MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND LAWS (MASTERY PART 1)

TAKE HOME PROBLEMS 18. Two fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the sum
1. Simplify: log 𝑥 + log 𝑥 3 + log 𝑥 5 shown on the dice is divisible by 5?
A. log(𝑥 + 𝑥 3 + 𝑥 5 ) C. 𝟗 𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝒙 A. 7/36 C. 1/9
B. log 9𝑥 D. 15 log 𝑥 B. 1/12 D. 1/4
2. What is the logarithm of negative number? 19. An urn contains 3 white balls and 1 black ball. Determine the
A. zero C. irrational probability of drawing two white balls in succession from the
B. rational D. complex urn without replacing the ball after each drawing.
3. Solve the value of x: 1.4 = (
0.0613 1.32
) A. 1/2 C. ¼
𝑥 B. 2/3 D. 3/2
A. 0.5471 C. 0.7541 20. A study has a sample size of 9, a standard deviation of 4.0, and
B. 0.04751 D. 0.4571 a sample standard deviation of 4.2. What is most nearly the
4. What is the discriminant of the equation: 4𝑥 2 − 8𝑥 + 5 = 0? sample variance?
A. 8 C. 16 A. 16 C. 34
B. -16 D. -8 B. 18 D. 36
5. If (𝑥 + 4) is a factor of 𝑥 3 + 2𝑥 2 − 7𝑥 + 𝑘, what is the value 21. A study has a sample size of 9, a standard deviation of 4.0, and
of k? a sample standard deviation of 4.2. What is most nearly the
A. 2 C. 3 sample variance?
B. 4 D. 5 A. 16 C. 34
6. What is the 4th term of the expansion (𝑥 + 𝑦)12 B. 18 D. 36
A. 220x9y3 C. 200x9y3 22. A coin is tossed three times. What is the probability of getting
9 3
B. 120x y D. 240x4y3 three heads?
7. A pump can pump out a tank in 11 hrs. Another pump can A. 1/8 C. ½
pump out the same tank in 20 hrs. How long will it take both B. 5/32 D. 3/2
pumps together to pump out the tank? 23. Find the area of spherical triangle ABC whose parts are A =
A. ½ hrs C. 5 hrs 93 deg 40 min, B = 64 deg 12 min, C = 116 deg 51 min. with
B. ¼ hrs D. 7 hrs radius of the sphere is 100 km.
8. At what time after 12 o’clock will the hour hand and minute A. 15314 km2 C. 13451 km2
hand of the clock first form 120 degrees? B. 16531 km 2
D. 14321 km2
A. 12:20.56 C. 12:29.32 24. Two cards are drawn at random from an ordinary deck of 52
B. 12:21.81 D. 12:30.45 cards. Find the probability P that one is a spade and one is a
9. The difference between two numbers is 12. If 2 is added to 7 heart.
times the smaller, the result is the same as when 2 is subtracted A. 3/51 C. 13/102
from 3 times the larger. Find the numbers. B. 1/26 D. 2/51
A. 20 and 6 C. 15 and 3 25. How many radians are there in the two successive numbers on
B. 20 and 8 D. 17 and 2 the face of a clock.
10. The product of ¼ and 1/5 of a number is 500. Find the number. A. π/2 C. π/6
A. 100 C. 300 B. π/3 D. π/4
B. 200 D. 150 26. Simplify 4cos(𝑦) sin(𝑦) (1 − 2 𝑠𝑖𝑛2 𝑦)
11. Three cats can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes. How many minutes will A. tan (4y) C. cos (4y)
it take for 100 cats to kill 100 rats? B. sec (4y) D. sin (4y)
A. 3 C. 100 27. The sides of a triangle are 8 cm, 10 cm and 14 cm. Determine
B. 33.33 D. 300 the radius of the inscribed and circumscribing circle.
12. How many committees can be formed by choosing 4 men A. 2.45, 7.14 C. 3.02, 6.82
from an organization of a membership of 15 men? B. 2.72, 8.21 D. 3.26, 7.82
A. 1390 C. 1435 28. An observer wishes to determine the height of a tower. He
B. 1240 D. 1365 takes sight at the top of the tower from A and B, which are 50
13. If the 4th term of GP is 8 and the 7th term is 1, find the 2nd term. ft apart at the same elevation on a direct line with the tower.
