MCQs in Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems Part I

Maja is now 18 years old and his colleague Angel is 14

Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions. years old. How many years ago was Maja twice as old as
Angel?
Problem 1: ECE Board April 1995

Kayla is 24 years. Kayla is twice as old as Erin when Kayla  A. 5

was as old as Erin is now. How old is Erin now?  B. 7
 C. 8
 A. 16  D. 10
 B. 18
 C. 12 Problem 7:
 D. 15
A father tells his son, I was your age now when you were
born”. If the father is now 38 years old, how old was his son
Problem 2: EE Board April 1997 2 years ago?

The sum of Kim’s and Kevin’s ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim will
be as twice as old as Kevin. What are their ages now?  A. 15
 B. 17
 A. 4, 14  C. 19
 B. 5, 13  D. 21
 C. 7, 11
 D. 6, 12 Problem 8:

Six years ago, Maya was five times as old Richard. In five
Problem 3: GE Board February 1994 years, Maya will be three times as old as Richard. What is
the present age of Richard?
Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. However “y”
years ago, Robert was twice as old as Stan. If Stan is now
“b” years old and b>y, find the value of (b – y).  A. 17
 B. 16
 A. 15  C. 15
 B. 16  D. 14
 C. 17 
 D. 18
Problem 9:
Problem 4:
At present, the sum of the parents’ ages is twice the sum of
John is 3 times as old as Jaime. Three years ago, John was the children’s ages. Five years ago, the sum of the parent’s
four times as old as Jaime. The sum of their ages is? ages was 4 times the sum of the children’s ages. Fifteen
years hence, the sum of the parents’ ages will be equal to
the sum of the children’s ages. How many children are
 A. 20 there?
 B. 24
 C. 28
 A. 3
 D. 36
 B. 4
 C. 5
Problem 5:
 D. 6

A girl, is one-third as old as her brother and 8 years younger

Problem 10:
than her sister. The sum of their ages is 38 years. How old is
the girl? Tom is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years ago, Tom was
three times as old as Jerry then. How old is Tom?
 A. 4
 B. 5  A. 14
 C. 6  B. 16
 D. 7  C. 18
 D. 24
Problem 6:
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Problem 11: ME Board February 1998 Problem 15: ME Board April 1995

A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11 hours. If A can do the work in “x” days and B in “y” days, how long
Another pump can pump out water from the same tank in 20 will they finish the job working together?
hours. How long will it take both pumps to pump out water in
the tank?

 A. 7 hours  A.
 B. 6 hours
 C. 7 1/2 hours  B.
 D. 6 1/2 hours
 C.
Problem 12: CE Board November 1993

A 400-mm pipe can fill the tank alone in 5 hours and another
 D.
600-mm pipe can fill the tank alone in 4 hours. A drain pipe
300-mm can empty the tank in 20 hours. With all the three Problem 16: ECE Board November 1995
pipes open, how long will it take to fill the tank?
Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20%
faster than Pilar, and together they can paint a given fence in
 A. 2.00 hours 4 hours. How long will it take Pedro can paint the same
 B. 2.50 hours fence if he had to work alone?
 C. 2.25 hours
 D. 2.75hours  A. 6
 B. 8
Problem 13:  C. 10

A tank is filled with an intake pipe in 2 hours and empties by

 D. 12
an outlet pipe in 4 hours. If both pipes are opened, how long
will it take to fill the empty tank? Problem 17:

Glenn can paint a house in 9 hours while Stewart can paint

 A. 3 hours the same house in 16 hours. They work together for 4 hours.
 B. 4 hours After 4 hours, Stewart left and Glenn finished the job alone.
 C. 5 hours
How many more days did it take Glenn to finish the job?
 D. 6 hours
 A. 2.75 hours
Problem 14:  B. 2.50 hours
 C. 2.25 hours
A tank can be filled in 9 hours by one pipe, 12 hours by a
second pipe and can be drained when full by a third pipe in
 D. 3.00 hours
15 hours. How long will it take to fill an empty tank with all
pipes in operation? Problem 18: CE Board November 1993

It takes Butch twice as long as it takes Dan to do a certain

 A. 7 hours and 12 minutes piece of work. Working together they can do the work in 6
 B. 7 hours and 32 minutes days. How long would it take Dan to do it alone?
 C. 7 hours and 42 minutes
 D. 7 hours and 50 minutes  A. 9 days
 B. 10 days
 C. 11 days
 D. 12 days
MCQs in Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems Part I

Problem 19: ME Board April 1995 Problem 24: ECE Board November 1991

John and Peter working together can finish painting a house Crew No. 1 can finish installation of an antenna tower in 200
in 6 days. John working alone can finish it in 5 days less man-hour while Crew No. 2 can finish the same job in 300
than Peter. How long will it take each of them to finish the man-hour. How long will it take both crews to finish the same
work alone? job, working together?

