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REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Pre-Board Examination
‘Saterday, August 27, 2005 8:00 am — 12:00 nn,
TIC! SETA
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for cach item
‘by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 3 only.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:
1. The sum of three conseoutive integers is 54, Find the largest integer.
AT B18 Ov D2
2 There were 104,830 people who attended a rock festival. If there where 8110 more boys than girls, and 24,810
fewer adults over $0 years of age than there where girls, how many girls attended the festival?
&) 40,510 B. $3,175 C. 48.620 D, 15,700
4. The dimensions of a rectangle are continuously changing. The width increases at the rate of 3 in/see while the
Aength decreases at the rate of 2 in/sec. At one instant the rectangle is a 20-inch square. Hlow fast is its arca,
changing 3 seconds tater?
A 15 @-16 ct De
4, Find the point where the normal to y =x +x at (4, 6) crosses the y axis.
Ay=23 By=5.75 Cyan @y=92
5. Find the radius of curvature of y = sin x at (pi2, 1).
A. 2square root of 3 B.2 ©: D, square root of 3
6. The towers of a 60 meter parabolic suspension bridge are 12 m high and the lowest point of the cable is 3 m
above the roadway. Find the vertical distance from the roadway to the cable at 15 m from the center. |
Adm @5.25m C. 4.0m D.Sm
7. Acrunner and his trainer are standing together on a citcular track of radius 100 meters. When the
signal, the runner starts to run around the track at a speed of 10 m/s. How fast isthe distance betwi
‘runner and the trainer increasing when the runner has run % of the way around the track? |
A. 42 @ sz ©. 62 D. 3v2
8. Find the area bounded by the curve y = 2 over (x~3)and the linesy = 0, x =4, and x =5, I
A 2nd B. sind
ind
©. 3m @» !
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9. A box contains 2 blue socks ai 2 white socks. Picking randomly, what isthe probability that you wilt pick 2
socks of the same color?
AIG @w cm D. vs
10. The charge in coulombs thet passes through a wire after t seconds is given by the equation
0(0)=0 27 +5¢+2 Determine the average current during the frst two seconds.
ADA BBA ©sa D.6A
11, Evaluate (costs? + isin1s”) .
12, A cable 100 feet tong and weighing 3 pounds per foot hangs from a windlass. Find the work done in winding it
up. :
AIS @™ C2% D.3% 12. A bicycle with 20-in wheels is traveling down a road at 15 mish. Find the angular velocity of the wheel in
revolutions per minute,
A 190 @22 c. 180 D, 342
34. A reversed curve on a railroad track consists of two circular ares. The central angle af one is 20° with radius
2500 and the central ange of the other is 25° with radius 3000 ft. Find the total length of the two arcs.
@22e B. 2821 C, 2482 D. 2848
15. A store manager wishes to reduce the price on her fresh ground coffee by mixing two grades. If she has 50
pounds of coffee which sells for $10 per pound, how much coffee worth $6 per pound must she mix with it so
‘that she can sell the final mixture for $8.50 per pound?
A. 25 pounds 8) 30 pounds C. 35 pounds D. 40 pounds
16. The rotating beacon of a lighthouse makes 0.2 revolution per second. The nearest at point ° along the straight
shoreline from the beacon is 200 ft. What is the rate of change that the ray of light makes along the shore at a
point 100 f from ®?
A 125% ®00. ©. 200% D. 150%
17. Find the x and y such that 2x~ yi = 4434
A x=2y-3 Box=3,y=-2 Ory
18, A rectangular metal sheet of 12 inches wide is used to make a rain gutter. It needs to fold up equal widths along
‘the edges perpendicularly to form a rain gutter. What dimension should be folded up at each side to yield @
maximum carrying capacity?
AoA Bom ca ®
19, Two dice are tossed, Find the probability that one of the dice is 2.
20. A right circular cylinder is inscribed in a right cireular cone of radius ¢. Find the radius R of the cylinder if ies
lateral area is a maximum,
Ory
21, Evaluate the inverse Laplace transform of 6 over {5° +4)
A. 3eos2t B, 3sinb2t ©. 3eoshat @)3sin2x
22. Ifthe x intercept of the tangent tothe curve y =e" is increasing al «rate of 4 units per second, find the vate of
change of the y intercept when the x intercept is 6 units.
0.135 B. -0.05 ©. -0.248 D.-0.368
23. A drug for the relief of asthma can be purchased from’5 different manufacturers in liquid, tablet, or eapsule
form, all of which come in regular and extra strength. In how many different ways can a doctor presctibe the
drug for a patient suffering from asthma? {
AIS B. 60 ©» D. 40 |
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24. At what value of x does the equation =—— is discontinuous?
x
Ao ®: oot D.2
25. Find the rate of which the volume of a right circular eylinder of constant sltitude 10 feet changes with respect 0
its diameter when the radius is $ teet
A. 25 neuf @)s0xcusvn C. 100 cua D. 200-x cu.VR
26. Two buildings with flat roofs are 60 m apart. From the roof of the shorter building. 40 m in height. the angle of
clevation to the edge of the roof of the taller building is 40°, How high isthe taller building?
A 60m B. 70m Cc. 80m @ypom 2.
28.
29,
30.
3
32.
3
34.
35.
36.
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38.
39.
40,
4
Evaluate i raised to 96.
Aqt BO ©. D.
‘Three ships are situated as follows: A is 225 mi due north of C, and B is 375 mi due east of C, What is she
bearing of B from A?
ANSOE B.S56°E, c. NOE, @)ssoe,
Find the equation of a line perpendicular to y = 1 through A (-1, 1)
Ax=1 xs-l C.x+1=0 D. x-2=0
Find how far an airplane will move in landing, if in t seconds after touching the ground its speed in feet per
second is given by the equation v = 180 - 18.
A. 400 ft B, 450 Oso D. 1,800 f
‘A motorboat with acecleration and deceleration of 4 f/sec” starting from rest and reaches its maximium cruising
speed at 90 miles per hour and maintained its speed for [5 minutes. Find the total distance traveled unt i
‘A. 2291 B. 25.43 ©2333 D. 27.56
Find the volume of the solid generated by revolving the region bounded by y
A. 29R/15 B. 29/14 ©, 298160
Find the volume of @ pentagon with given vertices at (1., 0), (2,2), (0, 4 ), 2,2), C1, 0 Dif itis revolve
about the x axis.
98 B36n 10s D. 72x
Ape >
A diagonal of a cube is 6 em. The total arca of the cube is
A. 363 sqem.- . (@)72saem. . 2492 sqem D. 36 sq.em.
Two people get in an elevator at the first floor. At the second floor, one person gets in, At the third floor, 20
people get off. At the fourth floor, the last person gets off. If each person weighs 150 Ibs, and each floor is 12 f
high, find the total work done in ft-lb done by the elevator?
@) 10.800 B. 11,200 C. 5,400 D. 12,600
A pendulum is brought to rest by air resistance, each swing being 11/12 as much as the preceding one. Hf the
lower end of the pendulum describes an arc 60 cm long in the first swing, what will be the total length of the
path which the pendulum describes before it comes to rest?
A. 390m @)7200m C, 360.cm D. 1,440 6m ,
Solve the inequality [2x—3]<1.
AL -tex<2 B 2
