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Question 514290: A ferris wheel has a diameter of 320 feet and the bottom of the Ferris wheel is 9 feet above the ground. Find the equation of the wheel if the origin is placed on the ground directly below the center of the wheel, as illustrated.
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Question 514422: suppose the value of a certain wine varies jointly as its age and its rating. if a 90 point wine from 2001 is valued at $150, find the value of a 96 point wine from 1983.
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Question 514655: A chemist has a 30% acid solution and a 70% acid solution. How many liters of each solution does the chemist need to make 500 liters of a 565 acid solution?
Can you put this in to the Amount X %Vale = Total Amount table??
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Question 514748: A mechanic earns $20 an hour, but 25% of his earnings are deducted for taxes and various types of insurance. What is the least number of hours the mechanic must work in prder to have no less than $450 in after tax-income?
answer is 30 h.
how do i get that answer?
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Question 514884: The sum of the digits is less than 6
The difference of the first and last digits is greater than 0
The difference of the first two digits is less than 3
The product of the first and last digits is less than 35
The sum of the first and last digits is less than 10
The product of the last two digits is equal to 4
What is the number?
Answer is not 41, 410, 401, 221, 122, or 22. Well, I have tried these and more over the past few days and I still cannot figure it out.
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Question 514988: the weight of an object varies inversely as the square of its distance from the center of the planet it is on. If a person weighs 180 pounds on a planet's surface, what is his weight 250 miles above the surface of the planet? The planet's radius is 7000 miles.
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Question 515123: A boy says "I have the same number of sisters as I have brothers".
His sister says "I have twice as many brothers as I have sisters".
How many sons and how many daughters do their parents have?

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Question 515152: The first fellow could finish 7 jobs in 3 hours, and the second fellow could finish 8 jobs in 5 hours. How long would they have to work together to finish 59 jobs?
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Question 515223: without using a calculator, find three rational numbers between - square root 26 and - square root 15. Explain how you found the numbers.
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Question 515404: Joe has a collection of nickels and quarters that is worth $7.40. If the number of nickels were doubled and the number of quarters were increased by 8, the value of the coins would be $10.80. How many quarters does he have?
I need step by step through the equation on how to solve it. Could you please help me with this as I am having troubles trying to solve it?
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Question 515392: A canoeist paddles 6 miles downstream in 40 minutes and returns in 3 hours paddling at the same rate. How fast does he go in still water?
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Question 515488: A boat can go 20 km downstream in 2 hours. The return trip takes 5 hours. What would the speed of the boat be if there was no current? What is the speed of the current?
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Question 515482: For questions one and two use formula: s=-16t^2+vt+h
1) A rock is dropped from the top of an embankment into water that is 256 ft.
A. in how many seconds will the rock hit the water
B. how long will it take before the rock is 112 feet above the water?
2) An object is thrown vertically downward with an initial velocity of 30ft/s from a point 200ft above the ground. find to the nearest second, the time needed for it to reach the ground
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Question 515490: A small plane can fly 240 km in 3 hours with the wind, but only 210 km in the same time against the wind. Find the rate of speed of the wind.
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Question 515485: A jet can travel the 6000 km distance between Washington, D.C. and London in 6 hours with the wind. The return trip against the same wind takes 7.5 hours. Find the rate of the jet in still air and the rate of the wind.
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Question 515672: George brought three books for his history, chemistry and mathematics classes. The Chemistry book cost 5 dollars more than the history book. the mathematics book costs twice as much as the chemistry book. if the total bill for all three books was 145 dollars , what is the price of each one?
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Question 515714: gina can cook basmati rice 3 times faster in a pressure cooker than she can in a regular pot. if the rice usually takes 24 minutes to cook in a regular pot what is the cooking time in a pressure cooker?
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Question 515755: what must be the value of x and y if the area is to be a minimum and the perimeter is to be 300m?
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Question 515830: Matildabelle found that a quart of milk would serve 4 children or 3 adults. If 16 quarts of milk are available, how much will be left over after 40 children and 12 adults are served?
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Question 516111: A radiator contains 20 liters of a 40% antifreeze solution. How many liters of the solution must be drained and replaced with pure antifreeze to have a 50% solution in the radiator?(Answer is decimal liters with 2 digits to the right of the decimal point.)

