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Compiled Mathematics Problems Part 1
COMPILATION OF MATH PROBLEMS

ALGEBRA

1. Ten less than four times a certain number is 14.  Determine the number.

2. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 34 cm.  Find the length of the two legs if one leg is 14 cm longer than the other. 

3. Find the equation whose roots are the reciprocals of the roots of the equation 2x^2-3x-5=0.

4. The sum of two numbers is 21 and one number is twice the other.  Find the numbers.  

5. For a particular experiment, you need 5 liters of a 10% solution.  You find 7% and 12% solution on the shelves.  How much of the 7% solution should you mix with the appropriate amount of the 12% solution to get 5 liters of a 10% solution.

6. A circle with a radius of 6 has half of its area removed by a cutting border of uniform width.  Find the width of the border.  

7. Two triangles have equal bases.  The altitude of one triangle is 3 units more than its base while the altitude of the other is 3 units less than its base.  Find the altitudes if the areas of the triangle differ by 21 square units.

8. The roots of the quadratic equation are 1/3 and 1/4.  What is the equation?
  
9. Find the 30th term of the progression 4, 7, 10, …..

10. The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than twice the numerator.  If 7 is added to both terms of the fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5.  Find the original fraction.

11. A piece of wire is shaped to enclose a square whose area is 169 sq.cm.  It is then reshaped to enclose a rectangle whose length is 15 cm.  Find the area of the rectangle. 

12. Find the sum of 6, -2, 2/3, …..

13. In the expansion of ((x+4y))^12, find the numerical coefficient of the 5th term.

14. Find the sum of the first 10 terms of the progression 2, 4, 8, 16,….

15. Find the ratio of an infinite geometric progression if the sum is 2 and the first term is ½.

16. Find the 30th term of the sequence 4, 7, 10, ….

17. A man rows downstream at the rate of 5 mph and upstream at the rate of 2mph.  How far downstream should he go if he is to return in 7/4 hours after leaving?  

18. Find the mean proportional of 4 and 36. 

19. Mary is 24 years old.  Mary is twice as old as Ana was when Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is Ana now?

20. Determine x so that x, 2x + 7, 10x – 7 will be a geometric sequence. 

21. Mike, Loui and Joy can mow the lawn in 4, 6 and 7 hours, respectively.  What fraction of the yard can they mow in 1 hour if they work together?  

22. Given:  f(x) = (x + 3) (X – 4) + 4.  When f(x) is divided by (x – k), the remainder is k.  Find k.

23. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 11.  If the digits are reversed, the resulting number is seven more than twice the original number.  What is the original number?

24. The time required for the examinees to solve the same problem differ by two minutes.  Together, they can solve 32 problems in one hour.  How long will it take for the slower problem solver to solve a problem?

25. Find the sum of the roots of 5x^2-10x+2=0.  

26. In a box there are 25 coins consisting of quarters, nickels and dimes with a total amount of $2.75.  If the nickels were dimes, the dimes were quarters and the quarters were nickels, the total amount would be $3.75.  How many quarters are there?

27. A man travels in a motorized banca at the rate of 15 kph from his barrio to the poblacion and come back to his barrio at the rate of 12 kph.  If his total time of travel back and forth is 3 hours, find the distance from the barrio to the poblacion. 

28. One leg of a right triangle is 20 cm and the hypotenuse is 10 cm longer than the other leg.  Find the length of the hypotenuse. 

29. Three times the sine of a certain angle is twice of the square of the cosine of the same angle.  Find the angle. 

30. A man is 41 years old and his son is 9.  In how many years will the father be three times as old as his son? 

31. A tank is filled with an intake pipe that fills it in 2 hours and an outlet pipe that empty it in 6 hours.  If both pipes are left open, how long will it take to fill the empty tank? 

32. A piece of wire of length 50 m is cut into two parts.  Each part is then bent to form a square.  It is found that the total area of the square is 100 m2.  Find the difference in length of the sides of the two squares. 

