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Each parking spot is 8 feet wide. A parking lot has 24 parking spots side by side. What is the width (measured in yards) of the parking lot?  \n3. There are two trees in a park. The taller tree is 6 feet 8 inches. The shorter tree is 6 inches shorter than half the height of the taller tree. What is the height of the shorter tree?  \n4. The driveway in front of the brown house is 35 feet long and the driveway in front of the red house is 7 yards and 9 feet long. Which house has a longer driveway? By how much?  \n5. Eric’s kite spool had 100 yards of string. At first, he let out 50 feet of string. Then, the kite rose for another 16 yards. How much string was left on the spool?  \n6. Each roll of tape is 30.5 feet long. A box contains 454 rolls of tape. 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