Quiz 1.

ALGEBRA, TRIGO, PLANE & SOLID GEO

1.A certain amount of 80% sugar solution added to another amount of 40% sugar solution yields a solution that contains 14 kg of
sugar. Had the amounts been reversed, the solution would have contained 16 kg of sugar. How much of the 80% sugar solution was
there? *

12 kg 10 kg
8 kg 6 kg 

2.A man wants to place a new bird bath in his yard so that it is 30 ft from a fence and also 10 ft from a light pole. The light pole is 35
feet away from the fence. How many locations are possible for the bird bath? *

2 0.844
16 25

3.A quadrilateral with no pair of parallel sides. *

Rhomboid Trapezoid
Trapezium  Rhombus

4.A railroad curve is to be laid out on a circle. What radius should be used if the track is to change direction by 30 degrees in a
distance of 300 m? *

556 m 592 m
566 m 573

5.If sin A = −4/5 and cot B = 4, both in quadrant III, the value of sin (A + B) is *

−0.844 0.922
−0.922 0.844

6.If 3ˣ3ʸ = 27 and 2x + y = 5, find x. *

3 2
4 1

7.If the coefficient of (2r + 4)th and (r – 2)th terms in the expansion (1 + x)¹ ⁸ are equal then find the value of r.  *

4 6 
3 5

 
8.The surface area of a cube is 96 sq. cm. How many cu. cm. are there in the volume of the cube?  *

32 16
64  6

 
9.In a 3-digit number, the hundreds digit is 4 more than the units digit and the tens digit is twice the hundreds digit. If the sum of the
digits is 12, find the units digit. *

0  4
2 8

 
10.I read 3/8 of a book on one day and 4/5 of the remainder on another day. If there were 30 pages unread now, how many pages
did the book contain? *

60 200
240 65 
11. A tree is broken over by a windstorm. The tree was 90 feet high and the top of the tree is 25 feet from the foot of the tree. What
is the height of the standing part of the tree? *

48.47 ft 45.69 ft
41.53 ft 44.31 ft
 

12. Two sides of a triangle are 50 m and 60 m long. The angle included between these sides is 30 degrees. What is the interior
angle opposite the longest side? *

93.75 degrees  86.25 degrees

89.35 degrees 94.85 degrees

 
13. The median of a trapezoid is 8 and one base is 5. How long is the other base? *

10 12
11 13 

14. A balloon is hovering 800 ft above a lake. The balloon is observed by the crew of a boat as they look upwards at an angle of 20°.
Twenty five seconds later, the crew has to look at an angle of 65° to see the balloon. How fast was the boat travelling?  *

73 ft/s 37 ft/s
54 ft/s 
45 ft/s  

15. If tan A = sqrt. of 3 and A is in the third quadrant, evaluate (1 + cos A)/(1 – cos A). *

1/3 1/2
1/5 1/4

 
16. A cube with edge length x and a right circular cylinder with circular base have the same volume. Find x, in cm, if the radius of the
cylinder is 5 cm and its height is 5 cm. *

7.32 15.71
392.7 1.71

17. A hole of radius 2 is drilled through the axis of a sphere of radius 3. Compute the volume of the remaining solid.  *
68.02 46.83 
60.88 108.83

 18. A boat has a speed of 15 mph in still water. It travels downstream from Greentown to Glenavon in two-fifths of an hour. It then
goes back upstream from Glenavon to Cambria, which is 2 miles downstream from Greentown, In three-fifth of an hour. Find the
rate of the current. *
2 mph 3 mph
5 mph  4 mph

 19.A spherical pentagon and an equiangular spherical triangle on the same sphere are equal in area. If the spherical excess of the
pentagon is 72°, find each angle of the triangle. *
70° 86°
84° 72°

20. 5.  A wall is 15 ft high and 10 ft from a house. Find the length of the shortest ladder which will just touch the top of the wall and
reach a window 20.5 ft above the ground. *
54.2 ft
14.1 ft
11.4 ft
42.5 ft
 QUIZ 2. ANAL GEO,DC,IC

