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REFRSHER IN GEMAS SEPTEMBER 2010 BOARD EXAM (Set 2)

Prepared by: Engr. Benedicto Fortaleza
Reviewer, August 2010
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
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 amount of P 50 000.00 is deposited in a bank. How much money are you going to withdraw after 8 years at 8% compounded
annually?
A. P82 546.00 B. P 83 546.00 C. P92 546 C. P 102 000.00
2. A machine has an initial cost of P 300 000.00. its salvage value after 5 years is P 30,000.00. What is the depreciation rate?
A. 18% B. 25% C. 37% D. 42.58%
3. An asset of purchased for P 120 000.00 and it can be sold for P 12,000.00. Its estimated life is ten years. Find the depreciation charge for
the second year using the sum of the years digit method.
A. P 17,672.00 B. 17,850.00 C. P 18,276.00 D. P19,636.00
4. A bank offers 2% effective monthly interest. What is the effective annual interest rate?
A. 24.45% B. 24.65% C. 25.285 D. 26.82%

5. The position of an object as a function of time is described by x =4t 3 + 2t2 – t + 3. What is the acceleration of the object when t = 2?
A. 52 B. 56 C. 64 D. 66
6. What is the simplified equivalent expression of ( cot2 θ ) + {1/(csc2 θ)}
A. 0 B. 1 C. cos θ D. sin2 θ
7. What do you call the process of changing solid to vapor without passing liquid state?
A. evaporation B. fusion C. melting D. sublimation
8. At what temperature does Celsius and Fahrenheit the thermometers read the same?
A. -40 B. -25 C. 40 D. 50

9. What is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one pound of water standard barometric pressure by one degree F?
A. 1 BTU B. 1 Calorie C. 1 Joule D. 1Watt
10. A body starting from rest is accelerated at 2.4m/s. What is its final velocity after traveling a distance of 67.5 m?
A. 10 m/s B. 18 m/s C. 19 m/s D. 20 m/s
11. A body that weighs 10 kN is dropped from a height of 10 m. The work needed to drop the body in kJ is
A. 0 B. 100 C. 200 D. 320.5
12. How do you call the path of a body moving in a projectile?
A. axis B. displacement C. motion D. trajectory

13. Which of the following does not belong to the group?

A. polonium B. potassium C. silicon D. telerium
14. A body weight 1 kg force at the earht’s sea level. What is the mass at the moon surface where the gravitational acceleration is 1/6 that
of the earth?
A. 1 kg B. 2 kg C. 3 kg D. 4 kg.
15. Radioactivity was discovered quite by accident in 1896 by a French physicist. He was studying a uranium that was phosphorescent. He
also found that his uranium salt left is image in a photographic plate even when the plate was wrapped in black paper to prevent the visible
phosphorescent glow from reaching it. HE said this was due to the effect of gamma rays. Who was the French physicist I am referring to?
A. Dantzig B. Heri Becquerel C. Isaac Newton D. James Watt.
16. 2 m2 of an ideal gas initially at a given pressure is isothermally compressed until the pressure is double. Its final volume in cubic meter is
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

17. What a theorem in mechanics states that the moment of a force is equivalent to the sum of the moment of its components?
A. Hooke’s Theorem B. Poisson’s Theorem C. Varignon’s Theorem D. Taylor’s Theorem
18. What is the equivalent fraction of the repeated decimal 0.222222222?
A. 2/9 B. ¾ C. 4/5 D. 14/15
19. How do you call the triangle that has no pair of sides with equal measures?
A. isosceles B. right C. scalene D. supplementary
20. Solve for the value of x and y in the equation 4x + 2y = 5 and 5x – 3y =2.Give the values in proper fractions.
A. x = 1/3, y = 2/3 B. x = 19/22, y = 17/22 C. x = 3/16, y = 6/15 D. x = 1/5, y = 2/3.
21. Find the volume of the cube whose total area is 54 square meters. Express answer in liters.
A. 18,000 B. 20,000 C. 27,000 D. 33,333.33
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22. From a box containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls and 10 blue balls, one ball is drawn at random. Determine the probability that is red.
A. ¼ B. ½ C. 2/3 D. ¾
23. A chicken weighs one pound and half of its weight. What is the weight of the chicken in pounds?
A. 1.5 B. 2 C. 3 D. 3.6
24. What do you call the angle subtended by the arc of a circle equal in length to its radius?
A. angle B. degree C. radian D. revolution.
25. Find the three consecutive odd numbers whose sum is 5 more than twice the next consecutive numbers.
A. 11,13,15 B. 13,15,17 C. 17,19,21 D. 19,21,23.
26. What is the generic name of liquid oxygen?
A. gas B. LIO C. LOX D. oxide
27. A flywheel is rotating at 100 revolution / min. How many revolution will it takes before it comes to rest of its constant deceleration is 20
rev/ min/ min.
A. 200 B. 225 C. 250 D. 260

