If 1/3 of a number is 4 less than 1/2 of the number, What is the number?
24. Let x represent the unknown number. Since 1/3 of x is 4 less than 1/2 of x, x/3 = x/2 - 4. So, 2x = 3x - 24, giving x = 24.
Find four consecutive even integers such that 2 times the sum of the first and second is 14 more than 3 times the fourth.
28, 30, 32, 34
Jars A, B, and C each contain 8 marbles. What is the minimum number of marbles that must be transferred among the jars so that the ratio of the number of marbles in jar A to the number in jar B to the number in jar C is 1:2:3?
4
Since jars A, B, and C each contain 8 marbles, there are 24 marbles in the three jars. Let x, 2x, and 3x represent the new numbers of marbles in jars A, B, and C, respectively. Hence, x + 2x + 3x = 24 or 6x = 24, so x=4.
x, y, 22, 14, 10... In this sequence, each term after the first term x is obtained by halving the term that comes before it and then adding 3 to that number. What is the value of x-y?
32
x=70, y=38. 70-38=32.
What is the radius of a circle whose circumference is π ?
1/2.
C=2πr > π = 2πr > 1 = 2r
Working together, Kim and Jennifer can install a new deck in 6.28 hours. Had she done it alone it would have taken Jennifer 13.7 hours. How long would it take Kim to do it alone?
11 hours 36 minutes
Working alone, Bill takes three times the amount of time to paint a fence that Mike takes. If Bill and Mike work together, they can paint the fence in 2 hours. If Mike works at the same rate as when he worked with Bill, how long would it take Mike working alone to paint the same fence?
2 hours and 40 minutes.
If x represents the number of hours it takes Mike working alone to paint the fence, then 3x is the number of hours it takes Bill working alone to paint the fence. So (1/x) + (1/3x) = (1/2) gives x=8/3 hours.
Five students, all of different heights, are randomly arranged in a line. What is the probability that the tallest student will be first in line and the shortest student will be last in line?
1/20
1x3x2x1x1=6, 6 ways in which students can be arranged under given conditions. Under no conditions, the ways are 5x4x3x2x1=120. 6/120=1/20.