PSME Abu Dhabi Chapter Review Class 2014

MATHEMATICS (Refresher Trivia Examination Math T3)

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item by
shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES
ALLOWED. Use pencil No. 1 only.

1. The product of  4 and  9 is equal to: 9. Ace is one-fourth as old as Joey and ten years
younger than Allan is. If the sum of their ages is 46.
a. 6 1 Find the age of Joey.
b. – 6i a. 10
c. 4 6 b. 16
c. 24
d. 2 6 d. 9

2. The roots of the equation 6x2 + 7x + 34 = 0 are: 10. It takes Joel twice as it takes Arfy do a piece of work.
a. Real and equal Working together, they can do it in 6 days. How long
b. Complex and unequal would it take Arfy to do it alone?
c. Complex and equal a. 12 days
d. Real and unequal b. 9 days
c. 10 days
3. What is the other form of Loga N = b? d. 8 days
a. b = aN
b. a = Nb 11. The sum two numbers is 14. The sum of the squares
c. N = ab of the numbers is 100. Find the product of the two
d. a = bN numbers.
a. 42
4. 10x = 3, then 103x + 1 equals b. 56
a. 470 c. 54
b. 270 d. 48
c. 370
d. 170 12. The amount of 135 is to be divided among three
brothers in the ratio 3:5:7. What the biggest amount
5. If 2logx 3 + logx 2 = 6 + logx 6, what is the value of x? received by a brother?
a. 2 a. 63
b. 1.6 b. 75
c. 21.2 c. 72
d. 2.4 d. 54
z
6. If 3x = 9y and 27x = 81z, then is equal to:
x 13. Two jet planes traveling toward each other took off
a. 2/3 at the same time from two airports located 4800 km
b. 3/8 apart. If they passed each other after 2 hours,
c. ¾ determine the speed, in kph, of the faster plane if one
d. ½ plane is flying at 160 kph faster than the other.
a. 1320
7. How much coffee costing 85 pesos per kg must be b. 1300
added to 150 kg costing 90 pesos per kg to make a c. 1280
mixture of 87 pesos per kg? d. 1350
a. 225 kg 14. A tank can be filled by two pipes in 4 and 6 hours,
b. 210 kg respectively. It can be emptied by a third pipe in 5
c. 220 kg hours. How long can an empty tank be filled if the 3
d. 200 kg pipes are open?
8. How many minutes after one o’clock will the hands of a. 1.62 hrs
clock form a right angle? b. 4.62 hrs
a. 21.82 c. 2.62 hrs
b. 21.73 d. 3.62 hrs
c. 22.82
d. 22.72 15. If sec2 A = 5/3, then (1 – sin2 A) is equal to which of
the following?

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a. 0.5 c. Rational
b. 0.8 d. Surd
c. 0.7 24. An angle greater than 180o but less than 360o is said
d. 0.6 to be:
a. Complex
16. The surface areas of two spheres are 24 m2 and 96 m2, b. Exterior
respectively. Find the ratio of its volumes. c. Obtuse
a. 1:2 d. Reflex
b. 1:8
c. 1:6 25. What do you call a triangle having three unequal
d. 1:4 sides?
e. a. Obtuse
17. What is the diameter of a circle with the following b. Scalene
equation: x2 + y2 – 6x + 4y - 12 = 0?
a. 10 c. Oblique
b. 5 d. Isosceles
c. 6 26. The distance of a point from the y axis is said to be:
d. 8 a. Polar distance
18. 5A number sequence where the succeeding term is b. Coordinate
obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms c. Abscissa
such as the sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8…). d. Ordinate
a. Euler’s number 27. A solid bounded by the spherical zone and the planes
b. Fourier series of the zone’s base.
c. Fermat number a. Spherical segment
d. Fibonacci numbers b. Spherical wedge
c. Spherical triangle
19. If the roots of an equation are zero, then they are d. Spherical line
classified as:
a. Extraneous solutions 28. The line passing through the focus and perpendicular
b. Trivial solutions to the directrix of a parabola.
c. Conditional solutions a. Latus rectum
d. No solutions b. Major axis
c. Transverse axis
20. The process of expressing a polynomial as a product d. Axis of the parabola
of another polynomial or monomial of lower degree.
a. Decomposition 29. The logarithm of a number to have a base of e =
b. Polynomial damping 2.718…
c. Rationalization a. Briggsian logarithm
d. Factoring b. Mantissa
c. Cologarithm
21. A point where the concavity of a curve changes or d. Naperian Logarithm
when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor
decreasing. 30. Which of the following is the value of (x2 + 1/x)2
a. Point of inflection when x + 1/x = 5?
b. Point of tangency a. 22
c. Minimum point b. 25
d. Maximum point c. 24
d. 23
22. The axis of the hyperbola that passes through the 2 sin A
center, the foci and vertices. 31. Simplify
1  cos2A
a. Asymptotic axis
b. Conjugate axis a. Cot A
c. Transverse axis b. Tan A
d. Major axis c. Sec A
d. Csc A
23. A number that could not expressed as a quotient of 32. The number of diagonals in a polygon of 15 sides.
two integers. a. 45
a. Natural b. 105
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d. 50 40. What is length of the latus rectum for the

