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Question 816147: A piece of poster board has a perimeter of 156 in. If Mika cut 6 in off the width, the length becomes four times the width. What are the dimensions of the poster board?

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Question 816257: I am so stuck on these type of word problems, can I please get some help? A local farmer wants to fence in a rectangular pasture that is bordered on one side by a river. He plans to use 2492 feet of fence to enclose the other three sides. What should the dimensions of the pasture be if he wants to enclose a maximum area?
Thank you :-)
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Question 816732: Carousel Toys has Romper Buckaroos, wooden rocking horses for toddlers, on a 30% markdown sale for $72.09 each. What was the original price before they were marked down? (Points : 2)
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Question 818317: The textbook for a biology class costs $15 more than twice the cost of a used textbook for college algebra. If the cost of the two books together is $129,find the cost of the biology book.

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Question 818636: The difference of three and half a number is one fourth of the number. Find the number.
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Question 819201: I need help on how to turn this word problem into an equation. "A theatre has 25 seats in the first row and 35 rows in all. Each successive row contains one additional seat. How many seats are in the theater?"
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Question 820454: Alex has $50 and is savings $75 each week. Jen has $200 and is saving $60 each week. in how many weeks will alex and jen have the same amount of money?
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Question 820514: Translate into an equation and (b) solve the equation:
�The sum of three and a number, doubled, then reduced by 6 is equal to ten.

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Question 820486: I need to solve the following word problem:
There are 7 whole numbers in a group. The least number is 15 and the greatest is 33. The mean is 23. The median is 22. The mode is 19.
Here is what I got so far:
15 - 19 - 19 - 22 - ? - ? - 33
I know that there are two possibilities: 23 and 30 - 26 and 27
I know that because the some of all seven numbers should be 161 and the some of the two missing numbers is 53. There are only two possible combinations that could give me 53.
Is there another way of doing it? How do I know which one is the right answer?

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Question 821579: what is the temperature if the cricket chirps 40 times in 1 min?
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Question 822166: Translate this sentence into an equation.
44 is the sum of 11 and Delia�s score.
Use the variable d to represent delia�s score.

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Question 822166: Translate this sentence into an equation.
44 is the sum of 11 and Delia�s score.
Use the variable d to represent delia�s score.

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Question 822318: when 36 added to a number,the answer is the same as multiplying the number by 7. what is the number
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Question 822368: At a luncheon for doctors, all but 40 were neurosurgeons, all but 50 were pediatricians, and all but 60 were cardiologists. How many of each group attended the luncheon?
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Question 822457: [ Julio buys a used car for $5900. Monthly expenses for the car, which include insurance, maintenance, and gas, average $180 per month. Write an equation that represents the total cost of buying and owning the car for x months ]

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Question 822662: sunrise record is having a music sale. every cd(c) in the store is the same price and every tape(t) is another price. Three cd's and two tapes will cost $67. one cd and three tapes will cost $48. This situation can be represented by the FF system of equation: 3c+2t=67, c+3t=48 solve the system to determine the cost of each CD and each tape.
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Question 822802: Rodrigo had 18 meters of fencing. Only 3 sides need to be fenced since the rectangular garden is attached to the house. What dimensions maximize the area of the garden
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Question 823629: On a test, the number of questions Tyler answered correctly was 4 more than twice the number that he answered incorrectly. If the ratio of correct answers to incorrect answers is 8:3 how many questions did he get right?
Please show work and explain.
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Question 823777: A country club has 1150 members. 1/5 of the men and 1/4 of the women do not play golf. a total of 250 members do not play golf. How many men play golf?
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Question 823947: A man sold 2 acres more than 3/5 of his farm and had 4 acres less than 1/2 of it left. How many acres in the farm? Call this X. Find X.

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Question 824294: The cost of a long-distance telephone call is c cents for the first three minutes and m cents for each additional minute. Represent the price of a call lasting d minutes if d is more than 3 then
c + md-3m is correct

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Question 824608: One number is twice another number and their sum is 36.
Which system of equations represents the word problem?
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Question 824628: With a certain tail wind a jet aircraft arrives at its destination, 1,890 miles away, in 3 hours. Flying against the same wind, the plane makes the return trip in 3 3/8 hours. Find the wind speed and the plane's airspeed.
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Question 824629: Solve this problem by using a two order system.
A man invests $5,200, part at 4% and the balance at 3%. If his total income for the two investments is $194, how much money did he invest at each rate?
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Question 825243: I really need help with this question please thank you very much.
The difference of 4 and the product of x and -2

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Question 826683: David's novel has 12 chapters. Some of the chapters have 25 pages and some of the chapters have 37 pages. How many of each size chapter does the novel have if it is 360 pages long?
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Question 827647: Please help me solving this question "A footpath a uniform width runs round the inside of a rectangle field 32m long and 24 m wide,if path occupies 208sq.m,find the width of the footpath. "
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Question 828172: What are the dimensions of the largest rectangular field which can be enclosed by 1200 cm of fencing?
Can you please help me out? Thanks so much in advance:)
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Question 828411: May I please have assistance on how to calculate this?
Mary needed different colored balloons for decoration. She had $1.25 and
spent it all on a number of white, red, and blue balloons. A white balloon costs
$.10, a red one $.15 and a blue one $.05. She bought one white balloon less
than the red and the total number of white and red balloons equals the number
of blue ones. How many of each color did Mary buy?
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Question 828542: if difference between x and y is 12 and their ratio is 3:7. what is the value of y?
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Question 828625: Gina sold foam fingers for $5 each and Bracelets for $4 each. She sold a total of 210 items for a total of $965. How many of each item did Gina sell?
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Question 830808: I need help please. Thank you!!!
Find the inverse of the given one to one function f. Give the domain and the range of f and of f^-1, and then graph both f and f^-1 on the same set of axes.

f(x) = �√x - 1
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Question 830907: on a shop, two different types of sugar packets are sold, which costs 50 Rs each and 70 Rs each, respectively. If the shopkeeper sales 60 packages and have a total revenue of 3200. How many packets he sold of 50 Rs?
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Question 830910: on a certain project the only grades awarded were 75 and 100. If 85 students completed the project and the average of their grades was 85, how many earned 100?
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Question 831186: All numbers must equal the same vertically,
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Question 831179: I'm trying to complete a fraction Magic Square. I must find out what "x" equals on each row and column of the square. I am given for the first row: x, -1/6 and 0; on the second row: -1/2, x, and 5/6; on the third row:1/3, x, and -1/3. I must find the fraction sum equaling the same number horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
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Question 831683: The sum of two numbers is 60.One number is 16 more than twice the other number.
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Question 831578: please translate:
the quotient of 2x and 4 is the same as the product of 6 and 3

here's the answer that I came up with:
2x/4 = 6*3
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Question 832038: What is the Y intercept of the line given by this equation 3x-y=6
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Question 832045: Which binomial is equivalent to 3(x-1)-2(x-3)?
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Question 832090: Solve the equations algebraically
Y-3x=12
10x-5y=15
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Question 833248: A square has a perimeter of 32m. Find the length of one side is the square.
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Question 833368: How much water must be evaporated from 7 qt of a 50% antifreeze solution to produce a 70% solution?
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Question 833928: find the measures of the angles of a triangle if the measure of the first angle is twice the measure of the second angle and the third angle is thirty-six degrees more than the second angle.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
clueless in phila

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