Reasonable Practice Problems

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Reasonable Practice Problems
1) A multinational corporation has revenue
streams in the United States and Germany. The
annual revenue for the United States operation is
4 million. The annual revenue for the German
operation is ?4 million (Thats supposed to be
Euros). Assuming that the exchange rate is 1.25
?1, what is the corporations total annual
revenue in dollars?
2) For the corporation described in Problem 1,
state its total annual revenues in Euros.
3) An athlete runs the 100 yard dash in 10
seconds. What is the athletes average speed in
miles/hour?
4) A building has 1500 40-watt lights that are
always on. How many kilowatt hours of energy are
consumed to keep these lights on for one day?
5) Consider a brick that lies so that it is 12
inches long, 4 inches wide, and 4 inches high.
This brick weighs 15 pounds. Assume that there
is no space between bricks of this type when they
are packed on a pallet. The bricks are lined up
so they cover a 4 feet by 4 feet area on the
pallet, and they are stacked four bricks high on
the pallet. What is the total weight of the
bricks on the pallet?