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Engineering Economy With Answers

This document contains a review of topics in engineering economy, mathematics, and hydraulics. It includes sample problems and solutions for simple and compound interest, annuities, capitalized costs, depreciation, and more. Hydraulics problems involve calculating forces on a submerged vertical gate based on its dimensions and water pressure. Mathematics problems cover topics like ratios in cones, areas of circles, proportions, and rates of change. This review covers a wide range of fundamental concepts to help students prepare for further coursework.

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Engineering Economy With Answers

This document contains a review of topics in engineering economy, mathematics, and hydraulics. It includes sample problems and solutions for simple and compound interest, annuities, capitalized costs, depreciation, and more. Hydraulics problems involve calculating forces on a submerged vertical gate based on its dimensions and water pressure. Mathematics problems cover topics like ratios in cones, areas of circles, proportions, and rates of change. This review covers a wide range of fundamental concepts to help students prepare for further coursework.

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CE 39 MODULE 1 – ENGINEERING ECONOMY

Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan (Civil Engineering)

SIMPLE INTEREST ANNUITY


1. If someone borrowed money from a lender with 1. If Php 500 is invested at the end of each year for
a simple interest rate of 12%, determine the present 4 years at an annual interest rate of 10%, what is
worth of Php 75,000.00, which is due at the end of the total peso amount upon the deposit of the
seven months. fourth payment?
Ans: Php 70,093 Ans: Php 2,320.50

2. Leo has invested Php 1,000.00, part at 5% and 2. A man paid 10% as down payment of Php 200k
the remainder at 10% simple interest. How much is for a house and lot and agreed to pay the balance
invested at higher rate if the total annual interest on monthly installments for 5 years at an interest
from this investment is Php 95.00? rate of 15%, compounded monthly. What was the
Ans: Php 900 monthly installment in pesos?
Ans: Php 42,821.87
3. You borrowed Php 120,000.00 from a friend and
promised to pay 6% simple interest. How much will 3. An investor deposits Php 10,000 at the end of
you pay at the end of 1 year and 6 months? each year in an account which gives a nominal
Ans: Php 130,800 annual interest of 5% compounded continuously.
How much sum will he accumulate in 10 years?
4. A man borrowed from a bank under a promissory Ans: Php 126,528
note that he signed in the amount of Php 60,000 for
a period of one year. He received only Php 50,150 4. An engineer has just borrowed Php 800,000 from
after the bank collected the advanced interest a local bank, at the rate of 1% per month on the
and an additional amount of Php 850 for notarial unpaid balance. His contract states that he must
and inspection fees. What was the rate of simple repay the loan in 36 equal monthly installments.
interest that the bank collected in advance? How much money must he repay each month?
Ans: 17.65% (Disregard this Problem)

5. A father wants to set aside money for his 5-year-


COMPOUND INTEREST old son’s future college education. Money can be
1. If the sum of Php 12,000 is deposited in an deposited in a bank account that pays 8% per
account earning an interest rate of 9% year, compounded annually. What equal deposits
compounded quarterly, what will it become after should be made by the father on his son’s 6th
1 year? through 17th birthdays, in order to provide
Ans: Php 13,116.99 Php 80,000 on his son’s 18th, 19th, 20th, and
21st birthdays?
2. How many years are required for Php 1,000 to Ans: Php 13,962.60
increase to Php 2,000 if invested at 9% per year
compounded continuously?
Ans: 7.70 years 6. A fund is to provide an annual scholarship at
Php 4,000 for the first 5 years; Php 6,000 for the next
3. What payment ten years from now is equivalent 5 years and Php 9,000 thereafter. The fund will be
to a payment of Php 1,000 six years from now, if established 1 year before the first scholarship is
interest is 15% compounded monthly? awarded. If the fund earns 12% interest, what sum
Ans: Php 1,815.35 must be deposited?
Ans: Php 50,840
4. What rate in percent compounded monthly is
equivalent to 18 % compounded semi-annually?
Ans: 17.36%
CAPITALIZED COST AND ANNUAL COST
5. An investment of Php 3M earns interest of 9% 1. Compute the capitalized cost of a new car
compounded continuously. What is the effective worth Php 800,000 if it is estimated that it requires
rate of interest? Php 20,000 per year to maintain and must be
Ans: 9.417% replaced at the same amount with a salvage
value of Php 300,000 after 5 years if the interest rate
is 12% per annum.
Ans: Php 1,622,540.55
CE 39 MODULE 1 – ENGINEERING ECONOMY
Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan (Civil Engineering)

