ALGEBRA 2 and 3 – TAKE HOME PROBLEMS the remaining is increased by 3 pieces each per

day to maintain production. What is the value

1. What is the middle term of the expansion
of N?
(𝑥 2 − 5)8 ?
A. 8
A. 43500x8
B. 12
B. 30030x8
C. 10
C. 43750x8
D. 15
D. 59080x8
8. Twice the sum of two numbers is 28. The sum of
2. A chemist of distillery experimented on two
the squares is 100. What is the product of the
alcohol solutions of different strength, 35%
two numbers?
alcohol and 50% alcohol, respectively. How
A. 56
many m3 of 50% alcohol must he use in order to
B. 48
produce a mixture of 60 m3 that contain 40%
C. 28
alcohol?
D. 64
A. 40
9. What is the 4th term of the expansion (𝑥 + 𝑦)12
B. 20
A. 220x9y3
C. 35
B. 120x9y3
D. 10
C. 200x9y3
3. Find two consecutive odd numbers such that
D. 240x4y3
thrice the smaller number exceeds the larger by
10. Three times the first of three consecutive odd
12.
integers is three more than twice the third. Find
A. 6, 8
the third integer.
B. 8, 10
A. 12
C. 7, 9
B. 15
D. 5, 7
C. 10
4. In a 2-digit number, the unit’s digit is 3 greater
D. 18
than the ten’s digit. If the number is 4 times as
11. A car 5 m long is to overtake a truck 10 m long
large as the sum of its digits, find the number.
and travelling at 72 km/hr. How fast must the
A. 36
car travel to completely pass the truck in 3
B. 74
seconds.
C. 52
A. 90 km/hr
D. 41
B. 56 km/hr
5. A man sold a book by mistake at 120% of the
C. 80 km/hr
marketed price instead of discounting the
D. 75 km/hr
marked price by 20%. If he sold the book for
12. What is the term involving x8 in the given
P14.40, what was the price for which he has
1 10
sold the book. expansion of (𝑥 2 − 𝑥)
A. P 9.10 A. 432 x8
B. P 8.40 B. 342 x8
C. P 8.20 C. 120 x8
D. P 9.60 D. 210 x8
6. What is the sum of the coefficients in the 13. A pump can pump out a tank in 11 hrs. Another
expansion of (𝑥 + 𝑦 − 𝑧)8 ? pump can pump out the same tank in 20 hrs.
A. 1 How long will it take both pumps together to
B. 2 pump out the tank?
C. 4 A. ½ hrs
D. 0 B. ¼ hrs
7. A company has N machines of equal capacity C. 5 hrs
that produce a total of 180 pieces each work D. 7 hrs
day. If 2 machines break down, the workload of
14. Eight (8) men can excavate 15 cu. m. of A. 12 hours
drainage open canal in 7 hours. Three (3) men B. 8 hours
can backfill 10 cu. m. in 4 hours. How long it C. 10 hours
takes 10 men to excavate and backfill 20 cu. m. D. 15 hours
the same project? 21. What is the coefficient of the term involving x8
A. 9.9 hrs 1 16
in the given expansion (𝑥 2 + 𝑥) ?
B. 7.5 hrs
C. 12 hrs A. 12870
D. 15 hrs B. 10840
C. 14620
15. From the time 6:15 PM to time 7:45 PM of the
D. 15305
same day, the minute hand of a standard clock
described an arc of: 22. Solve the value of “n” in the expansion of
1 𝑛
A. 30 deg (𝑥 2 + 𝑥) if the 5th term is 210x8?
B. 90 deg A. 20
C. 180 deg B. 10
D. 540 deg C. 5
16. Find the middle term in the expansion D. 7
(𝑥 2 − 2𝑦)10 . 23. At what time after 12 o’clock will the hour hand
A. -8864x12y5 and minute hand of the clock first form 120
B. -8064x10y6 degrees?
C. -9064x10y5 A. 12:20.56
D. -8064x10y5 B. 12:21.81
17. Find the constant term in the expansion of C. 12:29.32
1 9 D. 12:30.45
(2𝑥 2 + )
𝑥
24. A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8
A. 648
kph. Five minutes later, a second jogger starts
B. 672
the same course at10 kph. How long will it take
C. 682
the second jogger to catch the first?
