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Question 1202864: Find the value of k for which y=kx-2 is a tangent to the curve y^2=10x-x^2
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Question 1202864: Find the value of k for which y=kx-2 is a tangent to the curve y^2=10x-x^2
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Question 1202934: Solve the equation
1) 7Cos@ = 5 + sin@
2) 3sin@ - 4cos@ = 2
If 0≤@≤360

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Question 1202935: Prove the formula tan3@ = 3tan@ - tan^3@ / 1 - 3tan^2@.
Hence solve the equation tan3@ = 0
If 0≤@≤360

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Question 1202938: Find the solution of the equation
(i) cos2@ + sin@= 0
(ii) cos2@ + cos@=0
If 0≤@≤2π

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Question 1202931: A six lane urban freeway (three lanes in each direction) is on rolling terrain with 11ft (3.4m) lanes, observation 2ft (0.6m) from the right edge of a traveled pavement and 1.5 interchange per mile (0.9 per km). The traffic stream consist primarily of commuters. A directional week day peak hour volume of 2200 vehicles is observed with 700 vehicles arriving in the must congested 15mm period. If the traffic stream has 15% large trucks and buses and recreational vehicles. Determine the level of service
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Question 1202932: 1.Find the solution to the equation
(i) cos2@ + sin@= 0
(ii) cos2@ + cos@=0
If 0≤@≤2x

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Question 1203010: Shan lives 2.5 km from school. Jin lives 560 m from Shan's house. If the girls meet at Shan's house before walking to school, what distance does each girl walk
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Question 1203033: A field has an area of x^2 + x-6. State the expressions for its length and width.

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Question 1203059: Suppose you want to have $400,000 for retirement in 20 years. Your account earns 7% interest.
a) How much would you need to deposit in the account each month?
$
b) How much interest will you earn?

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Question 1203059: Suppose you want to have $400,000 for retirement in 20 years. Your account earns 7% interest.
a) How much would you need to deposit in the account each month?
$
b) How much interest will you earn?

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Question 1203067: A survey of 1000 students at a large university asked students about their view on capital punishment. Half of the students surveyed were men and half were women. Of the men surveyed, 280 were opposed to capital punishment. Of the women surveyed, 320 were opposed.
(a) How many students in the sample were in favor of capital punishment? 400
(b) How many of those in favor of capital punishment were women?

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Question 1203066: You are going to purchase a new sofa for your apartment; the total cost is $1574. You will pay $294 down and pay the rest in monthly installments (interest free) over a period of two years. What will be the monthly payment? $________
Round to 2 decimal places

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Question 1203071: You are going to purchase a new sofa for your apartment; the total cost is $1578. You will pay $132 down and pay the rest in monthly installments (interest free) over a period of two years. What will be the monthly payment? $________
Round to 2 decimal places

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Question 1203070: Two hundred recent college graduates were surveyed about their social media connections. Of those surveyed, 120 used Facebook, 80 used LinkedIn, and 90 used Instagram. Moreover, 55 used both Facebook and Instagram, 45 used both LinkedIn and Facebook, 45 used both Instagram and LinkedIn, and 30 used all three platforms.
How many of the individuals surveyed used Instagram, but did not use either Facebook or LinkedIn?

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Question 1203101: You want to be able to withdraw $30,000 each year for 25 years. Your account earns 8% interest.
a) How much do you need in your account at the beginning?


b) How much total money will you pull out of the account?



c) How much of that money is interest?

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Question 1203107: A searchlight shines its beam on a cloud at an angle of elevation of 20º. A person standing 350 m from the searchlight sees the light on the cloud at an angle of 50º. Calculate the height of the cloud.
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Question 1203107: A searchlight shines its beam on a cloud at an angle of elevation of 20º. A person standing 350 m from the searchlight sees the light on the cloud at an angle of 50º. Calculate the height of the cloud.
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Question 1203115: Write the relation for a parabola, in vertex form, that satisfies each condition. State your reasoning!
a.)
Vertex at (-3, 2), reflected about x-axis and has the step pattern: -3, -9, -15
b.)
The graph opens upwards, is wider than y = x² and has no zeros. There is more than 1 right answer.

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Question 1203115: Write the relation for a parabola, in vertex form, that satisfies each condition. State your reasoning!
a.)
Vertex at (-3, 2), reflected about x-axis and has the step pattern: -3, -9, -15
b.)
The graph opens upwards, is wider than y = x² and has no zeros. There is more than 1 right answer.

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Question 1203115: Write the relation for a parabola, in vertex form, that satisfies each condition. State your reasoning!
a.)
Vertex at (-3, 2), reflected about x-axis and has the step pattern: -3, -9, -15
b.)
The graph opens upwards, is wider than y = x² and has no zeros. There is more than 1 right answer.

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Question 1203135: The sum of two whole numbers is 45 and their difference is less than 10. The number of all possible pairs is: WAN.Algebra.com
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7

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Question 1203135: The sum of two whole numbers is 45 and their difference is less than 10. The number of all possible pairs is: WAN.Algebra.com
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7

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Question 1203135: The sum of two whole numbers is 45 and their difference is less than 10. The number of all possible pairs is: WAN.Algebra.com
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7

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Question 1203137: I want to have 500,000 for retirement in 35 years. My account earns 4% interest, how much will I need to deposit in the account each month? How much interest will I earn?
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Question 1203137: I want to have 500,000 for retirement in 35 years. My account earns 4% interest, how much will I need to deposit in the account each month? How much interest will I earn?
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Question 1203183: Find the area of a triangle with sides of length 201 km and 157 km and included angle of 69°.
Area = Incorrect sq-km

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Question 1203219: what is the (compounded weekly) should you invest if you would like to grow $3624.84 to $4275 in 92 weeks?

