Lesson 13 & 14

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10 questions
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A coffee maker’s directions say to use 2 tablespoons of ground coffee for every 6 ounces of water. How much coffee should you use for 33 ounces of water?

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A runner is running a 10 km race. It takes her 17.5 minutes to reach the 2.5 km mark. At that rate, how long will it take her to run the whole race?

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The price of an ice cream cone is $3.25, but it costs $3.51 with tax. What is the sales tax rate?

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A furniture store pays a wholesale price for a mattress. Then, the store marks up the retail price to 150% of the wholesale price. Later, they put the mattress on sale for 50% off of the retail price. A customer just bought the mattress on sale and paid $1,200.
What was the retail price of the mattress, before the discount?

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What was the wholesale price, before the markup?

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Find the total of the transactions for each month.

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Find the mean total for the four months.

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A bank charges a service fee of $7.50 per month for a checking account.
A bank account has $85.00. If no money is deposited or withdrawn except the service charge, how many months until the account balance is negative?

A large aquarium of water is being filled with a hose. Due to a problem, the sensor does not start working until some time into the filling process. The sensor starts its recording at the time zero minutes. The sensor initially detects the tank has 225 liters of water in it.
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The hose fills the aquarium at a constant rate of 15 liters per minute. What will the sensor read at the time 5 minutes?

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Later, someone wants to use the data to find the amount of water at times before the sensor started. What should the sensor have read at the time -7 minutes?