Republic of the Philippines REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Pre-Board Bxamination MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one _answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 2 only. Use only scratch paper(s) provided. Use also back page as scratch paper. Do not detach the staple wir 1. The sum of the distances from the two foci to any point in what curve is constant? A. Hyperbola B. Ellipse c. parabola D. any conic 2. Find the area of a square whose side is a*b*. A. altos Bate c. abe Dab! 3. A normal to a given plane is: ‘AL Perpendicular to the plane €. Parallel to the plane B. tying in the pln D. Oblique to the plane 4, If a person throws away 3.5 lbs of trash daily, how much trash will the person throw away in one week? A. 24.0 Ibs 1B. 24.5 Ibs c. 40.2 lbs D. 31.5 Ibs 5. What is 20% of 96? AL 19.20 B. 0.09 ©. 0.92 b. 1.92 6. What conic section is described by the equation 4x? - y? + 8x + dy = 15? A. Ellipse ‘c. Hyperbola_ B. Parabola D. Circle 7, Sam scored 96% on his first Calculus quiz; 74% on his second and 85% on his third. What is his quiz average? ‘AL BSt B. 758 c. 968 D. 95% 8, When two lines are parallel, the slope of one is: A. The negative of the other 'B. Equal to the other C. The negative reciprocal of the other D. The reciprocal of the other 9. If 1 cm= 0.39 in, about how many cm are there in 0.75 in? A. 0.52 B. 1.75 c. 0.29 Deni92 10. Which of the following is not a multiple of 11? av2an B. 759 c. 121 D. 1121 Page 1qe 12. toa 14, 15. 16. 7. 18. 19. 20. What is the conic section whose eccentricity is less than 1? A. Circle B. Parabola ‘c. Ellipse D. Hyperbola Nicole had 75 stuffed animals. Her grandmother gave fifteen of them to her. What percentage of the stuffed aninals did her granduother give her? A. 158 By 208, c. 108 b. 25% What type of conic section is x? - 4y + 3x +5 = 0? A. Circle ‘By Parabola C. Ellipse D. Hyperbola The line passing through the focus and perpendicular to the directrix of a parabola is called A. axis c. latus rectum B. secant line D. tangent line Sand is being poured into a conical pile in such a way that the height is always 1/3 of the radius. At what rate is sand being added to the pile when it is 4 ft high and height increasing at 2 in/min? A. 100,132.88 in/min 53, 288.13 in/min B. 30,288.13 in/min ‘D. 130,288.13 in/min Find the volume generated by revolving the circle x* + y? + 6x + 4y 412-0 about the y-axis. AL 22.58 B. 55.28 c. 65.55 D. 59.22 From a sample size of 100, the following description measures were calculated: median = 23; mean ~ 20; standard deviation = 5; range = 35. Seventy five sample values are between 5 and 35. If you know the sample mean, median, standard deviation were correct, which of the following conclusions might you draw? A. The number of sample values between 10 and 30 were miscounted. B. The range must have been calculated incorrectly because it should not be seven times the standard deviation’s value C. The number of sample values between 5 and 35 have been miscounted because all 100 values must be in this interval. D. The distribution is skewed to the right because the median exceeds the mean. A high school band teacher has a record of each student's attendance. The result is listed below in days each student has been absent. 3, 4, 7, 2, 2, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 3, 2, 1, 6 O 1 0, 1, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 4 What’ proportion of Students have Deen absent less than 5 days? AL 0.06 B. 0.60 c. 0.91, D. 0.09 Fach of the questions on a quiz is a five-part multiple choice question with exactly only one correct answer. A student totally unprepared for the quiz, guesses on each of the 15 questions. How many questions should the student expect fo answer correctly? A. 2 B. 13 c. 5 an Given the 2 functions, f(x) and g(x), table of values are shown below. what is the value of g(f(3))? x £(x) 3 Sle) ae) 30° 2 AJ- 1 - D. 2 Page 221. