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Question 1109918: What is the value of t when d = 50? 75? 100? 150?
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Question 1109914: 1. The Cellphone Company buys iPhones at PhP24,000. Expenses are set at 17% of the selling price and the required profit is set at 20% of the selling price. During a weekend sale, the iPhone is sold at 10% discount.
A. What is the regular selling price of the iPhone?
B. What is the sale price of the iPhone?
C. How much did The Cellphone Company gain or lose when the iPhone was sold during the weekend sale?
2. Appliance Store realizes a mark-up of PhP3,450 in selling TV sets. If its items are sold at a mark-up of 40% of the selling price,
A. What is the regular selling price of the TV set?
B. What was the cost of the TV set?
C. What is the rate of mark-up based on cost for the TV set?
D. If overhead expenses are at 27% of the cost, what is the break-even price of the TV set?
E. If the TV set is sold at PhP7,500, how much profit or loss is incurred by Appliance Store?
This is the last question for my homework..Thank You in Advanced.. ;)
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Question 1109994: I have 400.00 to split between 5 departments.
Split based on beds
1 dept has 6 bed
2 dept has 10 beds
3 dept has 24 bed
4 dept has 18 beds
5 dept has 23 beds
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Question 1110013: The Cellphone Company buys iPhones at PhP24,000. Expenses are set at 17% of the selling price and the required profit is set at 20% of the selling price. During a weekend sale, the iPhone is sold at 10% discount.
A. What is the regular selling price of the iPhone?
B. What is the sale price of the iPhone?
C. How much did The Cellphone Company gain or lose when the iPhone was sold during the weekend sale?
Thank You in Advanced.. ;)

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Question 1110024: use mathematical induction to prove that the following statement is true for every positive integer n
1+8+27+...+n^3=n^2(n+1)^2/4
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Question 1110023: 1+1/5+1/25+1/125+..find the sum of the infinite geometric series
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Question 1110012: Appliance Store realizes a mark-up of PhP3,450 in selling TV sets. If its items are sold at a mark-up of 40% of the selling price,
A. What is the regular selling price of the TV set?
B. What was the cost of the TV set?
C. What is the rate of mark-up based on cost for the TV set?
D. If overhead expenses are at 27% of the cost, what is the break-even price of the TV set?
E. If the TV set is sold at PhP7,500, how much profit or loss is incurred by Appliance Store?
Thank You in Advanced.. ;)

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Question 1110066: This quarter, there is a 50% chance that Jason will pass accounting, a 60% chance the he will pass english, and 80% chance that he will pass at least one of these two courses. What is the probability that he will pass both accounting and english?
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Question 1110065: A single card is randomly drawn from one standard 52-card deck of playing cards, and events C & D are as follows: c={the card drawn is a king} D= {card drawn is a heart} find "probability of events C or events D occurring" P(CuD)
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Question 1110063: A jar contains four marbles labeled "1", "2", "3", and "4". Two marbles are drawn without replacement. Determine the probability that
a. The sum of the numbers on the drawn marbles = 5
b. The sum of the numbers on the drawn marbles is an odd numbers
c. The sum of the number on the drawn marble = 9
d. one of the marbles drawn is the "3" marble

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Question 1110090: A bank is offering a CD that pays an annual simple interest rate of 4.5%. How much money would you need to invest in this CD now in order to have $2500 two years from now for a down payment on a used car?
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Question 1110062: A family includes 3 kids. Determine the probability that:
a. 3 are = 2 boys and one girl
b. there are at least one boy
c. there are children of both sex
d. there is at most one girl
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Question 1110089: You borrow $1000 from a friend with a promise to pay back $1300 in two years. What annual simple interest rate will you be paying?
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Question 1110151: The product of two consecutive even numbers is 528.
1. Write an equation in words to represent this information.
2. Represent this information algebraically and solve the equation.
3. Find all possible solutions for the two consecutive numbers
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Question 1110187: Time taken by a boat in covering a distance upstream is 1.5times to that of covering the same distance downstream.What will be the ratio between speed of the boat in still water and that of stream
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Question 1110188: A boat goes 30km upstream and 44kms downstream in 10hrs.In 13hrs it can go 40kms upstream and 55kms downstream.The speed of the boat in still water is?
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Question 1110170: Use the addition rule to determine the following probability:
a. if P(E)=0.5 & P(F)=0.4 and E & F are mutually exclusive, find P(EnF)
P(EnF) = P(E)+P(F) - P(EnF)
b.If P(E)=0.4 & P(F)=0.2 & E and F are mutually exclusive, find P(EnF)
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Question 1110061: A card is randomly selected from a standard 52 card deck of playing cards. Determine the probability that the randomly selected card:
a. is a red?
b. is a 'face card" (king, queen or jack)?
c. is a "jack of clubs"?
d. is a heart and a diamond?

