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How do you call the axis of the hyperbola that passes through the center, the foci and vertices?
Transverse axis
Conjugate Axis
Asymptotic axis
Major Axis
Which of the following is the standard acceleration due to gravity in the English unit?
980.66 fps^2
32.2 fps^2
9.8066 fps^2
32.2 ips^2
What is a number, which could not be expressed as a quotient of two integers?
Natural
Rational
Irrational
Surd
How do you call the opposite of the prefix nano?
Peta
Tera
Giga
Hexa
What do you call a triangle having three unequal sides?
Obtuse
Oblique
Scalene
Isosceles
How do you call the distance of a point from the y-axis?
Polar distance
Coordinate
Abscissa
Ordinate
This is the measure of central tendency defined as the most frequent score. How do you call this measure of central tendency?
Median
Mode
Mean
Deviation
Which of the following is the equivalent of 1 mil?
One-tenth of an inch
One-thousandth of an inch
One millionth of an inch
One-half of an inch
A polygon with ten sides is said to be:
Dodecagon
Decagon
Decahedron
Dodecahedron
Any number expressed in place-value notation with base 12 is known as:
Duodecimal
Deontic
Decile
Dedekind
Which of the following is true regarding the minimum attractive rate of return used in judging proposed investments?
It is much smaller than the interest rate used to discount expected cash flows from investments
It is frequently a policy decision made by an organization’s management
It is larger than the interest rate used to discount expected cash flow from investments
It is not relevant in engineering economy studies
Which of the following situations has a conventional cash flow so that an internal rate of return can be safely calculated and used?
Your company undertakes a mining project in which the land must be reclaimed at the end of the project.
You invest in a safe dividend stock and receive dividends each year.
You lease a car and pay by the month
Your company invests heavily in a new product that will generate profits for two years. To keep profits high for 10 years, the company plans to reinvest heavily after two years.
The economic order quantity (EOQ) is defined as the order quantity which minimizes the inventory cost per unit time. Which of the flowing is not an assumption of the basic EOQ model with no shortages?
Reordering is done when the inventory is zero
There is an upper bound on the quantity ordered
The entire reorder quantity is delivered instantaneously
The demand rate is uniform and constant
Which of the following events will cause the optimal lot size, given by the classic EOQ model with no shortages, to increase?
a. A decrease in inventory carrying cost
b. A decrease in demand
c. An increase in demand
d. a) or c) above
What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always required to do during repayment?
Pay exactly the same amount of principal each payment
Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time
Pay exactly the same amount of interest each payment
Pay the interest only whenever failure to pay the principal
How do you classify work-in-process?
A liability
An expense
A revenue
An asset
What is the indirect product cost (IPC) spending variance?
The IPC volume adjusted budget minus the total IPC absorbed
The IPC volume adjusted budget [fixed + volume (variable IPC rate)]
The difference between actual IPC and IPC volume adjusted budget
The difference between actual IPC and IPC absorbed
Which of the following does not affect owner’s equity?
Expense to get license of start business
Investment capital
License to start business
Dividends paid
How do you call an increase in the value of a capital asset?
Profit
Capital gain
Capital expenditure
Capital stock
Another name for derivative is said to be:
Differential manifold
Partial derivative
Differential form
Differential coefficient
Another term for rhombus is said to be:
Dichotomy
Diamond
Cyclic quadrilateral
Bi-rectangular
A polygon with twelve sides is known as:
Dodecagon
Decagon
Decahedron
Dodecahedron
A prefix denoting a multiple of ten times any of the physical units of the system international.
Deka
Nano
Hecto
Exa
The father of plane geometry.
Euclid
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Galileo
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?
Ambiguous case
Quadratic case
Extraneous case
Conditional case
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?
Concave Polygon
Convex polygon
Regular polygon
Irregular polygon
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?
Deferred annuity
Delayed annuity
Progressive annuity
Simple annuity
What do you think is the negotiation of wage rates, conditions of employment, etc. by representatives of the labor force and management?
Union trade
Union rally
Collective bargaining
Cooperative
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?
Registered bond
Preferred bond
Incorporator’s bond
Bail bond
How do you call the integral of any quotient whose numerator is the differential of the denominator?
Co-logarithm
Logarithm
Product
Derivative
What is a regular polygon that has 27 diagonals?
Nonagon
Hexagon
Pentagon
Heptagon
How do you call the formula used to compute the value of n factorial, which is in symbolic form (n!), where n is large number?
Matheson formula
Diophantine formula
Richardson-Duchman formula
Stirling’s Approximation
What is the reason why an ivory soap floats in water?
All matter has mass
The specific gravity of ivory soap is greater than that of water
The density of ivory soap is unity
The specific gravity of ivory soap is less than that of water
When two planes intersect with each other, the amount of divergence between the two planes is expressed by measuring the:
Reflex angle
Dihedral angle
Polyhedral angle
Plane angle
What do you think is the output or sales at which income is insufficient to equal operating cost?
