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Question 1167828: Svetlana currently holds the women's indoor pole vault world record at 4 3/4 meters. The men's indoor pole vault record is currently held by Sergei at 1 2/5 meters higher than the Women's record. What is the current Men's indoor pole vault record?
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Question 1167829: In March 1999, a proposal to increase the size of rectangular escape vents in lobster traps was brought before the Maine state legislature. The proposed change would add 1/16 of an inch to the current vent height of 1 7/8 inches. What would be the new vent height under the proposal.
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Question 1167798: Ella started with a certain amount of money. She spent 2/5 of her money. She
earned Php5.00 the next day. Later she lost 3/7 of her money, but she still has
Php20.00 left. How much did she have at first?

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Question 1167832: Which question can be answered using the expression
7/8 divided by 1/4 ?
Ⓐ Dave fills 7/8 of a container that holds 1/4 gallon of punch. How many
gallons of punch are in the container?
Ⓑ Dave fills 1/4 of a container that holds 7/8 gallon of punch. How many
gallons of punch are in the container?
Ⓒ How many 1/4 gallon servings are in 7/8
gallon?
Ⓓ How many 7/8 gallon servings are in 1/4
gallon?

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Question 1167803: Hans had a certain amount of money. He spent 2/3 of it, saves 1/3 of the remainder and give Php500.00 to each of his 2-younger brother. How much money does he have?
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Question 1167922: A large pipe can fill a swimming pool in 10 hours, while a smaller pipe can empty the pool in 15 hours. How long would it take to fill the pool if both pipes were accidentally left open?
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Question 1167927: Mat gave Jen 1/2 of his candies. Jen ate 1/2 of the candies and gave the rest to Kyle. Kyle kept 8 of the candies and gave the last 10 to Ben. How many did Jen eat?
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Question 1167921: Mary created a mixture using 3/4c of sugar and 1/2c of cinnamon to add to some hot apple cider.If Mary uses 1/16 of a cup of her mixture for each serving of hot apple cider, how many servings can she use her mixture with?
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Question 1167997: The fuel tank of Andrei's car is filled 8 3/4 liters of gasoline. If Andrei's car uses 7/8 liters of gas to get work in the morning, how many round trips to work and home can he make using the gas he had in his tank?

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Question 1167995: Ivy went for a trip and spent 3/5 of her answer on gas for her car. She spent 1/2 of the remaining money for lunch. She spent Php250.00 for her lunch. How much money does she had before she left?
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Question 1167994: In a certain school, the distance of the office where enrollment is going on from the gate is approximately 33 1/2m. And because of this pandemic we are currently facing, social distancing of about 1 1/2m should be observe. When you arrive, you notice that the last man in the line is already at the gate. If priority numbers were given what is your number?
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Question 1167996: Mary spends 2/5 of her monthly salary. She saves 1/2 of the remainder and shares the rest to her two sisters and a brother equally. If her monthly salary is 60 000.00 Php, how much does she give to her brother who was displaced from work due to this pandemic every month?
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Question 1167919: Mary spends 2/5 of her monthly salary. She saves 1/2 of the remainder and shares the rest to her two sisters and a brother equally. If her monthly salary is Php60,000.00,how much does she give to her brother who was displaced from work due to this pandemic every month?
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Question 1168111: An order for 125 custom-made candle stands was placed with Mr. Levi, the manager of Just For You, Inc. The worker assigned to the job can produce two and three fifths candle stands per hour. Using this worker, how many work hours will be required to complete the order?

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Question 1168112: 23. Prior to an oil spill, the stock in an oil company sold for $120 per share. As a result of the liability that the company incurred from the spill, the price per share fell to ¾ of the price before the spill. What did the stock sell for after the spill?

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Question 1168110: 25. If ¾ of 36 students on a first bus are girls and 2/3 of the 30 students on a second bus are boys, how many students on the two buses are girls?

