Problem 1: ECE Board April 1995 Problem 5:

Kayla is 24 years. Kayla is twice as old as A girl, is one-third as old as her brother and
Erin when Kayla was as old as Erin is now. 8 years younger than her sister. The sum of
How old is Erin now? their ages is 38 years. How old is the girl?

 A. 16  A. 4
 B. 18  B. 5
 C. 12  C. 6
 D. 15  D. 7

Problem 2: EE Board April 1997 Problem 6:

The sum of Kim’s and Kevin’s ages is 18. In Maja is now 18 years old and his colleague
3 years, Kim will be as twice as old as Kevin. Angel is 14 years old. How many years ago
What are their ages now? was Maja twice as old as Angel?

 A. 4, 14  A. 5
 B. 5, 13  B. 7
 C. 7, 11  C. 8
 D. 6, 12  D. 10

Problem 3: GE Board February 1994 Problem 7:

Robert is 15 years older than his brother
Stan. However “y” years ago, Robert was
twice as old as Stan. If Stan is now “b” years
old and b>y, find the value of (b – y).
 A. 15
 B. 16
 C. 17
 D. 18
Problem 4:
John is 3 times as old as Jaime. Three years
ago, John was four times as old as Jaime.
The sum of their ages is?
A father tells his son, I was your age now
when you were born”. If the father is now 38
years old, how old was his son 2 years ago?
 A. 15
 B. 17
 C. 19
 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. 20  A. 17
 B. 24  B. 16
 C. 28  C. 15
 D. 36  D. 14
Problem 9: three pipes open, how long will it take to fill
the tank?
At present, the sum of the parents’ ages is
twice the sum of the children’s ages. Five  A. 2.00 hours
years ago, the sum of the parent’s ages was  B. 2.50 hours
4 times the sum of the children’s ages.  C. 2.25 hours
Fifteen years hence, the sum of the parents’  D. 2.75hours
ages will be equal to the sum of the
children’s ages. How many children are Problem 13:
there?
A tank is filled with an intake pipe in 2 hours
 A. 3 and empties by an outlet pipe in 4 hours. If
 B. 4 both pipes are opened, how long will it take
 C. 5 to fill the empty tank?
 D. 6
 A. 3 hours
Problem 10:  B. 4 hours
 C. 5 hours
Tom is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years  D. 6 hours
ago, Tom was three times as old as Jerry
then. How old is Tom? Problem 14:

 A. 14 A tank can be filled in 9 hours by one pipe,

 B. 16
 C. 18
 D. 24
Problem 11: ME Board February 1998
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?
12 hours by a second pipe and can be
drained when full by a third pipe in 15 hours.
How long will it take to fill an empty tank with
all pipes in operation?
 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 15: ME Board April 1995

 A. 7 hours If A can do the work in “x” days and B in “y”

 B. 6 hours days, how long will they finish the job
 C. 7 1/2 hours working together?
 D. 6 1/2 hours

Problem 12: CE Board November 1993  A.

A 400-mm pipe can fill the tank alone in 5  B.

hours and another 600-mm pipe can fill the
tank alone in 4 hours. A drain pipe 300-mm  C.
can empty the tank in 20 hours. With all the
 alone can finish it in 5 days less than Peter.
 D. How long will it take each of them to finish
the work alone?
Problem 16: ECE Board November 1995
 A. 8, 13
Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than  B. 10, 15
Juan and 20% faster than Pilar, and together  C. 6, 11
they can paint a given fence in 4 hours. How  D. 7, 12
long will it take Pedro can paint the same
fence if he had to work alone? Problem 20: EE Board April 1996