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. sie Find the volume generated when the area bounded by y = 2x + 3 and y = x? is revolved about the x-axis. A, 422 B. 300 c. 308 ‘D. 228 Solve [y - square root of (x? + y?)]dx - xdy = 0. A, Square root of (x? + y? + y) = (C. Square root of (x? + y) +y = C B. Square root of (x? - y2) +y = D. Square root of (x + y) +y¥=C¢ Aman is running around a circular track 200 m in circumference. An observer uses @ stopwatch to time each lap, obtaining the data as follows: Time (sec) Distance (m) 30 200 68 400 14 600 168 300 230 1000 300 1200 378 1400 What is the man’s average between 68 sec and 162 sec? A. 3 m/s B. 8 m/s c. 1.82 m/s ‘Ds A m/s A Statistics Department is contacting alumni by telephone asking for donations to help fund a new computer laboratory. Past history shows that 80% of the alumni contacted in this manner will make a contribution of at least P 50. A random sample of 20 alumni is selected. What is the probability that less than 17 alumni will make a contribution of at least P 50? (AL 0.589, B. 0.301 c. 0.200 D. 0.421 At exactly what time after 5 o'clock will the hour hand and the minute hand be perpendicular for the first time? “|B. 5:10 and 54 sec C. $215 and 25 sec B. 5:05 and 34 sec D. 5:20 and 14 sec Find the equation of the normal line to x? + y? = 1 at point (2, 1). Aly = 2x Box-y=0 c. x= 2y Doxty=l What is the smallest positive value for x where y = sin 2x reaches its maximum? AL n/2 Be n/a com D. 0/3 When the energy/hour required in driving a boat varies as the cube of the velocity, find the most economical rate/hour when going against the current of 4 kph. AL 5 kph 12 kph c. 8 kph (>. 6 kph What is the maximum rectangular area that can be fenced in 20 ft using two perpendicular corner sides of an existing wall? A. 210 square feet c. 120 square feet 'B, 100 square feet D. 250 square feet Determine the correct equation for the line with a slope of 7 and y-intercept of -4. A.y => 1/Ix- 4 Coys k= 4 B.y=7x+4 Dey=- e+ 4 Parcel charges of a courier company are as follows: P 40 for the first 2 kilograms P 15 for each of the succeeding kilogram weight of parcel With these rates, what amount would be charged of a parcel weighing 30 ka? A. P 660 B. P 450 c. B60 ee) Page 332. 33. 34. 35. 36. Si 38. 39, 40. a. 42. 43. The dimension of a rectangular prism can be expressed as x + 1, x - 2 and x + 4. In terms of x, what is the volume of the prism? AL x3 + Sx? - 2x + 8 (Cia 4 3x2 = 6x = 8 Bl xt + 3x0 + 6x — 8 D. xi Sx + 2x +8 Larry finds the angle of elevation of the top of the tower to be 30 degrees. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and finds its angle of elevation to be 60 degrees. What is the height of the tower? ‘AL 73.61 B. 53.61 m c. 83.61 m D. 63.61 m If log 2 = a, log 3b, log 5 = c, then log (7.5) A. c/(a + b) B. ab/c c. c/ab Dbte-a From the base of a building, the angle of elevation to the top of a 4.0 m vertical pole a distance away is 18 deg 50 min. From the top of the building, the angle of depression of the base of the pole 4@ deg 10 min. Find the height the building. A. 9.1m B. 8.1m c. 11.2 m (D. 13.1 m Michael walks to school. He leaves each morning at 7:32 A.M. and arrives at school 15 minutes later. If he travels at a steady rate of 4.5 miles/hr, what is the distance between his home and school? A. 1.8 miles B. 1.5 miles Cc. 1.9 miles 'D. 1.1 miles” Evaluate £(-3) if f(x) = x? - 2x + 1. avde B. 8 c. 48 D. 32 Find the sum of the first five terms of the geometric progression if the third term is 144 and the sixth term is 406. A. 540 748 c. 984 (Ds 844 From the top of a building 100 m high, the angle of depression