33. A purse contains $11.65 in quarters and dimes.  If the total number of coins is 70, find how many dimes are there? 

34. How many liters of water must be added to 35 liters of 89% HCl solution to reduce its strength to 75%? 

35. Find the value of m that will make 4x^2- 4mx+4m+5 a perfect square trinomial. 

36. Ana is 5 yrs. older than Beth.  In 5 yrs., the product of their ages is 1.5 times the product of their present ages.  How old is Beth now? 

37. Find the coefficient of the term involving b4 in the expansion of (a2 – 2b)10. 

39. The seating section in a Coliseum has 30 seats in the first row, 32 seats in the second row, 34 seats in the third row, and so on, until the tenth row is reached, after which there are ten rows each containing 50 seats.  Find the total number of seats in the section.

40. Pedro started running at a speed of 10 kph.  Five minutes later, Mario started running in the same direction and catches up with Pedro in 20 minutes.  What is the speed of Mario?  
 
41. The sum of two numbers is 35 and their product is 15.  Find the sum of their reciprocals.  

42. The ten’s digit of a certain two digit number exceeds the unit’s digit by four and is one less than twice the unit’s digit.  Find the number.

43. One pipe can fill a tank in 6 hours and another pipe can fill the same tank in 3 hours.  A drain pipe can empty the tank in 24 hours.  With all three pipes open, how long will it take to fill in the tank? 

44. A piece of paper is 0.05 inch thick.  Each time the paper is folded into half, the thickness is doubled.  If the paper was folded twelve times, how thick in feet the folded paper be?  

45. A man invested part of Php 20,000 at 18% and the rest at 16%.  The annual income from 16% investment was Php 620 less than three times the annual income from 18% investment.  How much did he invest at 18%?

46. If 3^x=9^y and (27)^y=(81)^z, find x/z.

47. It takes an airplane one hour and forty five minutes to travel 500 miles against the wind and covers the same distance in one hour and fifteen minutes with the wind.  What is the speed of the airplane? 

48. An airplane travels from points A and B with a distance of 1500 kms and a wind along its flight line.  If it takes the airplane 2 hours from A to B with the tailwind and 2.5 hours from B to A with the headwind, what is the velocity? 


TRIGONOMETRY

1. If sin A = 3/5 and A is in quadrant II while cos B = 7/25 and B is in quadrant I, find sin (A + B).  

2. Solve for x in the equation:  Arctan 2x + Arctan x = (  π/2  ) -45°

3. If 84°-0.4x=Arctan(cot0.25x).  Find x. 

4. Simplify: 4cosy siny (1-2 (sin)^2 y) 

5. Evaluate: cos[arctan 15/8-arctan 7/24]. 

6. What is the measure in degrees of 2.25 revolutions counterclockwise? 

7. Find the value of x in the equation cscx+cot⁡(x=3). 

8. If (sec)^2 A=  5/2, what is the quantity 1-(sin)^2 A ?

9. Of what quadrant is A, if sec A is positive and csc A is negative?

10. The angle of a sector is 30° and the radius is 15 cm.  What is the area of the sector?

11. A man finds the angle of elevation of the top of the tower to be 30°.  He walks 85 m nearer the tower and finds its angle of elevation to be 60°.  What is the height of the tower?

12. Evaluate: Arctan[2 cos (arc sin(√3/2)]

13. Points A and B are 1000 m apart are plotted on a straight highway running east and west.  From A, the bearing of tower C is N32°W and from B the bearing of C is N26°E.  Approximate the shortest distance of the tower from the highway.

14. A rotating wheel has a radius of 2 feet and 6 inches.  A point on the rim of the wheel moves 30 feet in 2 sec.  Find the angular velocity of the wheel.

15. Solve for A:  (cos)^2 A=1-(cos)^2 A  

16. Evaluate:  sin (270° - A) 

17. If sec2 A = 5/2, find 1 – sin2A.

18. Simplify:(cos⁡A )^4-(sin⁡A )^4

19. Assuming that the earth is a sphere whose radius is 6400 km.  Find the distance along a 3°arc at the equator of the earth’s surface. 

