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Question 684551: A pleasant day to you Sir / Madam! please help me solve this word problem.
If a batter averages 81 hits for each 216 times at bat, approximately how many hits will he get in 400 times at bat?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Question 684580: A pleasant day Sir/ Madam, please help me with this direct square variation problem.
The distance, d , an object drops in free fall varies directly as the square of time. If an object falls 16 meters in 12 seconds, how far will an object fall in 60 seconds?
Thank you so much!
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Question 684588: A pleasant day to you Sir / Madam, please help me with these word problems about direct variation. Thank you very much for your help!
The length a spring will stretch varies directly with the weight attached to the spring. If a spring stretches 3.6 cm when 44 kilograms is attached, how far will it stretch when 25 kilograms is attached?
Again, thank you so much to anyone who can help.
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Question 684921: Please help me find the equation of variation where y varies inversely as the square of x and where y=.91 when x=.1
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Question 684863: How do I complete the square and then solve the following problem: Sales of a soft drink produces profits in accordance with P(X)= -0.001x^2+3x-1800 per day. Where p is profits in dollars and x is quantity of cans.
a) What are the maximum profits per day?
b) How many cans must be sold to gain maximum profits?
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Question 684926: Please help me find an equation of variation where y varies directly as the square of x and where y=.80 when x=.1
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Question 684988: please help me solve this word problem
Jill got 8 fewer problems correct than 3 times Lisa's correct problems. Together they got 72 problems correct. How many did each get correct?
Thank you.
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Question 684929: Please help find an equation of variation where y varies jointly as x and the square of z and where y=70 when x=55 and z=2
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Question 684987: A can do a piece of work in 24 days, B in 32 days and C in 64 days. all begin to do it together, but A leaves after 6 days and B leaves 6 days before the completion of work. how many days did the work last ?
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Question 684629: A pleasant day to you Sir / Madam,
please do help me with this direct square variation question, I am not sure of my answer.
The area of a circle varies directly as the square of its radius. If the area is 78.5 when the radius is 5. Find the area when the radius is 8.
Thank you very much!
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Question 685499: a candy manufacturer has two frades of candy selling at Php100/kilo and Php120/kilo respectively. how many kilos of each must be used to make a mixture of 50 kilos, to sell at Php105/ kilo?
please help me .
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Question 685728: Rita ran 77 feet in 10 seconds. How many miles per hour is she going?
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Question 685728: Rita ran 77 feet in 10 seconds. How many miles per hour is she going?
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Question 685728: Rita ran 77 feet in 10 seconds. How many miles per hour is she going?
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Question 685747: Tim and Bernice both have part time jobs.Last week, Tim and Bernice worked for 8 and 5 hours respectively and both of them earned $1200.This week,Tim and Bernice worked for 6 and 10 hours respectively and they earned a total of $1540.How much is the hourly rate of Tim?
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Question 685784: the sum of two numbers is 117 and they are in ratio of 8 to 5. find the two numbers.
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Question 685786: Determine if the set is closed for the given operation.
a. the set of integers for multiplication.
b. the set of positive integers for subtraction.
c. the set of negative integers for addition.
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Question 686275: If a candle 25 cm long takes 5 hours to burn away, after 3 hours how much of the candle would be left?
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Question 686386: Deterime the y-intercept represented by the following equation: y=x
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Question 686489: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. The perimeter is 36 feet. Find the length and width.
Unknowns: _____________ = width
_____________ = length
Write and equation and solve: (Remember that perimeter is 2l + 2w.)
Width = _________
Length = _________
Please help me with this problem. It was in my book & I don't know how to solve it. The whole book is full of these types of word problems.
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Question 686518: I am not sure if I'm doing this right... I got 2 seconds ?
A person standing close to the edge on top of a 96-foot building throws a baseball vertically upward. The quadratic function s(t) = -16t^2 + 64t +96 models the ball's height above the ground, s(t), in feet, t seconds after it was thrown. After how many seconds does the ball reach its maximum height? Round to the nearest tenth of a second if necessary.

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Question 686576: If you travel 16 mi east and then 20 mi north, how far are you from your starting point?
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Question 686600: Maria has a piece of rope that is 3 feet long. She cuts 6 inches off the end of the rope. hat is the length of the remaining rope?

Is it a multiplication? or divide?
I need to now before Nov 29,2012!!!!!!!!
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Question 686925: a can do a piece of work in 10 days b can do the same work in 15 days.If they work together and finish it,then out of total wages 3000,a will get?
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Question 686969: A chemist has two large containers of sulfuric acid solution, with different concentrations of acid in each container. Blending 305 mL of the first solution and 595 mL of the second gives a mixture that is 12.76% acid, whereas blending 95 mL of the first mixed with 480 mL of the second gives a 9.81% acid mixture. What are the concentrations of sulfuric acid in the original containers? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
What is the percent of the first solution???

