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Question 714434: if x is increased by 10% and y is decreased by 10%.what is the ratio of x to y? explain
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Question 714769: Elliott street is 24ft wide when it ends at main street in brattleboro, vermont, a 40 ft long diagonal crosswalk allows pedestrians to cross main street to or from either corner of elliott street. determine the width of main street
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Question 714877: About 74% of water used in houses is used in bathrooms, about 5% in kitchens, and about 21% in other places. About 9 gal is used in the kitchen each day. Estimate the total gallons used each day.
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Question 714945: if it takes you 45 seconds to run 1 block, how fast are you running in miles per hour?

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Question 715119:
Your math test has 38 questions and is worth 200 points. The test consists of multiple-choice questions worth 4 points each and open-ended questions worth 20 points each. How many of each type of question are there?
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Question 715118: You need to call a plumber to fix the sink in your kitchen. The first company you call gives a price of $60 for the house-call, plus $25 per hour. The second company charges $45 per hour, with no extra charge for the house-call. After how many hours would the two costs be equal?
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Question 715127: A baseball is thrown straight upward with an intital speed of 128 feet/sec. The number of feet s above the ground after t seconds is given by the equation s = -16t squared + 128 feet.
When will the baseball be 192 feet above the ground?
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Question 715146: Danielle can harvest a field in 16 hours. Kathryn can harvest the same field in 12 hours. Find how long it would take them if they worked together.
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Question 715164: The quotient of two numbers was five and their product was 180. What were the numbers?
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Question 715261: A pool can be filled by one pipe in 7 hours and by a second pipe in 9 hours. How long will it take using both pipes to fill the pool
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Question 715303: If the sum of a number and 1 is tripled , the result is three less than twice the number . Find the number
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Question 715303: If the sum of a number and 1 is tripled , the result is three less than twice the number . Find the number
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Question 715243: Draw a Venn diagram representing this survey and label the areas.
In a survey of the dining preferences of 110 students, the following facts were discovered about Adam's Sandwiches(A), the Pizza House (P), and the Dining Hall (D)
30 liked A but not P
21 liked only A
63 liked A
58 liked P
27 liked D
25 liked p and A, but not P
18 liked p and D
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Question 715600: If two opposite sides of a square are increased by 10 meters and the other sides are decreased by 5 meters, the area of the rectangle that is formed is 76 square meters. Find the area of the original square.
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Question 715650: Romy climb a coconut tree at a rate of 10ft/min & return at 20ft/min. If it took him 3min to climb and return. What is the height of the coconut?
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Question 715880: You buy a saguaro cactus 6 feet high and it grows at a rate of 0.8 inches each year. Express its height h, in inches, as a function of time t, in years, since the purchase. Enter your answer as an equation, such as h=1+2t.
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Question 716037: Find the ages of A and B from this information: 6 times A's age is 100 more than 5 times B's age, and 9 times A's age is 170 more than 7 time's B's age.
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Question 716036: Seven times one number decreased by twice another equals 27, and 3 times the first added to 5 times the second equals 35. Find the two numbers.
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Question 716103: If the height of the Washington Monument is 50.5 inches more than 10 times the length of a side of its square base. If the sum of these two dimensions is 7324 inches, What is the height of the Washington Monument, and how do you show the work for the problem
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Question 716187: A copy machine makes 168 copies in 5 minutes and 15 seconds. How many copies does it make per minute?
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Question 716211: to reduce 16oz of a 25% solution of antiseptic to a 10% solution, how much distilled water should a nurse add?

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Question 716462: If a bank made an interest earning of $1437.50 after one year on a loan with 5.75% simple interest, how much was the original loan?
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Question 716722: I have a recipe that gives ingredient proportions for an 8" round cake. I need to know what they would be for an 24 x 30 square. same thickness.
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Question 716615: Pumps A, B, C operates at their respective constant rates. Pumps A and B simultaneously, can fill a certain tank in 6/5 hours; pumps A and C, operating simultaneously, can fill the tank in 3/2 hours; and pumps B and C operating simultaneously, can fill the tank in 2 hours. How many hours does it take pumps A, B, and C, operating simultaneously, to fill the tank?

