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Question 54902: The newspaper said that only 42% of the registered voters in the school board election. If 11.960 people voted, how many registered voters are there? Write an equation.
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Question 54890: What is the slope of the line whose equation is 2y=5x+4?
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Question 54890: What is the slope of the line whose equation is 2y=5x+4?
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Question 54885: The larger of two numbers is 12 more than the smaller. The sum of the number is 36. What are the numbers? Write a equation.
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Question 54893: The newspaper said that only 42% of the registered voters voted in the school board election. If 11,960 people voted, how many registered voters are there? Write an equation.
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Question 54906: The sum of two numbers is 75. The large number is 7 more than 3 times smaller. Find the numbers.
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Question 54889: Gina has $2 more than three times the amount that Fred has. When Gina gabe Fred $5, Fred then had one-half as much as Gina. How much did Gina have at first? Write an equation.
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Question 54855: 14. Find the slope and the y-intercept.
y = 7x � 7

15. Find the slope and y-intercept.
x = 1
A) Slope: 0; y-intercept: (0, 1)
B) Slope: undefined; y-intercept: (0, 1)
C) Slope: 0; y-intercept: none
D) Slope: undefined; y-intercept: none
No book. Thanks so much for your time!!!!!!
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Question 54926: louisa is 3/4 as tall as Carla. The difference between their heights is .4 meters. How tall is each girl?
Thank you
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Question 54856: 16. Write the equation of the line with slope 5 and y-intercept (0, �8).
A) y = �8x + 5
B) �8x + 5y = 0
C) y = 5x � 8
D) 5y = �8
No book. Thanks so much for your time!!
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Question 54873: write an equation in the point-slope form and the slope-intercept form..thanks
slope=-5, passing through (-4, -2)
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Question 54980: 20. Write the equation of the line with x-intercept (�1, 0) and undefined slope.
A) y = �1
B) x = �1
C) y = �x
D) x = 0
Thanks!!! no book
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Question 54979: write the equation of the line that passes through (3,2) and is perpendicular to the line 5x+4y=11
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Question 54978: Write the equation of the line that passes through the points (3,5) and (-1,10)
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Question 54983: Can someone please help me on this problem?
I listed the name of the book above and the page #, and problem #
I need to graph the following equation, using the intercept method.
2x - 37 = 12

Thanks,
Ashley
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Question 54776: solve each of the following inequality. express your final answer using interval notation.
a) -2>-2y-10>-22
b) x/4+3 <4
C) x?8+5 >4
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Question 52791: Find the perpendicular to line -8x+2y=6
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Question 52970: need help fiquring out: 12-2/3x=10
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Question 55022: Please, I need help!
Find the slope of a line that passes through (1,7) and (3,3). Please start with showing me the general formula for slope of a line.
Thanks,
DB
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Question 55018: Please help: Find the equation of the line that has the following characteristics:
Slope = -2,y-intercept= -3
Please show in "slope intercept" form
Thankyou
DB
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Question 54861: 20. Write the equation of the line with x-intercept (�1, 0) and undefined slope.
A) y = �1
B) x = �1
C) y = �x
D) x = 0
no book
Thank you so very much!!
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Question 54858: 18. Write the equation of the line passing through (�3, �7) and (�3, �6).
A) x = �3
B) y = �3
C) y = x � 3
D) y = x
no book Thanks so much for your time!!
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Question 55042: Please help!
Find the equation of the line that has the following characteristics;
A line perpendicular to y=3x - 2 and passing through (2,3)
Please express answer in "slope-intercept form"
Thankyou,
DB
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Question 55071: Here is my question: The cost of producing a number of items x is given by
C = mx + b, in which b is the fixed cost and m is the variable cost (the cost of producing one more item).
(a) If the fixed cost is $40 and the variable cost is $10, write the cost equation.
(b) Graph the cost equation.
I am at a loss when it comes to figuring out word problems, so please help me with this problem.

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Question 55019: No book.
Take this situation,increase in gas prices from 2004 to 2006,and create an equation or inequality that could be used for analysis, prediction, or decision-making. Then, draw a graph to depict the variables in the situation.
Here are the stats:
July 2004, price per barrel,$48
Jan. 2005 price per barrel,$50
July, 2005, p. p. b., $62
Jan. 2006, p.p.b.,$70
July. 2006, p.p.b, $79
Thanks so much!!!!!
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Question 54596: Which of the ordered pairs
(3, 1), (0, –4), (–4, 0), (–3, –7)
are solutions for the equation x – y = 4?
A) (0, –4), (–4, 0), and (–3, –7)
B) (–4, 0) and (–3, –7)
C) (0, –4) and (–3, –7)
D) (3, 1) and (–4, 0)
No book. Thank you so very much for your time!!!
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Question 55105: What does the graph of y=1 look like?
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Question 55120: determine the value of r so that the line (5,r) and (2,3) has a slope 2.
(-2,-3),undefined
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Question 55119: determine the value of r so that the line (5,r) and (2,3) has a slope 2.
(-3,-1),m=-1/5
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Question 55115: find the slope of the line that passes through each pair of points.
(-2,-3),(0,-5)
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Question 55114: find the slope of the line that passes through each pair of points.
(6,8)(5,-5)
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Question 55124: find an equation for the line with slope 1/2 and y-intercept of 3

This is what I did:
y=mx+b
y=1/2x+3
y-1/2 =3
2y-x=6(divided both sides by 2)
or
-x+2y=6
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Question 55118: find an equation for the line with y-intercept 3 that is perpendicular to the line y=2/3x-4
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Question 55126: write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that satisfies each set of conditions.
slope -2,passes through (-4,6)
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Question 55144: write an equation in slope-intercept form for each graph.
(0,0)(4,5)
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Question 55143: write an equation in slope-intercept form for each graph.
(1,6),(3,0)
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Question 55142: write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that stisfies each set of conditions.
slope -13/5,passes through (5,-7)
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Question 55140: write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that stisfies each set of conditions.
slope 1, passes through (2,5)
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Question 55138: find the slope of the line
y= -3x + 2
I am not sure if I get this
This is what I got for another problem
3y + 2x - 6 = 0
using the slope formula, I came to the conclution that the slope of this line is -2/3 is this right?
thanks, lackinmath
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Question 55139: write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that stisfies each set of conditions.
slope 3/2,y-intercept 4
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Question 55164: Sally brought three chocolate bars and a pack of gum and paid $1.75. Jake brought two chocolate bars and four packs of gum and paid $2.00 Find the cost of a chocolate bar and the cost of a pack of gum.
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Question 55189: A small company produces both standard and deluxe playhouses. The standard playhouse takes 12 hours of labors to produce and the deluxe 20 hours.The labor availible is limited to 800 hours per week and the total production capacity is 50 items per week. Existing orders require the company to produce at least 10 standard and 15 deluxe per week. Write a system of inequalities representing this situation where x is the number of standard and y is the number of deluxe.
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Question 55185: write an equation in slope-intercept form for the line that satisfies each set of conditions.
passes through (-2,1),perpendicular to the line y=4x-11
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Question 55174: write an equation in slope intercept form for each graph.
(-4,1)(5,2)
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