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Question 259189: A 9 yard rod and a 7 yard rod are tied together so that the overlapping portion is 3 yards. The length of the two combined this way is:
a)10 yds b) 11 yds c) 12 yds d) 13 yds e) 14 yds

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Question 259187: Seven students played a game and their scores from least to greatest were 20, 30,50, 70, 80, 80, and 90. Which of the following is true about the numbers?
I. The average (arithmetic mean) is greater than 70
II. The median is greater than 70
III. The mode is greater than 70
a) None b) III only c) I and II only d) II and III only e) I, II, and III

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Question 259205: An aerobics instructor burns 3,000 calories per day for 4 days. How many calories must she burn during the next day so that the average (arithmetic mean) number of calories burned for the 5 days is 3,500 calories per day?

(A) 6,000 (B) 5,500 (C) 5,000 (D) 4,500 (E) 4,000

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Question 259372: How many milliliters are needed to have a volume of 1 liter?

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Question 259375: Which of the following are units of density?
a. pounds/ft3
b. g/ft2
c. m/kg3
d. kg/m

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Question 259379: Mark all that are ALLOWED conversions
a. kilogram (kg) to meters/second (m/s)
b. miles per hour (mph) to inches
c. kilogram (kg) to square meters (m2)
d. kg/m3 to kg/cm3
e. square inches (in2) to cubic inches (in3)

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Question 259377: One-half liter of water has a mass of
a. 0.5 g.
b. 500 g.
c. 50 g.
d. 5 g.

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Question 258683: (a) The sum of five consecutive
integers is 365
What is the smallest
of these numbers ?
(b) Jason and Marie both travel
200 miles by car. Jason drives
on average 20 mph faster than
Marie and Jason did the trip in
one hour less than Marie. What
was Jason’s average speed ?
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Question 259462: a charter company will provide for a fare of $60 each for 20 or fewer passengers. for each passenger in excess of 20, the fare is decreased $2 per person for everyone what number of passengers will produce the greatest revenue for the company

OHH I REALLY NEED HELP WITH THIS!PLEASE!
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Question 259577: what is the units digit of 7^15?
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Question 259577: what is the units digit of 7^15?
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Question 259701: Let the operation x ¤ y be defined by x ¤ y = (2y + x) + (3x - y).
If 2 ¤ 1 = 3 ¤ w, what is the value of w?
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Question 259665: A building has a ramp to its front doors to accommodate the handicapped. If the distance from the building to the end of the ramp is 18 feet and the height from the ground to the front doors is 7 feet, how long is the ramp?
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Question 259696: If y^2 + z^2 = 20 and 40 percent of 75 percent of p is the average of y and z, then what is the value of p?
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Question 259685: If Robertson is the tenth fastest swimmer on the team and the tenth slowest
swimmer on the team. How many swimmers are on the team?

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Question 259685: If Robertson is the tenth fastest swimmer on the team and the tenth slowest
swimmer on the team. How many swimmers are on the team?

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Question 259636: A room is 1.5 times as long as it is wide, and its perimeter is 75 feet. Find the dimensions of the room.
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Question 259728: In 2004, there were approximately 21.1 violent crimes per 1000 population in the United States, and the figure was dropping at a rate of about 1.2 crimes per 1000 per year.
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Question 259561: k(t)=t/t^2-14t+33
What is the domain of this rational expression?
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Question 259747: 7. Given these sets:
A = {1, 2, 3, 4}
B = {3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
C = {3, 5, 7, 9}

List the elements of this set
BU(A∩C)
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Question 259789: A rectangle is placed inside a circle of radius r so the center of the rectangle and the center of the circle coincide, and the corners of the rectangle are on the circle. Express the area of the rectangle as a function of the length x of one of its sides.
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Question 259948: The area of a circular table top is 1,250.00 square inches. The value of pi is about 3.14159259265358979323846. What is the radius of the table top in inches?
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Question 259953: Jill can build a doll house in 58 minutes, working by herself, and Jimmy can do it in 69 minutes working by himself. How long will it take them to build one doll house working together?
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Question 259966: If line w is perpendicular to the x-axis and passes through point (2, 6), what is the equation of line w?
(A) x = y + 4 (B) x = y - 3 (C) x = 2 (D) x = 6 (E) x = -4

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Question 259936: If a garden that measures 12 meters by 16 meters has a pedestrian pathway installed around it, increasing the total area to 285 square meters, what will be the width of the pathway?
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Question 260064: I am just really not understanding this question! It is a word problem, A basement floor is being carpeted. An area 7/8 of the length and 3/4 of the width is covered by lunch time. What fraction of the floor has been completed?
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Question 260062: Suppose that the New England Colonials baseball team is equally likely to win a game as not to win it. If 4 Colonials games are chosen at random, what is the probability that exactly 3 of those games are won by the Colonials?
Round your response to at least three decimal places.

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Question 259955: The current in circuit is 22.2 amps and the resistance in the circuit is 11.00 Ohms. What's the Power in the circuit in the standard units of Watts?
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Question 260119: The supplement of an angle measures 40 degrees more than twice its complement. Find the measure of the angle. Show problem using five-step process.
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Question 260029: if I make a deposit of $3,265 every month for 6 years how is this calculated? I am so not a word problem person. Can someone pleease help I need the answer to this asap Thanking you in advance.
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Question 260187: a college bookstore marks up the price that it pays the publisher for a book by 35%. If the selling of a book is $92.00, how much did the bookstore pay for this book?
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Question 260214: In a field of 108 aliens, each alien has either 5 heads or 103 heads. If I counted 1030 heads in total, how many aliens have 103 heads?
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Question 260202: On a standard 12-hour clock, through how many positive degrees does the hour hand move from 9:15 a.m. to 12 noon of the same day? Express your answer as a decimal to the nearest tenth.
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Question 260206: A rectangular field is twice as long as it is wide. A golf cart traveling at 12 miles per hour takes 7.5 minutes to travel the perimeter of the field what is the length (in miles) of the field ?

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Question 260300: Do a larger proportion of college students than young children eat cereal? Researchers surveyed
both age groups to find the answer. The results are shown in the table below.
(a) State the hypotheses used to answer the question.
(b) Using α = .05, state the decision rule and sketch it.
(c) Find the sample proportions and z statistic.
(d) Make a decision.
(e) Find the p-value and interpret it
(f ) Is the normality assumption fulfilled? Explain.
Statistic College Students Young Children
(ages 18-25) (ages 6-11)
Number who eat cereal x1=833 x2=692
Number surveyed n1=850 n2=740

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Question 260435: How do you solve Pt + Qx = R for t?
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Question 259443: The National Association for Women in Science asked recent high school grads if they had taken certain science classes. Of those surveyed, 32 said they had taken physics, 51 said they had taken chemistry and 15 said they had taken both. Ten said they had taken neither. How many recent high school grads were surveyed?
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Question 260440: How do you solve the formula for h = 1/6 ch for c?
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Question 260433: How do you solve the following formula for s
s/2 + 24 = 2G
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Question 260644: Jill can build a doll house in 58 mins working by herself. Jimmy can do it in 69 mins working by himself. How long will it take them to build one doll house working together?
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Question 260655: A merchant blends tea that sells for $4.25 a pound with tea that sells for $1.95 a pound to produce 80 lb of a mixture that sells for $2.75 a pound.
Then the mixture contains _____ lbs of $4.25/lb tea and ______ lbs of $1.95 tea

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Question 260692: A and B are whole numbers. Find A and B.
(1/A) - (1/B) = 1/12
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