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Question 555874: What are the next three numbers in the following pattern?
2,3,5,9,17,33,
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Question 556005: two cars leave town traveling in the opposite direction. one car is travels at 80 km/h and the other at 96 km/h. in how many hours will they be 528 km apart?
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Question 556055: The function H described by H(x)=2.75x+71.48 can be used to predict the height, in cm, of a woman whos humerus is x cm long
Predict the height of a woman whos humerus is 36cm long

This is what I attempted to do
2.75(36)+71.48
99+71.48=170.48
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Question 556282: If I use 36 feet of fence and the square footage is 72 square feet what are the lenghts of each side of fence? Thank you
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Question 556207: I have asked a question similar to this in the past, but its works still elude me...
A population of a colony of bacteria grows expodentially with time. At start of experiment there are 6000. 1 hr later there are 6500. How long before it reaches 9500. Need exact and numerical approximation...
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Question 556643: Please help me! I think that the answer is 5 seconds, but I don't know. Please show work :) "An object is thrown upward from the top of a 160-foot building with an initial velocity of 48 feet per second. The height h of the object after t seconds is given by the quadratic equation h =16t� + 48t + 160. When will the object hit the ground?"
Thank you in advance for your help!!
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Question 556641: PLEASE HELP ME I've been working on the same problem for over an hour and I'm still stuck.
"The force in newtons needed to stretch a certain spring x cm from its resting position is given by the polynomial function f(x) = 6x�where 6 is the spring constant. If a force of 54 newtons is applied, how far will the spring be stretched?"
From what I know, I substitute: 54(x)=6x^2, but from there I can't do it.

Thank you in advance for your help!
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Question 556624: which two numbers have the sum of 7, a difference of 7 and a product of 18?
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Question 556537: how many meters is 44 degrees?
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Question 556933: The stock market gained 47 points on Tuesday and lost 21 points on Wednesday. It had closed on Monday at 9711 points. Where did the stock market close on Wednesday? how do you translate it into a mathematical equation?
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Question 557081: every bowl of rice feeds 3 people. every bowl of vegetables feeds 3 people. every bowl of meat feeds 2 people. there are 65 bowls of food. how many people are there?
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Question 557252: find a polynomial for the perimeter and for the area Top of square is m+2 right side of square is m
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Question 557553: the electric power generated by a windmill varies jointly with the square of the diameter of the area swept out by the blades and the cube of the wind velocity. If a windmill with 6-foot-diameter blades and a 20-mile-per-hour wind generates 10,823 watts, how much power would be generated if the blades were 10 feet in diameter and the wind speed were 12 miles per hour?

i thought that the solution was P(power) = d^2 (diameter)+ v^3 (wind speed), when i substitute in the values given, 10823= (6*2)^2 + 20^3, i came up with 10823=8144, so not the right equation. can anyone offer any help? Thank you!
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Question 557679: Two times a number, increased by 8.
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Question 557682: (4/9)^2
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Question 557683: 4[9+5(4-3)]
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Question 557707: Use the listing method to denote the set.
Problem: {x|x is a negative multiple of 6}
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Question 557963: Jazmine can mow her lawn in 3 hours. If Sade helps, it takes 2 hours. How long would it take Sade to mow the lawn herself?
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Question 557680: the quotient of 19 and a number is 1/2.
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Question 557999: Suppose you buy lunch for the math club. You have enough money to buy 20 salads or 15 sandwiches. The group wants 12 sandwiches. How many salads can you buy?
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Question 558151: In a coin bank there are 250 dimes and quarters worth a total of $39.25. Find the number of dimes and quarters in the bank.
my quess of equation but not sure:

d = dimes ; q = quarter ; c = coins
d + q = 250c ; dc + qc = $39.25
Am I on the right track?

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Question 558209: Explain why the solution of |-3b|=9 is the same as the solution of |3b|=9
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Question 558082: a man has twenty coins consisting of dimes and quarters. if the dimes were quarters and the quarters were dimes, he would have ninety cents more than he has now...how many dimes and quarters does he have now?
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Question 557947: Order the following numbers from smallest to largest: number of telephones on the planet; number of honest members of Congress; number of people; number of grains of sand; number of states in the United States; number of cars
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Question 558532: I have a word problem my son and I can't figure out. I would appreciate any help you can give.
10 triangles weigh as much as 3 squares and 1 circle. 2 triangles and 1 circle are equal in weight to 1 square. How many triangles weigh as much as 1 square.
thank you for your help.

