MCQs in Age, Work, Mixture, Digit, Motion Problems Part II

Problem 56
Choose the letter of the best answer in each questions.
Mary is 24 years old. Mary is twice as old as Ana was when
Problem 51 Mary was as old as Ana is now. How old is Ana? (ECE
November 1995)
Two times the father’s age is 8 more than six times his son’s
age. Ten years ago, the sum of their ages was 44. The age
of the son is:  A. 16
 B. 18

 A. 49
 C. 19
 B. 15
 D. 20
 C. 20
Problem 57
 D. 18
The sum of the parent’s ages is twice the sum of their
Problem 52 children’s ages. Five years ago, the sum of the parent’s ages
is four times the sum of their children’s ages. In fifteen years
Peter’s age 13 years ago was 1/3 of his age 7 years hence. the sum of the parent’s ages will be equal to the sum of their
How old is Peter? children’s ages. How many children were in the family?

 A. 15  A. 2
 B. 21  B. 3
 C. 23  C. 4
 D. 27  D. 5

Problem 53 Problem 58

A man is 41 years old and in seven years he will be four Two thousand kilogram of steel containing 8% of nickel is to
times as old as his son is at that time. How old is his son be made by mixing steel containing 14% nickel with another
now? steel containing 6% nickel. How much of the steel containing
14% nickel is needed?

 A. 9
 B. 4  A. 1500 kg
 C. 5  B. 800 kg
 D. 8  C. 750 kg
 D. 500kg
Problem 54
Problem 59
A father is three times as old as his son. Four years ago, he
was four times as old as his son was at that time. How old is A 40-gram alloy containing 35% gold is to be melted with a
his son? 20-gram alloy containing 50% gold. How much percentage
of gold is the resulting alloy?

 A. 36 years
 B. 24 years  A. 40%
 C. 32 years  B. 30%
 D. 12 years  C. 45%
 D. 35%
Problem 55
Problem 60
The ages of the mother and her daughter are 45 and 5
years, respectively. How many years will the mother be three In what radio must a peanut costing P240.00 per kg. be
times as old as her daughter? mixed with a peanut costing P340.00 per kg so that the profit
of 20% is made by selling the mixture at 360.00 per kg?

 A. 5
 B. 10  A. 1:2
 C. 15  B. 3:2
 D. 20  C. 2:3
 D. 3:5
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Problem 61 Problem 66

A 100-kilogram salt solution originally 4% by weight. Salt in One pipe can fill a tank in 5 hours and another pipe can fill
water is boiled to reduce water content until the the same tank in 4 hours. A drainpipe can empty the full
concentration is 5% by weight salt. How much water is content of the tank in 20 hours. With all the three pipes open,
evaporated? how long will it take to fill the tank?

 A. 10  A. 2 hours
 B. 15  B. 2.5 hours
 C. 20  C. 1.92 hours
 D. 25  D. 1.8 hours

Problem 62 Problem 67

A pound of alloy of lead and nickel weights 14.4 ounces in
water, where lead losses 1/11 of its weight and nickel losses
1/9 of its weight. How much of each metal is in alloy?
 A. Lead = 7.2 ounces; Nickel = 8.8 ounces
 B. Lead = 8.8 ounces; Nickel = 7.2 ounces
 C. Lead = 6.5 ounces; Nickel = 5.4 ounces
 D. Lead = 7.8 ounces; Nickel = 4.2 ounces
A swimming pool is filled through its inlet pipe and then
emptied through its outlet pipe in a total of 8 hours. If water
enters through its inlet and simultaneously allowed to leave
through its outlet, the pool is filled in 7 ½ hours. Find how
long will it take to fill the pool with the outlet closed.
 A. 6
 B. 2
 C. 3

Problem 63
 D. 5

An alloy of silver and gold weighs 15 oz. in air and 14 oz. in
water. Assuming that silver losses 1/10 of its weight in water
and gold losses 1/18 of its weight, how many oz. at each
metal are in the alloy?
Problem 68
Three persons can do a piece of work alone in 3 hours, 4
hours and 6 hours respectively. What fraction of the job can
they finish in one hour working together?

