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Question 536215: if you start from 2 and keep multypling by 2 what is the 100 term

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Question 536292: The traditional French greeting is to kiss the other person on each cheek. So, when two traditional French friens meet, one kisses the second on both cheeks and the second person kisses the first on both cheeks. Write a formula for the total number of kisses, k in terms of the number of friends, f.
I am so lost as to how to start. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Question 536331: A theme that has run throughout our class is that mathematicians can sometimes make accurate predictions when they are not given enough information to do so. Here is one example: If you select any fraction what so ever, I can predict that if you square that fraction, you will not get exactly 2. Please explain how I know this and then give two other examples if this sort of phenomena that we have considered. please state them clearly and explain how you know you are correct. you may quote Theorems rather than giving proofs.
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Question 536472: Joe has a collection of nickels and dimes that is worth $9.60. If the number of nickels was tripled and the number of dimes was decreased by 31, the value of the coins would be $6.70. How many nickels and dimes does he have?
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Question 536660: If I gave you (j-5) as the binomial factor, can you show me a trinomial with a degree of 2 that this term could be a factor from?
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Question 536739: Here�s my aggravation. I am taking a Math class online and we�re working on �Percent Word Problems.� Only thing is I am not sure when to divide or to multiply to find the answer. Is there a hint as to when to multiply or divide in these word problems. Help! I am stressed! (see below for example)
College graduation. To obtain his bachelor�s degree in nursing, Cody must complete 125 credit hours of instruction. If he has completed 60% of his requirement, how many credits did Cody complete?

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Question 536681: A caterer in quoting the charge for producing a dinner proposes the following terms. For a group of 60 people, he will charge $30 per person. For every extra 10 people, he will lower the price for $1.50 per person for the whole group. What size group does the caterer want to maximize his income?
Thanks!
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Question 536954: In ΔABC, the measure of ∠A is 36�. The measure of ∠B is three times the measure of ∠C. Find m∠B & m∠C.
Please help me. I only need this one last problem before I finish my homework! Thanks!
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Question 537165: A volleball team scored 14 more points in it's first game than in it's third game. In the second game, team scored 29 points. The total number of points scored was less than 77. What is the greatest number of ponts the team could have scored in it's first game?
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Question 537208: Stephanie stayed at a hotel and took a taxi to the airport .The total cost for the ride was $13.55. The taxis of the city charge $3.75 for the first 1/5 mile and $0.35 for each additional mile. How many miles were from the hotel to the airport?
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Question 537274: I need help with this please:
As the Blizzard of '96 snow melted, the Potomac River was flowing at a rate of 156 millions gallon per minute. This would have filled Sun Devil Stadium, home of Super Bowl XXX, in 1 minute, 25 seconds. The Ohio River, on the other hand, would have filled the stadium in just 51 seconds. What was the Ohio's flow rate, in gallons per minute?
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Question 537558: 3y-15/5-y

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Question 537557: The speed of train A is 20 mph slower than the speed of train B. Train A travels 190 miles in the same time it takes train B to travel 290 miles. Find the speed of each train.

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Question 537561: The cost, in millions of dollars, to remove x % of pollution in a lake modeled by C=200x/500-5x
What is the cost to remove 75% of the pollutant? Show how you arrived at the answer.

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Question 537550: To determine the number of deer in the game preserve,a conservationist catches 407 deers, tags them and let them lose. Later, 856 deer are caught; 214 of them are tagged. How many deers are in the preserved?

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Question 537621: form an equivalent division problem for 5 divided by 1/3 by multiplying both the dividend and divisor by 3 then find the quotient

