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Question 894546: A coin bank contains 25 coins in nickels, dimes and quarters. There are four times as many dimes as quarters. The value of the coins is $2.05. How many dimes are in the bank?
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Question 894676: Could you please help me translate this equation? The speed limit of 65 mph
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Question 894737: Briana and her sister Molly both wants to buy the same model bicycle. Briana needs $73 more before she can afford the bike. Molly needs $65 more. If they combine their money, they will have just enough to buy one bike that they could share. What is the cost of the bike?
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Question 895638: Paul purchased a stereo on layaway. His payments are $37 a month. Paul has written checks for 7 payments. How has this affected his checking account?
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Question 896197: You have to copy a 500-page document.
There are two copiers In the office:copier a makes 13 copies in 1 minute and copierb makes 18 copies in 1 minute. Let a be the number of pages you put in copier a. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
A. Write an equation you can use to find out how long it will take to make a copy.
B. How long will it take you to make the copy if you put 200 pages in copier a. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
C. Which will be faster, the faster copier, or using both copiers by putting 250 pages in each?
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Question 896360: he is clear from u

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Question 896512: A circular flower bed is boarded by a 3-foot walk. The area of the walk is 7/9 of the area of the bed. What is the radius of the bed?
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Question 896449: i need ur help, cause i think its so confused
You borrow money from a bank to build a house. The Bank applies the compound interest formula A = P (1 + r / n) ^ nt. If you borrow money as much as 300 million dollars and you will pay in total after 10 years at 8% (0.08). What is the total amount you borrowed money?
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Question 896844: In a class of 120 students, 94 received a grade of A. What fraction of the class did not receive an A? Reduce to the lowest terms
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Question 896840: the lenght of a rectangle is 10 m more then its breath.if the perimeter of the rectangle is 80 m find the dimensions of the rectangle

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Question 897018: Is it possible to find two positive integers whose sum is even and their difference is odd?

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Question 897014: Translate the ff into equations
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Question 897211: a piece of wire 10 m long, is to be cut into two pieces, one of them two-thirds as long as the other. how should the wire be cut?

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Question 896683: 9 less than a certain number

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Question 897367: How would you translate twelve less than four times a number?
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Question 899048: Six less than the product if 16 and Greg's age

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Question 899571: First- translate the verbal sentences into equations
Then- solve for x
Equation= 6 less than two thirds of a number (x) is 10
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Question 899802: Hi.
I don't understand what this question requires of me:
If a car can travel x/6 km in 20min, how far can it travel in y min?
Thanks
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Question 902487: the problem consist of finding the price of each item. for example Todd bought 7 shrubs and 5 tomatoes for 87 dollars and Sara bought 6 shrubs and 3 tomatoes for 138 dollars what is the price of one shrub and one tomato... how do I solve that??
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Question 902615: Moan has paper. she want to cut into small piece, each piece 1/20 of full piece of paper. How many piece are there?
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Question 902615: Moan has paper. she want to cut into small piece, each piece 1/20 of full piece of paper. How many piece are there?
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Question 903047: Manufacturer of bird feeders cuts spacers from a tube that is 61/9 inches long. How many spacers can be cut from the tube if each spacer must be 5/9 inch thick?
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Question 903059: Ship P + Ship C+Ship M= 530
Solve for P
Solve C= P+ 25
Solve M= 3P - 30
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Question 903134: Total sales at a restaurantA were $475,000 more than at Restaurant B. total sales at the two stores were $550,ooo,ooo. What were the sales for the year at each store?
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Question 903330: if 4 is subtracted from twice a number, the result is 36. Find the number
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Question 903454: Twelve more than the square of the difference of four times a number and eight in algebraic expression.
Let x represent the unknown number.
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Question 903892: if the length of a rectangle is 3 feet less than twice its width, write an expression to show the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 903905: can you please help me to figure out how to solve this
bird feeders cuts spacers from a tube that is 7 5/7 inches long. How many spacers can be cut from the tube if each spacer must be 6/7 inch thick?
estimate and actual number of spacers
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Question 903911: can you please help me to figure out how to solve this
Caribbean paradise has 35 more suits than pacific paradise. med paradise has 37 fewer than twice the suits of pacific paradise. find the number of suits for each ship total is 664