2. A contractor can buy dump trucks for 5. An asset is purchased for Php 9,000. Its estimated
Php 800,000 each or rent them for Php 1200 per life is 10 years, after which it will be sold for Php
day. The truck has a salvage value of Php 100,000 1,000. Find the book value at the end of third year
at the end of its useful life of 5 years. The annual if sum-of-the-year’s digit method (SOYDM)
cost of maintenance is Php 20,000. Using the depreciation is used.
annual cost method and 14% interest rate, Ans: Php 5,703
determine the number of days to warrant its
purchase. 6. An equipment costs Php 1,200,000. At the end of
Ans: 199 its economic life of 5 years, its salvage value is Php
300,000. Using sum of the years digit method, what
Situation 1 (3-5) will be its book value on the 3rd year?
A manufacturing plant installed a new boiler at a Ans: Php 480,000
total cost of Php 150,000. It is estimated to have a
useful life of ten years with the scrap value of Php 7. XU purchased new 3D projectors with a total
5,000. Annual maintenance cost is Php 10,000. If worth of Php 618,000. If the equipment is
the interest is 12% compounded annually: depreciated over an eight-year period with
salvage value of 5%, determine the depreciation
3. Determine the equivalent present worth of the charge during the fifth year using declining
annual maintenance cost. balance method.
Ans: Php 83,333.33 Ans: Php 302,189.20

4. Determine the equivalent annual cost of the net 8. A machine has a first cost of Php 73,500 and a
amount required to replace the boiler. salvage value of Php 3,500 at the end of its useful
Ans: Php 8,262.70 life of 8 years. Evaluate the depreciation of the
machine during the 5th year using Matheson’s
5. Determine its capitalized cost. Method (declining balance method).
Ans: Php 302,189.20 Ans: Php 5077

DEPRECIATION
1. A sand mill costs Php 410,000. Salvage value of
the mill is estimated to be Php 60,000 after 20 years.
Find the appraisal or book value of the sand mill
using straight line depreciation method after
10 years.
Ans: Php 235,000

2. A machine costing Php 1.8M has a salvage value


of Php 300,000 after 5 years. Calculate the
depreciation value (book value) at the end of 3
years using the straight-line method.
Ans: Php 900,000

3. A dump truck was bought for Php 300,000 six


years ago. It will have a salvage value of Php
30,000 four years from now. Determine the present
value of the dump truck if the depreciation
method used is sinking fund at 6%.
Ans: Php 157,115

4. A machine costs Php 100,000 with a salvage


value of Php 20,000 at the end of its life of 8 years.
What is the depreciation at the 6th year using
Sinking Fund method if money is worth 6%
annually?
Ans: Php 8,082.88
CE 39 MODULE 1 – ENGINEERING ECONOMY
Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan (Civil Engineering)

MSTE REVIEW
1. The height of the cone (vertex up) is H. It contains
water to a depth of 2/3H. What is the ratio of the
volume of water to that of the cone? Ans 26:27

2. Three circles with radii 3.0, 5.0, and 9.0 cm are


externally tangent. What is the area of the triangle
formed by joining their centers? Ans 47.91 cm2

3. If two angles are in the ratio of 3:2, find the angles


if they are adjacent and form an angle measuring
40o. Ans 16 and 24

4. A father and his son can dig a hole if the father


works 6 hours and his son works 12 hours, or they
can do it if the father works 12 hours and the son
works 8 hours. How long will it take for the father to
dig the hole alone? Ans 24 hours

5. An inverted conical container has a diameter of


40 in and a depth of 15 in. If water is flowing out of
the vertex of the container at a rate of 25π in3/sec,
how fast is the depth of the water dropping when
the height is 5 inches? Ans 9/16 in/sec

HYDRAULICS REVIEW
Situation (1-3)
A vertical gate 0.60 m wide and 1.2 m high is
submerged completely in water with its top edge
flushed with the water surface.

1. Find the magnitude of the total force acting on


one side of the gate, in kN. Ans 4.238 kN

2. Calculate the distance between the location of


the total pressure and the center of the gate.
Ans 200 mm

3. Calculate the distance between the location of


the total pressure and the surface of the water.
Ans 800 mm

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