BICOL UNIVERSITY

CIVIL ENGINEERING
QUIZ SHOW 2018
ARE YOU READY?
 PROBLEM NO. 1:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

ARCTAN 2X + ARCTAN 3X = Π/4

1 minute
WHAT IS X?
EXPRESS YOUR ANSWER IN
FRACTION FORM.

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ANSWER:

1/6
 PROBLEM NO. 2:
HYDRAULICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

96% OF THE AGGREGATES IS

MIXED WITH 4% ASPHALT BY 1 minute

WEIGHT OF MIX, THE SPECIFIC

GRAVITY OF THE ASPHALT IS 1.01
AND THAT OF THE AGGREGATE
IS 2.58. CALCULATE THE
SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF THE MIX. End
ANSWER:

2.43
 PROBLEM NO. 3:
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION

______ ARE VOIDS LEFT IN 30 seconds

CONCRETE BETWEEN
COARSE AGGREGATES
DUE TO INADEQUATE
CONSOLIDATION. End
 ANSWER:

HONEYCOMB
 PROBLEM NO. 4:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

THE AREA OF A TRIANGLE 2 minutes

INSCRIBED IN A CIRCLE OF
RADIUS 7.5CM IS 54 CM2. ONE
OF THE SIDES OF THE TRIANGLE
IS 15 CM. DETERMINE THE SUM
OF THE LENGTHS OF THE OTHER End
TWO SIDES.
 ANSWER:

21.00 CM
 PROBLEM NO. 5:
HYDRAULICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
A PRESSURE GAGE 6
METERS ABOVE THE
BOTTOM OF THE TANK 1 minute

CONTAINING A LIQUID
READS 100 KPA; ANOTHER
GAGE HEIGHT 4 METERS
READS 115 KPA.
DETERMINE THE SPECIFIC End
WEIGHT OF THE LIQUID.
 ANSWER:

7.5 KN/M 3
 PROBLEM NO. 6:
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION
THE COEFFICIENT OF STATIC
FRICTION IS 0.20, AND THE 2 minutes
COEFFICIENT OF KINETIC FRICTION IS
0.17. A HORIZONTAL FORCE P IS
APPLIED WITH THE BLOCK INITIALLY
AT REST. WHAT MINIMUM VALUE OF
FORCE P WILL PREVENT THE BLOCK
FROM SLIDING DOWNWARD?
P 100 kg
End
20°
 ANSWER:

149.94 KN
 PROBLEM NO. 7:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

IN A CLASS OF 40
STUDENTS. 27 LIKE 30 seconds

CALCULUS AND 25 LIKE

CHEMISTRY. HOW MANY
LIKE BOTH CALCULUS
AND CHEMISTRY? End
ANSWER:

12
 PROBLEM NO. 8:
SURVEYING

THE TANGENTS OF A SIMPLE

CURVE HAVE BEARINGS OF 30 seconds

N 750 12’ E AND S 780 36’ E,

RESPECTIVELY. WHAT IS THE
CENTRAL ANGLE OF THE
SIMPLE CURVE? End
 ANSWER:

26 12’OR 26.20
0 0
 PROBLEM NO. 9:
HYDRAULICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING

A SOIL SAMPLE HAS A UNIT

3 minutes
WEIGHT OF 105.7 PCF AND A
SATURATION OF 50%. WHEN
ITS SATURATION IS INCREASED
TO 75% , ITS UNIT WEIGHT
RAISES TO 112.7 PCF.
DETERMINE THE POROSITY OF End
THE SOIL SAMPLE IN PERCENT.
 ANSWER:

44.87 %
 PROBLEM NO. 10:
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION
A REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM WITH
SECTION SHOWN BELOW HAS A 2 minutes
CONCRETE STRENGTH OF 21 MPA AND
STEEL YIELD STRENGTH OF 415 MPA.
WHAT IS THE DEPTH OF THE
COMPRESSION BLOCK AT STRENGTH
CONDITION?
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5
 ANSWER:

