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MATHEMATICS (Refresher) value of 6000, life equipment of 15 years and maintenance causing it to have an acceleration of 1 m/s . If the
1. In the series of numbers: cost of P3000. coefficient of friction between the block and the horizontal
th If the maximum rate of return is 12% annually, for both surface is 0.40:
1, 1, , , , ….. what is the 7 term?
equipment and if the Sinking Fund of Depreciation method a. Find the horizontal force
2. A man wants to buy a car paying a down payment of is used, find: b. Find the distance travelled after 10 sec, if it has an initial
P100,000 and the balance to be paid at P300,000 at the end a. Annual Cost of Equipment A velocity of 5 m/s.
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of second year and P600,000 at the end of the 5 year. The b. Present Value of Equipment B c. Find the velocity after 5 sec
rate of interest is 18% compounded annually. c. Rate of return of additional investment of equipment B
a. What is the present worth of all his payments? 12. Line A has a slope of -4 and passes through point
b. Find the lump sum of all the payments at the end of the 7. Given the vector A & B. (-20, -15). Line B has an x-intercept of 10 and y-intercept of
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5 year A = 6.7i + 8.35j 25. Determine the ff:
c. If instead he will pay his balance by a monthly payment B = -2.53i – 5.55j a. The shortest distance from line B to pt (-20, -10)
at the rate of 1.5% monthly, how much is his monthly b. The point of intersection between the 2 lines
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payment until the 5 year? Find the ff: c. The equation of the line perpendicular to line A and
a. Magnitude of the resultant of vector passes through the intersection of the 2 lines
3. You are taking a test in which items of type A are worth b. Horizontal & vertical components of the resultant
10 points and items of type B are worth 15 points. It takes 3 vector 13. A man deposits P500 every month in an investment
min to answer each item of type A and 6 min for each item c. The angle that the vector makes with the horizontal which earns 7% compounded monthly.
of type B. The total time allowed is 60 min, and you may not a. What is the accumulated amount 5 years from now?
answer more than 16 questions. Assuming all of your 8. The expressions below are the components of the b. If after 2 years, instead of depositing P500 per month,
answers are correct, determine the: acceleration from t = 0 to t = 10 seconds. you deposit P1000 per month, what is the sum of your
a. Number of type A questions solved money after 5 years?
b. Number of type B questions solved a. Find the total distance travelled, S after t = 10 seconds c. If the interest is 18% compounded monthly based on
c. Maximum score b. Find the velocity, V at t = 10 seconds the first condition, what is the worth of your money
c. Find the resultant acceleration when t = 10 seconds after 5 years?
4. Object A which weighs 10 kg. and moving to the right at a
seed of 10 m/s, collided with object B, which weighs 5 kg, 9. A telephone company has the capacity to produce 14. Determine the number of positive roots of the ff.
and moving to the left at 5 m/s. 500,000 units of a product per year. The number of units equation: ( )
a. If the coefficient of restitution, e = 0, find the velocity of produced this year is 350,000 and the number of units sold
A after impact is 350,000. The total income is P350M. Overhead cost is 15. How many positive real roots are there for the
b. If the coefficient of restitution, e = 0.8, find the velocity P100M and the variable cost is P200/unit. polynomial ?
of A after impact a. Find the company’s annual profit or loss for this
c. If the coefficient of restitution, e = 1, find the velocity of production 16. A curve has an equation . Find the point
A after impact b. Find the number of units that should be sold annually to
of inflection to the right of the y-axis.
break-even
5. A hyperbola has the equation: c. If the company can increase its sales to 80% of full
17. A curve has an equation of .
. Determine the following: capacity, how much is the profit or loss?
a. Find the center of the curve
a. Center of hyperbola b. Find the area of the curve
b. Distance between foci 10. The perimeter of a triangle is 84 m while its area is 102
c. Find the slope of the tangent at point (2,0).
c. Distance between vertices sq. m. Determine the diameter of the circle that maybe
inscribed in this triangle.
18. Find the equation of the plane that contains the point
6. Equipment A has a first cost of P50,000, salvage value of (2, -4, 1) and is perpendicular to the vector N equal to
P2000, life equipment of 5 years and maintenance cost of 11. A block having a mass of 50kg is subjected to a
2i – 3j + 4k.
P6000. Equipment B has a first cost of P150,000 , salvage horizontal force applied 0.5 m above the horizontal surface
19. Find the acute angle in radians between the plane average. What is the ratio of the smaller to the larger
2x – 4y – z + 5 = 0 & 3x + 4y + 5z + 6 =0. portion?

20. What is the absolute value of 5 – 3i?

30. If x, y and z are integers and x & y are both even, which
21. What is the value of ? of the ff. could be an odd integer?
a. xy + z
22. A construction worker built a parabolic hut which is 16.1
b. y – xz
m wide at the base and 12.4 m high at the center. How high
c. xy + y
above the beam should a ceiling 12.2 m wide be
d. y + x
constructed?

23. There is a garden plot of dimensions 12 m by 5 m.

Determine the width of the footpath to be constructed
around the perimeter of the garden if it has a total area of
112 sq. m.

24. AB is proportional to BC in the ratio 13 to 17. Also, BC is

proportional to CD in the same ratio. How long is AB if CD is
280 m long?

25. A 1 km x 1 km square lot is divided into 5 equal parts,

one square at the middle, while other four are right
triangles.
a.. Find the dimensions of the square at the middle
b. If this square is further divided, find the dimensions of
the small square at the middle
c. Find the percentage ratio of the smallest area to the
biggest area

26. A conical water tank with its vertex down has a height of
20 cm and a radius of 10 cm at the top. Water leaks such
that the water surface falls at a rate of 0.5 cm/sec. Compute
the rate of change of volume when h = 8 cm.

27. Six identical circles are arranged in a way that each circle
is externally tangent to at least 2 other circles. If the radius
of each circle is 2, find the perimeter of the polygon formed
by connecting the centers of the circle.

28. A frustum of a sphere has the ff. diameters: 12.6 cm and

20.4 cm. The frustum is 3.6 cm thick. Find its volume.

29. A shipment of 3200 items is divided into 2 portions such

that the difference between the portions is one half of their