Solve the following problems:
John is 20 years older than Steve. In 10 years, Steve's age will be half that of John's. What is Steve's age?
Committee X has 4 members, committees Y has 5 members, and these committees have no members in common. If a task force is to be formed consisting of one member of X and one member of Y, how many different task forces are possible?
Susan invited 13 of her friends for her birthday party and created return gift hampers comprising one each of $3, $4, and $5 gift certificates. One of her friends did not turn up and Susan decided to rework her gift hampers such that each of the 12 friends who turned up got $13 worth gift certificates. How many gift hampers did not contain $5 gift certificates in the new configuration?
Katrina has a wheat business. She purchases wheat from a local wholesaler at particular cost per pound. The price of the wheat at her stores is $3 per pound. Her faulty spring balance reads: 0.9 pounds for a pound. Also, in the festival season, she gives a 10% discount on the wheat. She found that the made neither a profit nor a loss in the festival season. At what price did Katrina purchase the wheat from the wholesaler?
Zaman's father invested some money and for every Tk. 12 he invested he got a total of Tk. 15 back. If Zaman's father invested Tk. 300, how much in total did he get back?
A woman says, "If you revise my own age, the figure represents my husband" age. He is, of course, senior to me and the difference between our ages is one- eleventh of our sum" What is the age of the woman?