Algebra - math word problems - page 25 of 292
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- 3 men
Three men painting a house take 7 1/2 days. How long will 5 men take over the same job? Working at the same rate. - A boat 3
A boat takes 1 hour longer to go 36 km up a river than to return. If the river flows at 3 km/h, find the rate at which the boat travels in still water. - Average and mean
Suppose that the average of the four values, {-1, x, -2x, 3}, is equal to x - 1. Find the value of x. - Line slope
What is the slope of the line with points (-1,-3) and (-5, 2)?
- Milk mixture
In a container, milk and water are 7:5. If 15 L water is added, the ratio becomes 7:8. Find the quantity of water in the new mixture. - Library and gym
In a town, 7/8 of the population has a library card, and 3/4 has a gym membership. What fraction of the population has either a library card or a gym membership? - The mean
The mean of four numbers is 5, and the mean of three different numbers is 12. What is the mean of the seven numbers together? - Divisors 7
If 540=2²×3³×5, what is the number of all factors of 540? - Workers
If x men can complete a work in 8 days and x+4 men can complete the same work in 6 days. Find the value of x.
- Kenji
Kenji earned the test scores below in English class. {79, 91, 93, 85, 86, and 88} After his next test, his mean and median scores both changed to 88. What does he earn on his test? - One kilometer race
In a 1 km race, student A beats student B by 48 meters or 12 seconds. Find the time taken by student A in this race. - Miss Patel
Miss Patel thinks her class of 20 students will average 95 on a math test. Before she grades the last student's test, the class average is 97. What is the lowest possible score on the 20th test for the class to average 95? - The average 12
The average of the first five numbers drawn was 2499. the first four numbers were 4165, 320, 7142, and 64. What was the fifth number? - Coefficient of skewness
For the data set whose Karl Pearson's Coefficient of skewness = -2.25, variance is 16, and Mean is 35, then its median value will be:
- The average 10
The average of three fractions is 2 3/8. If two of the fractions are 2 1/5 and 1 2/3, what is the total value of the three fractions? - The well 3 When the health department tested private wells in a county for two impurities commonly found in drinking water, it found that 20% of the wells had neither impurity, 40% had impurity A, and 50% had impurity B. (Obviously, some had both impurities. ) If a
- The average 14
The average of the present ages of Susan and Beata is 36 years .If Susan is 8 years older than Beata. What is the Beata's present age? - A merit scholarship
Last year’s freshman class at Big State University totaled 5,307 students. Of those, 1,264 received a merit scholarship to help offset tuition costs during their freshman year (although the amount varied per student). The amount a student received was N($ - The median 3
The median of the following observations arranged in ascending order is 64: 27, 31, 46, 52, x, x + 4, 71, 79, 85, 90 Find the value of x.
At a football game, 8/15 of the fans wore team T-shirts. Of those wearing team T-shirts, 1/4 also wore team hats. What fraction game wore both a team T-shirt and a team hat?Do you have homework that you need help solving? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.
