Section 2.5 Division of Fractions and Applications 141 86. Davey built a bookshelf 36 in. long. Can the shelf hold a set of encyclopedias if there are 24 books and each book averages in. thick? Explain your answer. 87. A radio station allows 18 minutes (min) of 88. A television station has 20 min of advertising each advertising each hour. How many 40-second hour. How many 30-second ( -min) commercials ( -min) commercials can be run in can be run in a. 1 hr b. 1 day a. 1 hr b. 1 day 89. Ricardo wants to buy a new house for $240,000. The bank requires of the cost of the house as a down payment. As a gift, Ricardo’s mother will pay of the down payment. (See Example 7.) a. How much money will Ricardo’s mother pay toward the down payment? b. How much money will Ricardo have to pay toward the down payment? c. How much is left over for Ricardo to finance? 90. Althea wants to buy a Toyota Camry for a total cost of $19,560. The dealer requires of the money as a down payment. Althea’s parents have agreed to pay one-half of the down payment for her. a. How much is the down payment? b. How much will Althea pay toward the down payment? c. How much will Althea have to finance? 91. A landowner has acres of land. She plans to sell of the land. (See Example 8.) a. How much land will she sell? b. How much land will she retain? 92. Josh must read 24 pages for his English class and 18 pages for psychology. He has read of the pages. a. How many pages has he read? b. How many pages does he still have to read? 93. A lab technician has liters (L) of alcohol. If she needs samples of L, how many samples can she prepare? 94. Troy has a -in. nail that he must hammer into a board. Each strike of the hammer moves the nail in. into the board. How many strikes of the hammer must he make? Expanding Your Skills 1 16 7 8 1 8 7 4 1 6 1 3 9 4 1 12 2 3 1 10 2 3 1 2 5 4 95. The rectangle shown here has an area of 30 ft2. Find the length. ? 5 ft 2 96. The rectangle shown here has an area of 8 m2. Find the width. ? 14 m For Exercises 97–100, answer the questions without calculating the products or quotients. 97. Will the product 47 be more or less than 47? 35 98. Will the product 81 be more or less than 81? 47 99. Will the quotient 25 be more or less than 25? 23 100. Will the quotient 41 be more or less than 41? 2 11
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