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Question 1103447: The championship record in baseball in a certain year was 52 games won, and 14 lost. What percent of the games were won?
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Question 1103394: If I put a 1000 dollars in a 5 yr cd account with the interest rate of 0.82% how much money will I make in 5 yrs
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Question 1103390: The load limit for a bridge is 10 t. A truck with a mass of 4 t carries a load of steel pipes with a mass of 300 kg each. What is the greatest number of steel pipes that can be carried over safely by the truck over the bridge?
Let the greatest number of steel pipes that can be carried be x.
Solve using inequalities.
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Question 1103418: Solve the equation and show the check of your solution(s). If an answer is an excluded value, please state than on your paper. Use the method, clearing fractions from the equation first.
2m-8/m^2 + 2m^2+20m+48/4m^2 = 4/m^2
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Question 1103470: Perform indicated operation and simplify
3/n-7 - 5/n+1
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Question 1103471: Perform the indicated operation and simplify
3/3x-1 + 6/x-5
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Question 1103504: If the length of the line segment CD is 65% of the length of the line segment AB, what is the length of line segment CD? (AB is 13in)
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Question 1103475: Find the excluded values for the algebraic fraction
x+6/3x-5
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Question 1103505: Bob traveled 90 miles which was 83 1/3 % of his trip. How many miles did he still have to go?
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Question 1103472: x^2+2x-15/x+4 / 5x^2+25x/x+4
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Question 1103414: Perform the indicated operation and simplify your answer:
x^2+2x-15/x+4 / 5x^2+25x/x+4
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Question 1103562: How many gallons of water must be added with 15 gal of 45% fruit juice to create a mixture that is 30% fruit juice?

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Question 1103563: Anne is buying pens and pencils. Pens cost 1.50 and pencils cost 0.75. She plans on spending no more than 9$ and wants to buy at least 6 items. Write a system of linear inequalities/

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Question 1103696: In cm can u show me how big is 1.4x1.6x1.7 is thank you
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Question 1103778: The sum of two numbers is 34 and the difference is 8 What are the numbers?
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Question 1103808: Kindergarten children have heights that are approximately normally distributed about a mean of 39.5 inches and a standard deviation of 2.8 inches. If a random sample of 24 is taken, what is the probability that the sample of kindergarten children has a mean height of less than 37.8 inches? (Give your answer correct to four decimal places.)
statistics problem
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Question 1103809: The amount of fill (weight of contents) put into a glass jar of spaghetti sauce is normally distributed with mean μ = 848 grams and standard deviation of σ = 15 grams.
(a) Describe the distribution of x, the amount of fill per jar.
skewed right
normal
skewed left
chi-square

(b) Find the probability that one jar selected at random contains between 842 and 863 grams. (Give your answer correct to four decimal places.)

(c) Describe the distribution of x, the mean weight for a sample of 27 such jars of sauce.
skewed right
normal
skewed left
chi-square

(d) Find the mean of the x distribution. (Give your answer correct to the nearest whole number.)

(ii) Find the standard error of the x distribution. (Give your answer correct to two decimal places.)

(e) Find the probability that a random sample of 27 jars has a mean weight between 842 and 863 grams. (Give your answer correct to four decimal places.)

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Question 1103824: if the sales tax rate 7 1/4%, what is the total amount to be billed to the buyer of a motorcycle, if it is priced at $547.20?
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Question 1103628: According to the 2010 FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) Rules casebook, the
playing court is the area bounded by the court lines
Each side of the court is a rectangle
measuring 8 meters by 4 meters.
Use the distributive property to find the area of the playing court
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Question 1104021: A projectile is launched upward with an initial ve-
locity of 144 feet/second from the roof of a building.
The height of the projectile (in feet) after t seconds
is given by the function h(t) = −16t
2 + 144t + 50.
What is the maximum height the projectile reaches?

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Question 1104020: The length of a rectangular lawn is 5 feet more thanits width. If the area of the lawn is 980 square feet, find the dimensions of the lawn. Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
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Question 1104048: My problem is:
LED replacement lightbulbs in a park will save the park district $374.69 per year in electricity costs. Additionally, LED bulbs last much longer than traditional bulbs, which need to be replaced every 1.4 years at a total cost of $120. How long will it take for the cost savings to recoup an initial $6,000 investment if the LED bulbs don't have to be replaced during that time?
I simply cannot remember how to set this problem up. It feels like a limit equation but I know that isn't it.
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Question 1104142: ms walsh invested $16000 in two accounts, one yielding 5% and the other yielding 12% if she received a total of $1570 in interest at the end of the year how much did she invest in each account
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Question 1104147: 100000=Pe^0.05(15) solve for P (the initial invested amount)
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Question 1104179: Alex has 50% more money than Bob, Carl has 25% more money than Bob. All together they have a tptal of Php 3750. How much money does Alex has?
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Question 1104178: Alex has 50%more money than Bob,
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Question 1104101: An investment will provide you with $100 at the end of each year for the next 10 years,What is the present value of that annuity if the discounted rate is 8% annually? I got $671.
It further asks what is the present value if the payments are received at the beginning of the month versus the end. I believe that would be annuity due. But not sure how to calculate? Please help

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Question 1104233: Perform the indicated operations and simplify the result
(5 square root 3-2) (-3 square root 3+5)
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Question 1104249: Solve -1≤x-3<7 and what is the set notation for it?
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Question 1104231: Simplify the expression. Check your answer by raising to the 3rd power.
3 square root -343x^21y^18
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Question 1104257: The sum of two adjacent sides of rectangular grass plot is 100 yards and its area is 2400 sq.yards.Find its length and breadth?

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Question 1104232: Simplify the expression. Check your answer by raising it back to the 4th power.
4 square root 256x^8y^32z^24
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Question 1104230: Simplify the expression. Check your answer by raising it back to the 2nd power.
Square root 169x^14y^18
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Question 1104261: Two persons A and B have 30 sheeps between them.They sell them at different price but each receives the same amount.If A had sold his at B's price,he could have received RS 3200 and If B had Sold his at A's price ,he would have received Rs 2450.How many Sheeps belonged to each?
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Question 1104266: Rationalize the denominator and simplify if possible
63/ Square root 7
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Question 1104268: Rationalize the denominator and simplify if possible.
5/=3+4square root 3
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Question 1104284: please help me solve this mathematic finance question
Water is leaking from a tank at the rate of 10% a day.if there are 6000 litres today, find
(a)how many litres will leak during the 5th day
(b) how many litres will leak during the 5 days?

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Question 1104318: What weight of sugar syrup would you get if you made:
1) 10% sugar syrup from 80g of sugar
2) 70% sugar syrup from 350g of sugar
3) 5% sugar syrup from 6g of sugar
4) 30% sugar syrup from 75g of sugar
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Question 1104316: Compare:
1) $a decreased by 25% and $1.2a decreased by 40%
2) $b increased by 250% and $2b increased by 50%
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Question 1104316: Compare:
1) $a decreased by 25% and $1.2a decreased by 40%
2) $b increased by 250% and $2b increased by 50%
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Question 1104437: 7∣x−9∣−5=−3∣x−9∣+25
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