1. Simplify as possible: 7𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 3 .

A. 9𝑥 4 C. 9𝑥 3 11. The Wollomombi Falls in Australia have a height of 1100 ft. A

B. 9𝑥 9
D. 9𝑥 6 pebble is thrown upward from the top of the falls with an
initial velocity of 20 ft/s. The height of the pebble “h” after “t”
2. Solve for x from the following equations: seconds is given by the equation h = -16t2 + 20t + 1100. How
𝑥𝑦 = 12 𝑦𝑧 = 20 𝑧𝑥 = 15 long after the pebble is thrown will hit the ground?
A. ±3 C. ±5 A. 6.79 s C. 8.94 s
B. ±4 D. ±6 B. 9.84 s D. 7.69 s

3. The cost of electricity in a certain city is given by the formula 12. Suppose you receive 𝑥 dollars in January. Each month
𝐶 = 0.07𝑛 + 6.5, where 𝐶 is the cost and 𝑛 is the number of thereafter you receive $100 more than you received the
kilowatt hours used. Solve for 𝑛 and find the number of kwh month before. Write a factored polynomial that describes the
used for costs of Php49.97, Php76.50 and Php 125. total dollar amount you receive from January through April.
A. 612, 1010, 1962.9 C. 621, 1000, 1692.9 A. 5(𝑥 + 150) C. 4(𝑥 + 200)
B. 611, 999, 1693.8 D. 621, 1000, 1678 B. 4(𝑥 + 150) D. 4(𝑥/4 + 200)

4. A germ population has a growth curve 𝐴𝑜 𝑡 0.4𝑡 . At what value 13. Newton’s law of cooling states that the rate at which an object
of 𝑡 does its original value doubled? cools is directly proportional to the difference in the
A. 1.733 C. 1.845 temperature between the object and its surrounding medium.
B. 1.377 D. 1.485 Newton’s law can be used to show that under certain
conditions the temperature 𝑇 (in °C) of an object at 𝑡 (in hours)
5. During the Winter Olympics Game in Torino, Italy, the total is given 𝑇 = 75𝑒 −2𝑡 . Express 𝑡 as a function of 𝑇.
number of gold medals won by Germany, Canada, and United A. 𝑡 = 2 ln(𝑇/75) C. 𝑡 = ½ ln(75/𝑇)
States were three consecutives odd integers. Of these three B. 𝑡 = ¼ ln(𝑇/75) D. 𝑡 = 4 ln(75/𝑇)
countries, Germany won the most of gold medals and Canada
won the fewest. If the sum of the first integer, twice the second 14. Bill wants to calculate how many baristas are required in his
integer, and four times the third integer is 69, find the number coffee shop. He operates 313 days a year for 11 hours each
of gold medals won by each country. day. Bill wants a capacity cushion of 12% to deal with
A. Germany = 15, United States = 13, Canada = 11 unexpected fluctuations in demand. This year Bill is
B. Germany = 13, United States = 11, Canada = 9 forecasting 500,000 customers with an average time of 3
C. Germany = 11, United States = 9, Canada = 7 minutes.
D. Germany = 9, United States = 7, Canada = 5 A. 9 C. 12
B. 11 D. 10
6. To stimulate his son in the pursuit of partial differential
equation equations, a math professor offered to pay him $8 for 15. The passenger on an excursion bus consisted of 14 married
every equation correctly solved and to fine him every $5 for couples, 8 of whom brought no children, and 6 of whom
every incorrect solution. At the end of 26 problems, neither brought 3 children a piece. Counting the driver, the bus had 31
owed any money to the other. How many did the boy solve occupants. How is this possible?
correctly? A. Included among the 18 children were 8 married couples.
