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Question 715415: you travel 875 yards in 75 seconds, how many miles per hour is that?
are you just multipyling 875 x 75 to get 65625?
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Question 1090489: 2, 4, 6, 8, __
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Question 775654: 14yds^2 to mm^2 and m^2

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Question 721652: use a unit multiplier to convert 15 miles per hour to feet per second

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Question 711536: How many British Pounds are in 314 Japanese Yen? (1 British Pound = $1.50; 107 Yen = $1.00)
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Question 711517: Use three unit multipliers to convert 30 meters to feet
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Question 749597: When the hoist was first invented the size of an average rectangular house blocks was the standard quarter acre. Its dimensions were usually 66 feet by 165 feet. How many square feet are in an acre?
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Question 981663: Matt kept track of his weight on the past months. On April 1 he weighed 56 kilograms. On May 1 he weighed 1200 grams more. By June 1 he lost 2 kilograms. What was his weight on the first of June?
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Question 711191: NEED HELP WITH LAST FOUR PROBLEMS OF 90: THANKYOU KINDLY.
USE DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS TO CONVERT
2.1 kiloliters to gallons:
3 yards to millimeters
45000 kilograms to tons
2.6 feet to decimeters
I can do the multiplying, if you can just help write out the proper ratios to use.
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Question 711067: The number of miles that remain to be flown by a commercial jet traveling from Boston to Los Angeles can be approximated by the equation
Miles remaining
= 2630 − 445t
where t is the number of hours since leaving Boston. In how many hours will the plane be 1000 miles from Los Angeles? Round to the nearest tenth of an hour.
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Question 708158: Find the total admissions for a recent movie if they were 12/13 of the total admissions for the top grossing movie of all time, which had total admissions of 206 million (round to nearest whole # as needed)? Please help, thank you
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Question 705739: Use six unit multipliers to convert 30 cubic yards to cubic inches?
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Question 704883: you make a wagon wheel wheel that has a diameter of 3 feet. How many turns of the wheel will it take to have you go the distance of one mile(5280 feet)?
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Question 958537: How many cubic yards are in something 16' long x 7'21/2" wide x 4'2" tall?
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Question 703752: continue the geometric sequence 1/32, 1/8, 1/2, 2, 8
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Question 695012: Alan bought $20.40 worth of cheese and butter. A pound of cheese cost $2.40 and a pound of butter cost $3.20 The cheese and butter together weighed 7.5 pounds. How many pounds of each did he buy?
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Question 688538: cyclist rides her bike at a speed of 27 kilometers per hour. What is this speed in meters per second? How many meters will the cyclist travel in 10 seconds? Do not round your answers.
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Question 688490: a scale on a map is 1in:25mi.Your measure 6,5in .how many miles is the actualy distance ?
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Question 704455: Please help me to solve this problem with the help of algebra equation. Thanks
Problem:
Four years ago Asim was twice as old as Mano. Now the difference in their ages is 11. Find Mano's present age.
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Question 952207: if a truck gets 14 miles to the gallon on average, how much gallons used when the truck travels 200 miles?
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Question 1033140: The incomes of trainees at a local mill are normally distribution with a mean of $1,100 and a standard deviation $800. the percentage of trainees that earn $800 or less a month is ____%.
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Question 680835: the area of a rectangle is 92 square centimeters the length of the rectangle is 23 centimeters find the width of the rectangle

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Question 679955: convert the scale to a unit rate. how many yards in 4 miles?
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Question 686630: a lunch box is 30 centimeters long, 14 centimeters wide, and 12 centimeter high. The formual for the volume of a box is v - lwh. find the volume of the lunch box, in cubic centimeters.
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Question 675670: I need to find the surface area (cm2), volume (cm3) and surface area:volume for the three cub dimensions.
1 cm x 1 cm x 1 cm surface area 6 cm2 volume 1 cm3
1 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm surface area 16 cm2 volume 4 cm3
1 cm x 1 cm x 6 cm surface area 26 cm2 volume 6 cm 3
I think I have the right answers for the surface area and volume but can't remember how to divide cube and squared items. Can you verify my answers and help me get the surface area : volume.
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Question 673463: A winery anticipates the production of 24000 liters of wine. How many 120 cl bottles should it order?
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Question 668791: WRITE 2UNIT RATES

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Question 668315: a rectangle is 14 meters wide and 7 meters long. how long is a rectangle of equal area if its widths is 4 meters?
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Question 686211: islam had a litre of milk and he drank 225ml how many millilitres of milk were left?

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Question 663368: i am 3 times as old as my daughter. in 12 years time i will only be twice as old as my daughter. how old am i now?
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Question 660528: Suppose it takes 3 days for a space vehicle to travel from Earth to the moon. About how long would it take the same vehicle traveling at the same speed to reach Mercury. The space vehicle would take about ___________ days to reach Mercury.
(Round to nearest whole number, Use scientific notation.
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Question 660526: A CERTAIN ANTIBIOTIC IS A LIQUID SUSPENSION COMPOSED OF PART MEDICATION AND PART WATER. IN ONE FORMULATION, THERE IS 250MG OF THE MEDICATION IN 5CC OF THE LIQUID SUSPENSION. A PHYSICIAN PRESCRIBED 400MG PER DAY FOR A PATIENT. FIND HOW MUCH OF THE LIQUID SUSPENSION MUST BE TAKEN TO ACHIEVE THE PRESCRIBED DAILY DOSAGE OF THE MEDICINE.
THE PATIENT MUST TAKE ___________ CC.
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Question 660052: Samuel has found that his new car gets 37 miles per gallon on the highway and 30 miles per gallon in the city. He recently drove 365 miles on 11 gallons of gasoline. How many miles did he drive on the highway? How many miles did he drive in the city
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Question 660008: a bag containing 275g of ice at 0 celsious was used to treat sore muscle. when the bag was removed the ice had melted and the liquid water has a temperature of 24. celsious, how many kilojoules of heat were absorbed?
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Question 799311: Suppose U = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10} is the universal set and Q = {3,6,9}. What is the copmlement of Q?
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Question 657249: Not sure if I am posting this in the correct area so please accept my apologies in advance, im struggling with the following:
Transpose the following formula to make x the subject:
y= 7+x/14
I think it works something like this to move the 7 accross i takeaway 7 from both sides and the 14 i multiply on both sides
so i come up with x=14y-7
Is this correct and can you suggest where i can find further reading on this subject?
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Question 653980: 1 and 1 fourth miles in 2 minutes and 4 seconds or 1 and 3 sixteenth miles in 1 minute and 35 seconds which rate is greater?
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Question 653245: If your ice cream maker makes 6 pints of ice cream, how many liters does it make?
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Question 652022: My question on my homework is: What must your average speed in meters/second be in order to travel 220 km in 2.25 hours. I am not sure how to do the conversion for that and my teacher said to use dimensional analysis but it is confusing me.
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Question 649068: 56 ounces to tons
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Question 648697: 2x+y=10
x-y=2
x= ?
y=?
What are x and y ?
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Question 648227: There are 2.60 * 10^(15) short tons of oxygen in the atmosphere (1 short ton = 2000 lb). How many metric tons of oxygen are present (1 metric ton = 1000 kg)?
(In sig figs)
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Question 648089: round 34,016.45 to the nearest ten.

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