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Question 153068: A survey of college sophmores showed that 5/6 of the males were taking a math class and 3/4 of the females were taking a math class. One third of the males were enrolled in calcus, and 1/5 of the females were enrolled in calculus. If just as many males as females were surveyed, then what fraction of the surveyed students taking math were enrolled in calculus? Rework this problem assuming that the numbers of females in the survey was twice the number of males.
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Question 152814: In a girl guide camp 80girls had food for 15 days, 40 more jioned them after 3 days, for how mnay days the remaining food will suffice.

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Question 153226: There were 100 politicians at certain convention.Each politician was either crooked or honest. we are given the following 2 facts. a. at least one of the politician was honest. b. given any two of the politicians at least one of the two was crooked. Can it be determined from these facts how many were crooked? if so how many? If not why not?
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Question 154386: Solve for T in PV = nRT
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Question 154384: How long will it take a girl walking 3 miles per hour to travel 5 miles?
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Question 154387: Which is the largest number in this series: 1 x 10-2, 0.009,1/1000 ?
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Question 154385: An apple pie was cut into 8 slices. One slice was removed. What portion of the pie was removed?
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Question 154553: For a certain event, 812 tickets were sold, for a total of $1912. If students paid $2 per ticket and nonstudents paid $3 per ticket, how many student tickets were sold?
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Question 154599: 5 IS TO 12 AS X IS TO 48. WHAT DOES X EQUAL?
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Question 154599: 5 IS TO 12 AS X IS TO 48. WHAT DOES X EQUAL?
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Question 154877: An aluminum plate is made according to the following dimensions. The outer radius is 10 inches and the inner radius is 3 inches.
Use p = 3.14 as an approximate value. (a) How many square inches in area is the aluminum plate? (b) If the cost to construct the plate is $7.50 per square inch, what is the construction cost?
Can you please explain this to me with an algebraic example? Thank you.
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Question 155301: if AB=71/5 & EF=12 what is the ratiio in the loweswt terms
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Question 155604: A state sales tax rate is 4.8%. If the tax on a purchase was $23.76, what was the price of the purchase?
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Question 155798: Use dimensional to change
A.50 Meters per second to Kilometer per hour?
B.0.025 day to second?
C.1200 Ounces to tons (16 oz = 1ib;2000 = 1 ton).
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Question 155808: What is the ratio between 1.5km and 70km.
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Question 156172: Find the unit rate?
$42 at 5 compact discs ?
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Question 156410: how could you solve this question:
a rock climber burns 60 calories for every 5 minutes of rock climbing.
write a proportion on the lines below to determine how many calories a rock climber would burn in 7 minutes.

thanks if you answer this but can you try to get it answered by the morning of september 12,2008 thanks
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Question 156432: heidi bought a minibright headlamp. her headlamp requires 3 batteries for every 6 hours of use.she is packing 12 batteries for her trip to marengo cave.

one the line below, write a proportion that can be used to find the number of hours (h) heidi can spend exploring the cave.

proportion_____________________

now use your proportion to find the number of hours heidi can spend in the cave.write your answer on the line below.
SHOW ALL WORK

answer___________________hours
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Question 156431: a rock climber burns 60 calories for every 5 minutes of rock climbing.
write a proportion on the line below to determine how many calories a rock climber would burn in 7 minutes.

proportion________________

now use the proportion you wrote to determine how many calories the rock climber would burn in 7 minutes. write your answer on the line below.
SHOW ALL WORK

answer________________calories
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Question 156420: if u need the other question that helped u get the proportion here it is
a rock climber burns 60 calories for every 5 minutes of rock climbing

now use the proportion 60 calories over 5 minutes to solve this

now use that proportion i just wrote to determine how many calories yhe rock climber would burn in 7 minutes
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Question 156430: Corey is walking in a 3-mile walkathon on Saturday.In his last walkathon he walked 5 miles in 1.5 hours.
based on this rate,how much time will it take corey to walk 3 miles?you must use a proportion and your answer on the lines below.
SHOW ALL WORK

proportion_________________
answer_____________ hour(s)
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Question 157014: if a:b=1:3 and b:c=3:4 find a:c?
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Question 157872: A fisherman on the river rows 9 miles downstream in the same amount of time he rows 3 miles upstream. if the current is 6 miles per hour. find how lonbg it takes him to cover the 12 miles.
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Question 158105: what is x if x-6/5=7/12
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Question 158417: what is the answer for x/5=10/13

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Question 158417: what is the answer for x/5=10/13

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Question 158421: what is the answer for x/5=10/13

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Question 158426: Felix drove 800 miles in x hours on
Monday.
a) Write a rational expression for his average speed.
b) On Tuesday he drove for 6 hours at the same average speed. Write a rational expression for his distance on
Tuesday.

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Question 158818: want to check my answer on....
3t 1
__ = __
10 2
I said it was t = 0.6
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Question 158820: A giraffe can run 32 miles per hour. What is this speed in feet per second? Round to the neareast 10th. I said it was 1020 feet per second. Am I right?
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Question 158879: Express each ratio as a fraction in simpliest form.
6. 10 inches to 3 feet
7. 5 feet to 5 yards
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Question 158878: Express each ratio as a fraction in simpliest form.
6. 10 inches to 3 feet
7. 5 feet to 5 yards
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Question 158943: m: 6= 10 : 15 missing number in the proportion
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Question 159190: How would you divide $10,000 if the 1st person gets twice as much as the 2nd person and the 2nd person gets 3 timese as much as the third person?
How much does the 1st person get?
How much does the 2nd person get?
How much does the 3rd person get?
Thank You! :)
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Question 159189: In a dog show there are 3 times as many collies as boxers. There are also 3 poodles for every 5 collies. What is the smallest possible number of dogs that could be in the dog show?
Thank You!
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Question 159188: If 15 x's = 20 y's and 16 y's = 10 z's, then 6 x's is how many z's?
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Question 159209: i am making a green potion mixture from two solutions, one containing 24% green color, the other 17% green. I need 5 liters of a solution with 18.5% green color. How much 24% and 17% should i mix?
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Question 159250: If 7 x's = 2 y's and 3 y's =5 z's then 21 x's = ___z's
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Question 159283: Change 40mph to ____ft/sec.
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Question 159677: If 150 plates cost $3.29, how many plates would u get for $4.72
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Question 159669: Bronze- A pound of tin is worth $1 more than a pound of copper. Four pounds of tin are mixed with six pounds to make bronze that sells for $3.65 per pound. How much is a pound of tin worth?
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Question 159788: The fuel for a two-cycle motorboat engine is a mixture of gasoline and oil in the ratio of15 to 1. How many liters of each are in 6.6 L mixture ?
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Question 159922: 8% of 40% of what number is 6% of 90?
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