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CIVIL ENGINEERING LICENSURE EXAM

APPLIED MATH, SURVEYING, TRANSPORTATION & HIGHWAY ENG’G, CONSTRUCTION MGT.

Wednesday, December 07, 2022 Module 8

INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer for each item
by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES
ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 2 only. NOTE: WHENEVER YOU CAN ENCOUNTER A CARET (^) SIGN, IT MEANS EXPONENTIATION.

1. In how many ways can 6 distinct books be 12. The probability of getting at least 2 heads when
arranged in a bookshelf? a coin is tossed four times is
A. 720 B. 120 A. 11/16 B. 13/16
C. 360 D. 180 C. 1/4 D. 3/8

2. How many four-point digit can be formulated by 13. Determine the probability of drawing either a
the use of digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 if one king or a diamond in a single draw from a pack
digit is used only once in common? of 52 playing cards.
A. 260 B. 380 A. 2/13 B. 3/13
C. 480 D. 360 C. 4/13 D. 1/13

3. How many different ways can 5 boys and 5 girls 14. In how many ways can 4 boys and 4 girls be
form a circle with boys and girls alternate? seated alternately in a row of 8 seats?
A. 28,800 B. 2,880 A. 1152 B. 2304
C. 5,600 D. 14,400 C. 576 D. 2204

4. There are four balls of different colors. Two 15. In Math examination, a student may select 7
balls at a time are taken and arranged any way. problems from a set of 10 problems. In how many
How many such combinations are possible? ways can he make his choice?
A. 36 B. 3 A. 120 B. 530
C. 6 D. 12 C. 720 D. 320

5. In how many ways can you invite one or more of 16. How many committees ca be formed by choosing 4
your five friends in a party? men from an organization of a membership of 15
A. 15 B. 31 men?
C. 36 D. 25 A. 1390 B. 1240
C. 1435 D. 1365
6. In how many ways can a committee of three
consisting of two civil engineers and one 17. A construction company will hire 7 men and 4
electrical engineer can be formed from four women. In how many ways can the company choose
civil engineers and three electrical engineers? from 9 men and 6 women who qualified for the
A. 18 B. 64 position?
C. 32 D. 36 A. 680 B. 540
C. 480 D. 840
7. From a box containing 6 red balls, 8 white balls
and 10 blue balls, one ball is drawn at random. 18. There are 50 tickets in a lottery in which there
Determine the probability that it is red or is a first and second prize. What is the
white. probability of a man drawing a prize if he owns
A. 1/3 B. 7/12 5 tickets?
C. 5/12 D. 1/4 A. 50% B. 25%
C. 20% D. 40%
8. From a bag containing 4 black balls and 5 white
balls, two balls are drawn one at a time. Find 19. Roll a pair of dice. What is the probability
