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MATHEMATICS SET A

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. 1 only.

NOTE: Whenever you come across a caret (^) sign, it means exponentiation.
Ex. x^2 means x2; (x+y)^(x-z) means
(x+y) raised to the (x-z). Pi=3.1416

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following is equivalent to the cross product of two vectors A and B?
A. Area of a triangle with side A and base B.
B. The angle included between the sides A and B of a triangle.
C. The area of a parallelogram with sides A and B.*
D. Area of trapezoid with altitude A and base B.

2. If the radius of a cylinder is reduced by 4% and its height is increased by 2%, then:
A. the volume is increased by 2%
B. the volume is decreased by 6%*
C. the area is increased by 2%
D. the area is increased by 6%

3. A cylinder is inscribed in cone of radius r and height h. What percent is the volume
of the maximum inscribed cylinder to that of the cone circumscribing it?
A. 33.33% C. 44.44% *
B. 22.22% D. 55.55%

d2i R di 1
4. The equation + + i=0 represents a current i flowing in an electrical
dt2 L dt LC
circuit containing resistance R, inductance L and capacitance C connected in series.
If R=200ohms, L=0.20 henry and C = 20 106 farads, solve the equation for i given
the boundary conditions that when t = 0,i=0 and di =100.
A. i=100te-500t * C. i=50te-100t
B. i=10te-50t D. i=10te-5t
5. The curve xy = 3 is revolved one revolution about the x-axis between the limits x =2
and x =3. Determine the volume of the solid produced.
A. 2.5 cubic units C. 1.2 cubic units
B. 3.5 cubic units D. 1.5 cubic units*

6. Given: A=2i+bj+k & B=4i-2j-2k. Compute the value of b if A and B are perpendicular.
A. 1 C. 2
B. 3* D. 4
d2x
7. The equation of motion of a body oscillating on the end of a spring is +100x=0 ,
dt2
where x is the displacement in meters of the body from its equilibrium position after
time t seconds. Determine x in terms of t given that at time t = 0, x = 2m and dx = 0.
A. x=2cost C. x=10cos2t
B. x=2cos10t* D. x=5cos2t

8. Find the moment of inertia of the area bounded by the parabola y sq. = 4x, x-axis and
the line x = 1, with respect to the x-axis.
A. 1.067* C. 0.968
B. 1.244 D. 0.878

9. Find the volume generated when the plane figure bounded by the curve y=5cos2x, the x-
axis, and the ordinates at x=0 and x=/4, rotates about the x-axis through a complete
revolution.
A. 25 u3 C. 252/8 u3*
B. 25/3 u3 D. 28.5 u3
x3 x5 x7
x- + - + ...
10. What are the values of x for which the series 3! 5! 7! converges?
A. 0 x 2 C. 0 < x < 2
B. -1 x 1* D. All values of x

11. The union of two noncoplanar half-planes and their common edge is called:
A. Vertical angle C. Dihedral angle*
B. Adjacent angle D. Plane angle

12. The logical process of arriving at a conclusion after a careful analysis of given
particular situations is called:
A. Intuition C. Analogy
B. Induction* D. Deduction
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13. If f and g are functions with domains Df and Dg, the domain of ( f + g) (x) is
A. D f + Dg C. D f Dg
B. D f - Dg D. D f Dg *

14. Given f(x) = 3x 2 - 4x + 5 and g(x) = x - 2 . Find ( f + g) (x) .

A. x-9x +2 2
C. x - x + 1*
B. x 2 - 6x + 2 D. 3x 2 + 25

15. Which of the following correspondence is a function?

i. One-to-one ii. One-to-many iii. Many-to-one

A. i only C. ii only
B. ii and iii D. i and iii*

16. What is sgn(-2.5) by definition?

A. -3 C. -1*
B. 0 D. 2

17. What is U(3.5)?

A. -1 C. 0
B. 4 D. 1*

18. Which of the following is an exponential function?

A. (-4)x C. x 8
2x
B. 1 * D. All of these
2
19. For three matrices A, B, and C, which of the following statement is not necessarily
true?
A. A+(B+C)=(A+B)+C C. (B+C)A=AB+AC*
B. A(B+C)=AB+AC D. A+(B+C)=C+(A+B)

