PRACTICE PROBLEMS

1. The red bulbs of a Christmas light flash every 8 seconds, the blue bulbs flash every 9 seconds,
and the green bulbs flash every 10 seconds. If they all start flashing together, in every how many
seconds will they flash simultaneously again?

2. If log 2 = 𝑥 and log 3 = 𝑦, what is the value of log 1.2?

3. Delia can finish a job in 8 hours. Daisy can do it in 5 hours. If Delia worked for 3 hours and then
Daisy was asked to help her finish it, how long will Daisy have to work with Delia to finish the
job?

4. How many words can be made from the letters of the word COMMITTEE?

5. A company bus has 5 vacant seats on each side. In how many ways that the last three
employees will be seated if one of them insists on sitting at the right side?

6. If the 6th term of an A.P. is 11 and its 13thterm is 123, then the 2nd term of this AP is:
AP – Arithmetic Progression

7. What is the remainder if the polynomial

3𝑥 4 + 2𝑥 3 − 4𝑥 2 + 𝑥 + 4 is divided by (𝑥 − 2)?

8. Simplify the given expression.

5𝑥 𝑥+3 2𝑥 + 1
− +
2𝑥 2 + 7𝑥 + 3 2𝑥 2 − 3𝑥 − 2 𝑥 2 + 𝑥 − 6

9. When rounded-off to four significant figures, 102.4886 becomes:

10. A man has three pieces of rope with lengths of 140cm, 168 cm and 210 cm. He wishes to cut the
three pieces of rope into smaller pieces of equal length with no remainders. How many of the
smaller pieces of rope of equal length can he get altogether?