NOVEMBER 2022 CE BOARD EXAM REFRESHER

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer parabola, which bisect chords parallel to
for each of the following questions. Mark the line x – y = 4.
only one answer for each item by shading A. y = 2 C. y = 4
the box corresponding to the letter of B. y = 3 D. y = 1
your choice on the answer sheet provided.
7. Point P has cylindrical coordinates of
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. GOOD LUCK.
(8, 30, 5). Find the value of x in the
Cartesian coordinates.
NOTE: A times B is represented by A×B A. 5.21 C. 6.12
or A*B. A raised to the power n B. 6.93 D. 5.94
is expressed as A^n. All problems
are 1 point each. 8. Which of the following correctly defines
the 500 N force that passes from A(4, 0,
3) to B(0, 6, 0)?
1. Evaluate √𝟓 + 𝟏𝟐𝒊. A. 256i – 384j + 192k N
A. 𝟓 + 𝟒𝒊 C. 𝟑 − 𝟐𝒊 B. –256i + 384j – 192k N
C. –384i + 192j – 256k N
B. 𝟓 − 𝟒𝒊 D. 𝟑 + 𝟐𝒊
D. 384i – 192j + 256k N
2. Benjie, Jerwin, Kayro, and Mike are doing
business together. They agreed that their 9. What is the largest number of pigeonholes
money will be kept in a safe, and in order that can be occupied by 100 pigeons if
to open it, the majority of them must be each hole is occupied, but no two holes
present. The safe is provided with a contain the same number of pigeons?
number of different locks, and each one A. 12 C. 14
of them is given the keys to certain B. 13 D. cannot happen
locks. Find the number of locks required
and the number of keys each of them must 10. Mary was 4 times as old as Ann 4 years
have. ago and if Mary will be twice as old as
A. 3 locks, 1 key C. 4 locks, 2 keys Ann 4 years hence, how old is Ann?
B. 6 locks, 3 keys D. 5 locks, 4 keys A. 8 C. 12
B. 10 D. 14
3. An army of troops is marching along a road
at 5 kph. A messenger on horseback was 11. A man drives from station A to station B
sent from the front to the rear of the 60 km away at an average speed of 30 kph
column and returns immediately back. The and return to A at an average speed of
total time taken being 10 minutes. 20 kph. What was the average speed of
Assuming the messenger rides at the rate the man in the whole journey?
of 10 kph, determine the length of the A. 20 kph C. 25 kph
column. B. 24 kph D. 22 kph
A. 526 m C. 854 m
B. 1 km D. 625 m 12. The group of engineering examinees plans
to have an excursion trip. They hired a
4. A logistic curve is the graph of the mini-bus for P56,000, but for unknown
equation of the form reasons, two of them were not able to
join the trip and the share of each
𝒌 remaining in the group is increased by
𝒚=
P3,200. How many were there in the
𝟏 + 𝒃𝒆!𝒄𝒙
original group?
Where k, b and c are positive constants. A. 7 C. 9
Such curves are useful describing a B. 8 D. 10
population of protozoa was found to be
describes by a logistic equation with c 13. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45
= 1.1244, k = 105, and x the time in PM of the same day the minute hand of a
days. Find b if the initial population standard clock describes an arc equal to:
was 3 protozoa.
A. 56 C. 34 A. 340 C. 240
B. 65 D. 44 B. 540 D. 140

5. A new kind of atom smasher is to be 14. Labor laws in a certain country require
composed of two tangents and a circular factory owners to give every worker a
arc which is concave toward the point of holiday whenever one of them has birthday
intersection of the two tangents. Each and to hire without discrimination on
tangent and the arc of the circle is 1 grounds of birthdays. Except for these
mile long, what is the radius of the holidays, they work 365-day year. The
circle? Use 1 mile = 5280 ft. owner wants to maximize the expected
total number of man days worked per year
A. 1437 ft C. 1347 ft
in the factory. How many workers should
B. 1734 ft D. 1374 ft
the factory in this country have?
6. A parabola has an equation of y2 = 8x. A. 726 C. 364
Find the equation of the diameter of the B. 363 D. 728
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15. The amount of pollution P varies directly
with the population N. Kansas City has
a population of 442,000 and produces
260,000 tons of pollutants. Find how many
tons of pollution we should expect St.
Louis to produce, if we know that its
population is 348,000. Round to the
nearest whole ton.
A. 104,606 tons C. 204, 806 tons
B. 204,706 tons D. 104, 706 tons

16. Two men are walking toward each other

alongside a railway. A freight train
overtakes one of them in 20 seconds and
exactly 10 minutes later meets the other
man coming from the opposite direction.
The train passes this man in 18 seconds.
How long after the train has passed the
second man will the two men meet?
Constant speeds are to be assumed
throughout.
A. 1 hr, 42 min, 32 sec
B. 1 hr, 24 min, 23 sec
C. 1 hr, 32 min, 42 sec
D. 1 hr, 23 min, 24 sec

17. Assume that a single depth charge has a

probability of 1/2 of sinking a
submarine, 1/4 of damage and 1/4 of
missing. Assume also that two damaging
explosions sink the sub. What is the
probability that 4 depth charges will
sink the sub?
A. 251/256 C. 25/256
B. 51/256 D. 125/256

Situation 1. Which of the following is true

for the following functions?

I. The leftmost behavior of the graph

is infinitely going upward.
II. The leftmost behavior of the graph
is infinitely going downward.
III. The rightmost behavior of the graph
is infinitely going upward.
IV. The rightmost behavior of the graph
is infinitely going downward.

18. f(x) = 3x8 + 4x6 – 3x5 – x3 + x + 5

A. I and III only C. II and III only
B. I and IV only D. II and IV only

19. f(x) = x7 + x5 – 10x3 + x2 + x + 1

A. I and III only C. II and III only
B. I and IV only D. II and IV only

20. f(x) = –2x9 + x4 + 8x3 – 3x2 + x – 2

A. I and III only C. II and III only
B. I and IV only D. II and IV only

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