1. A rental company charges $80 a day and 25 cents a mile for renting a truck. Michael rents a truck for 2 days, and his bill came to $260. How many miles did he drive?

2. What annual rate of interest would you have to earn on an investment of $5500 to ensure receiving $418.00 interest after 1 year? 3. An executive in an engineering firm earns a monthly salary plus a Christmas bonus of $760. If she earns a total of $64,360 per year, what is her monthly salary?

4. A father is four times as old as his daughter. In 6 years, he will be three times as old as she is. How old is the daughter now? 5. A rectangular garden is 8 ft longer than it is wide. Its area is 384 ft². What are its dimensions? (width and length)

6. A 19 1/2 foot ladder leans against a building. The base of the ladder is 7 1/2 ft from the building. How high up the building does the ladder reach?

7. A merchant blends tea that sells for $4.40 a pound with tea that sells for $2.65 a pound to produce 110 lb of a mixture that sells for $3.35 a pound. How many pounds of each type of tea does the merchant use in the blend? (at $4.40 a pound and $2.65 a pound).

8. Betty and Karen have been hired to paint the houses in a new development. Working together, the women can paint a house in two-thirds the time that it takes Karen working alone. Betty takes 12 h to paint a house alone. How long does it take Karen to paint a house working alone?

9. Two cyclists, 108mi apart, start riding towards each other at the same time. One cycles twice as fast as the other. If they meet 3hr later, at what average speed is each cyclist traveling?

slower cyclist	mi/hr
faster cyclist	mi/hr