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Question:

Rachel is driving to visit her mother, who lives 250 miles away. How long will the drive be, round-trip, if Rachel drives at an average speed of 40 mph?

A 750 minutes

explanation

The distance from Rachel’s house to her mother’s house is 250 miles, so round-trip, the distance is 500 miles. Plug this into the distance formula:
d = rt
500 = 40t
500 ÷ 40 = t
12.5 = t
It takes Rachel 12.5 hours to make the round-trip drive. Multiply by 60 to find the answer in minute
12.5 × 60 = 750 minutes.

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\( 4^4 \)

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Terri has a jar of orange, blue, green, and red chocolate candies. In the jar are 75 orange candies, 62 blue candies, and 52 green candies. If there is a total of 252 candies in the jar, what is the probability that Terri will pick a red candy?

1/4

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252 – 189 = 63 red candies.
Probability is the chance that a certain event will happen. Since there are 63 red candies out of a total of 252 candies, divide 63 by 252. Reduce the fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by 63. 63/252 = 1/4

A man invested $150 in the stock market. During the first week, he lost $45. During the second week, he tripled his money. How much does he have at the end of the second week?

$315

First, calculate how much he had at the end of the first week: $150 – $45 = $105
Since he tripled his money, it is then necessary to multiply this value by 3:
105 × 3 = 315

At the arcade, Nick spent 203 tokens on video games in seven days. Each day he spent five more tokens than the previous day. How many tokens did Nick spend on the third day at the arcade?

24 tokens

Let x = the number of tokens Nick spent on day 1. Set up the following equation and solve for x: x + (x + 5) + (x + 10) + (x + 15) + (x + 20) + (x + 25) + (x + 30) = 203
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Five years ago, Amy was three times as old as Mike. If Mike is 10 years old now, how old is Amy?

20

Mike is 10 years old now, so he must have been 5 years old five years ago. Amy was 3 times as old as Mike five years ago, so Amy must have been 15 five years ago. Add 5 years to Amy’s age five years ago to calculate her age now. Amy is 15 + 5 = 20 years old now.

A child is selling bars for a school fundraiser. He starts with 65. If he has 13 left, how many did he sell?

52

To calculate how many bars the child sold, subtract the number he has left (13) from the number he had originally (65): 65 – 13 = 52

Which of the following statements is true?

If a number is divisible by 2 and 3, it is also divisible by 6.

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How many prime numbers are there between 25 and 35, inclusive?

2

Prime numbers are not divisible by anything other than themselves and 1. The only prime numbers in this set are 29 and 31. 25, 30, and 35 can be excluded because they are divisible by 5. 26, 28, 30, 32, and 34 are divisible by 2. 27, 30, and 33 are divisible by 3.

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When a number is divided by a multiple of 10, simply move the decimal one position to the left for every zero. We can take each answer to find out which one is correct.
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\( 23 \div 1.000 = 0.023\) (move decimal 3 positions to the left)
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12

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4

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-18

Solve by using the order of operations. It’s easy to do if you remember the acronym PEMDAS (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction).
\(39 \div (3+10)-3 \times 7 = 39 \div 13-3 \times 7\)
\( = 39 \div 13-21 = 3-21 = -18\)