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MAY 2016 5.The model y = -x² + 2x + 27 describes the height (y, 8. The formula W = 0.12 P + 0.84 is a model for the
1. In the United States, 8 out of every 25 homes are in meters) of a diver (after x seconds) who jumps from average walking speed (w, in m per second city
heated by electricity. At this rate, how many homes in a cliff that is 27 m above the water surface. What is. whose population is P thousand. Find the average
a community of 36,000 homes would you predict are the maximum height the diver reach at 1 second? walking speed for the people living in the following
heated by electricity? cities.

2. If log x to the base 2 minus log 5 to the base 2 is

equal to 3, find the value of x. 6. The formula models the
relationship between the half-life H of a radioactive
material and its rate of decay k. Find the rate of the
decay of the iodine isotope -131 it its half-life is 8
days. Round to four decimal places.

9. The function y = 2x + 5 gives the cost of pizza

where P5 is the basic cost and x is the number of
3. . Find the seventh term in the sequence 1, 1, ½, toppings at P2 each. Find the inverse function.
1/6, 1/24, ... an.

7. The tide in Mactan channel rises and falls every 13

hours. The depth of the water at a certain point in the
channel is modelled by a function
4. The rate of deforestation in Nigeria is 5.75% per where t is time in hours and dis depth in meters. Find
year. If the decrease in forest is exponential, how long the depth t = 13/4 (high tide) and t = 39/4 low tide). 10. The velocity of PAL in in still air is 150 kph. The
will it take until only 25% of the current forests are velocity of wind blowing due south is 30 kph. If the
left? - plane travels south and returns back to its base after
4 hours, what distance does the plane travels due
south?
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11. Light travels at a rate of approximately 15. Working together, two people can design a 18. A rectangular swimming pool is 12 meters long
miles per second. it takes light seconds to website in 5 hours. If each worked alone, one of them, and 8 meters wide. A tile border of uniform width is to
travel from the sun to Earth. What is the distance would design the site in 2 hours less time than the be built around the pool, using 102 square meters of
between Earth and the sun? other. How long would it take each person to design a tile. The tile is from a discounted stock (so no
website working alone? additional materials are available), and all 120 square
meters are to be used. How wide should the border
be?

12. The fastest average speed by a cyclist across the

continental United States is 154 mph by Pete
Penseyres. If he travelled a total distance of about 16. A contractor estimates that he could finish a 19. A nutritionist in a hospital is arranging special
3107 miles this speed, find his time cycling. Write time project in 15 days if he has 20 men At the start, he diets that consist of a combination of three basic
in days, hours, and minutes. hired 10 men then after 6 days. 10 more men are foods. It is important that patients on this diet
added. How many days was the project delayed? consume exactly 310 units of calcium, 190 units of
iron, and 250 units of vitamin A each day. The
amounts of these nutrients in one food ounce are
given in the following table:

13. A salesperson earns P6000 per month plus a

commission of 15% of sales. Find the minimum
amount of sales needed to receive a total income of at
least P15,000 per month.
17. A rectangular beachfront lot has a perimeter of
1000 m. To create a sense of privacy, the lot owner
decides to fence along three sides, excluding the side
that fronts the water. The fencing cost along the lot's
front length is P1500 per meter, and along two side 20. The demand function for a certain compact disc is
widths is P500 per meter. The total cost of the fencing given by the function
14. A given alloy contains 20% copper and 5% tin. along all three sides comes to P650,000. What is the and the corresponding supply function is given by
How many pounds of copper and of tin must be lot's dimensions? where x is in thousands of
melted with 100 lb of the given alloy to produce units. Find the equilibrium quantity by solving the
another alloy analysing 30% copper and 10% tin?. All system consisting of the two given equations.
percentages are by weight.
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21. Given the Fourier series in cosine form: 24. A piece of property in downtown Cebu is 27. Find each interior angle measure of a quadrilateral
advertised for sale at P9.500 per square meter. If the if its interior angles are represented by x + 10 2x + 20
lengths of the sides of the triangular lot are 70 m, 72 3x - 50 and 2x - 20
Compute the fundamental frequency. m, and 49 m, what is the asking price tor the lot?

