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Question 66935: Could you help me solve this equation please .6%2A%282x%2B1%29-.4%2A%28x-2%29=1
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Question 67291: A teacher gives a final exam and the scores range from 40 to 80. The teacher decides to scale the exam in order to make the scores range from 60 to 90. Let x represent the original score and let y represent a converted score.

What will the original score of 45 become? Round the answer to the nearest whole number.

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Question 67792: A farmer normally plows a rectangular field 80ft by 120 ft. This year the farmer wants to expand the area of the field by 20%, by extending the width and length of the plowed area an equal amount. How much wider and longer should the farmer plow the field to obtain a 20% increase in area?
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Question 67792: A farmer normally plows a rectangular field 80ft by 120 ft. This year the farmer wants to expand the area of the field by 20%, by extending the width and length of the plowed area an equal amount. How much wider and longer should the farmer plow the field to obtain a 20% increase in area?
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Question 67901: My math problem is broken up into check points in my book.
Check point 1) A company manufactures bookselves and desks for computers. Let x represent the numbers of bookselves manufactured daily and y the number of desks manufactured daily. The company's profits are $25 per a bookshelf and $55 per desk. Write the objective function that describes the company's total profit, z, from x bookselves and y desks.
Check point 2) To maintain high quality, the company in check point 1 should not manufacture more than a combined total of 80 bookselves and desks per day. Write an inequality that describes this constraint.
Check point 3) To meet consumer demand, the company in check point 1 must manufacture between 30 and 80 bookselves per day, inclusive. Furthermore, the company must manufacture between 10 and no more than 30 desks per day. Write an inequality that describes each of these sentences. Then summarize what you have described about this company by write the objective function for it's profits, and the three constraints.
Check point 4) For the company in check points 1-3, how many bookselves and how many desks should be manufactured per day to obtain a maximum profit? What is the maximum daily profit?

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Question 67939: Most three-way light bulbs have only two filaments. The first filament may be 50 watts, for example. The second filament may be 100 watts. The three levels of brightness are obtained by using the first filament(50 watts), the second filament (100 watts), or both filaments together(150 watts). Unfortunately, your eye won't see these three steps as changes that lead to equal ratios of brightness. Switching from the first to second level yielddsd a brightness ratio of 100:50, or 2:1. However, going from the second to third level yields a ratio of 150:100, or 3:2. The two ratios are not equal.
Suppose you are asked to design a tree-way lightbulb that has a 50-watt element as its first filament , and yields equal ratios for 2nd level/1stlevel and
3rd level/2nd level.
let x be the wattage of the second filament. then the brightness of the third level will be x+50, and you want the following relationship:

2ne level / 1st level = 3rd level/2nd level

or
x /50 = x+50/x

a. Determine twhat wattage (x) should be used for the 2nd filament to meet the desired conditions.
b. Check the results of part A. What is the ratio of 2nd to 1st filament wattage? What is the ratio of 3rd to 2nd? Do they match?
c. Suppose the 1st filament is only 40 watts. what would that wattage of the 2nd filament need to be?

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Question 68000: Find a quadratic function in the form of y = ax2 + bx + c that would have the given roots.
1. x = 2i and x = –2i
2. x =3 + i and x = 3 – i

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Question 68385: how would you solve this problem? f(0)=-1;f(x) decreases by 3 when x increases by 1.
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Question 68392: On a roller coaster riders go from 0 to 100 miles per hour in 7 sec. Find the the acceleration of the roller coaster during this time interval in miles per second squared.
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Question 68686: state the slope and y-intercept of the grap of each equation.
1.) y=2/3x

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Question 68693: state the slope and y-intercept of the graph of each equation.
3. y=2/3x
6. 3x-24+6=0
weite an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that satisfies each set of conditions.
12. slope 3, passes through (1,3)
15. slope 3, passes through (2,0)

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Question 68693: state the slope and y-intercept of the graph of each equation.
3. y=2/3x
6. 3x-24+6=0
weite an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that satisfies each set of conditions.
12. slope 3, passes through (1,3)
15. slope 3, passes through (2,0)

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Question 68693: state the slope and y-intercept of the graph of each equation.
3. y=2/3x
6. 3x-24+6=0
weite an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that satisfies each set of conditions.
12. slope 3, passes through (1,3)
15. slope 3, passes through (2,0)

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Question 68868: ok i really need help with actually learning liner algebra can you explain it to me please
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Question 70025: what is x
-3(x-6)=15-3x

-4(5x-2)=8(4-4x)

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Question 70454: Word problem.
With a head wind, a plane traveled 840 miles northward in 2 hours. With the same wind as a tail wind, the return trip southward took 1 hour and 45 minutes. Find the plane's air speed and the wind speed

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Question 70523: Can someone please help me set-up and solve this problem
Solve and write in interval notation for the solution set
/x+2/ greater than or equal to 4


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Question 70408: How do you solve in order...
(6,0),(3,2)???? It is in Writing Equations andd it has to have three different steps.

