosh ( 3 + 5i)

a. 2.86 + 9.61i

89. Evaluateln(5 +j3).

d. 1.76+ j0.54
88. If dy = x2dx, what is the equation of y in terms of x if the curve passes
through (1,1)?
a. x3 - 3y + 2 = 0

90. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

c.

91. Solve the equation

b. y =cIe-5x+ c2e-3x

92. Evaluate In(3 + 5i)

Select one:
c. 1.76 + 1,03i
93. Using the first three terms of the Taylor polynomial for r is equal to
Select one:
a. 1.321

94.The coefficient of the x5 term in the Taylor polynomial for sin(2x) is

Select one:
a. 0.26667
Basic Engineering Correlation (ADMATH and DE Reviewer)

1. Solve the equation y"+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5.
b. y = (-7x-4) e-3x

2. Solve the homogenous equation (x2+y2) dx+2xydy=0

d. x(x2<+3y2) =c

3. The expression equivalent to ?01+I 6z2 dz is equivalent to

d. 4+4i

4. What can be concluded about the function that the graph below depicts?

d. The following shows an odd function.

5. If A = 25 ep/42 i and B = CiS p\4 then A + B is_____"

d. 32.26+23.11i

6. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

y" + y' = 0 ?
a.

7. The differential equation dv = (y2 - 3vy)dy is said to be

c. linear in V

8. The laplace transform of t is

d. 1/s2

9. Determine the value of the Legendre's polynomial function P2(2).

d. P2(2)=1

10. The rate at which a solid substance dissolves varies directly has the amount of
undissolved solid present in the solvent and as the difference between the
saturation concentration of the substance and the instantaneous concentration of
the solution Five grams of A are placed in solvent B .the solution when saturated
will hold ten grams of A. If 2 grams of A dossolved in 1 hr, how many grams of A
will be in solution in 2 hrs?
d. 3 g

11. Find the differential equation whose general solution is y = C1x + C2 ex.
d. (x - 1)y" - xy' + y = 0

12. A cylindrical tank is 12ft. In diameter and 8=9 ft high. Water flows into the
tank at the rate of /10 cuft/sec. It has a hole radius 1/2 inch at the bottom. The
time the tank will be full if initially it is empty is
b. 65 min

13. The indicial equation of the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' + (x2 - 9) y =0 is
a. r2 - 9 = 0

14. The solution to the equation x2y'+xy'+x2y=0 if x=0.5 is approximately equal to

b. 0.5118

15. The different equation y" + 3y' - 4y =2x is

c. second order homogenous linear different equation
16. The series is equivalent to the function
a. f(x) = e3x

17. The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to

a. -2035- 828i
18. What is the order of the differential equation (4 + y")1/3 = e2x
d. two

19. The indicial equation of ODE 2xy"+(l+ x)y'-2y=o is

a. 2r2 - r =0

20. The population of a certain municipality increases at a rate 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?
c. 200 years

21. Find the equation of the curve at every point at which the tangent line has a
slope of 2x.
a. y = x2 + C

22. The order of the different equation

a. 2
23. A water container whose circular cross section is 6 ft in diameter and whose
height is 8 ft. is filled with water. It has a hole at the bottom of radius 1 inch.
The time it will take if the tank rests on support so that its 8 ft height is in a
horizontal direction and the hole in its bottom is
d. 24.95 min

24. Determine the values of the constants r in the indicial equations of the given
ordinary differential equation (2x2 � 24"-2,942y = 0 when Frobenius' method is
applied.
c. = 1,r2= 2

25. Find a power series for the function

d. x+x3+x5+...

26. The order of the differential equation is

d. 2
27. The expression ?0pi cos z dz is equivalent to
d. 11.55i

28. Solve (cos x cos y - cot x)dx - sin x sin y dy = 0

b. sin x cos y = ln (C sin x)

29. The ganeral solution of the ordinary different equation with c = constant is
d. 2 y = 1 + ce-x2

30. The differential equation given is correctly described by which one of the
following choices: d2y/dx2 + bxy dy/dx = f(x)
d. linear. Second order, non homogenous

31. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of f(x)= x if -p
= x = p the value of f(p/2) is

d.

32. Sugar decomposes in water at a rate proportional to the amount still unchanged.
If there were 50 kg of sugar present initially and at the end of 5 hours this is
reduced to 20 kg, how long will it take until 90% os the sugar is decomposed.
a. 12.56 hr

33. In the higher-order differential equation (4 � x2 )y'''-4y1+y = 0 , x = �2 is

a/an point.
c. regular

34. Evaluate cos(3 + 5i)

c. -73.47 -10.47i

35. A new water pump has a capacity of 60 cu m/day. If its capacity goes down by
15% every year, in how many years will the capacity go down to 20 cu m/day?
b. 7.32 yrs.

36. Which of the following is the solution to the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' +
(x2 - y2) y=0
a.
c.

37. A certain quantity increases at a rate proportional to q itself. If q = 25 when

t = 0 and q = 75 when t =2, find q when t = 6.
a. 675

38. Calculate the time in hrs, that it will take to reach the fatal conc. Of 40%
methane in a kitchen measuring 15 ft x 12.5 ft x8 ft for a leaking stove. The rate
of leak is 15 cuft of 100% methane/hr. Assume no fresh air is coming in. The gas
rate is measured at the rate conditions prevailing in the kitchen.
a. 40 hrs.

39. Determine the Fourier coefficient a() of the function f (x) = 3x2 + 4, �1 < x
<1.
d. as=10

40. The differential equation (x2 +4xy+y2)dx-xydy=0 is

d. homogenous

41. The differential equation can be classified as

c. linear but not homogenous

42. A spherical tank whose inner diameter is 2 meters is filled with water (density
1 g/cc). If a tank has a hole 1 cm in diameter at the bottom, the time the tank
will be totally empty is
d. 6.31 hrs.

43. The simplified form of (3 + 2i) is

c. -2,035-828i

44. The radius of conversence of the power series (not sure yet)
a.

46. Find the differential equations og the family of lines through the origin.
a. xdy - ydx = 0

47. Solve the equation

c.

