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AGE Word Problems

Set 1 1. John is 6 years older than his brother. He will be twice as old as his brother in 4 years. How old is John now? 2. Carol is five times as old as her brother. She will be three times as old as her brother in two years. How old is carol now? 3. Jeff is 10 years old and his brother is 2 years old. In how many years will Jeff be twice as old as his brother? 4. Bob is one third the age of his father. In 12 years he will be half the age of his father. How old is each now? 5. The sum of Ben and carols age is 36. Nine years ago, Ben was twice as old as Carol. How old is each now? 6. Michael is twice as old as Maggie. Nine years ago, Michael was five time as old as Maggie. How old is each now? 7. A son is half as old as his father. 12 years ago the son was one third as old as his father. How old is each now? 8. Jason is 8 years older than his brother. 10 years ago the sum of their ages was 82. Find the age of each. Set 2 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. In eight years, Barry will be two times as old as he is now. How old is he now? Sue is three fifths as old as she will be in 10 years. How old is she now? Jeffrey is twice as old as he was eight years ago. How old is he now? Maggie is two and a half times as old as she was 15 years ago. How old is she now? In four years Ben will be three times as old as he was 12 years ago. How old is he now? Three years ago Jim was three times as old as Tom was then. In five years Jim will be twice as old as Tom will. How old is each now? In four years Steves age will be two years less than twice Annes age. Three years ago Steve was three times as old as Anne was then. How old is each now? In five years Johns age will be three years more than two thirds of Terrys age. Four years ago The sum of their ages is 20. How old is each now?

Dustin is 11 years younger than Elias. In two years, Dustin will be half as old as Elias. How old is Dustin? 6. Shawn is 4/5ths as old now as he will be in 7 years. How old is he now? 7. In 20 years, John will be 5 times as old as he is now. How old is he? 8. Kim is 3 times as old as she was 2 years ago. How old is she? 9. Jeff is two years younger than Carrie. 12 years ago, Carrie was twice as old as Jeff. How old is Jeff now? 10. Steve is twice as old as Sylvie. Sylvie is three years older than Jacob. 4 years ago, Sylvie was twice Jacobs age. How old is Sylvie?

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Five years ago, Johns age was half of the age he will be in 8 years. How old is he now? Als father is 45. He is 15 years older than twice Als age. How old is Al? Karen is twice as old as Lori. Three years from now, the sum of their ages will be 42. How old is Karen? John is twice as old as his friend Peter. Peter is 5 years older than Alice. In 5 years, John will be three times as old as Alice. How old is Peter now? Johns father is 5 times older than John and John is twice as old as his sister Alice. In two years time, the sum of their ages will be 58. How old is John now? In three more years, Miguels grandfather will be six times as old as Miguel was last year. When Miguels present age is added to his grandfathers present age, the total is 68. How old is each one now? One-half of Heathers age two years from now plus one-third of her age three years ago is twenty years. How old is she now? Five years ago Ben was 2/3 as old as Kris. Ten years from now he will be 5/6 as old as Kris. How old are they now?

Time and Distance Problems

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Set- 3 1. 2. 3. 4. Mark is 3 years older than Jane. In 4 years, Mark will be 3/2 as old as Jane. How old is Mark now? Lucy is 4 times as old as Amy. Three years ago, Lucy was 13 times as old as Amy. How old is Lucy now? In 18 years, Jenny will be three times as old as she is now. How old is she? 8 years ago, Jimmy was three times as old as Anne. In 4 years, Jimmy will be 3/2 of Annes age.

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Jane covered a distance of 340 miles between city A and city B taking a total of 5 hours. If part of the distance was covered at 60 miles per hour speed and the balance at 80 miles per hour speed, how many hours did she travel at 60 miles per hour? Steve traveled the first 2 hours of his journey at 40 mph and the last 3 hours of his journey at 80 mph. What is his average speed of travel for the entire journey? Jim travels the first 3 hours of his journey at 60 mph speed and the remaining 5 hours at 24 mph speed. What is the average speed of Jim's travel in mph? At 11:00am, a car (1) leaves city "A" at a constant rate of 60 mi/hr toward city "B". At the same time a second car (2) leaves city "B" toward city "A" at the

