Number Problems Clock Problems Motion Problems
1. The sum of two numbers is 120. If the greater 7. What time after 3 o’clock will the minute – hand 13. A bullet is fired at a target 1,342m away. At what
number is four times the less, what are the and the hour hand of the clock be (a) together for point along its path would the sound of the impact
numbers? the first time (b) perpendicular for the first time (c) of the bullet be heard ¼ second before the report
in straight line for the first time? of the gun, assuming that sounds travels at the
2. The greater of two numbers is twice the less, and rate of 335 m/sec and the bullet is 503 m/sec.
the sum of the numbers is 96. What are the 8. What time between 2 and 3 o’clock will the angle
numbers? between the hands of the clock be bisected by the 14. A car leaves city A for city B, 40km distant,
line connecting the center of the clock and the 3 travelling 50kph. Thirty minutes later, another car
3. A man bought a cellphone and laptop for o’clock mark? leaves city B for city A at 40kph. At what point of
P50,000.00, paying three times as much for the their path will the first car pass 6 minutes before
laptop as for the cellphone. How much did each 9. How soon after 5 o’clock will the hands of the the second car?
cost? clock form a (a) 60 – degrees for the first time (b)
60 – degrees for the second time, and (c) 150 – 15. A man can row 77km and back in 14 hours. If he
4. Two boys, counting their money, found that degrees angle? can row 6.5km with the stream at the same time
together they had P372, and that Biboy had five as 4.8km against the stream, find the rate of the
times as much as Neil. How much had each? stream.
5. In a mixed company of Malaysians, Vietnamese, Digit Problems 16. Runner A and B start together in a race around a
Singaporeans, Thais, and Filipinos, the 900 – ft oval track. Runner A is making a speed of
10. In a three digit number, the hundreds digit is twice
Malaysians are one less than 1/3 of the Filipinos; 27 ft/sec and runner B at 22.5 ft/sec. How long will
the units digit. If 396 be subtracted from the
and the three less than half the Vietnamese. The it take runner A to be exactly one circumference
number, the order of the digits will be reversed.
Filipinos and Thais outnumber the Singaporeans ahead of runner B.
Find the number if the sum of the digits is 17.
and Vietnamese by 3. The Singaporean and
Filipinos form one less than half the company, 17. Aljon and Jordan is running in opposite directions
11. The sum of the digits of a three – place number is
and the Singaporeans and Vietnamese form 7/16 in a 400 – meter circular track and meet each
19. If the tens and units digits are interchanged
of the company. How many persons of each other every 35 seconds, if Aljon can complete one
the number is diminished by 27, and if the
nationality were there? track in 65 seconds. How long does it take for
hundreds and tens digits are interchanged the
Jordan to run 400 meters?
number is increased by 180. What is the number?
6. Find two numbers such that their sum multiplied
by the sum of their squares is 5500, and their Diophantine Equations
difference multiplied by the difference of their Money Problem 18. A man brought 20 pieces of assorted calculators
squares is 352.
for $2000. Programmable calculator cost $300 per
12. A collection of 32 coins amounted to $5.15. if it
unit, the scientific calculators $150 per unit, and
consist of dimes and quarters, how many quarters
the household type at $50 per unit. How many
are there?
households type did he buy?