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Question 1112347: Linear relations :you are a team manager of a soccer team, and are in charge of purchasing new jerseys. you find an online deal for $4.25 per jersey (tax included, plus a $7 shipping fee). Write a formula for the cost of buying Jerseys for the team state the variable

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Question 1112417: Happy Times’ offer a 15% discount off all holidays booked up to three months in advance. How much a family of 2 adults and 4 children will aged 6, 8, 12 and 14 pay for a holiday whose advertised price is £365 each with a 50% reduction for children under 14 years of age?

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Question 1112448: dewin has 4.35 in nickels and quarters. The number of quarters is 3 fewer than the number of nickels. how many of each coin does she have?
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Question 1112481: john is 5 years younger than robert. If the sum of their ages in 8 years time is 37, find john's age in 3 years time?
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Question 1112481: john is 5 years younger than robert. If the sum of their ages in 8 years time is 37, find john's age in 3 years time?
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Question 1112508: describe the function y=5x
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Question 1112544: Martina is a software saleswoman. Her base salary is $1900 , and she makes an additional $70 for every copy of Math is Fun she sells. Let P represent her total pay (in dollars), and let N represent the number of copies of Math is Fun she sells. Write an equation relating P to N . Then use this equation to find her total pay if she sells 29 copies of Math is Fun.
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Question 1112550: The length of a rectangle is 3yd less than twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is 27yd^2 . Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1112550: The length of a rectangle is 3yd less than twice the width, and the area of the rectangle is 27yd^2 . Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 1112609: A store sells cashews for $5.00 per pound and peanuts for $1.50 per pound. The manager decides to mix 30 pounds of peanuts with some cashews and sell the mixture for $3.00 per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the peanuts so that the mixture will produce the same revenue as would selling the nuts separately?
Thank you so much!!

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Question 1112677: Ricardo sold 400 decorated t-shirts at a craft show. Blue ones cost $4.00 and red ones cost $3.00. He received a total of $1500 for the shirts. How many blue ones did he sell?
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Question 1112719: Anthony Tedesco sold his used mountain bike and accessories for
​$210210.
If he received  
fourfour
times as much money for the bike as he did for the​ accessories, find how much money he received for the bike.

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Question 1112709: You have $8 and earn $1.25 for each health bar you sell. Write an equation in two variables that represents the total amount A
(in dollars) you have after selling b
health bars.

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Question 1112718: In country​ A, about
threethree
times as many cars are manufactured per day than in country B. If the total number of these cars manufactured per day is
26 comma 43226,432​,
find the number manufactured in country B and the number manufactured in country A.

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Question 1112715: Based on the​ Census, state A has
1313
fewer electoral votes for president than state B. If the total number of electoral votes for these two states is
8787​,
find the number for each state.

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Question 1112761: It costs a family of two $25 to go to the state fair, and a family of six $65. What is the initial value of the function that represents this situation?
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Question 1112756: The management of hartman rent a car has allocated $1.5 million to buy a new fleet of automobiles consisting of compact intermediate size cars an full size cars. Compact costs $12000 each intermediate size cars cost $18000 each and full sized cars cost $24000 each. If hartman purchases twice as many compacts as intermediate size cars and the total amount of cars to be purchased is 100, determine how many cars of each type will be used
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Question 1112724: Mark's school is selling tickets to a choral performance.on the first day the school sold 9 senior citizens tickets and 8 child tickets for a total of $153. The school took in $153 on the second day by selling 3senior citizens tickets and 14 child tickets. What is the price each of one senior citizens ticket and one child ticket?
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Question 1112876: One number is 10 more than five times the second number . Their total is 185. Find the numbers.
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Question 1112897: set up an equation to solve problem-
Sean is deciding whether to select a satellite receiver or cable for his television programming. The satellite receiver costs $293.59 and the monthly charge is $57.53. With cable, there is no initial cost to purchase equipment, but the monthly charge for comparable channels is $74.80. After how many months will the total cost of the two systems be equal?

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Question 1112717: By​ air, the distance from city A to city B is 3007 miles less than the distance from city C to city D. If the total of these two distances is 7803 miles, find the distance from city C to city D.
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Question 1112722: The state fair is a popular field trip destination. This year the senior class at high school A and the senior class at high school b both planned trips there. The senior class at high school a rented and filled 12 vans and 7 buses with 485 students. High school b rented and filled 1 van and 1 bus with 65 students. Each van and each bus carried the same number of students. How many students can a van carry? How many students can a bus carry?
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Question 1113023: The function models the approximate height of an object t seconds after it is launched. How many seconds does it take for the object to hit the ground?
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Question 1113193: The post office charges a flat rate plus a per pound rate to send packages. For a three pound package it costs $6.50 and for a 7 pound package it costs $12.50.
A. What is the equation for the cost of package based on its weight
B. What is the slope and what does it represent
C. What is the y-intercept and what does it represent
I tried to find the unit rate but could not because I feel like I am missing information?

