Solve the following problem:

MIXTURE PROBLEMS

1. How many liters of a 70% alcohol solution must be added to 50 liters of a 40% alcohol
solution to produce a 50% alcohol solution?

2. How many ounces of pure water must be added to 50 ounces of a 15% saline solution to
make a saline solution that is 10% salt?

3. Find the selling price per pound of a coffee mixture made from 8 pounds of coffee that
sells for P9.20 peso per pound and 12 pounds of coffee that costs P5.50 peso per pound.

4. How many pounds of lima beans that cost $0.90 per pound must be mixed with
16pounds of corn that costs 0.50peso per pound to make a mixture of vegetables that costs
0.65peso per pound?

5. Two hundred liters of a punch that contains 35% fruit juice is mixed with 300 liters (L)of
another punch. The resulting fruit punch is 20% fruit juice. Find the percent of fruit juice in
the 300 liters of punch.


GEOMETRY PROBLEMS

1. A piece of 16-gauge copper wire 42 cm long is bent into the shape of a rectangle whose
width is twice its length. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.

2. If the height of a triangle is five inches less than the length of its base, and if the area of
the triangle is 52 square inches, find the base and the height

3. Three times the width of a certain rectangle exceeds twice its length by three inches, and
four times its length is twelve more than its perimeter. Find the dimensions of the
rectangle.

4. The length of a rectangle is 12 cm more than the width. The perimeter is 44 cm. Find the
length and the width.

5. The perimeter of a rectangle is 104m. The length is 7m more than twice the width.
What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
INVESTMENT PROBLEMS

1. Jack has 7,000 pesos to invest.If he invest part of his money at 6 percent simple annual
interest and another part at 8 percent rate per year, he will get an annual income of 520
pesos. How much should Jack invest on each?

2. Sam invests 6,000peso in two bank accounts. One of the accounts pays 8% interest per
year, and the other account pays 10% interest per year. If the total interest earned on the
investments is 560 pesos after one year, how much money was invested in each account?

3. You put 10000 pesos into an investment yielding 6% annual interest; you left the money
in for two years. How much interest do you get at the end of those two years?

4. You invested 5000 pesos and received 1650 pesos after three years. What had been the
interest rate?

5. A total of 8,000 pesos is invested into two simple interest accounts. The annual simple
interest rate on one account is 9%; on the second account, the annual simple interest rate is
6%. How much should be invested in each account so that both accounts earn the same
amount of annual interest?