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INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following x4
questions. Mark ONLY ONE ANSWER for each item by shading the box 18. Evaluate the limit as x approaches 4.
x2  x  12
corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only. A. 0 B. 7
C. 1/7 D. infinity
1. Given that x  y  0  w  z , what is the sign of xyz / w ? 2x  3
19. Resolve into partial fractions and determine the resulting
A. Negative B. Positive  x  2 2
C. Imaginary D. Cannot be determined second fraction.
2. Twice the explement of a certain angle A is ten times its complement. 7 5
Determine the value of angle A in mils. A. B.
A. 400 B. 700  x  2 2  x  2 2
C. 1200 D. 6400 4 2
3. A solid material in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped 3 m x 4 m x C. D.
5 m is painted blue. How many cubes will have 2 blue faces if the  x  2 2  x  2 2
block is to cut to form cubes 1 m x 1 m x 1 m. 20. A closed conical tank has a base diameter of 3 m at the top and an
A. 6 B. 8 altitude of 4 m. It is filled with water to a depth of 1.30 m. Which of the
C. 22 D. 24 following most nearly gives the volume of water?
3 3
4. Determine the inclination of the segment joining the points (−5, 3) and A. 0.1282 m B. 0.1859 m
3 3
(4, 2). C. 0.3036 m D. 0.3235 m
A. 173.66 B. 29.05 21. Find the value of k so that the line 3x  5ky  5  0 will be
C. 6.34 D. 150.95 perpendicular to the line 4x  3y  2  0 .
x
 1 A. −6/7 B. 1/5
5. Evaluate the limit  1   as x approaches infinity
 x C. 4/5 D. −2/3
A.  B. e 22. Find the first derivative of the function s  t2  e2lnt .
C. 0 D. 1 A. t∙lnt B. 1
6. The perimeter of a triangle is 1566 m. Its interior angles measure 50°, C. t + lnt D. 0
60°, and 70°. Find the longest side of the triangle.
23. If one of the roots of the quadratic equation 3x2  kx  5  0 is 1/3,
A. 527.34 m B. 466.46 m
determine the other root.
C. 572.20 m D. 446.33 m
A. 5 B. 5
7. Simplify the expression: (n  1)! ^2 / n!(n  1)!
C. 14 D. 14
A. n(n  1) B. n(n  1)^2
  31/2 
C. (n  1)^2 D. n^2(n  1) 24. Find the value of arctan 2  cos  arcsin 
  2 
8. If cos   3 / 4 and tan is negative, the value of sin is:  
A. 4 / 5 B.  4 /7 A. /2 B. /4
C. /3 D. /6
C. 4 7 /7 D. 7 /4
25. A line passes through (5, 3) has a slope of 3/2. Find the distance,
9. A spherical solid material of radius 1 cm is totally submerged in a measured along the line, from the point (5, 3) to the y-axis.
cylindrical tank of radius 4 cm. The water level in the tank rises a
A. 3.10 units B. 5.46 units
distance, y. What is the value of y?
C. 6.54 units D. 9.01 units
A. 1/3 cm B. 1/8 cm
26. If ab = 6, bc = 3, and ac = 1/8, what is one possible value of abc?
C. 1/12 cm D. 1/15 cm
A. 0.375 B. 0.75
10. A line connecting the points with coordinates (x, 7) and (10, y) is
bisected at (8, 2). Find the value of x and y. C. 1.50 D. 2.25
27. If the cosine of angle x is 3/5, then the value of the sine of x/2 is equal
A. x = −3, y = 6 B. x = 6, y = −3
to:
C. x = 3, y = 6 D. x = −6, y = −3
A. 0.501 B. 0.447
11. In a triangle ABC: AB = 25 cm and BC = 10 cm. If AC is the longest
side, determine the probable perimeter of the triangle. C. 0.361 D. 0.215
28. The logarithm of the product MN is equal to 1.62324929 and the
A. 71 cm B. 69 cm
logarithm of the quotient M/N is equal to −0.066946789. Find the
C. 70 cm D. 75 cm
value of N.
12. The bases of a right prism are regular hexagon with one side equal to
3 A. 6 B. 7
6 cm. If the volume of the right prism is 400 cm , which of the
following most nearly gives the lateral area, in cm ?
