Q0-1 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS EXAMINATION

Instructions: 1. Answer the following questions and write the corresponding letter your answer on the space provided in
the separate answer sheet provided.
2. Please use ball pen for your final answers.
3. Write your answers eligibly and use CAPITAL LETTERS.
4. You can utilize this questionnaire as your solution sheets and scratch.
COLLEGE ALGEBRA
Problem 1 Which of the following is correct?
a. 0.001 has 3 significant figures b. 100 has 3 significant figures
c. 100.00 has 5 significant figures d. 0.02490 has 3 significant figures
Problem 2 Which of the following is the solution set of the equation x^2 - 2x - 15 = 0
a. (3, -5) b. (5, -3) c. (15, -1) d. (-15, 1)
Problem 3 If a, b, c are integers and ab + c is odd, which of the following must be
false?
a. a+c is odd b. abc is even c. abc is odd d. b+c is even
Problem 4 Suppose that a computer store just announced an 8% decrease in the price of a
particular computer model. If this computer sells for $2162 after the
decrease, find the original price of this computer in dollars.
a. 2160 b. 2350 c. 2250 d. 1990
Problem 5 A rectangular swimming pool is 12 meters long and 8 meters wide. A tile
border of uniform width is to be built around the pool, using 120 square
meters of tile. The tile is from a discounted stock (so no additional
materials are available), and all 120 square meters are to be used. How wide
should the border be in meters?
a. 5.4 b. 2.4 c. 3.4 d. 4.4
Problem 6 An old receipt has faded. It reads 88 chickens at the total of $x4.2y, where
x and y are unreadable digits. How much did each chicken cost, in cents?
a. 0.96 b. 0.73 c. 0.50 d. 0.39

TRIGONOMETRY
Problem 1 San Isidro is 47.39 km due North of Basak and 96.42 m from Lawis. Lawis is
due west of Basak, find the bearing of San Isidro from Lawis.
a. S 60.56° W b. N 29.44° E c. N 60.56° E d. S 29.44° W
Problem 2 When the sun is 20° above the horizon, how long is the shadow cast by a
building 50 m high, in meters?
a. 125 b. 110 c. 137 d. 145
Problem 3 An airplane is approaching point A along a straight line and at a constant
altitude h. At 10:00 am, the angle of elevation of the airplane is 20° and at
10:01 it is 60°. What is the altitude h, in miles, of the airplane if the
speed of the airplane is constant and equal to 600 miles/hour?
a. 4.6 b. 7.3 c. 6.3 d. 5.3
Problem 4 The angle of elevation of the top of a vertical tower from a point on the
ground is 60°. From another point 10 m vertically above the first, its angle
of elevation is 45°. Find the height of the tower, in meters.
a. 13.66 b. 23.66 c. 18.33 d. 21.45
Problem 5 The SS Bigfoot leaves a harbor bound for Nessie Island which is 300 miles
away at a bearing of N32°E. A storm moves in and after 100 miles, the captain
of the Bigfoot finds he has drifted off course. If his bearing to the harbor
is now S 70° W, what course should the captain set to head to the island?
Round your angle to the nearest tenth of a degree.
a. S 16.4° W b. S 53.6° W c. N 16.4° E d. N 15.6° E
Problem 6 To determine the elevation of an inaccessible point x, two observation
stations were set up at A and at B, which is 280.5 nearer to station A but 35
m lower in elevation than A. The respective angle of elevations from A and B
are 25.2 and 45.6 respectively. If the elevation of A is known at 90.89 m,
find the elevation of the distant inaccessible point, in meters.
a. 1 b. 2 c. 1/2 d. 4