D. 664
A. 20 min
18. What time between 2 and 3 o’clock will the
B. 10 min
angle between the hands of the clock be
C. 15 min
bisected by the line connecting the center of
D. 17 min
the clock and the 3 o’clock mark?
25. The difference between two numbers is 12. If 2
A. 2:18 6/13
is added to 7 times the smaller, the result is the
B. 2:19 5/13
same as when 2 is subtracted from 3 times the
C. 2:15 3/13
larger. Find the numbers.
D. 2:21 2/23
A. 20 and 6
19. The time is past 2 o’clock in 10 minutes, the
B. 20 and 8
minute hand will be as much ahead of the hour
C. 15 and 3
hand as it is behind it. What time is it?
D. 17 and 2
A. 2:05.91
26. The quotient of a two-digit number divided by
B. 2:07.92
the sum of the digits is 4. If the number be
C. 2:08.12
subtracted from the sum of the squares of its
D. 2:04.92
digits the difference is 9. Find the number.
20. An engineer and his helper can do a certain job
A. 36
in 3 hours. On a given day, they work together
B. 42
for 1 hour then the helper left and the engineer
C. 30
finishes the rest of the work in 8 more hours.
D. 54
How long will it take for the engineer to do the
job alone?
27. Tom is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years ago, C. 36
he was three times as old as Jerry was then. D. 30
How old is Tom now? 34. The ten’s digit of a certain two-digit number
A. 18 exceeds the unit’s digit by four and is one less
B. 16 than twice the unit’s digit. Find the number.
C. 8 A. 65
D. 14 B. 85
28. The difference of the cubes of two positive C. 95
numbers is 2402 and the cube of their D. 59
difference is 8. Find the bigger number. 35. A man sold a watch for P 3500 at a loss of 30%
A. 21 on the cost price. Find the corresponding loss or
B. 22 gain if he sold it for P 5050.
C. 27 A. 1% gain
D. 17 B. 2% gain
29. When a logarithm is expressed as an integer C. 1% loss
plus a decimal (between 0 and 1), the integer is D. 2% loss
called: 36. How many liters of water must be added to 35
A. Briggsian logarithm liters of 89% hydrochloric acid solution to
B. Napierian logarithm reduce its strength to 75%?
C. Mantissa A. 4.83
D. Characteristic B. 7.33
30. The characteristic of a logarithm is 3. The C. 6.53
number between: D. 5.34
A. 1 and 10 37. The difference of the squares of the digits of a
B. 10 and 100 2-digit positive number is 27. If the digits are
C. 100 and 1000 reversed in order and the resulting number is
D. 1000 and 10000 subtracted from the original number, the
31. A boatman rows to a place 48 km distant and difference is also 27. What is the original
back in 14 hours; he finds that he can row 4 km number?
with the stream in the same time as 3 km A. 72
against the stream; find the rate of the steam. B. 56
A. 2 km/hr C. 63
B. 1.5 km/hr D. 81
C. 1 km/hr 38. A man travels in a motorized boat at the rate of
D. 2.4 km/hr 12 kph from his barrio to the town and come
32. Find the number such that their sum multiplies back to his barrio at the rate of 10 kph. If the
by the sum of their squares is 65, and their total time consumed is 3 hours and 10 minutes,
difference multiplied by the difference of their what is the distance of the barrio to the town?
squares is 5. A. 15.12 km
A. 3 and 2 B. 17.27 km
B. 1 and 3 C. 18.43 km
C. 4 and 5 D. 15.92 km
D. 1 and 4 39. How many minutes after 10:00 o’clock will the
33. At present Maria’s age is 30% of his mother’s hands of the clock be opposite each other for
age. Twenty years from now, Maria’s age will be the first time?
