• Which of the following is the standard acceleration due to

gravity in the English unit?

MATHEMATICS a) 980.66 fps2 b) 32.2 fps2

. c) 9.8066 fps2 d) 32.2 ips2

• The roots of the quadratic equation are 1/3 and 3/2. What Ans. b) 32.2 fps2
is the equation?
x2 −1
• What is the value of Lim ?
a. 6x + 5x + 3 = 0
2 x → x3 −1

b. 6x 2 − 7x − 3 = 0 a) 0 b) 0.25
c) 1.25 d) indeterminate
c. 6x + 7x − 3 = 0
2

d. 6x 2 + 7x + 3 = 0 Ans. a) 0

• Two times the mother–s age is 8 more than six times her
Ans. c. 6x 2 + 7x − 3 = 0
daughter–s age. Ten years ago, the sum of their ages was 44.
What is the daughter–s age?
• Mr. PME covered a distance of 55 km in 4 hours by driving a) 15 yrs old b) 18 yrs old
his car 40 kph, part of the way, and by walking the remainder c) 12 yrs old d) 16 yrs old
of the way at 5 kph. What part of the total distance did Mr
PME go by car? Ans. a) 15 yrs old

7 8 9 10 • How many terms of the sequence – 9, - 6, - 3,– must be taken

a. b. c. d.
11 11 11 11 so that the sum is 66?

a) 11 b) 6
8 c) 4 d) 9
Ans. b.
11
Ans. a) 11
• The water tank in Calamba Water District can be filled by
pipe A in half the time the pipe B can empty the tank. When
both pipes are operating, the tank can be filled in 1 hour • A farmer is to plant rice in a rectangular field 30 meters
and 12 minutes. Determine the time, in hours, for pipe A to by 40 meters. He started on the edge and plant around the
fill the tank alone. perimeter. How wide a strip should he plant for each side
in order to do half the work?
a. 0.6 b. 0.7
c. 0.75 d. 0.8 a) 5 m b) 2.5 m
c) 3 m d) 5.5 m
Ans. a. 0.6
Ans. a) 5m
• What is the value of k to make the expression kx 2 – 3kx + 9
a perfect square? • There are 6 geometric means between 4 and 8748. Find the sum
of all terms.
a) 2 b) 4
c) 3 d) 5 a) 12 310 b) 12 130
c) 13 210 d) 13 120
Ans. b) 4
Ans. d) 13 120
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 • The volume of the cube is increasing at a rate of 5 cu. m
• Compute the arithmetic Mean of the following set of numbers: per minute. Determine the rate at which the surface area is
18, 24, 27, 30, 35, 42, 50. increasing, in m2/min, when its side is 10 m.

a. 31.82 b. 32.29 a) ½ b) 1.75

c. 30 d. 29.96 c) 1.5 d) 2

Ans. b. 32.29 Ans. d) 2

• Find the root mean square of 11, 23, and 35. • What is the supplement of an angle whose compliment is 62o?

a. 25 b. 27 a) 152o b) 118o
c. 26 d. 24 c) 28o d) 60o

Ans. a. 25 Ans. a) 152o

• Water is pouring into a swimming pool. After t hours, there • A certain angle has a supplement five times its compliment.
What is the angle?
are t + t gallons in the pool. At what rate, in GPM is
water pouring into the pool when t = 9 hours? a) 186o b) 168.5o
c) 67.5o d) 157.5o
a) 0.0194 b) 1.167
c) 1.235 d) 3.6 Ans. c) 67.5o

Ans. a) .0194 • Determine the accumulated value of P2,000.00 in 5 years it

is invested at 11% compounded quarterly.
• Determine the distance traveled by a particle between a time a) P3,440.00 b) P3,404.00
interval of 0.2 second to 0.3 second if its velocity is c) P3,044.00 d) P4,304.00
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V = 12 t 4 + , where V is in cm/s and t is in seconds. Ans. a) P3,440.00
t

a) 3.75 cm b) 2.84 cm
c) 2.75 cm d) 3.84 cm • The sum of P15,000.00, deposited in an account earning 4%
per annum compounded quarterly, will become P18,302.85.
Ans. b) 2.84 cm Determine the effective rate of interest per year.

a) 3.06 % b) 4.06 %
• A pole cast a shadow 15-m long when the angle of elevation c) 5.06 % d) 6.06 %
of the sun is 61°. If the pole has lean 15° from the vertical
directly toward the sun, what is the length of the pole? Ans. b) 4.06 %

a. 54.23 m b. 48.64 m
c. 36.84 m d. 64.84 m • What is the effective rate equivalent of 12% compounded
quarterly?

