What does approxmimate perimeter mean

Barbara's piano instructors house is 7 1/8 miles from her house. after biking for 1 3/4 miles she stops to rest how much longer does she need to bike to reach her instructor's house

On a string instrument, the length of a string varies inversely as the frequency of its vibrations. an 11-inch string has a frequency of 400 cylces per second. find the frequency of a 10-icnch string.

How do you create a data set with 8 points in it that has a mean of approximately 10 and a standard deviation of approximately 1?