Republic of the Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF CEBU - MAIN

Sanciangko Street, Cebu City

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EE ENHANCEMENT 4

REFRESHER COURSE

MATHEMATICS

Name
Program & Year
Instructor

2 N D S E M E S T E R A. Y. 2 0 2 4 – 2 0 2 5

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INSTRUCTION: Shade the letter corresponding to your answer in
the answer sheet provided. Strictly NO erasures/alterations.

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Note: The problems you are about to solved are questions coming
from the previous REE board exams. Good luck!

1. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than one (1) is known

as:
A. A parabola B. An ellipse C. A circle D. A hyperbola

2. If Rita can run around the block 5 times in 20 minutes, how many
times can she run around the block in hour?
A. 10 B. 50 C. 15 D. 100

3. Find the angle in mils subtended by a line 10 yards long at a

distance of 5000 yards.
A. 2.5 mils B. 1 mil C. 4 mils D. 2.04 mils

4. Find the area of a triangle having vertices at -4 – i, 1 + 2i, 4 – 3i.

A. 15 B. 16 C. 17 D. 18

5. What percentage of the volume of cone is maximum right circular

cylinder that can be inscribed in it?
A. 24% B. 32% C. 44% D. 54%

6. N engineers and N nurses, if two engineers are replaced by

nurses, 51% of the engineers and nurses are nurses. Find N
A. 100 B. 110 C. 50 D. 200

7. Two stones are 1 mile apart and are at the same level as the foot
of a hill. The angles of depression of the two stones viewed from the
top of the hill are 5 degrees and 15 degrees respectively. Find the
height of the hill.
A. 109.01 m B. 209.01 m C. 309.01 m D. 409.01 m

8. Water is running out of a conical funnel at the rate of 1 cu. in/sec.

If the radius of the base of the funnel is 4 in and the altitude is 8 in,
find the rate at which the water level is dropping when it is 2 in from
the top.
A. – 1/9pi in/sec B. -1/2pi in/sec C. 1/2pi in/sec D. 1/9pi in/sec

9. A conic section whose eccentricity is less than one (1) is known

as:
A. A parabola B. An ellipse C. A circle D. A hyperbola

10. Find the radius of curvature of the parabola y2 = 4x at point

P(4,4)?
A. 22.36 B. 20.36 C. 25.36 D. 27.36

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11. The equation y2 = cx is a general solution of
A. y' = 2y/x B. y’ = 2x/y C. y’ = y/2x D. y’ = x/2y

12. Find the minimum distance from point P(4,2) to the parabola y 2
= 8x.
A. 3 sqrt. of 3 B. 2 sqrt. of 3 C. 3 sqrt. of 2 D. 2 sqrt. of 2

13. Find the general solution of y” + 8y’ + 41y = 0

A. y = e-5x(c1cos4x + c2sin4x) B. y = e5x(c1cos4x + c2sin4x)
C. y = e-4x(c1cos5x + c2sin5x) D. y = e4x(c1cos5x + c2sin5x)

14. Newton’s law of cooling states that the rate of change of the
temperature of an object is directly proportional to its difference in
temperature to the surrounding. If the air is at 30˚C and it takes 15
minutes to cool down an object from 100 ˚C to 70 ˚C, how long will it
take to cool down from 100 ˚C to 50 ˚C?
A. 33.59 min. B. 43.60 min. C. 35.39 min D. 45.30 min.

15. Peter can finish in 2 hours while John can finish in 1.5 hours.
How long will it take if they work together?
A. 51.43 mins B. 52.10 mins C. 53.29 mins D. 54.72 mins

16. At what value of x is y = sin2x at maximum?

A. pi/4 B. pi C. 3pi/2 D. 2pi

17. Evaluate the integral of sin(x) raised to the 5th power and the
limits from 0 to pi/2.
A. 0.53 B. 0.43 C. 0.33 D. 0.23

18. What is the simplified expression of 3x2 multiplied to (2x3y)4?

A. 6x9y4 B. 48x14y4 C. 6x14y4 D. 1296x16y4

19. Joey is x years old y years from now. How is he/she now?
A. x – y B. x + y C. y – x D. y + x

20. Find the volume (in cubic units generated by rotating a circle x 2 +
y2 + 6x + 4y + 12 = 0 about the y-axis.
A. 47.23 B. 59.22 C. 62.11 D. 39.48

