Number Problems

1. The sum of two numbers is 18. Twice the smaller number decreased by 3 equals the larger number. What
are the two numbers?
2. If the product of a number and –7 is reduced by 3, the resulting number is 33 less than twice the opposite of
that number. What is the number?
3. The sum of the least and greatest of 3 consecutive integers (numbers in a row) is 60. What are the values of
the 3 integers?
4. Twice the larger of two numbers is three more than five times the smaller, and the sum of four times the
larger and three times the smaller is 71. What are the numbers?
5. When 6 times a number is increased by 4, the result is 40. Find the number.
6. One number exceeds another number by 5. If the sum of the two numbers is 39, find the smaller number.
7. If one number is three times as large as another number and the smaller number is increased by 19, the
result is 6 less than twice the larger number. What is the larger number?
8. The sum of three consecutive integers is 306. What is the largest integer?
9. There are b boys in the class. This is three more than four times the number of girls. How many girls are in
the class?
10. The sum of two consecutive numbers is 37. What are they?
11. The sum of two consecutive odd numbers is 52. What are the two odd numbers?
12. There are 15 total bicycles and tricycles and there is a total of 37 wheels. How many tricycles are there?
13. There are 60 bicycles and tricycles altogether. The bicycles have 35 more wheels than the tricycles. How
many bicycles and tricycles are there?
14. A bicycle shop has 5 bicycles and tricycles to repair. They have 12 wheels. What strategy would you use to
determine how many bicycles and tricycles need to be repaired?
15. Each chicken and each dog has one head, so the number of chickens and together is 48. Each chicken has
two legs and each dog has four; together the 48 animals have 134 legs.
Age Problem
1. Your little sister Molly is one third the age of your mom. In 12 years, Molly will be half the age of your mom.
How old is Molly and your mom now?
2. Five years ago, John’s age was half of the age he will be in 8 years. How old is he now?
3. Ten years from now, Orlando will be three times older than he is today. What is his current age?
4. In 20 years, Kayleen will be four times older than she is today. What is her current age?
5. John is twice as old as his friend Peter. Peter is 5 years older than Alice. In 5 years, John will be three times
as old as Alice. How old is Peter now?
6. John’s father is 5 times older than John and John is twice as old as his sister Alice. In two years time, the
sum of their ages will be 58. How old is John now?
7. Ben is eight years older than Sarah. 10 years ago, Ben is twice as old as Sarah. Currently, how old is Ban
and Sarah?
8. Mary is three times as old as her son. In 12 years, Mary's age will be one year less than twice her son's age.
How old is each now?
9. The sum of two numbers is 84, and one of them is 12 more than the other. What are the two numbers?
10. Arun is 4 times as old as Anusha is today. Sixty years ago, Arun was 6 times as old as Anusha. How old are
they today?
11. Sally is 3 times as old as John. 8 years from now, Sally will be twice as old as John. How old is John?
12. Kim is 6 years more than twice Timothy's age. 2 years ago, Kim was three times as old as Timothy. How old
was Kim 2 years ago?
13. Leah is 2 less than 3 times Rachel's age. 3 years from now, Leah will be 7 more than twice Rachel's age.
How old will Rachel be in 3 years from now?
14. Becca is twice as old as Susan and Greg is 9 years older than Susan. 3 years ago, Becca was 9 less than 3
times Susan's age. How old is Greg now?
15. Lauren is 3 less than twice Andrew's age. 4 years from now, Sam will be 2 more than twice Andrew's age. 5
years ago, Sam was three times Andrew's age. How old was Lauren 5 years ago?
16. Gabby is 1 year more than twice Larry's age. 3 years from now, Megan will be 27 less than twice Gabby's
age. 4 years ago, Megan was 1 year less than 3 times Larry's age. How old will Megan be 3 years from
now?
Money Problem
1. Suppose Briley has 10 coins in quarters and dimes and has a total of $1.45. How many of each coin does
she have?
2. Hannah paid $1.50 each for programs to her play. She sold all but 20 of them for $3 each and made a profit
of $15 total. How many programs did Hannah buy? How many did she sell?
3. Jane spent $42 for shoes. This was $14 less than twice what she spent for a blouse. How much was the
blouse?
4. Tamar has four more quarters than dimes. If he has a total of $1.70, how many quarters and dimes does he
have?
5. Sid has $4.85 in coins. If he has six more nickels than dimes and twice as many quarters as dimes, how
many coins of each type does he have?
Mixture Problem
1. One kind of candy (jelly) sells for $5 a pound and another (chocolate) for $10 a pound. How many pounds of
each should be used to make a mixture of 10 pounds of candy (both kinds) that sells for $80?
2. A 20% concentrate is to be mixed with a mixture having a concentration of 60% to obtain 80 liters of a
mixture with a concentration of 30%. How much of the 20% concentrate and the 60% concentrate will be
needed?
3. How many liters of 20% alcohol solution should be added to 40 liters of a 50% alcohol solution to make a
30% solution?
4. John wants to make a 100 ml of 5% alcohol solution mixing a quantity of a 2% alcohol solution with a 7%
alcohol solution. What are the quantities of each of the two solutions (2% and 7%) he has to use?
