1. ruth lockwood earns $2,917 a month as a supervisor for acme
steel. her group medical coverage costs $6,240 per year. the
company pays 75% of the cost of group insurance.
a. find the percent paid by ruth.
b. find the total amount paid annually by ruth.
c. how much is deducted each month from her paycheck
for medical insurance?

Candy lives in the center of town. her friend darlene lives 28 miles to the east and her friend dana lives 21 miles north. approximately how far do dana and darline live apart ?

Bobby bought 1.12 pounds of turkey at a cost of 2.50 per pound. carla bought 1.4 pounds of turkey at a cost of 2.20 per pound. who spent more and by much?

An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution