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At sunrise
At sunrise, the temperature at the North Pole was –13°F. Three hours later, the temperature increased to 18°F. By 8PM, the temperature decreased 5°F. What was the temperature at 8PM?
Roberta
Roberta bought 9/10 pound of raisins. She put 2/5 pounds in bags for her lunch. How many 2/5-pound bags can Roberta fill? Does she have any left over?
Four friends 2
Four friends attend a school play and pay $6.75 per ticket. Each also buys a healthy snack bag sold by the theater club. If the friends spent a total of $37.00, how much did each healthy snack bag cost, b?
Two containers 2
Two containers, one large and one small, contain a total of 4 kilograms of bath salts. One-quarter of the bath salts from the large container are transferred to the small container, so the ratio of bath salts in the large container to that in the small on
Fely picked
Fely picked 4 1/2 bags of avocado at the farm. Each bag weighs 2 1/2 kg. How many kilograms of avocado did Fely pick?
LCM or HCF
Find the lowest common multiple of these two numbers: 105 226
The number 9
The number of minutes it took Jim to ride his bike to school for each of the past six days was 21, 18, 16, 19, 24, and 19. Find the mean number of minutes.
Jason 4
Jason spent 1/2 of his money on paper and 1/3 of it on pencils. How much money did he start with if he had 15.00 left?
Round to millions
How to round 3,216,534 to the nearest 1,000,000
Jason 3
Jason bought 3 liters of cola. He drank 3/5 liters of it and gave 2/7 liters to his brother. How much cola did Jason have left?
One group
In a meeting of 100 people, there are 45 women, what fraction of the number of the meeting are men.
On Tuesday 3
On Tuesday, the ABC store sold 2/3 of its stock of mugs. If there are 363 mugs stocked, to begin with, how many mugs were sold on Tuesday? TYPE THE NUMBER ONLY!
Pupils - boys and girls
5/8 of the pupils in a hall were boys. 7/10 of the boys wore glasses. 48 boys didn't wear glasses. How many pupils were there in the hall?
Temperature dropping
If the temperature drops 2 degrees for 6 hours and the starting temperature is 10 degrees, what will the new temperature be?
Mr. and
Mr. and Mrs. Williams want to buy a boat that costs $18,520. Mr. Williams saved $850 each month for 7 months. Mrs. Williams saved $970 each month for 7 months. If they combine their money, how much will they have? Will they have enough money to buy the bo
Mariana
Mariana wants to put 6 3/4 feet of border across the top of a wall. She has 3 6/7 feet of border. What fraction of the project can she complete?
Library 4
Library A has a total collection of 250 books. Library B has 100 more books than Library A, and Library C has twice as many books as the combined number of books in Library A and B. What is the total number of books in libraries A, B and C?
RST triangle
Find out if it is possible to construct the given triangle and according to which theorem: RS = 2.5 cm ST = 7 cm TR = 4.5 cm
Unit price 2
Cookie dough can be purchased in tubs or rolls. A 32-ounce tub cost $4.56 and a 16.5-ounce roll costs $2.50. Which is the better buy per ounce? Write the answer as an A or B option.
Janet
Janet walks 7/10 miles in 1/4 hour. Ian walks 9/10 miles in 1/3 hour; who walks at the faster rate and why?

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