28. A gun was fired at an angle of 45 degrees above the horizontal, the bullet having an initial velocity of 500 m/s. In how many seconds
will it stay in the air in what is its maximum horizontal distance traveled?
A. 62.11sec and 25 666.67m b. 72.11sec,25493.04m c. 75.23 sec, 26000m d. 80.34 sec, 45 000m.
29. A ball is dropped 2 meters from the ground and rebounce to a height of one meter. What is the coefficient of restitution between the ball
and the ground?
A. 0.606 B. 0.685 C. 0.702 d. 0.707.
30. Is the study of phenomena and operation of substance at very low temperature is known as
A. condensation B. cryogenics C. evaporation D. refrigeration
31. What do you call the colorless gas that condenses to form a blue liquid at -111 0c, if it freezes to a blue black solid at -1920c?
A. argon B. chlorine C. deuterium D. ozone

32. Which of the following is the unit of momentum?

A. J-s(Joules-sec) B. N-m(Newton-meter) C. N-s(Newton-sec) D. Pa-s(Pascal-sec)
33. Find the moment of inertia about the base of rectangle whose base and height are 2 cm 4 cm respectively
A. 27.7 B. 30.50 C. 35 D. 42.67 cm4
34. A boy travel from A to B velocity of 1.5 m/s and from B to A at a 1.1m/s. What is the average velocity of the boy?
A. 1.013m/s B. 1.150m/s C. 1.269m/s D. 2.00m/s
35. Which of the following does not belong to the group? 6,7,8,9,10
A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10

36. What is the side of hexagon inscribed in a circle whose diameter is 2 cm.
A. 1cm B. 2 cm C. 4 cm D. 5 cm
37. How many whole years will it take money to double itself if invested at 1% compounded annually?
A. 50 B. 60 C. 70 D. 80
38. From the binomial expansion of 9x+y)5 what is the middle term?
A. 3x B. x-2 C. x D. no middle term
39. At what time after 12:00o’cklock will the hour hand and the minute hand of the clock be together for the first time? A.
A.2:10:54.54 B. 2:10:55.90 C. 3:30:54.54 D. 4:30:40.40

40. What is the sum of all the numbers 1 to 100?

A. 5000 B. 5010 C. 5040 D. 5050
41. The decrease in the value of a property due to use and passage of time
A. annuity B. depreciation C. interest D. perpetuity
42. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
A. carbon B. magnesium C. silicon D. zinc
43. What is the slope of the curve that follows the equation Y 2 + 4 + X2 – 1 at (1,1)
A. -1 B. 1 C. 2 D. none of these

44. From statistic what is the median in the ungrouped data: 16, 18, 26,20,24,16 and 22?
A. 20 B. 26 C. 36 D. none of these
45. A body of traveling at 20 m/s. How will it travel before it stops, if its deceleration is 3m/s/s?
A. 22.33m B. 50m C. 60m D. 66.67m
46. A hollow cylindrical material whose inside and outside diameters are 30 cm and 50 cm respectively is subjected by an axial force 200
kN. What is the developed stress in kPa?
A. 1198.97 B. 1591.54 C. 1873.45 D. 1945.46
47. A man bought two calculators at P300 each. In the first calculator he lost 20 %. In the second calculator he gained 20%. How much he
gain or lose?
A. P 10 gain B. P 25 Gain C. P 25 loss D. no gain, n0 lose
48. What is the molecular weight of water vapor in metric unit?
A. 10 B. 12 C. 16 D. 18kgm/kgm mol
49. For a two phase substance in the T-S diagram as the pressure increases the latent heat of vaporization
A. increases B. decreases then increases C. decreases D. both increases and decreases
50. The capacity of commodity to satisfy human want and need.
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A. demand B. luxury C. supply D. utility

