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Question 220097: -5002=4+x
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Question 220128: write the result in standard form (3+2i)-(5-7i)
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Question 220127: simplify this expression 7+2[3(x+1)-2(3x-1)
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Question 220183: n+n=25
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Question 220182: 2n-9=n
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Question 220278: 4/x = 2
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Question 220065: How do you solve the following equations? Thanks!
-2x^2 – 2x +24 = 0
and
4x^2 + 11x = 3
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Question 220293: correction to first one
Solve 3x^1/2 + 12 = 9
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Question 220298:
-3/4x + 5=2 and the 3/4 is a fraction and so i was wondering if you could show me this problem step by step so i will know how to do it and understand this multi-step problem??
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Question 220325: how do you solve 4(m+3)+7=4m+19
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Question 220325: how do you solve 4(m+3)+7=4m+19
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Question 220294: I need an equation that has a domain of [-4, 5/3) U (5/3, infinity)
if you could at least walk me through how to find it, that would be great.
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Question 220407: 2/5x + 10=0 what does x equal?
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Question 220392: Solve for the variable .
-3 = 1 2/5 + x
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Question 220479: (5,8),x + 7y=5
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Question 220546: Solve for x. 4(3-x)+6= x over 2

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Question 220594: 5t-26=18t
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Question 220597: maya needs to measure 9 1/2 cups of sugar she only has a 1/4 cup to measure with. how many 1/4 cups should she use?

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Question 220597: maya needs to measure 9 1/2 cups of sugar she only has a 1/4 cup to measure with. how many 1/4 cups should she use?

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Question 220646: 8z-7=3z-7+5z
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Question 220640: A physician monitored the effects of aspirin in patients and found that if originally 200mg of aspirin is administered for a headache, sometime later, say 20minutes, only 50% of the aspirin will still be in the bloodstream. after 40 minutes, only 50 mg will still be in the bloodstream and after 60 minutes, only 25mg.
a) determine a formula to establish the amount of aspirin in the bloodstream after t minutes.
b) how long will it take for the bloodstream to be free of aspirin?
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Question 220726: This is a word problem my son just had on a quiz and I couldn't solve either. I thought we didn't have enough info.
Marshfield Middle school cluster C has 100 students in honors pre-algebra
Cluster C has 30 students enrolled in after school math enrichment.
If 105 cluster C students are in only one or the other of these, how many students are in both?
Tried a venn diagram to get my mind around it, didn't work. (I keep thinking I need to know the total enrollment of honors pre-alg plus after school)my son said he got 12.5 as an answer, but the teacher said it would come out as a whole number.
Thanks, Trish
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Question 220727: How do I solve this 6q-14=11q-19
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Question 220735: Solve for x:
2x+3=0
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Question 220776: The larger of two numbers is three more than five times the smaller. If the sum of the two numbers is 27, find thae larger number
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Question 220774: The sum of two consecutive even integers is 40. find the two integers.
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Question 220837: How do I solve 4(w+3)=w-15?
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Question 220839: how do i solve this? -8(3y-7)=56
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Question 220919: I need to factor completely, but forgot how.
8x^3-27^6
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Question 220927: solve by the substitution method.
7x + 9y = 32
-6x + y = 51
the solution is ___? (type an ordered pair)

Thank you
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Question 220926: solve by the substitution method.
9x - 4y = -44
7x + 49 = y
The solution is ___? (type an ordered pair)

Thank you very much :)
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Question 220924: solve by the substitution method.
6m + n = 28
m - 3n = 11
The solution is ___? (type an ordered pair)

Thank you =)
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Question 220923: solve by the substitution method.
3x + 9y = 3
-4x + y = 22
The solution is ___? (type an ordered pair)

Thank you =)
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Question 220969: Write the following phrase as a variable expression. Use x to represent "a number".
The sum of eight and a number added to the product of fourteen and the number.
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Question 220967: solve using the elimination method
5r-6s=-5
6r+5s=55
The answer should be an ordered pair and either an integer or fraction.
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Question 220967: solve using the elimination method
5r-6s=-5
6r+5s=55
The answer should be an ordered pair and either an integer or fraction.
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Question 220973: would the solution (5,5) mean that there are no solutions to the equation or that there are infinitely many solutions?
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Question 220976: A 12cm piece of tubing is cut into two pieces. One piece is 4 cm longer than the other. How long are the pieces?
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Question 220978: Find three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the first, two times the second, and three times the third is 82.
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Question 220977: The product of 6 and nine times a number is the same as the difference of ten times the number and 2. What is the number?
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Question 221048: I need help on this word problem setting up the equation. A 2000L tank containing 550L of water is being filled with water at the rate of 75L per minute from a full 1600L tank. How long will it be before the two tanks have the same amount of water? X equals time. Not sure how to set up this equation and solve.
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Question 221017: I really cannot figure this out! Please help!!!
A disk jockey must play 12 commercial spots during one hour of a radio show. Each comercial is either 30 seconds or 60 seconds long. If the total commercial time during one hour is 8 minutes, how many 30-sec commercials were played that hour? How many 60-sec commercials?
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Question 221103: the length of a triangle is twice the width. The perimeter is 84 centimeters more than the width. Find the rectangles dimensions. Please help. How do you find this out without knowing the perimeter. Thank you.
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