Problem 51:

When there is only 6 m of rope remaining in pulling a boat 3.8 meters below the pier, the rope is being
pulled at 0.9 m/s. How fast the boat does approaches to the pier at this instant?

Ans.: 1.163 m/s

Problem 52:
1
3x
Evaluate ∫ x
dx
0 e
Ans.: 1.051

Problem 53:
π/4
Evaluate the integral: ∫ 8x cos 2x dx
0

Ans.: 1.14

Problem 54:
A hemispherical tank having a top diameter of 2.4 m is filled with water. Find the work done in pumping
all the water out to elevation 0.80 m above the top of the tank.

Ans.: 44.379 kJ

Problem 55:
Given nC10 = 22 nC12, determine the value of n.

Ans.: n = 8 & 13

Problem 56:
How many ways can 1 president, 1 vice president, 1 vice president, and one secretary can be chosen
from 14 PICE members?

Ans.: 2184 ways

Problem 57:
The Human Resource Manager of Ayala Land Corporation is to hire three out of ten competent
applicants. How many ways can the HR Manager choose?

Ans.: N = 120

Problem 58:
A packet consists of 20 pieces of candy. In a thousand packets, 40 packets consist of less than 20
candies. When selecting 3 packets, what is the probability of selecting a packet with less than 20
candies?
Ans.: 11.06%

Problem 59:
A certain statistical observation found that it has a probability of failing once equal to 0.422, twice equal
to 0.141 and thrice equal to 0.016. Determine the probability that it will fall once or thrice.

Ans.: 0.438

Problem 60:
A classroom has 71 students. Ten of them are Chinese, 24 are Japanese and 37 are Filipinos. If three
students are randomly asked to get out of the room, one after another, what are the probabilities that
all three are Chinese?

Ans.: 0.0021

Problem 61:
A total of 300 people composed of students and teachers in a certain school are asked in a poll. The
answers of the poll are either they are to agree, disagree or just be neutral to an issue being asked. From
the students, there are 132 who agreed, 78 who disagreed and 54 are neutral. There are 5 who agree,
14 who disagree and 17 are neutral from the teachers. If a teacher and a student are randomly selected,
what is the probability that they either agree or neutral?

Ans.: 0.4306

Problem 62:
The mean of a population is 84 and its standard deviation is 4. Using normal probability distribution,
determine the probability that a certain sample is within 80 and 88.

Ans.: 0.6829

Problem 63:
The mean of a population is 17 and its standard deviation is 3. Using normal probability distribution,
determine the probability that a certain sample is within 14 and 20.

Ans.: 0.6829

Problem 64:
The number of working days lost due to accidents for each of 12 one-monthly periods are the following:

27, 37, 40, 28, 23, 30, 35, 24, 30, 32, 31, 28

Determine the first quartile value of this data.

Ans.: 33.5

Problem 65:
Given the following numbers:

34.5, 12.7, 28.5, 25.6, 52.6, 45.5, 18.5, 27.5, and 12.5
Determine the first quartile.

Ans.: 15.6

Problem 66:
Determine the equivalent effective rate of a money compounded continuously at r = 5%.

Ans.: 5.13%

Problem 67:
A businessman wishes to raise P1.5 million in five years by investing a fixed amount of money every end
of the year for three years. What is the required investment using an interest rate of 8%?

Ans.: P 396,133.6

Problem 68:
Determine the capitalized cost of a large-format printer that has a first cost of P1.2 million and salvage
value after five useful years equal to P600,000. The operation and maintenance cost is P100,000 every
after 3 years. Use interest rate, i=10.1%.

Ans.: P 2.469,954

Problem 69:
A machine costing P1.5M has a salvage value of P600,000 at the end of its economic life. What is the
economic life of this machine if using the sum-of-the-year’s-digit method, its book value at the end of 2
years is estimated to be 870,000?

Ans.: 4 years

Problem 70:
A machine costing P1.2 million has an estimated book value of P300,000 at the end of its economic life
in five years. Using sum of the year’s digit method, what will be its book value on the third year?

Ans.: P 480,000

Problem 71:
An equipment with first cost of P1.80 M has a salvage value of P300,000 at the end of 5 years. Using the
constant percentage method, what is the total depreciation after three years?

Ans.: P 1,185,690.65

Problem 72:
Points A and B on a simple curve have perpendicular distances from tangent at point O equal to 28 m
and 38 m, respectively. If length of curve OB is 158.82 m, determine the chord AB.
Ans.: 22.83 m

Problem 73:
A simple curve with a radius of 415 m has a point A that is 25 m from the tangent that passes through
the PC. Determine the length of the curve from PC to point A.

Ans.: 144.78 m

Problem 74:
A curve having a radius of 192.18 m has an intersecting angle of 42° 15’. PC is at station 0 + 700. Find the
right angle offset distance to station 0 + 736.78.

Ans.: 3.51 m

Problem 75:
A simple curve having a radius of 200 m have tangents with bearing N 10° E and N 70° E, respectively.
The stationing of PC is 1 + 400. Determine the stationing of a point Q on the curve whose deflection
angle from PC is 6°.

Ans.: Sta. Q = 1 + 441.89

Problem 76:
The external distance of a simple curve is 15 m and has central angle of 30°. If length of one station is 20
m long, find the radius of the curve.

