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Elementary
- At the Movies
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Explore the changes in movie and theater
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- Back-to-school Supplies
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Help calculate the total bill for these back-to-school
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- Birthday Beach Bash
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Help determine how many balloons were needed for party favors at the end of this
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- Charlene Goes Shopping
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Charlene needs to add some items to her winter collection. Help her determine where she should
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- Frugal Flooring
- Marita Paynter
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Help Graeme determine how many tiles he needs to decorate his new bedroom and whether or not he can afford
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- Frugal Freeda
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Help Freeda decide which store has the best
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- Funny Money
- Lisa Lavelle (adapted)
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine the amount of money Divya has in her
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- Garden Fresh Fruit
- Shrawan Khanna's Ninth Grade Class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 4. Help the poor farmer predict his revenue (if he can sell all his
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- Georg Tricks the Troll
- Terry Trotter
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. Georg decides to tangle with the troll and see if he can make some
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- Good Fences
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Design a fence that will keep the animals
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- The Great Flood
- Jon Basden
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. How much "flood" water did Mr. Basden clean up with his shop
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- Holiday Shopping and Surfing
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Help Charlene calculate the change she'll have left for holiday card supplies after she completes her online
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- How Much Was That Ticket?
- Lisa Lavelle - idea suggested by Jody Newman
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Determine how much I spent at the movie
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- Idle Ivan and the Troll
- Lisa Lavelle
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Elementary, difficulty level 2. Idle Ivan makes a deal with a troll... to his disappointment he discovers he knows less math than he
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- Irish Specials
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Calculate the final bill for our St. Patrick's Day dinner last
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- Is There Really a Discount?
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine which friend is correct about the final price on a sales
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- Lunch Bunch Budgets
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine the number of children needed for the lunch bunch budget to
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- McPrincipal's Night at McDee's
- Antonietta D.
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Elementary, difficulty level 4. Just how much did the teachers from Mathematics Elementary School sell (and earn) in their charity
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- Meters of Money
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Help Ms. Juncos's class determine the amount of money they will raise with this metric
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- Payment in Kind
- Lisa Lavelle (adapted)
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. Determine the spouses of three kind women based on the details of their
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- Price Tag Repair
- Teaching the Young Learner Group
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Can you use the clues to help Cathy repair the price tags for the family yard
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- Pushing Pennies
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Estimate the number of pennies that you can fit on a sheet of paper, then evaluate your
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- Sacagawea Cheerios
- Stephen Maurer
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine how many Sacagawea coins the government will give away during this Cheerios
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- Summer at Sweet Tooth
- Ross Shelter & Carrie Shankweiler
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Calculate Kate's earnings during her summer waitressing job.
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- Super Deal Salsa
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Determine how much money was saved by buying salsa in
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- Tatianna and the Troll
- Terry Trotter, revised
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Elementary, difficulty level 3. Tatianna tests the troll... and neither loses nor
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- Water Park Adventure
- Leon Roland & class
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. How much does each member of the class need to earn to fund the field
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- What a Move!
- Lisa Lavelle
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. Determine the number of hours it took the movers to move the Lavelles to their new home, as well as the
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- Middle School
- Back-to-School Shopping
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 2. Mrs. Bender noticed that the total of the items her children purchased was $155. Can you determine the cost of
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- Buying Cola
- Leon Roland & class
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Where should Chuck shop to get the most cola? Is this the best
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- Car Rental Quandary
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Compare the car rental deals using the given information.
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- Coin Count
- Roya Salehi and Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Use the given information to determine the number of nickels and dimes in Lisa's bank.
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- Commuting Conundrum
- Suzanne Alejandre
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Help Suzanne and Richard decide which train tickets will give them the most value for their
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- Dishwasher Discounts
- Pat Hagan
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Purchasing a new dishwasher can involve a lot of math. Help find the best
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- Flipping Over Pennies
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. How many equally likely outcomes are there when flipping 10 coins?
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- A Holiday Gift for Grandmother Brown
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Determine the cost of the dishwasher and the contribution from each of five children.
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- January Sales
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Mathematicians, put away your calculators and help Lynne estimate the cost of a set of golf
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- Making Money
- Alice Miller
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. How much money would you have by December 31, 1999, if you put 10 cents in the special "math" bank on January 1,
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- Math Club Lollipop Profits
- Judy Ann Brown
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Math Fundamentals, difficulty level 3. The Math Club plans to sell lollipops. Help them to calculate their profit.