28. The wagon wheel has a diameter of 28 inches and

an angle of 30° between the spokes. What is the
length of the arcs (to the nearest hundredth of an
inch) between two adjacent spokes? (Hint: use the
22. From point A on level ground, the angles of formulas to get the arc length)
elevation of the top T and bottom B of a tower situated
on the top of a hill are measured as 47° 52' and 39° 25. A line is drawn from point P to point O where P is
36'. Find the height of the hill it the height of the tower along the line AB and O is along the line AC of the
is 85.41 m. triangular lot ABC. IF AP:PB = 3:1 and AO:OC = 2:5
what is the proportion of the area of APO and ABC?

29. Chord AB and CD intersect at point O which is

inside the circle. AO = 8 cm, CO = 12 cm, and DO =
20 cm. If AB is the diameter of the circle, calculate the
23. Find the area of a triangle whose sides are area of OCA.
measuring a = 235m b = 280 m, and c = 429 .

26. In two regular polygons with the same number of

sides, find the length of a side the smaller if the
lengths of the apothems are 20 and 50 and a side of
the larger has length 32.5.

28. A cone was formed by rolling a thin sheet of metal

in the form of a sector of a circle 75 cm in diameter
with a central angle of 30°. Find the radius of the cone
in mm.
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32. Determine the base diameter of an open top right 38. .The value of is equal to:
35. The exponential form of the complex number 5 +
circular cylinder if its total surface area is 49.48
square feet and its height is 1.5 times its base 12i is in the form of resu Determine the value of x.
diameter.

33. A frustum of a sphere has base diameters of 20 36. From the given equation 39 . Find the line perpendicular to that
cm and 12 cm and thickness of 3.6 cm. What is the find the value of passes through the point (3, 2).
volume of the frustum?

40. A straight line has an équation of the origin is

34. Find the volume of a spherical pyramid having a 37. Which of the following is equivalent to ?
translated to point (1, 2). Determine its new equation if
spherical excess of 28° and a radius of 9.2 cm.
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44. The cross section of a semi-elliptical trough has a 47. A curve has a polar equation of
41. Find the equation of the line that is tangent to the Determine the equation of the curve in rectangular or
top diameter of 18 inches and height of 12 inches.
of contact of the circles: Cartesian plane form.
Determine the width of water surface the trough if the
depth of water is 8 inches.

45. What is the angle in degrees, between an 48. Find coordinate of the center of the sphere with
42. Given a circle of radius 4 and center at (6,8). Find
asymptote of the hyperbola general equation of
the locus of the center of all circles that is tangent to
and the x-axis?
the x-axis and the given circle.

43. Determine the area bounded by the parabola 46.Find the area enclosed by the curve whose 49. Given two planes,
and the line . equation in polar form is given by Determine the angle between the planes.
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56. How many ways can 1 president, 1 vice president

53. Evaluate the integral: and one secretary can be chosen from 14 PICE
members?

50. Evaluate the limit of

51. When there is only 6 m of rope remaining in 57. The Human Resources Manager of Ayala Land
54. A hemispherical tank having a top diameter of 2.4 Corporation is to hire three out of ten competent
pulling a boat 3.8 meters below the pier, the rope is m is filled with water. Find the work done in pumping
being pulled at 0.9 m/s. How fast the boat does applicants. How many ways can the HR Manager
all the water out to elevation 0.80 m above the top of choose?
approaches to the pier at this instant? the tank.

58. A packet consists of 20 pieces of candy. In a

52. Evaluate. thousand packets, 40 packets consist of less than 20
55. Given nC10 = 22 nC12, determine the value of n. candies. When selecting 3 packets, what is the
probability of selecting a packet with less than 20
candies?
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63. The mean of a population is 17 and its standard

61. A total of 300 people composed of students and deviation is 3. Using normal probability distribution,
59. A certain statistical observation found that it has a teachers in a certain school are asked in a pool. The determine the probability that a certain sample is
probability of failing once equal to 0.422, and twice answers of the poll are either they are to agree, within 14 and 20.
equal to 0.141 and thrice equal to 0.016. Determine disagree or just be neutral to an issue being asked.
the probability that it will fail once or thrice. From the students, there are 132 who agreed, 78 who
disagreed and 54 are neutral. There are 5 who agree,
14 who disagree and 17 are neutral from the
teachers. If a teacher and a student are randomly
selected, what is the probability that they either agree
or neutral?

