JCSF Engineering Review Center Math T3

MATHEMATICS (Refresher Trivia Examination Math T3)

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES
ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 1 only.

1. The product of and is equal to: 9. Ace is one-fourth as old as Joey and ten years
a. younger than Allan is. If the sum of their ages is 46.
Find the age of Joey.
b. – 6i
a. 10
c. b. 16
d. c. 24
d. 9
2. The roots of the equation 6x2 + 7x + 34 = 0 are:
a. Real and equal 10. It takes Joel twice as it takes Arfy do a piece of work.
b. Complex and unequal Working together, they can do it in 6 days. How long
c. Complex and equal would it take Arfy to do it alone?
d. Real and unequal a. 12 days
b. 9 days
3. What is the other form of Loga N = b? c. 10 days
a. b = aN d. 8 days
b. a = Nb
c. N = ab 11. The sum two numbers is 14. The sum of the squares
d. a = bN of the numbers is 100. Find the product of the two
numbers.
4. 10x = 3, then 103x + 1 equals a. 42
a. 470 b. 56
b. 270 c. 54
c. 370 d. 48
d. 170
12. The amount of 135 is to be divided among three
5. If 2logx 3 + logx 2 = 6 + logx 6, what is the value of x? brothers in the ratio 3:5:7. What the biggest amount
a. 2 received by a brother?
b. 1.6 a. 63
c. 21.2 b. 75
d. 2.4 c. 72
d. 54
6. If 3x = 9y and 27x = 81z, then is equal to:

a. 2/3 13. Two jet planes traveling toward each other took off
b. 3/8 at the same time from two airports located 4800 km
c. ¾ apart. If they passed each other after 2 hours,
d. ½ determine the speed, in kph, of the faster plane if one
plane is flying at 160 kph faster than the other.
7. How much coffee costing 85 pesos per kg must be a. 1320
added to 150 kg costing 90 pesos per kg to make a b. 1300
mixture of 87 pesos per kg? c. 1280
a. 225 kg d. 1350
b. 210 kg 14. A tank can be filled by two pipes in 4 and 6 hours,
c. 220 kg respectively. It can be emptied by a third pipe in 5
d. 200 kg hours. How long can an empty tank be filled if the 3
8. How many minutes after one o’clock will the hands of pipes are open?
clock form a right angle? a. 1.62 hrs
a. 21.82 b. 4.62 hrs
b. 21.73 c. 2.62 hrs
c. 22.82 d. 3.62 hrs
d. 22.72

