Number Series Problems

1. The second of three numbers is 5 times the first number. The third number is 12 less then the first.
Find the three numbers if their sum is 51

2. The greater of two numbers is 3 less than twice the smaller number. The sum of the two numbers is
18. What are the two numbers?

3. The sum of three consecutive integers is 12 less then 4 times the first integer. What are the three
integers?

4. find the natural number which when added to its square gives 9 times the next natural number

5. An integer is 3 more than another. If the product of the two integers is 130, then find the integers.

6. Two positive numbers have a difference of 10. The larger number is three more than twice the smaller.
Find the two numbers.

7. What would be the equation for the greater of two numbers is 5 less than twice the smaller. And the
sum of the numbers is 52

8. What six consecutive odd integers equal the sum 276?

9. The sum of the digits of a certain two digit number is 12. When you reverse its digits you increase the
number by 36. what is the number?

10. the difference between two integers is 5, and their sum is less than 49. Find the largest value of the
smaller integer

Age Problems

1. Marla's Grandma is currently 3 times older than Marla, but 25 years from now Marla will be half her
Grandma's age. How old is the Grandma right now?

2. Strontium-90 has a half-life of 29 years. How long will it take for an initial sample of 10mg to decay to
1mg?

3. Erwins age is currently one fifth the age of his father. Eight years ago, the father is thirteen times as old
as his son was then. How old is each now?

4. Mr. Sta Maria is five years older than his wife. Five years ago, his age was 4/3 her age. What will be
their ages 8 years from now?

5. Eunice age is 2 years less than three times her brother's age. Four years from now, Eunice will be twice
as old as her brother. How old are they now?

6. Billy is 10 years old. His brother is 7 years old. In how many years will there total age be 41

7. Sams sister is twice his age. Sams brother is 6 years older than Sam. Their combined age adds up to
36. How is old is Sam, his brother and his sister?
8. Dirk's age is now 5 more than twice Lebron's age. In 8 years, Dirk's age then will be 5 times Lebron's
age 4 years ago. How old is Lebron now?

9. The sum of Elliot's age and twice Zane's age is 44. The difference of twice Elliot's age and Zane's age is
-2. What is Elliot's age?

, and exactly as described: , but this is a bad way

to state a difference.

z-2x=2.
x=44-z.

, which makes no sense.

Maybe you wanted to describe in a way to mean, , and

multiplying this equation by negative 1 gives .
x+z=44,
x=44-z.

years, Zane's age.

Elliot's age, years.

You might wish to approximate these to the nearest month.

10. Marilyns age in 7 years will be twice what it was 17 years ago. How old is Marylin now?
Investment Problems

1. A group invested $20440 into two accounts. A secure bond account earned 2.5% interest and a more
risky stock venture account earned 3.4% interest. The group earned $623.05 for the investment in one
year. How much did the group invest into each account?

2. Using simple interest, how much total will be in an account which starts with $5600 at an interest rate
of 6% for 8 years?

3. Michelle found a bank account that offers 3.7% interest, compounded annually. she decides to put
$100 in an account and leave it there for 10 years.

a) write a function to model the growth of her investment (t) years after she put the money in the bank.

4. An appliance salesperson receives $200 per week plus 8% of his sales. If the salesperson earned $875
(before taxes) last week, how much money did the saleperson make in sales?

5. A man earns commision of 20% on goods that he sells. If his basic salary is $4200 a month and he sells
goods worth $40000 how much would he earn ?

6. Micah needs $18,500 to purchase a boat. How much money will he need to invest today in a savings
account earning 3.2% interest, compounding quarterly, to have enough money to purchase the boat in
14 years?

7. John opened a bank account. He deposited $800 in his account. The account pays simple interest at
the rate of 5% per year. Calculate the total amount in his account after 3 years

8. A person is hired to a job that pays $500 per month and receives a 10% raise in each following month.
In the fourth month, how much will that person earn?

9. Joyce invests $7500 in two savings accounts. One account earns interest at 4% per year; the other
earns 2.5% per year. The total interest earned from both accounts after one year is $132.50. How much
was originally deposited in each account?

10. A person plans to invest three times as much in an account at 7% interest as in an account at 9%
annual interest. how much should the person invest in each account to earn a total of $300 in one year.

The person should invest $---- at 7% annual interest and $----- at 9% annual interest.