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Question 363536: Contributions to a charity totaled $120,00 last year. The contributions decreased by 7% this year. What was the total amount of contributions made to the charity this year?

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Question 363534: A certain substance decomposes and loses 20% of its weight each hour.If there is originally 4,000 grams of this substance, how much remains After 5 hours?

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Question 363649: 30 students are asked if they play soccer or basketball. Each student plays at least one of the two sports. Twenty students said they play soccer and 15 said they play basketball. How many students play both sports?
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Question 363633: 3. Andrea wants to deposit money into a bank account that earns 4% simple annual interest. Use the formula to find the amount of money that she should deposit so that she earns $2800 after 3.5 years
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Question 363699: A radiator contains 7 qt of a 30% antifreeze solution. How much should be removed and replaced with pure antifreeze to yield a 40% solution?
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Question 363698: If a parade 1 mi long is proceeding at 4 mph, how long will it take a runner jogging at 6 mph to travel from the front of the parade to the end of the parade?
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Question 363719: A company's profit for the second half year is $150,000 greater than the profit for the first half year. The total annual profit is $850,000. What is the profit for the first half yaer?
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Question 363774: help please!
a trapezoid has an area of 185d^2 sq. meters and a height of 15d meters. the lower base is 10 more than the upper base. find the length of the upper base.
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Question 363785: You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end off the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to give her the cakes you've made.
Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is troll under every bridge! Each troll, quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are knid trolls, they each give you back a single cake.
How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arriive at Grandma's house with exactly 2 cakes?
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Question 363814: The average attendance at a baseball game this year was 35,000 people. This was an increase of 12% from last year. What was the average attendance at a baseball game last year?
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Question 363839: In a certain senior class, 72 percent of the male students and 80 percent of the female students have applied to college. What fraction of the students in the senior class are male?
(a) There are 840 students in the senior class
(b) 75 percent of the students in the senior class have applied to college

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Question 363783: Three people picked 65 apples altogether. At the first tree they each picked the same number of apples. At the second tree they picked 3 times as many as they picked at the first tree. When they finished at the third tree, the group had 5 times as many apples as they had when they started at the tree. At the fourth tree the group picked just 5 apples.
How many apples did each person pick at the first tree?
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Question 363922: I haven't taken algebra in quite a few years. I'm trying to program a program to do a simple calculation. In order to do this, I have to know how to setup a word problem. My problem is to calculate how many weeks it would take to become a millionaire if I put 1 cent in my piggy bank one week, 2 cents the next week for a total of 3 cents, 3 cents the next week for a total of 6 cents, etc until I reach 1 million. I don't know how to set this up.
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Question 363920:
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Question 364019: twice the difference of a number and 7 is equal to three times the sum of the number and 6 find the number
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Question 364019: twice the difference of a number and 7 is equal to three times the sum of the number and 6 find the number
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Question 364132: A car generally depreciates 25% of its original price the first year. If a car is worth $27300 after the first year, what was it's original cost?
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Question 364182: The height of a falling object dropped form a height of 100m is described by h=100-16t2 where t is time measured in seconds.
Find i) The velocity at t = 2
ii) The acceleration at t = 2

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Question 363977: Priscilla has pennies, Nate has nickels, Dem has dimes, Qasi has quarters, and Hawthorne has half dollars. Nate has five times as many nickels as Dem has dimes. If Priscilla gives 35 pennies to Nate, 80 pennies to Dem, 50 pennies to Qasi, 10 pennies to Hawthorne, and Nathaniel gives 45 nickels to Dem, 5 nickels to Qasi, 2 nickels to Hawthorne, 1 nickel to Priscilla, and Dem gives 10 dimes to Qasi, 3 dimes to Hawthorne, 2 dimes to Priscilla, 3 dimes to Nate, and Qasi gives 2 quarters to Hawthorne, 9 quarters to Priscilla, 2 quarters to Nate, 3 quarters to Dem, and Hawthorne gives 4 half dollars to Priscilla, 3 half dollars to Nate, 2 half dolars to Dem, and 1 half dollar to Qasi, they will all have the same amount of money. How many coins did each start the problem with?
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Question 364269: A 10 inch T.v. set has a width of 8 inches, so what is the height?
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Question 364318: 5 pounds of caramel bats, costing 2.20 per pound are used.10 pounds of licorice bromstick, costing 1.80 per pound are also used. How many pounds of marshmallow goblins ($3 per pound) are needed if the candy mix sells for 2.50 per pound.
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Question 364308: An airline that flies from Los Angeles to Albuquerque with a stopover in Phoenix charges a fare of $80 to Phoenix and a fare of $120 from Los Angeles to Albuquerque. A total of 220 passengers boarded the plane in Los Angeles, and fares totaled $23,800. How many passengers got off the plane in Phoenix?

