MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROBLEMS
ENGR. VIRNE B. DALISAY Mobile # 0928-7199790
MATHEMATICS
NAME:_____________________________________________________________________ ____DATE:____________ INSTRUCTION: Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer of your choice. MULTIPLE CHOICE: 1. What is the minimum diameter of a solid steel shaft that will not twist through more than 3 in a 6-m length when subjected to a torque of 12 kNm? Use G = 83 GPa. A. 110mm B. 114mm C. 200mm D. 212mm 2. A swimming pool can be filled by pipe A in 3 hours and by pipe B in 6 hours, each pump working on its own. At 7 am pump A is started. At what time will the swimming pool be filled if pump B is started at 8 am? A. 10:20AM B. 9:20AM C. 8:20AM D. 7:20AM 3. SW Silver is 92.5% pure silver. How many grams of SW Silver must be mixed to a 90% Silver alloy to obtain a 500g of a 91% Silver alloy? A. 150g B. 175g C. 200g D. 215g 4. How many kg of Pure water is to be added to 100 Kilograms of a 30% saline solution to make it a 10% saline solution? A. 150kg B.175kg C. 200kg D. 215kg 5. A 50 ml shampoo at 30% oil is mixed with 30 ml of pure water. What is the percentage of oil in the new solution? A. 12.75% B. 15.75% C. 16.75% D. 18.75% 6. f is a linear function. Values of x and f(x) are given {x=-3, f(x)=17}; {x=4, f(x)=-18}.
What is the value of f(x) if x = 7?
A. -33 B. 33 C. -37 D. 37 7. The formula h (t) = -16 t 2 + 32 t + 80 gives the height h above ground, in feet, of an object thrown, at(t) = 0, straight upward from the top of an 80 feet building. What is the highest point reached by the object? A. 81ft B. 91ft C. 96ft D. 98ft 8. A rock is dropped into a well and the distance travelled is 16 t 2 feet, where t is the time. If the water splash is heard 3 seconds after the rock was dropped, and that the speed of sound is 1100 ft / sec, approximate the height of the well. A. 133ft B. 127ft C. 120ft D. 119ft
9. A 50-meter by 70-meter rectangular garden is surrounded by a walkway of constant width x meters. Find the outside perimeter of the garden if x = 2m. A. 250m B. 256m C. 276m D. 300m 10. Find x so that the distance between the points (-2, -3) and (-3, x) is equal to 5. A. -3+ B. -2+ C. 3+ D. 2+ 11. A number decreased from 80 to 50. By what percent of its original value has this number decreased? A. 37.5% B. 47.5% C. 57.5% D. 67.5% 12. A number increased from 120 to 150. By what percent, of its original value, did this number increase? A. 21% B. 23% C. 23% D. 25% 13. A stone is dropped into a deep well and is heard to hit the water 3.41 s after being dropped. Determine the depth of the well. A. -57m B. 57m C. -52.3m D. 52.3m 14. If Michael Jordan has a vertical leap of 1.29 m, what is his hang time (total time to move upwards to the peak and then return to the ground)? A. 0.333 sec B. 0.5 sec C. 0.81 sec D. 1.333 sec 15. Convert from decimal notation to scientific notation (0.0000152) A. 1.52 x 10-2 B. 15.2 x 10-4 C. 1.52 x 10-5 D. 15.2 x 10-6
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