Seat No. Republic of the Philippines PROFESSIONAL REGULATION COMMISSION MANILA BOARD OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Ua ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Licensure Examination Saturday, MARCH 25, 2023 08:00 a.m. — 12:00 pm MATHEMATICS, 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 letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Aconic section represented by the general equation Ax? + By*+ Cx + Dy +E =0 A. ellipse C. circle B. hyperbola D. parabola 2. Aconic section whose eccentricity is less than one is known as: A circle C. parabola B. hyperbola D. ellipse 3. Ona certain day, the nurses at a hospital worked the following number of hours: Nurse Howard worked 8 hours; Nurse Pease worked 10 hours; Nurse Campbell worked 9 hours; Nurse Grace worked 8 hours; Nurse McCarthy worked 7 hours; and Nurse Murphy worked 12 hours. What is the average number of hours worked per nurse on this day? Ad C7 B.8 D.10 4. CSC 520° A. cos 20° C. csc 20° B. sin 20° D. sec 20° 5. How many quarts of water will a 3.25-liter container hold? A. 3.066 C. 3.045 B. 3.445 D.5.2 OSPB ver 3.4.16. 3 randomly chosen senior high school students were administered a drug test. Each student was evaluated as positive to the drug test (P) or negative to the drug test (N). Assume the possible combinations of the three student's drug test evaluation as PPP, PPN, PNP, NPP, PNN, NPN, NNP, NNN. Assume the possible combination is equally likely, what is the probability that at least one student gets a positive result? A.4/8 Cc. 27 B. 7/8 D.3/7 7. Awall "h" meters high is 2 m away from the building. The shortest ladder that can reach the building with one end resting on the ground outside the wall is 6 m. How high is the wall in meters? A234 C.2.24 B.2.44 D.214 8. Find the domain of the following function: f(x) = 3x, -6 yxy 8 A. (6, 8) C. £18, 24] B, (-18, 24) D. [-6, 8] 9, Listed below are functions each denoted g(x) and each involving a real number x, constant c > If f(x) = 2x, which of these functions yield the greatest value for (g(x), for all x > 1? A. g(x) = cx C. g(x) = ox B. g(x) = xc D. g(x) = x/e 10. The hyperbola has the equation xy= 1. Determine the equation of this hyperbola if the x, y-axes are rotated 45 degrees counterclockwise. A. 0,25x?-0.25y"=1 C. 2.0x?-2.0y?=1 B. x?-y=1 D. 0.50x’-0.50y=1 11. The centroid of the area bounded by the parabola y? = 4ax and the line x = p coincides with the focus of the parabola. Find the value of p. A23i5a C.5/3a B.2/5a D.5i2a 12. In how many ways can you pick 3 dogs from a pack of 7 dogs? A.32 C.35 B. 30 D.3613.A water tank is shaped in such a way that the volume of water in the tank is V = 2y*? cu. in. When its depth is y inches. If water flows out through a hole at the bottom of the tank at the rate of 3vy cu. in/min, At what rate does the water level in the tank fall? A.11 inimin 1 in/min B. 0.11 in/min D. 4/11 in/min 14.Find the volume generated by rotating a circle x"2+y*2+6x+4y+12=0 about the ycaxis. A. 78.62 C. 59.22 B. 58.24 D. 52.33 15.A given function f(t) can be represented by a Fourier series if it A. is periodic B. is single valued C. is periodic, single valued and has a finite number of maxima and minima in any one period D. has a finite number of maxima and minima in any one period 16.A group consists of n engineers and n nurses. If two of the engineers are replaced by two other nurses, then 51% of the group members will be nurses. Find the value of n. A. 100 c.110 B. 80 D.55 17.A transmitter with a height of 15 m is located on top of a mountain, which is 3.0 km high. What is the farthest distance on the surface of the earth that can be seen from the top of the mountain? Take the radius of the earth to be 6400 km. A. 225 km. C. 152 km B. 196 km D. 205 km 18, There are a set of triplets. If there are 11 generations, how many ancestors do they have if duplication is not allowed? A. 4095 Cc. 9540 B. 4085 D. 8540 19. How many 5 poker hands are there in a standard deck of cards? A. 2,598,960 C. 2,958,960 B, 2,429,955 D. 2,942,95520.Find the area bounded by the parabolas x? - 2x + 2y +5 =O and x?