 A. 8, 13  A. 100 man-hour
 B. 10, 15  B. 120 man-hour
 C. 6, 11  C. 140 man-hour
 D. 7, 12  D. 160 man-hour

Problem 20: EE Board April 1996 Problem 25: ME Board October 1991

Ron and Rej can do a piece of work in 42 days, Rej and On one job, two power shovels excavate 20,000 cubic
Loyd in 31 days and Loyd and Ron in 20 days. In how many meters of earth, the larger shovel working 40 hours and the
days can all of them do the work together? smaller for 35 hours. On another job, they removed 40,000
cubic meters with the larger shovel working 70 hours and the
smaller working 90 hours. How much earth can each remove
 A. 19 in 1 hour working alone?
 B. 17
 C. 21
 A. 169.2, 287.3
 D. 15
 B. 178.3, 294.1
 C. 173.9, 347.8
Problem 21:
 D. 200.1, 312.4
It takes Jannah twice as long as Cathy to do a certain piece
of work. Working together, they can finish the work in 6 Problem 26: EE Board October 1997
hours. How long would it take Cathy to do it alone?
Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 15 liters of 35% salt
solution are poured into a drum originally containing 30 liters
 A. 9 hours of 10% solution. What is the percent concentration of salt in
 B. 18 hours the mixture?
 C. 12 hours
 D. 14 hours  A. 19.55%
 B. 22.15%
Problem 22: ECE Board April 1999  C. 27.05%
Vryan, Mike, and Kim can mow the lawn in 4, 6, and 7 hours  D. 25.72%
respectively. What fraction of the yard can they mow in 1
hour if they work together? Problem 27: ME Board October 1992

A Chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol

 A. 47/84 solutions of different strength, 35% alcohol and 50% alcohol,
 B. 45/84 respectively. How many cubic meters of each strength must
 C. 84/47 he use to produce mixture of 60 cubic meters that contain
40% alcohol?
 D. 39/60

Problem 23:  A. 20 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 40 m3 of

solution with 50% alcohol
A farmer can plow the field in 8 days. After working for 3  B. 50 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 20 m3 of
days, his son joins him and together they plow the field in 3 solution with 50% alcohol
more days. How many days will it require for the son to plow  C. 20 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 50 m3 of
the field alone? solution with 50% alcohol
 D. 40 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 20 m3 of
 A. 10 solution with 50% alcohol
 B. 11
 C. 12
 D. 13
MCQs in Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems Part I

Problem 28: Problem 33: ECE Board March 1996

A goldsmith has two alloys of gold, the first being 70% pure
and the second being 60% pure. How many ounces of the  A. 6
60% pure gold must be used to make 100 ounces of an alloy  B. 7
which will be 66% gold?
 C. 8
 D. 9
 A. 40
 B. 35 Problem 34: ECE Board March 1996
 C. 45
The sum of the two numbers is 21 and one number is twice
 D. 38
the other. Find the numbers.

Problem 29: ME Board October 1994

 A. 6, 15
Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to  B. 7, 14
be made by mixing a steel containing 14% nickel with
another containing 6% nickel. How much of each is needed?
 C. 8, 13
 D. 9, 12

 A. 1500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 500 kg of

Problem 35: EE Board April 1993
steel with 6% nickel
 B. 750 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1250 kg of If eight is added to the product of nine and the numerical
steel with 6% nickel number, the sum is seventy-one. Find the unknown number.
 C. 500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1500 kg of
steel with 6% nickel
 A. 5
 D. 1250 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 750 kg of
steel with 6% nickel  B. 6
 C. 7
Problem 30:  D. 8

How much water must be evaporated from 10 kg solution Problem 36:

which has 4% salt to make a solution of 10% salt?
Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted from its term
becomes ¼, but if 4 is added to its terms it becomes ½.
 A. 4 kg
 B. 5 kg
 C. 6 kg  A. 3/5
 D. 7 kg  B. 5/12
 C. 5/14
Problem 31: EE Board October 1994  D. 6/13

If a two digit number has x for its unit’s digit and y for its ten’s Problem 37: GE Board February 1992
digit, represent the number.
The product of 1/4 and 1/5 of a number is 500. What is the
number?
 A. 10x + y
 B. 10y + x
 C. yx  A. 50
 D. xy  B. 75
 C. 100
Problem 32: EE Board October 1994  D. 125