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Question 717115: We have a rectangular flower bed it is 3m longer than it is wide the flower bed will have an area of (108m with exponent of 2) what will the dimension be
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Question 717227: in the men's shot put event, the shot weighs 7.26 kilograms and has a diameter of 120 millimeters. Consider a cylinder made of the same material as the shot. If it has a diameter of 60 millimeters, how thick will it have to be to weigh the same as a men's shot?
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Question 717234: The following project uses the game of Guess Your Card. This is a game in which
each player draws (without looking) three (3) cards. Each card has a number between 1 and 9 on it. The players then place their cards on their heads so that everyone but the players can see the cards.
The object of the game is to guess what cards you have. The first person to do this correctly wins.
During the play, each player, in turn, draws a question at random from a stack of questions. The player then answers the question based on the cards that he /she sees (not the player�s cards, which the player cannot see).
An Example
Andy has the cards 6, 6, and 7
Belle has the cards 3, 6, and 7
Carol has the cards 1, 1, and 9
Dan has the cards 3, 4, and 8
Andy draws the question card, �How many 7�s do you see?� He answers, �One,� because he cannot see the 7 on his own head; he sees only the 7 on Belle's head.
Next, Belle draws the question card, �Of the four even numbers, how many different even numbers do you see?� She answers, �Three,� because she sees the 4, 6, and 8 on Andy and Dan's head.
From this, Dan can conclude he has two even cards, since he can only see a 6 and Belle sees two (2) more.
Situation
You are playing Guess Your Card with three (3) other players. Here is what you see:
Andy has the cards 1, 5, and 7
Belle has the cards 5, 4, and 7
Carol has the cards 2, 4, and 6
Andy draws the question card, �Do you see two (2) or more players whose cards sum to the same value?� He answers, �Yes.�
Next Belle draws the question card, �Of the five (5) odd numbers, how many different odd numbers do you see?� She answers, �All of them.�
Andy suddenly speaks up. "I know what I have," he says. "I have a 1, a 5, and a 7."
I need help understanding what it is that they are looking for? Am I looking for my numbers and which equation needs to be used.

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Question 717261: The amount P of pollution varies directly with the population N of people. City A has a population of
442,000 and produces 260,000 tons of pollutants. Find how many tons of pollution we should expect
City B to produce, if we know that its population is 344,000?
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Question 717254:
a home is to be built on a rectangular plot with a perimeter of 800 feet. If the length is a 20 feet less than 3 times the width, what are the dimensions of the rectangular plot?
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Question 717252:
In a basket ball game. Bill scored three times as many points as Jim. Together they scored 56 points. How many points did bill score?
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Question 717325: how many pieces of paper would it take to write the word protagonist 100 times

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Question 717489: if grapefruits cost $0.95 and oranges are $1.05 and i bought a combined total of 16 my total cost was $13.85 how many of each did i buy. i need help with the solution to this question
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Question 717688: find each percent of change .describe the percent of change as an increase or decrease round to nearest whole number.
1. in 1985,the average price for gasoline was $1.20/gal. in 2000,the average price for gasoline was $1.56.find the percent of change
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Question 717743: IF I WANTED TO PAYOFF DEBT AND IT AMOUNTED TO 8596. HOW MUCH WILL MY MONTHLY PAYMENT BE IF I WANTED TO PAYOFF IN A YEAR
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Question 717812:
A man invests part of 17,000 pesos at 8% and the rest at 9%. If the annual income from the 2 investments are equal, how much has he invested at each rate?
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Question 717919: Two bicyclists are seven-eighths of the way through a one-km-long tunnel when a train approaches the closer end at 40 km/h. The riders take off at the same speed in opposite directions, and each escapes the tunnel as the train passes them. How fast did they ride?
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Question 717957: Jessica has 22 dollars in the bank today. Yesterday, she had 66 dollars in the bank. By what percentage did Jessica's bank account decrease over the past day?
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Question 717967: a political discussion group consists of 30 democrats, 25republicans, 8 independents and 4 members of the Green party. if one person is randomly selected from the group, find the probability of choosing and independent or a green?
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Question 717969: if one card is randomly selected from a deck of 52 cards, find the odds in favor of drawing a face card?
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Question 717922: It is four o'clock now. How many minutes will pass before the minute hand and hour hand of the clock are pointing to the exact same place? (Hint: it is not 20 minutes, because by the time the minute hand points to the 4, the hour hand will have crept ahead a little.)
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Question 717972: a cake costs b dollars and a cookies cost c dollars less then the cake. how many times more than cookies doses cake cost?
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Question 717920: Jack and Jill went up the hill at 8 units per minute and came tumbling down the hill at 8 units per second. What was their average speed, in units per minute?

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Question 718167: The sale price of a suit after a 30% discount is $140. What was the original price of the suit?
I set up the problem as a ratio and my answer was $20.00 that I add to $140 (discounted) total $160.
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