- 2x +y+1= 0. A14 c. 14/3 B.16 D. 16/3 21.Given a conic section, if B? - 4AC = 0, itis called? A Circle C. Parabola B. Hyperbola D. Ellipse 22. Given a conic section, if B?-4AC > 0, it is called? A. Circle C. Parabola B. Hyperbola D. Ellipse 23. Describe and graph the locus represented by Im{z’} = 4 A. Circle C. Parabola B. Hyperbola D. Ellipse 24.A tangent to a conic is a line ‘A. which is parallel to the normal B. which passes inside the conic C. which touches the conic at only one point D. all of the above 25.A\ll circles having the same center but with unequal radii are called A. encircle C. tangent circles B. coneyelic D. concentric circles 26.If z = 6e"(im/3), evaluate [ez]. A. e4-3(sqrt of 3) C. eA3(sqrt of 3) B. ef 2(sqrt of 2) D. e2(sqrt of 2) 27. Simplify (cosB-1)(cosB+1) A, -Alsin’B C. -Alcos*B B. -Aesc"B D. -tisec*B. 28. Find the height of a right circular cylinder of maximum volume which can be inscribed in a sphere of radius 10 cm. A. 11.55 cm C. 14.55 om B, 12.55 om D. 18.55 om29.A periodic waveform possessing half-wave symmetry has no A. even harmonics C. odd harmonics B. sine terms D. cosine terms 30. There is a vector v = 7j, another vector u starts from the origin with a magnitude of 5 rotates in the xy plane. Find the maximum magnitude of u x v. 35 A. 24 c.70 B.48 D.35 31.What is the value of x in Arctan 2x + Arctan x = pi/4? A. 0.28 and -1.78 C. -0.28 and 1.78 B. 0.28 D.-1.78 32.A scientist found 12 mg of a radioactive isotope in a soil sample. After 2 hours, only 8.2 mg of the isotope remained. Determine the halflife of the isotope. A.1.46 br C.3.46 hr B. 3.64 hr D. 5.64 hr 33.A post office can accept mailing only if the sum of its length and its girth (the circumference of its cross section) is at most 100 in. What is the maximum volume of a rectangular box with square cross section that can be mailed? A. 5432.32 cu. in. C. 1845.24 cu. in B. 2592.25 cu. In. D. 9259.26 cu. in. 34, Water is running out of a conical funnel at the rate of 1 cu. in/sec. If the radius of the base of the funnel is 4 in and the altitude is 8 in, find the rate at which the water level is dropping when it is 2 in from the top. A, -1/9pi in/sec C. -1/2pi in/sec B. 1/2pi in/sec D. 1/9pi in/sec 35.A ball is dropped from a height of 18 m. On each rebound it rises 2/3 of the height from which it last fell. What distance has it traveled at the instant it strikes the ground for the 5th time? A. 37.89 m C. 73,89 m B. 75.78 m D.57.78 m 36.Ben is two years away from being twice Ellen's age. The sum of twice Ben's age and thrice Ellen's age is 66. Find Ben's age now. A19 c.20 B18 D.2137.3 randomly chosen senior high school students were administered a drug test. Each student was evaluated as positive to the drug test (P) or negative to the drug test (N). Assume the possible combinations of the three student's drug test evaluation as PPP, PPN, PNP, NPP, PNN, NPN, NNP, NNN. Assuming each Possible combination is equally likely, what is the probability that all 3 students get positive results? A. 1/8 C.3/4 B. 1/4 D.1/2 38. The cost per hour of running a boat is proportional to the cube of the speed of the boat. At what speed will the boat run against a current of 4 kph in order to go a given distance most economically? A. 6 kph C.12 kph B. 20 kph D. 24 kph 39. The cable of the suspension bridge hangs in the form of a parabola when the load is uniformly distributed horizontally. The distance between towers is 150 m, the points of the cable on the towers are 22 m above the roadway, and the lowest Point on the cable is 7 m above the roadway. Find the vertical distance to the cable from a point in the roadway 15 m from the foot of a tower. A. 16.6 m c.96m B.12.8m D.18.8m 40. Ifz is directly proportional to x and inversely proportional to the square of y and that y = 2 when z = 4 and x=2. Find the value of z when x = 3 and y = 