64.The numbers of working days lost due to accidents

62. The mean of, a population is 84 and its standard for each of 12 one-monthly periods are the following:
60. A classroom has 71 students. Ten of them are deviation is 4. Using normal probability distribution,
Chinese, 24 are japanese and 37 are Filipinos. If determine the probability that a certain sample 27, 37, 40, 28, 23, 30, 35, 24, 30, 32, 31, 28
three students are randomly asked to get out from the iswithin 80 and 88.
room, one after the other, what are the probabilities Determine the first quartile value for this data:
that all three are Chinese?
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65. Given the following numbers: 34.5, 12.7, 28.5,

25.6, 52.6, 45.4, 18.5, 27.5, and 12.5. Determine the
first quartile.. 70. A machine costing P1.2 million has an estimated
book value of P300,000 at the end of its economic life
68. Determine the capitalized cost of a large-format
in five years. Using Sum of the Digit Method, what will
printer that has a first cost of P1.20 Million and
be its book value on the third year?
salvage value after five useful years equal to
P600,000. The operation and maintenance cost is
P100,000 every after 3 years. Use interest rate, i =
10.1%

66. Determine the equivalent effective rate of a money

compounded continuously at r = 5%.

71. An equipment with first cost of P1.80 M has a

67. A businessman wishes to raise P1.5 million in five 69. A machine costing P1.5M has a salvage value of salvage value of P300,000 at the end of 5 years.
years by investing a fixed amount of money every end P600,000 at the end of its economic life. What is the Using the constant percentage method, what is the
of the year for three years. What is the required economic life of this machine if using the sum-of-the- total depreciation after three years?
investment using an interest rate of 8%? year's-digit method, its book value at the end of 2
years is estimated to be 870,000?
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76. The external distance of a simple curve is 15 m

and has central angle of 30lf length of one station is
72. Points A and B on a simple curve have 74. A curve having a radius of 192.18 m has an
20 m long, find the radius of the curve.
perpendicular distances from tangent at point O equal intersecting angle of 42° 15'. PC is at Station 0+700,
to 28 m and 38 m, respectively. If length of curve OB Find the right-angle offset distance to Station 0 +
is 158.82 m, determine the chord AB. 736.78.

77. A 160 m long sag parabolic curve connects a -8%

73. A simple curve with a radius of 415 m has a point 75. A simple curve having a radius of 200 m have grade to a + 2% grade. he grades intersect at Station
A that is 25 m from the tangent that passes through tangents with bearing N 10º E and N 70º E , 1 + 240 with elevation of 14.87 m. Find the elevadon
the PC. Determine the length of the curve from PC to respectively. The stationing of PC is 1 + 400 of the first quarter point of the curve.
point A. Determine the stationg of a point Q on the curve
whose deflection angle from PC is 6º.
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80. Find the weighted mean of the following

observations.
82. The sum of the positive departure exceeds that of
the negative departures by 0.31 m. The sum of
78. A line was measured and found out to be 512.21
negative latitudes exceeds that of the positive
meters. It is then found out that the 50-meter tape
latitudes by 1.67 m. Determine the corrected latitude
used is 0.04 meter too long during the measurement.
of 48.12 m line whose latitude is 21.09 m. The sum of
Determine the true length of the line.
the sides is measured to be 292.52 m..

