2nd ENGINEERING CORPS QUALIFYING EXAMINATION
Clock, Motion and Miscellaneous
PROBLEMS ABOUT MOTION
Note: In this problem type it is assumed that the
rate of motion is constant.
Distanced traveled = Rate of motion x Time
EXAMPLE 1:
A freight train, running at the rate of 20 mph,
leaves the station 3 hours before an express,
which travels in the same direction at the rate of
50 mph. How long after the express train leaves
will it catch the freight train?
EXAMPLE 2:
A motorist drove 144 miles. If he had gone 6 mph
faster, the trip would have taken 20 fewer
minutes. What was his speed?
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TEST YOURSELF: 2. Two trains are running at 40 km/hr and 20
km/hr respectively in the same direction. Fast
1. Trains A and B, 700 miles apart, are heading train completely passes a man sitting in the slower
toward each other on a straight piece of track. train in 5 seconds. What is the length of the fast
Train A is going 85 mph while train B is going 55 train?
mph. At the same moment, a bee that flies 110
mph is sitting on the nose of train A and begins
flying toward train B. When it reaches train B it
makes an instantaneous reversal of direction and
flies back toward train A. It continues to change
direction every time it runs into a train until both
trains and the bee meet in a spectacular crash.
What total distance did the bee fly before the big
collision?
3. A truck traveling at a constant rate of 45 mph
leaves Cebu at 9:00 AM. One hour later, a car
traveling at constant rate of 60mph leaves the
same place, traveling in the same direction, on the
same highway. At what time will the car overtake
the truck, if both vehicles continue in the same
direction on the highway?
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Clock, Motion and Miscellaneous
Prepared by: Jared S. Cuchapin

PROBLEMS ABOUT MOTION INVOLVING WIND
OR WATER CURRENT
Total rate of motion x Time = Distance Traveled
Let: V1 = rate of the airplane in still air
V2 = rate of the wind
TEST YOURSELF: PROBLEMS ABOUT A STANDARD CLOCK
4. A boat travels downstream in 2/3 of the time as
it goes upstream. If the velocity of the river's
current is 8 kph, determine the velocity of the
boat in still water?

Reference Time After “x” minutes

Total Rate
Traveling with the wind V1 + V2
where:
Traveling against the wind V1 - V2 x = distance traveled by the minute hand in
minutes
Let: V1 = rate of the boat in still water x/12 = distance traveled by the hour hand in
minutes
V2 = rate of the water current
EXAMPLE 4: At what time between 4 and 5 o'clock will
the hands of a clock____________?
Total Rate
5. In an outgoing trip a plane flew 180 miles a. coincide
Traveling Downstream V1 + V2 against a 30 mph wind. In the return trip it flew b. be opposite each other
Traveling Upstream V1 - V2 the same distance, with the tailwind of 15 mph. c. be at right angle for the first time
The total elapsed time is 3 hrs and 20 minutes.
EXAMPLE 3: An airplane travels from two airports Find the planes speed in still air.
with a distance of 1500 km with a wind along its
flight line. It takes the airplane 2 hours with the
tailwind and 2.5 hours with the headwind.
Determine the velocity of the airplane in still air?
 2nd ENGINEERING CORPS QUALIFYING EXAMINATION
Clock, Motion and Miscellaneous
TEST YOURSELF: TEST YOURSELF:
6. How many minutes after 10:00 o'clock will the hands 7. It is now between 9 and 10 o'clock. In 14 minutes,
of the clock be opposite each other for the first time? the hour hand of a clock will be directly opposite the
position occupied by the minute hand 3 minutes ago.
What time is it?
SPECIAL CLOCK PROBLEM TYPES
EXAMPLE 5: How many minutes and seconds after 2
o'clock will the angle between the hands of the clock
be bisected by the line connecting the center of the
clock and the 3 o'clock mark?
8. A man left his home at past 3 o'clock PM as
indicated in his wall clock, between 2 to 3 hours after,
he returns home and notice the hands of the clock are
interchanged. At what time did the man left his home?
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MISCELLANEOUS PROBLEMS
These are problem types whose solutions don't follow a
pattern. Each Solution is unique to itself only.
EXAMPLE 6:
A group of reviewees rented a resort cabin for P600.
Two other member joined in, as a consequence, each
of the two others need to pay P10 less. How many
were there in the original group?
EXAMPLE 7:
The age of Diophantus, a Greek mathematician may be
calculated from the epitaph which reads as follows:
“Diophantus passed 1/6 of his life in childhood, 1/12 in
youth, 1/7 as a bachelor. Five years after his marriage
was born a son who died 4 years before his father at
half his father's final age.”How old is Diophantus when
he died?
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Clock, Motion and Miscellaneous
Prepared by: Jared S. Cuchapin

TEST YOURSELF: 11.

A man sold half an egg ore than half his eggs. He
9. A chinese writer Sun Tsu Pao put this words into the then sold half an egg more than half his
mouth of a woman washing dishes in the river.”I don't remaining eggs. He did the same a third time, and
know how many guest there were but every two used
then he had 7 eggs left. How many eggs he had at
a fish for rice between them, every three a dish for
first?
broth and every four a dish for meat and there were 65
dishes in all.” How many guest were there?

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10. A group of neighbors plan to pay equal amount in

order to buy a small mower which costs P4,800. If by
adding 2 more neighbors to the original group, the
costs to each other is reduced by P120, find the
number of neighbors in the original group?