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Os PB1 Math Questionnaire
Os PB1 Math Questionnaire
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MULTIPLE CHOICE
10. [SEPT2022] An 8f street light and 6ft tree are 15ft away
from each other. Find the length of the shadow cast by the tree?
A. 10.12ft C. 8.25ft
B. 7.5ftft D. 6.7ft
11. [SEPT2022] A company want to create a can of volume 1,000
cm3.Find the radius so that material that will be used is
minimum?
A. 5.42cm C. 7.47cm
B. 9.56cm D. 8.35cm
16. [SEPT2022] Susan starts work at 4:00 and Dee starts at 5:00.
They both finish at the same time. If Susan works x hours, how
many hours does Dee work?
A. x + 1 C. x – 1
B. x D. 2x
20. [SEPT2022] Peter can paint a room in an hour and a half and
Joe can paint the same room in 2 hours. How many minutes will it
take them to paint the room if they do it together? Round answer
to nearest minute.
A. 51 C. 64
B. 30 D. 210
1+sinx 1-sinx
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1-sinx 1+sinx
A. -4tan(x)csc(x) C. 4tan(x)sec(x)
B. 4tan(x)csc(x) D. -4tan(x)sec(x)
43. [SEPT2022] What is the length of the shortest line that can
be drawn tangent to the ellipse b2x2 + a2y2 =a2b2 and meeting
the coordinate axes?
A. a2 + b2 C. √(a2+ b2)
B. a + b D. ½√(a2+ b2)
44. [SEPT2016] Find the distance between the lines x/1 = y/2 =
(z - 6)/3 and x/3 = y/2 = z/1
A. √ 45/7 C. √ 53/6
B. √ 90/7 D. √ 69/6
45. Some birds are sitting in an oak tree. Ten more birds land.
More birds arrive until there are a total of four times as many
birds as the oak tree had after the ten landed. A nearby maple
tree has sixteen fewer than twelve times as many birds as the
oak tree had after the ten landed. If both trees now have the
same number of birds, how many birds were originally in the oak
tree before the first 10 landed?
A. 4 C. 7
B. 16 D. 24
72. Find the equation of the normal line to the x^2 + y^2 at the
point (2,1).
A. 4x – 3y = 0 C. 2x + y = 5
B. x - 2y = 0 D. x – y = 0
77. Find the point on the line 3x+y+4=0 that is equidistant from
the points (-5, 6) and (3,2).
A. (2, 2) C. (3, -5)
B. (-3, 5) D. (-2, 2)
78. [APRIL2022] Find the LT for f(x) = 2 when 0<x<3 f(x) = x
when x>3
A. 1/s^2 + e^-3s (1/s^2 + 1/s) C. 2/s+e^-3s (1/s^2 + 1/s)
B. 1/s^2 e^-3s (1/s) D. 2/s +1/s^2
81. The three sides of a trapezoid are each 10cm long, how long
must the fourth side if the area is a maximum?
A. 15 C. 20
B. 22 D. 24
85. A retailer bought a number of shirts for $180 and sold all
but 6 at a profit of $2 per shirt. With the total amount
received she could buy 30 more shirts than before. Find the cost
per shirt?
A. $1 C. $3
B. $2 D. $4
86. Four radars are tracking an asteroid. If the probability of
tracking success is 90%, find the probability of at most 3
successes.
A. 0.3539 C. 0.3507
B. 0.3578 D. 0.3439
89. Find the equation of the circle that passes through the
vertex and end points of the latus rectum of the parabola y^2 =
8x.
A. x^2+y^2=8x C. x^2+y^2=4x
B. x^2+y^2=10x D. x^2+y^2=6x
91. Find the length of the arc described by the parabola x^2 =
4y from x = -2 to x =2.
A. 5.49 C. 6.49
B. 3.49 D. 4.59
93. Find the value of C for which the area bounded by the curves
y = x^2-C^2 and y = C^2-x^2 is 576.
A. 7 C. 8
B. 9 D. 10
94. A ladder 10ft long is resting against the side of a
building. If the foot of the ladder slips away from the wall at
the rate of 2 ft/min, how fast is the angle between the ladder
and the ground when the foot of the ladder is 6ft away from the
building
A. 1/2 rad/min C. 1/3 rad/min
B. 1/4 rad/min D. 1 rad/min