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MATHEMATICS – ALGEBRA (PART 1) 12. A store owner wishes to reduce the price on his fresh ground

Laws in Exponents and Radicals coffee by mixing two grades. If he has 50 pounds of coffee

1. Solve for x: x2/3 + x-2/3 = 17/4 which sells for P10 per pound, how much coffee worth P6 per

2. Solve for x: √𝑥 + 2√2𝑥 + 3 = 3 pound must he mix with it so that he can sell the final mixture

3. Simplify:
3𝑥−1
–
𝑥+3
-
1 for P8.50 per pound?
𝑥 2 −1 𝑥 2 +3𝑥+2 𝑥+2
Work Problems
Logarithm
13. Tom, Dick, and Harry decided to fence a vacant lot adjoining
4. Solve for x: log(x2+3x) + log5x = 1 + log2x
their properties. If it would take Tom 4 days to build the fence,
5. Solve for x: logx27 + logx3 = 2
Dick 3 days, and Harry 6 days, how long in days would it take
Remainder and Factor Theorems
them working together?
6. What is the remainder when the polynomial 3x 3 + x2 – 4x + 13 is
14. One pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and another pipe can fill the
divided by (x+2)?
same tank in 4 hours. A drainpipe can empty the full content of
7. If x-3 is a factor of kx3-6x2+2kx=12, solve for k.

Quadratic Equations the tank in 20 hours. With all three pipes open, how long will it

take to fill the tank?

8. The roots of the quadratic equation Ax2+Bx+C=0 are 3 and 2,
15. The father can do a certain job in 9 days while his son can do the
determine A+B+C.
same job in 16 days. On a given day, they started working
9. Find the value of k in the quadratic equation x 2+kx+4=0 so that it
together. After 4 days the son left and the father finished the
will have only one real solution.

Mixture Problems job alone. How many more days did the father worked alone?

16. Ten bakers can bake 20 cakes in 4 hours. How many bakers are
10. If an alloy containing 30% silver is mixed with a 55% silver alloy
needed to bake 8 cakes in 2 hours?
to get 800 pounds of 40% silver alloy, how much of the 30% alloy
17. If 15 kg of dog food are needed to feed 7 dogs in 3 days, how
must be used?
many kilograms of dog food are required to feed 18 dogs in 14
11. A 50 kg solution is 30% salt. How much water must be
days?
evaporated to make the solution 60% salt?
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Age Problems 3. Simplify:

√5𝑥𝑦 × √15𝑥 3 𝑦
√3
18. Tom is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years ago, he was three 5𝑥 2 𝑦
A. 5x2y B. C. 5x4y2 D. 10xy
√3
times as old as Jerry was then. How old is Tom now?
4. A hospital needs to dilute a 50% boric acid solution to a 10%
19. John is 25 years younger than his father. However, his father
solution using water. If it needs 25 liters of the 10% solution,
will be twice his age in 10 years. How old is John?
how much of the 50% solution should it use?
20. Mary is 36 years old. Mary was twice as old as Ana was when
A. 20 B. 10 C. 15 D. 5
Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is Ana?
5. Alfred is 22 years older than Jack. When Jack is as Alfred is
21. The age of Diophantus, a Greek Mathematician may be calculated
now, he will be three times his present age. How old is Alfred
from the epitaph which reads as follows: “Diophantus passed 1/6
now?
of his life in childhood, 1/12 in youth, 1/7 as a bachelor. Five
A. 33 B. 31 C. 35 D. 30
years after his marriage was born a son who died 4 years before
6. A father and his son can do a certain job in 3 hours. On a given
his father at half his father’s final age.” How old was Diophantus
day, they work together for 1 hour then the son left and the
when he died?
father finishes the rest of the work in 8 more hours. How long
Take Home – Practice Problems
will it take for the father to do the job alone?
1. Simon is twice as old as Cassandra, If 16 is added to Cassandra’s
A. 12 hours B. 8 hours C. 10 hours D. 15 hours
age and 16 is subtracted from Simon’s age, their ages will then
7. A chemist needs a solution of tannic acid that is 70% pure. How
be equal. How old is Cassandra?
much distilled water must she add to 5 gallons of acid which is
A. 32 B. 64 C. 30 D. 48
90% pure to obtain the 70% solution?
2. A Girl Scout troop has 20 pounds of candy worth 80 cents per
A. 2 2/3 B. 1 3/5 C. 1 3/7 D. 1 ¾
pound. It wishes to mix it with candy worth 50 cents per pound
8. Peter and John working together can finish a certain job in 3
so that the total mixture can be sold at 60 cents per pound
days. If Peter can do the same job working alone in 8 days, how
without any gain or loss. How much of the 50 cents candy must
long would it take John to do the job alone?
be used?
A. 4.5 days B. 4.2 days C. 4.8 days D. 5 days
A. 40 B. 34 C. 30 D. 42
9. What is the value of x if logx36 = 2?
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A. 8 B. 4 C. 10 D. 6 17. Solve for x: log 5 log (x+4) – log 3 log (x+4) = log 3 log 5.