81. The distance between two points is observed and

tabulated with corresponding weights. Determine the 83. Determine the area of the given closed traverse.
79. A point is sighted from a transit and found to have weight mean distance.
a stadia intercept of 0.6 m. The distance of the stadia
rod from the transit is 61.2 m.. If f + c is 0.3 m,
determine the stadia constant.
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86. A road base has a bearing capacity of 0.15 MPa. 89. If the cost of hauling is P0.25 per cubic meter per
The wheel of a truck supports a load of 200 kN meter station and the free haul distance is 50 m,
with.contact radius is 165 mm. What is the minimum compute the cost of borrow per cubic meter If the limit
84. Compute the impact factor for a highway curve thickness of the pavement? economical haul is 450 m.
having a radius of 550 m for a speed of 100 kph.
Given:

87. Determine the frog angle of a turnout having a

frog number of 10. Hint: FN = 1/2, bot 1/2 F

88. A vein has a strike of N * 43 deg * 20' * W A drift

on the vein having a grade of 2% has a bearing of N * NOVEMBER 2015
47 deg * 20 deg * W Compute the dip of the vein. 1. Factor as possible.P
85. .Determine the braking distance of a car travelling
at 100 kph on a 2% ascending grade if the coefficient
of friction between the tires and the pavement is 0.6.

2. Given the function

Evaluate:
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8. Pairs of markings a set distance apart are made
on highways so that police can detect drivers
exceeding speed limit. Over a fixed distance the
speed V varies inversely with the time T. In one
particular pair markings, V is 48 kph when Tis 6
seconds. Find the speed of a car that travels the given
distance in 4 seconds.
6. If , find the value of y if

3. An object is dropped from the top of a 256-m

tower. The height of the object above the ground after
t seconds is modelled by the polynomial
Factor this expression completely.

9. An auditorium has 54 seats in the in the third row,

and so on. Find first row, 58 seats in the second row,
62 seats the general term of this arithmetic sequence.
4. Solve the inequality : greater than or 7. The amount of evaporation from the surface of a
equal to x - 1 large body of water can be expressed by the function
, where a is the surface area in square miles, w is the
wind speed over the water in mph, and E is the water
evaporation in inches per day. Determine the
evaporation on the lake with water surface area of 9
square miles if the wind speed is 10 mph.

5. Given when
f(x) is divided by (x - k) the remainder is k. Find the 10.A man "A" set out from a certain point and travelled
positive value of k. at the rate of 6 kph. After "A" had gone two hours,
another man "B" set out to overtake "A" and went 4
km the first hour, 5 km the second hour, 6 km the third
hour and so on gaining 1 km every hour. How many
hours after "B" left will they be together?"
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clean the house together before their mother arrives
in 3 hours. How long will it take them to clean the
house?
13.The population of a community of lemmings is
defined by P = Po e0.15t, where tis the time in months
and Po is the initial population. Estimate their
population after 8 months if there were 5000
lemmings initially.
11. If the sum of the first 13 terms of two arithmetic
progressions are in the ratio 8/3 what is the ratio of
their corresponding seventh terms?

12.The population size of the bacterial culture growing

14.China, USA, and Europe are the countries with the
under controlled conditions is doubling each day.
most number of cellular subscribers in the world. 16. If Ana was four times as old as Billy eight , and if
Predict how large the culture will be at the beginning
Together, they contribute 34.8% of the total world - Ana will be twice as old as Billy eight years hence,
of day 7 if it measures 10 units at the beginning of day
cellular subscribers. If China is 3.1% less than 4 times how old is Billy now?
1.
the percentage of the world subscribers in Europe and
the percent of the world subscribers in USA is 4.3%
more than the percent of the world subscribers in
Europe, find the percent of world subscribers in
China.

17. Albert can walk 4 km with the same time as

Bernard can walk 5 km. Albert takes 3 minutes more
than it takes Bernard to walk a kilometre. What is the
rate of Albert in kph?

15.. Mary can clean a house in 4 hours and her

brother John can do it in 7 hours. They agreed to
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front length opposite to the river front costs P2500 per
m. An inexpensive fencing along the two shorter side
widths costs only P500 per foot. The total cost of the
18.The length of a rectangular garden is 9 m longer fencing along the three sides comes to P95,000. What
than its width. If the area of the garden is 736 square are the lot's dimensions?
m, find its length.

23.A price increases 10% due to inflation and is then

reduced 12% for a sale. Express the final price as a
function of the original price, P.

