1. Three times a number increased by 3 is equal to 30. Find the number.

2. A plumber wishes to cut a 51-inch pipe into three pieces so that each piece is 7 inches
longer than the preceding one. Find the length of each piece.

3. The sum of two numbers is 25, and one number is four times the other number. Find the
numbers.

4. A basketball team played 20 games and won two more games than it lost. Find the
number of games the team won.

5. If one-third of a number is three less than ½ of the number, find the number.

6. If two times a number minus six is equal to 20, find the number.

7. Forty calculators are placed into two boxes so that one box has 4 more calculators than
the other box. How many calculators are in each box?

8. If the sum of three consecutive numbers is 39, find the numbers.

9. If the sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 48, find the numbers.

10. Find two numbers whose sum is 30 and whose difference is 6.

11. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 10. If the ten’s digit is 8 more than the
one’s digit, find the number.

12. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 8. If the ten’s digit is three times the one’s
digit, find the number.

13. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number of a marathon runner is 9. If the digits of the
number are reversed, the new number is 27 more than the original number. Find the
number.

14. The one’s digit of a two-digit number is one more than the ten’s digit. If the digits of the
number are reversed, the new number is 3 less than twice the original number. Find the
number.

15. The sum of digits of a number on a football player’s uniform is 11. If the digits are
reversed, the new number is seven more than twice the original number. Find the number.

16. In a three-digit number, the hundred’s digit is twice the ten’s digit and the one’s digit is 3
less than the hundred’s digit. If the sum of the digits of the number is 7, find the number.

17. The sum of the digits of a two-digit number on a stock car is 16. The ten’s digit is two
more than the one’s digit. Find the number.

18. In a two-digit number, the one’s digit is three more than the ten’s digit. If the digits are
reversed, the new number is one less than three times the original number. Find the
number.

19. In a three-digit number, the ten’s digit and the one’s digit are the same and the hundred’s
digit is three less than the ten’s digit. If the sum of the digits is 9, find the number.

20. In a two-digit number, the one’s digit is five less than the ten’s digit. If the number is
equal to 8 times the sum of its digits, find the number.
21. A man is six times as old as his son. In 9 years he will be three times as old as his son.
How old are they now?

22. A woman is twice as old as her daughter. Twenty years ago, she was four times as old as
her daughter. How old are they now?

23. Mark is 4 years older than his brother Mike. If the sum of their ages is 20, how old are
they now?

24. Marie is 12 years older than Mary. Nine years ago, Marie was twice as old as Mary. Find
their present ages.

25. Sam is 18 and Bill is 24. How many years ago was Bill three times as old as Sam?

26. Pat is five years older than her brother. Two years from now, the sum

of their ages will be 23. Find their present ages.

27. The sum of Tyler and Alane’s ages is 36. Twelve years ago, Alane was twice as old as
Tyler. Find their present ages.

28. Tara is two years older than Ashley. In 4 years from now, Tara will be twice as old as
Ashley was 4 years ago. Find their present ages.

29. A father is three times as old as his twin sons. If the sum of their ages

in two years will be 81, how old are they now?

30. Will is 4 years older than Phil. Three years from now, Will will be

twice as old as Phil was last year. Find their present ages.

31. Two people leave from two towns that are 195 miles apart at the same time and travel along
the same road toward each other. The first person drives 5 miles slower than the second
person. If they meet in 3 hours, at what rate of speed did each travel?

32. Two planes leave the same airport and travel in opposite directions. Their speeds are 150
miles per hour and 100 miles per hour, respectively. In how many hours will they be 500
miles apart?

33. Two people travel in opposite directions after leaving at the same time from the same place.
If one person walks twice as fast as the other, and in two hours they are 10.5 miles apart, find
the walking speeds of each.

34. In order to return her friend’s bicycle, a girl rides it to her friend’s house at a speed of 9
miles per hour. She then walks back home at a speed of 3 miles per hour. If the total time of
the round trip was 1.5 hours, how far was her friend’s house?
35. A person riding a motorcycle leaves an hour after a person riding a bicycle. Both travel the
same road. If the person riding the bicycle is traveling at 10 miles per hour and the person
riding the motorcycle is traveling at 30 miles per hour, how long will it take the motorcycle
to overtake the bicycle?

36. A plane flies from New Eagle to North Oak in 3 hours and returns in 4 hours. If the speed of
the wind is 25 miles per hour and it is blowing in the direction of North Oak from New
Eagle, find the airspeed of the plane.

37. If a boat travels upstream from point A to point B in 2 ½ hours and returns downstream
from point B to point A in 2 hours, find the speed of the boat (on its speedometer) if the
current is 3 miles per hour.

38. If a plane flies from Mount Pleasant to Waltersville in 5 hours with a headwind of 25 miles
per hour and returns in 4 hours with a tailwind of 20 miles per hour, find the airspeed of the
plane.

39. A boat’s speed on its speedometer reads 18 miles per hour going downstream, and it reaches
its destination in 1.25 hours. The return trip takes 1.75 hours at 18 miles per hour on the
speedometer. Find thespeed of the current.

40. A plane flies in a headwind of 22 miles per hour from East Grove to Uniontown in 6 hours
and returns in 4 hours with a tailwind of 22 miles per hour. Find the distance between the
airports.

41. How much cream that is 20% butterfat should be mixed with milk that is 5% butterfat to get
10 gallons of cream that is 14% butterfat?

42. How much of a 90% alloy must be combined with a 70% gold alloy in order to make 60
ounces of an 85% gold alloy?

43. How much of an alloy that is 40% zinc should be added to 75 pounds of an alloy that is 65%
zinc to get an alloy that is 50% zinc?