A. 10 C. 11 B. Included among the 18 children were 7 married couples.
B. 16 D. 15 C. Included among the 18 children were 10 married couples.
D. Included among the 18 children were 5 married couples.
7. Many printing presses are designed with large plates that
print a fixed number of pages as a unit. Each unit is called a 16. How many different ways are there to arrange six people in a
signature. A particular press prints signatures of 16 pages round table?
each. Suppose C(p) is the cost of printing a book of p pages, A. 120 C. 360
assuming each signature cost $0.14. What is the cost of B. 720 D. 60
printing a book of 128 pages?
A. $1.12 C. $2.12 17. The local weather forecaster say “no rain” and his record is
B. $1.21 D. $2.21 2/3 accuracy of prediction. But the Federal Meteorological
Service predicts rain and their record is 3/4. With no other
8. A manufacturer of custom windows produces 𝑦 windows per data available, what is the chance of rain?
week using 𝑥 hours of labor per week, where 𝑦 = 1.75√𝑥. How A. 2/3 C. 4/5
many hours of labor are required to keep production at 28 B. 3/5 D. 1/3
windows per week?
A. 265 hours C. 278 hours 18. Players A and B match pennies N times. They keep a tally of
B. 256 hours D. 287 hours their gains and losses. After the first loss, what is the chance
that at no time during the game will they be even?
9. Two trains going in opposite directions leaves the same time. 𝑁 𝑁
A. ( ) /2𝑛 C. ( ) /2
One train travel 15 mph faster than the other. In 6 hours, the 𝑛 𝑛
trains are 630 miles apart. Find the speed of each. 𝑁 𝑁
B. ( ) /2 𝑁
D. ( ) /2𝑁
A. 55 mph & 60 mph C. 54 mph & 60 mph 𝑛 𝑛
B. 45 mph & 60 mph D. 45 mph & 65 mph
19. Samsung, a computer chip manufacturer, has found that 1 out
10. In 2 minutes, a conveyor belt can move 300 pounds recyclable of 2000 chips is defective. A certain company ordered a
aluminum from the delivery truck to a storage area. A smaller shipment of chips. How many chips will the company order
belt can move the same quantity of cans of the same distance before the probability that at least one chip is defective is
in 6 minutes. If both belts are used, find how long it takes to 45%?
move the cans to the storage area. A. 1120 C. 998
A. 2 ½ minutes C. 1 ¼ minutes B. 1080 D. 1194
B. 1 ½ minutes D. 2 ¼ minutes
20. From the give data shown:
Score 1 2 3 4 5 32. Find a polar equation that has the same graph as the circle
Frequency 14 15 14 17 10 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 = 4𝑦.
Determine the standard deviation. A. 𝑟 = 4 sin 𝜃 C. 𝑟 = 4 tan 𝜃
A. 1.469 C. 1.349 B. 𝑟 = 4 cos 𝜃 D. 𝑟 = 4 csc 𝜃
B. 1.239 D. 1.923
33. The number of hours daylight D(t) at a particular time of the
21. Given that sin 34° = 0.5592, find an acute angle 𝜃 such that year can be approximated by
cos 𝜃 = 0.5592. 𝑘 2𝜋
A. 47° C. 34° 𝐷(𝑡) = sin [ (𝑡 − 79)] + 12
2 365
B. 43° D. 56° for t days and t = 0 corresponding to January 1. The constant k
determines the total variation in day length and depends on
22. In triangle ABC, AB = 30 m, BC = 36 m, and AC = 48 m. The the latitude of the locale. When is the day length the shortest?
perpendicular bisectors of the sides intersect at point P. How Assume k = 6.
far is P from the side BC? A. October 20 C. December 20
A. 15.92 m C. 16.92 m B. November 21 D. June 20
B. 19.52 m D. 20.62 m
34. The interior of a satellite TV antenna is a dish having a shape
23. From the top of a lighthouse 120 m above the sea, the angle of of a finite paraboloid that has a diameter 12 meters and is 2
depression of a boat is 15°. How far is the boat from the meter deep. Find the distance from the center if the dish to the
lighthouse? focus.
