You pay a total of $440 for 8 visits to your doctor. What is the cost per visit?
Rachel and Sarah started out to visit Grandma. They drove for 50 miles and stopped to rest before driving for 30 more miles. They decided to go back 10 miles to a restaurant they had seen. After leaving the restaurant, they drove 80 more miles to Grandma’s house. How many miles did the girls drive on the way to Grandma’s house?
Your plant runs 2 assembly lines. Line A produces 45 units in the same time that it takes line B to produce 37 units. On one run line B produced 555 units. How many units did line A produce during the same time?
A tablecloth, 220 cm by 440 cm, is to be trimmed with lace. The lace costs $0.87/m. What is the cost of the lace required?
Speedy Rent-A-Car rents an intermediate size car at a daily rate of $46.95 plus $0.41 per mile. Drive-A-Way charges $41.99 per day plus $0.46 per mile. If you are planning an overnight visit with your parents, how much would the cheapest rental place charge if you planned a 820 mile trip?
Jose wants to send a box of oranges to a friend by mail. The box of oranges cannot exceed a mass of 10 kg. If each orange has a mass of 200 g, what is the maximum number he can send?
An assembly line moves at a rate of 25 objects/min. If the rate goes up by 2 objects/min for 6 minutes, then slows down by 4 objects/min for 9 minutes before resuming normal speed, how many objects have passed a worker stationed on the line during the last one-half hour?
Gabriella bought a pile of bricks to build a brick wall. Yesterday, she used 5/8 of the bricks. Tomorrow, she plans to use another 1/4 of the original brick pile. What fraction of the brick pile will she have left after tomorrow?
Find the mistake and correct it, if the answer given to the following problem is:
Carbohydrates- 1,000 caloriesFat- 1,325 calories
Protein- 625 calories
A doctor prescribes a diet of 2,500 calories per day for a patient. She specifies that 40% of the calories must be carbohydrates, 35% must be fat, and 25% must be protein. Calculate the number of calories prescribed for the patient in each category.
You work in the music shop at the mall. A customer purchased 2 CDs for $14.95 each, a cassette tape for $7.99, and a 5-pack of blank cassettes for $5.99. He gave you a $50 bill and you gave him $21.07 change. How much, if at all, did you overcharge or undercharge the customer?
Juan says that for every 20 e-mails he receives, 3 are spam. He also says that he reads only 2 out of every 15 spams. If Edgar read 8 spams last month, what was the total number of e-mails he received?
Determine the cost of cement needed for a sidewalk that is 4 inches thick, 3 feet wide, and 40 feet long. The cement is sold for $76 per cubic yard. (Calculate problem using fractions to avoid rounding errors caused by repeating decimals.)
You are preparing to fertilize your front lawn which is a rectangular shape measuring 90 1/2 yards by 35 1/2 yards. A 25 lb bag of fertilizer covers approximately 5,000 square feet. How many bags of fertilizer need to be purchased?