WORDED PROBLEMS

1. The weight of a body varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the
earth. If the radius of the earth is 4000 miles, how much would a 200-pound man weigh
1000 miles above the surface of the earth?

2. Given that y varies inversely as the square of the difference of w and x, and that y = 6
and w = 3 and x = 1, find the equation for y.

3. It takes Alison 5 hours to complete a task if she works alone, and it takes Claire 4 hours
alone. How long will it take to complete the task if they work together?

4. A swimming pool can be filled by an inlet pipe in 10 hours and emptied by an outlet pipe
in 12 hours. One day the pool is empty, and the owner opens the inlet pipe to fill the
pool. But he forgets to close the outlet. With both pipes open, how long will it take to fill
the pool?

5. Mary, Sue, and Bill work a motel. If each worked alone, it take Mary 10 hours, Sue 8
hours, Bill 12 hours to clean the whole motel. One day Mary came to work early and she
had cleaned for 2 hours when Sue and Bill arrived and all three finished the job. How
long did they take to finish?

6. The sum of the ages of the three brothers is 63. If their ages are consecutive integers,
what is the age of the eldest?

7. If Luna was four as old as Lina 8 years ago, and if Luna will be twice as old as Lina 8
years hence, how old is Lina now?

8. Yaki is 3 times as old as Soba. Three years ago, he is four times as old as Soba.
Find the sum of their ages.

9. A 100 kg salt solution originally 4% by weight. Salt in water is boiled to reduce water
content until the concentration is 5% by weight salt. How much water is evaporated?

10. A Girl Scout troop has 20 pounds of candy worth 80 cents per pound. It wishes to mix it
with candy worth 50 cents per pound so that the total mixture can be sold at 60 cents per
pound without any gain or loss. How much of the 50-cent candy must be used?

11. A chemist needs a solution of tannic acid that is 70% pure. How much distilled water
must she added to 5 gallons of acid which is 90% pure?

12. A chemist has 300 grams od 20% acid solution. He wants to drain some off and replace
it with an 80% solution so as to obtain a 25% solution. How many grams must he drain
and replace with 80% solution?
13. In how many minutes after 7 o’clock will the hands be directly opposite to each other for
the first time?

14. What time after 3 o’clock will the hands of the clock be together for the first time?

15. At what time after 12:00 will the hour hand and minute hand of the clock first form an
angle of 120 degrees?

16. An airplane travels 500 km against the wind in one hour and 45 minutes. Traveling the
same distance with the wind, the airplane consumed one hour and 15 minutes.
Find the velocity of the wind.

17. Two trains going in opposite directions leave at the same time. One train travels 15 mph
faster than the other. In 6 hours, the trains are 630 miles apart. Find the speed of the
faster train.

18. Slark can walk 4 km with the same time as Slardar can walk 5 km. slark take 3 minutes
more than it takes Slardar to walk a kilometer. What is the rate if Slark in kph?

19. A price increase by 10% due to demands and is then reduced by 12% for a holiday
sale. Express the final price as a function of the original price P.

20. Renting a motorcycle in Siargao Island charges Php 2,800 per week plus two pesos per
km in gasoline cost. If your island travel budget is good for a week, how many km can
you travel with Php 3,000.

21. In what price will you sell a cellphone for a sale that cost Php 6000 in order that you may
offer 20% discount on the selling price and still make a profit of 25% in the discounted
price?

22. The average of 90 real numbers is 70. When two numbers are removed namely 27 and
52, find the new average.

23. A country barn house chicken and pigs. In to order to determine the exact number of
each king of animals in the barn the farm supervisor installs sensors, but it can only
count the number of head and legs. It records 60 heads and 140 legs. How many
chickens are there?

24. The hundred’s digit of a number is twice the unit’s digit. If 396 is subtracted from the
number, the order of digits will be reversed. Find the number if the sum of the digits is
17.

25. The sum of two consecutive numbers is 37. What is the larger number?
TRIGONOMETRY
1. The hands of the clock show 7:10. What is the measure, in radians, of the smaller angle
form between the hour and minute hands?
2. One angle is three times its complement increased by 20 deg. Find the measures of the
two supplementary angles.
3. If the sin y = - 24/25 and the tan y < 0, what quadrant is the angle y located?
4. Determine the value of (cosα + cotα) / (secα + cscα), when sinα = 3/5 and α is in second
quadrant.
5. An angle is a reflex angle wherein the value of tangent of that angle is 1/3. What is the
corresponding sum of its cosine and sine?
6. If coversinα is 0.256855 then α is ___.
7. Simplify the function y = (1 - sin x) (1 + csc x) / cot x
8. If A + B + C = 180 degrees, and tanA + tanB + tanC = m,
find the value of tanA tanB tanC in terms of m.
9. Given the function y = 5 sin(2x – π) + 1, identify the following: amplitude, period,
frequency, phase shift and vertical shift
10. Given the function y = 2 tan(3x – π/4) + 1, identify the ff: amplitude, period, frequency,
phase shift, vertical shift, asymptote
11. Consider the function f(x) = a cos bx + c, where a > 0 a40’nd b > 0. If the period of f(X) is
2π/5, the maximum value of f(x) is 13 and f(π) = -11, what is the value of abc?