of two cars due east of the observer are 32 degrees 25’ and 58 degrees 33/, respectively. Find the distance between the two cars. A. 106.00 m ‘B. 96.30 m c. 9.36 m D. 63.91 m The position vectors of points A and B are 2+ i and 3 - 2i, respectively. Find an equation for line AB. Al -ay--4 c. x + ay =4 B. 3x -y=2 A line segment is a side of a square and also the hypotenuse of an isosceles right triangle. what is the ratio of the area of the square to the area of the triangle? A231 Beard oo b.332 The current I flowing in an Rb circuit is given by I = (£/R) (1 ~ e*-Rt/L), where E is the voltage applied to the current, R is the resistance and L is the inductance. Express I in terms of E and R when t = L/R. A. 0.632 (B/R) C. 0.435 (E/R) B. 0.584 (E/R) D. 0,388(E/R) The perimeter of a rectangle is 104 inches. The width is 6 inches less than 3 times the length. Find the width of the rectangle. A. 14.5 inches (C.37.5 inches B. 12.5 inches D. 15 inches Page 444. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. si. 82. 53. 54. 55. The area of the square whose side measures 4 units is added to the difference of 11 and 9 divided by 2. What is the total value? ALS B. 9 c. 16 (Dei? Two towns are located near the straight shore of a lake. Their nearest distance to point in the shore are 1 km and 2 km, respectively, and these points on the shore are 6 km apart. Where should the fishing port be located to minimize the total amount of pavement necessary to build a straight road from each town to the pier? A. 12 km from the point on the shore nearest the first town B. 12 km from the point on the shore nearest the second town D. 2 km from the point on the shore nearest the second town A movie is schedule for 2 hours. The theater advertisements are 3.8 min long. There are two previous ones; 4.6 min and 2.9 min long. The rest of the time is devoted to the feature. How long is the feature film? A. 94.3 min B. 97.5 min C. 108.7 min D. 118.9 min Find the solution to the system of equations x - 2y = § and 2x + Sy = 1. ALG, = 1) B. (-1, - 3) c. (3, D Db. (1, 3) Find the vertex of the parabola x? = 4y. A. (4, 0) ‘Be (0, 0) CaO; 4) D. (-4, 0) The difference between six times the quantity 6x + 1 and three times the quantity x - 1 is 108. What is the value of x? A. 38/11 = ce. 12 D. 12/11 Daniel has one more Algebra exam to take before computing the average of his grades. His Algebra scores so far are 93, 94, 94, 95, 96, 98. What must be his score on this last exam so that he can maintain his present average? AL 94 BL 9S: c. 92 D. 97 Find the area of the region enclosed by the triangle with vertices (1, 1), (3, 2) and (2, 4). AL 7/2 ‘Be 5/2, c. 1/2 D. 3/2 Find the area of the polygon whose vertices are 2 + 3i, 3+ i, -2- 4i, -4, - i, ni + 2i. AL aT B. 25/2 c. 25 (Deay/2 Find the area bounded by y? = 4x and x? = 4y. AL 5.33 B. 0.33 c. 8.33 Dy2e33) It is estimated that the annual cost of driving a certain new car is given by the formula: C = 0.25 m+ 1,600, where m represents the number of miles driven per year and C is the cost in dollars. Jane purchased such a car and determines between $5,350 and $5,600 for the next year’s driving cost. what is the corresponding range of miles that she can drive her new car? A. Between 13,000 miles and 18,000 miles C. More than 16,000 miles D. Between 13,000 miles and 16,000 miles Find the equation of the line passing through the intersection of x - y = 0 and 3x - 2y = 2 cutting from the first quadrant a triangle whose area is 9. A.xty+#1=0 c. x+y -2=0 B. 3x +y-3=0 ‘Dk + 2y-6=0 Page S56. 87. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 6s. 66. 67. 