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constant rate of 50 mi/hr. The distance between cities A and B is 220 miles and these cities are connected by a highway used by the two cars. At what time will the two cars cross each other? On a trip to the mountains lori drove a rate of 55 mph on the trip back home she decided to try a route that was 10 miles shorter as it turn out she took an extra hour to get home an average only 40 miles per hour. find the total distance she traveled. Superheroes Liza and Tamar leave the same camp and run in opposite directions. Liza runs 1 mile per second (mps) and Tamar runs 2 mps. How far apart are they in miles after 1 hour? Karen can row a boat 10 kilometers per hour in still water. In a river where the current is 5 kilometers per hour, it takes her 4 hours longer to row a given distance upstream than to travel the same distance downstream. Find how long it takes her to row upstream, how long to row downstream, and how many kilometers she rows. A 555-mile, 5-hour plane trip was flown at two speeds. For the first part of the trip, the average speed was 105 mph. Then the tailwind picked up, and the remainder of the trip was flown at an average speed of 115 mph. For how long did the plane fly at each speed? An executive drove from home at an average speed of 30 mph to an airport where a helicopter was waiting. The executive boarded the helicopter and flew to the corporate offices at an average speed of 60 mph. The entire distance was 150 miles; the entire trip took three hours. Find the distance from the airport to the corporate offices. A car and a bus set out at 2 p.m. from the same point, headed in the same direction. The average speed of the car is 30 mph slower than twice the speed of the bus. In two hours, the car is 20 miles ahead of the bus. Find the rate of the car. A passenger train leaves the train depot 2 hours after a freight train left the same depot. The freight train is traveling 20 mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of each train, if the passenger train overtakes the freight train in three hours. Two cyclists start at the same time from opposite ends of a course that is 45 miles long. One cyclist is riding at 14 mph and the second cyclist is riding at 16 mph. How long after they begin will they meet? A boat travels for three hours with a current of 3 mph and then returns the same distance against the current in four hours. What is the boat's speed in calm water? How far did the boat travel one way? With the wind, an airplane travels 1120 miles in seven hours. Against the wind, it takes eight hours. Find the rate of the plane in still air and the velocity of the wind. A spike is hammered into a train rail. You are standing at the other end of the rail. You hear the sound of the hammer strike both through the air and through the rail itself. These sounds arrive at your point six seconds apart. You know that sound travels through air at 1100 feet per second and through steel at 16,500 feet per second. How far away is that spike?

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rate of speed that is 10 mph more than train 2 which is travelling north. After 3 hours, they are 450 miles apart. Find the rate of train 2. To qualify for a race, you need to average 60 mph driving two laps around a 1-mile long track. You have some sort of engine difficulty the first lap so that you only average 30 mph during that lap; how fast do you have to drive the second lap to average 60 for both of them? A runner decides to run out in the country. He begins to run at an average rate of 9 miles per hour. He runs a certain distance and then turns around and returns along the same route at an average rate of 6 miles per hour. If the round trip took 2 and a half hours, how far did the runner travel before turning around? James leaves his home town traveling 70 miles per hour. At the same time Paul leaves home traveling 75 miles per hour. The two live 580 miles apart and are traveling to meet each other for a lunch meeting at noon. What time did they leave their homes? A freight train starts from Atlanta and heads for Birmingham at 40 miles per hour. Two hours later a passenger train leaves the same station for Birmingham traveling 60 miles per hour. How long before the passenger train overtakes the freight train? Laura leaves Atlanta for Seattle in her car, averaging 80 mph across open country. One hour later a plane leaves Seattle for Atlanta following the same route and flying 400 mph. How long before the plane overtakes the car? Greg leaves home for Franklin 400 miles away. After 2 hours, he has to reduce his speed by 20 mph due to rain. If he takes 1 hour for lunch and gas, and reaches Franklin 9 hours after he left home, what was his initial speed? Bill left Rome at 8am and drove his Ferrari at 80 mph from Rome to Sorrento. He then took the boat to Capri for the day, returning to Sorrento 5 hours later. On the return trip from Sorrento to Rome he averaged 60 mph and arrived at 8pm. How far is it from Rome to Sorrento? Two cars started from the same point, at 5 am, traveling in opposite directions at 40 and 50 mph respectively. At what time will they be 450 miles apart? At 9 am a car (A) began a journey from a point, traveling at 40 mph. At 10 am another car (B) started traveling from the same point at 60 mph in the same direction as car (A). At what time will car B pass car A? Two trains, traveling towards each other, left from two stations that are 900 miles apart, at 4 pm. If the rate of the first train is 72 mph and the rate of the second train is 78 mph, at what time will they pass each other? John left home and drove at the rate of 45 mph for 2 hours. He stopped for lunch then drove for another 3 hours at the rate of 55 mph to reach his destination. How many miles did John drive? Linda left home and drove for 2 hours. She stopped for lunch then drove for another 3 hours at a rate that is 10 mph higher than the rate before she had

