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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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Question 1203497: How many pounds of cream containing 25% butter fat should be added to 100 pounds of milk containing 1.5% butter fat to produce milk containing 3% butter fat?
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Question 1203496: It is desired to draw off a part of 10 gallons of 30% solution of alcohol and to replace it by pure alcohol so as to produce a 50% solution. How many gallons should be drawn off?
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Question 1203536: Calculate selling price of a house if:
They paid 21082.00 down
payments are 682.00 per month for 30 years
interest rate 6.6% is compounded monthly
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Question 1203604: A factory foreman earns 11% more than their assistant. Together they make $119,426 per year. What is the assistant's annual salary (in dollars)?
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Question 1203605: If an amount of $9,000 is invested at a simple interest rate of
3 1/2%
interest per year, how much additional money (in dollars) must be invested at a simple interest rate of 5% per year to ensure that the interest each year is 4% of the total amount invested?
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Question 1203629: A student received scores of 84, 73, and 71 on their midterm algebra exams. If the final exam counts twice as much as a midterm, what score must the student make on their final exam to get an average score of 80? (Assume that the maximum possible score on each test is 100.)
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Question 1203628: A factory foreman earns 11% more than their assistant. Together they make $119,426 per year. What is the assistant's annual salary (in dollars)?

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Question 1203627: A factory foreman earns 11% more than their assistant. Together they make $119,426 per year. What is the assistant's annual salary (in dollars)?
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Question 1203654: Do you agree that the equation 5-3×=2×² can be written in standard form in two different ways.justify your answer
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Question 1203654: Do you agree that the equation 5-3×=2×² can be written in standard form in two different ways.justify your answer
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Question 1203654: Do you agree that the equation 5-3×=2×² can be written in standard form in two different ways.justify your answer
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Question 1203661: if 2 hens lay 2 eggs in 2 days, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 2 days

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Question 1203661: if 2 hens lay 2 eggs in 2 days, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 2 days

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Question 1203661: if 2 hens lay 2 eggs in 2 days, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 2 days

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Question 1203661: if 2 hens lay 2 eggs in 2 days, how many eggs will 6 hens lay in 2 days

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Question 1203655: Yumi's grandparents presented her with a gift of $19,000 when she was 8 years old to be used for her college education. Over the next 9 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 4.5%/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 5%/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 1203676: If $5000 is invested in a savings account with an interest rate of 3% the amount in the account after t years is given by A(t)=5000(1+0.03)^t. Find the amount in the account after 8 years.
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Question 1203683: the hourly wage of some toyota automobile assembly line workers is being increased annually by the same percentage if their wage went from 7.10 to 20.08 in 12 years. what is the doubling time
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Question 1203716: Using only standard British coins (i.e. 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and
£2), what is the largest amount of money you could have but still not be
able to pay exactly £2?
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Question 1203762: Pls help I'm trying to help my sister with maths homework and I can't remember how to do this😭. 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. Please helppp
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Question 1203819: A runner is jogging in a straight line at a steady v, 3 km/hr. When the runner is L= 5.9 km from the finish line, a bird begins flying straight from the runner to the finish line at v= 12 km/hr (4 times as fast as the runner). When the bird reaches the finish line, it turns around and flies directly back to the runner.
What cumulative distance does the bird travel? Even though the bird is a dodo, as- sume that it occupies only one point in space (a "zero" length bird), travels in a straight line, and that it can turn without loss of speed.
Answer in units of km.
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Question 1203842: The monthly incomes for 12

randomly selected people, each with a bachelor's degree in economics, are shown on the right. Complete parts (a) through (c) below.
Assume the population is normally distributed.

4450.56
4596.08
4366.27

4455.71
4151.02
3727.27
4283.79
4527.36
4407.24
3946.73
4023.58
4221.79
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Part 1
(a) Find the sample mean.
x overbar
equalsenter your response here
(Round to one decimal place as needed.)

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Question 1203906: For some values of 𝑛, it is possible to cut a large square into 𝑛 smaller
squares (which need not be of equal size).
For example, it not possible when 𝑛 = 5 but is possible when 𝑛 = 6, as
shown below.
Find, with proof, all values of 𝑛 for which it is possible to do this.
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Question 1204003: To start the construction of a rest house in tagaytay, the engineer advice his foreman to erect five pegs to establish the perimeter (outside) of the floor plan, which is in the shape of a regular pentagon. The desired area of the floor plan is 80 squared meters. Find the length of the string needed in the layout. Consider that 5 percent is accounted for tying.
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Question 1204004: 𝑘 is an integer. The last two digits of 𝑘^2 are equal to each other.
What does this tell you about the last digit of 𝑘^2?
What does it tell you about 𝑘?

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Question 1204055: Assume that a current exchange rate ,the British pound is worth 1.65 in American dollars.you have some dollar bills and several British pound coins.there are 17 items all together,which have a value of 21.55 in American dollars.how many American dollars and how many British pound coins do you have?

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Question 1204111: Please help with the homework below:
1. A circular swimming pool with a radius of 8m and the paved area round and up to 1 meter away from the swimming. Calculate the paved area
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Question 1204143: You have $400,000 saved for retirement. Your account earns 4% interest. How much will you be able to pull out each month, if you want to be able to take withdrawals for 15 years?

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Question 1204183: You have $400,000 saved for retirement. Your account earns 8% interest. How much will you be able to pull out each month, if you want to be able to take withdrawals for 25 years?
$
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Question 1204206: TWO CONSECUTIVE POSITIVE EVEN INTEGERS ARE SUCH THE SUM OF THEIR SQUARES IS 164. FIND THE TWO NUMBERS.
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