JCSF Engineering Review Center Math T3

MATHEMATICS (Refresher Trivia Examination Math T3)

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES
ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 1 only.

1. The product of − 4 and − 9 is equal to: 9. Ace is one-fourth as old as Joey and ten years
younger than Allan is. If the sum of their ages is 46.
a. 6 −1 Find the age of Joey.
b. – 6i a. 10
c. 4 6 b. 16
c. 24
d. 2 6 d. 9

2. The roots of the equation 6x2 + 7x + 34 = 0 are: 10. It takes Joel twice as it takes Arfy do a piece of work.
a. Real and equal Working together, they can do it in 6 days. How long
b. Complex and unequal would it take Arfy to do it alone?
c. Complex and equal a. 12 days
d. Real and unequal b. 9 days
c. 10 days
3. What is the other form of Loga N = b? d. 8 days
a. b = aN
b. a = Nb 11. The sum two numbers is 14. The sum of the squares
c. N = ab of the numbers is 100. Find the product of the two
d. a = bN numbers.
a. 42
4. 10x = 3, then 103x + 1 equals b. 56
a. 470 c. 54
b. 270 d. 48
c. 370
d. 170 12. The amount of 135 is to be divided among three
brothers in the ratio 3:5:7. What the biggest amount
5. If 2logx 3 + logx 2 = 6 + logx 6, what is the value of x? received by a brother?
a. 2 a. 63
b. 1.6 b. 75
c. 21.2 c. 72
d. 2.4 d. 54
z
6. If 3x = 9y and 27x = 81z, then is equal to:
x 13. Two jet planes traveling toward each other took off
a. 2/3 at the same time from two airports located 4800 km
b. 3/8 apart. If they passed each other after 2 hours,
c. ¾ determine the speed, in kph, of the faster plane if one
d. ½ plane is flying at 160 kph faster than the other.
a. 1320
7. How much coffee costing 85 pesos per kg must be b. 1300
added to 150 kg costing 90 pesos per kg to make a c. 1280
mixture of 87 pesos per kg? d. 1350
a. 225 kg 14. A tank can be filled by two pipes in 4 and 6 hours,
b. 210 kg respectively. It can be emptied by a third pipe in 5
c. 220 kg hours. How long can an empty tank be filled if the 3
d. 200 kg pipes are open?
8. How many minutes after one o’clock will the hands of a. 1.62 hrs
clock form a right angle? b. 4.62 hrs
a. 21.82 c. 2.62 hrs
b. 21.73 d. 3.62 hrs
c. 22.82
d. 22.72
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15. If sec2 A = 5/3, then (1 – sin2 A) is equal to which of b. Irrational
the following? c. Rational
a. 0.5 d. Surd
b. 0.8 24. An angle greater than 180o but less than 360o is said
c. 0.7 to be:
d. 0.6 a. Complex
b. Exterior
16. The surface areas of two spheres are 24 m2 and 96 m2, c. Obtuse
respectively. Find the ratio of its volumes. d. Reflex
a. 1:2
b. 1:8 25. What do you call a triangle having three unequal
c. 1:6 sides?
d. 1:4 a. Obtuse
e. b. Scalene
17. What is the diameter of a circle with the following
equation: x2 + y2 – 6x + 4y - 12 = 0? c. Oblique
a. 10 d. Isosceles
b. 5 26. The distance of a point from the y axis is said to be:
c. 6 a. Polar distance
d. 8 b. Coordinate
18. 5A number sequence where the succeeding term is c. Abscissa
obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms d. Ordinate
such as the sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…). 27. A solid bounded by the spherical zone and the planes
a. Euler’s number of the zone’s base.
b. Fourier series a. Spherical segment
c. Fermat number b. Spherical wedge
d. Fibonacci numbers c. Spherical triangle
d. Spherical line
19. If the roots of an equation are zero, then they are
classified as: 28. The line passing through the focus and perpendicular
a. Extraneous solutions to the directrix of a parabola.
b. Trivial solutions a. Latus rectum
c. Conditional solutions b. Major axis
d. No solutions c. Transverse axis
d. Axis of the parabola
20. The process of expressing a polynomial as a product
of another polynomial or monomial of lower degree. 29. The logarithm of a number to have a base of e =
a. Decomposition 2.718…
b. Polynomial damping a. Briggsian logarithm
c. Rationalization b. Mantissa
d. Factoring c. Cologarithm
d. Naperian Logarithm
21. A point where the concavity of a curve changes or
when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor 30. Which of the following is the value of (x2 + 1/x)2
decreasing. when x + 1/x = 5?
