St. Paul College Foundation, Inc.

Bulacao Campus, Cebu City

College of Education
Mathematics in the Modern World
ACTIVITY

Name: ________________________ Program: _________________ Score: __________

Class Schedule: __________________ Date: ______________ Instructor: Mr. Rennil Bornia

Read, analyze and solve the following problems. Use any strategy of your choice but make sure that
you arrive at the correct answer. Show your work.

1. A salesman sold twice as much pears in the afternoon than in the morning. If he sold 360 kilograms
of pears that day, how many kilograms did he sell in the morning and how many in the afternoon?

2. Mary, Peter, and Lucy were picking chestnuts. Mary picked twice as much chestnuts than Peter. Lucy
picked 2 kg more than Peter. Together the three of them picked 26 kg of chestnuts. How many
kilograms did each of them pick?

3. A farming field can be ploughed by 6 tractors in 4 days. When 6 tractors work together, each of them
ploughs 120 hectares a day. If two of the tractors were moved to another field, then the remaining 4
tractors could plough the same field in 5 days. How many hectares a day would one tractor plough
then?

4. The distance between two towns is 380 km. At the same moment, a passenger car and a truck start
moving towards each other from different towns. They meet 4 hours later. If the car drives 5 km/hr
faster than the truck, what are their speeds?

5. One side of a rectangle is 3 cm shorter than the other side. If we increase the length of each side by
1 cm, then the area of the rectangle will increase by 18 cm2. Find the lengths of all sides.