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1 EVALUATION EXAM
NOVEMBER 2015 CE LICENSURE EXAMINATION

1. 2000 kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to be made by mixing a steel containing 14%

nickel with another containing 6% nickel. How much 14% nickel is needed?
A. 1000 B. 500 C. 1500 D. 700

2. If sin x=y, what is cos 2x in term of y?

A. 2y B. 3y C. 1 – 2y^2 D. 2y^2 - 1

3. A besiege fortress is held by 5700 men who have provisions for 66 days. If the garrison
loses 20 men each day, how many days can the provision hold out?
A. 60 B. 72 C. 82 D. 76

4. Find the product of all possible values of x that will satisfy |x 2 – 2x- 16| = 8.
A. -24 B. -96 C. 192 D. 48

5. All the students in a geometry class took a 100-point test. Six students scored 100, each
student scored at least 50 and the mean was 70. What is the smallest possible number of
students in the class?
A. 9 B. 12 C. 15 D. Cannot determine

6. If the letters of the world MATHEMATICS are repeatedly and consecutively written, what is
the 2014th letter?
A. M B. A C. T D. S

7. If sec xA = 1/(sin yA), where x + y = 150 , determine the acute angle A in degrees.
A. 4 B. 6 C. 8 D. 3

8. Given that the remainder of m/n is 2 and the remainder of p/n is 0, then what is the
remainder of mp/n?
A. 2 B. 0 C. 3 D. 1

9. One canned juice drink is 15% lemon juice; another is 5% lemon juice. How many liters of
the less concentrated lemon should be mixed with the other in order to get 10L that is
12% lemon juice?
A. 5 L B. 3 L C. 7 L D. 2 L

10.A frog is at the bottom of a 20-m well. If the frog jumps 5 m, it slips 4 m back down
(because the walls are slippery). After how many jumps will the frog reach the top?
A. 15 B. 16 C. 19 D. 20

11.A 16-team bowling league has 8000 Php to be awarded as prize money. If the last-place
team is awarded 275 Php in prize money, and the award increases by the same amount
for each successive finishing place, how much will the 1 st runner up receive?
A. 725 B. 695 C. 665 D. 635

12.In an experiment involving mice, a zoologist needs a food mix that contains, among other
things, 23 grams of protein, 6.2 grams of fat, and 16 grams of moisture. She has on hand
mixes of the following compositions: Mix A contains 20% protein, 2% fat and 15%
moisture; Mix B contains 10% protein, 6% fat, and 10% moisture; and Mix C contains 15%
protein, 5% fat and 5% moisture. How many grams of Mix B should be combined with
proper amounts of Mix A and C?
A. 40 B. 50 C. 60 D. 70

13.Two candles of same length are lighted at the same time and burning until the first candle
is twice as long as the other. If the first candle is expected to fully burn in 8 hrs while the
other in 4 hrs, how long will they be lighted?
A. 3.5 hrs B. 2.67 hrs C. 3.33 hrs D. None in the list

14.A meeting of members and officials of a party list is held in order to decide whether or not
they should support Harf Miranda for president. The regulator instructs that those in favor
should remain standing and those against should sit down. The regulator announced that
the motion carried by a majority equal to a quarter of opposition. One member protested,
 telling that some of them cannot sit down because of scarcity of chairs. So it was decided
that those who wanted to sit down but couldn’t, will raise their right hand. He counted a
dozen and then announced the motion is lost by a majority of 1. How many were in the
meeting excluding the regulator?
A. 207 B. 215 C. 210 D. 219

15.A 50-meter tape is used to measure a horizontal distance. The reading at the other end is
7.25 m. If the plumb bob was 0.65 m lower than the horizontal, what is the correct
distance?
A. 7.22 B. 7.28 C. 6.60 D. 7.90

16.If sin2A=cos12B, find tan(A+6B).

A. 0.5 B. 1 C. 0.866 D. 0.532

17.If (x2 + 9x + 14)/(x2 - 49) is divided by (3x + 6)/(x2 + x - 56) the quotient is:
A. x+8 B. x+3 C. (x+8)/3 D. (x+3)/8

18.You are given 8 numbers which add up to 168. One of the numbers is 28. Calculate the
average of the other 7 numbers.
A. 40 B. 30 C. 20 D. 10