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Question 1168156: To earn an A in a course, a student must get an average score of 90 on five
tests. If her first four scores are 92, 86, 79, and 96, what score does she need
on the last test to obtain a 90 average?
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Question 1168208: marietta bought 4½ of cloth for a dress which cost php55 per meter. She gave the seller. a 500 peso bill. How much change she will receive?
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Question 1168209: there are 22 boys in a section A and 23 boys in a section B.
If 2/3 of them have android phones at home how many boys dont have phone?
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Question 1168339: The water bill costs Php 875.50 while the phone bill costs Php 687.25 more. How much will be needed to pay for the bills?
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Question 1168446: Consider the rational function p=512500V²-449000v+19307/125v²(1000V-43). Thisos based on the vander Waals equation for predicting the present p of gas as a function of V at a fixed temperature. The function above models the pressure p of carbon dioxide in terms of volume V if the temperature is 500 kelvins.
Process Questions
1. What are the vertical asymptote(s) of function?
2. What is the horizontal asymptote(s) of the function?
3. What are the p- intercept(s) of the function?
4. What is the V- intercept of the function?
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Question 1168773: About eleven-twelfths of a golf course is in fairways,
one-eighteenth in greens, and the rest in tees. What part of
the golf course is in tees?

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Question 1168337: Josef had a copper wire from which he cut 2 pieces. The first piece was 1.025m long and the second was 0.08 m shorter. After cutting the second piece, 2.5 m of copper wire were left in the coil.What is the original length of the coil of wire?
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Question 1169231: Ricky has 80 avocadoes to sell.He sold 1/4 of them,3/8 are given to his sister.How many avocadoes are left
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Question 1333: 1) 2000 because it is the closest number to 4000
2) 700*23/100 = 161
3) (-6+4)/(6-1) = -2/
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Question 1333: 1) 2000 because it is the closest number to 4000
2) 700*23/100 = 161
3) (-6+4)/(6-1) = -2/
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Question 1168336: Kirby gathered squash from his vegetable garden. After giving 4.6 kg to his brothers and some to his sisters, he had 8.25 kg of squash left. If he gave his sisters 1.6 kg more than what he gave to his brothers, how many kg of squash did he gather in all?
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Question 1168269: In a class of 100 students, 40 offer Biology and 10 offer chemistry and Biology. 10 offer Physics and Chemistry and 30 offer Physics and Biology. Each student offer at least one of the three subjects. The of students who offer Biology is equal to those who offer Physics only and the sum of the number of students who offer Biology and those who offer Chemistry is equal to the number of students who offer Physics.
a) illustrate the information on a Venn diagram
b) find the number of students who offer
I) Chemistry only
II) only two subjects
III) only one subject
Iv) Physics
v) Chemistry
hi) chemistry and physics only
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Question 1154268: multiply the following matrices in either order, where possible
a. A = [-2 3][5 6] and [0 1][6 -3][2 5]
b. a = 3 -1 2] and b = [ 2 -3 1\2]
c. a = [ -1 5 0 2 3 -4 1 -1 -2] and b = 6 -2 -1]

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Question 1167916: Ivy went for a trip and spent 3/5 of her money on gas for her car. She spent 1/2 of the remaining money for lunch. She spent Php250.00 for her lunch. How much money does she had before she left?
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Question 1471: what is a 1/6 of 5

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Question 1471: what is a 1/6 of 5

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Question 1169869: finding gcf and common denominator and factoring.. could you show steps
4[2/x-5x^4/x^5+3]

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Question 1170180: The sum of a number and 9 is multiplied by -2 and the answer is -8. Write and solve an equation to find the number.
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Question 1170494: Evalute 1/2+1/8+3/16÷5/8+3/16
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Question 1171228: I'm really stuck, please help? Thanks! Here's the question

A prime number is an integer greater than 1 with exactly two different positive factors, 1 and the number itself. There are three children in a family. Each of their ages is a prime number. The sum of their ages is 41 and at least two of the children have ages that differ by 16. Determine all possibilities for the ages of the children.
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Question 1172113: Ola has 2 1/4 metre length of copper piping. a)He uses 2/3 of it for a job. what length of pipe is left? b)He uses 1/8 of a metre from the pipe left for another job, how much of the original is left? c)For the final job, he cuts the remaining piece of pipe in half. What length are these pieces?

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Question 1172136: A painter needs 5 gallons of paint to finish a house. He has 3 quarts and 1 pint. How much more paint does he need?
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Question 1172836: Prior to an oil spill, the stock in an oil company sold for $120 per share. As a result of the liability that the company incurred from the spill, the price per share fell to ¾ of the price before the spill. What did the stock sell for after the spill?
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Question 1172862: LCM of , and is then number of possible value of
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