Ans. a. 54.23 m a) 12.55% b) 11.55 %

c) 12.98 % d) 13 %

Ans. a) 12.55%

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 • Determine the absolute value of resultant vector of the
• Celestino owes P500, due in 3 years and P800 due in 7 years. following vectors: F1 = 4i + 7j + 6k; F2 = 9i + 2j + 11k, F3
He is allowed to settle these obligations by a single payment = 5i – 3j – 8k.
on the 6th year. Find how much he has to pay on the 6th year
if money is worth 14% compounded semi-annually. a) 21 b) 18
c) 25 d) 9
a) P1,449.12 b) P 1,559.12
c) P1,339.12 d) P1,669.12 Ans. a) 21

Ans. a) P1,449.12 • Find the voltage drop to move 2 C of charge from point a to
point b that requires – 30 Joules of energy.
• Cleofas borrowed P2,000.00 from a bank and agreed to pay the
loan at the end of one year. The bank discounted the loan a) – 15 V b) + 15 V
and gave him P1950 in cash. Determine the rate of discount. c) – 5 V d) + 5 V

a) 3.75 % b) 3.12 % Ans. a) – 15 V

c) 2.5 % d) 1.2 %

Ans. c) 2.5 % • If the z = 1 − 1 − 1 − ... , what is the value of z?

• From the top of tower A, the angle of elevation of the top a) 0.453 b) 0.618
of the tower B is 46o . From the foot of tower B the angle of c) 0.816 d) 0.681
elevation of the top of tower A is 28o. Both towers are on
a level ground. If the height of tower B is 120 m, how high Ans. b) 0.618
is tower A?
• Solve for the value of x from the following equation:
a) 40.7 m b) 44.1 m
..
c) 42.3 m d) 38.6 m x.

x xx
= 10 .
Ans. a) 40.7 m
a) 1.258925 b) 1.892525

 (x )
1 c) 1.85925 d) 1.528925
• Determine the value of
3
+ x 5 + sin x dx .
−1
Ans. a) 1.258925
a. 0 b.1.75
c. 3.1416 d. infinity
• A 100-kg salt solution originally 4 % by weight salt in
water is boiled to reduce water content until the
Ans. a) 0
concentration is 5 % by weight salt. How much water is
evaporated?
• Think of a number. Double the number. Subtract 6 from the
result and divide the answer by 2. The quotient will be 20.
a) 20 b) 25
What is the number you think? c) 15 d) 22.5
a. 12 b. 20 Ans. a) 20
c. 23 d. 32

Ans. 23

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• Determine the diameter of a circle, x 2 + y 2 − 6x + 4y − 12 = 0 .
• If vector A is 10 units and vector B, which makes 60 0 with
vector A, is 20 units. What is the difference of vectors A
a) 9 units b) 11 units
and B?
c) 12 units d) 10 units
a) 15.34 units b) 13.45 units
Ans. d) 10
c) 18.76 units d) 17.32 units

1 Ans. d) 17.32 units

• What is the minimum point of y=x+ ?
x • A ball is dropped from a height of 60 meters above ground.
How long does it take to hit the ground?
a) (1, 2) b) (1.5, 2)
c) (1, 1.5) d) (2, 1)
a) 4.5 seconds b) 3.5 seconds
Ans. a) (1, 2) c) 2.5 seconds d) 1.5 seconds

