MATHEMATICS

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.2 only

1. What is the first derivative of y if y = 16x2 + 3x +2x a. x +20 =0 b. x + 5=0

+2? c. x – 20 =0 d. x – 5 =0
a. 16x +2 b. x+5
c. 32x2+5 d. 32x+5 11. Evaluate the integral of tan2x dx.
a. tanx –x +C b. sec2x +x +C
x2 c. 2secx – x +C d. (tan2x)/2 +x +C
2. Evaluate the integral of
x 3
4
dx
12. The fifth term in the expansion of (x2 – 3)8 is:
a. 3 ln (x3 + 4) +c b. ln (x3 + 4) +c a. -70x8 b. 70x8
c. 1/3 ln (x + 4) + c d. 1/3 ln (x3 + 4) + c c. 5670x 8
d. -5670x8

3. Evaluate the integral of  sec xdx 13. What do you call a polygon with 9 diagonals?
a. ln (sec x –tanx)+c b. ln (secx + tanx) +c a. nonagon b. hexagon.
c. 2ln (secx + tanx) +c d. –ln (secx – tanx) +c c. octagon d. decagon

4. Find the volume of the area bounded by the 14. An examination has 10 questions. The
given curve x2 = 8y and the line y =2 and revolve probability that an examinee will get the correct
about the line y =2. answer is 0.25. What is the probability that he will
a. 20.18pi b. 17.07pi get 7 correct answers?
c. 15.01pi d. 19.93pi a. 0.7 b. 0.175
c. 0.0031 ` d. 0.0175
5. The first cost of a certain machine is P 90 000.
After 8 years it will have a salvage value of P 18 15. In a guessing type of exam with 4 choices,
000. Compute the book value at the end of 3 what is the probability that you will get at least 7 of
years by using straight line method. the 10 items?
a. P 84 000 b. P 56 000 a. 0.0031 b. 0.0035
c. P 63 000 d. P46 000 c. 0.0039 d. 0.0043

6. A small line truck hauls poles from a substation 16. How many words/arrangements can be made
stockyard to pole sites along a proposed out of the letters of “LICUANAN”?
distribution line. The truck can handle only one a. 10080 b. 40320
pole at a time. The first pole is 150 m from the c. 1 d. 20160
substation and the poles are to be 50 m apart.
Determine the total distance traveled by the line 17. Evaluate the expression 4! 3! /6!(November
truck back and forth, after returning from 2005)
delivering the 30th pole. a. 0.1 b. 0.2
a. 37.5 km b. 52.5 km c. 0.3 d. 0.4
c. 42.5 km d. 24.785km
18. If y = xlnx, find the 3rd derivative.
7. The first table of logarithm with 10 as the base 1 1
a.  3 b. - 2
was developed by? x x
a. Isaac Newton b. John Napier
1 1
c. John Wallis d. Henry Briggs c. 3 d. 2
x x
8. In the expansion (ex + e-x)8, what is the 5th term?
a. x2x b. e4x 19. Given the function f(x) = (x-4)(x+3)+4 and is
2x
c. e d. 70 divided by (x-k), the remainder is k. What is k
then?
9. There are eight balls and are tightly packed in a a. 2 b. -2
cubical container that measures 8 x 8 x 8 cm. The c. -4 d. 8
balls are arranged with 4 balls per layer and in
contact with the walls of the container and the 20. If the 1st and 4th terms of the harmonic
adjacent balls. If the container is filled with water, progression are 1/3 and 1/9 respectively, find the
what is the volume of the water in cubic cm? 8th term?
a. 244 b. 422 a. 1/17 b. 1/14
c. 224 d. 424 c. 1/11 d. 1/15

10. Find the equation of the directrix of the 21. It is a stock that has prior right to dividends. It
parabola y2 = 20x. usually does not bring voting rights to the owners

