Mathematics Exit Exam Questionnaire Set A Key
Mathematics Exit Exam Questionnaire Set A Key
Mathematics Exit Exam Questionnaire Set A Key
a.1/x2 c. 1/x
b. -1/x d. -1/x2
a. -4/[1-(4x)^2]^2 c. -4/[1-(4x)^2]^0.5
b. -4/[1-(4x)]^0.5 d. -4/[(4x)^2-1]^0.5
3. Given the function f(x) to the 3rd power -6x+2, find the value of the first derivative at x=2, f’ (2).
a. 6 c. 7
b. 3x2 d. 8
4. The cost C of a product is a function of the quantity x the product is given by the relation:
C(x)= x2-4000x+50. Find the quantity for which the cost is a minimum.
a. 3000 c. 1000
b. 2000 d. 1500
5. A van is 5km due north of a of a bus at 2:00 p.m. If the van is travelling northward at the rate of 60 kph and
the bus is travelling westward at the rate of 75 kph, how fast will the two separating at 5:00 p.m.?
a. 24.4 c. 23.4
b. 25.5 d. 22.4
c. -2x ¿ √ 2+3 x2
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d. -3x¿ √ 23 x2
9. Find the slope of tangent to a probably y=x2 at a point on the curve where x is one-half.
a. 0 c. 1/4
b. 1 d. -1/2
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10. What is the curve of curvature at point (1,2) of the curve 4x-y =0
a. 6.21 c. 5.66
b. 5.21 d. 6.66
11. A hemispherical dome has a diameter of 100m. A searchlight is placed at a point A located at the
circumference at the base. At the middle of the dome at B, A balloon was released vertically at the velocity
of 4 m/s. How fast is the shadow of the balloon move along the roof when the balloon is 25m high?
12. Find the angle that the line 2y-9x-18=0 makes with x-axis.
a. 74.7° c. 47.77°
b. 4.5° d. 77.47°
1−cos x
13. Evaluate: lim ( 2 ¿ )¿
x →1 x
a. 0 b. ½ c. 2 d. – ½
2 2
14. A function is given below, what x value maximizes y? y +y+x -2x=5
a. 2.23 c. 5
b. -1 d. 1
15. The number of newspaper copies distributed is given by C = 50 t 2-200 t+ 1000, where t is in years. Find
the minimum number of copies distributed from 1995 to 2002
a. 9850 c. 10200
b. 9800 d. 75
a. 0 c. 1
b. -1 d. 2
17. If the sum of two numbers is C, find the minimum value of the sum of their squares.
a. C2/2 c. C2/6
b. C2/4 d. C2/8
18. The shortest distance from the point (5,10) to the curve x2=12y is:
a. 4.331 c. 5.127
b. 3.474 d. 6.
19. A Normal window is in the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle. What is the ratio of the width
of the rectangle to the total height of that it will yield a window admitting the most light for a given
perimeter?
a. 1 c. 1/3
b 2/3 d ½
20. Evaluate the integral of 5 cos6x sin2x dx using lower limit= 0 and upper limit= π/2.
a. 0.5046 c. 0.6107
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b. 0.3068 d. 0.4105
21. An iron bar 20m long is bent to form a closed plane area. What is the largest area possible?
22. A car drives east from point A at 30 kph. Another car starting from B at the same time, drives S 30° W
toward A at 60 kph. B is 30km away from A. how fast in kph is the distance between the 2 cars changing
after 1 hour?
a. 35/2 c. 17/2
b. 19/2 d. 37/2
24. Water flows into a tank having a form of a frustum of a right circular cone. The tank is 4m tall with upper
radius of 1.5m and the lower radius of 1m. When the water in the tank is 12m deep, the surface rises at the
rate of 0.012 m/s. Calculate the discharge of the water flowing into the tank in m3/s.
25. The sum of two numbers is K. The product of one by the cube of the other is to be a maximum. Determine
one of the numbers.
