1.) A Freight Train starts from LA and heads for Chicago at 40mph.

Two hours later

a passenger train leaves the same station for Chicago traveling at 60mph. How
long it will be before the passenger train overtakes the freight train?
ANS: 4HRS

2.) A Merchant Purchase two lots of shoes. One lot her purchase for 32% per pair
and the second lot he purchased $40 per pair. There were 50 pairs in the first lot.
How many pair were in the second lot if he sold them all at $60 per pair and
made a gain of $2800 on the entire transaction?
ANS: 70 Pairs

3.) An Observer at sea is 30ft above the surface of the water. How much of the
ocean can he see?
ANS: 142.87 mi2

4.) There are three consecutive integers. The sum of the smallest and largest is 36.
Find the largest number
ANS: 19

5.) The logarithm of NM is 6 and the logarithm of N/M is 2. Find the logarithm of N
ANS: 4

6.) A woman is paid $20 for each day she works and forfeits $5 for each day she is
idle. At the end of 25days she net $450. How many days old she work?
 ANS: 23 DAYS

7.) What is the remainder if 13127 is divided by 5?

ANS: 2

8.) Given that f(x) = 2x8 – 3x7 +5x6 – x5 +7x4 +4x3+x2 – x+75. Determine the linear
remainder if f(x) is divided by x2 – 2x+3
ANS: 11x+12

9.) Carmela and Marian were hired on a summer job. Each of them work 15hours
per week. Carmela was not working for one week and Marian has to take her
shift. If they work for 8 weeks. What is the total number of hours Marian work?
ANS: 135 hours

10.) If 3x = 4y then 4y2 = 3x2 is equal to

 ANS: 3/4

11.) A machine only accepts quarters. A bar of candy cost 25 cents, a pack of
peanuts cost 50 cents and bottle of coke cost 75 cents. If Maria bought 2 candy
bars, a pack of peanuts and a bottle of coke, how many quarters did she pay?
ANS: 7 quarters

12.) There are a set of triplets. If there are 11 generations, how many ancestors did
they have if duplicates are allowed.
ANS: 4095

13.) Solve for x 125-x = 52x+4

ANS: -2/3

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15.) The sum of the first 7 term of an AP is 98 and sum of the first 12 terms is 288.
Find the sum of the first 20 terms.
ANS: 800

16.) A car goes 14kph faster than a truck and requires 2hours and 20 minutes less
time to travel 300km. Find the rate of the car.
 ANS: 50kph

17.) Sarah leaves Seattle for NY in her car, averaging 80mph across open country.
One hour later a plane leaves Seattle for NY following the same route and flying
400mph. How long it be before the plane overtakes the car?
ANS: 1/4 hr

18.) In a group of 80 children, the are 22 more girls than boys. How many girls are
there in the group?
ANS: 51

19.) The Rotary Club and the Jaycees club had a joint party. 120 members of the
rotary club and 100 members of Jaycees club also attended but 30 of those
attended are members of both clubs. How many persons attended the party?
ANS: 190

20.) Ben is two years away from being twice Ellen age. The sum of twice Bens age
and thrice Ellen’s age is 66. Find Ben’s age now.
 ANS:18

21.) Twelve oz of chocolate is added to 10oz of flavoring is equivalent to

ANS: 1lb and 6 oz

22.) A retailer bought a number of ballpens for P90 and sold all but 3 at a profit of P2
per ballpen.
ANS: P3

23.) Find the 16th term of the arithmetic sequence 4,7,10,…

ANS: 49

24.) A car goes 14 kph faster than a truck and requires 2 hours and 20min less time
to travel 300km, find the rate of the car.
ANS: 50kph

25.) A man row upstream and back in 12hours. If the rate of the current is 1.5kph and
that of the man in water is 4kph, what was time spent downstream?
 ANS: 3.75hrs

26.) If 4 holes are to be spaced regularly on a circle with radius r=20in, find the
distance between the center of successive holes.
ANS: 28.3

27.) Through how many radians does the minute hand of clock turn in 14 minutes?
ANS: 0.8 pi

28.) An object is pulled by two perpendicular forces of 24lbs and 10lbs. What is angle
formed between resultant and the 24 lbs force?
ANS:23deg

29.) A motorboat moves in the direction N40E for 3hrs at 20mph. How far north does
it travel ?
ANS: 46mi

30.) arcsin(A+B) = 3/2. What is the value of sin C?

