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Question 973727: A square checkerboard contains a rows and columns of squares. One checker piece is placed in each square on the boundary of the checkerboard. If b is the number of pieces required to do this, what is one possible value of b?
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Question 973743: A metallurgist needs exactly 600 g of an alloy containing 52% copper.He has two alloys, one containing 80% copper and the other 20% copper.How much of each alloy should he use?

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Question 973838: Solve:
20% of Rs 3
Sir/Madam,please make me understand how to do it.
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Question 973907: Joanna has bowled 4 games this week and her average for those games is 175, She bowls one more game and raises her average for the week to 179. What was her score in the last game?
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Question 973906: The proportion of water and liquid soap in a certain cleaning fluid be 5:2. There are 6 quarts of liquid soap to be used. How many quarts of water should be used to make the correct proportion in the cleaning fluid?
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Question 973908: Ms.Smith's office has a length of 10 feet and width of 6 feet. The length of her classroom forms a 7:2 proportion with the length of her office. The same proportion applies to the widths of the two spaces. How many square feet of carpet are needed to cover her classroom floor?
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Question 974009: One canned juice drink is 30% is orange juice, another is 10% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 20 Liters that is 21% orange juice?
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Question 974006: If one half of x is equal to y% of 100 and x is non-negative, what is y/x?
A. (1/200)
B. (1/2)
C. 1
D. 2
E. 200

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Question 974049: A plot of land,600sq m in area ,is divided between two persons such that the first persons gets three-fifth of what the second gets. Find the share of each.

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Question 974133: You are a shopkeeper, a man comes in and steals $50 without your attention. The man then comes back and buys $40 worth of merchandise, abd gets $10 in change. How much did you lose?
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Question 974236: In planning her retirement, Liza deposits some money at 2.5% interest, with twice as much deposited at 3.5%. Find the amount deposited at each rate if the total annual interest income is $1235.
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Question 974241: you drove 15,000 miles during 2009, 8000 of those miles were on the highway, what percent of your driving during 2009 was on the highway?
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Question 974242: Linda borrowed $1000 from her friend and agreed to repay her in a year with 5% intrest. How much will linda pay her friend after one year if she makes good on the agreement
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Question 974311: How would I get a ratio of 1:7 from 4800

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Question 974391: A shop sells a total of 55 Shirts one day. They sell them in the ratio of 8:3, mens shirts to womens shirts.
How many mens shirts do they sell?
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Question 974538: An amount of money is shared between Lucy and James in a ratio 3:5 . if Lucy received $48, what is Jame's share?
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Question 974538: An amount of money is shared between Lucy and James in a ratio 3:5 . if Lucy received $48, what is Jame's share?
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Question 974570: Your a shopkeeper...someone came into your store and stole $50 from you...that person then came back and bought $40 worth of merchandise...you gave them $10 back...how much money have you lost?
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Question 974603: PLEASE HELP! :)
How much water must be added to 5 litres of a 90% juice drink to make a 75% juice drink?
i) Calculate the amount of juice and the amount of water in the 5 litres of the 90% juice drink.
ii) Assume x litres of water was added to make a 75% juice drink. Write the algebraic equation for the ratio of juice to total water which gives the 75% juice drink.
iii) Solve the equation for x.
ANY help would greatly be appreciated and welcomed. But PLEASE remember to explain each step thoroughly!
To anyone who attempts this, thank you so much for the help!
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Question 974894: a shop keeper buys 30 limes for $4.50. five of the limes were rotten. so he couldn't sell them but he sold the remainder of limes for 25 cents each. find the profit and loss percentage

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Question 974926: in a box there are 78 biscuits some are salty and rest are sweet find the ratio
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Question 974988: Derek is 6/5 as tall as Edwin and 5/7 as tall as George . What is the ratio of Derek's height to their total height
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Question 975144: HELP NEEDED! :)
If 14 Gardeners can plant 220 trees in 3 days, how many gardeners would be required to plant 170 trees in 5 days? (Assume the same rate per gardener.)
THANK YOU!
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Question 975146: PLEASE HELP! :)

How much water must be added to 5 litres of a 90% juice drink to make a 75% juice drink?

i) Calculate the amount of juice and the amount of water in the 5 litres of the 90% juice drink.

ii) Assume x litres of water was added to make a 75% juice drink. Write the algebraic equation for the ratio of juice to total water which gives the 75% juice drink.

iii) Solve the equation for x.

