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1. A sequence of numbers or quantities in which sum of their children’s ages. How many were
there is always the same relation between each children in the family?
quantity and the one succeeding it. a. 4 b. 5
a. Series c. 6 d. 7
b. Progression
c. Arithmetic Progression 7. Suppose that ab means 3b-a. What is the Page | 1
d. Geometric Progression value of x if 2(5x) = 1.
a. 1/10 b. 2
2. Public health records indicate that t weeks c. 10/3 d. 10
after the outbreak of SARS approximately
20 8. Determine the value of ab if log 8 𝑎 +
𝑄= thousands of people had
1+19𝑒 −1.2𝑡 log 4 𝑏 2 = 5 and log 8 𝑏 + log 4 𝑎2 = 7.
caught the disease. How many people had
a. 18 b. 262144
originally caught the disease? If the trend
c. 9 d. 512
continues, approximately how many people
will have caught the disease?
9. At what time after 3:00 o’clock will the hands
a. 1, 20 b. 20000, 1000
of the clock form a 60 degree angle the for the
c. zero, infinity d. 1000, 20000
second time?
a. 3:05.45 b. 3:27.27
3. It takes a boat 4 times to travel upstream
c. 3:05.54 d. 3:27.72
against a river current than it takes the same
boat to travel downstream. If the speed of the
10. An angle between a horizontal line and the
current is 24 kph, what is the speed of the boat
line joining the observer’s eye to some object
in still water?
beneath the horizontal line.
a. 13.33 ms-1 b. 20 ms-1
-1 a. angle of elevation b. angle of depression
c. 40 ms d. 11.11 ms-1
c. angle of repose d. angle of inclination
4. Ace can finish a job in 10 days. Sabo can
11. A paper equilateral triangle ABC has side
finish the job in 15 days. If the two men work
length 12. The paper triangle is folded so that
together for 3 days, and Luffy came to help, it
the vertex A touches a point on side BC a
will take another 2 days to finish the 90% of
distance of 3 from point C. Determine the
the job. How long will it take for the three of
length of the fold.
them working together finish half of the job?
a. 6.86 b. 6.96
a. 2 days b. 2.5 days
b. 8.96 d. 9.86
c. 3 days d. 3.5 days
12. The point of concurrency of the angle
5. What is the last digit of 1! + 3! + 5! + … +
bisector of the triangle is called .
2017! + 2019!?
a. circumcenter b. incenter
a. 5 b. 6
c. centroid d. orthocenter
c. 7 d. 8
13. What do you call to an infinite sided polygon?
6. The sum of the parent’s ages is twice the sum
a. apeirogon b. myriagon
of their children’s ages. Five years ago, the
c. chilliagon d. enneacontagon
sum of the parent’s ages is four times the sum
of their children’s ages. In fifteen years, the
14. The portion of a sphere included between two
sum of the parent’s ages will be equal to the
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a. Spherical Wedge b. Spherical Segment a. 12 b. 18
c. Spherical Lune d. Spherical Zone c. 24 d. 30

