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Question 278864: The resistance, R, in ohms varies directly as its length, L, in feet and inversely as the square of the diameter, d, in inches of the wire. Write an equation that expresses this variation
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Question 279120: Vanessa built a rectangular pen for her dogs. she used an outside wall of the garage for one side of the pen. she used 20 m of fencing in order to build the other 3 sides to complete the rectangle. find the dimensions of the pen of the pen if the area of the resulting pen was 48 m^2
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Question 279151: The manager of a movie theater found that Saturday's sales were $3675. He knew that a total of 650 tickets were sold Saturday. Adult tickets cost $7.50 and children's tickets cost $4.50. Write equations to represent the number of tickets sold and the amount of money collected. How many of each kind of ticket were sold?
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Question 279150: During a workout session, Mark either ran at a speed of 7 miles per hour or walked at a speed of 3 miles per hour. He completed 20 miles in 3 hours. Let r represent the number of miles Mark ran and w represent the number of miles Mark walked. Write a system of equations that represents the situation, and Solve the system of equations to find how much time Mark spent running.

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Question 279197: Gregory owns a farm. On his farm he has 2 kinds of horses, Palominos and Hackneys. If he has 3/4 more Palominos than he does Hackneys, and 1/4 of the Hackneys are male, what is the minimum number of female Hackneys present at Gregory’s farm?

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Question 279254: IN business, profit is the difference between revenue and cost.
Find the maximum profit of the unit sold in order to yield the maximum profit for:
R(x)=20x-0.1x^2, C(x)=4x+2
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Question 279281: Sewer #1 contains 9 less rats, than sewer #2. Sewer #2 contains 5 fewer rats the sewer #3. If there are 56 gigantic rats in total, how many rats are in sewer #1?
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Question 279297: Selling shirts. If a vendor charges p dollars each for
rugby shirts, then he expects to sell 2000 - 100p shirts at
a tournament.
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Question 279646: Tom and Jerry each order a pizza. The circumference of Tom’s pizza is 30% greater than the circumference of Jerry’s pizza. The area of Tom’s pizza is what percentage greater than the area of Jerry’s ?
(A) 30% (B) 49% (C) 50% (D) 69% (E) 75%

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Question 279669: From a group of boys and girls, 15 girls leave. There are then left two boys for each girl. After 45 boys leave, there are then 5 girls for each boy. The number of girls in the beginning was:
(A) 40 (B) 43 (C) 29 (D) 50 (E) 60
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Question 279738: Lashonna Harris a buyer for Plough. She can purchase 100 pounds of chemicals for $97. At this same rate, how much would 2,000 pounds of the chemicals costs?
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Question 279896: The people at a meeting of Goodtime Sports are forming equal teams. When they form groups of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 there is always exactly one person left. What is the smallest number of people that could be at the meeting?

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Question 280019: Please solve this word problem: How much money should parents deposit today in a college fund earning 5% compound quarterly, so that it will accumulate to $150,000.00 in 15 years?
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Question 280080: Sales of cassette tapes of music decreased by 7% per year for 3 years. The percent that best approximates the total percent that sales of cassette tapes of music decreased during this time period is:
(A) 80.4% (B) 79% (C) 34.3% (D) 21% (E) 19.6%
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Question 280081: A piece of string 15 inches long is cut into four pieces. If each successive piece is half as long as the preceding piece, then the length of the first piece, in inches, is:
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
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Question 280068: A city’s population increased from 24000 to 25000 during 1993. if the increase of population decreased by 100 in each of the following three years, what was the population of this city at the end of 1996?
A 24700 B 27400 C 27700 D 27900 E none of these

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Question 280051: From an original group of boys and girls, twenty girls leave. There are then left two boys for each girl. After this, sixty boys leave. There are then two girls for each boy.The number of girls in the original group was:
(A) 81 (B) 72 (C) 68 (D) 60 (E) 50
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Question 279991: AN EXPEREINCED BANK AUDITOR CAN CHECK A BANK'S DEPOSIT TWICE AS FAST AS A NEW AUDITOR. WORKING TOGETHER IT TAKES THE AUDITORS 20 HOURS TO DO THE JOB. HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE THE EXPERIENCED AUDITIOR WORKING ALONE?
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Question 280174: Fax paper cost $17 per case and copier paper $11 per case.If an order is received for a total of 250 cases for $3,650, what is the exact number of cases of copier paper?
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Question 280182: 112. Decreasing cube. Each of the three dimensions of a
cube with sides of length s centimeters is decreased by a
whole number of centimeters. The new volume in cubic
centimeters is given by
V(s) = s^3 -13s^2 + 54s- 72.
a) Find V(10).
b) If the new width is s - 6 centimeters, then what are the
new length and height?
c) Find the volume when s = 10 by multiplying the
length, width, and height.
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Question 280151: Find an equation of the line containing the given pair of points.
(1/6,- 1/3) and (5/6,5)

