A.

Number related problems

1. Separate 71 into two parts such that one part exceeds the other by 7.
2. Find three consecutive even integers such that the largest is three times the smallest.
3. One number is 11 more than three times another. Their sum is 111. What are the numbers?
4. There are two numbers whose sum is 72. One number is twice the other. What are the numbers?
5. The sum of two numbers is 41. The larger number is 1 less than twice the smaller number. Find the numbers.
B. Motion related problems
1. Dan makes a business trip from his house to Ilagan in 2 hours. One hour later, he returns home in traffic at a rate of 20kph less than his rate going. If
Dan is gone a total of 6 hours, how fast did he travel on each leg of the trip?
2. In his motorboat, a man can go downstream in one hour less time than he can go upstream the same distance. If the rate of the current is 5kph, how
fast can he travel in still water if it takes him 2 hours to travel upstream the given distance?
3. Two planes leave Zamboanga City at 1pm. Plane A heads east at 450 kph and plane B heads due west at 600 kph. How long it will be when the
planes are 2,100 km apart.
4. A highway patrolman spots a speeding car. He clocks it at 70kph and takes off after he is 0.5 km behind. If the patrolman travels at an average rate
of 90kph, how long will it take until he overtakes the car?
C. Age-related problems
1. A man, 32 years old, has a son 8 years of age. In how many years so that the man will be twice as old as his son?
2. Two years ago, May was thrice as old as Joy. Five years after, the difference of their ages will be 12. How old is May?
3. Jay’s father is twice as old as Jay. In 20 years, Jay will be two-thirds as old as his father. How old will each be next year?
4. Chuck is 22 years older than Jack. When Jack is as old as Chuck is now, he will be three times his present age. How old is each?
5. Three years ago, Larry was twice as old as Ben. Three years from now, Larry will be one and one-half times as old as Ben. How old is Larry.
D. Work related problems
1. If John can type a paper in 5 hours and together he and Henry can type the same paper in 2 hours, how long would it take Henry to type the paper
alone?
2. A pond is being drained by a pump. After 3 hours, the pond is half-empty. A second pump is put into operation, and together the two pumps finished
emptying the pond in half an hour. How long would it take the second pump to drain the pond if it had to do the same job alone?
3. Tom, Dick, and Harry decided to fence a vacant lot adjoining their properties. If it would take Tom 4 days to build the fence, Dick 3 days, and harry 6
days, how long would it take them to finish the job when they work together?
4. One machine can complete a job in 10 minutes. If the same job is done by this machine and an older machine working together, the job can be
completed in 6 minutes. How long would it take the older machine to do the job alone?
E. Investment-related problems
1. What amount of money invested at 8.25% that yields a P2475 return per annum?
2. A store advertised dresses on sale at 20% off. The sale price was P76 per piece. What was the original price of each dress?
3. When Mrs. Yabes sold her house recently, she received P210000 for it. This was 40% more than she paid for 10 years ago. What was the original
purchase price?
4. Dr. House had P100000 invested at 5%. How much more would he have to invest at 8% so that his total interest per year would equal to 7% of the
two investments.
F. Digit related problems
1. The tens digit of a number is twice the units digit. If the digits are reversed. The new number is 27 less than the original number. Find the number.
2. A 3-digit number has a tens digit 2 greater than the units digit and a hundreds digit 1 greater than the tens digit. The sum of the tens and hundreds
digit is three times the ones digit. What is the number?
3. A two-digit number has a tens digit 1 greater than the ones digit. The sum of the number and the number formed by reversing the digits is 77. Find
the original number.
4. The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 6. The hundreds digit is twice the ones digit and the tens digit equals the sum of the other two. Find
the number.
G. Geometry-related problems
1. A rectangle has a length which is 4cm less than three times the width. The perimeter is 224 cm. what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
2. The perimeter of a triangular lawn is 42 cm. the first side is 5cm less than the second side, and the third side is 2cm less than the first. What is the
length of each side of the lawn?
3. The first side of a triangle is 3 inches less than twice the second side. The third side is 10 inches longer than the second. If the perimeter is 12 feet,
find the length of each side.
4. A goat is tied to the corner of a 5-by-4-meter shed by a 8-meter piece of rope. Rounded to the nearest square meter, what is the area grazed by the
goat?

H. Mixture-related problems
1. A 20% nitric and a 45% nitric acid solution are to be mixed to make 6 liter of 30% nitric acid. How much of each must be used?
2. May needs a 50% solution of alcohol. How many liters of pure alcohol must she add to 10 liters of 40% alcohol solution to get the proper solution?
3. A farmer wants to mix milk containing 3% butterfat with cream containing 30% butterfat to obtain 900 gallons of milk which is 8% butterfat. How
much of each must he use?
4. How much pure alcohol must a nurse add to 10cc of a 60% alcohol solution to strengthen it to a 90% alcohol solution?

I. Coin related problems

1. I have one-peso coins, 5 peso coins, and 10 peso coins. The total amount that I have is P43. I have 4 times as many 1peso coins as ten peso coins.
All together, there are 13 coins. How many of each type of coin do I have?
2. A person has 10 coins consisting of 1 peso coins and 5 peso coins. He has 38 pesos. How many 1 peso coins does the person have? How many 5
peso coins does he have?
3. Emil has 15 coins consisting of 10 peso coins and 5 peso coins. He has 130 pesos in all. How many of each denomination does he have?