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 * __PROBLEMS OF THE DAY__**

12-1 Mr. Hill has a rectangular garden. How many different ways can he arrange the 24 flowers in his garden if he wants to put them in equal rows with at least 6 flowers in each row?

12-2 Henry drew a square where the area and the perimeter have the same number of units. What size is the square?.

12-3 A rectangle is twice as long as it is wide. Its perimeter is 42 cm. Find the length and width of the rectangle.

12-4 Helen wants to cover her garden for the winter. To get the right amount of material, she must find the area of the space. Helen's garden is 12 ft wide and 18 ft. long. What is its area?

12-5 When a certain number is increased by 3, then multiplied by 2, then divided by 4, the result is 6. What is the number?

12-6 Clarise, Davin, and Eduaro each participate in a sport. One plays tennis, one plays baseball, and the other swims. Eduardo's sport does not include a ball. Clarise's brother is the tennis player. Who participates in each sport?

13-1 Jeff is putting a fence around his rectangular yard. It is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide. The fence posts must be 10 feet apart. How many posts does he need?

13-2 Aki is buying franks in packages of 6 and buns in packages of 8 to feed 70 people. What is the least number of each she can buy so there are an equal number of franks and buns, with at least one frank and one bun for each person?

13-3 A scale model for a swimming pool is 8 inches long and 4 inches wide. The pool wil be 20 feet long. How wide will it be?

13-5 A tunnel toll is $1.25 for cars and $2.00 for trucks. In one hour, $40.00 is collected from 23 vehicles. How many cars and trucks paid the toll?

13-7 Richard is cutting a hole in the wall to hold an air conditioner. The front of the air conditioner is a rectangle 26 inches wide and 16 inches high. The wall is 72 inches wide. If the air conditioner is centered in the wall, how wide will the wall be on either side of it?

14-1 A cube that measures 5 cm on a side holds a smaller cube inside it that measures 4cm on a side. What is the volume of empty space inside the larger cube?

14-2 The volume of a gift box is 36 cubic inches. The height is 3 inches and the width is 2 inches. What is the length of the box?

14-3 Laura read a novel she borrowed from the school library. She read 15 pages the first day. Each day after that, she read 6 more pages than the day before. How many pages did she read on the eighth day?

14-4 Darcy mixed 100 mL of water and 100 mL of ethanol; the mixture had a volume of 192 mL. When she mixed 200 mL of each, the volume was 384 mL. Predict the volume of a mixture of 300 mL each of water and ethanol.

14-5 A blacksmith welds an iron ring with a circumference of 36 inches to the inside of another iron ring with a diameter of one yard. Estimate: does the smaller ring reach the center of the larger ring?

14-6 Anastasia's math test has 14 sections. Each section has either 8 or 12 problems. How many sections are there of each size if the test is 132 problems long?

14-7 An electrical storm caused power outages to all the homes on John's block. His clock stopped at 7:55 AM. Crews finally restored the power 5 hours and 55 minutes later. What time should John set his clock to read?

14-8 From 6:00 AM to noon, the temperature rose 6 F. At sunset, the temperature dropped 4 F. The temperature at sunset was 70 F. What was the temperature at 6:00 AM?

14-9 In a contest, seventh prize is $1, sixth prize is $2, fifth prize is $4, and fourth prize is $8. If the pattern continues, what is the value of the first prize?