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Question 20749: Pottery You are taking a pottery class. As an assignment, you are given a lump of clay whose volume is 200 cubic cetimeters and asked to make a cylindrical pencil holder. The pencil holder should be 9 centimeters high and have an inner radius of 3 centimeters. What thickness x should your pencil holder have if you want to use all the clay? (Hint: The volume of clay equals the difference of the volumes of two cylinders.)
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Question 20748: Fitness Fitness For 30 minutes you do a combination of walking and jogging. At the end of your workout your pedometer displays a total of 2.5 miles. You know that you walk 0.05 mile per minute and jog 0.1 mile per minute. For how much time were you walking? For how much time were you jogging? Use a verbal model to write and solve a system of linear equations.
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Question 21759: I've looked over this word problem several times and I can't figure out what to do, here is the problem:
North Carolina's Native-American population is 22,000 greater than New York's. New York's Native'American population is 187,000 less than Oklahoma's. If the total population of all three is 437,000, find each state's Native- American population.
Please help me, I don't know what to do. Thank you very much!
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Question 22359: A poster in the shape of a triangle has one side that is five inches more the length of the shortest side, and another side that is three inches less than twice the shortest side. Find the dimensions of the poster if its perimeter is 42 inches
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Question 22358: A rental agent for vacations houses in southern Spain earns a flat amount of base pay per month plus a 7.5% commission on rentals sold during that month. One month he earns $5575 on rental sales of $45,000.00. What is his base monthly pay?
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Question 22357: -For three days in a row, volunteers picked up trash on a particular beech. They picked up a total of 921 pounds. On the second day they collected 39 pounds more than on the first day. On the third day, they picked up 18 pounds less then on the first day. How many pounds of trash sis they pick up on the first day?
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Question 22621: We have a whole bunch of these questions and I can't figure out how to set it up to solve any help would be appreciated. How many pounds of lima beans that cost 9 cents per pound must be mixed with 2 pounds of corn that costs 6 cents per pound to make a mixture of vegetables that costs 7 cents per pound?
1. 0.5 pounds
2. 1.0 pounds
3. 1.2 pounds
4. 1.4 pounds
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Question 22620: I cannot find a place that explains how to do this problem,any help would be appreciated.
Angles A and B are supplementary angles because their sum is 180 degrees. The measure of angle A is ten less than 4 times the measure of angle B. Find the measure of angle B?
1. 45 degrees
2. 38 degrees
3. 142 degrees
4. 36 degrees
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Question 23163: 1) Sunset rents an SUV at $21.95 plus $0.23 per mile. Sunrise rents the same vehicle for $24.95 plus $0.19 per mile. For what mileage is the cost the same?
2) Your piggy bank has 25 coins in it; some are quarters and some are nickels. You have $3.45. How many nickels do you have?
3) There were 1500 people at a high school football game. Student tickets were $2.00 and adult tickets were $3.50. The total receipts for the game were $3825. How many students bought tickets?
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Question 24839: my alegebra teacher is wanting me to set up a two variable formula for this word problem help i worked it but i am not sure if it is right i got x is 9 and y is 4 i was hoping you could set it up and let me check mine to see if it is right this is the problem.
The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 13. If the tens' digit exceeds the units' digit by 5, what is the number?
Thanks for any help you can provide
james
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Question 25019: Betty's Diner makes 15% profit in its lunches and 22% profit on its dinners. If the diner took in 2700 dollars and made 524 dollars profit, how much was spent at lunch. Let x represent the sales at lunch and y represent the sales at dinner. Write two equations, then solve.
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Question 25552: Brian earns twice as much each week as a tutor than he does pumping gas. His total weekly wages are $150 more than that of his younger sister. She earns one 2quarter as much as Brian does as a tutor. How much does Brian earn as a tutor?
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Question 24672: A food pantry had cans of vegetables to distribute. When they put 10 cans per bag, one bag would get 9. When they put 9 cans per bag, one bag would get 8. 8 cans per bag would leave a remainder of 7, and so on, until 2 per bag left one can in a bag. What is the least number of cans the pantry had to distribute? Please explain how you got the answer. Thank you!
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Question 25891: I have the problem listed below:
A bathroom tub will fill up in 15 minutes with both faucets open and the stopper in place. with both faucets closed and the stopper removed the tub will empty in 20 minutes, How long will it take for the tub to fill if both faucets are open and the stopper is removed.
I am really kind of unsure of where to start with this. I assigned variables for the various segments, but after that i am drawing a blank. Thank you!
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Question 26116: The problem is:
The top of the John Hancock Building in Chicago is a rectagle whose lenth is 60 ft more than the width. The perimeter is 520 ft. Find the width and the length of the rectangle. Find the area of the rectangle.
At first, I though i had the answer, but i didn't look to see that the perimeter was 520 ft. so i just got lost and didn't know where to start anymore. so far, i got: let x =width ; let x=60 = length
x+(x+60) = 520 ft
but when i worked it out, it didn't seem right. please help! =)
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