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Painting a pool 2012-03-25
From Salai:
A swimming pool measures 8m long, 6m wide and 1.5 m deep. The special paint for the pool cost $6per square metre. How much will it cost to paint the interior surfaces of the pool ?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Painting a hemispheric dome 2010-05-09
From Jone:
If a hemispheric dome has a height of 20m and it take 5 gallons of paint to paint the floor, how many gallons of pain are needed to paint the inside of the dome?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Working together 2008-04-26
From Joanna:
If 8 men took 15 days to paint a building . How many more men are needed to paint the building in 6 days ?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
How many cubes have one face painted red? 2007-11-27
From Ashutosh:
A rectangular block measuring 10 units by 8 units by 6 units is made up of cubes measuring 1 unit on a side. The base of the block is 10 units by 8 units. The outside of the block other than the base is painted red. How many of the unit cubes have exactly one face painted red?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Penny Nom.
Painting a house 2006-06-28
From A student:
If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Penny Nom.
Painter's caps 2005-10-19
From Duk:
The equation C=10 +2n represents the cost in dollars, C, for n painter's caps advertising the walkathon. Which pair of values could represent a number of caps and the cost for that number of caps, (n, C)?

(0, 10) (7, 24) (15, 30)

Answered by Penny Nom.
Painting a car 2002-09-24
From A student:
Dan can paint a car in 4 hours. Luke can pain the same car in 6 hours. Working together, how long would it take them to pain the same car?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Painting walls 2001-12-12
From Rizwan:
3 sixth graders painted 4 walls in 3.5hrs. At that rate, how many walls would they paint in 7 hrs.
Answered by Penny Nom.
Working together 2001-04-26
From Stephanie:
Tom takes 10 hours to piant a mural on the wall of Evergreen School. Carol takes 6 hours to do the same job. If they work together, how long will it take them to paint the mural?
Answered by Claude Tardif and Penny Nom.
Estimating the time to complete a job 2000-12-03
From Jack Hook:
I'm a contractor and need to estimate how much time it will take me to do a specific job. A previous job I did was 6,480.16 Square Feet and I was able to paint it in 31.5 hours. In estimating my next job, how many hours will it take me to paint 11,000 Sqare Feet.
Answered by Penny Nom.
White and blue paint 2000-04-09
From Lauren Emerson :
A truck full of cans of blue and white paint flips over on the road. There are dots of blue and white paint everywhere. Prove that two dots of the same color paint are exactly pi feet apart.
Answered by Penny Nom.
 
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