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- Balloon
If a ceiling balloon rises at 120 m (about 400 ft) each minute, what is the ceiling of an overcast deck of stratus clouds 1500 m (about 5000 ft) thick if the balloon disappears into the clouds in 5 minutes? Show your solution. - Lengths 6
Lengths of 130 tubes are measured. The arithmetic mean is 17.27 cm, and the standard deviation is 1.2 cm. How many tubes do have a length: a) between 16.5 cm and 18.1 cm b) greater than 17 cm - Liz makes
Liz makes footprints in the snow with her boots that are 3/4 foot long. Liz's feet are only 2/3 foot long. What expression can be used to find out how much longer Liz's boot prints are than her feet? - Ricardo
Ricardo is 1 9/10 metres tall. If Ricardo is 3/10 meters taller than Joan, what is Joan's height in meters?
- Angel 4
Angel bought 11 spools of wire. Each spool has 2.8 meters of wire. How many meters of wire did Angel buy in all? - A right 2
A right triangle has legs with lengths of 24 cm and 21 cm if the length of the hypotenuse, in cm, can be written in the form of 3 sqrt(d), then what is the value of d? - There 32
There are 20 magazines in a pile. Each magazine is 5 mm thick. How high is the pile in meters? - Mary made
Mary made 6 large curtains, each 3.5 m long, and 2 small ones, each 1.5 m long. The total cost of the cloth is $312. Find the cost of 1 m of cloth. - FRAMES
Joe is making picture frames out of wood. The length of each frame is 10 inches, and the width is 8 inches. Each piece of wood used to make the frames is 8 feet long. How many pieces of wood will he need to make 10 picture frames? Clue: find the perimeter
- Shyambazar
Shyambazar is 3 km north of college street, and Park Street is 7 km south of college street. What is the distance of Shyambazar from Park Street, and in which direction? - Xero had
Xero had a piece of ribbon. He used 0.4 of it to tie 2 small boxes and 2 large boxes. The length of ribbon needed for a large box is 3 times the length of ribbon needed for a small box. Xero used 5/6 of the remaining ribbon to decorate the presents. a) Wh - A soccer
A soccer field (football pitch) has a length of 101.8 m and a width of 69.8 m. Find the total area of the field in square meters (m2) and convert this measurement to square yards (yd2). Use the fact that 1 yard = 0.9144 m. Round your answer to the nearest - Tom is
Tom is making birdhouses to sell at a farmer's market. Each birdhouse requires 4.5 feet of wood planks to build, and he sells them for $19.75 each. How much money can Tom earn at the farmer's market if he has no more than 80 feet of planks to build birdho - 7 athletes
Seven athletes run a combined total of 4 miles. How many miles did each athlete run?
- The rope
Fred was learning to tie rope. He had 5 1/2 feet of rope. If each knot took up 4/5 of a foot of rope, how many knots could he make? - Charity
Greg's grandmother is knitting scarves for charity. The table shows the number of yards needed for different types of scarves. Yarn Type ; Number of Yards Bulky ; 150 Light ; 250 Medium; 200 She plans to make bulky scarves and has no more than 2,250 yards - A ribbon
Bree has a piece of ribbon that is 6 inches long. She needs to cut it into equal pieces measuring 3/4 of an inch. How many pieces will she have? Answer in simplest form - The track
The track is ⅗ a mile long. If Tim ran the track three times, how far did he run? Answer AS A DECIMAL. - Robin
Robin needs 3 1/4 meters long of red lace, 5 meters of yellow lace, and 2 1/2 meters of pink lace for her project. How many laces does she need?
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