Can someone help I’m not good with word problems

Apositive number a or the same number a increased by 50% and then decreased by 50% of the result?

Many newspapers carry a certain puzzle in which the reader must unscramble letters to form words. how many ways can the letters of emdangl be arranged? identify the correct unscrambling, then determine the probability of getting that result by randomly selecting one arrangement of the given letters.

The mass of a marine organism, in pounds, p years after it is born is given by the polynomial function r(p) = -4p2 + 300p. find the mass when p = 20 years.