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Question 163011: Yolanda invests $6,000. Some of the money is invested in stocks paying 6% a year and some in bonds paying 11% a year. She receives a total of $580 each year from these investments. How much money is invested in stocks and how much money in bonds?
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Question 163940: 2. A new virus is released on the internet; the administrator of a department's Local Area Network ( LAN) is given five minutes by a manager to estimate the impact. The administrator samples 15 of the PCs connected to the LAN, and finds that 9 are infected; use proportion to estimate the number of infected PCs if there are a total of 202 PCs connected to the LAN.
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Question 163941: . An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new server can handle 41,000 "hits" (users accessing the site) per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 105,000 hits per second; but every month, the peak demand increases by 2800 hits per second. Use a proportion equation to determine how many new servers the administrator should buy to address expected traffic for the next 24 months.
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Question 165445: 9:62 The web-based company Oh Baby! Gifts has a goal of processing 95 percent of its orders on the same day they are received. If 485 out of the next 500 orders are processed on the same day, would this prove that they are exceeding their goal, using a=.025? (See story.news.yahoo.com accessed June 25, 2004.)
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Question 166076: david is taking a long car trip. his gas tank holds about 16 gallons. he fills up at the beginning of the trip. he looks down at the dashboard after a while, and notices the tank is now around 3/4 full, and he has gone about 70 miles.
a)how far could he go on a full tank
b)his total trip is about 500 miles. how much gas will he use?
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Question 166867: If car A get's 27 miles to the gallon and car B gets 9 miles to the gallon car A uses 2 gallons to go 54 miles. How many gallons does car B use to go the same distance.
We know the answer...just need to know how to write it in proportions.
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Question 167538: A PARTICULAR CAKE RECIPE SERVES 3 PEOPLE AND CALLS FOR 1.25 CUPS OF FLOUR AND 2 CUPS OF SUGAR.ANDRE SEARCHES HIS CUPBOARDS AND FINDS 3.25 CUPS OF FLOUR AND 8.75 CUPS OF SUGAR. IF HE USES THE RECIPE TO BAKE THE LRGEST CAKE POSSIBLE WITH THESE INGREDIENTS, HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL IT SERVE?
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Question 167799This question is from textbook Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
: Use a proportion to solve. Floral designers often create arrangements where the glower height to container ratio is 5 to 3. The FIU Art Museum wishes to create a floral display for the opening of a new show. They know they want to use an antique Chinese vase from their collection that is 13 inches high. How tall will the entire flower arrangement be if they use this standard ratio? Now I tried to work this out and I did  with my final answer 22 inches but that is not correct.This question is from textbook Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
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Question 167974This question is from textbook
: Section 5-4
A Boeing 747 jet is approximately 230 ft long and has a wingspan of 195 ft. If a scale model of a plane is about 40cm long, what is the model's wingspan?This question is from textbook
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Question 167933This question is from textbook
: Section 5-4
The amount of gold jewelry and other products is measured in karats(K), where 24K represents pure gold, the mark 14k on a chain indicates that the ration between the mass of the chain is 14:24. If a gold ring is marked 18k and it weighs 0.4 oz, what is the value of the gold in the ring if pure gold in value at $300 per oz?This question is from textbook
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Question 168763This question is from textbook
: Tom, Dick and Mary decided to share expenses for a class party. Tom bought $28 worth of pizza, Dick bought $20 worth of ice cream,and Mary bought $15 worth of soft drinks. How much should each person pay in order that each of them spends the same amount of money and how might they accomplish this?This question is from textbook
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Question 168763This question is from textbook
: Tom, Dick and Mary decided to share expenses for a class party. Tom bought $28 worth of pizza, Dick bought $20 worth of ice cream,and Mary bought $15 worth of soft drinks. How much should each person pay in order that each of them spends the same amount of money and how might they accomplish this?This question is from textbook
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Question 170096: Ratio and Proportion
2. A new virus is released on the internet; the administrator of a department's Local Area Network ( LAN) is given five minutes by a manager to estimate the impact. The administrator samples 15 of the PCs connected to the LAN, and finds that 9 are infected; use proportion to estimate the number of infected PCs if there are a total of 202 PCs connected to the LAN.
This problem has me totally confused! Again, I am not good a word problems. I never know where to start, I have been trying to work out the problem, but I don't know where to begin. Please help me!
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Question 170097: Ratio and Proportion
1. A lawyer bills her clients $200 per hour of service. If a client's case requires 39 hours to complete, use proportion to calculate how much the client will owe the lawyer (excluding tax).
I am having a really hard time figuring out this word problem. I have always had trouble figuring them out because I never know where to begin. I figured it I multiply 39*200=7,800.00, but I know this is totally wrong. Can you please help me! I have two more word problems to do that are similar to this. Thank you so much for assisting.
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Question 170098: Ratio and Proportion
3. An administrator of a popular web site is told that a new server can handle 41,000 "hits" (users accessing the site) per second. The web site currently experiences a peak demand of about 105,000 hits per second; but every month, the peak demand increases by 2800 hits per second. Use a proportion equation to determine how many new servers the administrator should buy to address expected traffic for the next 24 months.
Again, I am stumped on word problems. I had 24 questions and the last three are word problems that totally gets me confused because I don't know where to begin and what information I need to get started. Can someone please help me with this? It would be greatly appreciated!
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Question 170761: An environmental scientist wants to estimate the number of carp in a pond. He captures 100 carp, tags all of them, and releases them. A week later he captures 85 carp and records how many have tags. His results are shown in the table. Write and solve a proportion to estimate the number of carp in the pond.
Table...
Status.........Number Captured
Tagged 20
Not tagged 65
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Question 170881: A particular shade of paint is made by mixing 5 parts red paint with 7 parts blue paint. To make this shade, Shannon mixed 12 quarts of blue paint with 8 quarts of red paint. DId Shannon mix the correct shade? explain.
all i got was...
R/B=5/7
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Question 171330: [Question]
Length of flag = 10 feet; width of flag =
TABLE
width of flag = 1
length of flag = 1 9/10
I understand basic ratio/proportions however, finding the proprotional
width of the flag doesn't compute.
[Thoughts]
I'm helping my son with his homework without much luck!
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