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Question 1197666: Ingrid has joined a DVD rental club. The monthly membership costs include a $10 basic fee plus $2 for each DVD she rents. Which equation describes v, the number of DVDs Ingrid can rent, based on T, the amount she spends for membership costs per month?
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Question 1197687: With a full tank of gas, you can drive 485 miles and your car can go 19 miles per gallon.
Write an equation to model this situation (use m for miles you can drive and g for gallons in the tank).
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Question 1197792: an airplane at an altitude of 24,0000 feet descends at a rate of 500 feet per mile, how many miles did the plane descend when it reached 13,000 feet?
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Question 1197790: tory and quentin are the same age. torys younger sister is the same age as quentin younger brother tory is 3 years older than her sister quentin's age is 8 years younger less than twice his brothers age write and solve an equation to determine tory and quentin's age
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Question 1197846: a computer store sells two models of monitors. model a sells for $355 and model b sells for $465. if a total of 120 monitors were sold for $47880, how many of each type were sold?

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Question 1197848: After reducing the regular selling price by one-sixth, a store sold a television for $725. What was the
regular selling price?
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Question 1197848: After reducing the regular selling price by one-sixth, a store sold a television for $725. What was the
regular selling price?
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Question 1197851: In a group of 102 employees, there are three times as many employees on the day shift as on the
night shift, and two more on the swing shift than on the night shift. How many are on each shift?
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Question 1197849: The owner of a music store ordered merchandise with a total value of $11000 from her supplier. She
ordered CDs costing $10 each and DVDs costing $20 each. If she ordered 200 more CDs than DVDs,
how many of each did she order?
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Question 1197850: Crew A can assemble 2 cars in 5 days, and crew B can assemble 3 cars in 7 days. If both crews
together assemble 100 cars, with crew B working 10 days longer than crew A, how many days
(rounded to the nearest day) must each crew work?
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Question 1197816: At a price of $4.96 per pound, the supply for cherries is 16,171 pounds, and the demand is 10,107 pounds. When the price drops to $4.14 per pound, the supply decreases to 10,590 pounds and the demand increases to 12,913 pounds. Assume that the price-supply and price-demand equations are linear.
What is the equilibrium quantity? Round to the nearest pound.
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Question 1198010: The cost of replacing carpet. If the fee for labor is $250 and the carpet is $15.00 per square yard, then the total cost represented by C can be found by the following c=15x+250, where x represents the number of square yards needed.
-what would it cost to do a 1800 ft2 home?
-State the reasonable domain for this function.
-Graph the Function
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Question 1198020: 3p+2q=5
q-p=5
solve graphically
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Question 1198019: -8k+7j-12k+3j
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Question 1198141: [sqrt(x)^(2/3)*sqrt(x)^(1/3)-3*sqrt(x)]/[sqrt(x)^(1/4)*sqrt(x)^(3/4)+sqrt(x)]
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Question 1198141: [sqrt(x)^(2/3)*sqrt(x)^(1/3)-3*sqrt(x)]/[sqrt(x)^(1/4)*sqrt(x)^(3/4)+sqrt(x)]
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Question 1198141: [sqrt(x)^(2/3)*sqrt(x)^(1/3)-3*sqrt(x)]/[sqrt(x)^(1/4)*sqrt(x)^(3/4)+sqrt(x)]
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Question 1198167: Find an equation of the line with the given slope that passes through the given point. Write the equation in the form Ax+By=C.
m=2, (8,8)
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Question 1198228: A friend has given you left-over landscaping bricks. You decide to make a garden bed and surround it with the bricks. There are 62 bricks, and each brick is 8 inches long. You would like the garden bed to be slightly more than twice as long as it is wide, as shown in the diagram below. You have also given yourself a budget of $125 for additional materials should you need them. Your local home improvement store sells the same bricks for $1.98 per brick. The displayed sides present the number of bricks on each side, where x is a number of bricks.
Assessment Instructions
Show and explain all steps in your responses to the following parts of the assignment. All mathematical steps must be formatted using the equation editor.
Part 1: Write an equation representing the perimeter of the garden bed.
Part 2: Calculate how many bricks are used on each side.
Part 3: Determine the length of each side.
Part 4: Write an inequality that represents how many bricks can be purchased within your budget.
Part 5: Will you be able to make another complete layer of bricks on top and stay within your budget?
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Question 1198314: (-1, -10) ( -1,7) standard form
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Question 1198314: (-1, -10) ( -1,7) standard form
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Question 1198470: Please help me solve this equation V=1/3Bh
What is h in terms of b and v?
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Question 1198491: find a polynomial function of lowest degree with rational coefficients and the following as some of its zeros. 0, -(square root)7, 1+i
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Question 1198490: find a polynomial function of lowest degree with rational coefficients and the following as some of its zeros. 0, -(square root)7, 1+i
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Question 1198524: Write an equation (a) in slope-intercept form and (b) in standard form for the line passing through (-2,6) and parallel to x+3y=5.
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Question 1198541: 16+4y=2x
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Question 1198594: A company produces two products. Weekly labour availability equals 200 labour hour. Each unit of product one require four labour hour and each unit of product to required 3.5 labour hours. If management wishes to use all labour hours,then
1) make a linear equation using above data
2) read write the equation in slope intercept form
3) dantify the slope and y intercept
4) interpret the meaning of slope and y intercept
5) solve for the x intercept and interpret the meaning.
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Question 1198618: y=(x+5)(x²+3x+4)
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Question 1198626: Write an equation in point-slope form for the line that passes through each point with the given slope. Then graph the equation by graphing the point and use the slope, rise over run, from that point.
(-6, -3), m = 3/4
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Question 1198617: y interception on graphic paper or 11x²+7x-4
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Question 1198617: y interception on graphic paper or 11x²+7x-4
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Question 1198742: A company produces three products; P1, P2, and P3 from two raw materials A and B, and Labor L. One unit of product P1 requires 1 unit of A, 3 unit of B and 2 units of L. One unit of product P2 requires 2 units of A and B each, and 3 units of L, while one units of P3 needs 2 units of A, 6 units of B and 4 units of L. The company has a daily availability of 8 units of A, 12 units of B and 12 units of L. It is further known that the unit contribution margin for the products is birr 3, 2, and 5 respectively for p1, p2, and p3.

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Question 1198744:
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Question 1198763: what are the 2 points and slope for this question ?
Connor uses a gift card to buy milkshakes for himself and his friends Thursday after he and a friend order the balance on Konners gift card was $22.45 Saturday after he and four friends ordered he had a balance of $6.70 on his card determine the cost of each milkshake.
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Question 1198818: slope-intercept form through (2,4) parallel to y=7
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Question 1198863: In 2006, the median yearly family income was about $48,200. Suppose the average annual rate of change since then is $1240 per year.
a.) Write and graph an equality for the annual family incomes, y, are less than the median for x years after 2006.
b.) Determine whether each of the following points is part of the solution set.
(2, 51,000)
(8, 69,200)
(5, 50,000)
(10, 61,000)
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Question 1198945: Sandra, who is paid time-and-half worked in excess of 40 hours, had gross weekly wages of $442 for 48 hours worked. What is her hourly rate?
The author of the textbook provided a table leading to an equation to solve for x. Of course, x equals Sandra's hourly rate. How is this problem solved using just arithmetic?
Here's what I know:
1. Sandra works 40 regular weekly hours.
2.For working 8 additional hours at 1.5 per hour, she made $442.
3. Total hours worked 48 hours.
How can I use this problem without using algebra?
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