ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Electronics and Communications Engineering Department

MOCK ENGINEERING QUALIFIFYING EXAMINATION

GENERAL ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS (PART-2)
General Instructions:
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Marked paper means that you have been caught cheating and your exam will be considered as null and void.
All answer must be placed in the answer sheets provided. All the answers in multiple choice type exams must be in upper case

DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. Solve for x: 7. If , and then, equals

A. A. k
B. B. 25k
C. C. 25+k
D. D. 25/k

8. Then arithmetic mean of 6 numbers is 17. If two

2. Resolve into partial fraction:
numbers are added to the progression, the new set of
A. numbers will have an arithmetic mean of 19. What are the
two numbers if their difference is 4?
A. 21, 25
B. B. 23, 27
C. 8, 12
D. 16, 20
C.
th
9. Find the 6 term of
A.
D.
B.
C.
3. Solve for x: D.

10. What is the sum of coefficients of the expansion of

A. 1
B. 1.5 A. 0
C. 2 B. 1
D. 2.5 C. 2
4. Given: D. 3
solve for k. 12
A. 10 11. In the expression , the numerical coefficient
th
B. 12 of the 5 term is:
C. 15 A. 63,360
D.17 B. 126,720
C. 506,880
5. Given: when f(x) is divided D. 253,440
(x-k), the remainder is k, find k. th 100
A. 2 12. What is the 4 term of the expansion of ?
103
B. 4 A. 1650x
103
C. 6 B. 161700x
103
D. 8 C. 167100x
100
D. 167100x
6. Find the remainder if we divide
By
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 15
13. Given: find x: 20. A chemist of Ergo Cha Milk tea experimented on two
A. 2 alcohol solution of different 35% and 50% alcohol,
B. 3 respectively. How many cubic meters of each strength
C. 4 must he use in order to produce a mixture of 60 cu. m that
D. 6 contains 40%?

14. Nancy Binay is now twice as old as Senyora Santibanez, A. 20 cu. m of solution with 35% alcohol, 40 cu. m of
four years ago, Nancy was three times as old as Senyora solution with 50% alcohol
Santibanez. How old was Nancy? B. 50 cu. m of solution with 35% alcohol, 20 cu. m of
A. 14 solution with 50% alcohol
B. 16 C. 20 cu. m of solution with 35% alcohol, 50 cu. m of
C. 18 solution with 50% alcohol
D. 24 D. 40 cu. m of solution with 35% alcohol, 20 cu. m of
solution with 50% alcohol
15. A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours.
Another pump can pump out water from the same tank in 21. Dao Ming Zhou has two alloys of gold, the first being
20 hours. How long will it take both pumps to pump out 70% pure and the second being 60% being pure. How
water in the tank? many ounces of the pure gold must be used to make 100
A. 7 hours ounces of an alloy which will be 66% gold?
B. 6 hours A. 40
C. 7.5 hours B. 35
D. 6.5 hours C. 45
D.38
16. Totoy brown can paint a fence 50% faster than Vice
Ganda and 20% faster than Purisima. And together they 22. If eight is added to the product of nine and the
can paint a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take numerical, the sum is seventy-one. Find the unknown
totoy brown to paint the same fence if he had to work number.
alone? A. 5
A. 6 B. 6
B. 8 C.7
C. 10 D. 8
D. 12
23. Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted from its
17. Bin laden and Obama can do a piece of work in 42 term it becomes 1/4, but if 4 is added to its term it
days, Obama and Janjalani in 31 days and Bin Laden and becomes 2.
Janjalani in 20 days in how many days can all of them do A. 3/5
the work together? B. 5/12
A. 19 C. 5/14
B. 17 D.6/13
C. 21
D. 15 24. An MH370 airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours
to travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying back. What was
18. Manilyn is now 18 years old and her colleague Arianne the wind velocity?
is 14 years old. How many years ago Manilyn was old as A. 40
Arianne? B. 50
A. 5 C. 60
B.7 D. 70
C.8
D.10 25. A boat travels downstream in 2/3 of the time as it goes
upstream. If the velocity rivers current is 8kph determine
19. Ten Liters of 25% salt solution and 15 Liters of 35% salt the velocity of the boat in still water.
solution are poured into a drum originally containing 30 A. 30 kph
Liters of 10% salt solution. What is the % concentration of B. 40 kph
salt in the mixture? C. 60 kph
A. 19.55 % D.70 kph
B. 22.15%
C. 27.05%
D.25.72%