A. 45 C. 30 The vertical angle at point A is 30 deg and at point B is 40
B. 32 D. 25 deg. What is the height of the tower?
14. The vibration frequency of a string varies as the square root of A. 85.60 ft C. 110.29 ft
the tension and inversely as the product of the length and B. 143.97 ft D. 92.54 ft
diameter of the string. If the string is 3 feet long and 0.03-inch 29. Given a triangle with an angle C = 28.7°, side a = 132 units
in diameter vibrates at 720 times per second under 90 pounds and side b = 224 units. Solve for the side c.
tension, at what frequency will 2 feet long, 0.025-inch string A. 95 units C. 110 units
vibrate under 2500 pounds tension. B. 125.4 units D. 90 units
A. 6210 C. 7514 30. Simplify {cos 𝐴/[sin 𝐴 + 1]} + tan 𝐴
B. 6830 D. 5645 A. sec A C. sin A
15. A Mechanical Engineer bought 24 boxes of screws for P B. csc A D. cos A
2,200.00. There were three types of screws bought. Screw A 31. Joggers A and B, starting from the same point, jogging in
costs P 300 per box, screw B costs P 150 and screw C cost P opposite directions in a circular track field. Their circular path
50 per box. How many boxes of screw A did he buy? has a diameter of 800 meters. If the average speed of Jogger
A. 2 C. 7 A is 3 kph and that of Jogger B is to be 4 kph, compute the
B. 5 D. 5 time they will meet.
16. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is three A. 6.85 min C. 14.54 min
more than twice the third. Find the third integer. B. 21.54 min D. 43.23 min
A. 12 C. 10 32. Mary is three times as old as Ann now. Four years ago, she
B. 15 D. 18 was four times as old as Ann was at that time. How old is Ann?
17. A witness to a hit-and-run accident told the police that the license A. 12 C. 15
number contained the letter RLH followed by 3 digits, the first of
B. 10 D. 20
which is a 5. If the witness cannot recall the last two digits, but he
33. The electrical resistance of a wire made of a certain material
is certain that all 3 digits are different, find the maximum number
of automobile registrations that the police may have to check.
varies as its length and inversely as the square of the diameter.
A. 300 C. 72 If a wire 100 m long and 1.25 mm in diameter has a resistance
B. 45 D. 87 of 30 ohms, find the length of a wire of the same material
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whose resistance and diameter are 25 ohms and 0.75 mm
respectively.
A. 26 m C. 19 m
B. 30 m D. 56 m
34. Find the 4th term of the HARMONIC progression ½, 0.2,
0.125…
A. 1/10 C. 1/11
B. 0.102 D. 0.099
35. Points A and B are 100 m apart and are of the same elevation
as the foot of the tower. The angles of elevation of the top of
the tower from the points A and B are 21 degrees and 32
degrees respectively. How far is A from the tower in meters?
A. 259.28 C. 271.62
B. 265.42 D. 277.92
36. Solve for x in the equation: arctan(𝑥𝑥 + 1) + arctan(𝑥𝑥 − 1) =
arctan(12)
A. 1.50 C. 1.20
B. 1.34 D. 1.25
37. How many triangles are determined by the vertices of a
regular hexagon?
A. 10 C. 20
B. 15 D. 25
38. What is the standard deviation of 1, 4, and 7?
A. 3.8 C. 4.5
B. 5.2 D. 2.45
39. Douglas can paint a fence of 50% faster than Nonoy and 20%
faster than Jerome and together they can paint a given fence
in 4 hours. How long will it take Douglas to paint the same
fence if he had to work alone?
A. 9 C. 8
B. 10 D. 11
40. The product of two numbers is increased by 4 is P. If one
number is D, find the other number.
A. P/D-4 C. (P+4)/D
B. (P-4)/D D. D/P-4