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Question 954816: a local animal feed company makes its feed by the ton, which is 2000 pounds. they want to include a medication in the feed. each cow needs 300 milligrams of this medication a day and each cow consumes 15 pounds of feed per day. if there are 1000 milligrams in a gram, how many grams of the medication should the feed company add for each ton of feed they produce?
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Question 956520: Suppose that Helena and Corrine can clean their entire house in 7 hours, while their little brother, William, just by being around, can completely mess it up in only 2 hours. If Helena and Corrine clean the house while William is at his grandma’s house. How long will it take for the house to be in shambles again if Helena and Corrine clean the house again the moment William returns to their house?
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Question 958607: The odometer of the family car shows 15,951 miles. The driver noticed that this number is palindromic; it reads the same forwards and backwards.
"Curious," said the driver to himself. "It will be a long time before that happens again!"
But 2 hours later, the odometer showed a new palindromic number.
How fast was the car driving in those two hours?
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Question 961441: Janet is entering a bake-off and wants to make miniature pies. She's going to need 1.5 cups of flour for each individual pie and an additional 2.5 cups to make all the decorative crusts. Each contestant is required to use 4, but no more than 10 cups of flour. What is the maximum and minimum number of pies Janet can make?
Thank you:)
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Question 962978: A person invested $4100, part of it in bank bonds bearing 3.10% interest and the remainder in Canada Savings Bonds bearing 4.85% interest
and she received the same income from each. How much, to the nearest dollar, was invested in each?
Do not round intermediate results. Round only final answers. Round to the nearest integer.
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Question 962978: A person invested $4100, part of it in bank bonds bearing 3.10% interest and the remainder in Canada Savings Bonds bearing 4.85% interest
and she received the same income from each. How much, to the nearest dollar, was invested in each?
Do not round intermediate results. Round only final answers. Round to the nearest integer.
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