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Question 667978: 51 inch board is cut into 3 pieces. the second piece is four times as long as the first piece. the third piece is 3 inches longer than the first piece. How long is each piece?
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Question 668250: Jacob can complete a plant installation in 5 hours using a planting tool. Aiden can complete the same plant installation in 20 hours using conventional tools. How long would it take the two men together to complete the plant installation if they are working together, each working with his tools?
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Question 668339: 90 calories in 3/4 cup how many carlories are in 9 cups?
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Question 668340: alex drove 84 miles on 6.5 gallons of gas how many gallons would he need to travel 126 miles?
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Question 668291: polly has a reading assignment in two books totaling 172 pages. the number of pages in the second book was 25 more than half of the number of pages in the first book. how many pages did she have to read in each book?
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Question 667726: the bishop peak 4-H club is having its annual fundraising dinner. Adults pay $15 a piece and children pay $10 a piece. if the number of adult tickets sold is twice the number of childrens tickets sold and the total income is $1,600 how much of each kind of ticket did the 4-H club sell
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Question 668480: "I'm thinking of a number. If you multiply it by 6 and then add 8, you will get 32. What is my number?"
Equation:
Answer:
Please and thank you!
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Question 668452: denise sold 24 more dresses in january than in february and ten fewer dresses in march than in january. in march she sold 28 dresses. how many dresses did denise sell in february?
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Question 668133: n 4 hours, a man can move 12 blocks, and 3 rocks. In 3 hours, the SAME man can move 4 blocks, and 6 rocks. How long does it take that man to just move 1 block?
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Question 668632: Carol's car seats one third the number of people that Joan's car can seat. Two people can be seated in Carol's car. How many people can Joan's car seat?

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Question 668659: Balloons come in packages of 10 and party favors come in packages of 8. Bill wants to have the same number of balloons and favors. What is the least number of packages of balloons and party favors he needs to buy so that he has none left over.

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Question 668635: The members of the science club agreed to contribute $480. if there had been 3 more members in the club each member would have had to pay $8 dollars less. how many members were in the science club originally.
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Question 668884: The larger of two numbers is three more than twice the smaller and when the larger is subtracted from the smaller the result is -15.
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Question 668895: IN HOW MANY WAYS CAN 12 BALLONS BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG 10 STUDENTS?

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Question 668983: A rectangle has an area of 54 square feet. The length is 3 feet more than the width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 669142: ABC Sporting Goods produces gloves and the fixed monthly cost is $8000 with a per glove cost of $5. XYZ Sporting Goods has a fixed monthly income of $10000 with a per glove cost of $3. Find the value of x, the number of gloves produces monthly, so that the total monthly production cost is the same for both companies.
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Question 669260: 2% annual interest rate compounded monthly, invest 5000 and after tenyears how much money do i have
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Question 669421: Suppose the revenue r in thousands of dollars that a company receives from producing x thousand compact disc players is given by the formula
R(x) = x (40 � 2x).

a) How many CD players should the company produce to maximize its revenue?

b) What is the maximum revenue?

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Question 669618: 2:x = X:50 what one number can replace x
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Question 669696: Stephanie bought 3 textbooks for her Chemistry, math and Ceramics courses. The chemistry book cost 20.00 dollars more than the ceramics book. the Math book cost twice as much as the chemistry book. If the total bill was 180.00 what is the price of each book?
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Question 669765: . A baseball is hit so that its height in feet after t seconds is
s(t) = -16t2 + 44t + 4.
a) How high is the baseball after 1 seconds?

b) Find the maximum height of the baseball.

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Question 669859: Kate and Beth shelf books in a library. One day, with 86 books to shelve, Kate did some and Beth did 10 more than Kate. At this point, Beth said, there are as many books left to shelf as I've already done." How many books had Beth shelved.
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Question 669843: An object is thrown from the origin of a coordinate system with the x-axis along the ground and the y-axis vertical. Its path, or trajectory, is given by the equation y = 400x � 16x2.
a. For what value of x does the object reach maximum height?

b. Find the objects maximum height.

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Question 670006: Find the units digit of 7^157.
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Question 670019: Sum of digit of the smallest number by which 1440 be multiplied so that it becomes a perfect cube.
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Question 670017: Find the LCD and add the fractions.
1/125 + 4/50 =
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Question 670017: Find the LCD and add the fractions.
1/125 + 4/50 =
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Question 670073: Greeting,
Would you please help me with this problem?
Explain how the order of operations determines how you evaluate an algebraic expression. Be sure to explain the rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and the use of grouping symbols. Use examples to illustrate your points.
Thanks a lot,
H.H
P.S:(This is the 2nd time that I am submitting this problem without receiving any answer, could anyone help pls.)
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Question 670094: How do i set up the problem:
To fill a pool with two pipes (one large cold water pipe, and one smaller hot water pipe) it takes two hours. If the larger cold water pipe is the only on being used it takes 3 hours. How long will it take to fill the pool if using only the hot water pipe?
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Question 669979: Greeting,
Would you please help me with this problem?
Explain how the order of operations determines how you evaluate an algebraic expression. Be sure to explain the rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and the use of grouping symbols. Use examples to illustrate your points.
Thanks a lot,
H.H

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Question 670165: Gas is $3.40 per gallon, I drive a total of 30 miles to and from work on a daily basis on a vehicle that gives me 18 Miles per Gallon city miles, how much is my daily gas allowance?

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Question 670008: Janet goes shopping. In the first store, she spends three fourths of her money. In the next store, she spends two thirds of what is left. She then has $13. How much did she have before she went shopping?
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Question 670473: answer the question by writing a system of two equations and solving the system. State the answer clearly.
In an election, the winner received 430 votes more than twice as many as the lower. if there was a total of 2290 votes cast, how many did each candidate receive?
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Question 670609: A field that has an area of 8.0 hectares has a length of 400m. What is the width of the field in meter?(1ha=10000m^2)
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Question 670993: An island has no currency; it instead has the following exchange rate:
50 bananas = 20 coconuts
30 coconuts = 12 fish
100 fish = 1 hammock
How many bananas equal 1 hammock?

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Question 671361: Can you come up with a rhyme for this multiplication problem:6x4
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Question 671367: CAN YOU COME UP WITH A RHYME FOR 6X4. Example: 7 and 7 are doing fine. 7 times 7 is forty nine;Example: 8 and 4 were sad and blue . 8 times 4 is thirty two.
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Question 671452: find a 1-1 correspondence between the set S=(5,6,7,8,9,....) and the set of natual numbers, N
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Question 671285: Twice a first number plus a second number is 42, and the first number minus the second number is-6 . Find the numbers.
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Question 671661: My friend and I tried this word problem but we keep getting .01967 and not .029 like the answer should be.
we have to solve for k in...
the number of farms in a certain province has declined continually since 1950. in 1950, there were 92844 farms and in 1995 that number decreased to 24974
Assuming the number of farms decreased according to the exponential model, P(t)=Poe^-kt, find the value of K and write an exponential function that describes the number of farms after time t, in years, where t is the number of years since 1950
me and my friend tried
Ln(24974)/Ln(92844)= -45K
divided by -45 and we go K=.01967
not .029, help?
thanks in advance
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Question 671667: If a stone is tossed from the top of a 230 meter building, the height of the stone as a function of time is given by h(t) = -9.8t2 � 10t + 230, 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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