PRACTICE PROBLEMS: CONSISTENT PRACTICE LEADS TO
MASTERY!
1. Eliane has 50 coins, all nickels and dimes, which have a total face value of
$3 and 40 cents. How many of her coins are nickels?
A. 18 C. 28
B. 25 D. 32
2. A vendor sold 100 fresh chicken eggs. Eighty of them were sold at a profit
of 30% while the rest were sold at a loss of 40%. What is the percentage gain
or loss on the whole stock?
A. A loss of 8% C. A loss of 10%
B. A gain of 8% D. A gain of 16%
3. A worker was paid $218 for each day he work and was fined $36 each day
he was absent. At the end of 30 days he earned $5,524. How many days he
was absent from work?
A. 6 C. 5
B. 4 D. 3
4. A small boat sends a distress signal giving its location as 10 miles from
shore in choppy seas and says it is making only 5 knots. A Coast Guard boat
is dispatched from shore to give aid, it averages 20 knots. How long before it
meets the disabled boat if they are traveling towards each other?
A. 20 minute C. 24 minutes
B. 28 minutes D. 32 minutes
5. Find the fourth proportional between 5, -3 and 6.
A.-10 B. -3.6 C. -2.5 D.-8
6. A scenic road around Lake Rotorua is 11 miles in length. Tom leaves the
hotel on his bike averaging 10 mph and heads west around the lake. Bill
leaves at the same time and heads in the opposite direction at 45 mph. How
far from the hotel will Tom have traveled when they meet?
A. 3 miles C. 4 miles
B. 2 miles D. 5 miles
7. There are six geometric means between 4 and 8748. Find the sum of all
the terms.
A. 13,120 B. 11,150 C. 12.220 D. 14,250
8. A businessman has $1000 income from bonds bearing 4% and 5%. If the
amounts Invested at 4% and 5% were interchanged, he would earn $50 more
annually. Find the total amount invested by the businessman.
A. $20,333 C. $22,778
B. $24,250 D. $25,525
9. The volume of regular pyramid varies jointly as the altitude and the area of
the base. If the volume of a regular pyramid of altitude 5 in and base 9 in² is
15 in', find the volume of another of altitude 4 in and base area 6 in².
A. 10 in3 B. 11 in3 C. 9 in³ D. 8 in3
10. Jones and Roberts together weighs 350 pounds. Find the weight of Jones
if they balance a teeterboard when Jones sits 4 ft from the fulcrum on one
side and Roberts is 3 ft from the fulcrum on the other side.
A. 200 lbs C. 150 lbs
B. 250 lbs D. 100 lbs
11. Jose earned $120,000 last year when he sold his old car. He invested part
at 3% simple interest and the rest at 4% Interest. He earned a total of $4,400
in interest. How much did he invest in 3% rate?
A. $50,000 B. $40,000 C. $80,000 D. $60,000
12. The motion of a particle through a certain medium is such that it moves
two thirds as far each second as in the preceding second. If it moves 6 m of
the first second, how far will it move before coming to rest? A. 9 m
C. 10 m
B. 24 m D. 18 m
13. How many minutes after 5 o'clock will the hour and minute hands of a
clock form a right angle?
A. 11.45 min B. 13.21 min C. 10.91 min D. 12.21 min
14. If you pay $950,000 for a car and its value depreciates 10% per year, how
much will be its worth 5 years from now?
A. $560,965 C. $550,480
B. $580,240 D. $570,275
15. Find the 10th term in an arithmetic progression where the first term is 3
and whose 1, 4th and 13th terms form a geometric progression.
A. 24 C. 27
Β. 30 D. 21
16. Kent has ten bills in his wallet. He has a total of $40. If he has one more
$5 bill than $10 bills and two more $1 bills than $5 bills, how many $10 does
he have?
A. 5 C. 4 4
B. 3 D. 2
17. A fruit vendor paid $360 for some crates of fruit. Four crates spoiled and
had to be thrown away, but she sold the rest at an Increase price of $2 a crate,
gaining $88. How many crates did she buy?
A. 70 B. 66 C. 55 D. 60
18. Tickets for the local basketball game were $15 for general admission and
$8 for children. There were 20 times as many general admission tickets sold
as there were children's tickets. Total receipts were $61,600. How many
children's ticket was sold?
A. 400 C. 200
B. 500 D. 350
19. What is the first term of a harmonic sequence whose 3d term is 1/5 and
9th term is 1/8?
A. 1/2 B. 2/3 C. 1/4 D. 3/4
20. A boat travels downstream in 2/3 of the time as it goes going upstream. If
the velocity of the river's current is 8 kph, determine the velocity of the boat in
still water?
A. 60 kph B. 40 kph C. 30 kph D. 50 kph
21. A group of fishermen chartered a boat for $300. Two members of the
group were unable to go on the trip and, as a consequence, each of the others
had to pay $12.50 more. How many were there in the original group?
A. 9 B. 7 C. 10 D. 8
22. A coin collector had a collection of silver coins worth $205. There were
five times as many quarters as half-dollars and 200 fewer dimes than
quarters. How many half-dollar coins did the collector have?
A. 200 B. 500 C. 300 D. 100
23. The 1 term of an arithmetic sequence is -15 and the Sth term is 13. What
is the 40th term?
A. 258 B. 245 C. 188 D. 196
24. Keith paid $21.43 for a collection of seven tapes. Some were on sale for
$3.94, and some for $1.89. How many tapes at $3.94 did he buy?
A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5
25. Find the ratio r of an infinite geometric series if the sum is 2 and the first
term is 1/2.
A. 3/4 B. 4/5 C. 2/3 D. 1/2
26. At how many minutes after 3 PM will the minute hand of a clock overtakes
the hour hand?
A. 16 4/11 B. 16 7/9 C. 16 3/5 D. 16 4/7
27. A mechanic bought 24 boxes of three different screws for $2,200. Screw
A costs $300 a box, screw B costs $150 per box and screw C costs $50 per
box. How many boxes of screw B did he buy?
A. 6 B. 9 C. 5 D. 8
28. How many integers between 100 and 1000 are divisible by 7?
A. 130 B. 124 C. 128 D. 126
29. What is the 10th term of a harmonic progression if the 1 and 3rd terms
are 1/2 and 1/6?
A. 1/20 B. 1/36 C. 1/24 D. 1/15
30. The period of a simple pendulum (that is the time required for a complete
oscillation) varies directly as the square root of the length of the pendulum. If
the period is 1.5 seconds when the length is 2 ft, find the period when the
length is 8 ft.
A. 3 sec B. 5 sec C. 4 sec D. 6 sec
31. A boat travels downstream for 36 miles and then makes a round trip
upstream. The trip downstream took ¼ of an hour less than the trip upstream.
If the rate of the current is 4 mph, find the rate of the boat.
A. 23 mph B. 21 mph C. 22 mph D. 20 mph
32. Insert five harmonic means between 4 and 16. What is the middle term of
the resulting series?
A. 16/3 B. 8 C. 32/5 D. 12