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Question 173966: can you please help me solve: (((x+1/6 = 4/3)))
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Question 173970: can you please help me simplify: (((x^2-y^2/x+y)))
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Question 173969: can you please help me simplify: (((2x+8/x+4)))
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Question 173969: can you please help me simplify: (((2x+8/x+4)))
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Question 173968: can you please help me simplify: (((3a+b/6a+2b)))
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Question 173968: can you please help me simplify: (((3a+b/6a+2b)))
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Question 173965: can you please help me simplify: (((3x^-2)))
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Question 173986: Okay, this is just part of an equation involving fractions that i am doing, but i was wondering,can you factor u^2+u^2v^2+v^2 into two binomials? Thats all i really need for the problem.
thank you :)
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Question 174282: Solve by factoring
35x^2-2=-9x

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Question 174282: Solve by factoring
35x^2-2=-9x

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Question 174283: Use the following to answer the question
f(x)=x^2 and g(x)=x+5
Find (g*f)(-8)
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Question 174290: z^2+9z+18
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Question 174292: Simplify
1+11/p+30/p^2
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1+7/p+10/p^2
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Question 174291: Use the following to answer the question
f(x)=-4x^2+5x+3 and g(x)=2x^2-3x-4
Find (f+g)(2)
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Question 174291: Use the following to answer the question
f(x)=-4x^2+5x+3 and g(x)=2x^2-3x-4
Find (f+g)(2)
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Question 174287: y^2+5-24
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Question 174288: 5x^2-14x+8
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Question 174365: You have exactly $537 to spend on party gifts for your rich uncle’s birthday party. You decide to get watches for the ladies (at $27.98 each), and beepers for the men (at $23.46 each). You know that the number of watches required will be 3 times as much as the number of beepers. How many of each item do you buy?
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Question 174567: rolex smudgepot owns 17 ounces of gold.this is one ounce more than three fourths of the amount he owned last year. how much did he own last year?
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Question 174566: in a week mike ran 8km farther than bill,while pete ran 1km less than 3 timesas far as bill. if pete ran 15km farther than mike, how many kilometers did bill run?
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Question 174577: reduce the expression to lowest terms:

Thank you
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Question 174583: Jim is 6 years older than Pam. Two years ago Jim was twice as old as Pam. How old is each now?

Milk that has 5% butterfat is mixed with milk that has 2% butterfat. How much of each is needed to obtain 60 gallons of milk that has 3% butterfar?
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Question 174575: reduce the expression to the lowest term:
4x^2
2x^9
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Question 174574: reduce the rational exprssion to lowest terms. assume that the variable represent only numbers for which the denominators are nonzero:
a^2 - b^2
a - b
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Question 174579: perform the operation:
-2a^2/3a^2 . 20a/15a^3
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Question 174572: Which numbers cannot be used in place of the variable in the rational expression:
2y + 1
y^2 – y - 6

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Question 173528: (x-y)^2-z^2/(x+y)^2-z^2 / x-y+z/x+y-z = x-y-z/x+y+z I need to see the work, because I'm just not understanding it. Thank you.
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Question 174634: peform the operation:
w^2-1 . w-1
(w-1)^2 w^2+2w+1
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Question 174697: Simplify the following expression. Show each step of the solution and name the property that you used in each step
4a-7+(7-3a)
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Question 174698: As a participant in your school's community service project, you volunteer a total of 40 hours over the course of the school year. Your volunteer hours include serving at a soup kitchen, picking up trash at several local parks, and collecting toys for needy children. You spend 4 times as many hours collecting toys as picking up trash, and 2 hours less serving at the soup kitchen than picking up trash.
1. Write a system of equations to represent the given information and solve using the elimination method for each variable.
Thank You for all your help in advance. =)
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Question 174724: If 12x+7y=19 and 4x-y=3 then what is the value of 8x+8y?
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Question 174734: I need help with these problems. Could you please help me? I do them over and over and they dont make sense when I check them. (they are inequalities
1) -(6b-2)>O
2)-2(r-3)+7 (is greater than or equal to) 8
Thanks
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Question 174784: 3x-2.5y=7.125
2.5x-3y=7.3125
solve by addition method
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Question 174838: Whis is the result of dividing 48a^3+32a^2+16a by 4a?
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Question 174840: If the value of b is 7, then what is the value of the expression -3b^2+25?
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Question 174970: how to do 2/3+9-1/24
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Question 175046: One side of a rectangle is 3 inches shorter than the other side, and the perimeter is 54 inches. what are the dimension of the rectangle?
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Question 175050: Two angles of a triangle have equal measures, but the thirds angle's measure is 36 degrees less than the sum of the other two. Find the measure of each angle of the triangle.
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Question 175051: An angle is 25 degrees less than the measure of its complement. What is the measure of the smaller angle?
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Question 175051: An angle is 25 degrees less than the measure of its complement. What is the measure of the smaller angle?
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Question 175057: can you please help me solve: (((3m/n x n^2/9)))
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Question 175054: can you please help me solve:
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Question 175059: can you please help me simplify:

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Question 175058: can you please help me solve: ((( (x-3/2)^3 x (1/x-3)^2 )))
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