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Question 115373: for the hawks' 80 basketball games next year, you can buy seperate tickets for each game at $9 each, or you can buy a season ticket for $580. at most how many games could you attend at the $9 price before spending more than the cost of a season ticket?





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Question 110636: C-17 Without using the Pythagorean theorem find the missing angles. Side d is 10, side B inside is 60 degrees, find side A.
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Question 115405: C-3 Plumbing: The length of a rectangular pipe is three times longer than its width.. Find the dimensions that give a cross-sectional area of 75 sq. in.
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Question 115403: x=1-7x^2
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Question 115404: 11-1 Landscaping: A 24-ton mixture of crushed rock is needed in a construction job; it will cost $800. If the nixture is composed of rock costing $30 per ton and $40 per ton, how many tons of each should be added?
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Question 115828: C-2 Manufacturing The capacity in gallons of a cylindrical tank can be found using the formula
C=pieD^2L/924
where
C=capacity in gallons
D=diameter of tank in inches
L=length of tank in inches
(a) Find the diameter of a 42-in-long tank that has a capacity of 30 gallons.
(b) Find the diameter of a 60-in-long tank that has a capacity of 50 gallons.

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Question 115828: C-2 Manufacturing The capacity in gallons of a cylindrical tank can be found using the formula
C=pieD^2L/924
where
C=capacity in gallons
D=diameter of tank in inches
L=length of tank in inches
(a) Find the diameter of a 42-in-long tank that has a capacity of 30 gallons.
(b) Find the diameter of a 60-in-long tank that has a capacity of 50 gallons.

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Question 116127: Please help!!! State the domain of the following:?
a) f(x)=cuberoot (2x)-8
b) h(x)=-3x^2+5x-11
c) m(x)=5\x^2-9
d) l(x)=5x-4
e) g(x)=7x+4\x^2+4

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Question 116137: Please help with the numbers for part 2 left and right of H? Please show the work in finding the numbers?
Thank You. Consider the function .?
Consider the function .?
f(x)=x^2-8x+12
a) Find h, the x-coordinate of the vertex of this parabola.
b) Substitute the two whole number values immediately to the left and right of h into the function to find the corresponding y. Fill in the table below. Make sure your x-values are in increasing order in your table.
x y

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Question 116227: Paul is five times as old as his daughter Anna. In 12 years, Paul will be three times as old as Anna is in twelve years. How old is each one now?
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Question 116271: hi guys, we are really not getting how a algebraic equasion from a word
problem, eg
A woman is 6 yrs older than three times her daughters age. Their ages total
46. What are their ages?
Let x = daughter's age
Let 3x = mother's age
x + 3x=46 11.5 +3(11.5)=?46
4x =46
x 11.5 46=46
3x = 3(11.5)
3x= 34.5 woman's age 11.5 = daughter's age
Are we right or have we just not got it need some hints

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Question 116339: Please help.
Write the following phrase using symbols. Use the variable x to represent the number.
Eight less than three times a number
My answer is 8-3x. Is this correct.
Thanks
JMS

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Question 116280: The sum of two numbers is 18. The sum of three times the smaller and twice the larger is 44. Find the two numbers.
ISBN 971-8740-69-8 Chapter 5 no. 14 page 81

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Question 116663: A 7-foot hole is dug that measures 26 feet by 26 feet. If a truck with a capcity of 6 cubic yards is used to haul away the dirt, how many trips must the truck make?
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Question 116663: A 7-foot hole is dug that measures 26 feet by 26 feet. If a truck with a capcity of 6 cubic yards is used to haul away the dirt, how many trips must the truck make?
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Question 116667: solve for x and y

x=12-y 5x+2y=12

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Question 116800: solve 2x^2-11x-6=0
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Question 116800: solve 2x^2-11x-6=0
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Question 116805: How many 6 in. x 6 in. tiles would be needed to cover a floor that is 96 square feet?
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Question 116871: A mason is building a drystack stone wall that is 3 feet high. If each stone is 4 inches high, how many rows of stone will the wall contain?
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Question 116964: How many turns will a pinion gear having 20 teeth make if a ring gear having 37 teeth makes 185 turns?
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Question 116963: How many gallons of water can be stored in a cylindrical tank 35 ft high and 12 feet in diameter?
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Question 116962:
3x-6y=9 4x-2y=24

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Question 116962:
3x-6y=9 4x-2y=24

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Question 116799: Find A
The right triangle is 35 degrees one long side is 23m. Find A the short side.

