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ALGEBRA WORD PROBLEM

GUIDELINES S=υt

1. Age Problem The speed (v) is assumed to be


constant; it never changes.
Past Present Future
P–t P P+t Considering wind and water flow,
going along adds speed and going
2. Mixture Problem against reduces speed.

Q1 ( % 1) +Q 2 ( % 2 )=(Q1 +Q2)(%3 ) 7. Variation

3. Work Problem When directly proportional


xα y
1 x=ky
Rate= finisℎ tℎe work ¿
time¿
When inversely proportional
1
Work =Rate ×time xα
y
4. Clock Problem k
x=
y

8. Percent

To avoid confusion, use the decimal


form of the given percentage, e.g.
100% = 1.00 and 1% = 0.01

The rotation of the minute (long)


hand causes one-twelfth the rotation
of the hour (short) hand.

Note: a full rotation on the clock for


the minute hand is 60 minutes, that
is equal to 360°.

5. Number Problem

Use of comparative words: twice,


thrice, half, more than, less then, etc.

6. Motion Problem Sample Problems:


7. How many minutes after
1. A man is 41 years old and in 3:00 PM will the minute
seven years he will be four hand of the clock overtakes
times as old as his son is at the hour hand?
that time. How old is his son Ans. 16 4/11 minutes
now? 8. At what time after 12:00
Ans. 5 noon will the hour hand and
2. Mary is 24 years old. Mary the minute hand of a clock
is twice as old as Ana was first form an angle of 120°?
when Mary was as old as Ans. 12:21.818
Ana is now. How old is Ana? 9. The product of two numbers
Ans. 18 is 1400. If three (3) is
3. A 40 gram alloy containing subtracted from each
35% gold is to be melted number, their product
with a 20 gram alloy becomes 1175. Find the
containing 50% gold. How bigger number.
much percentage of gold is Ans. 50
the resulting alloy? 10. The sum of two number is
Ans. 40% 21, and one number is twice
4. A 100 kilogram salt solution the other. Find the numbers.
is originally 4% by weight. Ans. 7 and 14
Salt in water is boiled to 11. Nonoy left Pikit to drive to
reduce water content until Davao at 6:15 PM and
the concentration is 5% by arrived at 11:45 PM. If he
weight. How much water is averaged 30 mph and
evaporated? stopped 1 hour for dinner,
Ans. 20 kg how far is Davao from Pikit?
5. Mr. Brown can wash his car Ans. 135 miles
in 15 minutes, while his son 12. Kim and Ken traveled at the
John takes twice as long to same time at the rate of 20
do the same job. If they m/min, from the same point
work together, how many on a circular track of radius
minutes can they do the 600 m. If Kim walks along
washing? the circumference and Ken
Ans. 10 minutes towards the center, find their
6. Peter and Paul can do a distance after 10 minutes.
certain job in 3 hours. On a Ans. 258 m
given day, they worked 13. If x varies directly as y and
together for 1 hour then Paul inversely as z, and x=14
left and Peter finishes the when y=7 and z=2, find x
rest of the work in 8 more when z=4 and y=16.
hours. How long will it take Ans. 16
for Peter to do the job alone? 14. The electrical resistance of a
Ans. 12 hours cable varies directly as its
length and inversely as the
square of its diameter. If a
cable 600 meters long and 25
mm in diameter has a
resistance of 0.1 ohm, find
the length of the cable 75
mm in diameter with
resistance of 1/6 ohm.
Ans. 9000 m
15. By selling balut at P 5.00
each, a vendor gains 20%.
The cost price of egg rises
by 12.5%. If he sells the
balut at the same price as
before, dint his new gain in
percent.
Ans. 6.6%
16. The enrollment at college A
and college B both grew up
by 8% from 1980 t 1985. If
the enrollment in college A
grew up by 800 and the
enrollment in college B grew
up by 840, the enrollment at
college B was how much
greater than the enrollment
in college A in 1985?
Ans. 540

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