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A real estate agent has an appointment to show a house to a couple who lives out of town. It will take the couple 2½ hours to drive to the house, but the real estate agent can get there in 45 minutes. If the couple left at 15 P.M., at what time should the real estate agent leave to arrive at the house at the same time?

A furniture manufacturing company is hosting a picnic for its employees. Each employee is allowed to bring one guest. If 600 employees attend, and 3/5 of them plan to bring a guest, how many guests are expected at the picnic?

A carton of paper weighs 13 kilograms, and a box of file folders weighs 8.5 kilograms. A truck was loaded with 9 cartons of paper and 24 boxes of file folders. What was the total weight, in kilograms, of the cartons of paper and boxes of file folders loaded onto the truck? 

Two groups collected aluminum cans for a recycling drive. The first group had 40 members, and each collected 18 cans. The second group had half as many members, but each collected twice as many cans as any member of the first group had. What was the total number of cans collected by the two groups?  

If a skydiver with mass m, in kilograms, jumps from a plane, the maximum speed she will attain in free-fall (v), in meters per second, is given by the formula  Approximately what is the maximum speed, in meters per second, of a skydiver weighing 60 kilograms?