A printing plant that produces baseball cards has a monthly overhead of $6,000. It costs 18 cents to print each card, and the cards sell for 30 cents each.How many cards must the printing plant sell each month in order to make a profit?
Alice leaves her house, driving east at 45 miles per hour (mph). Thirty minutes later, her husband Dave notices she forgot her cell phone and sets off after her.How fast must Dave travel in order to catch up with Alice 3 hours after he leaves?
An office building has 30 employees and allows 42 square feet of work space per employee.If five more employees are hired, how much less work space wills each employee have?
A painter has painted a picture on a piece of canvas that measures 10 ֳ— 14 inches. In order to accommodate a frame, he has left an unpainted margin of 1 inch all the way around.What part of the canvas has been painted?
A training certificate composed on a personal computer that was designed to be nine inches long and six inches wide has to be proportionately enlarged so that its length will be 12 inches.How many inches wide will the enlarged certificate be?
If a car is towed 12 miles to the repair shop, and the tow charge is $3.50 per mile, how much did the tow cost?
