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Question 1111510: Juliana expects to work overtime this week. She will work for 40 hours at her regular pay rate. Then she will work another 15 hours at $5 per hour more than her regular pay rate.Draw a function machine network whose input is Juliana�s regularly pay rate. The output is how much money she will make for the week(including overtime pay).
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Question 1111786: Approximate the change in the magnitude of the electrostatic force between two charges when the distance between them increases from r=20 m to r=21 m
F(r)= 0.02/r^2
(Use scientific notation. Round to two decimal places as needed)
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Question 1111507: Joe Bob from Problem 12 has a cousin Sam who consumes goods 1 and 2. Sam thinks that 2 units of good 1
is always a perfect substitute for 4 units of good 2. Which of the following utility functions is the only one
that would not represent Sam�s preferences?

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Question 1111859: the perimeter of a triangle is 142cm. the medium side is 8cm longer than the shortest side and the longest side is 2cm longer than twice the shortest side. find the length of each side. must show work.
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Question 1112000: Pls help. In what point of the graph of f(x) = 2x^3 -6x has/have its horizontal tangent line? Thankyou.
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Question 1111999: Derivatives and Continuity. Find the equation of a normal line of the function f(x) = 4x^3 -7x^2 at the point corresponding to x=3.
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Question 1111949: On the 70th birthday, Grandma decides to give you some of her fortune with you while she is still alive. She gives you 3 option:
1. She gives you $500 per years for the rest of her life.
2. She gives you $100 the 1st year, $200 the 2nd, $300 the 3rd, and so on.
3. She gives you $1 the 1st year, $2 the 2nd, $4 the 3rd, $8 the 4th, and so on.

Can you please help me to model each given situation with an equation???
Thank you so much!!
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Question 1112021: How to draw a net for a prism having base,length and height 3cm and also top measuring 6cm all sides. Calculate the total surface area of the figure
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Question 1112209: Find the principal which amounts, at simple interest, to $729 in 4 years at 2% per annum
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Question 1112209: Find the principal which amounts, at simple interest, to $729 in 4 years at 2% per annum
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Question 1112210: A man lends a sum of money to his local council and receives $63 interest on the loan
Each year. When the rate of interest rises by 0.5%, the annual interest raised to $67.50.
Calvulate the sum of money lent to the council and the new percentage of interest.

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Question 1112330: Please help...physics
Estimate the cost of cooking a turkey for 4hours in an oven that operates continuously at 20A and 240V.
If the energy is purchased at an estimated price of 8.00$ per kilowatt hour, the cost is?

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Question 1112350: 1.you deposit $4000 at 7% interest, compounded monthly how many years will it take untill investments exceeds $9000
2.you invest your money at 12 % compound interest paid quarterly, when will it double in value
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Question 1112385: A spinner is divided into five congruent sections, numbered 1 through 5. If the arrow on the spinner is spun, what is the probability that the arrow on the spinner will NOT land on a section labeled with an odd number on the first try?

A.3/5
B.2/3
C.1/2
D.2/5
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Question 1112380: The managers of an airline analyzed a random sample of flights and found that 95% of the flights arrived on time. The airline has 480 flights scheduled for next week. What is the BEST estimate of the number of these flights that will NOT arrive on time?
A.5
B.240
C.24
D.456
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Question 1112346: In a certain type of automobile engine, the cylinder head is fastened to the block by 10 bolts, each of which should be torqued to 60N� m. Assume that the torques of the bolts are independent.
If each bolt is torqued correctly with probability 0.96, what is the probability that all the bolts on a cylinder head are torqued correctly?
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Question 1112344: Each day, a weather forecaster predicts whether or not it will rain. For 80% of rainy days, she correctly predicts that it will rain. For 91% of non-rainy days, she correctly predicts that it will not rain. Suppose that 9% of days are rainy and 91% are non-rainy.
What proportion of the forecasts are correct?
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Question 1112224: 1.The five-number summary for scores on a statistics exam is 35, 68, 77, 83, 97. In all,
196 students took the test. About how many had scores between 77 and 83?
A. It cannot be determined from the information given
B. 39
C. 98
D. 49
E. 6

2.One advantage of using a stem-and-leaf plot rather than a histogram is that the stem-and-leaf plot
A. shows the shape of the distribution more easily than the histogram
B. shows the mean on the graph
C. changes easily from frequency to relative frequency
D. shows all of the data on the graph
E. presents the percentage distribution of the data

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Question 1112436: Silas is about to begin regular month-end contributions of $500 to a bond fund. The fund's long-term rate of return is expected to be 6% compounded semiannually. Rounded to the next higher month, how long will it take Silas to accumulate $300,000?
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Question 1112384: You are the marketing director for a company that manufactures bodybuilding supplements and you are planning to run ads in Sports Illustrated and GQ Magazine. Based on readership data, you estimate that each one-page ad in Sports Illustrated will be read by 640,000 people in your target group, while each one-page ad in GQ will be read by 160,000. You would like your ads to be read by at least 3 million people in the target group and, to ensure the broadest possible audience, you would like to place at least three full-page ads in each magazine. Draw the feasible region that shows how many pages you can purchase in each magazine. (Let x be the number of full-page ads in Sports Illustrated and let y be the number of full-page ads in GQ Magazine.) Find the corner points of the region.
(x, y) = (smaller x-value)
(x, y) = (larger x-value)

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Question 1112505: the increasing block tariffs per month for residential electricity for the 2016/2017 finecial year are given below.what will the electricity bill be for a month in which a household uses 600kwh of electricty

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Question 1112503: a cast iron rod is 30 metres long.it has to be cut in two pieces such that the one piece is 8 meters longer than the other.suppose the longer piece is p meters.how long in terms of p should the shprter piece be?