20. For the three vectors A, B, and C, what is the product A i B C ? ( )

A. 0* C. 64
B. 80 D. 216

21. The second and the sixth terms of a geometric progression are 3/10 and 243/160,
respectively. What is the first term of this sequence?
A. 1/10 C. 1/5*
B. 3/5 D. 3/2

22. Find the interval of convergence of the series x+x2/2+x3/3+

A. 0<x<2 C. -1<x<1*
B. 1<x<2 D. -1<x<1

23. Three circles C1, C2, C3 are externally tangent to each other. Center-to-center
distances are 10cm between C1 and C2, 8 cm between C2 and C3 and 6 cm between C3 and C1.
Determine the total areas of the circles.
A. 146.18 cm2 C. 175.93 cm2 *
B. 145.08 cm2 D. 139.58 cm2

24. Find the Laplace transform of the equation with the given boundary conditions.
f "(t) + f(t) = sinbt
f '(0) = 0
f(0) = 0
1 b 1 b
A. F(s) = * C. F(s) =
1+ s2 s2 + b 2 1+ s2 s2 - b 2

1 b 1 s
B. F(s) = D. F(s) =
1- s2 s2 + b 2 1- s2 s2 + b 2

25. By definition, a conic section is any one of several curves produced by passing a
plane through a cone. If is the angle between the vertical axis and the cutting
plane and is the cone-generating angle, then the eccentricity, e, of the conic
section is
cos
A. e = * C. e = cos
cos cos
sin cos
B. e = D. e =
sin sin
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26. A conic section is any one of several curves produced by passing a plane through a
cone. If is the angle between the vertical axis and the cutting plane and is the
cone-generating angle, then for < < 90 < < 90 the conic section generated is
A. Parabola C. Hyperbola
B. Circle D. Ellipse*

27. What is the length of the line with slope 4/3, from the point (6,4) to the y-axis?
A. 10* C. 25
B. 50 D. 75

28. Identify the sequence that is bounded, monotonic increasing, and strictly increasing.
A. 1, 1.1, 1.11, 1.111,* C. 1,-1,1,-1,1,
B. -1,-1.5,-2, -2.5,-3,D. None of these

29. In the following illustration, angles 2 and 5 are 90, AD=15, DC=20, and AC=25. What
are the lengths BC and BD, respectively?

A. 12,16 C. 16,12*
B. 13,17 D. 18,13

30. To find the width of a river, a surveyor sets up a transit at point C on the river
bank and sights directly across to point B on the other bank. The surveyor then walks
along the bank for a distance of 275 m to point A. The angle CAB is 5728. What is
the approximate width of the river?
A. 148 m C. 231 m
B. 326 m D. 431 m*

31. Given two nonzero vectors A and B. If A B = 0 , then A and B are

A. Orthogonal C. Parallel*
B. Perpendicular D. Isogonal

32. If the log10 of 4 is 0.703x, what is the log10 of ?

A. -1.703x C. -0.703x*
B. 0.297x D. 0.703x

33. What is the inverse of matrix A?

3
A= 2
1 1
3 3 2
A. A = 2 C. A =
1 1 1 1
-3 -1 3 *
B. A = 1 D. A =
-1 2 1 -2

34. Find the area of the triangle with vertices at P(2,3,5), Q(4,2,-1), and R(3,6,4).
A. (426)/2* C. (2426)
B. 426 D. (246)

35. Multiplying a vector by a factor j2 has the effect of turning the vector through how
many degrees?
A. 0 degree C. 90
B. 180* D. 45

36. Water is flowing into a conical cistern at the rate of 8 m3/min. If the height of the
inverted cone is 12 m and the radius of its circular opening is 6m. How fast is the
water level rising when the water is 4m depth.
A. 0.64 m/min * C. 0.46 m/min
B. 4.6 m/min D. 6.4 m/min

37. A small line truck hauls poles from a substation stockyard to pole sites along a
proposed distribution line. The truck can handle only one pole at a time. The first
pole site is 150 meters from the substation and the poles are to be 50 m apart.
Determine the total distance travelled by the line truck back and forth, after running
from delivering the 25th pole.
A. 37.5 km * C. 30.0 km
B. 35.0 km D. 40.0 km

