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Question 344719: x/(5x-25) - 2 = x/(1-5) simplify and solve for x
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Question 344718: x/(5x-25) - 2 = x/(x-5) simplify and solve for x
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Question 344820: what two numbers have the same two digits, but the order of the digits is different. The sum of the digits is 8. The difference of the two numbers is 18. What are the two numbers?
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Question 344865: the sum of four times a number and three is the same as the difference of twice the number and eleven. find the number
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Question 344816: one number is 8 more than another mumber, if 3 times the smaller is substracted from 5 times the larger number, the difference is 84 find the two mumbers
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Question 344772: One telephone company charges $16.95 per month and $.05 per min for local calls.Another company charges $22.95 per month and $.02 per min for local calls. For what number of minutes of local calls per month is the cost of the plans the sam? please write an equation and solve showing all steps.
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Question 344807: The tens digit of a certain number is 7 less than the units digit. The sum of the squares of the two digits is 85. Find the number
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Question 344791: A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many five's as ten's and the total amount of money in the cash register is 740 dollars. How many ten's are in the cash register?
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Question 344786: the product two positive consecutive odd integers is 23 more than 5 times in sum. Find these two positive intergers
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Question 344790: Wilma drove at an average speed of 35 mph from her home in City A to visit her sister in City B.
She stayed in City B 20 hours, and on the trip back averaged 60 mph. She returned home 41 hours after leaving.
We have to determine how many miles x is it from City A to City B.
1. In terms of x, express Wilma's driving time from A to B
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Question 344996: the sum of five consecutive multiples of 3 is 585, what are these numbers?
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Question 344988: if the sum three consicutive even numbers is equal to 258. find the number
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Question 345084: The sum of four times a number and three is eleven. How do you write that equation?
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Question 345201: Find two consecutive integers whose product is 5 less than the square of the smaller number. How would i write a verbal model and label it to figure out the two numbers
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Question 345316: what is five more than twice a number is three more than four times the number. what is the number
please help me im clueless
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Question 345382: What is the greatest possible product of a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number?
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Question 345307: My number has double the number of ones as tens. The sum of the digits is 9 . My number is ?
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Question 345399: 4 divided by the sum of 3
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Question 345433: four less than three time a number is less than ten.find all such numbers
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Question 345433: four less than three time a number is less than ten.find all such numbers
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Question 345497: Find the largest of the four even whole numbers whose sum is 100
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Question 345495: the sum of two numbers is 29. Find the two numbers if the larger is 11 more than twice the smaller.
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Question 345570: If three times the smaller of two consecutive integers is added to four times the larger, the result is 144. Find the smaller integer.
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Question 344787: `x/(5x-25) - 2 = 1/(x-5) simplify and solve for x
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Question 345778: twice a number is increased by three fifths the same number. the reslt is 52. find the number.

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Question 345728: half of the sum of a number and seven is four.
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Question 345723: The difference between twice a number and 18 is 240
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Question 345818: Can 63 be less then 63?? Example: 63<63
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Question 345804: What is the formula for the following:
The three least consecutive multiples of 8, the sum of which is greater than 244.
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Question 345875: if 16 is added to one-third of a number, the result is 3 times the number. What is the number? Does the proper equation start with: 16 + x/3 = 3x?
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Question 345969: One sixth of a number minus one seventh of the same number is 1. What is the number?
So far I have 1/6x-1/7x=1
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Question 345969: One sixth of a number minus one seventh of the same number is 1. What is the number?
So far I have 1/6x-1/7x=1
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Question 345969: One sixth of a number minus one seventh of the same number is 1. What is the number?
So far I have 1/6x-1/7x=1
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Question 346001: A circus performance is witnessed by 120 people who have paid a total of $120. The men paid $5 per ticket. The women paid $2 per ticket. The children paid 10 cents per ticket. Goal is to determine the number of men, women, and children who attended the circus. What is the proper formula for solving this problem? Thanx.
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Question 346038: make 5 odd digits that add up to 14
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Question 346117: Twice a number decreased by three, and that difference divided by five more than the number.
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Question 346262: mr. green had 6 yards 9 inches of flower bd edging, he cut it into 5 pieces of the same length. hoe long was each piece?
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Question 346263: mr. green had 6 yards 9 inches of flower bed edging. he cut it into 5 pieces of the same length. how long was each piece?
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Question 346261: miss jones bought a chicken weighing 4 pounds 12 ounces at $0.96¢ per pound. what was the total cost?

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Question 346261: miss jones bought a chicken weighing 4 pounds 12 ounces at $0.96¢ per pound. what was the total cost?

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