2 C. 8 D. 9
A. 154.08 B. 165.12 29. If cos(x  y)  0.17 and cos x  0.50 , find sin y.
C. 186.21 D. 304.12 A. 0.2355 B. 0.3455
13. The sum of the coefficients of x and y in the equation Ax + By – 16 = C. 0.4344 D. 0.4233
0 is 14. If the slope of the line is equal to 8, find the value of B. 30. A lampshade is in the shape of a frustum of a cone. The vertical
A. 16 B. −2 height of the shade is 25 cm and the diameters of the ends are 20 cm
C. 8 D. −1 and 10 cm, respectively. Determine the area of the material needed to
14. Find the value of k in the polynomial x^3  k if the polynomial leaves form the lampshade.
2 2
A. 1421.6 cm B. 1334.5 cm
a remainder of 5 when it is divided by x  4 . 2 2
C. 1201.4 cm D. 1016.2 cm
A. −69 B. 74
31. What is the equation of a line that is parallel to the line x  y  2 and
C. 69 D. −74
15. Given an angle  in standard position, the terminal side of the given passes through the point (4, 0)?
angle, when cos   0 and csc   0 , will lie in quadrant: A. x  y  4 B. xy4
A. Quadrant I B. Quadrant II C. x  y  4 D. xy4
Find y’ if y  3
C. Quadrant III D. Quadrant IV 3x
32. .
16. A piece of wire 24.78 in long is bent so as to form an isosceles
triangle with one angle 97°26’. Find the length of each equal sides A. 33x 1 ln3 B. 33x ln3
formed. C. 33x 1 ln3 D. 33x 1
A. 7.074 in B. 8.095 in 3 2
33. Determine the numerical coefficient of the term involving x y in the
5
C. 10.620 in D. 12.051 in expansion of (x + 2y) ?
3
17. The volume of a pyramid whose base is a regular hexagon is 156 m . A. 10 B. 40
If the altitude of the pyramid is 5 m, find the length of one side of the C. 20 D. 80
base. 34. If a  4sin   6cos  and b  4cos   6sin  , find the value of
A. 4m B. 6m
C. 8m D. 10 m a2  b2 .
A. 52 B. 36
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35. If the surface area of a sphere is 144 cm , then its volume is equal 52. Along Bonifacio Hi-way, two rectangular billboards were erected.
to: They are of similar sizes with their sides having a ratio of 5:4. The
3 3 2
A. 144 cm B. 288 cm bigger billboard requires 250 m of material to cover the entire
2
C. 140 cm
3
D. 280 cm
3 billboard. How much material in m is needed for the smaller
36. Find two points on the line 2x + 3y = −4 which has a distance of 2
billboard?
units from the line 3x + 4y = 6. A. 120 B. 150
A. (64, −44) and (4, −4) B. (−32, 20) and (28, −20) C. 160 D. 190
C. (−28, 20) and (−4, 4) D. (−44, 64) and (−4, 4) 53. A water tank is in the form of a sphere. It is filled with water to a depth
of 30 cm. The inner diameter of the tank is 45 cm. Determine the
37. Find the second derivative of y  x x volume of water in the tank.
A. 12.37 L B. 35.34 L
x x 1  x x 1  lnx  x x  x x 1 1  lnx 
A. 2 B. 2
C. 47.71 L D. 54.18 L
C. x x 1  x x 1  lnx 
2 D. x x  x x 1 1  lnx 
2 54. Find the summation of  5k  3  from k = 1 to k = 16.
38. How many terms are there in the progression 5, 8, 11, … if their sum A. 632 B. 634
is 1025? C. 630 D. 636
A. 23 B. 25 55. Determine the partial derivative with respect to x of the function
C. 27 D. 29 f(x,y)  xy2  5y  6 .
39. If sin3A  cos6B , find the value of A  2B .
A. 15° B. 30°
A. y2 B. y2  5
C. 45° D. 60° C. 2xy  5 D. 2y
40. Given two curves y  sinx and y  cosx . Find the area bounded by 12x
56. Find the area of the region bounded by the curve y  , the x-
the given curves in the first quadrant above the x-axis and below the x2  4
given curves from 0 to /2. axis, x  1 , and x  4 .
