Torres, Zoe Marie V.

March 16, 2019

GED 102

Problem Set No. 1

Mathematics in the Modern World

1. Alice, Ben and Carl collect stamps. The exchange stamps among themselves
according to the following scheme: Alice gives Ben as many stamps as Ben
has and Carl as many stamps as Carl has. After that, Ben gives Alice and Carl
as many stamps as each of them has, and then Carl gives Alice and Ben as
many stamps as each has. If each finally has 64 stamps, with how many
stamps does Alice start?

Answer: 104 stamps

2. Solve the following cryptarithms. In each problem, letters represent a single

digit only.
a. (HE)2 = SHE

Answer: 625

b. WRONG
+ WRONG
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RIGHT
Answer: 50876

3. How many squares of all sizes are in an 8x8 checkerboard?

Answer: 204 squares

4. In order to encourage his son in the study of algebra, a father promised the
son P8 for every problem solved correctly and to fine him P5 for each
incorrect solution. After 26 problems, neither owed anything to the other.
How many problems did the boy solve correctly?

Answer: 10 correct answers

5. Find 3 solids and their measurements whose surface area is 60 square units.

Answer:
 1. Pyramid with length of 5 units, width of 5 units and a height of 2.45 units.

2. Cube of dimensions 3.16227766017 units and contains a surface area of 60

square units.

3. Sphere with a radius of 2.1851 units, the surface area is 60 square units.

6. If a pup is worth a pooch and a mutt, and a pup and a pooch are worth one
bird dog, and two bird dogs are worth three mutts, how many pooches is a
pup worth?

Answer: 5 pooches

7. If it is now 10:45 am, what time will it be in 143,999,999,995 minutes from now?

Answer: 10:40 pm

8. Find the units digit for the sum 1325 + 481 +5411.
Answer:
1325= 3 unit digits
481= 4 unit digits
5411= 5 unit digits

9. Mang Ruben has only an 11-liter can and a 5-liter can. How can he measure
out exactly 7 liters of water?

10. An egg vendor broke all the eggs that he was delivering to a local store. He
could not remember how many eggs there were in all. However, he did
remember that when he tried to pack them into packages of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
he had one left over each time. When he packed them into packages of 7,
he had none left over. What is the smallest number of eggs he could have
had in the shipment?
Answer: 24 eggs