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23. In 2007, the average weekly pay for a correctional 24. In 2007, the average weekly pay for a bill collector
officer supervisor in the United States was $1080. If was $600. If a bill collector works 40 hours in one
such a supervisor works 40 hours in one week, what week, what is his or her hourly pay? (Source: Bureau
is his or her hourly pay? (Source: Bureau of Labor of Labor Statistics)
Statistics)

25. Three ounces of canned tuna in oil has 165 calories. 26. A whole cheesecake has 3360 calories. If the
How many calories does 1 ounce have? (Source: cheesecake is cut into 12 equal pieces, how many
Home and Garden Bulletin No. 72, U.S. Department calories will each piece have? (Source: Home and
of Agriculture) Garden Bulletin No. 72, U.S. Department of
Agriculture)

27. The average estimated 2008 U.S. population was 28. David Akers, a kicker with the NFL’s Philadelphia
303,800,000. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, Eagles, scored an average of 9 points per game
7 billion hot dogs are consumed.Approximately how during the 2008 regular season. He played in a total
many hot dogs were consumed per person between of 16 games during the season.What was the total
Memorial Day and Labor Day in 2008? Divide, but number of points he scored during the 2008 football
do not give the remainder part of the quotient. season? (Source: National Football League)
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, National Hot Dog and
Sausage Council)

29. Macy’s, formerly the Federated Department Stores 30. In 2008, approximately 2,132,000 pounds of mail were
Company, operates 810 Macy’s and 40 Bloomingdale’s carried by mule train for delivery to the Havasupai
department stores around the country. In 2007, Macy’s Indians, on their reservation inside the Grand Canyon.
had sales of approximately $26,313,249,400.What is If mail is delivered every one of the 52 weeks of the
the average amount of sales made by each of the 850 year, what was the average number of pounds of mail
stores? (Source: Macy’s) delivered to the Havasupai per week in 2008?
(Source: United States Postal Service)

31. The Museum of Modern Art in New York welcomes 32. In 2009,Target Corporation operated 1698 stores in
1,585,000 visitors per year.The Museum of Science the United States. Of these, 146 were in Texas. How
in Boston receives 1,429,700 visitors per year. How many Target Stores were located in states other than
many more people visit the Museum of Modern Art Texas? (Source: Target Corporation)
than the science museum? (Source: The Official
Museum Directory)

33. The length of the southern boundary of the 34. In humans, 14 muscles are required to smile. It takes
conterminous United States is 1933 miles.The length 29 more muscles to frown. How many muscles does
of the northern boundary of the conterminous it take to frown?
United States is 2054 miles longer than this.What is
the length of the northern boundary? (Source: U.S.
Geological Survey)

2054 miles longer

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1933 miles