Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems

Problem 1: ECE Board April 1995 Problem 6:

Kayla is 24 years. Kayla is twice as old as Erin Maja is now 18 years old and his colleague Angel
when Kayla was as old as Erin is now. How old is is 14 years old. How many years ago was Maja
Erin now? twice as old as Angel?
A. 16 A. 5
B. 18 B. 7
C. 12 C. 8
D. 15 D. 10

Problem 2: EE Board April 1997 Problem 7:

The sum of Kim’s and Kevin’s ages is 18. In 3 A father tells his son, I was your age now when
years, Kim will be as twice as old as Kevin. What you were born”. If the father is now 38 years old,
are their ages now? how old was his son 2 years ago?
A. 4, 14 A. 15
B. 5, 13 B. 17
C. 7, 11 C. 19
D. 6, 12 D. 21

Problem 8:
Six years ago, Maya was five times as old
Richard. In five years, Maya will be three times as
old as Richard. What is the present age of
Richard?
A. 17
B. 16
Problem 3: GE Board February 1994 C. 15
Robert is 15 years older than his brother Stan. D. 14
However “y” years ago, Robert was twice as old
as Stan. If Stan is now “b” years old and b>y, find Problem 9:
the value of (b – y). At present, the sum of the parents’ ages is twice
A. 15 the sum of the children’s ages. Five years ago,
B. 16 the sum of the parent’s ages was 4 times the sum
C. 17 of the children’s ages. Fifteen years hence, the
D. 18 sum of the parents’ ages will be equal to the sum
of the children’s ages. How many children are
Problem 4: there?
John is 3 times as old as Jaime. Three years ago, A. 3
John was four times as old as Jaime. The sum of B. 4
their ages is? C. 5
A. 20 D. 6
B. 24
C. 28 Problem 10:
D. 36 Tom is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years ago,
Tom was three times as old as Jerry then. How
Problem 5: old is Tom?
A girl, is one-third as old as her brother and 8 A. 14
years younger than her sister. The sum of their B. 16
ages is 38 years. How old is the girl? C. 18
A. 4 D. 24
B. 5
C. 6 Problem 11: ME Board February 1998
D. 7 A pump can pump out water from a tank in 11
hours. Another pump can pump out water from
the same tank in 20 hours. How long will it take
both pumps to pump out water in the tank?
Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems

A. 7 hours Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and
B. 6 hours 20% faster than Pilar, and together they can paint
C. 7 1/2 hours a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take
D. 6 1/2 hours Pedro can paint the same fence if he had to work
alone?
Problem 12: CE Board November 1993 A. 6
A 400-mm pipe can fill the tank alone in 5 hours B. 8
and another 600-mm pipe can fill the tank alone C. 10
in 4 hours. A drain pipe 300-mm can empty the D. 12
tank in 20 hours. With all the three pipes open,
how long will it take to fill the tank?
A. 2.00 hours Problem 17:
B. 2.50 hours Glenn can paint a house in 9 hours while Stewart
C. 2.25 hours can paint the same house in 16 hours. They work
D. 2.75 hours together for 4 hours. After 4 hours, Stewart left
and Glenn finished the job alone. How many more
Problem 13: days did it take Glenn to finish the job?
A tank is filled with an intake pipe in 2 hours and A. 2.75 hours
empties by an outlet pipe in 4 hours. If both pipes B. 2.50 hours
are opened, how long will it take to fill the empty C. 2.25 hours
tank? D. 3.00 hours
A. 3 hours
B. 4 hours Problem 18: CE
C. 5 hours Board November 1993
D. 6 hours It takes Butch twice as long as it takes Dan to do
a certain piece of work. Working together they
Problem 14: can do the work in 6 days. How long would it take
A tank can be filled in 9 hours by one pipe, 12 Dan to do it alone?
hours by a second pipe and can be drained when A. 9 days
full by a third pipe in 15 hours. How long will it B. 10 days
take to fill an empty tank with all pipes in C. 11 days
operation? D. 12 days
A. 7 hours and 12 minutes
B. 7 hours and 32 minutes
C. 7 hours and 42 minutes
D. 7 hours and 50 minutes Problem 19: ME Board April 1995
John and Peter working together can finish
painting a house in 6 days. John working alone
can finish it in 5 days less than Peter. How long
will it take each of them to finish the work alone?
A. 8, 13
Problem 15: ME Board April 1995 B. 10, 15
If A can do the work in “x” days and B in “y” days, C. 6, 11
how long will they finish the job working together? D. 7, 12

A.

