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Question 1158522: Suppose m varies directly as the square of n.
If m = 187.2 when n = 12, what is m when n = 20?
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Question 1158579: Write 30 miles in 8 hour as a unit rate.
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Question 1158578: Solve: x/8 = 9/12
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Question 1158577: Determine if the proportion is true or not true: 9/18 = 12/24
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Question 1158577: Determine if the proportion is true or not true: 9/18 = 12/24
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Question 1158577: Determine if the proportion is true or not true: 9/18 = 12/24
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Question 1158574: Write 66 2/3% as a fraction.
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Question 1158576: Write 9.04 as a percent.
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Question 1158576: Write 9.04 as a percent.
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Question 1158603: Solve x/8=9/12
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Question 1158521: Brett has budgeted $400 for incidental expenses for the 15 week semester. How much could he have spent after 8 weeks and still be on budget?
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Question 1158484: A sample of 68 college students yields a mean annual income of $3248 and a standard deviation of $885. Find the margin of error in estimating μ at the 99% level of confidence?
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Question 1158485: Successful managers must have personality characteristics often thought of as feminine as well as those thought as masculine. The Ben-Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) is a personality test that gives separate ratings for female and male stereotypes, both on a scale of 1 to 7. A sample of 144 hotel general managers of three star and four star hotels had mean BSRI masculinity score of 5.91. Assume that the standard deviation masculinity score for all hotel managers is 2.4. What is the margin of error for the sample of hotel managers at 95% confidence?
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Question 1158820: The ratio of backslappers to wallflowers at the political convention was 20 to 1. If there were 460 backslppers, how many wallflowers were there?
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Question 1158848: What is the ratio of 6 to 7

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Question 1158875: If 200% of 40% of m is equal to 40% of p then m is what percent of p?
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Question 1158872: You find a recipe for lemonade that calls for 3/4 cups of lemon juice to make 2 quarts of lemonade. how many cups of lemon juice should you use for an 8 quart jug of lemonade?

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Question 1158917: The TV chef was mixing a 5 ounce sauce containing 50% tangy mustard with another sauce containng 75% tangy mustard to get a sauce containing 70% tangy mustard. How many ounces of the 75% tangy mustard sauce must the chef have used?
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Question 1158947: A drawing of a flea has a scale 15 : 1.
What is the real length of the flea if its length is 30 mm on the drawing?
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Question 1158947: A drawing of a flea has a scale 15 : 1.
What is the real length of the flea if its length is 30 mm on the drawing?
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Question 1158947: A drawing of a flea has a scale 15 : 1.
What is the real length of the flea if its length is 30 mm on the drawing?
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Question 1159025: A restaurant requires customers to pay a 15% tip for the server. Your family spends $65 on the meal.
a) How much money do you need to pay the server?
b) How much money will you spend total?
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Question 1159052: Chemists were creating th worlds longest lasting perfume called 24/7. first attempt they combined 5 milliliters of a substance containing 2% sandalwood with another subastance containing 6% sandalwood to get a substance containing 5% sandalwood. How many milliliters of the substance containing 6% sandalwood must they have used?
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Question 1159227: A students worked 2 1/4h, 4h, 6 3/4h this week at a part-time job. The student is paid $9 an hour. How much did the student earn this week?
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Question 1159230: Find the temperature after a rise of 5°C from -22°C.
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Question 1159212: A store marks up merchandise 40% for profit. If an item costs the store $12, what is the
selling price?
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Question 1159454: There are 170 people in a hall. There are 6 times as many girls as boys. There are 6 more teachers than boys. How many teachers are there?
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Question 1159714: 2. Bob the plumber, charges 1/4 the cost of materials as his labor fee. If his current job has a material cost of $130, how much will Bob charge his client (including his labor fees)?
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Question 1159768: An item is priced at $13.43. If the sales tax is 8%, what does the item cost including sales tax?

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Question 1159803: In a box containing blue and green beads, the number of blue beads are 2/3 to the number of green beads. What fraction of the total beards are blue.
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Question 1159861: how much water should be added to 20 liters of an 18% acid solution to reduce the concentration to 15% acid
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Question 1159861: how much water should be added to 20 liters of an 18% acid solution to reduce the concentration to 15% acid
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Question 1159861: how much water should be added to 20 liters of an 18% acid solution to reduce the concentration to 15% acid
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Question 1159863: a bottle of medicine must be stored at a temperature between 50'f and 86'f. what range does this correspond to on the celsius scale? c=5/9(f-32)]
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Question 1159936: you have 50 cups. ten cups are blue, twenty cups are red, and twenty cups are white. what percentage of cups are blue?
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Question 1160170: A ma spent 2/3 of his pay on food and 1/4 on rent what is the percentage of his pay
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Question 1160170: A ma spent 2/3 of his pay on food and 1/4 on rent what is the percentage of his pay
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Question 1160175: find the compound interest for 96000 for 3 years at 10% per annual
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Question 1160175: find the compound interest for 96000 for 3 years at 10% per annual
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Question 1160174: the percentage cost of radio is 7500 if the rate of inflation for the next three years are 20%,15% and 10% respectively,find the cost of buying the same kind of radio in 3 years time.
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Question 1160177: a car losses by 20%,18 % and 15% of its value at the begining ofthe first , second and third year respectively.if the car cost 180000 find its value

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Question 1160402: Internet Usage Rate
The rates for Internet use offered by three companies are shown below.

Company A: $6.00 for every 90 minutes of use.

Company B: $2.75 for every 45 minutes of use.

Company C: $3.00 for every 60 minutes of use

Which company offers the lowest rate per minute?

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