1. A boatman rows to a place 48 km distant and back in 14 hours; he A. 2 hours C.

4 hours
finds that he can row 4 km with the stream in the same time as 3 km B. 3 hours D. 2.5 hours
against the stream; find the rate of the stream.
A. 2 km/hr C. 1 km/hr 16. John started running at a speed of 10 kph. Five minutes later, Peter
B. 1.5 km/hr D. 2.4 km/hr started running in the same direction and catches up with John in 20
2. Find the number such that their sum multiplied by the sum of their minutes. What is the speed of Peter?
A. 17.5 kph C. 15.0 kph
squares is 65, and their difference multiplied by the difference of
B. 12.5 kph D. 14.2 kph
their squares is 5.
a. 3 and 2 C. 4 and 5 17. Three cats can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes. How many minutes will it take
b. l and 3 D. l and 4 for 100 cats to kill 100 rats?
A. 3 C. 100
3. At present Maria's age is 30% of his mother 's age. Twenty years
B. 33.33 D. 300
from now , Maria 's age wi ll be 58% of his mother 's age. How old is
Maria 's mother?
A. 42 C. 36 18. A boat takes 2/3 as much time to travel downstream than to travel
B. 38 D. 30 upstream. If the rate of the water current is 8 kph, what is the rate of
the boat in still water?
A. 3 C. 4
4. The ten's digit of a certain two digit number exceeds the unit 's digit
8 kph 0 kph D .
by four and is one less than twice the unit 's digit. Find the number.
A. 65 C. 95 B. 42 kph 45 kph
B. 85 D. 59 19. Find two consecutive positive even numbers such that the difference
of their squares is 76.
A. 18, 20 C. 16, 18
5. A man sold a watch for P 3500 at a loss of 30% on the cost price. Find B. 14, 16 D. 20, 22
the corresponding loss or gain if he sold it for P 5,050.
a. 1% gain C. 1% loss
20. The sum of the digits of a 3-digit number is 14. The hundred 's digit
b. 2% gain D. 2% loss
being 4 times the unit 's digit. If 594 is subtracted from the number, the
order of the digits will be reversed. Find the number.
6. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of 89% A. 563 C. 842
hydrochloric acid solution to reduce its strength to 75%? B. 824 D. 743
A. 4.83 C. 6.53
B. 7.33 D. 5.34
21. Find the value of "x" in the series of numbers 12, 13, 17, 26, x, 67,
103.
7. The difference of the squares of the digits of a 2-digit positive number A. 45 C. 42
is 27. If the digits are reversed in order and the resulting number is B. 16 D. 67
subtracted from the original number, the difference is also 27. What is
the original number? 22. Workers A , B and C can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7 hours,
A. 72 C. 63 respectively. What fraction of the yard can they mow in 1 hour if they
B. 56 D. 81 work together?
A. 47/84 C. 54/47
8. A man travels in a motorized boat at the rate of 12 kph from his barrio B. 84/47 D. 40/47
to the town and come back to his barrio at the rate of 10 kph. If the 23. An engineer mixed 40 milliliters of 35% hydrochloric acid
total time consumed is 3 hours and 10 minutes, what is distance of the solution with 20 milliliter s of 50% hydrochloric acid solution. What is
barrio to the town? the percentage of the new hydrochloric acid solution ?
A. 15. l 2 km C. 18.43 km A. 40 % C. 38 %
B. 17.27 km D. 15.92 km B. 39 % D. 41 %

9. How many minutes after 10:00 o'clock wi ll the hands of the clock be 24. Two alcohol solutions consists of a 40 gallons of 35 % alcohol
opposite each other for the first time? and other solution containing 50% alcohol. If the two solutions are
A. 22.76 C. 20.45 combined together , they will have a mixture of 40% alcohol. How
B. 21.81 D. 21.48 many gallons of the solutions containing 50% alcohol?
A. 20 C. 18
10. . The difference between two numbers is 24 and their sum is 60. B. 25 D. 30
Find the numbers.
A. 16, 40 C. 20, 44
25. Mary is three times as old as Ann now. Four years ago, she was four
B. 18, 42 D. 15, 39
times as old as Ann was at that time. How old is Ann?
A. 12 C. 15
11. Jan can walk 4 km in the time it takes Papa Erl to walk 5 km. Jan
B. 10 D. 20
requires 3 minutes longer that Papa Erl to walk for a km. Find the rate
of Jan.
a. 4 km/hr C. 7 km/hr
b. 5 km/hr D . 3 km/hr
12. The product of 1/4 and 1/5 of a number is 500. Find the
number. A. 100 C. 300
B. 200 D. 150
13. At what time between 4 and 5 o'clock will the hands of the clock be
at right angle for the first time?
A. 4:5.45 C. 4:5.23
B. 4:6.42 D. 4 .7.62
14. The sum of the squares of two consecutive odd numbers is 130.
Find the product of the numbers.
A. 56 C. 63
B. 72 D. 69
15. . A tank is filled through its inlet pipe and then emptied through its
outlet pipe in a total of 8 hours. If water enters through its inlet pipe
and simultaneously allowed to leave through its outlet pipe, the tank is
filled in 7 .5 hours. How long it will take to fill the tank with the outlet
pipe close?