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Question 760283: solution of you need to measure exactly 1 litres of water. however you have only two measures-one of 5 litres and the other of 3 litres. can you use them to do the task assigned to you? if yes,then how?
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Question 760284: How many gallons of water will a inflatable 3 ring swimming pool size 147cm x 36cm hold
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Question 760425: sue an experienced shipping clerk can fill a certain order in four hours. tome a new clerk needs seven hours to do the same job. working together how long will it take them to fill the order?
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Question 760720: An 80 gallon tank is being filled with water by two pipes. One pipe fills the tank at 6 gallons per second. The second pipe fills the tank at 5 gallons per second. After 5 seconds, pipe one clogs and is now filling the tank at 2 gallons per second. How long will it take for the 80 gallon tank to be filled?
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Question 760731: 12 engineers worked together and completed 30 identical cars in 6 days. Assuming that all engineers worked at the same rate, how many days would it take 18 engineers to build 15 identical cars?
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Question 760828: IF 10 MEN CAN CUT A PIECE OF WOOD IN 4 DAYS,HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE 8 MEN TO CUT THE SAME LOG OF WOOD?
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Question 760986: A plane can fly 600 miles in the same time as it takes a car to go 160 miles. If the car travels 110 mph slower than the plane, find the speed of the plane and the speed of the car.
The plane travels mph.
Round your answer to 3 decimal places as needed.
The car travels mph.
Round your answer to 3 decimal places as needed.
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Question 761002: A newly hired accountant takes 3 times as long to complete a tax return than an experienced accountant. If both accountants working together can complete the tax return in 70 minutes, how long would it take each accountant to complete the tax return alone? I tried this equation, not sure if I'm correct? 1/3x+1/x=70?
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Question 761005: The height, in meters, above sea level of a NASA launched rocket is given by where represents the number of seconds since the rocket was launched.
Assuming that the rocket will splash down into the ocean, after how many seconds will the splashdown occur?

Round your answer to 3 decimal places as needed
How many meters above sea level does the rocket get at its peak?

Round your answer to 3 decimal places as needed
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Question 761033: The school has grades 9-12 and each student is required to have a homeroom,there can be no more less than 10 students per homerun or no more than 20 students per home room. Each grades has 3 or 4 homerooms. What is the smalles and largest enrollment the school can have?
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Question 761035: A man earns a salary plus 10% a year bonus. If his bonus one year was $1,795, what was his total pay for the year?
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Question 761036: Five men take four days to unload 5000 tons of lumber. How long will it take 8 such men to unload 10,000 tons of lumber?
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Question 761036: Five men take four days to unload 5000 tons of lumber. How long will it take 8 such men to unload 10,000 tons of lumber?
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Question 761361: A can make a wall in 10 days, B can make in 20 days and C cn make in 30 days. If A is assisted by B and C trun by trun in alternate days respectively. In how many days the wall has been completed?
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Question 761369: One pipe can fill a tank in 45 minutes and another pipe can fill it in 30 minutes. if these two pipes are open and a third pipe is draining water from the tank, it takes 27 minutes to fill the tank. How long will it take the third pipe alone to empty a full tank
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Question 761591: 15 workers can build a wall in12 days.How many workers are need if the wall is to be built in 9 days?
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Question 761599: The speed of a bullet,v m/s,form a gun is inversely proportion to the square root of its mass, m.When the mass is 64g,the speed is 850m/s.
What is the formula connecting m and v?
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Question 761627: solve the quation 3x(4x-3)=0
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Question 761804: Jack can build a wall on his own in 16 hours. Jill can build the same wall in 12 hours working alone.. If they work together they can build the wall in 8 hours, but because theysometimes get in each others way, they lay 16 bricks less per hour between them than if they didn�t get in each other�s way. So the question is� How many bricks are there in the wall?
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Question 761972: Jena and Tom, working together, can paint the deck in 9 hours. Working alone, Tom takes three times as long as Jena. How long does it take Jena to paint the deck alone?
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Question 762230: Tommy can paint a fence in 9 hours. If his friend Huck helps, they can paint the fence in 1 hour. How fast could Huck paint the fence by himself?
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Question 762350: My watch loses 2 minutes every day. How long does it take to lose a day?
A. 30 days
B. 300 days
C. 720 days
D. 1,440 days
E. It will never lose that much
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Question 762348: A can complite a task in 4 days,B can do the same in 5 days and C in 6 days.If they start working together and A becomes sick at second day and stopped working then how many days B and C will required to complite the task??
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Question 762535: It takes 4 men 14 days to do a certain job. How long should it take 7 men working at the same rate to do the same job?

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Question 762535: It takes 4 men 14 days to do a certain job. How long should it take 7 men working at the same rate to do the same job?

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Question 762709: It takes 12 workers 30 days to build a house. How long would it take 18 similar workers?
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Question 762806: With one hose a swimming pool can be filled in 12 hours. Another hose can fill it in 16 hours. How long will it take to fill the pool using both hoses?
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Question 762810: It takes 2,700 ants 4 hours to carry 2 jam sandwiches 37 metres. How long would it take 8,100 ants to transport 6 jam sandwiches 16 metres?
Could you please alter the ratios as you go to answer the question. For example:
3 : 5 : 2
x 9/5 x 9/5 This was an example question with 27/5 hours
as the answer.
3 : 9 : 18/5 Increased work means increased time.
x 2/3 x 3/2 How would I complete these questions? I have
questions with both 3 and 4 variables.Thanks
2 : 9 : 27/5
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Question 762896: i was wondering how many feet is in a 3 minute driveway. i Hope i asked this ques right.tyvm ~ Chris
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Question 763026: Please help me in this question :
What least number must be subtracted from each of the numbers 17, 17, 34, 42 so that the ratio of first
two is the same as the ratio of the next two?
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Question 762996: David can paint a wall in 1 hour and Mike can paint the same wall in 2 hours. How long would it take David and Mike to paint this wall if they work together?
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Question 763106: a pipe can fill a vat in 8 hours. a second pipe can fill the vat in 4 hours. if a third is added, the vat is filled in 2 hours. how long would it take for the third pipe to fill the vat?
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Question 763080: 6) Joe can complete his yard work in 3 hours. If his son helps it will only take 2 hours working together. How long would the yard work take if is son was working alone?

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Question 764168: If one outlet pipe can drain a tank in 24 hours ad another pipe can drain the tank in 26 hours, how long it will take for both pipes to drain the tank?
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Question 763871: A man can paint a room in 4 hours and another man can paint the same room in 2 hrs.How long would it take to paint the room if they worked together
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Question 764311: Two pipes can filIa tank in 10 hrs and 20 hrs, respectively. How long will they
take to fill up the tank, if they are used together?
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Question 764331: a person can do a piece of work in 12 days. after working alone or 4 days.he hires a helper and both them together complete the task for 6 days.how long would it have taken for the helper to alone to complete a given task?
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Question 764332: a person can do a piece of work in 12 days. after working alone or 4 days.he hires a helper and both them together complete the task for 6 days.how long would it have taken for the helper to alone to complete a given task?
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Question 764340: A delivery truck driver completes 3/5 of her assigned route from 8 o clock in the morning to 2 o clock in the afternoon. At that rate what time will she finish her route?
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Question 764338: A gardener completes 5/8 of his landscaping job in 10 days. At this rate how many days will it take him to finish the job?
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Question 764329: a trader of 100 kgs sugar part of which he sold 8% proit and rest he at 18% profit. he gained 10%of whole. how much he did he sell at 18% proit?
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Question 764881: 7 men can do a piece of work in 12 days. How many men will be required to do double the work in 8 days.
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