4. A213 C.3/2 B. 3/4 D.4/3 41. Find aeb if lal 26 and Ibl = 17 and the angle between them is pi/3. A. 221 c.212 B. 383 D. 338 42. The side of a square is 5 om less than the side of the other square. If the difference of their areas is 55 cm?, what is the side of the smaller square? As c.4 B.5 D.6 43. How many ounces will she make to serve 25 half-cup? A.25 c.50 B. 100 D.7544. The area bounded by the curve y? = 12x and the line x = 3 is revolved about the line x = 3. What is the volume generated? A179 c. 181 B, 184 D. 186 45. Evaluate the integral of (sin x) raised to the 6th power and the limits from 0 to pil2. A. 0.49087 C.0.48907 B, 0.96402 D. 0.94624 46. Two engineers facing each other with a distance of 5 km from each other, the angles of elevation of the balloon from the two engineers are 56 degrees and 58 degrees, respectively. What is the distance of the balloon from the two engineers? A. 4.46 km, 4.54 km C. 4.64 km, 4.45 km B. 4.64 km, 4.54 km D. 4.46 km, 4.45 km 47. Evaluate the line integral from (0, 0) to (1, 1) I[vydx + (x - y) dy] A. 23 Cc 5/3 B. 4/3 D.1/3 48. Find the area of the triangle having vertices at -4-i, 142i, 4-3i A15 C.16 B.17 D.18 49. How many even numbers of three digits each can be made with the digits 0, 2, 3, 5,7, 8,9 ifno digit is repeated? A. 102 C.126 B. 80 D.90 50. What is the angle subtended in mils of an arc length of 10 yards in a circle of radius 5000 yards? A. 1.02 C.2.40 B. 4.02 D. 2.04 51.In the delivery of 14 transformers, 4 of which are defective, how many ways that in 5 transformers al least 2 are defective? A940 c. 920 B. 900 D.91052. point is chosen at random inside a circle having a diameter of 8 inches. What is the probability that the point is at least 1.5 inches away from the center of the circle? A. 55/64 c. 5/64 B. 5/8 D. 12/45 53. Jonas, star player of Adamson University has free throw shooting of 83%. The game is tied at 87-87. He is pulled and given 2 free throws. What is the probability that the game will go to overtime? A. 0.0289 C.0.9711 B.0.3111 D. 0.6889 54, Evaluate (1 + i) raised to (14). A. 2.82+11.32 C.2.82-11.32 B, -2.82,j1.32 D, -2.82+11.32 55. Sand is pouring to form a conical pile such that its radius is always twice its height. If the volume of a conical pile is increasing at the rate of 2 cu. m/sec, how fast is the height increasing when the height is 4 m? A116 pi mis C. 1/32 pi mis B. 1/64 pi mis D. 1/8 pi mis 56.A triangular comer lot has perpendicular sides of lengths 90 m and 60 m. Find the dimensions of the largest rectangular building that can be constructed on the. lot with sides parallel to the streets. A.30mx30m C.24mx 24m B.25mx40m D.45mx 30m 57. Joy is 10% taller than Joseph and Joseph is 10% taller than Tom. How many percent is Joy taller than Tom? A. 18% C. 20% B.21% D. 23% 58. What is the length of the shortest line segment in the first quadrant drawn tangent to the ellipse b?x"+ ay? = a® b* and meeting to the coordinate axes? Aalb C.atb B.ab D. bla59. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in an ellipse with equation 4x"2+y"2=4? A3 c4 B.2 D.4 60.A company hired 30 new employees today. It increases their workforce by 5%. How many workers now? A. 610 C.B. 600 B. 630 D.620 61.Find the radius of the circle inscribed in the triangle determined by the lines y = x#4, y = -x-4 and y = 7x-2. A. 5isqrt. of 2 C. 5/(2 sqrt. of 2) B. 3/sqrt. of 2 D. 3/(2 sqrt. of 2) 62.Find the length of arc of the parabola x = 4y from x = -2 to x = 2 A42 C46 B.4.9 D.5.2 63. From past experience it is known 90 percent of one year old children can distinguish their mother's voice from a similar sounding female. A random sample of one year old is given this voice recognition test. Find the probability that at least 3 children did not recognize their mother's voice. A.0.877 C. 0.323 B, 0.729 D.0.271 64. The area enclosed by the ellipse 4x"+9y2 = 36 is revolved about the line x = 3, what is the volume generated? A.370.3 c. 360.1 B. 355.3 D. 365.1 65.Find the coordinates of the centroid of the plane area bounded by the parabola y = 4-x'2 and the x-axis. A. (0, 1.5) C. (0, 1) B. (0,2) D. (0, 1.6) 66. What is the area of the largest rectangle that can be inscribed in an ellipse with equation 4x?