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Question 117104: A 6000 lb SUV is being winched up a ramp onto a flatbed trailer. If the ramp is at a 25 degree angle, how much force will be required by the winch to pull the SUV up the ramp?
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Question 117190: The length of a rectangular piece of sheet steel is 2 in longer than the width. Find the exact dimensions if the area of the sheet is 168 sq. in.
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Question 116995: How many gallons of water can be stored in a cylindrical tank 35 feet high and 12 feet in diameter?
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Question 117505: A farmer drives to town at 40km/h, spends 1.5 hours in town and returns home travelling at 30km/h. If he has been away from home a total of 5 hours, how far is hes farm from town?
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Question 117450: the human brain has 10 million nerve cells and the average cell has 200 billion molecules. What is the number of molecules in a nerve cell?
10cells = 200 billion molecules
?m=10 (200m)
? = 2000 billion
Thanks for your help!

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Question 118469: The length of a rectangle is 3m more than 5 times the width.The perimeter is 126m find the length and width.
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Question 118568:
4. Three times the square of a certain positive number exceeds six times the number by nine. Find the number:

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Question 118566: The length of the shadow of a flagpole was found to be 72 feet. The shadow of a 3 foot picket fence in line with the flagpole was 4 feet. What is the height of the flagpole?
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Question 118567:
If a boat goes downstream 72 miles in 3 hours and upstream 60 miles in 6 hours, the rate of the river and the rate of the boat in still water respectively are ________?

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Question 118565: The sum of both digits, of either of two two-digit numbers, in whatever order the digits are written, is 9. The square of either of the digits of either number, minus the product of both digits, plus the square of the other digit is the number 21. The numbers are _______?
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Question 118646: If 6 men can do a piece of work in 14 days, how many men are needed to do the work in 21 days?
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Question 118647:
The width of a rectangle is 15 feet less than its length, and the perimeter is 210 feet. Find the width:

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Question 118645: 7. The sum of two numbers is 17 and the sum of their square is 145. Find the larger number.
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Question 118947: Hello can you help me with this problem.
5x+4y=12
Solve for y
Answer:[Y=-5X/4+3]
Show your work here:
b) When graphed this equation would be a line. By examining your answer to part a, what is the slope and y-intercept of this line?
Slope = [-5/4]
Y-intercept = [3]
c) Using your answer from part a, find the corresponding value of y when x =16.
[Y=-17]

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Question 118960: Hello can you help me with this problem.
5x+4y=12
Solve for y
Answer:
Show your work here:
b) When graphed this equation would be a line. By examining your answer to part a, what is the slope and y-intercept of this line?
Slope = ______
Y-intercept = _____
c) Using your answer from part a, find the corresponding value of y when x =16.

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Question 118961: Hello can you help me with this questions please.
Suppose that the width of a rectangle is 5 inches shorter than the lenght and that the perimeter of the rectangle is 50.
a) Set up an equation of the perimeter involving only L, the length of the rectangle.
Answer:
b) Solve this equation algebraically to find the length of the rectangle. Find the width as well.
Answer: Length ______, Width ______
Show your work here:

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Question 119017: if lynn can type a page in p minutes, what piece of the page can she do in 5 mintues?
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Question 119489: Could you please help me solve this equation
A tennis club offers two monthly payments options:
Option1: $42 monthly fee plus $5/hour for court rental
option2: No monthly fee but $8.50/ hour for court rental.
Let x= hours per month of court rental time.
a) Write a mathematical model representing the total monthly cost , C, in terms of X for the following:
Option 1: C=
Option 2: C=
b) How many hours would you have to rent the court so the montly cost of option 1 is less than option 2? Set up an inequality and show your work algebraically using information in part a
Thank you

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Question 119644: Ifentify the variables, coefficients,and constants in the algebraic -6x -xy +60
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Question 119916: Could you please solve this equation for me.
Suppose that the width if a rectangle is 5 inches shorter than the length and tha perimeter of the rectangle is 50. What is the width? Could you please show you work so I can get a better understanding? Thanks

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