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Question 1135068: A rectangle has a length of 12 meters less than 2times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 2574 square meters, find the length of the rectangle.

-----meters
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Question 1135070: A positive integer is 44 more than 10 times another. Their product is 3264 Find the two integers.
______ and _____
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Question 1135077: Find a negative real number such that the square of the sum of the number and 17 is equal to 4
(If there are two correct answers, either answer can be entered)

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Question 1135078: Find two positive numbers whose difference is 26 and whose product is 1431
_____ and ______
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Question 1135079: Two pipes can fill a tank in 76 minutes if both are turned on. If only one is used, it would take 44
minutes longer for the smaller pipe to fill the tank than the larger pipe. How long will it take for the smaller pipe to fill the tank? (Round your answer to the nearest tenth.)
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Question 1135082: Find a negative real number such that the square of the sum of the number and 21
is equal to 144 (If there are two correct answers, either answer can be entered.)
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Question 1135084: The perimeter of a triangle cannot be more than
57 feet. If one side of the triangle is twice as long as a second side and the third side is 21 feet long, find the longest possible values for the other two sides of the triangle.
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Question 1135200: Find a negative real number such that the square of the sum of the number and 21 is equal to 144
(If there are two correct answers, either answer can be entered.)
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Question 1135205: peter buys a motorcycle with a 14% one year interest. if the interest payment is $112. how much is the loan
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Question 1135230: Logan company received from furniture.com an invoice dated September 29. Terms were 1/10 EOM. List price on the invoice was $8000 (freight not included). Logan receives a 8/7 chain discount. Freight charges are Logan’s responsibility, but furniture.com agreed to prepay the $300 freight. What should the Logan company pay furniture.com on November 7th?
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Question 1135228: Jangles corporation received a $20000 invoice dated March 3. The cash discount terms were 3/10, n/30. On March 10, jangles dent a $12000 partial payment. What credit should jangles receive for this partial payment?
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Question 1135358: A cattle auctioneer obtains a 6 and 1/2 % commission on the amount of cattle sells. At one particular auction, he sells $35,000 worth of cattle. How much commission does he get?
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Question 1135392: Suppose you have $4230 in an account that earn 6% interest compounded quarterly. How much interest will you earn in 2 years?
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Question 1135392: Suppose you have $4230 in an account that earn 6% interest compounded quarterly. How much interest will you earn in 2 years?
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Question 1135445: Sadie is saving her money to buy to buy a new pony which cost $600.She has already saved $75. She earns $50 per week while working at the Stable and wonder how many weeks it would take to earn enough for a pony of her won
A) make a table showing the week numbers W and total savings in dollars $ in Sadie's saving account.
B) show the relationship between the number of weeks and Sadie's savings using an expression.
C) how many weeks will Sadie have to work to earn to buy the pony?
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Question 1135453: Ellen made $52 in interest by placing $400 in a savings account with simple interest for 1 year. What was the interest rate?
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Question 1135451: Colin invests £1100 into his bank account. He receives 5% per year simple interest. How much will Colin have after 6 years? Give your answer to the nearest penny where appropriate.
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Question 1135493: Please help me find the derivative of the functions: y= -lnx^4+e^7 and f(x)=e^x+x^e
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Question 1135504: Please explain the difference between marginal profit and marginal average profit.
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Question 1135491: Suppose you decide to invest in an account that earns 2.81% interest compounded continuously. When would the value of the account double? Round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 1135489: an investor bought a stock for 18,000. five years later, the stock was sold for 22,000. if interest is compounded continuously, what annual nominal rate of interest did the original 18,000 investment earn? Give answer as a percentage and round your answer to 2 decimal places.
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Question 1135512: Suppose you invest $140 at the end of each month for 5 years into an account earning 9% annual interest compounded monthly. After 5 years, you leave the money, without making additional deposits, in the account for another 28 years. How much will you have in the end?
Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I struggled all night to figure this out, and I still get it wrong. Thanks a bunch.
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Question 1135527: Brian invests £990 into his bank account. He receives 2.7% per year simple interest. How much will Brian have after 4 years? Give your answer to the nearest penny where appropriate.
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Question 1130519: Maricopa's Success scholarship fund receives a gift of $ 210000. The money is invested in stocks, bonds, and CDs. CDs pay 4.5 % interest, bonds pay 4.6 % interest, and stocks pay 7.2 % interest. Maricopa Success invests $ 20000 more in bonds than in CDs. If the annual income from the investments is $ 11420 , how much was invested in each account?
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Question 1130380: Jason pays off a $163000 mortgage by making equal payments at the end of each month for 30 years. Find his monthly payment if the interest is 4.31 percent compounded monthly.