+y? = 4? A3 c4 B.2 167. From past experience, it is known that 90% of one-year-old children can distinguish their mother's voice from the voice of a similar-sounding female. A random sample of 20 one-year-olds is given this voice recognition test. Let the random variable X denote the number of children who do not recognize their mother's voice. Find the variance of X. A144 C18 B. 1.34 D.2.04 68.When the energy/hour required in driving a boat varies as the cube of the velocity, find the most economical rate/hour when going against a current of 4 kph A.5 kph C.12 kph B. 8 kph D.6 kph 69. Evaluate the double integral dx dy / (xy), with interior limits 2y to 3y and outer limits from 0 to 2. A.In4 C.In2 B. In D.In3 70. Find the area bounded by y = V1x in the first quadrant and the lines x = 1 and x = 3. AT8 C.87 B.5.6 D.6.5 71.A pebble dropped into a lake creates an expanding circular ripple. If the radius of the ripple is increasing at the rate of 2 in/sec, at what rate is its area increasing when its radius is 10 in.? A. 12.56 sq. inisec C. 125.66 sq. in/sec B. 62.33 sq. in/sec D. 253.54 sq. in/sec 72.A federal agency is trying to decide which of two waste management projects to investigate as the source of air pollution. In the past, projects of the first type were in violation of air quality standards with probability 0.3 on any given day, while projects of the second type were in violation of air quality standards with probability 0.25 on any given day. It is not possible for both projects to pollute the air in one day. If the first project is violating air quality standards, what is the probability the second project is also violating federal air quality standards? A.03 co B, 0.0075 D.0.55 PAGE 1073. Sand is pouring to form a conical pile such that its altitude is always twice its radius. If the volume of a conical pile is increasing at a rate of 25pi cu. ft/min, how fast is the radius increasing when the radius is 5 feet? A.0.5 fin C.0.5pi fumin B. 5 ftimin D. pi ft/min 74. If 15% of the bolts produced by a machine will be defective, determine the probability that out of § bolts chosen at random, at most 2 bolts will be defective. A. 0.9724 C..0.9754 B. 0.9734 D.0.9744 75.A cone shaped icicle is dripping from the roof. The radius of the icicle is decreasing at a rate of 0.2 cm/hr, while the length is increasing at a rate of 0.8 cm/hr. If the icicle is currently 4 cm in radius and 20 cm long. is the volume of the icicle increasing or decreasing, and at what rate? A. decreasing at 20 cu. cm/hr C. increasing at 24 cu. cm/hr B. decreasing at 24 cu. cmv/hr D. increasing at 20 cu. cm/hr 76.A statistics department is contacting alumni by telephone asking for donations to help fund a new computer laboratory. Past history shows that 80% of the alumni contacted in this manner will make a contribution of at least P50.00. A random sample of 20 alumni is selected. What is the probability that between 14 to 18 alumni will make a contribution of at least P50.00? A.0.421 C.0.589 B. 0.844 D.0.301 77.Which point is nearest to (3, 2)? A. (-1, 1) ¢. (1, 1) B. (1, -1) D.(1, -1) 78. How long is the latus rectum of the ellipse whose equation is 9x? +16y’- 576=07 Ag c.10 B.15 D.7 79, Joe and his dad are bricklayers. Joe can lay bricks for a wall in 5 days. With his father's help, he can build it in 2 days. How long would it take his father to build it alone? A. 3-1/3 days C. 2-2/3 days B. 3-1/4 days D. 2-1/3 days PAGE 1180. The locus of a point that moves so that the sum of its distances between two fixed points is constant is called Aa hyperbola C. a parabola B. an ellipse D.acircle 81.A bag contains 3 red, 6 blue, 5 purple, and 2 orange marbles. One marble is selected at random. What is the probability that the marble chosen is blue? A.4/13 Cc. 3/8 B. 3/16 D.3/5 82.Find the area of the ellipse 4x? + 9y"= 36. A. 18.85 ©. 