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Question 836001: if it takes 1820 steps to go .89 miles, how many steps does it take to go 1.29 miles? How do I solve this? Is it 1820/.89=x/1.29 and then cross multiply or something like that?
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Question 839693: What is the speed of an airport's moving sidewalk if a person is conveyed 1/8 of a mile through the airport in one and a half minutes while walking at his normal pace of 300ft./min. on the moving sidewalk? THANK YOU.
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Question 840161: find two consecutive even numbers so that 5 times the first exceeds 3 times the second by 54.
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Question 840161: find two consecutive even numbers so that 5 times the first exceeds 3 times the second by 54.
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Question 840900: If I ride my bike 50 miles the first day and every day after I increase the mileage 10 percent from the day before. How far will I have ridden in 60 days?
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Question 840966: A salesperson earns $350 per week plus 6% of sales. How much must be sold to earn $1000 in a week?
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Question 840998: If four carpenters can build four tables in 4 days, how long will it take one carpenter to build one table?
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Question 842159: The distance between two stations A and B is 250 km. Two trains start simultaneously from A and B in opposite directions. The distance between them after 2 1/2 hour is 25 km. If the speed of one train is 10km/hr More than the other. Find the speed of each of the trains.
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Question 843153: I need help turning the following word problem into an algebraic equation. Thanks for the assistance. I am really stumped.
Problem: During the 1998-1999 Little League season, the Tigers played 57 games. They lost 21 more games than they won. How many games did they play that season?
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Question 844280: Given any positive even integer, x, the positive difference between the smallest odd number greater than 7x-2 and the largest odd number less than 3x+5 can be written in the form ax+b. What is a + B?
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Question 844432: A private airplane leaves Midway Airport and flies due east at a speed of 180 km/h. Two hours later a jet leaves midway and flies due east at a speed of 900 km/h. How far from the airport will the jet overtake the private plane?
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Question 844426: Juliet has a choice between receiving a monthly salary of $1800 from Furniture by Design or a base salary of $1600 and a 4% commission on the amount of furniture she sells during the month. For what amount of sales will the two choices be equal?
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Question 844724: what is Seven times a number, added to the sum of the number and eight?
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Question 845425: divide 5797 by 10000 enter result as a decimal rounded to least three places
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Question 845393: if 3 is subtracted from 4 times a number, the result is the sum of 5 times the number and 10


this is what I have try . 3-4n=5(n+10)
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Question 845994: what is the answer
twice the quantity of a number plus two is greater than the number plus five.
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Question 847329: You buy one CD and your friend buy two CDS. All the CDS cost the same amount of money. If together you spent $24. how much did each CD cost.
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Question 847758: A boat traveled downstream a distance of 36 mi and then came right back. If the speed of the current was 6 mph and the total trip took 4 hours and 30 minutes, find the average speed of the boat relative to the water.
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Question 849293: please help me translate this word problem to an equation.
- the cost of a new home is $60 per ft^2 plus a $ 5000 deposit.
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Question 849483: I have a problem setting up and solving word problems. Can someone please help me? Here is the word problem:
Cost of can A can in the shape of a right circular cylinder is required to have a volume of 500 cubic centimeters. The top and bottom are made of material that costs 6 cents per square centimeter, while the sides are made of material that costs 4 cents per square centimeter. Express the total cost C of the material as a function of the radius r of the cylinder. What will the cost be if the radius is 10 centimeters?
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Question 850193: In a coordinate plane, the points (2,4) and (3,-1) are on a line. Which of the following must be true?
The line stays above the x-axis at all times.

The line is parallel to the y-axis.

The line rises from the lower left to the upper right.

The line crosses the x-axis.
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Question 850190: Which of the following is an equation of a line that passes through the point (0, 5) and has a negative slope
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Question 850195: line passes through the points (-10,-4) and (-1,2)
What is the y-intercept of the line
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Question 850435: dirt must be excavated from a foundation of a building 30 yards by 15 yards to a depth of 3 yards.how many trips would it take to haul the dirt away with a truck with the capacity of 3 cu yd is used?
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Question 851787: I really need someone's help please? The course that I am taking is on the topic of logarithms and I don't quite understand how to do this word problem. The problem is:
TEMPERATURE CONVERSION. The function C (F)=5/9 (F-32) converts a temperature in degrees. Fahrenheit, F, to a temperature in degrees Celsius, C. The function
K(C) =C+273, changes the temperature in degrees Celsius to a temperature in Kelvins, K.
(1) Find a function that converts a temperature in degrees Fahrenheit to a temperature in Kelvins.
(2) Determine 80 degrees Fahrenheit in Kelvins.
~Thank you for anything that you can do~
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Question 852083: Solve the triangles given the following:
A=67degree, a=18, b=20
This is about solutions of oblique triangle
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Question 852803: What is the expression for: A candle that has been burning for 2 minutes is 8 inches long. That same candle is 7 and 1/4 inches long after burning for 3 minutes. Assume the candle will burn at this rate.
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Question 853043: the sum of 7 and the difference of twice a number and 8
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Question 853976:
a city had 310 days of sunshine one year and 250 the next year (find the percent of increase or decrease to the nearest tenth of a percent)
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Question 853947:

One Number is four more than another. Their sum is sixteen , find both numbers.
Smaller Value Larger Value
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Question 855175: x2-7x-18 I need help finding the answer
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Question 855287: The length of a fence is 4 feet less than twice the width. Find the dimensions if 32 feet of fence is used along three sides of it.
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Question 855833: Identify the solution(s) of the system of equations, if any.
x+2y=4
9x-4y=3
Possible answers:(1,2/3) (1,3/2) (2/3,1) (3/2, 1)
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Question 856237: The difference between two numbers is 106. 6 times the smaller number is equal to 4 more than the larger. What are the numbers?
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Question 856345: Dino traveled for 1 1/2 h at 80 km/h for the first 2/5 of his journey. His average speed for the whole journey was 75 km/h. How long did he take to complete the remaining part of his journey?
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Question 857354: The Cornelius institute increases their enrollments by 15 students each year. The Plato institute decreaes their enrollments by 12 students each year. Knowing that in Year 0, the enrolled students in the Cornelius insitute were 957, while the enrolled students in the Plato institue were 1200. In which year will the cornelius institute have more enrolled students than the Plato institute? Please help me out. Ifeel that this is quite a easy question yet i can't get my head around it! Please help me out thanksss!!!!!!!!!!!
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Question 857354: The Cornelius institute increases their enrollments by 15 students each year. The Plato institute decreaes their enrollments by 12 students each year. Knowing that in Year 0, the enrolled students in the Cornelius insitute were 957, while the enrolled students in the Plato institue were 1200. In which year will the cornelius institute have more enrolled students than the Plato institute? Please help me out. Ifeel that this is quite a easy question yet i can't get my head around it! Please help me out thanksss!!!!!!!!!!!
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Question 857926: Identify the solution(s) of the equations, if any.
3x+2y=4
5x-4y=3
Possible answers: (1,0.5) (0.5,1) (5,5.5) (5/11, -2/11)
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Question 857928: Identify the solution(s) of the system of equations, if any.
3x-2y=6
5x=5-25y
Possible answers :(28/13, 3/13) (-3/17, 32/17) (32/17, -3/17)(32/9, 7/3)
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Question 858072: A funpark charges a 30 euro entry ticket to visit all attractions once; in case of repeated visits to the same attraction, people pay an extra charge, the same for all park attractions.Knowing that Mark paid in total 42 euro and made 4 repeated visits, how much will Luke pay in total if he wants to visit the roller
coaster 5 times? I get 45, but they say that the answer is 48. I really don't know how to do this. My friend says that they both pay 42. So I really don't know what to do and what is the right answer. Please help!!!! thank you
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Question 858557: One number is is 3 less than a second number. Twice the second number is 34 more than 4 times the first. Find the two numbers.
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Question 858455: If a jacket is $65 and it's 30% off, how much is it?
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Question 859547: It would be greatly appreciated if you would be able to help me with:
Find three consecutive, positive integers such that the square of the smallest exceeds the largest by 10.
I've attempted to solve this by doing:
(x+1)(x+2)(x+3)=10
As I'm not very familiar with verbal algebraic terms, I have trouble breaking down world problems.
Thanks for your help!
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Question 860218: Tickets for a play cost $14 for the main floor and $9 for the Balcony. There were fifty more main floor tickets sold than balcony tickets. If the total receipts were $3,000, how many tickets were sold?
Basically, I know and understand how to find let's say the amount of each ticket, but am not sure how to answer this problem where it doesn't tell you how many tickets total.
I usually draw a visual graph to make things easy, so I would like to do an example problem using it...and see if you can help me use it to solve my tickets problem.
EX. There are 35 coins in quarters and nickels. Value of $6.15. How many Quarters, how many nickels?
# tickets cents per total cents
Quarters x 25 25x
Nickels 35-x 5 5(35-x)
Total 35 --- 615

then I take the right side and turn it into an equation:
25x + 5(35-x) = 615
25x + 175-5x = 615
20x + 175 = 615
20x = 440
x = 22
Substitute x=22 into equation and you get the 13 nickels as well.
Can you think of a way to visually use the same sort of technique to answer my original question? It's probably something so simple, I just can't think of it.
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Question 860243: The Washington Tigers are having team shirts made. One option is to pay Damon's Tees a $34 setup fee and then buy the shirts for $6 each. Another option is to go to City Printing, paying $44 for a setup fee and an additional $5 per shirt. The team parent in charge of the project notices that, with a certain number of shirts, the two options have the same cost. What is the cost? How many shirts is that?
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