Seatwork 1
Seatwork 1
Seatwork 1
1. Two towns A and B are connected by 3 roads and towns B and C are connected by 4
roads. In how many ways can one drive from A to b and return to A via B if the same
road is not to be traveled?
Answer: 72
2. What is the mantissa of the common logarithm of 0.0071?
Answer: 148741651
3. Tom is now twice as old as Jerry. Four years ago, he was three times as old as Jerry
was then. How old is Tom now?
Answer: 16
4. How many different ways can a party of seven politicians be seated in a row?
Answer: 5040
5. The age of Diophantus, a Greek mathematician may be calculated from the epitaph
which reads as follows:
"Diophantus passed 1/6 of his life in childhood, 1/12 in youth, 1/7 as a bachelor. Five
years after his marriage was born a son who died 4 years before his father at half his
father's final age."
How old was Diophantus when he died?
Answer: 84
Answer: 6.949
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7. Solve for the value of x if x= 1− √ 1−¿ √ 1−… ¿
Answer: 0.618034
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8. What is the factor of the equation x − y
Answer: ( x 2 + y 2 ) ( x− y ) ( x+ y )
9. A man sold a watch for 3,500Php at a loss of 30% on the cost price. Find the
corresponding loss or gain if he sold it for 5,050Php.
Answer: 1% gain
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10. What is the natural logarithm of e ?
Answer:
12
11. In the expansion of ( x +4 y ) ,
the numerical coefficient of the 5th term is:
Answer:126720
12. An engineer and his helper can do a certain job in 3 hours. On a given day, they worked
together for 1 hour then the helper left and the engineer finishes the rest of the work in 8
more hours. How long will it take the engineer to do the job alone?
Answer: 12 hours
13. A chemist of a distillery experimented on two alcohol solutions of different strengths,
35% alcohol, and 50% alcohol, respectively.
How many cubic units of 50% alcohol must he use in order to produce a mixture of 60
cu. units that contain 40% alcohol?
Answer: 20
14. The red bulbs of a Christmas light flash every 8 seconds, the blue bulbs flash every 9
seconds, and the green bulb flashes every 10 seconds. If they all start flashing together,
every how many seconds will they flash simultaneously again?
Answer:
15. How many minutes after 5 o'clock will the hands of the clock be perpendicular for the
first time?
Answer: 27.27