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  • The temperature 12
    teplomer The temperature of a liquid was 25°C before it was warmed at a rate of 10°C per minute for 5 minutes. It was then cooled at 3.5°C per minute for 6 minutes. What was the temperature of the liquid after cooling?
  • Lower temperature
    teplomer The level of temperature of the liquid in a thermometer is 24.32°C lower than the boiling point of water. What is the thermometer reading? Show your answer by drawing and shading the thermometer.
  • Jacob
    vaha Jacob is baking chocolate cookies. The recipe uses 2/8 of a cup of sugar to bake a batch of cookies. If Jacob wants to make one-half of a batch. How many cups of sugar does he need?
  • A map 3
    mapa A map is drawn to a scale of 1 : 25 000. This scale can be expressed as 1 cm represents n km. Find n.
  • Centre of the hypotenuse
    rt_triangle For the interior angles of the triangle ABC, alpha beta and gamma are in a ratio of 1: 2: 3. The longest side of the AB triangle is 30 cm long. Calculate the perimeter of the triangle CBS if S is the center of the side AB.
  • Two cakes
    cake Two cakes were each cut into 8 slices. Maria ate   1/8 of the chocolate cake and 1 slice of carrot cake. Julia ate  1/2 of the carrot cake. Mark ate 1 slice of each. Thomas ate 3 slices of chocolate cake. How many slices were left?
  • Petra's test
    test The answer will be given 8 marks, and the wrong answer will be deducted 3 marks. The total number of marks obtained by the school is 36. If Petra answered six questions correctly,   how many questions were answered incorrectly by the student from the scho
  • Volume per time 2
    water2 Benjamin drinks tea at an incredible rate. He drinks 3 1/2 liters of tea every 2/3 of an hour. Ben drinks tea at a constant rate. How much does he drink in one hour?
  • Smoker male
    venn_intersect For a person selected randomly from a certain population, events A and B are defined as follows. A = event the person is male B = event the person is a smoker. For this particular population, it is found that P(A ) = 0.53, P(B) = 0.15, and P(A n B ) = 0.1
  • Team run
    runners The first team member in a 926-person relay race must run 2 1/4 laps, the second team member must run 1 1/2 laps, and the third team member must run 3 1/4 laps. How many laps in all must each team run?
  • Your Mom
    cleaning Your Mom can clean your entire house in 3 hours. However, your dad takes 5 hours to clean the house. How long it will take for them to clean the house if they work together? (Write the numerical answer round to the nearest thousandth)
  • Fitness center
    time Every Wednesday, Monica works out for 3/4  of an hour at the fitness center. Every Saturday, he goes to the fitness center again and exercises for 3 times as long. How much time does Wayne spend at the fitness center in all each week?
  • Bike path
    bicycle_gears Bill was riding his bike on a bike path that was 5 1/4 miles long. He rode his bike awhile and stopped for s drink or water. Then he rode 2 7/10 miles and was at the end of the path. How far had Bill ridden before he stopped for water?
  • Round cake
    cake What is the area of a round cake with a radius of 5cm?
  • Base side
    hranol4b In a quadrilateral prism, are knwon surface area S = 12400 mm2 base side m = 40mm and prism height = 120mm, what is the length of base side n =?
  • Parallelogram diagonals
    kosodlznik Find the area of a parallelogram if the diagonals u1 = 15 cm, u2 = 12 cm and the angle formed by them is 30 degrees.
  • Direction indicator
    bulbs As that which the electrical voltage is connected to the lamp direction indicator 7400 mOhm resistance when current of 1.6 A passes through it?
  • Brian
    acylpyrin Brian divides 80 by 7. Between what two whole numbers is his answer?
  • Pumpkin pie
    pumpkin pie Have some pumpkin pie. One half of the pie is cut into 4 equal slices, the other half is cut into 3 equal slices. After eating one of the larger slices (on the 3 piece side), I wonder if I will eat more if I have one more from the 3 side, or two from the
  • Fractions and mixed numerals
    mixed_fractions (a) Convert the following mixed numbers to improper fractions. i. 3 5/8 ii. 7 7/6 (b) Convert the following improper fraction to mixed number. i. 13/4 ii. 78/5 (c) Simplify these fractions to their lowest terms. i. 36/42 ii. 27/45 2. evaluate following ex

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