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SE CT I O N 1. 6 I MULTIPLYING WHOLE NUMBERS AND AREA 57

Objectives Mixed Practice—Translating Solve. See Examples 10 through 13.

69. Multiply 80 by 11. 70. Multiply 70 by 12. 71. Find the product of 6 and 700.
72. Find the product of 9 and 900. 73. Find 2 times 2240. 74. Find 3 times 3310.

75. One tablespoon of olive oil contains 125 calories. 76. One ounce of hulled sunflower seeds contains
How many calories are in 3 tablespoons of olive oil? 14 grams of fat. How many grams of fat are in
(Source: Home and Garden Bulletin No. 72, U.S. 8 ounces of hulled sunflower seeds? (Source: Home
Department of Agriculture) and Garden Bulletin No. 72, U.S. Department of
Agriculture)

77. The textbook for a course in biology costs $94. 78. The seats in a large lecture hall are arranged in 14
There are 35 students in the class. Find the total cost rows with 34 seats in each row. Find how many seats
of the biology books for the class. are in this room.

79. Cabot Creamery is packing a pallet of 20-lb boxes of 80. An apartment building has three floors. Each floor
cheddar cheese to send to a local restaurant.There has five rows of apartments with four apartments in
are five layers of boxes on the pallet, and each layer each row.
is four boxes wide by five boxes deep.
a. How many apartments are on 1 floor?
a. How many boxes are in one layer? b. How many apartments are in the building?
b. How many boxes are on the pallet?
c. What is the weight of the cheese on the pallet?

81. A plot of land measures 80 feet by 110 feet. Find its 82. A house measures 45 feet by 60 feet. Find the floor
area. area of the house.

83. The largest hotel lobby can be found at the Hyatt 84. Recall from an earlier section that the largest
Regency in San Francisco, CA. It is in the shape of a commercial building in the world under one roof is
rectangle that measures 350 feet by 160 feet. Find its the flower auction building of the cooperative VBA
area. in Aalsmeer, Netherlands.The floor plan is a
rectangle that measures 776 meters by 639 meters.
Find the area of this building. (A meter is a unit of
length in the metric system.) (Source:The Handy
Science Answer Book, Visible Ink Press)
776 meters

639 meters

85. A pixel is a rectangular dot on a graphing calculator 86. A certain compact disc (CD) can hold 700 megabytes
screen. If a graphing calculator screen contains 62 (MB) of information. How many MBs can 17 discs
pixels in a row and 94 pixels in a column, find the hold?
total number of pixels on a screen.