# Oct 2018 (CML)

I will post seven new problems every weekend, one for each day of the week. The idea is that you work on your own during the week and I will post answers the following Saturday. For those of you who practiced with me last year, the process is similar.

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Week of Oct 28 – Nov 3: More word problems on ratios.

Click GoogleForm to submit answers by Sat, Nov 3.

Oct 28: Compute 40% of 20% of 10% of 80000.

Oct 29: 40% of 20% of 10% of what number is 10?

Oct 30: 18% of 50 is what percent of 24?

Oct 31: 18% of what number is 40% of 45?

Nov 1: A shopper paid $100 for a coat that was on sale for 20% off. How much was the original price of the coat? Answer:$125

Nov 2: The sales tax is 8%. If Jenny paid $216 in total (including tax) for a winter jacket, how much was the jacket before tax? Answer:$200

Nov 3: At the beginning of each month, Mary’s clothing shop marks down an item by 10% of the ticket price if the item wasn’t sold during the past month. A hat was marked $50 at the beginning of Feb. If it wasn’t sold, how much was the hat at the beginning of April? Round your number to the nearest integer. Answer: 50*90%*90%=$40.5~$41 Week of Oct 21 – Oct 27: More word problems on ratios. Click GoogleForm to submit answers by Sat, Oct 27. Oct 21: The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in DC is 6 meters tall. On the back of the$5 bill, the statue is 5 centimeters tall. If the Memorial measures 25cm tall on the back of the $5 bill, and assuming the bill is drawn to scale, then how tall is the actual Memorial in DC? Answer: $25\div 5 \times 6 = 30$ meters. Oct 22: Two mountains are $5{7\over 8}$ inches apart. If $1\over 2$ of an inch on the map represents 60 miles, how many miles apart are the two mountains? Answer: ${47\over 8} \times 120 = 705$ miles. Oct 23: A fortnight is 14 days, and a mile is 8 furlongs. If a desert caravan travels 12 miles per day, then how many furlongs does it travel in a fortnight? Answer: $12\times 14 \times 8 = 1344$ miles. Oct 24: A 3-inch by 5-inch photo is enlarged proportionally so that the small dimension is 1 foot. What is the area of the enlarged photo in square inches? Answer: $12 \times 20 = 240$ square inches. Oct 25: On a Canada map, the distance between the dots representing Montreal and Quebec City is 10cm. If the scale of the map is ${4\over 9} mm = 1km$, then how far apart are Montreal and Quebec City? Answer: $100 \div {4\over 9} = 225$km. Oct 26: Lily’s 12-foot by 15-foot bedroom is drawn to 4 inches by 5 inches on the construction map. What is the scale of the map? Answer: 1in = 3 ft Oct 27: Mike’s 45 dimes are divided into 3 piles in the ratio of 2:1:6. How many dimes are there in the pile with the least number of dimes? Answer: 5 Week of Oct 14 – Oct 20: Word problems on ratios. Click GoogleForm to submit answers by Sat, Oct 20. Oct 14: The ratio of cats to dogs at the pound is 2:3. If there are 32 cats, how many dogs are there? Answer: $32\div 2\times 3 = 48$. Oct 15: The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 4:5. If the total number of students in the class is 72, how many boys are there? Answer: $72\div (4+5)\times 4 = 32$ Oct 16: A board that is 12 inches long is cut into 2 pieces whose lengths have a ratio of 1:5. What is the length of the longer piece? Answer: $12\div (1+5)\times 5 = 10$ Oct 17: The ratio of teachers to students in a school is 2 to 17. How many teachers are present if there are 85 students? Answer: $85\div 17\times 2 = 10$ Oct 18: For every$3 Mary spends, Andy spends $5. If Andy spends$40 more than Mary, how much money does Mary spend?

Answer: $40\div 2 \times 3= 60$

Oct 19: What is the ratio of 1 pound 4 ounces to 3 pounds 10 ounces? (1 pound = 16 ounces)

Answer: 20: 58 = 10: 29

Oct 20: Four partners in a business split the profit in the ratio 2:3:3:5. If the profit one year is $26000, what is the largest amount of profit received by the one of the four partners? Answer: $26000\div (2+3+3+5) \times 5 = 10000$ Week of Oct 7 – Oct 13: Word problems on fractions. Click GoogleForm to submit answers by Sat, Oct 13. Oct 7: Mary begins with her work at 8:20am and estimates that it’ll take her $5{7\over 10}$ hours to finish. At what time does she expect to finish? Answer: 14:02pm Oct 8: Kevin pays $1\over 3$ of his income in tax. He spends $4 \over 5$ of what remains after tax, and places the rest into his bank account. What fraction of his income does he put into his bank account? Answer: $1-{1\over 3}- {2\over 3}\cdot {4\over 5} = {2\over 15}$ Oct 9: Sam bought $3 {1\over 4}$ pounds of cheese. He used half of the cheese for a casserole and $1\over 4$ pounds for sandwiches. Express as a mixed number the amount of cheese he has left. Answer: ${13\over 4}\cdot {1\over 2} -{1\over 4} = {11\over 8} = 1{3\over 8}$. Oct 10: Matthew starts with 400 pennies. He gives $3\over 5$ of his pennies to his brother and gives $3\over 4$ of his remaining pennies to his sister. How many more pennies does Matthew give to his brother than to his sister? Answer: $400\cdot ( {3\over 5} - {2\over 5}\cdot {3\over 4}) = 400\cdot {3\over 10} = 120$ Oct 11: If $12{2\over 3}$ feet of steel tubing are needed to make one stool, how many feet of tubing are needed to make 300 stools? Answer: $12{2\over 3} \cdot 300 = 3800$ Oct 12: The reciprocal of 5 plus the reciprocal of 7 is the reciprocal of what number? Answer: ${1\over {1/5 + 1/7}} = {35\over 12}$ Oct 13: Which whole number is closest to ${2\over 3} - {4\over 5}$? Answer: 0 Week of Sept 30 – Oct 6: All about decimals. Click GoogleForm to submit answers by Sat, Oct 6. Sept 30: Arrange the following numbers from smallest to largest: 0.97, 0.979, 0.9709, 0.907, 0.9089 Answer: 0.907, 0.9089, 0.97, 0.9709, 0.979 Oct 1: Compute the following quantities and express the results in decimals: $0.092\times 100$, $25.5\div 0.5$, $(0.11)^2$, $0.025\times 0.4$ Answer: 9.2, 51, 0.0121, 0.01 Oct 2: Compute the following quantities and express the results in decimals: $6\over {0.3}$, $0.3 \over 0.05$, $2\over 0.4$, $0.01\over 2$ Answer: 20, 6, 5, 0.005 Oct 3: Express $(0.2)^3 \over {0.02^2}$ as a decimal. Answer: 20 Oct 4: Express ${0.1 \over 2} + {1 \over 0.2}$ as a decimal. Answer: 5.05 Oct 5: The product of $100\times 3.67 \times 0.367\times 1000$ is the square of what positive number? Answer: 367 Oct 6: If it costs 2.5 cents to copy a page, how many pages can you copy with$10?