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APRIL 2024 CE BOARD EXAM REFRESHER
1. A politician stated that if you elect me to
the office,
"I promise to cut your taxes for each of
my first three years in office by 10% each
year, for the total reductions of 30 %."
Evaluate the accuracy of the politician's
statement.
A. 29.99% B. 30% C. 27.10% D. 28.20%
2. A tank initially contains 400 gallons of
brine in which 100 pounds of salt are
dissolved. Pure water is running into the
tank at the rate of 20 gallons per minute,
and the mixture (which is kept uniform by
stirring) is drained off at the same rate.
How many pounds of salt remain in the tank
after 30 minutes?
A. 21.46 B. 20.72 C. 22.31 D. 23.83
3. Evaluate (𝟐 𝐜𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎°)𝟑 .
A. 4+6.9i B. 6.638 C. 4-6.9i D. 8.836
4. A rectangular waterfront lot has a perimeter
of 1000 feet. To create a sense of privacy,
the lot’s owner decides to fence along three
sides, excluding the side that fronts the
water. An expensive fencing along the lot’s
front length costs Php25 per foot, and an
inexpensive fencing along two side widths
costs only Php5 per foot. The total cost of
the fencing along all three sides comes to
Php9500. What is the lot’s dimensions?
A. 300’´ 200’ C. 498.5’´ 335’
B. 400’´ 100’ D. 387.5’´ 225’
5. A binomial probability distribution
involves 60 trials with a probability of
failure of 0.26. Find the standard
deviation of this probability distribution.
A 15.6 C. 6.66
B. 3.4 D. 11.5
6. A given alloy contains 20% copper (Cu) and
5% tin (Sn). How many pounds of copper and
of tin must be melted with 100 lb of the
given alloy to produce another alloy
analyzing 30% copper and 10% tin? All
percentages are by weight.
A. 20.5 Cu, 4.5 Sn C. 19.5 Cu, 5.5 Sn
B. 17.5 Cu, 7.5 Sn D. 18.5 Cu, 6.5 Sn
7. A rotating vessel coming to rest makes 30
revolutions in the first minutes and in each
minute thereafter makes 2/5 as many
revolutions as the preceding minutes. Find
how many revolutions the wheel makes before
it comes to rest.
A. 40 B. 30 C. 50 D. 75
8. In a certain town there are 1000 married
couples. Two-thirds of the husbands who are
taller than their wives are also heavier and
three-quarters of the husbands who are
heavier than their wives are also taller.
If there are 120 wives who are taller and
heavier than their husbands, how many
husbands are taller and heavier than their
wives?
A. 880 B. 320 C. 380 D. 480
9. The fastest average speed by a cyclist
across the continental United States is 15.4
mph, by Pete Penseyres. If he travelled a
total distance of about 3107.5 miles at this
speed, find his time cycling. Write time in
days d, hours h, and minutes m.
A. 7d 8h 40m C. 5d 9h 20m
B. 6d 11h 30m D. 8d 9h 50m
10. A farmer owned a square field measuring
exactly 2261 meters on each side. 1898
meters from one corner and 1009 meters from
an adjacent corner stood a beech tree. A
neighbor offered to purchase a triangular
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portion of the field, stipulating that a
fence should be erected in a straight line
from one side of the field to an adjacent
side so that the beech tree was part of the
fence. The farmer accepted the offer but
made sure that the triangular portion was a
minimum area. How long was the fence?
A. 2020m B. 2019m C. 2017m D. 2018m
11. Point P has cylindrical coordinates of (8,
30°, 5). Find the value of x in the
Cartesian coordinates.
A. 5.21 B. 6.93 C. 6.12 D. 5.94
12. The formula log (1 – k) = –0.3/H models the
relationship between the half-life H of a
radioactive material and its rate of decay
k. Find the rate of the decay of the iodine
isotope l-13l if its half-life is 8 days.
Round to four decimal places.
A. 0.1827 B. 0.3827 C. 0.0627 D. 0.0827
13. Given the ellipse x2/9 + y2/4 = 1. Find the
equation of the diameter of the ellipse,
which bisect chords of slope -2/3.
A. 2x – 3y = 0 C. 2x + 3y = 0
B. 3x – 2y = 0 D. 3x + 2y = 0
14. An industrial engineer has found that when
she takes a sample of size 5 of a product,
90% of the time there are no defectives in
the sample, 3% of the time there is 1
defective, 2% of the time there are 2
defectives, 2% of the time there are 3
defectives, 2% of the time there are 4
defectives, and 1% of the time there 5
defectives. What is the probability of
taking a sample that has at least 3
defectives in the 5?
A. 7% B. 5% C. 9% D. 15%
15. An army of troops is marching along a road
at 5 kph. A messenger on horseback was sent
from the front to the rear of the column and
returns immediately back. The total time
taken being 10 minutes. Assuming the
messenger rides at the rate of 10 kph,
determine the length of the column.
A. 526m B. 1km C. 854m D. 625m
16. Near the town of Lunch, Nebraska there is a
large triangular plot of land bounded by
three straight roads which are 855, 870, and
975 meters long respectively. The owner of
the land, a friend of mine, told me that he
had decided to sell half the plot to a
neighbor, but that the buyer had stipulated
that the seller of the land should erect the
fence which was to be a straight one. The
cost of fences being high, my friend
naturally wanted the fence to be as short
as possible. What is the minimum length the
fence can be?
A. 600m B. 300m C. 500m D. 400m
17. My house is on a road where the numbers run
1, 2, 3, 4... consecutively. My number is a
three digit one and, by a curious
coincidence, the sum of all house numbers
less than mine is the same as the sum of all
house numbers greater than mine. What is my
number?
A. 384 B. 288 C. 148 D. 204
18. Given the following vectors:
A = 6i – 2j – k P = 2i – 4j + k
B = 2i + 5j + 2k Q = –6i + 12j – 3k
Which of the following is true?
A. A&B parallel; P&Q parallel
B. A&B orthogonal; P&Q orthogonal
C. A&B parallel; P&Q orthogonal
D. A&B orthogonal; P&Q parallel
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