The rim of a basketball hoop is 10 feet high. When Chase stretches his hand, it is 88 inches high. How many feet does Chase have to jump to be able to touch the rim?

A 1.4 m tall child is standing next to a flagpole. The child's shadow is 1.2 m long. At the same time, the shadow of the flagpole is 7.5 m. long. How tall is the flagpole?

A sumbarine is positioned at 300 feet below sea level. A bird is flying 100 feet above sea level. How many feet above the sumbarine is the bird?

A  six foot math teacher casts a shadow measuring twelve feet.  The shadow of a nearby tree is forty-eight feet long.  How tall is the tree?

A pile of dirt removed from an excavation is a cone measuring 6 feet high and 30 feet across the base.  A dump truck can haul 9 yd³ in one trip.  Find the number of trips the truck will have to make to haul away all of the dirt.  Show your steps.   *1 yd³ = 27 ft³

Laurel has an area in her yard that is in the shape of a parallelogram. It has a base of 30 feet and a height of 22 feet. She wants to cover this area with wildflower seeds. She finds out that 1 ounce of seeds covers 125 square feet of ground. How many ounces of seeds does she need to cover this area?         7 ounces         5 ounces         4 ounces         6 ounces

The dimensions of the The Starry Night are 29 inches tall by 36 inches wide.  Chloe would like to paint a replica of The Starry Night to scale on her wall.  She’d like her wall painting to be 54 inches wide.  How tall will her wall painting be? Answer:   Work:

A rectangular building lot is 9 feet longer than it is wide. The area of the lot is 1,240 feet-squared. What is the width of the lot? 40 feet 31 feet 49 feet 138 feet

There is a crowd that is 8 feet deep on both sides of the street standing along a 3 mile stretch. You notice a triangle in in the crowd that measures 2 feet at the base and 4 feet at the height. There are 19 people standing in the triangle. How many people are watching the parade?

The sizes of four cell phone displays are 5.625 inches, 512 inches, 612 inches and 5.125 inches. How much longer is the longest display than the shortest display?