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Review MODULE – MATHEMATICS (Algebra–Worded Problems)

WORK PROBLEMS ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION
1. If Unko can paint six rooms in 10 hours and Kotaro can paint 1. Jihoz had an offer for a job starting at ₱ 480,000 per year and
four rooms in 7 hours, how long will it take them to paint six rooms guaranteeing him a raise of ₱ 60,000 a year for the next 5 years.
working together? Determine his salary on the 4th year.

2. Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% faster 2. A section of a stadium has 24 seats in the first row, 26 seats in
than Pilar, and together they can paint a fence in 4 hours. How the second row, increasing by 2 seats each row for a total of 33
long will it take Pedro to paint the fence alone? rows. How many seats are in this section of the stadium?

3. A tank is filled with an intake pipe in 2 hours and emptied by an
outlet pipe in 4 hours. If both pipes are opened, how long will it
take to fill the empty tank?
4. 30 men could finish rebar installation in 12 days. To speed up
the construction, the contractor hired 40 men, but only for the first
5 days because on the succeeding days the contractor
experienced financial difficulty and fired 20 men. How many days
(in total) will it take the contractor to finish the job?
MIXTURE PROBLEMS
1. A goldsmith has 2 alloys of gold, the first being 70% pure and
the second being 60%. How many ounces of the 60% pure gold
must be used to make 100 ounces of an alloy which will be 66%
gold?
2. A Tagay Alchemist has two alcohol solutions of different
strengths, Tanduay Extra Strong (50% alcohol) and Gilbey’s
London (40% alcohol) respectively. How many cc of the Gilbey’s
London must he use to make a mixture of 300 cc, which contains
42% alcohol?
3. A gift store is making a mixture of almonds, pecans, and
peanuts, which sells for P 6.50 per kilogram, P 8.00 per kilogram,
and P 4.00 per kilogram, respectively. The storekeeper wants to
make 20 kilograms of the mix to sell at P 5.30 per kg. The number
of kilograms of peanuts is to be three times the number of
kilograms of pecans. Find the number of kgs. of peanuts to be
used in the mixture.
3. CE BOARD M2015, N2015. Alfred set out at a speed of 6 kph
from a certain point. After Alfred had traveled for 2 hours, Benny
set out to overtake him and went 4 km the first hour, 5 km the
second hour, 6 km the third hour, so on and gaining one km per
hour. After how many hours were they together?
GEOMETRIC PROGRESSION
1. The seventh term and the twelfth term of a geometric
progression are 56 and -1792 respectively. Find the common ratio
and the first term.
2. In a benefit show, a number of wealthy men/women agreed that
the first one to arrive would pay 10 centavos to enter and each
later arrive would pay twice as much as the preceding person. The
total amount collected from all of them was P 104,857.50. How
many wealthy people attended the event?
3. A person is entitled to receive an annual payment which for
each year is less by one tenth of what it was for the year before. If
the first payment is ₱ 100, determine the total of payment he/she
receives, however long he may live.
HARMONIC PROGRESSION
1. Insert three harmonic terms, between 3/7 and 3/19.
2. Determine the harmonic mean of two numbers if the arithmetic
mean and geometric mean is 10 and 8 respectively.

VARIATION PROBLEMS
1. The intensity of light (in foot-candle) varies inversely as the
square of x, the distance in feet from the light source. The intensity
of light 3 ft from the source is 96 ft-candles. How far away is the
source if intensity of light is 6 ft-candles?

2. The maximum weight that a rectangular beam can support

varies jointly as its width and the square of its height and inversely
as its length. If a beam is 1/3 ft wide, ½ ft high and 11 ft long can
support 20 tons, find how much similar beam can support if the
beam is ¼ ft wide, ¼ ft high and 17 ft long.