You work at a retail department store and earn $18.00 an hour for up to 45 hours you work each week. If you work any more hours beyond that, you earn an additional 50% of your normal wage. How much would you earn if you worked 50 hours in a week?

Your recommended daily intake of iron is around 16.3 mg for a teenager. 1 cup of black beans contains 20% of your recommended daily value of iron. If 1 can contains 2 cups of black beans and costs $1.25, what is the lowest dollar amount you can pay to buy enough black beans to get a day’s worth of iron?

You are hired to write a book for a $50,000 base fee plus 20% of the book’s sales. Let B = the base fee in dollars and S = sales. Which of the following is an expression for the amount you will be paid?

The difference between two positive integers is 114. If you add 4 to the smaller number and square the result, you get the larger number. What is the sum of the larger number and the smaller number?

You are planning a relay obstacle course for your school’s field day in the shape below. At point B, there is a rope wall. You are doing the first leg of the race and will switch with your partner after the first \( \frac{1}{3} \) of the course. How many yards past the rope wall will you switch with your partner?

You and your band are competing in your city’s local Battle of the Bands contest. A cash prize of is awarded to the best act, and the money is split evenly among band members in whole dollar amounts. If a band can be anywhere from 2 and 6 members, what is the least possible cash prize total?

If X is a positive integer, and K is \( \frac{1}{2} \) X, what is the least common denominator of \( \frac{1}{X} + \frac{1}{K} \) in terms of K?

Which of the following operations will produce the smallest result when substituted for the blank in the expression 7 ___ \( \frac{-19}{47} \)?

You want to build a fence for your new rescue puppy in your backyard using 36 feet of fencing. What is the largest area rectangle you can build with the materials you have?

Which of the following is equivalent to the sum of any 3 consecutive even integers, a, b, and c such that a > b > c?