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The width 2
The width of stamp M is 4/3 inches, and the length is 7/5 inches. The dimensions of stamp M are 7/6 times the dimensions of stamp P. What is the length of stamp P in inches?
A rope
A 75 m piece of rope needs to be cut in a ratio of 1:4. What is the length of each piece?
The ratio 11
The ratio of two prices is 6:7. If one of the prices is 1,500, fine the other price which is a bigger one.
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?
Find area 2
Find the area of the green region in the given picture. Dimensions are shown.
The rectangle 7
The rectangle shown has a length (l) of 8 and a width (w) of 6.2. A second rectangle has a length of l + 2.5 and a width of w - 1.4. Find the area of the SECOND rectangle.
Ten percent
Find 10% of $4. Explain
A period
A period of 4 hrs 30 min is what percent of a day?
Temperature dropping
If the temperature drops 2 degrees for 6 hours and the starting temperature is 10 degrees, what will the new temperature be?
A river
A river flows at a speed of 5 km/h. A man can swim at 20 km/h in still water. The man starts swimming from A to B, a distance of 30 km. After reaching B, the man turns back and stops at point A. Find the total time for the round trip.
A concert venue
The floor of a concert venue is 100 3/4 feet by 75 1/2 feet. What is the area of the floor?
Two trains 12
Two trains 128 m and 132 m long are running towards each other on parallel lines at 42 km/h and 30 km/h respectively. In what time will they clear of each other from the moment they meet?
Two trains 14
Two trains running in the same direction at 40 kmph and 22 kmph completely pass one another in 1 minute. If the length of the first train is 125 m, find the length of the 2nd train.
A rectangle 13
A rectangle measures 2 1/2 meters by 1 3/4 meters. What is its area?
Existence of a triangle
Can the sides of a triangle have lengths of 4, 18, and 20?
Square yards
What is 4 1/3 yards times 5 2/3 yards?
Two sides 2
Two sides of a triangle are 12 and 15, and the perimeter is 40. Find the other side.
Three legs journey
A train runs for 3 hours at 40 km/h and then for 4.5 hours at 60 km/h, covering 3/5 of the total distance. It needs to cover the remaining distance in 4 hours. Find the average speed required for the remaining distance.
Time and distance
A man walking at a speed of 4 km/h can reach a destination in 3 hours. If he increases his speed by 1 km/h, how much time will he save?
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.

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