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Question 1102511: Patrick invested %5200 for 21 years. At the investment's maturity, it's value was $13280.80 What was the annual simple interest rate?
A) 155.4% B) 7.4% C) 8.2% D) 2.6%
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Question 1102819: When Jorge took his place in the marching band, he noticed that he was 10th from the front, 7th from the back, 3rd from the left, and 8th from the right in a rectangular formation. How many people are in the marching band?
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Question 1102820: How many fractions with a denominator of 23 have values between 0.18 and 0.82. Include equivalencies.
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Question 1102850: Find a fraction in which the difference of the numerator and the denominator is 2 and sum is 8.
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Question 1102849: A whole is divided into 15 equal parts.What part of the whole are 4 of the equal parts?
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Question 1102863: A school has 435 grade 3 students.Thirty students are member of the glee club.One third of the remaining students are members of the sports club.What fractions of the total grade 3 population does not belong to any club?
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Question 1102862: Find all possible fractions in which the sum of the numerator and the denominator is 9 and the denominator is greater than the numerator. What do you notice in the fractions?
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Question 1102890: Evaluate limit as x goes to 2 from the left of the quotient of x and the quantity the square root of the quantity x squared minus 4.
A) 1
B) 0
C) 3
D) does not exist
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Question 1102990: suppose you decide to borrow $17,000
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Question 1102893: Evaluate limit as x approaches 1 at f of x for f of x equals the quantity 5 times x minus 11 for x less than 1, equals 1 for x equals 1 and equals negative 3 times x plus 6 for x greater than 1.
A. 3
B. �6
C. 1
D. does not exist
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Question 1103017: A later that is 13 ft tall is leaning agaisnt a building the bottom is 5 ft aways from the building. how far does the later go up the building.

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Question 1103064: Lupe made a down payment of $1800 toward the purchase of a new car. To pay the balance of the purchase price, she has secured a loan from her bank at the rate of 11%/year compounded monthly. Under the terms of her finance agreement she is required to make payments of $210/month for 48 months. What is the cash price of the car? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 1103113: Find the x-intercept and the y-intercept for the parabola whose equation is given.In an intercept is an irrational number, round it to the nearest tenth.
1.y=-2^2+19x-90
2.y=-x^2+24x+64
3.y=x^2+4x-7
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Question 1103134: Find the perimeter of a right triangle whose hypotenuse is 2 and whose area is 2. Express your answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 1103134: Find the perimeter of a right triangle whose hypotenuse is 2 and whose area is 2. Express your answer in simplest radical form.
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Question 1103133: The perimeter of triangle ABC is 24. M is the midpoint of AB such that MC=MA=5. How many square inches are in the area of the triangle?
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Question 1103146: Mary Anne is not the second.Faye comes after Alia.Alia is ahead of Mary Anne.Who is the 3rd?
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Question 1103151: What is the least number of toothpicks that you can move to change 629 to 538?
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Question 1103150: I am a mixed number.The sum of all my digits is 8.In my fractional part the numerator and the denominator have only 1 as a common factor.What numbers can I be?
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Question 1103137: Using the digits 1,9,and 3,form the smallest and the biggest numbers . Express your answers in Roman Numerals.

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Question 1103094: The sound level L, or "loudness" of sound, is measured in decibels (dB) as L = 10log (I/Io), where I is the intensity of the given sound. Use this formula to answer the following. (Round answers to the nearest whole number)
City Traffic: 97dB
Vacuum Cleaner: 79dB
c. How many times more intense is the noise from city traffic than a vacuum cleaner?
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Question 1103130: The lengths of two sides of an isosceles triangle are 10 cm and 12 cm. Find the number of square centimeters in the positive difference between the greatest and least possible areas for this triangle.
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Question 1103129: If point Q lies on side AB of square ABCD such that QC=(sqrt of 10) units and QD=(sqrt of 13) units, what is the area of square ABCD?
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Question 1103131: The perimeter of a right triangle is 60 inches and the length of the altitude to the hypotenuse is 12 inches. How many square inches are in the area of the triangle?
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Question 1103195: Scientists have discovered a new substance with a hydrogen ion concentration of 0.014000600 M. Determine the corresponding pH level for this new substance. Round your final answer 3 decimal places.

