12.

On a normal day, the speed limit of a hi-way

curve is 40 mph. If the curve has a radius of 575
ft., at what speed will skidding impend if the
coefficient of friction between tires and roadway
is 0.20?
A. 62.55 mph C. 71.15 mph
B. 64.93 mph D. 58.75 mph
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13. An investment pays P 6000 at the end of the first
1. A bank is advertising 9.5% account that yields year, P 4000 at the end of second year, and P
9.84% annually. Find how often the interest is 2,000 at the end of the third year. Compute the
compounded. present value of the investment if a 10% rate of
A. Monthly C. Semiannually return is required.
B. Quarterly D. Annually A. P 8,333 C. P 9,667
B. P 10,300 D. P 12,000
2. What is another term for “acid – test ratio”?
A. Current ratio C. Profit margin ratio 14. A steel support must connect to 30,000 lb tensile
B. Quick ratio D. Price – earning ratio loads separated by 200 inches. The maximum
allowable stress is 10,000 psi and the maximum
3. Which of the following may be the Poisson ratio elongation is 0.020 inch. What is the required
of a material? area? E(steel) = 3 x 107 psi.
A. 0.52 C. 0.35 A. 30.5 sq. mm. C. 47.1 sq. in.
B. 0.71 D. 0.60 B. 55 sq. mm. D. 10 sq. in.

4. Work – in process is classified as 15. A cylinder of diameter 1 cm at 30 deg. C is to

A. An asset C. An expense slide into a hole on a steel plate. The hole has a
B. A liability D. A revenue diameter of 0.9997 cm at 30 deg. C. To what
temperature the plate must be heated?
5. A price tag of P 1,500 is payable in 70 days but Coefficient of linear expansion for steel is 1.2 x
it will have a 5% discount if paid within 35 days. 10 – 5 per deg. C.
Find the rate of interest. A. 62 deg. C C. 48 deg. C
A. 54.13% C. 56.27% B. 55 deg. C D. 65 deg. C
B. 55.17% D. 57.83%
16. A car starts from rest at constant acceleration of
6. A deposit of P 110,000 was made for 31 days. 3.0 m/s2. At the same instant a truck travelling
The net interest after deducting 20% withholding with a constant speed of 20 m/s overtakes and
tax is P 890.36. Find the rate of return annually. passes the car. After what time will this happen?
A. 10.25% C. 11.25% A. 5 s C. 10 s
B. 10.50% D. 11.75% B. 13.3 s D. 12 s

7. What is the future worth of P 6,000.00 invested 17. Compute the minimum distance that a truck
after 5 years at the rate of 12% compounded slides on a horizontal asphalt road if it is
annually? travelling at 20 m/s? The coefficient to sliding
A. P 9,220.37 C. P 11,370.28 friction between the asphalt and rubber tire is at
B. P 10,574.05 D. P 12,280.76 0.50. The weight of the truck is 8,000 kg.
A. 40.8 m C. 35.3 m
8. The equipment has an initial cost of P 1,500 and B. 48.5 m D. 31.4 m
a salvage value of P 500 after 10 years. Find the
book value of the equipment after 6 years using 18. An archer must split the apple at top his
straight line depreciation. partner’s head from a distance of 30 m. The
A. P 700 C. P 900 arrow is horizontal when aimed directly to the
B. P 800 D. P 1,000 apple. At what angle must he aim in order to hit
the apple when the arrow travels at 35 m/s?
9. A molten magma came from volcanic eruptions A. 8.35 deg. C. 3.25 deg.
that solidifies turns into a kind of rock which is B. 10.55 deg. D. 6.95 deg.
A. Igneous C. Basalt
B. Sedimentary D. Graphite 19. What is an annuity?
A. The future worth of a present amount
10. For every action there is an equal and opposite B. An annual repayment of a loan
reaction, this is C. A series of uniform amounts over a
A. Newton’s First Law of Motion period of time
B. Newton’s Second Law of Motion D. A lump sum at the end of the year
C. Newton’s Third Law of Motion
D. All of these 20. What is the volume occupied by 0.252 mol of
nitrogen gas at 100°C and 85.6 kPa.
11. A spherical tank with 10 inches inside diameter A. 7.1 L B. 8.1 L C. 9.1 L D. 10.1 L
contains oxygen gas at 2,500 psi. Calculate the
required wall thickness under the stress of 21. Calculate the molar of a gas with the density of
28,000 psi. 2.73 g/L and pressure of 1.5 atm at 22°C.
A. 6.12 mm C. 4.88 mm A. 34 g/mol C. 54 g/mol
B. 5.66 mm D. 7.21 mm B. 44 g/mol D. 64 g/mol