26. Find the height of the largest right pyramid with a square base that can be inscribed in a sphere of radius
of 10cm.
a.
e x +1 +C
2
c. e x + 1+C
ln 2
b. e 2 x +C d. 2x e x +C
29. A tank contains 400 liters of brine holding 100 kilogram of salt in solution water contains 125 gram of salt
per liter flows mixture keep uniform by steering flows out at the same rate. Find the amount of salt at the
end of 90 minutes.
a. 53.36 c. 53.63
b. 0 d. 65.33
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31. The integral of cos x with respect to x; ∫ cos x dx is:
a. sec x + C c. cos x + C
b. sin x + C d. -sin x + C
32. A body moves such that its acceleration as a function of time is a=2+12t, where t is in minutes and a is in
m/ min2. Its velocity after 1 minute is 11m/min. Find its velocity after 2 minutes.
a. 31 m/min c. 45 m/min
b. 23 m/min d. 18 m/min
33. Under certain condition, cane sugar in water is converted into dextrose at a rate proportional to the amount
that is unconverted at any time. If, of 75 kilograms at time t=0, 8 kilogram are converted during the first 30
minutes, find amount of converted 2 hours.
a.72.73 kg c. 27.23 kg
b.23.27 kg d. 32.72 kg
35. A conical tank that is 5 meters high has a radius of 2 meters, and is filled with a liquid that weighs 800
kilogram per cubic meter. How much work is done in discharging all the liquid at a point 3 meters above
the top of the tank?
36. Determine the differential equation of the family of lines passing through the origin.
a. x dy – y dx = 0 c. x dy + y dx = 0
b. x dx-y dy = 0 d. x dx + y dy = 0
38. The motion of a particle is defined by the parametric equation x=t3 and y=2t2. Determine the velocity when
t=2.
a. ½ ln (1+e2x) + C c. ½ ln (1+e2x)2 + C
41. Find the acute angle that the curve y=1-3x3 cut the x-axis.
a. 77° c.79°
b. 75° d. 120°
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dx
42. Evaluate ∫ ln x x √ ¿¿ ¿ ¿ ¿
a. arcsec (ln x) + C c. ln√ ¿ ¿
43. Obtain the differential equation of all straight lines at a fixed distance p from the origin.
b. (xy’+y)2=[1+(y’)2] d. (xy’+y)=[1+y’]
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+1
44. Evaluate ∫ xx +2 dx .
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a. x3+x2+4x+ 7ln (x+2) + C c.
x -x2+4x – 7 ln (x+2) + C
3
2 3
b. x3-
x +4x - ln (x+2) + C d.
x +x2+4x – ln (x+2) + C
2 3
2x
45. Evaluate ∫ eex +1 dx .
a. ½ ex+ ln (ex +1) + C c. ln(ex+1) + C
b. ex-ln(ex+1) + C d. ex+ln(ex+1)+C
3 dx
46. Evaluate ∫ x ( x+ 3) .
x
a. 3 ln x(x+3) + C c. ln ( ¿+C
x+3
x
b. 1/3 ln ( ¿ d. ln x(x+3) + C
x+3
xdx
47. Evaluate the integral of a. if it has an upper limit of 1 and limit of 0.
( x+1 )8
a. 0.022 c. 0.043
b. 0.056 d. 0.031
48. Find the integral of 12 sin5 x cos5 x dx if lower limit = 0 and upper limit = π/2.
a. 0.2 c. 0.6
b. 0.8 d. 0.4
49. Find the area bounded by y=(11-x)1/2, the lines 3x=2 and x=10, and the X-axis.
50. Using lower limit = 0 and upper limit = π/2, what is the integral of 15 sin 7 x dx?
a. 6.783 c. 6.648
b. 6.857 d. 6.539
51. Evaluate the integral of 3 (sin x) ^3 dx using lower limit of 0 and upper limit =π/2.
a. 2.0 c. 1.4
b. 1.7 d. 2.3
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a. 35 π/768 c. 27 π/363
b. 23 π/765 d. 12 π/81
53. Evaluate the integral of(3x2+9y2) dx dy if the interior limit has an upper limit of y and a lower limit of 0,
and whose outer limit has an upper limit of y and a lower limit o 0, and whose outer limit has an upper
limit of 2 and lower limit of 0.
