a. If three-tenths of the visitors were adults and there were 100 visitors, how many visitors were adults?
b. Five-eighths of the prizes at the Giant Spin were dolls. If there were 64 prizes, how many prizes were NOT dolls?
Answer: a) 30 and b) 24.
Step-by-step explanation:
Since we have given that
a) Number of visitors = 100
According to question, we get that If three-tenths of the visitors were adults.
So, number of adults would be
b) Number of prizes = 64
According to question, Five-eighths of the prizes at the Giant Spin were dolls.
So, Number of prizes are not dolls is given by
Hence, a) 30 and b) 24.
B. If you can only buy 8-foot boards, how many should he buy?explain
Answer with explanation:
Number of boards need by corey =24
Length of each board is
Length in inches of board that corey should buy
inches
1 foot=12 inches
So, Length in feet of board =95 foot
B.
Length of each board = 8 foot
Total Length in feet of board =95 foot
So, number of boards that corey should buy
=Approximately 12 Boards
The profit he made from the boxes is $48 .
A word problem is a verbal description of a problem situation. It consists of few sentences describing a 'real-life' scenario where a problem needs to be solved by way of a mathematical calculation.
For the given situation,
A dozen boxes = 12 boxes
Number of highlighter pens in each box = 24
Total number of highlighter pens =
⇒ pens
Price for each box = $8
Total price for 12 boxes =
⇒
He repacked these boxes into packages of six highlighters each,
⇒
⇒ boxes
Price per package = $3
Total price for 48 boxes =
⇒
Thus profit =
⇒
Hence we can conclude that the profit he made from the boxes is $48 .
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