Word Problems (2)( Week 44 Evaluation) 1. How many boxes which can hold 32 apples are needed to hold 352 pounds of apples if two apples weigh one pound? 2. People are sorted by their last name in lots of cases. A school is trying to be fair, so students are sorted with various systems in different occasions. One of the systems is based on a calculated index of their first name. Let A=1, B=2, C=3, ..., Y=25 and Z=26. The calculated index is determined by adding the value of all letters in the name. Can you sort the following names based on the system in ascending index value (if both names have the same index value, keep their original order)? You need to type the names exactly as they are shown below with the first character in upper case. Before sort: George, Anne, Kevin. After sort: , , . 3. In a group of 55 high school students, 29 of them took Physics, 30 of them took Economics, and 8 took both subjects. How many of them took neither Physics nor Economics? 4. Out of 70 people, 25 can both swim and ski, and 14 cannot swim nor ski. If 41 people can swim, how many people can ski? 5. There are 18 tables numbered 1-18 which are equally spaced around a round garden in the number order. What is the number of the table directly across from the table numbered 6? 6. The charge for a taxi ride in a city is $3.50 for the first mile and then $0.85 for each additional mile. What is the cost for a ride of 16 miles? 7. Nancy spent exactly $1 for 5-cent stamps and 14-cent stamps. How many 5-cent stamps did she buy? 8. If the cost of 6 apples is equal to the cost of 7 oranges, and the cost of 9 oranges is equal to the cost of 10 pears. How many apples would have the same cost as 210 pears? 9. The edges of a square area is 500 yards. Larry go 110 yards due west from the center of the square , and then walk 110 yards due south. In which of the following will Larry walk out of square ranges from current point?
I. due east 334 yards
II. due west 122 yards
III. due south 42 yards 10. A fast clock gains 2 minutes per hour and a slow clock loses 8 minutes per hour. At a certain time, both clocks are set to the correct time. At some point in the next 6 hours, the slow clock registered 06:00, and at the same moment the fast clock registered 07:00. What was the correct time at that moment (Express your answer as HH:MM)? |