22. Determine the pH value of a solution with 3.2 x

10-8 hydrogen ion concentration.
A. 6.5 B. 7.5 C. 8.5 D. 9.5
 37. Galvanized steel are steel products coated with
23. What is the hydrogen ion concentration of a A. Carbon C. Zinc
solution with pH 5.5? B. Sulfur D. Nickel
A. 3.16 x 10-6M C. 3.16 x 10-7M
B. 4.16 x 10-6M D. 4.16 x 10-7M 38. What is the smallest unit of information handled
by a computer?
24. What is the moment of inertia a cylinder of A. Bit B. Byte C. Cell D. Character
radius 5 m and mass of 5 kg?
A. 52.5 kg • m2 C. 72.5 kg • m2 39. The term brass is very commonly used to
B. 62.5 kg • m 2
D. 82.5 kg • m2 designate any alloy primarily of
A. Copper and Zinc
25. The horsepower required to raise a 150 kg drum B. Aluminum and Iron
to a height of 20 m over a period of one minute C. Copper and Aluminum
is D. Zinc and Nickel
A. 0.34 Hp C. 0.73 Hp
B. 0.66 Hp D. 0.28 Hp 40. If you want to look at the bottom of the
document, what command will you use?
26. Which of the following is not a computer A. Shift Key + End Key
programming language? B. Control Key + End Key
A. COBOL C. LOTUS C. Home Key
B. PASCAL D. FORTRAN D. End Key

27. MS DOS is an example of 41. Convert the hexadecimal number EE to octal

A. Application software number.
B. System software A. 238 B. 356 C. 432 D. 580
C. Hardware
D. Application system 42. How many grams of mercury (Hg = 200.6 amu)
are there in 7.18 moles?
28. One kilobyte represents ____ bytes. A. 0.036 grams C. 312 grams
A. 1024 C. 1036 B. 1440 grams D. 1004 grams
B. 1042 D. 1000
43. Find the pH value of the solution with hydrogen
29. BIOS, a program that personal computer's concentration of 3 x 10^(-10) molarity.
microprocessor uses to get the computer system A. 7.5 B. 8.6 C. 9.5 D. 10.4
started after you turn it on, stands for
A. Binary Information Oriented Script 44. Which of the following is non – volatile memory?
B. Basic Input or Output System A. RAM C. Flash drive
C. Basic Interchange Operating System B. Optical disc D. CPU
D. Binary Internal Organized Site
45. HTTP:// is an identifier that appears at the
30. Which of the following is not an input device? beginning of most Web pages. What does HTTP
A. Keyboard C. Monitor stands for?
B. Joystick D. Microphone A. Hypertext Time Protocol
B. Hypertime Text Protocol
31. Which of the following is not an output device? C. Hypertext Transmission Process
A. Keyboard C. Printer D. Hypertext Transfer Protocol
B. Monitor D. Speakers
46. Convert 101.5 deg. C to deg. F.
32. What term is used to describe storing of data A. 38.61 C. 101.5
into a memory? B. 69.41 D. 214.7
A. Writing C. Memorizing
B. Loading D. Reading 47. You are standing on a bathroom scale in an
elevator. In which of these situations does the
33. It is a state in which the CPU of the computer scale read the same as when the elevator is at
system perform “productive” work less and rest?
“swapping” more. A. Moving up at constant speed
A. Handshaking C. Debugging B. Moving up with increasing speed
B. Thrashing D. Hashing C. In free fall
D. None of these
34. CD ROM stands for
A. Compactable Disc Read Only Memory 48. The basic accounting equation is
B. Compact Disc Read Only Memory A. Asset = Expense + Income
C. Compact Disc Random Only Memory B. Asset = Cash + Owner’s equity
D. Compactible Drive Read Only Memory C. Asset = Owner’s equity + Liabilities
D. Asset = Expense + Owner’s equity
35. Central Processing Unit is combination of
A. Operation and Program 49. The 10’s complement of 238 base 10
B. Scientific and Engineering calculation A. 761 B. 650 C. 762 D. 651
C. Code and Symbols
D. Storage and Control 50. Multiply 11 base 2 and 101 base 2. Express the
answer in base 2.
36. The number 100101 base 2 is equivalent to A. 1001 C. 1110
octal B. 1100 D. 1111
A. 37 B. 54 C. 45 D. 25
51. Vinegar is a liquid which contains _______ acid. 63. When 0.5 g of liquid is completely evaporated
A. Acetic C. Lactic and collected in a liter manometer, the pressure
B. Nitric D. Citric is 0.25 atm and the temperature is 27 deg. C.
Assume ideal gas behavior, find the molecular
52. It is said to be the most abundant gas at weight if the gas constant is R = 0.0821 atm/mol
atmosphere. K.
A. Hydrogen C. Nitrogen A. 49.2 g/mol C. 2.2 g/mol
B. Helium D. Oxygen B. 12.3 g/mol D. 64 g/mol

