FLORES, ARAIZA G. PROBLEM SET 2 QUIZ 10. Mr.

Z 10. Mr. Brown can was his car in 15 minutes, while his son
BSEE 5 ALGEBRA john takes twice as long to the same job. If they work
together, how many minutes can they do the washing?
1. Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana was
when Mary was as old as Ana now. How old is Ana? A. 6 B.8 C.10 D.12

A. 16 B.18 C.19 D.20 11. One pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and another pipe can
fill the same tank in 4 hours. A drain pipe can empty the
2. The sum of the parent’s ages is twice the sum of their full content of the tank in 20 hours. with all the three pipes
children’s ages. Five years ago, the sum of the parent’s open, How long will it take to fill the tank?
ages is four times the sum of their children’s ages. In fifteen
years, the sum of the parent’s ages will be equal to the sum A. 2 hours B.2.5 hours C.1.92 hours D.1.8 hours
of their children’s ages. How many children were in the 12. A swimming pool is filled through its inlet pipe and then
family? emptied through its outlet pipe in a total of 8 hours. If
A. 2 B.3 C.4 D.5 water enters through its inlet and simultaneously allowed
to leave through its outlet, the pool is filled in 7 ½ hours.
3. Two thousand (2000 kg) of steel containing 8% nickel is Find how long it will take to fill the pool with outlet closed.
to be made by mixing a steel containing 14% nickel with
another steel containing 6% nickel. How much of the steel A. 6 B.2 C.3 D.5
containing 14% nickel is needed? 13. Three persons can do a piece of work alone in 3 hours,
A. 1500 kg B.800kg C.750 kg D.500kg 4 hours, and 6 hours, respectively. What fraction of the job
can they finish in one hour working together?
4. A 40-gram alloy containing 35% gold is to be melted with
a 20-gram alloy containing 50% gold. How much A. ¾ B.4/3 C.1/2 D.2/3
percentage of gold is the resulting alloy? 14. A father and his son can dig a well if the father works 6
A. 40% B.30% C.45% D.35% hours and his son works 12 hours or they can do it if the
father works 9 hours and the son work 8 hours. How long
5. In what ratio must a peanut costing P240.00 per kg be will take for the son to dig the well alone?
mixed with a peanut costing P 340.00 per kg so that a profit
20% is made by selling the mixture at P360.00 per kg.? A. 5 hours B.10 hours C.15 hours D.20 hours

A. 1:2 B.3:2 C.2:3 D.3:5 15. Peter and Paul can do a certain job in 3 hours. On a
given day they worked together for 1 hour then Paul left
6. A 100-kg salt solution originally 4% by weight. Salt in and Peter finishes the rest of the work in 8 more hours.
water is boiled to reduced water content until the How long will it take for Peter to do the job alone?
concentration is 5% by weight alt. How much water is
evaporated? A. 10 hours B.11 hours C.12 hours D.13 hours

A. 10 B.15 C.20 D.25 16. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20%
faster than Bryan and together they can paint a given fence
7. A pound of alloy of lead and nickels weigh 14.4 ounces in in 4 hours. How long will it take Pedro to paint the same
water, where lead losses 1/11 of its weight and nickel fence if he had to work alone?
losses 1/9 of its weight. How much of each metal is in the
alloy? A. 10 hrs. B. 11 hrs. C.13 hrs. D.15 hrs.

A. Lead=7.2 ounces; nickel = 8. 8 ounces 17. Nonoy can finish a certain job in 10 days if Imelda will
B. Lead=8.8 ounces; nickel = 7.2 ounces be held for 6 days. The same work can be done by Imelda
C. Lead=6.5 ounces; nickel = 5.4 ounces in 12 days if Nonoy helps for 6 days. If they work together,
D. Lead=7.8 ounces; nickel = 4.2 ounces how long will it take for them to do the job?