48. Solve the different equation

d. y=(x3 +11)2
49. Determine the general solution of xdy + ydx = 0
c. xy = c

50. Find the equation of the orthogonal trajectories of the system of parabolas
y2=2x+C.
b. y = C e-x

51. The principal 4th root of 5 + 12i

d. 1.82 + 0.55i

52. Evaluate 143 - 41).

d. 1.61- 0.931

53. Solve
a. y= -x5+cx6

54. What is the differential equation of a family of parabolas having their

vertices at the origin and their vertices on the x-axis?
c. 2xdy - ydx = 0

55. When a simple electric circuit, containing no condensers but having inductance
and resistance, has the electromotive force removed, the rate of decrease of
current is proportional to the current. The current is i amperes t seconds after
the cutoff, and i = 40 when t = 0. If the current dies down to 15 amperes in 0.01
sec, fid i after 0.1 sec.
d. 0.002amp

56. Solve the differential equation : x(y - x = 1,determine y when x = 2.

a. 1.55

57. How can the differential equation a d2x/dt2 + B(t) dx/dt + c = D(t) best be
described?
d. linear, second order and non homogenous

58. Evaluate sin ( 3 + 4i )

b. 3.85 - 27.02i

65. Evaluate cosh(5 + 6i)

c. 71.25-2073i

59. A body weighing 1960 N is pulled by a constant force of 492 N along a

horizontal plane where in the coefficient of friction between the body and the
plane id 0.20. Determine the velocity after 20 seconds.
d. 9.06 m/s

60. A tank and its contents weigh 100 lbs. The average heat capacity of the system
is 0.5 Btu/ lb.F. The liquid in the tank is heated by an immersion heater which
delivers 100 Btu/min. Heat is lost from the system at a rate proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the system (assumed uniform throughtout at
any instant) and the temperature of the surrounding air, the proportionality
constant being 2 Btu/minoF. If the air temperature remains constant at 70oF and if
the initial temperature of the tank and its contents is 55oF, the temperature of
the tank as a function of the is
c. T=120-65e-t/25

61. Which of the following is a solution of the wave equation

b. u =(x + at)6
62. A low radioactive material is used in biochemical process to induce biological
mutation. The isotope is made in the experimental reactor of the Philippine Atomic
Energy Commssion, now Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, and ship to the
chemical plant. It has a half life of 8.06 days. The plant receive the shipment of
the radioactive material which on arrival contain 1 gram of the radioactive
material. The plant uses the material at the rate of 0.1 gram per week. The time it
will take for the radioactivity to last is
b. 3.24 weeks

63. Solve the differential equation dy - xdx = 0, if the curve passes through (1,
0).
d. x2 - 2y -1 = 0

64. A 10-ohm resistor and a 5-henry inductor are connected in series with to a 50-
volt source at time t = 0. Express the current I as a function of time.
c. i = 5(1 - e-2t)

66. A 50 lb iron ball is heated to 200oF and then plunged immediately into a vessel
containing 100b lbs of water whose temperature is 40oF. The specific heat of iron
is 0.11 Btu/lboF. The common temperature, approached by the iron and water as time
approaches infinity is
c. 48.34oF

67. The rate f decay of radioactivity elements is usually assumed to be

proportional to the number of atoms that have not decayed, where &#955 is the
proportionality consatnt. If at time t=0 there are Xo atoms of a given elements,
the expression for the number of atoms, X, that have not decayed (as a function of
time,t,&#955, and Xo) is
c. Xoe-?t

68. Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution of
the higher order differential equation 3 y" �2 x y = 0
d. 1

74. Evaluatecos(2+3i).
d. -4.19-9.11i
69. The solution to the non homogeneous partial differential equation
c. u(x,y)=f(x)e-2y+2y-1

70. Find the general solution of y' = ysec x.

d. y = C (sec x + tan x)

71. Determine the value of c such that the function u(x,t) = e -256 sin 2x will be
a solution of the heat equation given by
c. 8

72. The expression.(5+2i)7 is equivalent to

c. -116615+60422i

73. Find the principal 5th root of 5+121.

d. 1.62+0.391
75. A body whose temperature is 180o is immersed in a liquid which is kept at a
constant temperature of 60o. In 10 minutes the temperature of the immersed body
decreased to 120o. How long will it take for the body's temperature to decrease to
90o?
b. 20 min.

76. the equation y2 = cx is the general solution of

c. y' = y/2x

77. Find the radius of the convergence of the series

b. |x| < �

78. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional to the amount at any instant. In 100
years, 100 mg of radium decomposes to 96 mg. How many mg will be left after 100
years?
c. 92.16

79. A certain subxtance increases at a rate proportional to the square of the

instantaneous amount. After 5 days the amount is doubled. Determine the time before
the amount is tripled.
c. 20/3

80. Evaluate sinh(6 + 5i)

a. 57.22 �193.43i

81. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of

c. ao=10

82. The solution to the homogeneous partial differential equation

b. u(x,y)=A(y)e3x +B(y)xe3x

83. Solve xy'(2y -1) = y(1-x)

a. ln (xy) = x + 2y + C

84. A tank initialy contains 400 liters of water. Salt solution, containing 1/8 kg
of salt per liter of solution flows into the tank at the rate of 8 li/min and the
solution, kept well-stirred, flows out of the tank at the rate of 4 li/min. Find
the amount of salt in the tank after 100 minutes.
c. 75 kg

85. A mothball loses mass by evaporation at rate that is proportional to the

surface area. If half tha mass is lost in 100 days, how long will it take the
radius to decreases to half its initial value?
c. 243 days

86. The laplace transform of et is

c. 1/(s-1)

87. Evaluate cosh ( 3 + 5i)

a. 2.86 + 9.61i

89. Evaluateln(5 +j3).

d. 1.76+ j0.54
88. If dy = x2dx, what is the equation of y in terms of x if the curve passes
through (1,1)?
a. x3 - 3y + 2 = 0

90. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

c.

91. Solve the equation

b. y =cIe-5x+ c2e-3x

92. Evaluate In(3 + 5i)

Select one:
c. 1.76 + 1,03i
93. Using the first three terms of the Taylor polynomial for r is equal to
Select one:
a. 1.321

94.The coefficient of the x5 term in the Taylor polynomial for sin(2x) is

Select one:
a. 0.26667

Basic Engineering Correlation (ADMATH and DE Reviewer)

1. Solve the equation y"+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5.
b. y = (-7x-4) e-3x

2. Solve the homogenous equation (x2+y2) dx+2xydy=0

d. x(x2<+3y2) =c

3. The expression equivalent to ?01+I 6z2 dz is equivalent to

d. 4+4i

4. What can be concluded about the function that the graph below depicts?

d. The following shows an odd function.

5. If A = 25 ep/42 i and B = CiS p\4 then A + B is_____"

d. 32.26+23.11i

6. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

y" + y' = 0 ?
a.