 A. 6 Ron and Rej can do a piece of work in 42

 B. 8 days, Rej and Loyd in 31 days and Loyd and
 C. 10 Ron in 20 days. In how many days can all of
 D. 12 them do the work together?
Problem 17:
 A. 19
 B. 17
Glenn can paint a house in 9 hours while  C. 21
Stewart can paint the same house in 16  D. 15
hours. They work together for 4 hours. After
4 hours, Stewart left and Glenn finished the Problem 21:
job alone. How many more days did it take
Glenn to finish the job?
It takes Jannah twice as long as Cathy to do
a certain piece of work. Working together,
 A. 2.75 hours they can finish the work in 6 hours. How long
 B. 2.50 hours would it take Cathy to do it alone?
 C. 2.25 hours
 D. 3.00 hours
 A. 9 hours
 B. 18 hours
Problem 18: CE Board November 1993
 C. 12 hours
 D. 14 hours
It takes Butch twice as long as it takes Dan
to do a certain piece of work. Working Problem 22: ECE Board April 1999
together they can do the work in 6 days.
How long would it take Dan to do it alone?
Vryan, Mike, and Kim can mow the lawn in
4, 6, and 7 hours respectively. What fraction
 A. 9 days of the yard can they mow in 1 hour if they
 B. 10 days work together?
 C. 11 days
 D. 12 days
 A. 47/84
 B. 45/84
Problem 19: ME Board April 1995
 C. 84/47
 D. 39/60
John and Peter working together can finish
painting a house in 6 days. John working Problem 23:
A farmer can plow the field in 8 days. After
working for 3 days, his son joins him and
together they plow the field in 3 more days.
How many days will it require for the son to
plow the field alone?
 A. 10
 B. 11
 C. 12
 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 will it take both crews to
finish the same job, working together?
 A. 100 man-hour
 B. 120 man-hour
 C. 140 man-hour
 D. 160 man-hour
Problem 25: ME Board October 1991
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?
 A. 169.2, 287.3
 B. 178.3, 294.1
 C. 173.9, 347.8
 D. 200.1, 312.4
Problem 26: EE Board October 1997
Ten liters of 25% salt solution and 15 liters
of 35% 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%
 B. 22.15%
 C. 27.05%
 D. 25.72%
Problem 27: ME Board October 1992
A Chemist of a distillery experimented on
two alcohol solutions of different strength,
35% alcohol and 50% alcohol, respectively.
How many cubic meters of each strength
must he use to produce mixture of 60 cubic
meters that contain 40% alcohol?
 A. 20 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol,
40 m3 of solution with 50% alcohol
 B. 50 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol,
20 m3 of solution with 50% alcohol
 C. 20 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol,
50 m3 of solution with 50% alcohol
 D. 40 m3 of solution with 35% alcohol,
20 m3 of solution with 50% alcohol
Problem 28:
A goldsmith has two alloys of gold, the first
being 70% pure and the second being 60%
pure. How many ounces of the 60% pure
gold must be used to make 100 ounces of
an alloy which will be 66% gold?
 A. 40
 B. 35
 C. 45
 D. 38
Problem 29: ME Board October 1994
Two thousand (2000) kg of steel containing
8% nickel is to be made by mixing a steel
containing 14% nickel with another
containing 6% nickel. How much of each is
needed?
  A. 1500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 500  D. 9
kg of steel with 6% nickel
 B. 750 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1250 Problem 34: ECE Board March 1996
kg of steel with 6% nickel
 C. 500 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 1500 The sum of the two numbers is 21 and one
kg of steel with 6% nickel number is twice the other. Find the numbers.
 D. 1250 kg of steel with 14% nickel, 750
kg of steel with 6% nickel
 A. 6, 15
 B. 7, 14
Problem 30:
 C. 8, 13
 D. 9, 12
How much water must be evaporated from
10 kg solution which has 4% salt to make a Problem 35: EE Board April 1993
solution of 10% salt?
If eight is added to the product of nine and
 A. 4 kg the numerical number, the sum is seventy-
 B. 5 kg one. Find the unknown number.
 C. 6 kg
 D. 7 kg
 A. 5
 B. 6
Problem 31: EE Board October 1994
 C. 7
 D. 8
If a two digit number has x for its unit’s digit
and y for its ten’s digit, represent the Problem 36:
number.
Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted
 A. 10x + y from its term becomes ¼, but if 4 is added to
 B. 10y + x its terms it becomes ½.
 C. yx
 D. xy
 A. 3/5
 B. 5/12
Problem 32: EE Board October 1994
 C. 5/14
 D. 6/13
One number is 5 less that the other. If their
sum is 135, what are the numbers? Problem 37: GE Board February 1992

