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Question 548672: if x+y= - 10 and x - y =2 , what is the value of x ?
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Question 548677: what is the value of y in the following system of equation ?
2x + 3y =6
2x + y = -2
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Question 548678: Three times as many robins as cardinals visited a bird feeder. If a total of 20 robins and cardinals visited the feeder, how many were robins ?
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Question 548687: What is the equation of the line that has undefined slope and contains the point (-5,3)
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Question 548686: What is the value of x in the following system of equations ?
2x + 3y =6
2x + y = -2
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Question 548685: The sum of two-digit number is 9. The original two-digit number is 27 less than the number formed by reversing the digits. Find the original number
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Question 548790: The parts department profits is 12 percent on a new magneto. How much did the magneto cost if selling price is 145.60
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Question 548858: the sum of the digits of a two digit number is 7. when the digits are reversed the new number is two more than twice the orginal number. what is the orginal number?
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Question 548875: The difference of two numbers is 14. three times the larger number is 45 less than four times the smaller. What are the two numbers.
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Question 548882: how do you solve this equation. 3 times the smaller of 2 consecutive even integers is 4 less than twice the larger. what are the two integers.
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Question 548850: twice one number is 28 more than a second number. when 23 is added to the second number the result is 12 less than three times the first number, what are the numbers?
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Question 548494: find three consecutive odd integers such that the sum of the first two is 29 more than the third
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Question 549025: The difference between two numbers is 5. The sum of four times the smaller and the larger is 35. Find the numbers.
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Question 549117: 2)The lager of two numbers is 1 more than 3 times the smaller. The difference between 8 times the smaller and 2 times the lager is 10. Find the numbers
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Question 549211: if the difference of two numbers is 18 and if the sum of two numbers is 34, what are the two numbers?
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Question 549366: The sum of two numbers is 90. The numbers are 6 apart.what are they?
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Question 549427: the sum of two numbers is one-hundred seventy-eight. The difference between the number is six. what is the product of the two numbers.
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Question 549540: Real numbers - integer=?
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Question 549640: can you help me ?
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Question 549831: twice the sum of a number is 3 the same as 5 times the number minus 1 four times the number. Let 8 be the number
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Question 549916: A number decreased by 20 equals 36. Find the number
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Question 549917: Seven times a number is 63. Find the number.
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Question 549920: Five times a number is 50. Find the number.
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Question 549919: If 7 is subtracted from a number, the result is 46. Find the number.
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Question 549921: What number increased by 25 equals 40 ?
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Question 549900: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 14. The first digit is 4 less than twice the second digit. What is the number?
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Question 549897: cuba a has an edge length of 2 inches. cube b has an edge length double that of cube a. what is the volume, in cubic inches, of cube b?
a.4
b.8
c.16
d.32
e.64
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Question 550008: 5 consecutive odd numbers total 525. find the difference between the smallest and the biggest numbers
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Question 549978: sum of the two digit number is 14,if 29 is subtracted then both digits become equal.find the number...
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Question 550023: the difference between two numbers is 10.When eight times the smaller number is added to 40, the result i ten less than three times the larger number. find the numbers
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Question 548862: coffee grounds inc. has two kinds of coffee. Coffee A cost $9 per kg and coffee B costs $6 per kg.how many kilograms of each should be combined to obtain 150 kilograms of a blend worth $8 per kilogram
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Question 550408: two-thirds of a number is 36. find the number

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Question 550228: in how many ways can 100 be written as the sum of two numbers,whose HCF is 1? answer choices 40,20,44,none..
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Question 550551: When 18 is subtracted from four times a certain number, the result is 5/2 the original number. What is the number?
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Question 548674: If a + 3b = 13 and a + b = 5 ,the value of b is ....

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Question 550590: 100 students are seated in a circular fashion and assigned roll nos.
Every student with odd no. is removed and again the circle is formed.
what will be the roll of 1 remaining student in the end.
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Question 550545: Find the number of integers less than 2011 that has only 3 factors.
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Question 550722: Could you please help me with this question?: The average (arithmetic mean) of ten positive numbers is 16. The average of the least and the greatest of these numbers is 19. What is the average of the other eight numbers?
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Question 550817: If the reciprocal of (x-2) is (x+2) what is the greatest possible value of x
Express your answer in simplest radical form
i dont know how to solve it or what to do i tried quadratics but did not work
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Question 550833: Four times the larger number is 29 more than 3 times the smaller. Find two consecutive odd integers.
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Question 550831: the number has four digits, the thousands digit is twice the hundreds digit,the ones digit is divisible by five, the sum of the digits is 13.
what is the number?
what i have tried is 4225. 4 is twice the hundreds digit which would be 2 and five is divisible by 5. when u add 4+2+2+5= 13... can you please help me to see if my answer is correct.
thank you
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Question 550866: Greg's family rode in a taxicab last satuday night. The total cost of the ride, with a 20% tip, was $25.80. What was the cost of the ride without tip?
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Question 550872: The value of a certain two digit number is 9 times the sum of it's digits. If the digits are reversed, the resulting number is 63 less than the original number. What is the original number? Please, please help me answer this question!
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