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Question 1022363: joseph gets married next month.one year ago from date he will lget married, joseph was in Hampton for 4th of july. what moth is
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Question 1023732: How to factorize X^4 + 1/X^4 � 3 by completing the square. I am getting (X^2+ 1/X^2)^2 - 5. However book's answer is (x^2+1/x^2)^2 +1)(x^2+1/x^2)^2 -1)
Thank you
waqar
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Question 1023751: simplify the expression shown 5x/2*1/x
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Question 1023844: 4 years ago, the age difference of a father and son is 7 times. 16 years hence, it would be 2 times . Find their current ages. Please help
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Question 1023841: 4 years ago, the age difference of a father and son is 8 times. 16 years hence, it would be 2 times. Find their current ages. Please help.
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Question 1023924: simplify the expression shown ( 3√5 + 4√5 ) im super confused my text book doesn't really help with this.
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Question 1023924: simplify the expression shown ( 3√5 + 4√5 ) im super confused my text book doesn't really help with this.
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Question 1023962: Hello! I actually had a question about Pythagorean Triangles. If you knew what Leg A and B were, how would you be able to know what the pythagorean was?
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Question 1024060: The sum of squares of two natural number is 13.
The sum of 2 times of the smaller and 5 times of the larger is 19.
Find the numbers. Please help
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Question 1024111: John buys and sells phones. He bought phones at $950 each, and sold them (except for 5 that were fake and could not switch on) at $ 1120 each to make $850 profit.
Write the equation to solve this problem, and how many phones did John buy?
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Question 1024155: Predict the population of bacteria for each situation and time period. This is exponential growth. Can you help me solve for A and B?
1) 55 bacteria that double every hour after:
A) after 3 hours B) after 5 hours.

2) 33 bacteria that double every 30 minutes
A) after 1 hour B) after 6 hours.
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Question 1024196: The average of three unequal positive whole numbers is 10. what's the largest possible value that any of those numbers can have?
a. 30
b. 29
c. 28
d. 27
e. none of above
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Question 1024198: the average of five positive integers is 10, the medium is 11, and the mode 12. what is the smallest possible value that any of these integers can have?
a. 3
b. 5
c. 6
d. 9
e. none of these
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Question 1024191: the difference between the upper quartile and lower quartile.
a, variation
b. range
c. interquartile range
d. quartile
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Question 1024194: Yolanda bough a jacket on sale for 25 percent off the regular price. what expression can be used to find the amount she paid for the jacket with a regular price of p dollars?
a. 0.25p
b. 0.75p
c. 1.25p
d. 2.25p
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Question 1024197: wendy has 14 identical pens of 3 different colors in a bag; 7 red, 4 green, and 3 blue. Without looking, she draws out one pen at a time and puts it another bag. what is the minimum number of pens she has to pull out in order to be sure that she got one pen of each color?
a. 3
b. 8
c. 11
d. 12
e. 13
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Question 1022735: I have solved this problem but not sure if my answer is right or wrong want to know from you guys so please help me i have to submit my assignment and tomorrow is the last date PLEASE PLEASE NEED HELP 😢
The 8th term of an arithmetic sequence is 25 and the 20th term is -11.Find the first term of the sequence and the commom difference and use these to write the general term .
According to my answer the general term is tn=49.5+(n-1)(-3.5)
Thanks in advance ☺

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Question 1022703:
Caili keeps mollies,guppies and angelfish in her aquarium.1/4 of the fish are mollies, 2/3 of the remainder are guppies and the rest are angelfish .if she has 12 angelfish, how many fish does she have altogether?
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Question 1024354: 1)What does the Mean Value Theorem actually state about the function
f(x) =3sin(πx) on the interval [1/2, 3/2]? Find any values that are stated to exist by the theorem.
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Question 1024420: The average of three unequal positive whole numbers is 10. what's the largest possible value that any of those numbers can have?
a. 30
b. 29
c. 28
d. 27
e. none of above

