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Question 254400: four then three times a number is one less than four times the number. what is the number?
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Question 254345: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 9. If the digits are reversed, the new number if 63 greater than the original number. Find the original number.
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Question 254547: my daughter needs help with this math prblem.
Mrs. Donegan opened a book so the the sum of the page nubers on the facing pages is 93. What is the page numbers? Hint: Page numbers are always conseutive numbers.
Thank you for your help with this.
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Question 254605: Fine two numbers which add to 48 such that twice the smaller number is 6 more than the larger number.
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Question 254792: the sum of two numbers is 10 and their difference is 3

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Question 254795: A framer noticed that he had placed 15 pigs into four pens in such a way that each pen surrounded an odd number of pigs. How was this done?

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Question 255054: How many different four-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 1, 9, and 9?
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Question 255054: How many different four-digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 1, 9, and 9?
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Question 255062: The sum of three numbers is 98. The ratio of the first to the second is 2 to 3, and the ratio of the second to the third is 5 to 8. What is the second number?
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Question 255122: Twice a number increased by 12 is 31 less than three times the number. Find the number.
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Question 255094: One page is missing from a book(that page has two sides,so 2 page numbers).Now the sum of the pages in that book is 8. What are the missing page numbers? Can you help me out the correct method of arriving at the answer?
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Question 255255: What is the one’s digit of the number 7^2005 ?
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Question 255255: What is the one’s digit of the number 7^2005 ?
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Question 255255: What is the one’s digit of the number 7^2005 ?
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Question 255253: The sum of two numbers is 2 and the product of these two numbers is -8. What is the sum of the cubes of these two numbers?
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Question 255261: show that (x+2)squared(x-2)squared is equal to x to the fourth-8x squared + 16?
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Question 255406: Please help me solve this
A two digit number is 2 more than 8 times the sum of its digits. Find the number if its ten digit is 6 more than its units digit.
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Question 255394: Musicvilee had a sale on 500 assorted cassette tapes. some tapes were sold for $10 while the rest were sold for $8. After all of the tapes were sold, the average price of a tape was $9.50. How many $8 tapes were sold?
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Question 255458: Find 2 consecutive 2 digit numbers whose product is 812.
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Question 255458: Find 2 consecutive 2 digit numbers whose product is 812.
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Question 255514: how do i find four consecutive numbers whose sum is 208
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Question 255560: Choose the number that does not follow the pattern
40, 140, 239, 340
The answer is 239. Why? How do you solve this?
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Question 255630: How do you answer this question and why? It says express the given quantity of the indicated variable. The sum of three consecutive integers; n= middle integer of the three.
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Question 255523: how many even three digit numbers are there such that the sum of the tens and unit digits is 13?
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Question 255727: Explain how you can find the product of 40x16 by breaking apart the numbers
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Question 255727: Explain how you can find the product of 40x16 by breaking apart the numbers
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Question 255749: When a number is diminished by its opposite, the result is 12. Find the number.

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Question 255767: A retired man gets paid 5/6 of his regular salary. If his retirement pay amounts to $15,000, what was his regular salary?
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Question 255763: The difference between two numbers is six and a half,the sum of the numbers is one more than the square root of their product. What is the smaller number?
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Question 255818: I need help with this question, please: what is the equation? The Problem: Maria's take home pay last week was $585. This was after 1/4 of her pay was taken out for insurance and taxes. How much was Maria's gross pay before the deductions for taxes and insurance?
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Question 255803: The product of 2 numbers is 2. One of the numbers is 4 more than the other. Find the numbers (but don't assum that they will be integers or even rational numbers.)
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Question 255922: what 2 consecutive 2 digit numbers equal 812
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Question 255922: what 2 consecutive 2 digit numbers equal 812
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Question 256024: IF 6 TIMES THE NUMBER IS 42, WHAT IS TWICE THE NUMBER?
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Question 256024: IF 6 TIMES THE NUMBER IS 42, WHAT IS TWICE THE NUMBER?
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Question 256022: The product of two numbers is 48. one number is twice 2, multiplied by 3.What is the other number?
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Question 256083: TWICE THE SMALLEST OF THREE CONSECUTIVE ODD NUMBERS ADDED TO 3 TIMES THE LARGEST IS 367.FIND THE NUMBERS.
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Question 256083: TWICE THE SMALLEST OF THREE CONSECUTIVE ODD NUMBERS ADDED TO 3 TIMES THE LARGEST IS 367.FIND THE NUMBERS.
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Question 256169: Polynomial word problems help please! Find three consecutive odd integers if the product of the first and second integer is 7 less than 10 times the third integer.
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Question 256254: A group of students is trying to evenly divide the cookies remaining from a bake sale. If each student takes 3 cookies, there are five cookies left. If each student takes 4 cookies, there are two cookies short. How many students and how many cookies are there?
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Question 256284: the sum of two numbers is equal to twice their difference. If one number is 4 more than the other, find the number
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Question 256267: seven times the larger of two consecutive integers is forty three less than eight times the smaller. what are the integers?
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Question 256291: 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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