2 2
ellipse x  y  1 ?
33. If the line through (-1, 3) and (-3, -2) is perpendicular 64 16
to the line through (-7, 4) and (x, 0). Find the value of a. 4 units
x. b. 8 units
a. 5 c. 6 units
b. 4 d. 5 units
c. 3 41. 8 units What is the diameter of a circle described by
d. 6 9x2 + 9y2 = 16?
34. The volume of a 10 cm high conical paperweight is a. 4/3
180 cm3. The radius of the base is: b. 8/3
a. 51.4 cm c. 16/9
b. 5.41 cm d. 4
c. 4.15 cm 42. Stephanie is twice as old as Joanne when was when
d. 41.5 cm Stephanie was as old as Joanne is now. When Joanne
is as old as Stephanie is now, together their age is 56.
35. What is the total surface area of a cube whose How old is Joanne?
diagonal is d? a. 17
d2 b. 12
a.
2 c. 16
b. 2d d. 15
c. 2d
d. 2d2 43. What is the value of 1 radian in degrees?
a. 90
36. The volume of a frustum of a right circular cone is b. 57
1176 m3. The altitude of the frustum of the cone is c. 60
18 cm. Find the radius of the lower base if the product d. 45
of the radii of lower and upper base is 60. 44. How many degrees are 4800 mils?
a. 18 e. 180o
b. 10 f. 315o
c. 12 g. 90o
d. 14 h. 270o
45. The secant function is positive in what quadrants?
37. In how many minutes after 12:00 noon will the hour a. I and III
hand and the minute hand of the clock first form an b. I and IV
angle of 120o? c. II and III
a. 23.82 minutes d. II and IV
b. 22.82 minutes
c. 21.82 minutes 46. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of the
d. 24.82 minutes tower to be 30o. He walks 85 m nearer the tower and
finds its angle of elevation to be 60o. What is the
38. The volume of the right frustum of a right circular height of the tower?
cone is 78 cm3. The upper base radius is 2 cm and the a. 76.31 m
lower base radius is 5 cm. Find the altitude in cm. b. 73.31 m
a. 2.21 c. 73.16 m
b. 2.01 d. 73.61 m
c. 1.91 47. The perimeter of an isosceles right triangle is 6.8284
d. 2.11 units. Compute the area of the triangle in square units.
a. 2
39. Find the distance between two lines represented by the b. 1
linear equations: 4x – 3y – 12 = 0 and 4x –3y + 8 = 0. c. 0.5
a. 6 units d. 4
b. 5 units 48. Solve the value of x in the equation: log x2 – log 5x
c. 4 units = log 20.
d. 8 units a. 10
b. 20
c. 2
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49. Charles is three times as old as his son Albert. Five b. 12 cm

