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Question 758753: I cannot figure this one out. Please help. Thank you.
Fertilizer with weed control costing $30 per 50-pound bag is to be mixed with a less expensive fertilizer costing $6 per 50-pound bag to make 12 bags of fertilizer that can be sold for $26 per bag. How many bags of cheaper fertilizer should be used?
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Question 758598: The Golden Cup Coffee Shop sells Hawaiian Kona coffee for $36.50 per pound
and Sulawesi Kalossi coffee for $13.00 per pound . The coffee shop also makes a homemade blend of
these two coffees that sells for $20.52 per pound (obviously a high-end coffee shop!!). How much of
each coffee should they blend together to make a 100 lb bag of the blend?
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Question 758338: You are the manager of a theater. On saturday morning you are going over the ticket sales for Friday evening. A total 750 tickets were sold. the tickets for adults and children sold for $7.50 and $4.00, respectively, and the receipts for the performance were $3808.50. however, your assistant manager did not record how many of each type of tickets were sold. From the information you have, can you determine how many of each type were so
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Question 758393: Kara's custom tees experienced fixed costs of $400 and a variable costs of $4 a shirt. Write an equation that can be used to determine the total expenses enountered by Kara's custom tees.
Let x be the number of shirts and let C(x) be the total cost of producing x shirts.
C(x) = . Simplify the answer
The cost of producing 7 shirts is $
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Question 758175: In a triangle, the measure of the first angle is twice the measure of the second angle. The measure of the third angle is 28 degrees more than the measure of the second angle. What is the measure of each angle?
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Question 758202: Please help me solve this word problem: a company buys pens at the rate of $6.50 per box for the first 10 boxes, $5.50 per box
for the next 10 boxes, and $4.50 per box for any additional boxes. how many boxes of pens can
be bought for $183.00? Thank you.
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Question 757795: Martin likes watching zombie movies. He predicts that the number of zombie movies, Z, he has seen can be modelled using the formula:
Z= 3x - 54
b) Find how old Martin was when he saw his very first zombie movie.
c) How many zombie movies does Martin watch each year?
d) How old will Martin be when he has watched a total of:
60 zombie movies (ii) 100 zombie movies
e)Give two reasons why the results in part (d) could turn out to be wrong when he actually reaches those ages.
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Question 757654: A boy counts toads at 22/min and then frogs at 18/min. He counts for a total of 4 mins and realizes that he has counted an equal number of toads and frogs. How long did he count toads?
I know he counted frogs longer because they are slower. I know he counted toads at 4/min faster.
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Question 757654: A boy counts toads at 22/min and then frogs at 18/min. He counts for a total of 4 mins and realizes that he has counted an equal number of toads and frogs. How long did he count toads?
I know he counted frogs longer because they are slower. I know he counted toads at 4/min faster.
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Question 757539: A couple of girls go for a horse race clockwise around the outside of a rectangular field.
The rectangular field has 'a' as the shortest side and 'b' as the long side of a rectangle.
Mary runs all around the field for a total of 20km. Annabelle only gets half way along the first side marked with 'b' before cutting straight across the field, before heading back to the start. She in total rides for 16 km. What are the dimensions of the field?
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Question 757040: Kevin and Randy Muise have a jar containing 43 coins, all of which are either quarters or nickels. The total value of the coins in the jar is $6.95. How many of each type of coin do they have? Please help! thanks.
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Question 756437: Over the weekend, Rachel and Morgan drove to Chicago to go shopping. Now they're preparing to go home. Morgan needs gas for her jeep, which gets 27 miles per gallon for gas mileage. When she stops at the gas station, she already has 8 gallons of gas in her tank. She buys more gas for $1.50 per gallon. If Morgan spends $17.50 on gas, what is the total distance the girls could travel? Round, if necessary, to the nearest tenth.
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Question 756227: The specifications of a solution require 6.5 liters of a 26% solution. There are premixed solutions of 10% and 50%. Write a system of equations in terms of x and y to calculate the number of liters of each premixed solution that you must use to create the specified solution.
Solve the system of equations to determine how many liters of each solution you need to use.
Number of liters of 10% solution...
Number of liters of 50% solution...
Someone has ordered 1 liter of 5% solution. Can you create this solution? Explain.
Someone else has ordered 3 liters of a 64% solution. Can you create this solution? Explain.
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Question 755186: each bus holds 40 students and 3 teacher and costs $1200 to rent. Each van holds 8 student and 1 teacher and cost $100 to rent. The school has at least 400 student wanting to go, but at most 36 teachers. What is the minimum transportation cost? Make V ans equal "x"
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Question 755223: I require assistance with this question,
"Jim had x Marbles and Won 18. How many does he have now? When Jim counted his marbles he found he had three times as many as when he started. How many did he have to start with?"
I believe he has x + 18 in the first question but im confused with what i should do with the second one.
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