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Question 243094: I need help setting up this problem.
The sum of a certain number and a second number is 21.
The second number minus the first number is -57.
Use a system of two equations with two variables to find the numbers.
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Question 242969: The total number of digits it takes to number the pages of a book from
1 to 250 inclusive is:
a.637 b. 638 c. 640 d. 644 e. None
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Question 243079: The product of two numbers is 128 and their quotient is 8. What are the numbers?

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Question 243375: the greater of two numbers is 5 more than the smaller. if the smaller is added to twice the greater, the result is 22. find both of the numbers.
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Question 243383: the smaller of two numbers is 3 less than the larger. twice the larger plus 4 times the smaller is 36. find the numbers.
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Question 243400: The sum of two numbers is 24 more than their difference. Which of the following is the value of one of the numbers?
A. 0 B. 6 C. 12 D. 24 E. 48
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Question 243418: How many two-digit positive integers less than 100 have the units digit greater than the ten digit ?

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Question 243543: There are two numbers with the following properties.
1) the second number is 3 more than the first number.
2) the product of the two numbers is 9 more than their sum.
Which of the following represents possible values of these two numbers?
A) -6,-3 B)-4,-1 C)-1,4 D)-3,6
*ALSO CAN YOU PLEASE SHOW ME THE STEPS TO SOLVE THE QUESTION? THANK YOU!
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Question 243582: How many three-digit numbers have the sum of their digits equal to 20?
This is a homework problem for me and I am simply stumped. we are working on permutations, factorials and trees.
Thank you!!
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Question 243716: the first of two numbers is 9 more than the second. three times the first number is equal to 7 more than 5 times the second. find the numbers.
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Question 243801: the second of two numbers is 6 less than the first. twice the sum of the first number and 1 is the same as 9 times the second number. find the numbers
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Question 243830: If the difference of two numbers is 8, and their product is 13, what is the sum of their squares?
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Question 244060: The sum of two numbers is 17. When the larger is divided by the smaller the quotient is 3 and the remainder is 1. Find the numbers.
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Question 244099: Thank you for your help. My question is:
The greatest of four consecutive even integers is 14 less than twice the smallest integer. What are the integers?
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Question 244121: the sum of the page numbers that is seen is 1125. what are the page numbers?
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Question 244134: peter made a letter L from six squares. The side of each square is 1cm in length. Find the perimeter of the letter he made.
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Question 244134: peter made a letter L from six squares. The side of each square is 1cm in length. Find the perimeter of the letter he made.
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Question 244131: a checkerboard has 8 squares on a side. at the beginning of a game of checkers, each player has 12 checkers on a board. how many squares do not have checkers in them?
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Question 244247: The difference of the two numbers is more than 12, and one of the numbers is 3.
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Question 244242: What is the product of any number and 1?
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Question 244466: The smaller of 2 consecutive odd integars is doubled, the result is 7 more then the larger of the 2 integers. Find the 2 integers
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Question 244460: The larger of the two numbers is 10 more than twice the smaller. The difference of the numbers is 17. Find the numbers

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Question 244461: What is the product if the largest of three consecutive odd integers whose sum is 129 is multiplied by 4?
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Question 244640: Find 2 consecutive 2 digit numbers whose product is 812.
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Question 244637: if 4 is decreased by 3 times a number, the result is 22. write an equation and find the number. how do i solve this?
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Question 244637: if 4 is decreased by 3 times a number, the result is 22. write an equation and find the number. how do i solve this?
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Question 244365: I am a 3 digit number. all my digits are odd. the digit in the tens place is twice the digit in the ones place, and the hundreds place is 3 more than the tens place what number am I?
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Question 244881: The units digit, or the ones digit, of the product of any six consecutive positive whole numbers always equals which number?
(A) 8 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 2 (E) 0
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Question 244991: It is less than 70 and greater than 65.If you add the two digits,the sum is 14.
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Question 245070: The width, length, and diagonal of a rectangle are consecutive even integers. Find the integers.
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Question 245071: A rancher plans to use 160 yd of fencing to enclose a rectangular corral and to divide it into two parts by a fence parallel to the shorter sides of the corral. Find the dimensions of the corral if its area is 1000yds squared.
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Question 244993: It is greater than 35 and less than 45.If you add the two digits,the sum is 5.
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Question 245322: translate into an algebraic expression, three less than a product of two numbers, how do i figure this out?
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Question 245450: The product of the page numbers of a book is 600. Find the page numbers.
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Question 245449: The product of the numbers on two consecutive volumes of research data is 420. Find the volume numbers. x+x+1
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Question 245451: Find three consecutive even integers such that the sum of the squares of the first and second integers is equal to the square of the third integer.
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Question 245478: the sum of two numbers is 35 and their product is 7. find the sum of the reciprocals of the numbers.
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Question 245573: find the two number whose sum is 51 and whose difference is 13
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Question 245794: What is a way to write,the sum of two consecutive even integers is 2 more than twice the smaller integer.
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Question 245769: ten increased by a product of 2 and two less than a number
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Question 245881: The product of 2 consecutive odd numbers is 63. What is the larger number?
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Question 245881: The product of 2 consecutive odd numbers is 63. What is the larger number?
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Question 245881: The product of 2 consecutive odd numbers is 63. What is the larger number?
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