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Question 214097: Find two consecutive even integers such that three times the lesser integer, added to the larger integer, is 58.
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Question 214070: Find the six-digit number in which the first digit is one less than the second digit and half the third; the fourth digit is one more than the third and is also the sum of the first and second digits; and the fifth and sixth digits make a number that is the sum of the first four digits. The sum of all the digits is 19.
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Question 214159: In an even 2-digit number, the sesond digit is 3 times the first. what is the number?
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Question 214176: find two consecutive odd integers such that their product is 15 more than 3 times their sum
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Question 214294: the tens digits of a two digit number is 3 more than 5 times the units digit. if the digits are reversed, the new number is 2 more than twice the tens digit of the original number. find the original number.
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Question 214331: The difference of two numbers is 17, and their sum is 85. Find the smaller of the two numbers
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Question 214334: Does anyone know how to go about this problem? The difference of two positive numbers is 3 and the sum of their squares is 65. Find the numbers.
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Question 214333: Does anyone know how to go about this problem? The difference of two positive numbers is 3 and the sum of their squares is 65. Find the numbers.
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Question 214358: The sum of three numbers is 120. The second of the numbers is 8 less than the first, and the third number is 4 more than the first number.
Thank you
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Question 214363: the ones digit of a two-digit number is twice the tens digit. If the number exceeds the sum of its digits by 36, what is the number?
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Question 214452: please help me...I am 2 numbers.The sum of my 2 numbers is 100.The difference between my two numbers is 24. What am I?
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Question 214461: The Square of a positive number is six more then five times the positive number, find the number.
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Question 214696: A total of 54 monks and clerics were in the tower. If three times the number of clerics exceeded the number of monks by ten, how many of each were in the tower?
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Question 214714: The sum of three numbers is 120. The second number is 8 less than the first number, and the third is 4 more than the first number. This question is on a handout my child brought home. There is no ISBN
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Question 214726: What are the four consecutive even integers that equal 308?
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Question 214726: What are the four consecutive even integers that equal 308?
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Question 214750: One-sixth of the smallest of three consecutive even integers is three less than one-tenth the sum of the other even integers. Find the integers.
1/6x +3 = 1/10 (x+2)+(x+4)
1/6x +3 = 1/10 (2x+6)
1/6x +3 -3 = 1/10 (2x+3)
here is where I lose it, do not understand what to do with the fractions.
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Question 214754: frances is 10 years older than john, and the sum of their ages is 54. How old is frances?
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Question 214754: frances is 10 years older than john, and the sum of their ages is 54. How old is frances?
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Question 214809: the sum of twelve and an unknown number is four times the unknown number.
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Question 214880: The sum of three numbers is 147. The second number is 4 more than two times the first number. The third number is five less than three times the first number. Find the three numbers.
Please help me solve this problem. I tried to do it a few times but I get confused right off the bat. Thanks for any help!
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Question 214866: 12 is less than 6 times a number x.
What is the verbal sentence as an equation or an inequality?

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Question 215166: If 3 times the smaller of two consecutive integers is added to 4 times the larger, the result is 102, Find the larger integer.
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Question 215244: find the least number exactly devidable by 27,45,60,72 and 96 ?

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Question 215243: find the greatest number that exactly devides 840 and 2296 ?

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Question 215281: A car is valued at $62,125 if in excellent condition, which is 1 3/4 times as much as a car in very nice condition. What would be the value of the car in very nice condition?
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Question 215309: The sum of thre numbers is 40. One number is 5 more than the second number. It is twice the third number. What are the numbers.
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Question 215309: The sum of thre numbers is 40. One number is 5 more than the second number. It is twice the third number. What are the numbers.
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Question 215309: The sum of thre numbers is 40. One number is 5 more than the second number. It is twice the third number. What are the numbers.
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Question 215304: One number is 8 less than another number. Find the numbers if three times the smaller number is six less than two times the larger number
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Question 215466: this two-digit number is less than 100.
this number is odd.
the sum of the digits in the ones place and the tens place is 13.
the number in the ones place is less than the number isn tens places.
the number in the tens place is 2 less than 10.
what is the answer?
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Question 215517: the number is between 10 and 100.
the number is an even number less than 50.
the sum of the digits in the ones place and the tens place is the double of 5.
the tens place digit is 2 less than the one place digit.
what is the number?

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Question 215537: The difference of square of two consecutive even numbers is 34.what is the sum of that two numbers?
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Question 215528: the number is greater than 10 but less than 100.
the number is not prime, it is composite.
the number is not a palindrome.
the digit in the ones place is greater than the digit in the tens place.
the sum of the two digits is 13.
the product of the two digits is 40.
what is the number?
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Question 215531: this two-digit nunber is less than 100.
the number is even.
the number has 2, 3, and 4 as factors.
the number is more than a dozen.
the sum of the digits is 6.
what is the number?
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Question 215608: I am in remedial math and a word problem on my math test that I am not sure what the answer was and it was a word problem and I thought I read it right and worked it out but did not make sense. Can you help me. The question was the difference between a number and 9 is the same as 35 less than the number. I could not find the number. Could you help me.
Lynsey
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Question 215688: what expression is used to find the sum of 2 consecutive odd numbers

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Question 215689: The greater of two numbers is 3 more than twice the smaller. if the smaller is increased by 42, the result is 5 less than the greater.
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Question 215647: finding three consecutive integers such that the sum of the first, twice the second, and three times the third is 62
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Question 215647: finding three consecutive integers such that the sum of the first, twice the second, and three times the third is 62
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