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Question 689525: Maria painted flowers on 10 plates and earned $50.Write and solve an equation to find out how much she earned for each plate.

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Question 689774: police departments find it very useful to be able to approximate the speed of a car when they are give the distance that the car skidded before it came to a stop. if the road surface is wet concrete, the function S(x)= radical form 10.5 is used, where S(x) is the speed of the car in mph and x is the distance skidded in feet. find how fast a car was moving if it skidded 280 feet on wet concrete.
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Question 689781: Find the trinomial that represents the area of a square if the measure of a side is 8m+1.
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Question 689966: a person is paid $153 for 9 baskets of dried flowers. To earn $450, how many baskets of dried flowers must the person produce?
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Question 690160: the difference between two numbers is 5, one number is 2/3 of the other number.
How do I work out these type of problems
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Question 690233: A piece of licorice is to be cut into 10 equal-size pieces. If the length of the piece of licorice is 2/3 yard, how long will each piece be?
My work so far:
10 / 2/3
=
10/1 x 3/2= 5/1 x 3/1= 15/1 = 15 inches?
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Question 690215: roger has 144 feet of fencing material to enclose a rectangular exercise yard for his dog. one side of the yard will border his house, so he will only need to fence three sides. find the maximum area of the yard?
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Question 690510:

Milo received a 10% pay raise. He earns 85,000 per year. What was his annual salary before his raise?
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Question 690740: Two harvesters take one hour to harvest a field. One of these harvesters takes 1.5 hrs. How long does it take the second harvester to do the field alone?
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Question 690776: Dave gained 13 pounds then lost 26 then regained 4 lbs and weighed 176 what was original weight ?
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Question 690797: Barbie is thinking of a number. Twenty less than one third of the number is 72. Find Barbie's number
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Question 691134: If it takes 144ft to stop a car going 60mph, how many feet does it take to stop a car going 45mph?
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Question 691171: A triangle contains two angles having measures of 91 degrees and 46 degrees. Find the measure of the third angle. The measure of the missing angle is ? degrees. (simplify your answer. Type and integer or a decimal.)
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Question 691258: Two friends word part-time at a store. The first person works every 6th day and the second person works every 10th day. If they are both working today, how many day pass until they both work on the same day again?
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Question 691307: I'm paid 25 cents per mile, I drive 100 mile, what is the total ? how do i formulate it or calculate it on a calculator
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Question 691461: Eduardo created a metal containing 35% gold by combining two other metals. One of these other metals weighed 2 kg and contained 15% gold. If the other weighed 8kg then what percent of it was gold?
I believe I would set up an equation .35(x + .15) = 2(.15) +8x where x is % of gold in metal 2, but I don't know if that's right, or where to go from there
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Question 691553: Bobo can wash the car in 36 minutes by himself. When his brother Otto helps, they finish in 20 minutes. How long would it take Otto to wash the car by himself?
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Question 691561: Jose and Carl together can retile a roof in 10 hours. Working alone, Jose could do the job 4.5 hours faster than Carl. How long would each man need to work to do the job himself?
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Question 691629: A train runs 224km between 2 cities. If the speed on the way back is 8km/h slower, the run takes half an hour longer. Determine the speed on the way back.
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Question 691646: the Fahrenheit temperature, F, is found using formula F = 9/5C+32, where C the temperature in Celsius, determine the formula for C and justify each step.
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Question 691642: The measure of an angle is 5 times the measure of its supplement. Find the measures of the two angles
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Question 691788: After a 10% weight loss, a person weighed 180 pounds. What was the weight before the loss?
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Question 691899: the two legs of a right triangle are 8 inches and 3 inches. find the hypotenuse of the triangle.
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Question 691903: a 22-foot ladder is leaning against a house with the base of the ladder 4 feet from the house. how high up the house the ladder reach?
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Question 692023: John weighs 65 pounds more than Mike. Together, they weigh 505 pounds. How much does each weigh?
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Question 692409: A box contains 13 red hats, 15 white hats, 18 blue hats, and 14 brown hats. Nina randomly chooses a hat from the box.

What is the probability that it will NOT be white? Write your answer as a decimal.
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Question 692795: one month revenue from the 95 repairs at an auto shop totaled $10,020. The average charges for the repairs on personal and commercial vehicles were $125 and $90 respectively. Find the number of each vehicle repaired.
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Question 692576: X=-6 is my answer. I need my problem checked. original problem 3x+1=2x-5

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Question 692837: The rectangual pool at peaboy is 27 feet wide. To put border title around the pool the contracter would need 134 feet of title? how many feet long is the pool?
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Question 692956: ABC phone company charges $24 per month plus 3 cents per minute of phone calls. XYZ phone company charges $12 per month plus 5 cents per minute of phone calls. how many minutes of phones calls should be made each month to make XYZ phone company a better deal?
A. <600 min
B. >60 min
C. >600 min
D. <60 min
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Question 693024: Ax=b+cd solve for c
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Question 693026:
One number is 4 times a first number. A third number is 100 more than the first number. If the sum of the three numbers is 286, find the number.
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Question 693155: please help me solve this word question. The sum of the page numbers on facing pages of a book is 157; what are the page numbers?

Thanks!
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Question 693250: Tina was 13 years old. How old was she when she was 5 and a half years ago?
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Question 693303: Word problem: At Bake My Day, the owner decorates the day's cake orders three times as fast as her new assistant. If they can decorate all the cake orders working together in 75 min, how long would it take foreach of them to decorate the cakes working individually? Not sure how to set this up.

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Question 693543: rachels fence is nine times longer than naseers the total length of their fences put together is 90m how long is rachels fence
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Question 693697: amanda can type 7 words in 6 seconds at this rate, how many words can she type in 3 minutes

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Question 693790: Mary studies 8000 hours per year. David studies 260 hours per year. how many years will david study to have 8000 hours?
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Question 693915: You drop a ball from a height of 0.5 meter. Each curved path has 52% of the height of the previous path.
a. Write a rule for the sequence using centimeters. The initial height is given by the term n = 1.
b. What height will the ball be at the top of the third path?
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Question 693980: Your school is going to the Santa Claus parade. Some students will be taking buses, others will be taking cars. There will be 14 vehicles in total. The cars hold 4 students and the buses hold 55 students. How many cars and buses are needed?
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Question 694131: Chris and Manny work together for 6 hours to landscape a yard before Chris has to leave the job. Manny finishes the yard alone in 10 hours. If Chris can landscape a yard in 18 hours working alone, how long does it take Manny working alone to do the job?
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Question 694284: Puzzle Time :
There are 4 doors in a video game parlour. (door no. 1, 2, 3 & 4). There is a fee of Rs. 25 for entry as well as exit. The amount u carry inside d parlour gets doubled. U have to get inside d parlour thru door no. 1, come out thru door no. 2, again get inside thru door no. 3 & finally come out thru door no. 4.
Now answer - how much money u should carry while entering door no. 1 such that u have no money left after coming out of door no. 4
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Question 694468:

The length of a rectangular flower garden is 5 feet longer than its width. If the area of the garden is 50 square feet, find the length of the garden.

thank you!
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