51. Goods w/c produce goods and services for human consumption.
A. consumer B. delivery C. intermediary D. producers goods
52. A type of annuity whose payment continue indefinitely.
A. annuity due B. deffered annuity C. perpetuity D. singking found

53. Is an accounting book where the original record of all transactions is ordinarily recorded.
A. journal B. ledger C. logbook D. log sheet
54. How many whole years will it takes money to be four times its value invested at 10% compounded quarterly?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25

55. The interest earned from 1,000,00 invested from Sept. 28, 1990 to Nov. 20 of the same year at 20% exact simple interest rate is
A. P20,354 B. P28,961 C. P29,041 D. P30.354
56. A swimming pool of 25’x75’ is to be filled with water at temperature of 70F to a depth of 5 ft. Hot water at 160F and water at 40F are
available. How many cubic ft of each should be used in filling the tank.
A. 7,031.25 and 2343.75 B. 4375 and 5000 C. 3825.5 and 5174.5 D. 4685.5 and 4687.5

57. The first derivative of kinetic energy with respect to time is:
A. force B. work C. power D. momentum
58. When a right circular cone is cut by plane parallel to the axis of the cone, the conic section formed is:
A. parabola B. An ellipse C. circle D. hyperbola

59. It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal intervals of time.

A. annuity B. debt C. amortization D. deposit
60. The place where buyers and sellers come together
A. business B. market C. recreation center D. buy and sell section

61. An artificial expense that spreads the purchase price of an asset or other property over a certain number of years
A. amnesty B. bond C. singking fund D. depreciation
62. These are product or services that are required to support human life and activities that will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity
even thought the price varies considerably.
A. utility B. necessities C. luxuries D. product of good and services
63. A distinct legal entity which can practically transact any business transaction which a real person could do.
A. sole proprietorship B. enterprise C. partnership D. corporation
64. A financial summary showing the relationship among assets, liabilities and ownership in the corporation on a specific date
A. audit statement B. balance statement C. income statement D. credit-debit statement

65. A type of bond which does not have a security except a promise to pay by the issuing corporation
A. mortgage bond B. register bond C. debenture bond D. collateral trust bond
66. A type of bond where the corporation pledges securities which it owns (i.e. slocks, bonds of its subsidiaries)
A. mortgage bond B. register bond C. debenture bond D. collateral trust bond
67. The lessening of the value of an asset due to gradual extraction of its content
A. depreciation B. depletion C. inflation D. incremental cost
68. An accounting book where the original of all transaction is ordinarily recorded
A. journal B. ledger C. income statement D. balance sheet

69. The amount received from the sale of an additional unit of a product is term as:
A. marginal cost B. marginal utility C. marginal unit D. marginal revenue
70. The act of charging two or more buyers or sellers different prices for the same product where the elasticity of supply or demand at each
price level differs among market, is known as:
A. price amortization B. price manipulation C. price discrimination D. price war
71. A situation in which rival firms drive prices down through attempts to undercut each other prices is called:
A. price war B. price leadership C. price discrimination D. oligopolistic monopoly
72. Method of paying a debt by installment usually, but not necessarily , by equal payments and any equal periods of time.
A. amortization B. singking found C. annuity D. capitalized cost
73. A method of depreciation where by the amount to recover is spread over the estimated life of the asset in terms of the periods of output
is called:
A. SYD method B. declining Balance Method C. Straight line Method d. Singking Found Method
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74. Maximum plant capacity in which a CPM is allowed to operate, tend or maintain
A. 200kw B. 220kw C. 224kw C. 242kw
75. A Carnot power cycle operates at 30oC and 5oC maximum and minimum temperatures respectively. The cycle thermal efficiency in % is:
A. 8.25 B. 33.33 C. 83.33 D. 89.9
76. The available potential energy of a body w/respect to the ground is 1kW –hr. what is the potential energy in calorie Heat unit (CHU)?
A. 1895.73 B. 2395.18 C. 3759.18 D. 7185.73

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77. A man has mass of 50kilopounds at sea level. What will be his weight at the moon surface where gravitational acceleration is 1/6 that
earth surface in Newton?
A. 18.27 B. 27.81 C. 72.81 D. 81.72
78. A body weight 54 grams and 45 grams in air and water respectively. Determine the relative density of the body.
A. 1 B. 3.5 C. 4 D. 5
79. The hydrostatic pressure at the bed of the ocean (specific weight of ocean water is 10KN/m 3) 12m from the ocean surface is:
A. 500 torr B. 600torr C. 750.33 torr D. 900 torr

