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Pre-Calculus 1 -Algebra 11. Two motorists start toward each other
at 4:30 P.M. from towns 255 miles apart.
If their respective average speeds are 40 and 45 mi/hr, at what time will
they meet?
NUMBER PROBLEM
1. The sum of the three numbers is 51. If the first number is divided by
the second, the quotient is 2 and the remainder 5; but if the second
number is divided by the third, the quotient is 3 and the remainder 2. 12. A man can row 20 km downstream in the time it takes him to row
Find then numbers. 8km upstream. He rows downstream for 1.5 hours, then turns and rows
back for 3 hours, but he finds that he is still 3km from his starting place.
2. The quotient of a two-digit number divided by the sum of its digits is Determine the speed of boat in still water and the speed of the current.
4. If the number is subtracted from the sum of the squares of its digits,
the difference is 9. Find the number.
CLOCK PROBLEM
3. The quotient of a two-digit number divided by the sum of its digits is 13. At what time between 4 and 5 o’clock are the hands of a clock (a)
4. If the number is subtracted from the sum of the squares of its digits, opposite each other (b) coincident and (c) at right angles
the difference is 9. Find the number
Work problem AGE PROBLEM
4. If 2000 parts of a given type can be turned out by the first machine in 14. Maria is 12 years older than her sister Josie. Six years ago, Maria
8 hours, by a second in 3 hours, and by a third in 4 hours. If they work was four times as old as Josie. Find their ages now.
together, how long would it take them to finish the 2000 parts.
[Link] is eleven times as old as Mark. In a certain number of
5. A man and a boy can do in 15 day a piece of work which would be years Christian will be five times as old as Mark, and five years after
done by 7 men and 9 boys in 2 days. How long would it take one man that he will be three times as old as Mark. How old are the now?
to do it alone?
6. A certain 1000 copies is to accomplished by a certain printing press. Variation Problems
The first machine can accomplish 500 copies for 2 hours, and the Direct Variation 𝑦=𝑘𝑥
second machine can accomplish 300 copies for 3 hours. The machine Inverse Variation 𝑦=𝑘/𝑥
works together for 1 hour, and after that the first machine encountered
Joint Variation 𝑦=𝑘𝑥𝑧
a problem, hence the second machine is left alone to finish the work. If
the printing start at 1:00 P.M. What time will the printing be completed? Combined Variation 𝑦=𝑘𝑧/𝑥
16. [NOV2021] The intensity of light (in foot-candle) varies inversely as
MIXTURE PROBLEM the square of x, the distance in feet from the light source. The intensity
7. A goldsmith has two alloys of gold, the first being 70% pure gold, and of light 2 ft from the source is 80 ft-candles. How far away is the source
the second 60% pure gold. How many grams of each must be used to if intensity of light is 5 ft-candles?
make 100 grams of an alloy which will be 66% gold?
8. [NOV2023] How many milligrams of a steel containing 45% nickel ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION
must be combined with 6 milligrams of pure nickel to form an alloy 17. Find the 7th term of an AP. If the third term is 10 and the 10th term is
containing 78% nickel? - 4, Find the sum of the first 5 terms,
9. The radiator of a jeep has a capacity of 4 gallons. It is filled with an 18. What is the sum of all odd integers between 10 and 500?
antifreeze solution of water and glycol which analyzes 10 % glycol.
What volume of the mixture must be drawn off and replaced with glycol 19. To build a dam, 60 men must work 72 days. If all 60 men are
to obtain 25% glycol solution? employed at the start but the number is decreased by 5 men at the end
of each 12-day period. How long will it take to complete the dam?
GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION
May 2016 CE Board Exam
10. A nutritionist in a hospital is arranging special diets that consists of 20. Insert three geometric means between 2 and 512.
a combination of three basic foods. It is important that patients on this 21. The first swing of the pendulum is 60 cm. If each swing is 90% of
diet consume exactly 310 units of calcium, 190 units of iron and 250 the preceding swing, how far does the pendulum travel before coming
units of vitamin each day. The amounts of these nutrients in one-ounce to rest?
food are given in the following table. Determine the amount of each .
food that should be prepared.
HARMONIC PROGRESSION
Units per Calcium Iron Vitamin A 22. Insert Four means, between 3/7 and 3/19
Ounce
Food A 30 10 10
Food B 10 10 30
Food C 20 20 20
MOTION PROBLEM