After robbing a bank in Dodge City, a robber gallops off at 14 mi/h. 20 minutes later, the marshall leaves to pursue the robber at 16 mi/h. How long (in hours) does it take the marshall to catch up...
The flag of OverlySandy Beach always has to be in a 7 : 8 scale. If you have enough fabric to make the item have 40 millimeters as its length, what does the width of the flag need to be in millimeters...
Samuel asked his friends to guess his age. He said that if you divide his age by the only even prime number and add for the result is the least common multiple of three and five. How old is Samuel...
Henry has $15,000 to invest. He invests x dollars at 4% and the rest at 3.5%. Suppose at the end of the year Henry has $15,575. How much money did he start with in each account?
A store is about to order deluxe, standard and economy grade DVD players for next years inventory. The state of nations economy (fate) during the year will be a factor on sales for that year. Records...
Babe Didrikson holds the world record for the longest baseball throw (93.3m) by the woman. For the folowing question, assume that the ball was thrown at an angle of 50 degrees above the horizontal,...
equation for this problem To paint his house, Samuel bought 2 cans of paint and one roller for $30. When friends came over to help, he went back to the store and bought three more cans of paint and...
Use + or - Mario earned three times as much money last year as his wife Elena. The total amount that the two earned was $11,000. How much money did Elena earn?
jessie can weed a garden in about 30 minutes. When Norton helps her they can weed the same garden in about 20 minutes. Norton wants to know how long it would take for him to weed the garden himself...
Mr.s Fedge placed 10 candy bars, 50 pieces of hard candy, and 40 pieces of gum into a large bag. Then she pick two pieces for each student without looking and put them in smaller bags. Find all...
Sienna is making a poster for science class. The length of the poster is 2 1/2 feet and its width is 1 1/4 feet> Sienna says that she will glue pictures on 1 3/4 of the area of the poster and leave...
Woody Woodpecker pecked at a 17 meter wooden pole until it cracked and the upper part fell, with the top hitting the ground 10 meters from the foot of the pole. Since the upper part had not completely...