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Question 1146950: Jen bought 4 tickets.Amber bought 5 tickets.The tickets cost $2 each.How much did the girls spend on tickets in all?
1)What is the hidden question you need to answer before you can solve the problem
2)Solve the problem. Complete the bar diagrams.Show the equations you used
3)How would your equations change if Amber bought only 3 tickets? Explain
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Question 1146949: A pack of gum contains 5 Pieces. Phil had 7 packs of gum before he lost 2 pieces.How many pieces of gum does Phil have now
1)What is hidden question you need to answer before you can solve the problem.
2)Solve the problem.Complete the bar diagrams.show the equations you used.
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Question 1147229: One pipe can fill a pool 3 times faster than a second pipe. When both pipes are opened, they fill the pool in 4 hours. How long would it take to fill the pool if only the slower pipe is used?
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Question 1147107: A student makes necklaces and bracelets to sell.
The student makes packages that each contain 2 necklaces and 3 bracelets in them. The student sells some of these packages. To find the total number of necklaces and bracelets in the packages that are sol, the student wrote 28+42.
Rewrite the student's expression to show how many packages containing 2 necklaces and 3 bracelets are sold.
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Question 1147247: Rapid City is 360 miles from Sioux Falls. At 6 am freight train leaves Rapid City for Sioux Falls and at the same time a passenger train leaves Sioux Falls for Rapid City. The 2 trains meet at 9am if the freight train travels 3/5 of the speed of the passenget train how fast does the passenger train travels?
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Question 1147108: The student starts a new project making necklaces and bracelets on August 1. The student finishes a necklace every 6 days and a bracelet every 8 days.
B. What is the first date on which the student will finish both a necklace and a bracelet?
The student starts making pairs of earrings as well. Every pair of earrings takes the same number of days to complete. The student starts making pairs of earrings on a day when the student starts making both a necklace and a bracelet. The student continues to make necklaces and bracelets at the same rate as in question B. Over the next 96 days, the student makes a combined total of 36 necklaces, bracelets, and pairs of earrings.
C. How many days does it take the student to complete each pair of earrings. Show or explain your work.
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Question 1147570: A tub can be filled with hot water in 15 minutes, or with cold water in 12 minutes. The tub can also be emptied when the plug is pulled out, in 10 minutes. Farley ran the hot water in his tub for 6 minutes, then both the cold and hot water together for 3 minutes, and then with the two taps still running, he accidentally pulled the plug. How long, did it take in minutes, for the tub to fill after the plug was pulled?
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Question 1147776: Sam can mow a lawn in 80 minutes. Bullwinkle can mow the same lawn in 120 minutes. How long does it take for both Sam and Bullwinkle to mow the lawn if they are working together? Express your answer as a reduced fraction
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Question 1147940: Jim goes out on a walk just before 2 p.m. every day, when the hands of the clock make a 90 degree angle. He arrives back home after 3 p.m. when the hands of the clock first make a 20 degree angle. How many hours does he spend walking in June.
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Question 1147983: The Smith children are responsible for mowing the lawn. If it takes Maria 24 minutes and Bill 40 minutes, assuming that they have two lawn mowers, how long will it take them to mow the lawn working together?
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Question 1148098: Adam Danny and Fred wanted to mow their parents lawn. Adam, working alone, would need twelve hours. Danny could do it in six hours, but Fred would only need four hours.
How long would it take to finish the job if the three brothers joined forces, working together?
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Question 1148115: A bowl is filled with water to a depth of x cm. Point C is the midpoint of the diameter of the bowl. Triangle ABC is equilateral with sides 10cm. Find the value of x, in cm.
Diagram: https://imgur.com/a/RuDZ8ou''.

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Question 1148119: A bowl is filled with water to a depth of x cm. Point C is the midpoint of the diameter of the bowl. Triangle ABC is equilateral with sides 10cm. Find the value of x, in cm.
Diagram: https://imgur.com/a/RuDZ8ou
COULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN STEP BY STEP AND NOT JUMP TO THE ANSWER/CONCLUSION. THANKS

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Question 1148315: 1. How many liters of 20% alcohol solution should be added to 40 liters of a 50% alcohol solution to make a 30% solution?