68. A ball bounces 2/3 of the altitude from which it falls. Suppose the ball is dropped from the height of 18 feet, how far will it travel before coming to rest? A. 99 feet 'B. 90 feet c. 19 feet D. 9 feet A chord of a circle of a diameter 10 ft is decrease in length 1 ft/min. Find the rate of change of the smaller arc subtended by the chord when the chord is 8 ft reas 1B. 3/8 ft/min c. 5/3 ft/min oy sir rie ) B. 2 ft/min D. 5 ft/min 10 Hotels, like airlines, often overbook, counting on the fact that some people with reservation will cancel at the last minute. A certain hotel chain finds 20% of the reservations will not be used if four reservations are made. What is the chance fewer than two will cancel? A. 0.3825 B. 0.7242 c. 0.5211 ‘D. 0.8192, A periodic function What is the symmetry possessed by this function? ‘A. Bven quarter-wave c. Odd B. Even D. Odd quarter-wave Evaluate the integral of 1n x dx from 1 to e. ALO BoD c.2 D.3 What is the differential equation of the family of parabolas having their vertices at the origin and their foci on the x-axis? A. 2ydx - xdy = 0 B. 2xdx - ydy = 0 D. dy/dx ~ x 0 Which of the following equations is an exact differential equation? A. xdx + (3x - 2y)dy = 0 C. (aay + x)dx + (x? + yody = 0 B. y?dx + (2x - 3y)dy = 0 D. (x? + 1)dx - xydy = 0 Compute log (3 - 2i). ‘As 0.5570 = 0.25541 c. 1.6575 + 0.85444 B. 0.2575 — 0.3545 D. 0.7580 - 0.7580i Find the maximum value of 3 sin x. A. 1/3 Bet D. infinity What is the ratio of the sides of a triangle if the product of the sides is a maximum? A. 12:2 B. 1:1:2 D. 1:33 Evaluate the limit of x/sqrt (1 + x2) as x approaches infinity. ALO B. Infinity D. None of the choices When a metallic ball hearing is placed inside a cylindrical container of radius 2 cm, the height of water inside the cylinder increases by 0.6 cm. What is the radius of the ball bearing? A. 2.2 cm B. 0.6 cm c. 1.8 cm De d.20em If the coefficient ao of a Fourier series of a periodic function is zero, it means that the function has: A. Odd quarter-wave symmetry C. Even quarter-wave symmetry B. Odd symmetry Page 669. Solve the equation 5z? + 2z + 10 = 0. ALL a= 2b co 14 i, 1 = 2h Bel 70. Solve the differential equation y” - 4y’ + 3y = sin x. (AL v(x} = Cre™ + Goe* + 1/5 cos x + 1/10 sin x B. v(x) = Cye* + Cze* sin x C. ¥(X) = Cisin 3x + Cox + cos 3x D. y(x) = Cysin 3x + Cex + 1/10 sin x 71. The Fourier series of waveform processing even quarter-wave symmetry contains only . A. even harmonics B. odd cosine terms C. odd sine terms 72. A periodic waveform possessing half-wave symmetry has no ‘A, even harmonics: C. edd harmonics B. sine terms D. cosine terms 73. Which of the following periodic function possesses even symmetry? ‘AL cos 3t B. t cos 50t c. sint D. (t+ t? + th) 74. The symbol j represents counterclockwise rotation of a vector through ___ degrees. A. 180 emo c. 360 b. 270 75. The conjugate of (- a + jb) is Bs A. (a - 4b) B. (a - jab) cmea=nay D. (jb = a) 76. When the negative half-cycle of a complex waveform is reversed, it becomes identical to its positive half-cycle. This feature indicates that the complex waveform is composed of: A. Fundamental ©. Odd harmonics B. Even harmonies ‘D. Both fundamental and odd harmonics: 77. All opposite rays: (Ay Are also! Straight angles C. Have different end points B. Extend in the sane direction D. Do not form straight Lines 78. Angles that share a common vertex point cannot! ‘A. Share a common angle side B. Be right angle C. Use the vertex letter name as an angle name D. Share interior points 79. If angle EDF and angle HIJ are supplementary angles, and angle SUV and angle EDF are also supplementary angles, then angle HIJ and angle SUV are: A. Acute angles C. Obtuse angles B. Right angles D. Congruent angles 80. Tori was asked to give an example of the commutative property of addition. Which of the following choices would be correct? AL 34 (446) = (3+ 4) +6 Ce 34) + 306)a1. 82. 83. a4. 85. 86. a7. ea. