Saba
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Questions
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6^2x + 1 = 1 3
16 years ago
A rice cooker was sold for $60 after a discount of 60%. What was the price of the rice cooker?
9 years ago
There were 60 basketball players in the school team last year. This number of basketball players increases to 80. What is the percentage in the number of basketball players?
9 years ago
There are 54 paintings in the National Museum. The ratio of the number of sculptures to the number of paintings in the museum is 7:9. (a) Express the number od sculptures as a fraction of the number of paintings. (b) How many sculptures are there in the m...
9 years ago
In an English test, Alvin scored 28 out of 40 marks. In a Mathematics test, he scored 36 out of 60 marks. (a) In which test did Alvin score better? (b) What was the percentage difference between Alvin's scores for both tests?
9 years ago
There are 1500 poultry on a farm. 40% are chickens, 2/3 of the ramainder are ducks and the rest are geese. What percentage of the poultry are geese?
9 years ago
A school library had 1050 books last year. There are only 950 books in the library this year. What is the percentage decrease in the number of books? Round your answer to 2 decimal places.
9 years ago
A carterer makes 50 l of lemonade. She keeps 10% of the lamonade for her family. She sells 65% of the remaining lenonade. How many liters of lemonade does the carterer have left?
9 years ago
There are some peanuts and almonds in a packet. The proportion of peanuts is 2/3 of the total number of nuts in he packet. (a) What proportion of nuts in the packet are almonds? (b) What is the ratio of the number of almonds in the packet to the total num...
9 years ago
To make muffins, Mrs Chan mixed 3 cups of flour with every cup of milk. (a) What is the ratio of the number of cups of flour to the total number of cups of flour and milk? (b) What proportion of the mixtures is milk? (c) If Mrs Chan used a total of 20 cup...
9 years ago
James uses 1/3 of his land for growing durians, 1/4 for bananas, 3/8 for guavas and the remaining 9 hectares for mangoes. What is the total area of his land?
9 years ago
A sum of money is shared among three brothers. The eldest receives 7/13 of it and the 13 next receives 2/3 of the remainder. If the youngest brother receives $6, find the sum of money shared.
9 years ago
There are 42 pupils in a class. 3/4 of the boys and 2/3 of the girls travel to school by bus. The total number of boys and girls who travel to school by bus is 30. (a) How many boys are there in the class? (b) How many girls travel to school by bus?
9 years ago
Mary bought a length of ribbon. She used 2/5 of it to wrap a package and 1/5 of it for a bow. If she used 60 in. of the ribbon, what was the length of the ribbon she bought?
8 years ago
Amira and Malika are counting their school books. Amira has four times 7 less than the number of Malik's books. If Amira has 29 books how many books does Malika have?
8 years ago
A barber and his apprentice earn $4900 in a week. The barber earns $200 more per day than his apprentice. How much does the apprentice earn in one day?
8 years ago
The number of boys in a class is 10 less than twice the number of girls. Find the total number of the students in the class, if the number of boys is 5 more than the number of girls.
8 years ago
A group of 45 people decide to rent a bus for a trip. They divide the cost equally. When five of the people decide not to go on the trip the rest of the people pay $10 more each. How much does the bus cost?
8 years ago
John walks three times as far as Smith, and Wilson walks twice as far as John.Find the distance that John walks, if the three friends walk 4500m in total.
8 years ago
Nadia and Manar together have 140 walnuts. If Nadia gives fifteen walnuts to Manar then they will each have an equal number of walnuts. How many walnuts does Manar have at the beginning?
8 years ago
On a salmon farm, pool A contains 310 salmon and a second pool B contains 90 salmon. The number of salmon in pool A is decreasing by 15 salmon per month. The number of salmon in pool B is increasing by 15 salmon per month. After how many months will there...
8 years ago
Smith has $360. He spend 1/9 of his money first, then spends another 2/9 of the original amount. How much money does Smith have left?
8 years ago
3/5 of the animals on a form are goats and the rest are sheep. Find the number of goats if there are 32 sheep on the farm.
8 years ago
3/4 of a group of tourists is twenty one people. 4/7 of the whole tourist group go to restaurant for lunch. How many people go to the restaurant?
8 years ago
Find a possible pair of natural numbers whose sun is 77 and their g.c.d.is 7?
7 years ago
A group of boys bought 72blue, 144 black and 216 multi colored belts. What is the largest possible no. Of boys in the group?
3 years ago
At the annual Grade 8 ski trip, for every 2 students who skied, 3 snowboarded. Ninety-six students snowboarded. How many students skied?
2 years ago
Answers
The following answers were posted by visitors named Saba.
Your second assumption is correct, but it would be 1248 because 0.4 of a tile requires an extra tile. Basically, you found the total area and divided it by the area of one tile, which indeed did give you the number of tiles necessary to fill it up. And si...
9 years ago
First simplify! 3*2 - 2x + 1 = -2x + 7 and 2*2 + 7x + 5 = 7x + 9 NOW, you have the equation (7x + 9) - (7 - 2x) because the first is subtracted FROM the second in the original question. to solve, DISTRIBUTE YOUR NEGATIVE SIGN! It will become 7x + 9 - 7 +...
9 years ago
.o 9898
8 years ago
a+b=77 n1+n2=77 77/7=11 Where n1,n2are natural numbers So the pair of naturals are (7,70)(14,63)(21,56)(28,49) ...so on.
7 years ago
Good treatment
6 years ago
25%
4 years ago