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Question 363264: A gasoline tank on a tractor holds 18 gallons of gasoline. If the tractor requires 7 gallons of gasoline to pow 4 acres, how many acres can the tractor plow with a tankful of gasoline?
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Question 364390: I have eight more than three times as many pumpkins as you
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Question 364422: A tractor that cost $28,000 depreciates in value by 15% after each year. Find
the expected value of the tractor after 7 years.
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Question 364239: What is the half-life of a radioactive substance if 2.4g decays to .80g in 40 hours?
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Question 364468: Mrs. Garson received 3 new students. There are a total of 210 different ways they could sit. How many seats are available for them to sit in?
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Question 364565: Solve the system. (Give your answer as an improper fraction. If the system has infinitely many solutions, express your answer in terms of k, where t = t(k) and v = k. If the system has no solution, enter NONE for each answer.)
1/2t-1/5v=5/2
2/3t+1/4v=29/12

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Question 364566: An airplane, flying with a tail wind, travels 1,060 miles in 2 hours. The return trip, against the wind, takes 2 1/2 hours. Assume that both rates are constant.
(a) Find the cruising speed of the plane. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
1??????? mi/hr
(b) Find the speed of wind. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
2????? mi/hr

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Question 364600: Under certain conditions, the power P, in watts per hour, generated by a windmill with winds blowing v miles per hour is given by: P(v)=0.015v^3
Find the power generated by 18-mph winds.
Answer choices:
A.) 5832 watts per hr.
B.) 87.48 watts per hr.
C.) 0.00006075 watts per hr.
D.) 4.86 watts per hr.
Please help thanks!
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Question 142785: ON SEPTEMBER 12, JODY JANSEN WENT TO SUNSHINE BANK TO BORROW $2,300 AT 9% INTEREST. JODY PLANS TO REPAY THE LOAN ON JANUARY 27. ASSUME THE LOAN IS ON ORDINARY INTEREST. WHAT INTEREST WILL JODY OWE ON JANUARY 27? WHAT IS THE TOTAL AMOUNT JODY MUST REPAY AT MATURITY?
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Question 365070: A fire has started in a dry open field and is spreading in the form of a circle. If the radius of this circle increases at the rate of 5 ft/min, express the total fire area A as a function of time t (in minutes).
Please enter your answer without the units.

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Question 365242: Find two consecutive numbers with a sum of 45
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Question 365237: Ernest is planting flowers, four to a row. He is planting red, purple, yellow, and white flowers, Each row must contain all four colors and be in a different order from right to left. How many rows can Ernest plant?
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Question 365346: One number is twice as large as the second. The sum of the two numbers is 366. What is the larger number?

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Question 365353: admission to a movie theater is $7 and $5 for children. if the receipts from 200 tickets were $1120, how many adult tickets and how many children's tickets were sold?
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Question 365424: Martha can rake the leaves in her yard in 4 hours. Her younger brother can do the job in 6 hours. How long will it take them to do the job if they work together?
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Question 365445: The number of parallelograms that can be formed from a set of FOUR parallel straight line intersecting a set of THREE parallel straight lines = ?
a 9 b 12 c 6 d 18
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Question 365592: Instead of spending his additional earnings each month, mike chooses to open a savings account offering 3% interest, arcued monthly. Calculate the amount of money Michael will have in his savings account at the end of each of the following periods. You might want to do these calculation in MS Excel. If you do so, print out your workbook and show the equations that you used.
A.Three months
B.Six months
C.One year
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Question 365619: Hello!
Hello!
I need help with a math word problem.Okay here it is
Peter,Sam,Sandy and Isabel work at a kennel.Peter gives the baths the dogs every 4 days;Sam cleans the cages every 6 days;Sandy feeds the animals every 2 days;ans Isabel helps mop the floor every 3 days.How many times in 12 weeks will all 4 helpers be at the kennel?
Sorry about the horrible spelling.Oh and thanks in advance for the huge help you don't know how much it means that your helping me.
Thanks again,
A Student

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