Ans. b) 3.5 seconds

• A man left Sta. Rosa City to drive to Lopez, Quezon at 6:15
pm and arrived at 11:45 pm. If he averaged 50 kph and stopped
• A change in position, specified by a length and a direction
1 hour for dinner, how far is Lopez, quezon from Sta. Rosa
City? is said to be:

a) 225 km b) 522 km a. Displacement b. Acceleration

c) 252 km d) 215 km c. Velocity d. Dynamic equilibrium

Ans. a.) Displacement

Ans. c) 225 km
• The process of one substance mixing with another because
• If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x = 14 of molecular motion is known as:
when y = 7 and z = 2, find the value of x when z = 4 and y
a. Adhesion b. Diffusion
= 16.
c. Cohesion d. Confusion
a) 12 b) 18
c) 14 d) 16 Ans. b. Diffusion

Ans. d) 16 • Those cost that arise at the result of a change in operations

or policy or it is the ratio of a small increment cost and
• Determine the absolute value of the complex number 3 + 4i. a small increment of output.

a) 4 b) 5 a. Increment cost b. Differential cost

c) 8 d) 6 c. Marginal cost d. Promotion cost

Ans. b) 5 Ans. b. Differential cost

• The sum of all the costs incurred by the originators of the

• Simplify i1997 + i1999, where i is an imaginary number. project up to the time that the promoters of the project
accept the project is known as:
a) 0 b) i
c) 1 + i d) 1 – i a. Development cost b. Marginal cost
c. Construction cost d. Promotion cost
Ans. a) 0
Ans. a. Development cost
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 • In electricity, how do you call the rate of charge flow?
• It is now between 3 and 4 o–clock and twenty minutes the
minute hand will be as much as the hour-hand as it is now a) Potential difference b) Current
behind it. What is the time now? c) Voltage d) Power

a) 3:06.36 b) 3:03.66 Ans. b) Current

c) 3:36.06 d) 3:30.66
• This law in electrical circuits states, –The algebraic sum
Ans. a) 3:06.36 of currents entering a node (or a closed boundary) is zero–.
How do you call this law?

• What is the acid test ratio? a) Kirrchoff–s current law b) Ohm–s current law
c) Kirchhoff–s voltage law d) Ohm–s voltage law
a) The ratio of owner–s equity to total current liabilities
b) The ratio of all assets to actual current liabilities Ans. a) Kirrchoff–s current law
c) The ratio of current assets (exclusive of inventory) to
the total current liabilities. • This law in electrical circuits state, –The algebraic sum
d) The ratio of gross margin to operating, sates, and of all voltages around a closed path (or loop) is zero–. How
administrative expenses do you call this law?
Ans. c) The ratio of current assets (exclusive of inventory) a) Kirrchoff–s current law b) Ohm–s current law
to the total current liabilities. c) Kirchhoff–s voltage law d) Ohm–s voltage law

• How do call an energy required to move 1 Coulomb of charge Ans. c) Kirchhoff–s voltage law
through an element.
• In electrical, what is the SI unit of conductance?
a) Current b) Voltage
c) Power d) Resonance a) Ohm b) Mho
c) Siemens d) Ampere
Ans. a) Voltage
Ans. c) Siemens
• This is a number sequence where the succeeding term is
obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms such as • Which of the following is the equivalent of 1 Ampere?
the sequence (1, 1, 2, ,3 5, 8 –). How do you call this
number sequence? a) 1 Coulomb per second b) 1 Joule per Coulomb
c) 1 Volt per Ampere d) 1 Ampere per Coulomb
a) Euler–s number b) Fermat number
c) Fibonacci number d) Fourier series Ans. a) 1 Coulomb per second

• This is the process of expressing a polynomial as the product

Ans. c) Fibonacci number of another polynomial or monomial of lower degree. What is
this mathematical process?
• If the roots of an equation are zero, then, how do you
classify the solutions? a) Decomposition b) Rationalization
c) Factoring d) Polynomial damping
a. Extranous solutions b. Trivial solutions
c. Conditional solutions d. Ambiguous solutions Ans. c) Factoring

Ans. b. Trivial solutions

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• This is a point where the concavity of a curve changes or • This is the measure of central tendency defined as the most
when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor frequent score. How do you call this measure of central
decreasing. What is this point commonly called? tendency?

