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Instruction: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. 8. How many even integers between 4000 and 7000 have four different
Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the digits?
letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. A. 728*
Strictly no erasures allowed. Use pencil no. 1 only. B. 827
C. 782
1. The partial differential equation D. 287

9. Determine which of the following functions is homogeneous.

A. 3x + 4y − 2.
B. x2 + x3
C. (√x + √y + √z)/(x + y + z)*
Is D. x3 + 4x + 1
A. Parabolic 10. Find the principal value of Z = ln( 1 –j √ 3 )
B. Elliptic* A. 0.465 + j5.536
C. Hyperbolic B. 0.43 – j2.5
D. Linear C. 0.693 + j5.236*
Sol. D. 0.2 – j0.8

11. The function g(x,y) is homogeneous of degree r. If the function f is

defined by f (x,y) = g(x,y)/(xy), function f homogeneous to what degree?
A. r – 1
B. 2r-1
C. r – 2*
D. 2r

12. The region in the first quadrant bounded above by the line y = 5, below
2. The partial differential equation by the curve y = 5x, and on the left by
the y-axis, about the line y = 5
A) 25/3
B) 25π
C) 125π/2
D) 125π/6*
Is called 13. Determine the integrating factor for the differential equation
A. Hyperboloid of 2 sheets
B. Heat conduction equation 𝑑𝑦
C. Laplace’s equation* x2y3 + x(1+y2) =0
D. Wave equation 𝑑𝑥

A. 1/(x y3)*
3. Let f(x) = |x − p| + |x − 15| + |x − p − 15|, where 0 < p < 15. Determine the
B. x/y
minimum value taken by f(x) for x in the interval p ≤ x ≤ 15.
C. x2/y3
A. 15*
D. y/x2
B. 17
C. 13
14. Two unbiased six-sided dice, one red and one green, are tossed and the
D. 10
number of dots appearing on their upper faces are observed. The results of
a dice roll can be expressed as the ordered pair (g, r), where g denotes the
4. A point P is chosen in the interior of Δ ABC so that when lines are drawn
green die and r denotes the red die. What is the probability that the green
through P parallel to the
die shows a one, given that the sum of the numbers on the two dice is less
sides of Δ ABC, the resulting
than four?
smaller triangles, t1, t2, and
A. 1/3
t3 in the figure, have areas
B. ½
4, 9, and 49,
C. ¾
respectively. Find the area of
D. 2/3*
Δ ABC.
A. 144*
15. It takes a force of 16,000 lb to compress a spring from its free height of
B. 441
13 in. to its fully compressed height of 8 in. How much work does it take to
C. 114
compress the spring the first inch?
D. 141
A) 800 lb ·in
B) 3200 lb ·in
C) 1600 lb ·in*
D) 160,000 lb ·in
5. In a tournament each player played exactly one game against each of the
other players. In each game
16. The _______ of a finite set is the number of elements in the set. rosen
the winner was awarded 1 point, the loser got 0 points, and each of the two
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players earned 1/2 point
A. cardinality*
if the game was a tie. After the completion of the tournament, it was found
B. ordinality
that exactly half of the
C. degree
points earned by each player were earned in games against the ten players
D. order
with the least number of
points. (In particular, each of the ten lowest scoring players earned half of
17. The sets A and B have the same cardinality if and only if there is a
her/his points against the
_______ correspondence from A to B.
other nine of the ten). What was the total number of players in the
A. into
tournament?
B. one-to-one*
A. 20
C. onto
B. 25*
D. many-to-one
C. 30
D. 35
18. ________ states that every integer greater than 1
can be written uniquely as a prime or as the product of two or more primes
6. If tan x + tan y = 25 and cot x + cot y = 30, what is tan(x + y)?
where the prime factors are written in order of nondecreasing size.
A. 130
A. The fundamental theory of algebra
B. 140
B. The fundamental counting theorem
C. 150*
C. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic*
D. 160
D. The prime factor theorem
7. Find the area of the region enclosed by the graph of
|x − 60| + |y| = |x/4|.
A. 840
B. 48
C. 84
D. 480*

