Coaching Notes
Coaching Notes
Select the best answer from each of the following questions. On the answer sheet provided, shade the box that
corresponds to your choice. Strictly no erasures allowed.
1. The roots of the quadratic equation are 1/3 and 3/2. What is the equation?
2 2 2 2
a. 6 x +5 x +3=0 b. 6 x −7 x−3=0 c. 6 x +7 x−3=0 d. 6 x +7 x +3=0
2. Mr. PME covered a distance of 55 km in 4 hours by driving his car 40 kph, part of the way, and by walking the
remainder of the way at 5 kph. What part of the total distance did Mr PME go by car?
7 8 9 10
a. 11 b. 11 c. 11 d. 11
3. The water tank in Calamba Water District can be filled by pipe A in half the time the pipe B can empty the tank. When
both pipes are operating, the tank can be filled in 1 hour and 12 minutes. Determine the time, in hours, for pipe A to fill
the tank alone.
a. 0.6 b. 0.7 c. 0.75 d. 0.8
4. What is the value of k to make the expression kx2 – 3kx + 9 a perfect square?
a) 2 b) 4 c) 3 d) 5
5. Which of the following is the standard acceleration due to gravity in the English unit?
a) 980.66 fps2 b) 32.2 fps2 c) 9.8066 fps2 d) 32.2 ips2
x 2 −1
Lim
6. What is the value of x →∞ x 3 −1 ?
a) 0 b) 0.25 c) 1.25 d) indeterminate
7. Two times the mother’s age is 8 more than six times her daughter’s age. Ten years ago, the sum of their ages was 44.
What is the daughter’s age?
a) 15 yrs old b) 18 yrs old c) 12 yrs old d) 16 yrs old
8. How many terms of the sequence – 9, - 6, - 3, … must be taken so that the sum is 66?
a) 11 b) 6 c) 4 d) 9
9. A farmer is to plant rice in a rectangular field 30 meters by 40 meters. He started on the edge and plant around the
perimeter. How wide a strip should he plant for each side in order to do half the work?
a) 5 m b) 2.5 m c) 3 m d) 5.5 m
10. There are 6 geometric means between 4 and 8748. Find the sum of all terms.
a) 12 310 b) 12 130 c) 13 210 d) 13 120
11. Compute the arithmetic Mean of the following set of numbers: 18, 24, 27, 30, 35, 42, 50.
a. 31.82 b. 32.29 c. 30 d. 29.96
12. Find the root mean square of 11, 23, and 35.
a. 25 b. 27 c. 26 d. 24
13. Water is pouring into a swimming pool. After t hours, there are t + √t gallons in the pool. At what rate, in GPM is
water pouring into the pool when t = 9 hours?
a) 0.0194 b) 1.167 c) 1.235 d) 3.6
14. Determine the distance traveled by a particle between a time interval of 0.2 second to 0.3 second if its velocity is
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V =12 t 4 +
t , where V is in cm/s and t is in seconds.
a) 3.75 cm b) 2.84 cm c) 2.75 cm d) 3.84 cm
15. A pole cast a shadow 15-m long when the angle of elevation of the sun is 61°. If the pole has lean 15° from the vertical
directly toward the sun, what is the length of the pole?
a. 54.23 m b. 48.64 m c. 36.84 m d. 64.84 m
16. The volume of the cube is increasing at a rate of 5 cu. m per minute. Determine the rate at which the surface area is
increasing, in m2/min, when its side is 10 m.
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a) ½ b) 1.75 c) 1.5 d) 2
18. A certain angle has a supplement five times its compliment. What is the angle?
a) 186o b) 168.5o c) 67.5o d) 157.5o
19. Determine the accumulated value of P2,000.00 in 5 years it is invested at 11% compounded quarterly.
a) P3,440.00 b) P3,404.00 c) P3,044.00 d) P4,304.00
20. The sum of P15,000.00, deposited in an account earning 4% per annum compounded quarterly, will become
P18,302.85. Determine the effective rate of interest per year.
a) 3.06 % b) 4.06 % c) 5.06 % d) 6.06 %
22. Celestino owes P500, due in 3 years and P800 due in 7 years. He is allowed to settle these obligations by a single
payment on the 6th year. Find how much he has to pay on the 6 th year if money is worth 14% compounded semi-
annually.
a) P1,449.12 b) P 1,559.12 c) P1,339.12 d) P1,669.12
23. Cleofas borrowed P2,000.00 from a bank and agreed to pay the loan at the end of one year. The bank discounted the
loan and gave him P1950 in cash. Determine the rate of discount.
a) 3.75 % b) 3.12 % c) 2.5 % d) 1.2 %
24. From the top of tower A, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower B is 46 o. From the foot of tower B the angle of
elevation of the top of tower A is 28o. Both towers are on a level ground. If the height of tower B is 120 m, how high is
tower A?
a) 40.7 m b) 44.1 m c) 42.3 m d) 38.6 m
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25. Determine the value of
∫−1 ( x +x +sin x ) dx .