A. 456.85 m C. 465.85 m A. 4.5 C. 2.5
B. 447.85 m D. 474.85 m B. 3.5 D. 1.5
24. The angle of elevation of the top of a building from point A on 35. A circular pool of water is expanding at the rate of 16π in 2/s.
the ground is 24.2°. From point B, which is 44.5 ft closer, the At what rate is the radius expanding when the radius is 4
angle of elevation is 38.1°. What is the height of the building? inches (in inches per minute)?
A. 49.6 m C. 43.5 m A. 10 C. 100
B. 46.9 m D. 45.3 m B. 2 D. 120
25. AB is the diameter of a circle. BC is a chord 10 cm long. CD is 36. A long rectangular sheet of metal, 12 cm wide is to be made a
another chord. Angle BDC = 18°. What is the area of the circle rain gutter by turning up two sides so that they are
in sq.cm.? perpendicular to the sheet. How many centimeters should be
A. 822.47 cm² C. 811.74 cm² turned up to give the gutter its greatest capacity?
B. 205.62 cm² D. 250.26 cm² A. 1.5 C. 3.0
B. 2.0 D. 2.5
26. If the perimeter of a rectangle is 68 meters and the length is
14 m more than the width, what are the dimensions of the 37. A person driving her car at 45 kph approaches an intersection
rectangle? just as the traffic light turns yellow. She knows that the yellow
A. 9 m by 25 m C. 11 m by 23 m light lasts only 2.0 sec before turning red and she is 28 m from
B. 12 m by 22 m D. 10 m by 24 m the near side of the intersection. Should she try to stop, or she
speed up to cross the intersection before the light turns red?
27. A rectangular soccer field is twice as long as it is wide. If the The intersection is 15 m wide. Her car’s maximum
perimeter of the soccer field is 300 yards, what are the fields deceleration is -5.8 m/s2, whereas it can accelerate from 45
dimensions? kph to 65 kph in 6.0 sec. Ignore the length of her car and her
A. 75 yd by 150 yd C. 80 yd by 160 yd reaction time.
B. 50 yd by 100 yd D. 55 yd by 110 yd A. She should speed up to cross the intersection before the
light turns red.
28. A metal sphere with a sp.gravity of 3 originally weighs 34 kg. B. She should adjust the rate of deceleration and wait for the
It underwent a process of recasting and was formed into a next red light.
solid cone with a base having a radius of 6 cm. Assuming 12% C. She should maintain the rate of deceleration and continue
of the metal was lost in the process. What is the perpendicular as she would pass through the intersection against the
height of the new cone? green light.
A. 244.55 cm C. 264.55 cm D. She should adjust the rate of deceleration, stop and wait for
B. 246.65 cm D. 266.55 cm the next green light.
29. A polyhedron having 12 faces and has for its face 12 regular 38. A 2 kg body is tied to the end of chord and whirled in a
pentagon is called dodecahedron. Determine the number of horizontal circle of radius 1.5 m at 3 revolution per second.
edges. Neglecting the attraction due to gravity, find the acceleration
A. 15 edges C. 30 edges of the body toward the center of the circle in m/s 2.
B. 22 edges D. 12 edges A. 533 C. 554
B. 355 D. 455
30. A circle has an equation of 𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2 + 2𝑘𝑦 = 0. Find the value
of k when the length of the tangent from (5, 4) to the circle is 39. If 300 pounds of force is required to push 1000-pound safe up
equal to one. a ramp, then what is the angle of inclination of the ramp?
A. -1 C. -5 A. 18.9° C. 17.6°
B. 5 D. 1 B. 19.8° D. 16.7°
31. Find the equation of the curve passing through the point (3, 2) 40. The 25,000 lb Hubble space telescope was launched April
and having slope 5x2 – x + 1 at every point (x, y). 1990 and placed in a 380 mi circular orbit above the earth’s
3𝑥 3 𝑥2 83 5𝑥 3 𝑥2 83 surface. It completes one orbit every 97 min, going from a
A. 𝑦 = 5 − 2 + 𝑥 − 2 C. 𝑦 = 3 + 2 + 𝑥 − 2
5𝑥 3 𝑥2 83 5𝑥 3 𝑥2 83
dawn-to-dusk cycle nearly 15 times a day. If the radius of the
B. 𝑦 = − +𝑥− D. 𝑦 = − +𝑥+ earth is 3,964 mi, what is the linear velocity of the space
3 2 2 3 2 2
telescope in miles per hour (mph)?