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19. Suppose that f is defined recursively by 29. A batch of 40 components contains 5 which are
f (0) = 3, f (n + 1) = 2f (n) + 3. Find f (4). defective. If a component is drawn at random from the batch and tested and
A. 91 then a second component is drawn at random without replacement,
B. 93* calculate the probability of having one defective component.
C. 56 A. 0.0224
D. 45 B. 0.00244
C. 0.2244*
Solution: D. 0.4222
f (4) = 2f (3) + 3 = 2 · 45 + 3 = 93. rosenpp346

20. Let E be an event in a sample space S. The probability of the event

E(barred), the complementary 30. A package contains 50 similar components and
event of E, is given by _______. inspection shows that four have been damaged during transit. If six
A. (p(E)-1)/(p(E)+1) components are drawn at random from the contents of the package,
B. p(E)x100 determine the probabilities that in this sample less than three are damaged.
C. 1 − p(E)* A. 0.0084
D. p(E) – 1 B. 0.9916*
rosen 439 C. 0.125
D. 0.25
21. Suppose that a die is biased (or loaded) so that 3 appears twice as often
as each other number 31. In an experiment to determine the relationship
but that the other five outcomes are equally likely. What is the probability between force on a wire and the resulting extension, the following data is
that an odd number obtained:
appears when we roll this die? Force (N) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
A. 4/7* Extension (mm) 0.22 0.40 0.61 0.85 1.20 1.45 1.70
B. 5/8 Determine the linear coefficient of correlation for this data.
C. 1/6 A. 0.996*
D. 4/5 B. 0.993
rosenpp455 C. 0.945
D. 0.793
22. What is the minimum number of people who need to be in a room so that
the probability that at least two of them have the same birthday is greater 32. Find the area of the trriangle DEF given that EF =35.0 mm, DE =25.0mm
than 1/2? and ∠E =64◦
A. 22 A. 399.4 mm2
B. 13 B. 344.9 mm2
C. 28 C. 349.3 mm2
D. 23* D. 393.2 mm2*
rosenpp462
33. Imagine a cubic box that measures exactly 1 meter by 1 meter by 1
23. A fair coin is flipped three times. Let S be the sample space of the eight meter. Now suppose you have an unlimited number of little solid cubes,
possible outcomes, and let X be the random variable that assigns to an each of which measures 1 millimeter by 1 millimeter by 1 millimeter, where 1
outcome the number of heads in this outcome. millimeter is 1/1000 of a meter. If you stack these tiny cubes neatly in the big
What is the expected value of X? box so every possible space is accounted for, how many tiny cubes will
A. 3/2* exactly fill the box?
B. ½ (a) 10^5
C. 1/3 (b) 10^6
D. 2/3 (c) 10^9*
rosenpp478 (d) 10^11
(e) 10^12
24. What is the expected value of the sum of the numbers that appear when
a pair of fair dice is rolled? 34. In propositional logic, the expression “X implies Y” means that
A. 5 (a) If X is true, then Y is true*
B. 6 (b) If X is true, then Y is probably true
C. 7* (c) If X is true, then there is good reason to believe that Y is true
D. 8 (d) If X is true, it suggests that Y is true, but there are exceptions
rosenpp479 (e) If X is true, then Y is true; and if Y is true, then X is true

25. Let A = {0, 1, 2} and B = {a, b}. What is the relation from A to B? 35. If |z2 – 1| = |z|2 + 1, then the locus of z is
A. {(0, a), (0, b), (1, a), (2, b)}* A) the real axis
B. {(a, 0), (b, 0), (a, 1), (b, 2)} B) an ellipse
C. {(0, a), (1, b), (2, a), (2, b)} C) a circle
D. {(0, a), (1, a), (2, a), (0, b),(1, b), (2, b)} D) the imaginary axis*

