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Mr. Brocato is very poor. However, he has 1 dime for every 5 pennies. If he has 15 pennies, how many dimes does he have?
3 dimes
Santa has 10 reindeer. The rate of female:male reindeer is 1:4. If there are 2 female reindeer, how many male reindeer are there in total?
8 male reindeer
Mr. Brocato's Chupacabra ate 20 goats in 2 hours. What is the Chupacabra's goat eating rate per hour?
10 goats per hour
Mr. Brocato looked at his hands a few minutes ago. He was very happy to see that he still had 10 out of his 10 fingers. What percentage of fingers has Mr. Brocato lost over the years?
0%
A study proves that 7th graders across DC spend 2 minutes studying for every 3 minutes they spend on their phones. If a student spent a total of 80 minutes studying this week, how many hours did he/she spend on his/her phone?
2 hours
900 elves
The distance from WG to the mall is 2600 feet. When 7th graders do not want to return from recess, it takes them 13 minutes to walk back to school. What is their I-do-not-want-to-walk-any-faster unit rate in minutes?
200 feet per minute
Mr. Hill (ELA) wanted to buy a new suit for himself. He found a beautiful blue suit that cost $250. However, the price tag said: 30% off. How much did he save?
Mr. Brocato is very poor. However, he has 1 dime for every 7 pennies. If he has 35 pennies, how many cents does he have in total?
$0.85 or 85 cents
Santa travels in his sleigh for 12 hours during the night of Christmas to get all the presents delivered. If he travels 720,000 miles during that night, what is his speed? (Answer must be in miles per hour)
60,000 miles per hour.
Stephen Curry, a more or less "ok" basketball player, has been practicing non-stop on his 3-pointer shoots. He shot basketballs until his arms burned and he found out that he was able to score 78 points in 6 minutes. What is his unit rate for points?
13 points per minute
Mr. Brocato normally sharpens 20 pencils every morning and puts them in the blue materials bin. At 4pm, when students are gone, Mr. Brocato normally finds 4 pencils left. What percent of pencils magically disappear from Mr. Brocato's bin?
80%
There are roughly 700,000 people that live in DC. Someone obsessed with trees found out that there out of 7 Christmas trees, 1 is made out of plastic and the rest are real pine. If there are 175,070 Christmas trees in DC, how many trees are made out of plastic?
25,010
Santa hired 15 Elf managers. Their job is to look for defective toys and fix them before they get sued by angry and upset children. In a week (7 days), they were able to detect 10,500 defective toys. What is the daily unit rate of defective toys detected per elf manager?
100 toys per day per manager.
11.25 miles per hour
Henry Ford founded his company (Ford) in 1901. The first year, he hired 15 people. In his second year, due to more demand, he had to hire 40% more people. How many people worked for him in 1902?
21 people