 A. 24,000 mph C. 19,000 mph Line Bearing Distance
B. 16,000 mph D. 17,000 mph AB N 26°10’ E 285.10
BC S 75°25’ E 610.45
41. The machine was purchased at an original cost of P400,000 CD S 15°30’ W 720.45
with a salvage value of P20,000. The life of this machine is DE N 1°42’ W 203.00
expected to last 6 years. It was used for 4000 hours in the first EA N 53°06’ W 647.02
year, 6000 hours in the second year, and 8000 hours on the
A. Clat(BC) = -0.08, Cdep(BC) = 0.13
third year. The machine is expected to last for 38000 hours in
B. Clat(BC) = 0.03, Cdep(BC) = 0.08
a period of 6 years. Which of the following gives the
C. Clat(BC) = -0.03, Cdep(BC) = 0.08
depreciation at the end of the second year?
D. Clat(BC) = 0.08, Cdep(BC) = -0.13
A. P70,000 C. P75,000
B. P65,000 D. P60,000
50. A line has been measured 10 times with the results shown in
column (1) of the following table. It is assumed that these
42. A printing machine costs P400,000 to purchase with a life of
measurements have already been corrected for all systematic
10 years with no salvage value. If the rate of interest is 10%
errors. What is the standard error?
per annum, compounded annually, compute the equivalent
A. ±0.01 C. ±0.10
uniform annual cost of the machine if it will cost P100,000 per
B. ±0.08 D. ±0.18
year to operate?
A. P185,098.16 C. P156,098.16 Length Residual (v) v2
B. P165,098.16 D. P159,900.16 1000.57 +0.12 0.0144
1000.39 -0.06 0.0036
43. The first cost of an electric rebar bender is P324,000 and a 1000.37 -0.08 0.0064
salvage value of P50,000 at the end of its life for 4 years. Money 1000.39 -0.06 0.0036
is worth 6% annually. If there is no salvage value and the 1000.48 +0.03 0.0009
annual maintenance cost is P18,000, find the capitalized cost 1000.49 +0.04 0.0016
of perpetual service. 1000.33 -0.12 0.0144
A. P100,100 C. P1,700,000 1000.46 +0.01 0.0001
B. P624,000 D. P850,000 1000.47 +0.02 0.0004
1000.55 +0.01 0.0100
44. A new corporate bond is being offered in the market for $930.
The bond has a face value of $1000 and matures in 10 years. 51. An Engineer designs a simple curve at a certain point of a
The issuing corporation promises to pay $70 in interest every highway. The data for the simple curve are:
year. What is the company’s cost of the capital raised through I = 44°
this bond issue if the stock broker’s fee is $15 per bond sold? R = 400 ft
A. 7.12% C. 10.11% P.C. = 11 + 10.57
B. 9.30% D. 8.29% P.I. = 12 + 72.18
P.T. = 14 + 17.75
45. A man bought a government bond which cost P1M and will pay Compute the deflection at station 13 + 00
P50,000 interest each year for 20 years. The bond will mature A. 13°34’01” C. 11°34’01”
at the end of 20 years, and he will receive the original P1M. If B. 12°34’01” D. 10°34’01”
there is 2% annual inflation during this period, what rate of
return will the investor receive after considering the effect of
52. An 80-m spiral connects a tangent with a 180-m radius
inflation?