a. Point of inflection a. 22
b. Point of tangency b. 25
c. Minimum point c. 24
d. Maximum point d. 23
2 sin A
22. The axis of the hyperbola that passes through the 31. Simplify
1 + cos2A
center, the foci and vertices.
a. Asymptotic axis a. Cot A
b. Conjugate axis b. Tan A
c. Transverse axis c. Sec A
d. Major axis d. Csc A
32. The number of diagonals in a polygon of 15 sides.
23. A number that could not expressed as a quotient of a. 45
two integers. b. 105
a. Natural c. 90

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d. 50 a. 4 units
b. 8 units
33. If the line through (-1, 3) and (-3, -2) is perpendicular c. 6 units
to the line through (-7, 4) and (x, 0). Find the value of d. 5 units
x. 41. 8 units What is the diameter of a circle described by
a. 5 9x2 + 9y2 = 16?
b. 4 a. 4/3
c. 3 b. 8/3
d. 6 c. 16/9
34. The volume of a 10 cm high conical paperweight is d. 4
180 cm3. The radius of the base is: 42. Stephanie is twice as old as Joanne when was when
a. 51.4 cm Stephanie was as old as Joanne is now. When Joanne
b. 5.41 cm is as old as Stephanie is now, together their age is 56.
c. 4.15 cm How old is Joanne?
d. 41.5 cm a. 17
b. 12
35. What is the total surface area of a cube whose c. 16
diagonal is d? d. 15
d2
a.
2 43. What is the value of 1 radian in degrees?
b. 2d a. 90
c. 2d b. 57
d. 2d2 c. 60
d. 45
36. The volume of a frustum of a right circular cone is 44. How many degrees are 4800 mils?
e. 180o
1176 m3. The altitude of the frustum of the cone is
f. 315o
18 cm. Find the radius of the lower base if the product
g. 90o
of the radii of lower and upper base is 60.
h. 270o
a. 18
45. The secant function is positive in what quadrants?
b. 10
a. I and III
c. 12
b. I and IV
d. 14
c. II and III
d. II and IV
37. In how many minutes after 12:00 noon will the hour
hand and the minute hand of the clock first form an
46. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of the
angle of 120o?
tower to be 30o. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and
a. 23.82 minutes
finds its angle of elevation to be 60o. What is the
b. 22.82 minutes
height of the tower?
c. 21.82 minutes
a. 76.31 m
d. 24.82 minutes
b. 73.31 m
c. 73.16 m
38. The volume of the right frustum of a right circular
d. 73.61 m
cone is 78 cm3. The upper base radius is 2 cm and the
47. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 6.8284
lower base radius is 5 cm. Find the altitude in cm.
units. Compute the area of the triangle in square units.
a. 2.21
a. 2
b. 2.01
b. 1
c. 1.91
c. 0.5
d. 2.11
d. 4
48. Solve the value of x in the equation: log x2 – log 5x
39. Find the distance between two lines represented by the
= log 20.
linear equations: 4x – 3y – 12 = 0 and 4x –3y + 8 = 0.
a. 10
a. 6 units
b. 20
b. 5 units
c. 2
c. 4 units
d. 100
d. 8 units
49. Charles is three times as old as his son Albert. Five
years ago, he was five times as old as his son was
40. What is length of the latus rectum for the
at that time. How old his son Albert?
x2 y2
ellipse + = 1? a. 8
64 16
b. 10
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c. 12 b. Annulus
d. 14 c. Ring
50. Jaime and Allan can do a piece of work in 20 days, d. Sector
Allan and Raymond in 30 days, Raymond and 59. The angle that the line of sight to the object, makes
Jaime in 40 days. If thee three work together, how with the horizontal, which is above the eye of the
long will they be able to finish the job? observer is called:
a. 18.46 days a. Angle of elevation
b. 17.46 days b. Bearing
c. 16.47 days c. Acute angle
d. 14.67 days d. Angle depression
51. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. 60. If the volume of the sphere is 35 m3, determine its
Determine the number. surface area, in m2.
a. 7 a. 36
b. 5 b. 24
c. 4 c. 18
d. 6 d. 12
52. At what time after 3’oclock will the hands of the clock 61. A metal washer 1 inch in diameter is pierced by ½
be together? inch hole. What is the volume of the washer if it is
a. 16.36 minutes 1/8 inch thick, in cubic inch?
