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Final Practice Questions
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1. Balance the given reaction:
_CH4 + _O2  _CO2 + _H2O
1CH4 +2O2 → 1CO2 + 2H2O
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2. The rarest blood type for humans?
AB-
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3. Four capacitors are in a series circuit with values of
10, 20, 25, and 100 coulombs/volt. What is the
capacitance of the circuit?
Answer: 5 coulombs/volt
1/C = 1/10 + 1/20 + 1/25 + 1/100 = 1/5; C = 5.
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4. What is the height of an equilateral triangle
with area 43?
Answer: 23
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5. Name two structures that compose
peripheral nerves.
Axons & Dendrites
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6. Complete and balance this reaction.
C4H10 + O2  (assume complete)
2C4H10 + 13O2  8CO2 + 10H2O
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If ABC is a 30-60-90 triangle and the
shortest leg is of length 5, what is the area?
Answer: 253/2
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8. An electromagnetic wave has a frequency of
1.5 x 1010 Hz. What is the wavelength?
2 cm
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9. __________– their membranes form the
myelin sheath of peripheral neurons.
Their nuclei and cytoplasm form the neurolemma.
Schwann cells
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Relate the length of the following line
segments. (____)2 = (AB)(BD)
A
D
C
B
Answer: (BC)2 = (AB)(BD)
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11. A ball is thrown horizontally from the top of
a building that is 44.1 meters above the
ground with a velocity 9.0 m/s. How far away
from the base of the building does it hit the
ground?
27 meters
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Predict the precipitate of the following
reaction:
BaCl2 + AgNO3 →
12.
AgCl
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13. A 250 N force is applied to a 12.5 kg mass.
What is the acceleration experienced by the
mass?
Answer: 20 m/sec 2
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14. In ABC, A=40, and the exterior angle of
C = 140. What is the measure of B?
Answer: 100o
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15. This part of the brain is responsible for:
1. Produces antidiuretic hormone and oxytocin.
2. Produces releasing hormones.
3. Regulates body temperature.
4. Regulates food intake.
5. Regulates the autonomic nervous system and visceral
responses.
6. Regulates body rhythms.
Hypothalamus
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16. Evaluate
if
a.
b.
c.
d.
Answer: C
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17. What is the length of the final leg of a right
triangle with hypotenuse 50 and one leg
length 14?
Answer: 48
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18. 2C2H2 + 5 O2  4CO2 + 2 H2O
• If 3.84 moles of C2H2 are burned, how
many moles of O2 are needed?
9.6 moles
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19. Which of the following lines is not parallel
to the graph of
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a.
b.
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c.
d.
Answer: a
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20. The principle that explains how a car lift
uses hydraulic pressure to elevate a car.
Answer: Pascal’s Principle
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21. A 45-45-90 triangle with a hypotenuse of 12
has a leg of what length?
Answer: 62
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22. A thermodynamic process that occurs
where temperature remains constant.
Isothermic
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23. The period of a water wave is 2.5 x 10-2
second and its wavelength is 0.5 meters.
What is the velocity of the wave?
20 m/s
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A trapezoid with median 8 and height 7 has
what area?
Answer: 56
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25. A parallel circuit of 3 resistors of values 50
ohms, 10, ohms, and 25 ohms have a current
of 4 amps. What is the voltage in this circuit?
Answer: 25 volts
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26. Identify the 3 major types of carbohydrates.
Monosaccharides
Disaccharides
Polysaccharides
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27. What is the efficiency of a heat engine with
a heat output of 120 Calories and a heat
input of 600 Calories?
Answer: 80% E = 1 – 120/600 = .80
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28. A sphere is contained within a right cylinder
such that the diameter of the sphere equals
the diameter of the cylinder. If the diameter
of the sphere is 6 and the height of the
cylinder is 8, what is the volume in the
cylinder that is not occupied by the sphere ?
Answer: 36
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29. If 10.1 g of Fe are added to a solution of
Copper (II) Sulfate, how many grams of solid
copper would form?
2Fe + 3CuSO4  Fe2(SO4)3 + 3Cu
Answer = 17.2 g Cu
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30. A person suffering with myopia comes to you as an
optometrist seeking to have his vision corrected. What
type of lens will you prescribe.
Concave or diverging lens
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31. What is the length of the diagonal of a
rectangular solid with length 5, width 6, and
height 2?
Answer: 65
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32. Carbohydrate group that has the following
characteristics:
 Animal starches (glycogen)
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Long chains of glucose
Does not dissolve in water
Stored in liver and muscle tissue
Polysaccharides
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33. Which of the following best describes the image of a concave mirror
when the object’s distance from the mirror is less than the focal
distance?
a. virtual, upright, and magnification greater than one
b. real, inverted, and magnification less than one
c. virtual, upright and magnification less than one
d. real, inverted and magnification greater than one
a. virtual, upright, and magnification greater than one
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34. Of the following four processes, indicate
which are exothermic: evaporation,
condensation, melting, solidification
Condensation & Solidification
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35. A magnetic field goes through a loop of wire, as below. If the
magnitude of the magnetic field is increasing, what can we say
about the current in the loop?
a. The loop has a clockwise current.
b. The loop has a counterclockwise current.
c. The loop has no current.
a. The loop has a counterclockwise
current.
b. The loop The loop has a clockwise current.
c. Has no current.
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36. Identify the chemical group having the given
structure:
Ketones
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37. Determine the magnitude of the magnetic
field created from a 10 loop coil of wire
having a current of 5 amperes.
µo = 4  x 10-7 T.m / A
B = 200  x 10-7 T
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38. Health conditions that results from an
iodine deficiency and the inflammation of
follicles due to inadequate production of
thyroid hormone.
Goiter
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39. A plane electromagnetic wave has electric and magnetic fields at all
points in the plane as noted below. With the fields oriented as
shown, the wave is moving
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A.into the plane of the paper.
B.out of the plane of the paper.
C. to the left.
D. to the right.
E.toward the top of the paper.
A. into the plane of the paper.
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40. How many grams of KCl, with a molar mass
of 75 g/mol, are needed to make 1.0 L of a 5
molar solution?
375 g