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Plumbing Arithmetic 1

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 2hrs 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do you call an increase in the value of a capital asset?

a)

Profit

b)

Capital expenditure

c)

Capital gain

d)

Capital stock

2.

Another term for rhombus is said to be:

a)

Dichotomy

b)

Cyclic quadrilateral

c)

Diamond

d)

Bi-rectangular

3.

Find the sum of 6x + 5y and 3x - 5y.

a)

9x + 10y

b)

9x - 10y

c)

10y

d)

9x

4.

The reservoir level is 115 feet above the pump discharge. What is the discharge

pressure on the pump?

a)

49.8 psi

b)

30 psi

c)

42 psi

d)

33 psi

5.

A polygon with twelve sides is known as:

a)

Dodecagon

b)

Decagon

c)

Decahedron

d)

Dodecahedron

6.

A prefix denoting a multiple of ten times any of the physical units of the system

international.

a)

Deka

b)

Nano

c)

Hecto

d)

Exa

7.

How to you classify work-in-process?

a)

A liability

b)

An expense

c)

A revenue

d)

An asset

8.

Which of the following does not affect owner’s equity?

a)

Expense to get license of start business

b)

License to start business

c)

Investment capital

d)

Dividends paid

9.

The father of plane geometry.

a)

Euclid

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Aristotle

d)

Galileo

10.

This is the case of a solution of a plane triangle where the given data leads to two

solutions. How do you call this case?

a)

Ambiguous case

b)

Extraneous case

c)

Quadratic case

d)

Conditional case

11.

It is a type of polygon in which each interior angle must be less than or equal to 180°,

and all vertices 'point outwards' away from the interior. How do you call this

polygon?

a)

Concave Polygon

b)

Regular polygon

c)

Convex polygon

d)

Irregular polygon

12.

It is a series of equal payments occurring at equal intervals of time where the first

payment is made after several periods, after the beginning of the payment. How do

you call this payment?

a)

Deferred annuity

b)

Progressive annuity

c)

Delayed annuity

d)

Simple annuity

13.

What do you think is the negotiation of wage rates, conditions of employment, etc.

by representatives of the labor force and management?

a)

Union trade

b)

Collective bargaining

c)

Union rally

d)

Cooperative

14.

How do you call a type of bond where the corporation’s owner name is recorded

and the interest is paid periodically to the owners with their asking for it?

a)

Registered bond

b)

Incorporator’s bond

c)

Preferred bond

d)

Bail bond

15.

When two planes intersect with each other, the amount of divergence between the

two planes is expressed by measuring the:

a)

Reflex angle

b)

Dihedral angle

c)

Polyhedral angle

d)

Plane angle

16.

What do you think is the output or sales at which income is insufficient to equal

operating cost?

a)

Break even point

b)

Depreciation

c)

Investment

d)

Cash flow

17.

What is an estimate of assets’ net market value at the end of its estimated life?

a)

Depletion

b)

Amortization

c)

Depreciation

d)

Investment

18.

What can you say about the present worth of all depreciation over the economic life

of the item?

a)

Maintenance

b)

Depreciation recovery

c)

Capital recovery

d)

Annuity

19.

What is an estimate of assets’ net market value at the end of its estimated life?

a)

Book value

b)

Depreciation

c)

Salvage value

d)

Cash flow

20.

What do you think is the provision in the contract that indicates the possible

adjustment of material cost and labor cost?

a)

Secondary clause

b)

Escalatory clause

c)

Specification

d)

General provision

21.

How do you call the integral of any quotient whose numerator is the differential of

the denominator?

a)

Co-logarithm

b)

Logarithm

c)

Product

d)

Derivative

22.

What is a regular polygon that has 27 diagonals?

a)

Nonagon

b)

Hexagon

c)

Pentagon

d)

Heptagon

23.

What is the reason why an ivory soap floats in water?

a)

All matter has mass

b)

The specific gravity of ivory soap is greater than that of water

c)

The density of ivory soap is unity

d)

The specific gravity of ivory soap is less than that of water

24.

How do you call a market whereby there is only one buyer of an item for which there

are no goods substitutes?

a)

Monopoly

b)

Monopsony

c)

Oligopoly

d)

Oligopsony

25.