the probability that both balls are white. that the sum of two numbers is 11?
Assume that the first ball is returned before A. 1/36 B. 1/9
the second ball is drawn. C. 1/18 D. 1/20
A. 25/81 B. 16/81
C. 5/18 D. 40/81 20. Roll two dice once. What is the probability that
the sum is 7?
9. A fair coin is tossed three times. What is the A. 1/6 B. 1/8
probability of getting either 3 heads or 3 C. 1/4 D. 1/7
tails?
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 21. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 playing cards.
C. 1/4 D. 1/2 Find the probability of drawing a king or a red
card.
10. The probability of getting a credit in an A. 0.5835 B. 0.5385
examination is 1/3. If three students are C. 0.3585 D. 0.8535
selected at random, what is the probability that
at least one of them got a credit? 22. A face of a coin is either head or tail. If
A. 19/27 B. 8/27 three coins are tossed, what is the probability
C. 2/3 D. 1/3 of getting three tails?
A. 1/8 B. 1/2
11. There are 3 questions in a test. For each C. 1/4 D. 1/6
question 1 point is awarded for a correct answer
and none for a wrong answer. If the probability 23. A bag contains 3 white and 5 black balls. If two
that the student correctly answers a question in balls are drawn in succession without
the test is 2/3, determine the probability that replacement, what is the probability that both
she gets zero in the test. balls are black?
A. 8/27 B. 4/9 A. 5/28 B. 5/16
C. 1/30 D. 1/27 C. 5/32 D. 5/14
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24. The number of ways can 3 nurses and 4 engineers 37. Five different mathematics books, four different
can be seated on a bench with the nurses seated hydraulics books and two different structural
together is books are to be placed in a shelf with the books
A. 144 B. 258 of the same subject together. Find the number of
C. 720 D. 450 ways in which the books can be placed.
A. 292 B. 5760
25. How many ways can 6 persons line-up in any C. 34560 D. 12870
order?
A. 120 B. 60 38. A college plays 12 football games during a
C. 420 D. 720 season. In how many ways can the team end the
season with 7 wins, 3 losses, and 2 ties?
26. How many ways can 6 persons line-up if one A.7920 B. 210
person insists on standing in front? C.2520 D. 11880
A. 120 B. 720
C. 121 D. 6 39. In a certain city in the Philippines, all seven-
digit telephone numbers begin with 350. How many
27. How many ways can 6 persons line-up if two of telephone numbers may be assigned to that city
those persons refuse to stand next to each if the last four digits should not begin or end
other? in zero?
A. 240 B. 120 A. 5040 B. 8100
C. 480 D. 48 C. 5184 D. 10000