A. 0.4141 sq. units B. 0.5858 sq. units A. 12.17 B. 3.18
C. 0.6262 sq. units D. 0.8686 sq. units C. 16.25 D. 8.32
41. Rolls of carpet are stacked in 20 rows with 3 rolls in the top row, 4 57. The vibration frequency of a string varies directly as the square root of
rolls in the next row, and so on, forming an arithmetic sequence. the tension and inversely as the product of the length and diameter of
Determine the total number of carpet rolls if there are 22 rolls in the the spring. If a string 3 feet long and 0.03-inch in diameter vibrates at
bottom row. 720 times per second under a 90-pound tension, at what frequency
A. 225 B. 250 will a 2 feet long and 0.025-inch string vibrates under a 50-pound
C. 275 D. 300 tension?
42. A closed conical tank has a base diameter of 3 m at the top and an A. 683 B. 966
altitude of 4 m. It is filled with water to a depth of 1.30 m. If the tank is C. 855 D. 720
inverted, its base lying on the ground, which of the following most 58. The angle of elevation of the top of a building from a point on the level
nearly gives the new depth of water? ground is twice the angle of elevation of a window one-third of the
A. 0.0145 m B. 0.0278 m way up the building. Find the angle of elevation of the top of the
C. 0.0463 m D. 0.0875 m building.
43.  
Given the equation of the curve: y  0.01 1600  x2 . Find the area
A.
C.
30°
60°
B.
D.
45°
75°
bounded by the curve and the x-axis. 59. In a parallelogram, one side is 16 m and the diagonals are 24 m and
A. 472.41 B. 652.14 10 m. Determine the acute angle of which the diagonals intersect.
C. 853.33 D. 341.20 A. 38°19’ B. 43°32’
44. The sum of an infinite geometric series is 8. Each term in the series is C. 57°18’ D. 64°13’
four times the sum of all terms that follows it. Find the fourth term. 60. A group of children playing with marbles placed 50 pieces of the
A. 8/625 B. 16/625 marbles inside a cylindrical container with water filled to a height of 20
C. 32/625 D. 64/625 cm. If the diameter of each marble is 1.5 cm and the diameter of the
45. A string 72 m long is divided unequally into two parts. Each part is cylindrical container is 6 cm, what would be the new height of water
then bent to form a square. If the sum of the areas of the two squares inside the cylindrical container after the marbles were placed?
2 A. 56.456 cm B. 65.345 cm
is 194 m , find the difference between the sides of the squares.
A. 3m B. 12 m C. 23.125 cm D. 45.657 cm
C. 8m D. 15 m 61. Find the distance between the given lines 4x  3y  12 and
3
46. The volume of a frustum of a cone is 1176 m . If the radius of the 4x  3y  8 .
lower base is 10 m and the altitude is 18 m, find the lateral surface A. 1 B. 2
area of the frustum.
2 2 C. 3 D. 4
A. 798.46 m B. 869.33 m 3
2 2 62. The total volume of two spheres is 100 cm . The ratio of their surface
C. 926.85 m D. 973.66 m
areas is 4:9. Determine the volume of the larger sphere.
47. Integrate: arctanxdx A. 71.81 cm
3
B. 85.75 cm
3

3 3
A. arctanx  ln 1  x2  C B. arctanx  ln 1  x2  C C. 242.35 cm D. 316.14 cm
Find the slope of the line tangent to the curve y  e at x = 0.
5x
C. xarctanx  ln 1  x  C 2
D. xarctanx  ln 1  x2  C 63.
48. Three quarters of freshmen students in a certain university are males A. 2 B. 4
whose average height is 161.6 cm. The rest are female students C. 5 D. 7
whose average height is 149.8 cm. Determine the average height of 


all freshmen students in this university. 64. Evaluate: 4 sin2 4y cos2 2ydy
A. 158.65 cm B. 165.58 cm 0
C. 155.86 cm D. 168.55 cm A. 3/16 B. /8
49. Find the area illuminated by a candle 3 m away from the surface of a C. 2/3 D. /16
spherical ball 1 m in radius. 65. Mang Gagancho spent 10% of his salary on transportation expenses,
2 2
A. 4.39 m B. 4.71 m 20% of his salary on food. He then spent 30% of the rest of his salary
2 2
C. 5.06 m D. 5.51 m on rentals of his apartment. What percentage of his salary did he
50. Two numbers have an arithmetic mean of 9 and a geometric mean of spend altogether?
4. These two numbers are the roots of the quadratic equation: A. 51% B. 46%
C. 42% D. 57%
A. x2  18x  16  0 B. x2  18x  16  0
66. A survey instrument was setup at A, with a known elevation of 563.80
C. x2  18x  16  0 D. x2  18x  16  0 m above sea level. The angle of elevation of the top of a mountain
51. The angle of elevation of the top of tower A from the foot of tower B is was measured as 34.66°. The instrument was then moved to B, 450
twice the angle of elevation of the top of tower B from the foot of tower m nearer the mountain but 25 m lower in elevation than A, and the
A. At a point midway between the two towers, the angles of elevation angle of elevation of the top of the same mountain was measured as
of the top of the two towers are complementary. If the two towers are 43.22°. Determine the elevation of the top of the mountain.
