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Question 304524: which of the following numbers is between 1/5 and 1/4 ?
a 0.14 b 0.15 c 0.19 d 0.21 e 0.26

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Question 304431: The sum of Two numbers is 39. One number is 27 more than the other. what is the smaller number and what is the larger number.
What is the equation that I need to set up?
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Question 304687: One third the sum of two consecutive odd integers is five less than the smaller integer. Find both integers.
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Question 304753: A positive integer is called a palindrome if it reads the same forward as it does backward. For example, 959 and 8228 are palindromes , whereas 1332 is not neither the first nor the last of a palindrome can be 0
1)
Which of the following integers is a palindrome?
(A) 550 (B) 2255 (C) 2525 (D) 2552 (E) 5002
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Question 304827: The largest of five consecutive integers is twice the smallest. Find the smallest integer.
Ans. 4
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Question 304945: The sum of two numbers is 40. When the greater number is divided by the smaller, the quotient is 4 and the remainder is 5. Find the numbers.
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Question 304989: A positive integer is called a palindrome if it reads the same forward as it does backward. For example, 959 and 8228 are palindromes , whereas 1332 is not neither the first nor the last of a palindrome can be 0
1)
Which of the following integers is a palindrome?
(A) 550 (B) 2255 (C) 2525 (D) 2552 (E) 5002
2)
How many three-digit palindromes are there ?
(A) 19 (B) 20 (C) 90 (D) 100 (E) 810
3)
The next two palindromes greater than 50805 are m and p and m < p . what is the value of p – m
(A) 10 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 210
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Question 305083: The sum of the angles of any four sided polygon is 360. If the measures the angles of a four sided polygon are four consecutive odd integers, find the measure of each angle.
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Question 305215: Six times a certain number is 12 more than 4 times the number. Find the number.
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Question 305332: Two numbers are given. The sum of their squares minus twice their product is equal to 16. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest of these numbers?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 16
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Question 305358: if n is a positive number,which of the following is equal to 8n ?
(A) sqrt(64n) (B) sqrt(8n^2) (C) sqrt(16n^2) (D)2 sqrt(4n) (E) 4 sqrt(4n^2)

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Question 305353: Chuck is writing the page number on the bottom of each page of a 25- page book report ,starting with 1. how many digits will he have written after he has written the numbers 25 ?
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Question 305322: (T x 3^3) + (U x 3^2) + (V x 3) + W = 50
each letter in the equation above represents a digit that is less than or equal to 2 . what four-digit number does TUVW represent ?

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Question 305423: 1/x = 0.00N
1/y = 0.00P
the fraction 1/x and 1/y can be written as decimals as shown above , where N and P represent different digits . which of the following is equal to 1/xy if S equals N times P and S is a digit ?
(A) 0.0000S (B) 0.000S (C) 0.00S (D) 0.0S (E) 0.S
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Question 305511: which has the smallest reciprocal
1.2/3
2.4/3
3.3/4
4.3/2
b. how many prime numbers are there between 100 and 110
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Question 305753: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 15. If the digits are reversed, the result exceeds the original number by 9.Find the original number.
I think the first equation is: x + y = 15
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Question 305756: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 15. If the digits are reversed, the result exceeds the original number by 9.Find the original number.
I think the first equation is: x + y = 15
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Question 305760: In a business studies test, 30 more students passed than the number of those that failed. In the next test, 7 students who passed the first test, failed & 1/3 of those who failed passed. As a result, 31 more passed the second test than failed on it.What was the record of passing or failing on the first test? Please help with the equations & the solution. Thanks!
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Question 305809: what is the number that satisfies the following three conditions ?
It is an integer greater than 999 and less than 1,234
The sum of its digits is 14
Its tens and units digits are the same

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Question 305787: 1 3 R
+ R 2
____________________
1 9 T

R and T represent digits in the correctly worked addition problem above . what digit does T represent ?

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Question 305835: The sum of three number is 65. The first is twice the second. The third is the result obtained by subtracting 5 from the second. find the largest number.
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Question 305958: Find three consecutive positive intehers such that the square of the smallest integer exceeds the largest integer by 10.
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Question 306231: How many three-digit numbers have the hundreds digit equal to 3 and the units digit equal to 4 ?

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Question 306199: can the total of 5 odd numbers would be 32
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Question 306210: How many three digit numbers are such that the product of their digits is 120?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 12 (E) 24

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Question 306345: How many three-digit numbers have the hundreds digit equal to 3 and the units digit equal to 4 ?
(A) 10 (B) 19 (C) 20 (D) 190 (E) 200

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Question 306394: whAt two numbers have a sum of 108 and a product of 2835

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Question 306622: The difference of two numbers is 12. Two fifths of the greater number is six more than one third of the lesser number. Find both numbers.
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Question 306619: Three times the greatest of three consecutive even integers exceeds twice the least by 38. Find the integers.
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Question 306716: In the exact middle of a certain book, when the page numbers on the facing pages , x and x+1, are multiplied together , the product is 210. if all of the pages are numbered in order, How many numbered pages are in the book ?
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Question 307009: Can you please solve this word problem?
The sum of twice a number and three times its square is 261. Find the integers.
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Question 307085: If the product of five numbers is positive, then, at most, how many of the five numbers could be negative?

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Question 307088: twice the sum of 4 and 3 times some number is 34. what is the number? I need this in step process so I will understand how to do it please
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Question 307100: Dachun has five times as many coins as Austin. Dachun also has 16 more than Austin.

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Question 307114: Kavel has two less than double the number of coins ty has. Kavel also has 23 more than ty.

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Question 307204: last season a major league baseball player got 70 hits in 200 times at bat. If the player expects to bat 500 times in the entire season with the same ratio of hits to at bats, how many hits can the player expect to have?
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Question 307268: What is the units digit of 3^35?
a 1 b 3 c 5 d 7 e 9

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Question 307497: In which number is the digit 3 in the hundredths place?

a 300.000 b 30.000 c 0.300 d 0.030 e 0.003

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Question 307640: The sum of two numbers is six less than twice the first number. When the second number is subtracted from the first, the difference is ten less than four times the second number. What is the second number?
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Question 307808: I have a math problem. A piece of sheet metal, 18 inches wide is bent to form a rain gutter. If the cross-sectional area is 36 square inches, find the depth of the gutter. width of gutter is 18-2x and the depth of the gutter is x.
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Question 307938: The question is find two consecutive even integers is added to three times the greater, the result if 43.
I am stuck on 'added to three times the greater', I am not sure how to write that out. so far all I have is x+(x+2)
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Question 308586: the one's digit of a two digit number is one more than the ten's digit. If the digits of the number are reversed, the new number is 3 less than twice the original. Find the number.
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Question 308622: If n is a positive integer, which of the following cannot be the units digit of 7^n?
a) 1 b) 3 c) 5 d) 7 e) 9

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