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Question 506112: I have a word problem : If jane has a job offer at 36,000 a year with a 2,000 raise every year and another job offer 28,000 plus a raise of 3,000 a year at how many years from now would it take her to be making the same pay at each job?
How do I figure this out? Thank you!
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Question 506513: a water wheel has a 10 ft radius. to get a good approximation of the speed of the river, you count the revolutions of the wheel and find that it makes 14 revolutions per minute. what is the speed of the river in miles per hour?
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Question 507063: 1. Which has the greater area, a square with sides x + 1 units long or a rectangle with lengths x + 2 units and width x units? How much greater?

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Question 507053: A hot-air balloon rises from the ground with a velocity of (2.00 m/s )y-direction. A champagne bottle is opened to celebrate takeoff, expelling the cork horizontally with a velocity of (4.00 m/s )x-direction relative to the balloon. When opened, the bottle is 7.00 m above the ground. What is the maximum height above the ground attained by the cork (what is the ymax)?
I have this so far:
x(t)=4t
v(t)=4
y(t)= 7+ 2t -0.59.81t^2
vy(t)= 2-9.81t
Not sure where to go next
Please help
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Question 507170: Four towns are located along a straight highway. Abacus is 50 miles west of Barometer. Deka is 30 miles east ofBarometer. Calculus is 10 miles west of Deka. How far is it from Abacus to Calculus?
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Question 507203: 71�26' to decimal degree notation
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Question 507047: Suppose the area of a circle is numerically equal to the perimeter of a square and that the length of a radius of the circle is equal to the lenght of a side of the square. Find the length of a side of the square. Express answer in terms of pi
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Question 507236: Please help me solve this word problem.
Fred has available 400 yards of fencing and wishes to enclose a rectangular area. Express the area A of of the rectangle as a function of the width x of the rectangle.
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Question 507355: A high-speed train makes a 400-mile nonstop run between two major cities in 5 1/2 hours. The train travels 100 mi/hr in the country, but safety regulations require that it travel only 25 mi/hr when passing through smaller, intermediate cities. How many hours are spent traveling through the smaller cities?
My professor only wants us to make the equation to solve, but solving is not necessary. thanks.
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Question 507432: a baseball is hit so that its height in feet after t seconds is s(t)=-16tsquared +44t+4 find the maximum height of the baseball

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Question 507498: the sum of 3 numbers is 20. The first number is the sum of the 2nd number and the 3rd. The 3rd number is 3x the first. Find the numbers. Thanks
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Question 507651: What is the detention time in a 20,000-gallon tank if the flow is 0.26 Million Gallons a Day? The Awnser should be in Hours.
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Question 507727: - 9/2 + 1/2 = -5
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Question 507726: Find -x when x = - 70/67
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Question 507724: D = h+q/2

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Question 507725: Decimal notation for fraction -1/12
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Question 507723: Use multiplying by 1 to find an expression equivalent to 3/13 with a denominator of 117a
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Question 507732: The expression for figuring a student�s average test score is p/t, where p is the total points earned on all the tests, and t is the number of tests. Find a student�s average when 483 points are earned on 7 tests.
What is the average?
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Question 507733: A young woman is furnishing her first apartment. She buys four plates and three glasses for $13.14 at the secondhand furniture store. If a plate costs 87 cents more than a glass, how much does each item cost?

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Question 507736: In a triangle ABC, angle B is 4 times angle A and angle C is 19 degrees less than 5 times angle A.
Angle of a,b,c?
A.
B.
C.

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Question 507738: Graph 11/4
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Question 507735: x/9 = 4
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Question 507800: One secretary can do a particular typing job in 6hr and another secretary can do same job in 4hr. How long will it take if the job is done by the two secretaries working together?
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Question 508041: Act 3 of The 2003 Leonid meteor shower was expected to last 24 hours. The margin of error for this prediction was 0.7 days. What was the range for the length of time that Act 3 could last?
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Question 508418: How do you solve this problem?
Show that the sum of 2 odd functions is odd.
Show your work.
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Question 508540: The product of the first and third of three consecutive integers is 3 more than 3 times the second integer. Find the integers.
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Question 508547: "It takes Mandy 4 hours to panel a room, while it would take Omar 5 hours to panel the same room. How long would it take them to panel the room if they worked together?" How would I set this problem up, in an algebraic way, so that I can solve it?
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Question 508526: 7. Jane and Terry went to Long Island for a week. They needed to rent a car, so they checked out two rental firms. Avis wanted $28 per day with no mileage fee. Hertz wanted $108 per week and $0.14 per mile. How many miles would they have to drive before the Avis price is less than Hertz�s price?
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Question 508780: A beginning tennis class has twice as many students as the advanced class. The intermediate class has three more students than the advanced class. How many students are in the advanced class if the total enrollment for the three tennis classes is 43?
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Question 508791: How many liters of pure dye must be added to 45 liters of a 6% dye solution to obtain a 10% dye solution?
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Question 508788: The ratio of miles to kilometers is 5 to 8. How many miles are in 40 kilometers?
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Question 508869: How much would it cost to carpet a room that is 25 feet by 28 feet if carpeting costs $23.75 per square yard?
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Question 508969: The boys were 3/8 of the way across a bridge when they heard the Cannonball Express approaching the bridge at 60 mph. They quickly calculated that they could just save themselvess by running to either end of the bridge at top speed. How fast could they run?
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Question 509153: If it takes 12 people 3 days to build 72 meters of fence, how many meters of fence can 15 people build in one day?
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Question 509164: I inherit 10,000. I have to invest it in 2 stocks, one that is 6%, one that is 11 %. How much should I invest to get 700 of interest the first year?
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Question 509344: a motorboat can maintain a constant speed of 16 miles per hour relative to the water. The boat makes a trip upstream to a certain point in 20 minutes the return takes 15 minutes. what is the speed of the current?
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Question 509606: Write an equation and solve for the word problem: Rico spent $18.50 to rent a lawn mower. The fee for the first hour was $8. Each additional hour cost $3.50. For how many hours did he rent the mower?
I figured out the answer is 4 hours, but what is the equation that goes with this word problem?
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Question 509663: Wayne Gretzky scored 204 more goals than Mario Lemieux in their NHL careers. If they scored a total of 1584 goals, find the number of goals scored by each player.
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Question 509672: The ratio of the teeth on gear A to those on gear B is 4 to 7. If gear B has 35 teeth, how many teeth does gear A have?
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Question 509697: two mechanics, one worked 10 hours, the other 5 hours. Total charge was $1550. Sum of both mechanics was $205. What is per hour for each mechanic?
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Question 509865: Find the measure of an angle whose measure is 18 degrees less than one-half of the measure of its complement.
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Question 509995: Can you help with this question?
A number added to its reciprocal is 5/2. What is the number?
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Question 510130: Your club is selling candles to raise money. It costs $100 to rent a booth to sell candles. If the candles cost $1 each and are sold for $5 each, how many candle must be sold to equal your expenses?
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