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This document contains 13 math word problems with solutions. The problems cover a range of topics including geometry, algebra, sequences, word problems involving objects crossing a river, and finding decimal digits of fractions. Step-by-step workings are shown for most problems.

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Problem Solving Exam

This document contains 13 math word problems with solutions. The problems cover a range of topics including geometry, algebra, sequences, word problems involving objects crossing a river, and finding decimal digits of fractions. Step-by-step workings are shown for most problems.

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Answer the following.

Show solution if necessary, if not, explain how you get


your answer.

1. How many triangles are there in the figure?

- There are 13 triangles 9 small, 3 big and 1 the largest.

2. At Joe’s Cafe 1 cup of coffee and 3 doughnuts cost $0.90, and 2 cups of coffee
and 2 doughnuts cost $1.00. What is the cost of 1 cup of coffee? 1 doughnut?

- $0.30 coffee and and $0.20 doughnut

1 coffee + 3 doughnuts 2 coffee + 2 doughnuts


0.30 + 3(0.20) = 0.30 2(0.30) + 2(0.20)
0.30 + 0.60 = $0.90 0.60 + 0.40 = $1.00

3. If eight people greet each other at the meeting by shaking hands with one
another, how many handshakes take place?

Number of people, n = 8
Exclude the person who is saying hello because he will not be saying hello to himself, n-1
Number of handshakes = (n/2)(n-1)
Number of handshakes = (8/2)(8-1)
Number of handshakes = (4)(7)
Number of handshakes = 28

4. Use the method of finite differences to find the next term of the sequence.
a. 1, 5, 14, 30, 55
The next term is 91
1-5= 4 5-14= 9 14-30= 16 30-55= 25
Their differences are 5, 7, 9, 11
b. 2, 0, -18, -64, -150, - 288, -490, . . .
the next term is 768
2-0=2 0-18= -18 -18=64=46 -64+150=86 -150+288=138
-288+490= 202

5. The sum of the reciprocals of two numbers is and the difference is .


Find the numbers.
2 and 3
If you reciprocal 2 and 3 then add it the answer will be 5/6
And if you subtract it the answer will be 1/6.

6. Determine the units digit (ones digit) of the 3412.


The ones digit is 1. Since the exponent is divisible by 4 then the remainder will be
4 if it will be divided by 4. The base is x=3 therefore the formula x^y=1 when the
base is either 3, 7, 9

7. A farmer has to get a fox, a goose, and a bag of corn across a river in a boat
which is only large enough for her and one of these three items. She does not
want to leave the fox alone with the goose nor the goose alone with the corn.
How can she get all these items across the river?

Bring the goose to the other side leave fox and grain.
Bring grain to the other side and take goose back.
Leave goose take and take fox to the other side.
Go back to get the goose.

8. In the following addition problem, each letter represents one of the digits 0, 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. The leading digits represented by A and B are nonzero
digits. What digit is represented by each letter?
A
+ B B_
ADD
Since A and B cannot be 0 then A=1 B=99 D=0

9. Determine the nth-term formula for the number of square tiles in the nth figure
an= an-1 + (2*(n+1))
a1 = 6
a2 = 12 a3 = 20
... an =

10. The number of ducks and pigs in field totals 35. The total number of legs among
them is 98. Assuming that each duck has exactly two legs and each pig has
exactly 4 legs, determine how many ducks and how many pigs are there in the
field?
21 ducks and 34 pigs.

11. A frog is at the bottom of a 17 – foot well. Each time the frog leaps, it moves up
3 feet. If the frog has not reached the top of the well, then the frog slides back 1
foot before it is ready to make another leap. How many leaps will the frog needs
to escape the well?

The frog leaps in a distance of 3 feet, but subtracted by 1 foot because it slides down before it
can leap again. So the frog can only travel 2 feet. Dividing it by 17. he leaps for 9 leaps to get out.

12. Sally likes 225 but not 224, she likes 900 but not 800; she likes 144 but not 145.
Which of the following does she like? Tell the reason of your choice.
a. 1600 b.1700
Sally likes 1600

13. What is the 44th decimal digit in the decimal representation of ?


9

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