7. The differential equation dv = (y2 - 3vy)dy is said to be

c. linear in V

8. The laplace transform of t is

d. 1/s2

9. Determine the value of the Legendre's polynomial function P2(2).

d. P2(2)=1

10. The rate at which a solid substance dissolves varies directly has the amount of
undissolved solid present in the solvent and as the difference between the
saturation concentration of the substance and the instantaneous concentration of
the solution Five grams of A are placed in solvent B .the solution when saturated
will hold ten grams of A. If 2 grams of A dossolved in 1 hr, how many grams of A
will be in solution in 2 hrs?
d. 3 g

11. Find the differential equation whose general solution is y = C1x + C2 ex.
d. (x - 1)y" - xy' + y = 0

12. A cylindrical tank is 12ft. In diameter and 8=9 ft high. Water flows into the
tank at the rate of /10 cuft/sec. It has a hole radius 1/2 inch at the bottom. The
time the tank will be full if initially it is empty is
b. 65 min

13. The indicial equation of the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' + (x2 - 9) y =0 is
a. r2 - 9 = 0

14. The solution to the equation x2y'+xy'+x2y=0 if x=0.5 is approximately equal to

b. 0.5118

15. The different equation y" + 3y' - 4y =2x is

c. second order homogenous linear different equation

16. The series is equivalent to the function

a. f(x) = e3x

17. The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to

a. -2035- 828i
18. What is the order of the differential equation (4 + y")1/3 = e2x
d. two

19. The indicial equation of ODE 2xy"+(l+ x)y'-2y=o is

a. 2r2 - r =0

20. The population of a certain municipality increases at a rate 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?
c. 200 years

21. Find the equation of the curve at every point at which the tangent line has a
slope of 2x.
a. y = x2 + C

22. The order of the different equation

a. 2
23. A water container whose circular cross section is 6 ft in diameter and whose
height is 8 ft. is filled with water. It has a hole at the bottom of radius 1 inch.
The time it will take if the tank rests on support so that its 8 ft height is in a
horizontal direction and the hole in its bottom is
d. 24.95 min

24. Determine the values of the constants r in the indicial equations of the given
ordinary differential equation (2x2 � 24"-2,942y = 0 when Frobenius' method is
applied.
c. = 1,r2= 2

25. Find a power series for the function

d. x+x3+x5+...

26. The order of the differential equation is

d. 2
27. The expression ?0pi cos z dz is equivalent to
d. 11.55i

28. Solve (cos x cos y - cot x)dx - sin x sin y dy = 0

b. sin x cos y = ln (C sin x)

29. The ganeral solution of the ordinary different equation with c = constant is
d. 2 y = 1 + ce-x2
30. The differential equation given is correctly described by which one of the
following choices: d2y/dx2 + bxy dy/dx = f(x)
d. linear. Second order, non homogenous

31. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of f(x)= x if -p
= x = p the value of f(p/2) is

d.

32. Sugar decomposes in water at a rate proportional to the amount still unchanged.
If there were 50 kg of sugar present initially and at the end of 5 hours this is
reduced to 20 kg, how long will it take until 90% os the sugar is decomposed.
a. 12.56 hr

33. In the higher-order differential equation (4 � x2 )y'''-4y1+y = 0 , x = �2 is

a/an point.
c. regular

34. Evaluate cos(3 + 5i)

c. -73.47 -10.47i

35. A new water pump has a capacity of 60 cu m/day. If its capacity goes down by
15% every year, in how many years will the capacity go down to 20 cu m/day?
b. 7.32 yrs.

36. Which of the following is the solution to the Bessel's equation x2 y" + xy' +
(x2 - y2) y=0
a.
c.

37. A certain quantity increases at a rate proportional to q itself. If q = 25 when

t = 0 and q = 75 when t =2, find q when t = 6.
a. 675

38. Calculate the time in hrs, that it will take to reach the fatal conc. Of 40%
methane in a kitchen measuring 15 ft x 12.5 ft x8 ft for a leaking stove. The rate
of leak is 15 cuft of 100% methane/hr. Assume no fresh air is coming in. The gas
rate is measured at the rate conditions prevailing in the kitchen.
a. 40 hrs.

39. Determine the Fourier coefficient a() of the function f (x) = 3x2 + 4, �1 < x
<1.
d. as=10

40. The differential equation (x2 +4xy+y2)dx-xydy=0 is

d. homogenous

41. The differential equation can be classified as

c. linear but not homogenous

42. A spherical tank whose inner diameter is 2 meters is filled with water (density
1 g/cc). If a tank has a hole 1 cm in diameter at the bottom, the time the tank
will be totally empty is
d. 6.31 hrs.

43. The simplified form of (3 + 2i) is

c. -2,035-828i
44. The radius of conversence of the power series (not sure yet)
a.

46. Find the differential equations og the family of lines through the origin.
a. xdy - ydx = 0

47. Solve the equation

c.

48. Solve the different equation

d. y=(x3 +11)2
49. Determine the general solution of xdy + ydx = 0
c. xy = c

50. Find the equation of the orthogonal trajectories of the system of parabolas
y2=2x+C.
b. y = C e-x

51. The principal 4th root of 5 + 12i

d. 1.82 + 0.55i

52. Evaluate 143 - 41).

d. 1.61- 0.931

53. Solve
a. y= -x5+cx6

54. What is the differential equation of a family of parabolas having their

vertices at the origin and their vertices on the x-axis?
c. 2xdy - ydx = 0

55. When a simple electric circuit, containing no condensers but having inductance
and resistance, has the electromotive force removed, the rate of decrease of
current is proportional to the current. The current is i amperes t seconds after
the cutoff, and i = 40 when t = 0. If the current dies down to 15 amperes in 0.01
sec, fid i after 0.1 sec.
d. 0.002amp

56. Solve the differential equation : x(y - x = 1,determine y when x = 2.

a. 1.55

57. How can the differential equation a d2x/dt2 + B(t) dx/dt + c = D(t) best be
described?
d. linear, second order and non homogenous

58. Evaluate sin ( 3 + 4i )

b. 3.85 - 27.02i

65. Evaluate cosh(5 + 6i)

c. 71.25-2073i

59. A body weighing 1960 N is pulled by a constant force of 492 N along a

horizontal plane where in the coefficient of friction between the body and the
plane id 0.20. Determine the velocity after 20 seconds.
d. 9.06 m/s
60. A tank and its contents weigh 100 lbs. The average heat capacity of the system
is 0.5 Btu/ lb.F. The liquid in the tank is heated by an immersion heater which
delivers 100 Btu/min. Heat is lost from the system at a rate proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the system (assumed uniform throughtout at
any instant) and the temperature of the surrounding air, the proportionality
constant being 2 Btu/minoF. If the air temperature remains constant at 70oF and if
the initial temperature of the tank and its contents is 55oF, the temperature of
the tank as a function of the is
c. T=120-65e-t/25

