To find the height of a building, Oscar stuck the end of a 4 ½-foot stick 6 inches straight into the ground. He measured the shadow of the stick and found it was 1 foot long. Oscar then measured the building's shadow and found it was 16 feet long. How many feet from the building was the stick?

A square piece of cloth is cut from a larger square as in the figure above. The corners of the smaller square are the midpoints of the sides of the larger square. How much cloth, in square centimeters, is left over?

Which is bigger: the cube root of 54 or the square root of 18?

What smallest number of six digits is divisible by 111?

One number is 12 more than 3 times another number. The sum of the 2 numbers is −20. What are the numbers?

If $x=-1$, then what is the value of $x^{2} \times x^{2}$?

What is the perimeter of the ﬁgure?

On ﬁve successive days, a motorcyclist listed his mileage as follows: 135, 162, 98, 117, 216. If his motorcycle averages 14 miles for each gallon of gas used, how many gallons of gas did he use during these ﬁve days?

If $x^2-4=45$, then x could be equal to

Tony buys a burger for $\$3 $and a bottle of juice for $ \$1.50$ every day. Which expression shows the total amount he would spend on his burger and juice over a 5-day period?

A ladder is leaning against an 18 ft building. The bottom of the ladder is 8.5 ft from the building. Approximately how tall is the ladder?

Jenny has five coins totaling 65 cents in quarters and nickels. Create two equations.

Which of the following is a factor of 450 and multiple of 25?

One third of the candidates for a job were 25 years old or younger. Two sevenths of the candidates were at least 50 years old. If 84 people applied for the job, how many were between 25 and 50?

The right circular cylinder shown in the figure above has a height of 10 units and a radius of 1 unit. Points O and P are the centers of the top and bottom surfaces, respectively. A slice is cut from the cylinder as shown, so that the angle at the top, O, is 60 degrees, and the angle at the bottom, P, is 60 degrees. What is the volume of the slice?