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Question 613949: 946 divided by 21
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Question 613992: In a group of 38, an election was held from captain.There were two candiates. If Alex beat Chris by 14 votes, then the number of votes that colin got was...
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Question 614648: Which of the following mixed numbers is equivalent to437?

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Question 614749: "One number is five less than another number. If their sum is 95, find the numbers."
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Question 614774: A man bought cashew nuts worth P 210/ Kilo and peanuts at P 130/ Kilo. How many kilos of cashew nuts
and peanuts, where in it will become 5 kilos worth P178 per kilo?
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Question 614732: The distance from here to the beach at Little Boar's head is 10miles If you walked there at 4mph and returned jogging at *mph, how much time would the round trip take? What would your overall average speed be?
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Question 614890: What's ten less than the total of a number and three
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Question 614891: The mean of twelve consecutive numbers is 3, and when another number is being added the result is 5. What is the thirteent number?
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Question 615090: Steve and Joe were discussing how many different 5-card combinations of standard playing cards that have exactly 2 suits. Steve's wife Elizabeth, heard the discussion and gave them the correct answer. How many hands did she tell them were possible? (Please show your work)
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Question 615104: I am not understanding a word problem on my homework. The problem is Three times the difference of a number and two is one more than twice the number
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Question 615154: The sum of a number and 3 times the same number is 100 what is the number?
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Question 615231: what are three numbers between 1/3 and 0.3
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Question 615269: The sum of two numbers is 50. The larger number is 11 less than 3 times the smaller number.
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Question 615474: The difference between two numbers is 2 and the difference of their squares is 28.Find the numbers?
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Question 615859: I do not know where to start with this problem:
A compass and a ruler together cost $4. The compass costs .90 more than the ruler. How much does the compass cost?
I am 53 and have never understood how to do word problems. I can solve the equations but cannot come up with the equation itself.
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Question 616000: the second of two numbers is 7 times the first. their sum is 72. find the numbers. what are the numbers?
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Question 616081: Four times a certain number plus that number equals 50. What is that number ?
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Question 616171: One divded by the sum of a number and 4 plus one divided by the difference of a number and 4 is the same as the reciprocal of the difference of a number squared and 16. Find the number.
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Question 616354: The sum of two numbers is 45. The larger number, y, is 6 less than twice the smaller number, x. What is the smaller number x? Also what is the equation?
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Question 601817: 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 5-step method.

i have been working on this problem forever. this is word for word from my book. i just don't seem to understand.
thank you.
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Question 616522: If n is a positive number, which of the following is equal to 8n?
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Question 616582: The sum of two consecutive numbers is 77. The difference of half of the smaller number and one-third of the larger number is 6.

I do not understand how to write out the problem in order to solve this problem.
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Question 616586: the sum of two numbers is 52 and the difference is 4. What are the numbers?
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Question 616816: the question on my review is asking me i am thinking of two numbers whose sum is 21 and whose difference is 5. let x be the first number and y be the second number. and solve for x and y how would i go about solving the question? and thank you for helping
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Question 616905: 216x^5y^3
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Question 617145: Three sides of a triangle have measures that are consecutive even integers what are the lengths of the sides if the periemeter is 114 meters?
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Question 617193: One number is eight times another number. Their sum is 36. find the numbers.
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Question 617292: find a number if 25 less than 3 times the number equals eight times the number obtained when 5 is subtracted from the number.
Note please answer in detail

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Question 617345: the length of a rectangle is 7 1/2 inches and the width is 2 3/4 inches. whats the ratio using wholw numbers?

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Question 617290: find a number if 25 less than 3 times the number equals eight times the number obtained when 5 is subtracted from the number
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Question 617473: Hello.
Question:
The perimeter of a triangle is 28 m. If the length is two more than half the width, find the dimensions of the rectangle.

Also:
Square Root of 19843223?
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Question 617529: three times a number is subtracted from four times its reciprocal. the result is 11. find the number
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Question 617722: The sum of an odd number and the square of the next odd number is 54. Find the number.
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Question 617764: if a number is increased by 4 times its reciprocal the sum is 4 and one sixth what is the number
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Question 617801: what is a number twice another number and their sum is 207

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Question 617885: is 28,343 a whole number?
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Question 617958: i am a six-digit number.If you add 1 to me, i will become a seven-digit number.

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Question 617836: two numbers is a product that is 35 more than their sum. what are these numbers
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Question 618287: a two digit number has a value two more than six times the sum of its digits. the tens digit is one more than the units digit. find the number
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Question 618904: If the denominator of 3/4 is increased by a number, and the numerator is doubled, the result is 1. Find the number.
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Question 618933: Divide 32 into two parts such that five times of the first part exceeds four times of the second part by twenty five.

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Question 618924: what percent of the even numbers from 2 to 50, inclusive, have a units digit that is twice the tens digit?
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Question 618823: i am a two-digit number. I am a multiple of 5 and 3 the difference between my digits is 1
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