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Question 684336: I'm trying to do a project and I have to use proportions and ratios to make a recipe that serves 8 serve 30 people.So I choose d chocolate chip cookies and one of the ingredients you need 1/2 tsp. of brown sugar so my question is how do i set up the proportion for this problem and how do i solve it?
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Question 685513: 27/20 = 36/v. How do I find v
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Question 687724: im trying to get my dipolma and need to know how to do algebra! can you help with 3x+2y=-12 and -3\4-2Y=33\2
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Question 688500: slope (1, 5) and (6, 4)?
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Question 688509: (x^2+2x-3)+(3x^3+6x^2+9x-5)
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Question 688598: 3x+7-x=21
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Question 688562: How do I express the ratio 1/5 to 1/2 as a fraction in lowest terms? Thank you! My mom & I have been trying to figure it out. We weren't sure where to start so we turned it into a decimal came out with .2 to .5 closest choice that we have is 2/5. Tried to do next problem & this method did not work, so trying to figure out how I need to go about solving these type of problems. Please help, thank you!
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Question 689037: URGENT HELP!!!!!!
i am having trouble solving this problem help
If a clock were turned into a twenty four hour clock so that it struck 24 times at midnight, how many times would it strike in the course of a 24 hour day?
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Question 689061: What is 45% of 39?
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Question 689233: Please help me solve this cross multiplying proportion problem;
5/8 over 5/4 = y over 3/2
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Question 689233: Please help me solve this cross multiplying proportion problem;
5/8 over 5/4 = y over 3/2
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Question 689310: hello,,could u please answer my question??
The earning of three stalls, P,Q,R in a market are in the ratios ; P:Q = 3:4 and P:R = 5:6. Find the ratio of earnings of stall Q to stall R...
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Question 689791: Round 27,959 to the nearsest ten

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Question 691127: What value of x will make this proportion true 14/x = 1/2
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Question 691509: slope = 2/5, (10,3) is on the line.
Find the y-intercept: y = mx + b
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Question 691779: hi there!
really nedd your help with this question:
what fraction of 144 is 84?
please can i have an answer asap please!
thanks a lot!
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Question 692358: Given 2+x/5= x/7. What is the first step to solve this proportion?
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Question 692515: solve each proportion
2/5 = x/40
15/3 = x-3/5
x+1/3 = 7/2
3x-5/4 = -5/7
x-2/4 = x+4/2
x/1.12 = 1/5
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Question 692562: a specific shade of red nail polish requires 7 parts of red to 2 parts of yellow. A mixture contains 35 quarts of red and 8 quarts of yellow. How can you fix the mixture to make the correct shade of red?

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Question 693051: is 0.45 greater or less than 40.5%
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Question 693760: what percent of 25 is 16

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Question 693987: on a map, the distance between two towns is 4 3/4 inches. the actual distance between the town is 380 miles. how do you solve this problem using proportions
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Question 694126: Determine the unit rate for the following?
270 km in 6 hours
340 miles using 17 gallons of gas
224 seconds to run 4 laps

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Question 694270: 2 days to 8 hours
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Question 694240: Please help me solve this problem.
( )/6 + ( )/4 =2/3 Missing Denominators?
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Question 694240: Please help me solve this problem.
( )/6 + ( )/4 =2/3 Missing Denominators?
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Question 694451: Tanner completed a scale drawing of his room. The actual lenght of the room is 18 ft, and the actual width is 15ft. If the width of the scale drawing is 2.5 inches, what is the lenght of the scale drawing.?
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Question 694454: Eliot needs to replace a window that is in the shape of a semi-circle.
What is the area of the window? Use 3.14
Round your answerto the nearest square inch.
radius equals 15in.
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Question 694787: the scale of a map is 1/2in :8mi the map distance is 5in

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Question 695034: a waitress has 3 time as many dimes as nickles, one more quarter than nickles that worth $2.65 in total. find how many dimes she has?
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Question 695621: 7.8 is 65% of what number
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Question 695833: bangladesh covers 55,598 mi2. Of this land, 2,224 mi2 are meadows and pastures. What percent of the land is meadow and pasture?

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Question 696403: a rectangles lenght is 6.5 inches and its widht 3.75 inches what is the ration in whole numbers of the length to the widht
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Question 697122: A candy recipe calls for 5 parts milk, 4 parts cocoa, 4 parts cyrup, 2 parts sugar and 1 part butter. If you use 8 ounces of milk, how many ounces of candy mixture can you make?
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Question 697564: If the diameter of circle A is twice that of circle B, what is the ratio of the area of circle A to the area of circle B?

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Question 697739: Mickey is 6 feet tall and casts a shadow 17 feet long . At the same time a nearby tree casts a shadow 102 feet long . What is the height of the tree ?
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Question 697889: In 30:60:90 triangles, if the side opposite the 30 is 5 units long, how long is the side opposite thev60?
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Question 697943: Solve the Proportion for x: x/8 = 5/3
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Question 698050: A committee started its meeting at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. one third of the committee members left to attend a different meeting. At 12 noon half of the remaining members of the committee departed for lunch. If there were eight committee members remaining, how many committee members were present at the beginning of the meeting?
1/2c=2/3=8
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Question 698150: A grocer sold (a) pounds of butter for b cents. The number of cents the grocer received for x pounds of butter, expressed in terms a and b , was
Choices:
(a) ax/b (b) a/bx (c)b/ax (d) bx/a
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Question 698257: please help me solve the expression.7 7/9 divide 2 1/13 divided tried to change to an improper fraction first. they gave me 5,6,7 & 4 to possibily be equal to my problem.
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Question 698542: A fence 26 feet long and 7 feet tall. A gallon of paint will cover 350 square feet. How many gallons of paint will be needed?
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Question 699074: 3/7=33/p
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Question 699576: How do you write an equation in standard form of the line that passes through the point (-1,4) with a slope of 2.
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