B. Problem 20: EE Board April 1996

Ron and Rej can do a piece of work in 42 days,
C. Rej and Loyd in 31 days and Loyd and Ron in 20
days. In how many days can all of them do the
D. work together?
A. 19
B. 17
Problem 16: ECE Board November 1995
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C. 21 Problem 25: ME Board October 1991

D. 15 On one job, two power shovels excavate 20,000
cubic meters of earth, the larger shovel working
40 hours and the smaller for 35 hours. On another
job, they removed 40,000 cubic meters with the
larger shovel working 70 hours and the smaller
working 90 hours. How much earth can each
remove in 1 hour working alone?
Problem 21: A. 169.2, 287.3
It takes Jannah twice as long as Cathy to do a B. 178.3, 294.1
certain piece of work. Working together, they can C. 173.9, 347.8
finish the work in 6 hours. How long would it take D. 200.1, 312.4
Cathy to do it alone?
A. 9 hours
B. 18 hours Problem 26: EE Board October 1997
C. 12 hours Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 15 liters of 35%
D. 14 hours salt solution are poured into a drum originally
containing 30 liters of 10% solution. What is the
percent concentration of salt in the mixture?
A. 19.55%
Problem 22: ECE Board April 1999 B. 22.15%
Vryan, Mike, and Kim can mow the lawn in 4, 6, C. 27.05%
and 7 hours respectively. What fraction of the D. 25.72%
yard can they mow in 1 hour if they work
together? Problem 27: ME Board October 1992
A. 47/84 A Chemist of a distillery experimented on two
B. 45/84 alcohol solutions of different strength, 35%
C. 84/47 alcohol and 50% alcohol, respectively. How many
D. 39/60 cubic meters of each strength must he use to
produce mixture of 60 cubic meters that contain
Problem 23: 40% alcohol?
A farmer can plow the field in 8 days. After A. 20 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 40 m3 of
working for 3 days, his son joins him and together solution with 50% alcohol
they plow the field in 3 more days. How many B. 50 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 20 m3 of
days will it require for the son to plow the field solution with 50% alcohol
alone? C. 20 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 50 m3 of
A. 10 solution with 50% alcohol
B. 11 D. 40 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol, 20 m3 of
C. 12 solution with 50% alcohol
D. 13

Problem 24: ECE Board November 1991

Crew No. 1 can finish installation of an antenna
tower in 200 man-hour while Crew No. 2 can
finish the same job in 300 man-hour. How long Problem 28:
will it take both crews to finish the same job, A goldsmith has two alloys of gold, the first being
working together? 70% pure and the second being 60% pure. How
A. 100 man-hour many ounces of the 60% pure gold must be used
B. 120 man-hour to make 100 ounces of an alloy which will be 66%
C. 140 man-hour gold?
D. 160 man-hour A. 40
B. 35
C. 45
D. 38
Problem 29: ME Board October 1994
Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems

Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing 8% B. 7, 14

nickel is to be made by mixing a steel containing C. 8, 13
14% nickel with another containing 6% nickel. D. 9, 12
How much of each is needed?
A. 1500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 500 kg of Problem 35: EE Board April 1993
steel with 6% nickel If eight is added to the product of nine and the
B. 750 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1250 kg of numerical number, the sum is seventy-one. Find
steel with 6% nickel the unknown number.
C. 500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1500 kg of A. 5
steel with 6% nickel B. 6
D. 1250 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 750 kg of C. 7
steel with 6% nickel D. 8

Problem 36:
Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted from
its term becomes ¼, but if 4 is added to its terms
it becomes ½.
A. 3/5
Problem 30: B. 5/12
How much water must be evaporated from 10 kg C. 5/14
solution which has 4% salt to make a solution of D. 6/13
10% salt?
A. 4 kg
B. 5 kg
C. 6 kg Problem 37: GE Board February 1992
D. 7 kg The product of 1/4 and 1/5 of a number is 500.
What is the number?
Problem 31: EE Board October 1994 A. 50
If a two digit number has x for its unit’s digit and y B. 75
for its ten’s digit, represent the number. C. 100
A. 10x + y D. 125
B. 10y + x
C. yx Problem 38:
D. xy If 3 is subtracted from the numerator of a certain
fraction, the value of the fraction becomes 3/5. If
Problem 32: EE Board October 1994 1 is subtracted from
One number is 5 less that the other. If their sum the denominator of
is 135, what are the numbers? the same fraction, it
A. 85, 50 becomes 2/3. Find
B. 80, 55 the original fraction.
C. 70, 65 A. 35/55
D. 75, 60 B. 36/55
C. 3/7
Problem 33: ECE Board March 1996 D. 32/41
Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.
Determine the number.
A. 6 Problem 39: ECE Board November 1997
B. 7 The denominator of a certain fraction is three
C. 8 more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to
D. 9 both terms of the fraction,
the resulting fraction is 3/5.
Problem 34: ECE Board March 1996 Find the original fraction.
The sum of the two numbers is 21 and one A. 8/5
number is twice the other. Find the numbers. B. 13/5
A. 6, 15 C. 5/13
D. 3/5
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Problem 40: B. 1 mile per hour

