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Question 886802: A motor boat traveling with a current went 35 miles in 3.5 hours. Traveling agaist the current, the boat went 12 miles in 3 hours. Let r be the rate of the boat un calm water and let w be the rate of the current. Write both your solutions and equations you used to solve the problem.
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Question 888970: jmjj tm54
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Question 886863: what is the sin cos and tan chart?
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Question 887965: Five hundred depth readings for an inland lake were normally distributed with a mean of 62 feet and a standard deviation of 8.5 feet. What percent of the depths were between 53.5 feet and 70.5 feet?
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Question 886378: drawing pencils cost 8 cents each and colored pencils cost 11 cents each . Two dozen assorted pencils cost 2.16 dollars . how many colored pencils are There ?
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Question 893610: How to write 11,020,612 in decimal form?
Plz explain

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Question 893753: The formula to find the area A of a rectangle is A=lw where l is the length of the rectangle and w is the width find the total of the figure 3in 2in 7 in 2in 10in 4in

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Question 894062: The left pocket has a penny, a nickle and a dime. The right pocket has a penny, a dime and a quarter. How do I do a table to determine all the possible amounts of money I might get ?
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Question 894007: If f(x) = x2 − 8x + 16, find f(−a), f(a − 4), and f(a + h).
f(−a) =
f(a − 4) =
f(a + h) =

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Question 894362: Determine if the solution set for the system of equations shown is the empty set, contains one point or is infinite.
x + y = 5
x + y = 7

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Question 894363: Kaycie's company pays $20,000 per year plus a 5% sales commission. Kristen's company pays $32,000 per year plus a 1% sales commission.
A.What system of equation can be used to determine the amount Kaycie and Kristen must sell, s, to receive the same pay,p?
B. How much must Kaycie and Kristen sell to receive the same pay? How much will they get paid?

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Question 894440: i) give a recursive definition of the set P of all positive integers greater than 0
II) formulate tha appropriate induction principle
III) use mathematical induction to prove that
11+15+19 +... + (4n+7) = 2n^2 + 9n for all positive n>0

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Question 894658: Penny owns five-ninths of a movie theater. Penny’s investment is worth $450,000. What is the total investment that was made for the movie theater?
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Question 894988: An initial amount of money is placed in an account at an interest rate of
1%
per year, compounded continuously. After five years, there is
$2049.98
in the account. Find the initial amount placed in the account. Round your answer to the nearest cent.

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Question 894988: An initial amount of money is placed in an account at an interest rate of
1%
per year, compounded continuously. After five years, there is
$2049.98
in the account. Find the initial amount placed in the account. Round your answer to the nearest cent.

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Question 895720: Can you please show me step by step how to get this answer for the problem
-1/2-5/6 x = 3/4 what is x I know the answer is -3/2 I don't know how to get this answer
Can you show ms step by step and explain I find this problem very hard
Thank you very much

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Question 895720: Can you please show me step by step how to get this answer for the problem
-1/2-5/6 x = 3/4 what is x I know the answer is -3/2 I don't know how to get this answer
Can you show ms step by step and explain I find this problem very hard
Thank you very much

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Question 895850: Why we should solve like this?
If CosX+=+-1%2F2
CosX+=+Cos%282%28pi%29%29%2F3
X+=+2n%28pi%29+%2B-+2%28pi%29%2F3
Why can't we solve like this???
CosX+=+-1%2F2
CosX+=+-Cos%28pi%29%2F3
CosX+=+Cos%28-%28pi%29%29%2F3
Because we can put minus sign inside in Cos...
X+=+2n%28pi%29+%2B-+%28-pi%29%2F3 ????

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Question 895868: Why we should solve like this???
If CosX+=+-1%2F2
CosX+=+Cos%282%28pi%29%2F3%29
X+=+2n%28pi%29+%2B-+2%28pi%29%2F3
Why we can't do like this?
CosX+=+-1%2F2
CosX+=+Cos%28-%28pi%29%2F3%29
X+=+2n%28pi%29+%2B-+%28-%28pi%29%29%2F3

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Question 895872: Half the sum of the numbers s, t, and u
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Question 896097: Rewrite in standard form
Y=4/5x+0.85

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Question 896242: hello i am working on a word algebra question? I have problems with some like this one. Can you help?
A grocery mixes some dried cranberries that cost $8/lb and granola that costs $4/lb. How much of each should be mixed to make 50/lb of a mix that costs $5/lb?