26. The angle of depression of a ship viewed at a particular instant from the 36. If z1 and z2 are two non-zero complex numbers such that
top of a 75 m vertical cliff is 30 o. The ship is sailing away from the cliff at | z1 + z2 | = | z2 |+ | z1 | then Arg z1 − Arg z2 is then
constant speed and 1 minute later its angle of depression from the top of the
cliff is 20°. Find the initial distance of the ship from the base of the cliff. A) –π
A. 143.4m
B. 129.9m* –π
C. 200ft B)
2
D. 345.6ft
C) 0 *
27. An alternating current is given by i = 30 sin(100 π t
+ 0.27) amperes. Find the phase angle. π
D)
A. 0.27π radians leading 2
B. 15.47° leading*
C. 0.27 radians lagging
D. 97.2° leading 37. Let R = {(1, 3), (4, 2), (2, 4), (2, 3), (3, 1)} be a relation on the
set A = {1, 2, 3, 4}. The relation R is
28. Find the equation of the normal to the curve A) a function
y = x^2 - x - 2 at the point (1, - 2). B) reflexive
A. y = x + 1 C) not symmetric *
B. y = x – 4 D) transitive
C. y = x + 5
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38. Three of the six vertices of a regular hexagon are chosen at random. 48. A ______ is a collection of objects, and these objects are called the
The probability that the triangle with these three vertices is equilateral is elements.
1 A. set*
A) B. subset
2
1 C. venn diagram
B) D. union
5
1 49. Solve the equation 2𝑥 = 1 − √2 − 𝑥
C) *
10 a.1
1 b.-1
D) c.1 / 4
20
d. – 1 / 4*
39. The interior angles of a convex polygon are in A.P. If the smallest angle
is 100° and the common difference is 4°, then the number of sides is
50. Find the y-intercept of the graph 𝑦 = 𝑥2 − 2
A) 5 *
A. 0
B) 7
B. 1.7
C) 36
C.-2*
D) 44
D. No answer because only lineaf function have y-intercept
40. If x is real, the maximum possible value of 2 2
3x2 + 9x + 17 51. Given the equation 𝑥 + 𝑦 = 4, find its symmetry.
-------------------- is a. symmetric with respect to x-axis
3x2 + 9x + 7 b. symmetric with respect to y-axis
c. symmetric with respect to the origin
A) 11 d.all of the above*
17
B) 52. The logarithm of the reciprocal of a number is called _____.
7
C) 40 A. Inverse Logarithm
D) 41* B. Cologarithm*
C. Index
41. Supposed that today is Saturday, September 27th, 2014. What day is D. Briggsian Logarithm
September 27th the next year?
A) Sunday* 53. How many different signals, each consisting of 6 flags hung in a vertical
B) Monday line, can be formed from 4 identical red flags and 2 identical blue flags?
C) Tuesday A. 15*
D) Thursday B. 672
C. 720
42. Find the equation with an Eccentricity of 3/5, distance between D. 34560
directrices is 10
54. Consider the series Sn =1 -1 +1 -1 +1 + -… If n is even, the sum is zero
𝑥2 25𝑦 2 𝑥2 25𝑦 2 and if n is odd, the sum is 1. What do you call this kind of infinite series?
A. + =1 C. − =1 A. Oscillating series*
144 9 9 144 B. Geometric series
C. Bilateral Series
D. Di-valued Series
𝑥2 25𝑦 2 𝑥2 25𝑦 2
B. + =1∗ D. − =1 55. A polar equation r = a csc θ represents a
9 144 144 9
A. Vertical line
B. Horizontal line*
C. Curve
43. Find the angle from the line 𝑥 − 6𝑦 + 4 to the line 5𝑥 + 𝑦 − D. Circle
7=0
A. ∅ = tan−1 (31) C. ∅ = tan−1 (121)
56. Simplify
B. ∅ = tan−1 (−31) ∗ D. ∅ = tan−1 (−121)

A. 5cosBsinB/cotB
1
44. If 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝜃 = 4 and 𝜃 lies in Quadrant IV. Find the exact value of the B. 2sinB/(cscBcotB)
𝜋
cos(𝜃 + 6 ) C. cotB*
√3−√15 √3+√15
A. C. D. 3cscB
8 4
√3+√15 −√3+√15
B. * D.
8 8 57. Simplify

45. An electrical firm manufactures light bulbs that have a length of life that
is normally distributed with mean equal to 800 hours and a standard A. sina*
deviation of 40 hours. Find the probability that a bulb burns between 778 and B. cota
834 hours. C. tan2a
A. 5.111 C. 0.05111 D. cot3a
B. 0.5111* D. 0.005111