a. 10 c. 30
b. 40 d. 20
54. Evaluate the double integral of r sin u dr du, the limits of r is from 0 to cos u and the limits of u is from 0
to pi.
a. -1/6 c. 1/3
b. 1/6 d. ½
55. Determine the value of integral of sin5 3x dx with limits from 0 to π/6
a. 0.324 c. 0.275
b. 0.178 d. 0.458
56. Find the area under the curve y=x3+3x2 and the x axis between x=1 and x=3
12 x
57. Find the area of the region bounded by the curves y= 2 , the x-axis, x=1, and x=4.
x +4
a. 4 ln 6 c. 6 ln 15
b. ln 24 d. 6 ln 4
a. 25.6 c. 12.8
b. 28.1 d. 56.2
a. 3a2 c. 4a2
b. a2 d. 2a2
60. Given is the area in the first quadrant bounded by x 2=8y, the line y-2=0 and the y-axis. What is the
volume generated when this area is revolved about the line y-2=0?
a. 28.41 c. 27.32
b. 26.81 d. 25.83
61. How far from the y-axis is the centroid of the area bounded by the curve y=x 3, in the line x=2, and the x-
axis.
a. 1.2 c. 1.6
b. 1.4 d. 1.8
62. A solid is formed by revolving about the y-axis, the area bounded by the curve y=x 4, the y axis and the
line y= 16. Find its centroid.
63. How much work is required to pump all the water from a right circular cylindrical tank, that is 8 feet in
diameter and 9 feet tall, if it is emptied at the point 1 foot above the top of the tank?
64. Find the partial derivatives with respect to x of the function: xy2-5y+6
a. y2-5 c. y2
b. xy-5y d. 2xy
65. A 60-m cable that weighs 4 kg/m has a 500-kilogram weight attached at the end. how much work is done
in winding up the last 20 meter of the cable?
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a. 9,866 kg-m c. 12,500 kg-m
b. 10,800 kg-m d. 15,456 kg-m
66. A uniform chain that weighs 0.50 kg per meter has a leaky 15-liter bucket attached to it. If the bucket is
full of liquid when 30 meters of chain is out and half full when no chain is out and half full when no chain
is out how much work is done in winding the chain? Assume that the liquid leaks out at a uniform rate
and weighs 1 kilogram per liter.
67. Determine the area bounded by the curve y2=9x/5 and the line y=x-2.
a. 6.86 c. 9.39
b. 5.75 d. 8.78
68. An open-top hemispherical tank having a radius of 1.2m, full of water, is being drained by a vertical pipe
whose exit ends is 0.8 m above the top of the tank. How much work is done by gravity as an additional
100 m are unwound?
a. 32.54 kJ c. 75.42 kJ
b. 44.38 kJ d. 24.78 kJ she
x 1
a. - cos 2 x+ sin 2 x +c c.
4 2
x 1
cos 2 x− sin 2 x + c
4 2
x 1
b. - cos 2 x− sin 2 x +c d. -
2 4
x 1
cos 2 x+ sin 2 x+ c
2 4
70. A mine cable weighing 60 N/m is unwound from a cylindrical drum. if the lower end of the cable is initially
15 meters below the drum, how much work is done by gravity as an additional 100 meter are unwound?
