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Question 465036: Emily has a credit card from EdHelper Bank and another from Party Bank. She owes EdHelper Bank $290 more than Party Bank. EdHelper Bank charges 19% simple interest per year and party bank charges 11% per year. The yearly interest charge Emily needs to pay is $214.10. How much money does Emily owe Party Bank before interest charges?
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Question 465040: I have a word problem and would like to know the steps to the solution.
The mean of five numbers is 6. If one of the five numbers is removed, the mean becomes 7. What is the value of the number that was removed?
So far this is what I got:
5*x/5=6*5=30/5=6
I really don't know the steps to take to get this answer. Can you please help?
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Question 465037: Savannah has $9,900. She invested her savings in two banks. One bank is paying 5% simple interest and the other 6%. How much money did Savannah invest in each bank if the annual interest is $570.00?
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Question 465047: If six times Julie's age is decreased by 68, the result is twice Julie's age. How old is Julie?
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Question 464679: Maria bicycles 6km/h faster than Praedup. In the same time it takes Praedup to bicycle 33km, Maria can bicycle 51 km. How fast does each bicyclist travel?
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Question 465418: If the average price of a new one-family home is $246,300 with a standard deviation of $15,000, find the minimum and maximum prices of the houses that a contractor will build to satisfy the middle 80% of the market.Assume the variable is normally distributed.
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Question 465476: -5/6 x (-8/5)=
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Question 465416: Americans spend an average of 3 hours per day online. If the standard deviation is 32 minutes, find the range in which at least 88.89% of the data will lie. Use Chebyshev's formula.
Thank you!
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Question 465477: amy paid $89.92 for a pair of running shoes during a 15%-off sale. What was the regular price? round to the nearset cent
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Question 465224: You are given a five gallon pail and a three gallon pail, both of which are unmarked. How can you fetch four gallons of water in one trip?
I am supposed to use both buckets and I am not to estimate an amount because the buckets are not marked. I thought that I could fill the three gallon bucket and put it inside the five gallon bucket and fill the five gallon bucket to the top of the three gallon bucket but I'm not sure that this would give me four gallons. I also thought about fillig both buckets to get eight gallons but I don't think that that is what she's looking for. Help! I'm stuck!
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Question 465630: Find the sum of the following arithmetic series
3+9+15+21+...+57
The sum of this series is
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Question 465621: how is that from A to B in a plane it takes 1 hour 20 minutes and from B to A it takes 80 minutes?

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Question 465654: A gram of fat contains about 9 calories. If a quarter pound hamburger is made tha is 85% lean (15% fat), how many calories from fat will a person consume by eating just the meat.
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Question 465752: A rain gutter is formed by bending up the sides of a 42-inch-wide rectangular metal sheet.
A) find a function that models the cross-sectional area of the gutter in terms of x.
Here is what I have so far, but don't know if it's on the right track:
A(x)=42-(1/3x)^2
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Question 465646: Suppose that at the end of any given year an automobile is worth only 80% of its value at the beginning of that year. If a car cost 17000 new what is its value at the end of five years?
At the end of five years the car is worth $
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Question 465745: Hello,
I am not sure how to go about answering the following questions to come up with the correct answers. Could you show me step by step how to solve this and that way I can elarn how to solve the other problems like this.

Water in Lake:
East Battle Lake in Minnesota covers an area of about 1950 acres or 8.5 x 10^7 square feet and its average depth is about 3.2 x 10^1 feet.
A. Estimate the cubic feet of water in the lake.
Volume = area x average depth.

B. One cubic foot of water equals about 7.5 gallons.
How many gallons of water are in this lake?

C. The population of the United States is about 3.02 x 10^8, and the average America uses about 1.5 x 10^2 gallons of water per day. Could this lake supply the American population with water for 2 day?

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Question 465791: A basket has 3 apples, 2 oranges, 1 bananas, and 4 grapefruit. A friend randomly selects a piece of fruit from the basket. The P(select a banana or a grapefruit) is
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Question 465833: Assume a gasoline price of $2.95 per gallon. What is the gasoline cost for a 1500-
mile trip if you drive at an average speed of 60 miles per hour? At 75 miles per
hour?
I don't know how to even start this.
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Question 465868: One person can load a truck in 25 minutes, a second can load it in 50 minutes, and a third can load it in 10 minutes. how long will it take the three together to load the truck?
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Question 465883: Event A occurs every 4 minutes, event B occurs every 6 minutes, event C occurs every 15 minutes. If they occur simultaneously at noon when is the next time all three events will occur together again?
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Question 465863: a!+b!+c!=a*b*c
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Question 465971: Can someone please help me?
The function, p(d)= 1 + d/33, gives the pressure, in atmosphere(atm), at ahe depth d in the sea (d is in feet). Note that p(0)= 1 atm, p(33)=2 and so on. Find the pressure at 30 feet.
The pressure at 30ft. is --?-- atm
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Question 465923: A total of 637 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 63 fewer student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?