Find the product of two numbers such that twice C. 0.8 mile per hour
the first added to the second equals 19 and three D. 0.6 mile per hour
times the first is 21
more than the Problem 45: ECE Board November 1998
second. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5 mph and
A. 24 upstream at the rate of 2 mph. How far is
B. 32 downstream should he go if he is to return in 7/4
C. 18 hours after leaving?
D. 20 A. 2.5 miles
B. 3.3 miles
Problem 41: C. 3.1 miles
The ten’s digit of a number is 3 less than the unit’s D. 2.7miles
digit. If the number is divided by the sum of the
digits, the quotient is 4 Problem 46: CE Board November 1994
and the remainder is 3. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to
What is the original travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying back. What
number? was the wind velocity in kph?
A. 36 A. 50
B. 47 B. 60
C. 58 C. 70
D. 69 D. 40

Problem 42:
The second of the four numbers is three less than Problem 47: CE Board May 1998
the first the third is four more than the first and the A boat travels downstream in 2/3 of the time as it
fourth is two more than goes going upstream. If the velocity of the river’s
the third. Find the current is 8 kph, determine the velocity of the boat
fourth number if their in still water.
sum is 35. A. 40 kph
A. 10 B. 50 kph
B. 11 C. 30 kph
C. 12 D. 60 kph
D. 13
Problem 48:
Problem 43: EE Board April 1997 Two planes leave Manila for a southern city, a
A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph. distance of 900 km. Plane A travels at a ground
Five minutes later, a second jogger starts the speed of 90 kph faster than the plane B. Plane A
same course at 10 kph. How long will it take the arrives in their destination 2 hours and 15 minutes
second jogger to ahead of Plane B. What is the ground speed of
catch the first? Plane A.
A. 20 min A. 205 kph
B. 21 min B. 315 kph
C. 22 min C. 240 kph
D. 18 min D. 287 kph

Problem 44: EE Board April 1997

A boat man rows to a place Problem 49: EE Board April 1997
4.8 miles with the stream A train, an hour after starting, meets with an
and back in 14 hours, but accident which detains it an hour, after which it
finds that he can row 14 proceeds at 3/5 of its former rate and arrives three
miles with the stream in the hour after time; but had the accident happened 50
same time as 3 miles against miles farther on the line, it would have arrived one
the stream. Find the rate of and one-half hour sooner. Find the length of the
the stream. journey.
A. 1.5 miles per hour A. 910/9 miles
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B. 800/9 miles A. 5
C. 920/9 miles B. 10
D. 850/9 miles C. 15
D. 20
Problem 50:
On a certain trip, Edgar drives 231 km in exactly Problem 56 (ECE November 1995)
the same time as Edwin drive 308 km. If Erwin’s
Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana
rate exceeded that of Edgar by 13 kph, determine
was when Mary was as old as Ana is now. How
the rate of Erwin.
A. 39 kph old is Ana?
B. 44 kph A. 16
C. 48 kph B. 18
D. 52 kph C. 19
D. 20
Problem 51
Two times the father’s age is 8 more than six Problem 57
times his son’s age. Ten years ago, the sum of The sum of the parent’s ages is twice the sum of
their ages was 44. The age of the son is: their children’s ages. Five years ago, the sum of
A. 49 the parent’s ages is four times the sum of their
B. 15 children’s ages. In fifteen years the sum of the
C. 20 parent’s ages will be equal to the sum of their
D. 18 children’s ages. How many children were in the
family?
Problem 52 A. 2
Peter’s age 13 years ago was 1/3 of his age 7 B. 3
years hence. How old is Peter? C. 4
A. 15 D. 5
B. 21
C. 23 Problem 58
D. 27 Two thousand kilogram of steel containing 8% of
nickel is to be made by mixing steel containing
Problem 53 14% nickel with another steel containing 6%
A man is 41 years old and in seven years he will nickel. How much of the steel containing 14%
be four times as old as his son is at that time. How nickel is needed?
old is his son now? A. 1500 kg
A. 9 B. 800 kg
B. 4 C. 750 kg
C. 5 D. 500kg
D. 8
Problem 59
Problem 54 A 40-gram alloy containing 35% gold is to be
A father is three times as old as his son. Four melted with a 20-gram alloy containing 50% gold.
years ago, he was four times as old as his son How much percentage of gold is the resulting
was at that time. How old is his son? alloy?
A. 36 years A. 40%
B. 24 years B. 30%
C. 32 years C. 45%
D. 12 years D. 35%