8. A pound of alloy of Silver and Gold weight 15 ounces in A. 8.9 B.8.4 C.9.2 D.8
air and 14oz. in water, Assuming that silver losses 1/10 of 18. A pipe can fill up a tank with the drain open in three
its weight in water and gold losses 1/18 of its weight , how hours. If the pipe runs with the drain open for one hour the
many oz each metal are in the alloy? drain is closed, it will take 45 more minutes for the pipe to
A. Silver =4.5 oz; gold =10.5 oz fill the tank. If the drain will closed right at the start of
B. Silver =3.75 oz; gold =11.25 oz filling, how long will it take for the Pipe to fill the tank?
C. Silver =5 oz; gold =5.4 oz A. 1.15 hrs. B.1.125 hrs. C.1.325 hrs. D.1.525 hrs.
D. Silver =2.75 oz; gold =12.25 oz
19. Delia can finish a job in 8 hours. Daisy can do it in 5
9. A pump can pump out a tank in 11 hours. Another pump hours. If Delia worked for 3 hours and then Daisy was
can pump out the same tank in 20 hours. How long will it asked to help her finish it, how long will Daisy have to work
take both together to pump out the tank? with Delia to finish the Job?
A. 12 hours B.10 hours C.6 hours D.7 hours A. 2/5 hrs. B.25/11 hrs. C.25 hrs. D.1.923 hrs.
20. From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the 31. The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 14. The
same day, the minute hand of a standard clock describe an hundreds digit being 4 times the units digit. If 594 is
arc of: subtracted from the number, the order of the digits will be
reversed. Find the number.
A. 360° B.120° C.540° D.720°
A. 743 B.563 C.653 D.842
21. It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and in twenty
minutes the minute-hand will be as much as the hour hand 32. The sum of two numbers is 21, and one is twice the
as it is now behind it. What is the time now? other. Find the numbers.

A. 3:06.36 B.3:07.36 C.3:09.36 D.3;08.36 A. 7 and 14 B.6 and 15 C.8 and 13 D.9 and 12

22. A man left his home at past 3:00 o’clock PM as 33. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.
indicated in his wall clock. Between two to three hours Determine the number.
after, he returned home and noticed that hands of the
A. 4 B.5 C.6 D.7
clock interchanged. At what time did he left his home?
34. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more
A. 3:27.27 B.3:31.47 C.3:09.36 D.3:08.36
than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of
23. The sum of the reciprocals of two numbers is 11. Three the fraction. The resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original
times the reciprocal of one of the numbers is three more fraction.
than twice the reciprocal of the other number. Find the
A. 8/15 B.5/13 C.13/5 D.3/5
numbers.
35. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers
A. 5 and 6 B.7 and 4 C.1/5 and 1/6 D.1/7 and ¼
is three more than twice the third. Find the third integer.
24. If a two-digit number has x for its unit’ digit and y to its
A. 9 B.11 C.13 D.15
ten’s digit, represent the number.
36. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of 10%
A. yx B.10 + x C.10x + y D. x + y
solution. You find 7 % and 12 % solution on the shelf. How
25. One number is five less than the other number. If their much of the 7% solution you mix with the appropriate
sum is 135, what are the numbers? amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of 10% solution.

A. 70 and 75 B.60 and 65 C.65 and 70 D.75 and 80 A. 1.5 B.2.5 C.2 D.3

26. In a two-digit number, the unit’s digit is 3 greater than 37. In the expansion of (x + 4y) 12 the numerical coefficient
the ten’s digit. Find the number if it is 4 times as large as of the fifth term is.
the sum of its digits.
A. 63,360 B.126,720 C.506,880 D.253,440
A. 47 B.58 C.36 D.25
38. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric series if the sum
27. Find two consecutive even integers such that the is 2 and the first term is ½.
square of the larger is 44 greater than the square of the
A. 1/3 B.1/2 C.3/4 D.1/4
smaller integer.
39. Simplify the expression i1997 + i1999, where “i” is an
A. 10 and 12 B.12 and 14 C.8 and 10 D.14 and 16
imaginary number.
28. Twice the middle digit of three-digit number is the sum
A. 0 B.1 + i C.-1 D.1 – i
of the other two. If the number is divided by the sum of its
digit, the answer is 65 and the remainder is 12. If the digits 40. A stack of bricks has 61 bricks in the bottom layer, 58
are reversed, the number becomes smaller 594. Find the bricks in the second layer, 55 bricks in the third layer and
number. so until there are 10 bricks in the last layer. How many
bricks are there together?
A. 258 B.567 C.852 D.741
A. 638 B.637 C.640 D.639
29. The product of three consecutive integers is 9240. Find
the third integer. 41. Determine x so that x, 2x + 7, 10x – 7 will form
geometric progression.
A. 20 B.21 C.22 D.23
A. 7, -5/6 B.7, -14/5 C.7, -7/12 D.7, -7/6
30. The product of two numbers is 1400. If the three (3) is
subtracted from each number, their product becomes 42. Mathew, Luis and Eric can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7
1175.find the bigger number. hours respectively. What fraction of the yard can they mow
in 1 hour if they work together?
A. 28 B.50 C.35 D.40
A. 47/84 B.84/47 C.17/84 D.84/17

43. If 16 is 4 more than 4x, find 5x -1.

A. 14 B.3 C.12 D.5

44. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 11. If the 55. At exactly what time after 2 o’clock will the hour hand
digits are reversed, the resulting number is seven more and the minute hand extend in opposite directions for the
than twice the original number. What is the original first time?
number?
A. 2:43 and 0.63 sec B. 2:43 and 6.30 sec
A. 44 B.83 C.38 D.53 C.2:43 and 40.5 sec D.2:43 and 38.2 sec

56. The sum of the ages of Patrick and Pau is 21. Patrick will
45. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2 – 10x + 2 = 0.
be twice as old as Pau 3 years from now. What is the
A. -1/2 B.2 C.-2 D.1/2 present age of Patrick?
46. The time required for two examinees to solve the same A. 8 B.6 C.18 D.15
problem differs by two minutes. Together they can solve 32
57. A rich man left his entire state to his wife, daughter,
problems in one hour. How long will it take for the slower
son and body guard. His daughter and son got half the total
problem solver to solve the same problem?
value of the state sharing in the ratio of 3:2. His wife got
A. 5 min B.2 min C.3 min D.4 min twice value as much as the share of the son. If the
bodyguard received half a million pesos, what is the total
47. Find the value of m that will make 4x2 – 4mx + 4m + 5 a
value of the estate?
perfect square trinomial.
A. 6.5 million B.5 million C.7 million D.6 million
A. 3 B.-2 C.4 D.5
58. A speed boat can make a trip of 100 miles in one hour
48. Alma is 5 years older than Berna. In 5 years, the
and 30 minutes. If it travels upstream. If it travels
product of their ages will be 1.5 times the product of their
downstream, it will take one hour and 15 minutes to travel
present ages. How old is Berna now?
to the same distance. What is the speed of the boat in calm
A. 27 B.20 C.25 D.18 water?

49. Find the coefficient of the term involving b4 in the A. 193.45mph B.73.33mph C.146.67mph D.293.33mph
expansion of (a2+2b)10
59. Simplify the expression: the square root of the cube
A. -3360 B.10! C.-960 D.3360 root of 64x60.

50. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hrs. and another pipe can A. 4x4 B. 8x2 C. 2x6 D. 2x10
fill the same tank in 3 hrs. A drain pipe can empty the tank
60. A man can do a job three times as fat a boy. Working
in 24 hrs. With all three pipes open, how long will it take to
together it would take them 6 hours to do same job. How
fill the tank?
long will it take the man to do the job alone?
A. 5.16 B.3.14 C.2.18 D.1.48
A. 9hrs. B.8hrs. C.7 hrs. D.10 hrs.
51. The seating section in a coliseum has 30 seats in the
61. A company sells 80 units and makes P80 profit. It sells
first row, 32 seats in the second row, 34 seats in the third
110 units and makes 140 profits. If the profit is linear
row and so on, until the tenth row is reached, after which
function of the number of units sold; what is the average
there are ten rows, each containing 50 seats. Find the total
profit per unit if the company sells 250 units?
number of seats in the section?
A. P1.76 B.P1.68 C.P1.66 D.P1.86
A. 900 B.910 C.890 D.940
62. At approximately what time after 12 o’clock will the
52. A piece of paper is 0.05 inches thick. Each time the
hour and the minute hands of clock form an angle of 120
paper is folded into half the thickness is doubled. If the
degrees for the second time?
paper was folded 12 times, how thick in feet the folded
paper be? A. 50 min and 30 sec after 12o’clock
B. 43 min and 38 sec after 12o’clock
A. 10.24 B.12.34 C.17.07 D.11.25 C. 38 min and 35 sec after 12o’clock
53. If one third of the air in a tank is removed by each D. 30 min and 45 sec after 12o’clock
stroke of an air pump, what fractional part of the total air is
63. What is the 11th term of the harmonic progression if
removed in 6 strokes?
the first and the third terms are ½ an 1/6 respectively?
A. 0.7122 B.0.6122 C.0.8122 D.0.9122
A. 1/20 B.1/4 C.1/12 D.1/22
54. It takes an airplane one hour and forty-five minutes to
64. What is the remainder when the polynomial x4 – 5x3 +
travel 500 miles against the wind and covers the same
5x2 +7x + 6 divided by x + 2?
distance in one hour and fifteen minutes with the wind.
What is the speed of the airplane? A. 16 B.32 C.48 D.68
A. 342.85mph B.375.50mph C.450.50mph
D.285.75mph
65. George is one third as old as Rod and 8 years younger A. 87,950 B.124,950 C.62/730 D.65,955
than Harry. If George is 8 years old, what is the sum of their
78. From the equation 7x2 + (2k - 1) x-3k + 2 =0, determine
ages?
the value of k so that the sum and product of the roots are
A. 40 B.45 C.48 D.50 equal.

66. The sum of three consecutive even integers is 78. What A. 2 B.4 C.1 D.3
is the largest integer?
79. What is the equation form of the statement: the
A. 24 B.28 C.32 D.30 amount by which 100 exceeds four times a given number?

67. An iron bar four meters long has a 300-pound weight A. 4x(100) B.100 + 4x C.100 – 4x D.4x = 100
hung on one end and a 200-pound weight hung at the
80. Candle x and candle y of equal length are lighted at the
opposite end. How farm from the 300-pound weight
same time and burning until candle x is twice as long as
should the fulcrum is located to balance the bar?
candle y. candle X is designed to fully burn in 8 hours while
A. 2.5 meters B.1-meter C.1.6 meters D.2 meters candle y for 4 hours. How long will they be lighted?

68. What are the first four terms of the sequence whose A. 3 hrs. and 30 minutes
general terms is n2 + 1. B. 2 hours and 40 minutes
C. 3 hours
A. 1, 4, 9, 16 B.2, 5, 10, 17 C.5, 10, 17, 26 D.2, 4, 6, D. 2 hours
10
81. Solve for x of 8x = 2y+2 and 16 3x-y =4y
69. A can do job 50% faster than B and 20 % faster than C.
If they work together, they can finish the job 4 days. How A. -2 B.-4 C.-1 D.-3
many days will it take A to finish the job if he is to work
alone? 82. What is the sum of all odd integers between 10 and
A. 18 B.10 C.12 D.16 500?