58% of his mother’s age. How old is Maria’s A. 22.76
mother? B. 21.81
A. 42 C. 20.45
B. 38 D. 21.48
40. The difference between two numbers is 24 and B. 12.5 kph
their sum is 60. Find the numbers. C. 15.0 kph
A. 16, 40 D. 14.2 kph
B. 18, 42 47. Three cats can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes. How
C. 20, 44 many minutes will it take for 100 cats to kill 100
D. 15, 39 rats?
41. Jan can walk 4 km in the time it takes Papa Erl A. 3
to walk 5 km. Jan requires 3 minutes longer that B. 33.33
Papa Erl to walk for a km. Find the rate of Jan. C. 100
A. 4 km/hr D. 300
B. 5 km/hr 48. A boat takes 2/3 as much time to travel
C. 7 km/hr downstream than to travel upstream. If the rate
D. 3 km/hr of the water current is 8 kph, what is the rate of
42. The product of ¼ and 1/5 of a number is 500. the boat in still water?
Find the number. A. 38 kph
A. 100 B. 42 kph
B. 200 C. 40 kph
C. 300 D. 45 kph
D. 150 49. Find two consecutive positive even numbers
43. At what time between 4 and 5 o’clock will the such that the difference of their squares is 76.
hands of the clock be at right angle for the first A. 18, 20
time? B. 14, 16
A. 4:5.45 C. 16, 18
B. 4:6.42 D. 20, 22
C. 4:5.23 50. The sum of the digits of a 3-digit number is 14.
D. 4:7.62 The hundred’s digit being 4 times the unit’s
44. The sum of the squares of two consecutive odd digit. If 594 is subtracted from the number, the
numbers is 130. Find the product of the order of the digits will be reverse. Find the
numbers. number.
A. 56 A. 563
B. 72 B. 824
C. 63 C. 842
D. 69 D. 743
45. A tank is filled through its inlet pipe and then 51. Find the value of “x” in the series of numbers
emptied through its outlet pipe in a total of 8 12, 13, 17, 26, x, 67, 103.
hours. If water enters through its inlet pipe and A. 45
simultaneously allowed to leave through its B. 16
outlet pipe, the tank is filled in 7 ½ hours. How C. 42
long it will take to fill the tank with the outlet D. 67
pipe closed? 52. Workers A, B and C can mow the lawn in 4, 6
A. 2 hours and 7 hours, respectively. What fraction of the
B. 3 hours yard can they mow in 1 hour if they work
C. 4 hours together?
D. 2.5 hours A. 47/84
46. John started running at a speed of 10 kph. Five B. 84/47
minutes later, Peter started running in the same C. 54/47
direction and catches up with john in 20 D. 40/47
minutes. What is the speed of Peter? 53. An engineer mixed 40 milliliters of
A. 17.5 kph 35%hydrochloric acid solution with 20 milliliters
 of 50% hydrochloric acid solution. What is the A. 70
percentage of the new hydrochloric acid B. 120
solution? C. 80
A. 40% D. 50
B. 39% 60. Peter can paint a fence 50% faster than John
C. 38% and 20% faster than Pilar and together they can
D. 41% paint a given fence in 4 hours. How long will it
54. Two alcohol solutions consist of 40 gallons of take Peter to paint the same paint if he had to
35% alcohol and other solution containing 50% work alone?
