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Question 178585: Branford can be paid for his masonry work in one of two ways:
Plan A: $300 plus $9.00 per hour;
Plan B: Straight $12.50 per hour.
Suppose that the job takes n hours. For what values of n is plan B better for Branford.
This is sets, inequalities, and interval notation.
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Question 178585: Branford can be paid for his masonry work in one of two ways:
Plan A: $300 plus $9.00 per hour;
Plan B: Straight $12.50 per hour.
Suppose that the job takes n hours. For what values of n is plan B better for Branford.
This is sets, inequalities, and interval notation.
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Question 178593: Rebecca is a chef at Denny's Deli. She wants to try a new recipe, Sweet potato Salad with Orange-Maple Dressing. The recipe, which serves 16, requires half of a cup of golden raisins. She wants to make enough of the sald for 104 servings. How many cups of golden raisins will she need?
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Question 178594: Mike and Shannon harvested 110,793 pounds of winter wheat off of the Stone Ranch. There are sixty pounds in a bushel. They planted 23.3 acres of winter wheat. How many bushels per acre did the crop yield?
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Question 178633: The $156.25 six month increase in your stock value reflects a return of 1.25 percentage points higher than does the $200 six month increase in your friend's stock value. Your friend invested $4000. How much did you invest?
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Question 178690: For each of the following conditionals, identify the antecedent and the consequent. Form the converse, inverse, and contrapositive.
(a) If I don’t go to the movie, I’ll study my math.
(b) Your car won’t start if you don’t have gasoline in the tank.
Please help...
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Question 178699: for 100 crowns, a certain farmer bought some horses, goats, and sheep. For a horse, he paid 3 1/2 crowns, for a goat, 1 1/3 crowns, and for a sheep, 1/2 crown. Assuming he bought at least 7 of each and that he bought 100 animals in all, how many horses, goats, and sheep did he buy?
many thanks for your help.
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Question 178715: Please help.
Thomas is going to make an open-top box by cutting equal squares from the four corners of an 11 inch by 14 inch sheet of cardboard and folding up the sides. If the area of the base is to be 80 square inches, then what size square should be cut from each corner?
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Question 178715: Please help.
Thomas is going to make an open-top box by cutting equal squares from the four corners of an 11 inch by 14 inch sheet of cardboard and folding up the sides. If the area of the base is to be 80 square inches, then what size square should be cut from each corner?
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Question 178755: The police use the formula v=4.9√L to estimatethe speed of a car v based on the length L of its skid marks on dry pavement.
a. What is a reasonable estimate for a car's speed if its skid marks measure 220 feet?
b. What would be the length of your skid marks if you drove with the speed of 65 mph?
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Question 178799: Use an Euler diagram to determine whether the syllogism is valid or invalid
All actresses are beautiful
Some actresses are tall
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Law of detachment
(Therefore)Some beautiful people are tall.
Can you help me ???
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Question 178929: ) Determine whether the argument is valid or invalid.
A tree has green leaves or the tree does not produce oxygen.
This tree has green leaves
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therefore This tree does not produce oxygen.
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Question 178927: Use Euler Diagrams to determine whether the following syllogism is valid or invalid.
Some senators are conservationists
No conservationists are pro-development
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therefore Some senators are not pro-development
help
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Question 178933: The police use the formula v = 4.9 √L to estimate the speed of a car v based on the length L of its skid marks on dry pavement.
a.) What is a reasonable estimate for a car's speed if its skid marks measure 220 feet?
b.) What would be the length of your skid marks if you drove with the speed of 65 mph?
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Question 178925: Write the following compound statement in symbolic form
Let p: Today is Monday
q: Tomorrow is the day Sara leaves
If tomorrow is not the day Sara leaves, then today is Monday
Can you assist me please???
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Question 178960: Marc goes to the store with exactly $1.00 in change. He has at least one of each coin less than a half-dollar coin, but he does not have a half-dollar coin.
a.) what is the least number of coins he could have?
b.) what is the greatest number of coins he could have?
thanks again
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Question 178983: There are three baskets sitting next to each other on a high shelf so that you cannot see the contents of any basket. Under the first basket is a sign that says APPLES. Under the second basket is a sign that says ORANGES, and under the thrid basket is a sign that says APPLES AND ORANGES. Each basket is incorrectly labeled. One basket contains all apples, one all oranges, and one a combination of apples and oranges. Is it possible to reach up on the shelf and without looking into any of the baskets select one piece of fruit and on the basis of knowing what that piece of fruit is correctly label all three baskets? Explain your reasoning.
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Question 178981: A libraian finds that in one day, 344 people check out nonfiction books, 687 check out fiction books and 245 check out both fiction & nonfiction books. How many people checked out fiction or non fiction on that day?
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Question 179076: A grocer combines coffee that costs $8.00 per pound with coffee that costs $3.00 per pound. how many pounds of each should be used to make 80 lbs of a blend that costs $5.00 per pound? i am suppose to have an equation for this also
thank you soo much for helping me out!!
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Question 178096: if there are 28,706 possible no. combination in a range of 1-42...tate all the possible nos....
this was asked to me by my professor...he said... if i am right.. i could proved this...please help me... im really so terrified...thanks..
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