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Question 241175: Reconciling remainders. Find a positive integer smaller
than 500 that has a remainder of 3 when divided by 5, a
remainder of 6 when divided by 9, and a remainder of 8
when divided by 11.
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Question 241238: How many centimeters equal one kilometer?
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Question 241178: I have literally spent an entire day on this question. I think that it must be an inequality and some division must take place, but I am unable to find the solution. Here is the question:
A car rental company has two rental rates. Rate 1 is $63 per day plus .18 per mile. Rate 2 is $126 per day and .09 per mile. If you plan to rent a car for one week, how many miles would you need to drive to pay less by taking rate 2?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
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Question 241163: 4 more than 3
how would i right that
4+3?
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Question 241084: A closed box is to be a rectangular solid with a square base and a volume of 12 cubic feet. Find the most economical dimensions if the top of the box is twice as expensive as the sides and the bottom?
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Question 241051: At 7:29 a.m. the temperature was -4 degrees F; at 7:32 a.m. the temperature was 45 degrees F. What was the average rate of change in temperature (per minute)?
A) 16.3 B) 49 C) -16.3 D) 24.5
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Question 240918: Give an example of the sum of two binomials that is a trinomial.
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Question 240920: Give an example of the sum of two binomials that has four terms.
Can the sum of two binomials have more than four terms?
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Question 240830: a cathedral tower 200 feet high is 250 feet from a chruch tower 150 feet high. On top of each tower is a pigeon. The two pigeons fly off at the same time and at the same speed directly to some grain on the level straight road between the towers. The pigeons reach the grain at the same time.
How far is the grain from the foot of the cathedral tower?
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Question 240745: i have a problem with an i in it and i wanted to know what these types of problems are called. here is an example:
1.) -7i+12i
(its not the ones where you would get 5i because im not talking about that way)
i hope me giving you a heads up helps
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Question 240608: Radioactive element R decays exponentially at a rate of 4% per year. If we begin with 5 grams of R, how long (to the nearest tenth of a year) will it take for only 3 grams to remain?
I started with the A=Aoe^rt where A=3 Ao=5 r=0.04 and t is what I needed to find. I then to ln3=ln5+0.04tlne. Then I got the 0.04t=(ln3-ln5)/lne....
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Question 240450: the sum of a number and 24 is equal to 4 times the number. what is the number
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Question 240232: Veronica High School has 85 seniors, each of whom plays on at least one of the school’s three varsity sports teams: football, baseball, and lacrosse. It so happens that 74 are on the football team; 26 are on the baseball team; 17 are on both the football and lacrosse teams; 18 are on both the baseball and football teams; and 13 are on both the baseball and lacrosse teams. Compute the number of seniors playing all three sports, given that twice this number are members of the lacrosse team.

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Question 240250: The four children in the Dempsey family have a combined age of 25 years. Jennifer’s oldest brother is six times as old as she is. Her next-to-oldest brother is 5 years older than she is, and the youngest of her brothers is twice Jennifer’s age. How old is each of the Dempsey children?
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Question 240249: A bag contains five red marbles, three green marbles, and four blue marbles. How many green marbles must be added to the bag so that the probability of drawing a green marble is 3/4?
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Question 240234: Find the number of revolutions made by a circular wheel of area 1.54 m2 in
rolling a distance of 176 m.
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Question 240136: Film with a width of 35 millimeters is projected onto a screen where the width is 5 meters. What is the scale factor of this enlargement?
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Question 239892: Two joggers are running around an oval track in opposite directions. One jogger runs around the track in 56 seconds. The joggers meet every 24 seconds. How many seconds does it take for the second jogger to run around the track?
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Question 240105: A wire is used to anchor a 20 foot high pole. One end of the wire is attached to the top of the pole. The other end is fastened to a stake five feet away from the bottom of the pole. Find the length of the wirse, to the nearest tenth of a foot.

Can someone help me? - not sure how to start the problem....thank you.
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Question 239952: Suppose you tie a rope around the earth at the equator (circumference approx. 25,000 miles). Let's say you pull the rope as tight as it will go and then add back 6 feet of slack before tying the knot. If the extra rope is distributed evenly around the globe will there be enough space between the rope and the surface of the earth for a worm to crawl under? Assume the earth is a perfect sphere and the rope does not stretch.
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Question 239895: Find the sum of 40 percent of 1/4 and 50 percent of 1/5.
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Question 239811: I need help with this problem.
In order for a chemical reaction to take place, the Fahrenheit temperature of the reagents must be at least 184.49ºF. Find the Celsius temperatures at which the reaction may occur. Use C =
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Question 239747: Two houses on the same side of the street have house numbers that are consecutive even integers. The sum of the integers is 58. What are the two house numbers?
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Question 239543: a house has 2 rooms of equal area. 1 room is square and the other is a rectangle 4 ft narrower and 5 ft longer than the square one. find the area of each room.

