According to the graph, how much MORE does it cost to mail an overseas letter weighing 4.1 ounces than a letter weighing 3.5 ounces?
Darryl borrowed a truck to move his belongings and recorded some information in a log. He recorded an initial odometer reading of 37,271 miles, and a final reading of 37,879 miles. He also recorded that he used a total of 47.5 gallons of gasoline.
What average number of miles per gallon did the truck get?
If a customer purchases a sweater at its regular price, he or she may purchase a second sweater at a discount of 50%. The discount is taken from the lower-priced sweater.
Hayden bought two sweaters whose regular prices were $40 and $60. After the discount, how much did Hayden pay for the two sweaters?
Hazel bought a pre-owned truck from East End Motors. The truck cost $6250, and Hazel made a 10% down payment on it.
What was the balance Hazel owed after making the down payment?
A carton of paper weighs 13 kilograms, and a box of file folders weighs 8.5 kilograms. A truck was loaded with 9 cartons of paper and 24 boxes of file folders.
What was the total weight, in kilograms, of the cartons of paper and boxes of file folders loaded onto the truck?
Cassandra, the sales manager at a jewelry store, receives a commission of 30% of her sales. In addition, she receives a commission of 4.5% of the total sales of other salespeople under her supervision.
If Cassandra sells jewelry worth $2250 and her sales staff sells jewelry worth a total of $6800, what is her total commission in dollars?
Which city is projected to have the smallest increase in population by 2015?
If a seamstress were to make 8 blouses and 10 skirts without belts, which expression below equals the total amount of material, in yards, needed to complete the skirts and blouses?
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Approximately what percent of the floor area of the warehouse was used for the sale of household items?
Robert’s car averages 32 miles to the gallon in highway driving. Approximately how many gallons of gas should he expect to use for a trip of 220 miles?
A triangle that does not contain a right angle has one side that measures 15 cm and another that measures 6 cm.
What is the measure, in centimeters, of the third side of the triangle?
Which of the following proportions shows the relationship between the height of the object (AB) and the height of its image (DE) in the diagram at the left?
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For how many CDs purchased during the year would the cost be the same whether or not Keisha joined the club?
Biologists tagged trout and released them into a new man-made lake. The numbers of trout by gender and species are shown in the table below.
Later, biologists will net and inspect 50 of the tagged fish and re-release them into the lake.
If the netting captures fish randomly and all of the fish remain in the lake, approximately how many of the 50 fish are likely to be speckled trout?
Bacteria infected 3/5 of the 300 trees in a forest. How many of the trees were infected with the bacteria?
How many MORE votes did Viaman receive than the other three candidates combined?
A furniture manufacturing company is hosting a picnic for its employees. Each employee is allowed to bring one guest. If 600 employees attend, and 3/5 of them plan to bring a guest, how many guests are expected at the picnic?
Question 13
When each plant had been growing for 6 weeks, how much TALLER, in centimeters, was the plant on which fertilizer A had been used than the one using fertilizer B?
TelNet charges a flat fee of $19.75 per month for the first 400 minutes of long distance telephone use plus $0.25 for each additional minute.
What would TelNet charge a customer who made long-distance calls totaling 540 minutes in a month?
A point and its reflection in a line are mirror images of one another, the “mirror” being the line itself. In the diagram below, points P and Q are reflections of one another in the y-axis.
Point R (not shown) is the reflection of point P in the x-axis. Point S is the reflection of point R in the y-axis.
What is the location of point S?
A construction firm hired 8 carpenters at a rate of $18 per hour and 4 helpers at a rate of $9 per hour. What is the weekly cost for the construction firm to pay these workers for working a 40-hour week?
Walter hired Byron to refloor a 12-foot by 12-foot rectangular room. To save some money, Walter transported the materials himself.
How much LESS did Walter pay than he would have paid if Byron had transported the materials?
Dana works four 10-hour days during the week and is off every Friday. If the first Friday of the month falls on the 3rd, which of the following dates during that month will also be a Friday?
A store placed an order for 10 video game systems at $48.50 each and 20 game disks at $2.25 each. What did the store pay, in dollars, for the game systems and disks it received?
Hattie, the manager of Speedy Burgers, wants to know the average amount of time it takes customers to order once they reach the counter. Hattie recorded these ordering times in seconds:45, 52, 64, 87, 56, 21, 34, 49, 55, 29, 36. What was the mean (average) time in seconds it took customers to order?
Fran works 6 hours each day and Karen works 8 hours each day. Fran makes $2 more per hour than Karen. How many days must Karen work to earn $240?
It takes Brian 1 hour and 20 minutes to drive to school. At what time should he leave home to be at school at 10 P.M.?
Gustavo bought 20 glasses for $1.50 each and had to pay an 8% sales tax. Because he was sending them to a friend, he also had the glasses securely packed for an additional charge (not taxed) of $6.95.
What was the total amount Gustavo paid for the glasses and packing?
What OTHER point on the grid is on the line passing through the two points shown?
The members sold 120 candy bars. Each candy bar was sold for the same price.
What was the charge for one candy bar?
Last month Wanda had Plan D and used 20 minutes of long distance during the month. This month she has the same plan but called 50 minutes of long distance during the month. How much MORE was her long-distance charge this month than last month?
The United States and Indonesia have the same percent of inland water area, but their total areas are different.
Approximately how many times as great as the total area of Indonesia is the total area of the United States?
For Plan B, the slope of the line gives the cost per minute of long-distance use (in dollars). What is the cost per minute using Plan B?
A soccer team played 30 games. The team won 40 percent of the first 10 games and 70 percent of the remaining games. Which expression correctly shows how many games they won in all?
The expression (3 × 102) + (2 × 103) equals which of the following numbers?
Katya found temporary work for herself and her brother, Dimitri. The job will pay a total of $400. Since Katya found the work, they agreed that she would get $30 more than Dimitri.
How much money will Dimitri earn from this work?
To be eligible to vote in the town of Clayton, a person must be a citizen of the town and at least 18 years of age. Of the town’s 5000 residents, 3000 are at least 18 years old. Of these, 2700 have registered to vote.
A pool of 35 Clayton jurors is to be randomly selected next month from the town’s registered voters. Luis, who is 15 years old, lives in Clayton.
What is the probability Luis will be among those selected for the jury pool next month?
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According to the graph, what was the greatest number of frogs in the lake?