ANY help would greatly be appreciated and welcomed. But PLEASE remember to explain each step thoroughly!

To anyone who attempts this, thank you so much for the help!
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Question 975145: HELP NEEDED! :)
If 3 cans of cat food will feed 2 cats for 1 day (assuming the rate of consumption per cat is constant).
i) How many cans are needed to feed 8 cats for 7 days?
ii) How long will 63 cans feed 7 cats for?
THANK YOU!
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Question 975154: 30% of the pupils in a class are boys.There are 21 girls.How many pupils are there in the class inall?
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Question 975148: A 12 metre pole casts a shadow 10 metres long. If measurements are taken at the same time:
i) How tall is a tree, if its shadow is 25.5 metres long?
ii) How long is a shadow, if the building is 110 metres high?
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Question 975264: daine and nancy split a $69.60 dinner bill plus a 20% tip. How much did each person pay?
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Question 975388: Anwen scored 82% in her last test. Her friend Bree scored 76%, which was 38 marks.
a. How many marks did Anwen score?
b. how many marks were in the test?
please help asap :) thank you!
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Question 975322: In a party 70% of the guest drink coffee, 65% of the guest drink Tea, 27% of guest didnt drink anything and 248 guests drink both tea and coffee. How much guests came for the party?
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Question 975660: In a certain examination it is found that the average marks of the pass student is 65 While the average marks of the fail students is 35.If the avarage marks of all the students is 53.What is the pass percent
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Question 799708: Maya has 155 stamps in her collection. If Sara were to double the number of stamps that she has, she would have more than Maya has.
If s = the number of stamps that Sara has, which mathematical sentence expresses the information above?

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Question 975811: If a program takes 220 minutes to run at 100%, how long will it take to run at 150%
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Question 975811: If a program takes 220 minutes to run at 100%, how long will it take to run at 150%
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Question 975759: In an election between two candidates ,65 votes were declared in valid one candidate get 52% valid votes n win by 98 votes.find total no. Of votes.can any one solve this problem for me .please explain it step by step .
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Question 976004: Two quarts of Solution A is added with 5 quarts of solution b. How many quarts of solution a must be added to solution b to make the mixture 3/4 solution a? I know the answer, but do not know how to solve it
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Question 975986: 4 kilograms of cheese cost $50 dollars how would i put that in function notation?
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Question 976064: An investor wants to analyze the earnings of a mutual fund account. Five years ago, the value of the account was $15,000 and it is now worth $18,750(no additional deposits were made). If the account is compared to a bank account paying interest that is compounded continuously, what interest rate would the bank account have to pay to match the mutual fund accounts earnings?
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Question 976297: Amanda, Bala and Calvin have some storybooks. 3/4 of Amanda�s storybooks is equal to 1/6 of Bala�s storybooks as well as 1/3 of Calvin�s storybooks. Find the ratio of the number of Bala�s storybooks to the number of Calvin�s storybooks to the number of Amanda�s storybooks.
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Question 976300: if g is the number of girls in a class and b is the number of boys and if there are three more girls than boys in class, write an algebraic equation that show this relationship
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Question 976260: (i) Two towers are 24km apart in real life. Find how far apart would the two towers be on a map drawn to a scale of 1:250 000
(ii) On the same map, two schools are 5cm apart. How far apart are they in real life?
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Question 976263: what number is 5 and 3/4 percent of 4000

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