Decomposing Fractions

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• Max needs #10 1/4#cups of flour to make a batch of pizza dough for the pizzeria. He only has #4 1/2# cups of flour. How much more flour does he need to make the dough?
• When opening the kitty Yosief counted 700 coins from 1€ (one euro) and 2€. Knowing that the ratio of the 1€ coin to the 2€ coin is #3:2#, how many coins of 2€ does Yosief need to add to the kitty so he can have six 200 € banknotes (6 paper notes of 200)?
• Maya was 6th in line. Yosief was 6th from the end of line and there were 3 children between Maya and Yosief. How many children were there in the line?
• A Captain, Quartermaster, First Mate in a pirate ship divide a loot of coins. The 1st gets 1,400 coins, the 2nd 700 more than the first and the 3rd 1/2 of the combined. How much coins do they have? How much does the captain gets?
• Your father borrows $40 and agrees to 24% interest in a year? He decide that he wants to payoff what he owe in 1/2 a year. How much does he have to pay you in 1/2 a year? Yo convince him to keep the money for 2 years how much would he pay you in 2 years?
• Mary and Mike enter invest $700 and $300 in a partnership. They divided their profits as follows: #1/3# is divided equally the remainder is split according to the investments. If Mary received $800 more than Mike, what was the profit made by the business?
• Sue the T-Rex grows cabbage in a square shaped garden. Each cabbage takes #1 ft^2# of area in the garden. This year, she increased her output by 211 cabbages compared to last year, If the shape remains a square how many cabbages did she grow this year?
• Yosief buys 10 apples for $1. At what price should he sell a dozen apples if he wishes to make a profit of 25%?
• Out of 200 kids, 100 had a T-Rex, 70 had iPads and 140 had a cell phone. 40 of them had both, a T-Rex and a iPad, 30 had both, a iPad and a cell phone and 60 had both, a T-Rex and cell phone and 10 had all three. How many kids had none of the three?
• How do you evaluate #24 11/16 + 42 9/16#?
• Question #924c1
• A group of 266 persons consists of men, women, and children. There are four times as many men as children, and twice as many women as children. How many of each are there?
• A gift basket with 3 different types of candles: tapers, pillars and jar candles. Candles cost $1, $4, $6 each respectively. Each basket has 8 candles costing $24. There are as many tapers as pillars and jar candles combined. How many of each do u need?
• What is marginal utility? If marginal utility of product A priced at #$25# is #50# and that of product B priced at #$5# is #20#, which product maximizes utility for consumer?
• Question #b4258
• The average age of the adults that participate at Yosief Birthday is 29 years. Knowing that the average age of the male and female guests was 34, 23 years respectively, find the ratio of male to female guests at the party?
• Yosief and Datan are playing soccer. Right this moment, if Yosief have 5 goals more than Datan he will have double Datan's, and if Yosief had 7 goals less he will have half the goals of Datan. How many goals does Yosief have right this instance moment?
• Question #6ebe9
• At a sale, Zeus of Olympus bought a fan for $140. This was 70% of its usual price. What was the usual price of the fan?
• Wedi Ata buys 12 apples. He buys 3 times as many oranges as apples. He also buys 3 times as many cherries as oranges. How many pieces of fruit does he buy altogether?
• There are 183 assorted marbles in Basket A and 97 blue and red marbles in Basket B. How many marbles must be transferred from Basket A to Basket B so that both baskets contain the same number of marbles?
• Aaron buys a tie and a belt. The prices of the tie and belt are in the ratio 2 : 5. If both items cost $539, (a) what is the price of the tie? (b) what is the price of the belt?
• Redda wanted to give marbles to the neighborhood children. If he gives 10 marbles to each child, he would be 35 short. If he tries 13 marbles each, he will would be short of 119 marbles. How many marbles does he have in total?
• The total cost of 5 books, 6 pens and 3 calculators is $162. A pen and a calculator cost $29 and the total cost of a book and two pens is $22. Find the total cost of a book, a pen and a calculator?
• Question #2a9fb
• Of the 125 guests invited to a wedding, 104 attended the wedding. What percent of the invited guests attended the wedding?
• How do you write #27/4# as a mixed number?
• How do you solve #2= n + ( - 11)#?
• Don bought four tomato plants that costs $2.39 each. He paid 0.76 sales tax. How much change will he receive from $10?
• How do you add #6\frac { 7} { 10} + 3\frac { 9} { 10}#?
• How do you rewrite #\frac { 28} { 9} # as a mixed number?
• How do you evaluate #66\frac{2}{3}\times 240#?