15. A cow is tethered by a 10 m rope to the 22. The midpoint of the line segment between
outside of a hexagonal shed with side 8 m in a P1(x,y) and P2(-2,4) is PM(2,-1). Find the
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graze? a. (6,5) b. (6,-6)
a. 68 sq. m. b. 68 sq. m. c. (5,-6) d. (5,-5)
b. 86 sq. m. d. 86 sq. m.
23. The x and y intercepts of the line are 2 and -
16. A pentagon has sides 20 cm. An inner 5 respectively. Determine the equation of this
pentagon with sides of 10 cm is inside and line.
concentric to the larger pentagon. Determine a. 5x – 2y – 10 = 0 b. 5x + 2y = 0
the area inside and concentric to the larger c. 5x + 2y +10 = 0 d. 5x – 2y = 0
pentagon but outside of the smaller pentagon.
a. 430.70 sq. cm b. 573.26 sq. cm 24. Find the distance between the point A(3,4)
c. 473.77 sq. cm d. 516.14 sq. cm and the line 5x + 12y - 10 = 0.
a. 33/13 b. 43/13
17. The corners of a cubical block touched the c. 53/13 d. 63/13
closest spherical shell that encloses it. The
volume of the box is 2744 cm3. What volume 25. Find the distance between the lines 4x – 3y =
in cm3 inside the shell is not occupied by the 12 and 8x – 6y = -16.
block? a. 3 b. 4
a. 4713.56 b. 1728.21 c. 5 d. 6
c. 9023.23 d. 2903.14
26. A figure formed by the intersection of a plane
18. The sum of the radii of the bases of a frustrum and a right circular cone.
of a cone is 7 cm. If it has an altitude of 6 cm. a. Hyperbola b. Ellipse
and a volume of 232.48 cm3, compute the c. Parabola d. Conic Sections
radius of the smaller base.
a. 5 cm b. 4 cm 27. The major axis of the elliptical path in which
c. 2 cm d. 3 cm the earth moves around the sun is
approximately 186,000,000 miles and the
19. A tetrahedron has a surface area of 140 sq. m. eccentricity of the ellipse is 1/60. Determine
Compute for the volume of the tetrahedron. the apogee of the earth.
a. 80 cu. m. b. 86 cu. m. a. 93,000,000 miles b. 91,450,000 miles
c. 92 cu. m. d. 98 cu. m. c. 94,335,100 miles d. 94,550,000 miles

20. Find the inclination of the line that passes 28. Find the radical axis of the circle x2 + y2 + 8x
through the points (4,-3) and (-1,3). – 6y = 0 and the circle x2 + y2 – 12x – 16y +
a. 129.8 deg b. 151.2 deg 20 = 0.
c. 162.6 deg d. 124.5 deg a. 2x + y = 2 b. x + 2y = 2
c. 2x – y = 2 d. x – 2y = 2
21. Find the area of a pentagon connecting the
points A(3,0), B(2,3), C(-1,2), D(-2,-1) and 29. The line passing through the focus and
E(0,-3) perpendicular to the directrix of a parabola.

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a. latus rectum b. axis of parabola a. 11 b. 12
c. transverse axis d. major axis c. 13 d. 14

30. An arch 18 m high has a form of parabola 37. On the first six tests, Ares scores were 95, 91,
with a vertical axis. The length of the 92, 78, 92, and 86. If Ares took a seventh test
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from the top is 64 m. Find the width of the was his score on the seventh test?
bottom. a. 89 b. 95
a. 76 m b. 86 m c. 92 d. 96
c. 96 m d. 106 m
38. If P(A) = 0.7; P(B) = 0.6 and P(A ⋂ B) = 0.4,
31. How many 3 digit odd numbers can be form find the value of P(AC ⋂ BC).
from the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 where no a. 0.2 b. 0.3
digit may repeated in a given number? c. 0.4 d. 0.1
a. 36 b. 48
c. 52 d. 76 39. For all sets A and B, (A ⋂ B) ⋃ (A ⋂ BC) is
equal to:
32. In how many ways can 4 persons be seated in a. A b. B
C
consecutive seats in a row of 8 seats? c. A d. BC
a. 72 b. 96
c. 120 d. 168 40. What is the 2nd derivative of sinh x?
a. -sinh x b. –cosh x
33. My school’s ECE club has 6 boys and 8 girls. c. sinh x d. cosh x
I need to select a team to send to the IECEP
competition. We want 6 people on the team. 41. We are given the values of the differentiable
In how many ways can I select the team to real functions f, g, h, as well as the derivatives
have more boys than girls? of their pairwise products, at x = 0: f(0) = 1;
a. 1414 b. 4141 g(0) = 2; h(0) = 3; (gh)’(0) = 4; (hf)’(0) = 5;
c. 469 d. 694 (fg)’(0) = 6. Find the value of (fgh)’(0).
a. 10 b. 12
34. A pair of fair dice is thrown. Find the c. 14 d. 16
probability that the sum is 10 or greater if 5
appears on the first die. 42. The charge in coulombs that passes through a
a. 1/3 b. 3/11 wire after t seconds is given by the function:
c. 1/4 d. 4/11 Q(t) = t3 – 2t2 + 5t + 2. Determine the average
current during the first two seconds.
35. In a guessing type of exam with 4 choices, a. 5 b. 7
what is the probability that you will get at least c. 9 d. 11
7 of the 10 items?
a. 0.0031 c. 0.0038 43. Find the slope of the ellipse x2 + 4y2 - 10x +
b. 0.03089 d. 0.3089 16y + 5 = 0 at the point where y = -2 + 80.5 and
x = 7.
36. During an acquaintance party, each person a. -0.1654 b. -0.1538
shake hands with all other in the party. If there c. -0.1768 d. -0.1463
were a total of 91 handshakes, how many
persons attend the party?

