Rocks Inc.

One

• In my shop I have forty-eight eight by four tables. If they are put in my shop how much table room do I have?

1440 ft. sq.

Two

• I need to build a dealers booth so I buy ten large slabs of granite and twelve small slabs. I am building and I suddenly realize that I bought to much and only need a third of what I have. How many large and small slabs of granite do I have left?

Three

• One of my citrine crystals is eight inches by two inches. I have another that is similar, its measurements are an unknown measurement by one inch. For customers I need a diagram to show what the length of the smaller citrine crystal?

4 inches

Four

• I was selling emerald crystals to a group. They wanted fifty-six. These people came back the next day to buy them but realized they did not have enough money. I was willing to sell them a fourth of their order, how many emerald crystals did they get?

14 emerald crystals

Five

• Today I discovered twenty of my rocks have diamond in them, so I am going to sell them. The company going to buy them found one fourth of the rocks had impurities. How many could I still sell without impurities?

Six

• I had a friend how wanted to make a quartz statue, it was planned to be twenty-eight inches tall. The tallest quartz crystals I had were only four inches tall. Draw a diagram of how many quartz crystals he will need.

Seven

• A three pound chunk of ruby was sent to me but was dropped while being handled. A seven ounce chunk was crushed in the fall. How much does my ruby chunk weigh now?

Eight

• Today I bought a medium sized hunk of sapphire and I am hoping to sell it for a profit. This thing weighs seven pounds eight ounces. If I can get fifty bucks per pound, how much could I possibly make?

Nine

• Someone wants to make a circular granite tabletop. They want to know how much table space they can get. If the radius of the granite tabletop is four feet how much table space will my customer have?