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15. If sec2 A = 5/3, then (1 – sin 2 A) is equal to which of a. Natural
the following? b. Irrational
a. 0.5 c. Rational
b. 0.8 d. Surd
c. 0.7 24. An angle greater than 180o but less than 360o is said
d. 0.6 to be:
a. Complex
16. The surface areas of two spheres are 24 m2 and 96 m2, b. Exterior
respectively. Find the ratio of its volumes. c. Obtuse
a. 1:2 d. Reflex
b. 1:8
c. 1:6 25. What do you call a triangle having three unequal
d. 1:4 sides?
e. a. Obtuse
17. What is the diameter of a circle with the following b. Scalene
equation: x2 + y2 – 6x + 4y - 12 = 0?
a. 10 c. Oblique
b. 5 d. Isosceles
c. 6 26. The distance of a point from the y axis is said to be:
d. 8 a. Polar distance
18. 5A number sequence where the succeeding term is b. Coordinate
obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms c. Abscissa
such as the sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…). d. Ordinate
a. Euler’s number 27. A solid bounded by the spherical zone and the planes
b. Fourier series of the zone’s base.
c. Fermat number a. Spherical segment
d. Fibonacci numbers b. Spherical wedge
c. Spherical triangle
19. If the roots of an equation are zero, then they are d. Spherical line
classified as:
a. Extraneous solutions 28. The line passing through the focus and perpendicular
b. Trivial solutions to the directrix of a parabola.
c. Conditional solutions a. Latus rectum
d. No solutions b. Major axis
c. Transverse axis
20. The process of expressing a polynomial as a product d. Axis of the parabola
of another polynomial or monomial of lower degree.
a. Decomposition 29. The logarithm of a number to have a base of e =
b. Polynomial damping 2.718…
c. Rationalization a. Briggsian logarithm
d. Factoring b. Mantissa
c. Cologarithm
21. A point where the concavity of a curve changes or d. Naperian Logarithm
when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor
decreasing. 30. Which of the following is the value of (x 2 + 1/x)2
a. Point of inflection when x + 1/x = 5?
b. Point of tangency a. 22
c. Minimum point b. 25
d. Maximum point c. 24
d. 23
22. The axis of the hyperbola that passes through the
center, the foci and vertices. 31. Simplify
a. Asymptotic axis
a. Cot A
b. Conjugate axis
b. Tan A
c. Transverse axis
c. Sec A
d. Major axis
d. Csc A
32. The number of diagonals in a polygon of 15 sides.
23. A number that could not expressed as a quotient of
a. 45
two integers.
b. 105
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c. 90 40. What is length of the latus rectum for the ellipse
d. 50
?
33. If the line through (-1, 3) and (-3, -2) is perpendicular a. 4 units
to the line through (-7, 4) and (x, 0). Find the value of b. 8 units
x. c. 6 units
a. 5 d. 5 units
b. 4 41. 8 units What is the diameter of a circle described by
c. 3 9x2 + 9y2 = 16?
d. 6 a. 4/3
34. The volume of a 10 cm high conical paperweight is b. 8/3
180 cm3. The radius of the base is: c. 16/9
a. 51.4 cm d. 4
b. 5.41 cm 42. Stephanie is twice as old as Joanne when was when
c. 4.15 cm Stephanie was as old as Joanne is now. When Joanne
d. 41.5 cm is as old as Stephanie is now, together their age is 56.
How old is Joanne?
35. What is the total surface area of a cube whose a. 17
diagonal is d? b. 12
c. 16
a.
d. 15
b. 2d
c. 43. What is the value of 1 radian in degrees?
d. 2d2 a. 90
b. 57
36. The volume of a frustum of a right circular cone is c. 60
1176 m3. The altitude of the frustum of the cone is 18 d. 45
cm. Find the radius of the lower base if the product of 44. How many degrees are 4800 mils?
the radii of lower and upper base is 60. e. 180o
a. 18 f. 315o
b. 10 g. 90o
c. 12 h. 270o
d. 14 45. The secant function is positive in what quadrants?
a. I and III
37. In how many minutes after 12:00 noon will the hour b. I and IV
hand and the minute hand of the clock first form an c. II and III
angle of 120o? d. II and IV
a. 23.82 minutes
b. 22.82 minutes 46. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of the
c. 21.82 minutes tower to be 30o. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and
d. 24.82 minutes finds its angle of elevation to be 60 o. What is the
height of the tower?
38. The volume of the right frustum of a right circular a. 76.31 m
cone is 78 cm3. The upper base radius is 2 cm and the b. 73.31 m
lower base radius is 5 cm. Find the altitude in cm. c. 73.16 m
a. 2.21 d. 73.61 m
b. 2.01 47. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 6.8284
c. 1.91 units. Compute the area of the triangle in square
d. 2.11 units.
a. 2
39. Find the distance between two lines represented by the b. 1
linear equations: 4x – 3y – 12 = 0 and 4x –3y + 8 = 0. c. 0.5
a. 6 units d. 4
b. 5 units 48. Solve the value of x in the equation: log x 2 – log 5x
c. 4 units = log 20.
d. 8 units a. 10
b. 20
c. 2
d. 100