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44. A rectangle has side length sin x and cos x for 51. A hole of radius 2 is drilled through the axis
some x. What is the largest possible area of of a sphere of radius 3. Compute the volume
such a rectangle? of the remaining solid.
a. 1/4 b. 3/4 a. 46.832 b. 56.235
c. 1/2 d. 1 c. 26.315 d. 18.327
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45. A man whose height is 1.8 m is walking 52. A bag containing originally 60 kg of flour is
directly away from a lamp post at constant rate lifted through a vertical distance of 9 m while
of 1.2 m/s. If the lamp is 12 m above the it is being lifted, the flour is leaking from the
ground, find the rate at which the tip of his bag at such rate that the number of pounds lost
shadow is moving. is proportional to the square root of the
a. 5.29 m/s b. 5.01 m/s distance traversed. If the total loss of the flour
c. 2.21 m/s d. 1.42 m/s is 12 kg, find the amount of work done in
lifting the bag.
46. The length of a rectangle of a constant area a. 4591 J b. 5338 J
800 sq. cm is increasing at a rate of 4 cm per c. 4290 J d. 6212 J
second. What is the rate of change of the width
when the width is 10 cm? 53. Find the volume of the solid formed if we
a. 0.5 cm/s b. -0.5 cm/s rotate the ellipse 4x2 + 9y2 = 36 about the line
c. 32 cm/s d. -32 cm/s 4x + 3y = 20.
a. 482 b. 452
47. Which of the following is NOT an improper c. 48 d. 45
integral?
+∞ 0
a. ∫−∞ 𝑥 2 𝑑𝑥 b. ∫−∞ 𝑒 𝑥 𝑑𝑥 54. The differential equation in the form: (1-x2)y”
1 𝑥2 5 𝑥2 – xy’ + n2y = 0 is called as:
c. ∫−3 𝑥 4 +3𝑥 3 𝑑𝑥 d. ∫0 𝑑𝑥 a. Chebyshev Differential Equation
𝑥 3 −8𝑥 2
b. Hermite Differential Equation
48. Find the centroid of the area under the curves c. Laguerre Differential Equation
5y2 = 16x and y2 = 8x -24 d. Legendre Differential Equation
a. (0, -2.2) b. (-2.2, 0)
c. (2.2, 0) d. (0, 2.2) 55. The differential equation in the form: y” –
2xy’ + 2ny = 0 is called as:
49. Find the centroid of the area under the curves a. Chebyshev Differential Equation
y2 = 9x and its latus rectum. b. Hermite Differential Equation
a. (0, 1.35) b. (1.35, 0) c. Laguerre Differential Equation
c. (1.53, 0) d. (0, 1.53) d. Legendre Differential Equation