One number is 5 less that the other. If their sum is 135, what Problem 38:
are the numbers?
If 3 is subtracted from the numerator of a certain fraction, the
value of the fraction becomes 3/5. If 1 is subtracted from the
 A. 85, 50 denominator of the same fraction, it becomes 2/3. Find the
 B. 80, 55 original fraction.
 C. 70, 65
 D. 75, 60  A. 35/55
 B. 36/55
 C. 3/7
 D. 32/41
MCQs in Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems Part I

Problem 39: ECE Board November 1997 Problem 44: EE Board April 1997

The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with the stream and
twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of the back in 14 hours, but finds that he can row 14 miles with the
fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original stream in the same time as 3 miles against the stream. Find
fraction. the rate of the stream.

 A. 8/5  A. 1.5 miles per hour

 B. 13/5  B. 1 mile per hour
 C. 5/13  C. 0.8 mile per hour
 D. 3/5  D. 0.6 mile per hour

Problem 40: Problem 45: ECE Board November 1998

Find the product of two numbers such that twice the first A man rows downstream at the rate of 5 mph and upstream
added to the second equals 19 and three times the first is 21 at the rate of 2 mph. How far is downstream should he go if
more than the second. he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?

 A. 24  A. 2.5 miles
 B. 32  B. 3.3 miles
 C. 18  C. 3.1 miles
 D. 20  D. 2.7miles

Problem 41: Problem 46: CE Board November 1994

The ten’s digit of a number is 3 less than the unit’s digit. If An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to travel 1000
the number is divided by the sum of the digits, the quotient is km and 2.5 hours in flying back. What was the wind velocity
4 and the remainder is 3. What is the original number? in kph?

 A. 36  A. 50
 B. 47  B. 60
 C. 58  C. 70
 D. 69  D. 40

Problem 42: Problem 47: CE Board May 1998

The second of the four numbers is three less than the first A boat travels downstream in 2/3 of the time as it goes going
the third is four more than the first and the fourth is two more upstream. If the velocity of the river’s current is 8 kph,
than the third. Find the fourth number if their sum is 35. determine the velocity of the boat in still water.

 A. 10  A. 40 kph
 B. 11  B. 50 kph
 C. 12  C. 30 kph
 D. 13  D. 60 kph

Problem 43: EE Board April 1997 Problem 48:

A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five
minutes later, a second jogger starts the same course at 10
kph. How long will it take the second jogger to catch the
first?
Two planes leave Manila for a southern city, a distance of
900 km. Plane A travels at a ground speed of 90 kph faster
than the plane B. Plane A arrives in their destination 2 hours
and 15 minutes ahead of Plane B. What is the ground speed
of Plane A.

 A. 20 min
 B. 21 min  A. 205 kph
 C. 22 min  B. 315 kph
 D. 18 min  C. 240 kph
 D. 287 kph
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Problem 49: EE Board April 1997

A train, an hour after starting, meets with an accident which

detains it an hour, after which it proceeds at 3/5 of its former
rate and arrives three hour after time; but had the accident
happened 50 miles farther on the line, it would have arrived
one and one-half hour sooner. Find the length of the journey.

 A. 910/9 miles
 B. 800/9 miles
 C. 920/9 miles
 D. 850/9 miles

Problem 50:

On a certain trip, Edgar drives 231 km in exactly the same

time as Edwin drive 308 km. If Erwin’s rate exceeded that of
Edgar by 13 kph, determine the rate of Erwin.

 A. 39 kph
 B. 44 kph
 C. 48 kph
 D. 52 kph
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ANSWER KEY : 29. 500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1500

1. 18 kg of steel with 6% nickel

2. 5, 13 30. 6 kg

3. 15 31. 10y + x

4. 36 32. 70, 65

5. 6 33. 6

6. 10 34. 7, 14

7. 17 35. 7

8. 17 36. 5/14

9. 5 37. 100

10. 16 38. 36/55

11. 7 hours 39. 5/13

12. 2.50 hours 40. 24

13. 4 hours 41. 47

14. 7 hours and 50 minutes 42. 13

43. 20 min
15. 44. 0.8 mile per hour
16. 10 45. 2.5 miles
17. 2.75 hours 46. 50
18. 9 days 47. 40 kph
19. 10, 15 48. 240 kph
20. 19 49. 800/9 miles
21. 9 hours 50. 52 kph
22. 47/84
23. 12
24. 120 man-hour
25. 173.9, 347.8
26. 19.55%
27. 40 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 20
m3 of solution with 50% alcohol
28. 40