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Question 206420: A retailer bought a number of special mugs for $48. Two of the mugs were broken in the store, but by selling each of the other mugs for $3 above the original cost per mug, she made a total profit of $22. How many mugs did she buy and at what price per mug did she sell them?
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Question 206474: You want to mat and frame a 5x7 photograph. The perimeter of the outside of the mat is 44 inches. The mat is twice as wide at the top and bottom as it is at the sides. Find the dimensions of the mat.
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Question 206574: URGNET QUESTION
hey there ... thank you this has been great help..:) The question is-
The sum of 2 numbers is 12. Find the numbers so that their product is a maximum.
Thankyou soo much..
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Question 206609: I=prt Solve for r.
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Question 206608: The sum of three consective intergers is 423. what are the intergers?
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Question 206608: The sum of three consective intergers is 423. what are the intergers?
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Question 206587: The positive integers, starting with 1, are written in order 123456789101112.... The digit appearing in the 100th place is
(A) 0 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7
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Question 206636: Find two consecutive odd integers whose product is 195.
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Question 206645: Solve using the five-step problem-solving process.
You are traveling to your aunt's house that is 234 miles away. If you are currently twice as far from home as you are from your aunt's, how far have you traveled? Round to the nearest tenth mile, if necessary.
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Question 206643: The difference between two positive integers is 36. One integer is three times as great as the other. Find the integers
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Question 206644: Apply the Order of Operations to simplify the following expression:
2x[(5x2 – 3x + 2) – (6x3 + 6x2)/3x2]
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Question 206354: Using the digits 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 ONLY ONCE, find two 3-digit whose product is as large as possible.
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Question 206704: product of prime numbers-34,76,39,81
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Question 206744: How many three digit numbers can be made using only the digits 1 to 9 so that at least two of the digits are the same? For example, 112 and 737 are two such numbers.
(A) 100 (B) 200 (C) 216 (D) 225 (E) None of these
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Question 206789: bob fills a pool in 30 min, joe does it in 45 min frank takes 90 minutes - how may minutes will it take them all to fill the pool?
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Question 206865: A number is said to be prime if it is evenly divisible only by itself and by one
among the numbers given below, which one is not a prime number?
a) 107 b) 109 c) 111 d) 113 e) all are prime

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Question 206856: The sum of the integers from 1 to 25 is 325. What is the sum of the integers from 26 to 50?
(A) 625 (B) 650 (C) 925 (D) 950 (E) None of these
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Question 206889: I am having trouble setting up this problem.
If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hours, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?

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Question 206858: A palindrome is an integer that reads the same forward and backwards. For example, 31213 is a 5 digit palindrome. How many 3 digit palindromes are even?
(A) 30 (B) 36 (C) 40 (D) 45 (E) 50
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Question 206876: 4 more than twice a number is less than the opposite of the number
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Question 206942: two technicians can complete a mailing in 3 hours when working together. alone, one can complete the mailing 2 hours faster than the other. how long will it take each person to complete the mailing alone? compute answer to two decimal places.
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Question 206967: the sum of three consecutive page number is 60. find the numbers?

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Question 207265: The product of two consecutive positive intergers is 55 more than their sum. Find the intergers?
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Question 207364: The sum of two numbers is 34 and their product is 168. Find the two numbers. I don't understand what product means. Thank you.
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Question 207364: The sum of two numbers is 34 and their product is 168. Find the two numbers. I don't understand what product means. Thank you.
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Question 207400: one number is 8 times a first number, a third number is 100 more than the first number, if the sum of all three numbers is 620 then whats the numbers
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Question 207414: ben finishes his work in 8 days. frank works 3 times faster than ben.james works 5 times faster than ben.How many days will it take for them to finish the job together?
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Question 207562: one number is two less than a second number. if you take one-half of the first number and increase it by the second number, the result is at least 41. find the least possible value for the second number.
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Question 207572: The chickens and rabbits have a total of 360 legs. if there were only 105 animals how many would be rabbits?

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Question 207599: Find the greatest number of four digits which when increased by 1 is exactly divisible by 2,3 ,4,5,6 and 7.
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Question 207669: i cant figure this one out it confuses me
My digits are the same. their sum is 3 less than their product. Who am i?

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Question 207672: what is concecutive integers of 118
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Question 207737: Mike said that when he opened his book, the product of the page numbers of the two facing pages was 7007. Without performing any calculations, prove that he was wrong.
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Question 207783: If 3 times Jane's age, in years, is equal to 8 times beth's age, in years, and the difference between their ages is 15 years, how old are Jane and Beth?
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Question 207809: You are selling tickets at a high school football game. Student tickets cost $2 and general admission tickets cost $3. you sell 1957 tickets and collect $5035. How many of each ticket did you sell?
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Question 207912: a three digit whole numbers last digit is three times its first digit.its first digit is two times its second digit. what is the number. please help me I asked my older brother for help but he didn't know i thought maybe it was 246, but i don't think thats right.Pleas help me, thank you so,so much!!!
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Question 208057: A sporting goods store sold twice as many baseballs as bats. Balls were $9 and bats were $14. $256 dollars were made by both products combined. How many of each was sold?
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Question 208224: 1)how many odd integers are there between 10/3 and 62/3? please explain how you retrieve the answer.
2)how do we know which numbers provided in the options of the questions are divisible by 24 or, 35 for that matter?
If you could please answer my questions.
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Question 205851: Solve:
3(x^2-3x) = 81
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Question 208372: Find four consecutive integers such that twice the first is subtracted from the sum of the other three is 16.
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Question 208352: find five consecutive odd intergers such that the first and fifth isone lessthan three times the fourth

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Question 208525: three times the sum of a and b increased by a
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Question 208537: Find 4 consecutive odd integers whose sum equals 336
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