21.The planning department of Abstract Office

19. An architect is allowed no more than 15 square Supplies has been asked to determine whether the
meters to add a small bedroom to a house. Because company should introduce a new computer desk next
of the room's design in relationship to the existing year. The department estimates that P60000 of new
structure, the width of its rectangular floor must be 7 manufacturing equipment will need to be purchased
meters less than two times the length. Find the and that the cost of constructing each desk will be
precise length and width of the rectangular floor of P2000. The department also estimates that the
maximum area that the architect is permitted. revenue of each desk will be P4500. Determine the
24.Rent-a-car agency charges P12,500 per week plus
revenue R(x) from the sale of x desks.
P10 per km to rent a small car. How many km can you
travel for P25,500?

22.A businessman wishes to earn 7% on his capital

20. You just purchased a rectangular waterfront lot after payment of taxes. If the income from an
along a river's edge. The perimeter of the lot is 100 m. 25.A sweep-second hand watch was checked against
available investment will be taxed at an average rate
To create a sense of privacy, you decide to fence WWV at 7:04 PM and recorded as 5.0 sec ahead. The
of 45%, what minimum rate of return before payment
along the three sides, excluding the long side that watch was checked again at 11:20 PM and found to
of taxes must the investment offer to be justified?
fronts the river. An expensive fencing along the lot's
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be 9.5 sec ahead. What is the corrected time for an 50 m from it. Find the angle of elevation 10 m from the
observation recorded at 9:13:26 PM? pole.

29.. Towers A and B stands on a horizontal plain,

31.Triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle. The measure
tower B being 200 m high. The angle of elevation of
26.The magnitude of vector is: of angle B is 80° and angle C is 42°. If point P is the
the top of tower A as seen from a point C in the plain
midpoint of arc AB, what is the angle PAC.
(in the same vertical plane with A and B) is 50 deg
The angle of depression of C viewed from the top of
tower B is 28° 58'. The angle subtended at the top of
tower B by the top of tower A and C is 50°. Find the
height of tower A.

32.Points A, B, and P are on a periphery of a circle.

TA and TB are tangents of the circle with A and B as
27.The cross product of A = 4i + 2j with B = 0 If the points of tangency. The angle of intersection formed
dot product of A and B = 30 , what is the value of B? by TA and TB is 52°. Find the angle BPA.

30.Two angles of a triangle are 102.8° and 46.5°. The

side opposite the obtuse angle has length 3.2 cm.
Find the shortest side of the triangle.
33. Given triangle ABC, point E is along side AC and
point D is along the side BC. Line BE and AD are the
28.The angle elevation of a pole 10 m horizontally angle bisectors of angle B and A respectively. If the
from it is three times the angle of elevation at a point angle BEC = 75 deg and angle ADC = 84°, find angle
ACB.
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34.In triangle ABC, c = 150 cm, angle C = 70º and 37. Given a square area ABCD. A point Q inside the 40. A triangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 10 cm.
angle A = 45º. Determine the length of the median square is drawn such that triangle QAB is an One side of the triangle is 20 cm long and its area is
drawn from the vertex A to the side "a". equilateral triangle. Find the angle between sides DC 96 square centimeters. What is the perimeter of the
and QC. triangle?

38. The side of a triangle ABC are a = 38cm b = 22

35.A circle of radius 6 cm is inscribed in a square. A
cm, and c = 32 cm. Calculate the radius of the circle
smaller circle is drawn tangent to the two sides of the
tangent to side b and escribed about the given
square and the bigger circle. What is the radius of the
triangle.
smaller circle?

41.The volume of a cone varies jointly as its height

and the square of its radius. If the volume of a cone is
75 cubic cm when the radius is 5 cm and the length is
9 cm, find the volume of a cone when the radius is 6
cm and the heignt is 8 cm.
39.A, B and Care 3 points on circle. OA is a tangent at
36. Find the area of the triangle with sides 5, 6, and
A and OBC is a straight line. If BC = 32 and OA = 30
13.
find the value of OB.
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44. Find the ratio of the volume of a regular 46.In 2006, the median price of an existing home in
hexahedron to its total surface area one of its side the country is $222,000. In 2001, the median price of
42.A truncated prism has a horizontal base ABC. AB =
measures 18 cm. an existing home was $150.900. Let y be the median
30c cm, BC = 40 cm and CA = 50 cm. The vertical
price of an existing home in the year x, where x = 0
edges through A and Care 18 cm and 27 cm long. If
represents 2001. Write a linear equation that models
the volume of the prism is 14,400 cu. cm., determine
the median price of an existing home in terms of year
the height of the vertical edge at B.
x.