 A. Silver = 4.5 oz.; Gold = 10.5 oz.

 B. Silver = 3.75 oz.; Gold = 11.25 oz.  A. ¾
 C. Silver = 5 oz.; Gold = 10 oz.  B. 4/3
 D. Silver = 7.8 oz.; Gold = 4.2 oz.  C. ½
 D. 2/3
Problem 64 (ME April 1998)
Problem 69
A pump can pump out a tank in 11 hours. Another pump can
pump out the same tank in 20 hours. How long it will take A father and his son can dig a well if the father works 6
both pumps together to pump out the tank? hours and his son works 12 hours or they can do it if the
father works 9 hours and son works 8 hours. How long will it
take for the son to dig the well alone?
 A. ½ hour
 B. ½ hour
 A. 5 hours
 C. 6 hours
 B. 10 hours
 D. 7 hours
 C. 15 hours

Problem 65
 D. 20 hours

Mr. Brown can wash his car in 15 minutes, while his son Problem 70
John takes twice as long as the same job. If they work
together, how many minutes can they do the washing? Peter and Paul can do a certain job in 3 hours. On a given
day, they work together for 1 hour then Paul left and Peter
finishes the rest work in 8 more hours. How long will it take
 A. 6 for Peter to do the job alone?
 B. 8
 C. 10
 A. 10 hours
 D. 12
 B. 11 hours
 C. 12 hours
 D. 13 hours
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Problem 71 (ECE November 1995) Problem 76

Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% On one job, two power shovels excavate 20000 m 3 of earth,
faster than Pilar and together they can paint a given fence in the larger the shovel working for 40 hours and the smaller
4 hours. How long will it take Peter to paint the same fence if shovel for 35 hours. Another job, they removed 40000
he had to work alone? m3 with the larger shovel working for 70 hours and the
smaller working 90 hours. How much earth can the larger
shovel move in one hour?
 A. 10 hrs.
 B. 11hrs.
 A. 173.91
 C. 13hrs.
 B. 347.83
 D. 15hrs.
 C. 368.12

Problem 72
 D. 162.22

Nonoy can finish a certain job in 10 days if Imelda will help
for 6 days. The same work can be done by Imelda in 12
days if Nonoy helps for 6 days. If they work together, how
long will it take for them to do the job?
Problem 77 (EE April 1996)
A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in 31
days, and A and C in 20 days. Working together, how many
days can all of them finish the work?

 A. 8.9
 B. 8.4  A. 18.9
 C. 9.2  B. 19.4
 D. 8  C. 17.8
 D. 20.9
Problem 73
Problem 78
A pipe can fill up a tank with the drain open in three hours. If
the pipe runs with the drain open for one hour and then the Eight men can dig 150 ft of trench in 7 hrs. Three men can
drain is closed it will take 45 more minutes for the pipe to fill backfill 100ft of the trench in 4 hrs. The time it will take 10
the tank. If the drain will be closed right at the start of filling, men to dig and fill 200 ft of trench is:
how long will it take for the pipe to fill the tank?

 A. 9.867hrs.
 A. 1.15 hrs.  B. 9.687hrs.
 B. 1.125 hrs  C. 8.967hrs.
 C. 1.325 hrs.  D. 8.687hrs.
 D. 1.525 hrs.
Problem 79
Problem 74
In two hours, the minute hand of the clock rotates through an
Delia can finish a job in 8 hours. Daisy can do it in 5 hours. If angle of :
Delia worked for 3 hours and then Daisy was asked to help
her finish it, how long will Daisy have to work with Delia to
finish the job?  A. 45°
 B. 90°
 A. 2/5 hours
 C. 360°
 B. 25/14 hours
 D. 720°
 C. 28 hours
Problem 80
 D. 1.923 hours
In one day (24 hours), how many times will the hour hand
Problem 75 (CE November 1998) and minute hand of a continuously driven clock be together

A job could be done by eleven workers in 15 days. Five

workers started the job. They were reinforced with four more  A. 21
workers at the beginning of the 6th day. Find the total number  B. 22
of days it took them to finish the job.  C. 23
 D. 24
 A. 22.36
 B. 21.42
 C. 23.22
 D. 20.56
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Problem 81 Problem 86

How many minutes after 3:00 will the minute hand of the It is now between 3 and 4 o’clock and in twenty minutes the
clock overtakes the hour hand? minute hand will be as much as the hour-hand as it is now
behind it. What is the time now?

