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Question 257189: Twice the sum of three consecutive multiples of 15 is 270. What are the three
multiples of 15?
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Question 257367: A storeKeeper goes to the bank to get $10 worth of change. She requests twice as many quarters as half dollars, twice as many dimes as quarters, three times as many nickels as dimes, and no pennies or dollars. How many of each coin did the storekeeper get?
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Question 257439: If the money in my pocket was divided equally among the students in my room,
each would receive $1.47. If two more students arrived, each student would then
receive $1.05. Determine how much money I have in my pocket.
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Question 257436: Steve ate 100 peanut butter cups in 5 days. Each day he ate six more than the
previous day. Determine how many peanut butter cups he ate on the first day.
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Question 257446: If one skip equals four hops and if one jump equals three skips, what is the total number of hops in a hop, a skip, and a jump?
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Question 257446: If one skip equals four hops and if one jump equals three skips, what is the total number of hops in a hop, a skip, and a jump?
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Question 257445: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs went to work as carpenters. Each dwarf earned $20.
Snow White earned $3.50 more than the average of the eight. How much did Snow White earn?
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Question 257443: Josh’s bicycle has 28-inch-diameter wheels and Julian’s has 14-inch-diameter wheels. Josh’s wheel rotates twice for every three rotations of the pedals; Julian’s wheel rotates three times for every two rotations of the pedals. Josh rotates the pedals twice as quickly as Julian (twice as many rotations per unit of time). Julian takes 8 minutes to bicycle one mile. How much time will Josh take?
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Question 257556: A student scores 75, 86, and 72 on three 100-point exams. If the final is worth 150 points, find the range of final exam score,S, that gives the student an overall percentage of 80% or higher. This is as far as I could get.
x= final exam score
S(x)= final average if final exam score is x
Not sure where to go from here. None of the answers I come up with make sense. Please help.
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Question 257595: The width of a photo is 5 cm less than the length. The area is 24 cm^2.
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Question 257616: If a - 1 = b + 2 = c - 3 = d + 4, which of the four quantities a,b,c, or d is the largest?
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Question 257616: If a - 1 = b + 2 = c - 3 = d + 4, which of the four quantities a,b,c, or d is the largest?
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Question 257630: A glass box 7 x 12 x 18 cm, closed on all six sides, is partially filled with colored water. When the box is placed on one of its 7 x 12 sides, the water level is 15 cm above the table. If the box is placed on one of its 7 x 18 sides, what will be the water level above the table,in centimeters?
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Question 257634: The values of a, b, c, and d are 0, 1, 2, and 3, although not necessarily in that order. What is the maximum value of the expression c⋅a^b – d ?
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Question 257641: A man left home with $240. While out, he purchased $24 worth of lottery tickets. He got his money back plus winnings of $48. He spent 25 percent of his winnings at a restaurant and 50 percent of his winnings for a taxi ride home. How much did he have when he returned home?
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Question 257638: P and Q are each distinct members of the set {6,-12,-3,13}. What is the least possible value of the quotient P÷Q?

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Question 257638: P and Q are each distinct members of the set {6,-12,-3,13}. What is the least possible value of the quotient P÷Q?

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Question 257640: There are four cottages on a straight road. The distance between Ted's and Alice's cottages is 3 km. Both Bob's and Carol's cottages are twice as far from Alice's as they are from Ted's. Find the distance between Bob's and Carol's cottages in kilometers.
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Question 257632: Sara has a bag with 10 red marbles and 12 white marbles. When she draws out a red marble, she puts the marble back and adds 5 more red marbles. When she draws out a white marble, she puts the marble back and adds 3 more white marbles. After how many rounds of draws, replacements, and additions will the bag contain exactly 43 marbles?
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Question 257658: Margie wants to place a wooden door on her condo. The wooden door will be shaped like a rectangular solid and will measure 74 1/3 inches long and 42 3/4 inches wide; and will be 1 3/4 thick. How many cubic inches of wood will be need for the door? Give solution exactly as a mixed number.
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Question 257654: Please help me figure out how to solve this problem.
Together a baseball and a football weigh 1.25 pounds, the baseball and soccer ball weigh 1.35 pounds, and the football and the soccer ball weigh 1.6 pounds. How much does each of the balls weigh?
Thank you!
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Question 257612: Determine the number of square units in the area of the trapezoid whose bases are 5 - x units and 13 + x units and whose height is 10 units.
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Question 257810: Number 1
A chemist is making a solution that is to be 55% chlorine. He has one solution that is 40% chlorine and another that is 65% chlorine. He wants 100 liters of the final solution. How much of each should he mix?
a. Choose a variable to represent the amount of the first solution. Then find the amount of the second solution to be added to make 100 liters. Now figure out how much chlorine is in each solution.
b. Write the equation.
c. Solve the equation.

