PSME Abu Dhabi Chapter Review Class 2014

MATHEMATICS (Refresher Trivia Examination Math T2)

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES
ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 1 only..

1. What is the value of 1 radian in degrees? a) 90

a) 90 b) 180
b) 57 c) 45
c) 60 d) 52
d) 45 12. In how many ways can you line-up 4 marines and 6
2. How many degrees are 4800 mils? army soldiers if all the marines must be side by side
a) 180o with each other and the army soldiers are likewise?
b) 315o a) 35 460
c) 90o b) 34 560
d) 270o c) 36 450
3. The secant function is positive in what quadrants? d) 30 546
a) I and III 13. A semiconductor company will hire 7 mean and 4
b) I and IV women. In how many ways can the company choose
c) II and III from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the
d) II and IV positions?
4. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of the a) 540
tower to be 30o. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and b) 480
finds its angle of elevation to be 60o. What is the c) 680
height of the tower? d) 840
a) 76.31 m 14. In a single throw of a pair of dice, what is the
b) 73.31 m probability of having a 7 or 11?
c) 73.16 m a) ¾
d) 73.61 m b) 1/8
5. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 6.8284 c) 2/18
units. Compute the area of the triangle in square units. d) 2/9
a) 2 15. If the area of an equilateral triangle is 9 3 cm2,
b) 1 determine the perimeter.
c) 0.5
d) 4 a) 9 2 cm
6. Solve the value of x in the equation: log x2 – log 5x = b) 12 cm
log 20. c) 18 cm
a) 10 d) 18 2 cm
b) 20 16. The area bounded by two concentric circles is said to
c) 2 be known as:
d) 100 a) Disk
7. A man is three times as old as his son. Five years ago, b) Annulus
he was five times as old as his son was at that time. c) Ring
How old is the son? d) Sector
a) 8 17. The angle that the line of sight to the object, makes
b) 10 with the horizontal, which is above the eye of the
c) 12 observer is called:
d) 14 a) Angle of elevation
8. Jaime and Allan can do a piece of work in 20 days, b) Bearing
Allan and Raymond in 30 days, Raymond and Jaime c) Acute angle
in 40 days. If thee three work together, how long will d) Angle depression
they be able to finish the job? 18. If the volume of the sphere is 35 m3, determine its
a) 18.46 days surface area, in m2.
b) 17.46 days a) 36
c) 16.47 days b) 24
d) 14.67 days c) 18
9. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. d) 12
Determine the number. 19. A metal washer 1 inch in diameter is pierced by ½
a) 7 inch hole. What is the volume of the washer if it is
b) 5 1/8 inch thick, in cubic inch?
c) 4 a) 0.028
d) 6 b) 0.074
10. At what time after 3’oclock will the hands of the c) 0.082
clock be together? d) 0.047
a) 16.36 minutes 20. The volumes of two spheres are in the ratio of 27:343
b) 13.66 minutes and the sum of their radii is 10. Find the radius of the
c) 16.63 minutes smaller sphere.
d) 16.36 minutes a) 6
11. How many 3 digit numbers may be formed from the b) 5
digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 if no digit may be repeated in a c) 3
given number? d) 4
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21. When a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from left 31. How far does an automobile move while its speed
to right, the slope m is: increases uniformly from 15 kph to 45 kph in 20
a) Less than zero seconds?
b) Greater than zero a) 185 m
c) Equal to zero b) 167 m
d) Equal to 1 c) 200 m
22. Find the equation of the directrix of the parabola y2 = d) 172 m
16x. 32. A mango falls from a branch 5 m above the ground.
a) x = 8 With what speed in m/s does it strike the ground?
b) x = - 8 Assume g = 10 m/s2.
c) x = 4 a) 8 m/s
d) x = - 4 b) 12 m/s
x 2 y2 c) 14 m/s
23. Given an ellipse   1 . Determine the distance d) 10 m/s
36 32 33. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal plane
between foci. following a parabolic path with an initial velocity of
a) 3 100 m/s at an angle of 30o above the horizontal. How
b) 4 far from the throwing point will the ball attain its
c) 2 original level?
d) 8 a) 882.8 m
24. If y  x ln x , find the 2nd derivative with respect to x. b) 828.8 m
1 c) 288.8 m
a)  d) 888.2 m
x2
34. A man expects to receive P20,000.00 in ten years.
1
b)  How much is that money worth now considering
x interest of 6 % compounded quarterly?
1 a) P12,698.65
c)
x b) P11,698.25
1 c) P17,567.95
d) d) P15,678.45
x