45. It is given that the yearly cost of tuition and

required fees for attending a public four-year college 47. Find the conjugate axis of the equilateral
43.Find the ratio of the volume of a regular full-time can be estimated by the linear function f(x) = hyperbola xy=9.
hexahedron to its total surface area one of its side 275.5x +2860.2 where x is the number of years after
measures 18 cm. 2000 and f(x) is the total cost. Find the slope of this
equation.
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48.Point P(x,y) moves with a distance from point (0, 50.What is the length of the latus rectum of the curve 52.. Find the maximum value (in pesos) taken by the
1) one half of its distance from the line y = 4 What is r = 2/(1 - sin 0) cost function:
the eccentricity of the curve?

51.A manufacturing company has determined that the 53. An open top box with a square bottom and
49.. Determine the length of the tangent to the circle x total cost of producing an item can be determined rectangular sides is to have a volume of 864 cu.
^ 2 + y ^ 2 - 4x - 5 = 0 from (4,6) from the equation C = 8x ^ 2 - 192x + 1800 where x is inches. Find the dimensions that require the minimum
the number of units that the company makes. How amount of material. Hint: The amount of material
many units should the company manufacture in order needed for box is equal to the surface area.
to minimize the cost?
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57. A man drives at a rate of 25 kph towards the foot 60. Statistical record shows that 25% of smokers
of an 8-m tall monument. At what rate is he wants to quit smoking. In a random of 15 smokers,
approaching the top when he is 42 m from the foot of what is the probability that exactly 8 wants to quit
54.A particle's position in the xy-plane at any time t is the monument? smoking?
given by x = 3t ^ 2 + 2 and y = t ^ 4 Find the x-
component of the particle's velocity at time t = 4

58.It is known that f(x) = 4 when x = 2 What is the 61.The probability that a missile can hit a target is
value of f(x) when 30%. How many missiles must be fired such that
there is at least 75% chance of hitting the target?

55.A cylindrical tank radius 10 feet is being filled with

water at the rate of 314 cu feet per minute. How fast is
the depth of the water increasing in feet per minute?

62.A batch of automobile parts contains 18 parts

59.To setup a sound system, a man has to purchase
which are within a power tolerance and 5 parts which
three different components. There are 9 different CD
are not. If 3 automobile parts are selected at random
players, 10 different speakers, and 4 different
from the batch, compute the probabilities that all three
56.A 3-meter long steel pipe has its upper end leaning amplifiers. If he will purchase one of each component,
are within the power tolerance.
against a vertical wall and lower end on a level how many different sound systems are possible?
ground. The lower end moves away at a constant rate
of 2 cm/s. How fast is the pipe rotating when the lower
end is 2 meter from the wall in rad/sec?
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63.An insurance company charges P7000 annually 65.Given the distribution shown below: 68. An equipment costing P2.1M has a salvage value
for a car insurance. The policy specifies that the of P840,000 at the end of its economic life, Find its
company will pay P10,000 for a minor accident and economic life if using the SOYD method of
P50,000 for a major accident. If the probability that a depreciation, its book value at the end of two years is
motorist having a minor accident during the year is P1,440,000.
0.20 and having a major accident is 0.05, how much
can the insurance company expect to make on a
policy?