38. Expand the function f(x) about a=0 to obtain f(b). What are the first two terms of the
Taylor series?
1
f(x) =
3
3x + 4x + 8
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1 b C. 1 - b *
A. +
16 8 8 16
1 b D. 1 - b
B. +
8 16 4 16

39. Which of the following functions is not a bijection?

A. ax+by+c=0 C. y=x2*
B. y=x 3
D. y=2x+3

40. Find the image of ABC under a translation T(1,2), where A=(0,0), B=(1,1), and C=(1,0).
A. A(2,3), B(0,2),C(0,1) C. A(1,2), B(2,3), C(2,2)*
B. A(2,2), B(3,2), C(1,0) D. A(-2,3), B(3,0),C(-1,-2)

41. What is the volume of a parallelepiped with sides represented by the zero-based
vectors A, B, and C?
A = 2i - 2j + k
B = 4i + 2j + 2k
C = i + 5j + 4k
A. 14 C. 28
B. 35 D. 42*

42. Which of the following describes the function as shown below?

A. Injective & Non-surjective*

B. Injective & Surjective
C. Non-injective & Surjective
D. Non-injective & Non-surjective

43. A normal distribution has a mean of _____ and a standard deviation of ______.
A. 1, 0 C. 0, 1*
B. 1,1 D. 0,0

44. Determine the mean and the sample standard deviation of the following numbers:
71.3,74.0,74.25,78.54,80.6
A. m=75.738; sd=3.756* C. m=57.738; sd=3.567
B. m=55.378; sd=5.567 D. m=35.738; sd=5.756

45. What is the approximate probability that no two people in a group of seven have the
same birthday?
A. 0.56 C. 0.43
B. 0.92 D. 0.94*

46. A bag contains 100 balls numbered 1 to 100. One ball is drawn from the bag. What is
the probability that the number on the ball selected will be odd or greater than 80?
A. 0.1 C. 0.5
B. 0.6* D. 0.7

47. Which of the following gives the maximum rate of change of the function f(x,y,z)?
A. Divergence C. Gradient*
B. Curl D. Laplacian

48. Determine the divergence of the vector function F(x,y,z)=xzi+exyj+7x3yk.

A. z+ex* C. z+yex+21x2y
B. x+y D. x+yex

49. Determine the curl of the vector function F(x,y,z)=3x2i+7exyj.

A. 7exy C. 7exyi
B. 7exyj D. 7exyk*

50. Determine the Laplacian of the scalar function (1/3)x3-9y+5 at the point (3,2,7).
A. 0 C. 1
B. 6* D. 18

51. The union of two noncoplanar half-planes and their common edge is called:
A. Vertical angle C. Dihedral angle*
B. Adjacent angle D. Plane angle

52. The logical process of arriving at a conclusion after a careful analysis of given
particular situations is called:
A. Intuition C. Analogy
B. Induction* D. Deduction
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53. If f and g are functions with domains Df and Dg, the domain of ( f + g) (x) is
A. D f + Dg C. D f Dg
B. D f - Dg D. D f Dg *

54. Given f(x) = 3x 2 - 4x + 5 and g(x) = x - 2 . Find ( f + g) (x) .

A. x-9x +2 2
C. x - x + 1*
B. x 2 - 6x + 2 D. 3x 2 + 25

55. Which of the following correspondence is a function?

i. One-to-one ii. One-to-many iii. Many-to-one

A. i only C. ii only
B. ii and iii D. i and iii*

56. What is sgn(-2.5) by definition?

A. -3 C. -1*
B. 0 D. 2

57. What is U(3.5)?

A. -1 C. 0
B. 4 D. 1*

58. Which of the following is an exponential function?

A. (-4)x C. x 8
2x
B. 1 * D. All of these
2
59. For three matrices A, B, and C, which of the following statement is not necessarily
true?
A. A+(B+C)=(A+B)+C C. (B+C)A=AB+AC*
B. A(B+C)=AB+AC D. A+(B+C)=C+(A+B)

60. For the three vectors A, B, and C, what is the product A i B C ? ( )

A. 0* C. 64
B. 80 D. 216

61. The second and the sixth terms of a geometric progression are 3/10 and 243/160,
respectively. What is the first term of this sequence?
A. 1/10 C. 1/5*
B. 3/5 D. 3/2

