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the voice similar sounding female. A random sample of 20 one year olds are given this voice recognition
test. Let the random variable x denote the number of children who do not recognize their mother’s
voice. Find the variance.
A. 2
B. 1.8
C. 4.2
D. 1.5
The rate of virus spread is jointly proportional to those infected and uninfected people. If there are 5000
inhabitants at the start of the year and after a week there were 160 people infected, after 2 weeks there
are 1200 people infected, how many days will there be for 80% people to be infected?
A. 10 days
B. 15 days
C. 20 days
D. 25 days
A chord of a circle of diameter 10 ft is decreasing in length 1ft/min. Fin the rate of change of the smaller
arc subtended by the chord when the cord is 8ft long.
A. 3/5 ft/min
B. 5/3 ft/min
C. 3 ft/min
D. 5 ft/min
A steel girder 8m long is moved on rollers along a passageway 4m wide and into a corridor at right angles
to the passageway. Neglecting the width of the girder, how wide must the corridor be?
A. 2.0m
B. 1.8m
C. 2.4m
D. 3.6m
From the base of a building, the angle of elevation to the top of a 4.0m vertical pole a distance away 18
deg. 50 min. From the top of the building, the angle of depression of the base of the pole is 48 deg. 10
min. Find the height of the building.
A. 9.1 m
B. 8.1 m
C. 11.2 m
D. 21.0 m
A and B working together can do a job in 5 hrs. B and C together can do the same in 4 hrs and A and C in
2.5 hrs. In how many days can all of them finish the job working together?
A. 1.07 hrs
B. 2.80 hrs
C. 2.03 hrs
D. 3.10 hrs
Sand is being poured into a conical pile in such a way that the height is always 1/3 of the radius. At what
rate is sand being added to the pile when it is 4 ft high if the height is increasing at 2 in/min
A. 100,132.88 in/min
B. 53,288.13 in/min
C. 30.288.13 in/min
D. 130,288.13 in/min
A transmitter with a height of 15m is located on top of a mountain which is 3.0 km high. What is the
farthest distance on the surface of the earth that can be seen from the top of the mountain? Take the
radius of the earth to be 6400 km.
A. 225 km
B. 152 km
C. 196 km
D. 205 km
Refers to the burning of waste and other materials, excavation, quarrying, construction, and other
activities of the same nature and character, which are performed partially or wholly inside the power
line corridor which threaten or endanger the continuous and uninterrupted conveyance of electricity;
B. Hazardous activities
C. Hazardous improvements
D. Unsafe Act
In case of conflicting interpretations of PEC2017 part 1, these may be referred to the Philippine Electrical
Code Part 1 Committee for interpretation. Should disagreement remain, thereafter, the Committee's
interpretation shall be referred to the _______ who shall render the final decision.
D. Department of Energy
"nylon"?
A. Polyacetals
B. Polyamide
C. Cellulose
D. Polyester
A. Paramagnetic materials
B. Non-magnetic materials
C. Ferromagnetic materials
D. Diamagnetic materials
Which of the following will correctly define x, y, and z as symbols?
A. sym (x, y, z)
B. syms x, y, z
C. syms x y z
D. sym x, y, z
A project team member is talking to another team member and complaining that many people are
asking him to do things. If he works in a functional organization, who has the power to give direction to
the team member?
C. The team
D. The PMO
A plan-driven organization is trying to move toward a more agile approach. As part of this process, you
have been asked to manage the organization's first hybrid project. What can you expect?
A. You will plan the project with the usual predictive process, then the team will use agile practices to
implement the plan.
B. The team will be using both agile and predictive practices in each iteration.
C. For each part of the project, you will need to choose either agile practices or plan-driven practices.
D. You will need to design the best balance of agile and plan-driven practices based on the needs of
the project and the organization.
How can you change colors in your presentation all at once without changing the design?
A. clear
B. clc
C close all
D. clear all
What function allows you to borrow slides from a presentation from an other presentation?
A. Borrow Slides
C. Reuse Slides
D. Find Slides
“Tall growing plants” refer to plants, vines and other plant species, which grow or have the potential to
grow more than ___ m?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 5
D. 4
A jeepney driver was traveling from Philcoa to Quiapo when he hit the brakes but the brakes failed.
Fortunately, he was able to stop the jeepney without hitting anyone. What do you call this?
A. Incident
C. Unsafe act from the jeepney driver for failing to check the brakes beforehand
D. Accident
An automobile tire with a volume of 0.6 m3 is inflated to a gauge pressure of 200 kPa. Find the mass of
the air in the tire if the temperature is 20°C.
A. 1.42 kg
B. 2.14 kg
C. 1.78 kg
D. 2.49 kg
Which of the following is CORRECT regarding the sizing of the rating of the overcurrent protective device
of a circuit?
What is the standard color for safety signage to indicate the presence of radiation hazards, for example
in the x-ray laboratory in the hospital?
B. Orange
C. Blue
In a spreadsheet, the number in cell A2 is set to 2. Then cell B2 is set to A2*4/$A$2, where $ indicates
the absolute cell address. This formula is copied into cells C2 and D2. The number shown in cell D2 is
A. 2
B. 8
C. 4
D. 16
For hospitals, a general lighting load of _ VA/m2 shall be used.
A. 12
B. 8
C. 24
D. 16
A network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the
owners' knowledge, e.g., to send spam messages.
A. phishing
B. hacking
C. botnet
D. trojan horse
A thin mild steel wire is loaded by adding loads in equal increments till it breaks. The extensions noted
with increasing loads will behave as under
A. uniform throughout
B. increase uniformly
What will happen if the refrigerator door is left open inside the room?
