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The document contains solutions to three math word problems: 1) The speeds of a car and truck traveling toward each other from different towns 380 km apart. The car's speed is 50 km/hr and the truck's speed is 45 km/hr. 2) The lengths of the sides of a rectangle where increasing each side by 1 cm increases the area by 18 cm^2. The sides are 10 cm and 7 cm. 3) The amounts of milk produced by two cows the first and second year where production increased by 15% and 10% respectively and the total increased to 9100 liters. The cows produced 3800 liters and 4300 liters the first year.

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Problem 7

The document contains solutions to three math word problems: 1) The speeds of a car and truck traveling toward each other from different towns 380 km apart. The car's speed is 50 km/hr and the truck's speed is 45 km/hr. 2) The lengths of the sides of a rectangle where increasing each side by 1 cm increases the area by 18 cm^2. The sides are 10 cm and 7 cm. 3) The amounts of milk produced by two cows the first and second year where production increased by 15% and 10% respectively and the total increased to 9100 liters. The cows produced 3800 liters and 4300 liters the first year.

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Problem 7

The distance between two towns is 380 km. At the same moment, a passenger car and a truck start moving
towards each other from different towns. They meet 4 hours later. If the car drives 5 km/hr faster than the truck,
what are their speeds?
Solution:
The main idea used in this kind of problems is that the distance equals speed multiplied by time S=V⋅t
V (km/hr) t (hr) S (km)
Car x+5 4 4(x +5)
Truck X 4 4x
4(x+5)+4x=380
4x+4x=380−20
8x=360
x=3608
x=45
Therefore the truck's speed is 45 km/hr, and the car's speed is 50 km/hr.
Problem 8
One side of a rectangle is 3 cm shorter than the other side. If we increase the length of each side by 1 cm, then the
area of the rectangle will increase by 18 cm2. Find the lengths of all sides.
Solution:
Let x be the length of the longer side x>3, then the other side's length is x−3 cm. Then the area is S1 = x(x - 3) cm2.
After we increase the lengths of the sides they will become (x+1) and (x−3+1)=(x−2) cm long. Hence the area
of the new rectangle will be A2=(x+1)⋅(x−2)cm2, which is 18 cm2 more than the first area. Therefore 
A1+18=A2
x(x−3)+18=(x+1)(x−2)
x2−3x+18=x2+x−2x−2
2x=20
x=10. So, the sides of the rectangle are 10 cm and (10−3)=7 cm long.
Problem 9
The first year, two cows produced 8100 litres of milk. The second year their production increased
by 15% and 10% respectively, and the total amount of milk increased to 9100 litres a year. How many litres were
milked from each cow each year?
Solution:
Let x be the amount of milk the first cow produced during the first year. Then the second cow
produced (8100−x) litres of milk that year. The second year, each cow produced the same amount of milk as they
did the first year plus the increase of 15% or 10%.
So 8100+15100⋅x+10100⋅(8100−x)=9100
Therefore 8100+320x+110(8100−x)=9100
120x=190
x=3800
Therefore, the cows produced 3800 and 4300 litres of milk the first year, and 4370 and 4730 litres of milk the
second year, respectively.

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