 A. 14/12 minutes
 B. 16-11/12 minutes  A. 3:06.06
 C. 16-4/11 minutes  B. 3:07.36
 D. 14/11 minutes  C. 3:09.36
 D. 3:08.36
Problem 82
Problem 87 (EE October 1990)
How many minutes after 10:00 o’clock will the hands of the
clock be opposite of the other for the first time? A man left his home at past 3:00 o’clock PM as indicated in
his wall clock. Between two to three hours after, he returned
home and noticed that the hands of the clock interchanged.
 A. 21.41 At what time did he left his home?
 B. 22.31
 C. 21.81
 A. 3:27.27
 D. 22.61
 B. 3:31.47
 C. 3:22.22
Problem 83
 D. 3:44.44
What time between the hours of 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm
would the hour hand and the minute hand of a continuously Problem 88
driven clock be in straight line?
The sum of the reciprocals of two numbers is 11. Three
times the reciprocal of one of the numbers is three more
 A. 12:33 pm than twice the reciprocal of the other number. Find the
 B. 12:30 pm numbers.
 C. 12:37 pm
 D. 12:287 pm  A. 5 and 6
 B. 7 and 4
Problem 84 (GE February 1997)  C. 1/5 and 1/6
At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and the  D. 1/7 and ¼
minute hand of a clock first form a n angle of 120°?
Problem 89
 A. 21.818 If a two digit number has x for its unit’s digit and y for its ten’s
 B. 12:21.818 digit, represent the number.
 C. 21.181
 D. 12:21.181  A. yx
 B. 10y + x
Problem 85 (GE February 1994)  C. 10x + y
From the time 6:15 PM to the time 7:45 PM of the same day,  D. x + y
the minute hand of a standard clock describes an arc of:
Problem 90
 A. 360° One number if five less than the other number. If their sum is
 B. 120° 135, what are the numbers?
 C. 540°
 D. 720°  A. 70 & 75
 B. 60 & 65
 C. 65 & 70
 D. 75 & 80
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Problem 91 Problem 96

In a two-digit number, the unit’s digit is 3 greater than the The sum of the digits of the three-digit number is 14. The
ten’s digit. Find the number if it is 4 times as large as the hundreds digit being 4 times the units digit. If 594 is
sum of its digits. subtracted from the number, the order of the digits will be
reversed. Find the number.

 A. 47
 B. 58  A. 743
 C. 63  B. 563
 D. 25  C. 653
 D. 842
Problem 92
Problem 97 (ECE March 1996)
Find two consecutive even integers such that the square of
the larger is 44 greater than the square of the smaller The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number is twice the
integer. other. Find the numbers.

 A. 10 & 12  A. 7 and 14
 B. 12 & 14  B. 6 and 15
 C. 8 & 10  C. 8 and 13
 D. 14 & 16  D. 9 and 12

Problem 93 Problem 98 (ECE March 1996)

Twice the middle digit of a three-digit number is the sum of Ten less than four times a certain number is 14. Determine
the other two. If the number is divided by the sum of its digit, the number.
the answer is 56 and the remainder is 12. If the digits are
reversed, the number becomes smaller by 594. Find the
number.  A. 4
 B. 5
 A. 258
 C. 6
 B. 567
 D. 7
 C. 852
Problem 99 (ECE November 1997)
 D. 741
The denominator of a certain fraction is three more than
Problem 94 twice the numerator. If 7 is added to both terms of the
fraction, the resulting fraction is 3/5. Find the original
The product f three consecutive integers is 9240. Find the fraction.
third integer.

 A. 8/5
 A. 20  B. 5/13
 B. 21  C. 13/5
 C. 22  D. 3/5
 D. 23
Problem 100
Problem 95
Three times the first of the three consecutive odd integers is
The product if two numbers is 1400. If three (3) is subtracted three more than twice the third. Find the third integer.
from each number, their product becomes 1175. Find the
bigger number.
 A. 9
 B. 11
 A. 28
 C. 13
 B. 50
 D. 15
 C. 32
 D. 40
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ANSWER KEY: 80. B. 22

51. B. 15 81. C. 16-4/11 minutes
52. C. 23 82. C. 21.81
53. C. 5 83. A. 12:33 pm
54. D. 12 years 84. D. 12:21.181
55. C. 15 85. C. 540°
56. B. 18 86. A. 3:06.06
57. D. 5 87. B. 3:31.47
58. D. 500kg 88. C. 1/5 and 1/6
59. A. 40% 89. B. 10y + x
60. C. 2:3 90. C. 65 & 70
61. C. 20 91. C. 63
62. B. Lead = 8.8 ounces; Nickel = 7.2 92. A. 10 & 12
ounces
93. C. 852
63. B. Silver = 3.75 oz.; Gold = 11.25 oz.
94. C. 22
64. D. 7 hours
95. B. 50
65. C. 10
96. D. 842
66. B. 2.5 hours
97. A. 7 and 14
67. C. 3
98. C. 6
68. A. ¾
99. B. 5/13
69. D. 20 hours
100. D. 15
70. C. 12 hours
71. A. 10 hrs.
72. B. 8.4
73. B. 1.125 hrs
74. D. 1.923 hours
75. D. 20.56
76. A. 173.91
77. A. 18.9
78. A. 9.867hrs.
79. D. 720°