71. Find the surface area generated by rotating the first quadrant portion of the curve X 2 = 16 – 8y about the y-
axis.
a. 58.41 c. 61.27
b. 64.25 d. 66.38
a. 32.47 c. 25.13
b. 30.12 d. 28.54
73. Obtain the differential equation of the family of straight lines with slope and Y intercept equal.
a. y dy + (x+1) dx = 0 c. y dx + (x+1) dy = 0
b. y dy – (x-1) dx = 0 d.
74. Find the length of the arc of x2+y2=64 from=-1 to x=-3, in the second quadrant.
a. 2.24 c. 2.75
b. 2.61 d. 2.07
75. Obtain the differential equation of all straight lines with algebraic sum of the intercepts fixed as k.
a. (1+y’)(xy’-y)=ky c.(1-y’)(xy’-y)=ky
b.(1-y’)(xy’+y)=ky d.(1+y’)(xy’+y)=ky
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1 2 y
76. Evaluate ∫∫∫ dxdydz .
0 1 0
a. 1/3 c. 1/2
b. 1/4 d. 1/6
77. What is the differential equation of the family of parabolas having their vertices at the origin and their foci
on the X axis.
a. 2x dx – y dy = 0 c. 2x dx + y dy = 0
b. y dx – 2x dy = 0 d. y dx + 2x dy = 0
78. A boat has a speed of 8 mph in still water attempts to go directly across a river with a current of 3 mph.
what is the effective speed of the boat?
79. A man wishes to cross due west on a river which is flowing due north at the rate of 3 mph. if he can row 12
mph in still water what direction should he take to cross the river?
a. S 14.47ׄ° W c. S 81.36ׄ° W
b. S 75.52ׄ° W d. S 84.36ׄ° W
80. A balloon is rising vertically over a point A on the ground at the rate of 15 ft/sec. A point B on the ground is
a level with and 30ft from A. When the balloon is 40 feet from A, at what rate is its distance from B
changing?
a. 10 ft/s c. 13ft/s
b. 12ft/s d. 15ft/s
81. A car starting at 12:00 noon travels west at a speed of 30 kph. Another car starting from the same point at
2:00 PM travels north at 45 kph. Find how fast the two are separating at 4:00 PM?
a. 55 kph c. 51 kph
b. 57 kph d. 53 kph
82. The statue 3 m high is standing on a base of 4m high. If an observer’s eye is 1.5m above the ground, how
far should he stand from the base in order that the angle subtended by the statue is a maximum?
a. 3.41 m c. 3.71 m
b. 3.51 m d. 4.41 m
83. Two railroad tracts are perpendicular with each other. At 12:00 PM there is a train in each track
approaching the crossing at 50 kph, one being 100 km, the other 150 km away from the crossing. How
fast in kph is the distance between the two trains changing at 4:00 PM?
a. 68.08 c. 69.08
b. 67.08 d. 70.08
84. A boatman is at A, which is 4.5 km from the nearest point B on a straight shore BM. He wishes to reach
in minimum time, a point C situated on the shore 9 km from B. how far from C should he land if he can
row the rate of 6 kph and walk at the rate of 7.5 kph?
a. 1 km c. 5 km
b. 3 km d. 8 km
a. 75 c. 225
b. 150 d. 250
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87. Divide 120 into two parts so that the product of one and the square of the other is maximum. Find the
numbers.
a. 60 & 60 c. 70 & 50
b. 100 & 20 d. 80 & 4
a. 190000 c. 250000
b. 200000 d. 550002
89. Determine the shortest distance from point (4, 2) to the parabola y2=8x.
95. Two cities A and B are 8 km and 12 km, respectively, north of a river which runs due east. City B being 15
km east of A. A pumping station is to be constructed (along the river) to supply water for the two cities.
Where should the station be located so that the amount of pipe is a minimum.
a. 3 km east of A c. 9 km east of A
b. 4 km east of A d. 6 km east of A
2
x −1
96. Evaluate the following limit, lim 2
x →1 x +3 x−4
a.2/5 c. 0
b.infinity d. 5/2
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