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Question 1190055: Vern sold his 1964 Ford Mustang for $55,000 and wants to invest the money to earn him 6.4% interest per year. He will put some of the money into Fund A that earns 4% per year and the rest in Fund B that earns 10% per year. How much should he invest into each fund (in dollars) if he wants to earn 6.4% interest per year on the total amount?
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Question 1190062: Three consecutive even integers exist such that when the sum of the smallest and middle-valued integers is subtracted from the largest integer, the result is −18. What are the three integers? (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
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Question 1190094: If a = $.01, b = $.02, c = $.03, and so on, what is the value of your first name? Using this alphabet system, one of the days of the week is worth exactly $1.00. Which is it? Explain your reasoning.
-Need help with equation for the second part.

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Question 1190202: Rewrite the compound inequality without using the word "and."
−7 < 2x + 3 and 2x + 3 ≤ 8
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Question 1190434: The coffee merchant plans to mix some fancy $6.50 per pound ground coffee called royal soil with 10 pounds of a lowly $2 per pound ground called royal peasant. How many pounds of the $6.50 per pound ground coffee should he use
I need to solve this using only X's, not x and Y
6.50x + 2•10 = ???????
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Question 1190433: The coffee merchant plans to mix some fancy $6.50 per pound ground coffee called royal soil with 10 pounds of a lowly $2 per pound ground called royal peasant. How many pounds of the $6.50 per pound ground coffee should he use
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Question 1190518: A drama class has a total 24 students the number of males is 12 more than the number of females how many males and how many females are in a class
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Question 1190540: There are 195 students going to the school dance. If each activity bus can hold 8 students, how many activity buses will they need?
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Question 1190814: Translate to a system of equations and solve. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
The sum of two numbers is 15. One number is 3 less than the other. Find the numbers.
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Question 1190813: Translate to a system of equations and solve. (Enter your answers as a comma-separated list.)
The sum of two numbers is 40. One number is 4 less than the other. Find the numbers.
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Question 1190812: Translate to a system of equations and solve.
Maxim has been offered positions by two car companies. The first company pays a salary of $10,000 plus a commission of $1,000 for each car sold. The second pays a salary of $50,000 plus a commission of $500 for each car sold. How many cars would need to be sold to make the total pay the same?
___ cars
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Question 1190811: Translate to a system of equations and solve.
Amara currently sells televisions for company A at a salary of $18,000 plus a $100 commission for each television she sells. Company B offers her a position with a salary of $26,000 plus a $50 commission for each television she sells. How many televisions would Amara need to sell for the options to be equal?
_____ televisions
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Question 1190810: Translate to a system of equations and solve.
Drew burned 1,500 calories Friday playing one hour of basketball and canoeing for two hours. Saturday he spent two hours playing basketball and three hours canoeing and burned 2,600 calories. How many calories did he burn per hour when playing basketball? How many calories did he burn per hour when canoeing?
basketball ____ calories per hour
canoeing _____ calories per hour
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Question 1190809: Translate to a system of equations and solve.
The difference of two complementary angles is 27 degrees. Find the measures of the angles (in degrees).
smaller angle-
larger angle-
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Question 1190807: Translate to a system of equations and solve.
The difference of two supplementary angles is 74 degrees. Find the measures of the angles (in degrees).
smaller angle-

larger angle-

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Question 1191292: One less than the product of 19 and Malik's savings.Use the variable m to represent Malik's savings.

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Question 1191865: There are 21 goldfish and 102938402938492 times clown fish. How many fish in total?
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Question 1191865: There are 21 goldfish and 102938402938492 times clown fish. How many fish in total?
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Question 1191866: The price p (in dollars) and the quantity q sold of a certain product obey the demand equation q=800-20 p and 0 ≤ p ≤ 40
1. Express the revenue R as a function of q .

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Question 1192446: One crew can put up holiday decorations in the mall in 8 hours. If a slower crew can put up the decorations in 10 hours, how long will it take if both crews work together?
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Question 1192750: An unknown element X combines with aluminum to form a compound with the formula Al₂X₃. a. Describe the most likely location for element X on the periodic table. Explain.
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Question 1192751: The following data was collected during a chemical experiment. Total Mass of Reactants = 25.4 g Total Mass of Products = 18.7 g a) Does this experiment follow the Law of Conservation of Mass? Explain.
What type of reaction might have taken place?

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Question 1193149: The perimeter of the square is 20 cm. Find it’s area.
Include the units.
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Question 1193164: The area of a square is 64 cm exponent 2
Find it’s perimeter. Include units
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Question 1193166: Each length of a cube is 4m.
Find the surface area. Include all units
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Question 1193167: (12-5) exponent 0
Express in expanded form a exponent 5

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Question 1193165: The surface area of a cube is 150 mm exponent 2.
Find it’s volume. Include all units.
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Question 1193291: The width of a rectangle is half its length. If its length is x feet, find its perimeter in terms of x.
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Question 1193336: Eva earns $745.60 a week. If she works 40 hours each week, how much does she earn an hour?
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Question 1193700: six divided by the difference of a number divided by 2 plus ,equals 4 times the reciprocal of the difference of the number squared and 4.What is the number?

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Question 1193722: A low grade of oil contains 2.5% of an additive and a high grade of oil contains 7.5% of an additive. How many liters of the 7.5% additive oil must be added to 500 L of the 2.5% additive oil to get a mixture with 6.5% of the additive?
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Question 1194005: A rectangular garden is 4 m by 12 m. It is to be surrounded by a walkway of uniform width.
Write a relation in standard form for the total are of the garden and walkway
I figured that out to be A=4x^2 +32x+48
This is the part I don't get, Stones for the walkway cost $9/m^2 If the to total cost of the walkway cannot exceed $1200, what is the maximum allowable width of the walkway? Thank you
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Question 1194380: The width of a straight racetrack is one tenth of the measurement of its length. The
perimeter of the track is 132 metres. What are the dimensions of the length and
width of the track?
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Question 1194631: What is the largest order of element in A(n)

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Question 1194884: translate into algebraic expression using d for days
the number of hours in d days and 14 hours
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Question 1194953: As a mathematics enthusiast, what are the different ways to lessen the impact force(90°)
during a confrontational scene. Put your answer on the right triangle.
apply the concepts of trigonometric ratios to
formulate and solve real-life problems with precision and
accuracy.
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Question 1195050: please help me with this question,
Populations whose growth is limited can often be modeled using the logistics equation,
which has the form, P(t) = A/(1+Be^-Ct), Where A, B, and C are positive constants.
a. What is the initial population in terms of the constants?
b. What is the limiting population in terms of the constants?
c. Sketch the graph of P(t) when A=5000, B=300, and C=-0.6.

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Question 1195276: Two railway stations are at a distance of 96 km from each other. One train covers this distance in 40 minutes less than the other. The speed of the first train is 12 km/h faster than that of the second. Determine the speeds of both the trains.
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Question 1195960: In triangle ABC, the size of angle B is 4 times the size of angle A, and the size of angle C is 13 degrees less than 5 times the size of angle A. Find the size of the angles

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Question 1196179: Two ships meet, one going off to the south and the other, to the west. Two hours after their encounter, they are 60 km apart. Find the speed of each ship, if it is known that the speed of one of them is 6 km/h greater than that of the other.
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