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Question 622347: one number is eight more than a second number. three times the first is eight less than five times the second. find the numbers.
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Question 622386: A skating rink is 32ft x 49ft. The ply wood boards used to build it are 48 inches. Ply wood comes in 4 x 8 pieces. How many pieces of ply wood are used to build the rink?
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Question 622399: Charlie can grade exams in 4 hours. It takes John 6 hours to grade the same exams. If
they work together, how long will it take them to grade the exams?
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Question 622407: A womans $20,000 estate is to be divided so that her husband is to receive three times as much as her son. find the amount that her husband and her son will receive.
Step 1. Let 'S' represent the amount the son is to receive ___H___ represents the amount the husband would receive.
Step 2. ______ + _________ = $20,000
Repeat again, this time starting with the husband.
I am not sure where to even begin, can you help? Thank you.
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Question 622554: If your yard is 60 feet wide and requires 5400 pieces of sod that are cut into 1 foot squares, how long is it?
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Question 622605: Parking in a student lot costs $2 for thr first half hour and $1.25 for each hour thereafter. A partial hour is charged the same as a full hour. What is the longest time that a student can park in this lot for $8?
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Question 622674: A survey among 370 4th year students conducted to know in which private university do they want to apply for college. The results of the survey are:
64 like ateneo only
108 like ateneo and ust
190 like ust
86 like ateneo and lasalle
51 like ateneo and lasalle but not ust
164 like lasalle
42 like lasalle and ust but not ateneo
Questions:
1. how many students like ateneo?
2. how many like lasalle and ust?
3. how many like all 3 universities?
4. how many do not like lasalle?
5. how many do not like any of the 3 universities?
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Question 622754: A car undergoes a displacement of (3, -7) km in 8 minutes by driving 3 km towards the east and then turning and driving 7 km towards the south.

What is the car's speed?
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Question 622777: Divide and simplify.
5^6 divided by 5^2
is 625 the correct answer, because for some reason i feel that is not the correct answer.
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Question 622773: A certain radioactive isotope decays at a rate of 0.1% annually. Determine the half-life of this isotope, to the nearest year.
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Question 622847: If T tons of snow fall in 1 second, how many tons fall in M minutes.
Answer is 60MT- Can anyone go into detail in figuring out how that is the answer?
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Question 622851: If p pencils cost 2 D dollars, how many pencils can be bought for c cents?
Can anyone go into detail in figuring out how that is the answer?
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Question 622855: How many ounces of a 75% solution must be mixed with 16 ounces of 30% solution to produce a 50% solution?
Can anyone go into detail in figuring out how that is the answer?

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Question 622883: two sides of a triangle have the same length. the third side measures 5m less than twice the common length. the perimeter of the triangle is 23m. what are the lengths of all three sides?
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Question 622886: At Harvard students show K percent to be emotionally unstable, the number of college students not emotionally unstable per 100 college students is?
Having some issues, if anyone can help that would be great.

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Question 622902: A silversmith mixed 25 g of a 80% silver alloy with 50 g of a 25% silver alloy. What is the percent concentration of the resulting alloy? (Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.)
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Question 622770: In an effort to test the laws of physics, you throw a medium-sized marble vertically upwards into the air with an initial velocity of 17.4 m/s. Your hand is 1.3 m above the ground when you release the marble. Use upwards as the positive direction.

From the time the marble leaves your hand to the time it hits the ground, what is the marble's total displacement?
The choices are:
0 m
-1.3 m
16.7 m
32.1 m
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Question 622927: In the town of cantonville, the supermarket, the department store, and the bank are open together on only one day each week.
1. The supermarket is open five days a week.
2. The department store is open four days a week.
3. The bank is open three days a week.
4. On three consecutive days:
the bank was closed on the first day,
the department store was closed on the second day, and
the supermarket was closed on the third day.
5. On Sunday all three places are closed.
6. The bank is not open on two consecutive days.
7. The department store is not open on three consecutive days.
8. The supermarket is not open on four consecutive days.
9. Neither Saturday nor Monday is the day on which all three places are open

