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Question 980084: Beth is planning on investing her $12,000 bonus, putting some in an account earning 7% and the rest in an account earning 5%. How much should she put in each account to have a total of $760 interest.
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Question 980083: Susan has 600 feet of fencing to use in making a yard for her new puppy. The yard she has planned has a length that is 75 feet less than twice the width. What are the dimensions of the yard?
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Question 980867: Just calculate the 4 digit no.........
4th digit is tree times of 1st digit
2nd nd 3rd digit are same
And total of last two digit is equal to three times of 2nd digit.
Now calculate the 4 digit no.??????
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Question 981622: Tripling Money How long does it take for money to triple in an account paying 5% interest compounded annually?

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Question 982004: Last year Grandpa Jones had a small square garden. This year he has a square garden that is 112 sq feet in area. Each side of the new garden is 2 feet longer than triple each side of the old garden. find the dimensions of each garden?
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Question 982002: A racing Sailboat has a triangular Sail. Find the base and the altitude of the triangular sail if the area is 52 sq feet and the altitude is 5 feet longer than the base.
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Question 982029: f(x)= 5x+6/2x-6
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Question 982373: when the tens digit of three digit number abc deleted a two digit number ac is formed. How many numbers abc are thee such that abc = 9ac+4c?
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Question 982643: When a number is multiplied by 6 and this product is descreased by 5 and the result is 31
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Question 982937: consider a 10,7 ,3 litters .that 10 litter filled in water .other measurment available for use .so how can u filled in equaly in 10 litter,7 litter can per5 litter

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Question 983391: Seven more than the product of 15 and Julie's height
Use the variable j to represent Julie's height.
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Question 983423: if the number p is 7 more than the number q and the sum of the squares of p and q is 85 find the product of p and q?
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Question 983423: if the number p is 7 more than the number q and the sum of the squares of p and q is 85 find the product of p and q?
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Question 983431: IF THE SUM OF TWO NUMBERS IS 7 AND THE SUM OF THEIR CUBES IS 133 FIND THE SUM OF THEIR SQUARES?
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Question 983439: 1. IF X=7-4RT3, FIND THE VALUE OF RTX+1/RTX?
2. X=3+2RT2, FIND THE VALUE OF X^3-1/X^3?

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Question 984405: Translate this sentence into an equation.
The product of 5 and Greg�s score is 65.
Use the variable g to represent Greg�s score.

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Question 984473: A, B and C are three groups of pupils. If group A is 1/3 of the total number of pupils in the three groups, Group B has 5 pupils more than group A and group C has 3/5 as many pupils as group B, find the original number of pupils in each group.
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Question 984854: Having trouble with
twice the difference between c and 4
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Question 984891: The equation for your total expenses equal $21,000 + $1500t, where t is the number of months. If ProXit = $8500t, how long will it take for the proXit to match the expenses?

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Question 984909: A bottle of soft drink is placed in a refrigerator and left there until its temperature drops by 15 K from its original value. What is the corresponding change in temperature on the Fahrenheit scale?
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Question 984908: A new temperature scale is called Z. On that scale, the boiling point of water is 150 degrees Z and the freezing point is −10.0 degrees Z . Find the corresponding 70 degrees Z in degrees C .
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Question 985556: 31 heads and 104 feet, how many dogs and how many birds
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Question 985556: 31 heads and 104 feet, how many dogs and how many birds
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Question 985962: The sum of 4 and three times a number is 19

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Question 985962: The sum of 4 and three times a number is 19

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Question 985982: Jasmine and her friends eat half a bag of lollies on her birthday. The next day they eat three quarters of the number they ate the day before. Then there are 8 lollies left. How many were in the bag to begin with?
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Question 986028: Rewrite as an equation
Seven times a number is 9 more than 4 times the number
I got- 7n=4n+9
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Question 986030: which equation represents the situation;
Jose worked 2.5 hrs. more than Will. Together they worked a total of 22 hrs. will worked h hrs.
I got- h+(h+2.5)=22
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Question 986026: Rewrite as an equation-
four more than one third a number is equal to fourteen
I got= n/3+4=14
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Question 986268: Some number greater than 2 over itself but multiplied by one third.
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Question 986342: According to Wikipedia, the population of China is 1,362,080,000 and the population of the Us is about 317,427,000. China's population is how many times bigger than the US population?
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Question 986337: I neee help on, four times the sum of twice a number and -3 is less than 5.5 times that same number and please solve? thanks!
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Question 961788: 30 subtracted from a number is this it?
x-30
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Question 987021: (Algebra 2) [Express Algebraically] On a journey, 5 times the distance traveled equals 900 miles more than twice the distance.
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Question 987021: (Algebra 2) [Express Algebraically] On a journey, 5 times the distance traveled equals 900 miles more than twice the distance.
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Question 987124: two more than the product -3 and the number
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Question 988508: James earns $15 an hour as a teller at a bank.In one week he pays 17% of his earnings in taxes.His take home pay for that week is $460.65.How many hours did James work?

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Question 988636: you are making a rectangular poster to advertise a school fundraiser. you want the poster to be twice as long as it is wide. let w represent the width in meters of the poster
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Question 988669: The product of 5 and the sum of 6 and 7
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Question 988669: The product of 5 and the sum of 6 and 7
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Question 988811: A minor league baseball team plays 127 games in a season. If the team won 15 more than three times as many games as they lost, how many wins and losses did the team have?

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Question 988714: Is the expression 5+3x/2 equal to the expression 4x? Explain your answer.

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Question 988756: In his second quiz, he got 10 points more than his first quiz and in his third quiz he got 5 points less than his second quiz. If the sum of three quiz grades I 285, could you help Jules determine his grade?
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Question 989199: Hello, can the following problem be solved using LCM or GCF? If not can you show how to solve it with algebra? Thank you
A dining table cost $79.20 more than a chair. A chair cost $29.20 more than a stool. David bought 5 of each item and paid $922 in all. What is the cost of each stool.
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Question 989784: Four times the sum of twice a number and negative three is less than 5.5 time that same number

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