A tree nursery sells six times as many maple trees as oak trees. If sales for the month totaled 1,400 trees, how many maple trees were sold?

The Boston Globe reported on June 12, 2011, that 3,000 bags of peanuts sold at Fenway would lead to a half-ton of scattered shells. How many ounces of shells are there in each bag of peanuts?

The local high school had 1,000 bottles of water on hand. The school issued 1/4 of  the supply to the 9th grade, 1/5 of the supply to the 10th grade, and 2/5 of the supply to the 11th grade. How many bottles remained for the 12th grade?

A newspaper boy collects $13.45 in dimes and quarters. If there are 70 coins in all, how many quarters does he have?

If your car gets 34 miles per gallon of gas and you traveled 153 miles, how many galons of gas have you used?

On three consecutive​ passes, a football team gains 8 ​yards, loses 26 ​yards, and gains 43 yards. What number represents the total net​ yardage?

If one gallon of gas weighs 2 pounds and is made of 2% crude oil, what portion of the weight, rounded to the nearest ounce, is made of crude oil?

A print shop ordered 9 shipments of newsprint. There were 8,578,117 sheets of newsprint in each shipment. How many sheets of newsprint did the print shop order in all?

A laboratory has a solution that contains 9 ounces of benzalkonium chloride. If this is 15% of the total solution, how many ounces of solution does the lab have?

If 1 cup of parmesan weighs 4 oz, how many pounds must you purchase to have 5 cups?