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The angular bisectors of the

sides of a triangle are


concurrent in this point.
A straight line tangent to a
level surface.
Presidential Decree No.
1594 provides guidelines,
rules and regulations for
government infrastructure
contracts under this decree.
What does AGE stands for?
Fill in the blank:

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, __,...,


A horizontal curve has
design speed of 50 mph.
If e = 0.10 and f = 0.167,
find the degree of curve.
The rainfall intensity for each
20 min. period are given below for
a storm. The direct run-off from the
basin is 2.5 cm. Determine the Ø
index for the basin.
20 minutes period 1 2 3 4 5
Rain intensity 2.5 5.0 6.5 3.5 1.0
(cm/hr)
What international code is the
basis of the Wind Loads
provisions of the latest NSCP?
Find the volume of the 1st
octant common to equal cylinders
of revolution whose area intersect
at right angles, if the radius of
each cylinders is 2m.
At elevation 2402 m, the
distance BC is 18, 658.2 m. Find
the sea level distance if the
average radius of curvature is
25,184 m.
A community has an estimated
population 30 years hence equal to
30,000. The present population is 24, 000
and the present water consumption of 16,
000 m3/day. The existing treatment plant
has a design capacity of 20, 000 m3/day.
Using an arithmetic rate of population
growth, determine in how many years
the existing plant will reach its design
capacity.
Object A approaches object
B which is stationary. Velocity of
object A is V=25 I + 4j- 5k in m/s.
Mass of A=10 kg, and that of
B =4 kg. After impact the object
sticks together. Compute the
velocity after impact.
Given the cost equation of a
certain product as follows:
C = 50t2 - 200t+10000,
where t is in years. Find the
maximum cost from the year
1995 to 2002.
Data on a traffic accident
recorded on a certain intersection for
the past 5 years has an accident rate
of 4160 per million entering vehicles
(ARMV). If the average daily traffic
entering the intersection is 504, find
the total number of accidents during
the 5 year period.
Over a hydraulic drop structure in a
river 22.8 m wide flows 170 m3/s. On the level
apron of the structure the water flows 0.60 m
deep in the rapid state. A hydraulic jump is to
take place on the apron.
a.) What will be the reasonable depth of
water downstream in the tranquil state?
b.) What will be the initial depth?
c.) What is the energy loss caused by the
pump in horsepower?
What would be the
required tie spacing at the
confinement zone of a 700x500
earthquake-resisting RC column
reinforced with 8-32 mm  vertical
bars? Assume ties to be 12 mm 
rebar.
Find the period and
amplitude of the graph of y=cosx.
A car traveling the at a
speed of 65 mph approached a
hazard and traveled 72.2 m
during the perception-reaction
time. What was the driver’s PIEV
time in seconds?
A nozzle of 50 mm diameter delivers
a stream of water at a velocity of 65 m/s
perpendicular to a fixed plate.
a.) Calculate the force on the plate.
b.) If the force on the plate is to be
reduced to 50 %, and that the plate moves in
the same direction as the jet at a speed of 10
m/s, what is the required discharge velocity at
the nozzle.
c.) Find also the work done per sec if the
plate moves in the direction of the jet at 10 m/s.
A propped cantilever
beam has a span of 6.0 m. The
beam carries a uniform load of
600 KN/m along the 2.0 m length
of the span from the fixed end.
Compute the moment at the fixed
end.
Let f(x, y, z) = xyz.
What is the gradient of f?
A Borda mouthpiece 60 mm in
diameter has a discharge coefficient of
0.52.
a.) Compute the coefficient of velocity.
b.) Compute the velocity of water at
the mouthpiece if the height of water
above the center of the mouthpiece is 4m.
c.) Compute the diameter of the
issuing jet.
An A36 base plate is 20-mm
thick and is supporting a wide-flange
column with overall flange width of
100 mm and overall web depth of
200 mm. The critical bending length
for the plate is 150mm. What is the
capacity in bending of this base plate?
In a Poisson distribution, if the
variance equals 9, then what is
twice the mean less one standard
deviation, equal to?
A trapezoidal canal with a bottom
width of 1.5 m and with sides
slopes of 2 horizontal to 1 vertical has a
velocity of 1.2 m/s. If the depth of the flow
is 2.4 m and has a slope of channel bed of
