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Exercise Set 2 (Calculator)
1 5
If a train travels at a constant rate of 50 miles per
hour, how many minutes will it take to travel 90
miles?
2
6
Two cars leave the same point simultaneously,
going in the same direction along a straight, flat
road, one at 35 miles per hour and the other at 50
miles per hour. After how many minutes will the
cars be 5 miles apart?
3
7
If a $6,000 contribution is divided among charities
A, B, and C in a ratio of 8:5:2, respectively, how
much more, in dollars, does charity A receive than
charity C ?
4
If a car traveling at 60 mph is chasing a car 8
travelling at 50 mph and is ¼ mile behind, how
many minutes will it take the first car to catch the
second?
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A truck’s gas tank can hold 18 gallons. If the tank
is 2/3 full and the truck travels for 4 hours at 60
miles per hour until it runs out of gas, what is the
efficiency of the truck, in miles per gallon?
A motorcycle has a fuel efficiency of 60 miles per
gallon when it is cruising at a speed of 50 miles per
hour. How many hours can it travel at 50 miles per
hour on a full tank of gas, if its tank can hold 10
gallons?
If the ratio of a to b is 3 to 4, and the ratio of a to c is
5 to 2, what is the ratio of b to c ?
A) 3 to 10
B) 3 to 5
C) 5 to 3
D) 10 to 3
A paint mixture consists of a 3:2:11 ratio of red,
violet, and white, respectively. How many ounces
of violet are needed to make 256 ounces of this
mixture?
A) 32
B) 36
C) 46
D) 48
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A pool that holds 20,000 gallons is ¼ full. A pump Janice can edit 700 words per minute and Edward
can deliver g gallons of water every m minutes. can edit 500 words per minute. If each page of text
If the pumping company charges d dollars per contains 800 words, how many pages can they edit,
minute, how much will it cost, in dollars, to fill the working together, in 20 minutes?
pool?
5, 000 md
A)
g
5, 000 gd
B)
m
15, 000 md
C)
g
15,000 gd 13
D)
m If a printer can print 5 pages in 20 seconds, how
many pages can it print in 5 minutes?

10
Yael travels to work at an average speed of 40 miles
per hour and returns home by the same route at 24
miles per hour. If the total time for the round trip is
2 hours, how many miles is her trip to work?
A) 25
B) 30 14
C) 45
Traveling at 40 miles per hour, Diego can complete
D) 60 his daily commute in 45 minutes. How many
minutes would he save if he traveled at 50 miles per
hour?
11
A hare runs at a constant rate of a miles per hour,
and a tortoise runs at a constant rate of b miles per
hour, where 0 < b < a. How many more hours will
it take the tortoise to finish a race of d miles than
the hare?

a+b
A)
2d 15
ad − bd
B) 2a 1 c 1 a
ab If = and = , what is ?
3b 5 2 b 2 c
b−a
C)
d
ab − bd
D)
ad
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If a cyclist races at 30 miles per hour for 1/2 of the
distance of a race, and 45 miles per hour for the
final 1/2 of the distance, what is her average speed,
in miles per hour, for the entire race?
19
A car travels d miles in t hours and arrives at its
destination 3 hours late. At what average speed, in
miles per hour, should the car have gone in order to
arrive on time?

t −3
A)
d
d
B)
t −3
d
C) −3
t
d −3
D)
t

17
Anne can paint a room in 2 hours, and Barbara can
paint the same room in 3 hours. If they each work
the same rate when they work together as they do
alone, how many hours should it take them to paint 20
the same room if they work together? In three separate 1-mile races, Ellen finished with
times of x minutes, y minutes, and z minutes,
respectively. What was her average speed, in miles
per hour, for all three races?

x + y +z
A)
3
3
B)
x + y +z
x + y +z
C)
180
18
180
What is the average speed, in miles per hour, of a D)
x + y +z
sprinter who runs ¼ mile in 45 seconds? (1 hour =
60 minutes and 1 minute = 60 seconds)
A) 11.25
B) 13.5
C) 20
21
D) 22
Sylvia drove 315 miles and arrived at her
destination in 9 hours. If she had driven 10 miles
per hour faster, how many hours would she have
saved on the trip?
A) 1.75 hours
B) 2.00 hours
C) 2.25 hours
D) 2.50 hours
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EXERCISE SET 2 ANSWER KEY