46. Find the angle between the vectors 𝑢 = (−2,5) and 𝑣 = (3,2) 58. Simplify

A. 𝜃 = 168.1° C. 𝜃 = 78.1°*
A. sin5B
B. 𝜃 = 7.81° D. 𝜃 = 75.1° B. cot2B
C. tan3B*
D. cot3B/tan3B
47. Given vectors A = 4i + k and B = -2i + j + 3k, find AxB
A. 0
59. Simplify
B. -8i + 3k
C. -12
A. 2cosαcosβ*
D. i – 10j + 4k*
B. cos2αcosβ
C. cos3αcos4β
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60. Find the area bounded by the curves y=x³ and y=4-3x² 72. A trough for holding water is be formed by taking a piece of sheet metal
A. 27/4 sq. units* 60 cm wide and folding the 20 cm on either end up. Determine the angle
B. 27/5 sq. units that will maximize the amount of water that the trough can hold.
C. 25/7 sq. units A. 30°
D..24/7 sq. units B. 45°
C. 60°*
61. A spring has a natural length of 1 ft. When a 10 lb. weight is suspended D. 15°
from the spring, it extends to a length of 1.5 ft. How much work is done in
extending the spring from a length of 1.2 ft to a length of 1.6 ft? 73. Find A-1
A. 3.4 ft-lb 0 1/3
B. 3.2 ft-lb* A= |4 2/3
|
C. 3.6 ft-lb 0 1/4
D. 3.8 ft-lb A. |1 −1/2
|*
0 4
62. Express Cos 3Ө in terms of Cos Ө B. |1 2
|
A. 4cos3Ө – 3cos Ө* 0 −4
B. 4cos3Ө + 3cos Ө C. | −1 2
|
C. 3cos3Ө – 4cos Ө 0 −1
D. 3cos3Ө + 4cos Ө D. | 4 −3
|
63. Determine the differential equation of the family of circles with center on 74. Given A = 3i + j and B = -2i + 4j
the y-axis. Find the unit vector having the same direction as A+B.
A. (y’’)3 – xy’’ + y’ = 0 A. 0.857i – 0.514j
B. y’’ – xyy’ = 0 B. 0.857i + 0.514j
C. xy’’ – (y’)3 – y’ = 0* C. 0.196i + 0.981j*
D. (y’)3 + (y’’)2 + xy = 0 D. 0.196i - 0.981j

64. Find the differential equation whose general solution is y = C1x + C2ex. 75. The cross product of vector A = 4i + 2j with vector B = 0. The dot product
A. (x-1)y’’ – xy’ + y = 0* A·B = 30. Find the horizontal component of vector B.
B. (x+1)y’’ – xy’ + y = 0 A. 2
C. (x-1)y’’ + xy’ + y = 0 B. 4
D. (x+1)y’’ – xy’ + y = 0 C. 6*
D. 8
65. If dy = x2dx, what is the equation of y in terms of x if the curve passes
through (1,1)? 76. Towers A and B stand on a level ground. From the top of tower A which
A. x2 – 3y + 3 = 0 is 30m high the angle of elevation of the top of tower B is 48°. From the point
B. x3 – 3y + 2 = 0* the angle of depression of the foot of the tower B is 26°. What is the height
C. x3 – 3y2 + 2 = 0 of tower B in meters?
D. 2y +x3 + 2 = 0 A. 45.7
B. 95.8
66. If coversed sin Ө = 0.60, find the value of Ө. C. 98.3*
A. 53.13 D. 83.4
B. 23.58*
C. 113.58 77. Suppose that a particle is initially at rest at the origin, but at time t=0 a
D. 126.87 force is applied to the particle which resultsin an acceleration of
+10cm/sec2. Locate the particle in the x-axis after 5 seconds.
67. Given the two sides of triangle ABC as AB = 8cm, A. 25cm
AC = 22cm. Find the possible length of side AC. B. 50cm
A. 21 C. 75cm*
B. 23 D. 100cm
C. 22
D. 27* 78. Calculate the period of f(ɵ)= - 5sin(2ɵ +1)-6
A. 2π
4 3 2
68. When the expression x + ax + 5x + bx + 6 is divided by (x-2), the B. π
remainder is 16. When it is divided b (x+1), the remainder is 10. Find the C. π/2
value of constant b. D. √𝜋
A. 2
B. 1 1+𝑥 2
C. 5 79. Determine the range of the function f(x) =
𝑥2
D. 7* A. (1,∞)*
B. (1,∞]
(3+2i) C. [1,∞)
69. (3+2i) = ? D. (-1,∞)
A. 2.67+ 3.45i
B. 0.691+ 4.01i 80. If two sets A and B are disjoint, then A∩B is
C. -5.41-13.41i* A. {0}
D. 1.02 – 3.8i B. {}*
C. {1}
70. Determine the point(s) on that are closest to (0,2). D. {0,1}
1 3 −1 3
A. , (
2 2
), (
2 2
, ) 81. Locate the point of inflection of the curve y=f(x)=(x(square)e expx)
1 3 −1 3 A. -2 plus or minus (square root of 3)
B. (,
√2 2
), (
√2 2
, * ) B. 2 plus or minus (square root of 2)
1 13 −1 13 C. -2 plus or minus (square root of 2)*
C. , (
3 2
), (
3 2
, ) D. 2 plus or minus (square root of 3)
1 1 −1 1
D. ( ,
√2 2
), (
√2 2
, ) 82. Solve for te equation 8sin2ɵ + 2sinɵ - 1 = 0, for π<ɵ<3π/2.
A. 330
71. Two poles, one 6 meters tall and one 15 meters tall, are 20 meters B. 235
apart. A length of wire is attached to the top of each pole and it is also C. 210*
staked to the ground somewhere between the two poles. Where should the D. 200
wire be staked so that the minimum amount of wire is used?
A) 1.7 meters from the smaller pole 83. All of which are characteristics of the logarithmic equation y=log ax where
40 a>1 EXCEPT.
B) feet from the smaller pole* A. Domain are all real numbers
7 B. Range are all real numbers
C) 1.5 meters from the smaller pole C. x-intercept = 1
D) 5.5 feet from the taller pole D. asymptotic to y-axis*