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lunch. If the total distance Linda travelled is 230 miles, what was the rate before lunch? 29. Two cars left, at 8 am, from the same point, one traveling east at 50 mph and the other travelling south at 60 mph. At what time will they be 300 miles apart? 30. By Car, John traveled from city A to city B in 3 hours. At a rate that was 20 mph higher than John's, Peter traveled the same distance in 2 hours. Find the distance between the two cities. 31. Gary started driving at 9:00 am from city A towards city B at a rate of 50 mph. At a rate that is 15 mph higher than Gary's, Thomas started driving at the same time as John from city B towards city A. If Gary and Thomas crossed each other at 11 am, what is the distance beween the two cities? 32. Two cars started at the same time, from the same point, driving along the same road. The rate of the first car is 50 mph and the rate of the second car is 60 mph. How long will it take for the distance bewteen the two cars to be 30 miles? 33. Two trains started at 10 pm, from the same point. The first train traveled North at the rate of 80 mph and the second train traveled South at the rate of 100 mph. At what time were they 450 miles apart? 34. Two trains started from the same point. At 8:00 am the first train traveled East at the rate of 80 mph. At 9:00 am, the second train traveled West at the rate of 100 mph. At what time were they 530 miles apart? 35. A boat travels upstream at a speed of 30 mph and then downstream at a speed of 45 mph. What is the speed of the boat in still water and what is the speed of the stream? 36. A and B ran a race of 480 m. In the first heat, A gives B a head start of 48 m and beats him by 1/10th of a minute. In the second heat, A gives B a head start of 144 m and is beaten by 1/30th of a minute. What is Bs speed in m/s?

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Two pipes fill a storage tank in 9 hours. If the larger pipe fills the tank three times as fast as the smaller one, how long would it take the larger pipe to fill the tank alone? Jane, Paul and Peter can finish painting the fence in 2 hours. If Jane does the job alone she can finish it in 5 hours. If Paul does the job alone he can finish it in 6 hours. How long will it take for Peter to finish the job alone? A tank can be filled by pipe A in 3 hours and by pipe B in 5 hours. When the tank is full, it can be drained by pipe C in 4 hours. if the tank is initially empty and all three pipes are open, how many hours will it take to fill up the tank? A farmer can plow a field in 5 days using a tractor. A hired man can plow the same field in 7 days using a smaller tractor. How many days will it take for both of them to plow the same field together? Working together, printer A and printer B would finish a task in 24 minutes. Printer A alone would finish the task in 60 minutes. How many pages does the task contain if printer B prints 5 pages a minute more than printer A? Machine A and Machine B are used to manufacture 660 sprockets. It takes machine A ten hours longer to produce 660 sprockets than machine B. Machine B produces 10% more sprockets per hour than machine A. How many sprockets per hour does machine A produce? An empty swimming pool can be filled in 10 hours. When full, the pool can be drained in 19 hours. How long will it take to fill the empty pool if the drain is left open? Jim can fill a pool carrying buckets of water in 30 minutes. Sue can do the same job in 45 minutes. Tony can do the same job in 1 hours. How quickly can all three fill the pool together?

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Peter can mow the lawn in 40 minutes and John can mow the lawn in 60 minutes. How long will it take for them to mow the lawn together? Working together, it takes two different sized hoses 30 minutes to fill a small swimming pool. If it takes 45 minutes for the larger hose to fill the swimming pool by itself, how long will it take the smaller hose to fill the pool on its own? Worker A can produce 20 auto parts per hour, while worker B can produce 30 auto parts per hour. How long will it take for both of them, working together, to produce 1,000 auto parts? Working alone, worker A can complete a task in 3 hours, worker B can complete it in 6 hours. How long will it take for both of them, working together, to complete the task? If 20 workers can complete a task in 12 hours, how long would it take for 30 workers?