a) Maximum point b) Minimum point a) Median b) Mode

c) Point of tangency d) Point of inflection c) Mean d) Deviation

Ans. d) Point of inflection Ans. b) Mode

• How do you call the axis of the hyperbola that passes through • Which of the following is the equivalent of 1 mil?
the center, the foci and vertices?
a) One-tenth of an inch b) One-thousandth of an inch
a) Transverse axis b) Conjugate Axis c) One millionth of an inch c) One-half of an inch
c) Asymptotic axis d) Major Axis
Answer: a) One-thousandth of an inch
Ans. a) Transverse axis
• A polygon with ten sides is said to be:
• What is a number, which could not be expressed as a quotient
of two integers? a. Dodecagon b. Decagon
c. Decahedron d. Dodecahedron
a. Natural b. Rational
c. Irrational d. Surd Ans. b. Decagon

Ans. c. Irrational • Any number expressed in place-value notation with base 12

is known as:
• How do you call the opposite of the prefix nano?
a. Duodecimal b. Deontic
a) Peta b) Tera c. Decile d. Dedekind
c) Giga d) Hexa
Ans. a. Duodecimal
Ans. c) Giga
• Which of the following is true regarding the minimum
• What do you call a triangle having three unequal sides? attractive rate of return used in judging proposed
investments?
a) Obtuse b) Oblique
c) Scalene d) Isosceles a) It is much smaller than the interest rate used to discount
expected cash flows from investments
Ans. c) Scalene b) It is frequently a policy decision made by an
organization–s management
c) It is larger than the interest rate used to discount
• How do you call the distance of a point from the y-axis? expected cash flow from investments
d) It is not relevant in engineering economy studies
a) Polar distance b) Coordinate
c) Abscissa d) Ordinate
Ans. b. is frequently a policy decision made by an
Ans. c) Abscissa organization–s management

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• Which of the following situations has a conventional cash • How to you classify work-in-process?
flow so that an internal rate of return can be safely
calculated and used? a) A liability b) An expense
c) A revenue d) An asset
a.) Your company undertakes a mining project in which the
land must be reclaimed at the end of the project. Ans. d) An asset
b.)You invest in a safe dividend stock and receive dividends
each year. • What is the indirect product cost (IPC) spending variance?
c.)You lease a car and pay by the month
d.)Your company invests heavily in a new product that will a.)The IPC volume adjusted budget minus the total IPC
generate profits for two years. To keep profits high for 10 absorbed
years, the company plans to reinvest heavily afte r two b.)The IPC volume adjusted budget [fixed + volume (variable
years. IPC rate)]
c.)The difference between actual IPC and IPC volume adjusted
Ans. b.) You invest in a safe dividend stock and receive budget
dividends each year. d.)The difference between actual IPC and IPC absorbed

• The economic order quantity (EOQ) is defined as the order Ans. c.)The difference between actual IPC and IPC volume
quantity which minimizes the inventory cost per unit time. adjusted budget
Which of the flowing is not an assumption of the basic EOQ
model with no shortages? • Which of the following does not affect owner–s equity?

a) Reordering is done when the inventory is zero a) Expense to get license of start business
b) There is an upper bound on the quantity ordered b) Investment capital
c) The entire reorder quantity I delivered instantaneously c) License to start business
d) The demand rate is uniform and constant d) Dividends paid

Ans. b) There is an upper bound on the quantity ordered Ans. c) License to start business

• Which of the following events will cause the optimal lot • How do you call an increase in the value of a capital asset?
size, given by the classic EOQ model with no shortages, to
increase? a) Profit b) Capital gain
c) Capital expenditure d) Capital stock
a) A decrease in inventory carrying cost
b) A decrease in demand Ans. b) Capital gain
c) An increase in demand
d) a) or c) above • Another name for derivative is said to be:
Ans. d) a or c a. Differential manifold b. Partial derivative
c. Differential form d. Differential coefficient
• What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always
required to do during repayment? Ans. d. Differential coefficient

a) Pay exactly the same amount of principal each payment

b) Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time • Another term for rhombus is said to be:
c) Pay exactly the same amount of interest each payment
d) Pay the interest only whenever failure to pay the a. Dichotomy b. Diamond
principal c. Cyclic quadrilateral d. Bi-rectangular
Ans. b) Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time Ans. b. Diamond
• A polygon with twelve sides is known as:
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 • What do you think is the negotiation of wage rates,
a. Dodecagon b. Decagon conditions of employment, etc. by representatives of the
c. Decahedron d. Dodecahedron labor force and management?

