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Question 268069: Five times a number is the same as 30 more than 8 times the number. Find the number.
If n is "the number," which equation could be used to solve for the number?
3n = 30
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Question 268064: a number is 72 less than its square.find all such numbers
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Question 268098: Select any prime number greater than 3. Square it and subtract 1. What is the largest number that must be a divisor of the result?
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Question 268179: Write an equation and solve.
Eight minus two times a number is equal to the number plus 17. Find the number.
Thank-you..Cause I could not get this
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Question 268177: Write an equation and solve..
Twice a number increased by 12 is equal to 31 less than three times the number. Find the number.
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Question 268409: If 10^51 – 9 is written as an integer in standard form , what is the sum of the integer’s digits

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Question 268455: Three executive integers whose sum is 225
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Question 268455: Three executive integers whose sum is 225
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Question 268447: The sum of 3 times a number and 4 times another number is 43. Five times the first number is 3 less than four times the opposite of the second number. Find the numbers.
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Question 268472: There are 24 four-digit numbers that can be formed from the digits 1, 2, 3, and 4
using each digit once and only once. What is the sum of these 24 numbers?
a. 66,660 b. 66,600 c. 66,000 d. 65,260 e. None of these
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Question 268571: The first and third of three consecutive odd intergers are added, the result is 69 less than five times the second interger. What is the third interger?
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Question 268543: Four houses on one side of a street have addresses that are consecutive odd numbers. Find each address if the sum of these addresses is 23,672.
Thank YOU :)
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Question 268619: find a number such that three times the number increased b 7 is 52
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Question 268532: Find two consecutive even integers whose sum is 50.
Thank you for your help.
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Question 268658: Please help ,e solve this problem.
the difference of the squares of two postive consecutive odd integers is 32?
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Question 268681: find two consecutive odd numbers whose sum 96
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Question 268746: The sum of the smallest and largest of 5 consecutive integers is -50. find the middle integer.
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Question 268774: a minor league baseball team plays 130 games in a season. if the team won 14 more than three times as many games as they lost, how many wins and losses did the team have?
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Question 268744: One number is 3 more than twice another number. find the larger number is their sum is -15
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Question 268853: My word problem is: Sandy's electric bill is always 5 times as large as her gas bill. If the total of the two bills is $174, how much was Sandy's electric bill?
I was thinking 5x=174 and divide it and got 34.8

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Question 268846: Rewrite 1234six as a base ten numeral?
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Question 268935: B 2
× 7 B
6396
In the product shown above, B is a digit. The value of B is
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) None of these.
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Question 268930: if the difference of a number and 4 is doubled the result is 1/4 less than the number. find the number

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Question 268984: paul left springfield traveling north at an average speed of 64 miles per hour. tim left springfield traveling south at an avergae spped of 59 miles per hour. how long would it take after paul left for them to be 743 miles apart? how many hours would it be after paul left?
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Question 268900: The sum of two numbers is fourteen. The difference between two times the smaller and the larger is one. Find the two numbers
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Question 269079: What is the only prime number that is the sum and difference of two primes?
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Question 269078: What number is a two-digit prime number between 1 and 50 whose sum is 8 and product is 7?
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Question 269099: find two consecutive even integers whose product is 168
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Question 269159: Sandy typed a positive six-digit integer, but the two 9s she typed didn’t show. If 2010 appeared, how many different positive six-digit integers could she have typed? One such integer to include is 920910.
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Question 269156: When the digits of a two-digit number is 9 more than the original number, and the sum of the digits of the original number is 11. What is the original number?
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Question 269271: three times a number is the same as 4 plus 3 consecutive number

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Question 269362: How many digits are in the number 5^72 * 2^74 ?

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Question 269362: How many digits are in the number 5^72 * 2^74 ?

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Question 269392: I am a number between 500 and 600. my ones digit is 5. my tens digit is the difference between my ones and hundreds digit. Who am I?
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Question 269431: Ian goes to the grocery store after work. He buys 3/4 pounds of oranges at $0.69 a pound, 1 1/2 pounds of apples at $0.89 a pound, and 3 1/4 pounds of bananas at $0.39 a pound. He also buys 2 gallons of milk at $2.19 a gallon. Ian gives the cashier a ten-dollar bill. How much change does ian recieve
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Question 269481: The difference of two numbers is 5. The resultwhen the greater number is decreased by twice the lesser is 9. Let x be the greater number and y be the lesser number. Find the numbers.
michael 13 years old... need help... confused
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Question 269576: The product of 6 and nine times a number is the same as the difference of ten times the number and 2. What is the number?
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Question 269624: The difference of the reciprocals of two consecutive integers is 1/42. Find the integers.
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Question 269624: The difference of the reciprocals of two consecutive integers is 1/42. Find the integers.
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Question 269684: eight times the sum of three consecutive odd integers is 210 more than 10 times the middle integer. Find the integers?
the answer is 13, 15, 17
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Question 269356: If the numerator of a fraction is decreased 25 percent and the denominator of that fraction is increased 25 percent, then the difference between the resulting and the original fractions represent what percentage decrease?
(A)40% (B) 45% (C) 50% (D) 60% (E) None of these.

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Question 269776: the product of 5 and 3 more than twice a number is 85. What is the number ? I dont know what this means

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