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A bullseye with a 3-inch diameter covers 10 percent of a square target. What is the area, in square inches, of the target? - answer โ โ 22. A can has a radius of 1.5 inches and a height of 3 inches. Which of the following best represents the volume of the can? - answer โ โ 21.2 in^ A certain exam has 30 questions. A student gets 1 point for each question he gets right and loses half a point for a question he answers incorrectly; he neither gains nor loses any points for a question left blank. If C is the number of questions a student gets right and B is the number of questions he leaves blank, which of the following represents his score on the exam? - answer โ โ C-1/2 (30-B-C) A charity organization is preparing a fundraising dinner. The goal is to raise $27,000. They must pay costs of $1,000 to rent the hall for the evening, plus $2,500 in wages for staff and $25.00 per plate of food served. If tickets to the dinner cost $150, how many
tickets must the organization sell in order to reach their goal? - answer โ โ 244 A five-pound bag of tangerines is $6.95 and a three- pound bag of navel oranges is $4.50. Alyssa needs 15 pounds of the cheaper fruit. How much will she pay? - answer โ โ $20. A hexagonal plot of land measures 280 feet long on a side. If you use grass seed at a rate of 50 pounds per acre, how many pounds of grass seed will be needed to seed the entire plot? The area of a hexagon can be found using the formula A=33โ2รa2 ๏ฟฝ =332ร ๏ฟฝ 2, where a is the length of a side. - answer โ โ 234lb According to the pie chart, what percent of Zach's day is spent on eating, chores, and recreation? - answer โ โ 30% Add 1/4+0.5 - answer โ โ 0. Almonds were $16.50 for a 3-lb bag. Peanuts were $38.00 for a 10-lb bag. Which is the best deal? - answer โ โ Peanuts An Olympic sprinter can run a mile in approximately 4 minutes. On average, how fast must he run to achieve this time? Give your answer in kilometers per hour - answer โ โ 24.2 kph
He carefully heated the flask so that the temperature of the water increased about 2ยฐC every 3 minutes. Approximately how much had the temperature of the water increased after 20 minutes? - answer โ โ 13 C David has a board that is 10 and a half feet long. He needs a piece that is 8 feet and 10 inches for a project. How much should he cut off his board? - answer โ โ 1 ft, 8 in Each of the 18 students brought 6 cans to the food drive. How many cans of food were collected? - answer โ โ 108 If Sara can read 15 pages in 10 minutes, how long will it take her to read 45 pages? - answer โ โ 30 minutes In the 1600's, Galileo Galilei studied the motion of pendulums and discovered that the period of a pendulum, the time it takes to complete one full swing, is a function of the square root of the length of its string: 2ฯLgโโโ2 ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ , where L is the length of the string and g is the acceleration due to gravity. Consider two pendulums released from the same pivot point and at the same angle, ฮธ=30ยฐ ๏ฟฝ =30ยฐ. Pendulum 1 has a mass of 100 g, while Pendulum 2 has a mass of 200 g. If Pendulum 1 has a period four times the period of Pendulum 2, what is true of the lengths of the pendulums' strings? - answer โ โ The
length of Pendulum 1's string is sixteen times the length of Pendulum 2's string. Including tax, Jon's total cost at the theater came to $17.83. If he paid with a $20 bill, how much change should he receive? - answer โ โ $2. It took Morgan 90 minutes to mow and edge the lawn. How many hours is this? - answer โ โ 1. Jacob divided the sum of 6 and - 2 into the difference of 22 and 10. What was his answer? - answer โ โ 3 Keisha wants to make a batch of cookies but doesn't have enough chocolate chips, so she decides to multiply each ingredient by 0.75. If the original recipe called for 1 2/3 cups of chocolate chips, how many does she need now? - answer โ โ 1 1/4 cups Last Saturday Jen dug 42 dandelions out of the lawn and was paid 5 cents per plant. The previous Saturday she dug 60 plants, and the Saturday before that she dug 33 dandelions. On average, how many plants did she dig each week? - answer โ โ 45 Lexi studied for three quarters of an hour. How many minutes is this? - answer โ โ 45 Lucy opened a roll of dimes and counted seven dollars. How many dimes is this? - answer โ โ 70
material costing $9.75 per foot must be put around this area. What is the minimum cost to barricade this part of the street? - answer โ โ $409.