Republic of the Philippines

Eastern Visayas State University

College of Engineering
EE Department
50
Math Enhance 1: Algebra &Trigonometry
Quiz 2
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Multiple Choice: Encircle the letter of A. 15

the correct answer (NO ERASURES) B. 17 10. 6-year-old Jan Nicole visited
C. 19 Santa at a local department store. He
1. Two turtles A and B start at the D. 21 gave her this riddle: "I started
same time move towards each other working at 15. I spent 1/4 of my
at a distance of 150 m. The rate of 6. A goldsmith has two alloys of gold, working life in a factory. I spent 1/5 of
turtle A is 10 m/s while that B is 20 the first being 70% pure and the my working life in an office, and I
m/s. A fly flies from one turtle to second being 60% pure. How many spent 1/3 of my working life as a
another at the same time that the ounces of the 60% pure gold must be school caretaker. For the last 13 years
turtles start to move toward its each used to make 100 ounces of an alloy of my working life, I've been Santa
other. The rate of the fly is constant which will be 66% gold? Claus. How old
at 100 m/s. determine the total A. 40 C. 35 am I?"
distance traveled by the fly until the B. 45 D. 38 A. 67 C. 71
two turtles met? B. 75 D. 78
A. 500 m C. 700 m 7. A jogger starts a course at a steady
B. 600 m D. 800 m rate of 8 kph. Five minutes later, a 11. Twice the middle digit of a three-
second jogger starts the same course digit number is the sum of the other
2. If A’s rate of doing work is to B’s at 10 kph. How long will it take the two. If the number is divided by the
as 6:8 and A does a piece of work in second jogger to catch the first? sum of its digits, the answer is 56 and
50 days, how long will it take B to do A. 20 min the remainder is 12. If the digits are
it? B. 21 min reversed, the number becomes
A. 66.7 days C. 50.2 days C. 22 min smaller by 594. Find the number.
B. 23 days D. 37.5 days D. 18 min A. 432
B. 147
3. It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock 8. Six years ago, Raymond C. 852
and in 20 minutes, the minute hand Reddington was five times as old as D. 258
will be as much as the hour hand as it Elizabeth Keen. In five years,
is now behind it. What is the time Raymond Reddington will be three 12. Ely walks down to the bottom of
now? times as old as Elizabeth Keen. What an escalator that is moving up and he
A. 3:06.36 C. 3:26.46 is the present age of Elizabeth Keen? counts 150 steps. Her friend, Mia
B. 3:20 D. 3:30 walks up to the top of the escalator
A. 17 and counts 75 steps. If Ely’s speed of
4. Elizabeth is now 18 years old, and B. 16 walking (in steps per unit time) is
her colleague Eumia is 14 years old. C. 15 three times Mia’s walking speed, how
How many years ago was Elizabeth D. 14 many steps are visible on the
twice as old as Eumia? escalator at a given time. Assume
A. 5 9. A man on a boat row to a place 4.8 that this value is constant.
B. 7 miles with the stream and back in 14 A. 120
C. 8 hours but finds that he can row 14 B. 140
D. 10 miles with the stream at the same C. 130
time as 3 miles against the stream. D. 150
Find the rate of the stream.
A. 0.45 miles per hour
5. A father tells his son, “I was your B. 0.55 mile per hour
age now when you were born.” If the C. 0.76 mile per hour
father is now 38 years old, how old D. 0.68 mile per hour
was his son 2 years ago?
13. If the man’s age is a 3-digit the reservoir, but he forgets to close 23. A man rows downstream at the
number, his age is equal to the the outlet pipe. Six hours late he rate of 5 miles per hour and rows
product of two numbers. One of the remembers and closes the outlet. upstream at the rate of 2 miles per
numbers is the sum of the digits and How long does it take altogether to hour. How far downstream should he
the other number is product of the fill the reservoir? go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after
digits his age is? A. 29 1/7 hours C. 30 1/2 hours leaving?
A. 144 B. 29 1/5 hours D. 30 3/5 hours A. 2.5 miles C. 3.3 miles
B. 123 B. 3.1 miles D. 2.7 miles
C. 155 19. A cyclist traveled a certain
D. 112 distance at her usual speed. If her 24. Atan can paint the room in 15
speed had been 2 mi/hr. faster, she hours, Marlon can paint 50 percent
14. At what time between 4 and 5 could have travelled the distance in 1 faster than Atan, and Danny can paint
o’clock will the hands of the clock be hour less time. If her speed had been twice as fast as Atan. Atan begins to
at right angle for the first time? 2 mi/hr. slower, she would have paint the room and works alone for
A. 4:6.42 taken 2 hours longer. Find her usual the first hour and a half. Then Marlon
B. 4:5.23 speed. joins Atan, and they work together
C. 4:5.45 A. 6 mph C. 8 mph until half the room is painted. Then
D. 4:7.62 B. 7 mph D. 9 mph Danny joins Atan and Marlon, and
they work together until the entire
15. Michael has some coins in his 20. The ratio of men to women in a room is painted. Find the number of
pocket consisting of dimes, nickels, certain part was 5:3. Twenty-four minutes after Atan begins for the
and pennies. He has two more nickels men got drunk and decided to leave three of them to finish painting the
than dimes, and three times as many the party. When twenty-four more room.
pennies as nickels. How many women joined the party, the ratio A. 334 C. 347
pennies does he have if the total between men to women was B. 321 D. 312
value is 52 cents? interchanged, how many men were
A. 20 C. 15 left in the party? 25. How much water must be
B. 12 D. 5 A. 24 C. 36 evaporated from a 10 kg solution
B. 15 D. 42 which has 4% salt to make a solution
16. Bob has a coin collection made up of 10% salt?
of pennies and nickels. If he has three 21. The electric power which a A. 4 kg C. 5 kg
times as many pennies as nickels and transmission line can transmit is B. 6 kg D. 7 kg
the total face value of the coins is proportional to the product of its
$416, how many nickels are in the design voltage and current capacity,
collection? and inversely to the transmission
A. 5200 C. 5600 distance. A 115 kV line rate at 1000
B. 5400 D. 5800 A can transmit 150 MW over 150 km.
How much power in MW can
17. Diophantus passed 1/6 of his life 230 kV line rated at 1500 A transmit
in childhood, 1/12 in youth, 1/7 as a over 100 km?
bachelor. Five years after his A. 675 MW C. 576 MW
marriage was born a son who died 4 B. 765 MW D. 567 MW
years before his father at half his
father’s final age. How old was 22. What time after 3 o’clock will the
Diophantus when he died? hands of the clock be together for the
A. 48 yrs. old C. 72 yrs. old first time?
B. 84 yrs. old D. 27 yrs. old A. 3:02.30 C. 3:17.37
B. 3:14.32 D. 3:16.36
18. A reservoir can be filled by an
inlet pipe in 24 hours and emptied in
28 hours. The foreman starts to fill