Ans. a. Dodecagon a) Union trade b) Union rally

c) Collective bargaining d) Cooperative
• A prefix denoting a multiple of ten times any of the physical
units of the system international. Ans. c) Collective bargaining

a. Deka b. Nano • How do you call a type of bond where the corporation–s owner
c. Hecto d. Exa name is recorded and the interest is paid periodically to
the owners with their asking for it?
Ans. a. Deka
a) Registered bond b) Preferred bond
• The father of plane geometry. c) Incorporator–s bond d) Bail bond

a. Euclid b. Pythagoras Ans. a) Registered bond

c. Aristotle d. Galileo
• How do you call the integral of any quotient whose numerator
Ans. a. Euclid is the differential of the denominator?

• This is the case of a solution of a plane triangle where the a) Co-logarithm b) Logarithm
given data leads to two solutions. How do you call this c) Product d) Derivative
case?
Ans. b) Logarithm
a) Ambiguous case b) Quadratic case
c) Extraneous case d) Conditional case • What is a regular polygon that has 27 diagonals?

Ans. a) Ambiguous case a) Nonagon b) hexagon

c) Pentagon d) Heptagon
• It is a type of polygon in which each interior angle must
be less than or equal to 180°, and all vertices 'point Ans. a) Nonagon
outwards' away from the interior. How do you call this
polygon? • How do you call the formula used to compute the value of n
factorial, which is in symbolic form (n!), where n is large
a) Concave Polygon b) Convex polygon number?
c) Regular polygon d) Irregular polygon
a) Matheson formula b) Diophantine formula
Ans. b) Convex polygon c) Richardson-Duchman formula d) Stirling–s Approximation

• It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal intervals Ans. d) Stirling–s Approximation

of time where the first payment is made after several
periods, after the beginning of the payment. How do you call
this payment?

a) Deferred annuity b) Delayed annuity

c) Progressive annuity d) Simple annuity

Ans. a) Deferred annuity

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• What is the reason why an ivory soap floats in water? • What can you say about the present worth of all depreciation
over the economic life of the item?
a) All matter has mass
b) The specific gravity of ivory soap is greater than that a) Maintenance b) Capital recovery
of water c) Depreciation recovery d) Annuity
c) The density of ivory soap is unity
d) The specific gravity of ivory soap is less than that of Ans. c) Depreciation recovery
water
• What do you think is the provision in the contract that
Ans. d) The specific gravity of ivory soap is less than that indicates the possible adjustment of material cost and labor
of water cost?

• When two planes intersect with each other, the amount of a) Secondary clause b) Specification
divergence between the two planes is expressed by measuring c) Escalatory clause d) General provision
the:
Ans. c) Escalatory clause
a) Reflex angle b) Dihedral angle
c) Polyhedral angle d) Plane angle • This is the process of determining the value of certain
property for specific reasons. Guess, what is this?
Ans. b) Dihedral angle
a) Amortization b) Investment
c) Appraisal d) Depreciation
• What do you think is the output or sales at which income is
insufficient to equal operating cost? Ans. c) Appraisal

a) Break even point b) Depreciation • How do you call those products or services that are directly
c) Investment d) Cash flow used by people to satisfy their wants?

Ans. a) Break even point a) Consumer goods and services

b) Producer goods and services
• What is an estimate of assets– net market value at the end c) Necessity products and services
of its estimated life? d) Luxury products and services

a) Book value b) Depreciation Ans. a) Consumer goods and services

c) Salvage value d) Cash flow
• These are used to produce consumer goods and services.
Ans. c) Salvage value Guess, what are these?

