Jessie works in a hat shop for 4 hours per day. She worked a total of 592 hours over the past year. How many days did she turn up for work?
Days worked = Total Hours Worked / Hours worked per day
Days worked = 592/4
Days worked = 148 days
The sum of a and b added with the quotient of x and y.
The sum of a and b is written as:
a + b
The quotient of x and y is written as:
x/y
The phrase added with means we add x/y to a + b:
a + b + x/y
Kent Realty Company had an annual loss of $63,408. What was the average loss per month?
Convert years to months
1 year = 12 months
63,408/12 = 5,284 per month
How many 8$, tickets can I get for 100$
Tickets = Total Money / price per ticket
Tickets = 100/8
Tickets = 12.5
If the problem asks for a whole number, this means you cannot have a partial ticket. Therefore, we round down to 12 tickets
993 cold drinks bottles are to be placed in crates. Each crate can hold 9 bottles. How many crates would be needed and how many bottles will remain?
Let c equal the number of crates
9 bottles per crate * c = 993
9c = 993
Solve for c in the equation 9c = 993
Step 1: Divide each side of the...
A construction crew has just built a new road. They built 43.75 kilometers of road at a rate of 7 kilometers per week. How many weeks did it take them?
Let w = weeks
7 kilometers per week * w = 43.75
To solve for w, we divide each side of the equation by 7:
7w/7 = 43.75/7
Cancel the 7's, we...
$1.40 pays for 30 minutes of parking. How long can you park for with $2.80?
Immediately, I see that $2.80 is $1.40 * 2
Which means, if $1.40 pays for 30 minutes of parking
$1.40 * 2 = $2.80 means $2.80 pays for 30 minutes * 2 = 60 minutes or 1 hour
Double the rate means double the time you...
Chance has 3/4 hour left to finish 5 math problems on the test. How much time does she have to spend on each problem?
3/4 of an hour in minutes is:
3/4 * 60 = 45 minutes
45 minutes / 5 math problems = 9 minutes per problem
Jill squeezed a lemon and got 4 ounces of lemon juice. She needs 32 ounces of juice for her party. How many lemons does she need?
32 ounces of juice / 4 ounces per lemon = 8 lemons
I work 30 hours a week 50 weeks of a year and I earn a salary of 36000 what is my hourly rate
30 hours per week * 50 weeks = 1,500 hours
36000 / 1500 hours = $24 per hour
A bus holds 45 students. How many buses were taken on a field trip if 13 students travels by car and total of 320 students went on a trip?
Find the number of students who went on the bus:
Number of students who went on the bus = Total students on field trip - students who traveled by car
Number...
A giant burrito required 75.75 lb of cheese. About how many 12-lb boxes of cheese did the cooks use?
75.75/12 = 6.31 boxes
We can round up to 7 full boxes
the quotient of triple m and n squared
Triple m means we multiply m by 3:
3m
n squared means we raise n to the 2nd power:
n^2
The quotient is formed as follows:
3m/n^2
You want to put 520 quarters in coin wrappers. You need one wrapper for every $10 in quarters. Write an equation you can use to find how many wrappers w you need
First, calculate the number of quarters in $10:
Quarters in $10 = Value of Quarters / Cost per quarter
Quarters in $10 = 10/0.25...