Examples for 8th grade - page 113

  1. Nineteenth member
    seq_sum_1 Find the nineteenth member of the arithmetic sequence: a1=33 d=5 find a19
  2. Phone plan
    phones_3 Victoria's cell phone plan costs $30.00 a month. If she used 12.5 hours in May, how much did Victoria pay per minute?
  3. Deposit is pesos
    penize_49 Sally deposits Php.22,000 in her savings account. If the bank pays 1.5% interest per year, how much will she receive at the end of the year?
  4. Sales tax
    penize_49 A sales tax on a Php 10,800 appliance is Php.1,620. What is the rate of sales tax?
  5. Ages 2
    time_13 A man's age is 4 times his son's age. After 5 years he will be just twice his son's age, find their ages.
  6. Tickets 4
    cinema2_13 Stacey is selling tickets to the school play. The tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for children. She sells twice as many adult tickets as children's tickets and brings in a total of $342. How many of each kind of ticket did she sell?
  7. An equilateral
    goat__wolf_and_cabbage_1 An equilateral triangle with a side 10 m represents a wooden platform standing in a lawn. A goat is tied to a corner with a 15 m rope. What is the maximum amount of grazing area available to the goat?
  8. Trip to a city
    vylet Lin wants to save $75 for a trip to the city. If she has saved $37.50 so far, what percentage of her goal has she saved? What percentage remains?
  9. Old laptop
    laptop The sale price of an old laptop is Php.11000. If 33 1/3% discount rate is given how much is the sale price of the laptop without the discount? Plese show your solution please. Php is Philippine peso
  10. 1.5 divided
    eq2_3 1.5 divided by 1 = w divided by 4
  11. Real estate 2
    penize_49 A real estate agent sold a lot for Php.550,000. If his agency pays at 10% commission, how much commission will he or she receive?
  12. Loan 4
    penize_49 Mr santos borrowed Php.18,000 at 1.5% interest for one year. What was the total amount he paid for the end of the 1-year term?
  13. Feet to miles
    runners_6 A student runs 2640 feet. If the student runs an additional 7920 feet, how many total miles does the student run?
  14. Donuts
    donut Find how many donuts each student will receive if you share 126 donuts in a ratio of 1:5:8
  15. On the 4
    water_12 On the way to playing disc golf with his two boys, Mr. Smith purchases 3 muffins and 2 bottles of water, totaling $9.75. The following week he only has Asher with him, so he purchases 2 muffins and 1 bottle of water totalling $6.00. What is the cost of on
  16. The sales
    chocholate_5 The sales tax rate is 4.447​% for the city and 4​% for the state. Find the total amount paid for 2 boxes of chocolates at ​$17.96 each.
  17. Mister
    penize_49 Mister ignacio paid Php.13693.75 for a television set that originally cost Php.15,650 . Find the rate of discount. Please show your solution please please please.
  18. Find sales tax
    danky_1 What is 8.25% sales tax out of 1607.00?
  19. Exchange rates
    penize_49 If the Canadian dollar appreciated by C$0.005 relative to the US dollar, what would be the new value of the Canadian dollar per US dollar? Assume the current exchange rate was US$1 = C$0.907.
  20. Days2minutes
    clock-night-schr_9 Write a formula that converts x days to y minutes. The formula is:

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