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26. Think of a number. Double the number. Subtract 6 from the result and divide the answer by 2. The quotient will be 20.
What is the number you think?
a. 12 b. 20 c. 23 d. 32
27. Determine the absolute value of resultant vector of the following vectors: F 1 = 4i + 7j + 6k; F 2 = 9i + 2j + 11k, F 3 = 5i –
3j – 8k.
a) 21 b) 18 c) 25 d) 9
28. Find the voltage drop to move 2 C of charge from point a to point b that requires – 30 Joules of energy.
a) – 15 V b) + 15 V c) – 5 V d) + 5 V
31. A 100-kg salt solution originally 4 % by weight salt in water is boiled to reduce water content until the concentration is
5 % by weight salt. How much water is evaporated?
a) 20 b) 25 c) 15 d) 22.5
2 2
32. Determine the diameter of a circle, x + y −6 x+4 y−12=0 .
a) 9 units b) 11 units c) 12 units d) 10 units
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y=x +
33. What is the minimum point of x?
a) (1, 2) b) (1.5, 2) c) (1, 1.5) d) (2, 1)
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34. A man left Sta. Rosa City to drive to Lopez, Quezon at 6:15 pm and arrived at 11:45 pm. If he averaged 50 kph and
stopped 1 hour for dinner, how far is Lopez, quezon from Sta. Rosa City?
a) 225 km b) 522 km c) 252 km d) 215 km
35. If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 when y = 7 and z = 2, find the value of x when z = 4 and y = 16.
a) 12 b) 18 c) 14 d) 16
38. If vector A is 10 units and vector B, which makes 60 0 with vector A, is 20 units. What is the difference of vectors A and
B?
a) 15.34 units b) 13.45 units c) 18.76 units d) 17.32 units
39. A ball is dropped from a height of 60 meters above ground. How long does it take to hit the ground?
a) 4.5 seconds b) 3.5 seconds c) 2.5 seconds d) 1.5 seconds
41. The process of one substance mixing with another because of molecular motion is known as:
a. Adhesion b. Diffusion c. Cohesion d. Confusion
42. Those cost that arise at the result of a change in operations or policy or it is the ratio of a small increment cost and a
small increment of output.
a. Increment cost b. Differential cost c. Marginal cost d. Promotion cost
43. The sum of all the costs incurred by the originators of the project up to the time that the promoters of the project
accept the project is known as:
a. Development cost b. Marginal cost c. Construction cost d. Promotion
cost
44. It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and twenty minutes the minute hand will be as much as the hour-hand as it is now
behind it. What is the time now?
a) 3:06.36 b) 3:03.66 c) 3:36.06 d) 3:30.66
46. How do call an energy required to move 1 Coulomb of charge through an element.
a) Current b) Voltage c) Power d) Resonance
47. This is a number sequence where the succeeding term is obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms such as
the sequence (1, 1, 2, ,3 5, 8 …). How do you call this number sequence?
a) Euler’s number b) Fermat number c) Fibonacci number d) Fourier series
48. If the roots of an equation are zero, then, how do you classify the solutions?
a. Extranous solutions b. Trivial solutions c. Conditional solutions d. Ambiguous solutions
50. This law in electrical circuits states, “The algebraic sum of currents entering a node (or a closed boundary) is zero”.