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 CIVIL ENGINEERING MIDTERM EXAMINATION Q0-2
PLANE AND SOLID GEOMETRY
Problem 1 In the diagram below, line p intersects line m and line n.
p

m
1

2
n

If m∠1 = 7x and m∠2 = 5x + 30, lines m and n are parallel when x equals
a. 12.5 b. 15 c. 87.5 d. 105
Problem 2 The arc of a sector is 9 units and its radius is 3 units. What is the area of
the sector in square units?
a. 12.5 b. 13.5 c. 14.5 d. 15.5
Problem 3 AB is a chord on a circle with center O. D is a point on the circumference
and angle OAB = 30°. The size of angle ADB in degrees is
a. 90 b. 120 c. 140 d. 180
Problem 4 A regular polygon has 27 diagonals. Then it is a:
a. Pentagon b. Heptagon c. Nonagon d. Hexagon
Problem 5 The distance between the centers of the three circles which are mutually
tangent to each other externally are 10, 12, and 14 units. The area of the
largest circle is?
a. 72π b. 23π c. 64π d. 16π
Problem 6 The area of a triangle inscribed in a circle is 39.19 cm2 and the radius of
the circumscribed circle is 7.14 cm. If the two sides of the inscribed
triangle are 8 cm and 10 cm, respectively, find the third side in cm.
a. 11 b. 12 c. 13 d. 14
Problem 7 The volume of the above cube is 125 cm^3. The area of each face in cm^2, is
a. 5 b. 10 c. 25 d. 60
Problem 8 A basketball with a 30-in circumference is tightly packed into a cubical box
for shipment. What is the smallest possible volume for the box, in in^3?
a. 782 b. 728 c. 812.1 d. 872
Problem 9 If the surface area of a sphere is increased by 21%, its volume is increased
by, in percent:
a. 13.31 b. 33.1 c. 21 d. 30
Problem 10 A circular piece of cardboard with a diameter of 1 m will be made into a
conical hat 40 cm high by cutting a sector off and joining the edges to form
a cone. Determine the angle subtended by the sector removed, in degrees.
a. 144 b. 148 c. 152 d. 154
Problem 11 A cuboid of dimensions 50 cm x 40 cm x 30 cm is cut into k cubes. What is the
least possible value of k?
a. 10 b. 20 c. 60 d. 100
Problem 12 The cosine of an angle at which diagonals of a cube intersect is?
a. 1/2 b. 1/√2 c. 1/√3 d. 1/3

ANALYTIC GEOMETRY
Problem 1 What is the distance between (7, 3) and (1, 5)?
a. 4√10 b. 2√10 c. √14 d. 10√4
Problem 2 A student finds the slope of the line between (14, 1) and (18, 17). She writes
(1-17)/(18-14). What mistake did she make?
a. She should have added the values, not subtracted them.
b. She used y-values where she should have used x-values.
c. She mixed up the x- and y-values.
d. She did not keep the order of the points the same in the numerator and
the denominator.
Problem 3 Write an equation of a line that has the same slope as 2x – 5y = 12 and the
same y-intercept as 4y + 24 = 5x.
a. y = 2x/5 - 6 b. y = 6x - 2/5 c. y = 5x/2 - 6 d. y = x/6 – 5/2
Problem 4 A straight line through the origin O meets the parallel lines 4 x  2 y  9 and
2 x  y  6  0 at points P and Q respectively. Then, the point O divides the
segment PQ in the ratio
a. 1:2 b. 3:4 c. 4:3 d. 2:1

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Q0-3 ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS EXAMINATION
Problem 5 Two circles have equations x2  y 2  4x  4 y  4  0 and x2  y 2  4 x  8 y  4  0 . Compute
the length of the common tangent.
a. 8.32 b. 4.58 c. 5.66 d. 6.65
Problem 6 A triangle has the vertices A(1, 3), B(7, 0) and C(4, 6). Determine the
equation of Euler’s line.
a. x  y  7 b. x  y  7 c. 3x  6 y  1  0 d. 2 x  y  7  0