19.A freight train leaves the town of Harfville at 1:00 PM traveling due east at constant speed.
Marcial, a hobo, sneaks onto the train and falls asleep. At the same time, Chokie leaves
Harfville on her bicycle, traveling along a straight road in a northeasterly direction (but not
due northeast) at 10 miles per hour. At 1:12 PM, Marcial rolls over in his sleep and falls
from the train onto the side of the tracks. He wakes up and immediately begins walking at
3.5 miles per hour directly towards the road on which Chokie is riding. Marcial reaches the
road at 2:12 PM, just as Chokie is riding by. What is the speed of the train in miles per
hour?
A. 60 mph B. 61.5 mph C. 62 mph D. 62.5 mph

20.Jomar who is five and a half feet tall wants to measure the length of his shadow at a
certain time of the day, but he can’t seem to figure out how. He saw that a 12-foot three
casts a shadow and he measured it to be 5 ft. How long is his shadow at that time?
A. 13.2 B. 2.29 C. 5.47 D. 4.22

21.Almar bikes x km east at 20 kph to his friend’s house. He then turns south and bikes x km
at 20 kph to the store. Then, Almar turns east again and goes to his grandma’s house at
14 kph. On this last leg, he has to carry flour he bought for her at the store. Her house is 2
km more from the store than Almar’s friend’s house is from the store. Almar spends a total
of 1 hour on the bike to get to his grandmother’s house. If Almar then rides straight home
in his grandma’s helicopter at 78 kph, how many minutes does it take Almar to get home
from his grandma’s house?
A. 10 B. 13 C. 12 D. 15

22.Praxy has a set of numbers whose sum is 70. When each number in the set is replaced by
the number less than 1, the sum of the new numbers is 40. What is the sum when each
numbers in the set is replaced by 1 more than the number?
A. 110 B. 150 C. 160 D. 180

23.Some students are taking a math contest, in which each student takes one of four tests.
One third of the students take one test, one fourth take another test, one fifth take the
next test, and 26 take the last test. How many students are taking the contest in total?
A. 100 B. 120 C. 140 D. 160

24.Solve for the values of x: log(x+2)+log(x+3)=log(x+3)

A. -1 B. -3 C. -1, -3 D. None in the list

25.How many seconds longer is 3% of an hour than is 20% of a minute?

A. 80 B. 108 C. 96 D. 88

26.If a, b, and c are different numbers and a^3+3a+14=0, b^3+3b+14=0 and

c^3+3c+14=0, what is the value of 1/a+1/b+1/c?
A. -11/14 B. -3/14 C. 11/14 D. None in the list
27.What is the remainder when x^2014+2014 is divided by x-1?
A. 2012 B. 2013 C. 2014 D. 2015

28.What is the maximum perimeter of a triangle with sides 24 and 26 if the other side is
limited to an integer?
A. 100 B. 99 C. 53 D. 52

29.If f(x)=(3x-a)/(5x-b), for any real number a and b. If f(0)=0 and f(1) is undefined, what is
f(3/5)?
A. 3/5 B. -3/5 C. 9/10 D. -9/10

30.If a, b and c are the sides of a triangle where sqrt(a)+sqrt(b)=sqrt(c), which of the
following is true about the triangle?
A. It does not exist B. It is right triangle C. It is scalene D. It is equilateral
triangle triangle

31.If x=1/a, b=8a, c=1/b, d=8c, where a, b, c and d are distinct non-zero real numbers, then
x must be equal to:
A. a B. b C. c D. d

32.Experts Basketball belongs to a six-team basketball league in which each team plays four
games with each of the other teams. The five other teams finished this season with the
following winning percentages: 10%, 35%, 40%, 50% and 75%. What was the winning
percentage of Experts Basketball this season?
A. 10% B. 50% C. 60% D. 90%

33.Reversing the digits of Anna’s age gives her mother’s age with a difference of eighteen
years. If the sum of the digits of each age is 6, how old is Anna?
A. 15 B. 24 C. 33 D. 42

34.Solve for x: lnx - 1=ln(2x + 1)

A. e/(1-2e) B. (1-2e)/e C. e/(1+2e) D. None in list

35.A tower 27.5 m tall makes an angle of 126 degrees with the inclined road on which it is
located. Determine the angle subtended by the tower at a point 35 m down the road.
A. 23° B. 23°5’ C. 23°13’ D. 23°30’

36.The sum of three numbers in geometric progression is 52. If 8 is added to the middle term
and the other two are left unchanged, the progression becomes arithmetic. What is the
largest original number?
A. 12 B. 20 C. 36 D. 16

37.A flagpole, which is 34 ft high, stands on top of a tower, which is 30 ft high. From a certain
point in the same horizontal plane with the base of the tower, the angle subtended by the
pole is equal to the angle of elevation of the top of the tower. Find the distance from this
point to the base of the tower.
A. 100 ft B. 120 ft C. 130 ft D. 150 ft

