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Joe's father owns a farm in Queensland. The farm is a rectangle and measures 1702 meters long and 700 meters wide. How big is the farm in square meters?
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Before compact discs there were audiocassette tapes, and before audiocassette tapes there were flat discs called records. Records played at different speeds, some at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute, others at 45 revolutions per minute, and older ones at 78 revolutions per minute. If a fly sitting on the edge of a 78 rpm record travels 13 inches in one revolution, how far will it travel in nine minutes?
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Columbus' ships covered approximately 143 miles a day. How many miles would they have traveled in six days?
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The football stadium is vacant right now, but it will be full by 7:00 p.m. when the game starts. There are twelve sections in the stadium. Each section has rows A through S. Each of the rows has nine seats. What is the maximum number of people that can be seated?
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Ekaterina is a college exchange student from Russia. She came to talk to the 5th grade class today and told them she got her first library card on June 13, 1983. If today is September 3, 2017, for how many days has she had a library card? (Ignore leap days)
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Brittany is drawing a mural of the night sky on black poster board with white chalk. If she uses up a stick of chalk at the rate of one stick every eight minutes, and she works on her mural from 8:18 a.m. until 9:22 a.m., how many sticks of chalk will she use?
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