If A, B and C are consecutive integers (A<B<C) and 6A – 4B = A, what is the value of C?
Answer(s): A
B is the number following A, thus 6A – 4(A+1) = A ---> A = 4 ---> C = 6.
A cup can hold one third of the amount a bowl can hold. A pot can hold six times more than a cup. How many pots can be filled with a liquid that takes up 6 bowls?
Answer(s): B
Try some numbers. One cup can hold 1 liter one bowl can hold 3 liters, a put can hold 9 liters. 6 bowls hold 18 liters and that can fill up two pots.
Michael, Steve and Tyler shared a box of cookies. Michael ate 1/8 of the cookies, Steve ate one half and Tyler ate 150 more cookies than Michael. If no cookies remain in the box, how many cookies were in the box?
The fastest way is to try the answers, take 600. Michael ate (600/8) 75 cookies, Steve ate 300 and Tyler ate 225. Adding the numbers and you’ll get 600 cookies again.
The price of a pasta box in the neighborhood grocery store is $7; the price of a pasta box in the market is $5. A bus ticket to the market costs $4.70 (one way). What is the minimum number of pasta boxes that must be bought so the trip would be economically worthwhile?
Answer(s): C
The price difference between the two places is (7 – 5) = $2 per box. The bus ride back and Forth is $9.4. If he buys at least 5 boxes the trip to the market will be worthwhile.
Following an increase in prices, the price of a candy box was 10 pounds and the price of a can of soda was 6 pounds. If the price of a candy box was raised by 25%, and the price of a can of soda was raised by 50%. What was the price of a box of candy plus a can of soda before prices were raised?
For the candy box, 10 pounds is 125%; therefore, the original price was 8 pounds.The same thing goes with the soda, 6 pounds is 150%, and therefore the original price was 4. The price of both products together was 12p before the rise.
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