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Question 58: john like 400 but not 300; he likes 100 but not 99 ; he likes 3600 but not 3700. which he ? 900 or 1000 or 1100 or 1200.
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Question 97: The difference between two numbers is -38. Two times the smaller number minus five times the larger number is -217. What are the numbers?
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Question 203: If the original number is 2400 and you need to find 3 numbers to equal that number, one being 25% higher than the remaining 2 which are equal...how do I calulate that and get the answer?
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Question 95: the sum of two numbers in 9. the difference between five times of the first and four times of the second is 9. what are that numbers?
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Question 112: I could use your help. There are 24 spooks in the haunted house. The number of scarecrows is equal to the number of witches plus 4. The number of witches is equal to the number of ghosts minus 8. how many witches and ghosts and scarecrows are there?
Thanks
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Question 246: Find two numbers whose sum is 64 and whose difference is 42.
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Question 268: Blake Scott leaves 1/8 of his estate to the boy scouts, 2/9 to the local cancer fund, and the rest to his church. What fractional part of the estate does the church recieve?
Please enter the answer as a number without the units.
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Question 296: In a series of spring training games, the Yankees scored 35 runs. The Dodgers and Tigers, respectivly, tallied half and a third as many as the Reds. The Reds' scores were as much below the Yankees' as the Dodgers' were the Tigers'. How many runs did each team score
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Question 294: At a certain school, 240 of the students take math, 180 of the students take grammar, and 100 of the students take both. If every student must study either math or grammar, how many students attend this school?
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Question 339: I cannot understand how to do this problem:
Find two consecutive integers such that the sum of 2 times the first integer and 4 times the second integer is 46.
thank you

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Question 437: Let p1 and p2 be two odd primes. Show that there is a prime q such that q is not in {p1,p2} and q divides the sum p1 + p2.
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Question 504: 1) use four fours to create 65, and you can use any mathematical symbols, but you can only use four fours as your digits.
2) find four #'s, the sum of which is 45, so that if 2 is added to the first #, 2 is subtracted from the second #, the third is multiplied by 2 and the fourth # is divided by 2, then thr four #'s produced are all the same.
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Question 511: A student has grades on three examinations of 76, 80, and 72. What
must the student earn on a fourth examination in order to have an
average of at least 80?

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Question 569: The product of three consecutive integers is 22 less than the cube of the middle integer. Find the integers.
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Question 525: I always have problems with these word problems: Find three consecutive even numbers so that the sum of the first and third numbers is 22 less than three times the second number. This one is hard, I would love it if you helped me out on this please and thank you!
Kelsie
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Question 619: In a college there are 5 more seniors than juniors. In an honor party, 8 percent of the juniors and 5 percent of the seniors were invited. The total number of students invired to this party was 10. How many students were in the college.
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Question 613: Four times the sum of two consecutive integers is equal to 2 more than 14 times the larger integer. Find the integers.
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Question 551: Find three consecutive odd integers whose sum is -81.
Please some me how to get the answer.
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Question 664: One number is more than 3 times another. Their sum is 21. What is their product?
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Question 642: FIND TWO NUMBERS SUCH THAT THEIR SUM IS 6 AND THEIR PRODUCT IS 7
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Question 793: 22 ft x 8 ft sidewalk, 22 stepping stones 16 in x 16 in, 2 inches in depth, gravel cost is 2.99 a cubic foot. How many bags of gravel will it take? what is the total cost of the gravel? Round to the nearest decimal.
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Question 799: i need to know how to solve this problem: one number is 5 more than twice another number. the sum of the numbers is 35. find the numbers
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Question 833: If 9 is added to twice a number and this sum is multiplied by 3, the result is the same as if the number is multiplied by 4 and 13 is added to the product. What is the number?
I got a -7. But when I plugged the -7 back into the equation, it didn't work. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you.
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Question 867: the difference between a number and fifteen is seven. find the number.
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Question 866: twenty-one is three times the difference between four times a number and five. find the number.
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Question 1042: three times the larger of two numbers is equal to four times the smaller.the sum of the numbers is 21. please hhelp me find the numbers.
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Question 1058: Find three consecutive even integers such that if three is added to the second consecutive even integer, the square of the result is 49
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Question 1159: two numbers differ by 6. The sum of the squres of the numbers is 218. find the numbers

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Question 1104: The A-One Shoe Store has in its inventory three times more pairs of sneakers than it has pairs of boots, and at least ten more pairs of sandals than it has pairs of boots. If there are 28 pairs of sandals in the inventory, what is the greatest possible number of pairs of sneakers in the inventory?
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Question 1281: When you are reading a word problem what do you first?
Like in this word problem:
The sum of two numbers is 8 less than the first number. Their differrence is 5 less than twice the second number. Find each of the numbers.
Does the equation start like this:
2n-8=2m-4
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Question 1311: 5 times the sum of three consecutive integers is 150, what are the integers?
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Question 1337: John likes 400 but not 300, he likes 100 but not 99, he likes 3600 but not
3700. What number does John like ?
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Question 1370: A candy factory classifies its candies as (Carmel-5 types) (chocolate 7 types) ( Dark chocolate 10 types). A customer wants (4 types of Carmel) (5 types of Chocolate) (7 types of Dark Chocolate) and i need to know how many assortments are possible?
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Question 1291: Three consecutive odd counting numbers have the property that the sum of the largest and twice the smallest is 91. What is the middle number?
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Question 1516: The larger of two numbers is 8 more than four times the smaller. If the larger is increased by four times the smaller, the result is 40. Find the numbers.
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Question 1717: If 3 is subtrcted from four times a number, the result is 10 less than five times the number. Find the number.
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Question 1674: Two consecutive integers are added together. The square of their sum is 361.
What are the integers?

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Question 1775: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When the digits are reversed, the number is increased by 36. Find the number.
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Question 1792: Plz help me in solving the linear equations involviing two variables.I want a full solution of my questions.My questions are:
Q no:1= The sum of the numerator and the denominator of a fraction is 10. If the numerator is multiplied by 3 and the denominator by 1/2, the fraction becomes 2/3. Find the fraction.?
Q no:2= A number consists of two digits . THe digit at ten's place is 4 times the digit at unit's place. On changing the place of digits , the new number formed is 54 less than the original number. Find the number?

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Question 1819: A farmer raises wheat and oats on 180 acres. SHe plants wheat on 20 more acres than she plants oats on. How many acres of each crop does the farmer plant?
and
Enrico says, "I'm Thinking of 2 mystery numbers. One number is 3 times the other. The sum of the two numbers is 48". What are enrico's mystery numbers?
Please help me!
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Question 1872: Two consecutive integers are added. The square of their sum is 361. What are the integers?
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Question 1872: Two consecutive integers are added. The square of their sum is 361. What are the integers?
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Question 1929: I am supposed to find two positive real numbers that differ by 1 and have a product of 1.
This is how I did this:
x(x+1)=1
0+1=1
Is this right???
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Question 1967: Plz help me in solving word problems involving linear equations in two variables.I want a full solution of my questions .
Q no:1) If 1 is subracted from the numerator and 2, added to the denominator of a fraction, it becomes 1/2. The fraction becomes 2/3, when 1 ,is subracted from its numerator and 2, from its denominator. Find the fraction.
Q no:2) A number consists of two digits . The digit at ten's place is 4 times the digit at unit's place . On changing the place of digits , the new number is formed is 54 less than the original number . Find the numbers.
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