How do you call this law?
a) Kirrchoff’s current law b) Ohm’s current law c) Kirchhoff’s voltage law d) Ohm’s voltage law
51. This law in electrical circuits state, “The algebraic sum of all voltages around a closed path (or loop) is zero”. How do
you call this law?
a) Kirrchoff’s current law b) Ohm’s current law c) Kirchhoff’s voltage law d) Ohm’s voltage law
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52. In electrical, what is the SI unit of conductance?
a) Ohm b) Mho c) Siemens d) Ampere
54. This is the process of expressing a polynomial as the product of another polynomial or monomial of lower degree.
What is this mathematical process?
a) Decomposition b) Rationalization c) Factoring d) Polynomial damping
55. This is a point where the concavity of a curve changes or when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor
decreasing. What is this point commonly called?
a) Maximum point b) Minimum point c) Point of tangency d. Point of inflection
56. How do you call the axis of the hyperbola that passes through the center, the foci and vertices?
a) Transverse axis b) Conjugate Axis c) Asymptotic axis d) Major Axis
57. What is a number, which could not be expressed as a quotient of two integers?
a. Natural b. Rational c. Irrational d. Surd
58. How do you call the opposite of the prefix nano?
a) Peta b) Tera c) Giga d) Hexa
60. How do you call the distance of a point from the y-axis?
a) Polar distance b) Coordinate c) Abscissa d) Ordinate
61. This is the measure of central tendency defined as the most frequent score. How do you call this measure of central
tendency?
a) Median b) Mode c) Mean d) Deviation
64. Any number expressed in place-value notation with base 12 is known as:
a. Duodecimal b. Deontic c. Decile d. Dedekind
65. Which of the following is true regarding the minimum attractive rate of return used in judging proposed investments?
a. It is much smaller than the interest rate used to discount expected cash flows from investments
b. It is frequently a policy decision made by an organization’s management
c. It is larger than the interest rate used to discount expected cash flow from investments
d. It is not relevant in engineering economy studies
66. Which of the following situations has a conventional cash flow so that an internal rate of return can be safely
calculated and used?
a. Your company undertakes a mining project in which the land must be reclaimed at the end of the project.
b. You invest in a safe dividend stock and receive dividends each year.
c. You lease a car and pay by the month
d. Your company invests heavily in a new product that will generate profits for two years. To keep profits high
for 10 years, the company plans to reinvest heavily after two years.
67. The economic order quantity (EOQ) is defined as the order quantity which minimizes the inventory cost per unit time.
Which of the flowing is not an assumption of the basic EOQ model with no shortages?
a) Reordering is done when the inventory is zero b) There is an upper bound on the quantity ordered
c) The entire reorder quantity I delivered instantaneously d) The demand rate is uniform and constant
68. Which of the following events will cause the optimal lot size, given by the classic EOQ model with no shortages, to
increase?
a) A decrease in inventory carrying cost b) A decrease in demand
c) An increase in demand d) a) or c) above
69. What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always required to do during repayment?
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a) Pay exactly the same amount of principal each paymentb) Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time
c) Pay exactly the same amount of interest each payment d) Pay the interest only whenever failure to pay the
principal
77. A prefix denoting a multiple of ten times any of the physical units of the system international.
a. Deka b. Nano c. Hecto d. Exa
79. This is the case of a solution of a plane triangle where the given data leads to two solutions. How do you call this
case?
a) Ambiguous case b) Quadratic case c) Extraneous case d) Conditional case
80. It is a type of polygon in which each interior angle must be less than or equal to 180°, and all vertices 'point outwards'
away from the interior. How do you call this polygon?
a) Concave Polygon b) Convex polygon c) Regular polygon d) Irregular polygon
81. It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal intervals of time where the first payment is made after several
periods, after the beginning of the payment. How do you call this payment?
a) Deferred annuity b) Delayed annuity c) Progressive annuity d) Simple annuity
82. What do you think is the negotiation of wage rates, conditions of employment, etc. by representatives of the labor
force and management?
a) Union trade b) Union rally c) Collective bargaining d) Cooperative
83. How do you call a type of bond where the corporation’s owner name is recorded and the interest is paid periodically to
the owners with their asking for it?
a) Registered bond b) Preferred bond c) Incorporator’s bond d) Bail bond
84. How do you call the integral of any quotient whose numerator is the differential of the denominator?
a) Co-logarithm b) Logarithm c) Product d) Derivative
Answer: b) Logarithm
Answer: a) Nonagon
86. How do you call the formula used to compute the value of n factorial, which is in symbolic form (n!), where n is large
number?
a) Matheson formula b) Diophantine formula c) Richardson-Duchman formula d) Stirling’s Approximation
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87. What is the reason why an ivory soap floats in water?
