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Question 1013082: How close are a meter and a yard? Convert 1 m into yards by using The fact that there are 100 cm in a meter, 2.54 cm in an inch, 12 inches in a foot, and 3 feet in a yard. Round your answer to the nearest 10th of a yard.
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Question 1013182: Express the rate 120ft in 3 seconds as miles per hour
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Question 1014525: you rent a car and discover that the speed limit on the highway is 100 km/hr. What is the equivalent value in mi/hr?
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Question 1015048: Sid needs 0.6

meters of canvas material to make a carry-all bag for his wheelchair. If canvas is $7.25

per meter, how much will Sid spend?
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Question 1015534: What is the volume of one cubic yard in cubic feet? Use three unit multipliers.
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Question 1017532: A hose fills a hot tub at a rate of 4.25 gallons per minute. How many hours will it take to fill a 282-gallon hot tub?
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Question 1018741: you measure the shadow cast by one liberty place in philidelphia pennsylvania, and find it to be 105 feet long. then you measure the shadow cast by a three foot post and find it to be 4 inches long. Determine the buildings height
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Question 1019399: How can I calculate repetition over a week long period? For instance if your phone rang once every 2 hours and 45 minutes how many times would it ring in a full 7 day week?
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Question 1019758: Find the 11110th digit in the decimal expansion of 1/41
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Question 1019761: How many digits are in the number represented by the expression 2^5201 times 5^2560 divided by 8^882
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Question 1019760: How many digits are in the number represented by the expression 2^5201 times 5^2560 divided by 8^882?
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Question 1021885: A car travels at 100mph, how long does it take to travel 129km?
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Question 1021887: Joe's car is traveling 10km/hr faster than kyle's car. It takes joe 1.5 hr to travel 126km to work. How fast is kyle's car traveling and how long to get to work if they live on the same street.
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Question 1023269: 720 m/day = ? m/min
i know answer is .5miles/min
how to show work on figuring out?
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Question 1024551: Use six unit multipliers to convert 1,000,000 cubic centimeters to cubic kilometers.

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Question 1026103: A family with a swimming pool puts up a chain-link fence around the pool. The fence forms a rectangle 24 yards wide and 20 yards long. If the fence sells for $3.50 per foot, how much will it cost to fence all four sides of the pool?
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Question 1026873: The area of forest on map 1cm to 4km is 12 cm sq. find its area on second map drawn to
Scale of 1: 200 000
My step 1
1 cm : 4 km
1cm2 = 4*4 km sq
1cm2 = 16 km sq
So 12 cm2 = 16*12 km sq= 192 km sq
The confusion is how to trace to second map,
Pls advise
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Question 1027685: The surface areas of 2 cubes are in the ratio of 64:25. If the length of one edge of the larger cube is 24 cm, what is the surface area of the smaller cube?
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Question 1027687: The volume of a right cylinder is 96 m^3. Express this volume in cubic millimetres, using scientific notation.
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Question 1027686: A circular target is divided into 4 rings that have equal areas. If the radius of the target is 24 cm, find the radius of the circle at the centre of the target.
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Question 1028532: Converting 16ft per second to miles per hour with unit multipliers.
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Question 1029393: 12 dollars per hour to cents per minute
(Saxon math practice set letter F pag 488)
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Question 1029393: 12 dollars per hour to cents per minute
(Saxon math practice set letter F pag 488)
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Question 1033567: Jake plays basketball. Assume x= the number of basketball goals that Jake makes during a given
season, and assume x can only take values from 0 to 6. The following table represents the probability
distribution for the discrete random variable y.
x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
P(x) 0.09 0.11 0.24 0.25 ? 0.12 0.08
(a) Find the probability that Jake would score exactly 4 goals.
(b) Find the probability that Jake would score at least 2 goals.
(c) Find the mean of the probability distribution.
(d) Find the standard deviation of the probability distribution.
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Question 1034081: use two multipliers to convert 4 square feet to square inches
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Question 1035221: A 1.000 g sample of octane (C8H18) is burned in a bomb calorimeter containing 1200 grams of water at an initial temperature of 25.00�C. After the reaction, the final temperature of the water is 33.20�C. Assuming all the heat is absorbed by the water, how many calories were in the 1.000 g of octane.
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Question 1035848: Convert 200 cubic meters per second to cubic inches per minute?
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Question 1035948: A car travels 5 miles in 9 minutes. How fast is it going in miles per hour? How fast is it going in meters per second?
If necessary you may use that there are 1609.34 meters in a mile.
The car travels _____ mi/hr
The car travels _____ m/s
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Question 1035946: A car travels 5 miles in 9 minutes. How fast is it going in miles per hour? How fast is it going in meters per second?
If necessary you may use that there are 1609.34 meters in a mile.
The car travels _____ mi/hr
The car travels _____ m/s
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Question 1036764: You are giving an older friend directions to your cottage. You say that it is 325 km to cottage. The friend knows they can go 60 km/hr.
How long will it take them to get to the cottage?
Thank you.
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Question 1036767: You tell your older friend that it us 100 metres across the bay. They want to know how many feet that is.
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Question 1036767: You tell your older friend that it us 100 metres across the bay. They want to know how many feet that is.
Thank you.
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Question 1036768: Find the petimeter in imperial units and the area in metric units.
A square with sides 5 yards long.
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Question 1036765: Your older friend calls you and says they have a 6 hard by 6 yard tarp they can bring to cover an open area at your cottage. You know the area of the picnic tables to be taped is 48 metres squared. Should your friend bother to bring their tart because it is to small?
Thank you
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Question 1036935: Hi, I just have trouble like reading through the question in word problems.
For example in one of my math books
"The goal post is 10 feet high and 45 YARDS away from the kick. Will the ball be high enough to pass over the goal post?"
I tend to skip over the YARDS and just assume it's feets. Is there anything I can do to make myself not skipping over units like that?
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Question 1037182: 7 cubic yards per second---> cubic feet per minute
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Question 1037923: The length of a stick is 45m. Then what is the length of 2/9 of the stick in m
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Question 1038594: a+4b=7, 3a+12b=20
a=? &b=?
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Question 1038897: Suppose we have a 400 liter mixture of acid solution, which is 10% acid, and 90% water. Let V be the number of liters of pure water to add to the mixture so that it is a 8% acid mixture. Find the quantity of water to add. Identity the unknown; write an equation for the unknown; solve the equation; state the answer in a full sentence.
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Question 1040910: Carl is 6 ft 4 in tall. His son is three-quarters as tall. What is the difference in their heights?
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Question 1042594: Electricity costs 6 cents per kilowatt hour. In one month, one home uses one megawatt hour of electricity. How much will the electric bill be? (be sure to look at the prefixes chart on the previous page for the conversion of kilo to mega).
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Question 1043762: I am confused with what a subset is and how it is used differently in problems. I'm also confused with what set and set notations are. Thank you for your help, I look forward to your reply.
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Question 1044850: convert the rate 12 pints to quarts per 15 minutes to quarts per hour

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