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Question 694446: https://www.boonville.k12.mo.us/schools/bhs/academics/Hundley%20Melissa/Algebra%20I%20E%20Book/Pages%20601-700/page_624.pdf
please solve only number 6 for me please, thank you!! i can't whow the diagram or explain it srry. so plz look at this?
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Question 694631: Oranges vary directly as blues squared and inversely as greens. When there are 16 oranges, there were 5 blues and 25 greens. How many oranges were there when there were 4 blues and 8 greens.
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Question 694586: Ari is making flower arrangements for a wedding. He has 480 roses and 510 daisies. If Ari wants to make all the arrangements identical, and have no flowers left over, what is the greatest number of flower arragements he can make?
Thank you.
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Question 694867: Of 265 million people 50% are overweight and 26% are obese. _ are overweight and _ are obese?
Not sure if I worked this right..for the 50% overweight: 1325000 and 26% would be 689000. Is this correct and if not how would I solve?
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Question 694931: Suppose you enter an elevator at a certain floor. The elevator moves up 6 floors, down 4 floors, and up 2 floors. You are then at floor 7. At which floor did you initially enter the elevator?

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Question 695134: How would I factor:
8x^2z^2-4xz^2-12z^2
So far I have 4z^2(2x-3)(x+1) but I am completely lost.
Thank you!
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Question 695142: What will be the cost of 25 gold bars
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Question 695141: When a ball is kicked in the air, its height in meter above the ground can be modeled by h(t)= -4.9t^2 + 14.7t and the distance it travels can be modeled by d(t)=16t where t is the time in seconds.
a. How long is the ball in the air
b. How far does it travel before it hits the ground
c. What is the maximum height of the ball
Can you please help?
Thank you!
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Question 694702: This one is kinda urgent..please i will appreciate ANY kind of help-
"Imagine that you are on a street
with houses marked 1 through n. There is a
house in between (x) such that the sum of
the house numbers to left of it equals the
sum of the house numbers to its right. If n is
between 50 and 500, what are n and x?"
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Question 695573: The sum of 2 numbers is 17. The second number is 3 more than the first. What are the two numbers? Write an equation for the question.
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Question 695598: J, K, and A bought horse. J paid one-fourth of total cost. K paid $400 more than J and A paid $400 more than K. What was total cost of horse?
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Question 695973: Metromarket
18 cans of soda for $9

Wal- town
10 cans of soda for $7.50
Shopstop
14 cans of soda for $7.35
Which store sell the best deal one can of soda? Explain
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Question 696009: What am I supposed to do if a question is like this. A school bus with capacity for 42 passengers. How many school buses are needed to transport a total of 180
passengers on a trip to the state legislature?
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Question 696061: The perimeter of a rectangle is 20 inches. The area is 16 square inches. Find the dimensions.
Your supposed to solve using a quadratic formula if that helps you at all.
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Question 696072: A total of 568 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was three times the number of adult tickets sold . How many adult tickets were sold?

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Question 696118: A complete binary tree with a height of 5 has 31 nodes. How many nodes does a binary tree with a height of 97 have? Please do not round or use scientific notation
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Question 696180: Ran for 7yards then took a loss of 5 yards how many yards will they need to get to first down
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Question 696313: You leave your house at 1p.m. To go to a wedding. The ceremony starts at 5p.m. And is 350 miles away. You drive 65 miles per hour. Will you make it to the wedding on time? If so, how much time do. Have to spare? If not how late will you be?
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Question 696465: On a bright sunny day you (6ft) tall produce a shadow that is 10ft long. A tree in front of you produces a shadow 200ft long what is the hight of the tree?
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Question 696456: In 2005, the number of federal hazardous waste site in California was 6 less than three times the number of sites in Washington. How many hazardous waste sites were there in Washington if there were 36 such sites in California.
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Question 696489: what is the number that is greater than 5800 by 2500?
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Question 696528: Two people leave a town traveling in oposite directions. One person leaves at 11:00am driving at 48mph while the second person leaves at 3:00pm and drives at 55mph, At what time will they be 604 miles part?
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Question 696629: How long would it take to run a mole of miles?
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Question 696643:
A certain mountain has an elevation of 19,196 ft. In 1912 a glacier on this peak covered 9 acres. By 2003 this glacier had only melted to 1 acre.
What is the constant rate that this glacier melts yearly?
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Question 696624: A certain mountain has an elevation of 19,196 ft. In 1912 a glacier on this peak covered 9 acres. By 2003 this glacier had only melted to 1 acre.
What is the constant rate that this glacier melts yearly?
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Question 696659: Can you tell me how to set up this proportion word problem so I can solve it?
The ratio of cars to minivans in a parking lot is 2 to 3.
There are 96 minivans. How many cars are in the lot?
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Question 696669: The time, in hours, it takes to decorate the school gym for a dance varies inversely as the number of students, , who are helping decorate. If a group of 7 students can decorate the gym in 7 hours, which of the following equations best models the time, , it will take a group of students to decorate the gym?
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Question 696751:
Tina thompson scored 36 points in a basketball without making any 3 point shots. She scored 23 times making several free throws worth 1 point each and several field goals worth 2 points each. how many free throws did she make?

