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Question 659365: I need find an equation of the line in standard form passing through the two points.
(10 , 9) and (10, 1)
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Question 659384: I need find an equation of the line in standard form passing through two lines.
(5/4 , 3/4) and (2/3, 1/3)
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Question 659654: the sum of three consecutive odd integers is 513.what is the largest of the three integers.
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Question 659651: One number is 3 less than twice another.The sum of the two numbers is 51. Find the numbers.
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Question 659865: You are taking a test in which multiple choice questions are worth 9 points and essay quetions are worth 12 points. You answer 16 questions correctly, and your score was 162. Find how many questions of each type you answered correctly.
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Question 659862: A basketball team played 62 games. They won 28 more than they lost. How many did they win how many did they lose?
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Question 659999: If Q is the midpoint of PR, and PQ = 2x + 3 and QR = 3x – 2, find x, PQ, QR, and PR.

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Question 660238: a child has $17.55 worth of nickels and dimes in her piggy bank. There are a total of 207 coins. How many of each does she have?
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Question 660520: jerry weller recevied 20,196 more votes than opponent john pavich. if the total number of votes was 196,554 find the number of votes for each candidate
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Question 660494: Ron and Kathy are ticket-sellers at their class play, Ron handling student tickets that sell for $2.00 each and Kathy selling adult tickets for $4.50 each. If their total income for 20 tickets was $60.00, how many did Ron sell?
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Question 660478: a 2o ft board is cut into 2 pieces. Twice the length of the shorter piece is 4ft more than the length of the longer piece. Find the length of the shorter piece.
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Question 660622: if 3.5 pounds of ground beef cost $9.77 how much does 5.6 pounds cost

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Question 660683: Conner has 25,000 in his bank account. Every month he spends $ 1,500. He does not add money to the account.
How much money will Conner have in his account after 8 months?

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Question 660812: The sum of two numbers is 24. Their difference is 4. What are the numbers?
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Question 660915: During the 1998-1999 Little League season, the Tigers played 57 games.
They lost 21 more games than they won. How many games did they win
that season?
I know the answer is 18 games, but I can not figure out how to come up with this answer.

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Question 661019: A 177-inch pipe is cut into two pieces. One piece is two times the length of the other. Find the lengths of the two pieces
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Question 661010: During a 4th of July weekend, 32 vehicles became trapped on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge while it was being repaved. A recent city ordinance decreed that only cars with 4 wheels and trucks with six wheels could be on the bridge at any given time. If there were 148 tires that needed to be replaced to due to damage, how many cars and trucks were involved in the incident?
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Question 661010: During a 4th of July weekend, 32 vehicles became trapped on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge while it was being repaved. A recent city ordinance decreed that only cars with 4 wheels and trucks with six wheels could be on the bridge at any given time. If there were 148 tires that needed to be replaced to due to damage, how many cars and trucks were involved in the incident?
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Question 661078: thirty six more than the product of three and x is the same as forty eight
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Question 661038: Tickets for the homecoming dance cost $25 for a single ticket or $40 for a couple. Ticket sales totaled $2930, and 142 people attended. How many tickets of each type were sold?

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Question 661387: In a particular year, a total of 64,578 students studied in one of the two most popular host countries when traveling abroad. If 5554 more students studied in the most popular host country than in the second most popular host country, find how many students studied abroad in each country.
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Question 661544: Gavin agrees to buy a 6-month package deal of monthly gym passes, and in turn receives a 15% discount. Write an expression to represent the total cost of the monthly passes with the discount, if x represents the cost of each monthly pass.
Thank you for your help!!

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Question 661542: A smartphone is on sale for 25% off of its list price. The shipping cost is $10. What expression can be used to represent the total cost of the smartphone? Let x represent the list price of the phone. Identify each term, coefficient, constant, and factor of the expression described.
Thank you for your help!!