1.The center of a circle is at (1, 1) and one point on its circumference is (−1, −3). Find the other end of the diameter through (−1,
−3). *

(1, 4) (3, 4)
(2, 5)  (3, 5) 

2.Find the equation of the parabola whose vertex is the origin and whose focus is the point (0, 2). *

x² = 8y x² = −8y
x² = 4y x² = −4y

 
3.A trapezoid has two equal slanting sides a 6 cm base and a 3 cm top parallel to and 5 cm above the base. Determine the moment
of inertia of the trapezoidal area relative to the base, in cm ⁴.  *

142.05 129.13
156.25 171.88

 
4.If the generations of a cylinder always touch a given surface, the cylinder is called *

Enveloping cylinder Circular cylinder

Reciprocal cylinder Right circular cylinder
 

5.Evaluate : *

5/4 3/4
7/9 3/8

 
6.If the area of a triangle with vertices (5, 2), (x, 4), and (0, −3) is 12 1/2, find x. *

2 or 12 8 only
10 or 4 4 or 8

 
7.What is the minimum amount of fencing needed to construct a rectangular enclosure containing 1800 ft² using a river as a natural
boundary on one side? *

160 ft 100 ft
90 ft 120 ft
 

8.Find the equation of the line tangent to the curve y = x^3 - 6x^2 + 5x + 2 at its point of inflection.  *

−7x + y = 10 7x + y = 10
−7x − y = 10 7x − y = 10

 
9.The difference of the distances of a moving point from (1, 0) and (−1, 0) is 1. Find the equation of its locus.  *

12x² − 4y² = 3 4x² − 12y² = 3

3x² − 4y² = 12 4x² − 9y² = 3 

10.Find the distance between the points (4, −2) and (−5, 1). *

4.897 7.149
9.487  8.947

 
11.Find the centroid of the solid formed by revolving about x = 2 bounded by y = x³, x = 2 and y = 0.  *

(2, 10/9) (2, 3)

(2, 10/3) (2, 10/7)

 
12.A solid has a circular base of radius r. find the volume of the solid if every plane perpendicular to a given diameter is a square.  *

5r³ 16r³/3
6r³ 19r³/3

 
13.Find the volume of the solid of revolution formed by rotating the region bounded by the parabola y = x² and the lines y = 0 and x
= 2 about the x axis. *

30.14 cu. units 15.50 cu. units

25.01 cu. units 20.11 cu. units
 

 
14.A square is inscribed in a circle. How fast is the area of the square changing when the area of the circle is increasing at the rate
of 1 in²/min? *

0.500 in²/min 1.571 in²/min

0.637 in²/min  1.000 in²/min

 
15.The velocity of a point moving in rectilinear motion is given by the equation v = eᵗ sin t. Find the acceleration when t = 0.  *

1 −1
−2 2

 
16.If the second-degree equation Ax² + Bxy + Cy² +Dx + Ey + F = 0 represents a real conic and B² – 4AC is positive, then it is  *

ellipse hyperbola 
parabola circle

 
17.A hyperbola has its foci at (0, 0) and (0, 10), asymptote x + y = 5. Compute the eccentricity. *

1.515 1.612
1.824 1.414
 

 
18.Given 4x^2 + 8y^2 = 32, find y''. *

−4/y^3 −8/y^3
−6/y^3 −2/y^3

 
19.Find the area of the region in the first quadrant within the cardioid r = 1 – cos θ. *

0.18 0.19
0.16 0.24

 
20.The radius of a hemispherical dome is measured as 100 m with a maximum error of 1 cm. What is the maximum error in its
calculated surface area? *

10.84 sq. m. 15.72 sq. m.

