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Question 302878: The sum of the digits in a two-digit number is 8. When the digits are reversed, the new number is 18 less than the original number.
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Question 302910: is there another way to do this problem five minus a number
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Question 302987: A plane can fly 420 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 120 miles. If the car travels 100 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane.
so what is the speed of the plane ?
thank you :)
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Question 303112: how do i work out what X is if the Hypotenuse is 25, on side is x and the other is 2x????
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Question 303276: You own a piece of land on which you owe the bank $12,760 to the bank. You decide to sell the land and want enough money to pay off the mortgage of the land. The real estate agent gets 6% of the selling price, and your city has a $400 real estate transfer tax paid by the seller. What should the range of the selling price be for you to get at least enough money to pay off your mortgage? Set up the inequality for this situation and then solve it. Your answer must be in inequality form.
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Question 303275: 1. You are the manager of the Sea Breeze Motel and one night you rented 5 singles and 12 doubles for a total of $1515. The next night you rented 9 singles and 10 doubles for a total of $1625. What is the rental charge for each type of room? You must identify each equation and solve using either substitution or elimination.
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Question 303473: algebra:
the 2nd number is 12 times the first number
how do you write it???
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Question 303473: algebra:
the 2nd number is 12 times the first number
how do you write it???
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Question 303536: Raul can drive 3 times as fast as Jose can ride his bicycle. If it takes Jose 2 hours longer than Raul to travel 24 miles, hoe fast can Jose ride his bicycle?
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Question 303543: Jon recently drove to visit his parents who live 225 miles away. On his way there his average speed was 24 miles per hour faster than on his way home. If Jon spent a total of 10 hours driving, find the two rates.
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Question 301306: George saves 18% of his total gross weekly earnings from his 2 part-time jobs. He earns $6.25 per hour from one part-time job and $7.50 per hour from the other part-time job. George works a total of 40 hours between the two jobs each week. What additional information is needed to determine the amount of his earnings he saves each week?
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Question 303960: Use te clue to find the secret two-digit number. The sum of the digits is 9. The product of the digits is 18. The number is between 40 and 90.
What is the number?
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Question 304057: how do you find volume of 486 ft?
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Question 304161: -73 + 28
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Question 304161: -73 + 28
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Question 304466: if you drive 70 miles in 2hrs. What is your average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 304544: I'm very sorry. I figured it out and did not know any way else to remove this problem, so to speak. Sorry.
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Question 304272: A truck enters a highway driving 60 mph. A car enters the highway at the same place 13 minutes later and drives 73 mph in the same direction. From the time the car enters the highway, how long will it take the car to pass the truck.
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Question 304621: Suppose an indecisive man starts out from home and walks 1 mi east,then 1/2 mi west, then 1/4 mi east, then 1/8 mi west, and so on. Relative to his home, approximately where would he end up?

I have no clue..please help.
Thanks
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Question 304628: an open box is to be constructed from a square piece of sheet metal by removing a square of side 2 feet from each corner and turning up the edges. If the box is to hold 32 cubic feet, what should be the dimensions of the sheet metal?
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Question 304850: FIND THE MISSING LENGTH.
LEG A: X
LEG B: X
HYPOTENUSE: 6 times the square root of 2
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Question 304881: Eliminate the fractions in the following equation: x(3/4) + y(2/3) + z(5/6)= 2.
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Question 304918: A pole's shadow measures 3 1/2 feet when the shadow of a yardstick right next to the pole measures 15 inches. How tall is the pole?
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Question 304930: Miguel's insurance company will replace his car if repair costs exceed 80% of the car's value. The car recently sustained $6400 worth of damage, but it was not replaced. what was the value of the car.
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Question 304949: Solve and graph
x+y=10
x-y=8
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Question 304993: When we draw the complex number i as a point in the complex plane, its coordinates are
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Question 305013: I am having a hard time with something, could someone help please? How much money is 1.6 million dollars? I can't figure out if it should be $1,500,000 or $1,750,000, or something else altogether. I'm supposed to be working on line-item, performance, and program budgets and I can't get past this, great huh? I'd really appreciate some help, thanks a lot.
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Question 305177: the sum of two numbers is 24. the first number is 4 more than the second. what are the numbers?
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Question 305115: What is the approximate length of the diagonal of a square if the perimeter of the square is 12 ft?

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Question 305219: what is the domain of the function: g(m)= 5/m?

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Question 305402: a chemist is going to mix a 15% acid solution with a 45% acid solutionm how many liters of each solution should she mix in order to get 48 liters of a 20% acid solution?
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Question 305408: a chemist is going to mix a 15% acid solution with a 45% acid solutionm how many liters of each solution should she mix in order to get 48 liters of a 20% acid solution?
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Question 305489:
Irving’s total cash was only $2.50. Then, how many nickels and dimes would he have? Show your work.
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Question 305489:
Irving’s total cash was only $2.50. Then, how many nickels and dimes would he have? Show your work.
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Question 305512: g(1)
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Question 305535: my question is
at what annual rate compounded continuously will $1,000 have to be invested to amount to $2,500 in 10 years?
i know the answer is 9.16% an you use the formula A=Pe^rt
but how do you find the answer on the caculator and what numbers go where?
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Question 305557: How many gallons of a 3% salt solution must be mixed with a 7% salt solution to obtain 100 gallons of a 5% salt solution?

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Question 305595: four less than the quotient of eighteen and a number is equivalent to five
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Question 305757: this is my question please solve and send it in to my mail id nitin_sharma38@rediffmail.com please
Q"- A aeroplane flies 3500 km at the same time train travel 600 km. if the aeroplane flies 50 km/h more than 5 times of the speed of the train than find the speed of the aeroplane and the train?
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Question 305685: A motorboat travels at a speed of 40 km/h relative to the surface of the water. If it travels upstream against a current of 12 km/h what is the boats speed relative to the shore?

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Question 305846: The sum of the interior angles of a triangle can be represented by three consecutive even integers. Name the three integers and show the steps in finding them
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Question 305879: what is the equation of the line through (-7,-4)and vertical?
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Question 305893: At full speed an airplane can travel 2800 miles with the wind in 4 hours but it requires 7 hours to travel the same distance against the wind. In miles per hour what is the maximum speed of the plane in air?
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Question 305944: How many 2-inch square blocks can fit inside the SQUARE figure below?
20 inch-TOP/BOTTOM
10 inch-SIDE BY SIDE
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