70. Solve for x in the following equation x + 4x + 7x + 10x + A. 87,950 B.124,950 C.62,475 D.65,955
… + 64x =1430? 83. A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. Five
A. 4 B.3 C.2 D.1 workers started the job. They were reinforced with four
more workers at the beginning of the 6th day. Find the
71. If kx3 – (k + 3) x2 + 13 is divided by x- 4, and the total number of days it took them to finish the job.
remainder is 157. Then the value of k is ___.
A. 22.36 B.21.42 C.23.22 D.20.56
A. 6 B.5 C.4 D.3
84. On one job, two power shovels excavate 20,000 m3 of
72. Given that 2 varies directly as the product of x and y earth, the larger shovel working for 40 hours and the
and inversely proportional as the square of z and that w = 4 smaller 35 hours. Another job, they removed 40,000 m3
when x=2; y=6 and x=3.What is the value of 2, when x = 1, with the larger shovel working 70 hours and the smaller
y=4 and z =2? working 90 hours. How much earth can the larger shovel
move in one hour?
A. 6 B.5 C.4 D.3
A. 173.91 B.347.83 C.368.12 D.162.22
73. If 16 is four more than 3x, then x2 + 5.
85. A and b can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in 31
A. 16 B.21 C.3 D.4
days , and A and C in 20days Working together, how many
74. Four positive integers from the arithmetic progression. days can all of them finish the work.
If the product of the 1st and the last term is 70 and the 2nd
A. 18.9 B.19.4 C.17.8 D.20.9
and the 3rd is 88, find the 1st term.
86. Eight men can dig 150 ft of trench in 7 hrs. Three men
A. 5 B.3 C.14 D.8
can backfill 100 ft of the trench in 4 hrs. The time that it
75. A professional organization is composed of x ECEs and will take 10 men to dig and fill 200ft of trench is:
2x EEs. If 6 ECEs are replaced by 6 EEs, 1/6 of the members
A. 9.867 hrs B.9.687 hrs. C.8.967 hrs D.8.687
will be ECEs. Solve for x.
hrs.
A. 12 B.24 C.36 D.1
87. In two hours, the minute hand of the clock rotates
76. The average production of (PCB) is 1 unit for every 2 trough an angle of:
hours work by two workers. how many PCB’s can be
A. 45° B.90° C.360° D.720°
produced in one month by 60 workers working 200 hours
during month? 88. In one day (24 hrs.), how many minutes will the hour
hand and minute hand of a continuously driven clock
A. 4000 B.5000 C.6000 D.8000
together?
77. What is the sum of all even integers from 10 to 500?
A. 21 B.22 C.23 D.24
89. How many minutes after 3:00 PM will the minute of the
clock overtakes the hour hand?

A. 14/12 min B.16-11/12 min C.16-4/11 min D.14/11

min

90. How many minutes after 10:00 o’clock will the hands of
the clock be opposite each other for the first time?

A. 21.41 B.22.31 C.21.81 D.22.61

91. What time between the hours of 12:00 noon and 1:00
PM would the hour-hand and the minute-hand of a
continuously driven clock be in straight line?

A. 12:33PM B.12:30PM C.12:37PM D.12:27PM

92. At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and
the minute hand of a clock first form an angle of 120°?

A. 21.818 B.12:21.181 C.21.181 D.12:21.818

93. How many terms of the progression 3, 5, 7 should be

there to be so that their sum will be 2600.

A. 60 B.50 C.52 D.55

94. The square of a number increased by 16 is the same as

10 times the number. Find the numbers.

A. 2,8 B.3,6 C.3,8 D.4,6

95. Two times the father’s age is 8 more than six times his
son’s. Ten years ago, the sum of their ages was 44. The age
of the son is:

A. 49 B.15 C.20 D.18

96. Peter’s age 13 years ago was 1/3 of his age 7 years
hence. How old is peter?

A. 15 B.21 C.23 D.27

97. A man is 41 years old and in seven years he will be four

times as old as his son is at that time. How old is his son
now?

A. 9 B.4 C.5 D.8

98. A father is three times as old as his son. Four years ago,
he was four times as old as his son was at that time. How
old is his sin?

A. 36 years B.24 years C.32 years D.12 years

99. The ages of the mother and daughter are 45 and 5

year , respectively. How many years will the mother be
three times as old as her daughter?

A. 5 B.10 C.15 D.2

100. A 20-m post cast shadow of 25 meters long. How high

is a tree beside it if it cast a shadow 50 meters long?

A. 40ft B.40m C.62.5ft D.62.5m