MATH & GEAS - WORD PROBLEMS

1. P2000 is borrowed for 105 days at 12% per 13. What is the distance in cm between two
annum simmple interest. How much will be due vertices of a cube which are farthest from each
at the end of 105 days? other, if the edge measures 8 cm?
2. If P3000 accumulates to P4500 when invested 14. The Great Pyramid of Egypt is 147 meters high,
at a simple interest for ten years, what is the with a square base of side 230 m. Find the
rate of interest? volume of the Great Pyramid in cubic meters.
3. The amount of P20,000 was deposited in a bank
earning an interest of 6.5% per annum. Find the
present worth of a future payment of P290,000
to be made in 4 years with an interest of 9%
compounded annually?
4. A 10,000-watt motor operates an elevator
weighing 5000 Newtons. Assuming no frictional
losses, how high is the elevator raised in 10
seconds?
15.
5. A 10 kilogram ball falls from a height of 5 16. Determine the value of a so that A=2i+aj+k and
meters and rebounds from the floor to a height B=4i-2j-2k are perpendicular.
of 3 meters. The energy lost by the ball is: 17. A truck has an initial velocity of 20 m/sec and an
6. What is the equivalent of the Roman numeral acceleration of -1 m/sec. Find the velocity after
MCMXCIV in Arabic numeral? 10 secs and the distance traveled.
7. The angle of inclination or ascend of a road 18. What is the effective rate of interest if P1000 is
having an 8.25% grade is _________ degrees. invested at a nominal rate of 15% compounded
8. The sum of the interior angles of a polygon is quarterly?
540 degrees. Find the number of sides of the 19. The sum of the lengths of the three sides of a
polygons. right triangle is 18. The sum of the squares of
9. The height of a cylindrical tank is twice its the lengths of the three sides is 128. Find the
diameter. Find the surface area of the tank if it area of the triangle.
holds 25 liters of water.
10. Determine the point of division of the line 20.
segment from A (5,6) to B(-3,-2) that divides 21. The normal acceleration of a particle on the rim
this line segment, starting from A, into two of a pulley 10 ft in diameter is constant at 1200
parts in the ratio of 1:3. fps2. Which of the following gives the speed of
11. Find the area of the polygon whose vertices are the pulley in rpm.
at (1,-4), (4,-1), (4,5), (-1,4) and (-2,-1). 22. On the day his grandson was born, a man
12. Jan standing at a stationary point directly in deposited to a trust company a sufficient
front of the center of a bull's eye, aims two amount of money so that the boy could receive
arrows at the bull's eye. The first arrow hits one five annual payments of P20,000 each for his
point on the edge of the bull's eye while the college tuition fees, starting with his 18th
second strikes the center of the bull's eye. Jan birthday. Interest at the rate of 12$ per annum
knows that the second arrow traveled 20 meter was to be paid on all amounts on deposit. There
distance since he knows where he is from the was also a provision that the grandson could
target. Assuming the bull's eye to be circular of elect to withdraw no annual payments and
diameter 4 meters, how far did the first arrow receive a single lump amount on his 25th
travel? Neglect gravitational force. birthday. The grandson chose this option. How
much did the grandfather deposit?
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23. The value of 31.

where k and w are positive integers. Find the 32. The combined mass of car and passengers
smallest possible value of (k + w). travelling at 72 km/hr is 1500kg. Find the kinetic
energy of this combined mass.
33. A plant bought a machine for P200,000 and
24. used it for 10 years, the life span of the
25. A man purchased a house for P425,000. In the equipment. What is the book value of the
first month that he owned the house, he spent machine after 5 years of use? Assume a scrap
P75,000 on repairs and remodeling. value of P20,000. Use double declining balance
Immediately after the house was remodeled, he method.
was offered P545,000 to sell the house. After 34. A telecommunication company purchased an
some consideration, he decided to keep the equipment for P53,000 and paid P1,500 for
house and have it rented for P4,500 per month freight and delivery charges to the job site. The
starting two months after the purchase. He equipment has a normal life of 10 years with a
collected rent for 15 months and then sold the trade-in value of P5,000 against the purchase of
house for P600,000. if the interest rate was a new equipment at the end of the life.
1.5% per month, how much extra money did he Determine the annual depreciation cost by the
make or lose by not selling the house sinking fund method. Assume interest at 6.5%
immediately after it was remodeled? compounded annually
26. A 350 N block is resting on a plane inclined at 35. A pressure gage register 50 psia in a region
300 with the horizontal is subjected to a where the barometer is 14.25 psia. Find the
constant force of 400 N acting parallel to the absolute pressure in Pa.
inclined plane. After the block has moved 3 m 36. A fair die is tossed three times. Given that the
from rest, the 400 N force was removed. sum of the first two tosses equals the third,
Coefficient of friction is 0.2. Which of the what is the probability that at least one “1" is
following gives the distance that the block will tossed?
move further along the inclined plane until it 37. Find all real numbers a such that
stop.
27. Two times the father's age is 8 more than six and
times his son's age. Ten years ago, the sum of
their ages was 44. How old is his son now? 38. A mass of 5kg is 100m above a given datum
28. Bill and Chris have the same favorite where local g=9.75 m/sec2. Find the
barbershop. Bill goes to this barbershop after gravitational force in newton’s and the
every 8 days, while Chris after every 6 days. If potential energy of the mass w/ respect to the
they met one Tuesday afternoon, on what day datum.
will they possibly meet again?
29. A man bought an equipment costing P30,000 39.
payable in 12 quarterly payments, each 40. Let a, b be the real roots of the equation
installment payable at the beginning of each
period. The rate of interest is 24% compounded
41. Determine the elongation in a helical steel
quarterly. What is the amount of each payment
spring composed of 20 turns of 20-mm
diameter wire on a mean radius of 90 mm when
the spring is supporting a load of 2.5kN. Use
30.
G=83 GPa.
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42. What is the minimum diameter of a solid steel

shaft that will not twist through more than 4° in
a 6m length when subjected to a torque of
13kN-m? G=85 GPa
43. A steel rod 3.5m long is secured between two
walls. If the load on the rod is zero at 30°C,
compute the stress when the temperature
drops to -30°C. The cross sectional area of the
rod is 1200mm2, α=11.7um/(m°C) , and
E=200GPa.
44. An arithmetic progression and a geometric
progression have the same first term, which is
4. Their third terms are also equal, but the
second term of the arithmetic progression
exceeds the second term of the geometric
progression by 2. Find the second term of the
geometric progression.
45. Let x and y be two 2-digit integers, where y is
the number obtained by reversing the digits of
x. If x^2-y^2 =495, Find x and y.

46.
47. What is the probability that a randomly chosen
divisor of 2025 is divisible by 5?
48. A steel shaft 3ft long that has a diameter of 5in
is subjected to a torque of 14kip-ft. Determine
the maximum shearing stress. G=12x106 psi.
49. Early in the nineteenth century, James Watt
invented the steam engine. In order to convince
people, who relied heavily on horses for
mechanical work, he demonstrated how useful
his steam engine was by utilizing a horse that
lifted water from a well over a certain period of
time and called the corresponding power
expended “one horsepower”. Assume that
water has a mass density of 1.0 x 103 kg/m3,
that the well was 20m deep, and that the horse
worked for 8 hours. How many liters of water
did the horse raise from the well? Use the
following constants: 1 hp = 746 Watts, g = 9.8
m/s2.
50.