• What do you think is the lessening of the value of an asset a) Consumer goods and services
due to a decrease in the quantity available as a coal, oil b) Producer goods and services
and timber in forests? c) Necessity products and services
d) Luxury products and services
a) Depletion b) Amortization
c) Depreciation d) Investment Ans. b) Producer goods and services

Ans. a) Depletion

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• What do you think are those products or services that are
required to support human life and activities that will be a) Magnetic field lines have no beginnings and no ends
purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the b) The lines cross themselves only at right angles
price varies considerably? c) The line intersect surfaces of e qual intensity at right
angles
a) Consumer goods and services d) The field is stronger where the lines are closer together
b) Producer goods and services
c) Necessity products and services Ans. b) The lines cross themselves only at right angles
d) Luxury products and services

Ans. c) Necessity products and services • Tesla is a unit of which of the following?

a) Magnetic induction b) Inductance

• How do you call a cylinder with elliptical cross section? c) Capacitance d) magnetic flux

a. Ellipsoid b. Cylindroid
c. Hyperboloid d. Paraboloid Ans. a) Magnetic induction

Ans. b. Cylindroid • What is a pole pitch?

a) The angle at which the pole windings are wound

• How do you call a market whereby there is only one buyer of b) The space on the stator allocated to two poles
an item for which there are no goods substitutes? c) The space on the stator allocated to one pole
d) The mica used to insulate the poles from each other
a) Monopoly b) Monopsony
c) Oligopoly d) Oligopsony Ans. c) The space on the stator allocated to one pole

Ans. b) Monopsony • How do you call a polygon with 10 000 sides?

a) Hectogon b) Chilliagon
• Which statement about a charge placed on a dielectric c) Myriagon d) Octacontagon
material is true?
Ans. c) Myriagon
a)The charge increases the conductivity of the material
b)The charge is confined to the region in which the charge • Any line segment joining a vertex of a triangle to a point
was placed. on the opposite side is called as:
c)The charge is immediately lost to the atmosphere
d)The charge is instantly carried to the material–s surface a) Newton line b) Secant
c) Cevian d) Euclidian line
Ans. b) The charge is confined to the region in which the
charge was placed. Ans. c) Cevian

• It is any influence capable of producing a change in the

motion of an object.
• Which of the following is not a property of magnetic field
lines? a) Force b) Acceleration
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 c) Friction d) Velocity a) 123 mm b) 103 mm
c) 113 mm d) 93 mm
Ans. a) Force
Ans. c) 113 mm
• How do you call the amount needed at the beginning of
operations and permits the enterprise to begin functioning • What can you say to the following statement: –the volume of
before it receives any income from the sales of its product a circular cylinder is equal to the product of its base and
or service. altitude.–?

a) Initial working capital a) Postulate b) Corollary

b) Regular working capital c) Theorem d) Axiom
c) Equity
d) Annuity Ans. c) Theorem

Ans. a) Initial working capital • What is the study of the properties of figures of three
dimensions?
• In the problem of writing the equation of a certain curve
with respect to another axes in which the new axes are a) Physics b) Solid geometry
parallel to the original axes and similarly directed is
known as: c) Plane geometry d) Trigonometry

a) Translation of axes b) Reversal of axes Ans. b) Solid geometry

c) Notation of axes d) Relocation of axes

Ans. a) Translation of axes • Points that lie in the same plane:

• How do you call a ring shaped surface or solid obtained by a) Coplanar b) Collinear
rotating a circle about a coplanar line that does not c) Oblique d) Parallel
intersect?
Ans. a) Coplanar
a) Torus b) Annulus
c) Circoloid d) Annular • When a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from left to right,
the slope m is:
Ans. a) Torus
a) Less than zero
• If the eccentricity is less than one, then curve is known b) Greater than zero
as: c) Equal to zero
d) Equal to 1
a) Ellipse b) Hyperbola
c) Parabola d) Circle Ans. a) Less than zero

