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    This document contains 16 math word problems ranging from 1 to 2.5 minutes in estimated solve time. The problems cover a variety of math topics including ratios, percentages, rates, geometry, number properties, and algebra. They involve scenarios like work rates, traveling speeds, salt solutions, leaping animals, and more. The goal is to solve each problem within the given time limit.

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    This document contains 16 math word problems ranging from 1 to 2.5 minutes in estimated solve time. The problems cover a variety of math topics including ratios, percentages, rates, geometry, number properties, and algebra. They involve scenarios like work rates, traveling speeds, salt solutions, leaping animals, and more. The goal is to solve each problem within the given time limit.

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    This document contains 16 math word problems ranging from 1 to 2.5 minutes in estimated solve time. The problems cover a variety of math topics including ratios, percentages, rates, geometry, number properties, and algebra. They involve scenarios like work rates, traveling speeds, salt solutions, leaping animals, and more. The goal is to solve each problem within the given time limit.

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    of 17

    Q1: 1 minute

    Diophantine spent 1/12 of his life in


    childhood, 1/6 in youth, and 1/7 as a
    bachelor. Five years after his
    marriage was born a son who died
    four years before him at half his final
    age. How old was Diophantine when
    he died?
    Q2: 1 minute
    One crew can do a job in 10 days.
    After this crew had worked for 4
    days, another crew joins them and
    together they complete the job in 4
    more days. How long could the
    second group have done the job
    alone?
    Q3: 1.5 minute(s)
    A 100 kg salt solution originally 4%
    by weight salt in water is evaporated
    until the concentration is 5% by
    weight salt. What percentage of the
    water in the original solution is
    evaporated?
    Q4: 2 minute(s)
    A boy and a girl eloped. They left the
    girl’s house at 2:00 AM. While her father
    was asleep, the two walked at a uniform
    rate of 4 kph. At 4:45 AM, the girl’s father
    awoke and set out to overtake them. He
    covered a distance of 4.5 km the first
    hour, 4.75 km the second hour, 5 km the
    third hour and so on gaining a quarter of
    a kilometer every hour. At what time will
    the father overtake the couple?
    Q5: 2 minute(s)
    The midpoints of the sides of a 2m by
    2m square are interconnected to form a
    smaller square. The midpoints of the
    sides of the square formed are again
    interconnected to form another smaller
    square. If the process will be repeated
    indefinitely, find the sum of perimeters of
    all the squares formed including that of
    the original square.
    Q6: 2 minute(s)
    A man left his office at past 3 o’clock for
    snacks. After 20 minutes on his return,
    he noticed that the minute hand is ahead
    of the hour hand exactly by as much as
    it was behind when he left. At what time
    did the man left his office?
    Q7: 1.5 minute(s)

    In the expansion of (2x2 – 3y3)12,


    what is the term involving x8?
    Q8: 1.5 minute(s)
    A Chinese writer Sun Tsu Pao put this
    words into the mouth of a woman
    washing dishes at a river, “ I don’t know
    how many guests there were, but every
    two used a dish for rice between them,
    every three a dish for broth, every four a
    dish for meat, and there were 65 dishes
    in all. Find how many guest are there in
    all?
    Q9: 1 minute

    Find the angle between the hour


    hand and the minute hand at
    7:49AM.
    Q10: 2 minute(s)

    A rubber ball is dropped from a


    height of 15m. On each rebound,
    it rises 2/3 of the height from
    which it last fell. Find the
    distance traveled by the ball
    before it comes to rest.
    Q11: 1 minute

    What is the remainder when the


    product of the first 7 primes is
    divided by 510?
    Q12: 1.5 minute(s)

    Determine how much water


    should be evaporated from 50 kg
    of a 30% salt solution to produce
    a 60% salt solution. All
    percentages are by weight.
    Q13: 2 minute(s)

    A can do a piece of work in 2


    days less time than B. If both can
    do the work in 2 2/5 days, how
    long will it take for each of them
    to do the work?
    Q14: 2.5 minute(s)

    Cyclist A travelled 60 km. Cyclist


    B travels 5 km/hr faster than A
    and travels the same distance in
    2 hours less. Find the speed of
    each.
    Q15: 2.5 minute(s)

    An audience of 540 people is


    seated in rows having the same
    number of persons in each row. If
    3 more persons seat in each row,
    it would require 2 rows less to
    seat the audience. How many
    persons were in each row
    originally?
    Q16: 2.5 minute(s)

    A cat is now 50 of her leaps


    ahead of a dog which is pursuing
    her. How many leaps will the cat
    take before it is overtaken if she
    takes 5 leaps while the dog takes
    4 leaps, but 2 of the dog’s leaps
    are equivalent to 3 of the cat’s
    leaps?

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