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1. What is the allowable error in measuring the edge of a cube that is
intended to hold 8 cu.m, if the error of the compound volume is not
to exceed 0.03m3?
2. Find the area bounded by the parabola 𝑥 2 = 8𝑦 and its latus
rectum.
3. The effective rate of 14% compounded semi-annually is:
4. 4𝑥 2 − 225 = 0 is the equation of _______?
5. A section in a coliseum has 32 seats in the 1st row, 34 in the 2nd
row, 36 in the 3rd row, . . and 48 in the 9th row. From the 10th up to
the 20th row, all have 50 seats. Find the seating capacity of this
section of the coliseum.
6. Smallest term that can be factored from a number
7. How many horsepower are there in 800 kW?
8. A man roes downstream at the rate of 5 mph and upstream at the
rate of 2 mph. how far downstream should he go if he is to return
7/4 hour after leaving?
9. Find the angular velocity of a flywheel whose radius is 20 ft. if it is
revolving at 20 000 ft/min
10. Find the area of parabolic segment whose base is 10 and height of 9
meters.
11. A line which a curve approach infinity but will never intersect.
12. An organization that aims to block the entry of a new comer.
13. The tens digit of a two-digit number is 1 less than twice the unit’s
digit. They differ by 4. Find the number.
14. At the surface of the earth g=9.806 m/s2. Assuming the earth to be a
sphere of radius 6.371x106m. Compute the mass of the earth.
15. A material has a modulus of elasticity of 200 GPa. Find the
minimum cross sectional area of the said material so as not to
elongate by more than 5mm for every 2m length when subjected to
10 kN tensile force.
16. At what temperature is the ˚C and ˚F numerically the same?
17. On ordinary day, 400 m3 of air has a temperature of 30˚C. During
El Nino drought, temperature increased to 40˚C. Find the volume
of air of k=3670x10-6.
18. A sphere has a volume of 36π cubic meters. The rate of change in
volume is 9π cubic meters per minute. Find the rate of change in
area of the sphere.
19. Sin A=2.5x, cos A= 5.5x. Find A.
20. A ladder 5 meter long leans on a wall and makes an angle of 30˚
with the horizontal. Find the vertical height from the top to the
ground.
21. A rectangular lot is bounded on its two adjacent sides by existing
concrete walls. If it is to be fenced along two remaining sides and
the available fencing material is 30 meters long, find the largest
possible area of the lot.
22. A tangent line intersects a secant line to a circle. If the distance
from the point of tangency to the point of intersection is 6, and the
external distance of the secant line is 4, find the length of the secant
line.
Test 2
23. In an oblique triangle, a=25, b=16, angle C=94˚06’. Find the
measure of angle A.
24. Q=25 when t=0. Q=75 when t=2. What is Q when t=6?
25. Pipes A and B can fill an empty tank in 6 and 3 hours respectively.
Drain C can empty a full tank in 24 hours. How long will an empty
tank be filled if pipes A and B with drain C open?
26. Find the tangential velocity of a flywheel whose radius is 14 ft. if it
is revolving at 200 rpm.
27. A ball is thrown vertically upward at a velocity of 10 m/s. What is
its velocity at the maximum height?
28. The volume of a sphere is tripled. What is the increase in surface
area if the radius of the original sphere is 50 cm.?
29. Given a right triangle ABC. Angle C is the right triangle. BC=4 and
the altitude to the hypotenuse is 1 unit. Find the area of the triangle.
30. Find the equation of a parabola passing through (3, 1), (0, 0), and
(8, 4) and whose axis is parallel to the x-axis.
31. Pedro runs with a speed of 20 kph. Five minutes later, Mario starts
running to catch Pedro in 20 minutes. Find the velocity of Mario.
32. How much do ten P2000 quarterly payments amount at present if
the interest rate is 10% compounded quarterly.
33. A man bought a machine costing P135 000 with a salvage value of
P20 000 after 3 years. If the man will sell it after 2 years, how
much is the loss or gain (i.e. the cost of equipment) if i=10%.
34. P1000 becomes P1500 in three years. Find the simple interest rate.
35. Form of paper money issued by the central bank.
36. _________ is the concept of finding the derivative of an
exponential expression.
37. The line y=5 is the directrix of a parabola whose focus is at point
(4, -3). Find the length of the latus rectum.
38. 2.25 revolutions are how many degrees?
39. The sum of two numbers is 21 and their product is 108. Find the
sum of their reciprocals.
40. What is the accumulated amount of five years annuity paying P
6000 at the end of each year, with interest at 15% compounded
annually?
41. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In 5 years, the product of their ages
is 1.5 times the product of their present ages. How old is Beth now?
42. In 𝑥 = −16𝑡 2 + 5000𝑡 + 5000, x= distance in meters, and t= time
in seconds. What is the initial velocity?
43. The highest point that a girl on a swing reaches is 7 ft above the
ground, while the lowest point is 3 ft above the ground. Find its
tangential velocity at the lowest point.
𝑡𝑎𝑛155˚−tan115˚
44. If m=tan25˚, find the value of in terms of m.
1+𝑡𝑎𝑛115˚tan155˚
45. A VOM has a current selling price of P400. If it’s selling price is
