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A. NUMBER-RELATED 1. The sum of two numbers is 21. Three times the smaller number increased by five equals the larger number. Find the numbers. 2. The difference between two numbers is 15 and their sum is 79. Find the larger number. 3. Karl is 4 years older than Danny. Eight years ago, Karl was twice as old as Danny. What are their ages now? 4. The sum of the ages of a father and his son is 48. The fathers age is 4 more than three times the sons age. Find their ages. 5. In seven years, the ratio of teacher Socrates age to that of student Plato will be 3 : 2. If the difference of their ages is 15, how old are they now? B. DIMENSION-RELATED 1. The length of a rectangle is one less than twice the width. If its perimeter is 46 centimeters, find its dimensions. 2. The perimeter of a rectangle is 16 times the width. The length is 12 centimeters more than the width. Find the width of the rectangle. 3. The width of a certain rectangle is one less than the length. The perimeter is five times the length, decreased by 5. Find the length of the rectangle. 4. In a given rectangle, the length is twice the width. If the length is increased by seven and the width is increased by eight, the perimeter is doubled. Find the dimensions of the original rectangle. 5. The longest side of a triangle is 5 meters longer than the shorter side, and the medium side is 2 meters longer than the shortest side. The perimeter of the triangle is 55 meters. Find the length of the shortest side of the triangle. 6. The base of a given triangle is ten. If the length of the altitude is increased so that it is four more than twice the original and the base is decreased by two, then the area of the new triangle is twice the area of the original. Find the altitude of the original triangle. C. INVESTMENT-RELATED 1. Mr. Nugas invests part of P80,000.00 at 9% annual simple interest and the rest at 11% annual simple interest. His annual income from these investments is P8,500.00. How much is invested at each rate? 2. Noah invests P8,000.00 for one year. Part is invested at 6% and the rest at 5%. If the total interest at the end of the year is P460.00, how much is invested at each rate? 3. Dexter makes two investments that total P10,000.00. One investment is at 11% and the other at 13%. If the total interest for one year is P1,190.00, find the amount invested at 11%.

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Two investments produce an annual interest income of P4,200.00. The amount invested at 14% is P6,000.00 less than the amount invested at 10%. Find the amount invested at 14%. Manny Pacquiao invested some money at 10% and invested P5,000.00 more than this at 14%. His total annual income from these investments is P3,100.00. How much does he have invested at 10%?

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D. DISTANCE-RELATED 1. A car travels at the rate of 55 mph for four hours. How far does it travel? 2. How long will it take a plane whose groundspeed is 530 mph to travel 2,120 miles? 3. A person walked 21 kilometers in 3 hours. What was the persons average rate? 4. A car travelling at the rate 1,680 ft/min crosses the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 2 minutes. How long is the bridge? 5. A bank robber leaves town heading north at an average speed of 120 kilometers per hour. The Sheriff leaves two hors later in a plane that travels at 200 kilometers per hour. How long will it take the Sheriff to catch the robber? 6. A car leaves a point and travels at the rate of 75 kilometers per hour. Another car leaves one hour later from the same point and follows the same route catching up with the first car in five hours. What was the speed of the second car? 7. A car leaves a certain point and travels at the rate of 60 kilometers per hour. Another car leaves from the same point two hours later and travels the same route at 80 kilometers per hour. How long will it take the second car to catch the first car? 8. Two airplanes start from the same place and fly in opposite directions. One airplane travels 100 kilometers per hour faster than the other. Two hours later, they are 2,260 kilometers apart. Find the rate of each plane. 9. Two automobiles start at the same time and place and travel in opposite directions. The first car averages 32 km an hour and the second, 36 km an hour. In how many hours will the cars be 306 km apart? 10. Two cyclists leave the same point at the same time and travel in opposite directions. One cyclist travels at the rate of 20mph and the other at 25mph. How long will it take for them to be 90 miles apart? 11. A car leaves a certain point and travels east at 70 kilometers per hour. Three hours later, a second car leaves the same point and travels west at 85 kilometers per hour. How long will the second car have to travel for the two cars to be 520 kilometers apart? 12. Manny and Carlo started 36 miles apart and worked toward each other, meeting in three hours. If Manny walked two miles per hour faster than Carlo, find the rate of each person?

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Peter and John live 22 miles apart. If each leaves his home at the same time and walks toward the other, Peter at a rate of 6mph and John at 5mph, how long will it take them to meet? Two towns, A and B are 486 kilometers apart. A car leaves each town at the same time and travels toward the opposite town. The cars meet in three hours. If the car from town B traveled at eight kilometers per hour faster than the car from town A, what was the speed of each car?

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15. A plane, whose speed in still air is 550mph, flies against a headwind of 50mph. How long will it take the plane to travel 1,500 miles? 16. A motorboat traveling at the rate of thirty kilometers per hour in still water takes four hours to go upstream and three hours to return. Find the rate of the current. 17. A boat travels 30 km downstream in 2 hours and takes three hours to return. Find the speed of the current and the speed of the boat in still water. E. WORK-RELATED 1. Carpenter A can build a cabinet in 4 days working alone. Carpenter B can do it in 8 days working alone. How long will it take them to finish the same working together? If Andrew can do a job in 8 hours and Bobby can do the same job in 12 hours, how long would it take the two men working together? Contractors A and B can build a 5-kilometer road in 40 days working together. If contractor A can build it in 120 days working alone, how many days will it take contractor B to build the road working alone?

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4. A mixing tank can be filled by one hose in 42 minutes. A second hose can do it in 30 days. If both hoses are used simultaneously, how much time would it take to fill the tank? 5. A swimming pool can be filled in 4 hours and drained in 6 hours. If the drain was accidentally left open, how long will it take to fill the pool?