Fractions - high school - practice problems
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- A high
A high school track team's long jump record is 23 feet, 11 3/4 inches. Paul's best long jump is 23 feet and 3 1/2 inches this year. If long jumps are measured to the nearest quarter inch, how much farther must jump to break the record? - Violin and dance lesson
Each week, Nina takes a violin lesson and a dance lesson. The dance lesson costs ⅔ as much as the violin lesson, and the combined cost is $75. Which systems of equations could be used to find d, the cost of the dance lesson in dollars, and v, the cost of - Fraction or irrational
If you double 1/4 of a certain fraction and multiply it by that fraction, the answer is 1. What is the fraction? - Altering sign sequence
Find the nth term of the sequence -1/2, 1/4, - 1/6, 1/8, - 1/10, ....
- Five roommates
Five roommates will move into a house with four bedrooms: one double room and three single rooms. The five roommates propose that they draw names to determine the order in which they pick the bedrooms, assuming that the first three names drawn will choose - A linear
A linear function has a y-intercept of -12 and a slope of 3/2. What is the equation of the line? - 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? - Education - 5 modules
In a self-paced online class, there are five modules. The first four modules are worth the same, but the fifth module is worth as much as the other four combined. A student is one-fourth of the way through the last module and has done one-third of three o - Peter 16
Peter travels to his uncle's home, 30 km away from his place. He cycles for 2/3 of the journey before the cycle develops a mechanical problem, and he has to push it for the rest of the journey. If he is cycling 10 km per hour faster than his walking speed
- Two dice 3
Two dice are thrown together. What is the probability that the number obtained on one of the dice is a multiple of the number obtained on the other dice? 2/3 9/36 12/36 11/18 - 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? - Ruben
Ruben owns a restaurant. He likes to keep track of everything customers are buying. His top 3 sellers are sandwiches, salads, and pizza. He knows that 1/3 of his customers buy a sandwich, 1/2 buy a salad, and 1/4 buy a pizza. What fraction of customers bu - A cone 4
A cone with a radius of 10 cm is divided into two parts by drawing a plane through the midpoint of its axis parallel to its base. Compare the volumes of the two parts. - 20 men
20 men are supposed to complete a work in 10 days. After working for 5 days, they realize that only one-fourth of the work is done. How many more men they need to employ to complete the work on time?
- Manufacturing company
It is established by the production manager of a manufacturing company that 2 out of every 20 units of a particular product are faulty. In a particular production hour, 8 units of the product were produced. Determine the probability that: (1) none of them - Containers
One in eight containers is temporarily misplaced. A random sample of 12 containers is selected. What is the probability that 6 of these containers will be temporarily misplaced? - Summerjobs
The agency gives summer jobs to 2352 students in 2018. The one-eighth was high-school students. The rest was undergraduates. How many undergraduates work via an agency in 2018? - Alcohol risk
The 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that about 5 out of 12 high school students drank some alcohol in the 30 days preceding the survey. If a high school has 2400 students, how many would be expected to have used alcohol within 30 days? - Sophomores
There are 3200 students at lake high school, and 3/8 of these are sophomores. If 3/5 of the sophomores favor the school forming a crew team and 7/10 of the remaining students (not sophomores) are in favor of forming a crew team, how many students are oppo
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