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Question 194911: I need help with this please.
0.4+0.44+0.444
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Question 194992: how can i put 97,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 in word format
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Question 121825: Pg 148 scientific notation
Problem reads... A laser light printer prints one character in 2.5X10 to the negative 5 seconds. A certain document takes 10 minutes to print. How many characters are contained in the document.
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Question 195472: Ben is making wooden toys for the next arts and crafts sale. Each toy costs Ben $1.80 to make. If he sells the toys for $3.00 each, how many will he have to sell to make a profit of extactly $36.00?
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Question 195497: When reading money amounts, do you read the decimal point as "and"?
Example: Five dollars "and" thirty-five cents, or five dollars, thirty-five cents.
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Question 198466: Let me set up the question:
As of February 2001, Gap Inc. operated a total of 3676 stores worldwide. The following chart shows the store breakdown by brand.
Gap (Domestic) - 2076
Gap (International) - 529
Banana Republic - 404
Old Navy - 666
Total - 3678
Question #95 - What fraction of Gap brand stores were Old Navy stores? Simplify this fraction.
Answer: the answer I got on the calc. wa .181076672; when my calc. translated this into a fraction I got. 111/613
I cannot figure out how (with pencil & paper) to get this same fraction. my answer is always - 2829323/15625000.
Can you please explain what I'm missing in working this problem.
eddie
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Question 198973: translate to an equation then solve. what number is 42% of 72
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Question 199399: i need help expressing 5E-5 in decimal form when given as an answer on a calculator
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Question 199761: i need help with decimals everything with them so please if u cluld get back to me
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Question 199876: When rounding to the nearest 3 places do would you round up the 4th number example the square roof of 162 is 12.7279. Rounded to 3 places would it be 12.728 or 12.727
Thank you.
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Question 199931: why 2√2 is in simplest form but √8 is not in simplest form.

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Question 200061: add and subtract the following fractions.
2/3+5/7
3/4+7/12
4/9-1/8
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Question 200395: The speed of light in a vacumn is 186,282.397 miles per second.What is this rounded to the nearset thousand miles per second? And what is this rounded to the nearest ten thousand miles per hour? JANET
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Question 202161: My problem involves the base ten numeration system.
I need to write 101(0two) (zero and two written like an exponent)in base ten.
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Question 202217: How do I solve 3%of$36.00?
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Question 203417: Find the least common multiple of 14, 21, and 35.
A. 70
B. 10,290
C. 42
D. 210
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Question 203421: If 1 gallon of water weighs 8.34 pounds, how much does 3.75 gal weigh ?
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Question 203418: pieces of moulding 7 1/2 feet long, 2 3/4 feet long and 71/2 feet long to frame a doorway. If started with 20 feet of moulding how much is left over?
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Question 203419: If parallelogram base is 2 1/2 in and height is 1 1/2 in, what is the area?
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Question 203522: will you please help me:the directions say to write each fraction as a decimal, the problem is i really dont know how... this is one if the problems, 5 over 9 i was wondering if you could give me some steps that can make this easier for me an any way... please...and thank you for your help....
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Question 204026: I have to put this decimal into words, 72.9301. So far I got Seventy-two and ninety-three one? Please help me...
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Question 204026: I have to put this decimal into words, 72.9301. So far I got Seventy-two and ninety-three one? Please help me...
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Question 204026: I have to put this decimal into words, 72.9301. So far I got Seventy-two and ninety-three one? Please help me...
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Question 205321: how do i turn a decimal like 0.375 or 0.51 into a fraction?
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Question 205534: How do you round 5/16 to the nearest 1/8?
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Question 205576: I am trying to figure out wingspan of a bird. The bird weighs 3.1 pounds. Using L=2.43*3.1^0.3326, I don't know what to do with the 0.3326. Do I just make that 3.1 raised to the zero power? Thank you. Please take me step by step.
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Question 205640: How do I arrange from smallest to largest, these following numbers?
2.05,25/10,2.0513,2.059,251/100,2.0515,2.052,2.051
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Question 205900: trying to find wing span of bird that is 8.75 lbs. with the equation of L=2.43*W^0.3326 in step by step method please explain
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Question 206384: Directions read: Rewrite the number in decimal notation.
8.5 x 10^-12
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Question 207376: How many square feet is .25 yards?
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Question 207391: How do you write 3/10 as a decimal then round to five decimal places?
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Question 207793: how do you make 3/5 into a decimal rounded to the nearest thousandth and into a percent rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent
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Question 208403: round to nearest 1000th -0.3898
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Question 208403: round to nearest 1000th -0.3898
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Question 208513: Write six and seven thousand,four hundred thirty-three ten-thousandths in standard form.
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Question 208815: 26.9+.0134+54,567
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Question 210175: How do I do a bar notation on 7/12 and how is the answer.583333333333333
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Question 210943: what is the correct decimal eleven thousandths

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Question 210941: what is the correct decimal forr twenty two and fourteen hundredths
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Question 210940: what is the value of the seven in 374,000,000
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Question 210942: what is the correct decimal for fifty and eighty five ten-thousandths
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Question 211000: To make a scale model showing the distance of the four bodies from the Earth, a student marks the sun 1cm from the Earth.
Earth Sun
*____*____________________________
0 10^8 Distance from the earth (miles)
Sun has 10^8 approximate distance from Earth (miles), Saturn has 10^9, Andromeda galaxy (nearest major galaxy) has 10^19 and Quasar OQ172(one of the remotest objects known) has 10^22.
How far along the line should the other three celestial bodies be placed?
The answer of Saturn should come 10, for Andromeda Galaxy 1 million and for Quasar OQ172 should be 1000 million.
This question is from the chapter:Standard form with positive indices.
Please solve my question. I just could not do it at all. Therefore I request you to solve my question as soon as possible. Thank you very very much.

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Question 211387: in a weekend baseball tournament, Albert had 3 hits in 7 times at bat. that is, he hit safely 3/7 of the time. write the decimal equivalant for alberts hitting, rounding to three decimal places.
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Question 212345:
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Question 212832: Name 3 or more situations in real life where rounding is used?
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