CERTCDAVAO Weekly Exam 2 MATHEMATICS

E;ectrical/Electronics Engineering

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
14. An isosceles spherical triangle has the following data: A = C =
letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided.
69°2.3’ and b = 93°16.4’. Find the third angle.
A. 99°14.6’
1. When three coins are tossed, the probability of getting at least B. 100°14.4’ *
onetail is C. 101°15.2’
A. 3/8 C. 1/8 D. 102°13.2’
B. 7/8* D. 5/8
15. A ship on a certain day is at latitude 20°N and longitude 140°E. After
2. A bag contains three white and five black balls. If two balls are sailing for 150 hours at a uniform speed along a great circle route, it
drawn in succession without replacement, determine the probability reaches a point at latitude 10°S and longitude 170°E. If the radius of
that both balls are white. the earth is 3959 miles, find the speed in miles per hour.
A. 1/14 C. 3/28* A. 17.4 C. 16.4
B. 4/7 D. 5/28 B. 15.4 D. 19.4*

3. Three coins are tossed; what is the probability of getting 3 heads if it 16. The odds are 13 to 8 in favor of winning the first prize of a lottery.
is known that at least two heads were obtained? What is the probability of winning that prize?

A. 1/4* C. 2/3 A. 0.691 B. 0.619* C. 0.617 D. 0.671

B. 1/2 D. 3/8
17. A player tosses two fair coins. He wins $1 or $2 according as 1 or 2
4. A coin is biased so that the probability of heads is 2/3. What is the heads appear. On the other hand, he loses $5 if no heads appear.
probability that exactly four heads come up when the coin is flipped Determine the expected value of the game.
seven times, assuming that the flips are independent? A. 0.25 B. -0.25* C. 0.50 D. -.50

A. 650/2187 C. 560/2187 * 18. What is the probability that a coin will turn up heads twice in 6
B. 650/1278 D. 560/1278 tosses of the coin?
A. 15/64* B. 13/64 C. 14/64 D. 12/64
5. When a card is selected from a deck of 52 cards, what are the odds
in favor of getting a face card? 19. There are seven cups of tea. Two among them contain a deadly
poison that acts within an hour. You and I both drink one cup
A. 5:2 C. 3:10 * simultaneously. How big is the chance that we both survive?
B. 12:1 D. 2:5 A. 10/21 * B. 5/7 C. 2/3 D. 2/5
Refresher
6. We have two boxes. The first contains two green balls and seven 20. A random number generator on a computer selects three integers
red balls; the second contains four green balls and three red balls. from 1 to 20. What is the probability that all three numbers are less
Bob selects a ball by first choosing one of the two boxes at random. than or equal to 5?
He then selects one of the balls in this box at random. If Bob has A. 1/3 B. 1/32 C. 1/64 * D. 1/20
selected a red ball, what is the probability that he selected a ball
from the first box? 21. A pair of fair dice is thrown. Find the probability that the sum is 10 or
A. 0.546 C. 0.654 greater if a 5 appears on at least one of the dice.
B. 0.645 * D. 0.564 A. 6/11 B. 5/11 C. 4/11 D. 3/11*

7. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are 22. What is the area, to the nearest acre, of a triangular field that is 529
selected at random. The probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are ft on one side and 849 ft on another, if the angle between these
selected, is: sides measures 102.7 ?
A. 21/46 * C. 1/50 A. 7 C. 6
B. 25/117 D. 3/25 B. 4 D. 5 *

8. Find the radius of the circle circumscribing an isosceles right 23. An unbiased coin is tossed an infinite number of times. The
triangle having an area of 162 sq. cm.? probability that the fourth head appears at the tenth toss is
A. 11.23 C. 12.73 * (A) 0.067 (B) 0.073 (C) 0.082* (D)0.091
B. 10.63 D. 15.27
24. A box contains 8 good and 4 bad light bulbs. Daniel randomly picks
9. The sides of the triangle are 40 cm, 50 cm, and 60 cm. How far is a bulb from the box, tests it, and then replaces it. If Daniel picks 4
the point of intersection of the perpendicular bisector of the sides of light bulbs with replacement, what is the probability he will pick
the triangle to any of its vertex? exactly 2 bad light bulbs?
A. 30.24 * C. 23.54
A. 4/27 B. 1/9 C. 8/27* D. 4/9
B. 15.27 D. 40.13
25. There are two containers, with one containing 4 red and 3 green
10. The tangent and a secant are to a circle from the same external
point. If the tangent is 6 inches and the external segment of the balls and the other containing 3 blue and 4 green balls. One ball is
secant is 3 inches, compute the length of the secant. drawn at random from each container. The probability that one of
A. 10 C. 12 * the balls is red and the other is blue will be
B. 13 D. 14 A. 1/7 B. 12/49* C. 9/49 D. 3/7