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Question 70525: Please help me understand this problem

Solve and write interval notation for the solution set

2x-3 less than or equal to -5 or 2x+1 greater than or equal to 2

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Question 70626: I need to solve the following inequalities and show on the real number line.
3(2-3x)>5[x-2(x+5)]

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Question 70643: 9(2X-1) 4(X-5)
------ = -----
7 3

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Question 70643: 9(2X-1) 4(X-5)
------ = -----
7 3

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Question 70658: need to solve inequalities
2/3(12-x)>=1/2(x+12)-5

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Question 70637: I need to solve the following inqualities.
-6(2-4x)<1/2(x-5)

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Question 70838: How do I solve for y in x^3*y^2=t^4/w ?
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Question 70850: Find the value of y so that the line passing through the two points has the given slope :
(6,4),(-4,y), m=-4

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Question 71330: How do you solve equations such as
y=2x+8
y=2x+1

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Question 71533: These are more about problem solving with equations
7)A jet plane traveling at 500 mph overtakes a propeller plane traveling at 200 mph that had a 2 hour head start. How far from the starting point are the planes?
9) The jones family drove to Disneyland at 50 miles per hour and returned on the same route at 40 mph. Find the distance to Disneyland if the total time was 7.2 hours?
11) How much pure acid should be mixed with 2 gallons of a 40% acid solution in order to get a 70% acid solution?
13)Planters peanuts company wants to mix 20 pounds of peanuts worth $3 a pound with cashews worth $5 a pound in order to make an experimental mix worth $3.50 a pound. How many pounds of cashews should be added to the peanuts?

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Question 72237: How do you write a quadratic equation with integer coefficients that could represent the following solution:
x = -1 and x = 3

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Question 72237: How do you write a quadratic equation with integer coefficients that could represent the following solution:
x = -1 and x = 3

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Question 72626: Solve the equation In(x+5) -In(3) =In(x-3).
Please show me how to break this down to where it would understand by a dummy like me.
Thanks to anyone who can help

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Question 72726: 1) Explain an advantage of rational exponents over the radical sign
2) Suppose you travel north for 35 kilometers then travel east 65 kilometers. How far are you from your starting point? North and east can be considered the directions of the y- and x-axis respectively. Round to the tenth's place
3)The volume of a cube is given by V = s3. Find the length of a side of a cube if the Volume is 729 cm3.


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Question 72681: The decible level of sound is given by D=10 log (I/10^-12, where I is the sound intensity measured in watts per square meter. Find the decible level of a whisper at an intensity of 5.4 ? 10-10 watts per meter.
Does anyone understand this? If so please break it down for me. Thanks to anyone who can help.

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Question 73042: is sqrtx^2 an identity (true for all values of x?)
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Question 73056: which basic function is related to the arithmetic sequence.
which basic function is related to the geometric sequence.

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Question 73329: Find the slope of each line, and determine whether the lines are parallel, perpendicular, or neither:
a) 2x + 5y = 4; 4x + 10y = 1 My answer: Slopes are both -2/5; Parallel
b) 3x - 2y = 6; 2x + 3y = 3 My answer: Slopes are 3/2 and -2/3; Perpendicular
c) 5x - 3y = -2; 3x - 5y = -8 My answer: Slopes are 5/3 and 3/5; Perpendicular
Let me know if you need more info on how I came to my answers. These are from a homework assignment (from my teacher, not a book), which I don't think will count significantly toward my grade. I'm just curious if I got this right. I've been ill and missed some class, and my head's still woozy, so I just want to make sure I'm on-track, or whether I should try again. Thanks!

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Question 73661: i need to learn how to slove linear equations.
y=1/6x-3
how do i solve that?

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Question 74294: okay.
listen.
please.
i really don't get this stuff.

it says:
"What is the equation of the vertical line that passes through the point (0,4)?

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Question 74297: Hey,
im the girl from before with the question about equations & such.
i still don't get it.
I put that answer in & it said it was wrong.
im not sure how to do this.
It gives me graphs to work it out on, but I still don't know how.
Please can you explain it too me once more.
Im sorry to keep bothering you, i just really want to understand this.
It says,
What is the equation of the vertical line that passes through the point (-1,-3)
THANKS!

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Question 74425: heyy.
okay
so i need help again.
heres the question..
Write an equation of the line through (-1, -2) and (-1, 1).
First, use the two points to find the slope.

HELP ME!!
hahaha
please!

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Question 74729: Solve each of the following systems by addition. If a unique solution does not exist, state
whether the system is inconsistent or dependent.
x+5y=10
-2x-10y=-20

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Question 74728: Please help. I do not even know what to call this.
Solve each of the following systems by addition. If a unique solution does not exist, state whether the system is inconsistent or dependent.
2x+3y=1
5x+3y=16

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Question 74726: Find values for m and b in the following system so that the solution to the system is (-3, 4).
5x+7y=b
mx+y=22

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Question 75456: Find the linear factorization from the given zeros
Zeros: -1, multiplicity 1; 2, multiplicity 3; 4, multiplicity 2

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Question 76440: 8x - 2y = 16 the slope of this line is
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