REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Pre-Board Examination Saturday, August 22, 2008 8:00 am. ~ 12:00 n.n, MATHEMATICS INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box ¢érresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 2 only. MULTIPLE CHOICE: 1. Find the slope of the curve y = x + 2(x raised to ~1) at (2,3). AD Gr a4 0.14 A ladder 20 feet long is placed against a wall. The foot of the ladder begins to slide away from the wall at the rate of 1 fisec. How fast is the top of the ladder sliding down from the wall when the foot ofthe ladder is 12 feet from the wall? A215 fisee 8, 114 tse ©. 12 Wise @si tesec 5. Baby's age is three times Maria's, If 20 is added to Maria's age and 20 is subtracted from Baby's, their ages will be equal, How old is baby now? ®eo B90 C.45 D.75 . When the sun is 20 degrees above the horizon, how long is the shadow cast by a building 50 m high? @137m 5.146 m C.128m 0. 162m 5. A wheel 4 ft In diametor is rotating at 80 rimin, Find the distance (in ft) traveled by @ point on the rim ints A186 Owes C178 D187 6. Bobby discovers that his radiator coolant solution has dropped below the safe level. if his radiator contains 4 galions of a 25% solution, how many gal’ons of pure coolan’ must he a¢ J to bring it up to a desired 50% solution? (Assume there is room to add antifreeze without removing any solution.) @2 Bite cle Da 7. Two planes leave New York at 10 A.M., one heading for Europe at 600 kph and one heading in the ‘opposite direction at 150 kph, how far did the faster plane travel if they be 900 miles apart? A. 880 mi 8, 620 mi 720 mi 1B. 600 mi 8. A wall is 15 ft high and 10 ft from a house, Find the length of the shortest ladder which will just touch the top of the wall and reach a window 20.5 ft above the ground. A114 tt e251 C141 ft D. 54.28 Find the average rate of change of the area of a square with respect to its side x as x changes from 4 to 7. Ag B3 on 0.18 10. A container with a closed top and fixed surface area is to be constructed in the shape of a right circular oylnder whose height ish and base rads Find the felatve cimensions that maxerize the Vole. neat Bheaze Ore2r Din=2sr 14. A toll road averages 300,000 cars a day when the toll is $2.00 per car. A study has shown that for each 10-cent increase in the toll, 10,000 fewer cars will use the road each day. What tl will maximize the revenue? A $2.25 8.8275 6. $3.00 @sz50 12, Determine the value of ¢ so that f(xy) = cxy represents joint probability distributions of the random variables X and Y, if the random numbers are x = 1, 2, 3 and y= 1, 2, 3. @rw6 B.1/18 C. 1124, D.1n2Manila eee REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Pre-Board Examination Saturday, August 22, 2009 MATHEMATICS 13, Find the equation of the line determined by points A(5, -2/3) and B(1/2, ~2) Ax ty =58 B. 8x + 27y = 58 x= 27y=58 | O.x-2y=58 14. Find the eccentricity of a hyperbola whose transverse and conjugate axes are equa! in length OQeartorz B. sq.tof3 C. 2 (sqtt of 2) D. 2 (sq.rt of 3) 15, The gravitational force of attraction between 2 masses is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Suppose that when a comet is 600 x 19 to the 3 km from the earth and receding at 12,000 krrises, the force between the comet and the earth is 3 kN. How fast is the force changing in KN/s at that instant? A= 0.24 B.- 0.18 C.-0.46 O- oz 16. A pyramid has a base whose sides are 8 cm, 15 cm, and 17 om, respectively. If the altitude of the pyramid is 20 em, find the volume of the inscribed cone. A. 164.8 cu.cm, B. 196.4 cu.cm, ©1885 cum, D, 156.2 cu.om. 17. The Department of Health (OOH) report states that t weeks after the outbreak of AH‘N1 flu, the number Of people in thousands, who will contract the disease is Q(t) = 10/(1 + 100e raised to ~1.5t). How many people initially contracted the disease? 99 B. 120 c.89 D. 182 48. Evaluate sin (14pi/). peer B12 ca = 112 19. A high-spoad train accelerates and decelerales at the rate of 4 fUsec squared. Its maximum cruising speed is 90 mph, the trip from one station to the next takes 37.5 minutes. How far apart are the stations? A683 mi ©s94 mi C.65.4 mi D. 58.2 mi 20. A trapezoid has its two bases in meters in a ratio 4 : 6 with an altitude of 20 meters. f the trapezoid has an area of 260 sq. m, find the two bases. A. 24, 30 B. 12, 15 ©)8,20 D, 20, 26 21. A gull flying parallel to the surface of the water drops a clam, which takes 3 sec to hit the water. How high in feet was the guil at the instant itis dropped the clam? A138 B124 om D, 159 22, Water drains from a hemispherical basin of diameter 20 inches at the rate of 3 cubic inches per second, How fast is the water level falling when the depth of water is 6 inches? @P7ininin BOVINE OG! nmin D.0.89%nimin 23. The distance between — 8 and 18 on the number line is 26 10 40 Ox 24. Find the equation of te ferential equation aye @®y = (i2)(« squared ) +6 C. y= (2/8(x squared ) + G B y= (x squared) #C Cy = 2(x squared} +C 25. Find the area of the ellipse with foci (2, ~ 7) and (2, 9) and with major axis of length 34 @®25 pi B. 385 pi ©. 