Problem 55
The ages of the mother and her daughter are 45
and 5 years, respectively. How many years will Problem 60
the mother be three times as old as her daughter?
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In what radio must a peanut costing P240.00 per Mr. Brown can wash his car in 15 minutes, while
kg. be mixed with a peanut costing P340.00 per his son John takes twice as long as the same job.
kg so that the profit of 20% is made by selling the If they work together, how many minutes can they
mixture at 360.00 per kg? do the washing?
A. 1:2 A. 6
B. 3:2 B. 8
C. 2:3 C. 10
D. 3:5 D. 12

Problem 61 Problem 66
A 100-kilogram salt solution originally 4% by One pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and another
weight. Salt in water is boiled to reduce water pipe can fill the same tank in 4 hours. A drainpipe
content until the concentration is 5% by weight can empty the full content of the tank in 20 hours.
salt. How much water is evaporated? With all the three pipes open, how long will it take
A. 10 to fill the tank?
B. 15 A. 2 hours
C. 20 B. 2.5 hours
D. 25 C. 1.92 hours
D. 1.8 hours
Problem 62
A pound of alloy of lead and nickel weights 14.4 Problem 67
ounces in water, where lead losses 1/11 of its A swimming pool is filled through its inlet pipe and
weight and nickel losses 1/9 of its weight. How then emptied through its outlet pipe in a total of 8
much of each metal is in alloy? hours. If water enters through its inlet and
A. Lead = 7.2 ounces; Nickel = 8.8 ounces simultaneously allowed to leave through its outlet,
B. Lead = 8.8 ounces; Nickel = 7.2 ounces the pool is filled in 7 ½ hours. Find how long will it
C. Lead = 6.5 ounces; Nickel = 5.4 ounces take to fill the pool with the outlet closed.
D. Lead = 7.8 ounces; Nickel = 4.2 ounces A. 6
B. 2
Problem 63 C. 3
An alloy of silver and gold weighs 15 oz. in air and D. 5
14 oz. in water. Assuming that silver losses 1/10
of its weight in water and gold losses 1/18 of its Problem 68
weight, how many oz. at each metal are in the Three persons can do a piece of work alone in 3
alloy? hours, 4 hours and 6 hours respectively. What
A. Silver = 4.5 oz.; Gold = 10.5 oz. fraction of the job can they finish in one hour
B. Silver = 3.75 oz.; Gold = 11.25 oz. working together?
C. Silver = 5 oz.; Gold = 10 oz. A. ¾
D. Silver = 7.8 oz.; Gold = 4.2 oz. B. 4/3
C. ½
Problem 64 (ME April 1998) D. 2/3
A pump can pump out a tank in 11 hours. Another
pump can pump out the same tank in 20 hours. Problem 69
How long it will take both pumps together to pump A father and his son can dig a well if the father
out the tank? works 6 hours and his son works 12 hours or they
A. ½ hour can do it if the father works 9 hours and son works
B. ½ hour 8 hours. How long will it take for the son to dig the
C. 6 hours well alone?
D. 7 hours A. 5 hours
B. 10 hours
C. 15 hours
Problem 65 D. 20 hours
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B. 25/14 hours
Problem 70 C. 28 hours
Peter and Paul can do a certain job in 3 hours. On D. 1.923 hours
a given day, they work together for 1 hour then
Paul left and Peter finishes the rest work in 8 Problem 75 (CE November 1998)
more hours. How long will it take for Peter to do A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days.
the job alone? Five workers started the job. They were
A. 10 hours reinforced with four more workers at the
B. 11 hours beginning of the 6th day. Find the total number of
C. 12 hours days it took them to finish the job.
D. 13 hours A. 22.36
B. 21.42
Problem 71 (ECE November 1995) C. 23.22
Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and D. 20.56
20% faster than Pilar and together they can paint
a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it take Problem 76
Peter to paint the same fence if he had to work On one job, two power shovels excavate 20000
alone? m3 of earth, the larger the shovel working for 40
A. 10 hrs. hours and the smaller shovel for 35 hours.
B. 11hrs. Another job, they removed 40000 m3 with the
C. 13hrs. larger shovel working for 70 hours and the smaller
D. 15hrs. working 90 hours. How much earth can the larger
shovel move in one hour?
Problem 72 A. 173.91
Nonoy can finish a certain job in 10 days if Imelda B. 347.83
will help for 6 days. The same work can be done C. 368.12
by Imelda in 12 days if Nonoy helps for 6 days. If D. 162.22
they work together, how long will it take for them
to do the job? Problem 77 (EE April 1996)
A. 8.9 A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and
B. 8.4 C in 31 days, and A and C in 20 days. Working
C. 9.2 together, how many days can all of them finish
D. 8 the work?
A. 18.9
Problem 73 B. 19.4
A pipe can fill up a tank with the drain open in C. 17.8
three hours. If the pipe runs with the drain open D. 20.9
for one hour and then the drain is closed it will
take 45 more minutes for the pipe to fill the tank. Problem 78
If the drain will be closed right at the start of filling, Eight men can dig 150 ft of trench in 7 hrs. Three
how long will it take for the pipe to fill the tank? men can backfill 100ft of the trench in 4 hrs. The
A. 1.15 hrs. time it will take 10 men to dig and fill 200 ft of
B. 1.125 hrs trench is:
C. 1.325 hrs. A. 9.867 hrs.
D. 1.525 hrs. B. 9.687 hrs.
C. 8.967 hrs.
Problem 74 D. 8.687 hrs.
Delia can finish a job in 8 hours. Daisy can do it
in 5 hours. If Delia worked for 3 hours and then Problem 79
Daisy was asked to help her finish it, how long will In two hours, the minute hand of the clock rotates
Daisy have to work with Delia to finish the job? through an angle of :
A. 2/5 hours A. 45°
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B. 90° A. 360°
C. 360° B. 120°
D. 720° C. 540°
D. 720°
Problem 80
In one day (24 hours), how many times will the Problem 86
hour hand and minute hand of a continuously It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and in twenty
driven clock be together minutes the minute hand will be as much as the
A. 21 hour-hand as it is now behind it. What is the time
B. 22 now?
C. 23 A. 3:06.06
D. 24 B. 3:07.36
C. 3:09.36
Problem 81 D. 3:08.36
How many minutes after 3:00 will the minute hand
of the clock overtakes the hour hand? Problem 87 (EE October 1990)
A. 14/12 minutes A man left his home at past 3:00 o’clock PM as
B. 16-11/12 minutes indicated in his wall clock. Between two to three
C. 16-4/11 minutes hours after, he returned home and noticed that
D. 14/11 minutes the hands of the clock interchanged. At what time
did he left his home?
Problem 82 A. 3:27.27
How many minutes after 10:00 o’clock will the B. 3:31.47
hands of the clock be opposite of the other for the C. 3:22.22
first time? D. 3:44.44
A. 21.41
B. 22.31 Problem 88
C. 21.81 The sum of the reciprocals of two numbers is 11.
D. 22.61 Three times the reciprocal of one of the numbers
is three more than twice the reciprocal of the other
Problem 83 number. Find the numbers.
What time between the hours of 12:00 noon and A. 5 and 6
1:00 pm would the hour hand and the minute B. 7 and 4
hand of a continuously driven clock be in straight C. 1/5 and 1/6
line? D. 1/7 and ¼
A. 12:33 pm
B. 12:30 pm Problem 89
C. 12:37 pm If a two digit number has x for its unit’s digit and y
D. 12:287 pm for its ten’s digit, represent the number.
A. yx
Problem 84 (GE February 1997) B. 10y + x
At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand C. 10x + y
and the minute hand of a clock first form a n angle D. x + y
of 120°?
A. 21.818 Problem 90
B. 12:21.818 One number if five less than the other number. If
C. 21.181 their sum is 135, what are the numbers?
D. 12:21.181 A. 70 & 75
Problem 85 (GE February 1994) B. 60 & 65
From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the C. 65 & 70
same day, the minute hand of a standard clock D. 75 & 80
describes an arc of:
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Problem 91 order of the digits will be reversed. Find the