28. Six boys and four girls are to be seated on a 40. How many telephone numbers if there's no
bench. How many ways can they be seated in any restriction?
order? A. 5040 B. 8100
A. 3628800 B. 420 C. 840 D. 10000
C. 44100 D. 388260
41. How many telephone numbers if there's no
29. Six boys and four girls are to be seated on a repetition of digits?
bench. How many ways can they be seated if the A. 5040 B. 5184
girls must be seated next to each other? C. 840 D. 210
A. 17280 B. 120960
C. 604800 D. 156240 42. To make a ham and cheese sandwich you are given
a choice of 3 kinds of ham, 5 kinds of cheese,
30. Six boys and four girls are to be seated on a and 2 kinds of bread. How many different
bench. How many ways can they be seated if the sandwiches can you make?
boys must be seated next to each other? A. 30 B. 40
A. 86400 B.156240 C. 50 D. 60
C. 17280 D. 762048
43. How many ways can a person choose three of four
31. Six boys and four girls are to be seated on a colors for the purpose of painting the inside of
bench. How many ways can they be seated if the a house?
boys must be seated side by side and also the A. 24 B. 12
girls? C. 6 D. 4
A. 3628800 B. 156240
C. 34560 D. 17280 44. How many ways can 6 representatives be selected
from a class of 24 students?
32. The captain of a chess team assigns himself to A. 134596 B. 144
board 1. If there are six players including the C. 665280 D. 96909120
captain, how many ways can the team be assigned
to the boards if there are six chess boards. 45. How many ways can you invite any one or more of
A. 120 B. 720 your eight friends to come to your birthday
C. 121 D. 6 party?
A. 255 B.455
33. A group of musicians is composed of three C.155 D.100
drummers, four pianists, and five guitarists.
How many ways can a trio be formed with 1 46. A construction company will hire 10 skilled
pianist, 1 drummer, and 1 guitarist? carpenters and 4 skilled masons. In how many
A. 20 ways B. 60 ways ways can the company choose from 18 carpenters
C. 40 ways D. 80 ways and 6 masons who are qualified for the position?
A. 675 B. 6648
34. In how many ways can a PICE Chapter with 15 C. 6735 D. 656370
directors choose a President, a Vice President,
a Secretary, a Treasurer and an Auditor, if no 47. How many ways can a student select a set of 4
member can hold more than one position? Structural Design books and 3 Hydraulics books
A. 360,360 B. 32,760 from a set of 9 Structural Design books and 5
C. 3,003 D. 3,603,600 Hydraulics books?
A. 136 B. 1260
35. There are 8 pocket holes at the periphery of a C. 485 D. 620
round horizontal platform. In how many ways can
8 balls of different colors be placed with one 48. In how many ways can 14 employees be partitioned
ball in each pocket? into 6 committees where 2 of the committees
A. 40320 B. 120 contain 3 men and the others 2?
C. 8 D. 5040 A. 25, 225,200 B. 151,351, 200
C. 50,450,400 D. 302,702,400
36. How many numbers can we form from number 0, 1,
3, 4, 8 and 9 that are greater than 430? 49. It is required to seat 5 different men and 4
A. 48 B. 51 different women in so that the women occupy the
C. 43 D. 60 even places. How many arrangements are possible?
A. 20 B. 2880
C. 362880 D. 120
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50. From 7 consonants and 5 vowels, how many words 62. A contest offers the following cash prizes:
can be formed consisting of 4 different Number of Prizes Prize Values
consonants and 3 different vowels? The words 1 P 1,000,000
need not have meaning. 10 P 100,000
A. 50,555 B. 3,991,600 100 P 10,000
C. 1,764,000 D. 4,500 1000 P 1,000
If the sponsor expects 20 million contestants,
51. An urn contains four black balls and six white find the expected value for a single contestant.
balls. What is the probability of getting one A. 0.2 B. 0.5
black ball and one white ball in two consecutive C. 0.1 D. 0.6
draws from the urn?
A. 0.24 B. 0.53 63. A game is played in which a coin is flipped one
C. 0.48 D. 0.07 time. If the coin lands on tails, the player
wins $5. If the coin lands on heads, the player
52. A dart is randomly thrown at a circular wins $10. What is the expected value for a
dartboard with target circles having radii of 1, player who plays this game one time?
3, and 5. Find the probability that the dart A. $9.00 B. $ 7.50
lands on the shaded circular region between 1 C. $10.50 D. $15.50
and 3. Assume that the dart will fall only
within the 5 in radius. Situation – Toss a fair coin 100 times, and count
A. 8/25 B. 1/3 the number of heads that appear. Find the following:
C. 9/25 D. 1/2
64. Expected number of heads;
53. A janitor with a bunch of 9 keys is to open a A. 25 B. 50
door but only one key can open. What is the C. 75 D. 100
probability that he will succeed in 3 trials?
A. 0.333 B. 0.25 65. Standard Deviation;
C. 0.5 D. 0.2 A. 5 B. 10
C. 15 D. 17.078
54. A password of a computer uses five digits where
they are from 0 and 9. What is the probability 66. Compute the standard deviation of the following
that the password solely consists of prime set of numbers
numbers and zero? 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, and 15
A. 1/23 B. 1/2 A. 4.6224 B. 4.2197
C. 1/3 D. 1/32 C. 2.8462 D. 3.1178

