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Question 605300: In dyer need of assistance... PLEASE HELP
A vendor is curious about the number of fruit cups he sells each day at his stand. The number of fruit cups sold over 32 straight days is given below. Build a frequency table with each class having a width of 1.
29, 26, 23, 21, 21, 19, 18, 16, 28, 25, 23, 21, 20, 19, 18, 15, 27, 25, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 15, 27, 24, 22, 21, 20, 19, 16, 15.

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Question 605463: I am trying to help me 12 year old with his word problems, but I think I am going in the wrong direction and will confuse him. The question is " Nine less eight times a number is one less than negative two times the difference of three times the number and six.
8n-9=3n + 6 - 1-2n
Please help --- am i on the right track?? Thanks so much!
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Question 605628: a small fish is 0.5 inch long.how many centimeters long is the fish to the nearest tenth?
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Question 605835: A rectangular lot whose perimeter is 310 ft is fenced along three sides. an expensive fencing along the lot's length costs $25 per foot. An inexpensive fencing along the two side widths costs only $5 per foot. The total cost of the fencing along three sides comes to $3050. What are the lot's dimensions
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Question 605874: What is the format to determine how long it will take for one person who shoveled snow in 65 minutes and another in 60 minutes if they worked together.
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Question 388271: 5.a boy has a certain number of sweets. if he eats 16 a day they will last him 2 days longer than if he eats 18 a day. how many sweets has he ?
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Question 606300: Sharice hit a baseball, and the flight of the ball was modeled by the following equation:
h = -16t2 + 62t + 4. After how many seconds will the ball fall to the ground if it is not caught? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 606430: The difference between two numbers is four. On number (v) is five times the value of the other number (x). What are the two numbers?
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Question 606516: The Johnson County Carnival costs $15 plus $0.50 per ride. The Jefferson County Carnival costs $10 plus $1.00 per ride. How many rides should you plan on riding to make the Johnson County Carnival less expensive than the Jefferson County Carnival?
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Question 606568: 10 ft of wire cut into 2 pieces. One is x ft long. Each wire shape into a square. Expression represents sum of areas in square feet. 2 square in terms of x?
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Question 606852: Jamie has 12 dimes and some nickles. Nick has 1/4 as many dimes and 1-1/2 times as many nickels as Jamie. If Jaime has the same amount of money as Nick, how many nickels does Nick have?
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Question 607223: The dimensions of a rectangle garden are 3 feet by 10 feet. When both demensions are increased by the same amount, the area is doubled. What are the demensions of the new garden?
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Question 607220:
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Question 607300: A farmer bought 100 animals for $100. Sheep were $10 each, pigs were $2
each, and chickens were $.50 each. How many of each did she buy?
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Question 607330: The names of 10 men and 7 women are entered in a sweepstakes drawing. Two names are drawn at random in succession."
a) What is the probability that the first name is a man's and the second is a women's?
b) What is the probability that both names are women's?
Thanks in advance!!
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Question 607322: When the bicycle's front wheel travels from point A to point B, it does exactly 10 revolutions. If the tire diameter is 27 inches, how high is the top of the ramp from the ground? Use 3.14 for pi
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Question 607430: the length and width of a rectangle must have a sum of 116 feet. find the dimensions of the rectangle whose area is as large as possible
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Question 607505: f(x) is a 3rd Degree Polynomial Equation having Real coefficients, if it has 3, i and -i as Zeros (roots) Find a simple equation f(x) = 0 with these roots written in polynomial form (show work).
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Question 607527: Cassidy is 3 times as old as Drew. In 8 years, Cassidy will only be twice as old as Drew. How old is Cassidy right now?
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Question 607526: I'm thinking of a number that, when you multiply it by 9, it is the same as adding 8 to 7 times the number. What is the number?
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Question 607528: Susan has 600 feet of fencing to use in making a yard for her new puppy. The yard she has planned has a length that is 75 feet less than twice the width. What are the dimensions of the yard?
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Question 607531: On an assignment, Bob incorrectly solves the left side of the problem:
12x^3 - 6x / 3x = 4x^2 - 6x
What mistake do you think he is making? Please write a short explanation on how the mistake was made.
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Question 607537: A triangle is 3 in. 4 in. and 5 in. How would it be in a 3/1 scale drawing?
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Question 607538: A standardized test has a mean score of 450. The standard deviation is 108. The student scored 505. What is the Z-score?
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Question 607592: The force of attraction of a body varies directly as its mass and inversely as the square of the distance away the body is. A force of 100 Newtons attracts a mass of 8 kg located 5 meters away. Find the force exerted on a mass of 2 kg that is 15 meters away.
I keep getting a Force of 2.77 Newtons for my answer but that can't be right since the distance is farther away and even though the 2 kg is much less than 8 kg needing a force of 100 Newtons. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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Question 607683: The perimeter of a rectangle is 94 feet, and the area of the rectangle is 90ft^2. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 607710: Earth's Diameter: The polar diameter of earth is approximately 7900 miles. There are approximately 161,000 cm in one mile. What is the polar diameter of Earth in cm?
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Question 607964: For his last ter paper, Kerman typed 13,800 words in 2.5 hours. At this rate, how many words could be typed in 5 minutes
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Question 607978: Can someone please help me solve this word problem. I'm studying on Fractional Equations and Problem Solving. Thank you!
In a survivor competition, the Pachena tribe can shuck 300 oysters in 10 minutes less time than it takes the Tchaika tribe. If the Pachena tribe shucks oysters at a rate of 5 oysters per minute faster than the Tchaika tribe, find the rate of each tribe.
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Question 608070: The stopping distance d of a car after the brakes have been applied varies directly as the square of the speed r. If a car traveling 60 mph can stop in 200ft, how long will it take a car traveling 30 mph to stop? Please help and show work. Thanks
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Question 608181: An animal clinic kept record of the life spans of certain poodles. The number of years the dogs lived are 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, and 13. What is the standard deviation of the poodle life spans?