Ans.: 425.216 m

Problem 77:
A 160 m long sag parabolic curve connect a -8% grade to a +2% grade. The grades intersect at Station 1 +
240 with elevation of 14.87 m. Find the elevation of the first quarter point of the curve.

Ans.: 18.57 m

Problem 78:
A line was measured and found out to be 512.21 meters. It is then found out that the 50-meter tape
used is 0.04 meter too long during the measurement. Determine the true length of the line.

Ans.: 512.6198 m

Problem 79:
A point is sighted from a transit and found to have a stadia intercept of 0.6 m. The distance of the stadia
rod from the transit is 61.2 m. If f + c is 0.3 m, determine the stadia constant.

Ans.: 101.5 m

Problem 80:
Find the weighted mean of the following observations.

Route Difference of Elevation Frequency

 A 351.1 2
B 352.3 5
C 351.3 1
D 351.7 6

Ans.: 351.8

Problem 81:
The distance between two points is observed and tabulated with corresponding weights. Determine the
weight mean distance.

TRIAL DISTANCE WEIGHT

1 521.62 2
2 521.51 5
3 521.13 1
4 521.93 8

Ans.: 521.71 m

Problem 82:
The sum of the positive departure exceeds that of the negative departures by 0.31 m. The sum of
negative latitudes exceeds that of the positive latitudes by 1.67 m. Determine the corrected latitude of
48.12 m line whose latitude is 21.09 m. The sum of the sides measured to be 292.52 m.

Ans.: 21.36 m

Problem 83:
Determine the area of the given closed traverse.

LINE LENGTH BEARING

AB 42.0 N 64° 32’ E
BC 12.0 S 38° 45’ E
CD 18.5 S 34° 56’ W
DE 28.4 S 72° 12’ W
EA 17.0 N 27° 14’ W

Ans.: 786.416

Problem 84:
Compute the impact factor for a highway curve having a radius of 550 m for a speed of 100 kph. Given
IF = v2/Gr
Ans.: 0.143

Problem 85:
Determine the braking distance of a car travelling at 100 kph on a 2% ascending grade if the coefficient
of friction between the tires and the pavement is 0.6.

Ans.: 63.45 m

Problem 86:
A road base h as a bearing capacity of 0.15 MPa. The wheel of a truck supports a load of 200 kN with
contact radius 165 mm. What is the minimum thickness of the pavement?

Ans.: 486.47 mm

Problem 87:
1 1
Determine the frog angle of a turnout having a frog number of 10. Hint: FN = cot F
2 2
Ans.: 5.725°

Problem 88:
A vein has a strike of N43° 20’W. A drift on the vein having a grade of 2% has a bearing of N47° 20’W.
Compute the dip of the vein.

Ans.: 15.96°

Problem 89:
If the cost of hauling is P0.25 per cubic meter per meter station and the free haul distance is 50 m,
compute the cost of borrow per cubic meter if the limit economical haul is 450 m.

Ans.: P5.00 per meter station

Problem 1:
Convert 1 atmosphere to mmHg. Specific gravity of mercury is 13.56

Ans.: 760

Problem 2:
The elastic tendency of liquids which makes them acquire the least surface area possible. It is
responsible, for example, when an object or insect such as mosquitoes that is denser than water is able
to float or run along the water surface.

Ans.: surface tension

Problem 3:
If water is used to measure the atmospheric pressure, how high would it be?
Ans.: 10.329 m

Problem 4:
How many water of water is used equivalent to 2.75 atmosphere?

Ans.: 28.4 m

Problem 5:
A mercury barometer at the top of a mountain reads 700 mmHg and at the same time the barometer at
its base reads 800 mmHg. Assuming that the unit weight of air is 12 N/m 3 and specific gravity of mercury
is 13.6, what is the approximate height of the mountain?

Ans.: 1111.8 m

Problem 6:
The weight density of a mud is given by γ = 10 + 0.5h, where γ is in kN/m3 and h is in meters. Determine
the pressure, in kPa, at a depth of 5 m.

Ans.: 56.25 kPa

Problem 7:
A vertical square plate 1.20 m in each side is submerged half in oil and half in water. If the top of the
plate is flushed with the oil surface, what is the ratio of the force of water to oil. Specific gravity of oil is
0.80.

Ans.: 3.25

Problem 8:
An iceberg floats in seawater with 500 cubic meters of ice above the water surface. If the specific gravity
of seawater is 1.02 and of ice is 0.92, what is the total volume of ice?

Ans.: 5100 m3

Problem 9:
A ship having a displacement of 24,000 metric tons and a draft of 10.4 m in ocean (sp. gr. = 1.03) enters
a harbor of fresh water (sp. gr. = 1). If the horizontal section of the ship at the waterline is 3,000 m 3,
what depth of fresh water is required to float the ship?

Ans.: 10.633 m

Problem 10:
A tank containing 0.6 m deep of water is transported by an elevator. What is the pressure at the bottom
of the tank when the elevator accelerates 2 m/s 2 downward?
Ans.: 4.686 kPa

Problem 11:
Water flows at the rate of 0.003 m3/s in a 100-mm-diameter pipe. Assuming n = 0.025, find the head lost
per kilometer length of pipe.

Ans.: 12.47 m