10. Find the sum of the roots of 5x2-10x+2=0. A. 27.86 B. 28.76 C. 26.87 D. 25.43

A. -1/2 B. 2 C. -2 D. ½ 18. A job can be completed by three workers working alone in 4, 5,

11. Simplify:
33𝑥 × 812𝑥
and 6 hours respectively. What fraction of the job is completed
94𝑥 × 27𝑥

A. 3-x B. 3x C. 0 D. 1 if they worked together for one hour?

12. If log2=x and log3=y, what is log2.4 in terms of x and y? A. 37/60 B. 39/60 C. 35/60 D. 36/60

A. 2x+y-2 B. x+3y-3 C. 3x+y-1 D. 2x-y-1 19. A man is four times as old as his son. In three years, the farmer

13. A 100 kg salt solution originally 4% by weight. Salt in water is will be three times as old as his son. How old is the man?

boiled to reduce water content until the concentration is 5% by A. 20 B. 28 C. 30 D. 24

weight salt. How much water is evaporated? 20. Solve for x: log2x + logx2 = 2

A. 20 kg B. 15 kg C. 17 kg D. 18 kg A. 1 B. 2 C. 0 D. 4

14. Ronald can finish a certain job in 10 days if his sister Lorna will 21. A merchant purchased two lots of shoes. One lot he purchased

help him for 6 days. The same work can be done by Lorna in 12 for P32 per pair and the second lot he purchased for P40 per

days if Ronald will help her for 6 days. How long will it take them pair. There were 50 pairs in the first lot. How many pairs were in

finish the job if they work together at the same time? the second lot if he sold them all at P60 per pair and made a gain

A. 8.4 days B. 7.5 days C. 8.9 days D. 9.2 days of P2800 on the entire transaction?

15. The polynomial x3+4x2-3x+8 is divided by (x-5). What is the A. 100 B. 80 C. 90 D. 70

remainder? 22. A job can be done by 11 workers in 15 days. Five workers started

A. 220 B. 218 C. 215 D. 230 the job. At the beginning of the 6th day, 4 more workers

16. A tank is filled with 2 pipes. The first pipe can fill the tank in 10 reinforced the job. Find the total number of days it took them to

hours. But after it has been opened for 3.5 hours, the second finish the job.

pipe is opened and the tank is filled in 4 hours more. How long A. 20.56 B. 25.32 C. 22.43 D. 28.56

would it take the second pipe alone to fill the empty tank? 23. Solve for x: √𝑥 + √𝑥 − √1 − 𝑥 = 1

A. 15 hours B. 17 hours C. 16 hours D. 18 hours A. 13/25 B. 17/25 C. 16/25 D. 22/25

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24. What is the remainder when x4-10x2-9x-20 is divided by x-4? 30. A squirrel and a half eat a nut and a half in a day and a half. How

A. 40 B. 44 C. 42 D. 45 many nuts do six squirrels eat in 6 days?

25. Bob can dig a ditch in 4 hours. John can dig the same ditch in 3 A. 20 B. 24 C. 30 D. 26

hours. How long would it take them to dig it together? 31. Two thousand kg of steel containing 8% nickel is to be made by

A. 1 2/3 B. 1 4/5 C. 1 5/7 D. 1 5/8 mixing steel containing 14% nickel with steel containing 6%

26. A pipe can fill a tank in 3 hours, if the drain is open. If the pipe nickel. How much of the steel containing 14% nickel is needed?

runs with the drain open for one hour, and the drain is then A. 400 kg B. 500 kg C. 450 kg D. 510 kg

closed, the tank is filled in 40 minutes more. How long does it 32. Eight men can excavate 15 cu.m. of drainage open canal in 7

take the pipe to fill the tank if the drain is closed? hours. How long will it take 10 men to excavate 30 cu.m. in the

