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Question 234725: This number problem is a key to me understand several more:
Find two numbers whose difference is 12 if 4 times the smaller number is 7 less then 3 times the larger number.
I've gotten this far but i don't think it's right
small = x
large = x + 12
4x = 3(x + 12) - 7
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Question 234735: teh sum of three numbers is 35. the first number is three less than the second and the third is two more than four times the second. what are the three numbers?
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Question 234808: the sum of two numbers is 13. one number is 1 more than twice the other. find the smaller number.
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Question 234869: what are 3 consecutive odd numbers whose sum is 141
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Question 234970: Which of the following could be the product of two even numbers and an odd number each of which is greater than 1?
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Question 234931: The sum of two consecutive even integer is 250. Identify both of the numbers and construct an algebraic equation with a variable and solve using algebra steps.
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Question 235067: find two integers whose difference is 23 and whose product is 120
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Question 235156: i am a 2 digit number.the sum of my digits is 12.the digit in the ones place is larger than the digit in the tens place.both of my digits are even.what number am i.
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Question 235256: if the product of 4 and a number is diminished by12 then the result is twice the opposite of the number. let m represent the number. what is the number?
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Question 235233: The sum of three consecutive odd integers is -219. Find the integers.
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Question 235245: if the product of 4 and a number is diminished by12 then the result is twice the opposite of the number. let m represent the number. what is the number?
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Question 235340: The sum of seventeen and four times T is tha same as the difference of six times T and nine
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Question 235405: here is the problem : Find three consecutive integers such that the sum of the squares of the second and third exceeds the square of the first by 77. please!!thanks.
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Question 235406: here is the problem : Find the roots of the quadratic , equadratic equation 2timesXsquare plus 9x-8=0.using quadratic formula.
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Question 235467: How many liters of a 40% solution and an 16% solution must be mixed to obtain 20 liters of a 22% solution?
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Question 235576: In South Bend, there are currently 5/8 of their men is married to 2/9 of the women. Is there more women or men married?
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Question 235575: Sherlock Hemlock thought of two numbers. Their sum was 20 and the sum of their squares was 300. What was their product?
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Question 235575: Sherlock Hemlock thought of two numbers. Their sum was 20 and the sum of their squares was 300. What was their product?
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Question 235689: I am desperately trying to expain how to predict and test problem solving,is only a third grader and has not been taught algebra so not able to explain that way. problems are as such... Peter delievers 110 newspapers on the weekend. He delivers 20 more papers on Sunday than on Saturday. How many papers does he deliver each day?
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Question 235587: the product of a number and four is greater than the number minus eight.
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Question 235404: here is the problem : One number is 2 greater than another number.If the sum of their squares is 5 times the square of the smaller number,what are the numbers?
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Question 235771: twice the lesser of 2 consecutive integers = 12 less than the greater integer
2x = y-12
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Question 235859: what is the equation or mathematical phrase for this: the sum of three consecutive numbers. tnx
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Question 235862: Find the largest of the four even whole numbers whose sum is 100.
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Question 235861: The product of fifteen consecutive whole numbers is 0. What is the greatest possible sum of the whole numbers?
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Question 235962: Pedro is making brown paint by mixing 4 parts green paint with 5 parts red paint. He wants to make 36 gallons of brown paint. How many gallons of red paint will Pedro need?
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Question 235800: The problem is one number is 2 more then 5 times another number their sum is 24. what are the number. I need the steps on how to solve the problem
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Question 235998: The Number 9 is what percent of 45
My answer was 5 and then I came up with 20%. Could you please help and explaine
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Question 235996: 5x-7>8x+5
Im not sure if i did this correctly I came up with x=-4
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Question 236001: Sam Mathius invested part of his 10,000 bonus in a fund that paid an 11% Profit and invested the rest in stock that suffered a 4% loss. Findthe amount of each investment if his overall net profit was $650.
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Question 235995: the Quotent of the number and 3 is the same as the difference of the number and 2. Find the the number
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Question 236019: Mark Martin can row upstream at 5mph and downstream at 11mph. If Mark starts rowing upstream until he gets tired and then rows downstream to his starting point, hhow far did Mark row if the entire trip took 4 hours?
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Question 236016: How can 54,000 be invested, part at 8% annual simple interest and the remainder at 10%annual simple interest, so that the interest earned by the two accounts will be equal
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Question 236012: Find three consecutive odd integers such that the largest decreased by three times the second is the same as the difference of the smallest and 47.
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Question 236024: Solve inequality.
-2<3x-5<7
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Question 236095: A youth organization collected nickels and dimes for a charity drive. by the end of the 1st day s drive, the youth had collected 56.35. If there were three times as many dimes as nickels, how many of each type of coin was collected?
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Question 236124: 2 numbers equal the sum of 48. what are the two numbers when one number is 3times the second number ?
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Question 236331: N is 80% of P
N to the root of 2 is what percent of P to the root of 2?
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Question 236372: Translate to an algebraic expression. Use x and y for any variables
One less than a product of two numbers
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Question 236669: the first of 3 numbers is 3 times the second and the third is 8 less than 2 times the second. their sum is 130. find the numbers?
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Question 236776: The problem is:
Find all numbers such that three times the number is greater than eight less than the number.
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Question 236759: find two numbers whose sum is 100 if one number is 16 more than three times the smaller number
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Question 236817: There is a two digit number that is 9 times the sum of its digits.
What is this number?
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Question 236831: What is the equivalent mathematical equation of:
one-half the product of a number and seven is 21
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