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100
In your job as a cashier, a customer gives you a $20 bill to pay for a can of coffee that costs $3.84. How much change should you give back?
What is $16.16
100
You work as a grounds keeper for a small local elementary school and must fertilize the grass on the entire campus. You know that 4 containers cover 60 square yards. If the campus has 2,000 square yards of grass area, how many containers of fertilizer will you need?
What is 134 Containers
100
As an employee of a summer sports camp, one of your jobs is to prepare the tank of vitamin water for use throughout the day. The mixture calls for 75% pure water and 25% concentrated vitamin drink. How many gallons of water should you add to 16 gallons of concentrated vitamin drink?
What is 48 gallons water
100
You work for a pet trainer who has asked you to create a rectangular pen for dog training purposes. You will use chicken coop wire to construct the sides of the pen. The pen is supposed to be 42.6 feet long and 28.5 feet wide. How many feet of chicken coop wire are needed to form the pen?
What is 142.2 feet
100
You are the head of marketing for a company that is expanding overseas. You have a 210 page employee manual that must be translated into Chinese for the new offices. The company We Translate for You charges $2.75 per page for translation. Their competitor, Translationary, charges $2.35 per page and a $6.25 administrative fee per project. What is the least amount of money you will have to spend to translate the manual?
What is $499.75
200
You are working for a florist that specializes in weddings. You are preparing the flower arrangement orders for three weddings this weekend. The three weddings ordered 120 arrangements, 85 arrangements and 46 arrangements. How many flower arrangements must you prepare?
What is 251 arrangements
200
You are working as a cashier at a computer supply store. School is starting soon, so the state is hosting a sales tax-free weekend today and tomorrow. A customer buys one flash drive for $14.90 and a power strip for $12.50. If the customer hands you two $20 bills, how much will you give him back in change?
What is $12.60
200
You work as a salesperson for a company that makes high-end gym equipment. You just closed a sale with someone looking to remodel a gym; her order of treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes, and other equipment totaled $33,000. You earn a commission of 20% on every sale you make. How much commission do you make on this sale?
What is $6,600
200
You work for a carpet cleaning service and must shampoo the carpet in the small banquet room of a local hotel. The dimensions of the room are 200 feet by 180 feet. Each bottle of carpet shampoo can be used to shampoo 320 square feet of carpet. How many bottles of shampoo do you need to complete the job?
What is 113 Bottles
200
You work as a residential painter. A customer wants two tables and eight chairs painted using one coat of the same color paint. Each table requires 158 quarts of paint, and each chair requires 23 quarts of paint. How many total quarts of paint should you bring to paint this furniture?
What is 500 quarts
300
A librarian needs to package up all of the children's books and move them to a different location in the library. There are 625 books, and she can fit 25 books in one box. How many boxes does she need in order to move all of the books?
What is 25 Boxes
300
An attic exhaust fan is designed to start when its sensors detect a temperature of 35°C. All of your thermometers provide readings using the Fahrenheit scale (°F). What is the equivalent Fahrenheit reading for the point at which the exhaust fan turns on?
What is 95 °F
300
For your sports equipment store, you purchase a case containing 24 canisters of tennis balls for $60. You in turn charge $4 for each canister. How much is the price of each case of tennis balls marked up?
What is 60%
300
You work for a waste removal company. The trailer of one of your dump trucks is 10 feet wide, 15 feet long, and 6.5 feet high. If a ton of debris equals 200 cubic feet, how many trucks are needed to cart away 45 tons of debris from a demolition site?
What is 10 trucks
300
You are the owner of a toy store and are preparing to make a donation to a local children's hospital. You must prepare 320 teddy bears to include in your donation. Your associate can prepare 8 teddy bears an hour and uses 34 a yard of ribbon in doing so. She needs you to buy the ribbon, but the craft store only sells ribbon in feet. How many feet of ribbon are needed?
What is 4,080 feet
400
A high school student earns $65 for mowing one customer's lawn. If he mows 13 lawns in one week, how much money will he earn for that week?
What is $845
400
At the end of the day, a local bakery sold 83 cakes and had to throw out 7 cakes due to baking errors. Each cake cost the bakery $6.25 to make. The bakery, in turn, sold each cake for $12.75. What was the total profit earned by the bakery today?
What is $495.75
400
You have been hired to build a small enclosed garden for a customer. Based on a do-it-yourself guide from a gardening magazine, you need the following materials: • Four 8 ft. × 6 in. × 6 in. wooden beams • Two bags of fertilizer • Twelve bags of potting soil • One watering hose The beams cost $15.00 per cubic foot, one bag of potting soil costs $12.25, one bag of fertilizer costs $21.50, and the watering hose costs $55.00. Sales tax is 5.5%. What is the total cost, including tax, of the materials needed to build the garden?
What is $385.08
400
You work in the shipping department of an organic food company and need to calculate the net weight of a jar of raspberry preserves. The jar is a cylinder. It has an inside diameter of 1.5 inches and an inside height of 4.75 inches. The raspberry preserves weigh 0.53 ounces per cubic inch. What is the net weight, rounded to the nearest hundredth, of the jar of raspberry preserves?
What is 4.45 ounces
400
You work at the front desk of a luxury hotel. Guests staying at the hotel have two options for accessing the hotel's wireless internet. The first involves a charge of $25 a day plus ten cents for every minute connected to the network. The second is a flat fee of $60 per day with unlimited access. How many hours would a guest who is staying at the hotel for three days need to spend on the internet during that time to save money by using the second option?
What is 17.5 hours
500
A high school student earns $65 for mowing one customer's lawn. If he mows 13 lawns in one week, how much money will he earn for that week?
What is 750 turbines
500
You are the conductor of a freight train. Your overnight route requires you to haul cargo to a depot 264 miles away. If you can travel an average speed of 55 miles per hour, how long will it take the train to reach the depot?
What is 4 hours and 48 minutes
500
As the head of fulfillment for an electronics factory, you are in charge of organizing the production schedule to fill orders. An order just came in for 1,525 radio consoles to be delivered in 5 weeks. Your assembly line can produce 9 consoles per hour. You put aside 15% of the consoles produced to build inventory for other orders, but the rest are used to fill this large order. Over the next five weeks, what is the fewest number of hours per week needed to produce enough radio consoles to fill this order?
What is 40 hours per week
500
You work in the kitchen at a summer camp and must make a batch of sports drink for the campers on a hot day. You mix the drink in a container with sides measuring 1 foot by 1.5 feet by 3 feet. After filling the container with water, you must add two scoops of drink mix for each gallon of water. How many scoops of drink mix are needed to make a full batch, rounded to the nearest scoop?
What is 68 scoops
500
You need to put oil into the gearbox of a rebuilt machine tool. The gearbox holds 16.3 liters of oil but the only oil you have is in 1-quart containers. How many of the 1-quart containers of oil will you need to fill the gearbox with 16.3 liters of oil?
What is 18 1-quart containers
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