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Question 343714: In your job selling knives, you have two different sets available. The better set sells for $35.00 and the cheaper set for $20.00. Last week you sold more of the cheaper set, in fact twice as many as the better sets. Your receipts for the week totaled $525.00. How many of the better sets did you sell?
Question: What is the equation.
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Question 348260: At track practice, each runner usually carries a lap counter. Hector and McQuisten want to make their coach think that they have run farther than they actually have, so they decide to share a lap counter. Hector runs twice as far as McQuisten does. When both are finished running, the lap counter reads 48 laps. How many laps did Hector actually run?
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Question 350089: how long is each side of a square if 2 parallel side of a side of a square are increased by 6 inches and the two parallel sides are each decreased by 1 inch, a rectangle is formed having 2 times the area of square
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Question 350442: Two surveyors with two-way radios leave the same point at 9:00 A.M., one walking due south at 2 mi/hr and the other due west at 4 mi/hr . How long can they communicate with one another if each radio has a maximum range of 4 miles?
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Question 351816: a rocket is divided into three sections. the payload and navigation section in the top, the fuel section in the middle and the rocket engine section in the bottom. the top section is one-sixth the length of the bottom section. The middle section is one-half the length of the bottom section. The total length is 240ft. find the length of each section
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Question 355163: For most flying creatures, the length of the wing varies inversly as the number of
wingbeats per second. A dragonfly has a winglengh of 1.6 inches and a wingspeed of 45
times per second. If a bee has a wingspeed of 200 beats per second, what is the length
of the bee's wing? (Simply work the problem through; you do not need a 5-step solution.)
My work so far:
45 Divided by 1.6 = 28.125
But what do I do now? Please help me!!! I'm stuck!! Thanks! :)
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Question 355163: For most flying creatures, the length of the wing varies inversly as the number of
wingbeats per second. A dragonfly has a winglengh of 1.6 inches and a wingspeed of 45
times per second. If a bee has a wingspeed of 200 beats per second, what is the length
of the bee's wing? (Simply work the problem through; you do not need a 5-step solution.)
My work so far:
45 Divided by 1.6 = 28.125
But what do I do now? Please help me!!! I'm stuck!! Thanks! :)
Click here to see answer by jrfrunner(365)  |
Question 355163: For most flying creatures, the length of the wing varies inversly as the number of
wingbeats per second. A dragonfly has a winglengh of 1.6 inches and a wingspeed of 45
times per second. If a bee has a wingspeed of 200 beats per second, what is the length
of the bee's wing? (Simply work the problem through; you do not need a 5-step solution.)
My work so far:
45 Divided by 1.6 = 28.125
But what do I do now? Please help me!!! I'm stuck!! Thanks! :)
Click here to see answer by edjones(8007)  |
Question 356744: Jessica and Lillian had the same amount of money. jessica gave $1140.00 to charity and Lillian gave $580.00 to a different charity. In the end Lillian had 9 times as much money as Jessica. How much money did each girl have at first?
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Question 356759: A farmer has 800 yd of fencing to enclose a rectangular
pasture. Since one side of the pasture borders a river,
that side does not need to be fenced. If the side perpendicular
to the river must be twice as long as the side
parallel to the river, what are the dimensions of the rectangular
pasture?
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Question 356758: Miriam is four years older than Ricardo. Ten years ago
Miriam was 3 times as old as Ricardo was then.
a. How old are they now?
b. Determine whether your answer is correct by checking
that it satisfies the conditions of the problem.
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