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Question 537756: Find the future value on $5,000 in three years if the interest is compounded semiannually at 12%.
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Question 537749: You invest $1,300 in an account that has an annual interest rate of 5%, compounded annually. How much money will be in the account after 10 years? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
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Question 537683: You are about to take a test that contains computation problems worth 4 points each and word problems worth 7 points each. You can do a computation problem in 2 minutes and a word problem in 4 minutes. You have 48 minutes to take the test and may answer no more than 14 problems. Assume that you answer all the problems attempted correctly.
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Question 537765: You are taking a history course in which there will be four tests, each worth 100 points. You have scores of 98, 98, and 88 on the first three tests. You must make a total of 360 in order to get an A. What scores on the last test will give you an A? What is the solution? Simplify your answer. Type integer or a decimal.
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Question 537952: Elliot Street is 24ft wide when it ends at Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont. A 40-ft long diagonal crosswalk allows pedestrians to cross Main Street to or from either corner of Elliot Steet. Determine the width of Main Street.
Thanks in advance.
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Question 538211: The population of a town was 5000 in 1990 and its rate of growth is 0.5% per year. Use the model P=Poe ^rt to predict the population in 2006.
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Question 538523: Hi,
I am not sure how to find formula to answer the question below: Help!
Angles of a triangle. The second angle of a triangular garden is four times as large as the first. The third angle is 45� less than the sum of the other two angles. Find the measure of each angle.
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Question 538576: The cost of seeing x movies at the theater is 7x dollars. Buying a VCR and renting x movies costs 350+3x dollars. Set the equation equal and solve for x.
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Question 538588: Two consecutive whole numbers total 17. Find the larger.
I do not understand how to do the problem , can you help ?
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Question 538550:
Each year Darlene received a 20 percent salary increase over what she had been paid the year before. She worked for the company for 3 full years. If her total salary for three years was $29,120, how much did she make the first year?
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Question 538917: The current I in an electrical conductor varies inversely as the resistance R of the conductor. If the current is 0.5 amperes when the resistance is 240 ohms, what is the current when the resistance is 960 ohms?
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Question 539162: A light bulb consumes 1800 watt-hours per day. How long does it take to consume 10350 watt-hours?

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Question 539256: 1.completing the square to solve 3x^2+10x=3.the students first step was to add 25 to each side of the equation,yielding 3x^2+10x+25=3+25.what should the student haven done first?

2.Eddie and Marco are working on a landing pad for their ultra light aircraft that will be 10 feet longer than a width. if the area of the landing pad is to be 1,200 square feet, find the length and width
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Question 539695: A woman asks,"How much for one?"
The Vendor says, "30 cents"
The woman asks, "How much for 15?"
The Vendor says, "60 cents"
The woman says, "I need 615."
The Vendor says, "That will be 90 cents."
Show your work and explain how you solved the problem.
This is on my 2nd graders homework. So far we have 1=30, 15=60, 615=90. Can anyone help us solve this?
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Question 539826: What is the smallest possible product for two positive integers whose sum is 26?

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Question 539919: Please help me solve this word problem.
--> You and 4 friends evenly divide the total bill at a restaurant. If the total bill is B dollars, write an equation for S, your share of the total bill.
Thank you.
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Question 540194: A decimal is greater than 0.1 and less than 0.11. What could the decimal be?
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Question 540282: The average weight of the first two dogs was 43 pounds. The average weight of the next three dogs was 58 pounds. What was the average weight of all the dogs?
I can't figure out how to do this problem. I added the numbers and divided by 5 and got 20.2 but the teacher marked it wrong. I have to turn it in corrected tomorrow.Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Question 540446: A single-engine plane flies east form an airport at a speed of 140 miles per hour. Two hours later a jet also flies east from the same airport, at a speed of 460 miles per hour. Write two systems of equations to help you determine how many minutes it takes the jet to overtake the single-engine plane.
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Question 540522: IN TRIANGLE ABC, THE MEASURE OF ANGLE B IS 32 DEGREES MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE MEASURE OF ANGLE A. THE MEASURE OF ANGLE C IS 58 DEGREE MORE THAN THE MEASURE OG ANGLE A. FIND THE MEASURE OF EACH ANGLE? WHAT IS THE MEASURE OF ANGLE A?
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Question 540553: A military plane carrying heavy cargo can fly at an average rate of 400 mph. Another plane carrying soldiers can fly at an average rate of 600 mph. Both planes leave the same airbase at the same time and are headed to the same destination. If the cargo plane took two and a half hours longer to arrive at the destination than the plane carrying soldiers, then how far is the destination?

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Question 540666: During the first 20 miles of a 50 mile bicycle race, Roger's average speed was 16 mi/h. What must his average speed be during the remainder of the race if he is to finish the race in less than 2.5 hours?
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Question 540815: Find the number that is 3 more than twice the square root.
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Question 540887: In the statement |x+y| less than |x| + |y|, each variable represents any number. Tell whether the statement is true for all, some or no values. If it is true for some or all values, tell which values (positive or negative) makes it true.
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Question 540945: Sixteen ceramic tiles are needed to tile a 9-square-foot area. At this rate, how many square feet can be tiled 256 ceramic tiles?
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Question 540951: � U = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k}
� A = {a, c, d, f, g, i}
� B = {b, c, d, f, g}
� C = {a, b, f, i, j}
Determine the following.
B ∪ C
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Question 541135: a jet plane traveling at a constant goes 1200 mi with the wind , then turns around and travels for 1000 mi against the wind . if the speed of the wind is a constant 50 mph , and the total flight took 4 hours , find the speed of the plane.
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