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Question 217183: Ziggy’s Famous Yogurt blends regular yogurt that is 3% fat with its no-fat yogurt to obtain lowfat yogurt that is 1% fat. How many pounds of regular
yogurt and how many pounds of no-fat yogurt should be mixed to obtain 60 pounds of low-fat yogurt?
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Question 240864: mieko, who is 1.75 m tall, wishes to find the height of a tree. She walks 21.35 m from the base of the tree along the shadow of the tree until her head is in a position where the tip of her shadow exactly overlaps the end of the tree top's shadow. she is now 8.50m from the end of the shadows. how tall is the tree? round to the nearest hundredth
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Question 239518: Three tired and hungry people had a bag of apples. while the other two were alseep, one of the three awoke, ate one-third of the apples, and went back to sleep. Later a second person awoke, ate one-third of the remaining apples, a went back to sleep. Finally, the third person awoke and ate one-third of the remaining apples, leaving 8 apples in the bag. How many apples were in the bag originally?
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Question 238463: Tom, Bill, and Brian order two large pizzas. Tom eats two slices, while Bill and Brian both have three. If two-thirds of the total amount of pizza is remaining and assuming each of the slices represents an equal portion of the pizza, how many slices were originally in each pizza?
(A) 30 (B) 24 (C) 18 (D) 12 (E) None of the above.
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Question 238151: Can someone help me with theses two and show the work so I can try and understand it. Thanks
1. Clear fractions or decimals, solve, and check: 1/2+4m=3m-5/2
2. Combine like terms, and write in descending order: 3/4 x^3+4x^2-x^3+7
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Question 238151: Can someone help me with theses two and show the work so I can try and understand it. Thanks
1. Clear fractions or decimals, solve, and check: 1/2+4m=3m-5/2
2. Combine like terms, and write in descending order: 3/4 x^3+4x^2-x^3+7
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Question 237033: I get a 25% discount for working at Aardvark Office Supplies. If a box of paper costs me $47.25 with 5% sales tax, how much price tag read
$47.25 x 105%= $45(price before sales tax)
I cannot figure out the rest
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Question 236094: Sam invested part of his 10,000 bonus in a fund that paid an 11% profit and invested the rest in stock that suffered a 4% loss. Find the amount of each investment if his overall net profit was 650?
Please Help
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Question 236216: Karin made pressed cider with a group of campers. They wanted the counselors to have one-quarter of the cider, so they split the cider into four equal parts and put one of them aside for the counselors. The campers had 4.2 gallons of cider to drink themselves. How much cider was squeezed from the apples in the first place?
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Question 234701: Chuck receives loans totaling $12,000 from two banks. One bank charges 7.5% annual interest, and the second bank charges 9% annual interest. He paid $960 in total interest in one year. How much was loaned at each bank ?
could you show me how to set up the equation for this.
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Question 234454: Al-Kwarizmi's will was drawn up when he was near death, and his wife was expecting their first child. in his will, he stipulated that if his wife were to have a son he would inherit two-thirds of his estate and his wife the remaining one-third. if his wife was to have a daughter she would receive one-third and the wife two-thirds of his estate. as it turned out his wife had twins a boy and girl.
How should the inheritance have been divided among his wife, his son, and his daughter so that al-Kwarizmi's wishes were respected?
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