61. Which of the following is a solution of the wave equation

b. u =(x + at)6
62. A low radioactive material is used in biochemical process to induce biological
mutation. The isotope is made in the experimental reactor of the Philippine Atomic
Energy Commssion, now Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, and ship to the
chemical plant. It has a half life of 8.06 days. The plant receive the shipment of
the radioactive material which on arrival contain 1 gram of the radioactive
material. The plant uses the material at the rate of 0.1 gram per week. The time it
will take for the radioactivity to last is
b. 3.24 weeks

63. Solve the differential equation dy - xdx = 0, if the curve passes through (1,
0).
d. x2 - 2y -1 = 0

64. A 10-ohm resistor and a 5-henry inductor are connected in series with to a 50-
volt source at time t = 0. Express the current I as a function of time.
c. i = 5(1 - e-2t)

66. A 50 lb iron ball is heated to 200oF and then plunged immediately into a vessel
containing 100b lbs of water whose temperature is 40oF. The specific heat of iron
is 0.11 Btu/lboF. The common temperature, approached by the iron and water as time
approaches infinity is
c. 48.34oF

67. The rate f decay of radioactivity elements is usually assumed to be

proportional to the number of atoms that have not decayed, where &#955 is the
proportionality consatnt. If at time t=0 there are Xo atoms of a given elements,
the expression for the number of atoms, X, that have not decayed (as a function of
time,t,&#955, and Xo) is
c. Xoe-?t

68. Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution of
the higher order differential equation 3 y" �2 x y = 0
d. 1

74. Evaluatecos(2+3i).
d. -4.19-9.11i
69. The solution to the non homogeneous partial differential equation
c. u(x,y)=f(x)e-2y+2y-1

70. Find the general solution of y' = ysec x.

d. y = C (sec x + tan x)

71. Determine the value of c such that the function u(x,t) = e -256 sin 2x will be
a solution of the heat equation given by
c. 8
72. The expression.(5+2i)7 is equivalent to
c. -116615+60422i

73. Find the principal 5th root of 5+121.

d. 1.62+0.391
75. A body whose temperature is 180o is immersed in a liquid which is kept at a
constant temperature of 60o. In 10 minutes the temperature of the immersed body
decreased to 120o. How long will it take for the body's temperature to decrease to
90o?
b. 20 min.

76. the equation y2 = cx is the general solution of

c. y' = y/2x

77. Find the radius of the convergence of the series

b. |x| < �

78. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional to the amount at any instant. In 100
years, 100 mg of radium decomposes to 96 mg. How many mg will be left after 100
years?
c. 92.16

79. A certain subxtance increases at a rate proportional to the square of the

instantaneous amount. After 5 days the amount is doubled. Determine the time before
the amount is tripled.
c. 20/3

80. Evaluate sinh(6 + 5i)

a. 57.22 �193.43i

81. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of

c. ao=10

82. The solution to the homogeneous partial differential equation

b. u(x,y)=A(y)e3x +B(y)xe3x

83. Solve xy'(2y -1) = y(1-x)

a. ln (xy) = x + 2y + C

84. A tank initialy contains 400 liters of water. Salt solution, containing 1/8 kg
of salt per liter of solution flows into the tank at the rate of 8 li/min and the
solution, kept well-stirred, flows out of the tank at the rate of 4 li/min. Find
the amount of salt in the tank after 100 minutes.
c. 75 kg

85. A mothball loses mass by evaporation at rate that is proportional to the

surface area. If half tha mass is lost in 100 days, how long will it take the
radius to decreases to half its initial value?
c. 243 days

86. The laplace transform of et is

c. 1/(s-1)

87. Evaluate cosh ( 3 + 5i)

a. 2.86 + 9.61i

89. Evaluateln(5 +j3).

d. 1.76+ j0.54
88. If dy = x2dx, what is the equation of y in terms of x if the curve passes
through (1,1)?
a. x3 - 3y + 2 = 0

90. Which of the following power series is a solution to the differential equation

c.

91. Solve the equation

b. y =cIe-5x+ c2e-3x

92. Evaluate In(3 + 5i)

Select one:
c. 1.76 + 1,03i
93. Using the first three terms of the Taylor polynomial for r is equal to
Select one:
a. 1.321

94.The coefficient of the x5 term in the Taylor polynomial for sin(2x) is

Select one:
a. 0.26667
Solve the equation y""+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5.
y = (-7x-4) e-3x
A tank and its contents weigh 100 lbs. The average heat capacity of the system is
0.5 Btu/ lb.F. The liquid in the tank is heated by an immersion heater which
delivers 100 Btu/min. Heat is lost from the system at a rate proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the system (assumed uniform throughout at any
instant) and the temperature of the surrounding air, the proportionality constant
being 2 Btu/minoF. If the air temperature remains constant at 70�F and if the
initial temperature of the tank and its contents is 55�F, the temperature of the
tank as a function of the is
T=120-65e-t/25
A 1000 ft3 storage tank is filled with natural gas at 80�F and 1 atm pressure. The
tank is flushed out with nitrigen gas at 80�F and 1 atm pressure, at a constant
rate of 300 cfm. The flushing process is carried out at constant temperature and
pressure, under conditions of perfect mixing in the tank at all times. The time
required to reach a gas composition of 95 vol.% nitrogen in the tank is nearest yo
3 10 min

Which of the following martices is note reduced row echelon form?

0012
The augmented matrix of the system
520
The indicial equation of the Bessel's equation x� y"" + xy' + (x� - 9) y =0 is
r� + r - 9 = 0

A substance containing 10 lbs.of moisture is placed in a scaled room whose vol.is

2000 cu.ft and which when saturated can hold 0.015 lbs.moisture/cu.ft. Initially
the air contains 30% of the moisture which it can hold when saturated. If the
substance loses 4 lbs.of moisture content? Assume the substance loses moisture
content and the different between the moisture at a rate that is proportioanl to
the moisture content and the difference between the moisture content of the
saturated air and the moisture content of the air
3.8 hrs

A 50 lb iron ball is heated to 200�F and then plunged immediately into a vessel
containing 100b lbs of water whose temperature is 40�F. The specific heat of iron
is 0.11 Btu/lb�F. The common temperature, approached by the iron and water as time
approaches infinity is
48.34�F

Find the slope of the line tangent to the curve y = x^3 - 2x + 1 at x = 1

1

The solution to the non-homogeneous partial differential equation

u(x,y)=f(x)e-2y+2y-1
The expression equivalent to ?01+I 6z2 dz is equivalent to
4+4i
The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to
-2035- 828i
The series 1 space plus space 3 x space plus space fraction numerator 9 x to the
power of z over denominator 2 factorial end fraction plus fraction numerator 27 x
cubed over denominator 3 factorial end fraction plus... is equivalent to the
function
f(x) = e3x
Which of the following is the solution to the Bessel's equation x� y"" + xy' + (x�
- y�) y=0
0
If the elements of any two rows of square matrix are exactly the same then the
determinant is
b. unity
If A = 25 e?/42 i and B = CiS ?\4 then A + B is_____
a. 32.26+23.11i
"In the higher-order differential equation (4 x2 )y'''-4y1+y = 0 , x = 2 is
a/an point.
Regular
The expression ?0?i cos z dz is equivalent to
11.55i
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1. The depth of water in cylindrical tank 4 m in diameter is increasing at the rate

of 0.7 m/min. Find the rate at which the water flows into the tank.
a. 6.4
b. 2.5
c. 1.5
d. 8.8

