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Question 1151654: the average temperature for 5 days was 100 degrees, then it was cold for 1 day. that brought the average down to 90 degrees for the 6-day period. what was the temperature on the 6th day?
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Question 1151652: ten workers could do p jobs in 5 days. this was too slow, so the contractor hired 5 more workers. how many days would it take the new work force to complete k jobs?
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Question 1151653: frankie ran k yards in p minutes and arrived at the party m minutes early. how fast should frankie have run to have arrived at the party on time?
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Question 1151700: The manager of one theatre marks up the cost of chocolate covered raisins by nine tenths
of the cost of raisins. Find the cost to the nearest cent if the theatre sells a box of raisins for $3.20. (Hint: Selling price is cost plus markup.)
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Question 1151698: Last year, the expenses at Mack's Pizzeria were two sevenths
of the total revenue and the remainder was profit. The profit, or the total revenue less expenses, was $99700. Find the total revenue.
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Question 1151701: A computer chip manufacturer had net sales of $240 million with returns equal to 1 Over 30 of gross sales. Find gross sales rounded to the nearest million given that net sales equals gross sales less returns.
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Question 1151758: Two 5 sided polygons (pentagons)are similar. The ratio of a side of the larger pentagon to a corresponding side of a smaller pentagon is 6 to 5. What is the ratio of the area of the smaller polygon to the area of the larger polygon?
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Question 1151868: Mario's Marionettes donated free tickets for their show to the local day care centre. They claimed that value of these tickets was $176.75. A child's ticket cost $5.50 and an adult ticket cost $8.75. If there were three times as many children's ticket as adult tickets, how many adults and children got to attend the show for free?
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Question 1151867: Rachel invested $9000 in money market funds, part at 6% and the rest at 4.5% annual interest. after one year, she earned $ 480.75 in interest. How much was invested at each rate?
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Question 1151875: A company sold some equipment for $1950. This was 30% more than they paid for the equipment. What did the company pay for the equipment?
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Question 1151877: Jennifer has a large sum of money in hundred dollar bills, fifty dollar bills, ten dollar bills and five dollar bills. She has seven fewer hundreds than fifties and thirty more fives than fifties. She has one more than twice as many tens than fifties.
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Question 1151886: On its first anniversary the store gave away a free gift hamper to every 75th customer and discount coupon to every 90th customer. If 1000 customers visited the store on that day then how many customers got both free gift hamper and discount voucher
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Question 1151869: Write an algebraic expression for each of the quantity being compared. Jennifer has a large sum of money in hundred dollar bills, fifty dollar bills, ten dollar bills and five dollar bills. She has seven fewer hundreds than fifties and thirty more fives than fifties. She has one more than twice as many tens than fifties.
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Question 1151914: A shop sold pens for 0.70 each and rulers for 0.50 each. Mary bought some pens and rulers. She bought 8 more rulers than pens but she spent $1.40 more on the pens than on the rulers. How many rulers did she buy?
Can you please help with this question Thank a lot
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Question 1151921: Hi
Can you please explain this question.
Ms Teo made some muffins to sell. 4/5 of them were chocolate muffins and the rest were blueberry muffins. After selling 84 blueberry muffins and 5/8 of the chocolate muffins, she had 2/5 of the muffins left. How many muffins did Ms Teo sell?
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Question 1151926: Sixteen less than three times a number
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Question 1151927: one-fourth of a number increased by five
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Question 1151906: on commencing employment a man is paid a salary of Tanzanians shillings 160,000/= per annum and receives annual increments of Tanzanian shillings 4800/=. Determine his salary in the 9th year and calculate the total he will have received in the first 12years
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Question 1152072: A rectangle building measures 20m by 15m . It is surrounded by a path of uniform width. If the area of the uniform width is 156 m^2 , find its width .
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Question 1152150: The pressure of a gas varies jointly as the amount of the gas (measured in moles) and the temperature and inversely as the volume of the gas. If the pressure is 1485 kiloPascals (kPa) when the number of moles is 8, the temperature is 330° Kelvin, and the volume is 960 cc, find the pressure when the number of moles is 6, the temperature is 310° K, and the volume is 720 cc.
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Question 1152199: which term of the geometric progression -2,8,-32, ....is 2048
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Question 1152312: You want to purchase a new car. You are offered a loan for $16000 with an annual interest rate of 6% and a 36 month repayment period. Estimate how much your monthly payment would be for this loan. ( Note - It is assumed you will use the average balance method).
Average Balance Method
1)Find the interest on the principal.
I=Principle*Rate*Term
I=16000*.06*3
I=$2880
2)Add that interest to HALF the principle
$2880+$8000=10880
3)Divide that sum by the number of payments
$10880/36=$302.22222 or $302.23 every month. However, this is NOT the correct answer. Please help!
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Question 1152410: The Topology Taxi Company charges 2.30 for the first quarter of a mile and 0.55 for each additional quarter of a mile. Find a linear function which models the taxi fare F as a function of the number of miles driven, m.
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Question 1152417: The first week in July, the daily cost of electricity to a household was $4.24, $5.03, $5.23 and $3.99 for Monday through Thursday respectively. To have a five day average cost of no more than $5.00, what must Friday's cost be?
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Question 1152459: Find the equation of the line with the given properties. Express each in the standard form.Sketch the lines. With x-intercept -3/7 and perpendicular to the line defined by the equation 3x+4y=10
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Question 1152457: Find the equation of the line with the given properties. Express each in the standard form.Sketch the lines. Parallel to the y-axis and passing through(5,-7).
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Question 1152462: Find the equation of the line with the given properties. Express each in the standard form.Sketch the lines. Passing through(2,10) and (-2,3) and coincident with the line 2y+x=4.
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Question 1152549: Find the equation of the line with the given properties. Express each in the standard form. Sketch the lines. Parallel to the y-axis and passing through (5,-7).
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Question 1152550: Find the equation of the line with the given properties. Express each in the standard form. Sketch the lines. With x-intercept -3/7 and perpendicular to the line defined by the equation 3x+4y=10.
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Question 1152575: Passing through (2,10) and (-2,3) and coincident with the line 2y+x=4. Sketch the line.
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Question 1152575: Passing through (2,10) and (-2,3) and coincident with the line 2y+x=4. Sketch the line.
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Question 1152575: Passing through (2,10) and (-2,3) and coincident with the line 2y+x=4. Sketch the line.
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Question 1152574: With x-intercept -3/7 and perpendicular to the line defined by the equation 3x+4y=10. Sketch the line
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Question 1152574: With x-intercept -3/7 and perpendicular to the line defined by the equation 3x+4y=10. Sketch the line
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Question 1152577: Durham Health Clinic is considering signing a contract to perform 50 pre-employment physical require 0.20 hours in Reception/Discharge, 0.45 hours in Nursing and Testing, and 0.20 hours in Medical Examination. By work-station, determine how many work hours per week will be needed to perform these physicals.
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Question 1152567: The cost (in millions of dollars) for a 30-second ad during the TV broadcast of a major sporting event can be approximated by the rational expression 0.04x squared +0.58x +1.0 over x+2; where x=0 corresponds to 1980.
How much did an ad cost in 2003?
The ad in 2003 cost $_____ million.

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Question 1152595: In the triangle below , BE is parallel to CD . BE =10 cm , CD = 15 cm and the area of the trapezium BCDE is 75 cm^2 . Calculate the area of triangle ACD.
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Question 1152596: Boxell associates has $7,400 invested at 5.5% simple interest. After money was withdrawn, $242 was earned for one year on the remaining funds. How much was withdrawn?
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