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Question 1142995: The scale on a map indicates that 1 cm represents 50 km. If two cities are 400 km apart, then how far apart would the cities be on this map?

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Question 1143101: A school a school has 750 pupils if 56% of pupils are boys what percentage is
girls
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Question 1143239: There are 1/5 as many rides as the games at the fair if the total number of is 20 how many rides are there
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Question 1143432: In a class of 45, there were 4 times as many as girls. When some girls left for a meeting, there were 6 times as many boys as girls. how many girls went for the meeting?
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Question 1143481: A certain drug is made from only two ingredients: compound A and compound B. There are 5 milliliters of compound A used for every 6 milliliters of compound B. If a chemist wants to make 924 milliliters of the drug, how many milliliters of compound B are needed?
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Question 1143496: A ball is thrown from an initial height of 3 feet with an initial upward velocity of 37 ft/s. The ball's height h (in feet) after t seconds is given by:
h=3+37t-16t squared
Find all values of t for which the ball's height is 23 feet.
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Question 1143495: Working together, it takes two computers 4 minutes to send out a company's email. If it takes the slower computer 9 minutes to do the job on its own, how long will it take the faster computer to do the job on its own?
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Question 1143494: There are two machines that produce aluminum cans. The newer machine can produce 7200 cans in 200 minutes. It takes the older machine 300 minutes to produce that many cans. If the two machines work together, how long will it take them to produce 7200 cans?
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Question 1143493: The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 5 to 4. If there were 3644 no votes, what was the total number of votes?
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Question 1143555: There is 48 students in a class 7 out of 8 are female. What percent is female?
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Question 1143555: There is 48 students in a class 7 out of 8 are female. What percent is female?
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Question 1143552: in a class of 220 pupils,1/4 are girls.how many are boys there

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Question 1143573: there are 756 male studentsat a college .the ratio of students to male to female students is 7:3.how many female students are there at the college
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Question 1143593: in 2018 there were 238 Republican , and 201 Democrats in the house of Representative . Find the percentage of democrats in the house of Repreenative in 2018.
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Question 1143656: Three numbers are in the ratio of 2:3:5. If the smallest number is multiplied by 8, the result is 32 more than the sum of the second and third numbers. What is the smallest of the three numbers?
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Question 1143820: The ratio of number of pupils who visited the museum to the number of pupils who visited the zoo is 9:4. If 45 more pupils visited the museum than the zoo. How many pupils visited the zoo?
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Question 1143845: a year ago, the daily sales of a newspaper averaged 16 320.Now the average daily sales are 28 560. Express the ratio of present sales to last year's sales in its simplest terms
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Question 1143844: a year ago, the daily sales of a newspaper averaged 16 320.Now the average daily sales are 28 560. Express the ratio of present sales to last year's sales in its simplest terms
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Question 1143927: In a classroom, there are 3 more girls than boys and the ratio of girls to boys is 6 to 5.

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Question 1143927: In a classroom, there are 3 more girls than boys and the ratio of girls to boys is 6 to 5.

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Question 1143927: In a classroom, there are 3 more girls than boys and the ratio of girls to boys is 6 to 5.

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Question 1144099: Tracey paid $175 for an item that was originally priced at $300. What percent of the original price did Tracey pay
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Question 1144111: We are dividing fractions. The word problem is Mr. P moved a total of 500 pounds of sand with his wheelbarrow. Each wheelbarrow load weighed the same and was 1/10 of the total weight he moved. How much did each wheelbarrow load weigh?
I tried doing like this 1/10 ÷ 500/1= 1/5000
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Question 1144190: Alex's bike ride to work usually takes 22 minutes at 9 kph. One morning he found a new bike route that was 5 minutes faster. If he decides to use this new route again and wants to reach home by an additional 2 minutes earlier, how fast should he cycle?
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Question 1144189: if 1/2 of A's cookies is equal to 2/3 of B's cookies what fraction of the total cookies is A's cookies? how can we solve this.
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Question 1144189: if 1/2 of A's cookies is equal to 2/3 of B's cookies what fraction of the total cookies is A's cookies? how can we solve this.
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Question 1144189: if 1/2 of A's cookies is equal to 2/3 of B's cookies what fraction of the total cookies is A's cookies? how can we solve this.
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Question 1144189: if 1/2 of A's cookies is equal to 2/3 of B's cookies what fraction of the total cookies is A's cookies? how can we solve this.
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Question 1144188: after spending 38$ on a bag and 674 on a pair of shoes minah had 2/5 of her money left.how much money did minah have at first?
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Question 1144187: a rural school has 200 students, ( 3)/(5)ths of whom are boys all of the students live either on a farm or in town. of the students that live on a farm 1/3rd are girls .three quarters of all the girls at the school live in the town. how many girls live on farm? how many boys live in town? what fraction of all students live in town
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Question 1144194: The total fee of a group of adults and children is Rs. 13.5. Each childs fee is one half of each adults fee and adults fee is Rs.3. If there are three more children than adults in the group then the number of members of the group is
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Question 1144233: Dave has $3000 more money in a money market account than his savings account the savings account pays .5% and the market account pays 2% how much is invested in each account if the annual interest that he earns on the 2% investment $180 more than the interest on the 0.5% investment
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Question 1144259: According to a magazine, a cleaning solution of 5% bleach will remove mildew from a shower or tub.
How many ounces of bleach do you need to make a quart of 5% bleach solution?
Explain the method you used using complete sentences.

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Question 1144319: 6/8 of a theatre is worth $2 million. The remainder of the theatre is owned evenly by 4 others. What are their shares worth?
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Question 1144382: i bought apples and bananas at the store in a ratio of 3 apples to 4 bananas. If I bought 18 apples then how many bananas did i buy?

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Question 1144539: To compute a student's Grade Point Average (GPA) for a term, the student's grades for each course are weighted by the number of credits for the course. Suppose a student had these grades:
4.0 in a 5 credit Math course
2.0 in a 2 credit Music course
2.8 in a 5 credit Chemistry course
3.3 in a 5 credit Journalism course
What is the student's GPA for that term? Round to two decimal places.

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Question 1144560: In a friend ship bouquet,2 out of every 5 roses are pink and the rest are white. I need the fraction and the ratio of the problem.

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