a. Use x for the amount of the first solution.
Use (100 - x) for the amount of the second
solution. This is because when the two are
added together you want 100 liters of final
solution. For the amount of chlorine you
multiply the proper percentage and the
amount of solution. For the first it is (.40x),
and for the second it is .65(100-x) or
(65 - .65x). You want 100 liters of final
solution at 55% chlorine, so that means
.55(100) or 55.
b. Add the first two solutions, and write the
equation (simplified): .40x + 65 - .65x = 55
c. Solve
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Amount Solution
% CI
Amount Chlorine
X
40%
.40X
100-X
65%
.65(100-X)
100
55%
.55(100)
The equation comes from the last column.
Sol 1 + Sol 2 = Final solution
.40x + .65(100-x) = .55(100)
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Question 257783: Ricardo wants to replace the wooden door on his flat. The wooden door will be shaped like a rectangular solid and will measure 76 2/3 inches long and 44 1/4 inches wide; and will be 1 3/8 inch thick. How many cubic inches of wood will be needed for the door? Give solution exactly as a mixed number.

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Question 257821: Sally and Bill work at different jobs. Sally earns $12 per hour and Bill earns $10 per hour. They each earn the same amount per week but Bill works 3 more hours. How many hours a week does Bill work?
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Question 257906: A boy was offered a bonus if he sold 100 subscriptions to a magazine. Each day he sold three subscriptions more than he had sold on the previous day, and on the eighth day he reached a total of exactly 100 subscriptions. How many subscriptions did he sell each day?
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Question 257907: Without using a calculator or computer, determine which is larger, 2^3000 or 3^2000.
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Question 257907: Without using a calculator or computer, determine which is larger, 2^3000 or 3^2000.
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Question 257913: In an especially brutal hockey game, 85 percent of the players lost a tooth, 80 percent broke a finger, 75 percent sprained an ankle, and 70 percent got a black eye. What is the smallest possible percent of players with all four injuries?
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Question 257926: A certain type of decorative tissue paper is sold in rolls of radius 5 cm with a cardboard core of radius 1 cm. If the paper is used until the thickness of the paper layer is reduced to half its original thickness, what fraction of the original amount of tissue paper is still on the roll?
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Question 257923: Everyone in a class of 30 students takes math and history. Seven students received an A in history, 13 received an A in math, and 4 received an A in both courses. How many students did not receive an A in either course?
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Question 257910: The sum of seven consecutive integers is 980. How many of them are prime?
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Question 257899: The owner of a bicycle shop took inventory of his bicycles and tricycles. He counted 153 wheels and 136 pedals. How many bicycles and tricycles did he have?
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Question 257943: Make a chart and write an equation. Do NOT solve.
Mark drove his car to the repair shop at 48km/h and then walked back home at 8km/h. The drive took 10 minutes less than the walk home. Haw far did Mark walk and for how long?
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Question 257922: In numbering the pages of a book, a total of 510 digits were printed. If the first page is numbered 1, how many pages does the book have?
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Question 257925: Three friends-whose walking rates are 1 ft./sec., 3 ft./sec., and 6 ft./sec.- start out together walking in the same direction around a circular track that is 300 feet in circumference. After how many minutes are the three of them together again?

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Question 258076: Diane can finish a job in 5 hours. It takes Thomas 9 hours to complete the same job. How long will it take the two of them to complete the job if they work on it together. Express your answer as a mixed number.
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Question 258110: Mary will rent a car for the weekend. He can choose one of two payment plans. The first plan costs for two days plus cents per mile. The second plan costs for two days plus cents per mile. How many miles does Mary need to drive for the two plans to cost the same?
Can I get this in a written equation form?

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Question 258070: Two numbers total 168 when added together. One of these numbers is 6 times larger than the other number. What is the larger of the two numbers?
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Question 258175: A water tank has an inlet pipe and a drain
pipe. A full tank can be emptied in 30 minutes if the drain
is opened and an empty tank can be filled in 45 minutes
with the inlet pipe opened. If both pipes are accidentally
opened when the tank is full, then how long will it take to
empty the tank?
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