Suppose a certain item used to sell for 30 cents per pound, and you see that it’s been marked up to 45 cents per pound. What is the percent increase?

The conversion factor relating feet to meters is 1 ft=0.305 m. keep in mind that when using conversion factors, you want to make sure that like units cancel leaving you with the units you need. you have been told that a certain house is 164 m2 in area. how much is this in square feet?

Which themes are portrayed in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich? praskovya fedorovna came of a good family, was not bad looking, and had some little property. ivan ilyich might have aspired to a more brilliant match, but even this was good. he had his salary, and she, he hoped, would have an equal income. she was well connected, and was a sweet, pretty, and thoroughly correct young woman. to say that ivan ilyich married because he fell in love with praskovya fedorovna and found that she sympathized with his views of life would be as incorrect as to say that he married because his social circle approved of the match. he was swayed by both these considerations: the marriage gave him personal satisfaction, and at the same time it was considered the right thing by the most highly placed of his associates. so ivan ilyich got married. conforming to social conventions criticism of a middle class lifestyle the destructive impact of loneliness struggling to face reality the necessity of companionship

The weights of broilers (commercially raised chickens) are approximately normally distributed with mean 1387 grams and standard deviation 161 grams. what is the probability that a randomly selected broiler weighs more than 1,425 grams?