b. 13.66 minutes a. 0.028
c. 16.63 minutes b. 0.074
d. 16.36 minutes c. 0.082
53. How many 3 digit numbers may be formed from the d. 0.047
digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 if no digit may be repeated in a 62. The volumes of two spheres are in the ratio of 27:343
given number? and the sum of their radii is 10. Find the radius of the
a. 90 smaller sphere.
b. 180 a. 6
c. 45 b. 5
d. 52 c. 3
54. In how many ways can you line-up 4 marines and 6 d. 4
army soldiers if all the marines must be side by side 63. When a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from left
with each other and the army soldiers are likewise? to right, the slope m is:
a. 35 460 a. Less than zero
b. 34 560 b. Greater than zero
c. 36 450 c. Equal to zero
d. 30 546 d. Equal to 1
55. A semiconductor company will hire 7 mean and 4 64. Find the equation of the directrix of the parabola y2 =
women. In how many ways can the company choose 16x.
from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the a. x = 8
positions? b. x = - 8
a. 540 c. x = 4
b. 480 d. x = - 4
c. 680
d. 840 x 2 y2
65. Given an ellipse + = 1 . Determine the distance
56. In a single throw of a pair of dice, what is the 36 32
probability of having a 7 or 11? between foci.
a. ¾ a. 3
b. 1/8 b. 4
c. 2/18 c. 2
d. 2/9 d. 8
57. If the area of an equilateral triangle is 9 3 cm2, 66. If y = x ln x , find the 2nd derivative with respect to x.
determine the perimeter. 1
a. −
a. 9 2 cm x2
b. 12 cm 1
c. 18 cm b. −
x
d. 18 2 cm 1
58. The area bounded by two concentric circles is said to c.
x
be known as:
a. Disk
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1 far from the throwing point will the ball attain its
d. original level?
x
67. The depth of water in a cylindrical tank, 4 m in a. 882.8 m
diameter, is increasing at the rate of 0.7 m/min. Find b. 828.8 m
the rate at which the water is flowing into the tank. c. 288.8 m
a. 8.80 m3/min d. 888.2 m
b. 7.64 m3/min 76. Lester expects to receive P20, 000.00 in ten years.
c. 6.12 m3/min How much is that money worth now considering
d. 2.24 m3/min interest of 6 % compounded quarterly?
68. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be a. P12,698.65
inscribed in a semi-circle of radius 10? b. P11,698.25
a. 1000 sq. units c. P17,567.95
d. P15,678.45
b. 50 sq. units
77. If you borrowed money from your friend with simple
c. 100 sq. units interest of 12 %, find the present worth of P50,
d. 2 50 sq. units 000.00, which is due at the end of 7 months.
a. P46,200.00
 ( 2x + 4x ) dx .
1
3
69. Evaluate the b. P44,893.00
0
c. P46,730.00
a. 2
d. P45,789.00
b. 4
78. Ryan obtained a loan of P10,000.00 at the rate of 6 %
c. 6
compounded annually in order to repair a house.
d. 8
How much must Ryan pay monthly to amortize the
70. What is the appropriate total area bounded by y = sinx
loan within a period of ten years?
and y = 0 over the interval 0  x  2 , where x is in
a. P112.02
radians.