Break even point
Depreciation
Investment
Cash flow
What is an estimate of assets’ net market value at the end of its estimated life?
Book value
Depreciation
Salvage value
Cash flow
What do you think is the lessening of the value of an asset due to a decrease in the quantity available as a coal, oil and timber in forests?
Depletion
Amortization
Depreciation
Investment
What can you say about the present worth of all depreciation over the economic life of the item?
Maintenance
Capital recovery
Depreciation recovery
Annuity
What do you think is the provision in the contract that indicates the possible adjustment of material cost and labor cost?
Secondary clause
Specification
Escalatory clause
General provision
This is the process of determining the value of certain property for specific reasons. Guess, what is this?
Amortization
Investment
Appraisal
Depreciation
How do you call those products or services that are directly used by people to satisfy their wants?
Consumer goods and services
Producer goods and services
Necessity products and services
Luxury products and services
These are used to produce consumer goods and services. Guess, what are these?
Consumer goods and services
Producer goods and services
Necessity products and services
Luxury products and services
What do you think are those products or services that are required to support human life and activities that will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies considerably?
Consumer goods and services
Producer goods and services
Necessity products and services
Luxury products and services
How do you call a cylinder with elliptical cross section?
Ellipsoid
Cylindroid
Hyperboloid
Paraboloid
How do you call a market whereby there is only one buyer of an item for which there are no goods substitutes?
Monopoly
Monopsony
Oligopoly
Oligopsony
Which statement about a charge placed on a dielectric material is true?
The charge increases the conductivity of the material
The charge is confined to the region in which the charge was placed.
The charge is immediately lost to the atmosphere
The charge is instantly carried to the material’s surface
Which of the following is not a property of magnetic field lines?
Magnetic field lines have no beginnings and no ends
The lines cross themselves only at right angles
The line intersect surfaces of equal intensity at right angles
The field is stronger where the lines are closer together
Tesla is a unit of which of the following?
Magnetic induction
Inductance
Capacitance
Magnetic flux
How do you call a ring shaped surface or solid obtained by rotating a circle about a coplanar line that does not intersect?
Torus
Annulus
Circoid
Annular
If the eccentricity is less than one, then curve is known as:
Ellipse
Hyperbola
Parabola
Circle
What can you say to the following statement: “the volume of a circular cylinder is equal to the product of its base and altitude.”?
Postulate
Corollary
Theorem
Axiom
What is the study of the properties of figures of three dimensions?
Physics
Solid geometry
Plane geometry
Trigonometry
Points that lie in the same plane:
Coplanar
Collinear
Oblique
Parallel
When a line y = mx + b slopes downwards from left to right, the slope m is:
Less than zero
Greater than zero
Equal to zero
Equal to 1
When a homogeneous, flexible cord is held at the two ends and allowed to sag freely on its own weight, it will produce a curve very similar to a parabola opening upwards. How do you call this curve?
Parabola
Catenary
Cycloid
Epicycloids
Whenever a net force acts on a body, it produces acceleration in the direction of the resultant force, an acceleration which is directly proportional to the resultant force and inversely proportional to the mass of the body. How do you call this theory?
Newton’s First law of motion
Newton’s Second Law of motion
Faraday’s law of forces
Hook’s law of equilibrium
It is defined that the momentum of a moving object is the product of its mass, m, and velocity, V. In Newton’s Law of Motion, what is the rate of change of momentum with respect to time?
Power
Momentum
Energy
Force
The loss of weight of a body submerged in a fluid is:
Proportional to the weight of the body
Proportional to the depth of submergence
Equal to the weight of the fluid displaced
Independent of the volume of the body
The amount of company’s profits that the board of directors of the corporation decides to distribute to ordinary shareholders.
Dividend
Return
Share of stock
Par value
What is the ratio of the distance between the foci to the distance between the vertices in either hyperbola or ellipse?
Eccentricity
Latus rectum
Variance
Deviation
Which of the following is not a theorem on limits?
The limit of the algebraic sum of several functions is equal to the sum of their limits
The limit of the product of several functions is equal to the product of their limits
The limit of the difference of several functions is equal to the difference of their limits
The limit of the quotient of two functions is equal to the quotient of their limits, provided the denominator is not zero
Which of the following Commonwealth Acts is known as the oldest Mechanical Engineering law?
Commonwealth Act 394
Commonwealth Act 594
Commonwealth Act 294
Commonwealth Act 8394
What is a borrower of a particular loan almost always required to do during repayment?
Pay exactly the same amount of interest each payment.