62. Find the interval of convergence of the series x+x2/2+x3/3+

A. 0<x<2 C. -1<x<1*
B. 1<x<2 D. -1<x<1
63. Three circles C1, C2, C3 are externally tangent to each other. Center-to-center
distances are 10cm between C1 and C2, 8 cm between C2 and C3 and 6 cm between C3 and C1.
Determine the total areas of the circles.
C. 146.18 cm2 C. 175.93 cm2 *
D. 145.08 cm2 D. 139.58 cm2

64. Find the Laplace transform of the equation with the given boundary conditions.
f "(t) + f(t) = sinbt
f '(0) = 0
f(0) = 0
1 b 1 b
A. F(s) = * C. F(s) =
1+ s2 s2 + b 2 1+ s2 s2 - b 2

1 b 1 s
B. F(s) = D. F(s) =
1- s2 s2 + b 2 1- s2 s2 + b 2

65. By definition, a conic section is any one of several curves produced by passing a
plane through a cone. If is the angle between the vertical axis and the cutting
plane and is the cone-generating angle, then the eccentricity, e, of the conic
section is
cos
A. e = * C. e = cos
cos cos
sin cos
B. e = D. e =
sin sin

66. A conic section is any one of several curves produced by passing a plane through a
cone. If is the angle between the vertical axis and the cutting plane and is the
cone-generating angle, then for < < 90 < < 90 the conic section generated is
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A. Parabola C. Hyperbola
B. Circle D. Ellipse*

67. What is the length of the line with slope 4/3, from the point (6,4) to the y-axis?
A. 10* C. 25
B. 50 D. 75

68. Identify the sequence that is bounded, monotonic increasing, and strictly increasing.
C. 1, 1.1, 1.11, 1.111,* C. 1,-1,1,-1,1,
D. -1,-1.5,-2, -2.5,-3,D. None of these

69. In the following illustration, angles 2 and 5 are 90, AD=15, DC=20, and AC=25. What
are the lengths BC and BD, respectively?

A. 12,16 C. 16,12*
B. 13,17 D. 18,13

70. To find the width of a river, a surveyor sets up a transit at point C on the river
bank and sights directly across to point B on the other bank. The surveyor then walks
along the bank for a distance of 275 m to point A. The angle CAB is 5728. What is
the approximate width of the river?
A. 148 m C. 231 m
B. 326 m D. 431 m*

71. Given two nonzero vectors A and B. If A B = 0 , then A and B are

A. Orthogonal C. Parallel*
B. Perpendicular D. Isogonal

72. If the log10 of 4 is 0.703x, what is the log10 of ?

A. -1.703x C. -0.703x *
B. 0.297x D. 0.703x

73. What is the inverse of matrix A?

3
A= 2
1 1
2 3 3 2
A. A = C. A =
1 1 1 1
-1 3 *
B. A = 1 -3 D. A =
-1 2 1 -2

74. Find the area of the triangle with vertices at P(2,3,5), Q(4,2,-1), and R(3,6,4).
A. (426)/2* C. (2426)
B. 426 D. (246)

75. Multiplying a vector by a factor j2 has the effect of turning the vector through how
many degrees?
A. 0 degree C. 90
B. 180* D. 45

76. Water is flowing into a conical cistern at the rate of 8 m3/min. If the height of the
inverted cone is 12 m and the radius of its circular opening is 6m. How fast is the
water level rising when the water is 4m depth.
E. 0.64 m/min * C. 0.46 m/min
F. 4.6 m/min D. 6.4 m/min

77. A small line truck hauls poles from a substation stockyard to pole sites along a
proposed distribution line. The truck can handle only one pole at a time. The first
pole site is 150 meters from the substation and the poles are to be 50 m apart.
Determine the total distance travelled by the line truck back and forth, after running
from delivering the 25th pole.
A. 37.5 km * C. 30.0 km
B. 35.0 km D. 40.0 km

78. Expand the function f(x) about a=0 to obtain f(b). What are the first two terms of the
Taylor series?
1
f(x) =
3
3x + 4x + 8
1 b C. 1 - b *
A. +
16 8 8 16
1 b D. 1 - b
B. +
8 16 4 16
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79. Which of the following functions is not a bijection?
A. ax+by+c=0 C. y=x2*
B. y=x3 D. y=2x+3

