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1. When I opened my Math book, the sum of the page number facing me was 17. What was the page
number on the left side?Thus, 8 is the answer.
6. What is the sum of the first two prime numbers? Giving a sum of 5.
7. Ana has a piece of paper 5 cm by 3 cm. What is the area of the square that can be cut from it?
Solution: The largest square that can be cut from the rectangular paper is a 3 by 3 square. Hence, the area
is 3*3=9 sq. cm.
8. When 2 is multiplied to the sum of 2 and a number, the result is 10. What is the number?
Solution: Form an equation relating the given.
Let x be the number,
10. A map of a small town is scaled 1 cm: 100 m. If two actual locations are 200 m apart, how many
centimeters apart are these locations on the map?
Solution: use ration and proportion.
In every hundred, the distance on the map on the paper is 1 cm. Since there were 2 hundreds, there were
a total of 2 cm distance.
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1. What is the midpoint of segment PQ if P has coordinates (0,7) and Q has (4,1)? is (2,4)
2. In the sequence 2.1, 2.15, 2.2 , 2.25,, what is the next term? 2.25+0.05=2.3
3. Rica bought a shirt on sales at 20% discount, and paid 112 for it. How much was the t shirt without the
discount?
Solution: The amount paid can be solved using the formula. PP=OP(1-r)
Where PP is the paid price, OP is the original price, and r is the percent discount is decimal. Using the
formula in the problem we have,
PP=OP(1-r)
112=OP(1-0.2)
112=OP*0.8
OP=112/0.8
OP=140