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Question 896352: Please help me with this question. I have to solve by whichever method is easier. ( factoring, completing the square or the quadratic formula)
A) what is the discriminant of the equation 4x^2+8x+k=0
B) for what value of k will the equation have a double root?
C)for what values of k will the equation have two real roots?
D) for what values of k will the equation have imaginary roots?
E) name three values of k for which the given equation has rational roots

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Question 896352: Please help me with this question. I have to solve by whichever method is easier. ( factoring, completing the square or the quadratic formula)
A) what is the discriminant of the equation 4x^2+8x+k=0
B) for what value of k will the equation have a double root?
C)for what values of k will the equation have two real roots?
D) for what values of k will the equation have imaginary roots?
E) name three values of k for which the given equation has rational roots

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Question 896359: Please help me :)
Solve the equation. You will need to square twice.
square root of 2x+5 = 2square root of 2x+1

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Question 896674: Veronica hires out surfboards on a popular surf beach. She charges an hourly rate of $3.50 for the first hour, $5.50 per hour for the next two hours, $7.50 for each hour after three hours for a total of 6 hours. Less than one hour rates are charged at $4.00 per half hour. She also offers a daily rate of $25.
a. Gerald wants to hire a surfboard for 4 12 hours. Which option would be the most cost efficient?

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Question 896696: How to determine the rational zeros by factoring h(x)=x^3-x^2-10x-8
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Question 897125: Please please help me.
Sketch the parabola 4x^2-8x+2 and label the vertex, axis of symmetry and x and y intercepts.
SO far I think should divide the whole thing by 4 but I'm not sure. Please help me.

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Question 897473: Determine whether the three points are the vertices of a right triangle.
(10, -4), (16, -2), (15, -7)

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Question 897570: Simplify.
(6t^5)^2

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Question 897821: Please help me im lost at the minute with my maths homework question thanks
when a woman bought a television on a shop, vat at 23% was added on.if the vat on the cost of the set was €195.50:
(1)what was the price before vat was added
(2)what was the price including vat
please help me thanks

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Question 898246: Sarah is paid on a graduated commission scale. She earns a base salary of $12,000 per year plus 3% on the first $10,000 in monthly sales, and 5% on all additional monthly sales.
What was Sarah's income for a month in which she had $17,160 in sales?

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Question 898402: You need to drive 440 miles to get to your best friends wedding. How fast must you drive to get there in 8 hours?
Im trying to compare this anwser to mine so please provide steps to answer.

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Question 898788: How many liters of a 9% solution of salt should be added to a 28% solution in order to obtain 1007 liters of a 14% solution
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Question 898808: please help alg 2 280-29f=1090 solve
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Question 898807: Frieda employer offers her family health care. Frieda must contribute 12% of the cost, and her employer will cover the rest. Frieda gets paid on a biweekly basis, and she notices that $88.50 is taken out of each paycheck for her portion of the contribution to the family health care coverage. How much does Frieda's employer contribute for her coverage?
How can you do this in the proportion form because I asked my teacher and she said you could do it in the proportion form as in is over of is\of

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Question 898807: Frieda employer offers her family health care. Frieda must contribute 12% of the cost, and her employer will cover the rest. Frieda gets paid on a biweekly basis, and she notices that $88.50 is taken out of each paycheck for her portion of the contribution to the family health care coverage. How much does Frieda's employer contribute for her coverage?
How can you do this in the proportion form because I asked my teacher and she said you could do it in the proportion form as in is over of is\of

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Question 899007: How can Php 42,000 be invested part at 4% and rest at 7% to makr a yearly interest equal to 5% of Php 42,000
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Question 899365: Please help me. How to get all the zeros of this polynomial function f(x)=x^3+2x^2-22x
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Question 899734: Is it possible to find two legs of a triangle if you only have a hypotenuse. Both legs must be the same length
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Question 899749: What is even function and odd function?? Please tell me in details with graph..
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Question 900314: Hi i am working on this problem and need help on it.

Simplify: 7j + 6j = 54 + 72
a.j=116
b.1j=126
c.13j=126-i picked
d.13j=116

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Question 900327: Hi i am working on this problem and need help on it.

The y axis on a scatter plot represents the ______.
a.dependent variable-i picked
b.control variable
c.explanatory variable
d.independent variable

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Question 900317: A team of cancer research specialists received a grant of 300,000 to be used for cancer research. They deposited some of the money in a 10% simple internet account and the remainder in an 8.5% annual simple interest account. How much was deposited in each account if the annual interest is 28,500 ?
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Question 900434: Waterways markets a simple water control and timer that it mass-produces. During 2013, the company sold 696,000 units at an average selling price of per solution $4.20 per unit. The variable expenses were $1,900,080, and the fixed expenses were $683,256.


If sales increase by 51,000 units and the cost behaviors do not change, how much will income increase on this product?

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