The fraternity house you manage has 6,270 square feet of lot space. City ordinance allows one student for every 330 square feet of lot space. How many students can live in this house? 

A grocer takes delivery of beverages from your truck at $6 per case. You unloaded 53 cases for the grocer today. How much does the grocer owe you? 

At the greenhouse where you work you need to make soil and vermiculite mixtures for potting plants. Flowering bushes need a mixture of 70% soil and 30% vermiculite by volume. About how many buckets of vermiculite should you add to 5 buckets of soil? 

The Zippy Lube business where you work printed coupons offering $8.00 off any oil change this month. An oil change costs $19.95 and a new oil filter costs $4.95. A customer comes in with a coupon and has you change the oil and filter. Before adding the tax, how much should you charge the customer?

You are repairing an engine and need to loosen a bolt that fastens the alternator bracket to the engine. You tried a 4 3 -inch wrench, which was too large, and a 8 5 -inch wrench, which was too small. Which of the following wrenches is between these two sizes? 

A refrigeration system at your company uses temperature sensors fixed to read Celsius (°C) values, but the system operators in your control room understand only the Fahrenheit scale. You have been asked to make a Fahrenheit (°F) label for the high temperature alarm, which is set to ring whenever the system temperature rises above –10°C. What Fahrenheit value should you write on the label? 

At your hardware store, you buy hammers for $30.00 a dozen and sell them for $3.50 each. What is the percent markup for the hammers? 

You plan to attend night school in 3 months so you can qualify for a promotion at work. You need to earn an additional $1,140 for tuition within that time. You take a second job, which pays $8 per hour. The work schedule is flexible, and you can work as many hours as you want. Taxes take 15% of your wages and you save the rest. Over the next 3 months, what is the minimum number of hours you could work each month to earn the money for tuition? 

You work for a landscaper that has a customer needing to seed an area of land 80 feet by 40 feet in size. The garden center has 5-pound bags of grass seed. Each bag of seed can cover 25 square yards of land. Based on your calculations, how many bags of grass seed do you need to cover the lot? 

You work at a bridal shop. You need to find out how much satin you will need to make four bridesmaids’ dresses and two flower girls’ dresses. Each bridesmaid’s dress requires 4 3/8 yards of satin, and each flower girl’s dress requires 3 2/3 yards of satin. How many yards of satin do you need in all? 

You design and build furniture, and you have agreed to build a bookcase for a customer. Using a materials list, you determine that you need 4 boards 1 inch by 8 inches by 6 feet and 3 boards 1 inch by 6 inches by 4 feet. These boards are priced at $1.25 per board foot. In addition, you will need 3 packages of screws at $0.79 each and one can of varnish at $3.75. Sales tax is 6%. What will be the total cost of all the materials for the bookcase, including tax? 

It is your job to clean and maintain the fish tank in a dentist’s office. The tank is 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. The water in it is about 2 feet deep. To treat the water in the tank, you need to add 1 teaspoon of disinfecting solution for every 10 gallons of water. About how many teaspoons of the solution will you need to add to the tank?