12.57 sq. m.  8.26 sq. m.
 Quiz 3. DE, ADV MATH, VCT, PROB STAT

1.(1 – 2i)⁻¹ can be written as: *

−0.33 − 0.67i 0.2 + 0.4i 

−0.33 + 0.67i 0.2 - 0.4i 

2.What is the unit vector which is orthogonal both to 9î + 9ĵ and 9î + 9k̂ ? *

0.58î − 0.58ĵ − 0.58k̂   0.33î − 0.33ĵ − 0.33k̂

0.33î + 0.33ĵ + 0.33k̂ 0.58î + 0.58ĵ + 0.58k̂

3.A tank has 100 liters of brine with 40 N of dissolved salt. Pure water enters the tank at the rate of 2 liters per minute and the
resulting mixture leaves the tank at the same rate. When will the concentration in the tank be 0.20 N/L?  *

24.6 min 34.7 min

54.9 min 44.8 min 

4.Let K be the parallelepiped determined u = <3, 2, 1>, v = <1, 1, 2>, and w = <1, 3, 3>. Find the angle between u and the plane
containing the face determined by v and w. *

20 degrees 40 degrees 
60 degrees 30 degrees

5.Suppose the weight W of 800 male students are normally distributed with mean of 140 pounds and standard deviation of 10
pounds. Find the number of students with weights between 138 and 148 pounds. *

294 298
226 284

6.A 20–pound weight stretches a spring 6 inches. The weight is released from rest 6 inches below the equilibrium position. What is
the velocity of the weight when t = 3pi/16 s? *

4 ft/s 2 ft/s
5 ft/s 3 ft/s

 
7.Evaluate ∇ln ⁡r. *

r̂ /r r̂ r²
r̂ /r² r̂ r

 
8.A bag contains 4 white and 5 black marbles. If 4 marbles are drawn, what is the probability that the first two marbles are white and
the last two marbles are black? *

3/5 5/63
4/63  
4/5

 
9.A sequence of numbers where the succeeding term is greater than the preceding term is called : *

isometric series dissonant series

convergent series divergent series

 
10.Evaluate cosh (0.942 + j0.429) *

1.435 – j0.532 1.345 + j0.452

1.435 + j0.532 1.345 – j0.452

 
11.Find the work done by a force F = −2î (pounds) applied to a point that moves on a line from (1, 4) to (−3, 6). Assume that
distance is measured in feet. *

8 ft-lb 16 ft-lb
9.84 ft-lb 8.94 t-lb
 
12.A club of 40 executives, 33 like to smoke Marlboro, and 20 like to smoke Philip Morris. How many like to smoke Philip Morris
only? *
13 33
20 7

13. The growth rate of bacteria culture is proportional to the number of bacteria present. If a population whose size is initially 100
bacteria doubles every 2 hours, how long will it take for the culture to grow to a size of 5000 bacteria?  *

10.78 hrs 12.91 hrs

17.80 hrs 11.29 hrs
 

 
14. Describe the locus represented by |z + 2i| + |z – 2i| = 6. *

hyperbola circle
ellipse parabola

 
15. Find the general solution of 2xy dx + (x squared + 1) dy = 0. *

2(x squared)y + y = C (x squared)y + y = C 

x raised to y + y = C x squared + 2y = C

 
16. Write the vector of length 2 and direction 150 degrees in the form aî + bĵ. *

−1.73î – ĵ 1.73î – ĵ
−1.73î + ĵ 1.73î + ĵ

 
17. There are 8 different colors, 3 of which are red, blue and green. In how many ways can 5 colors be selected out of the 8 colors if
red and blue are always included but green is excluded? *

12 11
9 10
  

18. Find the orthogonal trajectories of y² = cx. *

2x² + y² = C x² + 2y² = C
2x² – y² = C x² – 2y² = C
 

19.Find the inverse Laplace transform of F(s) = 1/(s^4 + s^2). *

f(t) = t + sin t f(t) = t – cos t

f(t) = t – sin t f(t) = t + cos t 

20. The largest of 50 measurements is 8.34 kg. If the range is 0.46 kg, find the smallest measurement.  *

7.88 kg  7.96 kg

6.55 kg 6.58 kg