A sailboat travels 48 miles upstream in 6 hours and returns back downstream in 4 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?

A farmer knows that every 50 eggs his chickens lay, only 45 will be marketable. If his chickens lay 1000 eggs in a week, how many of them will be marketable?

Urvi solved a fraction division problem using the rule "multiply by the reciprocal." Her work is shown below.

What is 5 to the 0.75 power?

Anyone know what 88/6x9. 88 and six are fraction

There were 605 people sitting in an auditorium at the start of a show. Thirty-five people left during the intermission. How many people remained in the auditorium after the intermission?

Original price of a book: $15.50 discount is 10%

Bee Paul, store manager for Jay's Appliance, is having a difficult time placing a selling price on a plasma television that originally costs $600. Bee knows his boss would like to have a 55 percent markup based on cost.

A new internet phone company advetises that you can call any country in the world for 3 cent per minute. You regularly call your friend in India and talk to her for 20 minutes. How much would the phone call cost?

A school basketball team has an expense account and a fundraising account. After t weeks, the balance of the expense account is (450-70t) dollars and the balance of the fundraising account is (275+48t) dollars. a.

A bookstore sold 1,250 books in a month. if 70% of the books the store sold were paperbacks, how many paperback books did the store sell in the month?