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49. Charles is three times as old as his son Albert. Five c. 18 cm
years ago, he was five times as old as his son was at d. cm
that time. How old his son Albert? 58. The area bounded by two concentric circles is
a. 8 said to be known as:
b. 10 a. Disk
c. 12 b. Annulus
d. 14 c. Ring
50. Jaime and Allan can do a piece of work in 20 days, d. Sector
Allan and Raymond in 30 days, Raymond and 59. The angle that the line of sight to the object,
Jaime in 40 days. If thee three work together, how makes with the horizontal, which is above the eye of
long will they be able to finish the job? the observer is called:
a. 18.46 days a. Angle of elevation
b. 17.46 days b. Bearing
c. 16.47 days c. Acute angle
d. 14.67 days d. Angle depression
51. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. 60. If the volume of the sphere is 35 m3, determine
Determine the number. its surface area, in m2.
a. 7 a. 36
b. 5
b. 24
c. 4
c. 18
d. 6
52. At what time after 3’oclock will the hands of the d. 12
clock be together? 61. A metal washer 1 inch in diameter is pierced by
a. 16.36 minutes ½ inch hole. What is the volume of the washer if it is
b. 13.66 minutes 1/8 inch thick, in cubic inch?
c. 16.63 minutes a. 0.028
d. 16.36 minutes b. 0.074
53. How many 3 digit numbers may be formed from c. 0.082
the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 if no digit may be repeated d. 0.047
in a given number? 62. The volumes of two spheres are in the ratio of
a. 90 27:343 and the sum of their radii is 10. Find the
b. 180 radius of the smaller sphere.
c. 45 a. 6
d. 52 b. 5
54. In how many ways can you line-up 4 marines and c. 3
6 army soldiers if all the marines must be side by side d. 4
with each other and the army soldiers are likewise? 63. When a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from
a. 35 460 left to right, the slope m is:
b. 34 560 a. Less than zero
c. 36 450 b. Greater than zero
d. 30 546 c. Equal to zero
55. A semiconductor company will hire 7 mean and 4 d. Equal to 1
women. In how many ways can the company choose 64. Find the equation of the directrix of the parabola
from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the y2 = 16x.
positions? a. x = 8
a. 540 b. x = - 8
b. 480 c. x = 4
c. 680 d. x = - 4
d. 840 65. Given an ellipse . Determine the
56. In a single throw of a pair of dice, what is the
probability of having a 7 or 11? distance between foci.
a. ¾ a. 3
b. 1/8 b. 4
c. 2/18 c. 2
d. 2/9 d. 8
57. If the area of an equilateral triangle is cm2, 66. If , find the 2nd derivative with respect
determine the perimeter. to x.
a. cm
b. 12 cm
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a. 8 m/s
a. b. 12 m/s
c. 14 m/s
b. d. 10 m/s
75. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal plane
following a parabolic path with an initial velocity of
c.
100 m/s at an angle of 30o above the horizontal. How
far from the throwing point will the ball attain its
d. original level?
a. 882.8 m
67. The depth of water in a cylindrical tank, 4 m in
b. 828.8 m
diameter, is increasing at the rate of 0.7 m/min. Find
c. 288.8 m
the rate at which the water is flowing into the tank.
d. 888.2 m
a. 8.80 m3/min
76. Lester expects to receive P20, 000.00 in ten
b. 7.64 m3/min
years. How much is that money worth now
c. 6.12 m3/min
considering interest of 6 % compounded quarterly?
d. 2.24 m3/min
a. P12,698.65
68. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can
b. P11,698.25
be inscribed in a semi-circle of radius 10?
c. P17,567.95
a. 1000 sq. units
d. P15,678.45
b. sq. units 77. If you borrowed money from your friend with
c. 100 sq. units simple interest of 12 %, find the present worth of
d. sq. units P50, 000.00, which is due at the end of 7 months.
a. P46,200.00
69. Evaluate the . b. P44,893.00
c. P46,730.00
a. 2
d. P45,789.00
b. 4
78. Ryan obtained a loan of P10,000.00 at the rate of
c. 6
6 % compounded annually in order to repair a house.
d. 8
How much must Ryan pay monthly to amortize the
70. What is the appropriate total area bounded by y =
loan within a period of ten years?
sinx and y = 0 over the interval , where x is a. P112.02
in radians. b. P110.22
a. /2 c. P150.55
b. 2 d. P198.20
c.  79. If money is worth 8 %, determine the present
d. 4 value of a perpetuity of P1,000.00 payable annually,
71. What is the area between y = 0, y = 3x 2, x = 0 and with the first payment due at the end of 4 years.
x = 2? a. P9,272.64
a. 8 b. P9,187.87
b. 24 c. P9,272.46
c. 12 d. P9,178.87
