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Question 437284: The sum of two numbers is 17. When the larger is divided by the smaller the quotient is 3 and the remainder is 1. Find the numbers.
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Question 437413: A small pipe can fill an oil tank in 6 min more time than it takes a larger pipe to fill the same tank. Working together both pipes can fill a tank in 4 min. How long would it take each pipe working alone to fill the tank?
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Question 437503: find the number that is 16 less than the product of 21 times 15
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Question 437504: On a math test the total number of points possible is 100 points. There are 36 questions on the test. Questions are worth 1 point, 3 points, or 5 points. The number of 3- point questions is twice the number of 1-point questions. How many 5-point questions are on the test?
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Question 437512: THE product of two 2-digit numbers is 2,000. Their sum is 90. What are the numbers
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Question 437519: if a two-digit number is multiplied by the sum of its digits the result is 198.If it is divided by the sum of its digits, the result is 5 1/2. find the number.
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Question 437675: How many numbers can be obtained as the product of two or more of the numbers 3,4,4,5,5,6,7,7,7?
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Question 437686: The problem is:
"Find 2 consecutive integers such that the smaller plus twice the larger equals -61."
If the smaller integer equals S, this is what I have come up with:
S + (s+1x2) Is this correct?
I am not sure if the consecutive number is to the power of 2 or the consecutive number +1 is to the power of 2… can you advise?
Thank you!!!
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Question 437868: Three batteries are connected in series so that the total voltage is 54 volts. The voltage of the first battery is twice the voltage of the second and 1/3 the voltage of the third battery. Find the actual voltage of each battery.

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Question 438290: i think of a number which i call X. if the number is 5 times greater than another number and 6 times less than 30, what is X
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Question 438433: how many three digit numbers have the sum of their digits equal to 22?
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Question 438348: The sum of three integers is two hundred eighty. The second number is ten less than twice the first number. The third number is four times the second number. Find the three numbers?
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Question 438619: if n+4 represent an odd integer the next larger odd integer is represented by
a) n+2
b)n+3
c)n+5
d)n+6

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Question 438354: Show that any number of the form (ABCABC) is divisible by 13?
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Question 438714: A certain number is 3 times another. If the difference of their reciprocals is 8, find the number. (Choose X as one of the numbers, make an equation and then solve it.)
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Question 438810: Two numbers are consecutive integers. Six times the smaller integer equals three times the greater integer. Find the integers.
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Question 438843: a ball is dropped off a 576 foot building,its height,h, in feet is given by the equation h=-16tsquare + 576 where t is seconds after it was dropped. how long will it take the ball to reach the ground?
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Question 439233: The sum of the squares of two consecutive odd integers is 2314. Find the two integers.

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Question 439317: dakotas math test grade was 7 points less than his science test grade. the sum of the grades was 183%. what did dakota get on his math test
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Question 439377: the sum of the digits is 5 their difference is 3 the number is odd.
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Question 439496: find the number of distinguishable permutations of 6 letters that are chosen from the letters in the word MANATEE.
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Question 439493: five divided by the sum of a number and 4, minus the quotient of 3 and the difference of the number and 4 is equal to 6 times the reciprocal of the difference of the number squared and 16. What is the number?
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Question 439776: the sum of the digits of a two digit number is 7. if the digits are reversed, the newly formed number is 9 larger than the original number. Find the original number.
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Question 439746: Find two positive numbers whose sume of the first and three times the second is 72 and whose product is a maximum?
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Question 439184: Let 3n represent the lesser of three consecutive odd integers. Which equation would you use to find the three integers if their sum is 33?
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Question 440108: Find two numbers such that thier sum is 8 and their product is 9
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Question 440133: WHen three times a number is subtracted from 14, the result is 2 plus the number. what is the number?
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Question 440154: two numbers total 71 & have a difference of 17, find the 2 numbers
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Question 440143: Find three consecutive odd integers such that the product of the second and the third one is 99.
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Question 440239: what is fourteen decreased by five, times the quotient of forty-five divided by the quantity of eleven minus two?
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Question 440290: Could you help with this please.I'm in 3rd grade.
Toby is thinking of two numbers. Their sum is 22. Their difference is 12. What are the two numbers.

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Question 440327: The sum of three consecutive integers is one hundred and forty one. find the sum of the smallest and the largest.
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Question 440328: four consecutive odd integers have a sum of 120. what are the integers?
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Question 440372: The sum of two numbers is 50 and their difference is 40. What are the two numbers?
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Question 440487: In a kennel, a cocker spaniel, a bulldog, and a greyhound all give birth to litters.The number of pups in the litters are consecutive integers (in the order: cocker spaniel, bulldog, greyhound.) The first integer increased by twice the second exceeds the third by 10. How many puppies does each dog have? Use the 5 step method.
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Question 440465: How many times greater than 0.6 is 600?
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Question 440465: How many times greater than 0.6 is 600?
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Question 440536: One number is 1 more than twice another. Their product is 1. Find the numbers
Set 1: (lower values)
(smaller value)=
(larger value)=
Set 2: (higher values)
(smaller value)=
(larger value)=
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Question 440525: 4 times the sum of the digits of a 2 digit number is equal to the number.If the digits are reversed the resulting number is 27 greater than the original number. what' s the number?
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Question 440608: Six times a number is divided by 4. The result is 9. What is that number? (
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Question 440642: if the sum of a number and one is doubled, the result is three less than the number. what is the number?
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Question 440838: I need to know how to set up this problem.
The sum of two numbers is -17. Their product is 66. Find the numbers.
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Question 440838: I need to know how to set up this problem.
The sum of two numbers is -17. Their product is 66. Find the numbers.
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Question 440834: If 72 is divided by number and the quantity decreased 3 and the result is 9 find the number?
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