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Question 1110234: Find the angle (θ) between the vectors.
Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
u = 2i - 3j
v = i - 2j
θ = ________ degrees
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Question 1110239: This triangle given below will be used to answer questions 4 - 6.
Use the Law of Sines to solve the triangle given the following information.
Round your answers to the nearest tenth for degrees and to the nearest hundredth for sides.
A = 60 degrees
a = 9
c = 10
C = __?___ Degrees

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Question 1110237: x represents an even number. x+2 represents the next even number.
If one third of the smaller even number is subtracted from half of the larger even number, the result is 8. Find the value of x
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Question 1110244: A triangle has a base length of 2x cm and a perpendicular height of (x+3) cm.
The area if the triangle is 10cmsquared. Find the distance x

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Question 1110247: Use the Law of Sines to solve the triangle given the following information.
Round your answers to the nearest tenth for degrees and to the nearest hundredth for sides.
A = 60 degrees
a = 9
c = 10
B=____?____ Degrees
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Question 1110282: Hello, I would like some help solving this word problem!
The level of air pollution varies throughout the day during summer. The function P(t)= 0.1t^2-0.4t+0.6 measures the air pollution, "P" measured in parts per million, with respect to time, "t" in hours, where 9AM=0
A) Find the average rate of change of air pollution between noon and 5PM.
B) Find the rate of change at 5PM and interpret the meaning of your result.
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Question 1110339: A company has a policy of retiring company cars; this policy looks at number of miles driven, purpose of trips, style of car and other features. The distribution of the number of months in service for the fleet of cars is bell-shaped and has a mean of 35 months and a standard deviation of 5 months. Using the empirical rule (as presented in the book), what is the approximate percentage of cars that remain in service between 20 and 30 months?
Do not enter the percent symbol.
ans as a % =

AND

The physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace florecent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 55 and a standard deviation of 7. Using the empirical rule (as presented in the book), what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 48 and 55?
Do not enter the percent symbol.
ans =

LASTLY

The combined SAT scores for the students at a local high school are normally distributed with a mean of 1481 and a standard deviation of 293. The local college includes a minimum score of 1217 in its admission requirements.
What percentage of students from this school earn scores that fail to satisfy the admission requirement?
P(X < 1217) =
Enter your answer as a percent accurate to 1 decimal place (do not enter the "%" sign). Answers obtained using exact z-scores or z-scores rounded to 3 decimal places are accepted.
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Question 1110360: Use the vectors u = <-3, 4> and v = <2, 1>.
3u � v = ?
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Question 1110363: The dot product yields a vector, rather than a scalar.
True or False ?
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Question 1110364: Two angles can have the same component form but different slopes.
True or False?
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Question 1110361: What is the present value of an annuity that pays $200.00 per month for 5 years if money is worth 6% compounded monthly?
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Question 1110370: u = <2, 3> and v = <4, 0>
u + v=?

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Question 1110438: What is the equation of a line that passes through the points (8,-7) and (-4,-2)
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Question 1110445: Determine whether the given pair of lines are parrallel,perpendicular, or niether: y=2x+6 and 2x-y=5. You must show your work.
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Question 1110472: u = <0, 0> and v = <2, -5>
u - v =?
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Question 1110475: u = <1, -8> and v = <3, -2>
2v + 5u=?
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Question 1110468: If v = <-2, 5> and w = <3, 4>, then v + 2w = ?
Write your answer as a vector in the form .
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Question 1110404: Tedco produces a teddy bear that sells for $24. Each teddy bear costs the company $8 to manufacture and there is an initial start-up cost of $7200.
If they want to make an annual pro t of $54 000, how many teddy bears do they need to sell?
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Question 1110469: A newspaper is known to have a mean number of 4 typing errors per page. Find the probability that;
i. at most four typographical errors will be found on a page
ii. more than two typographical errors will be found on a page

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Question 1110536: The length of a side of a square is (2x + 9) km. Find the area of the square in terms of the variable x.
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Question 1110542: The length of a side of a square is (2x + 9) km. Find the area of the square in terms of the variable x.
can you please actually give me the answer to my question
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