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Question 239606: I have 5 pictures, picture "A" must remain in the center. How many possible combinations/arrangements can be made with the four other pictures (b, c, d, e)?
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Question 239339: The length of the minute hand of a clock is 5 cm. Find the area swept by the
minute hand during the time period 6 : 05 a m and 6 : 40 a m.
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Question 239277: Can someone please help me with this? I need to have it done before tomorrow. Thanks in advance.
Stephanie, the Team Manager of a soccer team, purchases many soccer balls from a retailer and sells them to all the players at her soccer club at a price of x dollars each. She can sell 600 – 15x balls per week. Find a polynomial that represents the weekly revenue for the balls. Find the revenue for a week in which the price is $12 per ball. Use the parabolic graph to illustrate the law of diminishing return, if it occurs in this case. In order for Stephanie to receive the maximum weekly revenue, how would you, as Business Manager, recommend for the price per ball?
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Question 239161: Gabriella is a waitress at the Hampton Grille. In one night she earned at least $75 while working a six-hour shift. If Gebriella earned $31.50 in tips, find all possibilities for the amount she earned in wages per hour. Represent your answer both algebraically and graphically.
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Question 239153: The low temperatures for the previous two days were 62 and 58. What would the temperature for the third day need to be such that the average daily temperature is at least 64.
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Question 239043: ok i really need help on this problem. i am in honors algebra 2 and i dont know what to do. Please help me solve the word problem: A rectangle is 3 times as long as it is wide. If the length and the width are both decreased by 4 cm, the resulting rectangle has area 28cm squared. Find the dimensions of the original rectangle.
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Question 238935: The second hand of a clock is four inches long. To the nearest inch, how far does the tip of the second hand travel in 45 seconds?
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Question 238907: A student averages 84 on five tests if the student recieved 84,82,81,and 79 on the first four exams what grade did the student recieve on the fifth exam?
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Question 238777: Can you translate this into an algebraic expression?
The product of 38% and some number
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Question 238715: Your last science test was worth 180 points. The test contained 42 questions, which were worth either 3 points, or 5 points each. How many 5-point questions were on the test?
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Question 238729: Twenty-seven congruent cubes are glued together to form a larger cube. All six faces of the larger cube are painted pink. What is the product of the number of small cubes that have a single pink face and the number of small cubes that have three pink faces?
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Question 238668: A custom blend of bird seed is to be mixed from seed mixtures costing $0.75 per pound and $1.25 per pound. How many pounds of each seed mixture are used to make 200 pounds of custom-blend bird seed costing $0.95 per pound?
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Question 238679: Use inductive reasoning to predict the next complete line in the pattern.
55 - 6 = 49
565 - 67 = 498
5665 - 678 = 4987
Please help me. I have no idea where to even being
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Question 238412: separate 24 into two parts in which one number is 8 times the number
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Question 238453: two adults and three children with a canoc on moosc island want to go to canary island . the canoc can hold either one adult and one child or three children .how many trips does the canoc have to make from one island to the other to ferry everyone across ?
a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) 5 e) 6
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Question 238494: A toy company spends $1500 each day for factory expenses plus $8 fer teddy bear. How many bears must the company sell in one day to equal its daily cost?
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Question 238457: at ruthie store , donuts regularly cost 65 cents each. but on sundays, they are on sale for $6 per dozen .how much money would you save if you bought 4 dozen donuts on sale rather than at the regular price?
a) $2 b) $5.35 c) $7.20 d) $7.80 e) $24.00
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Question 238493: One health club charges a $44 sign up fee and $30 per month. Another health club charges a $99 sign up fee and $25 per month. For what number of months is the cost the same?
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Question 238435: Using Bayes Theorem: A certain disease occurs in % of the population. A test for the disease is fairly accurate: it misclassifies people with the disease as healthy % of the time and reports that a healthy person is diseased just % of the time. Suppose that a person tests positive for the disease. Compute the probability that the person does not have the disease. Round your answer to two decimal places.

I do not understand how to use this theory - so much to consider and plug into the formula. I might be overthinking it. HELP

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