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Question 1113207: The height of ball that is launched from an initial of 84 feet with an initial upward velocity of 20 feet per second is given by the function:
h(t)= -16t^2+20t+84
where h represents the height of the ball at t seconds. How long will it take for the ball to hit the ground?

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Question 1113199: The drama club is earning money for sets through its ticket sales for the school play. Tickets purchased in advance cost $4 and tickets sold at the door cost $5.50. Altogether the drama club earned 4$40 in ticket sales. If there were 15 more tickets sold in advance than at the door, how many of each price were sold?
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Question 1113219: A digital camera with a regular price of $325 is on sale for $201.50. Find the markdown rate.
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Question 1113247: Type the correct answer in each box. Use numerals instead of words. If necessary, use / for the fraction bar(s).
John hosts an art workshop on the weekends. He has an average of 14 students in each session and charges a fee of $12 per session. He estimates that for every $2 increases in the fee, the average number of students reduces by 1.
Complete the equation that models this scenario, where c(x) is the revenue generated and x is the number of $2 fee increases.
c(x) = x2 + x +

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Question 1113268: 11. Determine the x- and y-intercepts. Work must be shown.

5x + (1/3)y = 10

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Question 1113269: Factor out the GCF from each term in the expression. Show your work or explain your answer.

2x^3 x(x^2y-6)

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Question 1113269: Factor out the GCF from each term in the expression. Show your work or explain your answer.

2x^3 x(x^2y-6)

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Question 1113270: Simplify. If possible work must me shown.
(2x^2-21x+40)/(4x^2-4x-15)

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Question 1113266: 10. Find the missing coordinate if the ordered pair is to be a solution to the equation. Show your work.
2x+y=6; (x,-1)


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Question 1113277: Kathi and Robert Hawn had a pottery stand at the annual Skippack Craft Fair. They sold some of their pottery at the original price of $14.50 each, but later decreased the proce of each by $4.00. If they sold all pieces and took in $1101.50, find how may they sold at teh original price and how many they sold at the reduced peice.
Please help!

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Question 1113277: Kathi and Robert Hawn had a pottery stand at the annual Skippack Craft Fair. They sold some of their pottery at the original price of $14.50 each, but later decreased the proce of each by $4.00. If they sold all pieces and took in $1101.50, find how may they sold at teh original price and how many they sold at the reduced peice.
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Question 1113327: The sum of the digit of a certain two-digit number is 7 Reversing its digits increases the number by 9.What is the number?

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Question 1113313: a boeing 747 crosses the atlantic ocean (3000 miles) with an airspeed of 500 miles per hour. the cost C (in dollars) per passenger is given by: C(x)=1000+(x/100)+(3600/x) where x is the ground speed (airspeed+/- wind). Determine the cost if the groundspeed is 200 miles per hour.
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Question 1113313: a boeing 747 crosses the atlantic ocean (3000 miles) with an airspeed of 500 miles per hour. the cost C (in dollars) per passenger is given by: C(x)=1000+(x/100)+(3600/x) where x is the ground speed (airspeed+/- wind). Determine the cost if the groundspeed is 200 miles per hour.
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Question 1113308: Each week, Jordan's parents give him the $8 he earned for the week, and he records the total amount of money he has saved in the table below
Week January 4 January 11 January 18 January 25 February 1
Total Saved $86 $94 $102
With only two weeks left before the trip, Jordan wants to predict how much money he will have to bring on the trip. What is the total amount of money that Jordan will have saved on February 1st
can you tell me what part of the table is x and which is y

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Question 1113446: Write the equation of the line that contains the indicated pair of points. Express the final equation in standard form.
x intercept of 5 and y intercept of -20

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Question 1106635: a water park charges $12 dollars for admission and $5 for parking. Write an inequality to represent the possible number of people that could go for $50 assuming they take one vehicle. I’ve already tried solving it normally but I don’t really get an answer from it. Could you help? thanks!
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Question 1113512: The sum of two numbers is
39
. The larger number is
11
more than the smaller number. What are the numbers?

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Question 1113512: The sum of two numbers is
39
. The larger number is
11
more than the smaller number. What are the numbers?

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Question 1113512: The sum of two numbers is
39
. The larger number is
11
more than the smaller number. What are the numbers?

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Question 1113545: A company needed copy paper for their office. The cost was $52 per box of copy paper. They also had to pay $48 to have it shipped. Write the function for the cost of copy paper per box.
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