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Question 250252: Twice the sum of a number and eight, equals three times the sum of the number and four. Find the number?
I don't understand what it is asking..
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Question 250260: First Problem
One number is 3 smaller than another number. The square of the larger number is 9 larger than ten times the smaller number. Find the numbers.
2nd Problem
Suppose that the width of a certain rectangle is 3 inches less than its length. The area is numerically 6 less than twice the perimeter. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 250256: The perimeter of a rectangle is 30 centimeters, and the area is 54 square centimeters. Find the length and width of the rectangle. [Hint: Let w represent the width; then 15 - w represents the length.]
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Question 250302: eight is five less than twice an unknown number
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Question 250312: Find two consecutive positive even integer whose product is 224
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Question 250349: 100 heads, 270 legs, how many chickens how many pigs?
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Question 250412: what is Three more than twice a number x is fifteen
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Question 250400: twelve less than three times the sum of a number and seven
is best represented by?
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Question 250406: find two numbers whose sum is 58 and whose difference is 16
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Question 250659: A piece of rope is 108 cm long. One piece is three less tan twice the first. How long is each piece?
Do you set it up doing the 1st rope =, and 2nd rope = or just use Xs

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Question 250657:
A piece of rope is 108 cm long. One piece is three less tan twice the first. How long is each piece?
Do you set it up doing the 1st rope =, and 2nd rope = or just use Xs

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Question 250747: the greater of two consecutive integers is 15 more than twice the smaller. Find the two numbers.
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Question 250860: Find three consecutive odd integers whose sum is 10 less than 4 times the least integer.
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Question 251001: I want to know what number equals 65 tens.

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Question 251001: I want to know what number equals 65 tens.

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Question 251093: what is a two digit number which is equal to twice the product of the same two digits
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Question 251071: Mike's average on five tests are 84,80,76,96,and 80. What must mike score on his sixth test so that his average will be 85?
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Question 251071: Mike's average on five tests are 84,80,76,96,and 80. What must mike score on his sixth test so that his average will be 85?
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Question 251108: Three consecutive even integers are such that twice the square of the third integer is 104 more than the product of the first three intergers. What are the three integers?

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Question 251112: Three consecutive even integers are such that twice the square of the third integer is 104 more than the product of the first two intergers. What are the three integers?
I just sent a word problem just like the one above, this is the revised problem. It should be "the first two" instead of "the first three". Sorry about the mix up and thanks in advance.
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Question 251262: The largest of three numbers is 10 more than the smallest. The middle number is the average of the other two. If the sum of the three numbers is 42, what are the three numbers?
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Question 251552: The sum of two numbers is 32. The sum of the squares of the two numbers is 544. Find the numbers.
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Question 251617: (3x-2y)sq.
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Question 251622: If m is divided by 5 leaves a remainder is 2, while n is divided by 5 leaves a remainder of 4, find the remainder when m+n is divided by 5?
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Question 251593: The sum of a two-digit counting number is 9. When the digits are reversed, the new number is 9 less than the original number. What are the two numbers?
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Question 251658: A number n is 1 plus the sum of the squares of three consecutive odd integers. what is the largest integer factor of all such numbers n?
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Question 251661: Which of the following statements is true?
The sum of two even numbers is odd.
The sum of two odd numbers is odd.
The sum of an even number and an odd number is even.
The sum of an even number and an odd number is odd.

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Question 251678: The sum of three numbers is 88. The first number decreased by 5, the second number increased by 5, and the third number multiplied by 5 are all equal. Find the positive difference between the smallest and the largest of the three numbers.
a) 8 b) 35 c) 37 d) 45 e) none of these
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Question 251660: The product of two two-digit numbers is 1484. The product of their units digits is 24 and the product of their tens digits is 10. The two numbers can be?
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Question 251760: The sum of two numbers is 65 . One number is 4 times as large as the other. What are the numbers?
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Question 251819: Solve for the variable.
2(X-1)+3X=6X-20
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Question 251807: I am thinking of a number. If 8 is added to this number and 6 is subtracted from that sum, the result is 12. What is the number I am thinking of?
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Question 251843: one number is 5 more than another number. if the smaller number is doubled and added to 3 times the larger number. the sum is 80. find the two numbers
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Question 251850: what is the 4 consecutive even number if we add the answer is 35
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Question 251871: Of three numbers, the 3rd is one less than the sum of the other two. It is also 8 more than twice the 2nd. The 1st is one less than 3 times the difference of the 3rd minus the 2nd. What is the largest of the three numbers?
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Question 251902: How many integers, 1 to 1000, inclusive, are divisible by neither 2 nor 5?
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Question 251919: Dorothy bought two computers, one desktop and one laptop. Before finance charges, the laptop cost $500 less than the desktop. Dorothy paid for the computers using two different financing plans. For the desktop the interest rate was 10% per year, and for the laptop it was 6.5% per year. The total finance charges for one year were $792.50. How much did the desktop computer cost before finance charges?

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Question 251937: what are the two numbers if the average of two consecutive even numbers is 89
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Question 251937: what are the two numbers if the average of two consecutive even numbers is 89
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Question 251939: what are the numbers if the average of four consecutive even numbers is 35
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Question 252003: The sum of four even number is 140. Find the digits?

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Question 252009: I need 5 digits from the numbers 1-56 that sum up 157 none of the same numbers

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Question 252009: I need 5 digits from the numbers 1-56 that sum up 157 none of the same numbers

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