This document provides examples of different types of word problems that can be solved using algebra. It includes number/digit problems, age problems, geometry problems, work problems, coin/money problems, mixture problems, investment problems, and distance-rate-time problems. Several examples are given for each type of problem to illustrate how to set up and solve equations to find the unknown values.
This document provides examples of different types of word problems that can be solved using algebra. It includes number/digit problems, age problems, geometry problems, work problems, coin/money problems, mixture problems, investment problems, and distance-rate-time problems. Several examples are given for each type of problem to illustrate how to set up and solve equations to find the unknown values.
This document provides examples of different types of word problems that can be solved using algebra. It includes number/digit problems, age problems, geometry problems, work problems, coin/money problems, mixture problems, investment problems, and distance-rate-time problems. Several examples are given for each type of problem to illustrate how to set up and solve equations to find the unknown values.
Our discussion of verbal/word problems will include the following: • number problems • digits problems • age problems • coin/money problems • geometry problems • work problems • mixture problems • investment problems • distance – rate – time problems • miscellaneous problems
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
NUMBER / DIGITS PROBLEMS: 1. Find three consecutive odd integers whose sum is 159. 2. One number is 15 less than the twice the other. If their sum is 75, what is the bigger number? 3. The sum of the numerator and the denominator of a fraction is 26. If the numerator is decreased by 1 and the denominator is multiplied by two, the resulting fraction becomes 1/3. Find the original fraction.
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
NUMBER / DIGITS PROBLEMS: 4. The sum of the digits of the two digit number is 8. If the tens digit is increased by five and the units digit is increased by two, the new number is thrice the original. Find the original number. 5. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 10. If the digits are reversed, the new number is 36 more than the original. Find the original number.
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
AGE PROBLEM: 1. A father is four times as old as his daughter. In six years, he will be three times as old as she is. How old is the daughter now? 2. Johnny’s father is twice as old as him. After twenty years, the sum of their age will be a century. How old is Johnny now?
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
SEATWORK: (8 ½ X 11) 1. Two numbers differ by 50. If the larger number is diminished by 13 and the smaller is increased by 7, then the bigger becomes twice the smaller. Find the numbers. 2. The sum of the numerator and denominator of a fraction is 72. If the numerator is decreased by 6 and the denominator is increased by 4, the result is 5/9. Find the fraction. 3. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 16, where the units digit is smaller than the tens digit. If the digits are reversed, the difference of the new number and original is 18. Find the original number. 4. Sally has a daughter whose age is 1/3 of her age now. Six years from now, their ages are just in the ratio 11: 5. Find her daughter’s age now. MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA GEOMETRY PROBLEMS: 1. The width of a rectangular lot is 5 m less than its length. If the perimeter of the lot is 54 meters, find the dimension of the lot. 2. The smallest side of a triangle is 1/5 of the perimeter. The biggest side is 5 cms more than twice the smallest. If the third side is 15 cms, find the perimeter of the triangle. 3. A one-meter walkway surrounds a certain rectangular garden whose width is 4 m less than its length. The ratio of the perimeters of the rectangular garden to that of the garden and walkway combined is 4:5. Find the dimension of the garden.
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
WORK PROBLEMS: 1. Ronnie and Nathan share the same paper route. If Ronnie can deliver the paper in 3 hours while Nathan can deliver the paper is 4 hours, find the time required for them to finish the job if they work together. 2. Harry and Harvin are given a painting job. If they work together, they can finish it in one week. If Harry is twice as fast as Harvin, how many days will it take Harvin to finish the job if he works alone. 3. One pipe can fill a certain tank in 40 minutes while another pipe can empty the tank in 1 hour. If the tank is half full and the two pipes were simultaneously left open, how many minutes will it take to fill the tank?
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
COIN/MONEY PROBLEMS: 1. A purse contains equal number of 10- peso, 5-peso and one peso coins. If the total amount in the purse is 112, how many coins of each kind are there? 2. In a coin purse, there are twice as many dimes as nickels and thrice as many quarters as nickels. If the total number of coins is 18, how much does the coin purse contains?
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
SEATWORK: (8 ½ X 11) 1. The length of a certain rectangular lot is 7 ft more than its width. If the perimeter of the lot is 34 ft, find the area of the lot. 2. Verge and Val were commissioned to do a plumbing job. Working alone, Val can finish the job in 4 hours while Verge can accomplish it in 6 hours. If Verge has started working for one hour before Val joined him, how many additional hours will it take them to finish the job? 3. Mary has $3.00 in nickels, dimes and quarters. If she has twice as many dimes as quarters and five more nickels than dimes, how many coins of each type does she have?
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
INVESTMENT PROBLEMS: 1. Pia invested Php120,000 , a portion earning a simple rate of interest of 4 ½ % per year and the rest earning a rate of 4 % per year. After one year the total interest earned on these investments was Php 5250. How much money did she invest at each rate? 2. If Ben invests 40,000 at 4% interest per year, how much additional money must he invest at 5 ½ % annual interest to ensure that the interest he receives each year is 4 ½ % of the total amount invested?
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
MIXTURE PROBLEMS: 1. What quantity of a 60% acid solution must be mixed with a 30% solution to produce 300 mL of a 50% solution? 2. A bottle contains 750 mL of fruit punch with a concentration of 50% fruit juice. Jenny drinks 100 mL of the punch and then refills the bottle with an equal amount of a cheaper brand of punch. If the concentration of juice in the bottle is now reduced to 48%, what was the concentration in the punch that Jill added? 3. The radiator in a car is filled with a solution of 60% antifreeze. The manufacturer of the antifreeze suggests that, for summer driving, optimal cooling of the engine is obtained with only 50% antifreeze. If the capacity of the radiator is 3.6L, how much coolant should be drained and replaced with water to reduce the antifreeze concentration to the recommended level?
MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA
UNIFORM MOTION PROBLEMS: 1. Two cyclists, 90 mi apart, start riding toward each other at the same time. One cycles twice as fast as the other. If they meet 2 hours later, at what average speed is each cyclist traveling? 2. A pilot flew a jet from Montreal to Los Angeles, a distance of 2500 mi. On the return trip the average speed was 20% faster than the outbound speed. The round-trip took 11 hours. What was the speed from Montreal to Los Angeles? 3. Karen can row a boat 10 kilometers per hour in still water. In a river where the current is 5 kilometers per hour, it takes her 4 hours longer to row a given distance upstream than to travel the same distance downstream. Find how long it takes her to row upstream and how long to row downstream. MATH 10: COLLEGE ALGEBRA SEATWORK: (8 ½ X 11) 1. Celerina invested in two accounts: one earning 5% per year and another earning 6½ % per year. If her total initial investment of 120,000 earns 7,200 after a year, how much did she invest on each? 2. A pot contains 6L of brine(salt solution) at a concentration of 120 g/L. How much of the water should be boiled off to increase the concentration to 200 g/L? 3. Two college buddies who live in the same dormitory went to their school which is 1 ½ kms away , one walking while the other riding a bicycle. The one who bikes rides thrice as fast as the one who walks. If the one who walks arrives 6 minutes late than the one who bikes, find the speed of the one who bikes.