For Elimination
For Elimination
2.) If 16 is added to one-third of a number, the result is three times the number.
What is the number?
3.) If my pet runs 300cm/sec and a bird flies 300m/sec, then the bird travels
______ times as fast as my pet.
7.) Alvin saved P 1 600 in May. He saved P2 000 in June. What is the percentage
increase in Alvin’s savings from May to June?
8.) Robert has 30% as many marbles as Anthony. Anthony has 90% as many
marbles as Aldwin. If Aldwin has 400 marbles, how many marbles does Robert
have?
9.) The average length of 4 rods is 2.33m. The lengths of 3 rods are 1.88 m, 2.67 m
and 2.4 m. What is the length of the fourth rod?
10.) A fax machine can fax 36 letters in 6 minutes. How many letters can it fax in
10 minutes?
11.) A worker can pack 45 boxes of shirts in 3 hours. How long does it take him to
pack 255 boxes of shirts?
12.) Alex has 50% more money than Bob, and Carl has 25% more money than
Bob. Altogether, they have a total of P 3 750. How much does Alex have?
13.) The total surface area of a cube is 54 square centimeters. How long is its
edge?
16.) A bag contains 40 marbles of which 39 are green and 1 is blue. A marble is
chosen from the bag. What is the probability that the marble is green?
17.) A container has 6 blue balls and 6 green balls. One ball is randomly selected.
What is the probability that it is a green ball?
18.) The number 1 is both a square of an integer and the cube of an integer. What
is the next larger integer which is both a square and a cube of a positive integer?
19.) If each letter in the word MATHEMATICS was written on a card and placed in
a hat, what would be the probability of drawing a vowel?
20.) In a card game, Matt’s scores on each of the first five games are +13; -10; -20;
+16; -10. At that time, the sum of the five scores of Paul is 25. How many points is
Matt behind Paul?
22.) Ric jogs along a road. Starting from the jeepney station, he jogs 4 m/s due
north for 20 minutes, then 5 m/s due south for 15 minutes, and finally 3 m/s due
south for 10 minutes. Find her final position from the station.
23.) A motorist made a 60-mile trip driving at an average speed of 20 miles per
hour. On the return trip, the motorist drove at an average speed of 30 miles per
hour. What was the motorist’s average speed for the entire trip?
25.) A square and a regular octagon have the same perimeter. If the area of the
square is 36 sq. cm., what is the length of a side of a regular octagon? Note: All
the sides of a regular octagon are equal.
28.) The smallest number that has 12, 30 and 36 as factor is _____.
33.) Two scouts brought two pieces of rope of lengths 6 ¾ m and 8 2/3 m for their
camp. How long are the two pieces together?
34.) Nene bought 9 bags of sugar each weighing 2 ½ kg. How many kilograms of
sugar did Nene buy?
35.) Alice bought 8 ¾ m of cloth. She used 3 4/5 m for a gown. How much cloth
remained?
36.) What is the simple interest on P6 500.00 for 3 years at 18% a year?
37.) In a class of 50 students, 19 are girls. What percent of the class are boys?
38.) What is the smallest digit that can be place in the blank so that 67 __ 45 is
divisible by 3?
40.) If 3 108 x 235 =730 380, what is 31.08 × 2.35 to the nearest hundredth?
1.) 140 21.) 1 19/21
2.) 6 22.) 1,500 south of the station
3.) 100 Answers:
4.) 3 1/3 23.) 24 kph
5.) 60 24.) 45 km
6.) 480 25.) 3 cm
7.) 25% 2.) 24 × 32 × 5 × 7
8.) 108 3.) 70 000 000
9.) 2.37 m 4.) 180
10.) 60 5.) 7/38
11.) 15 hrs 13.) 19cm
12.) Php 1, 500.00 14.) c
13.) 3 cm 15.) 210km
14.) 24 km 16.) 15.42m or 15 5/12
15.) 4 17.) 22 ½ or 22.5
16.) 39/40 18.) 4 19/20
17.) 1/2 25.) P3 510.00
18.) 64 23.) 62%
19.) 4/11
20.) 36 9.) 2
10.) 1 900
11.) 73.04