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Question 434082: the tens digits of a two-digit number is 3 greater than the units digit. eight times the sum of the digits is 1 less than the number. what is the number?
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Question 434093: Four times a number is two less than six times the same number minus ten. What is the number?
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Question 434131: This number is the largest 5 digit number that does not use a digit more that twice. The digit on the tens place is 3. What is the number?
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Question 434137: When ten is added to double a number, the answer is five less than triple the number
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Question 434151: two consecutive intergers have a sum of 81. what are the two intergers
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Question 434151: two consecutive intergers have a sum of 81. what are the two intergers
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Question 434156: One number is 4 less than a second number. Twice the second number is 1 less than 3 times the first. Find the two numbers.
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Question 434316: what number added to 80% of itself is 45?
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Question 434770: Can someone show me the formula for this equation so I can use it as a basis to help with the rest of my son's homework.
four times an even number is 13 more than 3 times the next odd number. What is the even number?
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Question 434862: One number is 5 times another number. The difference is 328.
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Question 434916: find four consecutive even integers whose sum is -92
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Question 434868: for what positive numbers is the sum of the number and its reciprocal the smallest?
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Question 435259: What are the two consecutive numbers that have digit sums of 36 and 1?
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Question 435258: What are the two consecutive numbers that have digit sums of 36 and1?
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Question 435380: Find three consecutive integers such that the product of the two largest is 20 more than the square of the smallest integer.
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Question 435542: Sum of two numbers is 125. 5 times one number minus 3 times the other is 41. Determine the numbers
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Question 435652: if six more than eight times a number equals thirty, what is the number
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Question 435706: Two numbers have a product of 24. Their sum is 11. What is their difference
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Question 435714: Find two numbers whose sum is 15 and whose product is a max
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Question 435717: the sum of two numbers is 59. the difference between 2 times the first number and 6 times the second is -34. find the two numbers.
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Question 435963: one number is four times another. their sum is 35. find the sum
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Question 435934: I need help on this word problem. The sum of three numbers is 18 the first is eight times the sum of the second and third. the sum of the first number and the last number is 11. find the numbers.
I put the first equation: x+y+z=18 and I also figured out the last one: x+z=11
but i cant figure out the second equation: The sum of three numbers is 18 the first is eight times the sum of the second and third. Can you please help me?
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Question 436063: Please, how do you solve this question?
A square had a side lenght of 5k and an equilateral triangle has a side lenght of 2k+1. If the both have the same perimeter, what is the perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 436076: The perimeter of a square tent is 82 feet. Find the area of the ground which the tent will cover.
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Question 436074: A triangle with an area of 36 square meters has a base that is 10 meters long. What is the height of the triangle?
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Question 436105: Five times the sum of some number plus 3 is equal to 7 times the number minus 3
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Question 436130: The sum of three consecutive integers is 21 larger than twice the smallest integer. Find the integers.
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Question 436143: A realtor who is paid 7% of the selling price in commission recently received $10,794 in commission on the sale of a property. What is the selling price of the property?
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Question 436144: The ratio of the weight of sodium to that of chlorine in common table salt is 5 to 3. Find the amount of each element in a salt compound weighing 200 pounds.
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Question 436253: What is the smallest set of three consecutive odd integers whose sum is greater than 21?
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Question 436288: if 56 people use 17,976 cans in one year how many cans are used in a city that has a popoulation of 1,664,000?
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Question 436291: a black racer snake travels 25.3 kilometers in 11 hours. what is the speed in km/h?
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Question 435957: How do you get the 79 using four 2's and any mathematical notation? Also for the numbers 76,81,and 83.

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Question 436543: what is the equation for seventy-two is two more than the product of ten and a number?
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Question 436640: When a certain four-digit number is multiplied by 4 its digits appear in reverse order. It also has the following properties. Its first digit is a quarter of the last one. And its second digit is one less than the first. What number must it be?
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Question 436691: If a number is evenly divisible by 6, it is also evenly divisible by which other numbers
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Question 436741: Two numbers total 2, and their difference is 6. Find the two numbers
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Question 437040: The difference of two numbers is 1. What is the smallest possible value for the sum of their squares? Find the numbers.
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Question 437112: James wishes to enclose a rectangular dog kennel with 150 feet of fencing. He would like the kennel to be twice as long as it is wide. What must be the kennel's dimension?
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Question 437187: There are two types of tickets for a school play: child tickets that sell for
$2 each and adult tickets that sell for $6 each. A total of 91 tickets are sold,
bringing in a total of $406. How many adult tickets were sold? Use Table.
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Question 437185: Twenty-four more than the product of three and x yields forty-eight.
Find x.
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Question 437207: There are two numbers with the following properties.
1) The second number is 3 more than the first number.
2) The product of the two numbers is 9 more than their sum.
What are the two numbers?
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Question 437167: when one integer is added to the square of the next consecutive integer, the sum is 71.Find the two integers.
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Question 437186: The sum of fifteen and four times x is the same as the difference of three
times x and seven. Find x.
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