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1) Cameron is trying to improve his catch percentage playing football. This season he has caught 60% of the 25 passes that have been thrown to him. After practicing, he is able to bring his catch percentage up to 70% after 25 more passes. How many of those passes did he catch in the second set of 25 passes?
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2) If you insert four numbers between 2/7 and 7/2 to form an arithmetic sequence of six numbers, what would the sum of the sequence be? (Express your answer as an improper fraction.)
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3) Marsha bakes a cake for a party. Several guests take 1/3rd of the cake and split it. A few more guests take half of what is left and split that. Marsha takes a third of the remaining cake for herself. If Marsha evenly divides what is left of the cake between the 4 remaining guests, what fraction of
the original cake will each of them receive?
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