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Question 44788: Please help. Not sure what book this comes from.
Solve. W=Fg/a(h1-h0) for h0. Not sure how to indicate that the 1 and 0 are lower than the h. I'm not sure what to do with the Fg/a, but I came up with h1=h0/h0-1.
THank you!
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Question 44787: I need help with this question:
The expression Pi r^2 gives the area of a circle with radius r. How many square meters of wheat were destroyed when an alien ship made a crop circle of diameter 25 meters in the wheat field at the Southwest Ranch?
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Question 44787: I need help with this question:
The expression Pi r^2 gives the area of a circle with radius r. How many square meters of wheat were destroyed when an alien ship made a crop circle of diameter 25 meters in the wheat field at the Southwest Ranch?
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Question 44799: I'm having problems putting this into a formula because I feel that something is missing. Please help.
Lance bicycles 37 km/h with no wind. Against the wind he bikes 75 km in the same time it takes to bike 110 km with the wind. What is the speed of the wind?
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Question 44865This question is from textbook elementary algebra
: Recently, the Texas Junior College Teachers Association annual conference was held in Austin. At that time a taxi ride in Austin was $1.25 for the first 1/5 of a mile and $0.25 for each additional 1/5 mile. If the distance from one of the convention hotels to the airport is 7.5 miles, how much will it cost to take a taxi from that hotel to the airport?This question is from textbook elementary algebra
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Question 44981: this is a different one our instructor wrote for us. I have not a clue how to begin.
at these prices it is estimated that the number of customers is related to the amount of time they must wait as,
N = -5t(squared)+80t-280, where t is time in minutes. When there are 35 customers what is the estimated wait time?
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Question 44980: this is a different one our instructor wrote for us. I have not a clue how to begin.
at these prices it is estimated that the number of customers is related to the amount of time they must wait as,
N = -5t(squared)+80t-280, where t is time in minutes. When there are 35 customers what is the estimated wait time?
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Question 44984: I have another word problem that I would like you to check.
a square piece of cardboard is formed into a box by cutting out 3 inch squares from each of the corners and folding up the sides.
if the volume of the box needs to be 867, what size square piece of cardboard is needed? I came up with a piece that is 20 x 20
867= (17)(17)(3) 20 x 20 - 3 inch corners =
17 x 17
would 20 x 20 be the correct answer?
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Question 45103: The Fenton College Cougars made 40 field goals in a recent basketball game, some 2-pointers and the rest 3-pointers. Altogether the 40 baskets counted for 89 points. How many of each type of field goal was made?
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Question 45162: A coffee merchant has coffee beans that sell for $9 per poind and $12 per point. The two types are to be mixed to create 100lb of a mixture that will sell for $11.25 per pound.How much of each type of bean should be used in the mixture?
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Question 45360: Please solve the problem. Round your answers as needed.
The resistance, in Ohms, of a 25 foot piece of wire is given by the function  , where d is the diameter of the wire in inches. What happens to the resistance of the wire as the diameter of the wire decreases?
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Question 45461: Please solve the problem.
The polynomial function  gives the rate of gas leakage from a tank as pressure increases p units from its initial setting. Will an increase of 4 units result in a lower rate of leakage compared to the initial setting?
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Question 45496: Help!
American Products plans to lay off 10% of it's employees in its aerospace division, and 15% of its employees in its agriculture division. If altogether 12% of the 3000 employees in these two divisions will be laid off, then how many employees are in each division?
employees in these two divisions will be laid off
=12% of the 3000
=12% x 3000
=0.12 x 3000
=360
aerospace division
=10%x 360
=36
agriculture division
=15% x 360
=54
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Question 45495: Help!
American Products plans to lay off 10% of it's employees in its aerospace division, and 15% of its employees in its agriculture division. If altogether 12% of the 3000 employees in these two divisions will be laid off, then how many employees are in each division?
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Question 45617: True or False? Use examples.
(1) The graph of looks exactly like the graph of , but shifted up 1 unit.
(2) The graph of any equation in the form y = mx + b passes through the point (0,0).
(3) The ordered pair (3,4) satisfies the equation
(4) If (2,5) satisfies an equation, then (5,2) also satisfies the equation.
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Question 45616: True or False? Use examples and discuss.
(1) It is not possible to have a circle whose circumference is numerically equal to its area.
(2) When the measure of a given angle is added to three times the measure of its compliment, the sum equals the sum of the measures of the compliment and supplement of the angle.
(3) The compliment of an angle that measures less than 90 degrees is an angle that measures more than 90 degrees.
(4) Two complimentary angles cannot be equal in measure.
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Question 45751: Worker efficiency. In a study of worker efficiency at Wong Laboratories it was found that the number of components assembled per hour by the average worker "t" hours after starting work could be modeled by the formula:
N(t) = -3t³ +23t² + 8t
a. Rewrite the formula by factoring the right-hand side completely.
b. Use the factored version of the formula to find N(3).
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Question 45817: A river has a current of 2 miles per hour. Billy travels in a canoe 24 miles downstream in the same time it takes to go 16 miles upstream. Find the speed of the boat in still water.
Thank you so muche, Michelle
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Question 45813: A $98,000 trust is to be invested in bonds paying 6%, CDs paying 5%, and mortgages paying 7%. The sum of the bond and CD investment must equal the mortgage investment. to earn $6130 annual income from the investment, how much should the bamk invest in bonds?
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Question 45899: Don runs a charity fruit sale, selling boxes of oranges for $11 and boxes of grapfruit for $10. If he sold a total of 762 boxes and his total income was $8125, how many boxes of oranges did he sale?
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Question 46099: This does not make sense to me, please help me figure this out.
Geometry: Word problem..The volume of the box is represented by
(x^2-5x+6)(x+5). Find the polynomial that represents the area of the bottom of the box.
(One Side of the box shows x+2)
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Question 46124: A rectangular garden is to be surrounded by a walkway of constant width. The garden's dimensions are 30 ft by 40 ft. The total area, garden plus walkway, is to be 1800 ft2. What must be the width of the walkway to the nearest thousandth?
I came up with 3.860 ft
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Question 46134: 20. A plane took 1 hour longer to travel 560 miles on the first portion of a flight than it took to fly 480 miles on the second portion. If the speed was the same for each portion, what was the flying time for the second part of the trip?
A) 6 hours B) 8 hours C) 5 hours D) 7 hours
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