How do you call a polygon with 10 000 sides?

a)

Hectogon

b)

Chilliagon

c)

Myriagon

d)

Octacontagon

26.

Any line segment joining a vertex of a triangle to a point on the opposite side is

called as:

a)

Newton line

b)

Secant

c)

Cevian

d)

Euclidian line

27.

It is any influence capable of producing a change in the motion of an object.

a)

Force

b)

Acceleration

c)

Friction

d)

Velocity

28.

How do you call the amount needed at the beginning of operations and permits the

enterprise to begin functioning before it receives any income from the sales of its

product or service.

a)

Initial working capital

b)

Equity

c)

Regular working capital

d)

Annuity

29.

How do you call a ring shaped surface or solid obtained by rotating a circle about a

coplanar line that does not intersect?

a)

Torus

b)

Annulus

c)

Circoloid

d)

Annular

30.

If the eccentricity is less than one, then curve is known as:

a)

Ellipse

b)

Hyperbola

c)

Parabola

d)

Circle

31.

What can you say to the following statement: “the volume of a circular cylinder is

equal to the product of its base and altitude.”?

a)

Postulate

b)

Corollary

c)

Theorem

d)

Axiom

32.

What is the study of the properties of figures of three dimensions?

a)

Physics

b)

Solid geometry

c)

Plane geometry

d)

Trigonometry

33.

Points that lie in the same plane:

a)

Coplanar

b)

Collinear

c)

Oblique

d)

Parallel

34.

A series of equal payments occurring at equal periods of time.

a)

Annuity

b)

Sinking fund

c)

Cash flow

d)

Annual cost

35.

The ratio of annual sales to the average of assets used in producing these sales.

a)

Inventory turnover

b)

Operating – expense ratio

c)

Asset turnover

d)

Quick ratio

36.

If the average person throws away 3.5 pounds of trash every day, how much trash

would the average person throw away in one week?

a)

24.5 pounds

b)

31.5 pounds

c)

40.2 pounds

d)

240 pounds

37.

About how many quarts of water will a 3.25-liter container hold?

a)

3.066

b)

3.045

c)

3.445

d)

5.231

38.

Quick ratio is defined as the ratio of quick assets to the current liabilities, sometimes

this is called:

a)

Acid test ratio

b)

Debt ratio

c)

Equity ratio

d)

Current ratio

39.

Form of business/company ownership:

a)

Partnership

b)

Single proprietorship

c)

Corporation

d)

All of the above

40.

It is defined to be any method of repaying a debt, the principal and interest included

usually by a series of equal payments at periodic intervals of time.

a)

Amortization

b)

Annuity

c)

Deferred annuity

d)

Preferred annuity

41.

What is the unit of luminous flux?

a)

Candela

b)

Lumen

c)

Lux

d)

Footcandle

42.

Which of the following is equivalent to the unit “candela”?

a)

lumen/m^2

b)

foot-candle/steradian

c)

lux/steradian

d)

lumen/steradian

43.

The coefficient of restitution always applies _______.

a)

to only one of the colliding objects

b)

to neither of the colliding objects

c)

jointly to the colliding objects

d)

to the bigger colliding object

44.

“When the vector sum of the external forces acting on a system of particles equals

zero, the total linear momentum of the system remaining constant.” This statement is

known as:

a)

Law of universal gravitation

b)

Law of conservation of impulse

c)

Law of conservation of momentum

d)

Law of conservation of energy

45.

What refers to the product of the force and the time during which a force acts?

a)

Impulse

b)

Momentum

c)

Power

d)

Energy

46.

0.216 + 9.3 + 72.0 =

a)

81.516

b)

77.516

c)

16.716

d)

0.381

47.

What is the result of multiplying 11 by 0.032?

a)

0.032

b)

0.0352

c)

0.32

d)

0.352

48.

Momentum is the product of:

a)

mass and time

b)

velocity and mass

c)

force and time

d)

force and mass

49.

The coefficient of restitution always applies _________.

a)

to only one of the colliding objects

b)

to neither of the colliding

c)

jointly to the colliding objects

d)

to the bigger colliding object

50.

A rotating body has kinetic energy. This statement is ________.

a)

sometimes true

b)

sometimes false

c)

always true

d)

always false

51.

What type of energy is usually transmitted by rotary motion?

a)

Kinetic energy

b)

Potential energy

c)

Mechanical energy

d)

Rest energy

52.

