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1. The equation r = is a/an: 1
2−2sinθ 12. Compute the area bounded by the curve x = y, the lines
a. Circle c. Parabola
x = 6, 2x – y =0 and y = 0.
b. Ellipse d. Hyperbola
a. 3.451 sq. units c. 2.638 sq. units
b. 4.564 sq. units d. 3.245 sq. units
2. At what time between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM are the hands
of the clock coincident? 13. Two corridors are 4 meters and 6 meters wide respectively.
a. 4:24:33 PM c. 4:25:27 PM They intersect at right angle. Find the length of the longest
b. 4:21:49 PM d. 4:28:11 PM pole that will be moved horizontally around the corner.
a. 13 m c. 15 m
3. What is the eccentricity of an equilateral hyperbola? b. 14 m d. 16 m
a. 1.50 c. 0.66
b. 1.73 d. 1.41 14. Find the minimum distance from the point (4, 2) to the
parabola𝑦 2 = 8𝑥.
4. A spherical triangle ABC has an angle C = 90o and sides
a. 2√3 units c. 2√2 units
a = 50o and c = 80o. Find the value of side b.
a. 73.33o c. 74.33o b. 3√2 units d. √2 units
o
b. 76.33 d. 75.33o
15. Which of the following has the greatest effective annual rate
5. A spherical triangle ABC has the following parts: A = 140 , o of interest?
o o
B = 75 , C = 86 , and the radius of the sphere R = 4m. Find a. 8.40% compounded annually
the area of the spherical triangle. b. 8.32% compounded semi-annually
a. 33.79 m2 c. 50.68 m2 c. 8.20% compounded quarterly
b. 16.89 m2 d. 67.68 m2 d. 8.10% compounded monthly

6. Suppose a man 1.7 m tall could walk around the earth along 16. How long will it take a money to quadruple if it earns 7%
a great circle whose radius is 6371.64 km., determine the compounded semi-annually?
difference in the distances traveled by his head and his feet. a. 20.15 yrs. c. 30.30 yrs.
a. 10.28 m c. 10.68 m b. 40.30 yrs. d. 15.15 yrs.
b. 11.46 m d. 11.83 m
17. A businessman invested P1, 000,000.00 to an account that
7. Draw three cards in succession from a standard deck of 52 earns 8% compounded continuously. Determine the amount
cards without replacement. What is the probability of of his money at the end of 20 years.
obtaining a face card only at the second draw? a. P3, 320,116.92 c. P4, 953,026.24
a. 0.1396 c. 0.1412 b. P3, 172,169.11 d. P4, 660,957.14
b. 0.1474 d. 0.1625
18. A lot is in the form of an equilateral triangle each of whose
8. There are 5 persons to be seated in a row of 5 chairs. If the sides is 300 m. compute the length of the line parallel to one
two of them does not want to be seated together, in how many side that will divide the area into two parts.
ways can they be seated? a. 141.42 m c. 281.97 m
a. 48 c. 72 b. 212.13 m d. 345.68 m
b. 120 d. 240
19. The population of a certain community increase at the rate
9. A ball is dropped from a height of 48 m and rebounds proportion to the population itself. If in the present time the
two-thirds of the distance it falls. If it continuous to fall and population of the community is 144,000 and ten years ago it
rebound in this way, how far will it travel before coming to was 100,000, after how many year relative as of the present
rest? time will the population be duplicated?
a. 120 m c. 192 m
b. 200 m d. 240 m a. 8 years c. 19 years
b. 32 years d. 55 years
10. An ice cream cone is filled with ice cream and more ice cream
in the form of a hemisphere on top. The diameter of the 20. A line 100 m long was paced four times by a surveyor with
hemisphere is equal to that of the cone and the surface area the following data: 143, 146.50, 142.50, and 144. Another
of the hemisphere is also equal to the lateral surface area of line was paced four times by the same surveyor with the
the cone. If the diameter of the cone is 50 mm, determine the following data: 894.50, 892, 891.50, and 895. Which of the
total volume of the ice cream. following most nearly gives the length of the line.
a. 57835.11 mm3 c. 61065.54 mm3
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b. 68257.33 mm d. 73286.67 mm3 a. 605.83 m c. 620.27 m
b. 612.62 m. d. 629.18 m
11. A cable is to be run from a power plant on one side of a river
900 m wide to a factory on the other side 3 km away
upstream. The cost of running the cable over land is $4.00 per
meter while the cost under water is $5.00 per meter. What
total length of the cable must be run at the most economical
cost?
a. 3100 m c. 3000 m
b. 3300 m d. 3400 m

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