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Question 1048807: The numbers on two consecutively numbered gym lockers have a sum of 135. What are the locker numbers?
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Question 1049112: 1. Mr. Wong earns twice as mush as Ms. Kerenski and five times as much as Mr. Mostelli. If their combined income total RM340,000 how much does each person earn?
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Question 1049226: Two less than a product of two numbers

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Question 1049239: 1/4 of a certain number is added to 4 1/3. The sum is same as when 1/3 of it ia added to 20 2/3. Find the number.
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Question 1049239: 1/4 of a certain number is added to 4 1/3. The sum is same as when 1/3 of it ia added to 20 2/3. Find the number.
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Question 1049246: |x|>x-2
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Question 1049645: Some number minus −13 is equal to the product of the number and 3.
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Question 1050186: The sum of two numbers is 172. The first is 8 less than 5 times the second. Find the first number. Please help me I don't understand how to solve this.

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Question 1050187: After playing 25 basketball games, Hickory Hollow Christian High won 4 times as many games as they lost. How many games die they win?
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Question 1050188: At class meeting, Jeff, Chad and Lane ate a total of 254 marshmallows in the contest. Jeff won by eating 7 more than Chad, who ate 5 more than Lane. How many marshmallows did Jeff eat?
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Question 1050199: The senior class of Oakdale christian traveled 630 miles in one day on their trip. After lunch they traveled twice as far as they did for lunch. How many miles did they travel after lunch?
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Question 1050200: several members of Bethel church spent 17 days on a tour of Israel, Egypt and Germany. THey spent twice as long in Israel as in Germany and 3 fewer days in Egypt then in Germany. How many days did they spend in each country.
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Question 1050332: Translate the phrase into an expression eight less than the product of 2 and x
And the product of y and z divided by the sum of 3 and 4
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Question 1050338: add the followung monomials by combine the like terms and write the corresponding polynomial expression in proper form 13x. -4x^3. 16. -4x. 16x^4 22. 12x
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Question 1050719: If -7 is added to a number and the sum is doubled, the result is 13 less than the number.

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Question 1050942: Help! I cant figure this out been trying for hours.
(1) Find the volume of pure nitric acid in a 16.0ml sample of 19% nitric acid.
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Question 1050935: At the present time nick is one-third as old as Karl. In 12 years, Karl's age will be six years less than twice nicks's age at the time. Find the present ages for both nick and karl
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Question 1051665: What is the product of a number and negative 4 is the opposite of 124
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Question 1052172: A number Added to five is the same as twice the number find the number
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Question 1052649: one number is six than another number. find the numbers if 6 times the smaller number is 12 more than 5 times the larger number?
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Question 1053673: I just cant with word problems. Please help.
1. Your friend Alex has won a scholarship to study abroad. Alex has only 8 weeks to earn enough money to buy a plane ticket, and he wants to work at an amusement park or a tech internship over the summer to achieve this goal.
His plane ticket cost $2,200. The tech internship is part time 20 hr/wk with $11.50/hr, where as the amusement park is full-time 40hr/wk with $9/hr+$100 bonus when he starts.
You want to find the income line that represents how much Alex makes, where
x = hours worked
y = money earned
2. Complete the following table to find the equations for the money Alex will earn at each job.
Slope=m y-intercept=(x, y) Point-slope form
Amusement Park
Tech Internship
3. How much time does Alex have? For each job, use information from the table to calculate the number of hours Alex could work before he has to buy his plane ticket.
4. For each job, write an inequality that represents the number of hours Alex could work before the trip.
5. Write an inequality that represents the amount of money Alex needs to earn
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Question 1054036: In a club, the number of male members is 3 more than a half of the total number of members. The numbers of female members is 4 more than 1/3 of the total number of members. Is it possible that the total number of members is over 40 ?
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Question 1054092: a mixture of nuts contains peanuts and cashews. there are 7 more than twice as many cashews as peanuts. the total mixture contains 472 nuts. how many peanuts are there? how many cashews are there?
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Question 1054273: 1) The first number is 5 more than the 2nd. Three times the first increased by twice the second results in 30. Find the numbers.

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Question 1054273: 1) The first number is 5 more than the 2nd. Three times the first increased by twice the second results in 30. Find the numbers.

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Question 1054330: Twin brothers, Billy and Bobby, can mow their grandparent's lawn together in 75 minutes. Billy could mow the lawn by himself in 15 minutes less time that it would take Bobby. How long would it take Bobby to mow the lawn by himself?
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Question 1054272: The first number is 5 more than the 2nd. Three times the first increased by twice the second results in 30. Find the numbers.
Thank you so much
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Question 1054829: In one season Anna ran 18 races this was four fewer races than twice the number of races Kelly ran how many races did Kelly run
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Question 1054937: Five less than a number is at least -1 and at most 2
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Question 1055393: Define the variables(write "let" statements) and write the equation for the following problems.
A teaher's bulletin board needs a new border. The width of the bulletin board is 0.8m less than half the length. If she needs a total of 12.2m of border, find the dimensions of the bulletin board.
Much appreciated
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Question 1055366: I have to define the variables( write "let" statements) and write the equation for the problem and solve.
Mrs Smith paid for her tea using 26 coins made up of quarters and dimes. Her bill totaled $4.70. How many of each type of coin did she use?
Thanks so much
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Question 1055656: 9odd add=60
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Question 1056097: The sum of -6 and -10, increased by 14
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Question 1056103: The FAA now figures the average checked bag to weigh 29 pounds. This is up from a previous figure of 26 pounds. Find the amount of increase and the percent of increase.

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Question 1056332: One number is 2 greater than another number if the sum of the square of their squares is 52 find the two numbers if they're both natural numbers
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Question 1056291: A circular patch of oil spread out on water increases at a rate of 6 cm^2/s. at what rate is the area increasing when the radius is 2cm?
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Question 1056489: A number plus six

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Question 1056488: Three times a number minus five

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Question 1056499: twice a sum of a number and six is the opposite of the number. what is the number?

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