 A. 85, 50 The product of 1/4 and 1/5 of a number is

 B. 80, 55 500. What is the number?
 C. 70, 65
 D. 75, 60
 A. 50
 B. 75
Problem 33: ECE Board March 1996
 C. 100
 D. 125
 A. 6
 B. 7 Problem 38:
 C. 8
If 3 is subtracted from the numerator of a  D. 69
certain fraction, the value of the fraction
becomes 3/5. If 1 is subtracted from the Problem 42:
denominator of the same fraction, it
becomes 2/3. Find the original fraction. The second of the four numbers is three less
than the first the third is four more than the
 A. 35/55 first and the fourth is two more than the third.
 B. 36/55 Find the fourth number if their sum is 35.
 C. 3/7
 D. 32/41  A. 10
 B. 11
Problem 39: ECE Board November 1997  C. 12
 D. 13
The denominator of a certain fraction is
three more than twice the numerator. If 7 is Problem 43: EE Board April 1997
added to both terms of the fraction, the
resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original A jogger starts a course at a steady rate of 8
fraction. kph. Five minutes later, a second jogger
starts the same course at 10 kph. How long
 A. 8/5 will it take the second jogger to catch the
 B. 13/5 first?
 C. 5/13
 D. 3/5  A. 20 min
 B. 21 min
Problem 40:  C. 22 min
 D. 18 min
Find the product of two numbers such that
twice the first added to the second equals 19 Problem 44: EE Board April 1997
and three times the first is 21 more than the
second. A boat man rows to a place 4.8 miles with
the stream and back in 14 hours, but finds
 A. 24 that he can row 14 miles with the stream in
 B. 32 the same time as 3 miles against the stream.
 C. 18 Find the rate of the stream.
 D. 20
 A. 1.5 miles per hour
Problem 41:  B. 1 mile per hour
 C. 0.8 mile per hour
The ten’s digit of a number is 3 less than the  D. 0.6 mile per hour
unit’s digit. If the number is divided by the
sum of the digits, the quotient is 4 and the Problem 45: ECE Board November 1998
remainder is 3. What is the original number?
A man rows downstream at the rate of 5
 A. 36 mph and upstream at the rate of 2 mph. How
 B. 47 far is downstream should he go if he is to
 C. 58 return in 7/4 hours after leaving?
  A. 2.5 miles
 B. 3.3 miles
 C. 3.1 miles
 D. 2.7miles
Problem 46: CE Board November 1994
An airplane flying with the wind, took 2 hours
to travel 1000 km and 2.5 hours in flying
back. What was the wind velocity in kph?
which it proceeds at 3/5 of its former rate
and arrives three hour after time; but had the
accident happened 50 miles farther on the
line, it would have arrived one and one-half
hour sooner. Find the length of the journey.
 A. 910/9 miles
 B. 800/9 miles
 C. 920/9 miles
 D. 850/9 miles

 A. 50 Problem 50:
 B. 60
 C. 70 On a certain trip, Edgar drives 231 km in
 D. 40 exactly the same time as Edwin drive 308
km. If Erwin’s rate exceeded that of Edgar
Problem 47: CE Board May 1998 by 13 kph, determine the rate of Erwin.

A boat travels downstream in 2/3 of the time  A. 39 kph

as it goes going upstream. If the velocity of  B. 44 kph
the river’s current is 8 kph, determine the  C. 48 kph
velocity of the boat in still water.  D. 52 kph

 A. 40 kph
 B. 50 kph
 C. 30 kph
 D. 60 kph

Problem 48:

Two planes leave Manila for a southern city,

a distance of 900 km. Plane A travels at a
ground speed of 90 kph faster than the
plane B. Plane A arrives in their destination
2 hours and 15 minutes ahead of Plane B.
What is the ground speed of Plane A.

 A. 205 kph
 B. 315 kph
 C. 240 kph
 D. 287 kph

Problem 49: EE Board April 1997

A train, an hour after starting, meets with an

accident which detains it an hour, after