53. Gold, aluminum and copper are belong to what 64. What is the weight of the subject “Engineering
group? Sciences and Allied Subjects” in the REE
A. Metals C. Metalloids Licensure Examination?
B. Nonmetals D. Non – crystalline A. 35% B. 25% C. 30% D. 20%

54. A molten magma came from volcanic eruptions 65. When a source of sound is moving with respect
that solidifies turns into a kind of rock which is to an observer or an observer is moving with
C. Igneous C. Basalt respect to the source, the pitch of sound heard
D. Sedimentary D. Graphite by the observer is different from the pitch heard
when the source and observer are both at rest.
55. Modulus of resilience is the ratio of What do you call this change in frequency
A. Maximum stress energy and unit volume caused by the motion?
B. Minimum strain energy and unit volume A. Skin effect C. Doppler’s effect
C. Proof resilience and unit volume B. Hall’s effect D. Peltier’s effect
D. Resilience and unit area
66. What is the atomic number of germanium?
56. It is a computer language in which groups of 1s A. 14 B. 32 C. 18 D. 23
and 0s are used to represent instructions and
the only language a computer actually 67. One electron volt is equivalent to _____ joules.
understood? A. 1.6 x 10 – 17 C. 1.6 x 10 – 19
A. Machine language B. 1.6 x 10 – 18 C. 1.6 x 10 – 20
B. Application language
C. High – level language 68. What field of study encompasses the
D. Assembly language procurement and production of metals?
A. Metallurgy C. Material Science
57. Type of casehardening process by which the B. Geology D. Metalgraphy
carbon content of the steel near the surface of a
part is increased 69. PLC is one of the modern types of controller.
A. Tempering C. Annealing What do you mean by PLC?
B. Carburizing D. Hardening A. Programmable Logic Counter
B. Programmable Language Controller
58. Process of hardening of metals C. Programmable Laboratory Controller
A. Maltampering C. Tempering D. Programmable Logic Controller
B. Annealing D. Carburizing
70. Defined as an alloy of iron and carbon, with the
59. Which of the following is an instruction that carbon being restricted within certain
causes data to be brought from memory into an concentration limits.
accumulator register? A. Steel C. Cast iron
A. LOAD C. FETCH B. Wrought iron D. Tendons
B. LOOP D. JUMP
71. The image of an object in a camera
60. It allows you to achieve top search engine A. is always greater than the object
placement and a tap into a new source of B. is always the same size as the object
qualified visitors who are actively searching on C. is always smaller than the object
Internet. D. is virtual or imaginary
A. Rank enhancement
B. Optimization 72. The process by which an atom split into two or
C. Hacking more parts is called
D. Google Fooling A. Fission C. Disintegration
B. Fusion D. Transmutation
61. What is the network with continuous loop
communication? 73. What change/s is/are involved in burning wood?
A. Star Network C. Bus Network I. Physical II. Chemical
B. Ring Network D. Local Network A. I and II C. II only
B. I only D. Neither I nor II
62. What is the term used to describe the moving of
software from another computer to your own 74. A group of 8 bits.
computer? A. Nibble C. Word
A. Surfing C. Uploading B. Byte D. Program
B. Downloading D. Accessing
75. A form of gas that protects the atmosphere.
A. Oxide C. Ozone
B. Oxygen D. Hydroxide
76. ASCII is a standard seven – bit code that was 88. When light is incident at the critical angle, it is
proposed by ANSI in 1963, and finalized in refracted at what angle?
1968. This code allows a maximum of 128 or 27 A. 45° B. 60° C. 90° D. 30°
different characters. ASCII stands for
A. Association of Scientific Code and 89. A light passes from glass to water. If the index of
Integrated Information refraction for glass is 1.54 and for water is 1.33,
B. American Source of Coding and Information compute the critical angle for this light to pass
Interchange the glass.
C. Alphabet of Standard Characters of A. 59.7° B. 45.8° C. 67.4° D. 50.9°
Integrated Information
D. American Standard Code for Information 90. A converging lens of focal length 20 cm is
Interchange placed 37 cm in front of a screen. At what
distance that the object be placed so that its
77. What is the SI unit of mass? image appears on the screen?
A. Kilograms C. Grams A. 43.5cm C. 27.6cm
B. Pounds D. Slugs B. 35.7cm D. 50.7cm