expected to decline at the rate of 10% per annum due to obsolence,
what will be its selling price after 5 years?
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46. Evaluate ∫0 dx
𝑒𝑥
47. Fin the eccentricity of an ellipse when the length of the latus
rectum is 2/3 the length of the major axis.
48. What is the book value of an electronic test equipment after 8 years
of use if it depreciates from its original value of P120 000 to its
salvage value of 13% in 12 years. Use straight line method.
49. What is the book value of an electronic test equipment after 8 years
of use if it depreciates from its original value of P120 000 to its
salvage value of 13% in 12 years. Use declining balance method.
50. A balloon is released from the ground 100 meters from an observer.
The balloon rises directly upward at the rate of 4 meters per second.
How fast is the balloon receding from the observer 10 seconds
later?
51. Divide 120 into two parts so that product of one and the square of
another is maximum. Find the small number.
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52. 𝑦 = 𝑠𝑖𝑛 𝑥. What is the period?
2 75. A function wherein one variable is not yet readily expressed as
53. A horizontal force of 80 000 N is applied unto a 120 ton load in 10
seconds. Find its acceleration.
54. A plane is headed due to east with airspeed 240 mph. if a wind at
40 mph from the north is blowing; find the groundspeed of the
plane.
55. The ratio of radii of cone and cylinder is 1:2 while the ratio of
radius of cone to its altitude is 1:3. If lateral surface area of cylinder
equals volume of cone, find the radius of the cone if the altitude of
cylinder is 4.
56. If a derivative of a function is constant, the function is:
57. 2700 mils is how many degrees?
58. An air has an initial pressure of 100kPa absolute and volume 1 m3.
If pressure will be increased to 120 kPa, find the new volume.
59. The pistons (A&B) of a hydraulic jack are at the same level. Pistol
A is 100 cm2 while piston B is 500 cm2. Piston A carries a 500 kg
load. Find the required force F at piston B to carry the load.
60. A rectangular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle whose radius is 1
unit. Find the perimeter.
61. In a box, there are 52 coins, consisting of quarters, nickels, and
dimes with a total amount of $2.75. If the nickel were dimes, the
dimes were quarters and the quarters were nickels; the total amount
would be $3.75. How many quarters are there?
62. A stone is thrown vertically upward at 12 m/s. Find the time to
reach the ground.
63. A regular polygon has 27 diagonals. Then it is a :
64. A 50 meter cable is divided into two parts and formed into squares.
If the sum of the areas is 100 sq. meter, find the difference in
length?
65. What theorem is used to solve for centroid?
66. ∫ 𝑡𝑎𝑛2 𝑥 𝑑𝑥 = ?
67. A hyperbola has its center at point (1, 2), vertex at (2, 2) and
conjugate vertex at (1, 0). Find the equation.
Test 2
68. A pipe can fill a tank in 2 hours. A drain can empty a full tank in 6
hours. If the pipe runs with the drain open, how long will take to
fill-up an empty tank?
1 1 1
69. Fin the 7th term in the series: , , ,..
2 6 10
70. Find the length of the larger base of the largest isosceles trapezoid
if the legs and smaller base measure 8 units.
71. y=arctan ln x. Find y’.
72. The general equation of a conic section whose axis is inclined is
given by Ax2+Bxy+Cy2+Dx+Ey+F=0. When B2-4 Ac=0, the curve
is a/an _____.
73. The time required for two examinees to solve the same problem
differs by two minutes. Together they can solve 32 problems in one
hour. How long will it take for the slower problem solver to solve
the problem?
74. cos4 θ – sin4 θ= ?
function of another variable is said to be:
𝑥2 𝑦2
76. Given an ellipse + =1. Determine the distance between
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directrix:
77. Three forces 20N, 30N, and 40N are in equilibrium. Find the angle
between 30N and 40N forces.
78. At the inflection point where x=a
79. A merchant has three items on sale namely: a radio for $50.00, a
clock for $30.00 and a flashlight for $1.00. At the end of the day,
she has sold a total of 100 of the three sale items and has taken in
exactly $1, 000.00 on the total sales, how many radios did she sell?
80. Which of the following is true?
81. _______ is the loss of value of the equipment with use over a
period of time. It could mean a difference in value between a new
asset and the used asset currently in service.
82. Find the area bounded by the curve defined by the equation x2=8y
and its latus rectum.
83. The height of a right circular cylinder is 50 inches and decreases at
the rate of 4 inches per second. While the radius of the base is 20
inches and increases at the rate of one inch per second. At what rate
is the volume changing?
84. This occurs in a situation where a commodity or service is supplied
by a number of vendors and there is nothing to prevent additional
vendors entering the market.
85. The graphical representation of the cumulative frequency
distribution in a set statistical data is called?
86. If the product of the slopes of two straight lines is negative 1, one
of these lines are said to be:
87. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% faster that
Pilar and together they can paint a given fence in 4 hours. How
long will it take Pedro to paint the same fence if he had to work
alone?
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88. If you borrowed money from your friend with simple interest of
12%, find the present worth of P50 000, which is due at the end of
7 months.
89. The amount of P12 800 in 4 years at 5% compounded quarterly is?
90. What is the effective rate corresponding to 18% compounded
daily? Take 1 year =365 days.
91. In how many ways can 2 integers be selected from the integers 1 to
100 so that their difference is exactly 7?
92. A 2 lbs liquid has an specific heat of 1.2 Btu/ lb-˚F. How much
heat is required to increase its temperature by 10˚C?
93. A machine costing P100 000 depreciates at 10% annually. What is
its book value after 5 years?
94. Find the length of the latus rectum of the parabola y2=-8x?
95. The property by virtue of which a body tends to return to its
original size and shape after a deformation and when the deforming
forces have been removed.
96. A man wants to make 14% nominal interest compounded semi-
annually on a bond investment. How should the man be willing to
pay now for 12% -P10 000 bond that will mature in 10 years and
pays interest semi-annually?
97. Evaluate ∫ 3 sin 2𝜃 𝑑𝜃
98. Find the maximum height which a cannonball fired at an initial
velocity of 100 m/s at 30˚ above the horizontal.
99.A man expects to receive P20 000 in 10 years. How much is that
money worth now considering interest at 6% compounded quarterly.
100. The area of a rhombus is 24. One diagonal measures 6 units, find the
length of the other diagonal.
101. The area of a rhombus is 24. One diagonal measures 6 units, find
the length of a side.
102. The sum of the coefficients in the expansion of (x+y-z)8 is:
103. A banca traveled at an average speed of 15 kph downstream and then
back at an average speed of 12 kph upstream. If the total time of
travel is 3 hours, find the total distance traveled by the banca.
104. A father is now 41 and his son 9. After how many years will his age
be just triple his son’s age?
105. Find the area of the largest rectangle which you can inscribe in a
semi-circle whose radius is 10.
106. Given y = 4 cos 2x. Determine its amplitude.
107. A central angle of 45˚ subtends an arc of 12cm. What is the radius of
the circle?
108. The volume of two spheres is in the ratio of 27:343 and the sum of
their radii is 10. Find the radius of the smaller sphere.
109. The integral of any quotient whose numerator is the differential of the
denominator is the:
110. Find the sum of the roots 5x2 -10x + 2 = 0
Test 2
111. Determine the vertical pressure due to a column of water 85 cm high.
112. A rectangular hexagonal pyramid has a slant height of 4 cm and the
length of each side of the base is 6 cm. find the lateral area.
113. If a =b, the b = a. This illustrates which axiom in algebra?
114. If arc tan x + arc tan 1/3 = π/4, find the value of x.
115. It is the measure of relationship between two variables.
116. It is a polyhedron of which two faces are equal, polygons in parallel
planes and the other faces are parallelograms.
117. What is the distance in cm. between two vertices of a cube which are
farthest from each other, if an edge measures 8 cm?
118. A loan of P5000 is made for a period of 15 months at a simple
interest rate of 15%. What future amount is due at the end of the loan
period?
119. To compute for the value of the factorial, in symbolic form (n!)
where n is a large number, we use a formula called:
120. Find the distance of the directrix from the center of an ellipse if its
major axis is 10 and its minor axis is 8.
121. A 200 gram apple is thrown from the edge of a tall building with an
initial speed of 20 m/s. What is the change is kinetic energy of the
apple if it strikes the ground at 50 m/s?
122. When two planes intersect with each other, the amount of divergence
between the two planes is expressed by the measure of:
123. The median of a triangle is the line connecting a vertex and the
midpoint of the opposite side. For a given triangle, the medians
intersects at a pint which is called the:
124. A five-pointed star is also known as:
125. The altitudes of the sides of a triangle intersect at the point, which is
known as:
126. The arc length equal to the radius of the circle is called:
127. One gram of ice at 0˚C is placed on a container containing 2,000,000
cu. m of water at 0˚C. Assuming no heat loss, what will happen?
128. The angular bisector of the sides of a triangle at a point which is
known as:
129. A pole cast a shadow of 15 meters long when the angle of elevation
of the sun is 61˚. If the pole has leaned 15˚ from the vertical directly
toward the sun, what is the length of the pole?
130. Each side of a cube is increased by 1%. By what percent is the
volume of the cube increased?
131. MCMXCIV is a Roman numeral equivalent to:
132. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 11. If the digits are
reversed, the resulting number is seven more than twice the original
number. What is the original number?
133. A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 10. Find the area