1. 108 time = distance/rate = 90 miles/50 mph = 1.8 x x

hours = 1.8 hour × 60 min/hour = 108 minutes. + =2
40 24
x
Simplify: =2
2. 20 The fast car is moving ahead of the slow car at a 15
rate of 50 − 35 = 15 mph, and so it will be 5 miles ahead Multiply by 15: x = 30 miles
after 5 ÷ 15 = 1/3 hour = 20 minutes.
11. B The tortoise would take d/b hours to com-
3. 2,400 Since 8 + 5 + 2 = 15, charity A receives 8/15 plete the race, and the hare would take d/a hours
of the contribution, and charity C receives 2/15. The dif- to complete the race, so the tortoise would take
ference is 6/15, or 2/5, of the total, which is (2/5)($6,000) = d d ad bd ad − bd
− = − = hours longer.
$2,400. a a ab ab ab

12. 30 Together they can edit 700 + 500 = 1,200 words

4. 1.5 Since the faster car is catching up to the slower
per minute, so in 20 minutes they can edit
car at 60 − 50 = 10 mph, it will take (1/4 mile)/(10 mph) =
1,200 words 1 page
1/40 hours = 60/40 minutes = 1.5 minutes. 20 minutes × × = 30 pages
1 minute 800 words
5. 20 The tank contains (2/3)(18) = 12 gallons, and
travels (4 hours)(60 mph) = 240 miles, so its efficiency is 13. 75 If the printer can print 5 pages in 20 seconds,
240/12 = 20 miles per gallon. it can print 15 pages in 1 minute, and therefore 15 × 5 =
75 pages in 5 minutes.
6. 12 With 10 gallons of gas and an efficiency of
60 miles per gallon, the car can travel 10 × 60 = 14. 9 Since 45 minutes is ¾ hour, Diego’s daily com-
600 miles. At 50 miles an hour this would take 600/50 = mute is 40 × ¾ = 30 miles. If he traveled at 50 mph it
12 hours. would take him 30/50 = 3/5 hours = 36 minutes, so
he would save 45 − 36 = 9 minutes.

b b a 4 5 10 2 a 2b 1 2
7. D = × = × = 15. 3/10 or 0.3 × = ×
c a c 3 2 3 3b c 5 1
8. A According to the ratio, the mixture is 2/(3 + 4a 2
Simplify: =
2 + 11) = 2/16 = 1/8 violet. Therefore 256 ounces of the 3c 5
mixture would contain (1/8)(256) = 32 ounces of violet a 2 3 3
paint. Multiply by ¾: = × =
c 5 4 10

9. C If the pool is ¼ full, it requires (3/4)(20,000) = 16. 36 Pick a convenient length for the race, such as
15,000 more gallons. 180 miles (which is a multiple of both 30 and 45). The first
half of the race would therefore be 90 miles, which would
m minutes d dollars
15, 000 gallons × × take 90 miles ÷ 30 mph = 3 hours, and the second half
g gallons 1 minute would take 90 miles ÷ 45 mph = 2 hours. Therefore, the
15, 000 md entire race would take 3 + 2 = 5 hours, and the cyclist’s
= dollars
g average speed would therefore be 180 miles ÷ 5 hours =
36 miles per hour.
10. B Let x = the distance, in miles, from home to
work. Since time = distance/rate, it takes Yael x/40 hours 17. 1.2 or 6/5 Anne’s rate is 1/2 room per hour, and
to get to work and x/24 hours to get home. Barbara’s rate is 1/3 room per hour, so together their rate
is 1/3 + 1/2 = 5/6 room per hour. Therefore, painting
one room should take (1 room)/(5/6 room per hour) =
6/5 hours.
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18. C × = 20 mph 20. D × = mph
45 seconds 1 hour x + y + z minutes 1 hour x+y+z

19. B In order to arrive on time, it would have to travel 21. B Sylvia traveled at 315/9 = 35 miles per hour. If she
the d miles in t − 3 hours, which would require a speed had traveled at 35 + 10 = 45 miles per hour, she would
of d/(t − 3) mph. have arrived in 315/45 = 7 hours, thereby saving 2 hours.