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    Example Word Problem: Fractions

    Mr. and Mrs. Samuel visited Florida and purchased 120 oranges. They gave 1/4 of them to relatives ate 1/12 of them in the hotel and gave 1/3 of them to friends. They shipped the rest home to Illinois. a. How many oranges did they ship? b. If it costs 24 cents for each orange to be shipped to Illinois, what was the total ship

    Linear equations: Word problem. Bill owns a bike company, and wants to know how many bicycles and tricycles he should manufacture, with no leftovers, and how many boxes of seats he will order. (details given in actual problem)

    Bill runs Bill's Big Bikes, a company that manufactures bicycles and specialty adult-sized tricycles. The bicycles and tricycles use the same-sized wheels and identical seats. Right now, Bill has 68 wheels in the shop and needs to order seats. Unfortunately, the company that supplies the seats will only ship seats in boxes of

    Simulating Real Plant Growth

    Assuming that plant grows in 8 steps at the 0.45 rate and that the first stem lenght is 20mm - This is what I have so far: 1/ I made a table showing the length of the plant's stem at the end of each step. 2/ I made a graph of the values in the table 3/ I, of course, wrote a formula representing the growth for each step: new

    Fractions differences in algebra

    Context:It would normally follow on from work on sequences and fractions. Question: Ruth was investigating fraction differences. She wrote down this sequence of fractions: 1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1,5 1,6 .. .. Then she worked out the difference between the consecutive fractions: 1/2, 1/6, 1/12, 1/20, 1/30, .. .. She Then worked o

    Fraction Word Problem Printing Business

    Sam and Mary each owned one-half of the stock in a printing company. Sam sold two-thirds of his stock to Mary. What fractional part of the printing business does Mary now own?