PLUMBING ARITHMETIC

Set B Practice Mock Exam

1. For any two triangles, if an angle of one d. Depreciation

triangle is congruent to an angle of the other
and if the two sides of one triangle are 10. We may classify an interest rate which
proportional to the two sides of the other, they specifies the actual rate of interest on the
are what kind of triangles? principal for one year is:
a. Complementary a. Nominal rate
b. Supplementary b. Rate of Return
c. Similar c. Exact Interest Ratio
d. Dissimilar d. Effective Rate

2. A polygon with ten sides is? 11. The ratio of the interest payment to the
a. Dodecagon principal for a given unit of time and usually
b. Undecagon expressed as a percentage of the principal?
c. Decagon a. Interest
d. Hendecagon b. Interest Rate
c. Investment
3. Two angles having the same vertex and the d. Rate
side of one is the prolongation of the side of
the other is? 12. Additional information of prospective bidders
a. Acute Angle on contract documents issued prior to bidding
b. Scalene Angle date.
c. Obtuse Angle a. Depict
d. Vertical Angle b. Escalate
c. Assessment
4. The volume of the cube is equal to the cube of d. Bid Bulletin
the measure of its:
a. Angle 13. The paper currency issued by the central bank
b. Corner which forms part of the country’s money
c. Edge supply?
d. Diagonal a. T-bills
b. Bank Note
5. If each of two lines are perpendicular to the c. Check
same line, then the lines are: d. Coupon
a. Perpendicular
b. Parallel 14. Reduction in the level of national income and
c. Tangent output usually accompanied by the fall in the
d. Converging general price level.
a. Devaluation
6. A branch of mathematics dealing with b. Deflation
integers, and more generally, numerical c. Inflation
computation. d. Depreciation
a. Algebra
b. Trigonometry 15. It is a series of equal payment occurring at
c. Geometry equal interval or time.
d. Arithmetic a. Annuity
b. Debt
7. A number that be exactly divided by two is: c. Amortization
a. Real d. Deposit
b. Original
c. Integer 16. The place where the buyers and sellers come
d. Even together.
a. Market
8. A space that is devoid of matter and in which b. Business
the pressure is zero. c. Recreation Center
a. Black Hole d. Buy and Sell Section
b. Outer Space
c. Vacuum 17. A market where there is one buyer of an item
d. Inner Space for which there are no good substitute.
a. Monopsony
9. Decrease in the value of a physical property b. Oligopoly
due to the passage of time. c. Monopoly
a. Inflation d. Oligopsony
b. Depletion
c. Recession

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 18. It is a series of equal payments occurring at 27. What is the highest position in the
equal interval of time where the first payment corporation?
is made several periods after the beginning of a. President
the payment. b. Board of Directors
a. Perpetuity c. Chairman of the Board
b. Ordinary Annuity d. Stockholders
c. Annuity Due
d. Deferred Annuity 28. Type of ownership in business here individuals
exercise and enjoy the right in their own
19. The total income equals the total operating interest.
cost. a. Equitable
a. Balance Sheet b. Public
b. In-place value c. Private
c. Check and Balance d. Pure
d. Break-even
29. An association of two or more individuals for
20. Kind of obligation which has no condition the purpose of operating a business as co-
attached. owners for profit.
a. Analytic a. Sole proprietorship
b. Pure b. Company
c. Gratuitous c. Partnership
d. Private d. Corporation

21. Direct labor costs incurred in the factory and 30. It is defined to be the capacity of a commodity
direct material costs are costs of all materials to satisfy human want.
that go into production. The sum of these two a. Discount
direct costs is: b. Luxury
a. GS and A expenses c. Necessity
b. Operating and Maintenance Cost d. Utility
c. Prime Cost
d. O and M cost 31. It is the amount which a willing buyer will pay
to willing seller for a property where each has
22. An index of short-term paying ability is called: equal advantage and is under no compulsion
a. Receivable turn-over to buy or sell.
b. Profit margin Ratio a. Fair Value
c. Current Ratio b. Market Value
d. Acid-test ratio c. Book Value
d. Salvage Value
23. Estimated value at the end of the useful life.
a. Market Value 32. This occurs in a situation where a commodity
b. Fair Value or service is supplied by a number of vendors
c. Salvage Value and there is nothing to prevent additional
d. Book Value vendors entering the market.
a. Perfect Competition
24. Consists of the actual counting or b. Oligopoly
determination of the actual quantity of the c. Monopoly
materials on hand as a given date. d. Elastic Demand
a. Physical Inventory
b. Material Update 33. These are products or services that are
c. Technological Assessment desired by human and will be purchased if
d. Material Count money is available after the required
necessities have been obtained.
25. The quantity of a certain commodity that is a. Utilities
offered for sale at a certain price at a given b. Necessities
place and time. c. Luxuries
a. Demand d. Product Goods and Services
b. Supply
c. Stocks 34. These are products or services that are
d. Good required to support human life and activities
that will be purchased in somewhat the same
26. Work-in process in classified as: quantity even though the price varies
a. An asset considerably.
b. A liability a. Utilities
c. An expense b. Necessities
d. An owner’s equity c. Luxuries
d. Product Goods and Services