of the octagon.
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134. Find the probability of getting exactly 12 out of 30 questions on the
true or false question.
135. Find the length of the vector (12, 4, 4).
136. According to this law, “The force between two charges varies
directly as the magnitude of each charge and inversely as the square
of the distance between them”.
137. Mr. J. Reyes borrowed money from the bank. He received from the
back P1842 and promised to pay P2000 at the end of 10 months.
Determine the simple interest.
138. Evaluate the expression (1 + i2 )10 where I is an imaginary number.
139. The amount of heat needed to change solid to liquid.
140. Solve for x in the equation: 2 log4 x – log4 9 = 2
141. Two post, one 8m and the other 12 m high are 15 m apart. If the posts
are supported by a cable running from the top of the first post to a
stake on the ground and then back to the top of the second post, find
the distance from the lower post to the stake to use the minimum
amount of wire.
142. A 40 gm rifle bullet is fired with a speed of 300 m/s into a ballistic
pendulum of mass 5 kg suspended from a chord 1 m long. Compute
the vertical height through which the pendulum arises.
143. If the roots of an equation are zero, then they are classified as:
144. Of what quadrant is A, if secA is positive and cscA is negative?
145. The reciprocal of bulk modulus of any fluid is called ______.
146. Assuming that the earth is a sphere whose radius is 6,400 km. Find
the distance along 3 deg arc at the equator of the earth’s surface.
147. Equations relating x and y that cannot readily solved explicitly for y
as a function of x or for x as a function of y. Such equation may
nonetheless determine y as a function of x or vice versa, such as
function is called _____.
148. What is the integral of (3t-1)3 dt?
149. If 16 is 4 more than 4x, find x-1
150. A frequency curve which is composed of a series of rectangles
constructed with the steps as the base and the frequency as the height.
151. It is a sequence of numbers such that successive terms differ by a
constant
152. If the second derivative of the equation of a curve is equal to the
negative of the equation of that same curve, the curve is:
153. Determine x, so that: a, 2x + 4, 10x – 4 will be a geometric
progression.
154. The angular distance of a point on the terrestrial sphere from the
north pole is called its:
155. If one third of the air in a tank is removed by each stroke of an air
pump, what fractional part of the air removed in 6 strokes?
156. The linear distance between -4 and 17 on the number line is
Test 2
157. Determine the angle of the super elevation for a 200 m highway
curve so that there will be no side thrust at a speed of 90 kph.
158. A ball is dropped from a building 100 m high. If the mass of the ball
is 10 grams, after what time will the ball strike the earth?
159. Centrifugal force is _____
160. Each of the faces of a regular hexahedron is a _____
161. Find the mean proportion of 4 and 36
162. Simplify the expression i1999 + i1999 where I is an imaginary number.
163. In a club of 40 executives, 33 likes to smoke Marlboro and 20 like to
smoke Philip Moris. How many like both?
164. The graph of r=a+bcos θ is a :
165. Solve for A in the equation: cos2A = 1- cos2A
166. Momentum is the product of velocity and
167. If 15 people can win prices in a estate lottery (assuming that there are
no ties). How many ways can these 15 people win first, second,,
third, fourth and fifth prizes?
168. Find the 30th term of the A.P 4, 7, 10,…
169. Mary is 24. She is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as
Ann now. How old is Ann now?
170. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric series if the sum is 2 and the
first term is ½
171. Given a cone of diameter x and altitude of h. What percent is the
volume of the largest cylinder which can be inscribed in the cone to
the volume of the cone?
172. Find the equation of the curve at every point of which, the tangent
line has a slope of 2x.
173. csc 520˚ is equal to
174. A rotating wheel has a radius of 2 ft. and 6 in. A point on the
circumference of the wheel moves 30 ft in 2 seconds. Find the
angular velocity of the wheel.
175. It is a series equal payments accruing at equal intervals of the time
where the first payment is made several periods after.
176. Exact angle of the dodecagon equal to ________ deg.
177. A load of 100 lb. is hung from the middle of a rope, which is
stretched between wo rigid walls of 30 ft apart. Due to the load, the
rope sags 4 ft in the middle. Determine the tension in the rope.
178. How far does an automobile move while its speed increases
uniformly from 15 kph to 45 kph in 20 seconds?
179. A block weighing 500 kN rest on a ramp inclined at 25˚ with
horizontal. The force tending to move the block down the ramp is:
180. What is the value of log25+log35?
181. The distance between the center of the three circles which are
mutually tangent to each other externally are 10, 12 and 14 units. The
area of the largest circle is
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182. To maximize the horizontal range of the projectile, which of the
following applies?

