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BS Civil Engineering
Engr. Dheylvin Roy Buenaventura
CENG 196 – CE Competency Appraisal I
Problem Set 4
Problem Solving and Mathematical Modeling

Digit Problems
1. The sum of the digits of a 3-digit number is 12, the hundreds digit is twice the unit digit. If 198 is subtracted from
the number, the order of the digits will be reversed. Find the hundreds digit.
2. The sum of the digits of a 2-digit number is 10. If the number is divided by unit’s digit, the quotient is 2 and the
remainder is 4. Find the number.
3. Find the remainder when 37 raised to 1 810 is divided by 7.
4. Find two consecutive even integers such that the square of the larger is 44 greater than the square of the smaller
integer.
5. The sum of two numbers is 21, and one number is twice the other. Find the numbers.
6. Three times the first of three consecutive odd integers is three more than twice the third. Find the third integer.
7. If eight is added to the product of nine and the numerical number, the sum is seventy-one. Find the unknown
number.
8. Find the product of two numbers such that twice the first added to the second equals 19 and three times the first
is 12 more than the second.
9. The second of the four numbers is three less than the first, the third is four more than the first and the fourth is
two more than the third. Find the fourth number if their sum is 35.
10. When 3 is added to both the numerator and the denominator of a certain fraction, its value is decreased by 9/4.
However, when 3 is subtracted from both, its value is increased by 9/10. Find the denominator of the original
fraction.

Age Problems
1. In a film, the actor Charles Coburn plays an elderly ‘uncle’ character criticized for marrying a woman when he is
3 times her age. He wittily replies, “Ah, but in 20 years’ time, I shall only be twice her age”. How old is the ‘uncle’?
2. The quotient of the ages of a mother and her daughter is 2 with remainder 5. Five years ago, the mother was thrice
as old as her daughter then. How old is the mother now?
3. Michael is 5 years older than Scottie and 10 years younger than Larry. In 8 years, their combined ages will be 65.
How old is Michael?
4. The sum of the ages of the parents and three children is 9 decades over a century. The father is twice as old as the
eldest child. When the eldest child was born, the sum of the parents’ ages was 54. When the youngest was born, the
sum of the parents’ ages was 70. In 38 years, the sum of the parents’ ages will be equal to the sum of children’s ages.
How old is the second child?
5. In an organization, there are engineers, accountants, and doctors. The sum of their ages is 2 160; the average age
is 36. The average age of the engineers and accountants is 39; of the accountants and doctors, 32 & 8/11; the
engineers and doctors 36 & 2/3. If each engineer were 1 year older, each accountant 6 years older, and each doctor
7 years older, their average age would be 41. Determine the number of engineers, accountants, and doctors.
6. A girl is one-third as old as her brother and 8 years younger than her sister. The sum of their ages is 38 years.
How old is the girl?
7. Debbie is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years ago, Debbie was three times as old as Jerry then. How old is Debbie?
8. The ages of the mother and her daughter are 45 and 5 years, respectively. How many years will the mother be
three times as old as her daughter?
9. The sum of the parent’s ages is twice the sum of their 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, the sum of the parent’s ages will be equal to the sum
of their children’s ages. How many children were in the family?
10. When Chris was as old as Martin is now, the sum of their ages was 51. When Martin will be as old as Chris is
now, the sum of their ages will be 103. Chris is older than Martin by how many years.

Work Problems
1. If A can do the work in ‘x’ days and B in ‘y’ days, how long will they finish the job working together?
2. A and B can do a piece of work in 42 days, B and C in 31 days and C and A in 20 days. In how many days can all of
them do the work together?
3. On one job, two power shovels excavate 20 000 cubic meters of earth, the larger shovel working 40 hours and the
smaller for 35 hours. On another job, they removed 40 000 cubic meters with the larger shovel working 70 hours
and the smaller working 90 hours. How much earth can each remove in 1 hour working alone?
4. A gardener can mow a lawn in 3 hours. After 2 hours, it rained, and he discontinued the work. In the afternoon, a
girl completed the rest of the work in 1 hour and 15 minutes. How long would it take the girl to mow the lawn alone?
5. 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 hour.
How long will it take to fill the pool with the outlet closed?
6. Candle A and candle B of equal length are lighted at the same time and burning until candle A is twice as long, as
candle B. Candle A is designed to fully burn in 8 hours while candle B for 4 hours. How long will they be lighted?
7. 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?
8. 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 drain is closed, it will take 45 more minutes for the pipe to fill the tank, If the drain will be closed right at
the start of filling, how long will it take for the pipe to fill the tank?
9. A and B can do a apiece 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?
10. A new machine that deposits cement for a road requires 12 hours to complete a one-half mile section of road.
An older machine requires 16 hours to pave the same amount of road. After depositing cement for 4 hours, the new
machine develops a mechanical problem and quits working. The older machine is brought into place and continues
the job. How long does it take the older machine to complete the job?

Mixture Problems
1. How much water must be evaporated from 10 kg solution which has 4% salt to make a solution of 10% salt?
2. A pound of alloy of lead and nickel weighs 14.4 ounces in water, where lead losses 1/11 of its wight and nickel
losses 1/9 of its weight. How much of each metal is in the alloy?
3. A 700-pound alloy containing 50% tin and 25% lead is to be added with amounts of pure tin and pure lead to
make an alloy which is 60% tin and 20% lead. Determine how much pure tin must be added.
4. A container is filled with 20 gallons of pure water. Five gallons of water is taken from the container and is replaced
by 5 gallons of pure acid then thoroughly mixed. Another 5 gallons is taken from the mixture and is replaced again
by 5 gallons of pure acid. If this process is done repeatedly, find the amount of water in the container after doing
the process 3 times.
5. How many ounces of pure gold that costs ₱ 850 per ounce must be mixed with 25 ounces of a gold alloy that costs
₱ 500 per ounce to make a new alloy that costs ₱ 725 per ounce?

Clock Problems
1. It is between 3 and 4 o’clock, and in 20 minutes the minute hand will be as much after the hour hand as it is now
behind it. What is the time?
2. At what time between 8 and 9 o’clock will the minute hand coincide with the hour hand?
3. How many times will the hands of the clock coincide in one day?
4. What time between 2 and 3 o’clock will the angle between the hands of the clock be bisected by the line connecting the
center of the clock and the 3 o’clock mark?
5. If it were eight hours later, it would be half as long until midnight as it would be if it were two hours later. What time is
it now?
6. 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 clocks interchanged. At what time did he leave his home?
7. At what time after 12:00 noon will the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock first form an angle of 120°?
8. At approximately what time between 6 and 7 o’clock will the minute and hours hands coincide?
9. In how many minutes after 2 o’clock will the hands of the clock extend in opposite directions for the first time?
10. At what time between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM will the hands of the clock be coincident?