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Question 1148317: Joan takes 7 hours to clean the basement. It takes mike 12 hours to do this job. How long would it take if they worked together?
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Question 1148317: Joan takes 7 hours to clean the basement. It takes mike 12 hours to do this job. How long would it take if they worked together?
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Question 1148525: PLEASE HELP Owners of a recreation area are filling a small pond with water. They are adding water at a rate of 26 liters per minute. There are 300 liters in the pond to start. Let W represent the total amount of water in the pond (in liters), and let T represent the total number of minutes that water has been added. Write an equation relating W to T. Then use this equation to find the total amount of water after 19 minutes.
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Question 1149453: Madison invested in a certificate of deposit for 4 years at a 6% interest rate. At the end of the 4 years , the value of the certificate of deposit was $ 3,100. How much did Madison deposit originally?
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Question 1149556: if barbara were to paint her room alone, it would take 4 hours. her sister Sarah could do the job in 5 hours. How long would it take them working together?
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Question 1149558: jena and matt, working together, can mow the lawn in 4 hours. working alone, matt takes four times as long as jena. how long does it take jena to mow the lawn alone?
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Question 1149581: Tom can clean the house in 30 minutes. His sister Sally takes 40 minutes to clean the house. If their mother joins them they can clean the house in 15 minutes. How much time the mother will take if she works alone?
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Question 1149844: machine A can do a piece of work in 6 hours , machine B can do the same work in 9 hours. machine A was set to do the piece of work but, after 3 and a half hours, it broke down and machine B did the rest of the work. find how long the machine B took to do the rest of the work?
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Question 1149843: mogaka and onduso working together can do a piece of work in 6 days. mongaka, working alone takes 5 days longer than onduso. how many days does it take onduso to do the work alone?
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Question 1149842: A hot water tap can fill a bath in 5 minutes , while a cold water bath can fill the same bath in 3 minutes. the drain pipe can empty the full bath 3 and three quarters minutes. the two taps and the drain pipe are fully open for one and a half minutes after which the drain pipe is closed. how much longer will it take to feel the bath?
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Question 1149841: pipe A can fill an empty water tank in 3hours, while pipe B can fill the same tank in 6 hours. when the tank is full it can be emptied by pipe C in 8 hours. pipes A and B are opened at the same time when the tank is empty. if one hour later , pipe C is opened. find the total time taken to fill the tank?
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Question 1149845: a tank has 2 inlets P and Q and an outlet tap R .when empty the tank can be
filled by tap p alone in 4 and a half hours or by tap Q alone in 3hours.
when full the tank can be emptied in 2 hours by tap R
a) the tank is initially empty . find how long it would take to fill up the
tank i)if tap R is closed and taps P and Q are opened at the same time.
ii) if all the three taps are opened at the same time.
B) the tank is initially empty and the three taps are opened as follows:
P at 8:00 A.m Q at 8.45 A.m R at 9.00 A.m i)find the fraction of the
tank that would be filled by 9.00 a.m ii)find the time the tank would be
fully filled up.

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Question 1149880: Mai earns
$
8.75
for each hour of work. She worked
8.4
hours yesterday. Find how much she earned yesterday.
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Question 1150025: jonathan and victoria can finish a job in 13 (13/13) days. jonathan can do the job himself in 26 days. if Victoria wanted to do the job alone, how long would it take her?
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Question 1150037: Marlo dug a ditch in one hour and his
daughter, Maeryll, can dig the same size ditch in two hours. Working together, how
long will it take them to dig the ditch?

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Question 1150208: Tara plans to take a bath but forgets to close the drain. The bath usually takes 10 minutes to fill and 12 minutes to empty. How long will it be before the bath is filled if Tara continues not to notice that the drain is open?
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Question 1150374: a ball is thrown from a height of 45 meters with an initial downward velocity of 10 m/s. The balls height h (in meters) after t seconds is given by the following.
H=45-10t-5t^2
How long after the ball is thrown does it hit the ground?
Round to nearest hundredth
*will someone help me with the answer
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Question 1150442: a ball is thrown from an initial height of 1 meter with an initial upward velocity of 15 m/s. The balls height h (in meters) after t seconds is given by the following.
h=1+15t-5t^2
find all values of t for which the balls height is 6 meters.
round answer to nearest hundredth.
if someone could help provide answer
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Question 1150533: if it takes 6 days for 6 workers to build a garage, how long would it take 9 workers?
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Question 1150533: if it takes 6 days for 6 workers to build a garage, how long would it take 9 workers?
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