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Question 157776: It took the Gibbons family 2 days to travel 925 miles to their vacation home. They traveled 75 miles more on the first day than on the second. How many miles did they travel each day?
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Question 158135: Hello,
I am trying to translate: The sum of two numbers is fifteen. One less than three times the smaller is equal to the larger. Find the two numbers. Thanks.
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Question 158168: Hooke's Law states that the distance, d, a string is stretched varies directly with the force, F, applied to the spring. If a force of 12 pounds stretches a spring 3 inches, how far will the spring stretch when a force of 30 pounds is applied?
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Question 158657: Suppose we buy four similar jackets and three similar shirts. If each jacket costs $35 more than one of the shirts, and we spend a total of $455, what is the price of each jacket and each shirt?
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Question 158692: on average, a canada goose can fly 10 mph faster than a great blue heron. find their flying speeds if a goose can fly 120 miles in the same time it takes a heron to fly 80 miles
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Question 158758: In a group of 120 students, 75 know how to use a Macintosh, 65 know how to use a IBM compatible computr and 20 do not know how to use either kind. How many sstudents know how to use both computers?
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Question 159150: #69 Find the interest on a $5000 bond that pays an annual percent rate of 61/2% for 6 years.
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Question 159211: A train travels at an average speed of 20 mph through urban areas, 50 mph
through suburban areas, and 75 mph through rural areas. If a trip consists of
traveling half an hour through urban areas, 3-1/2 hours through suburban areas,
and 3 hours through rural areas, what is the train’s average speed for the entire
trip?
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Question 159262: Jim puts $5000 in a savings account. At the end of a year the account had earned $540 in interest. What was the yearly interest rate on the account?
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Question 159296: The average of two numbers is 7. Find the numbers if three times one of the numbers is one half the other number.

I can not figure ths out. I can not get it written into two equations.
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Question 159297: All 28 members in Crestview High School's Ski Club went on a one day ski trip. Members can rent skis for $16 per day or snowboards for $19 per day. The club paid a total of $478 for rental equipment. How many members rented skis and how many rented snowboards?
How do you translate this into equations?
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Question 159299: one side of a triangle is three meters less than twice the length of the shortest side and the third side is seven meters more than twice the length of the shortest side. if the triangle's perimeter is 114 meters, find the lengths of each of the three sides.
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Question 159300: in 1 2/5 hours more time, Janet Wood, riding her bicycle at 14 mph, rode 12 miles farther than Chrissy Snow, who was riding her bicycle at 16 mph. how far did each girl ride their bicycle?
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Question 159355: I have twice as many nickels as quarters. If the coins are worth $4.90, how many quarters are there?
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Question 159355: I have twice as many nickels as quarters. If the coins are worth $4.90, how many quarters are there?
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Question 159403: A boat moves 9 kilometers upstream in the same amount of time it moves 19 kilometers downstream. If the rate of the current is 9 kilometers per hour, find the rate of the boat in still water.
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Question 159404: Julie and Eric row their boat (at a constant speed) 40 miles downstream for 4 hours, helped by the current. Rowing at the same rate, the trip back against the current takes 10 hours. Find the rate of the current.

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Question 159467: Jorge bought s 40 cent stamps and three times as many 25 cent stamps. How many dollars did he spend?
.40s +3s(.25)= x
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Question 159779: ) In 1/4 of an hour more time. Jack. riding his bicycle at 12 miles per hour, rode 6 miles farther than Nikki, who was riding her bicycle at 10 miles per hour. How long did Jack ride?
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Question 159869: Jims weekly pay is two thirds of Alicia's. Together they earn $600 per week. Week. What is each person's weekly pay?
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Question 160083: Eight students signed up to play doubles tennis. The coach wants to try all possible two player teams to find the best combination. How many different teams are there.
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Question 160155: Write an equation for the line that passes through (-2,1) and (7,-3)
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Question 160155: Write an equation for the line that passes through (-2,1) and (7,-3)
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Question 161160: 1.one number is 11 more than another number. find the two numbers if three times the larger number exceeds four times the smaller number by 4.
2.if the first of two consecutive integers is multiplied by 3, this product is 20 more than the sum of the two integers. find the integers.
3.five times the first of three consecutive even integers is 4 less than twice the sum of the second and third. find the integers.
4.the sum of three numbers is 49. the second number is three times the first number and the third number is 6 less than the first number. find the three numbers.
5.the numerator of a fraction is 2 more than the numerator. if the numerator is decreased by one and the denominator is increased by 2, the value of the original fraction and the new one is 7/3. find the original fraction.
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Question 161315: Translate into an equation.
26 more than the product of a number and 17 is -42.
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Question 161925: I seriously do not get this; i am suppose to translate this into a math equation.
Twice the square of a number increased by five times the product of the number and three more than the number is the opposite of the quotient of six and the number.
???

Thank you for your time.
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Question 162151: a video game is purchased for a total of $18.90 including sales tax. If the tax rate is 5% find the original price of the video game before sales tax.
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Question 162159: Instructions: Analyze each word problem. Write the equation you would use to solve the problem, but do not solve it.
The number of girls in Mrs. Conn's math class is 2 less than 3 times the number of boys. She has 26 students in her class. How many boys are in the class?
So basically, i'm trying to get the equation not the answer so can anyone help me please. i got 3n-2x=26???
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Question 162161: Thirty students bought pennants for the football game. Plain pennants cost $4 each and fancy ones cost $8 each. If the total bill was $168, how many students bought the fancy pennants.
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Question 162366: dianne has six steel balls of equal mass. if she puts five of them in one pan of a beam balance and one ball and a 100 g mass in the other pan, the pans balance each other. what is the mass of each steel ball?
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Question 162427: cost of promotional activities in the last financial year is £80,000.stationery is 9%,leaflets is 25%,brochures is 33%,advertising is 18%,flyers is 15%. it is estimated that 18,800 will be spent on advertising this year.by approximately what percentage will this have increased from last year.
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Question 162644: A parking lot has a perimeter of 600ft. The width is 30ft less than the lenght. Find the dimensions of the parking lot.
Thank you.
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Question 162680: A homeowner wants to fence a rectangular garden using 120ft of fencing. The side of the garage will be used as one side of the rectangle. Find the dimension for which the area is a maximum.

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Question 162645: A homeowner wants to fence a rectangular garden using 120ft of fencing. The side of the garage will be used as one side of the rectangle. Find the dimenstions for which the area is a maximum.
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Question 162893: Hann paid $1.50 each for programs to the game, he sold all but 20 of them for $3 dollars each and made a profit of $15. how many programs did he buy?

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Question 163123: A gardener has a garden that is 20 feet wide and 100 feet long. She wants to have a stone border (along all 4 edges of the garden and inside of the garden) of uniform width. The stone border should use 100 square feet of crushed stone. How wide should the border be in inches?

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Question 163127: How many gallons of distilled water must be mixed with 75 gallons of 30% alcohol solution to obtain a 25% solution?
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Question 163124: A textbook publisher plans to market a new algebra textbook. The fixed costs associated with the text's publication are $270,000, and the variable costs are $38 per textbook. The text will be sold to retailers for $90. How many texts must be sold for the publisher to show a profit? Round to the nearest whole number.
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Question 163445: find three consecutive even integters such that five times the second equals twice the sum of the first and third
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Question 163445: find three consecutive even integters such that five times the second equals twice the sum of the first and third
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Question 163490: Please help me with this problem:
It costs $28.95 per day plus $0.15 per mile to rent a car.

How much is charged for renting the car for one day and driving 220 miles?
Thank you.
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