69.The following alternatives are to be compared

66. Which of the following is most important in based on 8% interest rate.
avoiding bias in surveying?

64.A manufacturer estimates that 0.20% of his output

of a component is defective. The components are
marked in packets of 200. Using Poisson's 67.If money is invested at a nominal rate of interest of
distribution, determine the probability of a packet 9% for a period of 5 years, what is the value of the
contains only 2 defective components. compound amount factor if it is compounded
continuously?
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70.A manufacturer makes and sells certain spare part 72.A telephone company purchased a microwave 74.A cylindrical buoy with cross-sectional area 1.25 sq
at P5.00 per pc. The volume of sales per year is equipment for P6 million with a salvage value of m is observed (after being pushed) to bob up and
500,000 units. The fixed expense per year is P600,000 over a period of 5 years and pay a lump down with a period of 0.50 sec. Approximately what is
P800,000 Compute the cost per unit to break-even. sum of P400,000 for maintenance cost. Minimum the mass of the buoy (in kilograms). Use g i = 9.75m /
attractive rate of return is 1696 annually. Compute the (s ^ 2)
annual cost of investment of purchasing the
microwave equipment.

71.. The revenue of selling of computer units is R =

80% and the cost to produce them is C = 60N +
10000 How many computer units must be sold to
break even?
75.Assume a line is measured three sections with
73. A point on the rim of a 0.20 m diameter wheel is
errors in the individual parts equal to plus/minus 0.015
traveliing at 24 m/s. What is the angular velocity of the
, plus/minus 0.022 m, plus/minus 0.029 m
wheel (in radians per second)
respectively. Determine the anticipated error of length.
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76.A distance of 1000 feet is to be taped with an of 78. A sight is taken with an engineer's level at rod held 80.A distance measured with a 50 m steel tape is
not more than 0.10 feet. Determine how accurately 100 m away and an initial reading of 1.83 m was recorded as 685.24 m. The tape is known to be 0.014
each 100-ft length must be measured to ensure the recorded. The bubble is then levelled through five m too long. What is the correct length of the line in
error will not exceed the permissible limit. spaces on the level tube and the new rod reading is meter?
1.91 m. What is the sensitivity of the bubble tube in
seconds of arc?

79.A sight is taken with an engineer's level at rod held

100 m away and an initial reading of 1.83 m was
recorded. The bubble is then levelled through five
spaces on the level tube and the new rod reading is
1.91 m. What is the sensitivity of the bubble tube in 81. A 100-m tape weighing 5.08 kg was used to
seconds of arc? measure a line. It was supported at the end points,
77.A line measured three times and yields the
midpoint, and a quarter points and the tension applied
following results: 826.52 m, 826.68 m, and 826.11 m.
is 60 N. If the total measured distance is 2432.65 m,
What is the probable error of the mean?
what is the correct distance of the line?
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82.A highway curve has a radius of 80 m and a length 84. A spiral easement curve has a length of Calculate Determine the offset distance to the third-quarter
of 90 m. If the required sight distance is 60 m, how far the offset distance from the spiral. 100 m with 300-m point.
off the center of the curve could you allow the bushes radius central curve. tangent to the third-quarter point
to grow? of the spiral.

87.The degree of curve of the central curve of a spiral

85.A spiral easement curve has a length of 2200 m
easement curve is equal to 6° If the maximum design
with a central curve having a radius of 320 m.
83.A compound curve has a common tangent 520 m velocity of the car passing thru the spiral curve is 75
Determine the degree of spiral at the third-quarter
long. The first curve passing through the P.C. is a 3- kph, determine the required length of spiral in meters.
point.
degree curve with a central angle of 50°. Find the
length of the second curve if its central angle is 35°.

88. From station A with center height of 1.4 in in fill,

the ground has uniform slope of 5% to station B
86. A spiral easement curve has a length of 160 m whose center height is 2.8 m in cut. Assuming both
with a central curve having a radius of 320 m. sections to be level sections having a width of 14 m
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and side slope of 2:1 for both cut and fill, compute the .
cross-sectional area of cut 52 m from station A.
Distance between Stations A and B is 60 m.

89.The areas in cut of two irregular sections 75 m

apart are 36 square meters and 72 square meters,
respectively. Base width is 10 m side slope of 311:2V.
Using Prismoidal correction formula, find the
corrected volume of cut in ca. m between the two
stations.

90.The areas in cut of two irregular sections 75 m

apart are 36 square meters and 72 square meters,
respectively. Base width is 10 m side slope of 311:2V.
Using Prismoidal correction formula, find the
corrected volume of cut in ca. m between the two
stations.