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Question 1024469: A rectangular prism is 4.8 centimeters long, 16 centimeters wide, and 14 centimeters high. What is the surface area of the rectangular prism?
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Question 1024471: Chris rolls two number cubes, one after another. What is the experimental probability that both number cubes will show a 1?
Would the experimental probability be 1/36, because 1/6 * 1/6 = 1/36 if there are two number cubes.. there is only 1 on a number cube so it would be 1/6. 6 numbers on a number cube. Is it correct?
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Question 1024496: Factorise (x-1)(x-2)(x+3)(x+4)+4
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Question 1024496: Factorise (x-1)(x-2)(x+3)(x+4)+4
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Question 1024423: The average of five unequal positive integers is 11. what is the largest possible value that any of those numbers could have?
a. 50
b. 45
c. 20
d. 13
e. none of these
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Question 1024470: Sandra ordered a set of yellow and green pins for her graduation. She received 754 yellow pins and 546 green pins. What percentage of the pins were yellow?
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Question 1024419: wendy has 14 identical pens of 3 different colors in a bag; 7 red, 4 green, and 3 blue. Without looking, she draws out one pen at a time and puts it another bag. what is the minimum number of pens she has to pull out in order to be sure that she got one pen of each color?
a. 3
b. 8
c. 11
d. 12
e. 13
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Question 1024528: The traffic lights at three different road crossing change after every 48 seconds, 72 seconds and 108 seconds respectively. If they change simultaneously at 7 a.m., after what time will they change again simultaneously?
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Question 1024530: In a buffalo herd with 80 legs, half the buffaloes have one horn and half have two. How many horns are here in the herd?
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Question 1024545: Hi I have to find the values of P_1 and P_2 (where the underscore represents a subscript)
2P_1 -5P_2 = -6
and
-P_1 + 3P_2 = 4

I have tried the following but apparently it is incorrect:
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for the first one I got the answers P_1 =(5P_2�2)-3 and P_2 = (2P_1�5)+(6�5)
for the second I got P_1 = 3P_2-4 and P_2 = (P_1�3)+(4�3)
I don't know what I'm doing wrong
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Question 1024531: a field is 90 m by 70 m.A man walks round in at the rate of 4 km. per hour. What time will he take in making 5 rounds?
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Question 1024608: Look at the team data in the table below:
Team A: 72, 73, 69, 70, 71, 74
Team B: 75, 70, 69, 67, 70, 68
Which team has a greater measure of center? which team has a greater measure of variability?
Center: ____________________
variability: __________________
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Question 1024624: sunita can type 2700 words in one hour. How many words can she type in 3 minutes ?
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Question 1024529: A bus leaves from Ludhiyana every 4 hours. Announcement was made 20 minutes after the bus left for Ludhiyana. Next bus will leave at 4:30 pm. What time is this announcement made?
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Question 1024999: evaluate the expression if x+ -4 and y+ -1
-x^2+3xy^2
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Question 1025014: John and O'Neal are playing a board game in which they roll two number cubes. John needs to get a sum of 8 on the number cubes to win. O'Neal needs a sum of 11, if they take turns rolling the number cube, who is more likely to win? Explain.

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Question 1025011: Horace is going to roll a standard number cube and flip a coin. He wonders if it is more likely that he rolls a 5 and the coin lands on heads, or that he rolls a 5 or the coin lands on heads. Which event do you think is more likely to happen? Find the probability of both events to justify or reject your initial prediction.
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Question 1025058: Felipe jogs for 10 miles and then walks another 10 miles.
He jogs2/1/2 miles per hour faster than he walks, and the
entire distance of 20 miles takes 6 hours. Find the rate at
which he walks and the rate at which he jogs.

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Question 1025013: Pierre asks Sherry a question involving the theoretical probability of a compound event in which you flip a coin and draw a marble from a bag of marbles. The bag of marbles coins 3 white marbles, 8 green marbles, and 9 black marbles. Sherry's answer, which is correct, is 12/40. What was Pierre's question?
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Question 1025094: A triangular parcel of land with points M,K,L was to be fenced.No data for the lengths of sides MK and KL are available as shown in the figure below. (the link-the picture.) ---> https://www.pinterest.com/pin/467741111280793052/

(if you cannot click the illustration/picture,pleae copy+paste it.thanks~)
please I really need help. :)
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Question 1025000: How much money would I need to invest for 8 years at 5 1/2% simple interest to earn k400.00?

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Question 1025123: 2x-3y equals -24
x+6y equals 18
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Question 1025249: Given that the antiderivative of f of x equals 1 divided by x is F(x) = Ln|x| + C, evaluate the integral from 1 to 2 of the 1 divided by x, dx.
ln^3
one half
negative one half
ln^2
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Question 1025250: Determine the interval on which f(x) = the square root of the quantity of x minus 3 is integrable.
[−∞, 3)
[0, ∞)
[3, ∞)
All reals
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