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26. A train an hour after starting, meets with an accident 32. The time required for an elevator to a lift varies
which detains it an hour after which it proceeds at 3/5 of directly with the weight and the distance through which is
its former rate and arrives three hour after time; but had to be lifted and inversely as the power of the motor. if it
an accident happened 50 miles farther on the line, it takes 30 second for 10 hp motor to lift 100 lbs through
would have arrived 1.5 hours sooner. Find the length of 50 ft, what size of motor is required to lift 800 lbs in 40
the journey. seconds through 40 ft?
A. 910/9 A. 42
B. 800/9 B. 44
C. 920/9 C. 46
D. 850/9 D. 48

27. Gravity causes a body to fall 16.1 ft in the first second, 33. Papa Jack bought a second hand betamax VCR and
nd rd
48.3 ft in the 2 second, 80.5ft in the 3 second. then sold it to Janet Napoles at a profit of 40%. Janet
A. 248.7 Napoles then sold the VCR to Chico Loco at a profit of 20%.
B. 308.1 If Chico Loco paid P 2856 more than it cost to Papa Jack,
C. 241.5 how much did Papa Jack paid for the unit?
D. 305.9 A. P 4000
B. P 4100
28. In a certain community of 1200 people, 60% are C. P 4200
literate. Of the male, 50% and of the females 70% are D. P 4400
literate. What is the female population?
A. 850 34. The sum of the first 10 terms of geometric progression
B. 500 2, 4, 8 is
C. 550 A. 1023
D.600 B. 2046
C. 225
29. Zayn Malik has three items on sale, namely a radio for D.1596
P 50, a clock for P 30 and a flashlight for P 1. At the end of
the day, he sold a total of 100 of three items and has taken 35. Justine Bieber has 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great
exactly P 1000 on the total sales. How many radio did she grandparents and so on. How many ancestors during the
sale? 15 generations preceding his/her own, assuming no
A.16 duplication?
B.18 A. 131070
C. 20 B.65534
D.24 C.32766
D.16383
30. The selling price of TV set is double than its cost. if the
TV set was sold at a profit of 25 of the net cost, how much 36. In the PBA three-point shootout contest, the
discount was given to the costumer? committee decided to give a prize in the following
A. 33.7% manner: A prize of $1 for the first basket made, $2 for the
B. 35.7% second, $4 for the third, $8 for the fourth and so on. If the
C. 37.5% contestant wants to win a prize of no less than a million
D. 34.7% pesos, what is the minimum number of basket to be
converted?
31. The electric power which a transmission line can A. 18
transmit is proportional of its design voltage and current B. 19
capacity, and inversely to the transmission distance. 115 C. 20
kV line rated at 100 A can transmit 150 MW over 150 km. D. 21
how much in MW can a 230 KV line rated at 150 A
transmit over 100 km 37. What time after 3 oclock will the hands of the clock be
A.785 together for the first time?
B.675 A. 3:02.30
C.595 B. 3:17.37
D.975 C. 3:14.32
D.3:16.36