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Question 1112511: How much longer will it take monthly payments of $1,000 to pay off a $100,000 loan if the monthly compounded rate of interest on the loan is 10.5% instead of 9.75%
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Question 1112548: Anastasia stacked her set of 4 nesting dolls from tallest to shortest. Each doll was 3/4 of the height of the doll before it. If the smallest doll was 67.5mm how tall was the largest doll?
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Question 1112576: The area of a parallelogram with a side of 5.6 in is equal to the area of a rectangle with sides 7 in and 8 in. Find the altitude to the given side in the parallelogram.
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Question 1112632: brian is bringing his boat into a dock that is 9ft above the water level. if a 41-ft rope is attached to a dock on one side and to the boat on the other side determine the horizontal distance from the dock to the boat.

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Question 1112678: At a ski resort there are three different chair lifts that will take you to the top of the mountain. There are six ski trails to the bottom of the mountain. How many different paths are there to go up and down the mountain?
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Question 1112689: A company sells pencils that are painted blue or green. A package of three pencils from this company has a random mix of these pencils. A person used a simulation to determine the probability that exactly 2 of the 3 pencils in a package are painted green. A coin was used for the simulation, where the side labeled with a �B� represented blue, and the side labeled with a �G� represented green. The results of 30 trials of the simulation are shown below.
GBG BBG BGG BBB GBB GGG
BBB BGB BBG BGG BGG BBG
GBB GGG BBG BBB BGB GGB
BBG GGB BBG GGG GGG GBB
GGB BBB GGB BBG GGG BGG
Based on the simulation, what is the probability that exactly 2 of the 3 pencils in a package are painted green?
A.9/30
B.14/30
C.12/30
D.16/30
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Question 1112700: Rachel wants to save money for college. She knows that she can save money over time and earn interest on that money. What else should Rachel do to make sure her money grows?

A.
keep her money in a bank and not take it out

B.
spend some of this money over time

C.
borrow money from her parents at a high interest rate

D.
take out a personal loan to use for daily expenses
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Question 1112811: An ice cream shop makes 14 different flavors of ice cream. You can get each flavor in a waffle cone, sugar cone, cake cone, or a cup. If you are daring you can add one of these toppings rainbow sprinkles, cookie crumbs, or peanuts as a topping.
How many different outcomes are possible?
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Question 1112806: Latoya is using two number cubes during a probability experiment. The faces of each cube are numbered 1 through 6. What is the probability that Latoya will get an outcome of a number less than 3 on the top of each cube on one roll of the pair of cubes?
A.1/9
B.1/3
C.2/3
D.1/4

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Question 1112808: A stack of playing cards contains 4 jacks, 5 queens, 3 kings, and 3 aces. Two cards will be randomly selected from the stack. What is the probability that a queen is chosen and replaced, and then a queen is chosen again?

A.1/9
B.4/9
C.16/225
D.2/21
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Question 1112836: Use the given matrix and perform the matrix operation (1/3) Row 1

[3 2 | 8
[5 2 | 12
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Question 1112804: A marble is drawn at random from a bag containing 2 blue marbles, 3 yellow marbles, and 7 orange marbles. What is the probability that the marble drawn is NOT yellow?

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Question 1112807: A box contains a total of 12 crayons: 2 red, 3 green, 3 blue, 1 yellow, 2 purple, and 1 brown. Without looking, Frieda picks two crayons from the box. What is the probability that BOTH will be blue?
A.5/23
B.1/22
C.1/4
D.19/44
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Question 1112713: A test is available to diagnose a disease. If a person has the disease, the probability that the test will produce a positive signal is 0.98. If a person does not have the disease, the probability that the test will produce a positive signal is 0.02. Assume that the proportion of people in the community who have the disease is 0.05
Given that the test is negative, what is the probability that the person does not have the disease?
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Question 1112942: Ivan invests $70000 in a term deposit and interest is compounded monthly at a rate of 7% per annum for two years. How much interest does he earn ?
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Question 1112966: Austin invested $12,000 in an account at 4% compounded quarterly. Find the amount in Austin's account after a period of 2 years.
how can i find the amount?
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Question 1112990: the fare for a taxi is $3.20 plus $0.45 every 1/2 km. four people share the cost equally of a 40 km trip. what is each persons fair share of the fare?
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Question 1113017: If there are 20 girls and 10 boys in the class and you want to speak to one student of
theclass. How many choices do you have?
Select one:
a. 200
b. 20
c. 10
d. 30
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