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Question 280592: if a number is subtracted from 4 more than twice itself, the result is 30. what is the number?
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Question 280616: if the sum of four consecutive integers is 86 what is the least of these integers
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Question 280654: the sum of two numbers is 53. if three times the smaller is one less than the larger, find the numbers. please show all work im lost
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Question 280794: how do i start off solvin this problem.....
one number is 5 greater than another and has a product of 36.find the numbers
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Question 280799: What are 4 consecutive positive integers whose sum equals 5 times the smallest integer?
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Question 280816: A 3-ft by 6-ft picnic table is placed on an outdoor patio measuring x ft by x ft. Find a polynomial for the remaining open space on the patio ( in square feet).
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Question 280834: The sum of two numbers is seven. The sum of the squares of the two numbers is twenty-nine. Find the two numbers.
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Question 280949: To number the pages of a volume, 3001 digits were printed. Assuming all pages are
numbered, the number of pages is:
(A) 1021 (B) 1026 (C) 1027 (D) 1028 (E) none of these

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Question 280964: In the addition problem below, each letter represents a digit in such a way that every digit from 0 to 9 is used once.
Ab4
+28c
____________
1def
The letter c represents :
A 3 B 5 C 6 D 9 E none of these

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Question 281029: If x, y and z are three consecutive odd integers such that 10< x < y < z< 20 and if y and z are prime numbers, what is the value of x + y?
I'm not looking for the answer I'm looking for an explanation on how to solve the problem
Please Help me
Thank you
Tania
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Question 281310: Two Times a number added to another number is 25. three time the first number minus the other number is 20. find the numbers
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Question 281312: two consecutive integers with half of the smaller equual to 4 more than one third of the larger
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Question 281406: A group of students disagree, and think that there must be a set of 3 consecutive numbers whose sum is not a multiple of 3. Use sound mathematical reasoning to convince them that they must be wrong.
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Question 281482: A jar contains 5 white, 7 blue, and 8 red marbles. If you remove 1 marble at a time, randomly, what is the minimum number that you must remove to be certain that you have at least 3 marbles of each color?
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Question 281577: Half of the first plus twice the second of two consectutive intergers equals 22
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Question 281624: Question is the sum of two positive integers is less than 80 and their difference is more than 10.
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Question 281883: The sum of a number, its reciprocal and 4 times its reciprocal is 6. What is a possible number?
A) 1 B) 4 C) 6 D) -3 E) -1

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Question 281883: The sum of a number, its reciprocal and 4 times its reciprocal is 6. What is a possible number?
A) 1 B) 4 C) 6 D) -3 E) -1

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Question 281893: When three numbers are added two at a time, the sums are 33, 48, and 53. The sum
of all three numbers is:
(A) 134 (B) 86 (C) 81 (D) 67 (E) 53
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Question 281915: what are the ways to find a digit in a given value to be odd or even?
example:
if 123 is a number then its answer will be 2=even and 1&3=odd.pls provide me some trick or explanation??
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Question 281964: find three consecutive odd integers such that three times the first integer is one less than the sum of the second and third integers
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Question 282032: The sum of 9 consecutive even numbers is 180. What is the result when the mean of these numbers is subtracted from the median?

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Question 282032: The sum of 9 consecutive even numbers is 180. What is the result when the mean of these numbers is subtracted from the median?

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Question 282065: The difference of two numbers is 26 and the larger number is 2 times the smaller, what are the two values?
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Question 282116: ken is thinking of a number.Nine more than the product of 4 and the number is 73.what is kens number

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Question 282198: Find 3 consecutive even numbers where the product of the smaller two numbers is 40 less than the square of the largest number.
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Question 282198: Find 3 consecutive even numbers where the product of the smaller two numbers is 40 less than the square of the largest number.
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Question 282273: Two minor league baseball players got a total of 266 hits. Washington had 6 more hits than Sanchez. Find the number of hits for each player.
I tried this: 266 divided by 2= 133
133-6=127
133+6=139
Washington had 139 hits and Sanchez had 127 hits
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Question 282354: Three consecutive whole numbers are such that the square of the middle number is greater than the product of the other two by 1. Find the middle number.
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Question 282433: the units of a two-digit numeral is 5 more than the tens digit the number is 3 times the sum of its digits.find the numeral
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Question 282433: the units of a two-digit numeral is 5 more than the tens digit the number is 3 times the sum of its digits.find the numeral
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Question 282532: Find three consecutive even integers such that the product of the two smallest exceeds the largest by 38
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Question 282456: A5
B3
+ B9
147
In the correctly worked out addition example above, what is the greatest possible value of B?
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Question 282575: The Sum of the numbers on two consecutive pages in a book is 897. Find the page numbers.
V+(V+1)=897
v^2=896
?
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Question 282584: The product of the numbers on two consecutive pages in a book is 600. Find the page numbers.
x(x+1)=600
2x=600
x=300?
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Question 282671: Find three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the first, two times the second, and three times the third is 70.
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Question 282736: the diffrence of four times a number and five is the same as three more than twice a number
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Question 282738: Fifteen more than twice the hours Carla worked last week is the same as three times the hours she worked this week decreased by 15. she worked the same number of hours each week. how many hours did she work each week?
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Question 282759: If m and n are whole numbers, 49< n <101 and 19 < m <51, then what is the greatest value for (n+m)/n?

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Question 283042: The product of two positive consecutive integers is 41 more than their sum. Find the integers.
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Question 283042: The product of two positive consecutive integers is 41 more than their sum. Find the integers.
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Question 283044: A 26 ft long ladder rests against a wall. The distance from the base of the wall to the bottom of the ladder is x. The height at which the ladder rests against the wall is x + 14. Find the distance, x, from the base of the wall tithe bottom of the ladder. Please show steps in solving this word problem.
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Question 283071: It takes 852 digits to number the pages of a book consecutively. How many pages are there?

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Question 283081: The last digit of 7^1992 is
a 1 b 2 c 6 d 7 e 9

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