12 and a 1/2percent of something is 8?

Ricky wrestles for his school team and wants to increase his weight by 10%. His current weight is 140 pounds. How much weight does ricky want to gain?

Which country has the largest gross domestic product of all the industrial nations? A) United States B) Japan

The pitchers for the home team had 12 strikeouts for 32 batters, while the pitchers for the visiting team had 15 strikeouts for 35 batters. which pitching team had a greater fraction of strikeouts?

What is the shape of the following distribution? {9, 10, 10, 11, 11, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20}

An artist is making a scale model of a statue she has been commissioned to create. The model is 2 feet tall. The actual statue will be 15 feet tall. What is the scale of the model to the actual statue?

How can math explain so many things in the universe? How can it predict things?

What is the sum of the six term of the geometric series? 2-6+18-54

Find the value of 715*211 Although these numbers aren't quite as nice as the ones from the example, the procedure is the same, so the difficulty is the same same excepting the ability to perform the calculation in your head.

A furniture manufacturer offers bookcases in 3 different sizes and 4 different colors. if every color is available in every size, then the total number of different bookcases is

Tim has an encyclopedia in 5 volumes: A-C, D-F, G-J, K-N, and O-Z. Other than alphabetically (ascending or descending), how many ways can these volumes be arranged?