Prof-Integration 1 ME Answer Key
Prof-Integration 1 ME Answer Key
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MID-TERM EXAM
PROFESSIONAL INTEGRATION 1
Directions: Choose the letter of the correct Answer any form of erasure is considered as wrong
a. 20 b. 22 c. 24 d. 25
2. An engineering component has a mass of 400 g. If each of its dimensions are reduced by 30%, determine
the new mass.
3. Twelve workmen employed on a building site earn between them, a total of P 2415 per week. Laborers
are paid P 175 per week and craftsmen earn P 220 per week. How many craftsmen are employed?
a. 5 b. 7 c. 6 d. 8
4. A number is less than 100 and its ten digit is 2 more than its unit’s digit. If the number with the
digits reversed is subtracted from the original number, the remainder is 3 times the sum of the
digits. Find the number.
a. 65 b. 75 c. 42 d. 53
5. The geometric mean of two numbers is 6 while the arithmetic mean is 4. Find the product of geometric
and harmonic means.
a. 24 b. 54 c. 16 d. 36
6. One liter of a 25% solution is mixed with 3 liters of a 40% solution. What is the percentage of sugar
in the new mixture?
7. A is 8% taller than B, while B is 9% taller than C. By how much percent is A taller than C?
a. -4 b. 4 c. 4/3 d. -4/3
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9. Find the 5th term in the expression of
( x 3−
x2 )
a. 580xy8 b. -580xy8 c. 560xy8 d. -560xy8
10. Calculate the following sum:
a. 76 b. 85 c. 90 d. 80
11. Find the nth term of the series 1, 4 ,7, 10, 13…
a. 3n – 2 b. 3n + 2 c. 2n + 2 d. n + 2
a. 3 b. 4 c. 7 d. 10
13. The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 17. If the digits are reversed and the resulting
number is added to the original number, the result is 1,474. If the resulting number is subtracted
from the original number, the results is 396. Find the original number.
14. One number is more than the another and the sum is 71. Find the larger number.
a. 36 b. 31 c. 34 d. 38
15. The sum of the ages of the two brothers is 20. In five years, one is twice the another. Find the
present ages of the two brothers.
a. 4x b. 2√x c. 2x d. 4√x
17. A flagpole 4 m tall stands vertically on a sloping roof. A guy wire 5 m long joins the top of the
pole to a point on the roof 6 m up from the bottom of the pole. At what angle is the roof inclined to
the horizontal?
18. The time of travel of a falling body varies directly as the square root of the distance it falls. If
the body falls 78.48 meters in 4 seconds, how far will it travel in 8 seconds?
19. Given that x < y < 0 < w < z, what is the sign of xyz/w?
21. The following are the zeros of this equation x3 – 3x2 – 10x + 24 EXCEPT:
a. 2 b. 4 c. 3 d. -3
22. In the recent “Gulf War” in the Middle East, the allied forces captured 6400 of Saddam’s soldier and
with food provision on hand that will last for 216 meals while feeding 3 meals a day. The provision
lasted 9 days more because of the daily deaths. At an average how many died every day?
a. 18 b. 17 c. 16 d. -18
a. 8.5 b. 9 c. 9.5 d. 8
25. Find the 2017th digit in the decimal equivalent of 2017/9999.
a. 2 b. 0 c. 1 d. 7
28. If A + B + C = 180° and tan A + tan B + tan C = x, find the value (tanA)(tanB)(tanC)
29. Eleven men can finish the job in 15 days. Five men were working at the start and after six days four
men were added. How many days will it take to finish the job?
a. 30 days b. 25 c. 21 d. 17
30. A grocer bought a number of items for P 1440. Later the price increased by P 2.00 per item and as a
result he received 24 fewer items for the same amount. Find the number of items bought first.
31. A curve has the equation y = 8 sin 2x. In comparison to this curve, which of the following has twice
the period and thrice the amplitude?
32. A drug is eliminated from the body through urination. Suppose that for an initial dose of 15
milligrams, the amount x in the body t hours later is given by x=10 ¿. What percentage of the drug
still in the body is eliminated each hour?
33. Find the value of k so that the equation 4x^2 + kx + 9 = 0 has one root equal to -3
a. k = 12 b. k = 15 c. k = 20 d. k = 24
a. 1 b. 0 c. 1/2017 d. 2017
36. A man whose eye is 1.5 m above his sole stands on a 48.5-meter-high building, The angle of depression
of the top and foot of a nearby building are 50 deg and 80 deg respectively. Find the height of the
second building
D(t) = 10e^0.0277t
How long until the diameter is doubled?
a. 30 days b. 27 c. 25 d. 21
44. Two planes leave the same airport at the same time flying in opposite directions. The rate of the
faster plane is 300 miles per hour. The rate of the slower plane is 200 miles per hour. After how
many hours will the planes be 1000 miles apart?
a. 5 b. 4 c. 3 d. 2
47. If you will fly from manila to Akihabra, find the initial course of a great circle flight
a. 3 b. 6 7 d. -7
50. The power is required to operate a turbine varies directly as the cube of the speed. If ½ horsepower
will operate at a speed of 100 rev/min, how fast will 4 horsepower operate it?
a. 6x + 7 b. -7 c. 7 d. -6x + 7
a. 1 b. ∞ c. 0 d. a-z
53. Twenty-eight men can finish the job in 60 days. At the start of the 16th day, 5 men were laid off and
after the 45th day, 10 more men were hired. How many days were they delayed in finishing the job?
54. An area which is “cut off” from the rest of the circle by a secant or a chord is a/an
55. Each side of a rhombus measures 32 m. The product of its diagonals is 1,924 cm square. Find its
shorter diagonal
a. 16 b. 4 c. 80 d. 32
a. 16 b. 4 c. 80 d. 32
a. 16 b. 4 c. 80 d. 32
59. A circle has a circumference that is numerically equal to the area. If a certain square has the same
area as the circle, what would be the length of the side?