a) All matter has mass
b) The specific gravity of ivory soap is greater than that of water
c) The density of ivory soap is unity
d) The specific gravity of ivory soap is less than that of water
88. When two planes intersect with each other, the amount of divergence between the two planes is expressed by
measuring the:
a) Reflex angle b) Dihedral angle c) Polyhedral angle d) Plane angle
89. What do you think is the output or sales at which income is insufficient to equal operating cost?
a) Break even point b) Depreciation c) Investment d) Cash flow
90. What is an estimate of assets’ net market value at the end of its estimated life?
a) Book value b) Depreciation c) Salvage value d) Cash flow
91. What do you think is the lessening of the value of an asset due to a decrease in the quantity available as a coal, oil
and timber in forests?
a) Depletion b) Amortization c) Depreciation d) Investment
92. What can you say about the present worth of all depreciation over the economic life of the item?
a) Maintenance b) Capital recovery c) Depreciation recovery d) Annuity
93. What do you think is the provision in the contract that indicates the possible adjustment of material cost and labor
cost?
a) Secondary clause b) Specification c) Escalatory clause d) General provision
94. This is the process of determining the value of certain property for specific reasons. Guess, what is this?
a) Amortization b) Investment c) Appraisal d) Depreciation
95. How do you call those products or services that are directly used by people to satisfy their wants?
a) Consumer goods and services b) Producer goods and services
c) Necessity products and services d) Luxury products and services
96. These are used to produce consumer goods and services. Guess, what are these?
a) Consumer goods and services b) Producer goods and services
c) Necessity products and services d) Luxury products and services
97. What do you think are those products or services that are required to support human life and activities that will be
purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies considerably?
a) Consumer goods and services b) Producer goods and services
c) Necessity products and services d) Luxury products and services
99. How do you call a market whereby there is only one buyer of an item for which there are no goods substitutes?
a) Monopoly b) Monopsony c) Oligopoly d) Oligopsony
[Link] line segment joining a vertex of a triangle to a point on the opposite side is called as:
a) Newton line b) Secant c) Cevian d) Euclidian
line
[Link] do you call the amount needed at the beginning of operations and permits the enterprise to begin functioning
before it receives any income from the sales of its product or service.
a) Initial working capital b) Regular working capital c) Equity d) Annuity
[Link] the problem of writing the equation of a certain curve with respect to another axes in which the new axes are
parallel to the original axes and similarly directed is known as:
a) Translation of axes b) Reversal of axes c) Notation of axes d)
Relocation of axes
[Link] do you call a ring shaped surface or solid obtained by rotating a circle about a coplanar line that does not
intersect?
a) Torus b) Annulus c) Circoloid d) Annular
[Link] the eccentricity is less than one, then curve is known as:
a) Ellipse b) Hyperbola c) Parabola d) Circle
[Link] the outside diameter of a hollow steel tube that will carry a tensile load of 500 kN at a stress of 140 MPa.
Assume the wall thickness to be 0ne-tenth of the outside diameter.
a) 123 mm b) 103 mm c) 113 mm d) 93 mm
[Link] can you say to the following statement: “the volume of a circular cylinder is equal to the product of its base and
altitude.”?
a) Postulate b) Corollary c) Theorem d) Axiom
[Link] a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from left to right, the slope m is:
a) Less than zero b) Greater than zero c) Equal to zero d) Equal to 1
116.“Whenever a net force acts on a body, it produces acceleration in the direction of the resultant force, an acceleration
which is directly proportional to the resultant force and inversely proportional to the resultant force and inversely
proportional to the mass of the body”. How do you call this theory?
a) Newton’s First law of motion b) Newton’s Second Law of motion
c) Farday’s law of forces d) Hook’s law of equilibrium
[Link] is defined that the momentum of a moving object is the product of its mass, m, and velocity, V. In Newton’s Law of
Motion, what is the rate of change of momentum with respect to time?
a) Power b) Momentum c) energy d) Force
[Link] amount of company’s profits that the board of directors of the corporation decides to distribute to ordinary
shareholders.
a) Dividend b) Return c) Share of stock d) Par value
[Link] a homogeneous, flexible cord is held at the two ends and allowed to sag freely on its own weight, it will produce
a curve very similar to a parabola opening upwards. How do you call this curve?
a) Parabola b) Catenary c) Cycloid d) Epicycloids
[Link] of the following Common wealth Acts is known as the oldest Mechanical Engineering law?