Repay the loan over an agreed-upon amount of time
Pay exactly the same amount of principal each payment
The choices a and c above
To be a member of the Board of Mechanical Engineering, he/she must be at least how many years old?
25 years
30 years
35 years
40 years
How do you call the line passing through the focus and perpendicular to the directrix of a parabola?
Latus rectum
Axis of the parabola
Transverse axis
Major axis
It is a statement that one mathematical expression is greater than or less than another. How do you call this?
Conditional expression
Inequality
Interval
Domain
It is a method of depreciation where a fixed sum of money is regularly deposited at compound interest in a real or imaginary fund in order to accumulate an amount equal to the total depreciation of an asset at the end of the asset's estimated life. How do you call this depreciation?
Straight line method
Declining balance method
SYD method
Sinking fund method
What is an artificial expense that spreads the purchase price of an asset or other property over a number of years?
Depreciation
Amnesty
Sinking fund
Bond
How do you classify this interest rate, which specifies the actual rate of interest on the principal for one year?
Nominal rate
Rate of return
Exact interest rate
Effective rate
What type of curve is generated by a point, which moves in uniform circular motion about an axis, while traveling with a constant speed, V, parallel to the axis?
A cycloid
An epicycloid
A hypocycloid
A helix
What do you call the possible outcome of an experiment?
A sample space
A random point
An event
A finite set
How do you call a sequence of numbers where the succeeding term is greater than the preceding term?
Dissonant series
Isometric series
Convergent series
Divergent series
A branch of mathematics which uses the properties of numbers by using symbols or letters to represent numbers in arithmetic operations which usually involves the use and rearranging of equations.
Trigonometry
Algebra
Geometry
Calculus
This is a series of sequential methods for carrying out a desired procedure to solve a problem.
Algorithm
Hypsogram
Logarithm
Angstrom
This is used for expressing wavelengths of light or ultraviolet radiation with a unit of length equal to 10^–10 metre.
Mersenne number
Mid
Light year
Angstrom
It refers to a straight line, which a curve approaches closely, but never meets or touches the curve.
Asymptote
Directrix
Latus rectum
Line segment
It is a collection of numbers or letters used to represent a number arranged properly in rows and columns.
Determinant
Matrix
Array
Equation
It is a high-level programming language for the computer used to express mathematical and scientific problems in a manner that resembles English rather than computer notations.
Algol
Cobol
Pascal
Aldus
In any triangle, the length of a line which is equal to the square root of the sides adjacent to the point where this line started minus the product of the segments of the third side is known as:
Angle bisector
Median
Perpendicular bisector
Trisector
The whole is greater than any one of its parts. This statement is known as:
Postulate
Axiom
Hypothesis
Theorem
A perpendicular segment from a vertex of the triangle to the line containing the opposite side is known as:
Median
Altitude
Angular bisector
Perpendicular bisector
An S.I. unit of area equal to 100 sq. m.
Arc
Acre
Hectares
Are
The angle that the line of sight to the object makes with the horizontal, which is above the eye of the observer, is called as:
Angle of elevation
Angle of depression
Acute angle
Obtuse angle
In complex algebra, we use a diagram to represent a complex plane commonly called as:
Venn diagram
Histogram
Argand diagram
Funicular diagram
The area bounded by two concentric circles is called as:
Annulus
Ring
Disk
Sector
A series of numbers in which each number or term is derived from the preceding number by adding a constant value to it is known as:
Geometric sequence
Arithmetic sequence
Analytical sequence
Differential sequence
10 to the negative power of 18 is the value of the prefix:
Atto
Femto
Micro
Pico
A series of equal payments occurring at equal periods of time.
Annuity
Sinking fund
Cash flow
Annual cost
The ratio of annual sales to the average of assets used in producing these sales.
Inventory turnover
Asset turnover
Operating–expense ratio
Quick ratio
Quick ratio is defined as the ratio of quick assets to the current liabilities, sometimes this is called:
Acid test ratio
Debt ratio
Equity ratio
Current ratio
Form of business/company ownership:
Partnership
Corporation
Single proprietorship
All of the above
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.
Amortization
Annuity
Deferred annuity
Preferred annuity
This is a point where the concavity of a curve changes or when the slope of the curve is neither increasing nor decreasing. What is this point commonly called
Point of inflection
Point of tangency
Minimum point
Maximum point
This law in electrical circuits states, “The algebraic sum of currents entering a node (or a closed boundary) is zero”. How do you call this law?
Ohms voltage law
Ohms current law
Kirchoffs current law
Kirchoffs voltage law
This law in electrical circuits state, “The algebraic sum of all voltages around a closed path (or loop) is zero”. How do you call this law?
Kirchoffs voltage law
Kirchoffs current law
Ohms voltage law
Ohms current law
In electricity, it is an ability of an element to resist the flow of current. What is this?
