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The total of the prices of two pans is $25.94, and the price of the more expensive pan is $5.96 greater than the price of the less expensive pan. What is the price of the more expensive pan?

Last week at a certain grocery store, 60 employees each worked 30 hours either at a cash register or stocking shelves. Of these employees, 1/5 worked at a cash register 20 hours, ¼ worked at a cash register 12 hours, 1/3 worked at a cash register 15 hours, and the remaining employees worked at a cash register 24 hours last week. What was the average (arithmetic mean) of the numbers of hours that these employees worked stocking shelves last week?

A certain factory normally produces 500 units per hour for a 7(1/2)-hour workday. In a month with 22 workdays, no units are produced in the first 7 days because of a job action. By how many units must production increase on each of the remaining workdays of the month in order to meet normal production levels for the month?

Each week Ingrid earns a fixed salary and a sales commission that is a fixed percentage of her sales for that week. Ingrid has no other sources of income. Last week Ingrid's total earnings were $500 and her sales were $2,000. This week Ingrid's total earnings were $700 and her sales were $6,000. What is the percentage rate for Ingrid's sales commissions?

In a certain list of numbers, the first number is 2, the second number is 3, and each succeeding number is the sum of all the numbers that precede it in the list. If hand k denote the 20th and 24th numbers in the list, respectively, what is the value of k/h?