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Question 678589: John and jane have their birthday today. in 3 yrs, john will be four times as old as jane was when john was 2 years older than jane is today. Find john's age if jane is a teenager?
i am going around in circles with this! please help??
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Question 678741: can you change 6500g to kilograms please

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Question 678921: If 40% of a school are boys, and 30% of students have blond hair, and there are three times as much of girl as boys to have blond hair. What is the percentage of blonde hair boys?
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Question 679151: The sum of three numbers is 28. The second number is three times the first and the third is 7 less than the second. What are the numbers?
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Question 678845: A picture measures 40 cm by 30 cm. The outside perimeter of the frame around the picture is 156. Find the width of the frame.
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Question 126637: I have been struggling with this problem for a while now and I was wondering if anyone could help me? I would deeply appreciate it!! Please and Thank you!!
Solving Problems Involving Inequalities
Solve.

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Question 679374: Can you please help me figure this word problem out, i figured that they made 5 two point shots, and 2 free throws, I don't know ho to write it out, or if I am right, here is the problem:
A basketball player score 9 times during one game. He scored a total of 12 points two for each shot and one for each free throw, How many two point shots did he make? How many free throws?
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Question 679718: Three times a number decreased by two, is equal to twice the same
number increased by seven.
Ive made it into 3x-2=2x+7
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Question 679718: Three times a number decreased by two, is equal to twice the same
number increased by seven.
Ive made it into 3x-2=2x+7
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Question 680098: word problem is I have a 1950 Denver minted nickel and it is 3/2 the value of a similar Philedelphia minted nickle in 1945. Their total worth is $20.00. I just need the equation set up, can't find it in my notes. Thanks.
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Question 680151: If a man and a half can eat a cake and a half in a minute and a half, allowing the same situation, how many men would it take to eat 60 cakes in 30 minutes?
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Question 680400: A book club offers a choice of 8 books froma list of 40. In how many ways can a member make a selection?
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Question 680533: Eight shirts and nine pair of pants cost $695 altogether. Three shirts and 3 pants cost $300. How much more does each shirt cost than each pair of pants?
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Question 680552: At a circus, the cost for tickets was $4 for all adults over 60 and $7 for all others. If 458 people bought tickets and a total of $2300 was received, how many tickets were sold to adults over 60?
I have been over this a million times and can't wrap my head around it. Help please!!
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Question 680555: At the Euclid Theater, 2/5 of the seats are designated Orchestra seats,1/3 are Mezzanine, and 1/4 are Balcony. There are 10 seats that are Obstructed View, and 8 seats that are Wheelchair. how many total seats are there at the Euclid Theater?
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Question 680553: As soon as Molly arrived on Mars, she exchanged some American dollars for Martian dollars. For every American dollar she exchanged, she received $1.25 of the Martian currency. Molly then went shopping at the Martian Mall and bought a Marimba for 100 Martian dollars. Hoe many American did Molly actually spend on the Martian Marimba?
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Question 680730: The number 150 was written as the sum of two numbers. The first number was divided by 27. This quotient was added to the second number divided by 23, and the total was 6. What were the two numbers?
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Question 680845: How to algebraically verify how many days it takes for the moon to go through its full lunar cycle?
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Question 680946: if one gallon of paint will cover 5760 ssqaure inches, how many gallons would be needed to give two coats of paint to 25000 boards ?
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Question 681342: A convenience store clerk can wait on 6 customers per minute. If customers arrive at an average rate of x people per minute, the time T spent in line is
T = 1/(6-x), where 0 Find the waiting time if an average of 4.75 people arrive each minute.
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Question 681381: The price equals 5 plus 4 for each additional ride
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Question 681306: The sum of two numbers is 4.004. One number has a 4 in the tenths place and a 3 in the thousandths place. The other number has a 1 in the ones place and an 8 in the hundreths place. What are the two numbers?

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Question 681787: what is the formula to add 40% to any given amount of money, say, add 40% to $67.50.
and visa versa
whats the formula to subtract 40% of any given amount of money.
Thank you,
wendears@yahoo.com
really!

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Question 681809: One number is 3 more than 2 times another. Their product is 14
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Question 681874: Which of the following statements represents the greatest percent of change ?
(A) A tree grew from 6 feet to 12 feet in 1 year.
(B) An aquarium that was originally priced at ` 90 is now ` 140.
(C) A person whose salary was ` 1000 per week is now earning ` 1500 per week.
(D) A baby who weighed 5 pounds at birth now weighs 20 pounds.
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Question 681959:
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Question 682060: A donkey and a horse were carrying some bales of cloth. The donkey said to the horse "If you give me one of your bales, i shall carry half as much as you." If you give me one of yours, replied the horse, I will be carrying 3x's as much as you. How many bales was each animal originally carrying?
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!

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Question 682506: Hi. Can you help me solve this? I'm stuck.
How many teams are in a league that schedules 45 games in such a way that each team plays every other team only once?
Thanks.
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Question 682569: Arasoo is 4 years older than Peter.Ali is 2 years younger than Peter.If the sum of their ages is 47,what are their respective ages?
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Question 682775: A plane traveled 1200 miles to Casablanca and back. The trip there was with the wind. It took 10 hours. The trip back was into the wind. The trip back took 20 hours. Find the speed of the plane in still air and the speed of the wind.
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Question 683327: Please help me with this problem:
A) If a medium pizza costs $5 and a large pizza is $8, write an equation in standard form that models the possible combinations if you have $40. (Let m = medium and l = large.)
B) If you bought only medium pizzas in problem A, how many could you purchase?
C) If you bought 4 medium pizzas in problem A, how many large pizzas could you purchase?
For problem B, my answer is 8 m pizzas.
For problem C, my answer is 2 l pizzas.

Thank you!
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Question 682806: if b is twice of a, find the value of a, which makes the perimeter of the triangle more than 12 units?
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Question 683307: Hello there, I have been trying this problem and I can't seem to get the right answer. Here's the problem, "For every 14 students who were accepted for admission to a particular university, there were 31 students who were not accepted. If 1665 students applied, how many were accepted for admission?
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Question 682854: You club is baking vanilla and chocolate cakes for a bake sale. They need at most 27 cakes. You cannot have more than 12 chocolate cakes. Write and graph a system of inequalities to model this system
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Question 683418: A 2001 ford expedition will go 198 min on 16.5 gal of gasoline in city driving. What is the rate in miles per gallon?

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Question 683802: For every 14 students who were accepted for admission to a particular university, there were 31 students who were not accepted. If 1665 students applied, how many were accepted for admission?
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Question 684271: A student finishes the first half of a exam in 2/3 the time it takes him to finish the second half. If the entire exam takes him an hour, how many minutes does he spend on the first half of the exam?

I found out that 2/3 equals 40min. So I subtracted 60min-40 and got 20, but the book says its 24min. How do I get 24 as my answer?
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Question 684338:
A local water park has two types of season passes. Plan A costs a one-time fee
of $140 for admission plus $8 for parking every trip. Plan B costs a one-time fee of $50 for parking plus $23 for admission every trip. How many visits must a person make for plan A and plan B to be equal in value?
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Question 684549: Good day to you! I am solving word problems which involve direct proportion or direct variation wherein k = y/x but I doubt my answers, can you please help me?
Thank you very much!
The circumference C of a circle varies directly as the length of the diameter.
If C = 15.7 when d = 5, find d when C= 28.26

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