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Question 500701: A second number is 6 less than a first number. A third number is twice the first number. If the sum of the three numbers is 306, find the numbers.
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Question 500929: Javier invests money in two accounts. He invests twice as much in an account paying 10% simple interest as he does in an account paying 5%. If he earns $187.50 in one year from both accounts combined, how much did he invest altogether?
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Question 500928: An aquarium is 21 inches long, 15 inches wide and 24 inches high. The volume of water in the aquarium is 5355 cubic inches. How deep is the water?
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Question 500771: A winery has a vat with 2 pipes leading to it. The inlet pipe can fill the vat in 6 hours, while the outlet pipe can empty it in 10 hours. How long will it take to fill the vat if both pipes are left open?
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Question 501111: Sarah is interested in purchasing a new cell phone plan as her current cell phone plan doesn’t offer enough minutes. Her current calling plan is listed below. Using the concept of ratios and proportions, solve the problems below to determine the cost of the various options:
Sara’s current calling plan: 300 minutes per month for $39.99
If Sara can get 300 minutes for $39.99, how much will it cost her for 450 minutes?
If Sara can get 300 minutes for $39.99, how much will it cost her for 600 minutes?
If Sara can get 300 minutes for $39.99, how many will it cost her for 700 minutes?
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Question 501126: Exactly 1 liter of paint is used to paint an area of 50m^2. what is the thickness in mm. asssuming the coat of paint has uniform thicknesss.
please answer and show all work. thank you.
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Question 501488: A strip of uniform width is to be cut off of both sides and both ends of a sheet of paper that is 21 inches by 4 inches, in order to reduce the size of the paper to an area of 38 square inches. Find the width of the strip.
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Question 501576: Bob and Jessie each want to buy a candy bar. Jessie is 1 cent short to buy a candy bar and Bob is 7 cents short to buy one as well. So, they decide to combine their savings in order to buy a candy bar to share. Even after they combine their money, they were still unable to buy the candy bar. Find the price of the candy bar.
Please, I need this problem to be solved by tomorrow night (9/21/2011). Thanks.
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Question 501810: if 1 pill weighed .2 grams, how many pills could could be made out of 1 kg
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Question 501810: if 1 pill weighed .2 grams, how many pills could could be made out of 1 kg
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Question 501561: The height of an object tossed upward with an initial velocity of 104 feet per second is given by the formula h = -16t^2 + 104t, where h is the height in feet and t is the same time in seconds. Find the time required for the object to return to its point of departure.
Please, I need this problem to be solved by tomorrow night (9/21/2011). Thanks.
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Question 501599: write equation
Mrs. Beal. a retiree will lose some retirement benefits if she earns over $8000 per year working at baby sister.if she has already earned $6500, for how many more hours may she work at $7.50 per hour without losing her retirement benefits?
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Question 501921: find the product when the number is 4 ;
m*2=4
how do i solve this? I know if it was sum or difference you have to either subtract or add but what do i do if it's multiplication or division?
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Question 502217: in a coffee shop the raito of the number of customers who ordered regular coffee to the number who ordered decaffeinated coffee was 4 to 1. if the number of perople who ordered regular coffee was 126 more than the number who ordered decaf, how many people ordered each tyoe of coffee?
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Question 502280: A dinner theatre sells two types of tickets. Floor seats cost $50 while stadium seats cost $35. If the theatre sold 170 seats for $6625, how many tickets of each type were sold?
Tried:
x = # floor seats sold
170 - x = # stadium seats sold
Can't figure out where to go from here. Help!
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Question 502358: On a certain street, the house numbers incrementally increase on one side and come back down the other side. So, on one side of the street the house numbers are 1,2,3 etc. House number 14 is opposite house number 80. How many houses are there in the street in total?
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Question 502438: Mr. Snow bought several large fries at 140 cents each. Mr. Sidney bought 2 more fries than Mr. Snow, but his where meduim fries which only cost 90 cents each. Together they spent $11. How many meduim fries did Sidney buy?
Here is what I've got so far:
x = number of fries Sidney bought
x-2 = number of fries Snow bought
140(x-2)= cost of Snow's fries
90x = cost of Sidney's fries
the correct answer is x = 6, I just can't figure out how to get it.

thanks
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Question 502502: Hi, i am having trouble figuring out the formula used for this type of problem:

A movie theatre is presenting a stage production of the feature "Hoodwinked". At the opening, 70 tickets were sold and ticket sales totaled $568. If adult tickets cost $10 and children's tickets cost $7, how many of each type of ticket were sold?
Thanks for your help!
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Question 502494: 9 movie tickets cost $30.00 total. Each child's ticket cost $2.00 and each adult ticket costs $4.00. How many child's ticket were purchased?

