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Question 9197: If Gasp cigarettes have 5.0 mg tar and 0.40 mg nicotine per cigarette and there are 20. cigarettes per pack, how many packs of cigarettes would of been smoked to coat you lungs with 4 oz. of tar? how many packs would you have to smoke to introduce your lungs to one gram of the drug nicotine.
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Question 9199: you have been working at a fast food restaurant for the past 35 years wrapping hambugers. each hour you wrap 184 hamburgers. you work 8 per day. you work 5 days a week. you get paid every 2 weeks with of $840.34. how many hamburgers will you have to wrap to make your first one million dollars?
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Question 9198: You are riding home from a party and the has been drinking. The car is traveling at 60. mi per hour. Suddenly a child steps into the road ahead. Because the driver has been drinking his reaction time has been slowed by 1.0 second. How many feet toward the impending accident will the car travel before the driver begins to stop?
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Question 18547: How do you work these two problems. I'm very confused about the questons below:
1.Jessica has 4 times as many books as John and five times as many as Karen. If Karen has more than 40 books what is the least number of books jessica could have? Is it:
(a)240 (b)220 (c) 210 (d)205 (e)200
Here's the second one:
Judy is now twice as old as Adam but 6 years ago she was 5 times his as old as he was. How old is Judy now? Is it:
(a)10 (b)16 (c)20 (d)24 (e)32
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Question 32233: The value of a two-digit number is twice as large as the sum of its digits. If the digits were reversed, the resulting number would be 9 less than 5 times the original number. Find the original number.
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Question 40918: Venn Diagram
THe staff at a day care observed 64 students eating habits during several lunches. They observed that 59 children ate green beans, 56 ate cauliflower, 60 ate broccoli, 55 ate green beans and cauliflower, 54 ate cauliflower and broccoli, 56 ate green beans and broccoli, and 53 ate all three. 1. How many children did not eat any of these three types of vegetables? (2). How many children are green beans but not cauliflower? (3). How many children did not eat broccoli? (4). How many children ate only cauliflower? (5). And how many children ate exactly two types of vegetables?
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Question 45123: Hello, I am trying to help my daughter with this question:
"Use two unit multipliers to change 1,600 square cm to square m." The thing is, would there be a difference in the question if it didn't include the word "square"? Can you show me how to do this problem and explain it to my daughter in a simplistic fashion? (she asks a lot of "why?" questions) Thank you SO much for helping!!!! JS :)
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Question 55662: To avoid hitting the ball out, a tennis player in one corner of the 312 yd squared court hits the ball to the farthest corner of the opponent
s court. If the length, L, of the tennis court is 2 yd. longer than twice the width, then how far did the player hit the ball?
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Question 55778: Julie, Bill, and Travis have agreed to distribute the profits of JBT Partners in the ratio of 3:2:5. If the firm made a net profit of $81,000 this year, how much of this $81,000 will Travis receive?
a. $27,000.00
b. $24,300.00
c. $8,100.00
d. $40,500.00
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Question 55898: Science and medicine. Celsius temperature readings can be converted to
Fahrenheit readings using the formula . F= 9/5 C +32 What is the Fahrenheit
temperature that corresponds to each of the following Celsius temperatures: -10, 0, 15, 100?
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Question 57140: William's refrigerator is 85 inches tall. william put 3 boxes on top of the fridge. the hight of the 3 boxes were 5.45 inches, 7.2 inches and 14.87 inches. What is the height from the floor to the top of the boxes
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Question 57145: How do I compute the implied DV for sodium in soda?
For exmaple, a nutrition label listd 15(mg) of sodium representing 1% of the recommended daily value (DV) based on a 2,000 calorie/day diet. However, someone figured this implied that the DV came out to 1500(mg) per day. What were the steps used to calculate the answer?
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Question 57974: 92. Winter wheat. While finding the amount of seed needed to plant his three square wheat fields, Hank observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer than the side of the smallest field and that the side of the largest field was 3 kilometers longer than the side of the smallest field. If the total area of the three fields is 38 kilometers, then what is the area of each field?
i think it falls under this catagory?? thanks
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