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Question 671728: tickets to a band concert cost $5 for adults, $3 for teens, $2 for preteens. there were 570 people at the concert, and total ticket receipts were 1950. three-fourths as many teenagers as preteens attended. how many adults, teens, and preteens attended?
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Question 671930: Consider a set, S, whose cardinality is greater than the cardinality of the real numbers. Write in words how you woud go about constructing a set that has greater cardinality than S.
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Question 672284: Rounded to the nearest meter, the distance a baseball traveled after being hit was 93 meters. To the nearest hundredth of a meter, what is the shortest distance the baseball could actually have traveled???
A) 92.99 meters
B) 93.49 meters
C) 93.50 meters
D) 92.50 meters
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Question 672256: I don't kow where to begin because area and perimeter are two seperate equations.. The area of a square is numerically equal to five times its perimeter. Find the length of a side of the square.
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Question 672332: If the time in a wall clock is 7:23 and 18 sec., what is the time in its mirror image
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Question 672409: If the square of a positive number is increased by 3 times the number,the result is 54.Find the number.
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Question 672409: If the square of a positive number is increased by 3 times the number,the result is 54.Find the number.
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Question 672531: A bell rings every 15 minutes . If the bell rang at 12:40, which of the following could be a time at which the bell had sounded?
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Question 672738: A bank teller has $22.55 in quarters and dimes. There are 58 more quarters than dimes. How many dimes does he have?

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Question 672857: What two positive numbers when multiplied together also equal the sum of the same two numbers?
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Question 672887: The whiteboard in the SPA has a perimeter of 408 inches. The length is 11 inches less than 4 times the height. How many inches high is the whiteboard?
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Question 672923: the mean of a set of 15 numbers is 9. One if the numbers is 10. What is the sum of the other 14 numbers
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Question 672983: is a triangle with side lengths 7 in, 5 in, and 13 in a right triangle?write a statement telling how you know.
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Question 673353: Hector earns $24 dollars for 3hours of work, while Myrna earns $17 for 2 hours. We would say Myrna's rate is a ____ ____.

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Question 673493: Two neon lights are turned on at the same time. One blinks every 4 seconds and the other every 6 seconds, how many times will they blink at the same time?
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Question 673595: The stopping distance (D) of a vehicle varies directly as the square of its velocity (V). If a vehicle traveling 40 mph requires 100 feet to come to a stop, find the stopping distance of a vehicle traveling 60 mph.
I started with y=kx for "varies directly" and did not know where to go from there. Also, I am not sure that I am using the correct method in considering this problem. The "square of its velocity" is throwing me off.
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Question 673670: 33 cows can graze a field in 12 days.How many cows will graze the same field in 9 days?
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Question 673669: A bag full of mangoes was divided into two heaps in the ratio 11:13. If the first heap has 143 mangoes what is the number of mangoes in the second heap?
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Question 673701: Please help me solve this word problem: One number is 8 more than 3 times another number. Their sum is 68. What are the numbers?
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Question 673813: A Pharmacist needs 500 millilters of a 20% phenobarbital solution but only has 5% and 25% phenobarbital solutions available. Find how many milliliters of each solution he should mix to get the desired solution.
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Question 673937: Matt is thinking of two numbers. One number is 9 more then other number. The sum of the numbers is 45. What are the numbers?
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Question 674044: I need help solving this problem:
a couple wishes to rent a car for one day while on vacation. ford automobile rental want $26 per day and $0.16 per mile, while chevrolet for a day wants $23 per day and $0.18 per mile. after how many miles would the price to rent the chevrolet exceed the price to rent a ford?
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Question 674189: One number is one-third of another. The difference of their squares is �. Find the numbers.
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Question 674341: Find two consecutive positive integers such that the sum of their squares is 145.
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Question 674394: Pete weighs 20 kg more than Beth while Henry weighs 30 kg less than twice as much as Beth. if Keith and Henry weigh the same, how much does Beth weigh? (in kg)
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Question 674775: tom can point a fence in 2 hours and alice can point the same fence in 4 hours. how long would it take to point the fence if tom and alice point together?
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Question 674791: Keisha charges $1.75 flat rate to braid hair.In addition she charges 0.50 per braid.Shelly has no more than $10 to spend.How many braids can she get.
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Question 674796: In a remedial math class at the community college,only five chapter exams are given and an 80% must be achieved in order to take the state exit exam.Pam has completed the first four exams with scores of 71,84,79 and 81,Write an inequality to find the minimal score Pam can make on the fifth exam in order to take the state exit exam?
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Question 674440: if x+y=4, What is the perimeter of a square with side length 2x^2+4xy+2y^2?
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Question 675077: 2x^2-10x=0

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Question 675167: A square is made up of section A and section B. Section A is 500 sq. ft. and section B is 750 sq. ft. What percent of the square is section A?
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Question 675176: If 4 persons can clean 1 house in 1 hour, how long will it take 3 persons to clean the same house
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Question 675223: Use a quantifier to make the following true or false, as indicated, where x is a natural number. x - 10 = 10 - x (make false)
A) For x = 10, x - 10 = 10 - x.
B) At least one natural number x exists such that x - 10 = 10 - x.
C) There exists a natural number x such that x - 10 = 10 - x.
D) There is no natural number x such that x - 10 = 10 - x.
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Question 675247: A tree casts a shadow 25 m long. At the same time, the shadow cast by a 57-cm tall statue is 66 cm long. Find the height of the tree to the nearest meter.
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Question 675320: what is the weight of a cuboidal block of ice of each edge 60cm in lenght if one cubic meter of ice weights 900 kilograms.

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Question 675285: Simplify the expression (1 - 1/2)(1 - 1/3)(1 - 1/4)... ... ... ... (1 - 1/n), where n is a positive integer.
I have no idea where to begin with this. Could you please help me??
Thank you!
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Question 675398: The length of a side of a square is equal to the width of a rectangle. The area of the square is ( 49a^2 + 56ab + 16b^2 ) cm^2 and the area of the rectangle is (56a^2 + 31ab - 3b^2 ) m^2. Find the perimeter of the rectangle??
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Question 675535: Sam earns $22,492 every four months. How much does he earn in five months?
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Question 675522: Boyle's Law says that the volume of a gas varies inversely with the pressure. When the volume of a certain gas is, the pressure is (kilopascals). What is the volume when the pressure is ?
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Question 675561: you skate am average speed of 7 miles per hour. The number of m miles you skate during h hours is modeled by m=7h. Do these two quantities have direct variation. Explain
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Question 675543: Chocolate Confections, Inc. has determined that when x chocolate cakes are made daily, the average cost per chocolate cake is given by C(x)=0.001x^2-0.14x+12.20
a) What is the average cost per cake if 30 chocolate cakes are made daily?
b) How many chocolate cakes should be made daily in order to minimize the average cost per cake? Show work
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Question 675591: A merchant has coffee worth $50 a pound that she wishes to mix with 70 pounds of coffee worth $80 a pound to get a mixture that can be sold for $70 a pound. How many pounds of the $50 coffee should be used?
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Question 675600: a tree casts a shadow 25m long. at the same time, the shadow cast by a 57cm tall statue is 66cmlong. FInd the height of the tree.
I did object/shadow = object/shadow, converted cm to meters and can not come close to the answers I have to choose from
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