In a two-digit number, the unit’s digit is 3 greater number.
than the ten’s digit. Find the number if it is 4 times A. 743
as large as the sum of its digits. B. 563
A. 47 C. 653
B. 58 D. 842
C. 63
D. 25 Problem 97 (ECE March 1996)
The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number
Problem 92 is twice the other. Find the numbers.
Find two consecutive even integers such that the A. 7 and 14
square of the larger is 44 greater than the square B. 6 and 15
of the smaller integer. C. 8 and 13
A. 10 & 12 D. 9 and 12
B. 12 & 14
C. 8 & 10 Problem 98 (ECE March 1996)
D. 14 & 16 Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.
Determine the number.
Problem 93 A. 4
Twice the middle digit of a three-digit number is B. 5
the sum of the other two. If the number is divided C. 6
by the sum of its digit, the answer is 56 and the D. 7
remainder is 12. If the digits are reversed, the
number becomes smaller by 594. Find the Problem 99 (ECE November 1997)
number. The denominator of a certain fraction is three
A. 258 more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to
B. 567 both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is
C. 852 3/5. Find the original fraction.
D. 741 A. 8/5
B. 5/13
Problem 94 C. 13/5
The product f three consecutive integers is 9240. D. 3/5
Find the third integer.
A. 20 Problem 100
B. 21 Three times the first of the three consecutive odd
C. 22 integers is three more than twice the third. Find
D. 23 the third integer.
A. 9
Problem 95 B. 11
The product if two numbers is 1400. If three (3) is C. 13
subtracted from each number, their product D. 15
becomes 1175. Find the bigger number.
A. 28 Problem 101
B. 50 Nonoy left Pikit to drive to Davao at 6:15 PM and
C. 32 arrived at 11:45 PM averaged 30 mph and
D. 40 stopped 1 hour for dinner, how far is Davao from
Pikit.
A. 128
Problem 96 B. 135
The sum of the digits of the three-digit number is C. 160
14. The hundreds digit being 4 times the units D. 256
digit. If 594 is subtracted from the number, the
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Problem 102 C. 241 m

