DOE 101

AGE PROBLEM:

1. Five years ago, John’s age was half of the age he will be in 8 years. How old is he now?

2. In 10 years from now, Orlando will be three times older than he is today. What is his current age?

3. Mary is 24 yrs old. Mary is twice as old as Ann when Mary was an old as Ann now. How old is Ann now?

4. The sum of Kim and Kevin ages is 18. In 3 years, Kim will be twice as old as Kevin. What are their age now?

5. A father tells his son “I was your age now when you were born” if the father is now 38 years old , how old is
his son?

6.Paula is now 18 years old and her colleague Monica is 14. How many years ago was Paula twice as old as
Monica?

7. Eunice is three years older than Steve. When they got married 40 years ago, the difference of twice Eunice
age from thrice Steve’s age was 16. How old will each of them be when they celebrate their golden anniversary
(50th year)?

8. A says to B “I am three times as old as you were, when I was as old as you are”. if the sum of their present
ages is 60, find the ages A and B respectively.

INTEGER PROBLEM:

1.Find four consecutive even integers such that the sum of the second and fourth integers is one and a half
times the sum of the first and third integers.

2.Find three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the second and third integers is four times the first.

3.Find three consecutive even integers such that 6 times the sum of the first and the third is 24 greater than 11
times the second.

4.When Steve woke up, his temperature was 102° F. Two hours later it was 3° lower. What was this temperature
then?

5.The sum of three consecutive even integers is equal to 84. Find the numbers.

6.The sum on an odd integer and twice its consecutive is equal to equal to 3757. Find the number.

7. The sum of 4 consecutive odd integer is 136. what are the 4 integers?

8.The sum of three consecutive even integer is 528. find the integers.

MIXTURE PROBLEM:

1.A scientist has one solution that is 28% alcohol and another solution that is 15% alcohol. How much of each
should he use to get 450 L of a solution that is 25% alcohol?
2.How many grams of chocolate worth Php 24 per gram must be mixed with 100 grams of chocolate worth Php
12 per gram to have a mixture of worth Php 18?

3. Two gallons of 20% salt solution is mixed with 4 gallons of 50% salt solution. Determine the percentage of salt
solution in the new mixture.

4.. A chemical engineer mixed 40 milliliters of 35% hydrochloric acid solution with 20 milliliters of 50%
hydrochloric acid solution. What is the percentage of the hydrochloric acid of the new solution?

5.Ten litersof 25% salt solution and 15 liters of 35% salt solution are poured into a drum originally containing 30
liters of 10% salt solution . what is the percent concentration of salt in the mixture?

6. A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol solutions o f different strengths, 35% alcohol and 50%
alcohol respectively. How many cubic meters of each strength must be used in order to produce a mixture of
60 cubic meters that contains 40% alcohol?

WORK PROBLEM:

1. It takes Zed 3 hours to wash the car. Jinx takes 6 hours to complete the same job. If they work together how
long it would take?

2. Leona takes 3 hours to paint 1 room. Garen helps, it takes them 2 hours. How long would it take for Garen to
paint 1 room alone?

3.It takes Butch twice as long as it takes Dan to do a certain piece of work. Working together they can do the
work in 6 days. How long would it take Dan to do it alone?

4. A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in 20 days. In how many days can all of them do the work
together?

5.It takes Barry twice as long as it takes Guiller to do a certain piece of work in 12 days. How long it would take
Guiler to do it alone?

6. If Marvin can do the work in 10 days and Engel in 8 days, how long they will finish the job working together?

CLOCK PROBLEM:

1: The time on the analog clock reads 1:30. What is the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of
the clock?

2: The time on the analog clock reads 7:15. What is the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of
the clock?

3. The time on an analog clock reads 12:30. What is the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of
the clock?

4. Convert the time 1:20 to degrees. Find the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand if the clock
says 1:20.
5. In how many minutes after 2o’ clock will the hands in the clock extend in opposite directions for the first
time?

6.In how many minutes after 7 o’ clock will the hands be directly opposite each other for the first time?

VARIATION PROBLEM:

1) If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x=14, when y=7, and z=2, find the value of x when y=16, and
z=4.

2) Given that "w" varies directly as the product of "x" and "y" and inversely as the square of "z" and that w=4
when x=2, y=6, and z=3. find the value of "w" when x=1, y=4, and z=2.

3.If C varies directly as the square root of d, and c is 6 when d is 256, find c when d is 625.

4.If P varies directly as the square of q and p is 20 when q is 5, find p when q is 8.

5.The number of pages Andrew per hour varies inversely with the number of paragraphs he must re-read for
clarification. If he is able to read 12 pages per hour, and must re-read 5 paragraphs, how many pages can he
read per hour if he was to re-read 6 paragraphs?

6.If A varies jointly as B and C and inversely as the square of D and A= 120 when B=5, C=2, and D=9 find A when
B=12, C=9 and D=9

7. The resistance of a wire varies directly with its length and inversely with its area. If a certain piece of wire 10
m long and .10 cm in diameter has a resistance of 100 ohms, what will its resistance be if its uniformly stretched
so that its length becomes 12 m?

8. If p varies directly as the cube of q, and p = 26 when q = 2, find p when q = 5.

DIGIT PROBLEM:

1.The tens digit of a certain number is 3 less than the units digit. The sum of the digits is 11. What is the number?

2.The tens digit of a certain number is 5 more than the units digit. The sum of the digits is 9. Find the number.

3.The sum of digits of two digit number is 12. If the new number formed by reversing the digits is less than the
original number by 36.Find the original number.