38.In the expansion of (3+sqrt(x))^11, what is the coefficient of the term that has x^4?
A. 4455 B. 27 C. 165 D. 55

39.Boat A is heading due east of a port traveling at constant speed of 80 kph. After 45
minutes, boat B left the port with constant speed of 100 kph. If after 2.75 hours when boat
A left the port, the two are 112.5 km apart, what was the direction of boat B?
 A. S 30.6° E B. S 59.4° E C. S 23.4° E D. S 66.6° E

40.It took a train 20 seconds to completely pass a 500-m iron bridge. When the train was
passing through a 1200-m tunnel, it was invisible from outside of the tunnel for 30
seconds. If the speed of the train was constant, what was the length of the train?
A. 180 m B. 160 m C. 140 m D. 120 m

41.A salesman gets a P 1,000 commission on a small scale, one of the many that he
accomplished in a period of time. This P 1,000 commission raised his average commission
by P 150. If the salesman’s new average commission is now P 400, how many sales did he
make?
A. 10 B. 5 C. 3 D. None in the list

42.How soon after five o’clock will the hour and minute hands of a clock form a right angle?
A. 10:91 B. 10:55 C. 11:91 D. 12:91

43.Allan can do a job in 30 days. Working together with Joe, they can do it in 12 days. How
many days can Joe do the job alone?
A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25

44.Let 0<x<1, which of the following has the largest value?

A. x3 B. x2+x C. x2+x3 D. x4

45.A triangular piece of land has vertices A, B and C and is surveyed producing the following
data: A=30°, C=50° and AC=13 m. What should be the length of side AB?
A. 7.89 m B. 8.23 m C. 9.54 m D. 10.11 m

46.A certain radio wave takes the form of a sine curve and is expressed by the equation
y=5sin2x. What is the frequency of this wave?
A. 3.14 B. 2.01 C. 0.32 D.1.87

47.Which of the following could be a product of an even prime number and odd prime
number?
A. 6 B. 10 C. 14 D. All of the above

48.If P is an odd number and Q is an even number, which of the following expressions must
be even?
A. P+Q B. P-Q C. PQ D. None in the list

49.Which of the following is a factor of x^3-6x^2+11x-6?

A. x-1 B. x-2 C. x-3 D. All in list

50.A man on the top of a light tower 13.856 m above the ground has spotted 2 boats. One
boat has an angle of depression of 45° while the other has an angle of depression equal to
60°. Find the distance between the two boats.
A. 8 B. 2.93 C. 5.86 D. 3.45

51.A fruit grower can use two types of fertilizer in an orange grove, brand A and brand B.
Each bag of brand A contains 8 lbs of nitrogen and 9 lbs of phosphoric acid. Each bag of
brand B contains 4 lbs of nitrogen and 7 lbs of phosphoric acid. Tests indicate that the
grove needs 860 lbs of nitrogen and 1080 lbs of phosphoric acid. How many bags of brand
A to be combined with brand B is used to provide the required amounts of nitrogen and
phosphoric acid?
 A. 1445 B. 950 C. 1940 D. None in list

52.A boat has a speed of 25 kph in still water and is heading N 45° E. It encounters a water
current moving south. If the final direction of the boat is N 54.9° E, what is the speed of the
current?
A. 6.35 B. 4.75 C. 3.25 D. 5.25

53.My flight was delayed and getting bored, I conducted an experiment with the moving
walkway at the airport and my stopwatch. I started walking on the moving walkway at a
constant speed, and discovered that it took me exactly 162 seconds to go from one end to
the other. Next I started to walk against the moving walkway (the wrong way) at the same
constant speed and found that it took me five times as long to go from one end to the
other. If I just walked at the same constant speed, without using the moving walkway, how
many seconds would that take me to cover the same distance?
A. 160 B. 250 C. 270 D. 300

SITUATION 1: Convert the following polar equations into rectangular form.

54.cost=r-sint
A. x^2+y^2-y+x=0 B. x^2+y^2-y-x=0 C. x^2+y^2-y =0 D. x^2+y^2+x=0

55.r^3=2r^2(sint)+r
A. x^2+y^2-2y=0 B. x^2+y^2-2y- C. x^2+y^2- D. x^2+y^2+2y-
1=0 2y+1=0 1=0

56.2sintcost=1
A. 2x^2=y^2 B. x^2+y^2- C. D. x^2+y^2-2=0
2xy=0 x^2+y^2+2xy+2=0

SITUATION 2: Determine the quadrant for which the angle being describe terminates.
57.cotθ > 0 and cscθ >0
A. I B. II C. III D. IV

58.secθ < 0 and tanθ > 0

A. I B. II C. III D. IV

59.cscθ > 0 and cosθ < 0

A. I B. II C. III D. IV

SITUATION 3: Solve the following complex number problems.