A man fires a target 420 m away hears the bullet D. 258 m
strikes to 2 second after he pulled the trigger. An
observer 525 m away from the target and 455 m Problem 107
from the man heard the bullet strike the target one Two ferryboats ply back and forth across a river
second after he heard the report of the rifle. Find with constant but different speeds, turning at the
the velocity of the bullet. river banks without loss of time. They leave the
A. 525 m/s opposite shores at the same instant, meet for the
B. 360 m/s first time 900 meters from one shore, and meet
C. 350 m/s for the second time 500 meters from the opposite
D. 336 m/s shore. What is the width of the river?
A. 1500 m
Problem 103 B. 1700 m
A man travels in a motorized banca at rate of 12 C. 2000 m
kph from his barrio to the poblacion and come D. 2200 m
back to his barrio at the rate of 10 kph. If his total
time of travel back and forth is 3 hours and 10 Problem 108 (CE May 1998)
minutes, the distance from the barrio to the A boat takes 2/3 as much time to travel
poblacion is : downstream from C to D, as to return, If the rate
A. 17.27 km of the river’s current is 8 kph, what is the speed of
B. 17.72 km the boat in still water?
C. 12.77 km A. 38
D. 17.32 km B. 39
C. 40
Problem 104 D. 41
It takes Michael 60 seconds to run around a 440-
yard track. How long does it take Jordan to run Problem 109 (ECE November 1998)
around the track if they meet in 32 second after A man rows downstream at the rate of 5mph and
they start together in a race around the track in upstream at the rate of 2 mph. How far
opposite direction? downstream should he go if he is to return in 7/4
A. 58.76 seconds hours after leaving?
B. 68.57 seconds A. 2 mi
C. 65.87 seconds B. 3.5 mi
D. 86.57 seconds C. 3 mi
D. 2.5 mi
Problem 105
Juan can walk from his home to his office at the Problem 110 (EE April 1997)
rate of 5 mph and back at the rate 2 mph. What is A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8 kph.
his average speed in mph? Five minutes later, a second jogger the same
A. 2.86 course at 10 kph. How long will it take for the
B. 3.56 second jogger to catch the first?
C. 4.12 A. 20 min
D. 5.89 B. 25 min
C. 30 min
Problem 106 D. 35 min
Kim and Ken traveled at the same time at the rate
of 20 m/min,from the same point on a circular
track of radius 600 m. If Kim walks along a
circumference and Kim towards the center,find Problem 111 (CE May 1999)
their distance after 10 minutes. At 2:00 pm, an airplane takes off at 340mph on
A. 193 m an aircraft carrier. The aircraft carrier moves due
B. 202 m south at 25kph in the same direction as the plane.
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At 4:05 pm, the communication between the Problem 116

