PROBLEM SET 1

COLLEGE MATHEMATICS
MATH 100

1. IGOT, ELYCA MAE C.

2. JACA, SAJARA FAITH
3. LARESMA, JOHN LLOYD T.
(MWF- 8:30- 9:30)
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100. Banking You have $304 in your checking account. If you write a check for $139, how
much is left in your checking account?
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101. Insects The table at the right shows the number of taste genes and the number of smell
genes in the mosquito, fruit fly, and honey bee.
a. How many more smell genes does the honey bee have than the mosquito?
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b. How many more taste genes does the mosquito have than the fruit fly?
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c. Which of these insects has the best sense of smell?

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d. Which of these insects has the worst sense of taste?

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102. Car Sales The graph at the right shows the number of cars sold in India for each year
from 2001 to 2017.
a. Has the number of cars sold increased each year from 2003 to 2017?
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b. How many more cars were sold in India in 2007 than in 2003?
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c. Between which two years shown did car sales increase the most?
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103. Earth Science Use the graph at the right to find the difference between the maximum
height to which Great Fountain geysers erupts and the maximum height to which Valentine
erupts.
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104. Earth Science According to the graph at the right, how much higher is the eruption of
the Giant than that of Old Faithful?
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105. Education In a recent year, 775, 424 women and 573, 079 men earned a bachelor’s
degree. How many more women than men earned a bachelor’s degree in that year? (Source:
The National Center for Education Statistics)
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95. Fuel Efficiency Rob Hill owns a compact car that averages 43 miles on 1 gallon of gas.
How many miles could the car travel on 12 gallons of gas?
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96. Fuel Efficiency A plane flying from Los Angeles to Boston uses 865 gallons of jet fuel
each hour. How many gallons of jet fuel were used on a 6- hour flight?
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97. Geometry The perimeter of a square is equal to four times the length of a side of the
square. Find the perimeter of a square whose side measures 16 miles.
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98. Geometry The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of the length of the rectangle
times its width. Find the area of a rectangle that has a length of 24 meters and a width of 15
meters. The area will be in square meters.
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99. Matching Services See the news clipping at the right.
a. How many marriages occur between eHarmony members each week?
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b. How many marriages occur each year? Use a 365- day year.
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100. College Education See the news clipping at the right.

a. Find the average cost of tuition, room, and board for 4 years at a public college.
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b. Find the average cost of tuition, room and board for 4 years at a private college.
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 c. Find the difference in cost for tuition, room, and board between 4 years at a private college
and 4 years at a public college.
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Construction The table at the right shows the hourly wages of four different job
classifications at a small construction company. Use this table for Exercises 101- 103.
101. The owner of this company wants to provide the electrical installation for a new house,
on the basis of the architectural plans for the house, it is estimated that it will require 3
electricians, each working 50 hours, to complete the job. What is the estimated cost for the
electricians’ labor?
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102. Carlos Vasquez, a plumbing contractor, hires 4 plumbers from this company at the
hourly wage given in the table. If each plumber works 23 hours, what are the total wages
paid by Carlos?
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103. The owner of this company estimates that remodeling a kitchen will require 1 electrician
working 30 hours and 1 plumber working 33 hours. This project also requires 3 hours of
clerical work and 4 hours of bookkeeping. What is the total cost for these four components of
this remodeling?
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Work Hours The table at the right shows, for different countries, the average number of
hours per year that employees work. Use this information for Exercises 105- 106. Use a 50-
week year. Round answers to the nearest whole number.
101. What is the average number of hours worked per week by employees in Britain?
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106. On average, how many more hours per week do employees in the United States work
than employees in France?
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107. Coins The U. S. Mint estimates that about 114,000,000,000 of the 312,000,000,000
pennies it has minted over the last 30 years are in active circulation. That works out how
many pennies in circulation for each of the 300,000,000 people living in the United States?
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108. Toy Sales Every hour, 25,200 sets of Legos® are sold by retailers worldwide. (Source:
Time, February 11, 2008) How many sets of Legos are sold each second by retailers
worldwide?
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109. U.S. Postal Service There are 114 households in the United States. Use the information
in the news clipping at the right to determine, on average, how many pieces of mail each
household will receive between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. Round to the nearest
whole number.
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110. Arlington National Ceremony There are approximately 10,200 funerals each year at
Arlington National Cemetery. (Source: www.arlingtoncemetery.org) Calculate the average
number of funerals each day at Arlington National Cemetery. Round to the nearest whole
number.
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111. Which problems below require division to solve?

(i) Four friends want to share a restaurant bill of $45.65 equally. Find the amount that
each friend should pay.
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(ii) On average, Sam spends $30 a week on gas. Find Sam’s average yearly
expenditure for gas.
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(iii) Emma’s 12 phone bills for last year totaled $660. Find Emma’s average monthly
phone bill.
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