60. Three circles of radii 110, 140, and 220 are tangent to one another. What is the area of the triangle
formed by joining the centers of the circles?
61. Points A, B, and P, are points on a circle. TA and TB are tangents to the circle with A and B as
points of tangency. The angle between the tangents angle ATB = 50°. Find the angle APB if P is
farther from the point T than A and B.
62. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribe in a semi-circle with side AD as its diameter. If point O is the
center of the semi-circle, determine the angle DCO if angle CAD is 39°
63. An airplane travels a distance of 500 km against the wind in one hour and 45 minutes. Travelling the
same distance with the wind, the airplane consumed one hour and 15 minutes. Find the velocity of the
wind.
64. A tank can be filled by an inlet pipe in 6 hours and ca be emptied by an outlet in 12 hours. How much
time needed to fill the tank if both the inlet and outlet pipe are open
65. A flagpole and a tower stands 36 meters apart on a horizontal plane. A person standing successively
at their bases observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is twice that of the
pole, but at a point midway between their bases the angle of elevation are complementary. Find the
height of the tower
a. 38 b. 45 c. 32 d. 27
66. A square is inscribed in a semi-circle having a radius of 15 m. The base of the square is on the base
diameter of the semi-circle. Find the area square.
67. Find the area of a quadrilateral ABCD inscribed in a circle where AB = 8 cm, BC = 15 cm, CD = 12 cm
and DA = 18 cm.
68. A tank can be filled by an inlet pipe in 6 hours and ca be emptied by an outlet in 12 hours. How much
time needed to fill the tank if both the inlet and outlet pipe are open
a. 28 b. 36 c. 23 d. 32
70. What are the dimensions of a rectangle whose length is 4 more than twice the width and whose
perimeter is 3 less than 7 times the width?
71. Mary can clean a house in 4 hours and her brother John can do it in 7 hours. They agreed to clean the
house together before their mother arrives in 3-hours. How long will it take them to clean the house?
72. Towers A and B stands on a horizontal plain, tower B being 200 m high. The angle of elevation of the
top of tower A as seen from point C in the plain (in the same vertical plane with A and B) is 50
degrees. The angle of depression of C viewed from the top of tower B is 28 degrees 58 minutes. The
angle subtended at the top of tower B by the top of tower A and C is 50 degrees. Find the height of
tower A.
73. Triangle ABC is inscribed in a circle. The measurement of angle B is 80° and angle C is 42°. If point
P is the midpoint of arc AB, what is the angle PAC.
74. A four-sided polygon with four congruent sides and four congruent angles is a
75. The sum of the products of the opposite sides of cyclic quadrilateral is equal to the product of its
diagonal. The theorem is called
3 −3 1
76. Find the determinant of the matrix
[ 1 5 2
4 −2 4 ]
a. 46 b.29 c.38 d.-32
77. A ________ of a triangle is a line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side,
thus bisecting that side.
78. In a triangle ABC, c = 150 cm, angle C = 70°, and angle A = 45°. Determine the length of the median
drawn from the vertex A to side “a”
79. Three identical circles are tangent to one another. The radius is 20 cm. Find the area enclosed by
the three circles but outside each of the three cirles in sq cm.
80. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two partially overlapping identical circles. Each of
the circles has a radius of 9 m and each circle passes through the center of the other. Find the area
of the pool.
82. Points A, B, and P are points on a circle. TA and TB are tangents to the circle with A and B as
points of tangency. The angle between the tangents angle ATB = 50°. Find the angle APB if P is
farther from the point T than A and B.
84. In a basketball game, the number of points scored by the Miners was equal to 20 less than twice their
opponent’s score. The total number of points scored was 127. What was the total score?
a. 88 b. 42 c. 78 d. 74
85. The difference between the radii of the circumscribing and the inscribed circle of a hexagon is 1.60
cm. Determine the area of the hexagon.
86. A circle having an area of 542 sq. meter is cut into two segments by a chord which is 6 meter from
the center of the circle. Compute the area of the bigger segments
87. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two partially overlapping identical circles. Each of
the circles has a radius of 9 m and each circle passes through the center of the other. Find the area
of the swimming pool
88. Find the difference of the area of the square inscribed in a semi-circle having a radius of 15 m. the
base of the square lies on the diameter of the semi-circle.
89. Two perpendicular chords both 5 cm from the center of a circle divide the circle into four parts. If
the radius of the circle is 13 cm, find the area of the smallest part.
a. 30 b. 31 c. 33 d. 32
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90. Solve for y in the given equation y
y =24
a. 115.757 b. 118 c. 125.66 d. 117.575
91. A famous mathematician who is always in a hurry walks up an up-going escalator at the rate of one
step per second. Twenty steps bring him to the top. The next day he goes up at two steps per second,
reaching the top in 32 steps. How many steps are there in the escalator?
a. 64 b. 72 c. 70 d. 69
92. At a point A south of a tower the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 50°. At another point
B, 200 meters east of A, the angle of elevation is 22°. Find the height of the tower
94. A baseball diamond is a square 27 m on a side, the pitcher’s mound is 18 m from the home plate. How
far is it from the mound to the first
95. A carpet manufacturer blends two fibers, one 20% wool and the second 50% wool. How many pounds of
each fiber should be woven together to produce? 600 lb of a fabric that is 28% wool?
Situation No. 4
A triangular lot was formed by three straight lines. Bearing of line AB is N45°E and is 160 m long; line
AC and BC is 190 m long. Point E is 100 m from A on side AB connects point D on side AC which divides the
area, making area AED to be 2/5 of the whole area.