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Question 456072: The sum of two number is 24. The difference between the two numbers is 6. Find the two numbers
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Question 456290: one-ninth of a number reduced by two times the same number
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Question 456385: The sum of the ages of a woman and her daughter is 46 years.In four years time the ratio of their ages will be 7:2. Find their present ages.
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Question 456383: three times a number increased by 1 is 25. find the number
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Question 456387: Find three consecutive integers such that the sum of twice the first and 4 times the second is equal to 20 more than twice the third.
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Question 456513: Six times a number less 5 is less than two times a number plus 7. For what number or numbers is this true?
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Question 456366: find the two digit number wich has the squere of the sum of its digits equal to the number obtaind by reversing it digit ?
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Question 456733: The difference of two numbers is 4. 5 times the smaller number is four more than three times the larger. Find the two numbers.
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Question 456733: The difference of two numbers is 4. 5 times the smaller number is four more than three times the larger. Find the two numbers.
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Question 456821: What is the difference expressed as a percent of the original price between a 20% discount followed by a 30% discount and a straight 45% discount. I tried to pretend that the original price is $50. I solved and got an 80% difference? Is that correct?
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Question 456820: Given three consecutive integers, what is the difference between the average of their squares and the square of their average?
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Question 457053: terrell drove to the mountains at an average of 60 miles per hour. his return trip, by the same roads averaged 40 miles per hour his total driving time was 12 hours how far did he drive one way?
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Question 457192: What would 5+8x>7 in a verbal sentence be?
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Question 457270: paige is thinking of two numbers that have a product of 180 and difference of 3 what are the two numbers?
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Question 457499: five times a number, subtracted from eighteen, is triple the number find the number
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Question 457643: I am a number what number am I?
this is my homework.
this is the question sort of.
I am the difference between a third and 25% of £60
What number am I?
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Question 457923: The larger of two numbers is 8 more than four times the smaller. If the larger is increased by four times the smaller, the result is 40. Find the numbers.
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Question 458003: If a number is divided by four and the equivalent is increased by 8, the result is 16. find the answer.
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Question 458048: nine more than a number added to the difference between the number and twenty
how do I answer this question
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Question 458211: Five times the difference of number and ten is sixty
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Question 458180: one number is 21 less then another number. If the sum of the two numbers is 91, find the two numbers.
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Question 458344: Insurance-covered repairs. Following an accident, Jeff Ford pickup was replaced by his insurance company becuase the damage was so extensive. Before the damage, the blue-book value of he truck was $21,000. How much would it have cosst to repair the truck?
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Question 458406: If I am a three digit number and my first digit is seven less than second digit and the second digit is four times that of third digit. What digit am i?
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Question 458415: i am a special number with three digits and no more. increase me by just one, and the digits count 4. who am i?
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Question 458609: What is the largest consecutive whole numbers whose sum is 95?
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Question 458609: What is the largest consecutive whole numbers whose sum is 95?
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Question 458741: Find 2 consecutive odd integers such that the square root of the larger is 4 less that the smaller.
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Question 458822: I am a four digit number,
The number of my thousand is greater than my tens by four
My tens are two times the number of my ones
Hundreds have I none
I can be named by two different numbers.

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Question 458860: hOW TO GET SUM 50 OF ODD 1 TO 19 ?
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Question 459130: With a strong wind behind it, a Delta jet flies 2400 miles from Los Angeles to Orlando in 4 hours and 45 minutes. The return trip takes 6 hours, as the plane flies into the wind. Find the speed of the plane in still air, and find the wind speed to the nearest tenth mile per hour.
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Question 459215: divide 4500 into two parts such that 5% of first part is equal to 10% of second
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Question 459365: Prove that for any two numbers, the product of their sum and their difference is equal to the difference of their squares.
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Question 458852: I am 3 digit even number less than 250 but more than 250. My ones digit is twice my tens twice my hundreds.
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Question 459472: 3 consecutive numbers equal to 105
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Question 459498: The sum of a number and double another is 88. Find the numbers, so that their product is a maximum. What is the max. product?
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Question 459664: one number is six more than the second number. Five times the first is 7 less than 4 time the second number. Find the numbers.
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Question 459690: Two numbers differ by 17. The sum of the numbers is 363. What is the smallest number.
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Question 459934: the diffrrence between two numbers is 25.the smaller number is 1/6th of the larger number. what is the value of the smaller number
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Question 460074: Solve the following quadratic equations by factoring.
x2 + x - 20 = 0
x = 5
x = 4
x = 4 or x = -5
x = -4 or x = 5
4. 2x2 – 15 = –7x
x = 1.5 or x = -3
x = 1.5 or x = -5
x = 3 or x = -5
x = 1.5 or x = 5

5. 3x2 – 5x = 2
x = 1/3 or x = 3
x = 1/3 or x = 2
x = -1/3 or x = 2
x = - 1/3 or x = 3

6. 3x2 + 3 = 10x
x = 1/3 or x = 3
x = 1/3 or x = 2
x = -1/3 or x = 2
x = - 1/3 or x = 3

7. Solve the following quadratic equations using the quadratic formula.
x2 + 7x + 9 = 0

8. x2 + 6x = 0
x = 1 or x = 6
x = 0 or x = 6
x = 0 or x = -6

9. 15x2 – 7x – 2 = 0
x = 2/3 or x = -1/5
x = -2/3 or x = 1/5
x = 3/2 or x = -5
x = -3/2 or x = 5

10. x2 - 9x + 5 = 0

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Question 460153: Three good friends are in the same Algebra class. There scores on a recent test were 3 consecutive even intergers whose sum is 240. Find each score.
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Question 460202: 5r-7s=-6
7r+5s=36
solve by the elimination method

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Question 460536: The sum of two consecutive odd numbers plus the next even number is 200. What is the algebraic equation used for solving this problem? Then what is the even number?
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Question 460476: The square of a number less twice the number is 24.
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Question 460667: I do not understand this question.
one-ninth of a number increased by six times the same number
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