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Question 1103232: Sorry I don't really know what category to put this under!
Here's the question:
Find two consecutive odd integers if the larger is four less than one third the smaller
Thank You!
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Question 1103274: Find the slope of the line through the points (6, -12) and (15, -3)
-1
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Question 1103346: The half-life of a radioactive isotope is the time it takes for a quantity of the isotope to be reduced to half its initial mass. Starting with
130
grams of a radioactive isotope, how much will be left after
5
half-lives?
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Question 1103445: The product of Greg's age and
8
is
120
.
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Question 1104122: A woman is now 30 years older than her son. 15 years ago,she was twice as old. What are the present ages of the woman and her son
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Question 1104122: A woman is now 30 years older than her son. 15 years ago,she was twice as old. What are the present ages of the woman and her son
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Question 1104221: ONE Numbers is 6 more than another number. If you add 10 to 5 times the first number, the result is 6 times the second number.
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Question 1104702: The angle of elevation from a point on the ground to the top of a pyramid is 3434degrees�4040' The angle of elevation from a point 134134 feet farther back to the top of the pyramid is 2323degrees�4040'. Find the height of the pyramid.
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Question 1105245: Last week Jason had thirty dollars. He washed cars over the weekend and now has seventy dollars. How much money did he make washing cars?
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Question 1107029: The state of Nevada contains the most federally owed acres of land in the United States. If 90% of the state�s 70 million acres of land is federally owned, find the number of acres that are not federally owned.
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Question 1108183: The perimeter of a rectangle is 56cm. The width is 8cm. less than the length. Find its area.
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Question 1108183: The perimeter of a rectangle is 56cm. The width is 8cm. less than the length. Find its area.
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Question 1108097: Ileana plans to rent a boat.The boat rental costs $60 per hour,and she will also have to pay for a water safety course that costs $10. Ileana wants to spend no more than $280 for the rental and the course.If the boat rental is available only for whole number of hours,what is the maximum number of hours for which Ileana can rent the boat?
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Question 1108862: Lorenzo bought several pounds of chocolate-covered peanuts and gave the cashier a $20 bill. Write an expression for the amount of change he will receive if p represents the cost of the peanuts.

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Question 1109028: A piece of string is 122 inches long if u cut it into 2 pieces so that one piece is three times as long as the other how long is each piece?
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Question 1109194: The tens digit of a two-digit number is 5 more than the units digit. If "the number" is divided by the sum of its digits, the partial quotient (answer) is 7 and the remainder is 6. Find the number.
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Question 1109553: A cable network offers members a Basic plan for $7.287.28 per month. For $3.003.00 more per month, the cable network offers a Standard plan, which includes HD movies. During one week, 350350 new subscribers paid a total of $2968.002968.00 for their plans. How many Basic plans and how many Standard plans were purchased?

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Question 1109606: In country A, about five times as many cars are manufactured per day than in country B. If the total number of these cars manufactured per day is 39,642, find the number manufactured in country B and the number manufactured in country A.
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Question 1110031: four times a number minus 3 is equal to three the number plus 6 find the number
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Question 1110369: Find the measure of an angle such that the difference between the measures of its supplement and three times its complement is 40�.
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Question 1110383: A study showed that there are 15 vehicles for every 10 households. How many vehicles are there for 106 million households?
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Question 271072: There are 216 biographies in the library there are 5 biographies of men for every 4 biographies of women. How many biographies of women are there?
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Question 1111265: Suppose an ice cream Costs twice as chocolate. If the ice cream cost x rand, how much, in terms of x, does the chocolate cost?
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Question 1111351: A bank loaned out�$70,000, part of it at the rate of��per year and the rest at a rate of��per year. If the interest received was�$2220.00, how much was loaned at�

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Question 1111502: Hooke's Law says that the force exerted by the spring in a spring scale varies directly with the distance that the spring is stretched. If a 39 pound mass suspended on a spring scale stretches the spring 8 inches, how far will a 50 pound mass stretch the spring?
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Question 1111942: 19 more than twice Carlos�s score into an algebraic expression
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Question 1111971: Megan's text messaging plan costs $14 for the first 350 messages and 25� for each additional text message. If she owes $72.50 for text messaging in the month of April, how many text messages did she send that month?
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Question 965979: prove that the product of any three consecutive numbers is even.
So far I have tried , (n)(n+1)(n+2)=n^3+3n^2+2n
but there is no multiple of an even number. I'm not sure what kind of proof method it is but this would be a proof with the same method. i.e prove that the sum of three consecutive odd numbers is divisible by 3 , 2n+1+2n+3+2n+5= 6n+9 3(2n+3) is a multiple of three therefore it is divisible by three.
Any help would be appreciated, hope it is not too confusing
Thanks

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Question 1114055: Translate this phrase into an algebraic expression One more than the product of
7 and Vidya's savings
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Question 1114079: Arianne greene charge account statement shows an unpaid balance of $376.00.The monthly finance charge is 1.85% of the unpaid balance. Whay is the finance charge?
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Question 1114402: A family has two cars. The first car has a fuel efficiency of 20 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of miles30 per gallon of gas. During one particular week, the two cars went a combined total of 1550 miles, for a total gas consumption of 60 gallons. How many gallons were consumed by each of the two cars that week?
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Question 1114438: 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 1114773: An object is projected directly upward from the ground. After t seconds its distance in feet
above the ground is given by h(t) = -16t^2 + 160t.
a. How high is the projectile after 5 seconds?
b. At what time(s) is the projectile 110 feet from the ground?
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Question 1115031: If a ball is thrown straight up from the top of a building that is 407 feet high, the position in feet
above the ground is given by the function s(t) = -16t^2 + 75t + 407 where t is the number of
seconds elapsed.
a. How high is the projectile after 3 seconds?
b. How long will it take for the ball to reach a height of 450 feet above the ground?
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Question 1115037: Jessie paddled her canoe 20 miles upstream, then paddled back. If the speed of the current was
3 mph and the total trip took 7 hours, what was Jessie�s speed?
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Question 1115441: i think of two numbers, the first number plus three times the second number is 1, the first minus three times the second is 19, find the numbers.
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Question 1115442: Ali bought 12 pencils and 10 rules for $2.10, paying the same price for each as Ali, I bought 20 pencils and 4 rulers for $1.60, what were the prices of a pencil and a ruler?
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Question 1115808: Adam is twice as old as his brother. the sum of their ages is 27. how old is each
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Question 1116202: A cell phone tower is 250 feet high. How long should a guy wire be if it is to be attached to the tower 15 feet from the top and to make an angle of 25� with the ground? Round your answer to the nearest foot.How far from the center of the base of the tower is the guy wire attached to the ground. Round your answer to the nearest foot.What a second guy wire was attached to the same 250 feet tall cell phone tower exactly halfway up the tower. If the guy wire is to be attached to the ground 300 feet from the center of the base of the tower what angle does the guy wire make with the ground? Round your answer to the nearest tenth degree.
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Question 1116371: one number is four more than another. their sum is 10
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Question 1116574: Factorise the following expression completely:9a� � m� + 10mn � 25n�

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