The time it takes to lay a sidewalk of a certain type varies directly as the length and inversely as the number of men working. if eight men take two days to lay 100 feet, how long will three men take to lay 150 feet?

Anew shopping mall is gaining in popularity. every day since it opened, the number of shoppers is 5% more than the number of shoppers the day before. the total number of shoppers over the first 10 days is 1258 how many shoppers were on the first day?

In a two-digit number the units' digit is 7 more than the tens' digit. the number with digits reversed is three times as large as the sum of the original number and the two digits. find the number.

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?