Maths DPP / GIF

Greatest Integer Function and Fractional Part Functions

Level -1
1. Solve for x :
(i) [x]  3.9 (ii) [x]  3.9 (iii) [x]  3.9 (iv) [x]  5
(v) 2.1  [x]  5 (vi) [x] 5 (vii) 9[x]  5.3 (viii) [x]  5.3
(ix)   5.3 (x) {x}  0
2. Solve for x :
(A) [ x]  3 (B) [x 2 ]  5 (C) [x]  [ x]  0 (D) x  [x]  1 /2
(E) [x]2  3[x]  2  0 (F) [x]2  5[x]  6  0 (G) [x]2  3[x]  2  0 (H) [3x]  1
(I) [3x]  [3x]  0 (J) [x]2  9 (K) [|x|]  3 (L) |[x]| 2
(M) 4[x]  x  {x} (N) [x]  n (n  l ) (O) [x]  n(n l ) (P) 2.3  [x]  3
(Q) 2  [x]  5.3
Level -2
3. (A) [|x|]  [x]  0 (B) |[|x|3]| 3 (C) [x  1]  [|x  2|]  1
(D) [|x  1|]  [|x  1|] 5 (E) |[x  1]|[|x  2|]  3 (F) |[||x|2|]  1
2
(G) [x  [x  [x]]]  9  [ x] (H) [4  [x] ]  [x]  2 (I) [[x]2  2[x]]  2
(J) 4{x}  x  {x} (K) 5[x]  3{x} |x| (L) [2  {x}]  x  [x]

Level -3
4. Let y  2[x]  3  3[x  2] + 5 then [x  y] equals
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 12 (D) None of these
5[x]  4
5. Find the complete set of values of x satisfying (i) 11[x]  7  3 (ii) [x]2  3[x]  2  0

1 1 1  1 3   1 199 
6. If [x] denotes the integral part of x for real x, then the value of           ........   
 4   4 200   4 200   4 200 
is
(A) 44 (B) 46 (C) [50,9] (D) 50
1
7. Solution set of 5{x}  x  [x]&[x]  {x}  will contain
2
(A) no value (B) 1 value (C) 2 values (D) None of these
100
1 n 
8. Let f(n)     where [x]s denotes the integral part of x. Then the value of  f (n) is
 2 100  n 1

(A) 50 (B) 51 (C) 1 (D) None of these

9. The solutions of the equation 2x  2[x]  1
1 1 1
(A) x  n  , n  N (B) x  n  , n  N (C) x  n  , n  l (D) n  x  n  1,n l
2 2 2
 x   x   x  31
10. If 0  x  1000 and          x, where [x] is the greatest integer less than or equal to x, the
 2   3   5  30
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of possible values of x is
(A) 34 (B) 32 (C) 33 (D) None of these
11. Let R = the set of real number, Z= the set of integres, N  the set of natural numbers. If S be the solution
set of the equation (x)2  [x]2  (x  1)2  [x  1]2 , where (x) = the least integer greater than or equal to x
and [x] = the greatest integer less than or equal to x, then
(A) S=R (B) S=R-Z (C) S=R-N (D) None of these
12. The number of solutions of [x]  2x  4, where |x| is the greatest integer  x, is
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 1 (D) infinite
2 2
13.  4  [x]   [x]  1  7 has {[ ]  int egral part}
(A) no solution (B) two solutions (C) 4 solutions (D) None of these
2 2
14. No. of pairs of (x,y) satisfying [x]  {y} = 3 will ( [ ] & { } are integral & fractional parts)
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) finitely many (D) infinitely many
15. If [x]  the greatest integer less than or equal to x, and (x) = the least integer greater than or equal to x,
and [x]2  (x)2  25 then x belongs to
(A) [3,4] (B) ( , 4] (C) ( ,  4]  [4,   ) (D) None of these
16. The solution set of (x)2  (x  1) 2  25, where (x) is the nearest integer than or equal to x, is
(A) (2,4) (B) (5, 4]  (2, 3] (C) (4, 3]  (3, 4] (D) None of these
17. Number of solutions of [x]  [x]  2x in x [1,1] will be
(A) zero (B) one (C) two (D) None of these
18.  x  x   x ]]  3 then value of x lie in the interval

