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• At Union Middle School, 55 girls, or 22% of the girls, may basketball. How many girls attend Union Middle School?
  
• Ben was walking in Manhattan at a constant speed. He went along 5th avenue from 4th to 98th street. At 3:00 he was on 15th street, and at 4:30 he was on 45th street. When did he start and when did he finish his walk?
  
• Tiffany is sending a package that may not exceed 16 pounds. The package contains books that weigh a total of 9 3/8 pounds.The other items to be sent weigh 3/5 of the books.Will Tiffany be able to send the package? Show your work.
  
• Six groups of students sell 162 balloons at the school carnival. There are 3 students in each group. If each student sells the same number of balloons, how many balloons does each student sell?
  
• A scale drawing for a new city library shows a rectangular room with a length of `5 1/4` inches and a width of `3 1/2` inches.The scale on the drawing is 1 inch: 4 feet. What will be the actual length and width of the room when the library is built?
  
• What are the two integers that the square root `sqrt216` comes between?
  
• There are 450 cars in an car lot. About 28% of them are hybrid About how many cars in a lot are hybrid cars?
  
• How do you simplify `6/10 + 3 3/2 - 5 1/4`?
  
• How do you solve `7(w+1)=5(2w-3)+1`?
  
• How do you solve `y/6+12=10`?
  
• The bases on a playground baseball diamond form a square, 60ft on a side. How far would a catcher standing n home plate need to throw the ball to get a runner out at second base?
  
• How do you solve the following system?: `-2x +5y =-6 , 5x +6y = -1`
  
• The sum of a number and its square is 42. What is the number?
  
• How do you solve `6x-9=x-3`?
  
• How do you evaluate `3/9 + 4/5`?
  
• What is the slope of the line passing through the points `(4,3)` and `(-5,-2)`?
  
• How do you solve `-1/2x+12=23`?
  
• How do you convert 19/4 into a percent and decimal?
  
• How do you write an equation represents this situation: Charlie worked 1.5 hours less than Dirk. Together, they worked a total of 25 hours. Dirk worked h hours?
  
• How do you find the slope of the line passing through the points A (3,9), B(1,5)?
  
• How do you solve `7x – 7 = 2x + 8`?
  
• How do you solve the following system: `4x-5y-23=0 , -2x=6y+18`?
  
• During this year's football-throwing contest, John threw the ball `49 2/3` feet. Sharon threw the ball `51` feet. Who threw the ball `153/3` feet?
  
• How do you solve `3x+4y=-10` and `x-4y=2`?
  
• Question #eea54
  
• How do you use the Pythagorean theorem to find the distance between the points (3,0) and (-3,6)?
  
• Philip is going on a 4000 kilometer road trip with three friends. The car consumes 6 liters of gas per 100 kilometers, and gas costs $1.50 per liter. Philip and his friends want to split the cost of gas evenly, how much should they each pay?
  
• How do you solve the following system: `x-y=3 , 4x-5y-23=0`?
  
• How do you solve `3/5x - 8= -2`?
  
• A shop is having its grand opening.The owner buys three `1/4` page ads, four `1/8` page ads, and ten `1/16` page ads. What is the total amount of ads space that the owner buys?
  
• Question #9933f
  
• A football field is 100 yards long and 50 yards wide. How do you find the length of a diagonal of the football field?
  
• Two cities on a map were `2 1/4` in. apart. The cities are actually 56.25 mi apart. What scale was used to draw the map?
  
• A right triangle has a perimeter of 12 and sides x, (x + 1), and (x + 2). What is the area of the triangle?
  
• On a 50 question test, a student answered 5 questions incorrectly. What percent did the student answer correctly?
  
• How do you solve `x/2 + x/3 - 1 = x/6 + 3`?
  
• A car rented for $29 per day plus $.08 per mile. Julia paid $46.12 for a one-day rental. How far did she drive?