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Question 480612: Find a cubic equation whose roots are -4 and -6i.
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Question 480638: the difference of two numbers is 80 the greater number is three times as big as the smaller number what are the numbers
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Question 480615: Suppose z varies directly as x and y and inversely as w, and z =8 when x =6, y =5 and w =10. Find z when x =3, y =4 and w = 5.
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Question 480615: Suppose z varies directly as x and y and inversely as w, and z =8 when x =6, y =5 and w =10. Find z when x =3, y =4 and w = 5.
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Question 480818: Who am I?
1- I have 4 digits and they are all odd
2- The number in the tenths place is greater than 3. It is a factor of 36
3- the number in the hundredth place is less than 4 and greater than 1
4-the numbers in the 1 and tenth place are the same and also a factor of 25
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Question 481006: Two fewer than a number doubled is the same as the number decreased by 38.
If n is "the number," which equation could be used to solve for the number?
a.2(n - 2) = n - 38
b.2n - 2 = n - 38
c.2(n - 2) = n + 38

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Question 481010: One side of a rectangle is 3 inches shorter than the other side, and the perimeter is 54 inches Which of the following equations could be used to determine the dimensions of the rectangle?
a.2x + 2(x - 3) = 54
b.2x + 2x - 3 = 54
c.2x - 3 = 54

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Question 481016: If 3 times a certain number is increased by 4 the result is 28 If x is "the number," which of the following equations could be used to solve for the number?
a.3x + 4 = 28
b.3(x + 4) = 28
c.3x = 4 + 28

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Question 480691: The anwer to 84,722,883
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Question 481246: translate the verbal into an expression.

number of pages of a 5 page article left to read if you've read p pages?

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Question 481272: Write an equation of the line containing the specified point and parallel to the indicated line.
(1,4), 3x + y = 5
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Question 481216: What is the 50th consecutive even number?

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Question 481318: the average if 5 consecutive odd number is 25.what is the biggest number?

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Question 481238: Solve this problem in your notebook using all four steps Harvey is 3 times as old as Jane. The sum of their ages is 48 years. find the age of harvey and jane?
jane is ______ years old
harvey is__________years old
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Question 481326: thrice sum of five consecutive even no is 25 then what is lowest and highest no
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Question 481297: Solve this problem in your notebook using all four steps Harvey is 3 times as old as Jane. The sum of their ages is 48 years find the gae of harvey and jane

jane is ______ years old
harvey is _________ years old
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Question 481455: a two digit number is 4 times the sum of its digits, if the number is doubled and then decreased by 12, the result is the number with the digits reversed. what is the number?
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Question 481555: What is the sum of the first 100 consrcutive odd numbers, and do they illustrate inductive or deductive reasons.
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Question 481576: one number is three times another number. if the sum is 52 what are the numbers? i have tried 15 times 3=45 +7= 52 but it doesn't seem to be correct what am i doing wrong?

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Question 481548: Solve this problem on paper using all four steps.
Find four consecutive integers whose sum is 114

the intergers are ______ ________ ________ and _________
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Question 481669: In soving an algebra problem, a student mistakenly divideed instead of multiplied a certain number br 6, obtaining 15 as a result. Find the certain number, AND give the correct result.

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Question 481538: Solve the following problem. Be sure to show all steps (V.E.S.T.) and work in order to receive full credit In a triangle, the middle length side is 3 more than the shortest side, and the longest side is double the middle length side. The perimeter of the triangle is 45 cm.
Find the lengths of the sides
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Question 481842: The sum of 4 times a number and 9 is 7
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Question 481902: A number is between 10 and 20 and it is even. The difference between the digits is 5. What is the number?
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Question 482071: Find three consecutive even integers with a sum of -30
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Question 482104: do odd numbers have more factors than even numbers?
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Question 482130: Which two consecutive even integers have a sum of 126?
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Question 482260: find two consecutive odd positive integers whose squares differ by 64.
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Question 482338: 4 times what number is 720
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Question 482431: Translate into an equations and solve.
The difference between seven and twice a number, n, is one.
Five times the sum of twice a number, n, and six is thirty.
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Question 482423: How to add any two integers ???
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Question 482623: the sum of the digits of a two digit number is 15.if the number formed by reversing the digits is less than the original number by 27.find the original number

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Question 482705: I am a number between 60 and 1oo. My ones digit is two less than my tens digit. I am a prime number. What number am i?
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Question 482452: Translate into an equation and solve. (Use n to represent the smaller number.)
The sum of two numbers is eighteen. Four times the smaller is equal to two times the larger.
The sum of two numbers is eleven. Five less than three times the smaller is equal to the larger.
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Question 482859: There are 40 cows and chickens in the farmyard. One quiet afternoon, jack counted and found that there were 100 legs in all. How many cows and how many chickens are there? In A.C.E. form
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Question 482809: simplify the expression of (-10)2
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Question 482988: If four is subtracted from a number and this difference is doubled, the result is fourteen. What is the number? Show your work.
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Question 483026: i am thinking of two numbers. they have a product of 120 and a difference of 2. What are the numbers?
HELP I NEED HELPPP
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Question 483131: I have a problem with understanding the consecutive integers in word problems. My problem to solve is "Find three consecutive odd integers whose sum is 183.
I tried x, x+1,x+3.
But I do not think that is correct...
Please help. Thank-you!

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Question 483132: The difference of two numbers is 10. Two times the larger number is 20 more than the smaller. What are the two numbers?
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Question 483133: I had this long word problem i needed to solve and my friends and I could not figure it out. We were so confused.
The problem is "In one year twice as many trees in a certain forest of 5000 trees were destroyed by fire as were felled by disease. At the end of the year only 3200 healthy trees remained. How many trees were destroyed by FIRE?"
I hope you could figure it out.
Thank-you

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Question 483136: A super confusing word problem to an average math student.
"A laboratory used 120 fence posts in an experiment comparing two types of paint. Six fewer than twice as many fence posts were painted with paint A as were painted with paint B. How many fence posts were painted with paint A? Paint B?"
Would be glad to get your help!
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