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Question 661542: A smartphone is on sale for 25% off of its list price. The shipping cost is $10. What expression can be used to represent the total cost of the smartphone? Let x represent the list price of the phone. Identify each term, coefficient, constant, and factor of the expression described.
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Question 661541: Stephanie wants to buy some purses that are on sale for 30% off the original price of $120. The shipping cost is $15. Write an algebraic expression to represent the total cost of the purses. Let x represent the number of purses she is buying.


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Question 661540: nadia and some friends went to a movie. their total cost was $30.24, which included taxes of $2.24. write an algebraic expression to represent the price of each movie ticket, not including taxes. let x represent the number of nadias friends that went to the movies.
Thank for your help!

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Question 661634: find the slope and the y intercept of the line y+3=0

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Question 661998: Suppose you use 10 gal to drive 208 mi. the car gets 18 mpg for the city and 25 mpg for the highway. find the number of city and highway miles you drove.
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Question 661953: A counselor separates 40 campers into equal groups for activities.There are 8 campers in each group,g.

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Question 662016: Last month I was Movie Master of the Month Club. I bought some adult tickets at $7 each and some children's tickets at $5 each. I spent a total of $104. How many of each kind of ticket did I buy?
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Question 661979: The yearly production of a 5 foot orange tree is 35 pounds of oranges. A 12 foot tree produces 54 pounds.
What is the predicted production of an 18 foot tree?
What is the predicted production of an 20 foot tree?
What is the predicted height ( in feet ) of a tree that produces 88 pounds of oranges?

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Question 662177: Suppose we agree to pay you 8 cents for every problem in this chapter that you solve correctly and fine you 5 cents for every problem done incorrectly. If at the end of 26 problems we don’t owe each other any money, how many problems did you solve correctly?
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Question 662177: Suppose we agree to pay you 8 cents for every problem in this chapter that you solve correctly and fine you 5 cents for every problem done incorrectly. If at the end of 26 problems we don’t owe each other any money, how many problems did you solve correctly?
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Question 662249: Eric collected 1 1/3 times as many beads as Malik in the beginning. If Eric collected 48 more beads and Malik collected 13 more beads, Erc would have twice as many beads as Malik. How many beads did they collect altogether in the beginning?
I feel as though the number of beads collected would look like this:
1 1/3(x)
And Malik's would just be an (x)
But I can't get any further, the rest of the problem confuses me.

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Question 662329: A group of 42 people wants to go the amusement park. The admission price for adults is $16. The admission price for children is $12. The group spent $568 to get into the park. How many adults and how many children were in the group?
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Question 662392: the senior class at High School A rented and
filled 8 vans and 8 buses with 240 students. High School B rented and filled 4 vans and 1 bus with 54 students. Every van had the same number of students in it as did the buses. Find the number of the students in each van and in each bus

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Question 651976: pipe A allows water to flow into a swimming pool at a rate of 2.1 liters per second. pipe B allows water to flow out of the swimming pool at a rate of 5.7 liters per second. how long will it take 2700 liters of water to be reduced at 1000 liters?
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Question 662455: The smaller of two numbers is 9 less than the larger and their sum is 37. Find the numbers.
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Question 662472: Tiffany is 3 times as old as Emily. Eight years ago, Tiffany was 5 times as old as Emily.
How old is Tiffany now?

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Question 662720: One number is four less than three times another. If their sum is increased buy five, the result is twenty-five. Find the numbers. I think it is 3x - 4= y + 5 = 25. Am I reading this correct? Or am I getting this wrong in some places? Help please?
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Question 662840: a computer and printer together cost $1020. if the computer cost 40 more than 5 times the printer, how much was the printer?
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Question 662878: how do you solve : the greater of two numbers is twice the lesser number. three times the sum of the lesser number and 10 is the same as 52 more than the greater number. find the numbers

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Question 662880: i need help with findin the equation of a line ...
lava flows from a volcano at .35mph. It is flowing 6 miles north of a highway near the volcano ..
my guess is that the rise is irrelevant so i'm making that 1 .. so is the line y= 1/6 x + .35 ?
thank you...

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Question 663008: how do i use elemation to solve x+y=4
x+y=-7?

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Question 663008: how do i use elemation to solve x+y=4
x+y=-7?

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