ENGINEERS ESPLANA, REALUYO, AND CO.

LEARNING CENTER
MANILA – CEBU – BAGUIO – LEGAZPI – ONLINE
Evaluation Exam

EVALUATION EXAM A. 100 years B. 116 years

C. 120 years D. 98 years
INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct answer for each of the following 12. Radium decomposes at a rate proportional to the amount
questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box present. If half of the original amount disappears after
corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer provided. 1000 years, what is the percentage lost in 100 years?
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ARE ALLOWED. A. 6.70% B. 4.50%
C. 5.36% D. 4.30%
MULTIPLE CHOICE 13. According to Newton’s law of cooling, the rate at which a
substance cools in air is directly proportional to the
1. The sum of two positive numbers is 50. What are the difference between the temperature of the substance and
numbers if their product is to be the largest possible? that of air. If the temperature of the air is 30˚ and the
A. 24 & 26 B. 28 & 22 substance cools from 100˚ to 70˚ in 15 minutes, how long
C. 25 & 25 D. 20 & 30 will it take to cool from 100˚ to 50˚?
2. A triangle has variable sides x, y, and z subject to the A. 33.59 min. B. 43.50 min.
constraint such that the perimeter is fixed to 18 cm. What C. 35.39 min. D. 45.30 min.
is the maximum possible area for the triangle? 14. An object falls from rest in a medium offering a
A. 15.59 cm2 B. 18.71 cm2 resistance. The velocity of the object before the object
C. 17.15 cm2 D. 14.03 cm2 reaches the ground is given by the differential equation
3. A lamp is located on the ground 10.0 m from a building. dV/dt + V/10 = 32, ft/sec. What is the velocity of the
A person 2.00 m tall walks from the light toward the object one second after it falls?
building at a rate of 2.00 m/s. Find the rate at which the A. 40.54 ft/s B. 38.65 ft/s
person’s shadow on the wall is shortening when the C. 30.45 ft/s D. 34.12 ft/s
person is 5.00 m from the building. 15. In a tank are 100 liters of brine containing 50 kg total of
A. -1.70 m/s B. -1.50 m/s dissolved salt. Pure water is allowed to run into the tank
C. -1.60 m/s D. -1.40 m/s at the rate of 3 liters a minute. Brine runs out of the tank
4. An open-top box is to be made from a square of sheet at the rate of 2 liters a minute. The instantaneous
metal 40 cm on a side by cutting a square from each concentration in the tank is kept uniform by stirring. How
corner and bending up the sides. Find the dimension x of much salt is in the tank at the end of one hour?
the cutout that will result in a box of the greatest volume. A. 15.45 kg B. 19.53 kg
A. 1.33 cm B. 20 cm C. 12.62 kg D. 20.62 kg
C. 10 cm D. 6.67 cm 16. Assume that a single depth charge has a probability of
5. Find the dimensions x and y and the minimum cost for a 1/2 of sinking a submarine, l/4 of damage and l/4 of
10.0-m3-capacity, open-top box with square bottom. The missing. Assume also that two damaging explosions sink
sides are aluminum at $1.28/m2 and the bottom is the sub. What is the probability that 4 depth charges will
copper at $2.13/m2. An aluminum-to-aluminum joint sink the sub?
costs $3.95/m and a copper-to-aluminum joint costs A. 250/256 B. 251/256
$2.08/m. C. 252/256 D. 253/256
A. $74.28 B. $78.42 17. A coin is so unbalanced that you are likely to get two
C. $72.84 D. $72.48 heads in two successive throws as you are to get tails in
6. The average value of a function f(x) over the interval a ≤ one. What is the probability of getting heads in a single
1 𝑏
x ≤ b is defined to be ∫ 𝑓(𝑥) 𝑑𝑥. A stock market throw?
𝑏−𝑎 𝑎
analyst has determined that the price of the stock of the A. 0.618 B. 0.168
Acme Corporation over the year 2001 can be modeled by C. 0.681 D. 0.186
1
the function 𝑓(𝑥) = 75 + 8𝑥 − 𝑥 2 , where x is the time, 18. A message will be transmitted from Terminal A to
2 Terminal B if the relays R1, R2, R3, and R4 are closed. If
in months, since the beginning of 2001, and f(x) is in the probabilities of these relays are closed as
dollars. Find the average value of the Acme Corporation respectively, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, and 0.8, find the probability that
stock over the first half of 2001. message will get through. Assume that the relays
A. $93 B. $39 function independently.
C. $94 D. $49 A. 0.442 B. 0.242
7. The area bounded by the curve y = 8/x, the x-axis, and C. 0.424 D. 0.224
the lines x = 1 and x = 8 is rotated about the x axis. Find 19. A geology professor has five silicates, seven pyrites, and
the volume generated.
eight carbonates in a rock collection. He picks six rocks at
A. 65π cu. units B. 66π cu. units
random for a student to analyze. Find the probability that
C. 56π cu. units D. 55π cu. units
8. What is the area under the Gateway Arch? the professor picked two silicates, one pyrite, and three
carbonates.
A. 0.202 B. 0.101
C. 0.303 D. 0.404
20. On a certain day, our parking lot contains 999 cars, no
two of which have the same 3-digit license number. After
5:00 p.m. what is the probability that the license
numbers of the first 4 cars to leave the parking lot are in
increasing order of magnitude?
A. 1/24 B. 2/24
A. 246,600 B. 244,600 C. 3/24 D. 4/24
C. 264,600 D. 266,400 Situation 1: C = 4i + 2j – 7k and D = 3i – 4j + 5k
9. Find the moment of inertia, with respect to x-axis of the
area bounded by the parabola y2 = 4x and the line x = 1. 21. Find the angle between C and D.
A. 2.03 B. 2.13 A. 121.86° B. 113.71°
C. 2.33 D. 2.53 C. 108.22° D. 96.33°
10. Find the length of the cable AB in the figure that is in the 22. Find the angle that vector C makes with the y axis.
shape of a parabola. A. 172.34° B. 76.05°
C. 61.18° D. 147.46°
23. Find the angle that vector D makes with the z axis.
A. 64.91° B. 109.93°
C. 45.00° D. 124.47°
24. Determine the area of a triangle whose two sides are C
and D.
A. 27.75 u2 B. 18.97 u2
C. 24.95 u2 D. 33.01 u2
25. Determine the area of a triangle whose vertices are (3, –
1, 3), (1, 2, 4) and (3, 1, 2).
A. 339 m B. 329 m A. 5.02 u2 B. 3.35 u2
C. 393 m D. 392 m C. 4.13 u2 D. 2.89 u2
11. The population of a country doubles in 50 years. How
many years will it be five times as much? Assume that the
rate of increase is proportional to the number of
inhabitants.

1 Engr. Cedrixe M. Madrid, SO2