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
x3
Problem 1 lim is
x 3 x  2x  3
2

a. 0 b. 1 c. 1/4 d. ∞
2
x dy
Problem 2 If y  , find .
cos x dx
2 x cos x  x 2 sin x 2x 2 x cos x  x 2 sin x 2 x cos x  x 2 sin x
a. b. c. d.
cos 2 x sin x sin 2 x sin 2 x
Problem 3 Two corridors meet at a corner. One of the corridors is 2 m wide and the other
one is 3 m wide. What is the length (in meters) of the longest ladder that can be
carried horizontally around this corner?
a. 4 b. 5 c. 6 d. 7
Problem 4 Find the slope of the curve y = x2(x + 1)3 at (1, 8).
a. 10 b. 28 c. 32 d. 14
Problem 5 Identify the critical points and find the maximum and minimum value on the
given interval I. f(x) = x2 + 18x + 81; I = [-18, 0]
a. Critical points: -18, -9, 0; maximum value 81; minimum value 0
b. Critical points: -9; maximum value 18; minimum value 0
c. Critical points: -18, 0, 9; maximum value 81; minimum value 0
d. Critical points: -18, 0, 81; minimum value 0
Problem 6 The strength S of a rectangular wooden beam is proportional to its width times
the square of its depth. Find the dimensions of the strongest beam that can be
cut from a 13-inch-diameter cylindrical log (in inches). (Round answers to the
nearest tenth.)
a. w = 8.5; d = 9.6 b. w = 7.5; d = 10.6
c. w = 6.5; d = 11.6 d. w = 8.5; d = 11.6
INTEGRAL CALCULUS
  4  2t  t dt .
7
2
Problem 1 Evaluate
1
 4  2t 2   C
1
 4  2t 2   C
8 8
a.  b. 
8 16
1
 4  2t 2   C
1
 4  2t 2   C
8 8
c.  d. 
32 64
1
Problem 2 Find  dx .
x 1
1
a. x 1  C b. 2 x  1  C c. x 1  C d. 3 x  1  C
2
Problem 3 A bicycle shop is fixing at a rate of 25 + 3t2 – 10t bicycles per week, where t
is the number of weeks from the start. How many bicycles from day 8 to day 21?
a. 38 b. 36 c. 46 d. 44
Problem 4 The acceleration of an object is given by a(t) = cos(πt), and its velocity at
time t = 0 is 1/(2π). Find both the total distance traveled in the first 1.5
seconds (in meters).
a. 45/98 b. 60/98 c. 30/98 d. 75/98
Problem 5 Find the surface area generated when the given arc y = x3, 0 ≤ x ≤ 1; is
revolved about the x-axis.
a. 1.8 b. 2.4 c. 1.2 d. 3.6
Problem 6 A water tank has the shape of an upside-down cone with radius 2 m and height
5 m. The water is running out of the tank through a small hole at the bottom.
Assume that the speed of the water owing through the hole is proportional to the
square root of the depth of the water in the tank. In this part, suppose that it
takes 3 minutes for the depth of the water to decrease from 5 m to 4 m. Find how
long (in minutes) it takes for the full tank to completely drain.
a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8

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 CIVIL ENGINEERING MIDTERM EXAMINATION Q0-4
PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Problem 1 What is the median of these data? $2,100; $2,500; $1,890; $1,800; $2,350; $2,080
a. $1,040 b. $2,080 c. $2,090 d. $2,120
Problem 2 On a standardized test the final scores are calculated by averaging the math,
science, and literature scores. Kelly's math score is 84% and her literature
score is 1.25 times her science score. Find her science score if her final score
is 82%.
a. 84 b. 72 c. 92 d. 90
Problem 3 A bag contains 10 red marbles, 8 blue marbles and 2 yellow marbles. Find the
experimental probability of getting a blue marble.
a. 1/10 b. 2/5 c. 1/5 d. 3/5
Problem 4 What is the median of these data? $2,100; $2,500; $1,890; $1,800; $2,350; $2,080
a. $1,040 b. $2,080 c. $2,090 d. $2,120
Problem 5 Determine the probability that both numbers exceed 4 in the toss of 2 fair dice.
a. 1/2 b. 8/19 c. 17/36 d. 5/12
Problem 6 A machine produces parts that are either good (90%), slightly defective (2%), or
obviously defective (8%). Produced parts get passed through an automatic
inspection machine, which is able to detect any part that is obviously defective
and discard it. What is the quality of the parts that make it through the
inspection machine and get shipped?
a. 0.978 b. 0.956 c. 0.924 d. 0.891

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