2. The volume of the sphere is increasing at the rate of 6 cm3 / hr. At what is its
surface area increasing (in cn2/hr) when the radius is 50cm?
a. 0.3
b. 0.24
c. 0.4
d. 0.5

3. Find the height of aright circular cylinder of maximum volume, which can be
inscribed in a sphere of radius 10 cm.
a. 12.81 cm.
b. 11.55 cm.
c. 15.11 cm.
d. 14.12 cm.

4. find the area in the first quadrant bounded by the parabola y2 = 4x, x = 1 and x
= 3
a. 9.955
b. 5.955
c. 5.595
d. 9.555

5. Find the maximum point of y = x + 1/x

a. (1,2)
b. (2,3)
c. (-1, -2)
d. (2, 5/2)

6. ___________ is the concept of finding the derivative of composite functions.

a. Logarithmic differentiation
b. Implicit differentiation
c. Trigonometric differentiation
d. Chain Rule

7. Find the area bounded by the curve defined by the equation x2 = 8y and its latus
rectum.
a. 22/3
b. 32/3
c. 16/3
d. 11/3

8. If y = x lnx. Find
b. 1/x

9. Car A moves due east at 30 kph, at the same instant car B is moving S 30o E with
the speed 60 kph. The distance from A to B is 30 km. Find how fast is the distance
between them separating after 1 hour
a. 38 kph
b. 36 kph
c. 45 kph
d. 40 kph

10. A box is to be constructed from a piece of zinc 20 sq. in. by cutting equal
squarea from each corner and turning up the zinc to form the side. What is the
volume of the largest box that can be so constructed?
a. 592.59 cu. in.
b. 622.49 cu. In
c. 579.50 cu. In
d. 599.95 cu. in.

11. Find the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola y = x2 - 4x + 1 by making

use of the fact that at the vertex, the slope of the tangent is zero.
a. (2, -3)

12. Given the function f(x) = x3 - 6x +2. Fnd the first derivative at x = 2
a. 3x2 - 5
b. 8
c. 6
d. 7

13. If the first derivative of the function is constant, then the function
is__________.
a. Linear
b. Logarithmic
c. Sinusoid
d. Exponential
14. Using the two existing corner sides of an existing wall, what is the maximum
rectangular area that can be fenced by a fencing material 30 ft. long?
b. 225 sq.ft.

15. The velocity of a body is given by v(t) = sin(xt), where the velocity is given
in meters per second and " t " is given in seconds. The distance covered in meters
between t =1/4 and 1/2 second is close to
a. 0.5221 m
b. -0.5221 m
c. -0.2251 m
d. 0.2551 m

16. Differentiate y = ex cos x2

a. ex(cosx2 - 2x sinx2)
b. -2xex sinx2
c. -ex sinx2
d. ex cosx2 - 2x sinx2

17. Three sides of a trapezoid are each 8 cm. long. How long is the fourth side
when the area of the trapezoid has the greatest value?
a. 10
b. 8
c. 16
d. 12

18. Differentiate y = sec(x2 + 2)

a. -cos(x2 + 2)cot(x2 + 2)
b. 2xcos(x2 + 2)
c. cos(x2 + 2)
d. 2xsec(x2 + 2)tan(x2 + 2)

19. A statue 3 m high is standing on a base of 4 m high. If an observer's eye is

1.5 m above the ground, how far should he stand from the base in order that the
angle subtended by the statue is a maximum.
a. 3.41 m
b. 4.41 m
c. 3.51 m
d. 3.71 m

20. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in a semi-
circle of radius 10?
b. 100

21. Find the partial derivative with recpect to x of the funcyion xy2 - 5y + 6
a. 2xy
b. xy - 5y
c. y2 - 5
d. y2

22. In the curve 2 + 12x - x3, find the critical points.

a. (-2,18) & (2, -14)
b. (-2,18) & (-2,14)
c. (2,18) & (2,-14)
d. (2,18) & (-2,-14)

23. A man on a wharf 3.6 m above sea level is pulling a rope tied to a raft at 0.60
m/sec. How fast is the raft approaching the wharf when there are 6 m of rope out?
b. -0.75 m/sec

24. Find of y = 3sin 2x

a. 3 cos 4x
b. 2 sin 2x
c. 6 cos x
d. 6 cos 2x

25. If the distance x from the point of departure at a time t is defined by the
equation x = -16t2 + 5000t + 5000, what is the initial velocity?
a. 2000
b. 5000
c. 0
d. 3000

26. Find the slope of the tangent to the curve x2 + y2 - 6x + 10y + 5 = 0 at the
point (1,0)
a. �
b. 2/5
c. 2
d. 1/5

27. Differentiate y = arc sin cos x

a. -2
b. 1
c. 2
d. -1

28. Evaluate the limit lnx/x as x approaches positive infinity.

a. 0
b. -1
c. 1
d. infinity

29. Determine the diameter of a closed a closed cylindrical tank having a volume of
11.3 cu. m. to obtain minimum surface area.
a. 1.22
b. 2.68
c. 1.64
d. 2.44

30. Divide the number 120 into two parts such that the product of one and the
square of the other is maximum.
a. 30 and 90
b. 60 and 60
c. 40 and 80
d. 50 and 70

31. Evaluate: Lim (2 - x)tan

a. b e
b. e2p
c. 8
d. 0

32. Water is running into a hemispherical bowl having a radius of 10 cm. at a

constant rate of 3 cu. cm/ min. When the water is x cm. deep, the water level is
rising at the rate of 0.0149 cm./min. What is the value of x?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 3
d. 5

33. Find the area bounded by the line x - 2y + 10 = 0, the x-axis, the y-axis and x
= 10
b. 75

34. Find the area bounded by the y - axis and x = 4 = y2/3

a. 12.8
b. 25.6
c. 56.8
d. 30.6

35. A triangle has variable sides x, y, z subject to the constaint such that the
perimeter is fixed to 18 cm. What is the maximum possible area for the triangle?
a. 14.03 sq.cm.
b. 15.59 sq. cm.
c. 17.15 sq. cm.
d. 18.71 sq. cm.