(A) ( , 0) (B) ( , 1) (C) ( , 2) (D) None of these

19. Solve for (x, y) (i) [|x|]  [|y|]  1 (ii) [x]2  [y]2  1 (iii) [|x|][|y|]  2
20. Solve the equation |2x  1| 3[x]  2{x}
21. Prove that if x, y[0,1) then prove that [2x]  [2y]  [x]  [y]  [x  y]
22. Prove that [x  y] [x]  [y]  1
23. Let [a] denote the greatest integer less than or equal to a. Given that the quadratic equation
x 2  [a 2  5a  b  4]x  b  0 has roots 5and 1, find all the values of a.
24. Prove that [x]  [5x]  [10x]  [20x]  36k  35(k  l ) cannot have any real solutions.
25. For every positive integer n, prove that 4n  1  n  n  1  4n  2 Hence or otherwise, prove that

[ n  n  1]  [ 4n  1]. Where [x] denotes the greatest integer not eeceeding x.s

 1  2  1
26. Prove that - (i) [x]   x     x   [3x] (ii) [x]   x    [2x]
 3  3  2

[x]  3 [x]  1
27. Solve   1; (where [ ] denotes integral part)
[x]  2 [x]  3
28. Solve the equation x 2  4x  [x]  3  0

29.
x  x  1
Prove for every real  ve x,      [x] . Hence or otherwise prove that
 2   2 

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n  1 n  2  n  4 n  8
 2    4    8    16   ........... till  .  n nN

30. Solve the following equations for x . (A) x 2  3  {x} (B) x 2  [x]  4  0
31. Solve for x : 3x  x[x]  x 2  3[x]  0
1 1 1
32. Prove that inequality 2 n  2  1    .........   2 n  1  nN, Hence or otherwise
2 3 n

 1 1 1 
calculate 1    .........  
 2 3 3600 
33. Consider two integers x, y such that 1  x, y  9,A,B,C are A.M., G . M., H . M., of x & y. A two digit
number N is formed by using digits x & y. A number M is formed by interchanging the position of digits

x, y in N. Let  N   16,  N   20,  N  A  2   N  B then show that N  M  10  ABC

 A   B  A  B
1 1 1
34. Find all x satisfying [x]  [2x]  {x}  3

ANSWERS for GIF

1. (i) x   (ii) x  4 (iii) x 4 (iv) x6 (v) 3 x  5

(vi) x  6 (vii) 9 x  5 (viii) x   5 (xi) x  5 (x) x  I

1
2. (A) 9  x  16 (B) x  ( 6 ,  5] [ 5 , 6) (C) x  I (D) n 
2
1
(E) 1 x  3 (F) ( , 2) [4, ) (G) [1,3) (H)   x  0 (I) 0
3
(J) x  3  x , 4 (K) (4, 3] [3, 4) (L) [ 2, 1)  [2, 3) (M) 0 (N) x  n
(O) x  n (P) [ 2, 4) (Q) [1,6)
3. (A) x [0,  ),{1,  2, 3,......} (B) |x|  7 (C) x[3, ) (D) x( 3, 3)
(E) x (  , 3)  [1, ) (F) x 0,(  , 4][4, ) (G) x  (2, 3)
(H) x [2, 1)  [1, 2) (I) x  [2,1] (J) x  {0,5 /3} (K) x  0
(L) x  1
4. (b) 5.(i)  (ii) [1,3) 6. (c) (d) 7. (b) 8.(b) 9.(a) (b) (c)

10. (c) 11. (b) 12. (b) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (c)

5 3 5 5 3 5
16.(b) 17. (d) 18. (c) 20. 1 2 23. (1, ] [ ,6)
2 2

1  21
27. (, 0)  [5, ) 28.  30. (a) (b)  2 , 6 32. x  3  1
2
19 29 97
33. 118 34. , ,
6 12 24

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