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Question 1135547: Ahmed wants to pay back his debt to the bank. He has already paid back 60% of the initial debt. His family offered to help by paying 33% of the initial debt, so now he only needs an additional $105 in order to pay off the debt. What was the initial amount of the debt Chris owed to the bank? *
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Question 1130528: Maricopa's Success scholarship fund receives a gift of $ 170000. The money is invested in stocks, bonds, and CDs. CDs pay 3.25 % interest, bonds pay 4.3 % interest, and stocks pay 6.5 % interest. Maricopa Success invests $ 30000 more in bonds than in CDs. If the annual income from the investments is $ 7392.50, how much was invested in each account?
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Question 1135651: I'm having problems solving this problem:
I have a fixed budget for flooring in my new home. One type of flooring at $4 per square foot covers 89,280 square inches using my budget. The more expensive flooring at $6 per square foot will cover how much flooring on my budget?
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Question 1135653: Tom found a certificate of deposit that paid 5.5% interest per year if you put 25,000 in this CD and leaves it in the bank for four years how much interest did he earn?
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Question 1135679: What is the next number in the sequence?
5,20,80,320,1280, ?
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Question 1135696: There are two cell phone companies that offer different packages. Company A charges a monthly service fee of $32 plus $0.05/min talk-time. Company B charges a monthly service fee of
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Question 1135694: Katy wants to invest $6000 in a savings account that pays 7.1% simple interest. How long will it take for this investment to double in value?
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Question 1135726: A person used part of a $100,000 inheritance to build a house and invested the remainder for 1 year, 1 3 of it at 6% and 2 3 at 5%, both simple interest. The income from both investments was $320. Find the cost of the house
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Question 1135797: Due to a slump in the economy, a mutual fund has dropped by 30% from last year to this year. If the fund is now worth $12 comma 733, how much was the fund worth last year?
How many ounces of a 5 % alcohol solution must be mixed with 18 ounces of a 10 % alcohol solution to make a 6 % alcohol solution?
From a point on a straight road, Pablo and Maria ride bicycles in the same direction. Pablo rides at 8 mph and Maria rides at 12 mph. In how many hours will they be 34 mi apart?
Kevin is three times as old as Bob. Four years ago the sum of their ages was 28. How old is each now? (Hint: Write an expression first for the age of each now and then for the age of each four years ago.)
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Question 1135800: How many ounces of a 5 % alcohol solution must be mixed with 18 ounces of a 10 % alcohol solution to make a 6 % alcohol solution?

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Question 1135804: From a point on a straight road, Pablo and Maria ride bicycles in the same direction. Pablo rides at 8 mph and Maria rides at 12 mph. In how many hours will they be 34 mi apart?
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Question 1135802: Nico is saving money for his college education. He invests some money at 9%, and $800 less than that amount at 4 %. The investments produced a total of $202 interest in 1 yr. How much did he invest at each rate?

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Question 1135801: Two cars start from towns 540 mi apart and travel toward each other. They meet after 6 hr. Find the speed of each car if one travels 10 mph faster than the other.

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Question 1135845: Using the Bar Model Method, solve this question:
Alice spent 80% of her money and Ben spent 70% of his money on a trip to Shopwin Mall. Alice spent $105 more than Ben. They saved rest of their money. How much did Alice have at first?
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