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Question 1203219: what is the (compounded weekly) should you invest if you would like to grow $3624.84 to $4275 in 92 weeks?

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Question 1203213: ​Full-time college students report spending a mean of 25 hours per week on academic​ activities, both inside and outside the classroom. Assume the standard deviation of time spent on academic activities is 4 hours. If you select a random sample of 25 ​full-time college​ students, what is the probability that the mean time spent on academic activities is at least 24 hours per​ week?
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Question 1203212: A trucking company determined that the distance traveled per truck per year is normally​ distributed, with a mean of 30 thousand miles and a standard deviation of 8 thousand miles. How many miles will be traveled by at least 75​% of the​ trucks?
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Question 1203212: A trucking company determined that the distance traveled per truck per year is normally​ distributed, with a mean of 30 thousand miles and a standard deviation of 8 thousand miles. How many miles will be traveled by at least 75​% of the​ trucks?
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Question 1200915: Yumi's grandparents presented her with a gift of $19,000 when she was 9 years old to be used for her college education. Over the next 8 years, until she turned 17, Yumi's parents had invested her money in a tax-free account that had yielded interest at the rate of 2.5%/year compounded monthly. Upon turning 17, Yumi now plans to withdraw her funds in equal annual installments over the next 4 years, starting at age 18. If the college fund is expected to earn interest at the rate of 3%/year, compounded annually, what will be the size of each installment? (Assume no interest is accrued from the point she turns 17 until she makes the first withdrawal. Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 1203264: You are asked to investigate the amount of litter at your college, assume that all the litter is placed in bins around the college.
1. At what times in the day . would it not be appropriate to select samples? Explain
2. At which positions would it not be appropriate to select all the bins to sample? Explain
3. Decide on the amount and position of the bins that you are going to sample

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Question 1201219: A company wishes to produce two types of souvenirs: Type A and Type B. Each Type A souvenir will result in a profit of $1, and each Type B souvenir will result in a profit of $1.20. To manufacture a Type A souvenir requires 2 minutes on Machine I and 1 minute on Machine II. A Type B souvenir requires 1 minute on Machine I and 3 minutes on Machine II. There are 3 hours available on Machine I and 5 hours available on Machine II.
(a) The optimal solution holds if the contribution to the profit of a Type B souvenir lies between $____ and $____ . (Enter your answers from smallest to largest.)
(b) Find the contribution to the profit of a Type A souvenir (with the contribution to the profit of a Type B souvenir held at $1.20), given that the optimal profit of the company will be $172.80.
$______

(c) What will be the optimal profit of the company if the contribution to the profit of a Type B souvenir is $2.50 (with the contribution to the profit of a Type A souvenir held at $1.00)?

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Question 1203263: 1. There are 250 students at level 2 at an FET college. You are asked investigate the amount of money the students spend at the cafeteria each day.
1.1. Describe the population for your investigation.
1.2. is a sample of 30 students sitting in the cafeteria an appropriate sample? Explain
1.3. Describe how you could select a random sample of 30 students.
1.4. You find that there are 40 students attending a meeting and you select 30 from this group. Is your sample appropriate? Explain

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Question 1203352: A survey of 1000 students at a large university asked students about their view on capital punishment. Half of the students surveyed were men and half were women. Of the men surveyed, 280 were opposed to capital punishment. Of the women surveyed, 320 were opposed.
How many students in the sample were in favor of capital punishment?
How many of those in favor of capital punishment were women?

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Question 1203352: A survey of 1000 students at a large university asked students about their view on capital punishment. Half of the students surveyed were men and half were women. Of the men surveyed, 280 were opposed to capital punishment. Of the women surveyed, 320 were opposed.
How many students in the sample were in favor of capital punishment?
How many of those in favor of capital punishment were women?

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Question 1203414: A small aircraft pilot flying towards two mountains in foggy conditions wants to map its position in comparison to two control towers. They discover the aircraft is on a true bearing of 143 degrees from tower A and on a true bearing of 075 degrees from tower B. Tower A is 25km north of tower B.
Determine the distance from the aircraft to each tower.

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Question 1203443: Find x
correct to 2 decimal places.
NOTE: The triangle is NOT drawn to scale.
28°
57°
85
x

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Question 1203466: Kindly help with the homework below.
1. If lean beef mince was R115,75 per kilograms, what was the weight of the lean mince that Jones bought?

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Question 1203476: Find the complement of the set
given that U = {3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
(Use the roster method to write the set.
Enter EMPTY or for the empty set.)
(5, 7, 9, 10)

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Question 1203476: Find the complement of the set
given that U = {3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11).
(Use the roster method to write the set.
Enter EMPTY or for the empty set.)
(5, 7, 9, 10)

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Question 1203478: A premium ticket for a football match was one and a half times the price of a standard ticket. If the total cost for 4 standard and 2 premium tickets was €322, write an equation to show this information. Solve the equation to find the cost of a standard ticket

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Question 1203487: Please help with the homework below.
1. If lean beef mince was R115.75 per kilogram, what was the weight of the lean mince that Mrs Jones bought?

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