alcohol. If the two solutions are combined A. 10 hrs
together, they will have a mixture of 40% B. 12 hrs
alcohol. How many gallons of the solutions C. 13 hrs
containing 50% alcohol? D. 11 hrs
A. 20 61. The logarithm of a number to the base e
B. 25 (2.7182…) is called:
C. 18 A. Napierian logarithm
D. 30 B. Characteristics
55. Mary is three times as old as Ann now. Four C. Mantissa
years ago, she was four times as old as Ann was D. Briggsian logarithm
at that time. How old is Ann? 62. A and B working together can finish painting a
A. 12 home in 6 days. A working alone, can finish it in
B. 10 five days less than B. How long will it take each
C. 15 of them to finish the work alone?
D. 20 A. 10, 15
56. A number containing a non-terminating but B. 15, 20
repeating decimal is a/an: C. 20, 25
A. integer D. 5, 10
B. rational number 63. A man is three times as old as his son. Four
C. natural number years ago, he was four times as old as his son at
D. irrational number that time. How old is the son?
57. Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 15 liters of A. 15
35% salt solution are poured into a drum B. 12
originally containing 30 liters of 10% salt C. 10
solution. What is the percent concentration in D. 7
the mixture? 64. The ages of the mother and her daughter are 45
A. 19.55% and 5 years respectively. How many years will
B. 22.15% the mother be three times as old as her
C. 27.05% daughter?
D. 25.72% A. 15
58. ln x = _____ log x B. 25
A. 0.434 C. 12
B. 10 D. 9
C. 2.303 65. The denominator of a certain fraction is three
D. e more than twice the numerator. If 7 is added to
59. A project can be done by 70 men in 100 days. both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction
They were 80 men at the start of the project but is 3/5. Find the original fraction.
after 50 days, 20 of them had to be transferred A. 5/13
to another project. How long will it take the B. 3/13
remaining workforce to complete the job? C. 7/13
 D. 9/13 D. positive value or zero
66. A car can travel from A to B, a distance of 100 72. For 0<x<1, ln x is:
km at an average speed of 30 kph. At what A. positive
average speed must it travel back from B to A in B. zero
order to have an average speed of 45 kph for C. negative
the round trip of 200 km? D. between 0 and 1
A. 90 kph 73. The cologarithm of a number is the _____ of the
B. 100 kph logarithm of a number.
C. 85 kph A. positive
D. 75 kph B. absolute value
67. A pump can pump-out a tank in 11 hours. C. negative
Another pump can pump out the same tank in D. reciprocal
20 hours. How long will it take both pumps 74. A 400 mm Ф pipe can fill the tank alone in 5 hrs
together to pump out of the tank? and another 600 mm Ф pipe can fill that tank
A. 7 hrs alone in 4 hrs. A drain pipe 300 mm Ф can
B. 8 hrs empty that tank in 20 hrs. With the three pipes
C. 10 hrs open, how long will it take to fill the tank?
D. 12 hrs A. 2.5 hrs
68. A and B run around a circular track whose B. 2.0 hrs
circumference is 150 meters. When they run in C. 1.7 hrs
opposite direction they meet every 5 seconds, D. 1.5 hrs
but when they run in the same direction from 75. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hrs to
the same point, they are together every 25 travel 1000 km, and 2.5 hrs in flying back. What
seconds. What is the rate of A? was the wind velocity in kph?
A. 18 m/s A. 45
B. 20 m/s B. 50
C. 20 m/s C. 65
D. 15 m/s D. 70
69. Two thousand kg of steel containing 8% nickel is 76. Separate 17 into two parts so that the sum of
to be made by mixing steel containing 14% their squares is equal to the square of one more
nickel with another containing 6% nickel. How than the larger part. Find the smaller part.
much of the 14% nickel is needed? A. 5
A. 1500 and 500 B. 12
B. 1800 and 200 C. 3
C. 1350 and 650 D. 10
D. 1050 and 950 77. At what time between 4 and 5 o’clock will the
70. The gasoline tank of a car contains 50 liters of hands of the clock be coincident?
gasoline and alcohol, the alcohol comprising A. 4:21.82
25%. How much of the mixture must be drawn B. 4:23.72
off and replaced by alcohol so that the tank C. 4:22.42
contains a mixture of which 50% is alcohol? D. 4:20.32
A. 16.67 liters 78. The integral part of a common logarithm is:
B. 14.57 liters A. 10
C. 13.45 liters B. e
D. 17.56 liters C. mantissa
71. The mantissa of a logarithm is a D. characteristic
A. positive value only 79. At what time will the hands of the clock be in
B. positive value, negative value or zero straight line between 7:00 and 8:00 o’clock in
C. negative value only the morning?
 A. 7:5 5/11 85. A painting job can be done by 72 men and in
B. 7:4 2/11 100 days. There were 80 men at the start of the
C. 7:7 7/11 project but after 40 days, 30 of them had to be
D. 7:6 4/11 transferred to another project. If the contract
80. It is now past 3 o’clock in the afternoon. The time is only 80 days, how many men should be
minute hand 3 minutes from now will be hired 20 days after the 30 men had been
directly opposite the hour hand 9 minutes ago. transferred to complete the job on time?
