A mother is 3 times as old as her daughter. In 12 years time she will be twice as old as her daughter will be then. How old is the mother now?

At dinner, 2/5 of the people had fish and 1/3 had chicken. if everyone else had lamb, what fraction of the people had lamb? and if 40 people had lamb , calculate the total number of people at the dinner.

The floor plan of a room has a scale of 2.5 in.: 35 ft. in the drawing, the length of the room is 8 in. and the width of the room is 6 in. what is the perimeter of the actual room?

The blue whale is the largest animal living on the earth. the average blue whale measures 100 feet long (30 meters) and weighs 300,000 pounds (136,000 kilograms). a whale’s head is 1⁄3 of the length of its body. a new baby whale is 1⁄4 the length of a grown whale. the average man is 1⁄17 the length of a blue whale, and 1⁄1,818 its weight. a human baby measures 1⁄4 of the length of an adult. calculate the following information: how long is a whale’s head? how long is a new baby whale? how tall is the average man? how much does the average man weigh? how tall is the average human baby?