5. How many Kilograms of Pure water is to be added to 100 Kilograms of a 30% saline solution to make it a
10% saline solution.
6. A 50 ml after-shave lotion at 30% alcohol is mixed with 30 ml of pure water. What is the percentage of
alcohol in the new solution?
Distance Problem
1. A train and a car start at the same place. The train is going 40 miles per hour and a car is going in the
opposite direction at 60 miles per hour. How long will it be until they are 100 miles apart?
2. A bus traveling at an average rate of 50 kilometers per hour made the trip to town in 6 hours. If it had
traveled at 45 kilometers per hour, how many more minutes would it have taken to make the trip?
3. An executive drove from home at an average speed of 30 mph to an airport where a helicopter was waiting.
The executive boarded the helicopter and flew to the corporate offices at an average speed of 60 mph. The
entire distance was 150 miles; the entire trip took three hours. Find the distance from the airport to the
corporate offices.
4. A car and a bus set out at 2 p.m. from the same point, headed in the same direction. The average speed of
the car is 30 mph slower than twice the speed of the bus. In two hours, the car is 20 miles ahead of the bus.
Find the rate of the car.
5. A passenger train leaves the train depot 2 hours after a freight train left the same depot. The freight train is
traveling 20 mph slower than the passenger train. Find the rate of each train, if the passenger train overtakes
the freight train in three hours.
6. Car 1 starts from point A and heads for point B at 60 mph. Fifteen minutes later, car 2 leaves the same point
A and heads for point B at 75 mph. How long before car 2 overtakes car 1?
7. A bus and a car leave the same place and traveled in opposite directions. If the bus is traveling at 50 mph
and the car is traveling at 55 mph, in how many hours will they be 210 miles apart?
 Changing Fraction to Decimal to Percent and Vice Versa

1. During the intramurals, section waling-waling had 5 volleyball games. Out of the 5 games they’ve lost 1
game. What is their win rate as a section in the volleyball game?
2. Rose received 250 flowers. Out of the 250 flowers, 65 flowers are blue and the others are pink. What
percentage are pink flowers?
3. A man has to deliver 140 bottles of juice in the canteen. However, 15% of the bottles were spilled during the
delivery. How many bottles are left?
4. In a class, 37% love to eat banana and the others love to eat apples. What percent are apple-lovers?
5. Jacob and Luke were about to make a 125-page research paper. Jacob promised to make 95 pages this
weekend. What percent does Luke need to work on the research paper?
Percentage Problems
1. At the food chain, the cost of a burger without value-added tax is P26.78. A 12% value-added tax is charged
on it. What will be the cost of the burger?
2. At the McDonalds, Mrs. Licong paid P448 for a meal inclusive of a 12% value-added tax. How much is the
cost of the meal without VAT?
3. At the book store, the cost of the book is P250. What is the cost of the book if it is sold with a 12% VAT?
4. Vandolph bought a school bag costs P1,008.00 inclusive of a 12% value-added tax. How much did a school
bag cost without VAT?
5. A jacket costs P800 without VAT. What is the cost of the jacket with a 12% VAT?
6. The price of a stereo is Ᵽ1,500.00, exclusive of 12% sales tax. What is the price of the stereo with VAT?
7. A certain commodity was sold for Ᵽ2, 464.00 after adding 12% VAT. Calculate the price of the commodity
before adding VAT.
8. Linda deposited Ᵽ30,000.00 in a new account which paid 2% interest per year. After 4 years, she withdrew
all her money including the interest. How much money did Linda withdraw in all?
9. What is the difference in the interests generated between investing P 6,000.00 in mutual fund at an average
7% interest rate and depositing P 8,000.00 in a bank at 4% interest rate?
10. Amina invested half of her Ᵽ32,000.00 in a bank with 5% interest rate and the other half in the stock market
with an average interest rate of 9%. How much will her total amount of interest be at the end of 1 year?
11. The selling price of a phone with a mark-up rate of 40% is Ᵽ9,100.00. What is the original price of the
phone?
12. If the regular price of a laptop is Ᵽ25,280 with a mark-up rate of 15%. What is the selling price?
13. A watch that costs Ᵽ980.00 is offered at 14% discount. How much will the customer save with this promo?
How much will the customer pay?
14. What is the original price of a bag that is sold for Ᵽ1,012 with a discount rate of 60%?
 Probability
1. In a class of 40 students, 8 are in the drama club and 12 are in the art club. If a student is selected at
random, what is the probability that the selected student is: in the drama club?
2. A bag contains 50 marbles, 28 red ones and 22 blue ones. A marble is picked at random from the bag. What
is the probability of picking: a) a red marble? B.) green marble?
3. A two-digit number is written at random. Determine the probability that the number will be:
a) an odd number
b) larger than 75.
c) a multiple of 5.
d) an even number smaller than 40.
4. In a group of 30 students, there are 14 girls and 4 of them can speak French. 6 of the 16 boys can speak
French. If a student is selected randomly from the group, find the probability that the selected student:
a) can speak French. B.) is a boy
5. Rolling a die
6. Card