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Question 1146616: on a map , 1 inch equals 20 miles. if two cities are 8 inches apart on the map, how far are they actually apart ?
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Question 1146846: The ratio of males to females at a certain university is 5 to 9.If there are 19530 males at the university,how many females are there?
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Question 1146848: There is a law stating that the ratio of the width to length for the American flag should be 10 to 19”.Is a flag measuring 30 by 57 feet of the correct ratio?
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Question 1146850: A jar of 252 multi coloured jelly beans contains 84 red jelly beans.if 21 jelly bean are picked from the jar,estimate how many jelly beans will be red?
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Question 1147308: Tap A takes 6 minutes to fill a tank and Tap B takes 9 minutes to fill the same tank.Pipe C can empty the tank in 15 minutes.How long will it take to fill up the tank if the pipe is in use when both tapes are turned on?
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Question 1147670: There are 965 female students at a college. The ratio of female students to male students is 5:3. How many students are there in total
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Question 1147770: a jazz concert brought in $178000 on the sale of $8600 tickets. if the tickets sold for $15 each and $25 each, how many of each type of ticket were sold
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Question 1147769: a jazz concert brought in $178000 on the sale of 8600 tickets. if the tickets sold for $15 each and $25 each, how many of each type of ticket were sold
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Question 1147786: A proportional relationship between the number of pounds of cabbage (x) and the price in dollars (y) is graphed, and the ordered pair (5, 3) is on the graphed line.
Part A: What is the price of 1 pound of cabbage? Show your work. (8 points)
Part B: What does the ordered pair (10, 6) on the graph represent? Explain in words. (2 points)

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Question 1148371: Five divided by the difference of a number and 2, minus 4 divided by a number plus 2, equals 2 times the reciprocal of the difference of the number squared and 4. What is the number ?
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Question 1148407: x over 2 = 3 over x?????
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Question 1148407: x over 2 = 3 over x?????
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Question 1148407: x over 2 = 3 over x?????
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Question 1148506: In the diagram, BE= 45cm and AC=DC. Find the length of BC, in cm.
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Question 1148506: In the diagram, BE= 45cm and AC=DC. Find the length of BC, in cm.
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Question 1148550: Kelvin leaves his property to be devided between a wife,a son,and a daughter so that the wife's share to the son's share is in the ratio of 5 to 3, and the son's to daughter's in the ratio of 4 to 3.if the wife has 561,000 more than the daughter,what is the value of the property of Mr Kelvin?.
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Question 1148554: Tshs.2681000 is divided as payment to 4 men and 3 women.if each man receives twice as much as each woman, find the total amount of money required to be paid to 3 men and 7 women at the same rate as above
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Question 1148582: A house in Dodoma was sold for 300% of what the owners originally paid.if the owners sold the property for 12 millions,how much did they originally pay for the house?
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Question 1148593: p/q=r/s Solve for q
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Question 1148677: devide 240 in two parts in the ratio 5:7.

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Question 1148685: if a:b = 3:2, then find the value of (2a+3b):(2a+5b).
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Question 1148685: if a:b = 3:2, then find the value of (2a+3b):(2a+5b).
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Question 1148874: Total enrollment is 805 students. the ratio of girls to boy is 3 to 4. How many boys are enrolled
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Question 1148874: Total enrollment is 805 students. the ratio of girls to boy is 3 to 4. How many boys are enrolled
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Question 1149003: The surface area of a sphere is directly proportional to the square of its radius.A sphere of radius 10cm must be increased to a radius of xcm if its surface area is to be doubled.find x.
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Question 1149000: when the temperature stays the same, volume of gas is proportional to the pressure of a balloon filled with 350 cubic inches of gas, at pressure 14 pounds per square inch, find the new pressure of gas if the volume is decreased to 70 cubic inches?
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Question 1149153: At the beginning of a basketball season, the Spartans won 34 games out of 53 games. At this rate, how many games will they will in a normal 101- game season
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Question 1150107: after a typhoon, the lineman needed 1500 meters of electric wire for the restoration of electricity in a village. He divided the wire into 5 pieces in the ratio 1:2:3:4:5. How long is each piece of electric wire?

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Question 1150135: The smaller rectangle is a 12 scale drawing of the original figure.
Use the drop-down menus to show the missing dimensions of the scaled figure.
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Question 1150160: The sum of the two parallel sides of a trapezoid is 22 cm. The segment that connects the mid points of the two non-parallel sides divides the area of the trapezoid into two parts, in a ratio of 4:7. What is the product of the lengths of the two parallel sides?
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Question 1150540: If 48x2, 64x4, x, 36x2 are in proportion find the value of x?
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Question 1150539: If 48x2, 64x4, x, 36x2 are in proportion find the value of x?
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Question 1150617: In Tae Kwon Do class, 40% of the students are boys. There are 18 fewer boys than girls. How many students are in the Tae Kwon Do class altogether?
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Question 1150850: 1)Shop keeper M sells some goods to N and makes a profit 15% N resells to p at a loss of 5%. If p pays dollar 13.11 how much did M pay for the
goods
2) a profit 24% was made when a book was sold for dollar 34.10, find the selling price that would have given a profit 28%.
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Question 1151269: Ohm's law states that V=IR for a simple circuit, where V is the total voltage, I is the amount of current running through the resistor and R is the resistance of the resistor. If I=40 amperes when R=3 ohms, find the amount of current (in amperes) when the resistor has a resistance of 20 ohms. Assume voltage remains constant
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