44. How much of a solution that is 18% fertilizer must be mixed with a solution that is 30%
fertilizer to get 50 gallons of a solution that is 27% fertilizer?

45. How much pure alcohol (100%) should be added to 40 ounces of a solution which is 20%
alcohol to get 40 ounces of a solution which is 25% alcohol?

46. A merchant blends a $2.50 per pound tea with a $3.75 per pound tea to get 10 pounds of tea
costing $3.00 per pound. How many pounds of each did the merchant use?
47. A candy maker mixes some candy costing $1.25 a pound with some candy costing $0.75 per
pound to get 5 pounds of candy costing $0.90 per pound. How many pounds of each did he
use?
48. A baker has 8 pounds of cookies costing $1.50 per pound and wants to mix them with some
cookies costing $2.00 per pound. How much of the latter should be mixed in order to get a
mixture of the two types of cookies costing $1.80 per pound?

49. How many pounds of cashew nuts costing $5.00 a pound must be mixed with peanuts
costing $2.20 a pound to get 20 pounds of nuts costing $3.18 a pound?

50. A candy store owner wants to make 30 one-pound boxes of candy costing $5.00 a box. If she
wishes to use 12 pounds of candy costing $8.00 per pound, what should be the cost of the
other type of candy she should use?

51. Brooke weighs 84 pounds and sits 6 feet from the fulcrum of a seesaw. If Mary weighs 72
pounds, how far should she sit from the fulcrum to balance the seesaw?

52. At one end of a lever is a 12-pound weight which is 8 inches from the fulcrum. How much
weight should be placed on the other end 10 inches from the fulcrum to balance the lever?

53. A person places a lever under an 80-pound rock that is 3 feet from the fulcrum. How much
pressure in pounds must the person place on the other end of the lever if it is 5 feet from the
fulcrum to lift the rock?

54. Where should the fulcrum be placed under a 6-foot lever if there is a 24-pound weight on
one end and a 36-pound weight on the other end in order to balance the lever?

55. On a 24-foot seesaw Beth, weighing 72 pounds, sits on one end. Mary, weighing 90 pounds,
sits in front of her 8 feet from the fulcrum. On the other side at the end sits Megan, who
weighs 80 pounds. Where should Tina, who weighs 96 pounds, sit in order to balance the
seesaw?

56. June can paint a shed in 9 hours and her father can paint it in 6 hours. How long will it take if
they both paint it together?

57. Mike can plow a field in 12 hours and his brother Phil can plow it in 15 hours. How long
will it take them to plow it if they use two plows and work together?

58. Sarah can complete a project in 90 minutes and her sister Betty can complete it in 120
minutes. If they both work on the project at the same time, how long will it take them to
complete the project?

59. One pipe can empty a tank in 45 minutes while a second pipe can empty it in 60 minutes. If
both pipes are opened at the same time, how long will it take to drain the tank?
60. One faucet can fill a large tub in 32 minutes while another faucet can fill the tub in 48
minutes. How long will it take to fill the tub if both faucets are opened at the same time?

61. A pipe can fill a tank in 120 minutes while the drain can drain it in 150 minutes. If the drain
is left open and the fill pipe is turned on, how long will it take to fill the tub?

62. George can complete a project in 75 minutes, and if George and Walter both work on the
project, they can complete it in 45 minutes. How long will it take Walter to complete the
project by himself ?

63. Pipe A can fill a tank in 60 minutes, Pipe B can fill it in 80 minutes,and Pipe C can fill it in
90 minutes. If all three pipes are opened at the same time, how long will it take to fill the
tank?

64. Mary can make a costume twice as fast as Sam can. If they both work together, they can
make it in 6 hours. How long will it take Mary to make the costume if she works alone?

65. A man can seed a large field in 8 hours. His daughter can do the job in 6 hours. If she starts
an hour after her father, how long will it take to seed the field?
66. An investor made two investments, one paying 7% and one paying 5%. If the total amount
invested was 12,000 and the total interest she earned after one year was 760, find the amount
of each investment.

67. A person invested 9000, part at 4 ½ % and the rest at 5%. If the total interest he earned after
one year was 435, find the amount of each investment.

68. A person invested twice as much in stocks paying 3% as he did in bonds paying 6%. If the
interest at the end of the year was 780, find the amount of money he invested in each.

69. A person invested a certain amount of money in a savings account paying 2% and 1600
more than that amount in a one-year paying 3 ½ %. If the total interest in the two investments
was 276, find the amount of money she invested in each.

70. An investor invested a certain amount of money in an account paying 3%. He invests 4 times
that amount into another account paying 4 ½ %, and he invests 900 more than the amount in
the 3% account into a third account paying 6%. If the total yearly interest from all three
accounts was 297, find the amount he invested in each account.

71. A person invested 5 times as much money at 5 ½ % as she did at 2 ¾%.If the total interest
from the investment at the end of the year was $181.50, how much did she invest at each
rate?
72. A person has 1300 less invested at 9% than he has invested at 5%. If the total yearly interest
from the investments is 219, find the amounts he has invested at each rate.

73. An investor invested some money at 7% and some money at 5%. If the yearly interest on
both investments is the same and the total amount of the investments is $12,000, find the
amount of each investment.

74. Mr. Jordan has three investments. He has three times the amount of money invested at 4% as
he has invested at 1% and 400 more invested at 3% as he has at 1%. If the yearly interest is
108, find the amount of each investment.
75. A person has 3000 invested at 6%. How much should he invest at 4% to have an income
(yearly) interest of 372?