MATHEMATICS

1ST MONTHLY MOCK EXAMINATION

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER BOARD EXAMINATION

Solve the problem.

1) A guy wire to a tower makes a 75° angle with level ground. At a point 31 ft 1)
farther from the tower than the wire but on the same side as the base of the
wire, the angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 37°. Find the length
of the wire (to the nearest foot).
A) 30 feet B) 65 feet C) 35 feet D) 60 feet

2) An aircraft going from Atlanta to Savannah on a heading of 128° (from north) 2)

is travelling at a speed of 520 miles per hour. The wind is out of the north
at a speed of 17 miles per hour. Find the actual speed and direction of the
aircraft.
A) 728 miles per hour; 129° from north
B) 510 miles per hour; 130° from north
C) 515 miles per hour; 129° from north
D) 531 miles per hour; 129° from north

3) A projectile is thrown upward so that its distance above the ground after t 3)
seconds is h = -14t2 + 560t. After how many seconds does it reach its maximum
height?
A) 14 sec B) 28 sec C) 40 sec D) 20 sec

4) A chemist needs 120 milliliters of a 40% solution but has only 30% and 54% 4)
solutions available. Find how many milliliters of each that should be mixed
to get the desired solution.
A) 50 mL of 30%; 70 mL of 54% B) 70 mL of 30%; 50 mL of 54%
C) 40 mL of 30%; 80 mL of 54% D) 80 mL of 30%; 40 mL of 54%

5) A cross-section of an irrigation canal is a parabola. If the surface of the 5)

water is 40 ft wide and the canal is 26 ft deep at the center, how deep is it
1 ft from the edge?
A) 1.3 ft B) 23.5 ft C) 24.7 ft D) 2.5 ft

6) The perimeter of a rectangle is 38 m. If the width were doubled and the 6)

length were increased by 10 m, the perimeter would be 70 m. What are the
length and width of the rectangle?
A) Length: 6 m; width: 13 m B) Length: 13 m; width: 6 m
C) Length: 9 m; width: 4 m D) Length: 9 m; width: 9 m

7) You have 72 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular plot that borders on a 7)

river. If you do not fence the side along the river, find the length and
width of the plot that will maximize the area.
A) length: 36 feet, width: 36 feet B) length: 18 feet, width: 18 feet
C) length: 36 feet, width: 18 feet D) length: 54 feet, width: 18 feet

8) Suppose that a family has 5 children and that the probability of having a 8)
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girl is . What is the probability of having no more than three boys?
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A) 0.3125 B) 0.9688 C) 0.8125 D) 0.5000

9) The sum of a student's three scores is 218. If the first is 10 points more 9)
than the second, and the sum of the first two is 20 more than twice the
third, what was the first score?
A) 71 points B) 56 points C) 66 points D) 81 points

10) The grade resistance F of a car traveling up or down a hill is modeled by the 10)
equation F = W sin , where W is the weight of the car and is the angle of
the hill's grade ( > 0 for uphill travel, < 0 for downhill travel). What
is the grade resistance (to the nearest pound) of a 1000-lb car traveling
uphill on a 1° grade ( = 1°)?
A) -1001 lb B) 17 lb C) -17 lb D) 1001 lb

11) Carole's car averages 12.9 mi/gal in city driving and 21.8 mi/gal in highway 11)
driving. If she drove a total of 320.3 mi on 20 gal of gas, how many of the
gallons were used for city driving?
A) 13 gal B) 15 gal C) 12 gal D) 7 gal

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12) What are the odds in favor of spinning an A on this spinner? 12)

A) 3 to 5 B) 4 to 2 C) 6 to 2 D) 2 to 6

13) A plane flying a straight course observes a mountain at a bearing of 31.2° to 13)
the right of its course. At that time the plane is 6 kilometers from the
mountain. A short time later, the bearing to the mountain becomes 41.2°. How
far is the plane from the mountain when the second bearing is taken (to the
nearest tenth of a km)?
A) 4.7 kilometers B) 3.1 kilometers
C) 7.6 kilometers D) 8.6 kilometers

14) Roberto invested some money at 2.5%, and then invested $4000 more than twice 14)
this amount at 4%. His total annual income from the two investments was
$1735.00. How much was invested at 4%?
A) $3400 B) $12,000 C) $34,000 D) $30,000

15) Two airplanes leave an airport at the same time, one going northwest (bearing 15)
135°) at 421 mph and the other going east at 348 mph. How far apart are the
planes after 2 hours (to the nearest mile)?
A) 1268 miles B) 1183 miles C) 711 miles D) 1422 miles