 ANS: 3/5

31.) Which of the following is the opposite of pi/3?

ANS: 4pi/3

32.) Two stone are 1 mile apart and are of the same level as the foot of the hill. The
angles of depression of the stones viewed from top of the hill are 5deg and 15deg,
respectively. Find the height of the hill.
ANS: 209.1

33.) Simplify (cosB-1)(cosB+1)

ANS: -1/csc2B

34.) The inclination of the line determined by the points (4,0) and (5,sqrt(3)) is
ANS: 60 deg
35.) Simplify the expression of (1/csc(x) +cot(x))+(1/csc(x) – cot(x))
ANS: 2csc(x)

36.) Simplify the expression csc2(x) – cot2(x)

ANS: 1

37.) Simplify (1-tan2(x))/(1+tan2(x))

ANS: cos(2x)

38.) A balloon rising vertically, 150m from an observer . At exactly 1min, the angle of
elevation is 29 deg 28 mins, how fast is the balloon rising at the instant?
ANS: 106 m/min

39.) An observer wishes to determine the height of a tower. He takes sights at the top
of a tower. He takes sight at the top from A and B, which are 50ft apart, at the same
elevation on a direct line with the tower. The vertical angle at point A is 30deg, at point
B is 40 deg. What is the height of tower.
ANS: 92.54ft

40.) If cot A = -24/7 and A is in the 2nd quadrant, find sin2A.

ANS: -336/625

41.) If tan A = 1/3 and cot B = 4. Find tan (A+B)

ANS: 7/11

42.) If sin 3A = cos6B then

ANS: A+2B = 30

43.) A ship sailing due east when a light is observed bearing N62 deg 10min E. After
the ship has traveled 2250m, the light bears N48 deg 25min E. If the course is
continued, how close will the ship approach the light ?
 ANS: 2934m

44.) A transmitter with a height of 15m is located at the top of mountain , which is 3km
high what is the farthest distance on the surface of the earth that can be seen from
the top of the mountain? take the radius of the earth to be 6400km.
ANS: 196km

45.) A wall is 15ft high and 10ft from a base. Find the length of the shortest ladder
which will just touch top of the wall and reach a window 20.5ft above the ground.
ANS: 11.4ft

46.) Given the sin(theta) = 3/5 and theta is acute, find cos(2theta).

ANS: 7/25

47.) What is the value of x in arctan(3x) + tan(2x)= 45?

 ANS: 1/6, -1

48.) From the top of a building the angle of depression of the foot of the pole is 48
deg 10min, from the foot of the building the angle of elevation of the top of a pole
is 18deg 50min. Both building and pole are on a level ground. If the height of a
pole is 4m, how high is the building?

ANS:13.10m

49.) Simplify (1+tanx)(1-tanx)

ANS: 2-sec2(x)

50.) When the sun is 20deg above the horizon, how long is the shadow cast by a
building 150ft hight?
ANS:

51.) Find the value of K in the quadratic equation (2k+2)x 2 +(4-4k)x +k – 2= 0 so that
the roots are reciprocal of each other.
52.) Determine value of k so that the sum of roots of 3kx 2 +3k2 -4kx = 5- 3x exceeds
the product of the roots by 3.

53.) John’s Rate of doing work is three times as fast as ball. On a given day John and
bill work together for 4hrs then bill was called away and John finishes the rest of the
job in 2hrs. How long would it take all bill to do the complete job alone?

54.) Find the constant remainder when 3x4 – 4x3 + 5x2 – 5x +1 is divided by k + 1.

