Nov 2024 PRE-BOARD

MSTE 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

EXAMINATION
By- EM-T
Problem 1. A germ population has a growth curve Ae0.4t .At what value of
t does its original value doubled?

A. t= 7.13
B. t= 1.37
C. t= 1.73
D. t= 3.13
Problem 2. A contractor can buy a dump trucks for P800,000 each (surplus) or
rent them for P1,189 per truck per day. The truck has salvage value of P100,000
at the end of its useful life of 5 years. Annual cost of maintenance is P20,000. If
money is worth 14% per annum, determine the number of days per year that a
truck must be used to warrant the purchase of the truck.

A. 200
B. 300
C. 400
D. 600
Problem 3. In triangle ABC, C = 30, a = 36 and b = 18. Find the radius of
the circle tangent to the side c and escribe outside the triangle.

A. 22.45
B. 18.17
C. 23.90
D. 20.12
Problem 4. A flagpole 3m high stands at the top of a pedestal 2m high
located at one side of a pathway. At the opposite side of the pathway directly
facing the flagpole, the flagpole subtends the same angle as the pedestal. What
is the width of the pathway?

A. 5.30 m
B. 4.47 m
C. 6.21 m
D. 4.74 m
Problem 5. Two runners A and B Started from the same point on a circular
track zoom in radius and ran at the same rate of 2 m/s A running towards
the center and B along the circumference. How far apart are they after 8
seconds?

A. 14.75 m
B. 15.57 m
C. 15.15 m
D. 17.45 m
Problem 6. Triangle ABC has side AB = 160 cm, BC = 190 cm, and CA =
190 cm. Point D is along side AB and AD 100 Cm. Point E is along side CA.
Determine the length of AE if the area of triangle ADE is 3/5 the area of
triangle ABC.

A. 176.40 cm
B. 182.40 cm
C. 185.70 cm
D. 175.40 cm
Problem 7. Mar wants to make a box with no lid from a rectangular sheet of
cardboard that is 18 inches by 24 inches. The box is to be made by cutting a
square of side x from each corner of the sheet and folding up the sides. Find
the value of x that maximizes the volume of the box.

A. 1.2 inches
B. 3.4 inches
C. 2.4 inches
D. 6.4 inches
Problem 8. A train is moving at the rate of 8 mi/h along a piece of circular
track of radius 2500 ft. Through what angle does it turn in 1 min?

A. 16.13°
B. 20.13°
C. 12.13°
D. 10.13°
Problem 9. The area of a park on a map is 600 mm2. If the scale of the map
is 1 to 40,000 determine the true area of the park in hectares.
(1 hectare = 104 m2).

A. 60
B. 72
C. 96
D. 106
Problem 10. A 50-m steel tape that is 0.02 m too long was used to measure
the distance between two points A and B. If the measured distance was
160.42 m, calculate the correct distance between A and B.

A. 160.356 m
B. 160.484 m
C. 160.563 m
D. 160.844 m
Problem 11. A boat going upstream takes 1.5 times longer than going the
same distance downstream. If the water current in the river is 8 kph,
calculate the speed of the boat in still water.

A. 40 kph
B. 60 kph
C. 50 kph
D. 30 kph
Problem 12. The formula V = 2gh give the velocity, in feet per second, of
an object when it falls h feet accelerated by gravity g, in feet per second
squared. If g is approximately 32 feet per second squared, find how far an
object has fallen if its velocity is 80 feet per second.

A. 80 feet
B. 100 feet
C. 50 feet
D. 90 feet
Problem 13. Earth is approximately 93,000,000.00 miles from the sun, and the
Jupiter is approximately 484,000,900.00 miles from the sun. How long would it
take a spaceship traveling at 7,500.00 mph to fly from Earth to Jupiter?

A. 5.0 years
B. 9.0 years
C. 3.0 years
D. 6.0 years
Problem 14. A meteorologist is inflating a spherical balloon with a helium
gas. If the radius of a balloon is changing at a rate of 1.5 cm/sec., express
the volume V of the balloon as a function of time t (in seconds).

5
A. V t = 2
πt 3
7
B. V t = 2
πt 3
9
C. V t = 2 πt 3
3
D. V t = 2
πt 3
Problem 15. A rectangular waterfront lot has a perimeter of 1000 feet. To create
a sense of privacy, the lot owner decides to fence along three sides excluding the
sides 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. 400 ft x 100 ft
B. 300 ft x 100 ft
C. 400 ft x 200 ft
D. 300 ft x 200 ft
Problem 16. A farmer owned a square field measuring exactly 2261 m on each side.
1898 m from one corner and 1009 m from an adjacent corner stands Narra tree. A
neighbor offered to purchase a triangular 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 Narra tree was part of the fence. The farmer accepted the offer but made
sure that the triangular portion was a minimum area. What was the area of the field
the neighbor received and how long was the fence? Hint: Use the Cosine Law.