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38. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45PM of the 44. How many times do the volume of a sphere increases if
same day, the minute hand of a standard clock describe an the radius is doubled?
arc of A. 2x
A. 60 B. 4x
B. 90 C. 6x
C.180 D. 8x
D.540
45. The ratio of the volume to the lateral area of a right
39. Assuming that the earth is a sphere whose radius is circular cone is 2:1 if the altitude is 15 cm, what is the ratio
6400 km find the distance along a 3 arc at the equator of of the slant height to the radius?
the earth surface A. 5:6
A.335.10 km B. 5:4
B.533.10 km C. 5:3
C.353.10 km D. 5:2
D.353.10 km
46. A circular cylinder with a volume of 6.54 cu. m is
40. The area of a circle circumscribing about an equilateral circumscribed about a right prism whose base is an
triangle is 254.47 sq. m what is the area of the triangle in equilateral triangle of side 1.25 m. what is the altitude of
sq. m the cylinder in meters?
A. 100.25 A. 3.50
B. 102.25 B. 3.75
C. 104.25 C. 4.00
D.105.25 D. 4.25

41. Find the area of regular pentagon whose side is 25 m 47. Point A and B 1000 m apart are plotted on a straight
and apothem is 17.2 m highway running east and west. From A, the bearing of a
A. 1075 sq. m tower C is 32 W of N and from B the bearing of C is 26 N
B. 1085 sq. m of E. Approximate the shortest distance of tower C to the
C. 1080 sq. m highway.
D. 1095 sq. m A. 364
B. 374
42. In a circle of a diameter of 10 m, a regular five pointed C. 384
star touching its circumference is inscribed. What is the D. 394
area of that part not covered by the star?
A. 40.5 sq. m 48. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of a
B. 45.5 sq. m tower to be 30. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and finds
C. 50.5 sq. m its angle of elevation to be 60. What is the height of the
D. 55.5 sq. m tower?
A. 76.31 m
43. A trapezoid has an area of 36 sq. m and an altitude of B. 73.31 m
2m. Its two bases have ratio of 4:5 what are the lengths of C. 73.16 m
the bases? D. 73.61 m
A. 12, 15
B. 7, 11 49. Solve for angle C of the spherical oblique triangle ABC
C. 8, 10 given, a = 80, c = 115 and A= 72
D. 16, 20 A. 61
B. 85
43. Each side of a cube is increased by 1%. by what percent C. 95
is the volume of the cube increased? D. 119

A. 1.21 % 50. Determine the spherical excess of the spherical

B. 2.8 % triangle ABC given a= 56, b= 65 and c= 78
C. 3.03 % A. 33.33
D. 3.50 % B. 68.37
C. 98.44
D. 91.57

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51. What is the spherical excess of a spherical triangle 58. The earths orbit is an ellipse with the sun at one of the
whose angles are all right angles? foci. if the farthest distance of the sun from the earth is
A. 45 105.50 Gigameters and the nearest distance of the sun
B. 90 from the earth is 78.25 Gigameters, find the eccentricity of
C. 60 the ellipse.
D. 30
A. 0.15
52. The area of spherical triangle ABC whose parts are B. 0.25
A= 9340, B= 6412, C= 11651 and the radius of the C. 0.35
sphere is 100 m is D. 0.45
A. 15613 sq. m
B. 16531 sq. m 59. The semi-transverse axis of the hyperbola
C. 18645 sq. m
D. 25612 sq. m

53. A spherical triangle has an area of 327.25 sq. km. What A. 2

is the radius of the spherical excess is 30? B. 3
A. 20 km C. 4
B. 22 km D. 5
C. 25 km
D. 28 km 60. What is the first derivative of ?
A. 0
54. A ship on a certain day is at latitude 20 N and B.
longitude 140E after sailing for 150 hours at a uniform
speed along a great circle route, it reaches a point at C
latitude 10 S and longitude 170E. If the radius of the
D.
earth is 3959 miles, find the speed in mph.
A. 17.4
B. 15.4
C. 16.4
D. 19.4

55. Determine B such that is

perpendicular to
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5

56. A line through (-5, 2) and (1, -4) is perpendicular to the

line through (x, -7) and (8, 7)
A. -4
B. -5
C. -6
D. -19/3

57. In a Cartesian coordinates, the vertices of a triangle are

define by the following points (-2, 0), (4, 0), and (3, 3) what
is the area?

A. 8 sq. units
B. 9 sq. units
C.10 sq. units
D. 11 sq. units

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