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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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Question 356816: Consider two function machines that are placed as
shown. Find the final output for each of the following
inputs:
a)5 b)3 c)10 d)a
f (x) = x � 1
f (x)
g(x) = 7x
(g f )(x)
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Question 357071: The sum of two numbers is 22. Using q as the smaller number, translate "five less than the larger number" into a variable expression and simplify.
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Question 357103: An electric bill for September is $2.32 less than the electric bill for October. If the total bill for the two months was $119.56, find the bill for each month.
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Question 357114: A basketball team played 32 games and won 4 more games than it lost. Find the number of games the team won.
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Question 357115: If a television set is marked 1/3 off and sells for $180, what was the original price?
I think I'm suppose to multiply 180 by 3 to get the original price. Is this correct?
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Question 357106: A ball bounces half as far as it did on the preceding bounce and traveled a total distance of 12 feet on two bounces. How far did it go on the first bounce?
I don't know how to express that algebraically. Please, help me:)
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Question 357110: A father left 1/2 of his estate to his son, 1/3 of his estate to his granddaughter, and the remaining $6,000 to charity. What was his total estate?
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Question 357408: Jonah has a large collection of marbles. He notices
that if he borrows 5 marbles from a friend, he can
arrange the marbles in rows of 13 each. What is the
remainder when he divides his original number of
marbles by 13?
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Question 357527: Without using a calculator, test each of the following
numbers for divisibility by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11:
a. 4,201,012 b. 1001
c. 10,001
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Question 357586: There are 28 students in a mathematics class. If one-fourth of the students are called to the guidence office, one-third of the remaining students are called to the nurses office, and, finally, one-half of those left to go to the library, how many students remain in the classroom?
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Question 357750: one number is 3 more then twice a second number. their sum is 27 find th enumber

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Question 357570: 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 358073: Twice the small number is 5 more than 2/3 the larger number. Three times the larger number is 4 less than 15 times the smaller number. Find the value of both numbers.
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Question 358472: 1.Biologists want to set up a station to test alligators in the lake for West Nile Virus. Suppose that the costs for such a station are $2,500 for setup costs and $3.00 to administer each test.
a.Write an expression that gives the total cost to test x animals.
b.You can find the average cost per animal by dividing total costs by number of animals. Write the expression that gives the average cost per animal.
c.Find the average cost per animal for 10 animals, 100 animals, and 1,000 animals.
d.As the number of animals tested increases, what happens to the average cost to test the animals? Would the average cost ever fall below $3.00? If so, identify a value that supports your answer. If not, explain how you know.
e.How many animals should be tested for the average cost to be $5.00 per animal?
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Question 358741: if 4n=3.60 what is the value of n
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Question 359222: I am stuck on how to write this out in an algebraic formula:
Bessy has 6 times as much money as Bob, but when each earns $6, Bessy will have 3 times as much money as Bob. How much does each have before and after earning the $6?
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Question 359243: Jessica earned $44 by selling 20 plants and 12 jars of honey. The price of honey is twice the price of each plant. What is the price of each jar of honey?
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Question 357035: Consider a function machine that accepts inputs as ordered
pairs. Suppose the components of the ordered
pairs are natural numbers and the first component is the
length of a rectangle and the second is its width. The
following machine computes the perimeter (the distance
around a figure) of the rectangle. Thus, for a rectangle
whose length, l, is 3 and whose width, w, is 1, the input
is (3, 1) and the output is or 8. Answer each
of the following:
a. For each of the following inputs, find the corresponding
output: (1, 4), (2, 1), (1, 2), (2, 2), (x, y).
b. Find the set of all the inputs for which the output
is 20.
c. Is (2, 2) a possible output? Explain.

