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Question 124704: Adult tickets for a play cost $10 and child tickets cost $4. If there were 30 people at a performance and the theater collected $234 from ticket sales, how many adults and how many children attended the play?
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Question 124729: |x-1|+|x-2|+|x-3|=4 Find two solutions
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Question 125901: It gave me this information. y=x^2 , squareroot y= squareroot x^2, squareroot y=|x|
where therefore since x The question is |x-3|>|2x+1|
I don't know how to solve this inequalitie.
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Question 125946: I don't know how to solve this inequalitie.: It gave me this information. y=x^2 , squareroot y= squareroot x^2, squareroot y=|x|
where therefore since x The question is |x-3|>|2x+1|
I asked this question before but is there another way to figure this out without graphing like can we actually solve it by doing the math?
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Question 125947: The question is squareroot x^2-6x+9 > 1
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Question 126012: (3 + 17) – 2(3 – 3) + 1000
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Question 126024: The equation y = 5x – 60 describes the amount of money a class of students might earn from candy bar sales. What are the slope and y-intercept of this line
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Question 126027: An employee who produces x units per hour earns an hourly wage of y = 0.80x + 11 (in dollars). Find the hourly wage for an employee who produces 19 units per hour.
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Question 126029: One number is 6 more than another. If the sum of the smaller number and 3 times the larger number is 34, find the two numbers.
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Question 126028: A student earns $0.65 for each mistake she finds in a text. Sketch the equation of direct variation.
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Question 126051:
y = sqrt(x+1)^2 - sqrt(x-1)^2
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Question 126038: Translate the following statement into an algebraic equation Let x represent the number.
6 times a number is 14 more than that number.

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Question 126026: Given f(x) = –x3 – 3x2 + 3x + 9, find f(–1), f(0), and f(1).
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Question 126015: 104 + 9 * 7
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Question 126034: The length of one of the equal legs of an isosceles triangle is 8 cm less than 4 times the length of the base. If the perimeter is 29 cm, find the length of one of the equal legs.
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Question 126033: Find two consecutive integers such that the sum of 3 times the first integer and 8 times second integer is 107
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Question 126136: Please gave me a step by step explanation/answers for the following three problems using the Absolute value of Equation. Thank you for your help
1. |2x-3|+5=26
2. |3x+5|=11
3. |3-2/5x|=9
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Question 126134: abs(2x+2)>-3
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Question 126035: Translate the following statement into an algebraic equation. Let x represent the number.
3 less than 14 times a number is 5 times that same number.

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Question 126139: Explain how to solve equations involving absolute terms by solving following problem:
| x - ¼ | = | ½ x - ¾ |

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Question 126103: The length of a rectangle is 10 in. more than twice its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 38 in., find the width of the rectangle
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Question 126373: What is the value of X? Problem: X/6 6/9
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Question 126373: What is the value of X? Problem: X/6 6/9
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Question 126409: I3x+4I The I is absolute value sign. What do I do? Thanks
_____ = 2
I2x+4I
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Question 127013: solve for x: -5x-4 > or = to 8

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Question 127512: |4-x|<5
I dont get the step your suppose to do. Do you subtrack first or what?
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Question 128066: Evaluate
|-x-2y| x= -2 y= 3
I say the answer is 4 but my daughter says -4.
Which one is right???
Thanks for your expertise!!!!
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Question 128124: Solve the absolute value equation.
4) |x2 - 9| = 7
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Question 128324: I just can't seem to figure this out.
If the average temperature of a human is 97.8 (+-1.2) degrees fahrenheit, write an absolute value inequality describing normal human body temperature.
Thanks!!
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Question 128325: For what values of x does the absolute value equation abs(x-7) = x-7 hold?
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Question 128605: find the y-intercept
-x+3y=24
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Question 128606: solve x/6+3=0
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Question 128604: write the equation of the line which has y-intercept (0,8) and is perpendicular to the line with equation y=-3x+12
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Question 128603:

given f(x)=2x^2-3x+2, find f(-3)
^ means squared

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Question 128734: |T|-4=7
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Question 129043: -1/3x-2/3y=-2 where would the two lines meet when you graph it
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Question 129429: could you please help me with this absolute value problem?Thank you in advance.
5-2 / 3x-4 /=-5 I didn't know how to make the straight lines on either side of the equation.Thank you for your time,and have a great day.
Joanie
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Question 129846: What does a "!" mean in algebra? Example: (n+1)!
Thanks!
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Question 130145: Hello, not really sure about absolute value, trying to get my information and help from internet websites. I believe the answer to number one is -19,19. I have to show both solutions to the equation that works, so I believe that is correct....Thank you!
|x+1|+20
|2m-4|=10
|2/3t+1|=8
|2x-3|<7
|5t-1|>9

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Question 130563: 1/2(3a+1)-1/3(a-5)=

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Question 130887: 2|x-5|=3x i have to solve the equation this is a problem the teacher assigned himself
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Question 131396: 5|x+4|< 10
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5, x+4 in absolute value is less than or equal to 10
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Question 132673: what is the absolut value of |-7|
Well it is 7 because it asks what is the real vaule alone without and positive or negitive
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Question 132673: what is the absolut value of |-7|
Well it is 7 because it asks what is the real vaule alone without and positive or negitive
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