Age problems

1. Ana is 5 years older than Beth. In 5 years, the product of their ages is 1.5 times the product of
their present ages. How old is Beth now?
2. Ten years ago, Jan was four times as old as Michael. Now he is only twice as old as Michael.
How old is Jan?
3. Erwin is 12 years older than his cousin Stewart. Seven years from now, Stewart will be 5/9 as
old as Erwin. How old is Erwin?
4. Marlon is 25 years younger than his father. However his father will be twice his age in 10 years.
How old is his father?
5. A man is 41 years old and his son is 9. In how many years will the father be three times as old as
his son?
6. A present Lester`s age is 30% of his mother, Lisa`s age. Twenty years from now, his age will be
58% that of his mother`s age. How old is Lester?

Number problems

1. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 11. If the digits are reversed, the resulting
number is seven more than twice the original number. What is the original number?
2. The sum of the two digits in a two-digit number is 12. If the digits are reversed, the new number
is 18 more than the original number. Find the original number.
3. The ten`s digit of a certain two-digit number exceeds the unit`s digit by four and is one less than
twice the unit`s digit. Find the number.
4. The sum of two numbers is 35 and their product is 15. Find the sum of their reciprocals.
5. Two natural numbers are such that the difference of their squares is 481 and the sum of their
squares is 769. What is the larger natural number?
6. The sum of four positive integers is 32. Find the greatest possible product of these four
numbers.
7. A two- digit number is equal to 8 times the sum of its digits. If 45 is subtracted from the
number, its digits are reversed. What is the number?
8. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to
both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original fraction.

Work problems

1. Farmer A can plow a field in 4 days by using a tractor. Farmer B can plow the same field in 6
days using a carabao. How long will it take to plow a field if they work together?
2. A laborer can finish a job in 4 days. Another laborer can finish the same job in 6 days. If both
laborers plus a third laborer can finish the job in 2 days, how long will it take for the third laborer
to finish the job alone/
3. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe can fill the same tank in 3 hours. A drain pipe
can empty a tank in 24 hours. With all pipes open, how long will take to fill the tank?
4. A tank is filled with an intake pipe that fills it in 2 hours and an outlet pipe that empty it in 6
hours. If both pipes are left open, how long will take to fill in the empty tank?
5. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lown in 4, 6 and 7 hours, respectively. What fraction of the yard
can they mow in 1 hour if they work together?
 6. A statistical clerk submitted to the following reports. The average rate of production of
transistors is1.5 units for every 1.5 hours work by 1.5 workers. How many transistors were
produced in one month by 30 men working 200 hours during the month?
7. Three cats can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes. How long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats?
8. A squirrel and a half eat a nut and a half in a day and a half how many nuts do 6 squirrels eat in 6
days?
9. The time required for the examinees to solve the same problem differs by two minutes.
Together they can solve 32 problems in one hour. How long for the slower problems solver to
solve a problem?

Mixture Problems

1. For a particular experiment you need 5 liters of a 10% solution. You find 7% and 12% solution on
the shelves. How much of the 7% solution should you mix with the appropriate amount of the
12% solution to get a 10% solution?
2. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of 89% hydrochloric acid solution to reduce
its strength to 75%?
3. The gasoline tank of a car contains 50 liters of gasoline and alcohol, with alcohol comprising
25%. How much of the mixture must be drawn off and replaced by alcohol so that the tank
contains a mixture of which 50% is alcohol?
4. A radiator contains 5 liters of 30% antifreeze mixture. How much of the mixture must be drained
and replaced with pure antifreeze to obtain 80% antifreeze mixture?
5. Elizabeth bought 25 kg of tea at 30 pesos per pound and 30 kg of tea at 25 pesos per pound. If
she mixed the two grades of tea and sold the mixture at 23 pesos per kg, what is true in this
transaction?
6. A silver dollar, an alloy of silver and copper, is 7.5% copper by weight. How many grams of pure
copper should be used to prepare a 200 grams of a copper-silver alloy that is 10% copper by
weight?
7. The fertilizer used for crops contains two important components namely nitrogen and
phosphate. Fertilizer A is 20% nitrogen and 2% phosphate. Fertilizer B is 15% nitrogen and 6%
phosphate. Fertilizer C is 30% nitrogen and zero phosphate. How many kg of each should be
mixed to make 20 kg of fertilizer that is 19% nitrogen and 4% phosphate?

