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Question 235733: I'm going to type the word problem. Help me with this.
Mary's class took two tests last week. 80% of the class passed the math test, 90% of the class passed the English test, and 72% of the class passed both. What is the probability that a randomly selected student in Mary's class failed both tests? Express your answer as a percent rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent.
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Question 236076: Hi there, I am trying to solve this problem for a friend. I have been out of school for two long. I know the answer they are looking for is 3 and 3/4 ths. But I don't know how to solve th problem.
if a boy jogs to school at 3 miles per hour and back at the speed of 5 miles per hour and he was gone for 1 hour how many miles did he job round trip
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Question 237192: One number is one-third of another number. The sum of the two numbers is 1 less than twice the larger number. Find the numbers.
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Question 238121: what is the transalation of the following: the sum of four times a number and the difference between the number and six?
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Question 238204: Mr. Jacobs is four times as old as his son. Five years ago, he was nine times as old as his son. What is Mr. Jacob's age?
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Question 238204: Mr. Jacobs is four times as old as his son. Five years ago, he was nine times as old as his son. What is Mr. Jacob's age?
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Question 238858: The combined age of the Weismillers' two automobiles is 12 years.
Three years ago, Mrs. Weismiller's automobile was double the age of Mr. Weismiller's automobile.How old are Mr. and Mrs. Weismiller's automobiles now?
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Question 240097: How do you set up this word problem (& others like it)?
A mother is eighteen years older than her son. She was three times as old as he was one year ago. How old are they now?
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Question 240256: 1)The difference of three times x and y is 11. Please translate into an equation.
2)y less than 3 times x is 9. Again, please translate into an equation.
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Question 240422: At General Electric, shift 1 produced 4 times as much as shift 2. General Electric�s total production for the month of July was 5,500 jet engines. What was the output for each shift?
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Question 240719: two numbers have a sum of 28. one number is 4 more than the other. find the numbers.
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Question 240606: I'm not good with word problems. Would someone mind helping me please?
1. You are planning to put a tile border along a 126-inch wide wall in your kitchen. You want ot use only whole tiles. List all the possible whole number tile widths you could use. If the tiles are only sold in whole numbers widths of 6 inches or less, what size tiles could you use?
2. You are putting up a 90-foot long fence in your bckyard. According to the manufacturer's instructions, the fence posts should be equally spaced along the length of the yard. List all the possible spacing options if the amount of space between the posts is a whole number of feet. If the posts should be spaced between 8 feet and 14 feet apart, how far apart should your post be?
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Question 241182: If the sum of 3 consecutive odd integersis 237,then what are the integers?
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Question 241463: what is two more than a number is the same as 16 dereased by 6 times the number
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Question 241393: if tom, james, and tony buy an 18in. sandwich. tom gives james one half of what tom gets and tony gets three fourths of what tom gets. what is the length of each persons sandwich.
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Question 242247: a strip of uniform width is to be cut off of both sides and both ends of a sheet of paper that is 11 inches by 12 inches in order to reduce the size of the paper to an area of 20 square inches. find the width of the strip.
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Question 242517: If Steven can mix 20 drinks in 5 minutes, Sue can mix 20 drinks in 10 minutes, and Jack can mix 20 drinks in 15 minutes, how much time will it take all 3 of them working together to mix the 20 drinks?
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Question 247101: A picture frame measures 28 cm by 32 cm and is of uniform width.What is the width of the frame if the area of the picture is 192 cm^2???
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Question 247873: five time a number, decreased by 18, equals three times the number increased by 6. find the number
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Question 247881: walter is 3 times as old as martin. ten years from now, walter will be twice as old as martin will be then. how old is each now?
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Question 247876: harry has $2.30 in nickels and dimes. the number of dimes is 7 less than the number of nickels. find the number of each coin.
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Question 248023: If 7 is subtracted from twice a number, the result is 5 increased by 4. Find the number.
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Question 248519: Please help me help my son with this word problem ...
A boat travels 60 km upstream (against the current) in 5 hours. The boat travels the same distance downstream in 3 hours. What is the rate of the boat in still water? What is the rate of the current?
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Question 249862: A minivan travels 413 miles on 23 gallons of gas, how many miles per gallon does it average to the enarest tenth?
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Question 250279: If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?
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Question 250455: Ariel had a fruit basket with 24 oranges and bananas. She had 3 times more oranges than bananas. She dropped 2 times more oranges than bananas. There were 15 pieces of fruit left.

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Question 251089: The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200000. airplaine. The members want to find five more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2000. How many members are currently in the club?
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Question 251225: I have $2.35 in nickles and dimes . If i have a total of 23 coins , how many of each coin do i have ?
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Question 251352: Tour company must use a transportation service to shuttle their corporate partners from the airport for a quarterly meeting. Crespo Transportation service charges $24 initially plus $10 per mile for every mile traveled.
White an equation in two variables (x&Y)that illustrates the cost for the Cespo Transportation service.
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Question 251777: a mountain with a base 13112 feet below sea level rises 18,011 feet. What is the elevation above sea level of its peak?
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Question 251744: Twice a number,decreased by 9, is half the same number increased by 6
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Question 251381: The mortgage department of the company is selling two model homes that are located on the same block. The square footage, as well as the type of model, determines the cost of these homes.
The market gives a cost per square footage at $49.70. How much will each home cost before upgrades/amenities? explain
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Question 251364: Tour company must use a transportation service to shuttle their corporate partners from the airport for a quarterly meeting. Crespo Transportation service charges $24 initially plus $10 per mile for every mile traveled.
If you were to graph this system of linear equations, what is happening "graphically", where the services are changing same rate? explain
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Question 252503: Tom,Bob and Joe are brothers. their combined ages are 47. Joe was born 3 years before Bob and 4 years after Tom. How old is each brother?
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Question 252505: on a recent vacation, your uncle spent a total of $680 on airfare,hotel,and a rental car. the airfare cost twice as much as hotel, and the rental car was one-third as much as the hotel. use a linear system and Cramer's rule to find how much your uncle paid for each service
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Question 252504: a campground rents campsites for $12 per night. at this rate, all 90 campsites are usually rented. for each $1 increase in the price per night, about 3 less sites are rented. the campground's nightly revenue can be modeled by R=(90-3x)(12+x). use the vertex form to find how the campground can maximize nightly revenue
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Question 252638: Sharu has $2.35 in nickels and dimes. If he has a total of thirty-two coins, how many of each coin does he have?

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Question 252874: a speed boat travelling 60kph left the port 5 minutes after afishing boat sailed. If it overtakes the fishing boat after two hours, find the rate of the fishing boat.
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Question 252873: the sum of two numbers is 39. When the smaller number is doubled and the larger is increased by 3, the resulting numbers are equal. What are the numbers?
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Question 252872: eight less than three times a number is 36 more than one-fourth of the number.
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Question 250065: The sum of two numbers is 21. Twice the larger number is four times the smaller number. Find the two numbers
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Question 253216: 14 more than two times Johnny's age is the same as 6 less than three times his age. What is his age?
I apologize..it has been awhile sense I have had a real teacher to help me with things, I have not done word problems in a long time..
2xJ'sAge + 14...6-.....Bah..I haven't the common knowledge of this..I feel like this should be very easy but yeah, what I wrote is my guess, and a bad one at that..
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