55.) Find the 5th term of the expression (x2 – 2y3)8

56.) If the n term of (x2 -2y3)n is kx8y12, find the value of k.

 57.) Identical spheres are piled to form a pyramid with square base having 8 pieces
on each side until a sphere on top. How many spheres are on the pile.

58.) The 9th term of an AP, is 5 times the 2nd term and 11th term exceeds the 6th term
by 20. Find the 13th term.

59.) In a family of 8 children, two are twins. The youngest is 3 years old and oldest is 21
years old. Their ages are in AP. There are 3 children younger than the twins. How old
are the twins?

60.) A man piles 150 logs in layers so that the top layer contains 3 logs and each layer
has one more log than the layer above. How many logs are at the bottom.

61.) If the 3rd term of a gp is 20 and the 8th term is 640, find the 10th term.
62.) Find two numbers whose arithmetic mean is 20 and whose geometric mean is 16.

63.) A ball is dropped from a height of 128cm. Each time strikes the ground, it rises to
1/2 of the height from where it falls. Find the total distance trans versed by the ball until
it stops.

64.) An equilateral triangle has its side 20cm. Smaller equilateral triangle are formed by
connecting the midpoints of the sides of each of the outer equilateral triangles and so on
indefinitely. Find the sum of the perimeters of all the triangles.

65.) Find two number such that their difference is equal to their product and the sum of
their reciprocal is 5.
66.) The sum of the squares of the two digits of a positive digits of a positive integral
number is 89. The number itself is 7 more than 6 times the sum of its digits. Find the
number.

67.) If 4 men take 6days to assemble 8 machines, how many days will it take 3 men to
assemble 10 machines.

68.) A car traveling at 75kph leaves town A for town B. Two hours earlier, a truck left
town A at the speed of 45kph. How far from town A will the car overtakes the truck?

69.) Pedro can do a job in 6hrs and jose can do the same job in 10hrs. If pedro work
2hrs and jose helped him, how many hrs more will the two boys finish the job together?

70.) A tank can be filled in 30min by two pumps working together. If the larger pump
takes 25mins. less time than the smaller pump to fill the tank, what is the time needed
by the larger pump to fill the tank.
71.) How many grams of alloy containing 35% nickel must be melted with an alloy
containing 65% nickel in order to obtain 20 grams of an alloy containing 41% nickel?

72.) A certain solution should contain 8% alcohol. It was mistakenly mixed to contain
6% alcohol, how much must be drawn from a filled 5L tank and replaced by 10% alcohol
solution to provide proper concentration?

73.) On one of two investments totaling P5000, a man gained 5% and on the other last
6% If has net income is P85, find the amount of the larger investment

74.) A cat is now 50 of her leaps ahead of dog which is pursuing her. How many more
leaps will the cat take before she is overtaken if she takes 5 leaps while the dog takes 4,
but 2 of the dogs leaps are equivalent to 3 of the cats leaps.

75.) At what time between 4 and 5’o clock will the minute and hour hand of clock
coincide?
76.) A man leaves his house at a certain time past 2’o clock. After spending between 2
to 3 hrs outside, he comes back and noticed that the hands of the clock have been
exactly interchanged in position. What time was it when the man left his house?

77.) A man is 4yrs older than his wife and 5 times as old as his son. When the son was
born, the wife was 6/7 as old as her husband, find the age of his son.

78.) The sum of the ages of the parents is 4 times the sum of the ages of the children.
Four years ago, the sum of the ages of the children was one eleventh of the sum of the
ages of the parents and eight years hence, the sum of the ages of the children will be
one half of the parents. How many children are there?

79.) A professional organization is composed of x RMEs and 2x REEs. If 6 RMEs are

replaced by 6 RFEs, 1/6 of the members will be RMEs. Solve for x

80.) The average production of cake is 1 unit for every 2hrs work by 2 workers. How
many cakes can be produced in one month by 60 workers working 200hrs during the
month?
81.) What is the sum of all even integers from 10 to 500?