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- Money in the Bank
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 2. All but seven of the 49 coins in my bank are quarters and nickels. How much money could I have?
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- The Most Appealing Nose Contest
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Use the given information to determine the amount of money raised for the Humane Society by the Student Council.
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- Office Tile Choice
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Find the total cost of purchasing tiles for my
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- Price Fluidity
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 2. Compare the per-gallon cost of eleven different liquids, and put them in order from least to most expensive.
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- Shopping Spree
- Judy Ann Brown
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Middle School, difficulty level 1. Jamie is shopping for holiday presents. How many $9.49 shirts can she buy? How much change will she have left?
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- The Silver Mile
- Judy Ann Brown
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Pre-Algebra, difficulty level 3. Determine the total value of the coins in a silver
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- Algebra
- A 2-for-1 Lunch
- Marsha Hurwitz
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two boys had lunch on a two-for-one coupon, plus taxes and tips. What was their percent of savings on the transaction?
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- The Christmas Gifts
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. A grandfather doles out his annual Christmas gifts to his beloved grandchildren in a most unusual way - mathematical, of
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- The Custom of Customs
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Two wine merchants enter Paris with their merchandise. They need to pay custom duties. Each pays with francs and with
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- A Day at the Fairs
- Terry Trotter via Kraitchik & Chuquet
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. A merchant went selling and buying at three city fairs. Did he make a profit or take a
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- Four Men and Some Money
- Daboll
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Four men (A, B, C, & D) are splitting up a quantity of money ($100), and need your help to do
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- Generosity
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Three generous friends, each with some cash, redistribute their
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- Lettuce for Sale
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Using a linear equation, determine the number of heads of lettuce sold on
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- The Mensa Toy Store
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. The prices are strange in this store. Can you decipher
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- Partners in Pizza
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Three friends share the cost of a pizza. How much does each
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- Phone-O-Graph Phollies
- Bill Graham
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Students are asked to use algebra to compare three telephone calling plans to determine at what number of calls each
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- The Price of Pollo
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Use a linear equation model to predict a future price of fried
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- Profits and Lots
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. A person buys some land, keeps some for himself, divides the rest into lots, and sells them, thus making a
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- Sam and Teri Revisited
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. A bank account deposit-withdrawal problem with a
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- Sam and Teri's Bank Accounts
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. Sam and Teri have bank accounts. Sam always withdraws money; Teri always saves it. When will they have equal
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- Shanell's Holiday Treats
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 3. Given some data about purchasing fancy nuts for cooking, find the total cost of buying one pound of each
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- Susita's Savings Account
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Find the original balance in Susita's savings
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- The Unhappy Carpenter
- Ethel Breuche
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Algebra, difficulty level 1. A carpenter agrees to be paid a certain amount of money when she works, and to repay money on the days she doesn't work.
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- Walter's Weird Wages
- Terry Trotter
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Algebra, difficulty level 2. Walter's eccentric parents give their son his housework wages in a strange way. Can you determine how much he receives?
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- Geometry
- Magic Coins
- Annie Fetter
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Geometry, difficulty level 3. How come you can fit a quarter through a hole the size of a dime? Find a pair of coins in another system of money that
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- Discrete Math
- Count Your Seinneps
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Find a system of coins that uses the fewest number of coins possible without repeating
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- A Great Way to Make Money?
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Is it better to rely on a weekly pay of $10, or take a chance on the money that is in a paper bag?
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- Heads or Tails
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Is it possible to have an arrangement of four coins go from HHHH to TTTT based on the rules given for flipping the
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- Minimal Minnie's Cost
- Ethel Breuche, Dona Coffey
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. Building a rail line that connects a number of different cities: a problem that involves graph theory, minimal
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- Moving the Lincolns
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 4. How many moves are needed to turn a triangular array of pennies upside
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- Paper, Scissors, Rock
- Leigh Nataro
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Discrete Math, difficulty level 2. How many ways can Timmy go broke or win $3 in the game of paper, scissors,
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- Trigonometry/Calculus
- Costly Cable
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. Find where to lay a fiber optic cable in order to minimize the
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- Making Money at the Movies
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 3. How much should the manager of a theater raise his prices in order to maximize his
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- My Snow-Shoveling Business
- Leigh Nataro
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Trig/Calc, difficulty level 2. Determine the number of customers needed to maximize the revenue for a snow-shoveling
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