At 12:00 noon, the temperature in a certain storage room was 64. If the temperature in the storage room decreased at a constant rate of 2 per hour for the next 8 hours, what was the temperature in the storage room at 8:00 in the evening?

Of the 50 employees of a certain company, 30 earn an average (arithmetic mean) salary of $30,000, 15 earn an average salary of $40,000, and 5 earn an average salary of $60,000. What is the average salary earned by the employees of this company?

A charitable organization has a goal of raising $300,000 in 100 days. If it raised $200,000 in the first 60 days, what is the average (arithmetic mean) number of dollars per day that it must raise for the last 40 days in order to achieve its goal?

A farm used two harvesting machines, H and K, to harvest 100 acres of wheat. Harvesting machine H, working alone at its constant rate, harvested 40 acres of wheat in 8 hours. Then harvesting machine K was brought in, and harvesting machines H and K, working together at their respective constant rates, harvested the remaining acres of wheat in 5 hours. Harvesting machine K harvested how many acres of wheat per hour?

A grocer stacked oranges in a pile. The bottom layer was rectangular with 3 rows of 5 oranges each. In the second layer from the bottom, each orange rested on 4 oranges from the bottom layer, and in the third layer, each orange rested on 4 oranges from the second layer. Which of the following is the maximum number of oranges that could have been in the third layer?

Connie paid a sales tax of 8 percent on her purchase. If the sales tax had been only 5 percent, she would have paid $12 less in sales tax on her purchase. What was the total amount that Connie paid for her purchase including sales tax?

A school purchased 2 computers whose prices were $1,000 and $2,000, respectively. The school is to purchase 2 more computers from a list of computers whose prices range from $1,000 to $2,000, inclusive. The greatest possible average (arithmetic mean) price of the 4 computers is how much greater than the least possible average price of the 4 computers?

The lunch menu at a certain restaurant contains 4 different entrees and 5 different side dishes. If a meal consists of 1 entree and 2 different side dishes, how many different meal combinations could be chosen from this menu?

If x is an even integer and y is an odd integer, which of the following is even?

If ~$\left ( 400 \right )\left ( 6000 \right )=\left ( 240 \right )\left ( 100^{x} \right )$~,what is the value of x ?