Real-World Math

You are getting ready to move into your new place! Everything is packed, but you need to rent a moving truck. A moving company will rent you one for $20 per day you use it, plus a fee of $0.10 per mile you drive over 100 miles.

You check on Google Maps, and the route from: Truck Rental, to your old place, to the new place, and back to the truck rental place is 169 miles. You rent the truck for two days. How much will you owe?

You are going out to eat with 3 friends at a Korean BBQ place. The total before tax is $84.

Assume that you are splitting the bill evenly (including splitting tip), tax is 8.75%, and you are tipping 20% of the pre-tax bill.

What is your share?

You are filling up your gas tank at the station. After the tank is filled, the pump says you got 14.73 gallons. Your trip-odometer (the tool on your car that measures how far you have driven), reads 358.9 miles. You had reset the trip-odometer last time you filled your tank.

How many Miles Per Gallon did your car get? Round your answer to TWO(2) decimal points. (Example: If you got 12.34567 as your answer, you would round it to 12.35)

Terry has told you to help bake a cake. She has asked for 45 grams of sugar, but you don't have a scale to weight it out. If all you have is a Tablespoon measure, how many tablespoons of sugar do you give Terry?

You have been approved for a credit card at an electronics store. As a introductory bonus, you get 0% interest over the next 12 months.

You've treated yourself to a new 4k TV and a PS4. The bill comes to $1011.38

If you make a monthly payment of $80, will you pay off your bill in time, before the 0% interest ends? Yes or No answer

In regards to the previous question, what is the SMALLEST amount you can pay each month, and still pay off your bill ($1011.38) in 12 months?

You go to Costco, and buy a pack of paper towels. The pack has 12 rolls, and each roll has 144 towels in it. The sticker price is $19.99.

How much are you paying per paper towel?

Round your answer to THREE(3) decimal points. Example: If you get the answer: $0.12345, you would submit the answer as: $0.123