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Question 465909: Please help me out with this algebra word problem. I have been stuck on it for hours! Thank you so much!!
Use the five steps for problem solving for the following.
Angle u and v are complementary angles. If angle u is three less than angle v what are the measures of the angles?
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Question 465981: you are dealt 5 cards from a standard 52 card deck what is the probability that none of the cards are picture cards
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Question 466031: you decide to build a sandbox for your children to enjoy. the coordinates of the corners of the sandbox are: (-4,18)(-4,14)(4,14)(4,18). the formula for area of rectangle is length times width (LxW). what is the area and perimeter of the sandbox?
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Question 466092: Word problem:
A student opens a math book to two facing pages. The product of page numbers is 600. Find the pages.

I do not remember seeing any examples in the materials I have so any help is greatly appreciated.
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Question 466096: Please help me answer this question, thanks(:
The price per person of renting a bus varies inversely with the number of people renting the bus. It costs $20 per person if 56 people rent the bus. How much will it cost per person if 58 people rent the bus?
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Question 466237: Twice the greater of two consecutive odd numbers is 13 less than three times the lesser. Find the integers.
Can someone please help. i did the problem and got -9 and -7 but im not sure.
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Question 466235: If I drop a soccer ball. The first bounce will be highest, and each bounce after that will be lower until the ball stops bouncing. How can I describe the energy changes that takes place and explain how energy is conserved? I would gladly appreciate if you can help me because I been trying to figure this out all day!
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Question 466258: The function H described by H(x)=2.75x+71.48 can be used to predict the height in centimeters of a woman whose humerus is x cm long. Predict the height of a woman whose humerus is 37 cm long.
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Question 466270: Five-eighths of the shoppers at a sale were women. If there were 39 men at the sale, how many women were there at the sale.
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Question 466587: Hello,
I have a question I need help with. Your time is appreciated.
The lesser of two numbers is 6 less than the greater number. If three times the greater number is subtracted from 52 the answer is the same as when 56 is subtracted from seven times the lesser number. Find the numbers.
Thank you
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Question 466573: Hello,
I have a question I need help with. Your time is appreciated.
Find the measure of an angle if its supplement measures 150 degrees less than five times its complement?
Thank you
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Question 466628: A car drives down a road in such a way that its velocity ( in m/s) at time t (seconds) is
v(t)=2(t)^1/2+4

Find the car's average velocity (in m/s) between t=4 and t=7.

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Question 466916: 2. Consider the supply of computers. For each of the following, state the effect on supply:
a. A change in technology that lowers production costs
b. An increase in the price of semiconductors
c. A decrease in the price of computers
d. An increase in the wages of computer assembly workers
e. An increase in consumer incomes

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Question 466918: 6. Graph representative supply and demand curves for the breakfast cereal market, labeling the current equilibrium price and quantity. Then show the effect on equilibrium price and quantity of each of the following changes (consider each separately):
a. The price of muffins rises, assuming muffins and breakfast cereals are substitutes.
b. The price of wheat, an input to cereal production, rises.
c. Consumers expect that cereal prices will be higher in the future.
d. There is a change in technology that makes production less expensive.
e. New medical reports indicate that eating breakfast is less important than had previously been thought.

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Question 466947: two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 .if their LCM Is 180 , find the numbers.
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Question 466947: two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 .if their LCM Is 180 , find the numbers.
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Question 466947: two numbers are in the ratio 3 : 4 .if their LCM Is 180 , find the numbers.
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Question 467174: what is more than the product of 12 and the square of 17
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Question 467220: Find the value of the annuity
a1=1000,I=.05,n= 10
Whats the Future value of the annuity?
Find the value of the annuity?
a1=9000,I=.08,n=15
What is the future value of the annuity?
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Question 467216: if your allowance was a penny doubled everyday, how many days would it take for you to have over $1,000? on which would you have 10,0000? how much would you have on the 15th day?
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