Your credit card has a nominal interest rate of 18%. If the interest is calculated monthly, what is the effective annual rate?
(A)19.0%
(B) 18.5%
(C) 19.6%
(D) 20.1%
A company can manufacture a product using hand tools. Tools will cost $1,000, and the manufacturing cost per unit will be $1.50. As an alternative, an automated system will cost $15,000 with a manufacturing cost per unit of $0.50. With an anticipated annual volume of 5,000 units and neglecting interest, the break-even point (years) is most nearly:
(A) 2.0 (B) 2.8 (C) 3.6 (D) 15.0
Correct Answer: B
What the standard units used when using the Reynolds Number?
(A) ft/s2 (B) centipoise (C) kg/s (D) None
Correct Answer: D
What is the gauge pressure of at a point that is 15 meters below the surface of water that has an atmospheric pressure of 14.7 PSIA?
(A)147,150 pa (B) 150,000 pa (C) 147,250 pa (D) 147,000 pa
Correct Answer: A
More PE Exam Questions
- 1Which of the following is FALSE with regards to creep I. May involve the sliding of whole grains II At high stresses creep is controlled by the movement of vacancies. III Also known as hot flow IV Creep is a time dependent deformation
- 2
What is the oxidation state of Carbon in Carbonate (CO3-2)
- 3A group of dog pulls a sled across a snow covered surface. It takes 5 hours to pull the 200 kg sled 100 kilometers. If the static friction is 0.4 and the dynamic friction is 0.1 what is the average power exerted by the dog sled team?
- 4
A piston inside a cylinder undergoes an isentropic compression with the following values.
$latex p_1= 4.57 \frac{N}{cm^2}$$latex p_2= 34.07 \frac{N}{cm^2}$
$latex V_1 = 257 cm^3$
If the specific heat ratio (k) is 1.4, What is the compressed volume? - 5
A tube that is 10 feet long and 2 feet in diameter is placed in an air stream. The flow of the air is at a speed of 15 ft/s and is perpendicular to the long axis of the tube. If the coefficient of drag is 1.3 and the density of air is 0.075 lbm/ft3 What is the drag on the cylinder?