6
60.Expand the complex number: (2 √3+ 2i)
A. -64i B. 64i C. 4096 D. -4096

8
61.Expand the complex number: (1−√ 3 i)
A. 128+221.7i B. -128+221.7i C. -128-221.7i D. 128-221.7i

62.Expand the complex number: [(

7 √ − i
3 1
2 2 )]
A. 24.5-42.4i B. -24.5-42.4i C. -24.5+42.4i D. 24.5+42.4i

SITUATION 4: Solve the following trigonometry problems.

63.If sinA=21/29 and A is in the second quadrant, what is the value of cos2A?
A. 41/841 B. -41/841 C. -20/29 D. 20/29

64.If secx=5/3 and x is in the fourth quadrant, what is the value of cscx?
A. -5/3 B. 5/4 C. -5/4 D. 5/3

65.If cosθ=-15/17 and θ is in third quadrant, what is the value of 289sinθcosθ?

A. 120 B. -120 C. 60 D. -60
SITUATION 5: Convert the following equations into polar form.
66.x+y=0
A. cost+sint=0 B. cost-sint=0 C. cost+sint=R D. cost-sint=R

67.2x^2+2y^2-x+y=0
A. 2R+cost+sint=0 B. R=cost+sint C. R=(1/2)(cost+sint) D. R=(1/2)(cost-
sint)

68.x^2+y^2-4y=0
A. R=4sint B. R=2sint C. R=4cost D. R=2cost

SITUATION 6: Determine the number of triangles formed given the following data of triangle ABC.
69.a=5.1, b=10 and A=32°
A. 1 B. 0 C. 2 D. Insufficient Data

70.a=23, b=19 and A=50°

A. 1 B. 0 C. 2 D. Insufficient Data

SITUATION 7: Two trains are running in the same direction on two parallel tracks. The trains are
85 m and 65 m, respectively, and running at 120 kph and 240 kph. If the trail end of the first
train is 210 m ahead of the front end of the second train.
71.Determine the time required for the front end of the second train to reach the tail end of
the first train.
A. 4.6 s B. 5.7 s C. 6.3 s D. 7.8 s

72.Determine the total distance traveled by the second train from the initial position when it
has completely overtaken the first train.
A. 720 m B. 756 m C. 845 m D. 810 m

73.Determine the distance traveled by the first train from the initial position until both ends of
the two trains abreast each other.
A. 276 m B. 280 m C. 295 m D. 305 m

SITUATION 8: The population of bacteria in a fluid triples every minute. Initially, the population
was 200 bacteria.
74.What is the population of the bacteria after 3 minutes?
A. 600 B. 1800 C. 5400 D. 16200

75.What is the population of the bacteria after 1 hour?

A. 8.48 x 10^30 B. 8.37 x 10^30 C. 8.25 x 10^30 D. 8.88 x 10^30

76.After how many seconds will the population double?

A. 35.44 B. 36.45 C. 37.02 D. 37.86

77.Solve for the value of A:

2 x −1 A B
= +
( x +2 ) (x−1) (x +2) ( x−1)

A. 5/3 B. -5/3 C. -1/3 D. 1/3

78.When a cubic polynomial is divided by x + 1, x – 1, 2x + 1 and x – 3, the remainders are 5,

1, 37/8 and 65. Compute the remainder when the polynomial is divided by x – 2.
A. 1/2 B. 61 C. 33/2 D. 65/7

SITUATION 9: Determine the domain of each function.

79. f ( x )=√ 2 x−1
 A. x ≥ 1 B. x ≥ 1/2 C. x > 1/2 D. x ≥ -1/2

80. f ( x )=√ 1−x + √ x

A. 0 ≤ x ≤ 1 B. x ≥ 0 C. x ≤ 1 D. x ≤ 0 U x ≥ 1

81. f ( x )=√ x −5 x+ 6
2

A. x ≤ 2 B. 2 ≤ x ≤ 3 C. x ≥ 3 D. x ≤ 2 U x ≥ 3

82.Solve for the value of the numerator of x+2 in the decomposition into partial fractions of:
x 4 + 3 x 3−2 x +1
( x+ 2 ) ( x−1)

A. 1 B. -1 C. 2 D. 3

83.Determine the value of a if the determinant of the following matrix is -51.

