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Question 385312: A book cost $15 if bought online and $22.50 if bought at the store. The bookstore sold 250 books and took in $4995. How many books were bought online and how many were bought in the store?
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Question 385311: Nadia can Completely mow the yard by herself in 30 minutes. Peter can completely mow the yard by himself in 45 minutes. How long would it take both of them to mow the yard if they worked together?
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Question 386354: the perimeter of a rectangle is 108 cm. Width of the rectangle is 6cm less than the length. find the dimensions of the rectanlge
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Question 386375: simplify expression r=118ft/min, t=(x-2)minutes
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Question 387599: I need help with all math ( ASAP )
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Question 387822: A biologist finds that the population of a certain type of bacteria doubles each half-hour. An initial culture has 90 bacteria.
How long will it take for the number of bacteria to reach 368,640?
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Question 387930: If a scuba diver starts at sea level,the pressure of the diver at a depth of d feet is given by the formula P = 45d + 2,025, where P represents the total pressure in pounds per squre foot. Suppose the current pressure on a diver is 2,565 pounds per sq. ft. What is the diver's current depth???
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Question 388091: how can i make a word problem with 315 divided by 21
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Question 388091: how can i make a word problem with 315 divided by 21
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Question 388536: three sailors were marooned on a deserted island that was ablso inhabited by a band of monkeys. t he sailors worked all day to collect coconuts but were too tired that night to count them, they agreed to divide them equally the next morning.
during the night, one sailor woke up and deicded to take his share he found that he could make 3 equal piles with one coconut left over, which he thres to the monkeys. he put his own share in a poile down the beach, and left the remainder in a single pile near where they all slept.
lather that night the second sailor awoke and decided to take his share of coconuts. he also was able to make three equal piles, with 1 coconut left over which he threw to the monkeys
later the 3rd sailor awoke and did exactly the same thing with the remaining coconuts.
all 3 sailors noticed that the pile was considerable smaller, but each thought that he knew why and said nothing. wehn they then divided what was left of the original pile of coconuts eually each sailor received 7 and 1 left over which they threw to the monkeys.