b. P110.22
a. /2 c. P150.55
b. 2 d. P198.20
c.  79. If money is worth 8 %, determine the present value
d. 4 of a perpetuity of P1,000.00 payable annually, with
71. What is the area between y = 0, y = 3x2, x = 0 and x = the first payment due at the end of 4 years.
2? a. P9,272.64
a. 8 b. P9,187.87
b. 24 c. P9,272.46
c. 12 d. P9,178.87
d. 6 80. What is effective rate of 15 % compounded semi-
72. What is the maximum moment of 10 m simple annually?
supported beam subjected to a concentrated load of a. 15.56 %
500 kN at the mid-span? b. 16.02 %
a. 1250 kN-m c. 18.78 %
b. 1520 kN-m d. 15 %
c. 1050 kN-m 81. What will be the future worth of money after 12
d. 1510 kN-m months, if the sum of P25,000.00 is interest today at
73. How far does an automobile move while its speed simple interest rate of 12 % a year?
increases uniformly from 15 kph to 45 kph in 20 a. P30,000.00
seconds? b. P29,000.00
a. 185 m c. P28,000.00
b. 167 m d. P27,000.00
c. 200 m 82. How much money must you invest today in order to
d. 172 m withdraw P2,000.00 annually for 10 years if the
74. A mango falls from a branch 5 m above the ground. interest rate is 9 %?
With what speed in m/s does it strike the ground? a. P12,853.32
Assume g = 10 m/s2. b. P12,881.32
a. 8 m/s c. P12,385.32
b. 12 m/s d. P12,835.32
c. 14 m/s 83. The force of gravity per unit volume of a substance is
d. 10 m/s known as:
75. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal plane a. Density
following a parabolic path with an initial velocity of b. Weight
100 m/s at an angle of 30o above the horizontal. How c. Specific weight
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d. Specific gravity 92. Cost of things that is neither labor nor materials.
84. In a thermodynamics process following, pV n = C , a. Construction cost
b. Labor cost
what is the process if the value of n is infinity?
c. Expenses
a. Isentropic process
d. Investment
b. Polytropic process
93. Kinds of obligation that has no condition attached.
c. Isometric process
a. Analytic
d. Isobaric process
b. Private
85. Air at 21 oCis used to inflate an automobile tire to 207
c. Gratuitous
kPag. After being driven, the temperature has risen to
d. Pure
38 oC. What is the resulting pressure if the tire did not
94. Gross, profit, sales less cost of goods sold as a
stretch?
percentage of sales.
a. 224.828 kPag
a. Profit margin
b. 224.828 kPaa
b. Rate of return
c. 326.153 kPag
c. Gross margin
d. 236.153 kPag
d. Price earnings
86. The length of time at which the original cost of capital
95. The series of equal payments at equal intervals of
used to purchase a unit has already been recovered.
time.
a. Economic life
a. Interest
b. Write off period
b. Annuity
c. Physical life
c. Depreciation
d. Salvage life
d. Amortization
87. The actual interest earned by a given principal is
96. A legally binding agreement on promise to exchange
known as:
goods or services.
a. Compound interest
a. Contract
b. Simple interest
b. Memorandum
c. Effective interest
c. Barter
d. Nominal interest
d. Pro-forma
88. The exclusive right of a company to provide a specific
97. An index of short term paying ability.
product/service in a given region of the country.
a. Current ratio
a. Franchise
b. Acid test ratio
b. Extension
c. Receivable turnover
c. Branch
d. Profit margin ratio
d. Outlet
98. Used to produce consumer goods.
89. It occurs when a commodity or service is supplied by
a. Producer goods
a number of vendors and there is nothing to prevent
b. Consumer goods
additional vendors entering the market.
c. Supply
a. Free market
d. Cash flow
b. Open market
99. It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal
c. Perfect competition
interval of time where the first payment is made
d. Law of supply and demand
several periods after the beginning of the payment.
90. In making economic studies, a minimum required
a. Deferred annuity
profit on the invested capital is included as a cost.
b. Progressive annuity
a. Rate of return
c. Delayed annuity
b. Present worth pattern
d. Simple annuity
c. Annual cost pattern
100. A market whereby there is only one buyer of an
d. Capital cost
item for which there are no goods substitute.
91. Depreciation method where the value of an asset
a. Monopoly
decreases at a decreasing rate.
b. Oligopoly
a. SYD method
c. Monopsony
b. Straight line method
d. Oligopsony
c. Sinking fund
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ANSWERS’ KEY

1. d
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. c
6. b
7. a
8. c
9. c
10. b
11. d
12. d
13. c
14. b
15. d
16. d
17. a
18. d
19. b
20. d
21. a
22. c
23. b
24. d
25. b
26. b
27. a
28. d
29. d
30. d
31. a
32. c
33. c
34. c
35. d
36. c
37. a
38. a
39. a
40. d
41. c
42. a
43. d
44. a
45. d
46. a
47. c
48. a
49. d
50. c
51. a
52. c
53. c
54. d
55. c
56. a
57. b
58. d
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59. c
60. c
61. d
62. b
63. a
64. a
65. d
66. b
67. c
68. b
69. c
70. d
71. c
72. c
73. d
74. a
75. c
76. d
77. b
78. d
79. d
80. c
81. b
82. a
83. b
84. b
85. c
86. b
87. c
88. a
89. c
90. c
91. a
92. c
93. c
94. b
95. b
96. c
97. b
98. a
99. a
100. c