Resonance
Resistance
Conductance
Inductance
in electrical circuits, how do you call the reciprocal of resistance?
Resistance
Inductance
Resonance
Conductance
Which of the following is the equivalent of 1Ampere?
1 Coulomb per second
1 Joule per Coulomb
1 Volt per Ampere
1 Ampere per Coulomb
How do you call a line segment from the center of a regular polygon to the midpoint of a side? It is also called as inradius, the radius of an incircle.
Radius
Apothem
Circumradius
Inradius
What principle explains why electrons fill all orbitals of the same energy level with parallel spins before any pairing occurs?
Pauli Exclusion Principle
Aufbau Principle
Hund's rule
Bohr's model
A change in position, specified by a length and a direction is said to be:
Displacement
Velocity
Acceleration
Dynamic equilibrium
The process of one substance mixing with another because of molecular motion is known as:
Confusion
Adhesion
Cohesion
Diffusion
The sum of all the costs incurred by the originators of the project upto the time that the promoters of the project accept the project is known as:
Development cost
Promotion cost
Marginal cost
Construction cost
Those cost that arise at the result of a change in operations or policy or it is the ratio of a small increment cost and a small increment of output.
Increment cost
Differential cost
Marginal cost
Promotion cost
How do call an energy required to move 1 Coulomb of charge through an element
Power
Voltage
Current
Resistance
This is a number sequence where the succeeding term is obtained by adding the last pair of preceding terms such as the sequence (1, 1, 2, ,3 5, 8 …). How do you call this number sequence?
Euler number
Fibonacci number
Fermat number
Fourier number
If the roots of an equation are zero, then, how do you classify the solutions?
Extraneous solutions
Ambiguous solutions
Trivial solutions
Conditional solutions
In electricity, how do you call the rate of chargeflow?
Power
Voltage
Current
Resistance
in electrical, what is the SI unit of conductance?
Ampere
Ohm
Siemens
Mho
How do you call amethod of describing a set where the elements are separated by commas and enclosed by braces?
Tabular or roster form
Rule form
Equal form
Equivalent form
This is the amount of a property in which a willing buyer will pay to a willing seller for the property when neither one is under the compulsion to buy or sell. What do you call this value?
Goodwill value
Market value
Book value
Fair value
What do you think is the negotiation of wage rates, conditions of employment, etc. by representatives of the labor force and management?
Union trade
Union rally
Collective bargaining
Cooperative
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?
Registered bond
Preferred bond
Bail bond
Incorporator bond
If a = b, then b = a. This illustrates of which of the following axioms in algebra?
Transitive axiom
Reflexive axiom
Symmetric axiom
Replacement axiom
If the product of the slopes of any two straight lines is negative 1, one of these lines is said to be:
Parallel
Non-intersecting
Perpendicular
Skew
These are product or services that are required to support human life and activities, that will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies considerably.
Luxuries
Utilities
Producer goods and services
Necessities
What is the term for the smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of that element?
Atom
Ion
Molecule
Electron
Which of the following refers to the amount of solute dissolved in a given amount of solvent?
Reactivity
Molarity
Mass
Molality
What do you call a reaction in which electrons are transferred from one substance to another?
Combustion reaction
Precipitation reaction
Acid base reaction
Redox reaction
Avogadro's number
6.022x10^21
6.022x10^22
6.022x10^23
6.022x10^24
Which of the following terms refers to the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom?
Atomic number
Atomic mass
Mass number
Isotope
How do you call an angle that is greater then 180 degree but less than 360 degrees?
Complex
Exterior
Obtuse
Reflex
This is a sequence of numbers where every term is obtained by adding the squares of all preceding terms such as (1, 5, 14, 30, 55…). How do you call this numbers?
Triangular numbers
Pyramidal numbers
Tetrahedral numbers
Cubic numbers
It is a process of reasoning wherein other conclusions or formulas are obtained or derived by mathematical manipulations of previously proven theorems or formulas. How do you call this process?
Mathematical induction
Mathematical deduction
Mathematical conversion
Mathematical inversion
What is a solid bounded by the spherical zone and the planes of the zone’s base?
Spherical wedge
Spherical solid
Spherical triangle
Spherical segment
Which of the following items classified a polygon?
Sides
Angles
Diagonals
Number of nodes
What is the logarithm of a number to have a base e=2.718…
Naperian logarithm
Cologarithm
Brigssian logarithm
Mantissa
What is the point of concurrency of the altitude of a triangle?
Orthocenter
Incenter
Circumcenter
Centroid
What is a process of finding maximum or minimum values of a linear function under limiting conditions or constraints?
Linear programming
Differentiation
Iteration
Integration
What is the quantity in addition to the economic order quantity use to anticipate sudden change of demand and the delay of the ordered quantity?
safety stock
safety allowance
tolerance stock
none of these