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Question 696834: A tortoise travelled 4096 m in week one. Each week, it travelled half as far as the previous week. In what week will the tortoise travel 4 m? Please show me using a formula or equation. I know the answer because I used the calculator but I still want to know how to find the answer using a formula or equation.I'm in grade 7 can you explain, because the previous time i didnt understand. Help!
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Question 696847: 1. Mike is 20 cm shorter than Tim
2. Jane is 25 cm taller than Tim
3. Jill is 21 cm shorter than Jack
4. Tom is 38 cm taller than Mike
5. Jake is 36 cm shorter than Mark
6. Mark is 8 cm taller than Jane
7. Jill is 11 cm shorter than Jake
8. Tom is 183 cm tall
How tall is Jack?
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Question 696862: there are ten questions on a test. the instruction says that only seven of the questions are to be answered. how many ways can the seven to be answered by selected?
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Question 696649: A certain region is losing 25 million acres of rain forest each year.
Find a linear function f that calculates the change in acres of rainforest of millions in x years. Then find f(4) and interpret the result.
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Question 697040: The following questions are based on trigonometry:
1. A ladder of length 4 m makes an angle of 30 degrees with the floor while leaning against one wall of a room. If the foot of the ladder is kept fixed on the floor and it is made to lean against the opposite wall of the room, it makes an angle of 60 degrees with the floor. Find the distance between these two walls of the room.
2. The length of a string between a kite and a point on the roof of a 10m high building is 180 metres. If the string makes an angle A with the level ground such that tanA = 4/3, how high is the kite from the ground?
Thank you.
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Question 697115: Write an expression for the following real-world situation.
If Mr. Jackson earns $1000 for every used car he sells and $2000 for every new car he sells, how much would he make if he sold "u" used cars and "n" new cars?
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Question 697179: jackie mows a uniform width around her 30m by 20m rectangular lawn and leaves a patch of lawn that is 60% of the original area what is the width of the strip
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Question 697183: If the pavement is dry cement, then S= √25m is an estimate for a car's speed. S in miles per hour when it leaves skid marks m feet long.
a. Simplify the formula
b. Determine the minimum speed of the car if the skid marks are 100ft.
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Question 697318: Three years ago, Jerri was four times as old as Kelly was then. Five years from now, Jerri will be twice as old as Kelly will be. how old will each one be ten years from now?
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Question 697444: a carpenter needs to cut four sections each 3 feet 8 inches long from a piece of motor. if the bored is only sold by the foot what's the shortest length of bored she can buy
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Question 697403: Two equal masses of different types of rocket fuel burn at different, but constant, rates. If the first mass of fuel is consumed in 5 minutes and the second in 4 minutes, when will the second mass be half the first?
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Question 697505: Find an expression in the number of children, reduced by 6 and then they had to share Rs.1000. How much Would each Get?
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Question 697547: Four boys step off from the same place.If their steps measure 16cm, 28cm40cm and 77cm respectively,at what distance from the starting point will they again steo together
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