Khan Academy System of Equation Word Problem Capstone

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Vavilen inflated a huge balloon in 19 minutes.

Then he poked a hole in the balloon so that it


slowly leaked air out until it was completely deflated.
The rate at which the air leaked out of the balloon (in liters of air per minute) was half of the rate
at which Vavilen inflated the balloon. It took the balloon 38 minutes to completely deflate.

At what rate did Vavilen inflate the balloon, and at what rate did the balloon deflate?

When Famke charges her phone, it gains 2 percentage points each minute. When Famke uses her
phone, it loses 5 percentage points each minute.
Once, Famke used her phone for some time, and then charged it for twice the amount of time she
used it. In the end, her phone lost 10 percentage points.
How long did Famke use her phone and how long did she charge it?

Fiona's Fashion Store is world renowned for its buttoned uniforms.


A collection of 36 shirts and 42 jackets contains 842 buttons. A collection of 6 shirts and 7
jackets contains 137 buttons. Each shirt has the same number of buttons, and each jacket has the
same number of buttons.
How many buttons are there in a Fiona's Fashion shirt, and how many buttons are there in
a jacket?

Ni Hua is an adventurous traveler. He skydives twice in every island he visits and skydives thrice
in every peninsula he visits.
In the last decade, Ni Hua went skydiving a total of 45 times in the 19 islands and peninsulas that
he visited.

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