No other information is given and i am stuck.. Please help!!!
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Question 608260: Mr.Algebra baked a cake for the Midwest Mathematics Convention. He designed the cake in the shape of a big cube. As he was carrying the cake over to frost it, he dropped it in the vat of frosting. Amazingly, athe cake stayed in one piece, but all 6 sides were frosted. One mathematic suggested the cake be cut into cube shaped pieces, all the same size. That way, some people could have a piece with no frosting, 1 side frosted, 2 sides frosted, or 3 sides frosted. Another mathematician suggested, "Cut the cake so that the number of pieces with no frosting is eight times more than the number of pieces with 3 sides frosted. Then you will have the exact number of pieces of cake as there are mathemeticians in this room." Find out how many mathematicians were at the convention.
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Question 608338: the supply and demand equation for a certain product are s=2,500p-14,5000 and d=3,000/p, where p is the price in dollar . find the price supply equals demand,
I have set the equation as following 2,500p -14,5000=3000/p
I multiplied the inverse of 3000p in both sides the result is 2500p^2-14500p=0 so what I should do next to get 6$ as final answer? thanks
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Question 608387: 500 people shopped at a candy store and spent a total of $500.
The women each spent $1, the men each spent $5, and the children spent 1 cent.
How many men shopped at the store? How many women? How many children?
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Question 608476: The writing skills of high school seniors are different for boys and girls. that average writing test scores for girls are higher than those for boys. A model that best describes the writing test scores (w) for boys is w=-x+140. For girls a good model is w=1/4x+159. In both models x is the number of years after 1998. Assuming these models to be valid for the coming years, when will the aberage scores for girls be 49 points higher than for boys.
Sorry it's so long, but this one is really troubling me.
any help would be much appreciated!
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Question 608514: club A offers a fee of $15 plus a monthly fee of $27. Club B offers a fee of $21 plus a monthly fee of $26. After how many months will the cost be the same?
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Question 608757: Please help me solve these two problems:
First problem, an instrument store gives a 10% discount to all sutdents off the original cost of an instrument. During a back to school sale an additional 15% is taken off the discounted price. Julie, a student at the local high school, purchases a flute for $306. How much did it originally cost?

Second problem, the cost to ride on a ferry is $5.00 per vehicle and driver with an additinal cost of 50 cents per passenger. If the charge to get on the ferry is $6.50, how many people were in the vehicle?
Thank you very much...
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Question 608787: The half life of a particular radioactive isotape of thorium is 8 minute. Find an exponential decay equation for this isotope of the form y= ae^-kt where t is in minutes.
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Question 608791: a balloon is secured to rope that is staked to the ground. A breeze blows the ballon so that the rope is taut while the balloon is directly above a flag pole that is 60 feet from where the rope is staked down. Find the altitude of the balloon if the rope is 120 feet long.

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Question 608786: The gross domestic product (GDP) of a country was $112 billion in 2001. If the GDP grows a constant rate of 4.3% per year. In what year will the GDP be greater than 200 billion.
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Question 608959: Could someone check my answer for this one-

The formula for measuring drag force on a car is Fd=1/2pv^2ACd where Fd is the drag force measured in Newtons, p is density, v is velocity, A is area and Cd is the drag coefficient. Assuming that all the factors are measured in SI units, what units should Cd have to make the formula dimensionally homogeneous?^
Fd=kgm/s^2
p=kg/m^3
v=m/s
A=m^2
Cd=?
Therefore kg*m/s^2 / 1/2*kg/m^3*m/s*m^2
Cancelling the kg and m^2 and m^3
Seem to leave m / s * 1/2
Does this mean Cd has no units or could I inverse 1/2 and 1/s to make m^s2

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Question 609178: Strontium-90 has half life of 28 years. If someone ingests 100 mg. How much will be left when they're so old?
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Question 609393: A can do a certain job in 40days which b alone can do it in 30 days .A started the work and was joined by after 19 days .In how many days was the work completed?
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