36. The cost of a product is a function of the quantity x of the product: C(x) = x2
- 400x + 50. Find the quantity for which the cost is minimum.
a. 2000
b. 3000
c. 5000
d. 0

37. Find the slope of the line tangent to the curve y = x3 - 2x + 1 at x = 1.

a. 1/3
b. 1
c. 1/4
d. 1/2

38. Water is running out in a conical funnel at the rate of 1 cu. In. per second.
If the radius of the base of the funnel is 4 inches and the altitude in 8 inches,
find the rate at which the water level is dropping when it is 2 inches from top.
a. in./sec
b. in./sec
c. -1/9pin./sec.
d. in./sec

39. What is the area between y = 0, y = 3x2, x = 0 and x = 2?

a. 24
b. 6
c. 8
d. 12

40. If y = (t2 + 2)2 and t = x1/2, datermine

a. x5/2 + x1/2
b. 2(x + 2)
c. 3/2
d. letter b

41. Find the area between the curve y = cosh x and the x-axis from x = 0 and x = 1
Select one:
a. 1.667 sq. units
b. 1.333 sq. units
c. 1.125 sq.units
d. 1.175 sq. units
42. Find the second derivative of y by implicit differentiation from the equation
4x2 + 8y2 = 36.
a. -9/4y3
b. -16/9y3
c. 32xy
d. 64x2

43. Find the area in sq. units bounded by the parabolas x2 - 2y = 0 and x2 + 2y - 8
= 0
a. 9.7
b. 4.7
c. 10.7
d. 11.7

44. What is the second derivative of a function y = 5x3 + 2x + 1?

a. 30x
b. 18
c. 30
d. 25x

45. Evaluate the limit of lim(x2 + 3x - 4) as x approaches 3.

a. 54
b. 14
c. 18
d. 72

46. The rate of change of function y with respect to x equals 2-y and y = 8 when x
= 0. Find y when x = ln2
d. 5

47. If y = 4 cos x + sin 2x, what is the slope of the curve when x = 2 radians?
a. -4.94
b. -2.21
c. 2.21
d. -3.25

48. Differentiate y = log10(x2 + 1)2

a. 4x(x2 + 1)
b. log e(x)(x2 + 1)
c. None of the choices
None of the choices
d. 2x(x2 + 1)

49. Given a cone of diameter x and altitude of h. What percent is the volume of the
largest cylinder which can be inscribed in the cone to the volume of the cone?
a. 2.12
b. 2.25
c. 2.86
d. 2.51

50. Find the minimum distance from the point (4,2) to the parabola y2 = 8x
a. 4 v 3
b. 2 v 3
c. v 3
d. 2 v 2

51. Find the area enclosed y the curve x2 + 8y + 16 = 0, the x - axis, the y-axis
and the line x - 4 = 0
a. 8.67 sq. units
b. 9.67sq. units
c. 10.67 sq. units
d. 7.67 sq. units

52. Find the equation of the normal to x2 + y2 = 1 at the point (2,1).

a. 2x +3y = 3
b. y = 2x
c. x + y = 1
d. x = 2y

53. A poster is to contain 300 cm. sq. of printed matter with margins of 10 cm. at
the top and bottom and 5 cm at each side. Find the overall dimensions if the total
area of the poster is minimum.
a. 22.24, 44.5
b. 27.76, 47.8
c. 25.55, 46.7
d. 20.45, 35.6

54. Find the equation of the normal to i>x2 + y2 = 5 at the point (2, 1)
a. x = 2y

55. Find the equation of the curve at every point of which the tangent line has a
slope of 2x.
a. y = -x2 + C
b. y = x2 + C
c. x = -y2 + C
d. 1x = y2 + C

56. The radius of spheres is r inches at time t seconds. Find the radius when the
rates of increase of the surface area and the radius are numerically equal.
d. 1/8p in

57. Given a cone of diameter x and altitude of h. What percent is the volume of the
largest cylinder which can be inscribed in the cone to the volume of the cone?
a. 0.56
b. 0.44
c. 0.65
d. 0.46

58. The area enclosed by the ellipse (image) is revolved about the line x = 3. What
is the volume generated?
a. 365.1
b. 360.1
c. 370.3
d. 355.3

59. If y = 2x + sin 2x, find x if y' = 0

a. p/2

60. A Norman window is in the shape of a rectangle surmountedby a semi-circle. What

is the ratio of the width of the rectangle to the total height so that it will
yield a window admitting the most light for a given perimeter?
a. 1
b. 2/3
c. 2
d. �

61. Find the area bounded by the parabola, x2 = 4y, and y = 4.

a. 33.21
b. 21.33
c. 13.23
d. 31.32

62. The area bounded by the curve y = 2x1/2, the line y = 6 and the y-axis is to be
revolved at y = 6. Determine the centroid of the volume generated.
a. 1.24
b. 0.56
c. 1.8
d. 1.0

64. What is the area bounded by the curve y = x3, the x-axis and the line x = -2
and x = 1?
a. 5.24
b. 2.45
c. 5.42
d. 4.25

65. Find the approximate increase by the use of differentials, in the volume of the
sphere if the radius increases from 2 to 2.05 in one second.
a. 2.12
b. 2.51
c. 2.86
d. 2.25

66. The integral of cos x wuth respect to x is

a. csc x + C
b. sec x + C
c. -sin x + C
d. sin x + C

67. Evaluate: Lim

a. infinity
b. 1
c. 0
d. 2

68. The distance of a body travels is a function of time t and is defined by: x(t)
= 18t + 9t2.What is its velocity at t=3?
a. 18
b. 54
c. 36
d. 72

"What is the order of the differential equation (4 + y"")1/3 = e2x"

Two

The differential equation given is correctly described by which one of the

following choices: d�y/dx� + bxy dy/dx = f(x)
"linear. Second order, non homogenous"

Determine the general solution of xdy + ydx = 0

xy = c
"Calculate the time in hrs, that it will take to reach the fatal conc. Of 40%
methane in a kitchen measuring 15 ft x 12.5 ft x8 ft for a leaking stove. The rate
of leak is 15 cuft of 100% methane/hr. Assume no fresh air is coming in. The gas
rate is measured at the rate conditions prevailing in the kitchen."
40 hrs
The laplace transform of et is
1/(s-1)

The differential equation (x� +4xy+y�)dx-xydy=0 is

Homogenous

Find the differential equation whose general solution is y = C1x + C2 ex.