plane and aircraft carrier was lost. Determine the The electrical resistance offered by an electric
communication range in miles between the plane wire varies directly as the length and inversely as
and the carrier. the square of the diameter of the wire. Compare
A. 656 miles the electrical resistance offered by two pieces of
B. 785 miles wire of the same material, one being 100 m long
C. 557 miles and 5 mm diameter, and the other is 50 m long
D. 412 miles and 3 mm in diameter.
A. R1 = 0.57 R2
Problem 112 B. R1 = 0.72 R2
A boat going across a lake 8 km wide proceed 2 C. R1 = 0.84 R2
km at a certain speed and then completes the trip D. R1 = 0.95 R2
at a speed 1/2 kph faster. By doing this, the boat
arrives 10 minutes earlier than if the original Problem 117
speed had been maintained. Find the original The time required for an elevator to lift a weight
speed of the boat. varies directly with the weight and the distance
A. 2 kph through which it is to be lifted and inversely as the
B. 4 kph power of the motors. If it takes 20 seconds for a
C. 9 kph 5-hp motor to lift 50 lbs. through 40 feet, what
D. 5 kph weight can an 80-hp motor lift through a distance
of 40 feet within 30 seconds?
Problem 113 (CE May 1993) A. 1000 lbs.
Given that w varies directly as the product of x B. 1150 lbs.
and y and inversely as the square of z and that w C. 1175 lbs.
= 4 when x = 2, y = 6, and z = 3. Find w when x = D. 1200 lbs.
1, y = 4 and z = 2.
A. 4 Problem 118 (ECE November 1995)
B. 2 The time required by an elevator to lift a weight,
C. 1 vary directly with the weight and the distance
D. 3 through which it is to be lifted and inversely as the
power of the motor. If it takes 30 seconds for a
Problem 114 (ECE November 1993) 10-hp motor to lift 100lbs through 50 feet, what
If x varies directly as y and inversely as z, and x size of motor is requires to lift 800 lbs. in 40
= 14 when y = 7 and z = 2, find x, when z = 4 and seconds through a distance of 40 feet?
y = 16. A. 48 hp
A. 14 B. 50 hp
B. 4 C. 56 hp
C. 16 D. 58 hp
D. 8
Problem 119
Problem 115 In a certain department store, the salary of
The electrical resistance of a cable varies directly saleslady is partly constant and varies as the
as its length and inversely as the square of its value of her sales for the month, when the value
diameter. If a cable 600 meters long and 25 mm of her sales for the month is P10000.00, her
in diameter has a resistance of 0.1 ohm, find the salary for that month is P900.00. When her sales
length of the cable 75 mm in diameter with goes up to P 2000.00 her monthly salary goes up
resistance of 1/6 ohm. to P1000.00. What must be the value of her sales
A. 6000 m for the month so that her salary for that month will
B. 7000 m be P2000.00?
C. 8000 m A. P25000.00
D. 9000 m B. P28000.00
C. P32000.00
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D. P36000.00 By selling balut at P5.00 each, a vendor gains

20%. The cost price of egg rises by 12.5%. If he
Problem 120 sells the balut at the same price as before, find
A man sold 100 eggs, eighty of them were sold at his new gain in percent.
gain of 30% while the twenty eggs were sold at a A. 7.5%
loss of 40%. What is the percentage gain or loss B. 5%
of the whole eggs? C. 8%
A. 14% D. 6.25%
B. 15%
C. 16% Problem 126
D. 17% The enrollment at college A and college B both
grew up by 8% from 1980 to 1985. If the
Problem 121 enrollment in college A grew up by 800 and the
The population of the country increases 5% each enrollment in college B grew up by 840, the
year. Find the percentage it will increase in three enrollment at college B was how much greater
years. than the enrollment in college A in 1985?
A. 5% A. 650
B. 15% B. 504
C. 15.15% C. 483
D. 15.76% D. 540

Problem 122 Problem 127

Pedro bought two cars, one for P600000.00 and A group consists of n boys and n girls. If two of
the other for P400000.00. He sold the first at a the boys are replaced by two other girls, then 49%
gain of 10% and the second at a loss of 12%. of the group members will be boys. Find the value
What was his total percentage gain or loss? of n.
A. 6% gain A. 100
B. 0% gain B. 49
C. 1.20% gain C. 50
D. 6% loss D. 51

Problem 123 Problem 128

A grocery owner raises the prices of his goods by On his Christmas Sale, a merchant marked a pair
10%. Then he starts his Christmas sale by of slipper P180.00, which is 20% off the normal
offering the customers a 10% discount. How retail price. If the retail price is 50% higher than
many percent of discount does the customers the whole sale price, what is the wholesale price
actually get? of the slipper?
A. nothing A. P18.00
B. 1% discount B. P17.00
C. 9% discount C. P15.00
D. they pay 1% more D. P22.50