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Question 280243: Could you show me the steps to the answer to this question?
1. You need to purchase a textbook for nursing school and the book cost $80.00 and the sale tax is 8.25% and I have a $100 dollars. How much change will I receive back?

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Question 280489: A rancher decides to build a silo inside his corral. The rectangular corral measures 23m by 18m and the silo's base is circular with the diameter of 2x meters. Find the polynomial area of corral 9in sq. meters) after silo is built
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Question 280488: The polynominal 0.041h - 0.018a - 2.69 can be used to estimate lung capacity, in liters, of a female with height h=cm and age a=years. Find the lung capacity of a 42 yr old female who is 155 cm tall. Round to the nearest liter.
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Question 280517: If in the expression x^2y the values of x and y are each decreased by 20%, then the value of the expression is decreased by a factor of
A 61/125 b 50% c 64/125 d 60% e none of these

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Question 280531: The sum of three numbers is 70. if the ratio of the first to the second is 3/4 and the ratio of the second to third is 4/7 , then the second number is
A 12 b 16 c 20 d 24 e none of these

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Question 280529: An iup runner has reduced her time for the Indiana-nowhere run from 5hr to4hr.She also has increased her speed by 2mph. The distance of the Indiana-nowhere run is
A 8 mi b 16mi c 20 mi d 32 mi e none of these

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Question 280532: In a tournament where each team meets every other team twice, a total of 30 games are played. How many teams play in this tournament?
A 4 B 5 C 6 D 7 E 15

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Question 280523: The front wheel of a wagon makes 110 more revolutions than the rear wheel in going a mile . if the circumference of the front wheel is increased by 25% and that of the rear wheel decreased 25%, the rear wheel then revolves 88 more times than the front wheel in going a mile . the original circumference of the front wheel in feet is
A 8 b 10 c 12 d 14 e 16
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Question 280554: A travel agent is organizing a trip for a local ski club. she can make arrangements for a maximum of 10 people, and there must be at least 4 men and 3 women in the group. her profit is $12.25 for each woman and $15.40 for each man. how many men and how many women will give her the maximum profit? what is the maximum profit?
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Question 280595: aunt joanie has a 3x6 garden that she would like to triple the area of by adding some amount onto 2 sides
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Question 280604: in a class the ratio of boys to girls is 3:2. If there are 11 more boys than girls,how many pupils are in the class?
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Question 280699: Mutt and Jeff need to paint a fence. Mutt can do the job alone 4 hours faster than Jeff. If together they work for 13 hours and finish only 1/2 of the job, how long would Jeff need to do the job alone
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Question 280728: Stan and Hilda can mow the lawn in 30 min if they work together. If Hilda works twice as fast as Stan, how long would it take Stan to mow the lawn alone?
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Question 280933: A number that when divided by 126 leaves a remainder of 125, when divided by 75 leaves a remainder of 74 , when divided by 24 leaves a remainder of 23, and when divided by 20 leaves a remainder of 19 is
A 10,421 b 11,624 c 12,601 d 13,714 e none of these

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Question 280934: On a clock, the measure of the angle between the hour and minute hands at 5: 15 a.m. is :
A 60 degrees B 67.5 degrees C 75 degrees D 82.5 degrees E none of these

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Question 281130: This is a weighted average word problem, that i really need the answer to:
whipping cream contains 9% butter fat. 2% milk contains 2% butterfat.
How much whipping cream and 2% milk should be mixed to obtain 35 gallons of milk with 4% butterfat?
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Question 281171: Find three consecutive odd integers such that four times the sum of the last two is two greater than ten times the first.
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Question 281178: this is a college class called Operations Management
I need to solve for Q
problem Total cost = FC + (V x Q)
fixed cost = 250,000
V = 500
can I add 250,00 + 500 = 3,000 (which would be Q = 3,000)
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Question 271540: A Walkway of uniform width has area 72m ^2 and surrrounds a swimming pool that is 8m by 10m. Find the Width of the walkway
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