Removing one black marble gives black:red ratio $9:7$. Replacing it and removing one red marble gives $7:5$. How many more black marbles than red were originally in the box?
Use each of $+,-,\times,\div$ once in $10\square10\square10\square10\square10$ to obtain the smallest result. Negative integers are allowed. Find the result.
Mink cycles from home at $8{:}08$ am at constant speed. Her brother follows on a motorcycle eight minutes later, catches her four km from home, returns immediately, then leaves again and catches her eight km from home. When is the second catch?
In the problem’s NBA season scenario, each team plays sixty-six matches, with at most one per day, three in any four days, five in any seven days, and eight in any thirteen days. The season starts December twenty-six. How many days does it last?
Two bottles of saline have concentrations $8\%$ and $5\%$. Mixing their full contents gives $6.2\%$. In a second experiment, one quarter of the first and one sixth of the second are mixed. Find the new concentration.