Mathematics PREBOARD EXAM Part 3Choose the letter of the best answer.

Put your answers in the answer sheet provided. 1. Solve for the value of x: log 2x 3 + log (6/x) = 6.278 397.56 2. Evaluate: log 6 845 = x. 3.76 3. What is the discriminant of the equation 4x 2 = 8x 5. 16 4. Given the equation 3x 2 + Bx + 12 = 0, what is the value of B so that the roots of the equation are equal? 12 5.How many square feet is 100 square meters? 1076 6.How many terms of the progression 3, 5, 7, ...... should there be so that their sum will be 2600? 50 7.In how many minutes after 2 p.m. will the hands of the clock extend in opposite directions for the first time? 43.636 8.At approximately what time between 6 and 7 oclock will the minute and hour hands coincide? 32 min and 43 sec after 6 oclock 9. The polynomial x 3 + 4x 2 3x + 8 is divided by x 5, then the remainder is 218 10.Mike, Loui, and Joy can mow the lawn in 4, 6, and 7 hours respectively. What fraction of the yard can they mow in1 hour if they work together? 47/84 11.Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 15 liters of 35% salt solution are poured into a drum originally containing 30liters of 10% salt solution. What is the percent concentration of salt in the mixture? 19.55% 12.At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and the minute hand of the clock first form an angle of 120degrees? 12:21.818 13.The explement of an angle is four times its supplement. Find the angle.

120 14. Simplify: [(1 cos x)/ sin x] + [sin x / (1 cos x)] 2 csc x 15.Each of the interior angles of a 72-sided regular polygon is 175 16.Find the radius of a circle inscribe in a triangle the sides of which are 5 ft, 7 ft, and 9 ft. 1.658 ft 17.A railroad curve is to be laid in a circular path. What should be the radius if the track is to change direction by 30degress at a distance of 300 m? 573 m 18.If the sides of a right triangle are 3, 4, 5m, the area of the inscribed circle is _________. Pi square m 19.Given a triangle, C = 100 degrees, a = 15 m, b = 20 m. Find c. 27 m 20. The angle of a sector is 30 degrees and the radius is 15 cm. What is the area of the sector in cm 2 ? 58.9 21. The diameter of the face of a clock is 20 cm. Find the area of the quadrilateral with vertices at numbers 1, 5, 8,and 11. 186.57 cm 2 22.An equilateral triangle of side 8 cm is enclosed in a circle. Find the difference in the areas of the circle and triangle. 39.308 cm 2

23.The official distance between the home plate and the second base in a baseball diamond is 120 ft. Find thedistances of the bases if the official baseball diamond is in a form of a square. 84.85 ft 24.One side of a regular octagon is 2. Find the area of the region inside the octagon. 19.3 25.The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 540 degrees. Find the number of sides. 5 26.Accumulate P5,000.00 for 10 years at 8% compounded quarterly. P11,040.20 27.What is the effective rate for an interest rate of 12% compounded continuously? 12.75% 28.If P5,000.00 shall accumulate for 10 years at 8% compounded quarterly, find the compounded interest at the endof 10 years. 6,040.20 29.What is the present worth of a P1,000.00 annuity over a 10-yr period, if interest rate is 8%?

P6,710.00 30.What annuity over a 10-year period at 8% interest is equivalent to a present worth of P100,000.00? P14,903 31. If P500 is invested at the end of each year for 6 years, at an effective rate of 7%. What is the total amountavailable upon the deposit of the 6 th payment? P3577.00 32.Find the equation of the circle if the ends of the diameter are (3, 5) and (7, 3). (x 2) 2 + (y 1) 2 = 41 33.Determine the equation of the parabola given: vertex at (0, 0), axis along x-axis and passing through (3, 6). y 2 + 12x = 0 34. Find the equation of the directrix of the parabola y 2 = 16x. x=4 35.Find the area of the triangle which the line 2x 3y + 6 = 0 forms with the coordinate axes. 3 36. What is the derivative with respect to x of (x + 1) 3 x 3 6x + 3 37. Determine the limit of (x 2 + 3x 4) as x approaches 4 24 38. Find the second derivative of x 3 5x 2 +x=0 6x 10 39.Determine the diameter of a closed cylindrical tank having a volume of 11.3 cu. m to obtain minimum surfacearea. 2.44

40. The cost C of a product is a function of the quantity x of the product: C(x) = x 2 4000x + 50. Find the quantity forwhich the cost is minimum. 2000 41. Integrate: (7x 3 + 4x 2 ) dx 7x 4 /4 + 4x 3 /3 + C 42. Simplify: i 29 +i 21 + i. 3i 43.The expression 3 + 4i is a complex number. Compute its absolute value. 5 44.Write the polar form of the vector 3 + j4. 5 ? 53.1 45. Simplify: (3 i) 2 7(3 i) + 10 (3 i) 46.What is 4i cube times 2i square? 8i 47.Roll two dice once. What is the probability that the sum is 7? 1/6 48.A coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability of getting 3 tails up? 1/8 49.A ball is dropped down a well and 5 seconds later the sound of the splash is heard. If velocity of sound is 330m/s,what is the depth of the well? 107.2 50.How far does an automobile move while its speed increases uniformly from 15 kph to 45 kph in 20 seconds? 167m

51.A solid material whose atoms do not form a recognizable pattern. amorphous 52.A crystal defect where there is a missing atom. vacancy 53.Electron-hole pairs are produced by: thermal energy 54. After the junction recombination process has reached equilibrium, what is the area that surrounds the junctioncalled? the depletion region 55. One of the prime dangers to the semiconductor diode is heat. Excessive current generated by heat whicheventually destroys a diode is called thermal runaway 56.A PIN diode when reverse biased, acts like nearly constant capacitor 57.Also known as barrier diode. Schottky diode 58.The class of transistor amplifier operation that uses exactly half of the input signal is: Class B 59. Which of the electronic transistor configuration has the highest current gain? Common collector 60. What is the most common form of coupling? RC 61.The Q-point of a circuit is defined by specific values for I C and V CE 62.What bias generally provides good Q-point stability but requires both positive and negative supply voltages? Emitter bias 63.The transistors of a class B push-pull emitter follower are biased at Cutoff 64.BJTs are _______-controlled devices, but FETs are _______-controlled devices. current, voltage 65.Gate-to-channel separation in a MOSFET is accomplished by using which material? Silicon dioxide 66.A region where the drain current is considered zero. Cut-off 67.It is the ratio of a change in the drain current to the corresponding change in the gate to source voltage. Forward Transconductance 68. It is a FET amplifier configuration characterized by a voltage gain of 1 and very high input impedance. Common Drain

69. For an n -channel depletion MOSFET, I DSS = 8 mA and V GS(Off) = -6 V. If V GS = 0.8 V, what is the value of the draincurrent, I D ? 10.28 mA 70. In an E-MOSFET, __________ is needed to create the necessary channel between the source and the drain. Surface Inversion