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Question 257553: A student who has already completed 30 semester-hours with a GPA of 2.50 at Harper college needs to raise her GPA to 2.75 to meet transfer requirements into one college program. How many semester hours with a grade of A would be required to meet this goal? How many grade points will the student have if this goal is met? (Assume an A = 4 points)
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Question 257653: In Mississippi, a child is eligible for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) if the child’s family meets an income limit. For a family of four, the family income must be no more than $3067. For a family of six, the family income must be no more than $4114.
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Question 257688: i dont understand in a word problem of how to set it up and how to solve it.
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Question 257685: Jack usually mows his lawn in 7 hours. Marilyn can mow the same yard in 5 hours. How much time would it take for them to mow together?
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Question 257832: The length of a table is 13 inches more than its width. If the area of the table is 1598 square inches, what is its length?
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Question 257893: the average salary for registered nurses is $3500 less than three times the average salary for janitors. combined, their average salaries are $74,060. Determine the average salary for each of these jobs.
Please help i am really bad at word problems please show me how you got the anwser
thank you. holly b
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Question 257914: How many real solutions (x,y) are there that satisfy the two equations
x^2 + y^2= 30 and 4y^2 − x^2= 100?

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Question 258029: Janet invested $27,000, part at 15% and part at 9%. If the total interest at the end of the year is $3,390, how much did she invest at 15%?
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Question 258028: Sheri drove southeast from Albuquerque to Roswell and then south to Carlsbad. She averaged 75 mph along the route from Albuquerque to Roswell and averaged 70 mph from Roswell to Carlsbad. She covered the entire 220 miles in 3 hours. How long did she take to drive from Albuquerque to Roswell?
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Question 258103: A weather balloon can ascend at a rate of up to 800 feet per minute. Write an inequality showing the relationship between the distance the balloon can ascend and the number of minutes.
Can the balloon ascend to a height of 2 miles within 15 minutes?(Hint: 1 mile is equal to 5280 feet.)
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Question 258107: To avoid the bends, a diver should ascend no faster than 30 feet per minute. Write an inequality showing the relationship between the depth of a diver and the time required to ascend to the surface.
If a diver who begins at a depth of 77 ft ascends to the surface in 2.6 minutes, is the diver in danger of developing the bends?
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Question 258105: The organizers of a bicycle trip have a budget of $450 to buy spare tires and tire repair kits. They can buy spare tires for $18 each and repair kit for $15 each. Write an inequality showing the different ways the organizers can spend their budget. Can the organizers of the bicycle trip buy 15 spare tires and 10 tire repair kits and still be within their budget?
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Question 258121: The sum of two numbers is 206. the second number is 48 more than the first. Find the numbers. Write a system of equations and solve.
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Question 258120: The number of girls in the swim club is 11 less than two thirds the number of boys. If there are 79 children in the swim club, how many are boys and how many are girls?
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Question 258209: The perimeter of a rectangle is 118m. The length is 2m more than twice the width. Find the dimensions.
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Question 258124: Ryan and Juan collect baseball cards. Together they have 880 cards. Juan has 125 less than twice as many as Ryan. How many cards does each have? Write a system of equations and solve.
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Question 256986: How do I convert 11-6x=3 to a log?
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Question 258432: An airplane travels 900 miles from Houston to Miami in 6 hours against the wind. On its trip, with the wind, it takes only 5 hours. Find the rate of the airplane with no wind. Find the rate of the wind
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Question 258526: jim and sue have 72 coins that are nickels and dimes. The value of the coins is 5.80. How many of each do they have?
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Question 258613: Im having a problem graphing this equation....
600=350+1.25x
250=1.25x
May someone expain how to graph this on a coordinate plane
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Question 258937: I have to to graph these two linear equations on a coordinate plane but i don't know what linear form these linear equations are in, and i do not know how to graph it...
600=350+1.25x
250=1.25x
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Question 259012: the sum of two numbers is 50. the first number is 43 less than twice the second number. write and solve a system of equations to find the two numbers?
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Question 259336: an 8-foot tall cylindrical water tank has a base of diameter 6 feet.
how much water can the tank hold?
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Question 259608: a ski shop sells recreational skis with lengths ranging from 150 centimeters to 220 centimeters. the shop recommends that recreational skis be 1.16 times the skier's height(in centimeters). for which heights of skiers does the shop not provide recreational skis?
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Question 259615: you and some friends are taking a trip to a museum. parking costs $15, and the price of a ticket is $14.50. write an equation that give the total cost c(in dollars) of the trip as a function of the number p of people who are going??
im thinking the answer is 14.50p+15=c.... but im not sure if im right or not
thank you so much

