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AGE PROBLEM Brian is presently four times older than Sam.

Six years later, he will be twice as old as Sam. How old are Brian and Sam? SP = 3 years old BP = 12 years old A year ago, John was three times as old as Larry. A year later, he was twice as old as Larry. How old are John and Larry? LP = 3 years old BP = 7 years old Joyce is four times as old as Martha. In nine years time, Joyce will be three times as old as Martha. Find their present ages. J = 72 Six years ago, Romel was five times as old as Lejon. In five years, Romel will be three times as old as Lejon. What is the present age of Lejon? L= 17 years old In three more years, Miguel's grandfather will be six times as old as Miguel was last year. When Miguel's present age is added to his grandfather's present age, the total is68. How old is each one now? Miguel is presently eleven years old. the grandfather is 57 years old Manuel Alvarez is ten times older than his son,Andrew. In 20 years, Manuel's age will be 4 more than twice Andrew's age. How old was he when Andrew was born? John is twice as old as his friend peter. peter is 5 years than alice. In five years, John will be 3 times as old as alice. How Old is peter Now.? Four years ago, Pinky was 4 times as old as Rosie. In ten years, she will be two years younger than twice the age of Rosie. How old are they now? DIGIT PROBLEM In a three digit number, the hundreds digit is twice the units digit. If 396 be subtracted from the number, the order of the digits will be reversed. Find the number if the sum of the digits is 17. 100X +10Y = 84

The sum of the digits of a threeplace number is 19. If the tens and units digits are interchanged the number is diminished by 27, and if the hundreds and tens digits are interchanged the number is increased by 180. What is the number?100X +10Y = 685

An engineer is designing the runway for an airport. Of the planes that will use the airport, the lowest acceleration rate is likely to be 3 m/s2. The takeoff speed for this plane will be 65 m/s. Assuming this In still water, Peters boat goes 4 minimum acceleration, what is the times as fast as the current in the river. He takes a 15-mile trip up the minimum allowed length for the runway? d = 704 m river and returns in 4 hours. Find MIXTURE PROBLEM the rate of the current. The rate of the current is 2 mph. A car traveling at 22.4 m/s skids to How many liters of 10% salt a stop in 2.55 s. Determine the solution must be added to 20% salt skidding distance of the car An airplane accelerates down a solution in order to obtain 10 liters runway at 3.20 m/s2 for 32.8 s until (assume uniform acceleration). d = of 12% salt solution? 28.6 m is finally lifts off the ground. 8 LITERS Determine the distance traveled before takeoff. d = 1720 m A kangaroo is capable of jumping Coin denominations in the US to a height of 2.62 m. Determine Coin Dollar the takeoff speed of the kangaroo. A car starts from rest and Name value Equivalent accelerates uniformly over a time of vi = 7.17 m/s Penny 1 $0.01 5.21 seconds for a distance of 110 Nickel 5 $0.05 m. Determine the acceleration of If Michael Jordan has a vertical the car. a = 8.10 m/ s2 Dime 10 $0.10 leap of 1.29 m, then what is his takeoff speed and his hang time Quarter 25 $0.25 (total time to move upwards to the Upton Chuck is riding the Giant Half50 $0.50 peak and then return to the Drop at Great America. If Upton dollar free falls for 2.6 seconds, what will ground)? hang time = 1.03 s be his final velocity and how far will A bullet leaves a rifle with a muzzle A collection of 32 coins amounted he fall? vf = -25.5 m/s (- indicates velocity of 521 m/s. While to $5.15. If it consists of dimes and direction) accelerating through the barrel of quarters, how many quarters are the rifle, the bullet moves a A race car accelerates uniformly there? ANS. 13 distance of 0.840 m. Determine the from 18.5 m/s to 46.1 m/s in 2.47 MOTION PROBLEM acceleration of the bullet (assume a seconds. Determine the uniform acceleration). a = acceleration of the car and the 1.62*105 m /s2 How long will it take a bus traveling distance traveled. d = 79.8 m 72 km/hr to go 36 kms?it will take one-half hour A baseball is popped straight up A feather is dropped on the moon into the air and has a hang-time of from a height of 1.40 meters. The How fast in miles per hour must a acceleration of gravity on the moon 6.25 s. Determine the height to car travel to go 600 miles in 15 which the ball rises before it is 1.67 m/s2. Determine the time hours? So, the rate is 40 miles per for the feather to fall to the surface reaches its peak. (Hint: the time to hour. rise to the peak is one-half the total of the moon. t = 1.29 s hang-time.) d = 47.9 m Mrs. Benevides leaves Burbank at Rocket-powered sleds are used to 9 a.m. and drives west on the The observation deck of tall test the human response to Ventura Freeway at an average skyscraper 370 m above the street. acceleration. If a rocket-powered speed of 50 miles per hour. Ms. Determine the time required for a sled is accelerated to a speed of Twill leaves Burbank at 9:30 a.m. 444 m/s in 1.8 seconds, then what penny to free fall from the deck to and drives west on the Ventura is the acceleration and what is the the street below. t = 8.69 s Freeway at an average speed of 60 distance that the sled travels? d = miles per hour. At what time will 400 m A bullet is moving at a speed of Ms. Twill overtake Mrs. Benevides, 367 m/s when it embeds into a and how many miles will they each lump of moist clay. The bullet A bike accelerates uniformly from have gone? Ms. Twill overtakes penetrates for a distance of 0.0621 rest to a speed of 7.10 m/s over a Mrs. Benevides after 2.5 hours of m. Determine the acceleration of distance of 35.4 m. Determine the driving. The exact time can be the bullet while moving into the acceleration of the bike. a = 0.712 figured out by using Ms. Twill's 2 clay. (Assume a uniform m/s starting time: 9:30 + 2:30 = 12 acceleration.) a = -1.08*106 m /s2 noon. Since Ms. Twill has traveled for 2.5 hours at 60 mph, she has

traveled 2.5 60, which is 150 miles. So, Mrs. Benevides is overtaken at 12 noon, and each has traveled 150 miles.

A stone is dropped into a deep well tank is initially empty and all three and is heard to hit the water 3.41 s pipes are open, how many hours after being dropped. Determine the will it take to fill up the tank? depth of the well. d = -57.0 m If it takes 3 men, 2 hours to paint a It was once recorded that a Jaguar house, in how many hours 6 men left skid marks that were 290 m in can finish the same job? length. Assuming that the Jaguar Andy can bake 2 pizzas in 1 hour. skidded to a stop with a constant Ben can bake 3 pizzas in 1 hour. acceleration of -3.90 m/s2, determine the speed of the Jaguar How much time (in hours) will it before it began to skid. vi = 47.6 m take Andy and Ben to bake 10 pizzas? 2 hrs /s A plane has a takeoff speed of 88.3 m/s and requires 1365 m to reach that speed. Determine the acceleration of the plane and the time required to reach this speed. t = 30. 8 s A dragster accelerates to a speed of 112 m/s over a distance of 398 m. Determine the acceleration (assume uniform) of the dragster. a = 15.8 m/s2 With what speed in miles/hr (1 m/s = 2.23 mi/hr) must an object be thrown to reach a height of 91.5 m (equivalent to one football field)? Assume negligible air resistance. vi = 94.4 mi/hr WORKPROBLEM Eleven men could finish the job in 15 days. Five men started the job and four men were added at the beginning of the sixth day. How many days will it take them to finish the job? 20.56 days 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? 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

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