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Question 800833: 1gallon 1 quart and 19 fluid ounces equals how many fluid ounces?

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Question 801346: Convert each rate using dimensional analysis. Round to the nearest tenth, if necessary.
30 mi / h = ____ ft / min

a.
2640
c.
880
b.
264
d.
2112
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Question 807980: Please help me with this problem:
It takes you 30 minutes to rake the leaves in your yard an it takes your brother 45 minutes.How long does it take both of you to rake the leaves when working together?

Thanks
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Question 808814: Can you please answer this question:
The elevator speed in the Washington Monument takes 60 seconds to rise 500 feet. What is the average speed in miles per hour?
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Question 808813: Can you please answer this question:

You paint 2 square yards of a community mural in 3 hours and a friend paints 4 square yards in 5 hours. How long does it take the two of you to paint 11 square yards when working together?
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Question 809520: Solve the system of equations
x - y = -7
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Question 810229: A bag contains 7 red marbles and 5 black marbles. You must add 60 marbles to the bag, but the ratio of red to black must remain the same. How many of each color should you add?
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Question 811547: Mr. Birch decides that he is going to put carpet in his classroom. He needs 450 square feet of carpet. At the Carpet Warehouse, carpet is sold at $2 per square yard.
Question 1: How many square yards of carpet should Mr. Birch buy? (Step-by-step solution to solving this problem).
Question 2: How much will it cost Mr. Birch to carpet his classroom? (Step-by-step solution to solving this problem).
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Question 814995: Convert each of the following:
0.123 hg = ____________dg
0.12 lb = ______________oz
12 ℃ = _______________℉
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Question 815440: Use scientific notation to find each answer. Round all answers to the proper number of significant digits.
Distance to the sun: The sun is about 93 million miles from Earth. Find this distance in feet. (1 mi = 5,280 ft).
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Question 815403: [ accident investigators use the formula sqrt(30fd) to determine the speed that a car was traveling in miles per hour by measuring the distance (d) in feet of its skid mark. in this formula f is the coefficient of friction for the type and condition of the road ]

1 write a simplified formula for the speed if f=0.6 for wet asphalt road
2write a simplified formula for the speed if f =0.8 for dry asphalt road
[ 3 investigators determine the speed at the time of an accident to be 50 mph and the distance of the skid marks was 105 feet. determine if the road was wet or dry. explain your answer ]
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Question 815583: Use scientific notation to find each answer. Round all answers to the proper number of significant digits.
Speed of Sound. - The speed of sound in air is 3.31 x 10^4 centimeters per second. Find the speed of sound in centimeters per hour.
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Question 815589: Write each numeral in scientific notation
689 x 10^9
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Question 815598: Write each numeral in scientific notation
6,000 * 10^-7
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Question 815781: Write each numeral in scientific notation
765 * 10^-5
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Question 815781: Write each numeral in scientific notation
765 * 10^-5
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Question 816542: How do you convert 20 square yards to square feet
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Question 817849: If sin Θ = 2/3 and tan Θ < 0, what is the value of cos Θ?
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Question 823818: Bob has 50 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular garden. If one side of the garden is x feet long, he wants the other side to be (25 � x) feet wide. What value of x will give the largest area, in square feet, for the garden?
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Question 826411: Please solve this problem:
6 yards per hour to feet per second???
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Question 826424: Please solve this problem:
Solve the formula P=2l+2w for w.
Then find the width of rectangle with a length of 28 meters and a perimeter of 88 meters.
Thank
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Question 826653: how to covert customary units
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Question 826654: Hi. I'm in grade 7 and i'm not quite sure if this is under the right category but the category I'm talking about is Algebra. I missed a homework handout of Algebra a while ago and now i forget how to do it. the question I'm stuck on is:
if x,y and z are positive integers with xy=18, xz=3 and yz=6, what is the value of x+y+z?
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Question 829938: use a unit mulitplier to convert 90 meters per minute to meters per second
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Question 830708: please show me how to use unit multipliers to convert 300 min to hr
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Question 831634: a restaurant has a dining room that is 37 ft by 55 ft. what is the area of the dining room and what is the perimeter of the dining room?
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Question 831640: a map has a scale of 45 miles to the inch. how far apart on the map are two cities that, in reality are 315 miles apart? how far apart in reality are two different cities that are 18 inches apart on the map?
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Question 832673: what is 15 meters per second to miles per hour?
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Question 833157: A boat has a top speed of 37 knots ( nautical miles per hour) what is this speed in miles per hour?
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Question 833160: suppose that in 2008, 745,550 citizens died of a certain disease. Assuming the population of the country is 332 million. what was the mortality rate in units of death per 100,000 people?
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Question 833159: express 55 miles per hour in kilometers per hour
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Question 834463: Convert the rate of 10 yards per 5 minutes to feet per hour
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Question 834463: Convert the rate of 10 yards per 5 minutes to feet per hour
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Question 835773: Use unit multipliers to perform the following conversations - A. 24 feet to inches B. 500 mm to centimeters

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Question 836938: Choose the most appropriate customary unit for each measurement. Justify the answer.
1. the width of a sidewalk
2. the weight of a truck
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Question 837572: 1 1/4 mi= ft
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Question 838247: A child weights 66lbs is receiving a dose of 125u mg of a drug three times a day. The safe range is 10-20mg/kg/day.is the child receiving a safe dose
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Question 838025: Over the counter cough syrup often have dose listed as a number of teaspoon. A teaspoon contains 5.0 ml of cough syrup.write a conversation factor relating number of teaspoon and number of ml
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Question 840113: use a unite multiplier to convert 15 miles per hour to feet per second
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Question 840787: 48 kilometers is equivalent to how many miles?
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Question 841772: The length of rectangular field is 20 m more than its width. If the perimeter is 280 m then find its length and also area.
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Question 843258: 1. One of the largest pumpkins ever grown weighed about 1/2 ton. How many pounds did the pumpkin weight?
2. Speed skiing takes place on a course that is 2/3 mile long. How many feet long is the course?
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Question 843283: the equation 3x = y can be used to convert feet to yards, or yard to feet. Which unit of length is represented by each of the variables x and y? Explain
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