142.32 MM
 PROBLEM NO. 11:
SURVEYING
A REVERSED CURVE OF
2 minutes
EQUAL RADII CONNECTS
TWO PARALLEL TANGENTS
15 METERS APART. THE
LENGTH OF THE CHORDS
FROM PC TO PT IS 150 End
METERS. DETERMINE THE
RADIUS OF THE CURVE.
 ANSWER:

375.00 METERS
 PROBLEM NO. 12:
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION
A RECTANGULAR CONCRETE BEAM
WITH STEEL STRENGTH FY = 250
3 minutes
MPA, CONCRETE STRENGTH FC’ =
40 MPA IS REINFORCED WITH 10-
40 MM DIAM. BARS, D = 930 MM
AND B = 400 MM. DETERMINE THE
ULTIMATE STRENGTH OF THE
BEAM IN KN-M USING THE NSCP
End
2010.
 ANSWER:

2,302.29 KN·M
 PROBLEM NO. 13:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

3 minutes
A CIRCLE PASSES
THROUGH (2,3), (6,1)
AND (4,-3). DETERMINE
THE COORDINATE OF THE
CENTER OF THIS CIRCLE. End
ANSWER:

(3,0)
 PROBLEM NO. 14:
HYDRAULICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
A VERTICAL SQUARE
PLATE WHOSE SIDE 3 minutes
IS 5 M IS
10 m
SUBMERGED IN
WATER AS SHOWN. 25

WHAT IS THE TOTAL

HYDROSTATIC FORCE End
ACTING ON THE
PLATE?
 ANSWER:

3267.30 KN
 PROBLEM NO. 15:
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION
A PROPPED BEAM IS 6 METERS
3 minutes
LONG. WHEN A COUPLE IS
APPLIED AT THE PROPPED END,
IT ROTATES 0.001 RADIAN.
FIND THE MAGNITUDE OF THE
COUPLE IN KN·M IF ITS
FLEXURAL RIGIDITY IS 60 X 1012 End
N·MM2.
 ANSWER:

40 KN·M
 PROBLEM NO. 16:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
A MAN DEPOSITS P6,000.00 2 minutes
EVERY END OF THREE MONTHS
FOR HIS RETIREMENT. IF THE
INTEREST RATE IS 10%
ANNUALLY COMPOUNDED
QUARTERLY, WHAT LUMP SUM
VALUE CAN HE EXPECT AFTER
End
20 YEARS?
 ANSWER:

P1,490,296.28
 PROBLEM NO. 17:
HYDRAULICS AND
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
IN A DRAINED TRI – AXIAL
COMPRESSION TEST, A 2 minutes
SATURATED SPECIMEN OF
COHESIONLESS SAND FAILS AT
A DEVIATOR STRESS OF 450
KN/M2 WHEN THE CELL
PRESSURE WAS 135 KPA.
DETERMINE THE ANGLE OF
End
SHEARING RESISTANCE OF THE
SAND.
 ANSWER:

38.68°
 PROBLEM NO. 18:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS

THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE 3 minutes

CURVE 9X2 + 16Y2 = 144 IS

REVOLVED ABOUT THE LINE
3X + 4Y - 25 = 0. FIND THE
VOLUME OF THE SOLID End
GENERATED.
 ANSWER:

1184.35 CU.
UNITS
 PROBLEM NO. 19:
STRUCTURAL DESIGN
AND CONSTRUCTION

3 minutes
A FIXED ENDED w w(x) = 60 + 140esin(10x)
BEAM HAS A LOAD
x
WHOSE EQUATION A
B
IS GIVEN. WHAT IS
3m 5m 2.5 m
THE MOMENT AT
A? End
 ANSWER:

1382.79 KN·M
 PROBLEM NO. 20:
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
A LIFE INSURANCE SALESMAN
SELLS ON THE AVERAGE 3 LIFE 2 minutes

INSURANCE POLICIES PER

WEEK. USE POISSON
DISTRIBUTION TO CALCULATE
THE PROBABILITY THAT IN A
GIVEN WEEK HE WILL SELL End
SOME POLICIES. EXPRESS YOUR
ANSWER IN 5 DECIMAL PLACES.
 ANSWER:

0.95021