Three kinds of apples are all mixed up in a basket. How many
apples must you draw (without looking) from the basket to be sure of
getting two apples of one kind?
There are 150 people in a class. If 80% of them are registered,
how many are not registered?
Express "three-fifths" as a fraction,
a decimal, and as a percentage.
Evaluate each of the following if
a = 4, b = 2/5 , c = - 6:
a(b+c) ab + c(a/b) -
c 5b - 3c2
Evaluate the following expressions on your calculator:
(a)
250
34 + 56
27
(b)
23
5
7
+ 6.3 (45 )
(c)
3(32)1/2 - (15)1/2
If there are 0.76 US dollars in one Canadian dollar, which is
smaller, one US dollar, or one Canadian dollar?
If you drive at an average speed of 65 miles per hour,
how long will it take you to drive 530 miles? If you can bike a
distance of 45 miles in three hours and 15 minutes, what is your
average biking speed in miles per hour?
Suppose that three-quarters of the freshmen live in a dorm.
If two-thirds of the freshmen dorm residents are women, what percentage of
the
freshman class are women who live in the dorm?
Solve for x in the following equations:
(a)
3x - 5 = 9 + 7x;
(b)
x2 - 5 = 31;
(c)
x2 - x - 12 = 0;
(d)
x - 3
5
=
x
2
;
(e)
|x+3| = 10
A warehouse contains bicycles, tricycles, and cars. Altogether
there are 18 wheels in the warehouse. How many bicycles, tricycles,
and cars are there? Give as many answers as possible.
Suppose that a playground is in the shape of a rectangle with a
semicircle attached at the shorter end.
Suppose also that the longer side of the rectangle
is twice the length of the shorter side and that the radius of the
semicircle
is 12 feet. What is the perimeter and the area of the playground?
Suppose that the ratio of undergraduate students to
graduate students in an institution is 18:7.
What percentage of the student body are graduate students?
Suppose that your annual tuition as a freshman was 1856 dollars.
Each
year tuition has increased 5%. Now you are in your senior year.
What is your annual tuition this year?
The company you work for was doing poorly two years ago
and as a result everyone took a 10% cut in pay for the last year.
The company is doing better now and the CEO has just promised
to raise everyone's salary 10% for next year. Does this mean that
your salary next year will be same as it was two years ago? Explain.