0.000212, compute the ff:
a.) Discharge of the canal.
b.) Roughness coefficient.
c.) Shearing stress at the boundary of
the canal.
A government project which costs P10 M
has a contract time within it should be
finished by 50 calendar days starting from the time the
project is awarded to the contractor. By the end of 60
days the contractor was able to finish only 90 % worth
of the job. The contractor request for a 15 day
extension in order to finish the job.
A) What is the amount of the daily
liquidated damages?
B) What is the total liquidated damages?
C) What is the maximum limit of liquidated
damages as per required by PD 1594?
Usain Bolt made a
World-record of taking 9.58 seconds
for a stretched of 100 m long sprint.
His rival Yuhan Blake took 1.44 m
short behind Bolt in the finish line.
How many seconds it took Blake to
finish the race.
The peak hour factor for
traffic during rush hour is equal to
0.60 with a highest 5 min volume
of 250 vehicles. The space mean
speed of the traffic is 90 kph.
Compute the maximum spacing of
the cars in meters.
The population in Cebu City in
1980 was 1, 000, 000.
a.) If there is an increase of 3.5%
annually in the population, what is the
population in 2010?
b.) If the population in 1990 was 1.5
M, estimate the population in 2020 using
arithmetic growth.
c.) Estimate the population in 2020
using Geometric Growth Method.
Test on a 60° V-notch weir yield the
following values of head on the weir and
its corresponding discharge.
When H=0.345 m, Q = 0.107 m3/s and
when H=0.665 m , Q = 0.520 m3/s
If the discharge is given in the equation Q=CHn
a.) Determine the value of n.
b.) Determine the weir constant C.
c.) If the head equal to 0.52m , what is the
discharge in liters/sec
A rectangular flume of smooth wood
(n=0.012) slope 1 m per km. The width
and depth of the 1st flume is 4m and 2m
respectively, while that on the second flume the
width and depth are 2m and 4m respectively.
a.) Compute the flow capacity of the 1st
flume.
b.) Compute the flow ratio of the 1st flume
to the second flume.
c.) Compute the lumber ratio of the 1st
flume and second flume.
A BW 775x287 steel I-Beam
has the following dimensions:
Total beam depth, H= 775 mm
Web Thickness, tw = 20 mm
Flange width, bf = 360 mm
Flange thickness, tf = 35 mm
Determine the section modulus about
the major axis:
The sum of the three most
beautiful and intriguing
mathematical constants, pi, e and
Phi is closest to which integer?
Compute the modulus of
elasticity of the subgrade if the
modulus of elasticity of the
pavement is 160 MPa with a
stiffness factor of 0.50.
The Froude Number of the
upstream side of a hydraulic jump is
4.0
a.) Determine the upstream water
level if the downstream depth is 3.8 m.
b.) Compute the discharge of the
channel per meter width.
c.) Compute the Froude Number
in downstream side of the jump.
A man fires a target with a
bullet’s velocity of 900 m/s. After
2.5 seconds, he hears the sound
of the bullet that strikes the target.
Assuming sound has a constant
velocity of 350 m/s, how far is the
target from the man.
A turnout has length of
heel 3000 mm with a length of
heel spread equal to 375 mm.
a.) Compute the frog number.
b.) If the total length of the
turnout is 4500 mm, compute the
length of toe.
c.) Compute the angle
subtended by the heel spread.
An A40 steel girder has
the following properties:
bf = 250 mm, tf = 15 mm,
d = 300 mm, tw = 15 mm
What is the capacity of the
section by shear?
Based on the record of road
accidents, compute the ff:
Year Property Damage Injury Fatal
1992 105 36 2
1993 178 48 3
1994 152 41 3
1995 190 60 5
1996 236 88 10
a.) Compute the total number of accidents.
b.) Compute the total non-fatal accidents.
c.) Compute the severity ratio.
Given the following data of a cross-section of
a beam in a ductile MRFS.
d = 537.5 mm As = 4-28 mm Ø
b= 300 mm , hoop/tie = 12 mmØ rebar
Clear span = 7.2 m
The beam is being supported by a 375 mm x 600 mm
column, calculate the ff:
a) Maximum spacing of confining reinforcement
in the beam ends at the beam-column joint for seismic
design.
b) The required distance for the placement of
confining reinforcement of either side of the column
above and below the top and bottom of the beam.
A vertical sag curve has
a descending grade of -1.7%
and an ascending grade of
2.3%. If the sag curve has length
of 135 m, compute the length of
the sight distance?