Input=2l+2w
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Question 360251: The difference of a number divided by 8 and 3 is 5.
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Question 361062: 14 less than three times a number is equal to the number. What is the number?
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Question 361658: Apples are collected in a basket for 6 people. one third, one forth, one eighth, and one fifth of the apples are given to four people, respectively. The fifth person gets 10 apples and one apple remains for the sixth person. find an original number of apples in the basket???.
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Question 362545: Over a 5 year period, from 2002-2006, there were 250 deaths caused by tornados in the United States. Based on this figure, how many deaths by tornado would you predict by 2007? (Show your work, but you do not need a 5-step solution.)
PLEASE help me! I have no clue what to do. I would really appreciate if someone could show me how to solve this.
Thank so much!

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Question 362672: Canyu Conoe Co. rents canoes for $8 plus $3 per hour or any part of an hour. For how many hours can you rent a canoe if you want to spend no more than $25

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Question 362960: Two angles are supplementary if their sum is 180 degrees. One angle measures five times the measure of a smaller angle. If x represents the measure of a smaller angle and these two angles are supplementary , find the measure of each angle.
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Question 362962: In a recent electin Corrine Brown received 13,356 more votes than Bill Randll. If thetotal number of votes was 119,626, find the number of votes for each candidate.
Corrine Brown received_________ votes?
Bill Randall received _____ votes?
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Question 362957: Twice the difference of a number and 8 is equal to three times the sum of the number and 4. find the number.
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Question 363010: Carla has $2.40 in nickels and dimes.Deron has $5.50 in dimes and quarters.
Deron has as many dimes as Carla has nickles and as many quarters as Carla has dimes/ How many of each coin does Carla have?
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Question 362952: After a recent election, there were 2 more Republicansa governors than Democratic governors in the United States. If there are 50 states governors total, how many Democrats and how many Republicans held governor's offices after this election?
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Question 362947: The product of twice a number and four is the same as the difference of seven times the number and 9/7. find the number.
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Question 364009: College student taking a refresher course after having not touched a math book in probably six years so I'm feeling a little dense.
Problem: "Find two consecutive whole numbers such that the smaller subtracted from five times the larger equals 57."
Teacher has explained these sorts of problems in the past, but I just don't understand any more what they're trying to tell me. Thanks for any help here.
Oh, and I can solve algebraic things easily enough, eg 2x + 5 = 72 or inequalities, w/e... the problem lies in getting to that point.
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Question 364033: Translate the following situation into an inequality. Do not solve.
"The sum of three integers is no more than 110. If one integer is nine less than twice the first integer and the third integer is one fourth the first integer, what are the ingegers?"
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Question 364367: I am having trouble getting this into 2 system of equation formulas, once I have the equation I will be good to go.
problem is:
A box has an open top, rectangular sides, and a square base. The volume of the box is 576 cubic inches, and the surface area of the outside of the box is 336 square inches. Find the dimensions of the box.
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Question 364273: I've got another one for whoever can help me.
"The difference of two numbers is 6. One-half of the larger number is 5 larger than one-third of the smaller. Find the numbers."
I've gotten this far: "1/2x = 5 + 1/3y" where X is the larger number, and Y is the smaller number... I don't even know if I'm heading in the right direction. I simply cannot figure this one out, even looking at my previous problems for guidance. I did it once, then looked at the back of the book for the answers, but I evidently did something wrong because my answer wasn't even close to the book's answer.
Help! :( Thanks...
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Question 365438: 1. Seven more than a number is 11
2. Twelve less than twice a number is 20.
3. Eleven more than the product of x and 3.
4. The quotient of a number and j is six.
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Question 365525: three times the sum of six and eight
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Question 365611: seven pages fewer than half the number of pages read last week
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Question 366326: A teen club has weekly dances. You can become a member of the club for $30 a year and pay only $4 to attend each dance. Otherwise each dance costs $6. How many dances do you have to attend so that becoming a member will cost less than paying the nonmember rate?
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Question 366335: Which of the following expressions represents the product of 3 less than twice x and 2 more than the quantity 3 times x ?
can you help break this down plz
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Question 366689: 6x^4-19x@+15=0 solve for x?
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Question 367329: decide whether the pair pf lines are parallel,perpendicular,or neither
5x+3y=7
3x-5y=5
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Question 367349: amy paid $81.58 for a pair of running shoes during a 20%-0ff sale. what was the regular price?
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