Practice #13
Complete each of the items below. When you are done check your
answers with the ones provided in the solution (to view the solution,
click on the button at the bottom of this page).
- If you can travel an average of 15 miles per hour on a bicycle,
how long will it take you to travel 50 miles?
- Two thousand five hundred flights took off from Boston's
Logan International Airport in the last two days. At that rate,
how many will take off in the next week (7 days)?
- If Japan and the United States combined to spend approximately
65% of the world's private expenditures, which totaled nearly
3.2 trillion dollars, how much did they spend? Keep your answer
in trillions of dollars, rounded
to the hundredths place.

[solution to practice]