78. What is the main purpose of mixing aluminum in 91. Compute the ratio of the intensities of sounds if
steel? one is 12 times louder than the other.
A. Deoxiders in steel melting A. 13.5 B. 15.9 C. 18.8 D. 14.5
B. Reduces brittleness combined with sulfur
C. Promotes grain refinement 92. Calculate the molecular mass of methanol
D. Fix carbon in inert particles of steel (CH4O).
A. 29 amu C. 32 amu
79. A _____ wizard use to create charts and graph. B. 34 amu D. 30 amu
A. Word C. Excel
B. Powerpoint D. Outlook 93. Which one is the portion of an instruction cycle
where the instruction is sent from memory to the
80. A system of internet servers that support instruction register?
specially formatted documents is called “www”. A. LOAD C. EXECUTE
What does “www” mean? B. ACCUMULATE D. FETCH
A. World Wide Width
B. World Wide Web 94. Given A = true, B = true and C = false, what is
C. Work Wide Web the value of the following logical expression?
D. Work Web Wing ((A.AND.B).AND.(C.OR.A))
A. Either true or false C. False
81. If the wire is stretched or pulled without B. Neither true or false D. True
breaking, the property of the wire is
A. Malleability C. Ductility 95. In a crystal structure, what is an interstitial
B. Rigidity D. Elasticity atom?
A. Different element at a lattice joint
82. ALU is a part of CPU that performs all B. Extra atom setting at a non – lattice joint
computations and logical operations. ALU C. Atom missing at lattice joint
stands for D. Line defect
A. Access Logic Unit
B. Arithmetic Logic Unit 96. Calculate the molarity of a 90 mL ethanol
C. Audit Logic Unit (C2H5OH) solution which contains 2.15 g of
D. Amplitude Logic Unit ethanol.
A. 0.52 M C. 0.61 M
83. What is the main purpose of mixing copper in B. 0.25 M D. 0.44 M
steel
A. Increases the strength of steel 97. Which of the following is the chemical symbol of
B. Increases corrosion resistance of steel calcium chloride?
C. Increases machinability of steel A. CaCl B. CaCl2 C. Ca2Cl D. CaClO
D. Increases toughness and hardness of steel
98. What is a coal that has been previously burned
84. Which of the following is NOT a function of in oxygen – poor environment?
computer? A. Tuyere C. Coke
A. Controlling C. Inputting B. Diamond D. Hematite
B. Understanding D. Processing
99. Sulfur trioxide is generally a colorless liquid.
85. What color has the highest frequency? What is the chemical formula of sulfur trioxide?
A. Indigo B. Violet C. Blue D. Green A. S3O B. SO3 C. (SO)3 D. H2SO3

86. The ratio of current assets less inventory to 100. Fiber optics works based on the
current liabilities principle
A. Quick ratio C. Cash ratio A. Absorption C. Refraction
B. Debt ratio None of these B. Dispersion D. Reflection

87. The ratio of cash plus short-term securities to

current liabilities
A. Quick ratio C. Debt ratio
B. Cash ratio D. None of these