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Question 687318: An ammonia and water mixture fills a five-gallon container. Eighty percent of the mixture is ammonia but some of the mixture will be drained and replaced with pure water. I a five-gallon mixture of fifty percent ammonia is desired, how many quarts of the mixture need to be drained before the water is added? Express your answer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 687605: A copy machine makes 60 copies per minute.
The second copy machine makes 80 copies per minute.
the second machine starts making copies 2 minutes after the first machine starts.
Both machines stop making copies 8 minutes after the first machine started.
Together, the 2 machine made how many copies?
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Question 687639: "The distance a pickup truck requires to stop varies directly with the square of the speed. A pickup truck traveling on dry pavement can stop in 85 feet when traveling at 55 miles per hour. What distance will the truck take to stop if its traveling at 70 miles per hour?"
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Question 687734: The Royal Fruit Company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is 50% pure fruit juice, and the second type is 75% pure fruit juice. The company is attempting to produce a fruit drink that contains 65% pure fruit juice. How many pints of each of the two existing types of drink must be used to make 50 pints of a mixture that is 65% pure fruit juice?
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Question 687697: martian goo doubles its size every 5 minutes. at 9 am a small amount was placed in a container. at 10am the container was full. at what time is the container half full?
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Question 687118: you are going shopping today,but must spend less than 100 dollars at the mall.write an inequality to describe how much can you spend
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Question 687866:
Which of the following functions represents a direct variation?
Answer

y = x2

y = -8x

y =-2/x

y = x3

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Question 687866:
Which of the following functions represents a direct variation?
Answer

y = x2

y = -8x

y =-2/x

y = x3

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Question 654455: Hector needs to borrow $20000 to pay a contractor for a home addition. The bank is offering him a 4.8% simple interest loan and is charging $4800 in interest during the life of the loan. How long is the life of the loan
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Question 688156: Please help I am in desperate need. I just do not understand these.
Two angles are supplementary. One angle is 4 degrees less than three times the other. Find the measurement of the angles.
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Question 688182: Dear Sir/ Madam a pleasant day! please help me with a word problem about joint variation, I am not sure whether my answer is right or wrong.
If y varies jointly as x and the square root of z, and inversely as the cube of w, and y = 8 when x=3, z=16 and w=2, find y when x=5, z=25 and w=2.
I answered 8/133.33, please help me and thank you so much!

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Question 688330: The logistic growth function f(t) = (( https://angel.spcollege.edu/AngelUploads/QuestionData/0adf3ea0-7ca4-4161-985c-2c8923067cd6/4756V45K61M34Z2J1642.jpg )) describes the population of a species of butterflies tmonths after they are introduced to a non-threatening habitat. How many butterflies are expected in the habitat after 19 months?
I got 283 butterflies ?
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Question 688333: An endangered species of fish has a population that is decreasing exponentially (( https://angel.spcollege.edu/AngelUploads/QuestionData/1f54ae24-bb77-465a-9c07-cd62ee907845/31126544631625414447.jpg )) The population 8 years ago was 1700. Today, only 1000 of the fish are alive. Once the population drops below 100, the situation will be irreversible. When will this happen, according to the model? (Round to the nearest whole year.)
I rounded and got 34 years from today....
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Question 688878: A rectangular box with no top is to be made by cutting squares with side length 5 inches from each corner of a square pience of cardboard. If the box must have a volume of 150in squared, then what must the dimensions of the square piece of cardboard be? (round to the neareset tenth of an inch)
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Question 688979: The equation below describes the height "h" in feet of a bullet fired from a gun up into the air "t" seconds after the bullet was fired. How high will it go, to the nearest foot? I am looking for the numerical answer to this riddle!
h=32.2t^2+644t
I can not wrap my head around this - any assistance would be greatly appreciated - thanks so much!!
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Question 689122: I'm having a difficult time with the following problem and would greatly appreciate help. The problem reads: I plan to fence my rectangular garden with 100 meters of fencing. I am using the function A=w(50-w) to express the area in terms of its width. What is the maximum possible area that I can enclose with this fencing?
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Question 689225: Person A can paint the neighbor's house 5 times as fast as Person B. The year A and B worked together, it took them 7 days. How long would it take each to paint the house?
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Question 689399: Find 3 consecutive integers whose sum if 4 times the greatest integer
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