A tank is 100' in diameter and 22 feet deep. If the flow into the tank is 1500 gpm and

the flow out of the tank is 300 gpm, how many hours will it take to fill the tank?

a)

18.2 hrs

b)

12 hrs

c)

15.7 hrs

d)

17.9 hrs

53.

A sedimentation basin is 60 feet in diameter. What is the surface area of the tank?

a)

2830 sq. ft

b)

1200 sq. ft

c)

1542 sq. ft

d)

2480 sq. ft

54.

Which of the following numbers can be divided evenly by 19?

a)

54

b)

63

c)

76

d)

82

55.

Jovy is 5 feet 11 inches tall and Pierre is 6 feet 5 inches tall. How much taller is Pierre

than Jovy?

a)

1 foot 7 inches

b)

7 inches

c)

1 foot

d)

6 inches

56.

Marcia is 10 years older than Fred, who is 16. How old is Marcia?

a)

6 years old

b)

20 years old

c)

26 years old

d)

30 years old

57.

The axiom which relates addition and multiplication is the __________ law.

a)

commutative

b)

associative

c)

distributive

d)

fundamental operation

58.

A statement assumed to be true, as a basis for argument.

a)

axiom

b)

postulate

c)

hypothesis

d)

collorary

59.

A circular tank has a diameter of 40 feet and is 10 feet deep. How many gallons will

it hold?

a)

120, 000 gal

b)

98, 000 gal

c)

94, 200 gal

d)

62, 000 gal

60.

A 6" line is 654 ft long. How many gallons does the pipe hold?

a)

120 gal

b)

600 gal

c)

960 gal

d)

1200 gal

61.

A 12" pipe carries 1400 gpm at 4.0 fps velocity and reduces to a 6" pipe. What is the

velocity in the 6" pipe?

a)

16 fps

b)

14 fps

c)

20 fps

d)

120 fps

62.

A proposition that can be proven from accepted premises.

a)

theorem

b)

corollary

c)

axiom

d)

postulate

63.

The volume of a cube is equal to the cube of the measure of it’s?

a)

angle

b)

corner

c)

egde

d)

diagonal

64.

Jenny has finished reading 30% of a 340-page novel. How many pages has she read?

a)

102

b)

106

c)

110

d)

120

65.

33 is 12% of what number?

a)

410

b)

330

c)

275

d)

910

66.

An index of short term paying ability is called:

a)

receivable turn over

b)

profit margin ratio

c)

current ratio

d)

acid-test ratio

67.

A polygon of 1000 sides is called?

a)

chiliagon

b)

uwagon

c)

perigon

d)

milliagon

68.

A quadrilateral with no sides parallel

a)

trapezoids

b)

rhombus

c)

rhomboid

d)

trapezium

69.

What is the chemical symbol of Sodium?

a)

Fe

b)

K

c)

Na

d)

S

70.

What is the latent heat fusion required to turn ice to liquid?

a)

2,256 kJ/kg

b)

970 BTU/lbm

c)

334 kJ.kg

d)

168 BTU/lbm

71.

The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature one pound of that substance one

degree Fahrenheit is:

a)

BTU

b)

Specific heat

c)

Latent heat

d)

Relative heat

72.

One horsepower is equivalent to:

a)

746 watts

b)

7460 watts

c)

74.6 watts

d)

7.46 watts

73.

1 torr is equivalent to a pressure of:

a)

1 atmosphere

b)

1/760 atmosphere

c)

2 mm Hg

d)

147 psia

74.

What is the gauge used to measure 0.001 to 1 atmospheric pressure?

a)

Barometer

b)

Mercure manometer

c)

Psychrometer

d)

Hydrometer

75.

Time rate of doing work

a)

Power

b)

Heat

c)

Energy

d)

Work Rate

76.

What is a body or space bounded by surface every point of which is equidistant from

a point within?

a)

Spheroid

b)

Circle

c)

Sphere

d)

Ellipsoid

77.

The volume of a circular cylinder is equal to the product of its base and altitude.

a)

Postulate

b)

Axiom

c)

Theorem

d)

Corollary

78.

In electrical, what is the SI unit of conductance?

a)

Siemens

b)

Ohm

c)

Ampere

d)

Darsho’s Siemens

79.

