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Question 325317: A card is selected from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of selecting
1. a five given the card is a not a club.
2. a heart given the card is red.
3. a face card, given that the card is black. (An ace is not a face card.)
Show step by step work. Give all solutions exactly in reduced fraction form.
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Question 325405: what is p-378
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Question 325680: On a house plan on which 2 inches represents 5 feet, the length of a room measures 7 1/2 inches. The actual length of the room is. I know how to set the problem up but don't know the next step. 2 inches/7 1/2 inches = 5/x I know to cross multiply what next Please help.
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Question 326563: cost varies directly as time.Thecost is $8.00 when the time is 2 hours. What is the constant of proportionality?
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Question 326571: 1.Which of the following statements are true about the function y =3x? I The function is a direct variation.II The function goes through the orgin.III. The constant of variation is 1/3.IV. y is 6 when x is 2.
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Question 326593: 1.Which portion could be used to solve for the height of the tree? a.6/h=10/30,b.6/10=h/30,c.6/10=40/h,d.6/h=10/40
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Question 326589: 1What is 1/2% of 50
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Question 326595: 1.A skateboard was reduced in price from &50 to $43.What was the precent decrease?
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Question 326616: a car travels at 20 meters per second what is its rate in kilometers per hours
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Question 326663: if on a scale drawing 5 inches represents 80 feet then 3/4 inch would represent how many feet?
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Question 326658: do a direct variation always goes through the origin of the coordinate plane?
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Question 326752: convert 18 quarts to gallons.
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Question 326757: what is 1.2% of 50?
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Question 326753: sam wants to leave an 18% tip for dinner.the bill is for $23.50. what equation can be used to find the total amount that sam should pay?
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Question 326622: A Direct variation always goes goes through the origin of the coordinate plane
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Question 326651: (9)/(x^2+7x+10)=(5)/(x+2)-(3)/(x+5) ...is it no solution or is there an answer? thanks
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Question 326775: The Door On A Model Building Is 2 Inches Tall.The Door On The Actual Buliding Is 8 Feet Tall.What Was The Scale used

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Question 326784: which of the foloowing is a proportion? a.2/5=4/25,b.4/6=6/9,c.4/3=6/8,d.5/6=10/18
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Question 326662: solve the provided proportion
(-2)/(x-2)=(x-3)/(8x+11)
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Question 326649: solve the provided proportion
(-2)/(x-2)=(x-3)/(8x+11)
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Question 327061: what is 16%of70?
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Question 327078: what is 16%of70?
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Question 327115: If I want to finish a 16 kilometer race in 2 hours what is the minium distance in kilometers that I should run every 15 minutes

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Question 327857: Tickets to a local movie Were sold at $6 for adults and $4.50 for students. if 270 tickets were sold for a total of $1395. how many tickets were sold of each kind?
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Question 328348: On a map 2.5 inches represents 30 miles. On the map it is 8 inches from Atown to Bville. How many miles apart are the two towns?
a.9.6 miles b.96 miles c.144 miles d.240 miles e.120 miles

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Question 328804: If on a scale drawing 5 inches represents 80 feet then 3/4 inch would represent how many feet?
I tried to divide 5 int 80 and it came out 6.66ongoing and i figured out that that was not right so i thought i would try and divide 80 into 3/4 but im not really shurr how to go about doing this question.
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Question 329299: 1/2=5/10
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Question 329444: If y varies inversely as the square of x and y = 1 when x = 2, what is the value of y when x = -4?
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Question 329639: The ratio of men to women at a certain company is 5 to 7. How many male employees does the company have if there are 204 employees?

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Question 329755: The ratio of men to women in a county is 94 to 100. How many males does the county have if there are 1082805.75 people?
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Question 330175: X+3 OVER 4= X OVER 8
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Question 330380: A JAZZ CONCERT BROUGHT IN $158,000 ON THE SALE OF 7,800 TICKETS. IF THE TICKETS SOLD FOR $15 AND $25 EACH, HOW MAY OF EACH TYPE OF TICKET WERE SOLD?
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Question 330480: Jim is making a diagram of the solar system. If he draws Neptune, which is 2795 million miles from the sun, 10 inches from the sun on his paper, how far away ( to the nearest tenth of an inch) from the sun should he draw Mars, which is 142 million miles from the sun?
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Question 331630: Problem: the instructor of an introductory computer course wants to make a wall chart of a computer desktop for students.to make it realistic the desktop icons must be proportional to the size of her 6ftX6ft wall chart. If the icons on her 15"X15" PC screen are 3/8" X 3/8" How large should they be on her wall chart?
I think I have to find out what 3/8 to 15 is ,then use that to calculate for 6ftX6ft chart. Im not able to reason out a formula .
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Question 332210: I have a space that is 9 ft long and 6 ft wide. I want to increase the dimensions of the space by the same distance each way and have the area of the new space 5 times the area of the present space. How many ft should I add to both the width and the length? Thanks
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Question 332444: A machine fills 750 cartons in 3 hours. how many cartons can this same machine fill in 8 hours
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Question 333194: A treasure map is drawn to a scale of 2 inches = 3 miles. On the map, the distance between Point A and X-marks-the-spot is 9 1/2 inches. How many actual miles does this represent.
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Question 334114: A treasure map is drawn to a scale of 2 inches = 3 miles. On the map, the distance between Point A and X-marks-the-spot is 9 1/2 inches. How many actual miles does this represent.
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Question 334252: Write the ratio of whole numbers using fractional notation write the fraction in simplist form 9.2 t0 100. I know the answer is 23/250 but how do you get this answer
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Question 334280: abbotttsville and broken branch are distance 175 millas apart. on a map, the distance between the two towns are 2.5 inches. what is the scale of the map?
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Question 334465: Show me the solution to this problem.

n/2=5/10
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Question 334465: Show me the solution to this problem.

n/2=5/10
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Question 334403: If r varies jointly as s and t, when r=90, s=8 and t=15. find r when s=7 and t=12.
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