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problems using formulas
- If a car that normally sells for $12,000 is
discounted $1,500, find the sales price? ______________________
2. At
a year-end clearance sale, a $15,750 Jeep-Wrangler sold for $13,450.
What was the amount of the discount?
______________________
- A store buys a lamp for $35 and then marks up the
cost $20 before selling. What is the retail price?
______________________
4. It costs a snack bar owner 20
cents to make a snow cone. If he charges 70 cents for the snow
cone, what is the markup?
______________________
- A charity telethon took $14 million in donations but
had expenses totaling $2 million. What was the profit made by the
institution? ______________________
- In 1997, the Salvation Army collected $1.7 billion in
donations. Of that amount, $1.4 billion went directly to support its
programs. What were the 1997 administrative costs of the organization?
______________________
- As they migrate from the Bering Sea to Baja
California, gray whales swim for about 20 hours a day, covering a distance of
approximately 70 miles. Estimate the average swimming rate in miles per
hours?
- Find the distance covered by a jet if it travels for
3 hours at 550 mph. ______________________
- The thermostat in an office building was set at 770F.
Convert this setting to degrees Celsius. ______________________
- The record high temperature for New Mexico is 1220F,
on June 27, 1994. Convert this setting to degrees Celsius.
______________________
- Find the distance a camera fell in 6 seconds if it
was dropped by a vacationer taking a hot-air balloon ride.
______________________
- Find the distance a ball has fallen 7 seconds after
being dropped from a building. ______________________
- Find the average for a bowler who rolled scores of
254, 225, and 238. ______________________
- In a math course, a student had the following scores
in the first three tests, 75, 90, and 65. If he missed the last two
tests, what is his average in class? ______________________