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Question 824402: The PTA placed a trail marker in the ground every four hundred yards. Every nine hundred yards the PTA set up a water station. What is the shortest distance a runner will have to run to see both a water station and a trail marker at the same location? Please make this as simple as possible. Thank you :)
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Question 824404: Is the GCF of a pair of numbers even equal to one of the numbers? Explain with an example.
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Question 824405: Is the GCF of a pair of numbers ever greater than both numbers? Explain with an example.
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Question 824607: The cost of renting a bus for a trip to the mountains was split evenly by 20 students. The day before the trip, 10 more students decided to travel too. As a result of dividing the cost evenly among the 30 students each student had to pay $9 less than originally. What was the total cost of renting the bus?
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Question 824611: I need explanation and solution:
The product of four consecutive natural numbers is 255024. Find these numbers.
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Question 824661: Find the equation of the line which passes through the points P(0,a) and Q(a,2a)
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Question 824660: find the equation of the line perpendicular to 5x+2y-1=0, and passing through the point (-2,7)
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Question 824664: find the equation of the line which passes through the point of intersection of 5x-3y+2=0 and x+3y+1=0 and is parallel to 2x+3y+3=0
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Question 824659: Show that the triangle whose vertices A(3,6), B(-2,-4) C(-5,2) is a right angeled triangle. Find the area of the triangle
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Question 824835: the growth of a herd of a bison follows the rule P(t) = P( base 0 )(2^(t/10) where P(base 0) represents the initial population and P(t) represents population after x years. In how many years will the bison population quadruple its initial population?
Thanks in advance:)
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Question 825075: The Omaha World-Herald, on January 23, 2001,
ran an article titled �Lending Agency Convicted of Predatory Lending Practices.� A loan company took the title to an elderly Bellevue widow�s home by paying taxes of about $22,200. The market value of the house is 3 1/2 times the tax. What was the market value? Round to the nearest ten thousands.
I know the market value is $80,000 (7/2 x 22,200), but how would I write and solve this as an equation?
Thanks in advance!
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Question 825318: I need detail solution:
A grandfather gave a total of 1,000,000 cym (one million Uzbek cym) to his five grandchildren. Starting with the youngest, each got 20,000 cym more than the next younger one. In other words, the youngest got one sum, the next got 20,000 cym more, and so on. How much did the youngest grandchild get?

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Question 825576: x^7/x^6
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Question 825578: (8x^4+7x^6+5-7x^5)-(-6+3x^5+3x^6-4x^4)
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Question 825630: In rectangle ABCD, diagonals AC and BD intersect at Point E. If AC=36 and BD=2x+30, find x.
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Question 826013: divide 95 into two parts such that one half of the first part exceeds one fifth of second part by 16 kindly help me to solve it with required steps/details.
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Question 826113: six small marbles and four large have a combines weight of 30 g, whilst seven small marbles and two large marbles have weight of 23 g. FInd the weight of a large marble.
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Question 826165: two circular cylinders of eaquel volumes have their height in the ratio 9:4 find the ratio of their radii
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Question 826201: (x+4)^2
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Question 826202: 4m^3+21m^2-16m+12/m+6 I am no good with fractions and the question says to decide any help would be much appreciated
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Question 826371: Given: AD is the median to BC; AD is the altitude to BC
Prove: Triangle ABC is isosceles
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Question 826431: 4x+2x=?
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Question 826571: How do I identify the slope
Y = 3x + 5
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Question 826571: How do I identify the slope
Y = 3x + 5
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Question 826875: what is the answer in this given p (1,4) Q(6,1)
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Question 827073: What is 4
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Question 827227: Trisha needs 41/2 yards of fabric to do a project. If she already has 2/3 of a yard of fabric, what is the minimum amount of fabric she must buy to be able to complete her project?

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Question 828052: I need not only answer,but solution too:
In 4 years from now Anna will be 2/3 (two thirds) of Berzot�s present age. In 11 years from
now Berzot will be double Sasha�s present age. 14 years ago Sasha was half Anna�s present
age. Find their present ages.
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Question 828100: (x+1/x)^2=3 then find the value of x?
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Question 828096: (x+1/X)^2=3 then find the value of x
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Question 828975: i want the value of x in (x+ 1/x)^2=3 and then show by submitting the x value in the equation
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Question 829368: 2x+3+4+8=40

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Question 829628: The system of equations graphed below has how many solutions?
Y=2x+2 and y=2x
0
1
2
Or infinity

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Question 829664: What are some animal imagery in the pearl??

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Question 829780: Fred has just answered a help wanted ad. the job states that the job pays $27K. annually. What would Fred's salary be if he where to get this job?
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Question 829889: I have two sister. I am tree times older than one of my sisters and six years older than the other sister.If one of my sisters is half the age of the other sister,how old am I?
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Question 830784: 4 years ago my fathers age was 5 times my age.at present sum of our age is 50.what is fathers present age?sir kindly give me its step also?
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Question 830720: could you give answer with solution?:
Four men realised that if they stood in order of weight, each one would be 3 kilos heavier than the man behind him. They also realised that their average weight was 66.5 kilos. When a fifth man joined them, their average weight decreased by 1 kilo. Find a) the weight of the heaviest man and b) the weight of the fifth man.
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Question 830750: 4 years ago my father age was five times my age. at present the sum of our age is 50. what is my fathers present age? sir pls give me its step also?

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Question 830964: I need to know how to create a system with word problems.
this is my word problem:
you have a jar of nickels and quarters. you want to choose 13 coins that are worth exactly $2.45. how many of each coin type do you need?
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Question 831103: I need not only answer,but solution too:
A team of six girls, whose average height was 1.50m, realised that if they stood in order of height, each one was 2cm taller than the next. When a seventh girl joined them, the team�s average height increased by 1%. Find a) the height of the shortest girl and b) the height of the girl who joined the team last.
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Question 831096: the ratio of the tens digit to the ones digit of a two digit number is 2:3.if 27 added to the number the digit interchange their places.find the numbers?sir pls help me .kindly give me its steps also?
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