80. Find the image of ABC under a translation T(1,2), where A=(0,0), B=(1,1), and C=(1,0).
C. A(2,3), B(0,2),C(0,1) C. A(1,2), B(2,3), C(2,2)*
D. A(2,2), B(3,2), C(1,0) D. A(-2,3), B(3,0),C(-1,-2)

81. What is the volume of a parallelepiped with sides represented by the zero-based
vectors A, B, and C?
A = 2i - 2j + k
B = 4i + 2j + 2k
C = i + 5j + 4k
A. 14 C. 28
B. 35 D. 42*

82. Which of the following describes the function as shown below?

A. Injective & Non-surjective*

B. Injective & Surjective
C. Non-injective & Surjective
D. Non-injective & Non-surjective

83. A normal distribution has a mean of _____ and a standard deviation of ______.
A. 1, 0 C. 0, 1*
B. 1,1 D. 0,0

84. Determine the mean and the sample standard deviation of the following numbers:
71.3,74.0,74.25,78.54,80.6
A. m=75.738; sd=3.756* C. m=57.738; sd=3.567
B. m=55.378; sd=5.567 D. m=35.738; sd=5.756

85. What is the approximate probability that no two people in a group of seven have the
same birthday?
A. 0.56 C. 0.43
B. 0.92 D. 0.94*

86. A bag contains 100 balls numbered 1 to 100. One ball is drawn from the bag. What is
the probability that the number on the ball selected will be odd or greater than 80?
A. 0.1 C. 0.5
B. 0.6* D. 0.7

87. Which of the following gives the maximum rate of change of the function f(x,y,z)?
A. Divergence C. Gradient*
B. Curl D. Laplacian

88. Determine the divergence of the vector function F(x,y,z)=xzi+exyj+7x3yk.

A. z+ex* C. z+yex+21x2y
B. x+y D. x+yex

89. Determine the curl of the vector function F(x,y,z)=3x2i+7exyj.

A. 7exy C. 7exyi
B. 7exyj D. 7exyk*

90. Determine the Laplacian of the scalar function (1/3)x3-9y+5 at the point (3,2,7).
A. 0 C. 1
B. 6* D. 18

91. Find the first derivative, dy/dx, of the following expression.

( xy ) x = e
-x
A. 0 C.
y
(
1- x ln x )
-y D. y
B.
x
(
1+ ln xy * ) x

92. From the figure, where should the stake be placed to use the least amount of wire?
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A. 12m * C. 18
B. 9 D. 14

93. What is used to calculate the root-mean-square (rms) value of a Fourier series that
has been truncated after N terms?
A. Stirlings equation C. Parsevals equality*
B. Greens equation D. Laplace equation

94. If f(t) and g(t) are different functions, then

{ }
L f(t) g(t) = L f(t) L g(t)
A. Initial Value Theorem (IVT) C. Linearity Theorem
B. Final Value Theorem (FVT) D. Superposition Theorem*

95. Find the area inside one loop of the r2 = cos2 and identify the curve
A. 1/2 ; lemniscate* C. 9/2 ; cardioid
B. 16 : limacon D. /8 ; 4-leaved rose

96. Evaluate the triple integral of xyzdzdydx. The limit of z is form 0 to (2-x), the
limit of y is from 0 to (1-x), and the limit of x is from 0 to 1.
A. 13/240* C. 2/3
B. 52 D. 102/350

97. For what value c does the function f(x)=3x^2-5x+1 on [2,5] satisfies the mean value
theorem?
A. 5/2 C. 7/2*
B. 3 D. 4.5

98. Evaluate lim (z squared + 1)/(z raised to the 6 + 1) as z approaches to i.

A. Sq. rt. of 2( 1 + I )/2 C. 1/3*
B. ( - 4/3 ) 4i D. 12 + 6i

99. Evaluate the integral of |x-2|dx from x=1 to x=4.

A. 2/5 C. 3/4
B. 3/2 D. 5/2*

100. What is the Cartesian product AxB, given A = (a,b) and B=(1,2,3)?
A. {(a,1),(a,2),(a,3),(b,1),(b,2),(b,3)}*
B. {(a,1),(b,2),(c,3),(c,1),(b,2),(a,3)}
C. {(a,1),(b,2),(a,3),(1,b),(2,b),(3,b)}
D. none of these

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