Motion Problems

1. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5 mph and upstream 2 mph. How far downstream should
he go if he is to return 7/4 hours after leaving?
2. A man can row his canoe at a constant rate of 5 miles per hour in still water. He rows upstream
for 15 minutes and then rows downstream returning to his starting point in another 12 minutes.
What is the rate of the current in miles per hour?
3. A man can row 20 km downstream in the time he takes to row 8 km upstream. He rows
downstream for 1 hour and 30 minutes, then turns and row back for 3 hours, but he finds that
he is still 3 km from his starting place. Find the rate of them man in still water?
4. It takes and airplane one hour and forty-five minutes to travel 500 miles against the wind and
covers the same distance in one hour and fifteen minutes with the wind. What is the speed of
the airplane?
 5. An airplane travels from point A to point B with a distance of 1500 km and a wind along its flight
line. If it takes the airplane 2 hours from point A to point B with the tailwind and 2.5 hours from
point B to point A with the headwind, what is the velocity of the plane?
6. Pedro started running at a speed of 10 kph. Five minutes later, Mario started running in the
same direction and catches up with Pedro in 20 minutes. What is the speed of Mario?
7. A rich man lived in his private island went to the mainland 36 km away by motorboat and
returned home by helicopter. His total travel time was 1 4/5 hours and his flying speed average
five times as fast as his boat`s speed. Find the speed of the helicopter?
8. A man travels in motorized banca at the rate of 15 kph from his barrio to the poblacion and
come back to his barrio at the rate of 12 kph. If the total time of travel back and forth is 3 hours,
then what is the distance from the barrio to the poblacion?
9. Two cyclist at a crossroads. The first leaves heading south. A half an hour later, the second
leaves heading west at 7 kph faster than the first. One and a half hour later after that, they are
30 km apart. Find the speed of the faster cyclist.
10. Two boys, Junjun and Kirby are 224 meters apart. If they walk towards each other at the same
instant at rates 1.5 m/s and 2 m/s, respectively, then two boys will meet after how many
seconds?
11. Two turtles, Leonardo and Michaelangelo start at the same time towards each other at a
distance of 1.50 m from each other. The rate of Leonardo is 10 cm/s while that of Michaelangelo
is 20 cm/s. A fly named Pokemon flies from one turtle to another at the same time that the
turtles start to move toward each other. After the fly reached to one turtle, he then flies back to
other turtle and so on. If the rate of the fly is 100 cm/s find the total distance traveled by the fly.
12. Two boats started voyages from two nearby ports 200 km apart one foggy night and their
direction is in a straight line towards each other. One has an average navigational speed of 30
kph while the other has an average speed of 20 kph. Assuming that they cannot avoid collision,
how long will it take before collision occurs?
13. A Toyota Fortuner can climb up a rocky mountain road at the rate of 1.5 kph. On its return trip, it
comes down at the rate of 4.5 kph, so that the entire trip took 6 hours. How far was it to the top
of the mountain?
14. An airplane went 360 miles in two hours with the wind and flying back the same route, it took 3
3/5 hours against the wind. Determine the velocity of the wind?
15. Engr. Cuervo estimates that his car fuel consumption averages 28 km per liter in the highway
and 22 km per liter in the city. In his recent trip covering 627 km, 24 liters were used. How much
of the trip was spent in the city?
16. Using an old phonograph, a 30 rpm record usually plays for 30 minutes. However in one
instance, it was erroneously started at 45 rpm and immediately switched to 30 rpm when the
mistake was realized. Altogether, the record played for 26 minutes. For how long was it playing
at 45 rpm?

Coin Problems

1. In a box there are 25 coins consisting of quarters, nickels and dimes with a total amount of
$2.75. If the nickels were dimes, the dimes were the nickels, the total amount would be $3.75.
How many quarters are there?
Other math problems

2
1−
x+1
1. Simplify the complex fraction. 1
x−
x
1
1+
1
1+
x−1
2. Simplify the complex fraction. 1
1
1−
x+1
3 x2 1
3
−
x −1 x−1
3. Simplify
x 2−x
1− 2
x + x +1
a−2
+ ( a−2 )
a+2
4. Reduce to simplest form: 3 a+12
a−
a+2
2 2 2
a −b a a−2 b
5. Simplify: ab . 2 2
.
a −ab−2 b a−b
1 1 1
6. Perform the indicated operation: ( a−b ) ( b−c ) − ( b−c )( a−c ) + ( c−b ) ( c−a )
4 x 3 y 2+6 x 2 y 3−10 xy
7. Simplify:
2 xy
1
8. Rationalize
√ x +√ y
x y y z x
9. If 3 =9 ∧27 =81 find z .
10.Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent to 1785/9999 starting from
the decimal point.
11.What is the lowest common factor of 10 and 32?
12.Two horns A and B sound every 34 minutes and 38 minutes, respectively.
They sound together at 7:00 in the morning. At what time will they two
next sound together?
13.If 16 is 4 more than 4x, find 5x-1.
14.Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. Determine the number.
15.Solve for the value of x of the following equation: x 8−17 x 4 +16=0 .
16.The sum of two numbers is 21 and one number is twice the other. Find the
numbers.
17.If ( x +3 ) : 10=( 3 x−2 ) :8 , find (2 x−1) .
18.Find the equation whose roots are the reciprocals of the roots of the
equation 2 x2 −3 x −5=0 .
19.The roots of the quadratic equation are 1/3 and 1/4. What is the equation?
20.Find the sum of the roots of 5 x 2−10 x+2=0.
21.The equation 3 x 4−7 x 3−7 x +2=0 has exactly two rational roots, both of
which are positive. Find the larger of these roots.
22.Find the value of m that will make 4 x2 −4 mx+4 m+5 a perfect square
trinomial.
23.Given the equation x 3−2 x 2−3 k=0. Find k so that 3 is one of the roots of this
equation.
24.What is the remainder when x 4 −10 x 2−9 x−20 is divided by x−4 ?
25.What is the remainder when the polynomial x 4 −5 x 3 +5 x 2+7 x +6 is divided by
x +2?
26.Given: f(x)=(x+3)(x-4)+4. When f(x) is divided by (x-k), the remainder is k.
Find k.
27.When 2 x3 −b x 2+6 x−3 b is divided by x +2, the remainder is zero. Determine
the value of b.
x+1 2 x
28. Find the value of x in 3 + 4 =47−2 x
29.Find the values of x and y from the equations: x−4 y +2=0 2 x+ y −4=0
30.Multiply the following: ( 2 x+5 y ) ( 5 x −2 y )
−1
2 3 −2 −3 −3 3 2
(x y z ) (x y z )
31.Simplify: −5
( xy z−3 ) 2
5x x+3 2 x+1
32.Simplify the following equation 2
− 2 + 2
2 x +7 x+3 2 x −3 x−2 x + x−6
33.The value of (3 to the 2.5 power) square is equal to:
34.Evaluate 64 x . 4 y
35.Solve x in the following equations 27 x =9 y 81 y 3− x =243