years ago, he was five times as old as his son was at c. 18 cm
that time. How old his son Albert? d. 18 2 cm
a. 8 58. The area bounded by two concentric circles is said to
b. 10 be known as:
c. 12 a. Disk
d. 14 b. Annulus
50. Jaime and Allan can do a piece of work in 20 days, c. Ring
Allan and Raymond in 30 days, Raymond and d. Sector
Jaime in 40 days. If thee three work together, how 59. The angle that the line of sight to the object, makes
long will they be able to finish the job? with the horizontal, which is above the eye of the
a. 18.46 days observer is called:
b. 17.46 days a. Angle of elevation
c. 16.47 days b. Bearing
d. 14.67 days c. Acute angle
51. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. d. Angle depression
Determine the number. 60. If the volume of the sphere is 35 m3, determine its
a. 7 surface area, in m2.
b. 5
a. 36
c. 4
b. 24
d. 6
52. At what time after 3’oclock will the hands of the clock c. 18
be together? d. 12
a. 16.36 minutes 61. A metal washer 1 inch in diameter is pierced by ½
b. 13.66 minutes inch hole. What is the volume of the washer if it is
c. 16.63 minutes 1/8 inch thick, in cubic inch?
d. 16.36 minutes a. 0.028
53. How many 3 digit numbers may be formed from the b. 0.074
digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 if no digit may be repeated in a c. 0.082
given number? d. 0.047
a. 90 62. The volumes of two spheres are in the ratio of 27:343
b. 180 and the sum of their radii is 10. Find the radius of the
c. 45 smaller sphere.
d. 52 a. 6
54. In how many ways can you line-up 4 marines and 6 b. 5
army soldiers if all the marines must be side by side c. 3
with each other and the army soldiers are likewise? d. 4
a. 35 460 63. When a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from left
b. 34 560 to right, the slope m is:
c. 36 450 a. Less than zero
d. 30 546 b. Greater than zero
55. A semiconductor company will hire 7 mean and 4 c. Equal to zero
women. In how many ways can the company choose d. Equal to 1
from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the 64. Find the equation of the directrix of the parabola y2 =
positions? 16x.
a. 540 a. x = 8
b. 480 b. x = - 8
c. 680 c. x = 4
d. 840 d. x = - 4
56. In a single throw of a pair of dice, what is the x 2 y2
65. Given an ellipse   1 . Determine the distance
probability of having a 7 or 11? 36 32
a. ¾ between foci.
b. 1/8 a. 3
c. 2/18 b. 4
d. 2/9 c. 2
57. If the area of an equilateral triangle is 9 3 cm2, d. 8
determine the perimeter. 66. If y  x ln x , find the 2nd derivative with respect to x.
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1 74. A mango falls from a branch 5 m above the ground.

