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Population growth 2
The present population of the town is 200,000. Its population increases by 10% in the first year and 15% in the second year. Find the population of the town at the end of the two years.
Julia - recipe
Julia is using 60 g of butter in a recipe. She needs to use a butter-to-sugar ratio of 6:5. How much sugar should she use?
The ratio 14
The ratio of boys to girls is 8:7. If there are 40 boys, how many girls are there in the class?
The ratio 19
The ratio of males to females in a school is 1:2. If there are 24 pupils, find the number of males.
The ratio
At a certain convention, the ratio of men to women is 3 to 8. If there were 352 people there, how many were men?
A person 3
A person distributes his pens among four friends A, B, C and D in the ratio 1/3 : 1/4 : 1/5 : 1/6. What is the minimum number of pens that the person should have?
Aling
Aling Rosa can sew 8 dresses in 12 days. How many dresses can she sew in 16 days?
The reciprocal 2
The reciprocal of 8 is subtracted from the reciprocal of 4, and the result is added to the reciprocal of 10. What fraction do you get?
A bag 6
A bag contains 3 red marbles, 8 blue marbles, and 5 green marbles. If two marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the probability, to the nearest 1000th, that both marbles drawn will be blue?
Lemon tarts
A baker made some lemon tarts. He sold 40% of the tarts in the morning, 2/5 of the remaining tarts in the afternoon and had 54 tarts left. How many tarts did he bake altogether?
The ratio 18
The ratio of dogs to cats at a shelter is 2 to 7. If there are 12 dogs, then how many cats are in the shelter?
Two girls
Two girls share two crates of eggs(one crate =30 eggs) in a ratio of 1:2. How many eggs will each get, respectively?
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?
Tim and
Tim and Sufyaan share sweets in a ratio of 3:5. Tim gets 12 sweets. How many does Sufyaan get?
Population
If 1/2 of the students are white, 1/8 of the students are latino, and 3/8 of the students are black. What percent are other?
Assume 2
Assume you are working with a standard six-sided die. What is the probability of rolling the die once and obtaining a 5 and then rolling the die again and obtaining a 2? (input 3 numbers after the decimal, do not round). Report probability as a proportion
Clock error
How much does a watch lose per day, if its hands coincide every 64 minutes?
Remainder one
Find the least number when divided by 2,3,4,5,6, and 7, leaving the remainder as 1 in each case.
One half of percent
How is 1/2% expressed as a decimal fraction?
Percentage and fractions
Determine the correct answer by reasoning and calculating mentally. Write 46% as a fraction. ...

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