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Question 836394: The aspect ratio of older television monitors is 4:3. One such television has a rectangular viewing screen with perimeter 98 inches. What are the length and width of the screen? Since televisions are advertised by the diagonal measure of their screens, how would this monitor be advertised?
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Question 836921: 200 people attend a school concert, 3/4 of the audience were female. What percentage were male?
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Question 836921: 200 people attend a school concert, 3/4 of the audience were female. What percentage were male?
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Question 837055: There are 90 students in a speech contest. Yesterday, 1/3 of them gave their speeches. Today, 2/3 of the remaining students gave their speeches. How many students still haven't given their speeches?
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Question 837088: which of the following is not equivalent to 1/16
1. 4 to the -3 power times 4
2. 4 to the fifth power divided by 4 to the sixth power times 4
3. (4 squared times 1 over 4 cubed) to the negative second power
4. 4 squared over 4 to the seventh power times 4 cubed
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Question 837258: Of the 840 shirts sold at a retail store last month, 42 had short sleeves. What percent of the shirts were short sleeved.
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Question 837217: The amount of cobalt varies inversely to the amount of plutonium. If there are 5 gms of cobalt and 20 gms of uranium, how much cobalt will there be with 2 gms of uranium?
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Question 837453: A glass that is 3/5 full is 60% full
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Question 837502: 600 runners 2/5 are women. how many runners are women?
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Question 837502: 600 runners 2/5 are women. how many runners are women?
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Question 837623: If a can of paint will cover 48m2 of wall space, how many cans will you need to paint 220m2?
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Question 837828: What percentage of 50 is 30?
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Question 837951: A bowl of Halloween candy contains a mixture of Skittles and Kit-Kats. There are 20% more Skittles than Kit-Kats. If there are a total of 198 candies in the bowl, how many are Skittles and how many are Kit-Kats?
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Question 838064: in my math class 16 students are female. if females represents 60% of the students, how many students are in my class?
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Question 838118: 2+5-(5+2)+3-2=?

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Question 838196: one sixth of the class was absent. what precnt of the class was absent ?what fraction of the class was present
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Question 838316: If there are 750 students and there are 120 more girls that boys how many boys are there
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Question 838373: The fuel tank of your gas-powered scooter is 1/8 full. After adding 90 fluid ounces of fuel, the tank is 3/4 full.
a. How much can the tank hold?
b. How much fuel was originally in the tank?
c. How much fuel is in the tank when it is 2/3 full?
I believe I can help my son solve b and c. I need to know how to go about finding how much fuel can the tank hold.
Thanks for your time.
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Question 838399: The fuel tank of your gas-powered scooter is 1/8 full. After adding 90 fluid ounces of fuel, the tank is 3/4 full.
a. How much can the tank hold?
b. How much fuel was originally in the tank?
c. How much fuel is in the tank when it is 2/3 full?
This is 6th grade math, not algebra and I need to teach my son how to solve this problem on his own. Thanks for your help.
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Question 838502: There are 53 oranges in a box that contain 77 total peices of fruit. How many oranges need to be added so the box contains 84% oranges?
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Question 838560: What the counter example of that "the sum of four consecutive numbers is equal to twice the last number"
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Question 838677: A store has a 15% off sale. You decide to buy a $45 jacket. How much will you save and how much will you spend on the sweater?
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Question 838774: There is collection of 8 candy bags.5 candy bags have the candy removed from them.Write a decimal that represents the number of bags with candy in them?
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Question 838762: Amy paid $63.75 for a new pair of shoes during a 15%-off sale. what was the regular price?
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Question 838903: How do I solve this ratio problem: If the ratio of boys to girls is 7:5 and there are 1080 total students, how many are boys? How many are girls?
Thank you.
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Question 838940: a famer employs two students to pack peaches into trays for a market. at the end of the day they have packed a total of 288 trays. if student A packed 5 trays for every 7 that student B packed how many did each of them pack (show working)
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Question 839225: Two numbers are in the ratio 7:8 and their sum is 105. Find the number

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Question 839209: 10/2*5+5
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Question 839238: A woman is driving 22 miles to work and dropping her daughter at daycare. 1st part of trip is 6 miles less than 2nd part. How long is each part? Create 2 equations in two variables to solve.
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Question 839247: How many pints of a 5% antifreeze solution and how many pints of a 20% antifreeze solution must be mixed to obtain 12 pints of a 15% solution? Write a system of two equations in two variables to solve each problem.
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Question 839243: An investment at 8% and some at 9% annual simple interest. The interest for 1 year on the combined investment of $10,000 was $840. How much was invested at each rate? Write a system of two equations in two variables to solve each problem.
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Question 839565: A tank is filled in 9 hours and drained in 11 hours. How long will it take to fill the tank if the drain is left half open?
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Question 840146: Sarah spent 1/8 of her money to buy books, 1/5 in purchasing clothes & 1/10 on charity. If she still had Rs.15 more than half of her money. Find the amount she had originally?
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Question 840154: If 70% of the class are girls and there are 63 girls in the class how many pupils are in the class?......
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Question 840149: If 70% of the class is girls and there are 63 girls in the class how many pupils are in the class?
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Question 840191: if a gas tank holds 32 gallons and the fuel gauge reads 3/8 full, how many gallons are left in the tank
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Question 840501: Simplify the ratios.
560g : 1,05kg : 1,47kg
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Question 839825: if sandy cut 1 3/4 of a 7 1/2 cord, how much cord is left ?
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Question 840909: 63:27=49:?

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Question 840707: 30% of the students in a local elementary school bring their lunch from home. the school has 820 students. how many students bring their lunch from home?
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Question 840323: There are 54 students in a speech contest. Yesterday, 1/3 of them gave their speeches. Today, 2/3 of the remaining students gave their speeches. How many students still haven't given their speeches?

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Question 840737: If you have 3/4 cup of flour how many eighths do you have?

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Question 841120: When 20 boys joined a group of y students the ratio of boys to girls became 5:7 . Write an algebraic expression to represent the number of girls in terms of y.
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Question 841320: tanveer has Rs.1400 after spending 30% of his money.find what sum he had originally
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Question 841322: if Rs.500 amount to Rs. 640 in 4 years.Find the rate percent of simple interest.
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