55. The probability of event A happening is 3/5 and 67. Given the following set of numbers arranged from
the probability of event B happening is 2/3. smallest to largest: {x, 5, 3x, 12, 18, x^3-5}.
What is the probability of only event A If the range of the set is 19, what is the mean
happening, i.e. event A happening and event B of the set?
not happening? A. 11.5 B. 10.5
A. 1/5 B. 5/3 C. 12.5 D. 9.5
C. 3/5 D. 13/15
Situation – The table below shows a gamer's kills-
56. In a family of five children, what is the chance to-death ratio for 12 random games
that there are three boys and two girls? 6.4 5.5 6.8 4.9 5.6 3.8
A. 1/32 B. 1/10 3.8 4.8 6.4 5.0 4.2 3.8
C. 5/16 D. 3/5 Assume that the measurements are a simple random
sample.
57. How many line segments can be drawn from 9
distinct points? 68. Calculate the sample mean for this data.
A. 36 B. 81 A. 5.025 B. 5.083
C. 72 D. 9 C. 4.981 D. 4.890

58. The probability of event A happening is 3/5 and 69. Calculate the sample median for this data
the probability of event B happening is 2/3. A. 4.9 B. 4.95
What is the probability of either A or B, or A C. 5.0 D. 5.05
and B happening.
A. 1/5 B. 5/3 70. Calculate the sample mode for this data.
C. 3/5 D. 13/15 A. 3.8 B. 6.4
C. 4.9 D. 5.0
59. A basketball player averages 65% in a free-throw
line. What is the probability of missing one or 71. Calculate the range for this data.
two free throws? A. 2 B. 3
A. 0.455 B.0.8225 C. 4 D. 5
C. 0.578 D.0.35
72. Calculate the sample standard deviation and
60. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The player variance for this data.
wins P50.00 if he rolls either 2 or 4. He loses A. 1.0286, 1.0581 B.2.0286, 2.0581
P20.00 if he turns up any other faces. What is C.1.055, 1.0854 D.2.055, 2.0681
the expected winning for one roll of the die?
A. P2.22 B. P3.33 73. Determine the expected number of boy in a family
C. P4.44 D. P5.55 with 8 children, assuming the sex distribution
to be equally probable. What is the probability
61. In a dice game, one fair die is used. The player that the expected number of boys does occur?
wins P20.00 if he rolls either 1 or 6. He loses A. 0.212 B. 0.273
P10.00 if he turns up any other face. What is C. 0.351 D. 0.405
the expected winning for one roll of the die?
A. P 40.00 B. P 20.00
C. P 0.00 D. P 10.00

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74. A safety engineer claims that only 40% of all 86. Find the probability that exactly three red
workers wear safety helmets when they eat lunch cards are drawn.
at the workplace. Assuming that his claim is A. 0.066 B. 0.026
right, find the probability that 4 of 6 workers C. 0.016 D. 0.062
randomly chosen will be wearing their helmets
while having lunch at the workplace. 87. Find the probability that at least one face card
A. 0.13824 B. 0.12438 is drawn.
C. 0.14382 D. 0.18234 A. 0.7486 B. 0.7468
C. 0.7586 D. 0.7568
75. When 100 coins are tossed, what is the
probability that exactly 50 are heads? Situation – From a lot of 10 missiles 4 are selected
A. 0.0697 B. 0.0679 at random and fired. If the lot contains 3 defective
C. 0.0796 D. 0.0769 missiles that will not fire, what is the probability
that:
76. Smith and Jones, both 50% marksmen, decide to
fight a duel in which they exchange alternate 88. All 4 will fire.
shots until one is hit. What are the odds in A. 0.1429 B. 0.5
favor of the man who shoots first? C. 0.3333 D. 0.1667
A. 0.5 B. 0.3
C. 0.4 D. 0.8 89. At most 2 will not fire.
A.0.9667 B.0.8867
77. Find the probability of getting between 3 and 6 C.0.1667 D.0.6677
heads inclusive in 10 tosses of a fair coin by
using the normal approximation to the binomial Situation – A company producing electric relays has
distribution. three manufacturing plants producing 50, 30 and 20
A. 0.246 B. 0.445 percent, respectively, of its product. Suppose that
C. 0.543 D. 0.772 the probabilities, that relay manufactured by these
plants is defective, are 0.02, 0.05, and 0.01,
Situation – A coin is tossed 6 times. respectively.