82.) Candle A and Candle B of equal length are lighted at the same time and burning
until candle A is twice as long as candle B. Candle A is designed to fully burn in 8hrs
while candle B for 4hrs. How long will they be lighted?

83.) Solve for x if 8x = 2(x+2) and 16(3x-4) = 4y

84.) What is the sum of all odd integers between 10 and 100?

85.) If the 1st term of the GP is 27 and the 4th term is -1, the 3rd term is
86.) Four positive integers from an AP. If the product of the 1 st and the last term is 70
and the second and the third term is 88, find the first term.

87.) A room has a dimension of 5m by 4m by 3m. An ant is located at one corner of the
ceiling in the room. If it will travel on the walls and the floor, find the length of the
shortest path it should travel to reach the opposite corner on the floor.

88.) What is the greatest distance on the surface of the earth that can be seen from the
top of a mountain which is 2.4 km high if the radius of the earth is 6370 km.
89.) The sides of a triangle are 5, 7, and 10 respectively. Find the radius of the inscribed
and circumscribed circle.

90.) Find the area of a regular hexagon if each side is 8 cm long.

91.) The sides of a triangle are 5, 8 and 10 respectively. Find the length of the median
line through the side 10.

92.) How many sides and diagonals have an equiangular polygon if each its interior
angles is 165O?
93.) A man at a certain distance measure the angle of elevation of a tower. He then
walks 20m on a level ground towards the tower. The angle of elevation from this second
station was then the complement of the former angle. The man again walks 5m nearer
to the tower in the same line and found the angle of elevation to be doubled the first
angle. How high is the tower?

94.) At noon, ship A is sailing on a course eastward at the rate of 20 knots. At the same
instant, another ship B, 100 nautical miles east of ship A is sailing on a course N30OW
at the rate of 10 knots. How far away from each other are the ships after one hour?
Note 1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hr.
95.) The centers of two circles of radii 41cm each are 80 cm apart. Find the length of
their common chord.

96.) An inscribed angle is π 4 radian and the chord of the circle subtended by this angle
is 12 2 cm. Find the radius of the circle.

97.) The base of a parallelogram is 57.5cm and its diagonals make angles of 24”20’ and
42”26’ with the base. Find the length of the longest diagonal.
98.) If sin A = 3/5 and A is in the second quadrant, find cos 2A.

99.) From a point on a level ground, the angle of elevation of the top of a building is
observed to be twice the angle of elevation of the window one third of the wat up the
building. Find the angle of elevation of the top of the building.
100.) Find the area of a regular pentagon with apothem of 10 cm.

101.) An airplane is flying at an altitude of 1 km directly away from an observer on the

ground, has an angle of elevation of 48 degrees at a certain instant and angle of
elevation of 20 degrees one minute later. The speed of the airplane is nearest to
102.) Solve for the values of y from the system of equations y sin x=3 and y cos x=4
103.) An observer on top of a cliff 45.8 m high observes the angles of depression of two
ships, which are due north of him to be 20deg12 and 47deg39. Find the distance
between ships.

104.) At a point A
south of tower, the angle of elevation of the top of the tower is 50 deg. At another point
B, 200 m east of A, the angle of elevation is 22 degrees. Find the height of tower.
105.) Find the angle between the minute hand and hour hand of a wall clock at 3:25 pm.

106.) The angle of elevation 10 m from a tree of the top of the tree is three times the
angle of elevation at a point 50 m from it. Find the height of the tree.
107.) The difference in area between the pentagram and the circumscribed circle with
radius 10 cm is nearest to

108.) Find the amplitude of the sinusoidal curve y = 3 cos 2x – 4 sin 2x.
109.) Find the angle whose supplement exceed 6 times the complement by 20 degrees.

110.) Find the number of sides does a polygon have if the sum of its interior angles
equals the sum of its exterior angles?

111.) Find the longest base of the trapezoid if the ratio of base is 4:5, altitude is 20 cm
and the area is 180 sq. cm.
112.) A policeman is pursuing a thief who is ahead by 72 of his own leaps. The thief
takes 6 leaps while the policeman is taking 5 leaps, but 4 leaps of the thief are as long
as 3 leaps of the policemen. How may leaps were made by the policeman until he
caught the thief?

113.) If the 3rd term of a GP is 20 and the 8th term is 640, find the 10th term
114.) Find two numbers whose arithmetic mean is 20 and whose geometric mean is 16.

115.) A ball is dropped from a height of 128 cm. Each time it strikes the ground, it rises
to ½ of the height from where it falls. Find the total distance travelled by the ball until it
stops.
116.) An equilateral triangle has its side 20 cm. Smaller equilateral triangle are formed
by connecting the midpoints of the sides of each of the other equilateral triangles and so
on indefinitely. Find the sum of the perimeters of all the triangles.

117.) Find two numbers such that their difference is equal to their product and the sum
of their reciprocals is 5.
118.) The sum of the squares of two digits of a positive integral number is 89. The
number itself is 7 more than 6 times the sum of its digits. Find the number

119.) If 4 men take 6 days to assemble 8 machines, how many days will it take 3 men to
assemble 10 machines?

120.) A car traveling at 75 kph leaves town A for town B. Two hours earlier, a truck left
town A at a speed of 45 kph. How far from town A will the car overtakes the truck?

121.) On a trip, James noticed that his car averaged 21 km per liter of gasoline except
for the days he used the aircon, and then it averaged only 17 km per liter. If he used 91
liters of gasoline to drive 1751 km, on how many km did he use the air-con?
122.) Find the value of k in the quadratic equation (2k+2)x2 + (4-4k)x +k -2 = 0 so that
the roots are reciprocal of each other

123.) Determine the value of k so that the sum of the roots of 3kx2 + 3k2 -4kx = 5- 3x
exceeds the product of the roots by 3.
124.) John’s rate of doing work is three times as fast as Bill. On a given day John and
Bill work together for 4 hrs then Bill was called away and John finishes the rest of the
job in 2 hrs. How long would it take Bill to do the complete job alone?

125.) Find the constant remainder

when 3x4-4x3+5x2-5x+1 is divided by x +1.
126.) Find the 5th term in the expansion of (x 2-2y3)8

127.) A plane was scheduled to fly from city A to city B. The flight was against the head
wind of 10 kph. Threat of mechanical failure forced the plane to turn back and it
returned to city A with a tail wind of 10 kph landing 1.5 hrs after it had taken off. If the
plane has a uniform speed of 150 kph, how far had it gone before turning back?

128.) Pedro can do a job in 6 hrs and Jose can do the same job in 10 hrs. If Pedro work
2 hrs and Jose joined him, how many hrs more will the two boys finish the job together?
129.) A tank can be filled in 30 min by two pumps working together. If the larger pump
takes 25 min less time than the smaller pump to fill the tank, what is the time needed by
the larger pump to fill the tank?

130.) How many grams of alloy containing 35% nickel must be melted with an alloy
containing 65% nickel in order to obtain 20 grams of an alloy containing 41% nickel?
131.) X can do the job 50% faster than Y and 20% faster than Z. If they work together,
they can finish the job in 4 days. How many days will it take X to finish the job if he is to
work alone?

132.) If the rth term of (x2-2y3)n is kx8y12,

find the value of k.
133.) Identical spheres are piled to form a pyramid with square base having 8 pieces
each side until a sphere on top. How many spheres are on the pile?

134.) The 9th term of an AP is 5 times the 2nd term and the 11th term exceeds the 6th
term by 20. Find the 13th term.

135.) In a family of 8 children, two are twins. The youngest is 3 yrs old and the eldes is
21 yrs old. Their ages are in AP. There are 3 children younger than two twins. How old
are the twins?
136.) A man piles 150 logs in layers so that the top layer contains 3 logs and each layer
has one more log than the layer above. How many logs are at the bottom?