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Question 1103194: You want to purchase a new car in 3 years and expect the cost to be $15000. Your bank offers a savings plan with an annual interest rate of 5.5% if you make regular monthly deposits. How much should your monthly deposits be in order to end up with $15000 in 3 years? Round your answer to the nearest cent.

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Question 1103228: Find the excluded values for the algebraic fraction:
x+6/3x-5
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Question 1103227: Find the excluded values for the algebraic fraction:
3x-7/x^2+3x-18
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Question 1103229: Perform the indicated operation and simplify your answer:
9n^3/8n^2 * 5n-25/3
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Question 1103231: Perform the indicated operations and simplify your answer:
x^2+2x-15/x+4 / 5x^2+25x/x+4
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Question 1103268: Suppose you start with a full tank of gas (20 gallons) in your truck. After driving 3 hours, you now have 4 gallons left.
If x is the number of hours you have been driving, then y is the number of gallons left in the tank.
At what rate is your truck using gas? State your answer as a reduced fraction.

Find an equation of a line in the form y = mx + b that describes the amount of gas in your tank
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Question 1102927: If f is a continuous function with even symmetry and limit as x approaches infinity of f of x equals 10, which of the following statements must be true?
I. the limit as x goes to negative infinity of f of x equals 10
II. There are no vertical asymptotes.
III. The lines y = 10 and y = �10 are horizontal asymptotes.
A) I only
B) II only
C) I and II only
D) All statements are true.
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Question 1103269: At 12:15 The elves 210 action figures ready for Santa. Then at 12:23 the elves had 298 action figures done.
What is their rate?
11 action figures per minute
How many action figures did they have made at 12:00?
Write an equation to model this situation (use
m for minutes and n for number of action figures).
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Question 1103292: In the video, I show measurements of light intensity (measured in lux) from a flashlight at several distances. With the light off, the ambient room light was 239 lux. At 10 cm, the light sensor read 2513 lux. Unfortunately, the flashlight flickered at 20 cm and the reading wasn't accurate.
L=k/x^2+L ambient
a. Using the data, complete the equation for light in terms of distance, x.
b. If we wanted a light intensity of 1400 lux,at what distances should we place the light .
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Question 1103038: Justin is considering two job offers. In both cases, he will earn $47,500 for his first year of work. Kaley�s is willing to offer annual pay raises of 4% each year. Hareway is willing to offer a raise of $1500 each year. Which job will pay better for the 4th year? How much more?

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Question 1103389: The sum of two consecutive integers is less than 15. Find the range of the possible values of the smaller integer. Let the smaller integer be x, the larger integer be ___.
(solve using inequalities)
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Question 1103391: Two trucks travelling in opposite directions on a highway just pass each other. One truck travels at 65km/h and the other travels at 60km/h. Find the maximum time required so that they will be at least 50km apart. Let x be the minimum time required for at least 50 km apart. Solve using inequalities.
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Question 1103417: Perform the indicated operation and simplify your answer:
3/n-7 - 5/n+1
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Question 1103416: Perform the indicated operation and simplify your answer:
3/3x-1 + 6/x-5
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Question 1103419: Solve the equation and show the check of your solution(s). If an answer is an excluded value, please state that on your paper. Use the clearing fractions from the equation first.
x/x-4 - 4/3x^2-17x+20 = 2x/3x-5
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Question 1103449: Farmer Bill sold potatoes at the farm market. He sold a quarter to the first person, 4/9 of what was left to the second person, and the third buyer bought 4/5 of what was left and the last 10 lb. How many pounds of potatoes farmer Bill sold?
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