Number
Break-Even
Shopping
Coin
Mixture
100
The difference of two numbers is 3. Their sum is 13. Find the numbers.
What is 8 and 5
100

Suppose you spent $1500 in equipment to put pictures on T-shirts. You buy each T-shirt for $3. After you have placed the picture on a shirt, you sell it for $20. Give the two equations to find how many t-shirts you must sell to break-even.

y=3x+1500

y=20x

100
A local library had a book sale to raise money for a charity. Hardcover books cost $4 each and paperback books cost $2 each. Miss Gratton spent $26 on 8 books. How many hardcover and paperback books did Miss Gratton buy?
What is 5 hardcover books and 3 paperback books
100
Miss Leahy's pocket is filled with dimes and nickels. There are 18 coins in her pocket. The value of the coins is $1.25. How many dimes and nickels are in her pocket?
What is 7 dimes and 11 nickels
100
Solution A is 20% alcohol and solution B is 50% alcohol. How much of each should be mixed to make a 15 gallon mixture that is 30% alcohol?
What is 10 gallons of solution A and 5 gallons of solution B
200
The sum of two numbers is 55 and their difference is 5. Find the two numbers.
What is 30 and 25
200

Candy bars are sold in a local store for 50 cents each. The factory has $1000 in fixed costs plus 10 cents of addtional expense for each candy bar made. How many candybars must be sold to break-even?

What is 2500?

200
You walk into the grocery store to get two of your favorite fruits: apples and oranges. When you get to the checkout line, you have 9 pieces of fruit in your basket and the cashier says you owe $15. The apples were on sale for $1 each and the oranges were $2 each. How many apples and oranges did you buy?
What is 3 apples and 6 oranges
200
Drew has 28 coins all of which are either dimes or nickels. The coins are worth a total of $2.60. Find how many dimes and how many nickels he has.
What is 24 dimes and 5 nickels
200
An alloy containing 28% silver is to be mixed with an alloy containing 40% silver to make 300 grams of an alloy containing 36% silver. How much of each alloy should be used?
What is 100 g of the 28% silver and 200 g of the 40% silver
300
One number is 12 more than half another number. The two numbers total 60. Find the numbers.
What is 28 and 32
300

It costs a man 75 dollars to buy the things that he needs to make hot dogs. The city allows him to sell his hot dog somewhere near the city hall. However, the city hall charges him 1 dollar for each hot dog sold. If he sells his hotdogs for $1.50, how many hotdogs must he sell to break-even?

What is 150?

300
iTunes allows users to download individual songs or an entire album. Let's say all individual songs cost the same to download and all the albums cost the same to download. JD pays $14.94 to download 5 individual songs and 1 album. Abby pays $22.95 to download 3 individual songs and 2 albums. How much does iTunes charge to download a song and an entire album? (Round to the nearest hundreth)
What is $0.99 for a song and $9.99 for an album
300
You have 60 coins consisting of quarters and dimes in your pocket. The coins combined value is $9.45. Find the number of quarters and the number of dimes?
What is 37 dimes and 23 quarters
300
A dairy has milk that is 4% butterfat and cream that is 40% butterfat. To make 36 gallons of a mixture that is 20% butterfat, how many gallons of milk and cream must be used?
What is 20 gallons of milk and 16 gallons of cream
400
The sum of two numbers is 75. The larger number is 3 less than twice the smaller. Find the two numbers
What is 26 and 49
400

Suppose you are going into business mowing lawns. You have purchased a lawn mower for $200. Gas and oil costs you $1.50 per lawn. You are charging $15 per lawn. How many lawns must you mow to break even?

What is 15 lawns?

400
Two families attended the musical at Cardinal O'Hara that offered adult and student priced tickets. The first family, the Mullens, consisted of 5 adults and 2 students. The second family, the Wellmans, consisted of 3 adults and 2 students. If the Mullens paid $48 for the tickets and the Wellmans paid $32 for the tickets, what is the cost of each kind of ticket?
What is $8 for adult and $4 for student ticket
400
You have 130 coins consisting of nickels and quarters. The coins combined value comes to $15.90. Find the number of nickels and the number of quarters.
What is 83 nickels and 47 quarters
400
In a laboratory a pharmacist has 30% and 80% solutions. She needs to make 100 mL of a 50% solution. How many mL of the 30% and 80% solutions should she mix?
What is 60 mL of the 30% and 40 mL of the 80%
500
The larger of two numbers is 8 more than four times the smaller. If the larger is increased by four times the smaller, the result is 40. Find the numbers.
What is 4 and 24
500

Suppose you are selling crafts at a craft show. It costs you $96 to rent a table. Each item costs you $2 to make. You sell them for $8 each. How many items must you sell to break even? What is the dollar amount?

What is 16 items? What is $128?

500
586 people attended a banquet in Disney World. Residents paid $12.95 and non-residents paid $17.95. If Disney made $9423.70 from ticket sales for the event, how many residents and non-residents attended?
What is 219 residents and 367 non-residents
500
You are counting cash register at the end of the night. You have $1015 in $5 bills and $10 bills. If you have 138 bills all together, how many of each type for you have?
What is 73 $5 bills and 65 $10 bills
500
Rocco the Chef needs to make a 5 liter pasta sauce that is 60% tomato paste. He has sauce that is 90% tomato paste and sauce that is 40% tomato paste. How many liters of each should be combine to make 5 liters of 60% tomato paste?
What is 3 liters of the 40% and 2 liters of the 90%
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