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ECE REVIEW
RATE PROBLEM
1. Lawrence drives home at 55 mph and is 3 minutes
early for dinner. If he drives home 50 mph, he is 3
minutes late. How far does he drive?
2. Mr. Zalameda drove 150 miles. If he had gone 7
miles per hour faster, the trips have taken 25
fewer minutes. What was his speed?
3. A boat goes 70 km downstream in the same time
it goes to 42 km upstream. If the speed of the
stream is 4 kph, what is the speed of the boat?
4. A policeman on a motorcycle is pursuing a car that
is speeding at 115km/hr. The policeman is 6 km
behind the car and is traveling 130 km/hr. How
long will it be before the policeman overtakes the
car?
5. An airplane flying with the wind, took 3 hours to
travel 500 miles and 4 hours in flying back. What
is the wind velocity in mph?
6. A boat goes 50 km downstream in the same time
it goes to 38 km upstream. If the speed of the
stream is 4 kph, what is the speed of the boat?
7. Juan and pedro traveled at the same time at a rate
of 20 m/min, from the same point on a circular
track of radius 600m. If juan walks along the
circumference and pedro towards the center, find
their distance after 10 min.
8. A boat going across a lake 8 km wide proceed 2
km at a certain speed and then completes the trip
at a speed ½ kph faster. By doing this, the boat
arrives 10 minutes earlier than if the original
speed has been maintained. Find the original
speed of the boat.
CLOCK PROBLEM
9. What time between 7 and 8 o’clock will the hands
of the clock be in opposite direction?
10. What time between 4:30 and 5 o’clock will the
hands of the clock be at right angle?
11. How many minutes after midnights will the hands
of the clock form an angle of 120 degrees?
12. What time between 4 and 5 o’clock will the hands
of the clock be at right angle for the second time?
13. What time between 6:30 and 7 o’clock will the
hands of the clock be at right angle?
VARIATION PROBLEM
14. The distance d of a point from a source of light
varies inversely as the square root of the lights
illumination I at the point. If I = 900 candlepower
at a distance of 2.6 feet, how far is a point from the
source if its illumination is 169 candlepower.
15. The distance that you can see to the horizon
varies directly the square root of your height
above the sea level. Suppose a person 20 m above
sea level can see 32.5 km, how far can the person
see at 25 m above sea level?
16. The time required by an elevator to lift a weight
varies directly with the weight and the distance
through which it is to be lifted and inversely as the
power of the motor. If it takes 30 seconds for a 10
hp motor to lift 100 lbs through 50 ft, what size of
the motor is required to lift 800 lbs. in 40 seconds
through the distance of 40 ft?
PROGRESSION
17. The arithmetic mean of 50 numbers is 79. If two
numbers namely 120 and 230 are removed, what
is the arithmetic mean of the remaining numbers?
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
ALGEBRA PART 2
18. The first term of an arithmetic progression is 4,
the 2nd term is 8, and the third term is 12. What is
the 10th term?
19. The 5th term of an arithmetic progression is 23
and the 10th term is 43. Find the 1st term.
20. How many terms of the progression 3, 5, 7 … must
be taken in order that their sum will be 2600?
21. The 4th term of the arithmetic progression is 18
and the common difference is 5, find the 20 th term.
Also find the sum of the first 20 terms.
22. The first term of a geometric progression is 1.5,
the second term is 3.0, the third term is 6.0, find
the 20th term.
23. The first term of the geometric progression is 6,
the second term is 12, the third term is 24, find
the 20th term. Also find the sum of the digits from
1st to 20th term.
24. Find the 9th term of the harmonic progression 7,
28/11, 14/9 ….
25. Determine the sum of the infinite series
1/2,3/8,9/32 …..
26. A rubber ball is made to fall from a height of 70
feet and is observed to rebound 1/3 of this
distance it falls. How far will the ball travel before
coming to rest if the ball continues to fall in this
manner?
27. The midpoints of the sides of a 4m by 4m square
are interconnected to form a smaller square. The
midpoints of the sides of the square formed are
again interconnected to form another smaller
square. If the process will be repeated indefinitely,
find the sum of perimeters of all the squares
formed including that of the original square.
28. Find the 25th term of the harmonic progression
1/3, 1/8, /13…
29. The sum of three consecutive integers is 126.
What is the largest numbers?
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30. The sum of three consecutive even

integers is 150. What is the largest numbers?

Supplement;s

1. At 2:00PM an airplane takes off at 340 mph on

an aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier moves due
south at 25mph in the same direction as the
plane. At 4;05 PM , the communication of the
aircraft and carrier and plane was lost.
Determine the communication range in miles
between the plane and aircraft.
2. A group of n boys and n girls. If two of the boys
were replaced by two other girls, then 49% of
the group members will be boys. Find the value
of n.
3. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent of
1785/9999 starting from the decimal point..

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