a) Commonwealth Act 394 b) Commonwealth Act 594
c) Commonwealth Act 294 d) Commonwealth Act 8394
[Link] be a member of the Board of Mechanical Engineering, he/she must be at least how many years old?
a) 25 years b) 30years c) 35 years d) 40yeras
[Link] do you call the line passing through the focus and perpendicular to the directrix of a parabola?
a. Latus rectum b. Axis of the parabola c. Transverse axis d. Major axis
[Link] is the ratio of the distance between the foci to the distance between the vertices in either hyperbola or ellipse?
a. Eccentricity b. Latus rectum c. Variance d. Deviation
[Link] is a statement that one mathematical expression is greater than or less than another. How do you call this?
a) Conditional expression b) Inequality c) Interval d) Domain
[Link] is a method of depreciation where a fixed sum of money is regularly deposited at compound interest in a real or
imaginary fund in order to accumulate an amount equal to the total depreciation of an asset at the end of the assets
estimated life. How do you call this depreciation?
a) Straight line method b) Declining balance method
c) SYD method d) Sinking fund method
[Link] is an artificial expense that spreads the purchase price of an asset or other property over a number of years?
a) Depreciation b) Amnesty c) Sinking fund d) Bond
[Link] do you classify this interest rate, which specifies the actual rate of interest on the principal for one year?
a) Nominal rate b) Rate of return c) Exact interest rate d) Effective rate
[Link] type of curve is generated by a point, which moves in uniform circular motion about an axis, while traveling with
a constant speed, V, parallel to the axis?
a) A cycloid b) An epicycloids c) A hypocycloid d) A helix
[Link] do you call a sequence of numbers where the succeeding term is greater than the preceding term?
a) Dissonant series b) Isometric series c) Convergent series d) Divergent series
134.A branch of mathematics which uses the properties of numbers by using symbols or letters to represent numbers in
arithmetic operations which usually variables and unknown quantities which usually involves the use and rearranging
or equations.
a. Trigonometry b. Algebra c. geometry d. calculus
[Link] is a series of sequential method for carrying out a desire procedure to solve problem.
a. Algorithm b. hypsogram c. logarithm d. angstrom
[Link] is use for expressing wavelengths of light or ultraviolet radiation with a unit or length equal to 10 – 10 metre.
a. Mersenne number b. Midac c. Light year d. Angstrom
[Link] refers to a straight line, which a curve approaches closely, but never meets or touches the curve.
a. Asymptote b. Directrix c. Latus rectum d. Line segment
[Link] is a collection of numbers or letters used to represent a number arranged properly in rows and columns.
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a. Determinant b. Matrix c. Array d. equation
[Link] is a high – level programming language for the computer used to express mathematical and scientific problems in a
manner that resembles. English rather than computer notations.
a. Algol b. Cobol c. Pascal d. Aldus
[Link] any triangle, the length of a line which is equal to the square root of the sides adjacent to the point where this line
started minus the product of the segments of the third side is known as:
a. Angle bisector b. Median c. Perpendicular bisector d. Trisector
[Link] whole is greater than any one of its parts. This statement is known as:
a. Postulate b. Axiom c. Hypothesis d. Theorem
142.A perpendicular segment from a vertex of the triangle to the line containing the opposite side is known as:
a. Median b. altitude c. Angular bisector d. Perpendicular bisector
[Link] angle that the line of sight to the object, makes with the horizontal, which is above the eye of the observer, is
called as:
a. Angle of elevation b. Angle of depression c. Acute angle d. Obtuse angle
[Link] complex algebra, we use a diagram to represent a complex plane commonly called as:
a. Venn diagram b. Histogram c. Argand diagram d. Funicular diagram
147. A series of numbers in which each number or term is derived from the preceding number by adding a constant value
to it is known as:
a. Geometric sequence b. Arithmetic sequence c. Analytical sequence d. Differential sequence
[Link] ratio of annual sales to the average of assets used in producing these sales.
a. Inventory turnover b. Asset turnover c. Operating – expense ratio d. Quick ratio
[Link] ratio is defined as the ratio of quick assets to the current liabilities, sometimes this is called:
a. Acid test ratio b. Debt ratio c. Equity ratio d. Current ratio
[Link] is defined to be any method of repaying a debt, the principal and interest included usually by a series of equal
payments at periodic intervals of time.
a. Amortization b. Annuity c. Deferred annuity d. Preferred annuity