Eastern Samar State University

College of Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering
Borongan City, Eastern Samar

CE INTEGRATION
EXERCISE NO. 1

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Direction: 7. A coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability of

Solve the following Problems in a separate sheet and getting 3 tails up?
encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct a. 1/8 c. 1/3
answer. If the choice does not contain the answer write b. 1/5 d. 1/6
the value before the number.
8. In how many minutes after 7:00 o’clock will the
1. Solve for x: √3 − 𝑥 + √4 − 2𝑥 − √3 − 3𝑥 = 0 hands be directly opposite each other for the first
a. 1 c. 2 time?
b. 3 d. 4 a. 5.455 min c. 4.657 min
b. 3.213 min d. 6.954 min
2. Maria is 36 years old. Maria was twice as old as
Anna was when Maria was as old as Anna now. 9. An airplane, flying with the wind, took 2 hours to
How old is Anna now? travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours to fly back. What was
a. 36 c. 54 the wind velocity in kph.
b. 24 d. 28 a. 40 kph c. 30 kph
b. 50 kph d. 20 kph
3. The cost of labor varies jointly as the number of
workers and the number of days they work. If 8 men 10. The number 28, x+2, 112 form a geometric
working 9 days each are paid P 576, in how many progression. What in the 10th term?
days will it take 6 men to earn P 624? a. 14336 c. 13648
a. 13 days c. 15 days b. 16813 d. 10932
b. 10 days d. 8 days
11. Find the 6 th term of the expansion of (2𝑥 − 𝑦2 )10
4. In a survey concerning the smoking habits of a. −8064𝑥 5 𝑦10 c. 6420𝑥 5 𝑦10
5 10
consumer it was found that 55% smoke cigarette A, b. −5306𝑥 𝑦 d. 7861𝑥 5 𝑦 10
50% smoke cigarette B, 40% smoke cigarette C,
30% smoke cigarette A and B, 20% smoke cigarette 12. If the sum of seven consecutive integers is zero,
A and C, 12% smoke cigarettes B and C only 10% what is the smallest of the seven integers?
all three cigarettes. What percentage of the 𝑥, 𝑥 + 1, 𝑥 + 2, 𝑥 + 3, 𝑥 + 4, 𝑥 + 5, 𝑥 + 6
population did not smoke? a. 5 c. – 4
a. 93% c. 32% b. – 3 d. 2
b. 7% d. 15%
13. In the given harmonic progression shown, compute
5. Compute the value of x by determinants the value of x:
4 −1 2 3 1 1 1 1
, , ,
2 0 2 1 1 4 𝑥 10
𝑥=| | a. 7 c. 8
10 3 0 1
14 2 4 5 b. 9 d. 10
a. 18 c. 24
b. 26 d. 28 √𝑎
14. Rationalize the denominator of and
√𝑎−√𝑎√𝑏
6. Find the value of “w” in the following equations. determine the transformed fraction.
3𝑥 − 2𝑦 + 𝑤 = 11 1+√𝑏 1−√𝑏
a. c.
𝑥 + 5𝑦 − 2𝑤 = −9 1−𝑎𝑏 1+𝑎
1+√𝑏 1−√𝑏
2𝑥 + 𝑦 − 3𝑤 = −6 b. d.
a. 1 c. 2 1−𝑏 1+𝑎𝑏

b. 4 d. 3
15. Find the sum of the geometric progression 26. How many terms of the progression 3, 5, 7, 9….must
2x, 4x+14, 20x-14….up to the 10th term. be taken in order that their sum will be 2600?
a. 314,336 c. 633,413 a. 20 c. 30
b. 413,336 d. 146,333 b. 40 d. 50

16. Solve for n if 𝑛𝑃6 = 3𝑛𝑃5 where P stands fro 27. Find the value of A in the equation
permutation. (𝑥 2 +4𝑥+10) 𝐴 𝐵(2𝑥+2) 𝐶
a. 8 c. 9 =𝑥+ + (𝑥 2 +2𝑥+5)
(𝑥 3 +2𝑥 2 +5𝑥) (𝑥 2 +2𝑥+5)
b. 10 d. 12 a. 4 c. 3
b. 2 d. 5
17. Which of the following numbers is not a prime
number 11, 17, 13, 15? 28. The boat travels downstream in 2/3 hours the time
a. 15 c. 17 as it does going upstream. If the velocity of the river
b. 11 d. 13 current is 8 kph, determine the velocity of the boat in
still water.
18. Solve for B from the given expression of partial a. 40 kph c. 30 kph
fractions b. 20 kph d. 10 kph
2𝑥4 +3𝑥3 +7𝑥2 +10𝑥+10 𝐴 𝐵𝑥+𝐶 𝐷𝑥+𝐸
= + +
(𝑥−1)(𝑥2 +3)2 𝑥−1 (𝑥2 +3) (𝑥2 +3)2 29. In how many minutes after 2 o’clock will the hands of
a. 0 c. 1 the clock extend in opposite directions for the first
b. 2 d. 3 time?
a. 43.636 min c. 34.366 min
19. Determine the sum of the numerical coefficients in b. 36.466 min d. 63.643 min
the expansions of (𝑎 + 𝑏)8
a. 526 c. 436 30. Find the elements of the product of the two matrices,
b. 354 d. 256 matrix BC.
1 2
Elements of Matrix 𝐵 = [ ]
20. There are 4 geometric means between 3 and 729. 0 −5
Find the fourth term of the geometric progression.
a. 91 c. 71 3 6
Elements of Matrix 𝐶 = [ ]
b. 101 d. 81 4 1
11 8
a. 𝐵𝐶 = [ ]
−20 −5
21. Twenty men can finish the job in 30 days. Twenty 8 11
five men were hired at the start and 10 quit after 20 b. 𝐵𝐶 = [ ]
5 −20
days. How many days will it take to finish the job? 11 20
c. 𝐵𝐶 = [ ]
a. 26 days c. 28 days −5 8
b. 25 days d. 27 days 11 8
d. 𝐵𝐶 = [ ]
−5 −20
22. How many 4 digit combination could be made from
31. A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two balls
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9?
are drawn in succession without replacement, what
a. 120 c. 150
is the probability that both balls are black?
b. 180 d. 210
a. 7/14 c. 5/14
b. 6/14 d. 4/14
23. An airplane flew from A to B along the wind for 1.5
hours a total distance of 500 km and consumes 1.6
32. How many four digit numbers can be formed by the
hours in flying the same distance back again the
use of digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 if one digit’s is used
wind. What is the speed of the plane in still air?
only once in one number?
a. 223.29 km/hr c. 222.39 km/hr
a. 360 c. 230
b. 923.22 km/hr d. 322.92 km/hr
b. 630 d. 450
24. A is 12% older than B, while B is 11% older than C.
33. What is the sum of the progression 4, 9, 14, 19… up
By how much in % is A older than C.
to the 20th term?
a. 43.22% c. 24.32%
a. 1030 c. 3010
b. 32.24% d. 53.22%
b. 980 d. 2030
25. The geometric mean of two numbers is 8 and the
arithmetic mean is 17. Find one of the numbers.
a. x = 3, x = 36 c. x = 4, x = 28
b. x = 2, x = 28 d. x = 32, x = 2