16) A company makes 3 types of cable. Cable A requires 3 black, 3 white, and 2 16)
red wires. B requires 1 black, 2 white, and 1 red. C requires 2 black, 1
white, and 2 red. The company used 100 black, 110 white and 80 red wires. How
many of each type of cable were made?
A) 20 A; 20 B; 83 C B) 20 A; 93 B; 10 C
C) 20 A; 20 B; 10 C D) 10 A; 20 B; 20 C

17) The perimeter of a rectangle is 50 cm. The length is 11 cm longer than the 17)
width. What are the length and width of the rectangle?
A) Length: 18 cm; width: 7 cm B) Length: 21 cm; width: 10 cm
C) Length: 11 cm; width: 7 cm D) Length: 25 cm; width: 14 cm

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18) Evaluate at t = 3 for the function w = x2 - y2 - 5x; x = cost, y = sin 18)
dt
t.
A) -7 B) -9 C) -3 D) 0

19) A woman borrowed $10,000 at 2% interest compounded annually. If the loan was 19)
paid off in one lump sum at the end of 5 years, how much did she pay?
A) $1040.81 B) $11,040.81 C) $11,000.00 D) $10,200.00

20) A person's emotional quotient (EQ) is found by multiplying emotional age by 20)
100 and dividing by chronological age. Using this information, if a 8 yr old
person has an EQ of 92 what is that person's emotional age?
A) 8.7 years old B) 8 years old
C) 20 years old D) 7.36 years old

21) A rectangular board is 4 units by 20 units. How far from the long side of the 21)
board will the foci be located to determine the largest elliptical tabletop?
A) 8.0 units B) 9.8 units C) 2.0 units D) 0.2 units

22) A nuclear cooling tower cross section is a hyperbola having a diameter of 54 22)
ft at the center. The distance between the two foci is 92 ft. What is the
equation for the hyperbola?
x2 y2 x2 y2
A) - = 5 B) - = 1
729 1387 729 2116
x2 y2 x2 y2
C) - = 1 D) - = 1
729 1387 729 1389

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 23) Michael's bank contains only nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are 65 coins 23)
in all, valued at $5.30. The number of nickels is 3 short of being three
times the sum of the number of dimes and quarters. How many dimes are in the
bank?
A) 9 dimes B) 48 dimes C) 14 dimes D) 8 dimes

24) Two airplanes leave an airport at the same time, one going northwest (bearing 24)
135°) at 411 mph and the other going east at 348 mph. How far apart are the
planes after 4 hours (to the nearest mile)?
A) 2807 miles B) 2201 miles C) 2334 miles D) 702 miles

25) A plane flying a straight course observes a mountain at a bearing of 32.8° to 25)
the right of its course. At that time the plane is 7 kilometers from the
mountain. A short time later, the bearing to the mountain becomes 42.8°. How
far is the plane from the mountain when the second bearing is taken (to the
nearest tenth of a km)?
A) 3.7 kilometers B) 5.6 kilometers
C) 8.8 kilometers D) 9.8 kilometers

26) The amount of paint needed to cover the walls of a room varies jointly as the 26)
perimeter of the room and the height of the wall. If a room with a perimeter
of 75 feet and 8-foot walls requires 6 quarts of paint, find the amount of
paint needed to cover the walls of a room with a perimeter of 45 feet and
6-foot walls.
A) 270 quarts B) 2.7 quarts C) 5.4 quarts D) 27 quarts

27) An airplane flying faster than the speed of sound creates sound waves that 27)
form a cone. If is the vertex angle of the cone and m is the Mach number
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for the speed of the plane, then sin = (m > 1). Find the Mach number to
2 m
the nearest tenth if = 30°.
A) 3.7 B) 4.5 C) 3.9 D) 5

28) Two different gasohol mixtures are available. One contains 5% alcohol and the 28)
other 12% alcohol. How much of each should be mixed to obtain 1000 gal of
gasohol containing 10% alcohol?
A) 417 gal 5%; 583 gal 12% B) 286 gal 5%; 714 gal 12%
C) 714 gal 5%; 714 gal 12% D) 50 gal 5%; 120 gal 12%

29) It is necessary to have a 40% antifreeze solution in the radiator of a 29)

certain car. The radiator now has 50 liters of 20% solution. How many liters
of this should be drained and replaced with 100% antifreeze to get the
desired strength?
A) 12.5 L B) 16.7 L C) 25 L D) 20 L

Solve the system. If the system has infinitely many solutions, write the solution set with x
arbitrary.
30) 2x + 8y = 7 30)
4x + 16y = 5
7 1
A) x, - x B)
8 4
1 1
C) {(0, 0)} D) x , - x
2 4

Perform the calculation.

