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Father and son
Age of father is 5 times the age of his son. After 10 years, age of father will be 3 times the age of son. Find the present age of both of them .
Walking speeding
Susan walks from her home to office at 16 km/h, she is late by 5 min. If she walks by 20 km/h, she reaches 10 min before the office time. Find the distance of her office from her house.
Common work 2
Person A works twice as fast as person B. If both of them can together finish a piece of work in 12 days then person B alone can do it in how many days?
Amusement park.
A group of friends wants to go to the amusement park. They have $311.50 to spend on parking and admission. Parking is $16.75, and tickets cost $32.75 per person, including tax. Write and solve an equation which can be used to determine the number of peopl
Soccer team trip
Members of a soccer team raised $1210.50 to go to a tournament. They rented a bus for $769.50 and budgeted $31.50 per player for meals. Using equation or tape diagram find the number of players the team can bring to the tournament.
20% percentage
If 20% of A = 50% of B, what percentage of A is B?
Three legs journey
A train runs for 3 h at the speed of 40 km/h and then for 4.5 h at the speed of 60 km/h.Thus it covers 3/5th part of the whole distance. It wants to cover the remaining distance in 4 h, find the average speed of the train for remaining distance.
ABCD rhombus
ABCD is a rhombus with sides 10.5cm. If the length of the diagonal AC=15.8cm, using cosine formula. a. calculate the length of the diagonal BD correct to the nearest cm b. the angles of the rhombus to the nearest degree.
Convert 8
Convert 5775 by 16 into a mixed fraction.
A river
A river is flowing at a speed of 5 km/h. A man can swim 20 km/h in still water. The man starts swimming from A to B, distance 30 km. After reaching B the man turn back and stop swimming after reaching point A . Find the total time.
Spherical sector - parameters
Find the volume and surface area of spherical sector whose base has an altitude of 8cm. Drawn on a sphere whose diameter is 36 cm.
Recipical fraction
5/9 divided by 8/5 recipical
Insert two > GP
If 4, 36, 324 are in the geometric progression (GP) insert two more numbers in this progression so that it again forms a GP.
According 10
According to the Board of Math Examiners, approximately 62% of people taking the Math Exam passed the exam. If 18 people who have taken the Math Exam are randomly selected, what is the probability that at least 76% have passed? Round your answer to 4 deci
The perimeter 13
The perimeter of a rectangle is 22cm. What are its dimensions if it has a maximum area?
Below zero
The temperature on Saturday was 14.5 degrees below zero. The temperature then decreased by 2 degrees. What would the temperature be after it decreased?
Local fair
Diana and 2 friends are visiting the local fair. Each person buys a hamburger for $6.60 and a drink for $3. They have a coupon for $1 off each hamburger. Write an expression to represent the total cost.
Circular track 3
Henry and Margo both began traveling around a circular track. Henry is riding his bike, and Margo is walking. It takes Henry 7 minutes to make it all the way around, and Margo takes 12 minutes. How many minutes will pass until they meet at the starting li
Hiking trails
There are 12 thousands kilometers of hiking trails in a national park. Each trail is rated for difficulty: 3/8 of the trails are rated easy, 1/6 are rated moderate, 1/4 are rated hard, and 5/24 are rated difficult. What fraction of the trails are rated ea
Stefan
Stefan sells Jin a bicycle for $147 and a helmet for $18. The total cost for Jin is 150% of what Stefan spent originally to buy the bike and helmet. How much did Stefan spend originally? How much money did he make by selling the bicycle and helmet to Jin?

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