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Question 1116085: A hybrid car averages 603 miles on a 12.6 gallon tank of gas. Manuel is planning a 1280 dash mile vacation in his hybrid car. Find how many gallons of gas he can expect to burn.
Manuel needs approximately
nothing gallons of gas for his vacation.
(Round to the nearest whole number as needed.)
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Question 1116405: The ages of Jerry and Jude are in the ratio 1:2. If the ratio of Jude's age to John's age is 4:5, what is the ratio of Jerry's age to John's age?
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Question 1116449: School guidelines required that they must be at least two Chaperones for every 25 students going on a school trip how many Caperones must there be for 80 students
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Question 1116899: An airplane flies 105 miles in � hour. How far can it fly in 1 � hours at the same rate of speed?

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Question 1116899: An airplane flies 105 miles in � hour. How far can it fly in 1 � hours at the same rate of speed?

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Question 1116899: An airplane flies 105 miles in � hour. How far can it fly in 1 � hours at the same rate of speed?

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Question 1117029: A ship has 92 containers on board. Some containers are from an apparel manufacturer and the rest are from an athletic shoe company. The apparel manufacturer's containers each weigh 11 tons. The athletic shoe company's container each weigh 8 tons. The total weight of all the containers is 862 tons. The ship's captain wants to know how many containers are from the apparel manufacturer. Which system of linear equations represents the situation?
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Question 1117027: One day, many people were fishing for trout and bass on a lake. In all, they caught 30 fish. They caught 20 more trout than bass. How many bass did they catch?
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Question 1117028: A storehouse is used to store bags of rice and barley. There are 6 times as many bags of rice as there are bags of barley. A worker counts that there are 75 more bags of rice than bags of barley. How many bags of barley are there?
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Question 1117026: Ronan has some quarters and dimes. He has 4 more quarters than dimes. The total value of the coins is $2.75. Which system of linear equations can be used to find the number of quarters?
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Question 1117030: A baseball coach ordered uniforms for his varsity teams. He ordered one uniform for each player on each team. Each varsity uniform cost $54. Each junior varsity uniform cost $50 He spent $2554 total. He ordered 3 more varsity uniforms than junior varsity uniforms. Which system of linear equations represents the situation?
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Question 1117359: A used car was purchased at $900,000. Its value depreciates by 30% in the first year. In each subsequent year, the depreciation was 22% of its value at the beginning of that year. If the car was bought on 1st March, 2011. Calculate the value of the car on 28th February,2015.
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Question 1117360: A used car was purchased at Le900,000. Its value depreciates by 30% in the first year. In each subsequent year, the depreciation was 22% of its value at the beginning of that year. If the car was bought on 1st March, 2011. Calculate the value of the car on 28th February,2015.
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Question 1117368: Lee bought a book for �300 and sold it to Wong at a profit of x%. Wong then sold the same book to Fei at a profit of x%.If Fei paid �(6x+0.75) more for the book than what Lee paid, find the value of x.
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Question 1117271: A used car was purchased $900,000. Its value depreciates by 30% in the first year. In each subsequent year, the depreciation was 22% of its value at the beginning of that year. If the car was bought on 1st March, 2011. Calculate correct to the nearest hundred dollar, the value of the car on 28th February, 2015.
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Question 1117409: A property is of rateable value of $ 25000. Calculate the rates at 65cents in the dollar
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Question 1117506: In the gift shop of the History of Flight museum, Elisa bought a kit to make a model of a jet plane. The actual plane is 21 feet long with a wingspan of 17.5 feet. If the finished model will be 12 inches long, what will the wingspan be?

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Question 1117518: Due to depreciation the marked price of an old car was reduced by $6600 If the original marked price was $32000. Find the
(i) ratio by which the price was reduced and
(ii) rate of cent to the dollar of the reduction
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Question 1117658: Your little sister is on third the age of your mom. In 12 years, she will be half the age of your mom. How old are your sister and your mom now?
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Question 1117674: 16/m = 1/4
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Question 1117674: 16/m = 1/4
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Question 1117674: 16/m = 1/4
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Question 1117674: 16/m = 1/4
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Question 1117828: If x varies directly as the square of y and y varies inversely as the cube of k, what is the relationship between x, y and k?

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Question 1117834: Hi! Hoping you could help me with this one. Thanks in advance. :)
The ratio of cups of water to cups of flour to cups of sugar in a recipe is 3:1:1/2. If this is just for one serving, how much of each is needed for a recipe that makes 5 serving?
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Question 1118213: To prepare 20 mL of a 5 mg/mL solution from a stock solution of 100 mg/mL, how much stock solution and diluent will you need?
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Question 1118213: To prepare 20 mL of a 5 mg/mL solution from a stock solution of 100 mg/mL, how much stock solution and diluent will you need?
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Question 1118213: To prepare 20 mL of a 5 mg/mL solution from a stock solution of 100 mg/mL, how much stock solution and diluent will you need?
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Question 1118213: To prepare 20 mL of a 5 mg/mL solution from a stock solution of 100 mg/mL, how much stock solution and diluent will you need?
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Question 1118236: In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type?
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Question 1119398: when the fare of certain journer of airline incresed in the ratio 5:7 the cost of the ticket of the journey became rs.1421. find the increased in fare?
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Question 1110027: If x=2y=3z then x:y:z is :

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Question 1106035: solve for the ratio u:v if u�+3uv-10v�=0
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Question 1100193: What number should be added to 18:22 so that the ratio becomes 3:2?
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Question 1095240: nnn

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Question 1086490: If X + 3 : 4 x + 1 is the duplicate ratio of 3 : 5 find the value of x
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