Hal wants to make a 2 1/2 foot banner from a 5-foot length of cloth. if he has marked 2.0 on the cloth, what does he have to do to find 2 1/2 feet.

Fred has a total of 62 dvd and cd. if the number of cd is three more than two times the number of dvd, how many cd does he have?

One side of a rectangle is 7 feet shorter than seven times the other side. find the length of the shorter side if we also know that the perimeter of the rectangle is 306 feet.

10 ! in a race, nick is 50 feet in front of jay after ten seconds. how fast can nick run, if jay can run 20 feet per second?