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Question 1191299: 76 people attend a concert. Each adult ticket costs $4.00. Each child ticket costs $3.50.
If total revenue for the ticket sales was $287.00, state how many adult tickets and how many children tickets were sold.
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Question 1190884: Write the equation of the ELLIPSE that satisfies the given conditions
e. Center (3.2) focus (3,7) vertex (3, - 5)
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Question 1190885: Write the equation of the ELLIPSE that satisfies the given conditions
£ foci (4,2) and (4,2) length of major axis is 10
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Question 1190885: Write the equation of the ELLIPSE that satisfies the given conditions
£ foci (4,2) and (4,2) length of major axis is 10
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Question 1191327: Eduardo noticed that his new car loan papers stated that with a 7.5% interest rate, he would pay $6,596.25 in interest over 5 years. How much did he borrow to pay for his car?
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Question 1191343:
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Question 1191420: The geometric mean of two numbers is 4 and their harmonic mean is 3.2 find the numbers
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Question 1191430: A river is flowing downstream at rate of 2km/h.
Murray can swim at a rate of 3km/h.
Murray jumps in and swims downstream for a certain distance then turns around and swims upstream back to the start. In total it takes 30 minutes.
How far did Murray swim downstream?
I got 15/16 km but the answer is 5/12 km. How did it get to 5/12km?
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Question 1191432: One bank quotes interest at 4% p.a. compounded semi annually. Another bank offers interest of 5% compounded monthly. Which one of these banks would you prefer and why?
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Question 1191509: A group of office workers had some prize money to distribute among themselves. When all but one took $9 each, the last person only received $5. When they all took $8 each, there was $12 left over. How much had they won?
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Question 1191605: 5, 16, 49, 104, ____
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Question 1191637: According to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, the population of the world x years after the year 2000 will be 5.89e0.0175xbillion people (for 0 ≤ x ≤ 20). Use this formula to predict the world population in the year 2012. (Round your answer to two decimal place.)
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Question 1191601: TRIGONOMETRY
B. Magnitude of Vectors
1. Find the magnitude of the Vector ML if point M has coordinates (2,-8) and point L has coordinates (-5,2).
2. Find the magnitude of the x- and y- components, to the nearest whole number if ||v|| = 29 units, and v has a direction angle of 25 degrees.
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Question 1191666: three counting numbers are such that the second number is five more than the first number and the third number is seven more than second number. find the first number if all the numbers sum up to 53
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Question 1191684: Find the volume of a right circular cone which has a base radius of 6cm and a slant height of length 12cm. Give your answer in exact;simplified, from.
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Question 1191686: A rounded metal plate is made from a rectangular sheet of metal of size x cms by y cms. Each corner is rounded off to a quadrant of circle, radius r.
a) If A (square cms) is the area of the finished plate,
find an expression for A in terms of x,y and r, explaining your method.
b) Hence show that r=sqrt[ (xy-A)/(4-pi) ]
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Question 1191685: The marks in English in a recent test had a mean of 76% with a standard deviation of 7%. The Science results had a mean of 84% with a standard deviation of 5%. Jasmine obtained scores of 86% in English and 89% in Science.
a) Which is the better result? Explain your answer.
b) If there are 30 people in the class, estimate Jasmine's position in Science.
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Question 1191717: One optical scanner can read and grade a set of standard answer
sheets in; the time it takes another scanner to do the same job.
Together they can read and grade the sheets in 12 min. How long
would it take each scanner alone to do the job? Pls explain how to do this I’m have no clue.
Thanks
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Question 1191728: Find the probability of z is less than -3.59. (In decimal, rounded to nearest hundred thousandths)
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Question 1191445: C. CROSS PRODUCT AND DOT PRODUCT (TRIGONOMETRY)
Solve the following using both the DOT Product and the Cross Product
1. ||a|| = 16 units , ||b|| = 4 units , 𝜃 = 90 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒
2. a (15,4,3) and b( 7,9,12)
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Question 1191764: The ratio of the profit,cost of materials and labour in the production of an article is 5:7:13 respectively. If the cost of materials is Le 840 more than that of labour, find the total cost of producing the article.
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Question 1191767: The US national debt at the beginning of 2008 was about $9.5 trillion, and at the beginning of 2010 it was about 12.8 trillion. Write a linear function, d, to predict the national debt for any year, x. Then predict the debt at the beginning of 2020. Explain why you think your linear function is or is not a good model for the national debt.
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Question 1191772: The diagonals of rectangle ABCD is 18 cm long and intersect in a 34 degree angle find the length and width of the rectangle
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Question 1191769: Calculate the present value of the annuity. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
$1600 monthly at 6.2% for 30 years.
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Question 1191786: A triangle is formed by the x-axis and the lines 5y=9x and 5x+9y=45.
a) Find the angles of inclination of the two lines. (nearest degree)
b) What sort of triangle has been formed?
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Question 1191851: If no repetition is not allowed
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Question 1191853:
If repetition is not allowed then how many numbers between 2000 and 3000 can be formed using the digits from 0 to 7?

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Question 1191854: If repetition is not allowed then how many numbers between 2000 and 3000 can be formed using the digits from 0 to 7

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Question 1191850: From a group of 6 men and 4 women we have to form a committee of 5 people how many committees are possible if there are to be 3 men and 2 women?
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Question 1191898: A regular hexagon has a perimeter of 98 meters. What is the length of each side?
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Question 1191901: If the sum of four interior angles of a hexagon is 480⁰, what is the sum of the remaining 2 angles
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Question 1191904: Convert -5j + 4j to polar form

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Question 1191920: Find the derivative of the function.
y=-8xln(5x+7)
dy/dx= ?
Please answer the dy/dx
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Question 1191921: Find the derivative of the function.
y=-8xln(5x+7)
dy/dx= ?
Please answer the dy/dx. Thank you
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Question 1191921: Find the derivative of the function.
y=-8xln(5x+7)
dy/dx= ?
Please answer the dy/dx. Thank you
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Question 1191923: The share price of a stock is $95. The stock will pay an annual dividend of $7 in the following 3 years. The first dividend will be paid one year from now. The continuous compounding interest rate %, determine the forward price of the forward contract that matures in 3 years. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
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Question 1191925: The current share price of a stock is $95.00. The stock will pay an annual dividend of $7.00 in the following 3 years. The first dividend will be paid one year from now. The continuous compounding interest rate is 4%. Determine the forward price of the forward contract that matures in 3 years. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.
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