[ ]
3 5 −1
A= 2 a 4
−2 0 1

A. 1 B. -1 C. 0 D. 3

84.The variable s varies jointly with t and u such that s = 7 when t = 4 and u = 3. What is the
constant of proportionality describing the relationship between s on one hand and t and u
on the other?
A. 7/12 B. 12/7 C. 6/7 D. 7/6

85.After knee surgery, your trainer tells you to return to your jogging program slowly. He
suggests jogging for 12 minutes each day for the first week. Each week thereafter, he
suggests that you increase that time by 6 minutes per day. How many weeks will it be
before you are up to jogging 60 minutes per day?
A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 10

86.Find the term containing x5y2 in the expansion of (x+y)7

A. 35x5y2 B. 36x5y2 C. 16x5y2 D. 21x5y2

87.It takes 2 hours for 3 people to paint 100 ft of 6-ft fencing. Assuming that each person is
capable of painting at the same rate, how long will it take for 12 people to paint 1,800 ft of
the same fencing?
A. 9 hrs B. 4.5 hrs C. 6 hrs D. 12 hrs

88.A culture of bacteria doubles every 2 hours. If there are 500 bacteria at the beginning,
how many bacteria will there be after 24 hours?
A. 1,024,000 B. 512,000 C. 4,096,000 D. 2,048,000

89.A salesman started walking from office A at 9:30 am at the rate of 2.5 kph. He arrived
office B 12 seconds late. Had he started at A at 9:00 am and walked at 1.5 kph, he would
have arrived at B one minute before the required time. At what time was he supposed to
be at B?
A. 10:13 am B. 10:45 am C. 10:09 am D. 10:05 am

90.Two cars starting at the same time travel from A to B 1000 m apart. One car can travel
1000 m in 130 seconds while the other car can travel the same distance in 120 seconds.
How far behind the faster car is the slower car when the faster car reached point B?
A. 67.5 m B. 76.9 m C. 72.3 m D. 69.6 m

91.Coffee worth $1.05 per pound is mixed with coffee worth 85¢ per pound to obtain 20
pounds of a mixture worth 90¢ per pound. How many pounds of $1.05 per pound is used?
A. 5 lbs B. 15 lbs C. 10 lbs D. 12 lbs

92.One pipe can fill a pool 1.25 times faster than a second pipe. When both pipes are opened,
they fill the pool in five hours. How long would it take to fill the pool if only the slower pipe
is used?
 A. 14.21 hrs B. 10.45 hrs C. 11.25 hrs D. 8.86 hrs

93.It takes 6 hours for pump A, used alone, to fill a tank of water. Pump B used alone takes 8
hours to fill the same tank. We want to use three pumps: A, B and another pump C to fill
the tank in 2 hours. What should be the rate of pump C?
A. 1/2.4 B. 1/1.2 C. 1/4.8 D. 1/3.6

94.A tank can be filled by pipe A in 5 hours and by pipe B in 8 hours, each pump working on
its own. When the tank is full and a drainage hole is open, the water is drained in 20 hours.
If initially the tank was empty and someone started the two pumps together but left the
drainage hole open, how long does it take for the tank to be filled?
A. 3.6 hrs B. 3.2 hrs C. 3.4 hrs D. 3 hrs

95.From the same point, two mosquitoes flew out towards different direction with the angle
between their directions equal to 84 degrees. One mosquito was flying at 12 m/min while
the other was flying at 17 m/min. After 2 minutes, the distance from one to the other most
probably is closest to:
A. 63.2 m B. 54.1 m C. 39.5 m D. 19.7 m

96.A surveyor set up his instrument at A and measured the angle of elevation of the top of a
tower and found it to be 26.4 degrees. He moved the instrument 74.5 m closer to the
tower and measured the angle of elevation of the top of the tower as 52.6 degrees. How
high is the tower (in meters)?
A. 63.1 m B. 59.6 m C. 65.3 m D. 49.7 m

97.Complementary angles are in the ratio 4:5, find the ratio of their supplements.
A. 12:11 B. 3:4 C. 4:5 D. 14:13

98.The length of the hour hand and the minute hand is 10 cm and 15 cm, respectively. How
far are the tips of the hand from each other at 10 o’clock?
A. 13.23 in B. 5.21 in C. 12.01 in D. 23.4 in

99.A flagpole, which is 34 ft high, stands on top of a tower, which is 30 ft high. From a certain
point in the same horizontal plane with the base of the tower, the angle subtended by the
pole is equal to the angle of elevation of the top of the tower. Find the distance from this
point to the base of the tower.
A. 100 ft B. 120 ft C. 130 ft D. 150 ft

100. In the expansion of (3+sqrt(x))^11, what is the coefficient of the term that has
x^4?
A. 4455 B. 27 C. 165 D. 55

-HJM