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Question 41362: You put 137 miles on your car for one day. During the 5 day workweek , you put a total of 350 miles in your car. How many miles on an average did you drive for the remainder of the four - day period?
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Question 41358: You put 137 miles on your car for one day. During the 5 day workweek , you put a total of 350 miles in your car. How many miles on an average did you drive for the remainder of the four - day period?
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Question 35286: A painter can paint a wall in 1 hours and 10 minutes, whereas his assistant can do the same size wall in 2 hours and 30 minutes. Find their work rate of the job per hour when they work together. Your answer is supposed to be a fraction. Put the answer in answer box.
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Question 26691: Suppose that in a certain restaurant the number of hamburgers sold varies inversely as the price. If 70 burgers are sold at $1.50 each, how many burgers would be sold at $1.25 each?
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Question 16633: 4. Three times the square of a certain positive number exceeds six times the number by nine. Find the number:
a. 3 b. 6 c. 4 d. 9 e. none
The answer is A, but how? I don't think I used the correct formula. Please help!
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Question 26565: Suppose that in a certain restaurant the number of hamburgers sold varies inversely as the price. If 70 burgers are sold at $1.50 each, how many burgers would be sold at $1.25 each?
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Question 18039: please help with this problem: translate the quotient of a number and seven is two into an equation and solve thank-you
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Question 16110: One crew can put up holiday decorations in the mall in 9 hours. A second crew can put up the decorations in 7 hours. How long will it take if both crews work together to decorate the mall? Please enter your answer as a number without the units.
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Question 15972: If two planes leave the same airport at 1:00 PM, how many miles apart will they be at 3:00 PM if one travels directly north at 150 mph and the other travels directly west at 200 mph?
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Question 17741: how do you do mean,median, and mode?
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Question 42531: Translate to an algebra statement; do not solve:
Nine times the difference of twice a number and three yields the same result as the same number decreased by four.

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Question 41722: Sam Mathius invested part of his $10,000 bonus in a fund that paid an 11% profit and inested the rest in stock that suffered a 4% loss. Find the amount of each investment if his overall net profit was $650.
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Question 44024: fortyeight ten-thousandths how would i write that in dicmal for
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Question 44166: lorenzo bought several pounds of chocolate-covered peanuts and gave the cashier a $20 bill. Write and expression for the amount of change he will recive if p represents the costs of the peanuts.
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Question 44167: write an expression that represents the perimeter of the rectange. then they have a rectangle drawn and a w and an l on two sides .
my answer or at least wat i got : 2W + 2L
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is that right?
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Question 44168: when they say : evaluate , do they mean write it out?
ex. 9^2
1)9*9 ?

or 2) 9*9 = 81

and when they say twice a number do they mean 2x or two times?
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Question 44175: kendra is saving to buy a new computer. write an expression to represent the amount of money she will have if she has s dollars saved and she adds d dollars per week for the next 12 weeks.

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Question 44111: Hello, I am having difficulty determining the what should constitute my x and y variables. The goal is to create two linear equations, graph them, and determine what point or intersection on the graph correctly answers the question. I have tried setting x as amount deposited in Wachovia and y as amount deposited in CCB and I end up with the equations 14x+8y=22000 and 7x+15y=22000. I know these are wrong but I am stumped please help?
Problem:
Mr. jones wants to invest up to $22000. He will invest at least $2000 but no more than $14000 in Wachovia, and he willinvest no more than $15000 in CCB. What amounts placed in these accounts will yeild the greatest income(interest)? What is the maximum interest?
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Question 44430: A college basketball team made 40 field goals in a recent game, some 2 pointers and the rest 3 pointers. Altogether the 40 baskets counted for 89 points. How many of each type of field goal was made?
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Question 47676: can you please tell me how to find the square root of a number manualy without a calcalater. thanks
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Question 48079: A triangular sail has an area of x^2+5x+6 square meters and a height of x+3 meters. Find the length of the sail's base.
I have worked this several ways and can't get to the correct answer. Please help!
Thank you in advance for any help!
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Question 41345: Brandon pays $4.95 a month for long distance telephone service that offers a flat rate of 7 cents per minute.
One month his long distance telephone bill was $10.69. How many minutes of long distance telephone calls were made that month?

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Question 48130: Mary has 12 more apples than peaches. If she divides each fruit in half she will have 32 pieces of fruit. how many peaches does Mary have?
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Question 41364: a grocer sold 450lb of ground beef in one day. Two grades of beef, regular at $1.20 per pound and lean at $1.40 per pound, wer sold. If the total sales were $592, how much of each type of ground beef were sold.
1.20x + 1.40(450-x)= 592
1.20x + 630 -1.40x= 592
-.20x + 630 = 592
630 - 592 =.20x
38=.20x
38/.20 = .20x/.20
ans.19
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Question 48843: Please help me. I have tried, but have not yet succeded! Here's the problem: The sum of three consecutive even integers is -24. Find the largest integer.
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Question 49862: I can not figure this one out. Any help would be grately appreciated!
Seven is three less than four times a number n. The instructions are to solve for n.
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Question 50063: 4x = x + 6
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Question 50062: Four times a number is six more than the nnumber.
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Question 50340: while travelig to his grandmother's for easter, George fell asleep halfway through the journey. When he awoke, he still had to travel half the distance that he had traveled while sleeping. For what part of the entire journey had he been asleep?
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Question 50440: while taveling to his granmothers for easter, george fell asleep halfyway through the journey. when he awoke, he still had to travel half the distance that he had traveled while sleeping. For what part of the entire jorney had he been asleep
can you please explain to me how you found the answer
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Question 50649: W=GH-3GT^2
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Question 50857: Martina went shopping. She spent one-fifth of what she had in her wallet and then one-fifth of what remained. In all she spent $36. How much did she start with?
Can you help me with this problem?
Thank you!
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Question 51037: w=gh-3gt^2
solve for g
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Question 51798: triple the difference of 55 and the cube of w
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Question 51912: Kandi has $2.65 in nickels and dimes. If she has 40 coins in all, how many nickels does she have?
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Question 51912: Kandi has $2.65 in nickels and dimes. If she has 40 coins in all, how many nickels does she have?
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Question 51910: Kandi has $2.65 in nickels and dimes. If she has 40 coins in all, how many nickels does she have?
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Question 52196: a childs bank contains 70 coins consisting of nickels and dimes that have a total value of $5.55. how many of each kind of coin are there?
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Question 52787: the attendence at a baseball game is 400 people. student tickets cost $2 and adult tickets cost $3. total ticket sales were $1050. how many tickets of each type were sold?
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Question 52940: A jet leaves at the average rate of 564 km/hr. A half hour later, another jet leaves at 744km/hr. How long will it be until the second jet overtakes the first?
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Question 52910: The gym is 21 years newer than the auditorium. the gym is also one fourth as old as the auditorium. How old is each building?
(26,27,28) possible ages for auditorium
Write an equation as well as solve.
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Question 53239: A jet leaves the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport traveling at an average rate of 546km/h. Another jet leaves the airport one half hour later traveling at 744km/h in the same direction. How long will the second jet take to ovretake the first?
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Question 53363: A bus traveled at an average rate of 50 miles per hour and then reduced its average rate to 40 miler per hour for the rest of the trip. If the 220-mile trip took 5 hours, determine how long the bus traveled at each rate.
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Question 53519: It takes 1 hour longer to fly to St. Paul at 200 mi/h than it does to return at 250 mi/h. How far away is St. Paul?
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