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 35. A condition where only few individuals 44. Worth of the property as shown in the
produce a certain product and that any action accounting records of an enterprise.
of one will lead to almost the same action of a. Fair value
others. b. Market value
a. Oligopoly c. Salvage value
b. Semi-monopoly d. Book value
c. Monopoly
d. Perfect Competition 45. Those funds that are required to make the
enterprise or project a going concern.
36. Grand total of the assets and operational a. Initial investment
capability of a corporation. b. Current accounts
a. Authorized Capital c. Working capital
b. Investment d. Subscribed capital
c. Subscribed Capital
d. Money Market 46. A market situation where there is one seller
with many buyers.
37. The worth of property equals to the original a. Monopoly
cost less depreciation. b. Monopsony
a. Scrap value c. Oligopoly
b. Face Value d. Oligopsony
c. Market Value
d. Book Value 47. A market situation where there is one buyer
and one seller.
38. Money paid for the use of borrowed capital. a. Monopoly bilateral
a. Discount b. Monopsony bilateral
b. Credit c. Oligopoly Bilateral
c. Interest d. Oligopsony Bilateral
d. Profit
48. A market situation where there are few sellers
39. Liquid assets such as cash and other assets and few buyers.
that can be converted quickly into cash, such a. Oligopoly
as accounts receivable and merchandise are b. Oligopsony
called: c. Bilateral oligopoly
a. Total assets d. Bilateral oligopsony
b. Fixed Assets
c. Current Assets 49. A market situation where there are only two
d. None of the above buyers with many sellers.
a. Duopoly
40. The length of time which the property may be b. Oligopoly
operated at a profit. c. Duopsony
a. Physical life d. Oligopsony
b. Economic life
c. Operating life 50. Scrap value of an asset.
d. All of the above a. Book value
b. Salvage Value
41. The provision in the contract that indicates the c. Replacement value
possible adjustment of material and labor d. Future value
costs.
a. Secondary clause 51. A type of annuity where the payment is made
b. Escalatory clause at the end of payment period starting from the
c. Contingency clause first period.
d. Main clause a. Ordinary annuity
b. Annuity due
42. The precent worth of depreciation over the c. Deferred annuity
economic life of the item is called: d. Perpetuity
a. Book value
b. Capital Recovery 52. Bond to which are attached coupons indicating
c. Depreciation Recovery the interest due and the date when such
d. Sinking Fund interest is to be paid.
a. Registered bound
43. Gross profit, sale less costs of goods sold, as b. Coupon Bond
a percentage of sales is called: c. Mortgage Bond
a. Profit margin d. Collateral Trust Bond
b. Gross Margin
c. Net income 53. “When free competitions exist the price of a
d. Rate of return product will be that value where supply is
equal to the demand”.

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 a. Law of diminishing returns a. Thermal Energy
b. Law of supply b. Rest Energy
c. Law of demand c. Gravitational Potential Energy
d. Law of supply and demand d. Elastic Potential Energy

54. The ratio of the net income to the owner’s 64. The energy stored in a stretched or
equity is known as ___. compressed elastic material such as spring is
a. Price-earnings ratio called:
b. Profit Margin ratio a. Thermal Energy
c. Rate of return b. Rest Energy
d. Gross Margin c. Gravitational Potential Energy
d. Elastic Potential Energy
55. Capitalized cost of any property is equal to the:
a. Annual Cost 65. The kinetic energy of the atoms and molecules
b. First Cost + Interest of the First Cost due to their random motion is called:
c. First Cost + Cost of Perpetual a. Thermal Energy
Maintenance b. Rest Energy
d. First Cost + Salvage Value c. Gravitational Potential Energy
d. Elastic Potential Energy
56. The rate of doing work.
a. Force 66. What will happen to the kinetic energy of the
b. Energy body if its velocity doubled?
c. Power a. Doubled
d. Momentum b. Quadrupled
c. Tripled
57. What is the SI unit of power? d. Remains the Same
a. Joule
b. Kilowatt – hour 67. Thermal energy refers to the random kinetic
c. Horsepower energy of all ____ in a substance.
d. Watt a. Atoms
b. Molecules
58. All are units of power except: c. Masses
a. Watt d. Atoms and molecules
b. Horsepower
c. Newton – meter/second 68. A vector quantity which is a product of mass
d. Joules and velocity of the body.
a. Momentum
59. Why is the power delivered by any machine is b. Impulse
always less than the power supplies to it? c. Energy
a. Due to its efficiency d. Displacement
b. Due to the presence of potential energy
c. Due to its speed 69. The product of the force and the time during
d. Due to the presence of friction which it acts is known as:
a. Momentum
60. An energy by virtue of the object’s motion is b. Impulse
called? c. Energy
a. Rest energy d. Displacement
b. Potential energy
c. Thermal Energy 70. Change in momentum is equal to:
d. Kinetic Energy a. Displacement
b. Impulse
61. An energy by virtue of the object’s position or c. Power
elevation is called? d. Work
a. Rest energy
b. Potential energy 71. Change in Energy of an object is equal to:
c. Thermal Energy a. Displacement
d. Kinetic Energy b. Impulse
c. Power
62. An energy by virtue of the object’s mass is d. Work
called?
a. Rest energy 72. The negative ratio of the relative velocity after
b. Potential energy the collision to a relative velocity before a
c. Thermal Energy collision pf two objects.
d. Kinetic Energy a. Coefficient of Friction
b. Coefficient of Sliding
63. The energy of an object due to its vertical c. Coefficient of Kinetic Friction
separation from the earth’s surface. d. Coefficient of Restitution