183. What is the lowest common factor of 10 and 32?

184. The distance that the top surface is displaced in the direction of the
force divided by the thickness of the body is known as __________

185. It can be defined as the set of all points on a plane whose sum of
distances of any of which from two fixed points is constant.

186. A statue 3m high is standing on a base of 4m high. If an observer’s

eye is 1.5m above the ground, how far should he stand from the base
in order that the angle suspended bu the statue is maximum.

187. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal plane following a parabolic

path with an initial velocity of 100 m/s at an angle of 30˚ above the
horizontal. How far from the throwing point well the ball attains its
original level.

188. A balloon is rising vertically over a point A on the ground a rate of

15 ft/sec. A point B on the ground is level with and 30 ft from A.
When the balloon is 40 ft from A, at what rate is its distance from B
changing?

189. The diameter of a circle described by 9x2 + 9y2 = 16 is ______

190. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of a tower to be 30

degrees. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and find its angle of
elevation to be 60 degrees. What is the height of the tower?

191. Two electrons have speeds of 0.7c and x respectively at an angle of

60.82 degrees between each other. If their relative velocity is 0.65c,
find x.
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192. Arc tan{2 cos(arcsin( ) )} is equal to:
2

193. Determine B such that 3x + 2y – 7 = 0 is perpendicular to 2x – By +

2=0

194. Find the point in the parabola y2 = 4 at which the rate of change of
the ordinate and abscissa are equal.

195. Find the equation of the axis of symmetry of the function y= 2x2-
7x+5

196. The major axis of the elliptical path in which the earth moves around
the sum is approximately 186, 000, 000 miles and the eccentricity of
the ellipse is 1/60. Determine the apogee of the earth

197. The angle of inclination of ascends of a road having 8.25% grade is

_____ degrees.

198. Find the sum of the first term of the geometric progression
2,4,8,16,…

199. Find the sum of the infinite geometric progression 6, -2, 2/3

𝑥−4
200. Evaluate lim ( )
𝑥→4 𝑥 2 −𝑥−12

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