Questions on Algebra: Unit Conversion answered by real tutors!

Tutors Answer Your Questions about Reduction-of-unit-multipliers (FREE)

Question 1207935: How to convert 42.27 lb-s^1/ft^-1 to hp? I know that 550 lb-ft/s is equal to 1 hp but I do not know how to continue solving it since there are negative exponents in the given problem and the ft and s are switched. Thank you so much!
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 1206963: 2tan(x)sin(x)+2sin(x)=tan(x)+1. x is has to be from 0 to 360 inclusive.
Solve for all values of x
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 559646: a car radiator has a capacity of 16 quartz and is filled with a 25% antifreeze solution. how much must be drained off and replaced with pure antifreeze to obtain a 40% antifreeze solution?
Click here to see answer by greenestamps(13216)

Question 657575: A pack of elephants are moving at 6 mph. One gets left behind. It chased at a rate of 10 mph and caught up in 5 minutes. Howlong in hours did it run to catch up? How far did the lone elephant run?
Click here to see answer by greenestamps(13216)

Question 793048: Kat spends 30 minutes of time partly in listening to her professor and partly in text messaging her close friends. The time she spends on text messaging is 2 times more than what she spends listening to her professor. How many minutes does Kat spend listening to her professor?
Click here to see answer by greenestamps(13216)

Question 1027688: The area of triangle ABC is trisected by two segments parallel to base BC. The longer of these segments is 24 cm. What is the length of base BC? Express your answer in simplest radical form.
Click here to see answer by greenestamps(13216)

Question 687224: The ratio of the numerator to the denominator of a certain fraction is five to eight. If five is subtracted from the numerator and four is added to the denominator, the new fraction reduces to one-half. What is the original fraction?

A mixture contains
A girl is now

Click here to see answer by greenestamps(13216)

Question 801507: The wheels on a certain bicycle have a radius of 13.2 inches. Suppose the wheels roll at 150 revolutions per minute along flat ground without slipping. How fast is the bicycle moving in miles per hour?
The question then hints to convert revolutions to radians per minute, but I am unsure how to do this and any help on what to do to get the answer would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 789015: An open rectangular box is to be made from a piece of cardboard 20 inches wide and 20 inches long by cutting a square from each corner and bending up the sides.
(a) Express the volume V of the box as a function of the size x of the cutout.
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 559649: monica drove to work on monday at 40 miles per hour and arrived one minute late. she left the same time on tuesday, drove at 45 miles per hour, and arrived one minute early. how far does monica drive to work?
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 794453: a car and bus leave from the same spot and drive in opposite directions. the bus is travelling 6 miles per hour slower than the car. in 4.50 hours, the car and the bus are 217 miles apart. find the average speed of the car

Click here to see answer by mananth(16946)

Question 1130221: Use a model to determine the amount owed on a loan of $5,000 with simple interest of 4.25%. The model was A=5000+5000(0.0425t), where A is the amount (total principal plus interest) required to repay a loan, and t is the time, in years.
What is the slope of this model? Include units in your answer.
How long would it take for the loan amount to reach $7,000? Round to the nearest tenth.
Click here to see answer by mananth(16946)

Question 1205692: two more than seven times Lynn’s age

Click here to see answer by greenestamps(13216)

Question 1205692: two more than seven times Lynn’s age

Click here to see answer by josgarithmetic(39630)

Question 1205404: The telephone poles along a road are 20m apart and a car travels from the first to the fifteenth in 10½ seconds. Calculate the speed of the car in km/h.
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 1204570: Use six unit multipliers to convert 28,000 square inches to square meters.
Click here to see answer by math_tutor2020(3817)

Question 1204570: Use six unit multipliers to convert 28,000 square inches to square meters.
Click here to see answer by josgarithmetic(39630)

Question 1204572: Use six unit multipliers to convert 28,000 square inches to square meters.

Click here to see answer by josgarithmetic(39630)

Question 1203335: A bicycle is traveling at 22 miles per hour. How many feet will it cover in 35 seconds? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a foot

Click here to see answer by Alan3354(69443)

Question 1202348: The prairie dogs were having a town meeting to talk about the blackfooted ferret that was terrorizing the neighborhood. One town council dog suggested building a network of tunnels connecting every burrow to every other burrow. Then someone said Are you crazy ? We have nine burrows. Thats too many tunnels nd too much money to build them. If each tunnel cost $1.00 to build, how much would it cost the prairie dogs to connect every burrow with every other burrow?
Click here to see answer by math_tutor2020(3817)

Question 1202350: The prairie dogs were having a town meeting to talk about the blackfooted ferret that was terrorizing the neighborhood. One town council dog suggested building a network of tunnels connecting every burrow to every other burrow. Then someone said Are you crazy ? We have nine burrows. Thats too many tunnels nd too much money to build them. If each tunnel cost $1.00 to build, how much would it cost the prairie dogs to connect every burrow with every other burrow
Click here to see answer by ikleyn(52915)

Question 1202349: Lloyd gave 1/2 his marbles to Lee. Then, he gave 2/3 of the remaining ones to Lynn. If he ended up with ten marbles, how many did he have when started?
Click here to see answer by josgarithmetic(39630)

Question 1202222: Rainbow Robots Inc. was putting on a big demomstration. Everyone came to watch the colorful robotswash the windows at the Miller building. First the big red robot washed one half of all the windows in the building. Then the smaller green robot washed one half of the windows that were left. To the cheers of everyone watching, the tiny yellow robot washed the last 10 windows. How many windows did the rainbow robots wash altogether?
Click here to see answer by math_tutor2020(3817)

Older solutions: 1..45, 46..90, 91..135, 136..180, 181..225, 226..270, 271..315, 316..360, 361..405, 406..450, 451..495, 496..540, 541..585, 586..630, 631..675, 676..720, 721..765, 766..810, 811..855, 856..900, 901..945, 946..990, 991..1035, 1036..1080, 1081..1125, 1126..1170, 1171..1215, 1216..1260, 1261..1305, 1306..1350, 1351..1395, 1396..1440, 1441..1485, 1486..1530, 1531..1575, 1576..1620, 1621..1665, 1666..1710