DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
PRACTICE WORD PROBLEMS
1. Carolyn’s age is triple her daughter’s age. In eight
years the sum of their ages will be 72. How old are they
now?
2. The sum of the ages of two children is 16 years. Four
years ago, the age of the older child was three times the
age of the younger child. Find the present age of each
child.
3. Suppose you have a coin collection of dimes and
quarters containing 46 coins. If you have $6.70, how
many of each type of coin do you have?
4. John received change worth $13. He received 10 more
dimes than nickels and 22 more quarters than dimes.
How many coins of each did he receive?
5. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 9. If the
digits are reversed, the new number is 63 greater than
the original number. Find the original number.
6. There were 429 people at a play. Admission was $1
for adults and 75 cents for children. The receipts were
$372.50. How many adults attended the play? How
many children attended the play?
7. A collection of quarters and nickels is worth $ 1.25.
There are 13 coins in all. How many of quarters are
there? How many nickels are there?
8. Jay is three times as old as James. Three years ago, Jay
was four times as old as James. The sum of their ages is?
9. A girl is one-third as old as her brother and 8 years
younger than her sister. The sum of their sister ages is
38 years. How old is this girl?
10. Mason, who weighs 108 pounds, is seated 5 feet
from the fulcrum of a seesaw. Benita is seated on the
same side of the seesaw, two feet farther from the
fulcrum than Mason. Benita weighs 96 pounds. The
seesaw is balanced when Sue, who weighs 101 pounds,
sits on the other side. How far is Sue from the fulcrum?
11. A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in
31 days and C and A in 20 days. In how many days can
all of them do the work together?
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12. Two thousand (2000) kgs of steel containing 8%
nickel is to be made by mixing a steel containing 14%
nickel with another containing 6% nickel. How much
steel with 14% nickel? How much steel with 6% nickel?
13. A tank can be filled in 9 hours by one pipe, 12 hours
by a second pipe and can be drained when full by third
pipe in 15 hours. How long will it take to fill an empty
tank with all pipes in operation?
14. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.
Determine the number.
15. The tens’ digit of a number is 3 less than the units’
digit. If the number is divided by the sum of the digits,
the quotient is 4 and the remainder is 3. What is the
original number?
16. Find the product of two numbers such that twice the
first added to the second equals 19 and three times the
first is 21 more than the second.
17. If eight is added to the product of nine and the
numerical number, the sum is seventy-one. Find the
unknown number.
18. When one boy is sitting 1.2 meters from the center
of see-saw, another boy must to sit on the other side 1.5
meters from the center to maintain an even balance.
However, when the first boy carries an additional
weight of 14 kilograms and sits 1.8 meters from the
center to balance. Neglecting the weight of the see-saw,
find the weight of heavier boy.
19. Ten liters of 25 percent salt solution and 15 liters of
35 percent salt solution are poured into a drum
originally containing 30 liters of 10 percent salt
solution. What is the percent concentration of salt in the
mixture?
20. How much water must be evaporated from 10
kilograms solution which has 4 percent salt to make a
solution of 10 percent?
21. The second of the four numbers is three less than
the first, the third is four more than the first and the
fourth is two more than the third. Find the fourth
number if their sum is 35.
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22. Find the fraction such that if 2 is subtracted from its
terms it becomes 1/4, but if 4 is added to its terms it
becomes 1/2.

23. A reservoir can be filled by an inlet pipe in 24 hours

and emptied by an outlet pipe in 28 hours. The foreman
starts to fill the reservoir, but he forgets to close the
outlet pipe. Six hours later he remembers and closes the
outlet. How long does it take altogether to fill the
reservoir?