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Question 62368: The sum of a number, and the difference between 16 and a number, plus 5 is 21. What is the number
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Question 60338: John's rubber ball bounces exactly half the height from which it is dropped. he drops the ball from a building that is 64 feet tall. How high will the ball bounce on its sixth bounce?
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Question 62673This question is from textbook collections just in time
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Question 62751: Another one I'm stuck on help! A long document prints at a rate of 3 pages per minute. Twenty minutes later the same document is being printed out on a printer that prints at a rate of 5 pages per minute. How long will it take the second printer to catch up to the first printer.
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Question 63559: 24 less than the square of a number is five times the number. find all such numbers.
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Question 63559: 24 less than the square of a number is five times the number. find all such numbers.
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Question 63558: one number is three more than another number. the quotient of the larger number divided by the smaller is 3/2. find the numbers.
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Question 63520: Write out the digits from 1—9 in order. Then add some plus (+) signs and times (x) signs to the string to make it add up to 2,006. As usual in arithmetic, multiplication is done before addition, and you don’t have to put a sign between every two digits.
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Question 63630This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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The ratio of two numbers is 8 to 5. The difference of the numbers is 24. What are the numbers?
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Question 63669: The sum of two numbers is 63. The second is 6 more than 2 times the first. What are the two numbers?
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Question 63850This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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The number of blooming pansies increased by 160 percent over night. If they numbered 117 in the morning, how many pansies were blooming before the nightfall?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 63848This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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The general expression for consecutive multiples of 6 is 6n, 6(n+1), 6(n+2) etc. Find three consecutive multiples of 6 such that 4 times the first exceeds twice the third by 12.
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Question 64071: please tell me how to solve
what is the difference between the sum of the prime factors of 18 and the sum of the prime factor of 25?
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Question 64290This question is from textbook Algebra
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could you help me with this word problem.
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the sum of two numbers is 15. three times one of the numbers is 11 less than five times the other. find the number.This question is from textbook Algebra

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Question 64236This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: The number of participants that entered the contest was 2 3/4 times the number anticipated. If 9075 participants entered the contest, how many were anticipated?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 64506This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: Maria finished with 180 percent of what she started with. If she finished with 7200, how many did she start with?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 64504This question is from textbook An Incremental DEvelopment

: The ratio of cassettes to compact discs was 10 to 3, and the number of cassettes was 10 less than 5 time the number of compact discs. How many cassettes were there?
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Question 64504This question is from textbook An Incremental DEvelopment

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Question 64677This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: Jonathan has 136 coins in this collection of dimes and quarters. If the coins have a total of $28, how many are dimes and how many are quarters?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 64764: It is estimated that the Earth is losing 4000 species of
plants and animals every year. If S represents the number of species living last
year, how many species are on Earth this year?
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Question 64767: The kinetic energy of a particle of mass m is found by taking
one-half of the product of the mass (m) and the square of the velocity (v). Write
an expression for the kinetic energy of a particle.
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Question 64930: Find the simple interest on a principal
of $6000 at 3% for 2 years. (Hint: 3% =0.03)
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Question 65054This question is from textbook
: the difference of 2 numbers is 5. 5 times the lesser number is 9 greater than the greater number. what is the nmber?
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Question 65088This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: The number of correctly answered test questions varies directly as the number of attempted practice problems. Jason attempted 90 practice problems and answered 15 test questions correctly. How many test questions will jason answer correctly if he attempts 102 practice problems?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 65181: The sum of two consecutive integers is 145. Find the two integers.
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Question 65228: Evaluate 81 ÷ 9 – 16 ÷ 8 =
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Question 65447This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: Find three consecutive negative integers such that 3 times the product of the first and third exceeds twice the product of the first and second by 32.This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 65599This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: Seven times the larger number is 8 more than four times the smaller. Also, three times the smaller is 19 less than twice the larger. What are the numbers?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 65666: the product of fourteen and a number
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Question 65708: Find two consecutive positive intergers such that the sum of their square is 85
This problem has confused me by adding in square, how do I go about solving this type of problem?

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Question 65728This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: When the wildlife commission was finished, 1/5 of the population of beavers had been observed. If the beaver population numbers 34,260, how many beavers were observed?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 65771: Find two consecutive positive intergers such that the sum of their square is 85.
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Question 65870: find the sum of the first 400 odd natural numbers
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Question 65869: find the sum of the first 400 whole numbers
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Question 65871: please help with this promblem:
(2a^b)(ab^3)(-3a)=
thanks.
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Question 65877: The Length of a rectanglar frame is 8 cm. more than the width. The perimeter of the frame is 44cm. Find the width of the frame?
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Question 66038This question is from textbook an incremental development

: find three consectuitve intergers such that twice the product of the first and second exceeds the square of the third by 4This question is from textbook an incremental development

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Question 66041This question is from textbook an incremental development

: find the number that is 3/4 of the way from 2 1/2 to 4 1/6This question is from textbook an incremental development

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Question 66085: The Randolphs used 12 more gal of fuel oil in October
than in September and twice as much oil in November as in September. If they
used 132 gal for the 3 months, how much was used during each month?

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Question 66227This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Find the number that is 3/4 of the way from 2 1/3 to 4 1/6This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 66333This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 15. if the digits are reversed, the new number is only 9 more than the original number. What was the original number?This question is from textbook An Incremental Development

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Question 66472: 3x-5(3x-7)=2(x+9)+45
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