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Question 623098: A paint mixture contains 12 gallons of base paint for every gallon of color. In 585 gallons of paint, how many gallons of color are there?
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Question 623230: If 1,790 Mega Watts of power, out of the 3,000 Mega Watts generated by a power utility, reach the destination, what percentage of the generated power reaches its destination?
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Question 623233: A water tank is 60% full. The capacity of the tank is 282 liters. What is the volume of water in the tank?
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Question 623234: A computer company gives a discount of 10% on a new piece of software. If it makes a profit of 4%, what percent does the marked price exceed the cost price?
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Question 623123: Could someone please assist in helping me with this?...
A sample of 142 golfers showed that their average score on a particular golf course was 90.46 with a standard deviation of 3.84.
Answer each of the following (show all work
and state the final answer to at least two decimal places.):
(A) Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean score for all 142 golfers.
(B) Find the 95% confidence interval of the mean score for all golfers if this is a sample of 120 golfers instead of a sample of 142.
(C) Which confidence interval is larger and why?
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Question 623237: A shop sells compact disks for $15 per piece. If each disk costs $6 to the shop owner how much profit percent does the shop owner earn?
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Question 623240: The average retail price of the cookbook will be $30, and the average cost will be $20.
Assume that the equation for demand is Q = 50,000 � 900P, where
Q = the number of cookbooks sold per month
P = the retail price of books.
Show what the demand curve would look like if you sold the books between $25 and $35.

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Question 623396: In how many ways can you vote for 5 numbers be formed from a group of 60 numbers? Show for your work.
Use formula:

C (n,k)= n! (over)
----------
k! (n-k)!

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Question 623492: a bond that sold for $2490 decreased 33 1/3 in value by the end of the year. What is its value at that time?
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Question 623820: If 15 cans of food are needed for 7 adults for 2 days, the number of cans needed for 4 adults for 7 days is ____?
Having some issues on the ratio part, if anyone can help that would be great.
The steps would be a big help as well.
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Question 623832: An item is regularly priced at $20. Charlie bought it on sale for 25% off the regular price. How much did Charlie pay?
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Question 623918: Your brother earned $8 less than you. If you both earned $70, how much did each of you earn?
Thank you for your help.
Gina
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Question 623935: Hi all, this is my last one.
You buy a baseball card for 15 cents, sell it for 55 cents, buy it back for 40 cents and sell it again for a dollar. How much did you make?
Thanks you
Gina
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Question 623954: how does the fact that the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees depend on the validity of the parallel postulate?
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Question 623995: Please help put into an equation and solve.
A rope is 54 inches long and must be cut into two pieces, where one piece is twice as long as the other. What are the lengths of the two pieces?
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Question 624033: Hi,
I know this is not a word problem but I cannot find the correct section for this question...
Convert the following decimal numbers to binary form:
73
800
2.5
Thank you!!!
If you could also tell me the proper link to look this stuff up under that would awesome! I like to try and use the solvers but I cannot find this under any of the given sujbects... :)
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Question 624045: Cano went to Gator's Dockside for "all-you-can-eat" wings. The food bill totaled $25. He also left $2 for the tip. What percentage of the bill was his tip?
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Question 624046: Cho paid $360 for a plane ticket to Arizona. He must also pay a 15% convenience fee for booking with a travel agency. What is the total cost of Cho�s flight to Arizona?
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Question 624023: Using the north pole, a segment of the equator of earth, and segments of two meridians (logitudinal lines), create a triangle whose angle sum is 300 degrees.
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Question 624048: In early 2012, the price of gas was $3.64. This represents a 40% increase from early 2009. What was the price of gas in early 2009?
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Question 624047: betty paid $360 for a plane ticket to Arizona. He must also pay a 15% convenience fee for booking with a travel agency. What is the total cost of Cho�s flight to Arizona?
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Question 624082: A fuel tank of a vehicle is 80% full. After traveling some distance, only 30% of that fuel is left. The tank is then filled to its full capacity by putting in 19 gallons. What is the full capacity of the tank
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Question 624083: Convert the following decimal numbers to binary form:
73
800
2.5
Thank you!!!

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Question 624083: Convert the following decimal numbers to binary form:
73
800
2.5
Thank you!!!

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Question 623993: If peanuts cost $.85 per pound and cashews cost $1.05 per pound, how much of each should be used to make a 12 pound mix that cost $.90?
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