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- Apples 31
Tim picked 1 1/10 buckets of apples, and Sally picked buckets 2 1/8 of apples. How many more buckets did Sally pick? - Reciprocal in equation
A positive number, when increased by 10 equals 200 times its reciprocal. What is the number? - The boat
A boatman goes 2 km against the stream in 40 minutes and returns to the same spot in 30 minutes. What is his rate of rowing in still water? - A plane 3
A plane left 30 minutes later than the scheduled time and in order to reach the destination 1500 km away in time, it has to increase the speed by 250 km/hr from the usual speed. Find its usual speed.
- Dual profit
A merchant has 1000 kg of sugar, part of which he sells at 8% profit and the rest 18%. He gains 14% on the whole. Find the quantity of 8% profit. - Fund raising
A number of persons decided to raise 3 millions euros by equal contributions from each. Had they contributed 50 euros each extra, the contribution would have been 3.25 millions euros . How many persons are there? - Prism - base and height
Find volume of the prism if the base area equals 20 inches² with the height is 12 inches. - Divide by mixed number
Solve and choose the answer written in simplest form. 1/6 ÷ 1 2/3 - An article 2
An article is bought for 124 USD. What should be the marked up selling price so that there is a profit of 10% even after allowing a discount of 12%?
- Dilution
How many liters of water will have to be added to 1125 liters of the 45% solution of acid so that the resulting mixture will contain more than 25% but less than 30% acid content? - Three inscribed objects
A circle is inscribed in a square. An equilateral triangle of side 4√3 is inscribed in that circle. Find the length of the diagonal of the square. - Price of rice
The price of rice is reduced by 5% . How many kilograms of rice can now be bought for the money which was sufficient to buy 50 kg of rice earlier? - Lightbulbs
The physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace fluorescent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 48 and a standard deviation of 10. Using the emp - Bananas 5
A fruit vendor was able to sell 85% of his 80 kilograms of bananas. How many kilograms of bananas were sold?
- Subtraction equation
What should be subtracted from -3/5 to get -2/3? - Fractions - minus
What is the difference used estimation to justify your thinking? 11/12 - 1/3 - 1/6 - Largest circle
If the largest possible circle is cut off from a 8 cm × 4 cm rectangle, what is the area in sq cm of the remaining portion? - Two trains 16
Two trains cross each other in 14 seconds when they are moving in opposite direction and when they are moving in the same direction they cross each other in 3 minutes 2 seconds . The speed of the faster train is by what percent more than the slower train? - A kite 3
A kite is flying at a height of 60 m above the ground. The string attached to the kite is temporarily tied to a point on the ground. The inclination of the string with the ground is 60°. Find the length of the string, assuming that there is no slack in th
In an examination, 20% of total students failed in history,15% failed in English and 5% of total number of students failed in both subjects. Find the percentage of total number of students who passed in both the subjects.Do you have homework that you need help solving? Ask a question, and we will try to solve it. Solving math problems.
