Ce Numerical Lab Plate 1
Ce Numerical Lab Plate 1
1. The time that is required for a pendulum to make one vibration is proportional to the
square root of its length. If a pendulum 20cm long makes one vibration in 2seconds, find
the period of pendulum 90cm long.
2. The electrical resistance of the wire varies directly as the length and inversely as the
radius. The resistance of a certain piece of wire of the same material is 300Ω. Its radius is
0.05cm and length is 300m. Find the resistance of the wire of the same material 450m
long and 0.07cm radius.
3. Corrine has 2 alcohol solutions of different strengths, 30% and 45% respectively. How
many cc of each must be used so as to make a mixture of 30cc which will contain 39%
alcohol?
4. The two squares have dimensions as indicated. What is the area of the shaded area? The
sizes of the small and big circles are 2m and 5m, respectively.
5. Find the units digit of the decimal representing 11^11 + 14^14 + 16^16. Note that the
symbol (^) means "raised to the power of".
6. A cylindrical container is 12cm high and has a circumference of 18cm. There is honey
3cm down from the top of the inside wall of the cylinder. A bee lands on the outside wall
of the cylinder at a distance of 3cm up from the bottom but directly opposite of the
honey. Find the shortest distance that the bee has to crawl (not fly) in order to reach the
honey.
7. For the intersecting chords shown, determine the radius of the circle. The long chord
passes through the center.
8. A tank can be filled by 2 pipes in 4 and 6 hours respectively. It can be emptied by a third
pipe in 5 hours. In what time can an empty tank be filled if the 3 pipes are open?
9. In the conditional inequality x + 7 > 2x/3 + 9, how many values of x are considered
integral?
10. Find the value of k so that x + 2 is a factor of 3x^3 – kx^2+2x – 4. The symbol (^) means
"raised to the power of"
11. Form a cubic equation with real coefficients having (2+3i) and -3 as roots. The symbol
(^) means "raised to the power of"
12. Two best friends run at constant speeds along a circular track take 1350m in
circumference. Running in opposite directions, they meet every 3 minutes, while running
in the same direction, they are together every 27 minutes. Find the speed of the faster
friend.
13. The sides of a right triangle are in arithmetic progression whose common difference is 6.
The following are the sides except
14. How many sides have a polygon if the sum of its interior angles equals the sum of its
exterior angles?
15. Find the volume of a pentagonal spherical pyramid whose base has angles of 105°, 115°,
125°, 135°, and 145° on a sphere of radius 10cm.
16. 2° of great circle arc on the surface of the earth is equal to
17. A uniform rod 8m long is bent at 3m mark forming a right angle shaped piece. If it is
hung on a peg at the point of bend, what is the angle made by the 5m side make with the
vertical when in equilibrium?
18. In a certain bookstore, the monthly salary of a saleslady is partly constant and partly
varies as the value of her sales for the month is PhP 10,000, her salary for that month is
PhP 900, when her monthly sales goes up to PhP 12,000, her monthly sales goes up to
PhP 1,000. What must be the value of her sales for the month so that her salary will be
PhP 2,000?
19. Three forces 30KN, 40KN, and 50KN are acting on a particle causing it in equilibrium.
Find the angle between the 30KN and 40KN.
20. What is the coefficient of sliding friction of a 7000-lb truck when it skids with an
acceleration of 7.5ft/s^2?
21. A certain belt passes over a wheel of radius 50cm. If a point on the belt has a speed of
10m/s, how fast is the wheel turning?
22. A wheel revolving at 100rpm slows down at a rate of 1rad/s2. Determine the number of
revolutions it takes during the process.
23. What is the centripetal force needed to keep a 0.10kg ball on a 0.75m string moving in a
circular path at a rate of 3m/s?
24. A homogenous ladder 18ft long and weighing 120lbs rests against a smooth wall. The
angle between it and the floor is 70o. The coefficient of friction between the floor and the
ladder is0.25. How far up the ladder can a 180lbs man walk before the ladder slips?
25. A stone is fired horizontally at 30m/s from the top of a cliff 80m high. At what velocity
will it strike the ground?
26. A ball is thrown with a speed of 100fps at an angle of 30° with the horizontal. At what
maximum height will it reach?
27. What is the maximum speed that a car can make a turn of an unbanked curve with radius
242ft if the coefficient of friction is 0.81?
28. Find the resultant value and the angle of the following pull efforts exerted by many men
whose pull is along the horizontal with 200lb, a pull 300lb is 60 degrees above the
horizontal to the right while the 100lb pull is 45 degrees above the horizontal to the left;
another 200lb pull is vertically down.
29. A stone is fired from the top of the mountain 92m high with a velocity of 430m/s at an
angle 45° with the vertical. What is the farthest distance it can travel horizontally
measured from the base of the mountain?
30. A fisherman adjusts a rope which keeps his boat from drifting alongside. If he exerts a
pull of 200N on the rope which has 1.25turns around a certain branch of a tree, what
force can he support? Assume the coefficient of friction between the rope and the branch
of a tree is 0.30.
31. An object moves so that during the first part of its motion is described by the expression
S = 6.8t3 – 10.8t, where S is the distance traveled in feet and t is time in seconds. What is
the acceleration in 3seconds?
32. The sides of a right triangle are all integers. Two of the integers are primes that differ by
50. Compute the smallest possible value for the third side.
33. Which if the following is the number with three significant figures?
34. Describe the expression 7 + 0i
35. The number 0.123123123… is
36. Which of the following is the simplified value of the given expression:
a. 7^(a+2)– 8(7)^(a+1) + 5(7)^a + 49(7)^(a-2)
37. In the expression of (x+4y)^12, the numerical coefficient of the 5th term is
38. What is the angle of a regular dodecagon?
39. Determine the part of the volume increased if each side of the cube is increased by 1%.
40. Which of the following is the equivalent of csc520°?
41. What is the weight of a mass 10kg at a location where the gravitational acceleration is
9.77m/s2?
42. Determine the momentum of an object 40lbm at a speed of 420mph.
43. Determine the acceleration in ft/s2 of an object which is acted by 4.4 lbf force. The mass
of the object is 10lbm.
44. In the expression x^(3logx) = 100x, what is the value of x?
45. Simplify the expression log8(48), read as logarithm of 48 at base 8.