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Question 313959: The three angles in a triangle always add up to 180°. If one angle in a triangle is 48° and the second is 2 times the third, what are the three angles?
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Question 313961: The length of a rectangular room is 6 feet longer than twice the width.If the room's perimeter is 144 feet, what are the room's dimension's?
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Question 313958: Jimmy is a partner in an Internet-based coffee supplier.The company offers gourmet coffee beans for $13 per pound and regular coffee beans for $4 per pound. Jimmy is creating a product that will sell for $6 per pound.The first thing to go into the mixing bin was 18 pounds of the gourmet beans. How many pounds of the less expensive regular beans should be added?
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Question 313954: The sum of two numbers is 2. Five times the first number equals 2 times the second number. Find the two numbers
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Question 314003: when a odd number is added to the product of two even numbers, the answer is even. what is an counterexample to make it false?
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Question 313990: You inherit $10,000 with the stipulation that you for the first year the money must be invested in two stocks paying 6% and 11% annual interest respectively. How much should be invested at each rate if the total interest earned for the the year is to be be $700?
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Question 314043: I would like help finding the equation to this problem please:

The sum of two numbers is 20. Find the numbers if their product is 96.

I have gotten the first part (I think). It is x+y=20. I just do not know how to add the second part of the equation to the first part.
Thank you for your help!! :)
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Question 314054: 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 314102: An integer is composed of three digits. The first digit is even. The second digit is six less than the first digit. The third digit is three less than the first. If the integer is not divisible by five,what is the sum of the three digits?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) None of these
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Question 314101: The product of two numbers is 84. The first number is divided by 3 and the second number is multiplied by 4. The product of the two new numbers is then divided by 2. What is the final result of this calculation?
(A) 14 (B) 24 (C) 42 (D) 56 (E) None of these
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Question 314047: How many odd 2-digit positive integers less than 50 are there?
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Question 314194: what are three consecutive odd integers that equal 123
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Question 314084: 1)Suppose that Q is jointly proportional to R and the Square of S. If Q=24 when R=3 and S=4. Find Q when R=2 and S=3.
2)When and anvil is dropped into a gorge, the speed with which it strikes the ground is directly proportional to the square root of the distance it falls. An anvil that falls 400 feet hits the ground at a speed of 160 feet per second. Find the height of a cliff over the gorge is a dropped anvil hits the ground ata speed of 128 feet per second.
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Question 314192: 3 times the first of three consecutive numbers is 4 more than 2 times the second. Write an equation and solve the problem.
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Question 314274: The sum of twice a positive integer and 4 times the reciprocal of the integer is 9. Find the integer.
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Question 314325: The number of kg of water (W) in a human body varies directly as the total body weight (B). A person who weighs 75kg cotains 54kg of water. How many kilograms of water are in a person weighing 95kg?
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Question 314335: The sum of three times a number and 83 is the same as twice the difference of the number and 17. Find the number.
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Question 314341: the numbers on sam's three raffle tickets are consecutive intergers. The sum of the numbers is 126. what are the numbers?

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Question 314319: The current (I)in an eletrical conductor varies inversely as the resistance (R) of the conductor. The current is 2 amperes when the resistance is 960 ohms. What is the current when the resistance is 540ohms?
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Question 314308: a passanger car will go 341 miles on 15.5 gallons of gassoline in city driving whats the rate in miles per gallon
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Question 314343: -5x+6y=-8
-8x+9y=-11
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Question 314322: y=630 when x=175
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Question 314321: y=80 when x=0.7
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Question 314389: solve for x:

my teacher gave me the answer, and she said it is x=4 or x=1, but i do not know how to do the work to get that. Please help!!!!!!!!!

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Question 314424: the sum of two numbers is 133. four times the smaller number equals 3 times the greater number. what are the numbers?
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Question 314351: Find the largest of three consecutive even integers whose sum is less than 105.
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Question 314485: The sum of two numbers is 21. Three times the smaller number is two less than twice the larger number. Find the two numbers.
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Question 314689: If one more than 3 times a number is divided by the number, the result is four thirds. Find the number.
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Question 314719: Three times a larger number added to 4 times a smaller number totals 24. When twice the smaller number is subtracted from twice the larger number, the result is 2. What are the two numbers?
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Question 314733: If 3% were added to a number. How do figure what the original number was from the sum?
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Question 314747: if 3 more than twice the square root of a number is 17, find the number
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Question 314869: Staci earns $9.50 an hour plus 3% commission on all sales made. If her total sales during a 30-hour work week were $500,how much did she earn?
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Question 314916: If 18 is decreased by the sum of a number and 6, the result is 4 less than 3 times the number, what is the number?
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Question 314941: Jackie is twice as old as John. Ten years ago, Jackie was three times as old as John was ten years ago. How old is each one new? Is there a certain format to use when doing these type of word problems? I get lost on this. Thank you for any help you provide.

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Question 314921: a certain number is 6 less than another number. The sum of double the greater number and 12 is equal to the product of 4 and the smaller number. select which statement is true.....
The greater number is 18
The greater number is 14
The smaller number is 8
The smaller number is 12
Please explain. How do I figure this out?
Thanks so much,
Heather
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Question 315130: a two digit number is such that the product of its digit it equal to 20.if 9 is added to the number the digits interchange their places.find the number

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Question 315265: When a certain number is multiplied by and the product is increased by 24 the result is 40. Find the number. Please show me how you got the answer.
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Question 315161: One number is five more than another, and their sum is three less than three times the smaller. Find the numbers.If x represents the smaller number, which equation could be used to solve for x?
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Question 315245: Mr. Jabot bought a new car for $24.000. Each year it depreciates (loses value) at a rate of 7%. What will its approximate value be at the end of the fifth year?
Thanks for the help!
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Question 315390: when the smaller of two consecutive integers is added to two times the larger, the result is 32. how do i solve this cuz im not getting the right numbers. im getting decimals and fractions and i dont think thats right
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Question 315440: One number is 3 less than another. If 4 times the smaller number minus 3 times the larger number is 4, find the two numbers.
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Question 315542: find a two digit number which has the square of sum of its digits equal to the number obtain by reversing its digit?
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Question 315543: find the two digit number which has the sum of the cubes of its digits equal to three times itself?
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Question 315543: find the two digit number which has the sum of the cubes of its digits equal to three times itself?
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