The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the country. It consists of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices.
The Court begins each term on the first Monday in October. Suppose that on that first day, each Justice greets every other Justice by shaking hands exactly once.
A closed rectangular box whose dimensions are 8 feet by 5 feet by 3 feet has 5 feet of water in it.
The steel girders being used to construct a building are 27 feet long. One of the corridors the girders are to be carried down has a 90° turn at the end. The width of the hall before the turn is 8 feet.
A plane traveling 400 mph is rising at an angle of 30 degrees. A second plane, traveling 300 mph, is rising at an angle of 40 degrees.
Today I started to plan my garden. The rectangular garden where I am going to plant is three feet longer than it is wide.
One third of the garden area will be sunflowers.
Another quarter will be planted with brow-eyed susans.
Only a fifth of my garden will contain columbine.
A sixth of my garden will be filled with trillium.
The rest will be foxgloves.
Samantha purchased subway tokens from a machine. The instructions said that, for any amount of money you insert, you would receive the maximum number of tokens your money can purchase, along with your change.
Samantha put a $20 bill into the machine. She received 12 tokens and $2.60 in change.
There are eight teams in the Northern New Jersey High School Soccer League. Here are the recent results: