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Question 159467: Jorge bought s 40 cent stamps and three times as many 25 cent stamps. How many dollars did he spend?
.40s +3s(.25)= x
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Question 159779: ) In 1/4 of an hour more time. Jack. riding his bicycle at 12 miles per hour, rode 6 miles farther than Nikki, who was riding her bicycle at 10 miles per hour. How long did Jack ride?
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Question 159869: Jims weekly pay is two thirds of Alicia's. Together they earn $600 per week. Week. What is each person's weekly pay?
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Question 160083: Eight students signed up to play doubles tennis. The coach wants to try all possible two player teams to find the best combination. How many different teams are there.
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Question 160155: Write an equation for the line that passes through (-2,1) and (7,-3)
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Question 160155: Write an equation for the line that passes through (-2,1) and (7,-3)
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Question 161160: 1.one number is 11 more than another number. find the two numbers if three times the larger number exceeds four times the smaller number by 4.
2.if the first of two consecutive integers is multiplied by 3, this product is 20 more than the sum of the two integers. find the integers.
3.five times the first of three consecutive even integers is 4 less than twice the sum of the second and third. find the integers.
4.the sum of three numbers is 49. the second number is three times the first number and the third number is 6 less than the first number. find the three numbers.
5.the numerator of a fraction is 2 more than the numerator. if the numerator is decreased by one and the denominator is increased by 2, the value of the original fraction and the new one is 7/3. find the original fraction.
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Question 161315: Translate into an equation.
26 more than the product of a number and 17 is -42.
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Question 161925: I seriously do not get this; i am suppose to translate this into a math equation.
Twice the square of a number increased by five times the product of the number and three more than the number is the opposite of the quotient of six and the number.
???

Thank you for your time.
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Question 162151: a video game is purchased for a total of $18.90 including sales tax. If the tax rate is 5% find the original price of the video game before sales tax.
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Question 162159: Instructions: Analyze each word problem. Write the equation you would use to solve the problem, but do not solve it.
The number of girls in Mrs. Conn's math class is 2 less than 3 times the number of boys. She has 26 students in her class. How many boys are in the class?
So basically, i'm trying to get the equation not the answer so can anyone help me please. i got 3n-2x=26???
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Question 162161: Thirty students bought pennants for the football game. Plain pennants cost $4 each and fancy ones cost $8 each. If the total bill was $168, how many students bought the fancy pennants.
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Question 162366: dianne has six steel balls of equal mass. if she puts five of them in one pan of a beam balance and one ball and a 100 g mass in the other pan, the pans balance each other. what is the mass of each steel ball?
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Question 162427: cost of promotional activities in the last financial year is �80,000.stationery is 9%,leaflets is 25%,brochures is 33%,advertising is 18%,flyers is 15%. it is estimated that 18,800 will be spent on advertising this year.by approximately what percentage will this have increased from last year.
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Question 162644: A parking lot has a perimeter of 600ft. The width is 30ft less than the lenght. Find the dimensions of the parking lot.
Thank you.
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Question 162680: A homeowner wants to fence a rectangular garden using 120ft of fencing. The side of the garage will be used as one side of the rectangle. Find the dimension for which the area is a maximum.

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Question 162645: A homeowner wants to fence a rectangular garden using 120ft of fencing. The side of the garage will be used as one side of the rectangle. Find the dimenstions for which the area is a maximum.
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Question 162893: Hann paid $1.50 each for programs to the game, he sold all but 20 of them for $3 dollars each and made a profit of $15. how many programs did he buy?

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Question 163123: A gardener has a garden that is 20 feet wide and 100 feet long. She wants to have a stone border (along all 4 edges of the garden and inside of the garden) of uniform width. The stone border should use 100 square feet of crushed stone. How wide should the border be in inches?

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Question 163127: How many gallons of distilled water must be mixed with 75 gallons of 30% alcohol solution to obtain a 25% solution?
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Question 163124: A textbook publisher plans to market a new algebra textbook. The fixed costs associated with the text's publication are $270,000, and the variable costs are $38 per textbook. The text will be sold to retailers for $90. How many texts must be sold for the publisher to show a profit? Round to the nearest whole number.
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Question 163445: find three consecutive even integters such that five times the second equals twice the sum of the first and third
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Question 163445: find three consecutive even integters such that five times the second equals twice the sum of the first and third
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Question 163490: Please help me with this problem:
It costs $28.95 per day plus $0.15 per mile to rent a car.

How much is charged for renting the car for one day and driving 220 miles?
Thank you.
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Question 163491: Please help me with the following problem:
Joe�s Used Cars sold 50 cars in 1999. In 2004 they sold 180 cars.

Find the average rate of change in cars sold from 1999 to 2004.
Thanks

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Question 160812: A open box is to be made from a 25inch by 40inch rectangular piece of cardboard by cutting squares of equal area from each corner and turning up the sides. If the specifications require the base the base of the box to have an area of 700sq.in., what size squares should be cut from each corner?
(Explain what the answer means in mathematical perspective.)
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Question 163627: the revenue, R, of an electronics manufacturer for selling x handheld organizers is given by R=0.25x^2-100x. The revenue of a competing manufacturers for selling similar products is R=75x. Under what circumstances will both manufacturers have the same revenue?
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Question 163647: Please help me:
Find the center and the radius of the circle given by x^2+8x+y^2+6y-24=0
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Question 163761: if i have2 how much more will give me 4
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Question 163861: whats 2x+2x
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Question 163863: solve by substitution or elimination method: 3x-2y=8
-12x+8y=32
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Question 163869: Min leaves the house traveling 28 mph in her car. She overtakes Lew in 2 hrs. Lew is riding his bicycle and left the house 5 hours before Min. How fast is Lew traveling
answer is : Lew is traveling 8 mph need a simple break down of how my book got 8mph
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Question 163862: whats 3+3
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Question 163896: The sum of two consecutive numbers is 45. If 4 times the smaller number is increased by 3 times the larger number, the result is 150. Find the numbers.
from handout MPM1D - word problems: algebraic expressions
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Question 163955: An executive in an engineering firm earns a monthly salary plus a Christmas bonus of $8500. If she earns a total $97,300 per year, what is her monthly salary?
I can solve the problem, but don't know how to write the formula.
My thinking:
97,000 - 8500 = 88,800
88,800/12 = $7,400 per month
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Question 163951: A rental company charges $65 a day and 30 cents a mile for renting a truck. Michael rents a truck for 3 days, and his bill comes to $275. How many miles did he drive?
I can figure out that the answer is 400 miles, but I don't know how to put it in an algebraic equation form.
Thanks
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Question 163953: A cell phone company charges a monthly fee of $10 for the first 1000 text messages and 10 cents for each additional text message. Miriam's bill for text messages for the month of June is $38.50. How many text messages did she send that month?
I can figure out the answer(1285 messages) but I don't know how to write the formula.
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Question 164592: a rectangular field has a width of w meters. The length of the field is 2 meters less than 5 times the width. Write an expression that represents the area of the rectangle.
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Question 164763: the perimeter of a rectangle garden is 76 ft. the length is six feet less than three times the width. find the dimensions of the garden
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Question 164997: Mickey mows lawns 5 days a week in the summer and he works the same number of hours each day. If he works a total of 20 hours, write an equation to represent how many hours he works each day. Solve and check your equation.
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