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- The marathon
There are 12 athletes joining the Topolcany Marathon Event. How many ways can the first, second, and third placers be chosen? - A rope
A 75m piece of rope needs to be cut in the ratio 1:4. What is the length of each piece? - Closer to one
Here are two sums: A=1/2 + 1/3 and B=1/5 + 1/3. Which of the two sums is closer in value to 1? You must show your work and state clearly whether the answer is A or B. - NYC block
Bijan wants to go running during his family's vacation to New York City. To do so, he will run a neighborhood block 20 times. Bijan runs a total of 8 miles. The block has a length of 3/20 miles. Use the formula for the perimeter of the neighborhood block
- Richard
Richard is conducting an experiment. Every time he flips a fair two-sided coin, he also rolls a six-sided die. What is the probability that the coin will land on tails and the die will land on an even number? - Locker combination
Todd forgot the first two numbers of his locker combination. The numbers can be any number 1 through 6. What is the probability that he will guess the first number correctly and the second number incorrectly? - Lara's sequence
Lara starts with a number less than 20. She divides it by 2 adds 6. She then divides this result by 3 her answer is 4.5 What number does she start with? - Empty rooms
In the tourist dormitory, 44 students slept in eight rooms, some of which were four-bed and others six-bed. When two beds were empty, how many four-bed and six-bed rooms were there in the dormitory? - Bertha
Bertha went on a walk 5 times this week. Each time she went 11/5 miles. How far did Bertha walk?
- One muffin
Eight muffins and one drink cost $8.12. If the drink costs $1.24, find the cost of one muffin. - Earnings 4
Joey earned $35, which is five times more than Leo earned. How much did Leo earn? - Multiply mixed
What is six-eighths times five? Your answer should be in mixed number form. Some hints: one and ten-thirtieths three and six-eighths six and four-sixths nine and three-fifths - Multimodal or unimodal
The weights (in kg) of 13 students of a class are 37,39,33,32,41,33,37,45,43,39, 33,40,39 Find the mode & media of this data (F) Is there more than one mode? - The mean - mi
Find the mean of 3 5 8 4 10.
- Sugar 9
Joe has two containers of sugar. One container has 1 2/5 cups, and the other has 4 1/10 cups. If he uses 1 4/5 of sugar, how much does he have left? - Rhombus 36
Rhombus ABCD with side 8 cm long has diagonal BD 11.3 cm long. Find angle DAB. - Third tests
Third periodical tests are 98, 97, 86, 94, 90, 97, 91, and 94. Find the median of her grades and interpret the result. - Twizzlers
A five pack of Twizzlers costs $3.75. What is the unit rate? - A pattern
If I have a pattern that starts with 1, 4, 9, 16, 25... and so on, which of the following numbers would not appear?
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