20. A central angle of 45° subtends an arc of 12 cm.  What is the radius of the circle?  

21. If tan 4A = cot 6A, then what is the value of angle A? 

22. A railroad is to be laid-off in a circular path.  What should be the radius if the track is to change direction by 30° at a distance of 157.08 m?

23. Solve for x:  arctan x + arctan (1/3) = π/4  

24. You are given one coin with 5-cm diameter and a large supply of coins with diameter of 2 cm.  What is the maximum number of the smaller coins that may be arranged tangentially around the larger without any overlap?  

25. Determine the period of the curve y = sin (1/2) x.  

26. Given:  x=cos⁡(B tan⁡(B-sin⁡B ) )/cos⁡B .  Solve for x if B = 30°. 

27. A flywheel of radius 14 inches is rotating at the rate of 1000 rpm.  How fast does a point on the rim travels in ft/sec?

28. Solve angle A of an oblique triangle with vertices ABC, if a = 25, b = 16 and C = 94° 6´ 

29. If sin A = 2.5x and cos A = 5.5 x, find the value of A.

30. Triangle ABC is a right triangle with right angle at C.  CD is perpendicular to AB.  BC = 4 and 

31. CD = 1.  Find the area of the triangle ABC. 

32. A ladder 5 m long leans against the wall of an apartment house forming an angle of 50° 32´with the ground.  How high up the wall does it reach?  

33. If cot 2A cot 68° = 1, then what is tan A?  

34. Simplify the expression:  sin⁡(B+cos⁡(B tan⁡B ) )/cos⁡B .  

35. If A is in the III quadrant and cos A = -15/17, find the value of cos (A/2).


SOLID MENSURATION

1. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is 540°.  Find the number of sides.

2. A regular octagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 10.  Find the area of the octagon.

3. The volume of a sphere is 36π cu.m.  What is its surface area?

4. One side of a regular octagon is 2.  Find the area of the region inside the octagon.  

5. The distance between the centers of the three circles which are mutually tangent to each other externally are 10, 12 and 14 units.  What is the area of the largest circle?

6. If the sides of a parallelogram and an included angle are 6, 10 and 100° respectively, find the length of the shorter diagonal.

7. A trapezoid has an area of 36 m2 and an altitude of 2 m.  Its two bases have ratio of 4:5.  What are the lengths of the bases?

8. The sides of a right triangle are 8, 15 and 17 units.  If each side is doubled, how many square units will the area of the new triangle?

9. Find the measure of each interior angle in degrees of a regular dodecagon.

10. If an equilateral triangle is circumscribed about a circle of radius 10 cm, determine the side of the triangle.

11. A metal washer 1-inch in diameter is pierced by ½ inch hole.  What is the volume of the washer if it is 1/8 inch thick? 

12. What polygon has 27 diagonals? 

13. The volume of the two spheres is in the ratio 27:343 and the sum of their radii is 10.  Find the radius of the smaller sphere.

14. A regular hexagonal pyramid has a slant height of 4 cm and the length of each side of the base is 6 cm.Find the lateral area. 

15. What is the area of an isosceles right triangle if its perimeter is 6.6824?

16. What is the distance in cm between two vertices of a cube which are farthest from each other, if an edge measures 8 cm?

17. The area of the rhombus is 132 sq.m.  If its shorter diagonal is 12 m, find the longer diagonal. 

18. One of the diagonals of a rhombus is 25 units and its area is 75 u2.  Determine the length of the sides. 

19. Find the area of a parabola having a span of 30 m and a height of 20 m.

20. A regular dodecagon is inscribed in a circle of radius 24.  Find the perimeter of the dodecagon.  

21. The lateral area of the right circular water tank is 92 cm2 and its volume is 342 m3.  Determine its radius.  

22. A cone and a cylinder have the same height and the same volume.  Find the ratio of the radius of the cone to the radius of the cylinder.

23. It is desired that the volume of the sphere be tripled.  By how many times will the radius be increased?

24. What is the area of a parabola with a base of 15 cm and a height of 20 cm?  

25. The circumference of a great circle of a sphere is 18π.  Find the volume of the sphere.
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