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Question 213333: The sum of Mrs. Blakely's age and her daughter Karen's age is 53 years. In eight years, Mrs. Blakelywill be twice as old as Karen. How old is Karen now?
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Question 213451: a social club charters a plane at a cost of $42240 to take a group of members on an excursion to atlantic city. at the last minute, 8 people in the group decide not to go. this raises the transportation cost per person by $22. how many people originally intended to take the trip?
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Question 213453: If Steven can mix 20 drinks in 5 minutes, Sue can mix 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and Jack can mix 20 drinks in 15 minutes, how much time will it take all 3 of them working together to mix the 20 drinks?

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Question 213411: #20
FIND THREE CONSECUTIVE ODD INTEGERS SUCH THAT FOUR TIMES THE MIDDLE INTEGER IS TWICE THE SUM OF THE OTHER TWO INTEGERS
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Question 213536: A stackable storage rack holds 28 DVDs and costs $31. How much would it cost to buy enough racks to hold 139 DVDs?
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Question 213536: A stackable storage rack holds 28 DVDs and costs $31. How much would it cost to buy enough racks to hold 139 DVDs?
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Question 213533: You buy a pattern and enough material to make 2 pillows. The pattern costs $5. Each pillow requires $3.80 worth of fabric and a button that costs $0.87. Find the total cost.
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Question 213538: A farmer plans to build a fence around a rectangular pen that is 16 feet long. The area of the pen is 80 square feet. Is 38 feet of fencing enough to fence in the pen?
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Question 213562: together, jill and keesha have 17 shells. jill has 5 more shells than keesha. how many shells does each girl have.
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Question 213806: 2 1/3 cup of tomato sauces for 7 serving how much is needed for 1 serving
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Question 213851: Have you lived a billion seconds? If you have, at what specific point in your life did that occur? If you haven’t, at what specific point will it occur?

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Question 213897: APopulation growth from 2599 to 2825. Find the % increase
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Question 214153: Dalton has 7 bills, all tens and twenties, that total $100 in value. How many of each bill does he have?
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Question 214235: A car rental company charges $125 per week plus $0.20 per mile to rent a car. How many miles can you drive for $335?
I tried by doing this:
I divided 125 over 5 plus 0.20 over 20 miles equals x.
I got the LCD which is 20 and multiplied each by it. my answer was 27 but it was not an option on the multiple choice. Please help.
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Question 214275: I know the answer to the problem, 8 boxes of ball points and 4 boxes of felt tips, but I am unsure of how to write the equation so that it makes sense.
Here is the word Problem:
Will ordered 2 times as many boxes of ballpoint pens as boxes of felt tip pens. Ballpoint pens cost $3.50 per box, and felt tip pens cost $4.50 per box. If Will's order of pens totaled $46.00, how many boxes of each type of pen did he buy.
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Question 214051: Reconciling remainders. Find a positive integer smaller than 500 that has a remainder of 3 when divided by 5, a remainder of 6 when divided by 9, and a remainder of 8 when divided by 11.

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Question 214400: Four people buy a large pizza of (X) pieces. If they split it evenly, how many pieces will each eat?
My question to this is not the answer=x/4, but why can't it be 4/x? Why does it have to be a certain way. I am confused!!! Help ...
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Question 214456: A flock of cranes migrates from Canada to Texas. The cranes take
15 days (360 hours) to travel 2835 miles. The cranes fly at an average
speed of 27 miles per hour. How many hours of the migration are the
cranes not flying?
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Question 214462: Please help me I cannot figure this one out.
Going into the final exam, Joann has test scores of 80,84,71,65,and 90. If the final exam is 45% of the overall grade, what does Joann have to score to have a final average of 87?
I will appreciate this so much if you could help me. Thank you.
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Question 214493: a young man 150cm tall cast a shadow that was 200cm long. his father's shadow cast at same time of the day was 240cm long how tall was his father?
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Question 214513: The caterer for your class picnic charges $1 for each hot dog and $2 for each hamburger. You have $48 to spend. Write a model that shows the different numbers of hot dogs and hamburgers that you could purchase.
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Question 214613: Nine times a number is 30 more than 3 times that number. What is that number?
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Question 214626: I have tried many ways to solve this problem but I can't. :
Suppose that your building a toolbox, which should be on a shelf that in 10in. wide. The toolbox is 20 in. long and 6 in. high. In order to have the volume of 960 in. cubed, how wide should the toolbox be? Will it fit on the shelf?

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Question 214239: The frame around the picture in the illustration has a constant width. how wide is the frame if the area equals the area of the picture
the illustration is a square inside a squre. the frame
with a width of 12 inches and a hight of 10 inches
I hope thats enough info 2 help me

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Question 214674: A piece of land costs $41, 000 for 3 5/12 acres. What is the cost per acre?
13666 for 1 acres= 41,000 for 3- confusing myself here, please help if you can. Thank you

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Question 214691: If 625 pages of a book are 2.0 inches thick, what is the thickness of 5 pages in microns?
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Question 214691: If 625 pages of a book are 2.0 inches thick, what is the thickness of 5 pages in microns?
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Question 214755: While performing a calculation, you divide a number by 5 two times to get the answer 12. You should have divided by 5 only once. What is the correct result of the calculation?
mulitply 5 and 12 then you get 60 then multiply 60 by 5 and get 300 but you were only supposed to divide by 5 once to the answer is 60
I am just not sure how to go about answering this question.
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Question 214756: I am having problems with this and a few other word problems, so here is this first on meny. I'll see if I have done wright. It go as follows'
The total length of two boards is 94 5/8". The difference between there two length's is 24 1/4". Find the length's of the two board's.
Good Luck..& thanks
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Question 214721: Quadratics and complex numbers:Analyzing Quadratics in vertex form f(x)=(x-h)^2

Question:
The sides of a pool are given by x + 10 feet and x - 11 feet. If the area of the pool is 490 square feet, what are the dimensions of the pool?

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Question 214759: sally has saved twice as much money as jon, jeremy has saved three times as much
money as jon. find the amount each person saved if the total savings is $180.00
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Question 214760: a worker worked 8 hours at reg pay rate and 3 hours overtime at time & half. the total pay for the day was $183.75.find the reg hourly pay.
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Question 214718: Quadratics and complex numbers: Analyzing Quadratics in vertex form f(x)=(x-h)^2
Question:
A square manhole needs to have 3 inches removed from each side. If the area is to be 144 inches, what are the current dimensions of the manhole?
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Question 214761: a certain number is increased by 8 ans that sum is divided by 2. the result is 6 1/4 . find the number.
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Question 214761: a certain number is increased by 8 ans that sum is divided by 2. the result is 6 1/4 . find the number.
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Question 214150: At a local grocery store, three bags of peanuts and four bags of almonds cost $27.45. At the same store, five bags of peanuts and two bags of almonds cost $24.05. If Nyesha wants to buy one bag of peanuts and one bag of almonds, how much money does she need?

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Question 214715: Quadratics and complex numbers:Analyzing Quadratics in Vertex form f(x)= (x-h)^2
Question: A stationary store needs to design a new logo. The store currently uses a logo that is 3 square inches but wants a logo that is x inches by 3x inches. What are the possible dimensions of the new logo that has the same area as the old logo?
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Question 214819: Five pens of the same type cost the same as two notebooks of the same type. If one pen and two notebooks cost $4.20, what is the cost of one pen?
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