Word problems
A recipe calls for 33 cups of flour for every 22 cups of sugar. If you use 99 cups of flour, how many cups of sugar do you need?
What do you think is the first step to figure this out?
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Imagine you played 4 rounds of a challenge and got these scores:
6,;8,;4,;106,;8,;4,;10
To find the mean (average), the very first step is to add all the numbers together.
What is 6+8+4+106+8+4+10?
7
A rectangular garden has an area of 4848 square feet. If the length of the garden is 88 feet, what is the width of the garden?
What operation would you use to find the missing width?
6
A student read the following number of pages over 5 days:
12,;15,;10,;8,;1512,;15,;10,;8,;15
What is the first step to find the mean (average) number of pages read per day?
12
A bakery sells muffins in boxes. Each box holds the same number of muffins.
If 44 boxes hold a total of 2828 muffins, how many muffins are in 77 boxes?
To start, how many muffins are in just one box?
49
9,;3,;14,;7,;12
What do these numbers look like when you put them in order from least to greatest?
9
Solve for xx:
3x+5=263x+5=26
To get xx by itself, what is the first step you should do to both sides of the equation?
7
If the numbers are 4,7,11,204,7,11,20, what do you get when you subtract the lowest number from the highest number?
16
A store is having a 2525 off sale on a jacket that originally costs $$60$.
How much money do you save with the discount?
To start, what is 2525 written as a fraction in simplest form? (Or as a decimal?)
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A random sample of 16 shoppers spent an average of $54 per hour, with a known population standard deviation of $21 per hour. Assuming a normal distribution, what is the 90% confidence interval for the true population mean? [1]