GENERAL ARTEMIO RICARTE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

#35 Bil-loca, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION/MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN PRE-CALCULUS

Name:______________________________________________________Section:_____________________

Answer the following comprehensively. Solutions are to be placed in another sheet and they
should be properly labeled. Only complete solutions are to be given full marks. Any form of
erasure means wrong.

A. Given the following equations, identify the following:

a.) Center
b.) Focus/Foci
c.) Vertex/Vertices
d.) Covertices
e.) Directrix

1. 2. 4x 2 + y 2 8x 12y + 36 = 0

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3. 2 2 = 8 4 + 12 4. 4 2 + 4 2 + 8 16 29 = 0

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B. Solve the following problems completely.

5. A satellite dish shaped like a paraboloid,

has diameter 2.4 ft and depth 0.9 ft. If the
receiver is placed at the focus, how far
should the receiver be from the vertex, in
ft.?
6. The arch of a bridge is in the shape of a
semiellipse, with its major axis at the water
level. Suppose the arch is 20 ft high in the
middle, and 120 ft. across its major axis.
How high above the water level is the arch, at
a point 20 ft from the center (horizontally)?
Round off to two decimal places

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 GENERAL ARTEMIO RICARTE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
#35 Bil-loca, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte

7. Find the standard equation of the hyperbola

whose foci are F1(0,10) and F2(0,10), such
that for any point on it, the absolute value of
the dierence of its distances from the foci is
12.
8. The square of a certain number exceeds twice
1
the square of another number by8. Also, the
5
sum of their squares is 16. Find possible pairs
of numbers that satisfy these conditions.

C. Proving.

1. Prove by induction that 2n > 2n for every positive integer n > 2.

2. Prove by induction that 11n 6 is divisible by 5 for every positive integer n.

3. 11 + 19 + 27 + + (8n + 3) = n(4n + 7)

D. Find each coefficient described.

1. Determine the 20th term in the expansion of ( 3 3)28

2. Find the last two terms in the expansion of ( 2 + 4 )21

Cheating during an examination is a ground for DISMISSAL OR EXPULSION!

-Student Handbook and 2000 DECS Service Manual.