WORDED PROBLEMS

1. The weight of a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the earth.
If the radius of the earth is 4000 miles, how much would a 200-pound man weigh 1000 miles
above the surface of the earth?

2. Given that y varies inversely as the square of the difference of w and x, and that y = 6 and w = 3
and x = 1, find the equation for y.

3. It takes Alison 5 hours to complete a task if she works alone, and it takes Claire 4 hours alone.
How long will it take to complete the task if they work together?

4. A swimming pool can be filled by an inlet pipe in 10 hours and emptied by an outlet pipe in 12
hours. One day the pool is empty, and the owner opens the inlet pipe to fill the pool. But he
forgets to close the outlet. With both pipes open, how long will it take to fill the pool?

5. Mary, Sue, and Bill work a motel. If each worked alone, it take Mary 10 hours, Sue 8 hours, Bill
12 hours to clean the whole motel. One day Mary came to work early and she had cleaned for 2
hours when Sue and Bill arrived and all three finished the job. How long did they take to finish?

6. The sum of the ages of the three brothers is 63. If their ages are consecutive integers,
what is the age of the eldest?

7. If Luna was four as old as Lina 8 years ago, and if Luna will be twice as old as Lina 8 years
hence, how old is Lina now?

8. Yaki is 3 times as old as Soba. Three years ago, he is four times as old as Soba.
Find the sum of their ages.

9. A 100 kg salt solution originally 4% by weight. Salt in water is boiled to reduce water content
until the concentration is 5% by weight salt. How much water is evaporated?

10. A Girl Scout troop has 20 pounds of candy worth 80 cents per pound. It wishes to mix it with
candy worth 50 cents per pound so that the total mixture can be sold at 60 cents per pound
without any gain or loss. How much of the 50-cent candy must be used?

11. A chemist needs a solution of tannic acid that is 70% pure. How much distilled water must she
added to 5 gallons of acid which is 90% pure?

12. A chemist has 300 grams od 20% acid solution. He wants to drain some off and replace it with
an 80% solution so as to obtain a 25% solution. How many grams must he drain and replace
with 80% solution?

13. In how many minutes after 7 o’clock will the hands be directly opposite to each other for the first
time?

14. What time after 3 o’clock will the hands of the clock be together for the first time?

15. At what time after 12:00 will the hour hand and minute hand of the clock first form an angle of
120 degrees?
16. An airplane travels 500 km against the wind in one hour and 45 minutes. Traveling the same
distance with the wind, the airplane consumed one hour and 15 minutes.
Find the velocity of the wind.

17. Two trains going in opposite directions leave at the same time. One train travels 15 mph faster
than the other. In 6 hours, the trains are 630 miles apart. Find the speed of the faster train.

18. Slark can walk 4 km with the same time as Slardar can walk 5 km. slark take 3 minutes more
than it takes Slardar to walk a kilometer. What is the rate if Slark in kph?

19. A price increase by 10% due to demands and is then reduced by 12% for a holiday sale.
Express the final price as a function of the original price P.

20. Renting a motorcycle in Siargao Island charges Php 2,800 per week plus two pesos per km in
gasoline cost. If your island travel budget is good for a week, how many km can you travel with
Php 3,000.

21. In what price will you sell a cellphone for a sale that cost Php 6000 in order that you may offer
20% discount on the selling price and still make a profit of 25% in the discounted price?

22. The average of 90 real numbers is 70. When two numbers are removed namely 27 and 52,
find the new average.

23. A country barn house chicken and pigs. In to order to determine the exact number of each king
of animals in the barn the farm supervisor installs sensors, but it can only count the number of
head and legs. It records 60 heads and 140 legs. How many chickens are there?

24. The hundred’s digit of a number is twice the unit’s digit. If 396 is subtracted from the number,
the order of digits will be reversed. Find the number if the sum of the digits is 17.

25. The sum of two consecutive numbers is 37. What is the larger number?