"(x - 1)y"" - xy' + y = 0"
Solve x dy/dx -6y = x(5)
y= -x5+cx6
"A tank and its contents weigh 100 lbs. The average heat capacity of the system is
0.5 Btu/ lb.F. The liquid in the tank is heated by an immersion heater which
delivers 100 Btu/min. Heat is lost from the system at a rate proportional to the
difference between the temperature of the system (assumed uniform throughout at any
instant) and the temperature of the surrounding air, the proportionality constant
being 2 Btu/minoF. If the air temperature remains constant at 70�F and if the
initial temperature of the tank and its contents is 55�F, the temperature of the
tank as a function of the is"
T=120-65e-t/25

"Solve the differential equation dy - xdx = 0, if the curve passes through (1, 0)."
x� - 2y -1 = 0

"A certain quantity increases at a rate proportional to q itself. If q = 25 when t

= 0 and q = 75 when t =2, find q when t = 6."
675
"A spherical tank whose inner diameter is 2 meters is filled with water (density 1
g/cc). If a tank has a hole 1 cm in diameter at the bottom, the time the tank will
be totally empty is"
.
6.31 hrs.
A water container whose circular cross section is 6 ft in diameter and whose height
is 8 ft. is filled with water. It has a hole at the bottom of radius 1 inch. The
time it will take if the tank rests on support so that its 8 ft height is in a
horizontal direction and the hole in its bottom is
24.95 min

Find the differential equations of the family of lines through the origin.
xdy - ydx = 0

"When a simple electric circuit, containing no condensers but having inductance and
resistance, has the electromotive force removed, the rate of decrease of current is
proportional to the current. The current is i amperes t seconds after the cut off,
and i = 40 when t = 0. If the current dies down to 15 amperes in 0.01 sec, fid i
after 0.1 sec."
0.002amp

"Sugar decomposes in water at a rate proportional to the amount still unchanged. If

there were 50 kg of sugar present initially and at the end of 5 hours this is
reduced to 20 kg, how long will it take until 90% of the sugar is decomposed."
12.56 hr
"A mothball loses mass by evaporation at rate that is proportional to the surface
area. If half the mass is lost in 100 days, how long will it take the radius to
decreases to half its initial value?"
243 days
The order of the differential equation is (d2y/dx2)1/3 = k(1+dy/dx)2/3
2
The laplace transform of t is
1/s�
Solve the equation y""+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5."
y = (-7x-4) e-3x

What is the differential equation of a family of parabolas having their vertices at

the origin and their vertices on the x-axis?
2xdy - ydx = 0

Find the equation of the curve at every point at which the tangent line has a slope
of 2x.
y = x� + C
What is the general solution of (D^3 -3D^2 - 4D + 12)y = 0
y = C1e^2x + C2e^3x + C3e^-2x

A 10-ohm resistor and a 5-henry inductor are connected in series with to a 50-volt
source at time t = 0. Express the current I as a function of time.
i = 5(1 - e-2t)

What is the general solution of (D^3 -3D^2 - 4D + 12)y = 0

y = C1e^2x + C2e^3x + C3e^-2x

Solve the equation d(2)y/dx(2)+8dy/dx+15y=0

y =cIe-5x+ c2e-3x

"The rate at which a solid substance dissolves varies directly has the amount of
undissolved solid present in the solvent and as the difference between the
saturation concentration of the substance and the instantaneous concentration of
the solution Five grams of A are placed in solvent B .the solution when saturated
will hold ten grams of A. If 2 grams of A dissolved in 1 hr., how many grams of A
will be in solution in 2 hrs.?"
3 g

A cylindrical tank is 12ft. In diameter and 8=9 ft high. Water flows into the tank
at the rate of /10 cuft/sec. It has a hole radius 1/2 inch at the bottom. The time
the tank will be full if initially it is empty is
65 min

Solve (cos x cos y - cot x)dx - sin x sin y dy = 0

sin x cos y = ln (C sin x)

"A new water pump has a capacity of 60 cu m/day. If its capacity goes down by 15%
every year, in how many years will the capacity go down to 20 cu m/day?"
7.32 yrs.

Solve the homogenous equation (x�+y�) dx+2xydy=0

x(x2<+3y�) =c

A body whose temperature is 180� is immersed in a liquid which is kept at a

constant temperature of 60�. In 10 minutes the temperature of the immersed body
decreased to 120�. How long will it take for the body's temperature to decrease to
90�?
20 min.

How can the differential equation a d�x/dt� + B(t) dx/dt + c = D(t) best be
described?
"linear, second order and non homogenous"

The differential equation dv = (y� - 3vy)dy is said to be

linear in V
"A 1000 ft3 storage tank is filled with natural gas at 80�F and 1 atm pressure. The
tank is flushed out with nitrigen gas at 80�F and 1 atm pressure, at a constant
rate of 300 cfm. The flushing process is carried out at constant temperature and
pressure, under conditions of perfect mixing in the tank at all times. The time
required to reach a gas composition of 95 vol.% nitrogen in the tank is nearest yo"
3 10 min

A substance containing 10 lbs.of moisture is placed in a scaled room whose vol.is

2000 cu.ft and which when saturated can hold 0.015 lbs.moisture/cu.ft. Initially
the air contains 30% of the moisture which it can hold when saturated. If the
substance loses 4 lbs.of moisture content? Assume the substance loses moisture
content and the different between the moisture at a rate that is proportioanl to
the moisture content and the difference between the moisture content of the
saturated air and the moisture content of the air.
3.8 hrs

The general solution of the ordinary different equation with c = constant is

2 y = 1 + ce - x2

"A 50 lb iron ball is heated to 200�F and then plunged immediately into a vessel
containing 100b lbs of water whose temperature is 40�F. The specific heat of iron
is 0.11 Btu/lb�F. The common temperature, approached by the iron and water as time
approaches infinity is"
48.34�F

A body weighing 1960 N is pulled by a constant force of 492 N along a horizontal

plane where in the coefficient of friction between the body and the plane id 0.20.
Determine the velocity after 20 seconds.
9.06 m/s
"A tank initially contains 400 liters of water. Salt solution, containing 1/8 kg of
salt per liter of solution flows into the tank at the rate of 8 li/min and the
solution, kept well-stirred, flows out of the tank at the rate of 4 li/min. Find
the amount of salt in the tank after 100 minutes."
75 kg
Solve the equation d(2)x/dy + 2 dy/dx -15y = -2cosx
-1/65 cosx + 8/65 sinx
"Solve the differential equation : x(y - x = 1, determine y when x = 2."
1.55

The differential equation d(2)y/dx(2) + integ 0 to 1 cos(x-t)y(t) dt =3x

linear but not homogenous

What is the general solution of (D^3 -3D^2 - 4D + 12)y = 0
y = C1e^2x + C2e^3x + C3e^-2x
A certain substance increases at a rate proportional to the square of the
instantaneous amount. After 5 days the amount is doubled. Determine the time before
the amount is tripled.
20/3
"Solve the equation y""+6y+9y=0subject to the conditions y(0) =-4 andy (0) = 5."
y = (-7x-4) e-3x