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Question 903904: can you please help me to figure out how to solve this
Caribbean paradise has 35 more suits than pacific paradise. med paradise has 36 fewer than twice the suits of pacific paradise. find the number of suits for each ship total is 519

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Question 903998: The sum of three consecutive even numbers is 90. What is the smallest of the three?
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Question 904241: Duke�s Car Rental rents cars at $40 plus 15 cents a mile. Mickey�s Rentals rents cars at $50 plus 10 cents a mile.
a) Write a linear equation for the cost, C, of each car rental as a function of miles, m, driven.
b) Graph both functions together. Label functions and axis and use appropriate scaling.
c) Interpret what the vertical intercept of each function represents?
d) At what miles do the rentals cost the same? What is the cost at that mileage?
e) Analyze and interpret each rental. When is each rental car the best deal?

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Question 901452: If your going to help me could you PLEASE explain to me how you got the answer so that way i can answer the other problems with ease!? Ok so our assignment is to translate word problems into algebraic equations. -- The length of a rectangle is 2cm more than 5 times the width. The perimeter is 196cm. Find the width and length. -- In the directions we have to indentify our variable, write an equation, show work, and solve. PLEASE help me, my teacher didnt do a good job at explaining this to us!
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Question 905449: I am trying to translate this into a formula, but i am having trouble.
Makayla paid 33.15 for an Ipad case during a 15%-off sale. What was the regular price?
this is what i have so far.
15%=.15
33.15+15%=38.12
but 15% -38.12= 32.40
I am confused as to what to do?

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Question 905912: Two apples and one orange together cost 72 cent. One apple and two oranges together costs 63 cent. How much does one orange cost?
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Question 905912: Two apples and one orange together cost 72 cent. One apple and two oranges together costs 63 cent. How much does one orange cost?
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Question 905919: Question 18
Two apples and one orange together cost 72 cent. One apple and two oranges together costs 63 cent. How much does one orange cost? Enter your answer as a whole number, i.e. no � symbol.

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Question 904929: Solution and Answer please, Thank you!
- If 1000 articles of a give type can be turned out by a first machine in 8 hours, by a second in 5 hours, and by a third in 4 hours, how long will it take to turn out the articles with all machines working?
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Question 905893: Two cars traveled equal distances in different amounts of time. Car A traveled the distance in 2.4 h, and Car B traveled the distance in 4 h. Car A traveled 22 mph faster than Car B.

How fast did Car A travel?
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Question 904244: . A company produces and sells shirts. The fixed costs are $7000 and the variable costs are $5 per shirt.

a) Shirts are sold for $12 each. Find the cost and revenue as functions of the quantity of shirts, q.
b) The company is considering changing the selling price of the shirts. Demand is
q = 2000 � 40p, where p is the price of the shirt in dollars and q is the number of shirts. What quantity is sold at the current price of $12? What profit is realized at this price?
c) Use the demand equation to write cost and revenue as functions of price, p. Then write profit as a function of price, p. (hint: do not use $12, use just p)
d) Graph profit against price. Find the price that maximizes profits. What is this profit?

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Question 899569: Hi,
I'm a French math teacher and I've to train some students for their final exam. They've to solve in English some word problems.
I've got some examples of problems that have been given previous years : http://www.pedagogie.ac-nantes.fr/servlet/com.univ.collaboratif.utils.LectureFichiergw?CODE_FICHIER=1340893222720&ID_FICHE=183524 .
I've found on the internet some small word problems but there are often one or two questions. So I'm looking for "richer" word problems.
Does anyone know a website or an online book with this kind of content?
Problems often talk about sequences (arithmetic & geometric), exponential and logarithm functions, probabilities and statistic, optimisation.
Thanks in advance.
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