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49. An Xbox 360 game system and several games are sold 50. The two top-selling PC games are versions of World
for $560.The cost of the Xbox 360 is 3 times as much of Warcraft and The Sims. The average price of World
as the cost of the games. Find the cost of the Xbox 360 of Warcraft is $21 more than the average price of
and the cost of the games. Sims. If the total of these two prices is $73, find the
price of each game. (Source: Internet Research)

51. By air, the distance from New York City to London is 52. By air, the distance from Melbourne,Australia, to
2001 miles less than the distance from Los Angeles to Cairo, Egypt, is 2338 miles more than the distance
Tokyo. If the total of these two distances is 8939 miles, from Madrid, Spain, to Bangkok,Thailand. If the total
find the distance from Los Angeles to Tokyo. of these distances is 15,012 miles, find the distance
from Madrid to Bangkok.

London
Madrid
New Tokyo
Los Cairo
Angeles York Bangkok

Melbourne

53. The two NCAA stadiums with the largest capacities 54. A National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) top fuel
are Beaver Stadium (Penn State) and Michigan dragster has a top speed of 95 mph faster than an Indy
Stadium (Univ. of Michigan). Beaver Stadium has a Racing League car. If the top speed for these two cars
capacity of 1081 more than Michigan Stadium. If the combined is 565 mph, find the top speed of each car.
combined capacity for the two stadiums is 213,483, (Source: USA Today)
find the capacity for each stadium. (Source: National
Collegiate Athletic Association)

55. In 2020, China is projected to be the country with the 56. California contains the largest state population of
greatest number of visiting tourists.This number is native Americans.This population is three times the
twice the number of tourists projected for Spain. If native American population of Washington state. If
the total number of tourists for these two countries is the total of these two populations is 412 thousand,
projected to be 210 million, find the number projected find the native American population in each of these
for each. (Source:The State of the World Atlas by Dan two states. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
Smith)