Jeff can weed the garden in 4 hours by himself. His wife Brenda takes the same amount of time to weed the garden. After they have worked for 1 hour, their son, Rory helps them to finish the job in 1/2 hour. How long would it have taken Rory and Brenda to do this entire weeding job (start to finish) together? 15. A and B can do a piece of work in 12 days, B and C can do it in 15 days and C and A can do the same work in 20 days. How long would each take to complete the job 16. A group of men completes a work in 10 days, but five of them are absent and so the rest do the work in 12 days. Find the original number of Men. 17. IF 3 men or 5 women take 26 days to do a work, how long will 7 men and 10 women take? 18. If 30 men working 7 hours per day can do a work in 18 days in how many days will 21 men working 8 hours a day do the same work? 19. Twenty workers can finish a piece of work in 30 days. After how many days should 5 workers leave the job so that the work is completed in 35 days? 20. If 12 men and 6 boys can do a piece of work in 5 days and 13 men and 24 boys can do it in 4 days,

compare the daily work done by a man with that done by a boy. 21. A cistern is normally filled in 6 h but takes 4 h longer to fill because of a leak in its bottom. If the cistern is full, the leak will empty it in how much time? 22. A finishes 6/7th of the work in 2z hours, B works twice as fast and finishes the remaining work. For how long did B work? 23. Two pipes can fill a cistern in 14 and 16 hours respectively. The pipes are opened simultaneously and it is found that due to leakage in the bottom of the cistern, it takes 32 minutes extra for the cistern to be filled up. When the cistern is full, in what time will the leak empty it? 24. X takes 4 days to complete one-third of a job, Y takes 3 days to complete one-sixth of the same work and Z takes 5 days to complete half the job. If all of them work together for 3 days and X and Z quit, how long will it take Y to complete the remaining work? 25. A, B and C working together completed a job in 10 days. However C only worked for the first 3 days, when 37/100 of the job was done. Also, the work done by A in 5 days is equal to the work done by B in 4 days. How many days would be required by the fastest worker to complete the entire work? 26. A and B completed a work together in 5 days. Had A worked at twice the speed and B at half the speed, it would have taken them four days to complete the job. How much time would it take for A alone to do the job? 27. It takes 6 days for 3 women and 2 men working together to complete a work. 3 men would do the same work 5 days sooner than 9 women. How many times does the output of a man exceed that of a woman? 28. A tank of 3600 cu.m capacity is being filled with water. The delivery of the pump discharging the tank is 20 % more than the delivery of the pump filling the same tank. As a result, 12 minutes more time is needed to fill the tank than to discharge it. Determine the delivery of the pump discharging the tank.

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A man completes 5/8 of a job in 10 days. At this rate, how many more days will it take him to finish the job.? Four mat-weavers can weave 4 mats in 4 days. At this rate, how many mats would be woven by 8 mat-weavers in 8 days? Running at the same constant rate, 6 identical machines can produce a total of 270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how many bottles could 10 such machines produce in 4 minutes? In a camp there is meal for 120 men or 200 children. If 150 children have taken the meal, how many men will be catered to with the remaining meal? Ten men, working 6 hours a day can complete a work in 18 days. How many hours a day must 15 men work to complete the same work in 12 days? If 7 spiders make 7 webs in 7 days, then 1 spider will make 1 web in how many days? If 17 labourers can dig ditch 20 m long in 18 days, working 8 hours a day; how many more labourers should be engaged to dig a similar ditch 39 m long in 6 days, each labourer working 9 hours a day? A garrison had provisions for a certain number of days. After 10 days, 1/5 th of the men desert and it is found that the provisions will now last for just as long as before. How long was that? A contractor undertook to do a certain piece of work in 9 days. He employed certain number of men, but 6 of them being absent from the very first day, the rest could finish the work in 15 days. Find the number of men originally employed. Two men and 7 boys can do a piece of work in 14 days; 3 men and 8 boys can do the same in 11 days. Then, 8 men and 6 boys can do three times the amount of this work in how many days?

Variation / Chain Rule 1. 2. 3. If 1.5 cm on a map represents 30 miles, what is the actual distance represented by 12 cm on the map ? An indiustrial loom weaves 0.128 feet of cloth every second. Approximately, how many seconds will it take for the loom to weave 25 feet of cloth ? A flagstaff 17.5 m high casts a shadow of length 40.25m. Find the height of the building which will cast a shadow of length 28.75m under similar conditions.

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