Welcome
to The Second Day of Customizable Proportion Problems Solve each problem by setting up a proportion and or a product of rates. Each answer will give you a letter to the password when you find it in the DECODER GRID. A correct password entered at the bottom will get you to the TREASURE ROOM. |
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Letter 1.) is a woman with a sweet dream. She wants to create the best donuts in the industry. She just finished her prototype design for a machine that will make 500 donuts in 2.5 hours. Her machine not only mixes, forms, and bakes the dough, the final stages supply each donut with its own multi-swirled, color, combinations of icing and a light dusting of sprinkles. She has affectionately named it the "The Donut Hog 500". How long will it take the "Hog" to make 300 donuts?
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Letter 2.)
is a multimillionairess. She owns a cosmetic company that sells biodegradable, glitter gel lotion. Her gel makes your skin glow a cool iridescent color as it slowly melts into your skin's pores, leaving you refreshed and looking years younger. Her advertising agents are promoting it as the "fountain of youth" wonder gel, and every young and old woman on the planet wants to try some. Now
is not a greedy woman. She actually gives away $325 each week to her favorite
charities. To the nearest tenth of a year, how many YEARS will
it take her to give away $1,000,000? |
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Letter 3.) eats worms. She says they are full of protein and that they make her hair beautiful. She eats 1.2 ounces of worms each day. Exactly how many days will it be before she has ingested 10 POUNDS of worms? (Remember there are 16 ounces in every pound.) |
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Letter 4.) is blowing bubbles for charity. She can blow a bubble every 1 second, and she makes a penny for every bubble she blows. Her goal is to blow 1,000,000 bubbles. If she never stops for even a moment, how many days will this take? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth. NOTE: This is a multiplication
of rates problem. |
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Letter 5.) "To the nearest
tenth of a year, how many years is 1,000,000 days?" was the question
asked the young man courting her in a chat room recently. She knew that
if he wasn't smart enough to answer that question, she wasn't going to
waste her time on him. What is the answer she is looking for? NOTE: This is a multiplication of rates problem. |
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Letter 6.)
was up in Canada shooting Moose last week. NOTE: This is a multiplication of rates problem. |
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Letter 7.) hopes to be a news reporter and is learning to conduct polls. She ran a poll in her homeroom and found that 16 out of the total 24 people in the room burned their own CD's. This made curious. She thought to herself, "If my homeroom is a representative sample of the entire school, then I can report how many people are burning their own CD's in the whole school without asking all 956 of them. All I have to do is set up a proportion, and then do the Algebra. Wow! This is gonna save me a lot of time." So did the math. How many people are burning CD's in her school, based upon her survey poll? (Round to the nearest person.)
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Letter 8.) owns THE HAPPY HOME DOLLHOUSE COMPANY. She custom designs and builds dollhouses for people all over the world. She started her business in her hometown and had limited customers. Then she built a small web site and put pictures of some of her nicest houses on the site along with blueprints and prices. She listed her address, phone, and e-mail, then she submitted her site to several search engines. Now she gets orders every day from all over the world. She had to hire 5 miniature carpenters to keep up with the orders. All of
houses use a scale of 5 inches on the dollhouse = 89 inches in actuality.
Currently she is working on a house with a door that is 4.75 inches tall,
how tall would the real door be to the nearest inch? |
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Letter 9.) is a champion snow boarder. He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada, where it snows most of the year, so he can be out boarding every day. His backyard is his practice course. He has it specially designed with 15 moguls, 2 monster jumps, and a small gas powered tow rope. Using a pedometer, a device
which measures distance while walking,
has determined that his course is 645 meters long. His best time last
year on this course was 13.8 seconds. Assuming that he can keep this rate
going on the course at the Winter Olympics, how long will it take him
to fly down that 1,535 meter course? Please round your answer to the nearest
tenth of a second. |
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Letter 10.) washes windows for a living. She says she likes her job because she gets to look inside so many buildings and no one really pays attention to her. She has seen all kinds of things in her career. Like the morning when she was washing the windows at the veterinary clinic. She happened to notice that an enormous boa constrictor was lying on the floor, a huge bulge writhing in its middle. later found out that the bulge was none other than Mrs. Milfred's pet poodle, Pinky, who had been staying overnight for the complete, tarter removal, dental procedure. Apparently the vet's assistant had been remiss in latching both cages the night before, and the anesthetized Pinky was no match for the hungry serpent. wondered how the vet would explain the death of Pinky to Mrs. Milfred. Would he tell her the truth or blame it on surgical "complications." Well does get to see a lot in her daily washings. She likes to do as many windows as she can. On a good day, she can do 2 average size windows in 115 seconds. At this rate how many complete windows will she get done in 7 hours?
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Letter 11.) FREEBIE: the eleventh letter to the password is "e". | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DECODER GRID
When you KNOW the password
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