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Question 558616: A PIZZA SHOP SELLS 25 PIZZAS EACH HOUR AT THE SAME RATE FIND THE NUMBER OF PIZZAS SOLD AFTER1,2,3,AND 4 HOURS
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Question 558665: Can you help me understand how to solve this word problem?
An airplane has a total of 152 seats.
The number of coach-class seats is 5 more than six
times the number of first-class seats. How many of
each type of seat are there on the plane?
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Question 558003: The greatest recorded temperture change in one 24 hr period occurred between January 23 and January 24, 1916 in Browning Montana, where the temperature fell from 44 degrees F to -56 degrees F. By how much did the temperature drop?
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Question 558629: Use the five steps strategy for solving word problems to find the number or numbers.
When 60% of a number is added to the number, the result is 192. what is the number?
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Question 558914: If a stone is tossed from the top of a 270 meter building, the height of the stone as a function of time is given by h(t) = -9.8t2 � 10t + 270, where t is in seconds, and height is in meters. After how many seconds will the stone hit the ground? Round to the nearest hundredth�s place; include units in your answer.
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Question 559035: A student taking a math class needs 8 minutes to solve each algebra problem. How many problems can the student solve in 64 minutes?
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Question 559325: Cashews sell for $1.20 per quarter-pound, and Brazil nuts sell for $1.50 per quarter-pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with 20 pounds of Brazil nuts to obtain a mix that sells for $1.30 per quarter-pound?
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Question 559347: Angie bought some golf balls for $3. If each ball had cost $0.25 less, she could have purchased one more ball for the same amount of money. How many balls did Angie buy?
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Question 559331: two real numbers that have a sum of 5 and the same two numbers that multipled equal 5.
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Question 559452: When half filled, how many gallons of water are contained within 5000 ft of 16 inch diameter pipe?
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Question 559451: Water in a storage tank 25 feet in diameter and 30 ft deep rises 1.8 feet in one hour. What is the Gallons per Minute (GPM) flow into the tank. How long will it take to fill from empty?
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Question 559484: To the nearest tenth of a cubic inch, how much volume is added to a spherical balloon whose radius grows from 10 to 20 inches long?
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Question 559461: Evan, John, and Mark are on the same Learning Team. If each worked on the team assignments alone, it would take Evan 10 hours, John 8 hours, and Mark 12 hours to finish the assignments. They usually started the same time on Monday night after work. Last week, Evan started early and he worked 2 hours on the assignments when John and Mark began. All three finished the team assignments. How long did they take to finish by working together?
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Question 559792: Fran and Jenny run a child care service because they use Fran's house, Fran earns $150 more each month than Jenny. How much money (m) will Jenny earn in a month when the service takes in $2300?
a. equation
b. solution
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Question 559817: Hi, my name is Courtney. May you help me with this problem, I can not figure this out. (One number is 28 more than three times another number. If each number were multiplied by four, their difference would be 232. What are the numbers?). Thank you.
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Question 559730: I was able to get the answer for this word problem but went the long way to get it. How would u work the problem? This is from an accelerated computer math program at my child's school & he doesn't have a book. What element of math is this called?
The question is: 8 teams are playing in a tournament. In the first round, each team plays each of the other teams once. How many games are played in the first round of the tournament?
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Question 253518: For 30 minutes you do a combination of walking and jogging. At the end of your workout your pedometer displays a total of 2.5 miles. You know that you walk .05 mile per minute and jog .1 mile per minute. For how much time were you walking? For how much time were you jogging?
I set it up as:
(((x+y=2.5)))
(((.05x+.1y=30)))
But it is not working out. Can you help me?
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Question 560031: How would you explain to a fifth grader why the sum of 4 consecutive number is not divisible by 4? Examples would be great Thanks for the help.
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