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Question 9340: please help me solve this problem: 0.4m-3=-1
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Question 9415: find the 5 digit number that has the following characteristics.
-no 2 digits are the same.
-no 0 occurs in the number.
-the 3rd digit is 1 less than the 2nd digit.
-the 2nd is twice the 1st digit.
-the sum of the 1st 4 digits is divisible by 9.
-the 4th digit is the square of the 5th digit.
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Question 9479: An employee of the computer store is paid a base salary of $1,175 per month plus a 5% commission on all sales during the month. How much must this employee sell in one month to earn a total of 3,170 for the month
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Question 9476: A rectangle 24 meters long has the same area as a square that is 12 meters on a side. What are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 9473: Find 3 consecutive even integers so that the first plus twice the second is twice the third
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Question 9477: Find the perimeter of a triangle if one side is 11 centimeters, another side is one-fifth the perimeter, and the third side is one-fourth the perimeter
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Question 9478: A stereo store marks up each item it sells 60% above wholesale price. What is the wholesale price on a cassete player that retails at $144
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Question 9574: One number is five times another number. If the sum of two numbers in 270, find the numbers

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Question 9623: Eight marbles look alike, but one is slightly heavier than the others. Using a balance scale, explain how you can determine the heavier one in exactly 2 weighings.
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Question 9923: Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. It is 237 meters higher than K2, the second tallest mountain. If the sum of their heights is 17,459 meters, how tall is each mountain?
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Question 10068: My question:
What two consecutive even integers equal 217?
Thanks,
Abby
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Question 10413: A chef needs to mix a 45% fat content cheese with a 20% fat content cheese to obtain 30 grams of a cheese mixture that is 30% fat. How many grams of each kind of cheese must be used?
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Question 10500: a+b=10.6
a+c=8.5
b+c=8.1
how much are a, b, c worth?
Please help .8th grade
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Question 9621: Hi, The question is a Farmer has Pigs & Chickens on his farm of which the sum of all the pigs & chickens legs equals 101. How many Pigs and how many chickens are on his farm.
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Question 10603: Find two negative numbers such that the square of their sum is 20 more than the square of their difference, and the difference of their squares is 24.
I have an upcoming mathletes compitition, and this problem has me stumpted.
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Question 10813: The Find two consecutive odd integers whose sum is 0
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Question 10812: The sum of a number and its reciprocal is 2. Find the number.
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Question 10811: Five times a number subtracted from 3 times the number equals 20. Find the number.
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Question 10810: The sum of two consecutive integers is 105. Find the integers.
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Question 10810: The sum of two consecutive integers is 105. Find the integers.
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Question 11118: What is the sum of the 1st 500 counting digits? That is what is the sum of 1+2+3+4+...+499+500? How about the sum of only the odd digits, 1+3+5+...+497+499?
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Question 11273: the sum of two consecutive integers is 118
a. DEFINE A VARIABLE FOR THE SMALLER INTEGER.
b. WHAT MUST YOU ADD TO AN INTERGER TO GET THE NEXT GREATER EVEN INTEGER?
c. WRITE AN EXPRESSION FOR THE SECON INTEGER.
d. WRITE AND SOLVE AN EQUATION TO FIND THE TWO EVEN INTEGERS.
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Question 11513: I need to find another way to solve this problem. I would like to be able to use an equation for it.
Find the sum of these consecutive odd numbers:
1 + 3 + 5 + 7 + ... (all odd numbers from 7-193) 193 + 195 + 197 + 199.
I already know that the answer is 10,000 because I sat here and added up all of the numbers myself, but I need an equation to turn in, and I haven't been able to find one yet. If you could help I would really appreciate it. Thanks- Lisa
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Question 11728: The sum of three consecutive numbers is 600. What is the least of these three numbers?
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Question 11819: The sum of 2 consecutive even intergers is 118
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Question 12034: if n=7,what is the value of 3n+4
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Question 12055: Two-fifths of a certain no. decreased by three-fourths is equal to seven-eights. What is the no.?

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Question 12054: Double the no. and subtracting it from 35 will result in triple the value of the no.What is the no?

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Question 12154: I am trying to help my son and it has been a long time since I have done this kind of math. Juan has 4 more cards than Kim. Larry has 2 more cards than Juan. Altogether they have 100 cards. How many cards does each person have?
Can you help?
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Question 12259: The sum of three consecutive numbers is 600. What is the least of these three numbers
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Question 12472: One Kilogram is approximately 2.2 pounds. A British Airways ticket shows that the weight limi on a checked in baggage is 32 kilograms for a certain route. Which of the following numbers is closest to the weight limit on this route?
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Question 12585: A store keeper goes to the bank to get $10 worth of change. He requests twicew as many quarters as half dollars, twice as many dimes as qurters, 3 times as many nickles as dimes, and no pennies or dollars. How many of each coin did the storekeeper get?
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Question 12555: How many 8-digits whole numbers can be written with eight different digits, assuming that the leading digit cannot be zero?
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Question 12620: one number is 5 times another number the sum of the two numbers is 270 what is the number
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Question 12680: The sum of two numbers is -63. The first number minus the second is -41. Find the numbers
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Question 12737: I need help please! The question I have is:
The sum of three consecutive odd integers = 171
Thank You!
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Question 12859: What are 3 consecutive numbers with the sum of 600?
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Question 12859: What are 3 consecutive numbers with the sum of 600?
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Question 12940: how do you factor this?:

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Question 13322: Find 3 consecutive odd integers such that the smallest is 10 more than the sum of the other two integers.
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Question 13429: The sum of three consecutive even integers is the same as twice the smallest of these integers.
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Question 13471: please solve the following inequalities as i am having some difficulties:
4x + 12 >= 36 + 4
8z + 4z < 6z - 12
thank you :)
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Question 13941: Please help me solve the following problem:
Twice the smallest of three consecutive odd integers is seven more than the largest. Find the integers.
Integers: X= first odd integer, X+2= second integer, X+4 = third integer

I'm trying to figure it out but I'm not coming up with the right answer. According to my book, the answer should be 11, 13, 15...HELP Please! Mike
2X+4+7 = X+2 X+4

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