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Question 502811: Jonathan can type a 20 page document in 40 minutes, Susan can type it in 30 minutes, and Jack can type it in 24 minutes. Working together, how much time will it take them to type the same document?
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Question 502757: Joey and Sally are on a hiking trip. It will be dark in 1.5 hours. They have to decide whether to stop for the night or hike to the camp site at the base of a tower they can see in distance. They know the height of the tower is 315 metres and they use a clinometer to determine the angle of elevation to the top of the tower is 4.
Joey and Sally have been walking at 3.5 km/hr . Should they stop for the night or continue walking?
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Question 342037: A merchant has 5 pounds of mixed nuts that cost $30.He wants to add peanuts that cost $1.50 per pound and cashews that cost $4.50 per pound to obtain 50 pounds of a mixture that costs $2.90 per pound. How many pounds of peanuts are needed?
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Question 502942: The discount on a new copier was $190. This was a discount of 12%. What was the original price? Round to the nearest hundreth
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Question 503165: Urgent Response. Can a tutor be so kind to help with solving this problem?
AKI's Bicycle Shop designs has determined that when x hundred bicycles are built,the average cost per bicycle is given by C(x)=0.1x^2-11.2x+9.232 where
C(x) is in hundreds of dollars.
How many bicycles should the shop build? _____
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Question 502925: Read the problem. What are you being asked to find? What would be your let statement? Do you need to know any formulas to work this problem? If your answer is yes, then what formulas do you need to know? Would a chart help organize the information in this problem? If your answer is no, state why not and if your answer is yes, then make a chart that will organize the information.
If 92 is added to a number, the result is 44 less than three times the number. Find the number
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Question 347144: A 25-by-37-inch sheet of paper is to be used for a poster, with the shorter side at the bottom. The margins at the sides and top are to have the same width, and the bottom margin is to be twice as wide as the other margins. Find the width of the margins if the printed area is to be 532in^2.
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Question 503346: Two airplanes leave Boston at the same time and fly in opposite directions. If one travels at 420 miles per hour and the other at 440 miles per hour, how long will it take for them to be 3,440 miles apart?
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Question 503397: a number exceeds three fifth by 14, what is a number
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Question 503463: At a Baseball game, one group of people purchased 10 hotdogs and 5 soft drinks at 12.50; a second group of people bought 7 hotdogs and 4 soft drinks at 9 dollars. what is the cost of the hotdog and soft drink?
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Question 503460: There are 2430 people in a school. There are 162 teachers and 156 more boys than girls. How many girls are there?

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Question 503470: A tree is supported by a wire anchored in the ground 15 feet from its base. the wire is 4 feet longer then the height that it reaches on the tree. find the length f the wire?
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Question 503491: what is the solution to (x-1) (X-2)=30
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Question 503491: what is the solution to (x-1) (X-2)=30
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Question 503614: Find the speed of the earth with respect to the center of the sun as the earth travels around the sun. Use the distance from the center of the eart to the center of the sun as 90,000,000 miles and the earth takes about 365 days to circle the sun.
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Question 503619: One maid can clean the house in 6 hours. Another maid can do the job in 5 hours. How long will it take them to do the job working together?
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Question 503599: traffic signs are regulated by the manual on uniform traffic control devices. The perimeter of some traffic signs must be 74 inches. Also, its length is 9 inches longer than its width.
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Question 503639: A triangular lake-front lot has a perimeter of 1900 feet. One side is 200 feet longer than the shortest side, while the third side is 500 feet longer than the shortest side. Find the lengths of all three sides.
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Question 503641: At the end of the day, a storekeeper had $1638 in the cash register, including both the sale of goods and the sales tax of 4%. What amount of sales tax had been collected?
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Question 503671: At the north campus of a college, 10% of students are music majors. At the south campus 90% of the students are music majors. Both campuses are merged into one east campus. If 42%of the 1000 students are music majors, how many students did each of the north and south campuses have before the merger.
I tried 42%of 1000 = 420 but can't figure how to get the number of students. Help!
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Question 503691: four times the sum of y and three is -1
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Question 503912: Mary Wong has $42. She earned $7 per hour. How many hours will she have to work to have a total of $126
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Question 504045: Matt received an inheritance of $60,000. He invested part of the money at 8% and the rest at 11%. He made a total of $5700 in interest in one year. How much was invested at 8%?
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Question 504161: solving max/min problems: the sum of two positive number is 56.Find the two numbers,if their product ia amaximum.
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Question 504199: A hot-air balloon, headed due east at an average speed of 15 miles per hour and at a constant altitude of 100 feet, passes over an intersection. Find the expression for the distance d (measured in feet) from the balloon to the intersection t seconds later.
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