A. A = 972, 325 m2 and L=2,236 m

B. A = 939,120 m2 and L=2,018 m
C. A = 972, 325 m2 and L=2,236 m
D. A = 939,120 m2 and L=2,018 m
Problem 17. A contractor estimates that he could finish a project in 15 days
if he has 20 men. At the start, he hired 10 men then after 6 days, 10 more
men are added. How many days was the project delayed?

A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
Problem 18. A box contains 5 defective and 195 non-defective cell phones. A
quality control engineer selects 2 cell phones at random without replacement.
What is the probability that exactly 1 is defective?

A. 0.0190
B. 0.0390
C. 0.0490
D. 0.0290
Problem 19. A conveyor is dispersing sands which forms into a conical pile
whose height is approximately 4/3 of its base radius. Determine how fast the
volume of the conical sand is changing when the radius of the base is 3 feet, if
the rate of change of the radius is 3 inches per minute.

ft
A. 2π min
ft
B. 3π min
ft
C. 5π
min
ft
D. 4π
min
Problem 20. A conical tank in upright position (vertex uppermost) stored
water of depth 2/3 that of the depth of the tank. Calculate the ratio of the
volume of water to that of the tank.

A. 18/19
B. 2/3
C. 4/5
D. 26/27
Problem 21. In a common carnival game, a player tosses a penny from a
distance of about 5 feet onto the surface of a table ruled in 1-inch squares. If
the penny (3/4 inch in diameter) falls entirely inside a square, the player receives
5 cents but does not get his penny back; otherwise he loses his penny. If the
penny lands on the table, what is his chance to win?

A. 5/16
B. 1/16
C. 9/256
D. 3/128
Problem 22. A parabola has an equation of 𝑦 2 = 8𝑥. Find the equation
of the diameter of the parabola, which bisect chords parallel to the line
x – y = 4.

A. y=2
B. y=4
C. y=1
D. y=3
Problem 23. A catapult is placed 100 ft from the castle wall, which is 35 feet
high. The soldier wants the burning bale of hay to clear the top of the wall and
land 50 feet inside the castle wall. If the initial velocity of the bale is 70 feet per
second, then at what angle should the bale of hay be launched so that it travel
150 feet and pass over the castle wall. Use g = 32 ft/sec^2.

A. 49.8°
B. 39.8°
C. 50.8°
D. 40.8°
Problem 24. A 523.6 𝑐𝑚3 solid spherical steel ball was melted and remolded
into a hollow steel ball so that the hollow diameter is equal to the diameter
of the original steel ball. Find the thickness of the hollow steel ball.

A. 1.5 cm
B. 1.2 cm
C. 1.6 cm
D. 1.3 cm
Problem 25. Calculate the maximum pressure produced when placing 75
mm slump concrete at a rate of 2m/h, shuttering 2.5 m high and 250 mm
wide. Assume the temperature of the concrete in the formwork is initially 15
degrees Celsius and vibration is continuous.

A. 65 kN/m2
B. 45 kN/m2
C. 55 kN/m2
D. 15 kN/m2
Problem 26. If the standard deviation of a set observation is 0, you
can conclude.

A. That all observations are the same value.

B. That there is no relationship between the observation.
C. That the average value is 0.
D. That a mistake in arithmetic has been made.
Problem 27. Which of the following are true statements?

I. In an experiment some treatment is intentionally forced on one group to

note the response.
II. 1in an observation study, information is gathered on an already existing
situation.
III.Sample surveys are observational studies, not experiments
A. I and II
B. I and III
C. I, II and III
D. II and III
Problem 28. Which of the following are true statements?

I. All symmetric histograms have single peaks.

II. All symmetrical bell-shaped curves are normal.
III.All normal curve are bell-shaped and symmetric.
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and III
Problem 29. Each type of sight distance consists of three elements.
Choose the best answer as stated in the DPWH Road Safety Design
Manual.

A. Object Height, Traffic Signs, Driver Eye Height

B. Sight Distance, Object Height, Traffic Signs
C. Driver’s Height, Object Height, Sight Distance
D. Driver Eye Height, Object Height, Sight Distance
Problem 30. In a laboratory, each of a handful of thin 9-inch rods had
one tip marked with a blue dot and the other with a red. When the
laboratory assistant tripped and dropped them onto the concrete floor,
many broke into three pieces. For those, what was the average length of
the fragment with the blue dot?

A. 9 inches
B. 2 inches
C. 6 inches
D. 3 inches
Problem 31. From where he stands, one step towards the diff would send the
drunken man over the edge. He takes random steps, either toward or away
from the cliff. At any step his probability of taking a step away is 2/3 of a step
toward the cliff is 1/3. What is his chance of escaping the cliff ?

A. 1/3
B. 1/2
C. 1/8
D. 2/3
Problem 32. Every year an engineer consultant pays a bonus of 300 Pesos to
his most industrious assistant and 75 Pesos to the rest of his staff. After how
many years would his outlay be exactly 6000 Pesos if all but two of his staff
had merited the 3000 Pesos bonus, but none of them more than twice.

A. 6
B. 8
C. 9
D. 7
Problem 33. An aerodynamics out for a stroll walks eastwards at a rate of
3 mph. He notices that the wind appears to blow directly the north. He
doubles his speed and the wind appears to blow from the northeast. What
was the wind velocity? ?

A. 3/2
B. 3
C. 3 2
D. 2/3
Problem 34. The diameter of the Moon is 3480 km. What is the volume of
the Moon? How many Moons would be needed to create a volume equal to
the volume of the Earth? Hint: Earth radius is equal to 6380 km.

A. 49
B. 50
C. 58
D. 61
Problem 35. At highway speeds, a particular automobile is capable of an
acceleration of about 1.6 m/s2. At this rate, how long would it take to
accelerate from 80 km/h to 110 km/h?

A. 5.0 sec
B. 5.9 sec
C. 5.2 sec
D. 4.9 sec
Problem 36. A candle 15 inches long will burn in 9 hours, 1 inch at the lesser
end will be consumed in 20 minutes less than the same length at the larger end.
How long will it take for an inch at the lesser end to be consumed?

A. 26.43
B. 24.63
C. 26.34
D. 36.24
Problem 37. Two men are walking towards each other at the side of a railway.
A freight train overtakes one of them in 20 seconds and exactly ten minutes
later meets the later meets the other man coming in the opposite direction. The
train passes this man in 18 seconds. How long after the train has passed the
second man will the two men meet? (Constant speeds are to be assumed
throughout)

A. 6255
B. 5562
C. 5625
D. 6552
Problem 38. A scalene triangle ABC which is not a right triangle has sides
which are integers. If sin A=5/13, find the smallest values for its sides, i.e.,
those values which make the perimeter a minimum.

A. 21, 17, 36
B. 24, 20, 33
C. 24, 16, 38
D. 25, 16, 39
Problem 39. If the hour and minute hand of a watch are interchanged, how
many different possible times could the watch show?

A. 143
B. 156
C. 176
D. 180
Problem 40. In a certain community there are 1000 married couples. Two
thirds of the husbands who are taller that 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 that their wives?

A. 400
B. 450
C. 480
D. 500
Problem 41. Obviously the smaller the compounding period, the greater the
interest. How much does one dollar amount to after one year at 100% per
annum interest, compounded continuously, i.e., instantaneously?

A. 2.78
B. 2.51
C. 2.90
D. 2.71
Problem 42. A one-acre field in the shape of a right triangle has a post at the
midpoint of each side. A sheep is tethered to each of the side posts and a goat
to the post on the hypotenuse. The ropes are just long enough to let each animal
reach the two adjacent vertices. What is the total area the two sheep have to
themselves, i.e., the area the goat cannot reach?

A. Exactly half acre

B. Exactly one acre
C. Exactly one and a half acre
D. Exactly three fourths acre
Problem 43. The sum of the reciprocals of a, b, and c is 5/8. So is the sum of
the reciprocals of d, e, and f. The sum of the reciprocals of a, d and e is four
times the reciprocals of the other quantities. What combination of reciprocals
will sum to 1?

A. a, d, e
B. d, e, f
C. a, e, f
D. c, e, f,
Problem 44. A man enters a bank and has check cashed. The teller mistakes
the figures and pays cents for dollars and dollars for cents. The man then pays
a bill for $24.11 after which he finds he has twice as much money as the face
value of the original check. What was the face value?

A. 15.31
B. 13.51
C. 51.31
D. 31.15
Problem 45. A painter needs to find the area of the gable end of a house.
What is the area of the gable if it is a triangle with two sides of 42 ft that meet
at a 105 angle?

A. 822 ft 2
B. 855 ft 2
C. 825 ft 2
D. 852 ft 2
Problem 46. A hula hoop of circumference 40inches performs one
revolution about a girl with a 20-inch waist. How far has the original point
of contact of the hoop traveled?

A. 90/𝜋
B. 85/𝜋
C. 80/𝜋
D. 82/𝜋
Problem 47. How many people would you expect to meet before you met
one who was born on a Wednesday?

A. 4
B. 3
C. 7
D. 2
Problem 48. By the time the radius of a certain pearl has increased 1 mm,
the area will have increased as much (in square mm) as the volume (in cubic
mm). If the pearl is an exact sphere, what is the radius now?

A. 1.678
B. 1.457
C. 1.647
D. 1.573
Problem 49. Lazy Levy wishes to toss a snowball over a building 144 ft x 144 ft
and 133 ft high with the least expenditure of energy. How far away from the
building should he stand? Hint: Derive constraints to specify the required
parabola.

A. 84 ft
B. 51 ft
C. 70 ft
D. 25 ft
Problem 50. A cross section through the center of a football is a circle x
inches in circumference. The football is x-8 inches long from tip to tip and
each seam is an arc of a circle 3/4 of x inches in diameter. Find x.

A. 25.90
B. 33.12
C. 31.90
D. 20.69
Problem 51. What is the maximum clear height between stairway landings?

A. 3.9 m
B. 3.3 m
C. 3.6 m
D. 3.0 m
Problem 52. An icicle forming from a dripping gutter is in the shape of a
cone five times as long as it is wide (at the top). A few hours later it has
doubled in length and the generating angle has also doubled. How does its
present weight compare with previous weight?

A. 39
B. 33
C. 36
D. 30
Problem 53. Mr. Field, a speeder, travels on a busy highway having the same
rate of traffic flow in each direction. Except for Mr. Field, the traffic is moving
at a legal speed limit. Mr. Field passes one car for every nine which he meets
from the opposite direction. By what percentage is he exceeding the speed limit?

A. 25%
B. 26%
C. 30%
D. 35%
Problem 54. The first Cost of a certain equipment is P324,000 and a salvage
value of P50,000 at the end of its 1ife for 4 years. Money is worth 6 annually.
If there is no salvage value and the annual maintenance cost is P18,000, find
the capitalized cost of perpetual service.

A. 238,200
B. 624,000
C. 304,550
D. 425,100
Problem 55. A new bridge connecting Dumaguete City and Santander with a 100-
year life expected to have an initial cost of $20 million. This bridge must be
resurfaced every five years, at a cost of 1 million. The annual inspection and
operating costs are estimated to be $50,000. Determine the present-worth cost of
the bridge using the capitalized equivalent approach (i.e. take the life of the bridge
as infinite). The interest rate is 10% per year, compounded annually.

A. $16,072,537
B. $30,873,767
C. $10,900,977
D. $22,137,970
Problem 56. The sides of an equilateral triangle are increasing at the rate of
27 in/sec. How fast is the triangle’s are increasing when the sides of the
triangle are each 18 inches long?

A. 412.14
B. 432.76
C. 420.89
D. 409.32
Problem 57. A boat is being pulled toward a dock by a rope attached to its bow
through a pulley on the dock 7 feet above the bow. If the ropes hauled in at a
rate of 4ft/sec, how fast is the boat approaching the dock when 25 feet of rope
is out?

A. 25/6
B. 33/9
C. 12/8
D. 2/5
Problem 58. The wave length of a shallow-water wave is 80 m long and its
period of oscillation is 7.2 seconds. If it has a depth of water equal to 30 m,
compute the velocity of the wave in m/s.

A. 20.45 m/s
B. 18.29 m/s
C. 11.04 m/s
D. 13.24 m/s
Problem 59. An ellipse has an eccentricity of 1/3 and the distance between
the foci is equal to 4. Compute the length of the latus rectum.

A. 8.35
B. 13.22
C. 15.93
D. 10.67
Problem 60. The water level that guarantees about 98% of tide is safe to
ships seems to be suitable from the expression of the technical resolution of
the International Water Wave Congress. Such water level, which is 0.15 m –
0.4 m below MLLW should be used for design of ports.

A. Design Low Tide (DLT)

B. Residual Water Level (RWL)
C. Low Water Level (LWL)
D. High Water Level (HWL)
Problem 61. For airport, runways and taxiways, the minimum vertical curve
lengths are based on:

A. Sight distance
B. Comfort standards involving vertical acceleration
C. Appearance criteria
D. Stopping sight distance
Problem 62. Calculate the power required of a 1400 kg car when the car
accelerates along a level road from 90 to 110 km/h in 6.0 second to pass another
car. Assume the average retarding force on the car is FR = 700 N, throughout.

A. 90 hP
B. 82 hP
C. 77 hP
D. 100 hP
Problem 63. How large must the coefficient of static friction be between
the tires and the road if a car is to round a level curve at of radius 85 m at a
speed of 95 km/h?

A. 0.84 m
B. 0.90 m
C. 0.60 m
D. 0.75 m
Problem 64. A 4.00 kg box is placed on the floor at the edge of a merry-go-
round of radius 3.00 m. The coefficient of static friction between the box and
the floor is 0.200. The merry-go-round accelerates from the rest and eventually
the box slides off the edge. Determine the speed at which this occurs.

A. 2.08 m/s
B. 1.33 m/s
C. 0.95 m/s
D. 2.42 m/s
Problem 65. About 68.2% of the scores fall within the normal curve, which
ranges from 50 to 80 and is symmetric about the mean. What is the standard
deviation of the scores in this distribution?

A. 22
B. 30
C. 10
D. 15
Problem 66. The average score for Mathematics test is 77 and the standard
deviation is 8. Compute the probability that any one student scored between 61
and 93.

A. 95.4%
B. 87.1%
C. 92.1%
D. 89.2%
Problem 67. ABC Corporation has decided to sell $1000 bonds, which will pay
semiannual dividends of $20 (2% per period) and will mature in 5 years. The bonds are
sold at $830, but after broker’s fees and the other expenses the company ends up
receiving $760. What is the company’s cost of the capital raised through the sale of
these bonds?

A. 13.84%
B. 10.52%
C. 7.65%
D. 15.46%
Problem 68. The vertices of a triangle are at A(1,2), B(3,8) and C(8,-1).
Locate the point of intersection of its medians.

A. (3,4)
B. (2,-1)
C. (4,3)
D. (3,2)
Problem 69. Oil spilled from a tanker spreads in a circle whose circumference
increases at a rate of 40 ft/sec. How fast is the area of the spill increasing when
the circumference of the circle is 100πft?

A. 1800
B. 2400
C. 2000
D. 2800
Problem 70. A mountain peak A is 1040 m. above sea level. From mountain peak
A, the angle of elevation of mountain peak B was 10. The pilot of Air Asia upon
flying directly over peak A, took the angle of depression of peak B equal to 46'12
and read his altimeter to be 2,820 m. above the sea level. Determine the elevation
of mountain peak B.

A. 1297.45 m
B. 1597.54 m
C. 1497.45 m
D. 1397.54 m
Problem 71. Owing to retardation of the tidal wave in the Ocean by frictional force,
as the earth revolves daily around its axis and as the tide tends to follow the direction
of the moon, the highest tide for each location is not coincident with conjunction
and opposition but occurs at some constant time after new and full moon. This
interval which may amount to as much as two and a half days is known as:

A. Lunar tide
B. Age of tides
C. Semi- diurnal tide
D. Diurnal tide
Problem 72. to level a floor or layer of concrete with a straight edge using a
back and forth motion while moving across the surface.

A. Batching
B. Floating
C. Towelling
D. Screeding
Problem 73. ____ is nothing more than a column driven into the soil to
support a structure by transferring building loads to a deeper and stronger
layer of soil or rock.

A. Piles
B. Pier
C. Bolts
D. Cassion
Problem 74. Wearing way of the pavement surface caused by dislodging of
aggregated particles and binder. This is usually a result of insufficient
asphalt binder in the mix or stripping of asphalt from particles of
aggregates.

A. Bleeding
B. Raveling
C. Cracking
D. Flushing
Problem 75. a box contains 5 defective and 195 defective cell phones. A
quality control engineer selects 2 cell phones at random with replacement.
What is the probability that exactly 1 is defective?

A. 0.04875
B. 0.05784
C. 0.07548
D. 0.08475
Answer Key is on the last
slide.
Passing 53/75
Godbless Future Engineers
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1. C 11. A 21. B 31. B 41. D 51. C 61. A
2. A 12. B 22. B 32. D 42. B 52. B 62. B
3. A 13. D 23. C 33. C 43. A 53. A 63. A
4. B 14. C 24. D 34. B 44. B 54. B 71. A
64. D
5. D 15. D 25. C 35. C 45. D 55. D 72. D
65. D
6. B 16. D 26. A 36. A 46. C 56. C 73. A
66. A
7. B 17. A 27. C 37. B 47. C 57. A 74. B
67. B
8. A 18. C 28. C 38. D 48. B 58. C 75. A
68. C
9. C 19. B 29. D 39. A 49. A 59. D 69. C
10. B 20. D 30. D 40. C 50. D 60. A 70. A