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 a. Galileo
73. A collision in which the total kinetic energy b. Kepler
after collision is less than before collision. c. Varignon
a. Elastic d. Newton
b. Inelastic
c. Completely inelastic 82. The law which describes the motion of stars,
d. None of the above. planets and comets.
a. Law of universal gravitation
74. When the colliding bodies stick together on b. Newton’s Laws of Motion
impact which results the maximum possible c. Kepler’s Law
loss of kinetic energy, it is said to be an ____ d. Big Bang
collision.
a. Elastic 83. Which of the following does not describe the
b. Inelastic object as observed from earth?
c. Perfectly Inelastic a. Apogee
d. None of the above b. Perigee
c. Eccentricity
75. Which of the following is true about collision? d. Focus
a. In elastic collision, kinetic energy is lost
b. In elastic collision, two bodies stick 84. If an external pressure is applied to a confined
together after impact. fluid, the pressure will be increased at every
c. In elastic collision, no kinetic energy is point in the fluid by the amount of external
lost pressure. This is known as:
d. Kinetic energy is not conserved in an a. Archimedes Principle
elastic collision b. Pascal’s Law
c. Boyle’s Law
76. For perfectly elastic collision, the coefficient of d. Bernoulli’s Law
restitution is equal to:
a. 0 85. According to this law, “The force between two
b. 1 charged particles varies directly to the
c. between 0 and 1 magnitude of each charge and inversely to the
d. Less than 0 square of the distances between them”.
a. Law of universal gravitation
77. For perfectly inelastic collision, the coefficient b. Coulomb’s Law
of restitution is equal to: c. Newton’s Laws
a. 0 d. Inverse-square law
b. 1
c. between 0 and 1 86. To find the angle of the triangle, given the
d. Less than 0 length of the sides, one would use:
a. The law of cosines
78. “For every action force, there is a reaction b. The inverse-square law
force that is equal in magnitude but opposite c. The law of tangents
in direction” is called: d. The law of sines
a. Newton’s First Law
b. Newton’s Second Law 87. Which of the following regarding the signs of
c. Newton’s Third Law natural functions for angles between 90
d. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation degrees and 180 degrees?
a. The tangent is positive
79. “An object at rest or moving at constant b. The cotangent is positive
velocity on a straight line will stay at rest or c. The cosine is negative
move the same speed on a straight line unless d. The sine is negative
an external force acts on the object” is called:
a. Newton’s First Law 88. What is the reciprocal function of cosecant?
b. Newton’s Second Law a. Secant
c. Newton’s Third Law b. Sine
d. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation c. Cosine
d. Cotangent
80. “An unbalanced force acting on the object will
cause the object to accelerate in the direction 89. The graphical presentation of a cumulative
of the force” is called: frequency distribution in a set of statistical data
a. Newton’s First Law is called:
b. Newton’s Second Law a. Histogram
c. Newton’s Third Law b. Kurtosis
d. Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation c. Lepticurtik
d. Ogive
81. The accurate formulation of the laws of
motion, as well as of gravitational is made by:

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 90. A statement of truth which follows with little or b. Hypothesis
no truth from a theorem. c. Postulate
a. Axiom d. Conclusion
b. Hypothesis
c. Corollary 100. A mathematical statement which has
d. Conclusion neither been proved nor denied by counter
example.
91. It is a sequence of number such that the a. Fallacy
successive terms differ by a constant. b. Conjecture
a. Arithmetic progression c. Theorem
b. Geometric Progression d. Paradox
c. Infinite Progression
d. Harmonic Progression

92. A frequency curve which is composed of

series of rectangles constructed with the steps
as the base and the frequency as the height.
a. Histogram
b. Frequency distribution
c. Ogive
d. Bar Graph

93. If a = b then b = a, this illustrates what axiom

in algebra?
a. Symmetric axiom
b. Reflexive axiom
c. Transitive axiom
d. Replacement axiom

94. Two or more equations are equal if and only if

they have the same:
a. Solution set
b. Degree
c. Order
d. Variable set

95. Terms that differ only in numerical coefficients

are known as:
a. Unlike terms
b. Unequal terms
c. Like terms
d. Similar equation

96. In complex algebra, we use diagram to

represent complex plane commonly called:
a. Argand diagram
b. Venn diagram
c. Maxwell diagram
d. Cartesian diagram

97. The number of successful outcomes divided

by the number of possible outcomes.
a. Odd
b. Combination
c. Permutation
d. Probability

98. A statement of truth which is admitted without

proof.
a. Axiom
b. Theorem
c. Postulate
d. Corollary

99. A part of the theorem which is assumed to be

true.
a. Corollary

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