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Question 389296: On Monday, Carlos drove to work in 35 minutes. On Tuesday, he averaged 9 miles per hour more and arrived 7 minutes faster. How far (in miles) does Carlos travel from home to work?
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Question 388497: you have to spend $50 on pretzels and juice for a school function. a box of pretzels costs $2.75 and package of juice drinks costs $4.00. write an equation in standard form that models the possible combinations of boxes of pretzels and packages of juice drinks that you can buy. is there a possible situation, where you purchase an equal amount of pretzels and juice boxes? explain why or why not. graph the different possible combinations.
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Question 389329: Group rate admissions to a museum cost $140.70 for a group of 42. How much would it cost for a group of 50?
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Question 389342: Your heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood through its chambers every 60 seconds. A swimming pool will hold about 65,000 gallons of water. This represents the amount of blood pumped by your heart in approximately how many weeks?
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Question 389402: What is five more than twice a number is three less than four times that same number?
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Question 389405: What is twenty more than three times a number is the same as the sum of that number and twelve?
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Question 389404: Seven less than five times a number is te same as four more than four times that same number is?
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Question 389395: Lamp posts along one side of a street are 6 km apart. If they extend for one and a half km, find the number of lamp posts along the street.

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Question 389410: a ferris wheel has a diameter of 20 meters. how far does a person travel around the wheel in one rotation.
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Question 389437: A rectangle with a perimeter of 34cm has a length that is 34cm more than twice its width. What are the dimesions of the rectangle? Show complete solution, including "let" "therefore" statements.

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Question 389447: a rectangle with a perimeter of 34cm has a length that is 3cm more than twice its width. What are the dimensions of the rectangle? Show a complete solution,including "let" and "therefore" statements.
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Question 389539: please answer this.
The weight W of an object on Mars is directly proportional to its weight B on earth. A man who weights 118.75 kg on earth weights 47.5 kg on Mars. Find the weight of a man on Mars if he weights 98 kg.
thank you :3
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Question 389584: 22. What number must be added to both the numerator and the denominator of the fraction 7/11 to give a result of ¾?
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Question 389583: 21. Divide 64 into two parts so that the difference between 2/3 of one part and ¼ of the other is equal to 28. What is the value of other part?

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Question 389585: 23. A pool can be filled with water by a large pipe within 6 hours. A smaller pipe will take 9 hours to fill the pool. How long will it take if the two pipes operate together
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Question 389578: 16. A small hose running alone can fill a tank in 20 minutes, and a larger hose running alone can fill the same tank in 12 minutes.
(a) What fraction of the tank is filled by each hose running alone in one minute?
(b) What fraction is filled by both hoses running together for one minute?
(c) How many minutes will it take both hoses working together to fill up the tank?

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Question 389565: 3. Two numbers differ by 5 and 3/5 of the greater number is equal to ¾ of smaller number. Find the numbers.
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Question 389566: 4. Two numbers differ by 9 and 4/7 of the larger number is greater than ¾ of the smaller number by 3.Find the two numbers.
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Question 389588: 1. A cyclist travels a distance of 120 km from Town A to Town B at an average speed of x km/h. if he increases his average speed by 1 km/h, he would have saved 30 minutes. Find x.
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Question 389567: 5. Find two consecutive numbers such that 4/7 of the larger exceeds 1/2of the smaller by 5.
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Question 389582: 20. At a tea-dance, there are 4 more girls than boys. For the first dance, only couples are allowed to take the floor, i.e. girls must dance with boys and girls are not allowed to dance together. If 5/7 of the boys and 2/3 of the girls take the floor for the first dance, how many boys are there altogether?
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Question 389570: 8. Find three consecutive three even numbers such that sum of 3/5 of the first, ½ of the second and 3/8 of the third is 32.
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Question 389571: 9. Find three consecutive three odd numbers such that 1/7 of the first plus 1/3 of the second plus 1/5 of the third is 63.
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Question 389569: 7. After spending 5/8 of her money on marketing, a lady had $10.50 left. How much had she at first.
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Question 389568: 6. What number must be subtracted from the both numerator and the denominator of the fraction 29/37 to make it equal to 5/7.
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Question 389574: 12. When 8 is subtracted from 3 ¾ of a number, the result is 3 times the original number. Find the number.
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Question 389573: 11. In 15 years time, Kumar will be four times as old as he is now. How old is Kumar now
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Question 389575: 13. John is ¼ as old as his father. In 8 years time , the sum of their ages will be 61.How old is John’s father
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Question 389579: 17. When 4 are added to number and the result is divided by 5, the final result is 44 less than the original number. Find the number?
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Question 389572: 10. A man left half of a sum to his wife, one third of it to his son and the remainder to be divided equally between his twin daughters. If each of his daughters received $85000, how much was the original sum of money.
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Question 389576: 14. Sarah spends 1/7 of her time on mathematics and 3/7 of her time on languages in school daily. If she spends ¾ h on mathematics, how many hours does she spend in a school per day?
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Question 389580: 18. In a class, there are four more boys than girls.1/3 of the girls and 7/11 of the boys take the train to school. If half of the class take the train, how many boys and girls are there in the class?
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Question 389563: 1. If u+v=m and 1/u+1/v=1/f, express m in term of u and f.
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Question 389564: 2. If y=p+q and z+p+q/y, express x in term of p, q and z.
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Question 389581: 19. A motorist traveled 115 km on an expressway at an average speed of 92 km/h and another 45 minutes on the other roads. If the average speed for his whole journey was 80 km/h, how far did he travel on the other road
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Question 389639: Find two numbers whose sum is 17 and whose squares total 145
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Question 389673: Evaluate and graph
a. 3x+2(x+4)< 6
b. 3(x-1)-x >2x+1
c. -2x (Less than or equal to sign) 10
d. -4(x+2) (greater than or equal to sign) -(2x=5)
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Question 389671: Evaluate and graph
a. 3x+2(x+4)< 6
b. 3(x-1)-x >2x+1
c. -2x ≤10
d. -4(x+2) ≥-(2x=5)
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Question 389577: 15. Devi saves 2/5 of her pocket money each week, spends ¾ of the remainder on ice-cream and 70 cents on sweets. She finds that she still has 50 cents left. How much money does receive each week?
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Question 389713: Find Solutions of (1/x-1)=(x+2/4)
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Question 389716: Lipton Plant produces blends of black tea for $3.00 per ounce and green tea for $1.25 per ounce. How much green tea would have to be mixed with 60 ounces of black tea to equal $2.00.
I multiplied 60*3 and got 90 then I divided 90 by 2 and got 45.
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Question 389831: Raquel created an advertisement on a rectangular piece of paper that was 12inches long and 4inches wide. for a presentation. she projected the rectangular image onto a screen the image was 3 feet long.
what was the width of the image she projected on the screen?
show work. explain how you found answer.
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Question 389738: Ms. Brown plans to carpet part of her living room floor. The living room floor is a square feet by 20 feet. She wants to carpet a quarter-circle
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