78. What is the probability that exactly two heads 90. If relay is selected at random from the output
occur? of the company, what is the probability that it
A. 2 / 6 B. 15 / 64 is defective?
C. 63 / 64 D. 11 / 32 A. 0.027 B. 0.036
C. 0.033 D. 0.029
79. What is the probability of getting at least four
heads? 91. If a relay selected at random is found to be
A. 2 / 6 B. 15 / 64 defective, what is the probability that it was
C. 63 / 64 D. 11 / 32 manufactured by plant 2?
A. 0.556 B. 0.666
80. What is the probability of no heads occur? C. 0.544 D. 0.356
A. 2 / 6 B. 15 / 64
C. 63 / 64 D. 11 / 32 Situation – A supermarket manager knows that an
average of four persons will pass through the
81. Two numbers are chosen at random from among the checkout line during any 10-minute period.
numbers 1 to 10 without replacement. Find the
probability that the second number chosen is 5. 92. What is the probability of no customer in a 10-
A. 15% B. 25% minute period?
C. 40% D. 10% A. 0.018 B. 0.426
C. 0.135 D. 0.670
82. The UN forces of Bosnia use a type of missile
that hits the target with a probability of 0.3. 93. What is the probability of no customer in a 5-
How many missiles should be fired so that there minute period?
is at least 80% probability of hitting the A. 0.018 B. 0.426
target? C. 0.135 D. 0.670
A. 2 B. 5
C. 4 D. 3 94. What is the probability of no customer in a 1-
minute period?
83. There are 10 defects per 1000 items of a product A. 0.018 B. 0.426
in the long run. What is the probability that C. 0.135 D. 0.670
there is one and only one defective in a random
lot of 100? Situation – A delivery of ten items is received from
A. 0.3697 B. 0.3796 a manufacturing plant at which 5% of the items
C. 0.3967 D. 0.3679 produced are known to be defective.
84. There are six (6) bulbs in a house out of which 95. What is the probability of no defective items
3 are defective. If 2 bulbs are picked randomly, among the ten items?
find the probability that at least one is A. 0.329 B. 0.303
defective. C. 0.549 D. 0.607
A. 0.2 B. 0.6
C. 0.4 D. 0.8 96. What is the probability of exactly one defective
item?
Situation – Five cards are drawn one at a time from A. 0.329 B. 0.303
an ordinary deck of 52 cards. C. 0.549 D. 0.607

85. Find the probability that exactly two diamonds

are drawn.
A. 0.001116 B. 0.001006
C. 0.001016 D. 0.001666

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Situation – Suppose the heights H of 800 students Situation – Suppose 300 misprints are distributed
are normally distributed with mean 66 inches and randomly throughout a book of 500 pages. Find the
standard deviation 5 inches. Find the number N of probability that a given page contains:
students with heights:
108. Exactly 2 misprints.
97. Between 65 and 70. A. 0.1220 B. 0.1511
A. 64 B. 92 C. 0.1005 D. 0.0988
C. 186 D. 294
109. 2 or more misprints
98. Greater than or equal to 6 feet (72 inches) A. 0.1220 B. 0.1511
A. 64 B. 92 C. 0.1005 D. 0.0988
C. 186 D. 294
110. It is a probability of a mechanism that will
Situation – Suppose that amount of time one spends function satisfactorily. If the mechanism is to
in a bank is exponentially distributed with mean 10 operate intermittently and briefly, it is also
minutes. refers to performance on a given occasion. If
the mechanism is to operate continuously, it
99. What is the probability that a customer will refers its performance for a specific period of
spend more than 15 minutes in the bank? time.
A. 0.11 B. 0.22 A. Reliability B. Standard Deviation
C. 0.33 D. 0.44 C. Infinite Set D. Mean

100. What is the probability that a customer will

spend more than 15 minutes in the bank given
that he is still in the bank after 10 minutes?
A. 0.604 B. 0.712
C. 0.865 D. 0.911

Situation - The probability of a component failing

in one year due to excessive temperature is 1/20,
that due to excessive vibration is 1/25 and that due
to excessive humidity is 1/50. Determine the
probabilities that during a one-year period a
component

101. Fails due to excessive temperature and

excessive vibration.
A. 0.002 B. 0.060
C. 0.521 D. 0.931

102. Fails due to excessive vibration or

excessive humidity.
A. 0.002 B. 0.060
C. 0.521 D. 0.931

103. Will not fail because of both excessive

temperature and excessive humidity
A. 0.002 B. 0.060
C. 0.521 D. 0.931

Situation – A batch of 40 components contain 5 which

are defective. If a component is drawn at random
from the batch and tested and then a second
component is drawn at random, calculate the
probability of having one defective component, both

104. With replacement

A. 0.2188 B. 0.7656
C. 0.2244 D. 0.7628

105. Without replacement

A. 0.2188 B. 0.7656
C. 0.2244 D. 0.7628

Situation – The probability of a man hitting a

target is 0.25.

106. If he fires 7 times, what is the probability

of his hitting at least two?
A. 4547 / 8192 B. 4745 / 8192
C. 4457 / 8192 D. 4574 / 8192

107. How many times must he fire so that the

probability of his hitting the target at least
one is greater than 2/3?
A. 2 B. 3
C. 4 D. 5

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