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Sarah 8
Sarah is making cookies. The recipe calls for 3/4 cup of flour, but secondly wants to make 1/2 of the recipe. How much flour does she need?
A flour
A bag contains 3 cups of flour. Jasiah removes 1/3 cup of flour for baking. How much flour is left in the bag? Write your answer as a mixed number.
Dog food 5
Maria works at a kennel and uses 30-pound bags of dog food to feed the dogs. If each dog gets 2/5 pound of food, how many dogs can she feed with one bag?
Right triangular prism
A right triangular prism has a base of 6 cm and a base height of h cm. the triangle is a right triangle, and the prism's height is 10 cm. if the total surface area is 288 cm². What is the value of h?
Students to teachers
The ratio of students to teachers in a school is 19:1. In total, there are 380 students in the school. What is the number of teachers in the school according to the ratio?
Ice cream shop
Jenna works in an ice cream shop. When she starts her shift, the tub of chocolate ice cream is 2/3 full. When she finishes her shift 6 1/2 hours later, there is only 1/6 of the tub left. What was the average hourly change in tub fullness?
Temp below zero
The temperature was 5 degrees below zero at 7 AM. By 7 PM the temperature had risen 5 degrees. What was the temperature at 7 PM?
The Population 5
The Population of a town is 320000. If the annual birth rate is 9.2% and annual death rate is 1.7% . Calculate the Population of town after 2 years.
A ladder 3
A 30 foot ladder is set against the side of a house so that it reaches up 24 feet. If Elizabeth grabs the ladder at its base and pulls it 3 feet farther from the house, how far up the side of the house will the ladder reach now? Round to the nearest tenth
Runners 5
Ahmed runs for 4 1/2 hours a day, and Heba runs for 3 1/4 hours a day. What is the difference between the time they both run?
Ten percent
Find 10% of $4. Explain
Moving boxes
Karen is moving into a new house. She has a lot of books to pack in small moving boxes. The dimensions of one small moving box are: base 1 ft × 4 ft, side height 2 ft, and depth 3/4 ft. What is the volume of the small moving box?
Raw material
A machine can process 2 1/2 tonnes of raw material in 1 hour. How many tonnes can the machine process in 5 hours?
Elimination method
Use the method of elimination to solve the following simultaneous equations. 5a − 2b = 14 2a + 2b = 14
Flag Shop
Of the flags in Philip's Flag Shop, 1/10 are orange and another 3/10 are blue. What fraction of the flags are either orange or blue? Write your answer as a fraction or as a whole or mixed number.
Shipping problem
Paul works in the shipping department of a toy company. He sends toys in boxes, each in the shape of a rectangular prism with whole-number dimensions in inches. Paul needs a box with a total volume of 24 cubic inches. Find one possible combination of leng
At midnight
The outside temperature at midnight was 3.4 °C. The temperature then changed at a constant rate of −0.78 °C per hour for 8 hours. What was the outside temperature at 8:00 AM?
Piece of land
A farmer has a piece of land in the shape of a parallelogram. The two adjacent sides measure 15 metres and 10 metres. How much fencing is needed to enclose the entire plot?
The product 19
The product of two consecutive positive integers is 306. Find the integers.
The book 6
A boy read 3/8 of a book on one day and 4/5 of the remainder on another day. If there were 30 pages still unread, how many pages did the book contain?

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