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Question 356677: On a 5 hour trip, Thomas drove part of the time at 30 mi/h and the rest at 55 mi/h. If he traveled a distance of 250 mi, how much time did he spend driving at 55 mi/h?
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Question 356736: A worker in a sunglass factory can make 50 frames or 100 lenses per day. There are
90 workers. How many workers should make lenses?
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Question 356732: A group of the friends share cost of their party. If each pays $42, there is surplus of $19.If each pays $40, the total is short of $8. How much does the party cost?
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Question 356837: On three passes, a team gains 5 yards,loses 24 yards, and gains 27 yards. What number represents the total net yardage?
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Question 356833: Find the measure of the angle that the second hand of an accurate clock rotates in
20 seconds.
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Question 356828: Ms lahue earns the monthly base salary of $1280 plus a commission of 12.5% of her total monthly sales. At the end of one month, Ms. Lahue earned $4455. What were her total sales for the moth?
A $3175 B $10,240 C $25,400 D 35,640

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Question 356799: the length of a rectangle is three inches more then its width. the perimeter of the rectangle is 30 inches.
A. define a varibale for the width.
B.write an expression for the length in terms of the width.
C. write an equation to find the width of the rectangle. solve your equation.
D. what is the lenght of the rectangle.
please help
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Question 356926: the perimeter of a particular rectangle is 24 inches. If its length and width are positive integers, how many distinct areas could the rectangle have?

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Question 356939: I'm having problems solving this algebra word problem.
A water tank has an inlet pipe and a drain
pipe. A full tank can be emptied in 30 minutes if the drain
is opened and an empty tank can be filled in 45 minutes
with the inlet pipe opened. If both pipes are accidentally
opened when the tank is full, then how long will it take to
empty the tank?

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Question 357004: An accurate clock shows exactly 3 pm. In how many minutes will the minute hand
catch up with the hour hand?
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Question 357019: The sum of the sqaures of two consecutive odd numbers is 202, what are the numbers? Show equation
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Question 357063: Admission to county fair cost $20 for 2 adults and 1 child and $16 for 1 adult and 2 children. What is the cost for 1 adult.
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Question 357137: A 14-foot board is cut into two pieces. Twice the length of the shorter piece is 5 ft less than the length of the longer piece. Find the length of each piece.
shorter piece ? ft
longer piece ? ft
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Question 356869: An open box with a square base is required to have a volume of 10 cubic feet. Assume the box is to be made from a square piece of cardboard that is has original dimensions (x + 2h)-by-(x + 2h) by cutting out 4 h-by-h squares on the corners of the cardboard and folding up the sides where h is the height of the open box sides (see figure below)
Base length x h by h square cut out to form open box

A] Express the surface area A(x) of the box as a function of the length of the base x.
B] Use a graphing utility to graph A(x) and determine the dimensions of an open box with the smallest surface area possible.
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Question 357312: In a group of tennis players, a person plays either single or mixed double, but not both. 1/2 of the men and 1/3 of the women play mixed double. What fraction of the group play mixed double?
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Question 357296: It takes an escalator 20 seconds to move a person from the first floor to the second.If not operating, Jose takes 30 seconds to walk up on the still escalator. If Jose walks while the escalator is moving, how long does it take for him to reach the second floor?
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Question 357277: I am badly needy to have an answer to this problem,please help me
A vessel contains 49 gallons of alcohol. A certain amount is drawn and then replaced by the same amount of water. Then the same amount of the mixture is drawn, after which the vessel contains only 36 gallons of pure alcohol. How many gallons was drawn each time?x
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Question 357329: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. if the length is increased by 4 inches and the width is decreased by 1 inch, a new rectangle is formed whose perimeter is 198 inches. find the dimesions of the originional rectangle
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Question 357341: A 490m piece of rope is cut into three pieces. The first piece is three times the second. The third is 23 less than the first. How long are the pieces?

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Question 357365: A mixture contains 27 gallons base for every gallon of color. In 1232 gallons of paint how much color is there?
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Question 357378: a high school graduating class is made up of 464 students. There are 208 more girls than boys, How many boys are in the class?
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Question 357532: Need help converting word problem into algebraic expresion One-half of n diminished by six equals one wrote it as 1/2(n)-6=1 but unable to get correct
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Question 357693: How many ounces of coffee can be bought for $1.11 if 2 pounds cost $5.92?

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Question 357693: How many ounces of coffee can be bought for $1.11 if 2 pounds cost $5.92?

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Question 357690: Need help with this word problem.
The second of two numbers is 10 more than 3 times the first. Their sum is 70. FInd the numbers
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Question 357776: together a computer, monitor, and printer cost 1775. The monitor cost 300 less than the computer, and the printer cost 50 more than the monitor. Find the cost of the printer.
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Question 357773: the sum of three numbers is 85. The second number is 8 times the first, while the third is 15 more than the first. Find the numbers
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Question 357772: A triangular sail has two sides the same length. The third side is 5 ft shorter than either of the equal sides. The perimeter of the sail is 61ft. How long is the shortest side
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Question 357910: wire 42 ft long is divided into 2 sections. one section is 2/5 of the other. what are the lengths of the 2 sections?
(Algebra 2 question)
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Question 357920: The square of the sum of two numbers is 20 more than the square of their difference. One of the numbers is 1. What is the other number?
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Question 358047: How do I write and solve an equation for: the number of elephants at the circus was 2/5 of the number of horses. If there were 16 elephants, how many horses were there?
Is the equation 2/5x = 16? How do I solve it?
Thank you
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Question 358054: Need to label the variable (x=the unknown) then write and solve the equation for:
A chest was resting on the ocean floor 500 ft below the surface. It was lifted to the deck of a ship 16ft above the surface. How far was the chest lifted?
Is the equation -500 + x = 16? How do I solve the equation?
Thank you
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Question 358031: The volume of a rectangular box is 252 cu. units. The height is 4 units and the length is two more than the width of the box. What are the width and length of the box?
Thank you so much for your assistance
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Question 358080: Each letter in the following multiplication problem represents a unique digit. Determine the letters that would make the multuplication problem correct:
1PANSY
x 3
_______
PANSY1
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Question 358160: One inch equals 2.54 cm. A meter is 100 cm. How many inches are there in a meter?

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Question 358159: In baseball a players batting average multiplied by the number of times of bat equals the number of hits. A player had 125 at bats and 36 hits. What was his batting average?

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Question 358305: Pop's Cycle Shop sells bicycles and tricycles. The number of bicycles is 1 less than 4 times the number of tricycles. All the bicycles and tricycles together have a total of 174 wheels. How many bicycles are there?
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Question 358411: Mary and Jane work part time for a library. Mary works every third day; Jane works
every fifth day. Today, they are both working together. In how many days will they
be working together again?
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Question 358409: Johnny has $100 now and saves $10 every month. His brother Jimmy has no money
currently and is going to save $15 per month. In how many months will Jimmy have
as much money as Johnny?
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Question 358412: In a family of five, members speak English, Spanish, or both. Two people speak
Spanish, and four English. How many people speak both languages?
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Question 358428: In a recent poll 3,000 people were asked their opinion about health care reform. If 37.5% of the people polled were men, how many women were polled? Thank you
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Question 358462: For jumps that exceed 13 sec, the polynomial 173t-369 can be used to apprroximate the distance, in feet, that a skydiver has fallin in t seconds. Approiximately how far has a skydiver fallin in 20 sec after jumping from plane?

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Question 358536: A contractor is considering a sale that promises a profit of $37,000 with a probability of 0.7 or a loss of (due to bad weather and such) of $18,000 with a probability of 0.3. What is the expected profit?
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