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When Kate worked 10hours overtime she earned $8 more than one third the amount she earns for 40 hours of work at her usual rate. If her overtime rate is $2.40 per hour more than her usual rate, find her overtime rate.

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Your doctor gives you a prescription, and tells you to take one pill every 20 minutes. How many pills will you take the first hour?

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1 a major league baseball team had won 77 games and had lost 63 games what was its percentage of games won?

2. a serving tray made of brass is an alloy of 70% copper and 30% tin. what is the weight of the copper in the try?

3. twenty-nine of the first forty-two presidents of the united states were lawyers. what percentage of these presidents were lawyers? (give answer to the nearest 1%)

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Choose two natural numbers. Add 1 to the second and divide by the first to get a third. Add 1 to the third and divide by the second to get a fourth. Add 1 to the fourth and divide by the third to get a fifth. Continue this process until you discover a pattern. What is the pattern? Show your steps.

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A sliding drawer designed to hold videocassettes has 18 compartments. If Chris wants to house his collection of 204 Disney videotapes, how many such drawers will he need? Explain how you determined the solution.

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The square root of half the number of bees in a swarm have flown out to a jasmine bush. Additionally, one female bee flies about a male bee stuck in a lotus flower the evening before. Eight ninths of the whole swarm remain in the hive. How many bees are involved in all? Explain ho you determined the solution.

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Suppose you had 36 feet of fencing and you wanted to use it to build a rectangular pen in your backyard. What dimensions should you make it to maximize the possible area of the pen? You can either try to solve this algebraically or you may want to start by creating a table of possible values for length and width, then calculate area, then plot a graph of area vs. length of pen to see what type of relationship you have.

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The chart shows the data collected about the change in rent cost for a 2-bedroom apartment over a period of 10 years, with the High-Low line fit through the data points.




a)What information about the rent does the coordinate pair (0, 525) represent?

b)What is the equation of the High-Low line?

c)What is the average increase in the rent per year? How did you determine it?

d)What will the rent be after 12 years? How did you determine that?

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If item "A" is worth $26,500 and is rated "2" as to its quality on the scale of 0-10, 10 being best, how much is "B" worth, which is rated "6.7" for its quality, and what is the formula to figure this out? 2 is of course 29.85% of 6.7. So, expressed by % terms, how much more than $26,500 is "B" worth?

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Pizza cut into 5 pieces.
4 of the pieces are the same size.
The 5th piece is half the size of the others.

What fraction of the pizza is the smallest piece.