A. 1.5 hrs B. 2 hrs C. 1 hr D. 1.25 hrs same project?

27. A mechanic and his helper can repair an engine if the mechanic A. 11.2 hrs B. 10.8 hrs C. 9.8 hrs D. 9.1 hrs

works 6 hours and helper works 12 hours or they can do it if the 33. What expression is equivalent to log [x/(y+z)]?

mechanic works 9 hours and the helper works 8 hours. How many A. logx – logy – logz B. logx – log(y+z)

hours will it take for the helper to repair the engine alone? C. logx / (logy + logz) D. ex/(y+z)

A. 15 B. 18 C. 20 D. 24 34. If one root of 8x2+kx-15 is ¾, find the value of k.

28. If (x-2)(x+3)=k, then (x-4)(x+5) is equal to A. 12 B. 14 C. 15 D. 20

A. k-9 B. k-14 C. 2k-9 D. k-18 35. Find the value of k so that x+2 is a factor of 3x3-kx2+2x-4.

29. A reservoir can be filled by an inlet pipe in 24 hours and emptied A. -10 B. -12 C. -8 D. -9

by an outlet pipe in 28 hours. The foreman starts to fill the 36. A, B, and C can do a piece of work in 10 days, A and B can do it in

reservoir but he forgets to close the outlet pipe. Six hours later 12 days, A and C in 20 days. How many days would it take A to do

he remembers and closes the outlet. How long in hours does it the work alone?

take altogether to fill the reservoir? A. 28 B. 25 C. 20 D. 30

A. 23 1/7 B. 24 1/5 C. 22 ½ D. 20 ¾ 37. What is the value of log381?

A. 5 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6
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38. If the sum of the roots of a quadratic equation is 12 and the 44. Twenty-eight persons can do a job in 60 days. They all start

product is 36, then what is the difference of the roots? complete. Five persons quitted the job at the beginning of the

A. 1 B. 0 C. 3 D. 6 16th day. They were reinforced with ten persons at the beginning

39. A boy is one-third as old as his brother and 8 years younger than of the 45th day. How many days the job was delayed?

his sister. The sum of their ages is 38 years. How old is the boy? A. 5.78 B. 1.97 C. 1.14 D. 2.45

A. 5 B. 6 C. 4 D. 3 45. What is the product of the roots of the equation 2x2+x-10=0?

40. Judy is six years older than Helen. In three years, Helen’s age A. 5 B. -1/2 C. -5 D. ½

will be two-thirds that of Judy’s. How old is Helen now? 46. A farmer wants to mix milk containing 3% butterfat with cream

A. 10 B. 14 C. 9 D. 15 containing 30% butterfat to obtain 900 gallons of milk which is

41. Eight years ago, Nick was three times as old as Kent. Now he is 8% butterfat. How much of the 30% butterfat must he use?

only twice as old as Kent. How old is Nick? A. 733 1/3 B. 166 2/3 C. 532 ¼ D. 145 ¾

A. 32 B. 16 C. 30 D. 24 47. Ana’s age is three times as Darna’s. If 20 is added to Darna’s age

42. A florist wishes to make bouquets of mixed flowers. Each and 20 is subtracted from Ana’s, their ages will be equal. How old

bouquet is to be made up of tulips at P30 a bunch and daffodils is Ana now?

at P21 a bunch. How many bunches of tulips should she use to A. 50 B. 90 C. 75 D. 60

make 15 bunches which she can sell for P24 a bunch? 48. Your father told you “I was your age now when you were born”. If

A. 10 B. 6 C. 8 D. 5 you are 21 years old today, how old is your father?

43. A father can paint a certain room in 1 day. His daughter can paint A. 50 B. 48 C. 42 D. 44

it in 2 days. After the father has been working for several

49. Find x: √1 + 𝑥 − √1 + 𝑥 − √1 + 𝑥 = √1 + 𝑥
hours, his daughter helped him and together they finished the
A. 1 B. 2 C. -1 D. -2
job in 3 hours. How many hours did the father work alone? 3
1
1
50. Solve for x of the following equation: 4(2𝑥−3) = [( ) ]3
2
Assume an 8-hour working day. 16

A. 3 hours B. 4 hours C. 2.5 hours D. 3.5 hrs A. 2/3 B. 3 C. 3/2 D. 2

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