For any two triangles, if an angle of one triangle is congruent to an angle of the other

and if the two sides of one triangle are proportional to two sides of the other, they are

what kind of triangles?

a)

Complementary

b)

Supplementary

c)

Dissimilar

d)

Similar

80.

The fluid pressure is the same in all directions. This is known as _______.

a)

Bernoulli’s theorem

b)

Archimedes principle

c)

Ideal fluid principle

d)

Pascal’s principle

81.

A space that is devoid of matter and which the pressure is zero.

a)

Inner space

b)

Outer space

c)

Black hole

d)

Vacuum

82.

What is referred to the length of time which the property may be operated at a

profit?

a)

Physical life

b)

Operating life

c)

Economic life

d)

Material life

83.

Heavy objects fall faster than light objects.

a)

Planck’s theory

b)

Aristotle’s theory

c)

Galileo’s theory

d)

Newton’s law

84.

A ______, is one where two or more parties guarantee interest and principal. In the

case of default, the bondholders have the right to claim the assets of all the issuing

institutions, corporations, or individuals. This dual responsibility reduces risk and

the borrowing costs.

a)

Collateral trust bond

b)

Debenture bond

c)

Joint bond

d)

Mortgage bond

85.

It is the distribution of reward from a portion of company's earnings and is paid to a

class of its shareholders. These are decided and managed by the company’s board of

directors, though they must be approved by the shareholders through their voting

rights.

a)

Dividend

b)

Equity

c)

Return on investment

d)

Par value

86.

The system of refrigeration which uses heat energy to change the condition required

in the refrigeration cycle:

a)

Absorption refrigeration

b)

B. Steam-jet refrigeration

c)

C. Ice refrigeration

d)

Vapor refrigeration

87.

A triangular prism has a base dimension of AB = 24 m, BC = 20 m, and CA = 16 m.

Determine the volume of the prism if its height is 12 m.

a)

674 m^3

b)

1404 m^3

c)

1604 m^3

d)

1904 m^3

88.

A Roman numeral M is equivalent to

a)

1000

b)

500

c)

100

d)

50

89.

If you have a 25 mm Φ pipe, but you are to use 75mm Φ pipe, how many smaller

pipes are you going to use to make it equal?

a)

3

b)

6

c)

9

d)

10

90.

2. 1 cubic foot of water = ____ pounds

a)

32.2

b)

62.4

c)

9.81

d)

9.79

91.

3. 1 psi = ____ feet of head

a)

32.2

b)

9.81

c)

2.31

d)

8.33

92.

A city of 25,000 uses 15 gallons of water per capita per day. If it is required to raise

this water 150 feet, what is the number of horsepower required?

a)

12

b)

10

c)

24

d)

20

93.

The average horsepower required to raise a 150 kg of drum to a height of 20 m over a

period of one minute is

a)

1.22 hp

b)

0.44 hp

c)

0.55 hp

d)

0.66 hp

94.

The temperature of air that has gone through an adiabatic saturation process:

a)

Kelvin temperature

b)

Boiling temperature

c)

Dew point temperature

d)

Wet bulb temperature

95.

What is the radius of the circle whose area is equal to that of a trapezoidal cross

section whose two parallel sides are 2.50 meters and 1.80 meters respectively and the

distance between them is 1.50 meters?

a)

3.101 m

b)

1.013 m

c)

1.301 m

d)

1.103 m

96.

96. Shannel’s birthday is 7 weeks and 5 days away. How many days awa is her

birthday?

a)

24 days

b)

54 days

c)

65 days

d)

75 days

97.

What is the next term of the given sequence of numbers, 1, 2, 6, 24, 120, ___?

a)

360

b)

480

c)

560

d)

720

98.

A repair job can be done by 7 people in 8.5 hours. How long will it take for 4 people

to complete the same job?

a)

4 hr 30 min

b)

14 hr 9 min

c)

4 hr 51 min

d)

14 hr 53 min

99.

How many minutes after 10 o’clock will the hands of the clock be opposite each other

for the first time?

a)

21.41

b)

21.61

c)

21.81

d)

22.11

100.

The paper currency issued by the Central Bank which forms part of the

country’s money supply.

a)

T-bills

b)

Bank note

c)

Check

d)

Coupon