You are asked to chart the temperature during an 8-hour period to give the average. These are your results: 7am: -10 degrees 8am: 0 degrees 9 am: 30 degrees 10 am: 36 degrees 11 am: 40 degrees 12 pm: 42 degrees 1pm: 42 degrees 2 pm: 41 degrees What is the average temperature?
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21 students, or 60% of the class, passed the final exam. How many students are in the class?
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A wall is 7 feet 8 inches in height; four vertical pieces of wallpaper are needed to ver the wall. Assuming there is no waste, what is the minimum length that a roll of wallpaper must be to ver the wall?
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A back yard is 50 feet by 100 feet. What's its area?
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In the circulation department of a city newspaper, four customer service representatives each receive $320 a week, while two assistant managers earn $12 an hour each plus an average $100 per day commission. What is the average total weekly compensation paid to these six employees for a five-day, 40-hour work week?
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A fire team is made up of four junior enlisted men and one noncommissioned officer as the team leader. A group of 64 privates fresh from basic training is to be divided into fire teams. How many team leaders will be needed?
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The list price of a TV set is $325, but the retailer offers successive discounts of 20% and 30%. What price does a customer actually pay?
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A man's hourly wage increased from $12.50 to $13.50. What percent raise did he get?
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If a hexahedral die is rolled two times, what's the probability of NOT rolling a five both times?
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Carpet stain protector costs $0.65 per square yard to apply.
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The sun is 93 million miles from Earth and light travels at a rate of 186,000 miles per second. How long does it take for light from the sun to reach the Earth?
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A 3-yard-long ribbon was used to trim four dresses. Each dress used the same amount of ribbon. How much ribbon was used for each dress?
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Karl is driving in Austria, where the speed limit is posted in kilometers per hour. The car's speedometer shows that he's traveling at a rate of 75 kilometers per hour. Karl knows that a kilometer is about 5/8 of a mile. Approximately how many miles per hour is Karl traveling?
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The neighbor's dog barks at a squirrel every 15 minutes at night. If he first barks at 10 p.m., when you're trying to fall asleep, how many times will he bark by 2 a.m. , when you give up trying to sleep and decide to read a book instead?
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Your uncle passed away and left you and your siblings his private property. He owned a 180 acre ranch and there are 3 of you. Each acre is valued at approximately $3,000. This means the monetary value for each sibling will be ___________.
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You just priced what it would cost to buy vinyl floor tiles at the local tile store. They quoted you $3.29 per tile. When you went home, you found the same tile for sale at an online outlet for $2.89 per tile. As a percentage, how much more expensive is the tile store's quote?
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The tile store's price costs about 14% more than the online outlet store.
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The tile store's price costs about 11% more than the online outlet store.
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The tile store's price costs about 16% more than the online outlet store.
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The tile store's price costs about 10% more than the online outlet store.
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In a clothing factory, 5 workers finish production of 6 garments each per day, 3 others turn out 4 garments each per day, and 1 worker turns out 12 per day. What is the average number of garments produced per worker per day?
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A grocery store has a special on sodas. Three 12 packs for $9.00. How much does five 12 packs of soda cost?
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Jill bought 2 cases of computer paper (10 reams per case) on sale for $85.00. The regular rate is: 1 case = $52.50. What was her savings amount on the cost of each ream?
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On a trip to the beach you travel 200 miles in 300 minutes. How fast did you travel?
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A product originally costs $125. If the product goes on sale for 20% off, and then goes on sale for an additional 30% off, what is the price of the product?
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If the price of a gallon of gas increases from $3.20 to $3.68, what percent did it increase?
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Apples are on sale for "Buy 2 get 1 free." How many pounds must Janet purchase to get 2 pounds free?
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Stan bought a monster truck for $2,000 down and payments of $450 a month for five years. What's the total cost of the monster truck?
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You are asked to buy bags of cement to pour a cement pad for a hot tub. You need to fill the pad frame which has an 8-foot square base and one-foot high sides. Each bag of cement mixed will fill 5 cubic feet in the frame. How many bags will you need to buy to ensure enough to fill the entire frame?
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You take your dog for a walk in the evenings and it takes about 25 minutes to walk 8 city blocks. If you decide to do a "marathon walk" of 32 city blocks on a Saturday, how many minutes will it take you to complete this?
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A carpenter needs to cut four sections, each 3-feet 8-inches long, from a piece of molding. If the board is only sold by the foot, what's the shortest length of board she can buy?
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Susan went to the Spa and got a manicure for $25.00, a pedicure for $28.75 and a massage for $60.00. She tipped a total of $8.50. What is the total Susan spent at the Spa?
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How many pounds does four tons of gravel weigh?
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A sales manager buys antacid in bottles by the gross. If he goes through 3 bottles of antacid every day, how long will the gross last?
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A man died suddenly from a heart attack brought on by too much work and not enough exercise. Upon his death, his life insurance policies paid $750,000 to his wife and three children. The policies were set up to pay the wife and children in the ratio of 5:1:1:1. How much did the three children receive altogether?
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A digital video recorder is programmed to record a TV show that lasts for a half hour. If the digital video recorder has enough memory left to hold 180 minutes of recording, what percentage of the remaining capacity is used for this recording?
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There are 78 female and 54 male patrons at a local diner. What percentage of the diner's patrons are female?
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Of 1,000 dogs, 72% are male. Among the males, 3 out of 5 were over the age 5. How many of the dogs were males over the age of 5?
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A patio measures 12 feet by 14 feet. How many 8-inch-square paving stones are needed to pave the patio?
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A recruiter travels 1,100 miles during a 40- hour workweek. If she spends 2/5 of her time traveling, how many hours does she spend traveling?
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A technology reseller purchasing agent procured 20 mid-brand DVD players for the listed wholesale price of $80 each, but receives a 25% discount because he is an established customer and friend of the wholesale dealer. His store then sells these DVD players at a 20% markup above the original wholesale price. What is the store's profit margin on each DVD player?
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Three apples and twice as many pears add up to one-half the number of grapes in a fruit basket. How many grapes are in the basket?
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A stack of lumber is 6-feet high. If each piece of lumber is 4-inches thick, how many pieces of lumber are in the stack?
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A blouse normally costs $18.50. How much money is saved if the blouse is purchased at a 20% discount?
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