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Question 78890: A glass pyramid is designed to be situated at the center of a large courtyard. Each of the four triangular sides has a base that is 10 feet long and 10 feet high.
How many square feet of glass are needed for the base and sides?
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Question 78879: Max is building a scale model of the solar system. In Max's model, the distance from Earth to the sun is 1.2 feet, and the distance from Venus to the sun is 0.86 feet.
If the approximate distance from Earth to the sun is 93 million miles, what is the approximate distance from Venus to the sun?
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Question 78962: "If I had cows and you had cows and if I gave you one of my cows, we'd both have the same number of cows. However, if You gave me one of your cows, I'd have twice as many cows as you have. How many cows did each of us have?"
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Question 79088: I made a mistake with the original question, here is the correction;
The formula G=~(2.5x+357) and L=7.43~(x-115) model the loan amounts, in billions of dollars, to college students for grants, G, and loans, L, x years after 1970. In which year was the amount from loans the same as the amount from grants? Please show your work.
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Question 79154: Richard wants to reduce his pepper steak recipe by half because he wants to serve only four people instead of eight. The recipe calls for 8 1/2 pounds of steak.
How many pounds of steak are needed for half of his recipe?
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Question 79288: I hope you can help me with this... Can you expain it to me also.. thanks
Seventy-two of the 140 students in the 8th grade are in school orchestra. 42 are in the chorus, and 12 are in both. For 8th grade:
1. How many are in the orchestra only?
2. How many are in the chorus only?
3. How many are in neither?
8. How many different students are there in the combined orchestra-chorus group?
(I came up with one set of answers, but my father comes up with different answers..)
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Question 79293: Samuel has a total of $1639 in two different savings accounts. Last year, one saving account paid 2% interest and the other account paid 5.5% interest. If he earned $59.59 in interest for the year, how was his money divided between the two accounts?
Account at 2% interest:$(Blank/answer)
Account at 5.5% interest:$(Blank/answer)
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Question 26259: Science and medicine. Celsius temperature readings can be converted to
Fahrenheit readings using the formula F= 9/5C+32. What is the Fahrenheit temperature that corresponds to each of the following Celsius temperatures: -10, 0, 15, 100?
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Question 79294: An old-fashioned toaster will toast two slices of bread at once, but it can only toast one side of each slice of bread at a time. You like each side toasted for exactly one minute. How can you toast three slices of bread in three minutes?
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Question 79431: 3a homeowner wishes to insulate her attic with fiberglass insulatio to conserve energy. The insulation comes in 40-cm wide rolls that are cut to fit between the rafers in the attic. If the roof is 7 m from peak to eave and teh attic space is 3 m high at the peak, how long does each of the pieces of insulation need to be? Round to the nearest tenth.
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Question 79473: Please help me! I don't even know where to start with this!!! If I can just get it set up I can take it from there!!!
A farmer had 1200 acres of land on which he grows corn, wheat, and soybeans. It costs $45 per acre to grow corn, $60 for wheat and $50 for soybeans. Because of the market demand he will grow twice as many acres of wheat as of corn. He has allocated $63,750 for the cost of growing crops. How many acres of each crop should he plant?
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Question 79541: A garden area is 30 ft long and 20 ft wide. A pat of uniform width is set around the edge. If the remaining garden is 400ft^2, what is the width of the path.
I'm not certain of my answer. It seems off, I am using the Quadratic Formula's for my answer. Am I on track??
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Question 79554This question is from textbook
: Roberto's trolley runs every 45 minutes. If he arrives at the trolley stop at a random time, what is the probability that he will not have to wait more than 10 minutes?This question is from textbook
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Question 79556This question is from textbook
: A stop light at an intersection stays red for 60 seconds, changes to green for 45 seconds, and then turns yellow for 15 seconds. If Jamal arrives at the intersection at a random time, what is the probability that he will have to wait at a red light for more than 15 seconds?This question is from textbook
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Question 79555: The state of Connecticut is approximated by a rectangle 100 mi by 50 mi. Hartford is approximately at the center of Connecticut. If a meteor hit the earth within 200 mi of Hartford, find the probability that the meteor landed in Connecticut.
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Question 79601: Antonio is buiklding a bookshelf. He has a piece of wood that measures 90 centimeters in length. The directions require that this piece of wood be cut into two pieces, one piece 20 centimeters longer than the other. He uses the equation below to determine where to make the cut.
X+(X+20)=90
The shorter piece of wood must then be cut in half. Use the equation above to help you determine the length of the shorter piece of wood.
Show you work.
The answer I have is:
25+(45+20)=90
25 centimeters for the shortest piece of wood
The answer I have is wrong, not sure what to do. Please help....
Thank You
7th grader in NY
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Question 79655: The Wing house sells both regular and jumbo orders of buffalo wings. The regular cost is $5.99 and the jumbo order cost $8.99. One saturday a total of 134 orders of wings were taken and the receipts from the wings were $1024.66. How many regular and jumbo orders were filled?
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Question 79685: angelica and her brother, morton, had a total fo $100 they earned washing walls. they heard about a fantastic garage sale and went to see what they could find. when they saw the prices for paperback books, jeans, and winter jackets, they decided to buy 100 items for their $100. if hte jackets were $9 each, the jeans $3 a pair, and the books 5 for $1, how many of each did they buy?
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Question 79735: A piece of wire L inches long is cut into two pieces. Each piece is then bent to form a square. If the sum of the two areas is 5L squared/128 (sorry, I don't know how to make the squared sign for my L term), how long are the two pieces of wire? Answer in terms of L.
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Question 79734: A 12 inch piece of wire is cut into 2 pieces. One piece is bent into a square, the other into a circle.
A) Write a function which describes the total area of the two shapes.
B) Find the minimum area possible.
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Question 79892: Two ranchers sold a herd of cattle and received as many dollars for each cow as there cattle in the herd. With the money they bought a flock of sheep at $10 per head, and then with the rest of the money they bought a lamb. Later they divided the animals between them, with one rancher obtaining an extra sheep and the other, the lamb. The rancher who got the lamb was given his friend's new pocketknife as compensation. What was the value of the pocketknife?
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Question 79956: 40. The cost in millions of dollars for a company to manufacture x thousand automobiles is given by the function C(x) = 4x2-40x+225. Find the number of automobiles that must be produced to minimize cost.
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