Top-working is the name for grafting established trees to another variety. The existing tree, the "stock", is cut back, leaving just one or two limbs (nurse limbs) to supply the tree with energy. Short sticks of 1-year-old wood of the new variety (the scions) are inserted (grafted) into the cut surface.
If the mean of four successive even numbers is 11, what is the second largest number in this sequence?
Find the mean proportion of 2.56 and 0.0324.
Find the greatest 3-digit number which when divided by 11 or 14 leaves a remainder of 3.
0! +1! +2! +3!........+98! What will be the remainder when divided by 5?
If x varies inversely as (y2 – 1) and is equal to 40 when y = 5 then the value of x and y = 7 is
In a two-digit positive number, the digit in the tens place is one less than the square of the digit in the units place. Additionally, the difference be...
Determine how many distinct divisors the number 520 has.
Find the smallest number that is divisible by 4, 6, 10, and 13.
What is the remainder when (x²⁷ + 51) is divided by (x + 1)?
There are three numbers 'u', 'v' and 'w' (u < v < w) such that 'v' is equal to the average of 'u' and 'w'. 80% of 'w' is equal to 'u' and the difference...