A. 3:45 A. 150 men
B. 3:20 B. 100 men
C. 3:27 C. 50 men
D. 3:30 D. 120 men
81. Joggers A and B, starting from the same point, 86. Today, the father is 45 years old while his son is
jogging in opposite directions in a circular track 5 years old. How many years after will the
field. Their circular path has a diameter of 800 father be three times as old as his son?
meters. If the average speed of Jogger A is 3 kph A. 12
and that of Jogger B is to be 4 kph, compute the B. 15
time they will meet. C. 20
A. 6.85 min D. 18
B. 21.54 min 87. If the sum of the roots of a quadratic equation is
C. 14.54 min 12 and the product is 36, then what is the
D. 43.23 min difference of the roots?
82. A batch of concrete consisted of 200 lbs fine A. 1
aggregates, 350 lbs coarse aggregate, 94 lbs B. 0
cement, and 5 gallons of water. The specific C. 3
gravity of sand and gravel maybe taken as 2.65 D. 6
and that of the cement as 3.10. How much 88. Two times Peter’s age is 8 more than six times
weight of cement is required to produced one the age of his friend Paul. Ten years ago, the
cubic yard? sum of their ages is 44. How old is Paul now?
A. 765 lbs A. 18
B. 657 lbs B. 15
C. 675 lbs C. 20
D. 567 lbs D. 16
83. Find the 1987th digit in the decimal equivalent 89. Today, the father is 41 years old. In 7 years, he
to 1785/9999 starting from decimal point. will be 4 times as old as his son. How old is the
A. 8 son now?
B. 1 A. 5
C. 7 B. 6
D. 5 C. 4
84. Alfred runs around a circular track in 60 seconds D. 7
and Barry in 30 seconds. Five seconds after 90. A boy is one-third as old as his brother and 8
Alfred starts, Barry starts from the same point years younger than his sister. The sum of their
in the same direction. When will they be ages is 38 years. How old is the boy?
together for the first time, assuming that they A. 5
run around the track continuously? B. 6
A. 6.5 s C. 4
B. 70 s D. 3
C. 34 s 91. Two natural numbers are such that the
D. 6.5 s difference of their squares is 481 and the sum
of their squares is769. Find the numbers.
 A. 12, 25 B. 6
B. 10, 24 C. 4
C. 14, 22 D. 5
D. 16, 20 99. An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours to
92. A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying back.
C in 31 days and C and A in 20 days. On how What is the wind velocity?
many days can all of them work together? A. 25
A. 19 B. 35
B. 17 C. 50
C. 21 D. 28
D. 15 100. Your father told you “I was your age now when
93. Two sports cars A and B race around a 1.32 km you were born”. If you are 21 years old today,
circular track. The rate of A is 6 m/s of B is 5 how old is your father?
m/s. When will A overtakes B considering that A. 50
they traveled in the same direction? B. 48
A. 12 min C. 42
B. 22 min D. 44
C. 32 min
D. 25 min
94. The term independent of x in the expansion of
(2x + 1/3x)(raised to 6) is
A. 80/3
B. 80/9
C. 160/27
D. 160/9
95. What is the 5th term of the expansion (𝑒 𝑥 +
𝑒 −𝑥 )8 ?
A. e4x
B. 70
C. e2x
D. sin h x
96. In the expansion (𝑥 + 4𝑦)12, the numerical
coefficient of the 5th term is:
A. 63,360
B. 126,720
C. 506,880
D. 253,440
97. Given a 3-digit number. The sum of the digits is
14. The unit’s digit is half the ten’s digit. If the
digits are reversed, the resulting number is 198
more than the original number. Find the
number.
A. 284
B. 482
C. 842
D. 824
98. The square of a number increased by 16 is the
same as 10 times the number. Find the number.
A. 8