The differential equation dv = (y� - 3vy)dy is said to be

linear in V

Admath
92. "If A = 25 e?/42 i and B = CiS ?\4 then A + B is_____"""
a. 32.26+23.11i
93. The augmented matrix of the system (column 1: x z 5x) is given by
column1( 1 2 5)
94. If the elements of any two rows of square matrix are exactly the same then the
determinant is
b. unity
95. "Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution
of the higher order differential equation 3 y"" -2 x y = 0"
d.1

96. Evaluate cos (2+3i).

-4.19-9.11i
97. "The indicial equation of ODE 2xy""+(l+ x)y'-2y=o is"
2r2 - r =0
98. Which of the following is true about the Fourier coefficients of f(x) 17 & 13
if 0<x<4 & -4<x<0
ao=10
Evaluate sinh(6 + 5i)
57.22 193.43i

Find the principal 5th root of 5+121.

1.62+0.391
"Which of the following is the solution to the Bessel's equation x� y"" + xy' + (x�
- y�) y=0"
0
"Determine the values of the constants r in the indicial equations of the given
ordinary differential equation (2x2 - 24""-2,942y = 0 when Frobenius' method is
applied."
r1"= 1,r2= 2"
"Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution
of the higher order differential equation 3 y"" -2 x y = 0"

1
The expression equivalent to ?01+I 6z2 dz is equivalent to
4+4i
The expression.( 3 + 2i )6 is equivalent to
-2035 - 828i
Find a power series for the function f(x) = x/1-x(2)
1+x�+x4+
"Determine the Fourier coefficient a() of the function f (x) = 3x2 + 4, -1 < x <1."
as=10
What can be concluded about the function that the graph below depicts?
The following shows an odd function.
Which of the following martices is note reduced row echelon form?
R1 = 1 0 0 3 R2 = 0 1 0 5 R3 = 0 0 1 2
The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to
-2035- 828i
The expression.(5+2i)7 is equivalent to
-116615+60422i
Using the first three terms of the Taylor polynomial for integ 0.5 to 0 :
1/1-x(3) is equal to
1.321
The expression ?0?i cos z dz is equivalent to
11.55i
The radius of conversence of the power series

Infinity
The solution to the equation x2y'+xy'+x2y=0 if x=0.5 is approximately equal to
0.5118
The coefficient of the x5 term in the Taylor polynomial for sin(2x) is
0.26667
Evaluate 143 - 41).
1.61- 0.931
"The indicial equation of the Bessel's equation x� y"" + xy' + (x� - 9) y =0 is"
r� + r - 9 = 0
For the matrix A = R1 = 1 2 0 R2 = 4 1 5 R3 = 7 5 3
R1 = 1 2 R2 = 7 5
Which of the following is not a solution to the equation t3-6-8r=0?
"1,82+2.01i"
The simplified form of (3 + 2i) is
"-2,035-828i"
"In the higher-order differential equation (4 x2 )y'''-4y1+y = 0 , x = 2 is
a/an point."

Regular
Evaluate cosh ( 3 + 5i)
2.86 + 9.61i
"Which of the following is a term of the power series representation solution of
the higher order differential equation 3 y"" -2 x y = 0"
1
Determine the value of the Legendre's polynomial function P2(2).
P2(2)=1
Find the principal 5th root of 5-2i
1.40 - 0.11i
"Determine the value of c such that the function u(x,t) = e -256 sin 2x will be a
solution of the heat equation given by
8
Evaluate In(3 + 5i)
"1.76 + 1,03i"
The solution to the homogeneous partial differential equation
"u(x,y)=A(y)e3x +B(y)xe3x"
The principal 4th root of 5 + 12i
1.82 + 0.55i
Evaluate cos(3 + 5i)
-73.47 -10.47i
Find the principal 5th root of 5-2i
1.40 - 0.11i
Which of the following is a solution of the wave equation
u =(x + at)6
The solution to the non-homogeneous partial differential equation
"u(x,y)=f(x)e-2y+2y-1"
Evaluate ln(5 +j3).
1.76+ j0.54
Evaluate cosh(5 + 6i)
71.25-2073i
Which of the following matrices is not equivalent to the matrix A = x?
Row 1(1, -1, 0, 4) Row 2(2, 4, 6, 12)

The series 1+� is equivalent to the function

f(x) = e3x
The augmented matrix of the system(Row 1, x + y + z = 3)
Row1( 1, 1, 1)
Evaluate the limit x as x approaches positive infinity.
0
Find the second derivative of y by implicit differentiation from the equation 4x� +
8y� = 36
-9/4y3
Two or more equations are equal if and only if they have the same _____.
.Solution set
At what time will the hands of a clock be in straight line between 7:00 o'clock and
8:00 o'clock in the morning? (Note: The hour hand is opposite that of the minute
hand?)

7:5.4545 AM
The arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 17. If two numbers are added to the
progression, the new set of numbers will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What are
the two numbers if their difference is 4?
"23, 27"

On one job, two power shovels excavate 20,000 cubic meters of earth, the larger
shovel working for 40 hours and the smaller for 35 hours. On another job, they
removed 40,000 cubic meters with the larger shovel wotking 70 hours and the smaller
working 90 hours. How much earth can each move in 1hour working alone
347.83 m3/hr for larger shovel, 173.91 m3/hr for smaller shovel

In an ellipse, a chord which contains a focus and is in line perpendicular to the

major axis is a - focal width

The expression.( 3 + 2i )6 is equivalent to

-2035 - 828i

"A man travels in a motorized banca at the rate of 15 kph from his barrio to the
poblacion and come back to his barrio at the rate of 12 kph. If his total time of
travel back and forth is 3 hours, the distance from the barrio to the poblacion is"
**35 km

The side of a triangle are 8 cm. 10 cm and 14 cm. Determine the radius of the
inscribed circle.
**2.55 cm

The expression.(3+2i)6 is equivalent to

** -352+ 936i

"The solution set of the equation(tan x) 2 1 = 0 on the interval [0�, 360�) is

~{30�,90�,150�1}"
** "{45�,135�,225�,315�1"

Solve algebraiclly:

11y� - 3x2 = 41

4x2 + 7y� = 32.

**"(� 1, � 2)"

"A & B can do the job in 42 days, B & C for the same job in 31 days, C & A also for
the same job in 20 days. If A & C work together, how many days can they do the same
job?"
**1

Using the first three terms of the power series expansion the integral subscript 0
superscript 0.5 end superscript fraction numerator 1 over denominator 1 minus x
cubed end fraction d x is equal to
**0.516