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Question 1040344: Two numbers are multiplied together. The product is 1218. Each of the two numbers are doubled. Give the product of these larger numbers.
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Malen Topio
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Question 1040809: If 3 is added to twice a number and the sum is multiplied by 2 the result is the same as if the number is multiplied by 0 and 2 is added to the product what is the number'
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Question 1042365: In the 2010-2011 NBA regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers won 7 more than twice as many games as they lost. The Lakers played 82 games. How many wins and loses did the team have
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Question 1042721: Two cities are located in the xy-plane at the points A(7, 5) and B 3(13, 8). A company wishes to place a factory on a road between the cities at A and B. It is determined that the company can make the most money if it places the factory exactly halfway between
A and B. However, due to environmental hazards produced by the factory, it is safe for the people living in City A and City B only if the factory is located exactly one third of the distance from City A going toward City B.
Find the coordinates of the point where the factory should be placed to ensure the most ethical outcome.

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Question 1043795: the side of one cube are twice as long as the side of a second cube. what is the side lenght of each cube if the total volume of the cube is 72cm3

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Question 1043904: a number decreased by the um of the number and six
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Question 1043469: In the year 2008, DJ bought a new car for $26,000. In 2013, he was told that the value of his car was $15,000 due to depreciation. He is told that the value of his car depreciates linearly.
A.Find a function V (t) which gives the value of the car t years after the year 2008.
B.In 2015, DJ is told that he will be given $3500 for his car if he decides to trade it in for a new car. Use the function from part (a) above to determine the value of his car in 2015.
C.Is the $3500 value fair based on what he was told about linear depreciation
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Question 1044538: what is the sum of 17 and 7
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Question 1044614: Please convert and simplify the following

Two times A number added to -1 subtracted from twice the sum of nine times the number and nine
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Question 1044735: There are 200 people interested in playing in a basketball league. The leaders are going to divide all of the people into n teams.
What algebraic expression represents the number of players on each team?
After the teams were created the league merged with another league doubling every team. Write an expression to show this new number of players on each team?
If there were 25 teams, how many players will be on each team after the leagues combined. (use the expression from b)
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Question 1044769: X+y+z=6
X-y+z=2
2x+y-z=1
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Question 1044769: X+y+z=6
X-y+z=2
2x+y-z=1
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Question 1045064: 3 times of a number is greater than 4/3 of the number by 85. What is the number?
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Question 1045227: The sum of two number is 14. The sum of the squares of the two number is 100. Find the two numbers.
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Question 1045227: The sum of two number is 14. The sum of the squares of the two number is 100. Find the two numbers.
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Question 1045242: The height h of a rock t seconds after it is dropped off a cliff is given by the equation h=-16t^2 + 400. How many seconds after the Rock is dropped will it hit the ground?
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Question 1045244: Pressure of a gas varies inversely with the volume. 40 liters of a gas has a pressure of 120 psi( ponds per square in - like car tire pressure). The volume is changed to 15 liters, what is the new pressure?
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Question 1045246: The number of cars manufactured on an assembly line varies jointly as the number of workers and the time they worked. If 120 workers can produce 60 cars in 2 hours, find how many cars 140 workers should be able to produce in 3 hours?
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Question 1045245: The stopping distance of a car varies directly with square of the car speed. A car traveling at 65 mph requires 212 feet to stop? What distance would be required to stop if the same car is traveling 80mph? Give answer to nearest tenth of a foot.
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Question 1045707: The length of a rectangle is 1 unit more than the width. If the area of the rectangle is 30 square units, what are the dimensions of the rectangle?
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Question 1045722: Find a number that is 96 greater than its opposite

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Question 1045721:
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Question 1045699: The length of a rectangle is twice its width. If the perimeter is 60, find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1045726: Find a number that is 68 greater than three times its opposite

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Question 1045724: Find a number that is 38 less than its opposite

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Question 1046060: Will you please help me with this problem because i became confused. Here is the problem: A number added to four times its reciprocal is equal to the sum of 3/2 and the quotient of two more than three times the same number and four. What is the number?

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Question 1046353: The length of a rectangle is 2 cm less than twice the width. Express as an integer the maximum width of the rectangle when the perimeter is less than 66 cm.
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Question 1046868: Alberto bought 9 posters. A week later half of all his posters were destroyed in a fire. there are now only 17 posters left. With how many did he start?
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Question 1046876: On Tuesday KAli bought four hats. On Wednesday half of all the hats that she had were destroyed. On Thursday there were only 13 left. How many did she have on Monday?
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Question 1046897: The length of a rectangle is 8m more than twice the width . If the perimeter of the rectangle is 352m, find the dimensions
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Question 1046897: The length of a rectangle is 8m more than twice the width . If the perimeter of the rectangle is 352m, find the dimensions
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Question 1047024: A lumber company owns a forest that is of rectangular shape, 1 mi by 2 mi. If the company cuts a uniform strip of trees along the outer edges of this forest, how wide should the strip be if 3/4 sq mi of forest is to remain.
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Question 1047183: The sum of three consecutive natural numbers is 1941, find the numbers.
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Question 1047273: A store is offering a 3% discount on all items. Write an equation relating the sale price SS for an item to its list price LL

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Question 1047288: The width of a rectangle is 5 less than twice its length. If the area of the rectangle is 70 cm2, what is the length of the diagonal?

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Question 1047410: Hi, I have a word problem I need help with.
Four friends have different numbers of cows on their farms. Jorge has 3 times as many cows as Carla. Marcus has half as many cows as Jorge. Dominick has 2 less than 4 times as many cows as Carla. How many cows does each person have if they have a total of 169 cows?
I'm having a problem with the equations of Marcus and Dominik.And I'm not sure how to write the equations of either of them. But isn't Carla "X", and Jorge " 3X"?
Thank you.
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Question 1047390: the second angle of a triangle is 25 more than twice the measure of the first angle. The third angle of a triangle is 15 degrees more than half the measure of the first angle. Find the measure of each angle.
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Question 1047835: The difference of two integers is 9. Five times the smaller is 7 more than 3 times the larger. Find the numbers.
I got as far as writing the equations:
x - y = 9
3x + 7 = 5y
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Question 1047964: The sum of three times a number and 6 more than the number is the same as the difference between minus−18 and twice the number. What is the number?
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