D. Room temperature and Refrigerator temperature will eventually reached thermal equilibrium.
A form of personal protective equipment, high-visibility clothing is worn to increase a person's visibility
and therefore prevent accidents caused by persons not being seen
A. Googles
B. Hard Hat
C. Vest or Lifevest
D. Signal light
Super cooled water is liquid water that has been cooled below its normal freezing point. This state is
thermodynamically:
A. check valve
B. float
C. butterfly valve
D. surge tank
What does the Profiler track?
A machine is under consideration for purchase. The cost of the machine is ₱25,000. Each year it
operates, the machine will generate a savings of ₱15,000. Given an effective annual interest rate of 18%,
what is the discounted payback period on the purchase in the machine?
A. 1.67 yr
B. 2.15 yr
C. 1.75 yr
D. 3.17 yr
What prefix in steel identification means composition varies from normal limits?
A. E
B. H
C. X
D. B
Two project managers have just realized that they are in a weak matrix organization and that their power
as project managers is quite limited. One figures out that he is really a project expediter, and the other
realizes she is really a project coordinator. How is a project expediter different from a project
coordinator?
A steel cannot qualify for stainless prefix until it has at least how many percent of Chromium?
A. 10%
B. 20%
C. 25%
D. 5%
A ₱1000 was borrowed with an effective annual interest rate of 19.65% and will be paid ₱200 a month.
What will be the remaining amount after the 3rd payment?
A. ₱470
B. ₱330
C. ₱390
D. ₱250
As per OSHS standard color of sign, what color is used as a precaution to the movement of equipment
which is under repair?
A. Blue
B. Red
A. Tds = dU + pdV
B. U = Q – W
C. Tds = dH – pdV
D. H = U + Pv
A reservoir dam holds an 8sq.km lake behind it. Just behind the dam, the lake is 12m deep. What is the
water pressure at the base of the dam?
A. 118kPa
B. 108kPa
C. 112kPa
D. 115kPa
The maximum shear stress for the beam with triangular cross-section.
A. 3b/sh
B. 3s/bh
C. 4s/bh
D. 4b/sh
200 READ N$
A bar of uniform cross section is subject to a uniaxial tension and develops a strain in the direction of the
force 1/800. Calculate the change of volume per unit volume. Assume p = 1/3.
A. 1/2400 (inc)
B. 1/1200 (inc)
C. 1/2400 (dec)
D. 1/1200 (dec)
A. oxidation
B. covalent process
C. reduction
D. ionic process
The torque angle continuously increases, system will become
A. stable
B. unstable
C. oscillatory
D. asymptomatic
The equipment grounding conductor of a branch circuit shall be identified by what color?
A. Green
B. Black
C. White
D. Gray
A 345-kV transmission line has a series impedance of 4 + j60 Ω and a shunt admittance of j2 × 10-3 S.
Using 100 MVA and the line voltage as base values, calculate the per-unit admittance of the line.
A. j2.38 pu
B. j4.56
C. j3.28
D. j5. 46
A 150-g block on the end of a spring with a spring constant of 35 N/m is pulled aside 25 cm and released
from rest. In the electrical analog the initial charge on the capacitor is:
A. 0.15 C
B. 6.67 C
C. 0.025 C
D. 40 C
Which of the following plants will take least time in starting from cold conditions to full-load operation?
C. Hydroelectric plant
A. Distribution transformer
B. Autotransformer
C. Potential transformer
D. Power transformer
A. The voltage source in the Thevenin equivalent circuit is the open circuit voltage of the network when
load is disconnected.
B. The Thevenin equivalent resistance (impedance) is the resistance (impedance) of the network when
all voltage sources are short circuited.
C. Thevenin equivalent resistance is calculated when all voltage sources are open circuited.
A. arrester class
B. current rating
C. voltage rating
D. insulation coordination
A. Fuses
B. Differential Relay
C. Overcurrent Relay
D. Magnetic Switch
A. It is temporary.
What is the term used for the arrangement of elements on a slide, such as Title and Content?
A. theme
B. design
C. sheme
D. layout
A. Convert to WordArt.
B. Convert to SmartArt.
C. Convert to Shapes.
D. Convert to Picture.
C. Project governance
D. Portfolio management
Your corporate compliance office has just issued a new requirement that a complex security checklist
must be submitted before the release of every high-criticality product. Since this form wasn't originally
required, you didn't make plans for completing it. Your release date is approaching and the checklist is
due soon. What should you do?
A. Ensure that the checklist is filled out accurately and submitted on time.
B. Delegate the task of completing and submitting the checklist to the business analyst for your project.
I=100/(20+10000)=9.98m
A series circuit consists of 10 ohms resistor and unknown capacitor. It is supplied by 5 A current across a
460 volts ac, 50 hz. What is the value of the capacitance?
Two students were solving a problem that would reduce it to a quadratic equation. The first student
committed an error in the constant term and found the roots to be 5 and 7 while the second student
made an error in the first degree term and gave the roots as 2 and 16. If you were to check their
solutions, the right equation is:
x^2 - 12x + 18 = 0
A 240 volts ac supplies a purely resistive wye connected loads of 11.52 ohm's. Calculate the total power.
Two wattmeter is used to measure a 3 phase induction motor. If the reading of the wattmeters are 85.5
kw and 34.7 kw respectively. Calculate the operating power factor.
The sum of the areas three similar polygons is 50. If the perimeters of these three polygons are 10, 15,
and 20 , respectively. Find the area of the largest polygon
10:15:20= 2:3:4