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and the dividend is fixed and cannot be higher c. 0 d. 1
than the specified amount.
a. common stock b. preferred stock 34. What is the surface area of a certain sphere
c. voting stock d. non par value stock whose volume is 36 cu.m?
a. 52.7 m2 b. 46.6 m2
22. A canal boat is towed by a rope by making an c. 48.7 m2 d. 54.6 m2
angle of 35 degree with the horizontal. The
tension in the line being 115 kg. How much of this 35. If a solid steel ball is immersed in an 8-cm
effective in propelling the boat? diameter cylinder, it displaces water to a depth of
a. 94.20 kg b. 65.96 kg 2.25 cm. what is then the radius of the ball?
c. 140.39 kg d. 200.49 kg a. 3 cm b. 4 cm
c. 5 cm d. 6 cm
23. In complex algebra, we use a diagram to
represent a complex plane commonly 36. A baseball is thrown from a horizontal plane
called________. following a parabolic path with an initial velocity of
a. Venn diagram b. Cartesian diagram 100 m/s at an angle of 30 degrees above the
c. De Moivres diagram d. Argand diagram horizontal. How far from the throwing point will the
ball attain its original level?
24. The point of concurency of the angle bisectors a. 890 m b. 883 m
of the triangle is called the________of the c. 875m d. 828 m
triangle.
a. circumcenter b. incenter 37. The radius of the earth is 3960 miles. What is
c. excenter d. orthocenter the escape velocity of the earth in miles/sec?
a. 6.94 b. 9.64
25. Find the equation of the line with x and y c. 8.62 d. 6.28
intercepts of 6 and -3 respectively.
a. x-6y-6 =0 b. x-2y-6 =0 38. What is the moment of inertia (kg-m2 )cylinder
c. x-2y-12 =0 d. 3x-2y-6 =0 of radius 5m and has a mass of 5 kg?
a. 62.5 b. 83.33
1 c. 50 d. 125
 (2 x  4 x
3
26.Evaluate )dx
0 39. A force of 10 kg-m/s2 is applied to the end of a
a. 4 b. 2 10 inches diameter circular rod. Calculate the
c. 10 d. 16 stress.
a. 0.2 KPa b. 0.10KPa
27. Given the following samples of distributed c. 0.05 KPa d. 0.15 KPa
population {100, 200, 300, 350, 375, 375, 450}, what is
the median? 40. Find the interest on P 6800.00 for 3 years at
a. 300 b. 350 11% simple interest.
c. 307 d. 375 a. P 1 875 b. P 2 144
c. P 2 424 d. P 2 244
28. An angular unit equivalent to 1/400 of the
circumference of a circle is called: 41. How long must a P 40 000 note bearing 4%
a. mil b. grad simple interest run to amount to P 41 350.00?
c. radian d. degree a. 340 days b. 304 days
c. 0.84375 days d. 403 days
29. In two hours, what is the angle of rotation of
the hour hand? 42. How long will it take P1 000 to amount to P
a. 30° b. 60° 1346 if invested at 6% compounded quarterly?
c. 360° d. 720° a. 3 years b. 4 years
c. 5 years d. 6 years
30. The product of three consecutive integers is
9240. Find the third integer.
a. 20 b. 21
c. 22 d. 23 43. The amount of P 2 825 in 8 years at 5%
compounded continuously is________.
31. A man left Pangasinan to drive to Manila at a. P4 166.67 b. P 4 397.13
6:15 PM and arrived at 11:45 PM. If he averaged c. P 4 188.56 d. P 4 214.2
30mph and stopped 1 hour for dinner for she is
very hungry, how far is Manila from Pangasinan? 44. How do you find the derivative of composite
a. 125 miles b. 135 miles functions?
c. 145 miles d. 155 miles a. Implicit differentiation
b. Logarithmic differentiation
32. What is the natural logarithm of e to the xy power? c. Trigonometric differentiation
a. exy b. ln xy d. Chain Rule
c. xy d. 1
45. The total volume of two spheres is 100pi cubic
33. Evaluate the expression (1 +i2)10, where i is an units. The ratio of their areas is 4:9. What is the
imaginary number volume of the smaller sphere in cubic units?
a. i b. -1 a. 72.31 b. 71.8

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c. 82.31 d. 97.12

46. A farmer has enough resources to build only

100 meters of fence. What are the dimensions of
the field he can enclose to have a maximum
area?
a. 25m x 25m b. 15m x 35m
c. 20m x 30m d. 22.5m x 27.5m

47. Water is flowing into a conical container at the

rate of 8 m3/min. If the height of the inverted cone
is 12m and the radius of its circular opening is
6m.How fast is the water level rising when the
water is 4 m deep?

a. 0.64m/min b. 0.46 m/min

c. 0.75 m/min d. 0.57m/min

48. What is the integral of 10x?

a. 10x b. 0.4(10x)
x
c. 10 ln10 d. ex
pi / 2

 sin
6
49. Evaluate xdx
0
a. pi/32 b. 2pi/32
c. 3pi/32 d. 5pi/32

50. Who is the founder of determinant theory?

a. Alexander Vandermonde b. Gottfried
Wilhelm Von Leibniz
c. Seki Kowa d. Ramon Cugal