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(1) Working alone at its constant rate,Pump A would empty the full tank in 4 hours 20 minutes.
(2) Working alone, Pump B would empty the full tank at its constant rate of 72 liters per minute.
Q2) Maria leH home 1/4 hour aHer her husband and drove over the same route as he had in
order to overtake him. From the =me she leH, how many hours did it take Maria to overtake her
husband?
Q3) In planning for a trip, Joan es=mated both the distance of the trip, in miles, and her average
speed, in miles per hour. She accurately divided her es=mated distance by her es=mated
average speed to obtain an es=mate for the =me, in hours, that the trip would take. Was her
es=mate within 0.5 hour of the actual =me that the trip took?
(1) Joan’s es=mate for the distance was within 5 miles of the actual distance.
(2) Joan’s es=mate for her average speed was within 10 miles per hour of her actual average
speed.
Q4) Machines X and Y produced iden=cal boWles at different constant rates. Machine X,
opera=ng alone for 4 hours, filled part of a produc=on lot; then Machine Y, opera=ng alone for 3
hours, filled the rest of this lot. How many hours would it have taken Machine X opera=ng alone
to fill the en=re produc=on lot?
Q5) Is the number of seconds required to travel d1 feet at r1 feet per second greater than the
number of seconds required to travel d2 feet at r2 feet per second?
(1) The water leaked from the tank at a constant rate of 6.4 ounces per minute.
(2) The tank became empty less than 12 hours aHer it started to leak.
Q7) A paint mixture was formed by mixing exactly 3 colors of paint. By volume, the mixture was
x% blue paint, y% green paint, and z% red paint. If exactly 1 gallon of blue paint and 3 gallons of
red paint were used, how many gallons of green paint were used?
(1) x = y
(2) z = 60
Q8) How long did it take BeWy to drive nonstop on a trip from her home to Denver, Colorado?
(1) If BeWy's average speed for the trip had been 3/2 =mes as fast, the trip would have taken 2
hours.
(2) BeWy's average speed for the trip was 50 miles per hour.
Q9) Each type A machine fills 400 cans per minute,each Type B machine fills 600 cans per
minute,and each Type C machine installs 2,400 lids per minute.A lid is installed on each can that
is filled and on no can that is not filled.For a par=cular minute,what is the total number of
machines working?
Q10) A conveyor belt moves boWles at a constant speed of 120 cen=meters per second. If the
conveyor belt moves a boWle from a loading dock to an unloading dock, is the distance that the
conveyor belt moves the boWle less than 90 meters? (1 meter = 100 cen=meters)
(1) It takes the conveyor belt less than 1.2 minutes to move the boWle from the loading dock to
the unloading dock.
(2) It takes the conveyor belt more than 1.1 minutes to move the boWle from the loading dock
to the unloading dock.