Problem 124 Problem 129

Kim sold a watch for P3500.00 at a loss of 30% A certain XEROX copier produces 13 copies
on the cost price. Find the corresponding loss or every 10 seconds. If the machine operates
gain if he sold it for P5050.00. without interruption, how many copies will it
A. 1% loss produce in an hour?
B. 10% loss A. 780
C. 1% gain B. 46800
D. 10% gain C. 1835
D. 4680
Problem 125
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Problem 130 100 of three items and has taken exactly 1000 on
At a certain printing plant, each of the machines the total sales. How many radios did he sale?
prints 6 newspapers every second. If all A. 80
machines work together but independently B. 4
without interruption, how many minutes will it take C. 16
to print the entire 18000 newspapers? ( Hint: let x D. 20
= number of machines)
A. 50x Problem 135
B. 3000/x The price of 8 calculators ranges from P200 to
C. 50/x P1000.If their average price is P950,what is the
D. 3000x lowest possible price of any one of the
calculators?
Problem 131 (ME April 1996) A. 500
A manufacturing firm maintains one product B. 550
assembly line to produce signal generators. C. 600
Weekly demand for the generators is 35 units. D. 650
The line operates for 7 hours per day, 5 days per
week. What is the maximum production time per Problem 136
unit in hours required for the line to meet the A deck of 52 playing cards is cut into two piles.
demand? The first pile contains 7 times as many black
A. 1 hour cards as red cards. The second pile contains the
B. 0.75 hour number of red cards that is an exact multiple as
C. 3 hours the number of black cards. How many cards are
D. 2.25 hours there in the first pile.
A. 14
Problem 132 B. 15
Of the 316 people watching a movie, there a re C. 16
78 more children than women and 56 more D. 17
women than men. The number of men in the
movie house is: Problem 137 (ECE November 1997)
A. 176 The population of the Philippines doubled in the
B. 98 last 30 years from 1967 to 1997.Assuming that
C. 42 the rate of population rate increase will remain the
D. 210 same in what year wills the population triple?
A. 2030
Problem 133 B. 2027
A certain department store has an inventory of Q C. 2021
units of a certain product at time t=0. The store D. 2025
sells the product at a steady rate of Q/A units per
week, and exhausts the inventory in A weeks. Problem 138
The amount of product in inventory at any time t Determine the unit digit in the expansion of 3855.
is: A. 3
A. Q – (Q/A) t B. 9
B. Q + (Q/A) t C. 7
C. Qt – Q/A D. 1
D. Qt – (Q/A) t

Problem 134 (ECE March 1996)
A merchant has three items on sale: namely, a
radio for P50, a clock for P30, and a flashlight for
P1. At the end of the day, she has sold a total of
Problem 139 (ECE April 1998)
Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent of
1785/9999 starting from the decimal point.
A. 1
B. 7
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C. 8 B. 15,000 ft2
D. 5 C. 20,000 ft2
D. 22,000 ft2
Problem 140
Find the sum of all positive integral factors of Problem 145 (EE April 1994)
2048. A 10-meter tape is 5 mm short. What is the
A. 4095 correct length in meters?
B. 3065 A. 9.995 m
C. 4560 B. 10.05 m
D. 1254 C. 9.95 m
D. 10.005 m
Problem 141
In how many ways can two integers be selected Problem 146 (ME OCTOBER 1997)
from the numbers 1,2,3,…50 so that their The distance between two points measured with
difference is exactly 5? a steel tape was recorded as 916.58 ft. later. The
A. 50 tape was checked and to be only 99.9 ft long.
B. 5 What is the true distance between the points?
C. 45 A. 035.66 ft
D. 41 B. 966.15 ft
C. 955.66 ft
Problem 142 D. 915.66 ft
A box contains 8 balls, 6 black balls.a8 red balls,
and 13 yellow balls. How many balls must be Problem 147 (ME April 1996)
drawn to ensure that there will be three balls of A certain steel tape is known to be 100000 feet
the same color? long when the temperature of 70°F . When the
A. 8 tape is at a temperature of 10°F, what reading
B. 9 corresponds to a distance of 90 ft? Coefficient of
C. 10 linear expansion of the tape is 5.833 x 10-6 per
D. 11 °F.
A. 85.935
Problem 143 B. 88.031
A shore sells 10 different sizes of shoes, each in C. 90.031
both high-cut and low-cut variety, each either D. 93.031
rubber or leather, and each with white or black
color. How many different kinds of shoes does he Problem 148 (ME April 1996)
sell? A line was measured with a steel tape when the
A. 64 temperature was 30°C. The measured length of
B. 80 the line was found to be 1,256.271 feet. The tape
C. 72 was afterwards tasted when the temperature was
D. 92 10°C and it was found to be 100.042 feet long.
What was the true length of the line if the
Problem 144 (ME October 1999) coefficient of expansion of the tape was 0.000011
An engineer was told that a survey had been per °C?
made on a certain rectangular field but the A. 1,275.075 feet
dimension had been lost .An assistant B. 1,375.575 feet
remembered that if the field had been 100 ft C. 1,256.547 feet
longer and 25 ft narrower, the area would have D. 1,249.385 feet
been increased by 2500 sq. ft, and that if it had
been 100 ft shorter 50 ft wider, the area would Problem 149 (ME April 1997)
have been decreased 5000 sq.ft. What was the The standard deviation of the numbers 1, 4, &7
area of the field? is:
A. 25.000 ft2 A. 2.3567
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B. 2.4495
C. 3.2256
D. 3.8876

Problem 150
Three cities are connected by roads forming a
triangle, all of different lengths. It is 30 km around
the circuit. One of the roads is 10 km long and the
longest is 10 km longer than the shortest. What is
the length of the longest road?
A. 5 km
B. 10 km
C. 15 km
D. 20 km