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The walled garden
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A garden is surrounded by four walls, which form a rectangular trapezoid. The parallel walls have lengths of 34 and 59. An old oak grows in the middle of the garden. The owner of the garden has figured out that the distance from the four walls to the oak are exactly the same. What is the area of the garden?
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Cucumbers
In the morning a green-grocer puts 200 kg cucumbers outside in front of his shop. These cucumbers consists for 99% out of water. Because it is a warm day some water will evaporate. As a result, at the end of the day the cucumbers consist for 98% out of water. How many kg's of these cucumbers are left at the end of the day?
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Predicting share prices
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What will be the probability that the price of a randomly choosen share that can be bought on the euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam,
starts with the digit 1?
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