TAKE HOME EXAM

1. There are 48 members in the schools brass band and of them are

boys, how many are girls?

2. In a bag of marbles, 3/7 are red, 1/3 are green and the rest are blue. What
percentage of the marbles are blue? If there are 10 marbles, how many are
green?
3. Atty. Topacio, divided a 960 hectares of land among his sons, Rico, Sammy
and James in the proportion 3:4:5 respectively. How much land did each son
receive?
4. There are 5400 paper clips in a box. The red paper clips are 600 more than
the green paper clips and the blue paper clips is twice that of the green paper
clips. What is the ratio of the red :blue: green paper clips?
5. Fern can fly her plane 240 miles against the wind in the same time it takes to
fly 360 miles with the wind. The speed of the plane in still air is 30mph more
than 4 times the speed of the wind. Find the speed of the plain in still air.
6. In two hours, a motorboat can travel 8 miles down a river and return 4 miles
back. If the river flows at the rate of 2mph, how fast can the boat travel in
still water?
7. A picture of 9 inches wide and 12 inches long is surrounded by a frame of
uniform width. If the frames area is 162 square inches, how wide is the
frame?
8. A bullet is fired straight up from the ground level with a muzzle velocity of
320 ft/sec.
a) When will the bullet hit the ground?
b) When will the bullet be 120 feet above the ground?
(Hint: Use the equation, h= -16t2+ Vot+H0)

6. In two hours, a motorboat can travel 8 miles down a river and return 4
miles back.
If the river flows at a rate of 2 mph, what is the rate of the boat in still
water?
:
Let s = boat speed in still water
then
(s+2) = effective speed down river
and
(s-2) = effective speed up river
Write a time equation: time = dist/speed
Down riv time + up riv time = 2 hrs

8
s+ 2

4
s2

=2

Multiply by (s-2)(s+2) to get rid of the denominators, results:

8(s-2) + 4(s+2) =

2(s-2)(s+2)

8s - 16 + 4s + 8 =
12s - 8 = 2s2 8

2(s2 - 4)

add 8 to both sides

12s = 2s2
0 = 2s2 - 12s
0 = 2s(s - 6)
The reasonable solution
s = 6 mph is the speed in still water
See if that checks out find the time each way
8/(6+2) = 1 hr
4/(6-2) = 1 hr
------------total time 2 hrs
7. A picture 9 inches wide and 12 inches long is surrounded by a frame of
uniform width. The area of the frame only is 162 square inches. Find the
width of the frame.
---------------------------Let the width of the frame be "x"inches.
----------------------------Area of picture with frame around is length*width

Width = 9 + 2x inches
length = 12 + 2x inches
--------Larger area = (9+2x)(12+2x)
=2(9+2x)(6+x)
=2[54+21x+2x2]
=4x2 + 42x + 108
--------------Area of frame = larger area - 9*12
= 4x2 + 42x +108 - 108
= 4x2 + 42x
------------------Area of frame = 162 sq. in.
4x2+42x= 162
2x2 + 21x -81 = 0
x = [-21+33]/4 = 3 or x = [-21-33]/4 = -54/4 = -27/2
---------------------Realistic Answer: width = 3 inches