155 pi D.335 pi 26. derivative of n cos x6 Accosesanty 8, tanx C.secx O-tenx 27; Find the area of the surface generated by revolving the arc 3y = 4x from x = 0 to x = 3 about the x axis. A.40 pi 20 pi C. 36 pi D.72pi 28. You are given n = 10 measurements 3, 5, 4, 6, 10, 5, 6, 9, 2, 8. Find mode, AB a6 cs Os ansHE ESTABLISHED LEADER IN E.E. REVIEW Manila REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Pre-Board Examination Saturday, August 22, 2009 8:00 am. ~ 12:00 n.n. MATHEMATICS 29, Find the area enclosed of the curve ¢=,2 cos 3 theta A2 33 Ov D.Api 30. Determine the probability p of the event one or more heads appear in the toss of three fair coins. @7e 8.8/9 C.5/6 D.2/3 31, Two cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of cards. Find the probability p that both are spades. A126 8, 3162 ©pt D183 32. A jar contains a nickel, @ dime, a quarter, and a haif dollar. if three coins are drawn at random, what is the probabil hat he sun 6 29 cers or more? Raia 8.385 6.218 On 33. A 12-f flagpole is standing vertically at the edge of the roof of a building. The angle of elevation of the top of the pole from a point on the ground that is 64 ft from the base of the building is 78 degrees and 50 minutes. Find the height of the building AN22K 8.21221 ©x221 412.2 34, Find the center af the ourve xy ~3x—2y + 8 = 0. AB O23) ©.(2,2) 0.12) 36. A town has 2 fire engines operating independently. The probability that a specific engine is available when needed is 0.96. Whatis the probability that a fre engine is available when needed? ‘A. 0.8880 @®o.s98¢ 6. 0.9900 D. 0.9980 36. In general solution of a conie section whose axis are parallel to x or yf either x squared oF y squared term is missing, the graph is. A hyperbola Operatoia C. circle D. ellipse 37. What do you call the chords of an ellipse that pass through the center? Diameters B. Major Axes ©. Directrix D. Asymptotes 38, A 400-gal tank initially contains 100 gal of brine combining 60 Ib of salt. Brine containing 1 Wp of salt per gallon enters the tank at the rate of § gals, and the well-mixed brine in the tank flows out at the rate of 3 galfs. How much salt will the tank contain when its full of brine? @323.75 1 B, 389.65 to ©. 426.35 (b D. 436.86 Ib 38. Find the area bounded by the curves y cubed = x squared, 2x + y+1=0, and x=y=4. @ie3 8.162 C158 D176 40. Find the volurne obtained ifthe region bounded by y = (x squared) and y = 2x is rotated about the x axis. ATi es pis C4 pi D.3pi 44. Find the area of the largest isosceles triangle that can be inseribed in a circle of radius 6 inches. A. 24 squtt of 3 sq.in C. 54 squtt of 3 sain. B i2sart of 3sain (O27 sant of 3 sain 42, A. man in a beat on the ocean 0.300 km directly out from his house on the shore, @ lighthouse is on the shore 0.200 km from his house, he can row 2 kr/nr and walk 4 km/hr. He pians to raw toward a point on the sho‘e between his house and lighthouse and ther walk to the lighthouse, find the minimum total time in min this wil take. ANZ Bit O08 ©, 10.2 43, Suppose f and are function such that (2) =~ 1, 2) = 4, f"(2) =~ 2,, g@) =~ 3.012) = 3,972) = 1 Find the value of (2'— 3g)" at x = 2. AS Bg ©-7 0-8REGISTERED ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Pre-Board Examination Saturday, August 22, 2009 8.00. a.m. 12:00 nn. MATHEMATICS 44, Find the force on one face of aright triangle of sides 4 m and altitude of 3 m. The aititude is submerged vertically with the 4 m side in the water surface, €)98.86 kN B, $3.22 KN ©, 62.64 KN D.66.27 KN 45. Find the work done by a force F =~ 3j (pounds) applied to a point that moves on a line from (1, 3) to (4, 7), Assume that distance is measured in feet 12 fll B. 15 fo C.=10 ft D.8 fb 48, The probability that Ed hits a target is 7%. He fres 6 times. Find the probability that he hits the target more than 4 times A. 0.0056 B, 0.0028 ©o.0046 1. 0,0036 47. Evaluate 2 94 ea Morty ®ewy-corne cau +caenm v.cwins dors 46, Find the Th term of 5,02, 0.428, : ROO 5.0028 rom ». 0100 49, Change the polar equation = tan theta sec theta to rectangular coordinates, Ay=2(xsquared) ()y=x squared C.y=2x D.y=x cubed 50. A radar station is 2000 ft from the launch site of a rocket. if the rocket is launched vertically at the rate of ‘500 fuisec, how fast is the distance between the radar station and the rocket changing 10 seconds later? 164.2 fisec B. 488.6 fUsec C. 564.4 fsec D. 688.4 flisec ENDS SUBMIT THIS TEST QUESTION SET TOGETHER WITH°THE ANSWER SHEET TO YOUR WATCHERS. BRINGING THE TEST QUESTION SET OUT OF THE ROOM WILL BE A GROUND FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION,