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Day 3 General
Engineering
1) Locate the centroid
of the area.
a) (0.50, 0.50) m
b) (0.45, 0.45) m
c) (0.30, 0.30) m
d) (0.35, 0.35) m
2) The sum of Patricks
age and Markos age is 58. Eight years ago,
Patrick was twice as old as Marko then. How old
is Marko?
a) 20
b) 22
c) 36
d) 38
3) The blood groups of 200 people is distributed as
follows: 50 have type A blood, 65 have B blood
type, 70 have O blood type and 15 have type AB
blood. If a person from this group is selected at
random, what is the probability that this person
has O blood type?
a) 0.25
b) 0.40
c) 0.35
d) 0.38
4) Find the area enclosed by f(y) = 2y2 and g(y) =
4+y2.
a) 32/3
b) 30/3
c) 18/3
d) 15/2
5) You throw a ball straight up into the air. The
position of the ball can be written as s(t) =
-5t2+4t+1. What is the acceleration of the ball at
t=0.75 s?
a) 9.8 m/s2
b) 9.8 m/s2
c) 10 m/s2
d) -10 m/s2
6) Find the distance between the points (-5,-5) and
(-6,-6)
a)
b)
22
c)
d)
23
a) 18
b) 32
c) 16
d) 8
9) Find the weight of the snowball 1.2 m in
diameter if the wet compact snow of which this
ball is made weighs 480 kg/m3
a) 398.2 kg
b) 434.3 kg
c) 367.8 kg
d) 411.7 kg
10) Two balls, one 15 cm in diameter and the other
10 cm in diameter, are placed in a cylindrical jar
20 cm in diameter, as shown in Figure 014. Find
the volume of water necessary to cover them.
a) 4777.84 cm3
b) 4522.12 cm3
c) 5120.03 cm3
d) 3665.20 cm3
11) A box is to be made of a piece of cardboard 9
inches square by cutting equal squares out of
the corners and turning up the sides. Find the
volume of the largest box that can be made in
this way.
a) 32 in2
b) 28 in2
c) 36 in2
d) 54 in2
12) A ladder 20 ft long leans against a vertical wall.
If the top slides downward at the rate of 2 ft/s,
find how fast the lower end is moving when it is
16 ft from the wall.
a) 0.9 ft/s
b) 1.0 ft/s
c) 1.2 ft/s
d) 1.5 ft/s
13) A radioactive element follows the law of
exponential change and has a half-life of 38
hours. How long will it take for 90% of the
radioactivity of the element to be dissipated?
a) 211.10 hrs
b) 172.32 hrs
c) 126.23 hrs
d) 104.09 hrs
14) A man in a wharf 6m above the water pulls in a
rope to which a boat is tied at the rate of 1.2
m/s. at what rate is the boat approaching the
wharf when there is 7.5 m of the rope out?
a) 18 m/s
b) 17.5 m/s
c) 12.5 m/s
d) 15 m/s
15) What time after 3:00 o'clock will the minutehand and the hour-hand of the clock be together
for the first time?
a) 3:15:00.00
b) 3:16:21.82
c) 3:17:12.33
d) 3:16:45.07
16) Find the equation of the curve for which
y=12/x3 if it passes through (1,0) and is tangent
to the line 6x+y=6 at that point.
a) xy+6x=6
b) 6y+6x=1
c) 6xy+1=6
d) 3xy+2x=1
17) Find the area enclosed by the cardiod r=a(1sinx)
a) 3a2
b) 3a2/2
c) 5a2/2
d) 2a2
18) Two painters work together and take an average
of 8 hours to paint standard 12 by 12 rooms.
One of the painters, who can do the work alone
in 14 hours, is sick today. How long will it take
the other painter to complete the job on his
own?
a) 18.7 hrs
b) 15.3 hrs
c) 18.0 hrs
d) 16.0 hrs
19) One pipe can fill a pool 1.25 times faster than a
second pipe. When both pipes are opened, they
fill the pool in five hours. How long would it take
to fill the pool if only the slower pipe is used?
a) 12.00 hrs
b) 8.25 hrs
c) 11.25 hrs
d) 10.75 hrs
20) Identify the conic section that is represented by
the equation x2 - 3y2 + 6x + 2y - 5 = 0
a) Circle
b) Ellipse
c) Hyperbola
d) Parabola