21. What is the polar form of 1 + i?

A. sqrt.2(cos45˚ + isin45˚) B. sqrt.2(cos45˚ - isin45˚)
C. -sqrt.2(cos45˚ - isin45˚) D. -sqrt.2(cos45˚ + isin45˚)

22. It represents the distance of a point from the y-axis.

A. Ordinate B. Abscissa

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C. Coordinate D. Polar distance

23. Jerome ate 3 oz. of a 16-oz ice cream pack. What percentage of
the pack did he eat?
A. 18.75% B. 19.50% C. 17.25% D. 16.75%

24. If a quiz consists of four true-false questions, and a student

guesses at each answer, what is the probability the student answer
exactly half of the questions correctly?
A. 0.5000 B. 0.2500 C. 0.1536 D. 0.7521

25. Find the equation of the circle with center at the origin and
passes through (-3, 4).
A. x2 + y2 = 36 B. x2 + y2 = 25
2 2
C. x + y = 9 D. x2 + y2 = 16

26. Find the equation of the parabola with vertex t (-1, -2) latus
rectum 12, opens downward.
A. x2 + 12x + 12y – 25 =0 B. x2 + 12x2y + 22 = 0
2
C. x – 2x + y – 23 = 0 D. x2 + 2x + 12y – 25 = 0

27. A man is driving a car at the rate of 30 km/hour towards the foot
of monument 6m high. At what rate is he approaching the top when
he is 36m from the foot of the monument?
A. -52.80 km/hr B. 10.55 km/hr
C. -29.59 km/hr D. 12.52 km/hr

28. Determine the differential equation of the family of lines passing

through (h, k)
A. (y – h) + (y – k) = dy/dx B. (x – h)dx – (y – k)dy = 0
C. (x + h)dx – (y – k)dy = 0 D. (y – k)dx – (x – h)dy = 0

29. Find the complex numbers whose sum is 4 and whose product is
8.
A. 1 ± 2i B. 2 ± i C. 1 ± i D. 2 ± 2i

30. A point is chosen at random inside a circle having a diameter of 8

inches. What is the probability that the point is at least 1.5 in away
from the center of the circle?
A. 55/64 B. 5/8 C. 5/64 D. 12/45

31. What percent of 50 is 12?

A. 14% B. 4% C. 2% D. 24%

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32. Joseph gave 1/4 of his candies to Joy and Joy gave 1/5 of what
she got to Tim. If Tim received 2 candies, how many candies did
Joseph have originally?
A. 20 B. 30 C. 40 D. 50

33. If 1 is added to the difference when 10x is subtracted from -18x,

the result is 57. What is the value of x?
A. 7 B. 2 C. -2 D. -7

34. Patrick has a rectangular patio whose length is 5m less than the
diagonal and a width that is 7m less than the diagonal. If the area of
his patio is 195 m2, what is the length of the diagonal?
A. 20 m B. 10 m C. 16 m D. 8 m

35. Find the equation of the line passing 3 units from the origin and
parallel to 3x – 4y – 10 = 0.
A. 3x + 4y – 5 = 0 B. 4x – 4y + 1 = 0
C. x – 3y + 15 = 0 D. 3x – 4y – 15 = 0

36. Find the volume generated by revolving the area bounded by y 2

= 12x and x = 3 about the line x = 3.
A. 131 B. 191 C. 181 D. 151

37. Find the equation of the line with slope 3 and y-intercept -2.
A. y = 2x +3 B. y = 2x -3 C. y = -3x + 2 D. y = 3x – 2

38. Simplify i39.

A. –I B. I C. -1 D. 1

39. If Jim and Jerry work together they can finish a job in 4 hours. If
working alone takes Jim 10 hours to finish the job, how many hours
would it take Jerry to do the job alone?
A. 16 B. 6.0 C. 6.7 D. 5.6

40. In an ellipse a chord which contains a focus and is in a line

perpendicular to the major axis is a:
A. Conjugate axis B. Latus rectum
C. Focal width D. Minor axis

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