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. Evaluate sin [arccos (-2/3)]. A. Square root of 3 €. Square root of 5 D. (1/5) square root of 3 Four is added to the quantity two minus the sum of negative seven and six. This answer is then multiplied by three. What is the result? A. 57 B. - 21 c. 15 =m The value of a computer is depreciated over 5 years for tax purpose, that is, at the end of 5 years, the computer is worth 0. If a business paid P 21,000 for a computer, how much’ will it have depreciated after 2 years? A. P 4,200 BLP 8,400, c. P 10,500 D. P 8,200 Evaluate lim (2 - x)*tan mx/2 as x approaches 1. A. Infinity B. e2/n C. es (2/m) De Find the centroid of a semi-circular region of radius a. A. a/an ‘Be 4a/3n c. 3a/4n D. a/n If y = 2x + sin 2x, find x when y’ AL 3n/2 B. 2n/3 co n/a, D. 2/3 The time a student spends learning a computer software package is normally distributed with a mean of 8 hours and standard deviation of 1.5 hours. A student is selected at random. What is the probability that the student spends less than 6 hours learning a software package? ALL B. 0.15 c. 0.21 ‘D. 0.09 Non and Mila can restock an aisle of the supermarket in 1 hour working together. Working alone, Mon can restock an aisle in 1.5 hours and Mila in 2 hours. If they work together for 2 hours and then work separately for another two hours, how many aisles will they have completed? A. 5.11 ‘Be 4.33 c. 4.50 D. 3.50 Liza thought she had the exact money to buy 10 chocolate bars. However, the price per bar had increased by 50 centavos. Consequently, she was able to buy only & bars and had P 2 left. How much money did Liza have? AL 80 B. 40 c. 60 De 30. After the price of gasoline went up by 10%, a consumer reduced his consumption by the same percent. By what percent would his gasoline bill be changed? ALL® B. 108 Ch mG D. 0.1% Evaluate the limit of [(2? - 1 - i)/(z? - 22 + 2)]? as z approaches 1 + i. aaa c. - 12 + 64 B. - 4/3 - 4i D. Square root of 2(1 + i)/2 sin 6/2 + sin 26/2? + sin 30/2° + A. 2 sin @ / (5 - 4 cos 6) Cc. 2 sin 6 / (5 + 4 cos 6) B. 2 cos 8 / (5 - 4 sin 6) D. 2 cos 6 / (5 + 4 sin 8) Find the volume (in cubic cm) of a right heptagonal prism with base sides that measure 13 cm, an apothem that measures 6 cm, and a height that measures 2 cm. (AL 546 B. 564 c. 528 D. 582 Page 894. Find the measure of a triangular pyramid’s base side if its volume measures 72 sqrt 3 cubic meters and its height measures 6 meters. The base of the pyramid forms an equilateral triangle. az B. 10 c. 11 D. 13 95. What is the area of a circle inscribed in a dodecagon with an apothem 13 meters long? A. 26n meters B. 156n meters c. 42.20 meters (D. 169n meters 96. Marci filled her car's gas tank on Monday, and the odometer read 32,461.3 miles. On Friday when the car’s odometer read 32,659.7 miles, she filled the car’s tank again. It took 12.4 gallons to fill the tank. How many miles to the gallon does Marci’s car get? A. 16 miles per gallon C. 18.4 miles per gallon B. 21.3 miles per gallon D. 14 miles per gallon 97. Kelly plans to fence in her yard. The OS Company charges $3.25 per foot of fencing and $15.75 an hour for labor. If Kelly needs 350 feet of fencing and the installers work a total of 6 hours installing the fence, how much will she owe the OS Fence Company? A. $1,153.25 ‘BL $1,232.00, Cc. $1,069.00 D. $1,005.50 98. If the areas of two sections of a garden are 6a + 2 and Sa, what is the difference between the areas of the two sections in terms of a? A,a-2 B. 3a+2 cate D. lla - 2 99, The measures of two complementary angles are in the ratio of 7:8. Find the measure of the smallest angle. A. 84° Be 42° c. 48% D. 96° 100. The sum of three times a greater integer and 5 times a lesser integer is 9. Three less than the greater equals the lesser. What is the value of the lesser integer? ALO B.1 c. 2 Dd. 3 END Page 9