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Question 1125002: One month Salma rented 2movies and 5 video games for a total of $32.The next months she rented 8movies and 3video games for a total of $43. Find the rental cost for each movie and each video game.

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Question 1125480: Bob's salary is proportional to the fourth power of the number of students he teaches. He gets 50000 dollars if he has 200 students. How much would he get if has 250 students instead?
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Question 1125490: The sum of twice a first number and five times a second number is 85. If the second number is subtracted from five times the first number the result is 37. Find the numbers
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Question 1125491: Suppose that Kristin placed an order for three hamburgers and five sodas, for a total of 1839 calories. Jake placed an order for seven hamburgers and three sodas, for a total of 2575 calories. How many calories are in a hamburger? How many calories are in a soda?
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Question 1125558: Two cargo boats leave the same port at the same time. The direction of one boat is at an angle of 30 degrees to the other. If the ratio of the speed of the first boat to the second boat is √3/2, and if the second boat travels at 18 km/h, how far apart, in km, are they at the end of 5 hours.
A)45
B)90
C)60
D)45√3
E)30
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Question 1125695: Country Day's scholarship fund receives a gift of $112,866.19. The money is invested in stocks, bonds, and CDs. CDs pay 5 % interest, bonds pay 5.9 % interest, and stocks pay 8.6 % interest. Country day invests $18,715.65 more in bonds than in CDs. If the annual income form the investments is $7,149.17 , how much was invested in each vehicle?
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Question 1126099: There are 120 members in a certain activity club 52 take up dancing 58 joining the debating and 64 learn swimming 14 learn dancing and debating 27 debating and swimming and 32 swimming and dancing if each takes up at least one activity how many take up all three activities?
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Question 1126416: there are 42 students in a math class. if 24 of the students like the teacher, what fraction of the students like the teacher?
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Question 1126416: there are 42 students in a math class. if 24 of the students like the teacher, what fraction of the students like the teacher?
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Question 1126824: of the 97 lawyers at a firm, 48 are women. what fraction of the lawyers are men?
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Question 1127046: if the length of each edge of a cube is increased by 70%, then the percentage increase in the surface area of the cube is
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Question 1127135: the smaller of two numbers is 3 less than the greater. If the greater is decreased by twice the smaller, the result is -5. Find the two numbers.
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Question 1127440: Anna babysits for a family and currently works 24 hours per week. The family tells her that they need to cut her hours to 20 hours per week but that they will pay her $2 more per hour. Anna is okay with that because her weekly pay will remain the same. What is Anna's current hourly rate of pay?
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Question 1127862: 32=7+5w
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Question 1128386: The sum of two numbers is 35. Twice the first number is five less than the second number. Find the numbers. (Let x represent one quantity, and y represent the other quantity. Use the given condition to find a system of equations.)
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Question 1128387: The length of a rectangular picture frame is 5 cm more than its width. Its perimeter is 50 m. Find the dimensions of the frame. (Let x represent one quantity and y represent the other quantity. Use the given conditions to find a system of equations.)
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Question 1128778: A traveler is walking on a moving walkway in an airport. The traveler must walk back on the walkway to get a bag he forgot. The travelers ground speed is 2ft/s against the walk way and 6ft/s with the walk way. What is the travelers speed off the walkway and the speed of the moving walk way

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Question 1128774: a can juice has 2L 750ml juice and a juice bottle has 1.2L juice.James poured the juice from the can and the bottle into a vessel.Find the capacity of the vessel .If the vessel can hold 1L 5ml more Juice,find the capacity of a vessel

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Question 1129091: the sum of the number of A's and B's on a math test is 15. There are more B's than A's, and the sum of the squares of the two numbers is 113. Find the number of A's and number of B's.
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Question 1131090: David is thinking of two numbers. Their sum is 5. Their difference is 349. What are the two numbers?
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Question 1131140: An investor decides to invest some cash in an account paying 12% annual interest, and to put the rest in a stock fund that ends up earning 8% over the course of a year. The investor puts $1000 more in the first account than in the stock fund, and at the end of the year finds the total interest from the two investments was $890. How much money was invested at each of the two rates? Round to the nearest integer.
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Question 1131188: The sum of three numbers is 15. The sum of twice the first number, 4 times the second number, and 5 times the third number is 49. The difference between 3 times the first number and the second number is 16. Find the three numbers.
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Question 1131957: When four positive integers are added three at a time, the sums are 1068, 1430. 1744, and 2013. What is the sum of the digits of the four original integers?
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Question 1131956: The two cyclists ride toward each other on a straight, 24 km road. One cyclist travels at 3 km/h and the other at 5 km/h. A bug starts on the handlebars of one bike and flies at 10 km/h in a straight line toward the other, then turns around without stopping and flies back to the first bike. When it reaches the first bike, it immediately turns again and heads back to the second bike. The bug continues flying back and forth like this at the same rate until the two cyclists meet. The total distance in km that the bug travels is....?
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Question 1133849: I was given these two points (5,40) (10,60) and I was asked to find their y-intercept how would I go about that?

please and thank you
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Question 1133987: Jai alai balls come in boxes of 8 and 15, so that 38 balls (one small box and two large boxes) can be purchased without having to break open a box, but 37 balls cannot. Find the maximum number of balls that cannot be bought without breaking boxes
Note: sorry didn’t know which category to put it in
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Question 1135085: without graphing, determine the x and y-intercepts of the parabola
y=4(x-4)^2-36

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Question 1135206: Jason has three more than four times the amount of money that Jeff has. Together they
have $72. How much money does each person have?

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Question 1135350: An uncle is triple my age at present. he said "how old are you?" when i told him he said "you are catching up! in 15 years from now, i will only be double your age" how old am i?
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Question 1135904: Solve: At a community college, the difference between a professor's salary and an associate professor's salary is $5000.00. the sum of their salaries is $101,000.00. find the salary of an associate professor at the college.
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Question 1138602: One angle is 10 degrees less than four times the other. If the angles are supplementary, find the measure of each angle.
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Question 1138604: Mr. Miller’s farm and Mr. Newton’s farm together cover 525 acres. Mrs. Miller’s farm is 65 acres larger than Mr. Newton’s.Find the size of each farm.
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Question 1138603: The perimeter of a rectangle is 36 cm. If the length is doubled, the perimeter is 60 cm. Find the original length and width.
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Question 1139086: A certain radioactive isotope has leaked into a small stream. One hundred days after the leak, 14% of the original amount of the substance remained. Determine the half-life of this radioactive isotope.
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Question 1139088: Benjamin & Associates, a real estate developer, recently built 198 condominiums in McCall, Idaho. The condos were either three-bedroom units or four-bedroom units. If the total number of rooms in the entire complex is 710, how many three-bedroom units are there? How many four-bedroom units are there?
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Question 1139100: Jimmy invests $20000 in an account that pays 5.14% compounded quarterly. How long (in years and months) will it take for his investment to reach $24000?
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Question 1139101: The population of Adamsville grew from 8000 to 15000 in 6 years. Assuming uninhibited exponential growth, what is the expected population in an additional 2 years?
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Question 1139087: A skull cleaning factory cleans animal skulls of deer, buffalo and other types of animals using flesh-eating beetles. The factory owner started with only 8 adult beetles. After 43 days, the beetle population grew to 24 adult beetles. How long did it take before the beetle population was 8000 beetles?

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