Ans. a) Ellipse

• Determine the outside diameter of a hollow steel tube that • –Whenever a net force acts on a body, it produces
will carry a tensile load of 500 kN at a stress of 140 MPa. acceleration in the direction of the resultant force, an
Assume the wall thickness to be 0ne-tenth of the outside acceleration which is directly proportional to the resultant
diameter. force and inversely proportional to the resultant force and

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 inversely proportional to the mass of the body–. How do you b) The limit of the product of several function is equal to
call this theory? the product of their limits
c) The limit of the difference of several functions is equal
a) Newton–s First law of motion to the difference of their limits
b) Newton–s Second Law of motion d) The limit of the quotient of two functions is equal to
c) Farday–s law of forces the quotient of their limits, provided the denominator is
d) Hook–s law of equilibrium not zero

Ans. b) Newton–s Second Law of motion Ans. c) The limit of the difference of several functions is
equal to the difference of their limits
• It is defined that the momentum of a moving object is the
product of its mass, m, and velocity, V. In Newton–s Law of
Motion, what is the rate of change of momentum with respect • When a homogeneous, flexible cord is held at the two ends
to time? and allowed to sag freely on its own weight, it will produce
a curve very similar to a parabola opening upwards. How do
a) Power b) Momentum you call this curve?
c) energy d) Force
a) Parabola b) Catenary
Ans. d) Force c) Cycloid d) Epicycloids

• The loss of weight of a body submerged in a fluid is: Ans. b) Catenary

a) Proportional to the weight of the body

b) Proportional to the depth of submergence • Which of the following Common wealth Acts is known as the
c) Equal to the weight of the fluid displaced oldest Mechanical Engineering law?
d) Independent of the volume of the body
a) Commonwealth Act 394 b) Commonwealth Act 594
Ans. c) Equal to the weight of the fluid displaced c) Commonwealth Act 294 d) Commonwealth Act 8394

• The amount of company–s profits that the board of directors Ans. c) Commonwealth Act 294
of the corporation decides to distribute to ordinary
shareholders. • What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always
required to do during repayment?
a) Dividend b) Return
c) Share of stock d) Par value a) Pay exactly the same amount of interest each payment.
b) Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time
Ans. a) Dividend c) Pay exactly the same amount of principal each payment
d) The choices a and c above

Ans. b) Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time

• To be a member of the Board of Mechanical Engineering, he/she

• Which of the following is not a theorem on limits? must be at least how many years old?

a) The limit of the algebraic sum of several functions is a) 25 years b) 30years

equal to the sum of their limits c) 35 years d) 40years

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 Ans. a) Depreciation
Ans. c) 35 years
• How do you classify this interest rate, which specifies the
• How do you call the line passing through the focus and actual rate of interest on the principal for one year?
perpendicular to the directrix of a parabola?
a) Nominal rate b) Rate of return
a. Latus rectum b. Axis of the parabola c) Exact interest rate d) Effective rate
c. Transverse axis d. Major axis
Ans. d) Effective rate
Ans. b. Axis of the parabola
• What type of curve is generated by a point, which moves in
• What is the ratio of the distance between the foci to the uniform circular motion about an axis, while traveling with
distance between the vertices in either hyperbola or a constant speed, V, parallel to the axis?
ellipse?
a) A cycloid b) An epicycloids
a. Eccentricity b. Latus rectum c) A hypocycloid d) A helix
c. Variance d. Deviation
Ans. d) A helix
Ans. a. Eccentricity
• What do you call the possible outcome of an experiment?
• It is a statement that one mathematical expression is
greater than or less than another. How do you call this? a) A sample space b) A random point
c) An event d) A finite set
a) Conditional expression b) Inequality
c) Interval d) Domain Ans. c) An event

Ans. b) Inequality • How do you call a sequence of numbers where the succeeding
term is greater than the preceding term?
• It is a method of depreciation where a fixed sum of money
is regularly deposited at compound interest in a real or a) Dissonant series b) Isometric series
imaginary fund in order to accumulate an amount equal to c) Convergent series d) Divergent series
the total depreciation of an asset at the end of the assets
estimated life. How do you call this depreciation? Ans. d) Divergent series

a) Straight line method b) Declining balance method • A branch of mathematics which uses the properties of numbers
c) SYD method d) Sinking fund method by using symbols or letters to represent numbers in
arithmetic operations which usually variables and unknown
Ans. d) Sinking fund method quantities which usually involves the use and rearranging
or equations.