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84. Given the vectors A = 6i – 3j – 2k and B = 2i + j – 3k. What is the vector

projection of B and A.
A. 0.763i – 0.481j + 0.211k
B. 0.736i – 0.841j + 0.112k
C. 0.376i – 0.148j + 0.121k
D. 0.367i – 0.184j + 0.122k*

86. Find the area of the rectangle given the points, (0,1),(0,-5),(-1,-6) as its
vertices.
A. 16
B. 20
C. 24
D. 28

85. Find the area of the rectangle given the points, (0,0),(0,6),(-4,0) as its
vertices.
A. 16
B. 20
C. 24
D. 28

87. Find laplace of 5.

A. 5/s
B. s/(s+5)
C. 5/(s2+ 25)
D. s/(s2 + 25)

88. Find the area of the equilateral triangle ABC with a vertex A at point (0,3)
and line AB which extends from A 5 units towards B at an angle of 30° with
reference to the horizontal line.
A. 50√6
B. 125
C. 62.5
D. 50√2

89. The merchant, find the minimum items purchased to maximize the
profit…(Rf refresher-MAM Baluran)

90. given velocity of the river…, boat speed…, at what angle should the the
man sail to cross the river at the minimum distance.

91. Find the centroid the area enclosed by the two equations y = √2𝑥, x = 4,
and x = 0.
A. 6/5,3*
B. 2/5,3
C. 3/5,3
D. 4/5,3

92. Progression problem, given ax = 2001 & ay = 3001 find a0 if X = 2000 & Y
= 3000.

93. Which of these cannot be the length of the sides of a triangle?

A. 5, 6, 7
B. 8, 8, 8
C. 6, 8, 10
D. 3, 8, 11*

94. John’s score was the 75th percentile out of the 100 examinees. What
does it mean?
A. There are 25 higher scores than his score.
B. There are 26 higher scores than his score.
C. There are 75 lower scores than he got.*
D. There are 76 lower scores than he got.

95. Find the domain of the equation

96. Find the equation of the line containing (3, 2) and perpendicular to the
line whose equation is 2x -5y + & = 0.

97. De na my typo

98. Given f(x) and g(x) find the false statement

99. Find the degree of the differential equation

100.Triple integral, in words

101. Fourier Transform. ans. 2π

102. probability, genes… ans. 1

103. Anna, Lorna, Fe and their friends are seated in a row. What is the
probability that the 3 are seated together.

??
104. ( ? ) =?
?

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