50. Find the moment of inertia of the area 56. The differential equation in the form: xy” +
bounded by the curve x2 = 4y, the line y = 1 (1-x)y’ + ny = 0 is called as:
and the y-axis on the first quadrant with a. Chebyshev Differential Equation
respect to the x-axis. b. Hermite Differential Equation
a. 8/15 b. 4/7 c. Laguerre Differential Equation
c. 16/15 d. 8/7 d. Legendre Differential Equation

57. The differential equation in the form: (1-x2)y”

– 2xy’ + n(n+1)y = 0 is called as:

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a. Chebyshev Differential Equation 64. The series expansion of (sin t)/t is
b. Hermite Differential Equation a. 1 – t2/3! + t4/5! – t6/7! + …
c. Laguerre Differential Equation b. 1/t – t2/2! + t4/4! – t6/6! + …
d. Legendre Differential Equation c. 1 + t2/3! + t4/5! + t6/7! + …
d. 1 – t3/3! + t5/5! – t7/7! + …
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y’+P(x)y=Q(x)yn. What is the name of this DE 65. Find the Laplace Transform of 4 – 3t + 5t 2

if n=0? a. 4s-1 – 3s-2 + 10s-3

a. Linear DE b. Variable Separable DE b. 4 – 3s-1 + 10s-2
c. Bernoulli DE d. Parabolic DE c. 4s – 3s2 + 10s3
d. 4 – 3s + 10s2
59. Obtain a particular solution for the following
differential equation, given x = 2 and y = 3. 66. Determine the Laplace Transform of etcos wt.
2xyy’=1+y2 a. (s-1)/[(s-1)2 + w2]
a. y=sqrt(5x-1) b. y=sqrt(2x+1) b. (s-1)/[(s+1)2 - w2]
c. y=sqrt(x-1) d. y=sqrt(3x+2) c. (s+1)/[(s+1)2 + w2]
d. (s-1)/[(s-1)2 - w2]
60. Solve the following differential equation:
yiv+2y”+1=0 67. Determine the Wronskian of the set: {ex, e-x}
a. C1cos(x)+C2sin(x)+C3e-3xcos(x)+C4e-3xsin(x) a. -2 b. 1
b. C1cos(x)+C2sin(x)+C3excos(x)+C4exsin(x) c. 3 d. 0
c. C1xcos(x)+C2xsin(x)
d. C1cos(x)+C2sin(x)+C3xcos(x)+C4xsin(x) 68. Determine a0 in the Fourier Series expansion
of the function f(x) = x2 in the interval of
61. A thermometer has 70C reading. It was >x>-.
placed in a room having a 20C ambient a. 2/3 b. 22/3
temperature. In 4 minutes, the thermometer c. /3 d. 2/3
reading became 30C. What is the
thermometer reading after another 11 69. Solve for a3 in the Fourier Series expansion
minutes? of f(x).
a. 20.5C b. 20.1C 1, 𝑖𝑓 − 𝜋 < 𝑥 < 0
𝑓(𝑥) = {
c. 0.59C d. 0.12C 2, 𝑖𝑓 0 < 𝑥 < 𝜋
a. 0 b. 3/2
62. A bacteria culture is known to grow at a rate c. 1/2 d. 5/2
proportional to the amount present. After four
hour, 1000 strands of the bacteria are observed 70. Given a discrete function: x[n] = (7/8)nu[n].
in the culture; and after four hours, 3000 Determine the z-transform.
strands. Find the approximate number of a. 1/[1-(7/8)z] b. 1/[1-(7/8)z-1]
strands of the bacteria originally in the culture. c. z/[1-(7/8)z] d. z-1/[1-(7/8)z-1]
a. 496 b. 964
c. 694 d. 946 71. Evaluate e1+i
a. 1.46+2.29i b. 1.46-2.29i
63. What is s in the Laplace Transform? c. 1.64+2.29i d. 1.64-2.29i
a. Complex Time b. Complex Frequency
c. Complex Variable d. Complex Plane

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