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1. At a construction site, a stack of bricks weigh 75 kilograms. How much does the stack of bricks weigh in pounds?
What is 165?
6. You work at a video game store. Today, you are offering coupons for $10 off any new video game. A customer comes in with a coupon and purchases one video game for $59.99 and one controller for $39.99. How much should you charge this customer before tax?
What is $89.98?
11. You are a carpenter and are building a toybox for a customer. The customer requests that the wooden box be 24.3 inchers by 36.4 inches. How many inches long must the pieces of wood be to make the sides of the box to these specification?
What is 121.4 inches?
16. You own a leather repair shop where you repair leather goods, clothing, and furniture. A customer has asked you to restore a set of leather living room furniture. You determine that you need 150 linear feet of leather to complete the restoration. Your local supplier can sell you leather $21.99 per linear yard. An online supplier can sell you leather at $19.99 per linear yard, plus $9.99 shipping and handling. What would be the lowest cost for the leather you need?
What is $1,009.49?
21. Your software development company is taking on a new project. You estimate that the project will take 500 hours. Ten percent of this time will be your labor, which costs $65 per hour. The rest of the labor is to be split between 3 members of your team evenly. The head developer on the project makes $45 per hour, and his two assistants make $30 per hour each. What is the total estimated cost of the project?
What is $19,000?
2.On average, a writer produces 80 words per minute. At this rate, how long would it take them to write 3,600 words?
What is 45 minutes?
7. You are opening a comic book shop. The shop's inventory will cost $25,000. The supplier requires a down payment of 15% of the total cost at the time of purchase. What is the balance you will owe after making the down payment?
What is $21,250?
12. You drive 29 miles to work every day. Each day, your average speed is 45 miles per hour. On a typical day, how long does it take you to get to work? Round your answer to the nearest minute.
What is 39 minutes?
17. You are going to attend night classes for 4 months. You have to earn an additional $987 for tution within this time. You decide to take a second job that pays $9 an hour. You can work as many hours for this job as you like. Taxes are 12% of your earnings, and you are able to save the rest. Over these 4 months, what is the minimum number of hours you will need to work in order to save enough money for your tuition alone? Round your answer to the nearest hour.
What is 125 hours?
22. You are surveying a piece of your land to plant strawberry bushes and want to know the number of acres that you will be using. You partition off 8 rows, each of which are 46 inches wide and 368 feet long. What is the area of this partitioned land, to the nearest hundredth of an acre?
What is 0.26 acres?
3.George buys a stock in three different companies on the New York Stock Exchange. He bought one for $168, one for $231, and another for $189. How much did George spend on all of these stocks?
What is $588?
8. Last week at the grocery store where you work, you sold 356 apples and lost 24 because they expired. The store paid $0.34 per apple adn sold each apple for $0.79. What profit did teh store make an apples last week?
What is $152.04?
13. In your job at an electronics factory, a 2-person team can package and ship 235 computers each day. There is an order for 2,585 computers. If each team has two people on it, how many teams are needed to package and ship the order?
What is 11 teams?
18. You are asked to tile and carpet an office building. You are given dimensions of the office building (12' x 20' will be tiled and 14'x18' will be carpeted). You charge$0.99 per square foot of tile and $5.99 per square foot of carpet. What is the estimated cost of tiling and carpeting the office building?
What is $1,747.08?
23. Your bakery has received an order for 45 dozen blueberry donuts. You use a recipe that makes 5 dozen donuts and calls for 1 2/3 cups of blueberries. If blueberries are only sold in quarts, how many quarts are needed to complete this order?
What is 3 3/4 quarts?
4. A farmer plants apple trees on a 235 acre farm. There are 47,000 apple trees evenly dispersed throughout the farm. How many apple trees are there on each acre of land?
What is 200?
9. You are repairing your computer and need to loosen a screw that is fastening the top case down. You tried a 3/4 mm screwdriver, which was too large, and a 5/8 mm screwdriver, which was too small. What size screwdriver might fit the screw?
14. You are an inspector in a machine shop. It is your duty to inspect manufactured parts for precision. You are inspecting a part created from six linked 1 1/2 inch middle pieces adn two 6/7 inch end pieces. What is the total length of the part,in inches?
What is 10 5/7 inches?
19. You are working for a landscaper. A new customer needs to have a 100 foot by 60 foot area of land seeded with grass. The grass seed you use comes in bags that can cover 250 square feet. How many bags of grass seed will you need to complete the project?
What is 24 bags?
24. You are going to rent a car to drive while you are on vacation. There are two car rental packages for you to choose from. The first package offers $115 per day flat rate. The second package offers a $105 per day flat rate, plus $0.35 per mile. How many miles would you need to drive while on vacation in order to make the first package the better deal?
What is 29 miles?
5. Action figures are $8 a piece at a toy store. The toy store sold 26 action figures today. How much money did the toy store receive from selling action figures today?
What is $208?
10. You are slow-cooking a pot roast. After some time, you check the internal temperature with a cooking thermometer. The thermometer reads 123 degrees Fahrenheit. What would the thermometer read, to the nearest degree, if it were in degrees Celsius?
What is 51 degrees?
15. At your candy store, you buy dark chocolate bars at a price fo $24 per dozen and sell them for $3 each. What is the percent markup for the dark chocolate bars?
What is 50%?
20. You are a painter. You are estimating how much paint it will take you to cover 5 large canvases and 2 small canvases. Each large canvas needs 4 1/2 cups of paint , and each dmall canvas needs 2 2/3 cups of paint. How many cups of paint will you need in all to cover all of these canvases?
What is 27 5/6 cups?
25. You are building a deck for your house. You are going to need 20 boards that are 1 inch by 6 inches by 12 feet, and 6 boards that are 1 inch by 4 inches by 8 feet. These boards cost $1.20 per board-foot. Additionally, you are going to need 6 boxes of screws at a price fo $2.99 each adn 2 large cans of stain at a price of $6.99 each. Sales tax is 7%. What will be the total cost of the deck?
What is $208.78?