a.  2 With what speed in m/s does it strike the ground?
x
Assume g = 10 m/s2.
1
b.  a. 8 m/s
x b. 12 m/s
1 c. 14 m/s
c.
x d. 10 m/s
1 75. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal plane
d. following a parabolic path with an initial velocity of
x
100 m/s at an angle of 30o above the horizontal. How
67. The depth of water in a cylindrical tank, 4 m in
far from the throwing point will the ball attain its
diameter, is increasing at the rate of 0.7 m/min. Find
original level?
the rate at which the water is flowing into the tank.
a. 882.8 m
a. 8.80 m3/min
b. 828.8 m
b. 7.64 m3/min
c. 288.8 m
c. 6.12 m3/min
d. 888.2 m
d. 2.24 m3/min
76. Lester expects to receive P20, 000.00 in ten years.
68. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be
How much is that money worth now considering
inscribed in a semi-circle of radius 10?
interest of 6 % compounded quarterly?
a. 1000 sq. units
a. P12,698.65
b. 50 sq. units b. P11,698.25
c. 100 sq. units c. P17,567.95
d. 2 50 sq. units d. P15,678.45
77. If you borrowed money from your friend with simple
  2x  4x  dx .
1
3
69. Evaluate the interest of 12 %, find the present worth of P50,
0
000.00, which is due at the end of 7 months.
a. 2 a. P46,200.00
b. 4 b. P44,893.00
c. 6 c. P46,730.00
d. 8 d. P45,789.00
70. What is the appropriate total area bounded by y = sinx 78. Ryan obtained a loan of P10,000.00 at the rate of 6 %
and y = 0 over the interval 0  x  2 , where x is in compounded annually in order to repair a house.
radians. How much must Ryan pay monthly to amortize the
a. /2 loan within a period of ten years?
b. 2 a. P112.02
c.  b. P110.22
d. 4 c. P150.55
71. What is the area between y = 0, y = 3x2, x = 0 and x = d. P198.20
2? 79. If money is worth 8 %, determine the present value
a. 8 of a perpetuity of P1,000.00 payable annually, with
b. 24 the first payment due at the end of 4 years.
c. 12 a. P9,272.64
d. 6 b. P9,187.87
72. What is the maximum moment of 10 m simple c. P9,272.46
supported beam subjected to a concentrated load of d. P9,178.87
500 kN at the mid-span? 80. What is effective rate of 15 % compounded semi-
a. 1250 kN-m annually?
b. 1520 kN-m a. 15.56 %
c. 1050 kN-m b. 16.02 %
d. 1510 kN-m c. 18.78 %
73. How far does an automobile move while its speed d. 15 %
increases uniformly from 15 kph to 45 kph in 20 81. What will be the future worth of money after 12
seconds? months, if the sum of P25,000.00 is interest today at
a. 185 m simple interest rate of 12 % a year?
b. 167 m a. P30,000.00
c. 200 m b. P29,000.00
d. 172 m c. P28,000.00
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82. How much money must you invest today in order to 91. Depreciation method where the value of an asset
withdraw P2,000.00 annually for 10 years if the decreases at a decreasing rate.
interest rate is 9 %? a. SYD method
a. P12,853.32 b. Straight line method
b. P12,881.32 c. Sinking fund
c. P12,385.32 d. Declining balance
d. P12,835.32 92. Cost of things that is neither labor nor materials.
83. The force of gravity per unit volume of a substance is a. Construction cost
known as: b. Labor cost
a. Density c. Expenses
b. Weight d. Investment
c. Specific weight 93. Kinds of obligation that has no condition attached.
d. Specific gravity a. Analytic
84. In a thermodynamics process following, pV n  C , b. Private
c. Gratuitous
what is the process if the value of n is infinity?
d. Pure
a. Isentropic process
94. Gross, profit, sales less cost of goods sold as a
b. Polytropic process
percentage of sales.
c. Isometric process
a. Profit margin
d. Isobaric process
b. Rate of return
85. Air at 21 oCis used to inflate an automobile tire to 207
c. Gross margin
kPag. After being driven, the temperature has risen to
d. Price earnings
38 oC. What is the resulting pressure if the tire did not
95. The series of equal payments at equal intervals of
stretch?
time.
a. 224.828 kPag
a. Interest
b. 224.828 kPaa
b. Annuity
c. 326.153 kPag
c. Depreciation
d. 236.153 kPag
d. Amortization
86. The length of time at which the original cost of capital
96. A legally binding agreement on promise to exchange
used to purchase a unit has already been recovered.
goods or services.
a. Economic life
a. Contract
b. Write off period
b. Memorandum
c. Physical life
c. Barter
d. Salvage life
d. Pro-forma
87. The actual interest earned by a given principal is
97. An index of short term paying ability.
known as:
a. Current ratio
a. Compound interest
b. Acid test ratio
b. Simple interest
c. Receivable turnover
c. Effective interest
d. Profit margin ratio
d. Nominal interest
98. Used to produce consumer goods.
88. The exclusive right of a company to provide a specific
a. Producer goods
product/service in a given region of the country.
b. Consumer goods
a. Franchise
c. Supply
b. Extension
d. Cash flow
c. Branch
99. It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal
d. Outlet
interval of time where the first payment is made
89. It occurs when a commodity or service is supplied by
several periods after the beginning of the payment.
a number of vendors and there is nothing to prevent
a. Deferred annuity
additional vendors entering the market.
b. Progressive annuity
a. Free market
c. Delayed annuity
b. Open market
d. Simple annuity
c. Perfect competition
100. A market whereby there is only one buyer of an
d. Law of supply and demand
item for which there are no goods substitute.
90. In making economic studies, a minimum required
a. Monopoly
profit on the invested capital is included as a cost.
b. Oligopoly
a. Rate of return
c. Monopsony
b. Present worth pattern
d. Oligopsony
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ANSWERS’ KEY

1. d
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. c
6. b
7. a
8. c
9. c
10. b
11. d
12. d
13. c
14. b
15. d
16. d
17. a
18. d
19. b
20. d
21. a
22. c
23. b
24. d
25. b
26. b
27. a
28. d
29. d
30. d
31. a
32. c
33. c
34. c
35. d
36. c
37. a
38. a
39. a
40. d
41. c
42. a
43. d
44. a
45. d
46. a
47. c
48. a
49. d
50. c
51. a
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52. c
53. c
54. d
55. c
56. a
57. b
58. d
59. c
60. c
61. d
62. b
63. a
64. a
65. d
66. b
67. c
68. b
69. c
70. d
71. c
72. c
73. d
74. a
75. c
76. d
77. b
78. d
79. d
80. c
81. b
82. a
83. b
84. b
85. c
86. b
87. c
88. a
89. c
90. c
91. a
92. c
93. c
94. b
95. b
96. c
97. b
98. a
99. a
100. c