Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Swimming

Suzanne has determined that swimming the length of a rectangular pool 60 times is the same distance as swimming its perimeter 18 times. If the length of the swimming pool is 120 feet, what is the width of the pool?

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Mean Integer

The mean (average) of five consecutive integers is 17. What is the greatest of the five integers?

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Median Fraction

What common fraction is the median of the set {2/5, 1/3, 5/8, 1/4, 3/4, 2/3, 4/7}?