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Question 516250: A man built a walk of uniform width around a rectangular pool. If the area of the walk is 117 sqaure feet and the dimensions of the pool are 16 feet by 20 feet, how wide is the walk?
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Question 516406: Tates new computer cost $178.50 less than the old one. The sum of the cost of the two computers cost $3500.00. How much does the new computer cost?
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Question 516668: Grandpa Pennywise problems can you please explain the answer
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Question 516703: a calculator costs 12 dollars less than a camera. Both together cost 87 dollars. What is the cost of each.
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Question 516932: PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS STATEMENT INTO AN ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION.
The area of Alaska is 462 square miles more then 479 times the area of Rhode Island.
R= the area of Rhode Island.
What is the area of Alaska?
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Question 516931: PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS STATEMENT INTO AN ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION.
Lois Cole's son is 3 less than one third Mary Higgins son.
M= Mary's son's age.
How old is Lois son?
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Question 516929: PLEASE TRANSLATE THIS STATEMENT INTO AN ALGEBRAIC EXPRESSION.
In 2002, the price of General Electric's stock dropped 8%.
P= price of General Electric stock.
What is the price of General Electric stock after the drop?
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Question 517076: Hello,
I need help writing the word problem into equation form. I have come up with an answer of L=28m, W=18m but need to show the correct form in order to get full credit for this problem.

Problem:
The perimeter of a swimming pool is 92m.The width is 4m more than half the length of the pool. Find the length and width of the pool.
Thank you !
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Question 517377: Two friends rent an apartment while they go to college for $975 per month. Since one bedroom is 60 square feet larger than the other bedroom, each person's rent contribution is based on bedroom size. Each person agrees to pay $3.25 per square foot of bedroom area. Let x be the area (in square feet) of the larger bedroom, and let y be the area (in square feet) of the smaller bedroom. Write and solve a system of linear equations to find the area of each bedroom. I need a step by step not just an answer because I don't get how to start the equations off.
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Question 517394: Candy worth $2.55 per pound is mixed with candy worth $2.40 per pound. How much of each kind must be used to have 22.5 pounds of a mixture worth $2.48 per pound?
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Question 517447: tyler has two dogs.one of the dogs weighs twice as much as the other. If the total weight of the two dogs is 60 pounds. how much does each dog weigh?
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Question 517457: the names, or notes, of all the white keys on a piano are written on pieces of paper and placed in a cup. there are 7 sets of the notes D, E, F, and G and 8 sets of the notes A,B, and C. I f a person draws one note out of the cup without looking, what are his or her chances of getting a c.
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Question 517536: A compression program reduces the size of files by 29%. If the compressed folder is 13.7 MB, how large was it before compressing?
I'd love to see the formula for this, not just the answer...I would appreciate it SO much!
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Question 517564: At noon, 1/4 of the birds perched on fence flew away,but 1 came back. At 1pm,1/2 of the remaining birds flew away,but 2 came back. Finnally, at 2pm,1/2 of the remaining birds flew off, and 5 birds remained. How many birds were originally perched on the fence before they started leaving at noon?
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Question 517902: Hello. I am not sure how to do this problem.
There was a pet photo contest. 7 of the photos entered were guinea pigs. 1/2 were photos of cats, and 1/3 were photos of dogs. How many photos were entered in the contest? How many photos were of cats? how many were of dogs?
Thanks!
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Question 517960: One printing press can print an order of advertising brochures in 5.5 hr. Another press can do the same job in 6.5hr. How long will it take if both presses are used?
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Question 518015: what is 40 divided by 80,000 and show the work for it
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Question 518012: You travel around the equator and you head travels 40 ft further than the bottom of your feet. How tall are you?
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Question 518125: one boy earned 40 dollars more than another boy. Together they have 140 dollars. how much does each boy have

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Question 518196: C=piD,where C and D are the circumference and diameter of a circle and pi is the usual mathematical constant.
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Question 518174: The sum of the digits is 13.
The digit in the thousandths place is 3 times the digit in the tens place.
To the nearest ten, the number rounds to 30.
The digit in the tenths place is one more than the digit in the hundredths place.
What is the number?
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Question 518362: 18 less than the product of twice a number and 3 is the same as 8 more than twice the difference of 11 and thrice the number. What is the number?
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