Word Problems

A hospital pharmacy charges $0.40 per fluidram of a certain medicine but allows a discount of 15 percent to Medicare patients. How much should the pharmacy charge a Medicare patient for 3 fluidounces of the medicine? (128 fluidrams = 16 fluidounces)

An instructor scored a student’s test of 50 questions by subtracting 2 times the number of incorrect answers from the number of correct answers. If the student answered all of the questions and received a score of 38, how many questions did that student answer correctly?

Trucking transportation rates are x dollars per metric ton per kilometer. How much does it cost, in dollars, to transport one dozen cars, which weigh two metric tons each, n kilometers by truck?

A manager has $6,000 budgeted for raises for 4 full-time and 2 part-time employees. Each of the full-time employees receives the same raise, which is twice the raise that each of the part-time employees receives. What is the amount of the raise that each full-time employee receives?

Three stacks containing equal numbers of chips are to be made from 9 red chips, 7 blue chips, and 5 green chips. If all of these chips are used and each stack contains at least 1 chip of each color, what is the maximum number of red chips in any one stack?

Bottle R contains 250 capsules and costs $\mathrm{6.25.}BottleTcontains130capsulesandcosts$2.99. What is the difference between the cost per capsule for bottle R and the cost per capsule for bottle T?

Over the last three years a scientist had an average (arithmetic mean) yearly income of $45,000. The scientist earned 1 1 2 times as much the second year as the first year and 2 1 2 times as much the third year as the first year. What was the scientist's income the second year?

A grocer purchased a quantity of bananas at 3 pounds for $0.50andsoldtheentirequantityat4poundsfor$1.00. How many pounds did the grocer purchase if the profit from selling the bananas was $10.00?

If taxi fares were $1.00forthefirst1/5mileand$0.20 for each 1/5 mile there after, then the taxi fare for a 3-mile ride was?

A student responded to all of the 22 questions on a test and received a score of 63.5. If the scores were derived by adding 3.5 points for each correct answer and deducting 1 point for each incorrect answer, how many questions did the student answer incorrectly?

At a certain bowling alley, it costs $0.50torentbowlingshoesforthedayand$1.25 to bowl 1 game. If a person has $12.80 and must rent shoes, what is the greatest number of complete games that person can bowl in one day?

The table above shows the number of tickets sold during each of the first 4 weeks after a movie was released. The producer of the movie received 10 percent of the revenue from every ticket sold with a guaranteed minimum of $200,000eachweekforthefirst4weeks.Ifticketssoldfor$4 each, how much did the producer receive for the first 4 weeks?

The table above shows present rates and proposed rates for electricity for residential customers. For which of the monthly kilowatt-hours shown would the proposed rate be the greatest percent increase over the present rate?

Each step of a staircase is 0.25 meter wide and 0.20 meter high, as shown in the figure above. All angles shown in the figure are right angles. If the height of the staircase is 3.6 meters and the landing at the top of the staircase is 1 meter wide, how long, in meters, is AB?

A digital wristwatch was set accurately at 8.30 am and then lost 2 seconds every 5 minutes. What time was indicated on the watch at 6.30 pm of the same day, if the watch operated continuously until that time?

At a special sale, 5 tickets can be purchased for the price of 3 tickets. If 5 tickets are purchased at this sale, the amount saved will be what percent of the original price of the 5 tickets?

In traveling from a dormitory to a certain city, a student went 1/5 of the way by foot, 2/3 of the way by bus, and the remaining 8 kilometers by car. What is the distance, in kilometers, from the dormitory to the city?

Audrey went shopping with D dollars. She spent 20% of her money on a blouse and 25% of what was left on a pair of shoes. What per cent of the original D dollars did she spend?

A warehouse had a square floor with area 10,000 square meters. A rectangular addition was built along one entire side of the warehouse that increased the floor by one-half as much as the original floor. How many meters did the addition extend beyond the original building?