11. If an equilateral triangle is circumscribed about a circle of radius 10 26. A shelf has 6 math books and 4 physics books. Find the probability
cm, determine the side of the triangle. that 3 particular mathematics books will be together.
A. 34.64 cm* C. 36.44 cm a. 1/12 b. 1/17 c. 1/15* d. 1/21
B. 64.12 cm D. 32.10 cm
27. A speaks truth in 75% and B in 80% of the cases. In what
12. Two forces of 17.5 and 22.5 lb act on a body. If their directions
percentage of cases are they likely to contradict each other
make an angle of 5010’ with each other, find the magnitude of
their resultant. narrating the same incident?
A. 36.3 lb * C. 35.6 lb (A) 5% (B) 45% (C) 35%* (D) 15%
B. 38.6 lb D. 37.3 lb
28. A vertical pole consists of two parts, each one half of the whole
13. What is the spherical excess (in degrees) of the quadrantal pole. At a point in the horizontal plane which passes through the
spherical triangle whose angles are A = 75°15’, B = 133°08’ and C foot of the pole and 36 m from it, the upper half of the pole subtend
= 90°? an angle whose tangent is 1/3. How high is the pole?
A. 115°38’ A. 72* B. 25 C. 46 D. 16
B. 116°32’
C. 117°43’
D. 118°38’ *

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CERTCDAVAO Weekly Exam 2 MATHEMATICS
E;ectrical/Electronics Engineering

29. The sides of a triangular field which contains an area of 2400 sq. 44. The distance between the center of the circles which are mutually
cm. are in continued proportion of 3:5:7. Find the smallest side of tangent to each other externally are 10,12 and 14 units, The area of
the triangle. the largest circle is:
A. 45.74 C. 95.43 A. 12pi B. 64pi* C. 28pi D. 43pi
B. 63.62 D. 57.67*
45. The sums of the sides of two polygons is 11 and the sum of its
30. In triangle ABC, angle A=80 deg. and point D is inside the triangle. diagonals is 14. Find the number of sides of one of the polygon.
If BD and CD are bisectors of angle B and C, solve for the angle a. 9 b. 8 c. 7 d. 6*
BDC.
A. 100 deg. C. 120 deg. 46. A regular polygon has 170 diagonals and 2.4 cm side length. What
B. 130 deg.* D. 140 deg. is its area?
a. 139.21 cm^2 c. 181.84 cm^2*
31. From an external point P, two secants PAB and PCD are drawn. If b. 152.11 cm^2 d. 199.91 cm^2
PB =27 in, AB = 21 in, and PC = CD, what is the length of PD?
47. From top of mountain 68 m high, angle of depression of two boats
A. 18 in* C. 12 in due east of it are 52° and 26° respectively. distance between ships
B. 16 in D. 24 in is
a. 58.28 m c. 86.29 m*
32. A chord of length 16 3 is the perpendicular bisector of the radius
√ b. 68.29 m d. 53.72 m
in a circle. Determine the area of the circle.
48. A triangle with no equal sides is called:
A. 256 pi * C. 169 pi a. a scalene triangle* c. a right angle
B. 144 pi D. 128 pi b. an isosceles triangle d. a straight triangle
C.
33. Locus of points on a side which rolls along a fixed line: 49. Find the values of x in the equation: sin 4x = 3/2
a. 0, π/4 , π
A. cardoid C. epicycloid b. π/12 , π/6 , 2π/3 , 7π/12 , 7π/6 , 13π/12 , 5π/3 , 19π/12*
B. cycloid* D. hypocycloid c. π/4 , 5π/4
d. 0
34. A pole which leans 10015’ from the vertical towards the sun casts a
shadow 9.43m long on the ground when the angle of elevation of e.
the sun is 54050’. Find the length of the pole. 50. Two sides of an isosceles triangle measure 3 and 7. Which of the
following could be the measure of the third side?
A. 12.5m C. 14.2m a. 9 b. 7* Refresherc. 5 d. 3
B. 15.4m D. 18.3m*

35. Given tan x + tan y = 4 and cot x + cot y = 5. Find tan(x + y).
A. 4/5 B. 20 * C. 5/4 D. 1/20
“All our dreams can come true. If we have the courage
to pursue them.”
36. The graph of y = cos x is nothing more than the graph of y = sin x – Walt Disney
shifted
A. to the left π/2 * C. to the right π/2
B. to the left π/4 D. to the right π/4

37. If tan(α) = -4/3 and α is in quadrant IV, find tan(α/2).

A. 2/5 B. 3/4 C. -5/3 D. -1/2 *

38. If sin θ = -2/9 and tan θ > 0, evaluate sec θ.

9 66 9 66

A. 66 C. 66
9 77 9 77

B. 77 * D. 77

39. In what quadrant will  terminate, if sec  is negative and tan  is

negative?
A. Quadrant 1 C. Quadrant 2*
B. Quadrant 3 D. Quadrant 4

1
sin x  cos x 
40. If 2 , what is the value of sin3 x  cos3 x ?
A. 11/16 * B. 5/16 C. 3/8 D. 1/8

41. ABDE is a square section and BDC is an equilateral triangle with C

outside the square. Compute the value of angle ACE.
A. 30 deg.* C. 50 deg.
B. 60 deg. D. 20 deg.

42. The sum and difference of two angles in a triangle are 90 degrees
and 30 degrees, respectively. If the side opposite the smallest angle
is 20 cm., find the area of the triangle.
A. 346.4* B. 231.5 C. 289.6 D. 268.4

43. The larger angles of a rhombus are double the smaller angles. The
length of the shorter diagonal is 10 cm. What is the perimeter of the
rhombus?
A. 40 cm* B. 35 cm C. 30 cm D. 25 cm

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