120 m apart, determine the height of tower B. A. 1272.03 m B. 1361.58 m
A. 40 m B. 60 m C. 1538.80 m D. 1810.82 m
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67. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle. Its sides are 13 m, 21 m, 83. Two perpendicular chords both 5 m from the center of a circle divide
32 m, and 18 m, consecutively. Find the area of the quadrilateral. the circle into four parts. If the radius of the circle is 13 m, find the
2 2
A. 402.67 m B. 382.31 m area of the smallest part.
2 2 2 2
C. 350.76 m D. 333.31 m A. 30 m B. 31 m
2 2
C. 32 m D. 33 m
68. A particle travels along the parabola y  ax2  x  b . Locate the point
84. Determine the direction of the opening of the parabola with axis
at which the abscissa and ordinate change at the same rate. parallel to Oy and passing through (1, 9), (−2, 9), and (−1, 1).
A. (a, 0) B. (0, a) A. Upward B. Downward
C. (b, 0) D. (0, b) C. To the Right D. To the Left
69. Find the integral of 12sin5 xcos5 xdx if lower limit is 0 and upper limit 85. Twenty men can finish a job in 30 days. Twenty-five men started the
is /2. job. After 20 days, ten men quit. Determine the total number of days it
A. 0.20 B. 0.40 took them to finish the job? (CE NOV 1999)
A. 6.67 days B. 16.67 days
C. 0.60 D. 0.80
70. A tank containing liquid is filled with 40 L of 70% salt solution. What
C. 26.67 days D. 36.67 days
volume of the solution to be taken and be filled up with 10 L of water 86. A circle having a radius 8 cm is inscribed in a sector having a central
to make the concentration 50% salt solution? angle of 80°. What is the area of the sector?
2 2
A. 12 L B. 15 L A. 195.63 cm B. 291.84 cm
2 2
C. 18 L D. 21 L C. 321.47 cm D. 485.24 cm
71. Two points A and B are on opposite sides of a building which lie on 87. A spherical wooden ball 1 ft in diameter is used as a float for a boat. If
the same level as the base of the building. Measurements were made the ball sinks to a depth of 7 in, determine the area of the wetted
from those two points measuring the angles of elevation of the top of surface.
2 2
the building to be 16.5° and 26.5°, respectively. If the distance A. 100.1 in B. 112.54 in
2 2
between the two points is 330 m, determine the height of the building. C. 245.67 in D. 263.89 in
2
A. 61.32 m B. 93.27 m 88. Compute the shortest distance from the point (26, 4) to the curve x –
2
C. 27.57 m D. 152.75 m 16x + y + 16y + 64 = 0.
72. Given one large coin with 5 cm in diameter and many small coins with A. 13.63 units B. 7.78 units
2 cm in diameter. Determine the number of small coins that maybe C. 29.63 units D. 35.49 units
arrange tangentially around the large coin without overlapping.
  x 
3 2y
A. 9 B. 10 89. Evaluate 2
 y2 dxdy
1 0
C. 12 D. 13
A. 62/3 B. 280/3
73. A tank has the form of a frustum of a sphere of radius 20 m. Its upper
base is 8 m from the center of the sphere and its lower base is 14 m C. 270/2 D. 35/2
from the center. Determine the capacity of the tank. 90. A pole casts a shadow of 15 meters long when the angle of elevation
A. 24236.34 m
3
B. 25744.67 m
3 of the sun is 61°. If the pole has leaned 15° from the vertical directly
3 3 toward the sun, what is the length of the pole?