21.99 B. 25.13 D.15.71 83.From a sample size of 100, the following description measures were calculated: median = 23; mean = 20; standard deviation = 5; range = 35. Seventy five sample values are between 5 and 35. If you know the sample mean, median, standard deviation were correct, which of the following conclusions might you draw? A, The number of sample values between 10 and 30 were miscounted. B. The range must have been calculated incorrectly because it should not be seven times the standard deviation’s value. C. The number of sample values between 5 and 35 have been miscounted because all 100 values must be in this interval. D. The distribution is skewed to the right because the median exceeds the mean. 84,Hotels, like airlines, often overbook, relying on the fact that some people with reservations will cancel at the last minute. A certain hotel chain finds 20% of the reservation will not be used. If 4 reservations are made, what is the probability fewer than two will cancel? A. 0.8192 C. 0.3825 B. 0.7241 D.0.5211 85. The first term of GP is 160 and the common ratio is 3/2. How many consecutive terms must be taken to give a sum of 2110? AS c.8 B.6 D.7 PAGE 1286.A tree is broken over by a windstorm. The tree was 90 feet high and the top of the tree is 25 feet from the foot of the tree. What is the height of the standing part of the tree? A. 45.69 ft C.48.47 ft B. 44.31 ft D. 41.53 ft 87.Find the point along the line x=y=z that is equidistant from (3, 0, 5) and (1, -1, 4). A (1,1, 1) C. (2, 2, 2) B. (3,3, 3) D. (4,4, 4) 88.A woman is paid $ 20 for each day she works and paid $ 5 for each day she is idle. At the end of 25 days she nets $ 450. How many days did she work? Aa c.23 B.24 D. 22 89. Solve the differential equation y' = y/2x. Ay=ox B. y = ox? 90. If the slant height of a right circular cone is 13 and the total area is 90 pi, find the base radius. AS c.4 B.6 D.3 91.If 8 men take 12 days to assemble 16 machines, how many days will it take 15 men to assemble 50 machines? A. 12 days C. 16 days B. 20 days D. 24 days 92.A Statistics Department is contacting alumni by telephone asking for donations to help fund a new computer laboratory. Past history shows that 80% of the alumni contacted in this manner will make a contribution of at least $50, A random sample of 20 alumni is selected. Let x represent the number of alumni that makes a contribution of at least $50. What is the probability that less than 17 alumni will make a contribution of at least $50? A. 0.5886 C. 0.6788 B. 0.8856 D. 0.7688 PAGE 1393. The number of ways can 3 nurses and 4 engineers be seated on a branch with the nurses seated together is A144 c.350 B, 258 D.720 94. particle moves along a line with acceleration 2 +6t at time t. When t=O, its velocity equals 3 and itis at position z = 2. When t =1, it is at positions A2 c.5 B6 D7 95.A container is in the form of a right circular cylinder with an altitude of 6 in and a radius of 2 in. If an asbestos of 1 in thick is inserted inside the container along its lateral surface, find the volume capacity of the container. A.12.57 cu.in C.12.75 cu.in B. 18.58 cu.in D. 18.85 cu.in 96. Michael's age is seven-tenths of Richard's age. In four years Michael's age will be eight-elevenths of Richard’s age. How old is Michael now? A. 28 yrs B. 40 yrs C. 48 yrs D. 26 yrs 97.A fair coin is tossed three times. Find the probability that there will appear three heads. A1l B.1/6 c.12 D.1/8 98.Find the work done in moving an object along a vector a=3i+4j if the force applied is b=2isj, A.10 B.12 c.9 D8 99. The Fourier series of waveform processing even quarter-wave symmetry contains only A. even harmonics B. odd cosine terms C. odd sine terms D. both odd cosine terms and odd sine terms 100. The edge of a cube has length 10 in, with a possible error of 1%. The possible error, in cubic inches, in the volume of the cube is At c. 30 B.3 D.10 PAGE 14