12. The longest day of the year in Juneau, Alaska is June 21, and it is 1081.8 minutes long.
Half a year later, when the days are at their shortest, the days are about 367.8 minutes
long. If it is not leap year, and June 21 is the 172nd day of the year,
a. Determine the sinusoidal function in the form y = A sin(Bx + C) + D where y =
number of hours of sunlight, and x = nth day of the year.
b. In what nth day of the year will they experience the winter solstice?
c. In what nth day of the year will the day length and night length the same?
13. Geologist took measurement at two points B and C, 928 m apart. The angle of elevation
from b to the top of the mountain A is 47° 10’. The elevation from C to B is 8° 40’ and the
angle of elevation from C to A is 32° 30’. It is known that the elevation at C is 1400 m.
What is the elevation at A?
14. A line is drawn from point P to point Q, where P is along the line AB and Q is along the
line AC of the triangular lot ABC. If AP:PB = 3:1, and AQ:QC = 2:5, what is the
proportion of the area of APQ and ABC?
15. A pole casts a shadow 15m long when the angle of elevation of the sun is 61deg. If the
pole lean 15deg from the vertical directly towards the sun, what is the length of the pole?
16. A surveyor runs a line N 35° 30’30” E from A to B, the length od AB being 1246.5 ft.
From B he runs a line S 25° 14’05” E to C, and measures BC as 1729.6 ft long. How long
is AC?
17. A balloon is having 800 ft above a lake. The balloon is observed by the crew of a boat as
they look upwards at an angle of 20deg. 25 sec later, the crew had to look at an angle of
65deg to see the balloon. How fast was the boat traveling?
18. At a point 200 ft from the base of the building, the angle of elevation to the bottom of a
smokestack is 35deg whereas the angle of elevation to the top is 53deg. Find the height
of the smokestack alone.
 19. From the top of a hill 720 ft high, the angles of depression of the top and the base of a
tower are, respectively, 38° 20’ and 51° 25’. Find the height of the tower.
20. Find the height of a tree if the angle of elevation of its top changes from 20° to 40° as the
observer advances 75 ft toward its base.
21. When the angle of elevation of the sun is 64°, a telephone pole that is tilted at an angle
od 9° directly away from the sun casts a shadow 21 ft long on level ground. Approximate
the length of the pole?
22. A boat sailed 3 miles at a heading of 78° and then turned to a heading of 138° and sailed
another 4.3 miles. Find the distance and the bearing of the boat from the starting point.
23. A ship with a heading of 330° first sighted a lighthouse at a bearing of N 65° E. After
traveling 8.5 miles, the ship observed the lighthouse at a bearing of S 50° E. Find the
distance from the ship to the lighthouse when the first sighting was made.
24. In triangle CEM, angle C is 60°. The ratio e/m is 2+sqrt(3). Find the value of angle M.
25. Quadrilateral ABCD has AB=CD, and the acute angles B and C satisfy sinB = 4/9 and
sinC = 5/6. Find the ratio of the area of triangle ABC to area of triangle BDC.
26. How many triangles can be formed if A = 45°, B = 25°, and a = 11.
27. The sides of the spherical triangle ABC are a = 42°, b = 68°, and c = 83°. What is its
spherical defect?
28. On a sphere of radius 6 in., α = 87°20’45’’, β = 32°40’56’’ and ϒ = 77°45’32’’. Find the
area of the triangle.
29. The city of Miami has a latitude of 25°, 47 mins N. How far north, to the nearest 10 miles,
is it from the equator. Use 3960 miles as the radius of Earth.
30. Find the side opposite the given angle for a spherical triangle having b = 60°, c = 30°, A
= 45°.
31. The time at Athens, Greece (23° E longitude) is 12PM. What is the time at Mecca, Saudi
Arabia (40° E longitude)?

SOLID and PLANE GEOMETRY

1. The sum of the interior angle of a polygon is 2 520 degrees. How many are the sides?
2. If a regular polygon has 27 diagonals, then it is a:
3. Determine the area of a circle inscribed in a regular hexagon having an area of 240
sq.cm
4. The deflection angles of any polygon have a sum of:
5. If three sides of an acute triangle is 3cm, 4cm, and “x” cm, what are the possible values
of x?
6. Two sides of a triangle measure 8cm and 12cm. find its area if its perimeter is 26cm.
7. A line is drawn from point P to point Q, where P is along the line AB and Q is along the
line AC of the triangular lot ABC. If AP:PB = 3:1 and AQ:QC = 2:5, what is the proportion
of the area of APQ and ABC?
8. Given the triangle ABC with sides AB=25cm, BC=32cm, and AC=47cm. find the distance
of the point of intersection of perpendicular bisectors to side BC.
9. _____ states that “For any cyclic quadrilateral, the product of the diagonals equals the
sum of the product of opposite sides.”
10. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a circle having a diameter AD=8.224cm. IF
AB=2cm, BC=4cm, and CD=6cm, find the area of the quadrilateral.
 11. A quadrilateral ABCD is inscribed in a given circle. The angle ADC=75° and the angle
ACD=45°. If the arc BC is only one-half of arc CD, find the value of angle BCA.

DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
1. Find the limit of the following at it approaches the specified value:
2. Evaluate:

3. Evaluate:

4. Evaluate:
5. Determine the vertical and horizontal asymptotes of the function:
6. Determine the equation of the vertical asymptotes of the function:

7. Determine the equation of the horizontal/slanting asymptotes of the function:

8. A particle travels in a path described by s = t 2-t 3, where s is the distance in meters and t is
the time in seconds, find the velocity of the particle when the acceleration is zero.

9. Find the equation of the line tangent to the circle x 2 + y 2 = 41 at the point (5,4).

10.