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Fred and Ethyl had 132 flowers altogether at first. After Fred sold 1/4 of his flowers and Ethyl sold 48 of her flowers, they had the same number of flowers left. How many flowers did each of them have at first?
Fred: 48 flowers
Ethyl: 84 flowers
AAA Taxi charges $1.75 for the first mile and $1.05 for each additional mile. How far could Mrs. Leslie travel for $20 if she tips the cab driver $2.50?
Mrs. Leslie can go 16 miles.
The Hewitt family is buying carpet for two rooms. The dining room is a square that measures 12 feet on each side. The den is 9 yards by 5 yards. Mrs. Hewitt has budgeted $2,650 for carpeting both rooms. The green carpet she is considering costs $42.75 per square yard, and the brown carpet’s price is $4.95 per square foot. What are the ways she can carpet the rooms and stay within her budget?
Mrs. Hewitt can have both rooms green or the den green and the dining room brown.
Elise saved $184. She bought a scarf, a necklace, and a notebook. After her purchases, she still had $39.50. The scarf cost three-fifths the cost of the necklace, and the notebook was one-sixth as much as the scarf. What was the cost of each item? How much more did the necklace cost than the notebook?
The necklace is $76.50 more than the notebook.
Pierre folded a square piece of paper vertically to make two rectangles. Each rectangle had a perimeter of 39 inches. How long is each side of the original square? What is the area of the original square? What is the area of one of the rectangles?
The area of the square is 169in2
The area of the rectangle is 84.5in2
Pat’s Potato Farm grew 490 pounds of potatoes. Pat delivered 3/7 of the potatoes to a vegetable stand. The owner of the vegetable stand delivered 2/3 of the potatoes he bought to a local grocery store, which packaged half of the potatoes that were delivered into 5-pound bags. How many 5-pound bags did the grocery store package?
The grocery store packaged 14 bags.
Three pumpkins and two squash weigh 27.5 pounds. Four pumpkins and three squash weigh 37.5 pounds. Each pumpkin weighs the same as the other pumpkins, and each squash weighs the same as the other squash. How much does each pumpkin weigh? How much does each squash weigh?
One pumpkin weighs 7.5 pounds and one squash weighs 2.5 pounds.
Sara travels twice as far as Eli when going to camp. Ashley travels as far as Sara and Eli together. Hazel travels 3 times as far as Sara. In total, all four travel 888 miles to camp. How far does each of them travel?
Sara: 148 miles
Eli: 74 miles
Ashley: 222 miles
Hazel: 444 miles
A man wants to take a goat, a bag of cabbage, and a wolf over to an island. His boat will only hold him and one animal or item. If the goat is left with the cabbage, he’ll eat it. If the wolf is left with the goat, he’ll eat it. How can the man transport all three to the island without anything being eaten?
Sandra is making cookies that require 5 1/2 cups of oatmeal. She has only two measuring cups: a one-half cup and a three-fourths cup. What is the smallest number of scoops that she could make in order to get 5 1/2 cups?
8 scoops ( 6 with 3/4 c. and 2 with 1/2c.) will be the fewest.
Henry had 20 convertibles and 5 trucks in his miniature car collection. After Henry’s aunt bought him some more miniature trucks, Henry found that one-fifth of his collection consisted of convertibles. How many trucks did his aunt buy?
His aunt bought 75 trucks.