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Question 1162155: Salma has b deck of cards. Each deck has 52 cards in it. Using b, write an expression for the total number of cards Salma has.
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Question 1162154: A local hamburger shop sold a combined total of 613 hamburgers and cheeseburgers on Tuesday. There were 63 more cheese burgers sold than hamburgers. How many hamburgers were sold on Tuesday?
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Question 1162251: The length of a rectangle is 4 feet less than twice the width. The perimeter is 52 feet. Find the length and width.
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Question 1162251: The length of a rectangle is 4 feet less than twice the width. The perimeter is 52 feet. Find the length and width.
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Question 1162268: The area of a triangle is 75 square meters. The altitude of the triangle is 5 meters longer than the base of the triangle. Find the base and the altitude of the triangle.
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Question 1162287: 20 subtracted from 7 times a number is 6
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Question 1162864:
Steve wants to start his own T-shirt business. His initial costs to get the business going are $1,500. It also costs on average $3 per shirt. Steve charges $10 for each shirt he sells. How many shirts does Steve need to sell to break-even?

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Question 1162951: A candle manufacturer sells cylindrical candles in sets of three. Each candle in the set is a different size. The smallest candle has a radius of 0.5 inches and a height of 3 inches. The other two candles are scaled versions of the smallest, with scale factors of 2 and 3. How much wax is needed to create one set of candles?
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Question 1162966: It takes an older computer twice as long to send out a company's email as it does a newer computer. Working together, it takes the two computers 25 minutes to send out the email. How long will it take the newer computer to send out the email on its own?
Do not do any rounding.

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Question 1162981: Brianna is 1.53 meters tall. One day, she casts a shadow that was 2.11 meters long. At the same time, a tree casts a shadow that was 8.7 meters long. Find the height of the tree in meters, to the nearest two decimal places.
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Question 1163107: The Point P(2,y) equidistant from point F(3,0) and the line with equation
x=-3/2. What is the value of y of the point P?
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Question 1163107: The Point P(2,y) equidistant from point F(3,0) and the line with equation
x=-3/2. What is the value of y of the point P?
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Question 1163157: Your Sock drawer has six white socks, six brown socks, and for black socks. You randomly pick two socks and get a matching pair of black socks. Find the probability of this occurring.
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Question 1163225: 'What is the length of the edge of a cube if its volume could be doubled by an increase of 6 centimeters in one edge, an increase of 12 centimeters in a second edge, and a decrease of 4 centimeters in the third edge?'
I've seen the answer of this question on this website. However, I wish to understand the concepts. Is it alright if a list of concepts may be provided? I'm fine with understanding it on my own, but I don't know where to start. Thank you!
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Question 1163327: Left on together, the cold and hot water faucets of a certain bathtub take 7 minutes to fill the tub. If it takes the cold water faucet 17 minutes to fill the tub by itself, how long will it take the hot water faucet to fill the tub on its own?
Do not do any rounding.

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Question 1163371: A quarter-turn is a 90-degree rotation. If the counterclockwise quarter-
turn centered at (3,2) is applied to (7,1), what are the coordinates of the
image? What are the image coordinates when this transformation is applied to
a general point (x, y)?
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Question 1163506: Describe how tripling the radius affects the surface area of the right cylinder.
r=2 yd
h=7yd
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Question 1163506: Describe how tripling the radius affects the surface area of the right cylinder.
r=2 yd
h=7yd
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Question 1163506: Describe how tripling the radius affects the surface area of the right cylinder.
r=2 yd
h=7yd
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Question 1143720: Find the next two terms in this sequence. 1,4,2,5,3,6,4
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Question 1163684: For any two numbers a and b, the product of a−b times itself is equal to a2 −2ab+b2. Does this familiar algebraic result hold for dot products of a vector u − v with itself? In otherwords,is it true that (u−v)•(u−v)=u•u−2u•v+v•v? Justify your conclusion, trying not to express vectors u and v in component form.
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Question 1163776: An isosceles triangle has two sides of length w that make a 2α-degree angle. Write down two different formulas for the area of this triangle, in terms of w and α (Greek “alpha”). By equating the formulas, discover a relation involving sin 2α, sin α, and cos α.
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Question 1163822: George built a rectangular pen for his rabbit such that the length is 2ft more than five times the width. If the perimeter is 364ft, what are the dimensions of the pen?
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Question 1164000: What is the distance between the points (-6, -2) and (-4, -5)?
Select the best answer from the choices provided.
A.
√13
B.
√53
C.
√109
D.
√149
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Question 1164032: A farmer has 724 feet of fencing to enclose the rectangular pasture shown below. Because a river runs along one side, fencing will be needed on only three sides. Find the dimensions (in ft) of the pasture if its length is double its width and parallel to the river
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Question 1164069: ted lives 400m from school. susan lives 3km from schoo. How many meters from school does susan live? Who lives further frm school? How much further?
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Question 1164071: Maria is 1.34m tall. Lynsee is 1300mm tall. Charles is 141cm tall? Who is the tallest? who is the shortest?
my answer is charles is tallest and maria is shortest
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Question 1164244: A space in the shape of a right triangle is to be surrounded on its edge
by pebbles. The hypotenuse of the triangle is 6 m. One leg is to be 2 m longer than the other leg. To the nearest hundredths, what are the lengths of the two legs?

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Question 1164317: A triangle has vertices at (-4,-6),(3,3),(7,2). Rounded to two decimal places, which of the following is the closest approximation of the perimeter of the triangle?
15.52
19.34
12.36
29.12
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Question 1164316: A triangle has vertices at (-4,-6),(3,3),(7,2). Rounded to two decimal places, which of the following is the closest approximation of the perimeter of the triangle?
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Question 1164344: a circular lawn is surrounded by a flower bed with a uniform width; if the flower bed has an area of 36 and the radius of the entire garden is 8; find the width of the flower bed
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Question 1164480: the base of a triangle is 4 meters longer than its height, and its area is 16 square meters. find the base and the height

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Question 1164497: (i)Use the definition of absolute value to solve each equation,
(ii) Graph the solution

|3x-4| =8
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Question 1164530: One angle is 30 less than 4 times another. Find the measure of each angle if:
a
.
They are complements of each other.
b
.
They are supplements of each other.
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Question 1164617: A triangle has perimeter of 115 cm. The longest side is twice as long as the shortest side, and the third side is 10 cm shorter than the longest side. How long is each side?
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Question 1164664: Find the dimensions of the rectangle given that the perimeter is 140 cm and it’s length is 1 cm more than twice the width
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Question 1164682: Determine whether the lines are parallel,perpendicular, or neither.
3x-8y=8
32x+12y=8
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