a. Trigonometry b. Algebra
c. geometry d. calculus

Ans. b. Algebra
• What is an artificial expense that spreads the purchase • This is a series of sequential method for carrying out a
price of an asset or other property over a number of desire procedure to solve problem.
years?
a. Algorithm b. hypsogram
a) Depreciation b) Amnesty c. logarithm d. angstrom
c) Sinking fund d) Bond
Ans. a. Algorithm
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• This is use for expressing wavelengths of light or • A perpendicular segment from a vertex of the triangle to the
ultraviolet radiation with a unit or length equal to 10 – line containing the opposite side is known as:
10 metre.
a. Median b. altitude
a. Mersenne number b. Midac c. Angular bisector d. Perpendicular bisector
c. Light year d. Angstrom
Ans. b. altitude
Ans. d. Angstrom
• An S.I. unit of area equal to 100 sq. m.
• It refers to a straight line, which a curve approaches
closely, but never meets or touches the curve. a. Arc b. Acre
c. Hectares d. Are
a. Asymptote b. Directrix
c. Latus rectum d. Line segment Ans. d. Are

Ans. a. Asymptote • The angle that the line of sight to the object, makes with
the horizontal, which is above the eye of the observer, is
• It is a collection of numbers or letters used to represent called as:
a number arranged properly in rows and columns.
a. Angle of elevation b. Angle of depression
a. Determinant b. Matrix c. Acute angle d. Obtuse angle
c. Array d. equation
Ans. a. Angle of elevation
Ans. c. Array
• In complex algebra, we use a diagram to represent a complex
• It is a high – level programming language for the computer plane commonly called as:
used to express mathematical and scientific problems in a
manner that resembles. English rather than computer a. Venn diagram b. Histogram
notations. c. Argand diagram d. Funicular diagram
a. Algol b. Cobol
c. Pascal d. Aldus Ans. c. Argand diagram

Ans. a. Algol • The area bounded by two concentric circles is called as:

• In any triangle, the length of a line which is equal to the a. Annulus b. Ring
square root of the sides adjacent to the point where this c. Disk d. Sector
line started minus the product of the segments of the third
side is known as: Ans. a. Annulus

a. Angle bisector b. Median

c. Perpendicular bisector d. Trisector

Ans. a. Angle bisector • A series of numbers in which each number or term is derived
• The whole is greater than any one of its parts. This from the preceding number by adding a constant value to it
statement is known as: is known as:

a. Postulate b. Axiom a. Geometric sequence b. Arithmetic sequence

c. Hypothesis d. Theorem c. Analytical sequence d. Differential sequence

Ans. b. Axiom Ans. b. Arithmetic sequence

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• 10 to the negative power of 18 is the value of the prefix:

a. Atto b. Femto
c. Micro d. Pico

Ans. a. Atto

• A series of equal payments occurring at equal periods of

time.

a. Annuity b. Sinking fund

c. Cash flow d. annual cost

Ans. a. Annuity

• The ratio of annual sales to the average of assets used in

producing these sales.

a. Inventory turnover b. Asset turnover

c. Operating – expense ratio d. Quick ratio

Ans. b. Asset turnover

• Quick ratio is defined as the ratio of quick assets to the

current liabilities, sometimes this is called:

a. Acid test ratio b. Debt ratio

c. Equity ratio d. Current ratio

Ans. a. Acid test ratio

• Form of business/company ownership:

a. Partnership b. Corporation
c. Single proprietorship d. All of the above

Ans. d. All of the above

• It is defined to be any method of repaying a debt, the

principal and interest included usually by a series of equal
payments at periodic intervals of time.

a. Amortization b. Annuity
c. Deferred annuity d. Preferred annuity

Ans. a. Amortization

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