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Question 698599: The length of a rectangle field is twice the width and the area is 1800 meters squared. Find the dimensions.
Can you please help me with this question? Thanks so much in advance :)
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Question 698910: "Brian bought 4 burgers and 3 slurpees for $14.25 and Donald bought 2 burgers and 7 slurpies for 16.75. What is the cost of one burger and one slurpee?" Trying to help my son with his homework....!
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Question 699132:

Twice, the sum of my number and 7, minus 13 is 37.What is my number?

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Question 699244: Triple a number, minus one is fifty.
Triple the difference of a number and one is fifty.
(I need the number form of those equations AND i need to know the difference between the equations and EXPLAIN.
Thank you,
zoe
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Question 699292: "if six decreased by four times a number n, the result is twelve" H0w is this translated into an equation? I think the answer is 6-(4n)=12.I want to make sure this is correct.
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Question 699640:
Lola made hats to sell at the market. Her booth rental is $35 a day. Each hat costs $2 to make, and she sells them for $5. Lola wants to make at least $200 profit for the day. How many hats must she sell to reach her goal?
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Question 699956: find two poitive numbers if one is 2/3 the other and their difference is 5

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Question 700403: 12 men can complete a work in 4 days. how many men will be required in order to complete 8 times work in half times?
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Question 700579: You have a choice of two different Internet service company's company a charges $12 per month plus $2.00 per hour. Company b charges $27 per month plus .50 per hour. How many hours would you need to use the Internet per month for the services to be the same price?
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Question 700830: A 53-inch length of board is cut into two pieces. One piece is 17 inches more than twice the other. How long is each piece?
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Question 701897: If Dwight scores y points in the first quarter, and increases his quarterly score by 4 points in each of the remaining quarters, how many points in total will he score?
Thanks in advance.

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Question 701895: If Dwight scores x points in the first quarter, and he continues to sccore in this manner for the entire game, how many points in total will he score.
I have x.4=y. I want to check if this is correct.
Thanks in advance.

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Question 701979: translation the following phrase
the sum of s and t less than the differences of p and q
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Question 703766: If 7 is added to a number the result is 30 times the reciprocal of the number. What is the number?
Can you please help me? Thanks in advane:)
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Question 703762: If 7 is added to a number the result is 30 times the reciprocal of the number. What is the number?
Can you please help me? Thanks in advane:)
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Question 704897: When the sum of 618 and three times a positive number is subtracted from the square of the number, the result is 136. Find the number.
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Question 705369: how do i write the difference of a number and 2 over 3 is 1 over 3?
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Question 705360: at a restaurant, mike and his friends decided to divide the bill evenly. if each person paid $13 then what was the total bill

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Question 706462: what is amorization ?
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Question 706665:
jim has three times as many comic books as charlie. charlie has 2\3 as many books as bob. bob has 27 book how many comic books does jim as
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Question 707285: what is thirty decreased by four times three?
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Question 707285: what is thirty decreased by four times three?
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Question 707967: Five less than a product of a number and two is twenty one
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Question 708837: What is the perimeter of a right triangle if the lengths of the legs are 10 inches and 24 inches?

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Question 708914:

The smallest angle in a triangle is 1/2 as large as the largest angle
The third angle is twice the smallest angle. Find the three angles.
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Question 709290: Ken made the following successive trips on Interstate 80, an east- west road: 150 miles to the east, 170 miles to the west, 20 miles to the west, 43 miles to the east.
A) At the end of the forth trip, is ken east or west of his starting point?
B) How far must Ken go to return to his starting point?
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Question 709468: Find the length of a radius of a circle such that the circumference of the circle is numerically equal to the area of the circle.

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Question 709452: 4k - (2k-5)
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Question 709628: The sum of two numbers is 15. Three times one of the numbers is 19 less than five times the other. Show your solution
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Question 709670: find the whole number such that four times the number subtracted from the three times square of the number makes 15
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Question 710208:
You invested $10,000.00 in stocks and bonds, paying 5.3% and 8%, respectively. If the total interest earned for the year was $763.00, how much was invested in stocks and how much was invested by bonds?
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Question 711146: After Sarah received a 5% raise, her annual salary was $71,400. What was her annual salary before the raise?
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Question 711156: Translate the phrase into mathematical expression and then simplify
six times a number decreased by three times the same number in the simplify part use x as the variable
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Question 711445: half of p is the same as p minus 3
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Question 711778:
A stereo was sold for $270 after it was reduced by 1/3 of its original price. What was the original price
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Question 713036: What is the translation of square of some number is equal to twice the number?
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Question 713290: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 10. The value of the number is 16 times the units' digit. Find the number.
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Question 713478: The sum of the digits of a three-digit number is 13. The hundreds' digit is two more than the tens' digit, and the tens' digit is four more than the units' digit. Find the number.
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Question 713954: if 2 is subtracted from a number and this difference is tripled, the result is 6 more than the number
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Question 714372: On one of the farms outside of town, a water tank used for irrigation holds a total of 4568 gallons of water. The tank has 3 pipes through which the water drains to irrigate 3 different fields. Pipe B drains twice as much water as pipe A. Pipe C drains 68 gallons more than pipe B. Assume that the tank drains completely before it is refilled. How many gallons does each pipe drain from the tank?
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Question 714850: two numbers total 61 and have a difference of 15. find the two numbers
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Question 714851: two numbers total 61 and have a difference of 15. find the two numbers
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Question 714948: .Bob has two job offers with a starting salary of $100,000 per year and monthly paychecks. The Atlanta employer will raise his annual salary by $2000 at the end of every year, while the Chicago employer will raise his annual salary by $1000 at the end of every six months.
Which job is the better deal? How much more will Bob have made at the end of 10 years with the better deal?
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Question 715036: How would I write this: the sum of twelve and twelve times a number is -120? I thought it would be 12+12n=-120, but its not.
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