31) 180° - 121°36 21 31)
A) 59°24 39 B) 58°24 39 C) 58°23 39 D) 59°23 39

Decide whether the equation is an identity, a conditional equation, or a contradiction. Give the
solution set.
32) 3(28x + 16) = 12(5x + 12) 32)
A) Identity; {all real numbers} B) Conditional; {4}
C) Conditional; {-8} D) Contradiction;

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Find the common ratio r for the given infinite geometric sequence.
33) 3, 9, 27, 81, 243, . . . 33)
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A) 9 B) 3 C) D) -3
3

Find the eccentricity of the hyperbola.

34) 8x2 - 9y2 = 72 34)
3 17 13 1
A) B) C) D)
2 3 3 2

Determine all critical points for the function.

35) f(x) = x2 + 18x + 81 35)
A) x = 0 B) x = -9 C) x = -18 D) x = 9

Provide an appropriate response.

36) Fill in the blanks to complete the statement. The graph of P(x) = -0.8(x 36)
- 10)2 - 3 is a parabola opening and is than that of y =
x2.
A) up; narrower B) down; wider
C) down; narrower D) up; wider

37) If the vertex of the graph of a quadratic function lies in quadrant I and the 37)
graph is concave up, how many x-intercepts does the graph have?
A) 1 B) 0 C) 3 D) 2

38) Find the supplement of an angle whose measure is 74°57 . 38)

A) 15°3 B) 106°3 C) 105°57 D) 105°3

Find the specified vector or scalar.

39) u = 6i - 5j, v = -9i + 7j; Find u + v. 39)
A) -15i + 2j B) 15i - 4j C) -4i + 2j D) -3i + 2j

Solve the polynomial equation. In order to obtain the first root, use synthetic division to test
the possible rational roots.
40) 2x3 - 13x2 + 22x - 8 = 0 40)
A) 2, 1, 2 B) - 2, 1, -2

1 1
C) , 2, 4 D) - , 2, -4
2 2

Find the variation equation for the variation statement.

41) z varies jointly as y and the cube of x; z = 384 when x = 4 and y = -3 41)
A) y = -2x3y B) y = 2xy3 C) y = 2x3y D) y = -2xy3

Identify the equation as a parabola, circle, ellipse, or hyperbola.

42) 16x2 + 9y2 = 144 42)
A) Circle B) Parabola C) Ellipse D) Hyperbola

Solve the problem for the given information.

43) Find the equation of a line passing through the origin and making a 45° angle 43)
with the positive x-axis.
3 2
A) y = x B) y = -x C) y = x D) y = x
3 2

Find the partial fraction decomposition for the rational expression.

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44) 44)
x2(x2 + 7)
4 -4 -4 4
A) + B) +
7x 2 2
7(x + 7) x 2 2
(x + 7)
4 -4 -4 4
C) + D) +
x2 (x2 + 7) 7x2 7(x2 + 7)

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Find the probability.
45) A bag contains 9 red marbles, 2 blue marbles, and 5 green marbles. What is 45)
the probability of choosing a blue marble when one marble is drawn?
1 2 5 9
A) B) C) D)
8 11 16 16

Write the indicated term of the binomial expansion.

46) (x - 2y)9; 8th term 46)
A) 2304x2y8 B) 2304x7y2 C) -4608x2y7 D) -4608x7y2

Evaluate the expression.

47) P(12, 12) 47)
A) 239,500,800 B) 1 C) 479,001,600 D) 12

Solve the equation.

48) 4x - 6 + 7(x + 1) = -3x - 4 48)
5 17 5 17
A) - B) - C) - D) -
4 14 14 4

Write out the first five terms of the sequence.

49) an = (-1)n-1(2n - 6) 49)
A) 4, -2, 0, -2, -4 B) -4, 2, 0, -2, 4
C) -4, -2, 0, 2, 4 D) -4, -10, 0, -2, 16

Write an equation for the hyperbola.

50) vertices at (3, 0), (-3, 0); foci at (9, 0), (-9, 0) 50)
x2 y2 x2 y2 x2 y2 x2 y2
A) - = 1 B) - = 1 C) - = 1 D) - = 1
9 81 9 72 81 9 72 9

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Answer Key
Testname: 1ST MOCK EXAM 2019

1) A
2) D
3) D
4) B
5) D
6) B
7) C
8) C
9) D
10) B
11) A
12) A
13) A
14) C
15) D
16) C
17) A
18) D
19) B
20) D
21) D
22) C
23) A
24) A
25) B
26) B
27) C
28) B
29) A
30) B
31) C
32) B
33) B
34) B
35) B
36) B
37) B
38) D
39) D
40) C
41) A
42) C
43) C
44) A
45) A
46) C
47) C
48) C
49) B
50) B