Using Webster’s Method in the
design of the optimum cycle length for a
two phase signal of a signalized
intersection, if the optimum cycle length
is 45 sec and the maximum values of the
ratios of approach flows to saturation
flows for the two phases are 0.379 and
0.393, determine the total lost time per
cycle..
Laminar flow occurs through a wide
rectangular conduit 800 mm high and 1200
mm wide. Assuming that the velocity
distribution satisfies the equation
V=y(3-4y), where V is in “m/s”.
a.) Calculate the flow.
b.) Calculate the kinetic energy
correction factor.
c.) Calculate the ratio of the average
to maximum velocity.
I wake up if and only if both of
my alarm clocks ring at the same
time. My alarm that's 3 minutes fast
first rings when it reads 10:14. It then
rings every 9 minutes thereafter. My
alarm that's 4 minutes fast first rings
when it reads 10:09. It then rings
every 7 minutes thereafter. Where will
the minute hand be when I wake up?
A simply supported concrete
beam has a width of 250 mm and an
effective depth of 500 mm. Concrete
strength is 28 MPa and steel yield
strength of fy=280 MPa.
a) What is the balanced steel ratio in
percent?
b) What is the maximum steel area?
c) What is the number of 25 mm Ø
rebar?
A flat bar 50 mm by 6 mm in
cross-section is bent by a couple
such that the maximum stress in
the section is 162 MPa. If the
modulus of elasticity of the material
is 200 GPa. Compute the radius of
curvature of the bar.
A bulldozer component
exhibits a negative exponential
failure distribution with a mean
time to failure of 1100 hours.
Compute the maximum
operating time such that the
reliability remains above 97%.
A rectangular channel 5.6 m wide by 1.2
m deep is lined with a smooth stone, well laid
and has a hydraulic slope 0.002. Using n=0.013.
a) What is the capacity of the channel?
b) What savings in earth excavation could
have been offered by using more favorable
proportions but adhering to the same delivery and
slope?
c) What savings in lining per meter length by
using more favorable proportions but adhering to the
same delivery and slope?
The traffic accidents in
Trans-Central Highway can be
interpreted by a graph that follows
a Poisson’s Distribution. If the
mean number of accidents a week
is 5, what is the probability of
having 30 accidents in the next 5
weeks.
A vehicle velocity check is
conducted in a stretch of highway in Northern
Luzon. On a regular weekday, the speeds
were found to have a normal distribution with
a mean of 60 kph and a standard deviation of
6 kph. The daily average speed for the same
highway on consecutive normal weekdays
was determined by sampling 16 vehicles
each day. What is the upper three-standard
deviation average speed?
A solid steel shaft shown has a
diameter of 30 mm. It has a modulus of
rigidity of 77 GPa and has a length of 1.8
m. It is subjected to a torque at a equal to
220 N-m.
a) Determine the angle of twist at A.
b) Determine the shearing stress of
the solid shaft.
c) Determine the strain energy of the
shaft as the torque is applied at A.
Two metal ball are
compared with each other, the
ratio of their surface area is 2:3,
if they have a combined mass of
31 kg, then what is the mass of
the bigger ball.
At the proportional limit, a 200 mm
gage length of a 15 mm diameter alloy bar
has elongated 0.90 mm and the diameter
has been reduced 0.022 mm. The total
axial load carried was 58.4 KN.
a) Determine the modulus of
elasticity.
b) Determine the Poisson’s ratio.
c) Determine the proportional limit.
On average,
a) How many times will a 20-year
flood occur in a 60 year period?
b) What is the probability that it will
not occur at all in a 40 year period.
c) What is the probability that it will
occur at least once in a 40 year period.
A rectangular scow 9 m
wide 15 m long and 3.6 m high has
a draft of in sea water of 2.4 m. Its
center of gravity is 2.8 m above the
bottom of the scow. Determine the
initial metacentric height.
For a sandy soil, emax=0.86,
emin=0.43 and Gs=2.66.
A.) What is the void ratio at
Dr=75%.
B.) Moist unit weight of soil
when water content is 7%.
C.) What is the degree of
saturation.
A reinforced rectangular
beam having a width of 250 mm and
an effective depth of 500 mm carries
an ultimate moment of 300 KN-m.
Compute the steel area required if
f’c = 35 MPa, fy = 275.6 MPa.

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