d. 6 80. What is effective rate of 15 % compounded
72. What is the maximum moment of 10 m simple semi-annually?
supported beam subjected to a concentrated load of a. 15.56 %
500 kN at the mid-span? b. 16.02 %
a. 1250 kN-m c. 18.78 %
b. 1520 kN-m d. 15 %
c. 1050 kN-m 81. What will be the future worth of money after 12
d. 1510 kN-m months, if the sum of P25,000.00 is interest today at
73. How far does an automobile move while its speed simple interest rate of 12 % a year?
increases uniformly from 15 kph to 45 kph in 20 a. P30,000.00
seconds? b. P29,000.00
a. 185 m c. P28,000.00
b. 167 m d. P27,000.00
c. 200 m 82. How much money must you invest today in
d. 172 m order to withdraw P2,000.00 annually for 10 years if
74. A mango falls from a branch 5 m above the the interest rate is 9 %?
ground. With what speed in m/s does it strike the a. P12,853.32
ground? Assume g = 10 m/s2.
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b. P12,881.32 91. Depreciation method where the value of an asset
c. P12,385.32 decreases at a decreasing rate.
d. P12,835.32 a. SYD method
83. The force of gravity per unit volume of a b. Straight line method
substance is known as: c. Sinking fund
a. Density d. Declining balance
b. Weight 92. Cost of things that is neither labor nor materials.
c. Specific weight a. Construction cost
d. Specific gravity b. Labor cost
84. In a thermodynamics process following, c. Expenses
d. Investment
, what is the process if the value of n is infinity?
93. Kinds of obligation that has no condition
a. Isentropic process
attached.
b. Polytropic process
a. Analytic
c. Isometric process
b. Private
d. Isobaric process
c. Gratuitous
85. Air at 21 oCis used to inflate an automobile tire to
d. Pure
207 kPag. After being driven, the temperature has
94. Gross, profit, sales less cost of goods sold as a
risen to 38 oC. What is the resulting pressure if the tire
percentage of sales.
did not stretch?
a. Profit margin
a. 224.828 kPag
b. Rate of return
b. 224.828 kPaa
c. Gross margin
c. 326.153 kPag
d. Price earnings
d. 236.153 kPag
95. The series of equal payments at equal intervals
86. The length of time at which the original cost of
of time.
capital used to purchase a unit has already been
a. Interest
recovered.
b. Annuity
a. Economic life
c. Depreciation
b. Write off period
d. Amortization
c. Physical life
96. A legally binding agreement on promise to
d. Salvage life
exchange goods or services.
87. The actual interest earned by a given principal is
a. Contract
known as:
b. Memorandum
a. Compound interest
c. Barter
b. Simple interest
d. Pro-forma
c. Effective interest
97. An index of short term paying ability.
d. Nominal interest
a. Current ratio
88. The exclusive right of a company to provide a
b. Acid test ratio
specific product/service in a given region of the
c. Receivable turnover
country.
d. Profit margin ratio
a. Franchise
98. Used to produce consumer goods.
b. Extension
a. Producer goods
c. Branch
b. Consumer goods
d. Outlet
c. Supply
89. It occurs when a commodity or service is supplied
d. Cash flow
by a number of vendors and there is nothing to prevent
99. It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal
additional vendors entering the market.
interval of time where the first payment is made
a. Free market
several periods after the beginning of the payment.
b. Open market
a. Deferred annuity
c. Perfect competition
b. Progressive annuity
d. Law of supply and demand
c. Delayed annuity
90. In making economic studies, a minimum required
d. Simple annuity
profit on the invested capital is included as a cost.
100. A market whereby there is only one buyer of an
a. Rate of return
item for which there are no goods substitute.
b. Present worth pattern
a. Monopoly
c. Annual cost pattern
b. Oligopoly
d. Capital cost
c. Monopsony
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ANSWERS’ KEY

1. d
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. c
6. b
7. a
8. c
9. c
10. b
11. d
12. d
13. c
14. b
15. d
16. d
17. a
18. d
19. b
20. d
21. a
22. c
23. b
24. d
25. b
26. b
27. a
28. d
29. d
30. d
31. a
32. c
33. c
34. c
35. d
36. c
37. a
38. a
39. a
40. d
41. c
42. a
43. d
44. a
45. d
46. a
47. c
48. a
49. d
50. c
51. a

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52. c
53. c
54. d
55. c
56. a
57. b
58. d
59. c
60. c
61. d
62. b
63. a
64. a
65. d
66. b
67. c
68. b
69. c
70. d
71. c
72. c
73. d
74. a
75. c
76. d
77. b
78. d
79. d
80. c
81. b
82. a
83. b
84. b
85. c
86. b
87. c
88. a
89. c
90. c
91. a
92. c
93. c
94. b
95. b
96. c
97. b
98. a
99. a
100. c