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Question 398813: Please help me with this! :)
The senior class at highschool A and highschool B planned seperate trips to the state fair. The senior class at highschool A rented and filled 4 vans and 3 busses with 125 students. Highschool B rented 4 vans and 8 busses with 240 students. Each van and each bus carried the same number of students. Find the number of students in each van and in each bus.
Thank you so much!
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Question 399380: Brad Pitt earns $1,000 every 4minutes and 48 seconds. He is in a new film and todays taping runs for 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Write an equation and solve it to find the amount of money Brad earned today. Round to nearest cents as needed
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Question 399492: I am having a hard time with this word problem, Could someone please help me? I have to solve and show my work.
For jumps that exceed 13 sec, the polynomial 173t-369 can be used to approximate the distance, in feet, that a skydiver has fallen in t seconds. Approximately how far has a skydiver fallen 20 seconds after having jumped from a plane?
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Question 399842: an air plane takes 3 hours to travel 2160 miles with the wind.the return trip took 4 hours against the speed of the wind. find the speed of the wind and the speed of the plane in still air.
and could you explain how you made the equations please?
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Question 399846: Can you please help me solve this question!
Question:Joel, Nevin and Vu contributed to a present worth $130 for Jessica. if Nevin contributes half the amount that Joel does and Vu contributes $10 less than twice the amount that Joel contributes, find the amount each person given toward the present.
my solution!
Joel+Nevin+Vu=$130
x+x/2+2x-10=130
from here i have worked out but i got the wrong answer coul you please show me the work out as well.
thank you :)
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Question 399991: One apartment is directly above a second apartment. A resident living downstairs calls his neighbor living above him and states" If one of you is willing to come downstairs we'll have the same number of people in both apartments." The upstairs resident responds,"We're all too tired to move. Why don't one of you come up here? Then we will have twice as many people up here as you've got down there." How many people are in each apartment?
A + 1 =B(2) A +1 = 2B
B + 1 =A B + 1 =A B= A- 1 substitute: A + 1 = 2(A-1) resulting in A + 1 = 2A -2
-A + 2 = -A -2
3=A
doesn't result in correct answer....
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Question 400004: Brian has no more than 16 coins. They comprise of both nickels and dimes. There are at least four times as many nickels as there are dimes. Which of the following is a system of inequalities that describes this situation?
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Question 399996: QUESTION: Does this make sense or does it not make sense?
Angles A and B are supplementary, so I modeled this condition using:
4x-2y+4=12x + 6y+12+180
Angle A: 4x-2y+4 Angle B: 12x+6y+12
>>>>ATTEMPTED SOLOUTION:
I attempted this problem knowing that supplementary angles add up to 180 degrees
This is my set up:
12x+6y+12
4x-2y+4 I divided the top equation by 6 and the bottom equation by 2 to bring it down to smaller
numbers. Resulting in the following equations
2x+y+2
2x-y+2
The "Y's" disappear leaving the equation 4x+4=180.....subtract 4 from both side of the equations 4x+176
divide by 4 on each side to isolate the variable which results in x=44
to check if the answer is correct I back substitute 44 for x in the reduced equation which resulted in
2*44 + y +2 which becomes 88 + y + 2 = 90 + y combine like terms by - y from right side equation and left side equation......move the combine 88 and 2 to = 90 resulting in 90 = 90.......which is true
since both of these equations add to 180.....I would say that this problem MAKES SENSE but the answer in the back of the book says it DOES NOT make sense............why doesn't it?
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Question 400803: Tom is a medical equipment salesman and must choose between two salary contracts. In contract A, he is paid only by commision: his pay equals 15% of his total sales each month. In contract B, he gets $275 per month plus 10% of his total sales.
For what monthly amounts will contract A give more than contract B? Use s for the monthly sales amount(in dollars), and solve your inequality for s.
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Question 401128: suppose you are starting an office cleaning service. You have spent $315 on equipment. To clean an office, you use $4 worth of supplies you. You charge 25$ per office. How many offices must you clean to break even
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Question 401187: Travel Distance: Two buses leave the same city at the same time moving in opposite directions. one travels at a rate of 5 miles per hour faster than the other. after 3 hours they are 375 miles apart. how far did each bus travel?
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Question 401188: Travel Rate: A semi truck travels on a paved road for 2 hours at an average speed of 20 miles per hour faster than it travels on a dirt road. the time spent on the dirt is 3 hours. if the entire trip is 200 miles, how fast is the truck traveling on the dirt road?
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Question 401388: The equations S = 5000 + 200x and D = 9500 – 100x express the supply S and the demand D, respectively, for a popular compact disc brand in terms of its price x (in dollars).
a) Graph the equations on the same coordinate system.
b) What happens to the supply as the price increases?
c) What happens to the demand as the price increases?
d) The price at which supply and demand are equal is called the equilibrium price. What is the equilibrium price?
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Question 401387: Ziggy’s Famous Yogurt blends regular yogurt that is 3% with its no-fat yogurt to obtain low-fat yogurt that 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 380445: problem solving - sizes of envelopes. rhetoric advertising is a direct-mail company. it determines that for a particular campaign, it can use any envelope with a fixed width of 3 1/2 in. and an area of at least 17 1/2 in. ^2. determine (in an enequality) those lengths that will satisfy the company constraints
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Question 401917: Graph system : In order ofr Martia and Peggy to compete against each other during the swimming season next year they need to be in the same weight category. Martia weighs 180 and plans to gain 2 lbs per week. Peggy weighs 250lbs and plan to lose 1 pounds per week. In which week will they weigh the same.
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Question 402326: For a certain 3-digit number, interchanging the first and last digits gives a 3-digit number 297 less than the original number. Doubling the first and last digits of the original number gives a 3-digit number and increases the sum of the digits to 15. What is the number?
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Question 402749: a student dropped his cell phone from a floor with a height of 81 feet. the heigh of the phone after t seconds is given by the quadradic equation h=-9t^2+81. how long will it take for the cell phone to hit the ground?
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Question 290513: A company makes three chocolate candies: cherry, almond, and raisin. Matrix A give the amount of ingredients in one batch. Matrix B gives the costs of ingredients from suppliers R and S. What is the cost of 100 batches of each candy using ingredients from supplier S?
Matrix A
Sugar Choc Milk
4 6 1 cherry
7 3 1 almond
4 3 1 raisin
Matrix B
R S
6 5 Sugar
6 7 Choc
2 2 milk
A) $13,200 B)$6,600 C)$12,000 D)$16,500
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Question 403121: The table lists the cost in millions of dollars for a 30-second super bowl commercial for the selected years.
table shows years as 1990,1994,1998,2004,2008
table shows cost as 0.8,1.2,1.6,2.3,2.7
a)find a linear function f that models the data.
b)estimate the cost in 1987 and compare the estimate to the actual value of $0.6 million. Did your estimate involve interpolation or extrapolation?
c)use f to predict the year when the cost could reach $3.2 million.
I am very lost here, thanks in advance for any help!
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Question 403142: At 2:00pm a runner heads north on a highway, jogging at 10 miles per hour. At 2:30pm a driver heads north on the same highway to pick up the runner. If the car travels at 55 miles per hour, how long will it take the driver to catch the runner?
Thanks for any help! :)
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Question 402710: Nicholas wants to order a pizza. He has a total of $13.00 to pay the delivery person. The pizza costs $7.50 plus $1.25 per topping. If he plans to tip 15% of the otal cost of the pizza, how many toppings can he order?
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