A. 3.14% C. 2.94% circular curve. The maximum velocity in kph that a car could
pass through the curve without skidding is nearest to:
B. 2.41% D. 1.82%
A. 82.19 kph C. 75.14 kph
B. 71.86 kph D. 73.68 kph
46. A proposed manufacturing plant will require a fixed capital
investment if P8M and estimated working capital of P1.5M.
The annual profit is P2M and the annual depreciation is to be 53. The cross-sectional area of a road with width of 10 m is 42.9
8% of the fixed capital investment. Compute the rate of return m2. Given the cross section notes below:
of the total investment. 9.8 0 7.4
A. 14.32% C. 18.32% 2.4 𝑦 1.2
B. 12.56% D. 11.65% What is the value of 𝑦?
A. 4.16 m C. 2.11 m
47. A subdivision property was measured using a 100-m tape B. 3.15 m D. 3.94 m
which was actually 0.01 m short. If the recorded area was
3000 sq.m., what is the true area and how much is the error? 54. Given the following cross-section notes for a road grading
A. 0.3 m2 C. 0.03 m2 work:
B. 0.06 m 2 D. 0.6 m2 −3.2 +1.2 +1.2 +2.8
𝑥1 0 3.5 𝑥2
48. A surveyor set up a transit at point P, which is at the inner
The roadbed is 9 m wide and the side slope for cut is 1:1 and
portion of a four-sided tract of land ABCD, and read the
for fill is 1.5:1. Determine the area of cut of the section.
bearings and measures the distance as follows:
A. 7.40 m2 C. 8.40 m2
Line Bearing Distance B. 6.40 m2 D. 9.40 m2
PA N 40°30’ W 420.35
PB N 38°00’ E 530.15 55. A soil weighs 1163 kg/Lm3 (loose cubic meter), 1661 kg/Bm3
PC S 70°00’ E 480.75 (bank cubic meter), and 2077 kg/Cm3 (Compacted cubic
PD S 60°15’ W 695.10 meter). How many bank cubic meter (Bm3) and compacted
What is the area of the track in hectares? cubic meter (Cm3) are contained in 593,300 Lm3 of this soil?
A. 61.45 C. 50.14 A. Bank Volume = 332,248 Bm3
B. 54.40 D. 65.14 Compacted Volume = 332,248 Cm3
B. Bank Volume = 415,310 Bm3
49. Determine the correction values for the latitude of line AB and Compacted Volume = 332,248 Cm3
departure of line BC using compass rule. C. Bank Volume = 415,310 Bm3
 Compacted Volume = 415,310 Cm3
D. Bank Volume = 332,248 Bm3 59. What is the process of proportioning cement, water,
Compacted Volume = 415,310 Cm3 aggregates and additives prior to mixing concrete called?
A. Paving C. Batching
56. Determine the elevation of the residual water level (RWL) for B. Mixing D. Curing
a sheet pile type if the following data are as follows:
Elev. of MLLW (datum) = 0.00 m 60. Wind directly generated and affected by local winds, a wind
Elev. of HWL = +1.26 m wave system called:
Elev. of LWL = -0.23 m A. Wind wakes C. Wind swell
A. +0.76 m C. +0.33 B. Wind sea D. Wind seiching
B. -0.76 D. -0.33
61. A wave generated in deep water, when reaching shoaling
57. Device mounted on a fixed support (permanent signs) or waters, changes not only in its height but also in its length but
portable support (temporary signs) whereby a specific the period will ______.
message is conveyed by means of words or symbols placed or A. increase C. decrease
erected for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding B. remain constant D. none of the above
traffic.
A. Roadwork signs C. Traffic signs 62. In the measures of congestion of highway capacity, what will
B. Overhead signs D. Special instruction signs happen as the density continues to increase?
A. Minimum rate flow is eventually reached
58. A maximum wave height and wave period of the maximum B. Increase speeds and reduced flow rate
wave height in wave train. C. Running speed and traffic flow is minimum
A. Deep water wave D. The point is reached at which speed declines noticeably
B. Equivalent dept water wave height
C. Significant wave
D. Highest wave