C. 26123.89 m D. 27863.52 m
A. 53.24 m B. 54.23 m
74. What kind of symmetry, if there is, does the graph of y2  4ax have? C. 52.43 m D. 55.69 m
A. It is symmetrical with respect to the x-axis 91. A central angle of 125° is subtended by an arc of a circle of radius 8.4
B. It does not have any symmetry cm. Which of the following most nearly gives the length of the major
C. It is symmetrical with respect to the y-axis arc?
It is symmetrical with respect to both the x-axis and the A. 44 70 cm B. 34.45 cm
D. C. 22.17 cm D. 18.33 cm
y-axis
75. The height h (in feet) at any time t (in seconds) of a projectile thrown 92. The diameters of two spheres are in the ratio of 2:3 and the sum of
3
their volume is 1260 m . Determine the radius of the larger sphere.
vertically is: h  256t  16t 2 . Determine the projectile’s average
A. 3.90 m B. 4.10 m
velocity for the first 5 seconds of flight.
A. 48 ft/s B. 96 ft/s C. 6.15 m D. 5.86 m
93. Boyle’s Law states that when a gas is compressed at a constant
C. 176 ft/s D. 192 ft/s
temperature, the product of its pressure and volume remains
76. Determine the equation of the parabola where the vertex is at (4, 3) 3
constant. If the pressure of a gas is 80 psi, when the volume is 40 in ,
and the focus is at (1, 3). find the rate of change of pressure with respect to volume when the
3
A. x2  6x  20y  68  0 B. x2  6x  20y  20  0 volume is 20 in .
A. −4 B. −6
C. y2  6y  20x  107  0 D. y2  6y  20x  71  0
C. −8 D. −12
77. It is now 3:06 PM. In how many minutes after the given time will the
nd 94. Find the area bounded by the two parabolas: y^2  5y  x  0 and
hands of the clock form a 20° angle for the 2 time?
A. 6.73 minutes B. 14.0 minutes 3y  y^2  x  0 .
C. 12.7 minutes D. 20.0 minutes A. 32/3 B. 64/3
78. The monitor in a nuclear research laboratory shows a cyclical curve C. 320/3 D. 640/3
which follows the function f(t)  0.75sin(4t) . Determine the 95. A parabola passes through (3, 4). It has a vertex at the origin and
frequency. focus on the y-axis. Find the length of the latus rectum of the
A. 0.159 B. 0.318 parabola.
A. 1.13 B. 2.25
C. 0.637 D. 1.273
79. Three circles are mutually tangent to one another externally. Their
C. 2.67 D. 5.33
centers are connected forming a triangle whose sides are 16 cm, 20 96. A particle moving along the x-axis moves according to the equation
cm, and 24 cm. Find the area of the smallest circle. 1  t2
2 2 x t  at any time t > 0. Determine the velocity of the particle
A. 113.10 cm B. 615.75 cm 3t
2 2
C. 452.25 cm D. 314.16 cm when t = 5 s.
80. A frustum of a sphere has base diameters of 18.50 cm and 32.90 cm. A. −1/2 units/s B. −7/8 units/s
The distance between the bases is 6.60 cm. Find the volume of the C. 1/2 units/s D. 7/8 units/s
frustum.
3 3 97. A swimming pool is constructed in the shape of two intersecting
A. 3842.99 cm B. 3609.15 cm identical circles having a radius of 9 m. The distance between their
3 3
C. 4120.60 cm D. 3471.80 cm centers is 9 m. Find the area common to the two circles.
3
81. Eight men can excavate 15 m of drainage open canal in 7 hours. A. 73.85 m
2
B. 80.27 m
2
3
Three men can backfill 10 m in 4 hours. How long will it take 10 men C. 99.50 m
2
D. 107.11 m
2
3
to excavate and backfill a 20 m in the same project?
A. 8.22 hours B. 9.15 hours 98. A circle has an equation x2  y2  8x  2y  8  0 . What is the radius
C. 9.87 hours D. 10.64 hours of the circle?
82. The vertical angle of the top of the flagpole as observed from point A A. 2 units B. 3 units
is equal to 60°, and that of the bottom of the flagpole is 52°. The C. 4 units D. 5 units
flagpole is placed on top of a pedestal. The distance from A to the 2 4 y
base of the pedestal is 14.20 m. Which of the following most nearly
gives the height of the pedestal?
99. Evaluate

0 0 0
xyzdzdydx

A. 21.42 m B. 18.18 m A. 16 B. 32
C. 16.25 m D. 14.32 m C. 48 D. 64

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