80. The buoyant force supporting a 2m diameter spherical body to float half submerged in oil (SG = 0.85) is equal to:
A. 17.46 KN B. 20.08KN C. 34.92KN D. 40.25KN
81. Water flow through a pipe 20mm in diameter at main velocity of 3m/s, if pump head of 120 meters is applied what is a metric water
power in metric hp?
A. 1.506PS B. 5.106PS C. 6.105 PS D. 6.510PS
82. What is the ratio of average pressure on the upper half to the average pressure in the lower half of a closed rectangular container filled
with grain alcohol?
A. 1:1 B. 1:2 C. 1:3 D. 1:4.
83. In a remote area where power is not available, a farmer wants to light his poultry farm of the available power in the flowing stream 12m
in head of gallons per second passing 90% efficient hydro turbine. If the electrical generator and transmission lines efficiencies are 85%
respectively, How 40 – watt lamps can the plant possibly light simultaneously?
A. 21 B. 31 C. 41 D. 50

84. Reymart plant produces 400 units (full capacity)of electrical equipment at the labor cost and a material cost of P900 and P400 per unit
respectively. Miscellaneous expenses per unit is P 100. If the fixed cost of the plant is P150,000 per month and each unit sells P2000, the
break-even point per month is
A. 200 B. 250 C. 300 D. 420
85. The3 property fluid that resist tensile stress is known as:
A. adhesion B. capillarity C. cohesion D. viscosity
86. The property of fluid that resist shear stress is known as;
A. adhesion B. capillarity C. cohesion D. viscosity

87. A fluid is flowing in a conduit whose diameter is 10 cm at 10 L/s. the mean velocity of fluid in m/s is
A. 0.345 B. 1.273 C. 2.456 D. 3.105
88. A man dive in a 1 diameter cylindrical tank filled with water. When the man get out of the cylindrical the debt of water is decrease by
0.5m. The volume of the water in liter is
A. 292.69 B. 392.69 C. 492.69 D. 500

89. The combined efficiency of a motor and water pump is 90%. What is the power input to the pump if the water power is 20kW and the
motor power is 95%?
A. 20 kW B. 21.11kW C. 22.22kW D. 30kW
90. A tank of height 2m is filled with a liquid. What is the specific gravity of the liquid if the pressure of the bottom of the tank is
39.23kPag?
A. 1 B. 1.5 C. 2 D. 3
91. What is the gauge pressure in meters of water if the absolute pressure is 101.325 kPa?
A. 0 B. 1 C. 10 d. 10.33
92. A cubical box 1m in length is placed in the water and protrude 0.50 m. The buoyant force supporting the box in kN is
A. 1.9 B. 2.9 C. 3.9 D. 4.9
93. A barometer reads 760 mmHg and 745mmHg at the bottom and at the top of building respectively. The approximate height of the
building if the specific weight is of air constant at 11.78 N/cubic meter in meter is
A. 170 B. 180 C. 190 D. 200
94. How deep from the sea water surface must a bubble be released by a submarine so that its volume on the sea water surface be six times
when it was released. SG of sea water is 1.03. Assuming that thermal equilibrium is observed all the time?
A. 20m B. 30m C. 40m D. 50m.
95. An iceberg having specific gravity 0.92 floats in a salt water of SG=1.03. If the volume of ice above the surface is 500 cubic meters,
what is the total volume of the iceberg in cubic meters?
A. 2468 B. 4682 C. 6482 D. 8462
96. At what depth from the water surface must a horizontal line be drawn in a square gate 1mx1m so that the hydrostatic forces on the
two halves be equal?
A. 0.404 B. 0.505 C. 0.606 D. 0.707
97. Find the head loss in m of a liquid flowing in a pipe 20m long and 20cm diameter at 10m/s, friction factor is 0.02
A. 10.19m B. 11.32m C. 15.23m D. 16.07m
98. Who popularized the line “talk nothing on matters you do not know”
A. Nicolas Carnot B. Lord Kelvin C. James Prescott D. James watt
99. What nominal rate of interest compounded semi-annually can be used instead of 16% compounded quarterly?
A. 16.64 B. 16.18 C. 16.32 D. 16%
100. In how many years is required for P2000 to increase to P5000 if interest rate is 12%
compounded semi-annually?
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11 years
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