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Question 389110: There is a triangular piece of land adjoining an oil field in Texas, with a permeter of 271 meters. The length of the second side is double the first side. The length of the third side is 15 meters longer then the first side. Find the length of each side.
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Question 389112: A salesman at a jewelry store earns $1000 per month plus a 6% commission on his total sales. If he earned $2200 last month, what was the amount of his sales?
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Question 389107: a 20-foot board is cut into two pieces the longer piece is 4.5 feet longer then the shorter piece. What is the length of each piece?
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Question 389109: An artist has created a huge painting 18 feet long. her goal is to cut the canvas and have two pieces of the same painting. The longer piece of canvas will be 6.5 feet longer then the shorter piece. what will the length of each piece be?
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Question 389184: The greater of the two consecutive even numbers is 6 less than twice the smaller.
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Question 389244: The length of the parallelogram is 10 ft shorter than double the width. Use t for the length and w for the width of the parallelogram.
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Question 389247: The cost of a Microsoft Zune Mp3 player was $50 more than the cost of an Apple Ipod Mp3 player. Use the letter c.
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Question 389245: During a college football game, Texas scored 2 points more than double the number of points scared by Iowa State. Use t to represent the number of points Texas scored and I to represent the number of points Iowa State scored.
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Question 389316: The lengths of the sides of a triangle are consecutive even integers. Find the length of the longest side if it is 22 cm shorter than the perimeter.
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Question 389324: Cingular Wireless offers a cell phone plan that costs $49.99 per month. Verizon Wireless offers a plan that costs $54.99 per month. With cingular, additional minutes cost $0.40 and with Verizon additional minutes cost $0.35. How many additional minutes will it take for a monthly bill from cingular to be the same as Verizon
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Question 389337: The Comic Book Guy weighs 435 pounds and is on a diet to lose 5 pounds each week. Professor Frink weighs 123 pounds and is on a diet to gain three pounds each week. How long will it take for them to weigh the same?
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Question 389335: Homer Simpson weighs 400 pounds. He is on a diet to lose 5 pounds each week. Barney Gumble weighs 322 pounds. He is on a diet to lose 3 pounds each week. How long will it take for them to weigh the same?
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Question 389325: The cost to purchase a song from iTunes is $0.99 per song. To purchase a song from Napster, you must be a member. The Napster membership fee is $10. In addition, each purchased song costs $0.89. How many songs must be purchased so that the costs are the same?
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Question 389341: At Mc. Donald's, the barbecue sauce packet has five fewer calories than the sweet n sour sauce packet. Ten barbecue sauce packets have the same amount of calories as nine sweet n sour sauce packets. how many calories does each have?
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Question 389349: A 2000L tank containing 550L of water is being filled with water at the rate of 75L/minute from a full 1600L tank. How long will it be before the two tanks have the same amount of water?
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Question 389350: Bart has two choices to make a long distance phone call. His two choices are:10-10-220 and AT&T. Using 10-10-220, the cost is 99 cents for the first twenty minutes, and 7 cents for each additional minute. AT&T just charges 6 cents for each minute. After how many total minutes will it be less expensive to use AT&T? Assume the call is at least 20 minutes.
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Question 389351: Your family is moving into a new home. Rather than do the work yourselves, you get price quotes from two different moving companies. Starving Students Movers charges $100 for the first hour and $50 for subsequent hours. Allied Movers charges $60 for each hour. After how many hours will it be more advantageous to have Starving Student move your families junk?
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Question 389352: The cost to purchase a song from iTunes is $0.99 per song. To purchase a song from Napster, you must be a member. The Napster membership fee is $10. In addition, each purchased song costs $0.89. How many songs must be purchased so that the costs are the same?
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Question 389504: A 2000L tank containing 550 L of water is being filled with water at the rate of 75L/minute from a full 1600L tank. How long will it be before the two tanks have the same amount of water?
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Question 389500: A 2000L tank containing 550L of water is being filled with water at the rate of 75L/minute from a full 1600L tank. How long will it be before the two tanks have the same amount of water?
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Question 389495: A family has three options for a child's birthday: Adventure Plex, Bright Child, and Chuck E. Cheese. At Adventure Plex, there is a flat fee of $300, each child costs $12. At Bright Child, there is a $180 flat fee, each child costs $15. At Chuck E. Cheese, there is not flat fee, but each child costs $18.
Determine the break even point for Adventure Plex and Bright Child
Determine the break even point for Adventure Plex and Chuck E. Cheese
Determine the break even point for Bright Child and Chuck E. Cheese
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Question 389786: SOLUTION: i actually have 3 questions. 1. henry wants to join a book of the month club. the first club cost $40 to join and $10 per book. The second club cost $15 per book and has no fee to

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Question 389888: Find the number of terms of the sequence 1,4,7,10... Must be taken if the sum is to exceed 100.
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Question 389896: Walter is 3 times as old as Marti. 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 390193: A man standing on top of a building sees an automobile on a street below him.The angle of depression is 26degrees 22'.If his eye is 550 ft above the level of the automoile, how far is the automobile for him.
(Can you please explain in details how the answer is found.)
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Question 390220: Janet and Marcus work for a landscaping company. Their project involves making a garden with a 4-foot-wide walkway on each side of a 50-foot square piece of land. The plan for the project is shown.
The walkway will be made of concrete that is 6 inches thick. How many cubic feet of concrete will be needed for the job?

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Question 390190: In a right triangle, given a=32.8 ft and A=28degrees 30'15'',solve for b and c .
Can you please include every detail to how this problem was solved
(for future references)
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Question 390192: When the sun's angles of elevation is 30degrees the shadow of the post is 6 ft longer then when the angle is 45 degrees . find the height of the post.
Can you please include the work of how the question was answered.
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Question 390700: The wright family went on vacation for w weeks and 3 days. Write the algerbraic expression for the total number of days of their vacation.
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Question 392392: You deposit $2000 in an account that pays 2% annual interest compounded quarterly. How long will it take for the balance to reach $2400?
How do you set up the equation and rules for solving please
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Question 392787: Step-by-Step Explanation for this problem please:
Show that the equations are equal by rewriting them in the form of A(t) = ab^t:
A(t) = 100e^(-0.005t) and A(t) = 100(1/2)^(t/138)
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Question 392697: mrs. carter invested a sum of money at 4 %. she invested a second sum, $250 more than the first sum,at 6%. if the total annual income was $90, how much did she invest at each rate?
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