25. The depth of water in a cylindrical tank, 4 m in 35. If you borrowed money from your friend with simple
diameter, is increasing at the rate of 0.7 m/min. Find interest of 12 %, find the present worth of P50,000.00,
the rate at which the water is flowing into the tank. which is due at the end of 7 months.
a) 8.80 m3/min a) P46,200.00
b) 7.64 m3/min b) P44,893.00
c) 6.12 m3/min c) P46,730.00
d) 2.24 m3/min d) P45,789.00
26. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be 36. An employee obtained a loan of P10,000.00 at the
inscribed in a semi-circle of radius 10? rate of 6 % compounded annually in order to repair a
a) 1000 sq. units house. How much must he pay monthly to amortize
the loan within a period of ten years?
b) 50 sq. units a) P112.02
c) 100 sq. units b) P110.22
d) 2 50 sq. units c) P150.55
d) P198.20
  2x  4x  dx .
1
3
27. Evaluate the 37. If money is worth 8 %, determine the present value of
0
a perpetuity of P1,000.00 payable annually, with the
a) 2
first payment due at the end of 4 years.
b) 4
a) P9,272.64
c) 6
b) P9,187.87
d) 8
c) P9,272.46
28. What is the appropriate total area bounded by y =
d) P9,178.87
sinx and y = 0 over the interval 0  x  2 , where x
38. What is effective rate of 15 % compounded semi-
is in radians. annually?
a) /2 a) 15.56 %
b) 2 b) 16.02 %
c)  c) 18.78 %
d) 4 d) 15 %
29. What is the area between y = 0, y = 3x2, x = 0 and x = 39. What will be the future worth of money after 12
2? months, if the sum of P25,000.00 is interest today at
a) 8 simple interest rate of 12 % a year?
b) 24 a) P30,000.00
c) 12 b) P29,000.00
d) 6 c) P28,000.00
30. What is the maximum moment of 10 m simple d) P27,000.00
supported beam subjected to a concentrated load of 40. How much money must you invest today in order to
500 kN at the mid-span? withdraw P2,000.00 annually for 10 years if the
a) 1250 kN-m interest rate is 9 %?
b) 1520 kN-m a) P12,853.32
c) 1050 kN-m b) P12,881.32
d) 1510 kN-m c) P12,385.32
d) P12,835.32
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41. The force of gravity per unit volume of a substance is 2660 kJ/kg. If heat losses from the turbine are 120
known as: kW. Determine the power output.
a) Density a) 406 kW
b) Weight b) 420 kW
c) Specific weight c) 460 kW
d) Specific gravity d) 640 kW
42. In a thermodynamics process following, pV n  C , 47. A heat engine operates on the Carnot cycle. It produces 50
kW of power while operating between temperature limits of
what is the process if the value of n is infinity? 800 oC and 100 oC. Determine the heat added.
a) Isentropic process a) 66.74 kW
b) Polytropic process b) 64.67 kW
c) Isometric process c) 76.64 kW
d) Isobaric process d) 74.66 kW
43. Air at 21 oCis used to inflate an automobile tire to 48. The most efficient theoretical engine that operates
207 kPag. After being driven, the temperature has between two temperature levels.
risen to 38 oC. What is the resulting pressure if the a) Rankine engine
tire did not stretch? b) Brayton engine
a) 224.828 kPag c) Carnot engine
b) 224.828 kPaa d) Otto engine
c) 326.153 kPag 49. An air-standard Otto cycle has a compression ratio of
d) 236.153 kPag 8 and has air conditions at the beginning of
44. One kilogram of water (cp= 4.2 kJ/kg-oK) is heated compression of 100 kPaa and 25 oC. The heat added
by 300 Btu of energy. What is the change of is 1400 kJ/kg. Determine the thermal efficiency.
temperature, in oK? a) 46.57 %
a) 75.36 oK b) 56.47 %
b) 348.36 oK c) 45.67 %
c) 76.53 oK d) 47.65 %
d) 73.56 oK 50. An air-standard Diesel cycle has a compression ratio of 20
45. A closed rigid container has a volume of 1 m3 and and a cut off ratio of 3. Inlet pressure and temperature are
100 kPaa and 27 oC, respectively. Determine the thermal
holds air at 343 kPaa and 273 oK. Heat is added until
efficiency.
the temperature is 600 oK. Determine the heat added. a) 60.61 %
a) 1033.10 Btu b) 61.60 %
b) 1033.10 kJ c) 50.61 %
c) 1330.10 Btu d) 51.60 %
d) 1330.10 kJ
46. A steam turbine takes in steam, with specific
enthalpy of 3095 kJ/kg, at a rate of 80 kg/min. The
steam leaves the turbine with specific enthalpy of

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ANSWERS KEY

1. b
2. d
3. b
4. d
5. a

6. d
7. b
8. a
9. d
10. a

11. a
12. b
13. a
14. d
15. c

16. b
17. a
18. a
19. b
20. c

21. a
22. d
23. b
24. c
25. a

26. c
27. a
28. b
29. a
30. a

31. b
32. d
33. a
34. b
35. c

36. b
37. b
38. a
39. c
40. d

41. c
42. c
43. a
44. a
45. b

46. c
47. c
48. d
49. b
50. a