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Question 1161547: I need assistance with this question. Can you please help me set up the equation?
If Iwan gives Ben 3/5 of his money, Ben will have 3 times as much money as Iwan would have then. If instead Ben gives Iwan ¼ of his money, Iwan will have $ 70 more than what Ben would have then. How much money do the two boys have altogether?
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Question 1162073: Hello,
Yasmin has some money. She spends $180 on a TV. She spends 3/10 of the remainder on a new printer. She has 2/5 of the money left at the end. How much money did Yasmin have at the start
I am working backwards
3/5=.6
7/10=.7
.6 * .7 = .42
180/.42=428.57
The correct answer is $420.
I don’t know where I’m going wrong.
How would I setup the equation and solve.
Thanks in advance

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Question 1162077: At intermission, Xavier sold refreshments. Of the items he had, 1/5 were granola bars and 1/2 of the remaining items were containers of popcorn. The rest were divided equally among apples, rice cake, and containers of yogurt. Xavier sold the 8 apples he had. How many items did he originally have?
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Question 1162189: 8 times the difference between a number and 6 is equal to 4 times the number.
What ?
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Question 1163059: A man walking on a railroad bridge is 2/5 of the way along the bridge when he notices a train at a distance approaching at the constant rate of 45 mph . The man can run at a constant rate in either direction to get off the bridge just in time before the train hits him. How fast can the man run?
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Question 1163063: Hello:
I need help setting up and solving this problem:
3/4 of a year is 9 months, then what is 2/12 of a month?
The answer provided was 30 days, isn't 2/12 of a month 60-61 days.
Thanks in advance.
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Question 1163304: What is the largest size of a rectangle that can be inscribed in a semicircle of radius 1 unit so that two vertices lie on the diameter?
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Question 1163337: .A shopkeeper bought 11/12 kg of anchovies. He packed them into packets containing 2/15kg of anchovies.
a) How many packets of anchovies did he get?
b) Find the mass of the anchovies he had left.

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Question 1163726: Given that , dy/dt = t+y with the initial condition y0 = 1, at t0 = 0 1 find the 2nd term in Taylor series when t=1 and y'=1.2 and h= 0.1
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Question 1163826: (4/27)^-2=

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Question 1163905: The revenue from selling x necklaces is r(x) =10x.
The cost of buying x necklaces is c(x) =4x+15.
The profit from selling x necklaces is p(x) =r(x) -c(x).
Write a function for p(x) , the profit from selling x necklaces.
A. P(x)= 14x+ 15
B. P(x) =14x -15
C. P (x) =6x +15
D. P (x) =6x-15?

Please help ?
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Question 1164576: Find the product of 3 7/11 and 5 1/2.
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Question 1165193: The sum of two whole number is 45 and their differences is less than 10. The number of all possible pairs is?
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Question 1165524: A worker can stuff 1000 shrimp in 8 hours. With the help of a second worker, 1000 shrimp can be stuffed in 5 hours. How long does it take the second worker, working alone, to stuff 1000 shrimp?
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Question 1166075: A bus is carrying 120 passengers, which is 5/6 of the capacity of the bus. What is the capacity of the bus?
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Question 1166469: A few children working together can do a piece of work in 18 days. If the number of children employed on the work is made double, how long would they take to complete half of the work?
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Question 1166990: Using the modified Newton - Raphson method, find the solutions
accurate to within 10−7
to the following problems
a. 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑒x − 𝑥 − 1 for 0 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 1 [HINT: p0 = 1]
the x before e is a power( so its e power x)

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Question 1166987: 4. Using finite difference table show that:
a. ∆4𝑦0 = 𝑦4 − 4𝑦3 + 6𝑦2 − 4𝑦1 + 𝑦0

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Question 1167238: There are 19 boys in Grade VI-Red and 23 boys in Grade VI-White. If 2/6 of them are boy scouts, how many are not?
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Question 1167329: Mang Ben has 40 seedlings to plant 1/4 of them are mangoes, 3/8 are avocados and the rest are jackfruits. How many seedlings are jackfruit?

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Question 1167328: There were 100 children at the birthday party. If 3/5 of them were girls, how many are boys.
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Question 1167330: Rosie was given a 40 item-test. If she answered 3/4 of the questions and answered these correctly, how many items did she answer incorrectly?
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Question 1167326: Pilar bought 8 3/4 kg of fruit. She put 5/8 of them in a nicely wrapped basket. How many kilograms of fruit were there in a basket?

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Question 1167327: Maize bought seven dozens of egg. When she went home 1/3 of the eggs were broken . She gave 1/2 of the broken eggs to her sister. How many eggs were left?
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Question 1167422: A store has 84 blouses of three sizes. If 1/3 are small sized,1/4 are small sized, and the rest are large sized, how many blouses are large sized?
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Question 1167419: Maize bought seven dozens of egg. When she went home 1/3 of the eggs were broken . She gave 1/2 of the unbroken eggs to her sister. How many eggs were left?
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Question 1167421: A vendor had 108 balloons. He sold 1/2 of them in the morning and 1/3 of the remaining in the afternoon. How many balloons were unsold?
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Question 1167423: Ricky has 80 avocadoes to sell. He sold 1/4 of them, 3/8 are given to his sisters. How many avocadoes are left?
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Question 1167424: There are balloons for sale at the fair. 4/10 of the balloons are blue. 2/5 are red, and the rest are yellow. If there are 8 yellow balloons, how many balloons are there in all?
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Question 1167633: suppose you are fishing on a freshwater lake in Canada. you catch a whitefish weighing 14 5/32 pounds. According to the International Game Fish Association, the world's record for largest lake whitefish ever caught is 14 3/8 pounds. Did you set a new world's recordd. Explain by how much did you beat or miss the existing world record.
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Question 1167714: What is the average reading speed of Dante if he can read 500 pages in 3/4 days?
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Question 1167716: Gabrielle can answer 12 math problems in 3/4 hour. How many problems can she answer in 4 1/4 hours?
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Question 1167715: Father bought 4 2/4m of chicken wire. How many 3/4m of chicken wires were there?
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Question 1167717: If a woman works for 3 1/2 hours per day, she can finish a piece of work in 10 days. How many hours per day should she work to finish the same piece of work in 7 days?
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Question 1167718: Dexter bought a big crate of lanzones weighing 125 kg amounting to Php5,000.00. He repacked the lanzones and placed in a smaller crate with 2 1/2 kg per crate and sold each crate for Php135.00. How much was his gain?
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Question 1167799: Mrs. Cruz baked some cookies. She kept 1/2 of it for her children, and gives 1/2 of the remaining to her neighbor. She then eats the 5 cookies left. How many cookies did she baked?
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Question 1167797: Bus No. 26 takes 2 1/4 hours to complete the bus route. how many times can bus no. 26 completed the route in 16 hours?
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Question 1167800: Joseph combined 7/4c of pancake mix and 3/4c of water to make pancake batter. If he uses 1/4 of a cup to make each pancake, how many pancakes can Joseph make?
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