1) A rectangular garden is 25 ft wide. If its area is 1125 square ft, what is the length of the garden?
2) The sume of two numbers is 55 and the product is 684. What are the two numbers?
3) Marie has $3.00 in nickels, dimes and quarters. If she has twice as many dimes as quarters and five more nickels than dimes, how
many coins of each type does she have?
4) A movie star, unwilling to give his age, posed the following riddle to a news-reporter. “Seven years ago, I was eleven times as old
as my daughter. Now I am four times as old as she is.” How old is the movie star?
5) A father is four times as old as his daughter. In 6 years, he will be three times as old as she is. How old is the daughter now?
6) A plumber and her assistant work together to replace pipes in an old house. The plumber charges $45 per hour for her work, and
$25 per hour for her assistant’s work. The plumber works twice as long as her assistant on this job. The final bill is $4025. How long
did the plumber and her assistant work on this job?
7) A jeweler has a ring weighing 18 grams, made of a combination of 10% silver and 90% gold. He decides to melt down the ring and
adds enough silver to reduce the gold content to 75%. How much silver should he add?
8) A merchant blends tea that sells for $3.00 a pound with tea that sells for $2.75 a pound to produce an 80lb mixture that sells for
$2.90 a pound. How many pounds of each type does the merchant use in the blend?
9) A parcel of land is 6 feet longer than it is wide. Each diagonal from one corner to the opposite corner is 174 feet long. What are
the dimensions of the parcel?
10) A farmer has a rectangular plot surrounded by 200 ft of fence. Find the length and width of the garden if its area is 2400 square
feet.