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Question 259714: write a system of two equations in two unknowns. Ziggy's famous yougurt blends regular yogurt that is 3% fat with its no fat yogurt to obtain low fat yogurt that is 1% fat. How may 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 259715: Write a system of two equations in two unknowns. The probability that San Francisco plays in the next Super Bowl is nine times the probability that they do not play in the next Super Bowl. The probability that San Francisco plays in the next Super Bowl plus the probablity that they do not play is 1. What is the probability that San Francisco plays in the next Super Bowl?
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Question 259644: A caterer charges a fixed cost for preparing dinner plus an additional cost for each person served. You know the cost for 100 students will be $750 an the cost for 150 students will be $1050
Find the caterers fixed cost And the cost per student served.
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Question 259720: Mike and Tina each had iPods . Tina had 4/5 as many songs as Mike. When Mike accidentally erased 27 songs from her iPod, Tina had twice as many songs as Mike. How many songs did Mike originally have?
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Question 259674: Billy spends 250 min/wk working out. His ratio of time spent on aerobics to time spent on weight training is 3 to 2. How many minutes per week does he spend on aerobics? How many minutes per week does he spend on weight training?
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Question 259774: In a family there are two cars. The sum of the average miles per gallon obtained by the two cars in a particular week is . The first car has consumed gallons during that week, and the second has consumed gallons, for a total of miles driven by the two cars combined. What was the average gas mileage obtained by each of the two cars in that week?

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Question 259836: Two rainstorms occurred in one week in a certain area. In the first storm 25 ml of rain fell per hour, and in the second storm 20 ml of rain fell per hour. Rain fell that week for a total of 70 hours for a total rainfall of 1550 ml . How long was each storm?
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Question 259867: Passengers versus freight. A freight train takes 1 1/4 hours to get to the city; a passenger train averaging 40mph faster takes only 45 minutes to cover the same distance. What is the average speed of the passenger train?
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Question 260179: A salesman for an electronics company finds that the number of mp3 players that he can sell during a month depends on the price. When they are priced at $100, he can sell 50 of them. When the price drops to $50, he can sell 250 of them. Write a linear equation in the form p = mn + b, where n represents the number sold and p represents the price, that reflects this (and m is the slope and b is the p-intercept).
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Question 260308: Bob and Kate are brother and sister. Bob has twice as many sisters as brothers, and Kate has as many brothers as sisters. How many boys and girls are there in this family?
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Question 260322: for a new diet pill, 50 pills will be supplied at a price of $30, while 80 pills will be supplied at a price of $50. Write a linear supply function for this product
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Question 260349: When 10 cubic feet of water is poured into an empyt fish tank (rectangular Prism), the tank becomes 3/4 full. If the tank is 2 feet 8 inces wide and 40 inches long, how tall is the tank?
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Question 260392: the rate to rent a certain truck is $55 per day and 20 cents per mile your family pays $80 to rent this truck for one day how many miles did your family drive?
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Question 260399: given that the angles of a triangle are (2x+20)degree, (x+25)degree and (2x-15)degree calculate the size of each angle
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Question 260483: three times one number equals twice a second number. twice the first number is 3 more than the second number. find the numbers
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Question 260483: three times one number equals twice a second number. twice the first number is 3 more than the second number. find the numbers
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Question 260483: three times one number equals twice a second number. twice the first number is 3 more than the second number. find the numbers
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