4.The digit at the ten’s place of a two digit number is twice the digit at the unit’s place. If the sum of this number
and the number formed by reversing the digits is 132. Find the number.

RATIO PROBLEM:

1.In a bag of red and green sweets, the ratio of the red sweets to green sweets is 3:4. if the bag contains 120
green sweets, how many sweets are there?
2.John has 30 marbles, 14 of which are red and 12 of which are blue. Jane has 20 marbles, all of them either red
or blue. If the ratio of the red marbles to the blue marbles is the same for both Josh and Jane, then John has
how many more blue marbles than Jane?

3. In a bag, there are a certain number of toy-blocks with alphabets A, B, C and D written on them. The ratio of
blocks A: B:C:D is in the ratio 4:7:3:1. If the number of ‘A’ blocks is 50 more than the number of ‘C’ blocks, what
is the number of ‘B’ blocks?

4.If the ratio of chocolates to ice-cream cones in a box is 5:8 and the number of chocolates is 30, find the number
of ice-cream cones.

5. A special cereal mixture contains rice, wheat and corn in the ratio of 2:3:5. If a bag of the mixture contains 3
pounds of rice, how much corn does it contain?

6. Clothing store A sells t-shirts in only three colors: red blue and green. The colors are in the ratio of 3 to 4 to
5. If the store has 20 blue t- shirts , how many t shirts does it have altogether?

7. In a 50 pounds bag of lawn fertilizer there are 8 pounds of nitrogen and 12 pounds of potash. What is the
ratio of nitrogen and potash?

8.the ratio of men to women in brighton city college is 2 to 3 if there are 894 men, then how many women re
there?

RATE PROBLEM:

1.One car leaves a given point and travels north at 30 mph. Another car leaves 1 HOUR LATER, and travels
west at 40 mph. At what rate is the distance between the cars changing at the instant the second car has been
traveling for 1 hour?

2.Two joggers start from opposite ends of an 8-mile course running towards each other. One jogger is running
at a rate of 4 mph. The other is running at a rate of 6 mph. After how long will the joggers meet?

3. Layla is able to input 96 words in 2 minutes on her laptop. Miya times his own typing speed as 314 words in
7 minutes. Work out their speeds to see who is faster.

4. A Fake taxi driver travels 2800 km in 20 hours. What is his average speed?

5. James drove 496 miles in 8 hours. At this rate how far could he drive in 13 hours? What is his speed in miles
per hour?

6.Mr. Lillard drove 316 miles on 4 gallons of gas. At this rate, how far could he drive on 9 gallons of gas?

7. the boat travels downstream in 2/3 the time s it does going upstream. If the velocity of the river current is 8
kph. Determine the velocity of the boat in the still water?

8. Two racing cars Mazda and Toyota compete for a stretch of 10,000 m long. It took 40 min. for Mazda to
reach the finish line and Toyota 50 min. to reach the finish line. How far was Toyota behind when Mazda reach
the finish line?
MOTION PROBLEM:

1. Bus started from point A 10 minutes before the train started from the same place. The bus went an average
speed of 49 km/h, train 77 km/h. To point B train and bus arrived simultaneously. Calculate time of train
journey, if train and bus travelled the same distance.
2. Cyclist started out of town at 19 km/h. After 0.7 hours’ car started behind him in the same direction and
caught up with him for 23 minutes. How fast and how long went car from the city to caught cyclist?
3.A a car accelerates and in highway at 5.2m/s^2 for 44.8s until finally reach its destination. determine the the
distance travel.
4.A car starts from rest and accelerates uniformly over a time of 5.21 seconds for a distance of 110 m.
Determine the acceleration of the car.
5. a Jogger starts at a steady rate of 8 kph. Five minutes later, a second jogger starts the same course at 10
kph. How long it will take the second jogger to catch the first?
6. A boat man rows to a place 408 miles with the stream and back with 14 hours , but finds that he can row 14
miles with the stream in the same time as 3 miles against the stream . find the rate of the stream.
7. Two tricycle leave Tanza, Cavite with a distance of 5 kilometer. Tricycle A travels at a speed of 30 km/hr
faster than tricycle B. Tricycle A arrives in their destination 30 mins ahead of tricycle B. what is the speed of
tricycle A?
8. A snatcher starts to run at a rate of 5 kph. 8 minutes later, a police starts to run at 8 kph, how long will it
take the police to catch the snatcher?
9. john and Philipp who live 14 miles apart start at noon to walk toward each other at rates 3 mph and 4 mph
respectively. After how many hours will they meet.
10.in still water , peter’s boat goes 4 times as fast as the current in the river. He takes a 5 miles trip up the
river and returns in 4 hours. Find the rate of the current.

PROFIT AND LOSS:

1.A Flattops chocolate at the rate of 15 per pack and sold them at the rate of 12 for a pack. His gain percent is?
2.If the cost price of 12 apple is equal to selling price of 10 apple. Then the profit or loss percent is?
3. A land operator sells two destinations for Rs. 18000 each. On one he increases 25% and on the other he
loses 25 %. What is his loss or gain percent?
4. If a retailer marks up his price by 30 % and then allows a 30 % discount, what is his percentage profit or
loss?

5. Ms. Khalifa have 666BB(bangbro dollar). she bought small, vibrating toy for her cat, Piper Perri, that cost
around 420BB. after a month, Ms. Khalifa decided to sold the toy for 69 BB more than its actual price. (a) find
the gain percentage.

6. (b) what if Ms. Khalifa sold her toy for 4.20% less. how much does she have?