7, Puta lot of information in your column titles so that you know ‘what each column represents. You may have to use several lines to accommodate the long titles, because you want each guess to fit on one line. Generally the contents of your columns will be numbers, so the columns don’t have to be wide but they have to be descriptive. Guess-and-check is a tremendously powerful strategy. Keep the preceding points in mind, and you will enjoy great success Problem SetA DIMES AND QUARTERS ‘Annette has five more dimes than quarters. The total amount of money she has is $3.30. How many of each coin does she have? Jenny bought ski gloves that were marked down 80% to $24.01 What was the price of the gloves before the markdown? ‘The cost of a basketball was $15.54, including 7.25% much of that cost was the price of the basketball, and how much of it was the tax? sales tax. How The mortgage payments for Covell’s home are about $900 per month. He is going to refinance the loan, which will cost him about $2,500 in fees, and the new payments will be $880 per month. How long will it take him before the new loan starts saving him money? “Bullet Train” Benson was negotiating a new contract with his team. He wanted $700,000 for the year and an additional $1,800 for every game he started. His team was offering $5,000 for every game started but only 2 $600,000 base salary. How many starts would he need to make in order to earn more with the team’s offer? GUESS-AND-CHECK 185ai Recently Javier received a letter from his bank concerning his checking account, Under his current plan, each check he writes costs 15¢ and there is a monthly fee of $1.60. Under the proposed new plan, each check he writes will cost 12¢ and there will be a monthly fee of $2.75. What is the minimum number of checks Javier must write monthly so that the new plan will cost him less than the current plan does? 4. weino NuMBER Ifyou take a certain two-digit number and reverse its digits to get another two-digit number, then add these two numbers together, their sum is 12, What is the original number? (6 sasesatt carps Rita has two more than three times the number of baseball cards that Ben has. If Rita gave Ben 12 of her cards, they would each then have the same number of cards. How many cards does Rita have? 9. STAMPS Charlie put postage worth $1.29 on a package he sent to his sister. He used only 16¢ stamps and 7¢ stamps. How many of each type of stamp did he use? A BUNCH OF CHANGE Plato has 58 coins in nickels, dimes, and quarters. The number of nickels is three less than twice the number of dimes. The total value of the coins is $7.40. How many of each type of coin does Plato have? IL BOYS AND cints There are nine boys to every ten girls in a particular high school. There are 2622 students at the school. How many girls are there? 12, HOW OLD ARE RONNIE AND ALAN? Ronnie’s age plus the square of Alan’s age is 2240. Alan’s age plus the square of Ronnie's age is 1008. How old are Ronnie and Alan? 186 CHAPTER 61B TRAVELING To HoM's HOUSE Joan got on her bike and went for a ride. She rode at a speed of 16 miles per hour from her house to her sister's house, which is in another city along the way. The two women then got into a car and traveled at a speed of 50 miles per hour to their mother's house. The total distance from Joan’s house to her mother's house (via her si house) is 315 miles, and Joan traveled for 8 hours. How far is it from Joan's house to her sister's house? 14, RIDING A HORSE Hilary went riding in the hills. At one point, however, her horse stumbled and was hutt. Hilary left the horse and walked back home to call her vet. Hilary figures the horse walks about twice as fast as she does. Ifher horse was hurt about 8 miles into her ride and her whole trip took 4 hours total, how fast does Hilary walk? Guess-aND.cHECK 187