Samantha wants to find the height of a pine tree in her yard. She measures the height of the mailbox st 3ft and its shadow at 4.8ft. Then she measures the shadow of the tree at 56ft. How tall is the tree?

5,680 divided by 80 with the remainder division by 2-digits

A small box of gumball machine bubble gum has 864 pieces of gum. A large box has 500 more pieces than the small box. How many pieces of gum are there in the combined boxes, round to the nearest 10?

The traffic capacity of a highway is v vehicles per minute. Which expression represents the highway's capacity in vehicles per hour?

Ashton has 3/4 of a gallon of paint to paint a fence. Each fence needs 1/12 of a gallon of paint to cover it. How many fence posts can Ashton paint.

Julia enjoys shooting paper balls into the wastebasket across her office. She misses the first shot 50% of the time. When she misses on the first shot, she misses the second shot 20% of the time. What is the probability of missing two shots in a row

Two Neighbors in a rural area want to know the distance between their homes in miles. What should the Neighbors use as a conversion factor to covert 4,224 to miles

A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. it's area is 72 square units. Find the length of each side

Andrea built a circular barbecue pit with a circumference of 9 feet. She wants a rod to go across the pit to use for a rotisserie. The rod must go from one edge of the pit to the other, passing through its center.

How to find which cereal has the higher ratio of protein

Great a word problem for x+2=3x-8