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Question 721662: I have this word problem and I am struggling with how to set it up. The problem is Mary took her children and some of their friends to Sneaky Pete's indoor amusement park. She bought 3 tickets to ride the go-carts and 4 tickets to play a game of bumper bowling. The total for all of those tickets was $39.75. If a ticket to play a game of bumper bowling was $1.75 less than twice the price of ticket to ride the go-carts, figure out the cost of a ticket to ride the go-carts and the cost of a ticket to play a game of bumper bowling. my first equation is 3g + 4b= 39.75, but I am struggling with the second one.

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Question 721721: Don drew a scale drawing of a county park. The scale he used was 7 inches = 1 yard. What is the scale factor of the drawing?
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Question 721763: Jack is Jill's brother. Jack has as many brothers as sisters. Jill has twice as many brothers and sisters. How many children are in the family?
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Question 721761: There are between 50 and 100 books on a shelf. Exactly 20% of them are textbooks. Exactly 1/7 of them are novels. How many books are on the shelf?
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Question 721770: A chemist uses an 80% acid solution and a 30% acid solution to make 200 liters of a 60% acid solution. How much of the 30% solution should be used.
A. 60 L
B. 80 L
C. 100 L
D. 120 L
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Question 721864: The total curb weight of a truck, a big car, and a small car is 9745. The weight of the big car is 100 lbs less than the weight of two of the small cars. The truck weights 2865 lbs more than the small car. What is the curb weight of each vehicle?
Small car weight:
Big car weight:
Truck weight:

I've given each vehicle a variable:
x=truck
y=big car
z=small car
I've tried putting the words into math problems:
x+y+z=9745
2z-100=y
z+2865=x
But now I am stuck and I don't know how to combine them in order to get the individualized weight of x.y. and z. Please help me!
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Question 722023: if 5 rabbits ate 12.5 lettuce in 5 days how many lettuce would the 5 rabbits eat in 10 days?

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Question 722111: A 3 gallon 20% alcohol water mixture is to be upgraded by adding to it a certain amount of 70% alcohol water mixture. How many gallons of the 70% must be added to make new enriched mixture of a 40% alcohol water mix?
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Question 722233: A 85cm long rod is cut into 3 pieces. The longest piece is 3 times as long as the shortest piece and 13 cm longer than the remaining piece. What is the length of the longest piece?

Please help! I dont know how to do the question but the answer is in the back of the book! My teacher didnt have time to explain how to do these types of questions
Thanks
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Question 722261:
Loretta's age in 11 years will be three times what it was 7 years ago. How old is Loretta now? how do i solve this?
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Question 722321: A wide screen TV is priced at $3000 was on sale for 30 percent off. When the TV didn't sale,an additional 10 percent of the sale price was taken off the sale price.What sort of equation do I need to write to solve this?
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Question 722363: Payrolls for the 3 highest paid baseball teams (the Yankees, Red Sox, and Angels) for 2006 totaled 418 million. If the team payroll for the Yankees is 75 million dollars higher than the Red Sox and the Red sox is 17 million dollars higher than the Angels, then what was the 2006 payroll for each team?
My work:
Yankees= 75+R (R stands for Red Sox)
Red Sox= 17+A (A stands for Angels)
Angels= X
X+17+X+75+X=418
X=108.666666667 or 108.67
Angels= 108.67
Red Sox= 125.67
Yankees= 200.67
When added together it comes out to: 435.01
I am close to the 418, I just can't figure out where i messed up. I assume in my equation.
Thanks
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Question 722401: Bob Hope was born 2 years after Clark Gable and 2 years before Henry Fonda. In 1951, after all three had their birthdays, the sum of their ages was 144. In what years were they born?
My work:
2-x+2+x+x=144
x=140
I can't figure out how to make the equation or the to find the years each were born.
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Question 722558: the weight of 90 books is 50 kg find the weight of 180 such books
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Question 722725: Can you please show me how to solve this problme with steps: Erik ordered three different types of plants for his vegetable garden: beans, potatoes, and carrots. He ordered a dazen more potatoe plants than twice the number of bean plants, and the same number of carrot plants as bean plants. He ordered 72 plants altogether. How many of each plant did Erik order? Thank you.
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Question 722759: one guy wire is attached to the top of a 12 foot pole and the other end is anchored into the ground 5 feet from the base of the pole. Find the length of the guy wire.
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Question 722770:
Phillip used four pieces of masking tape, each 6 inches long, to put up each of his posters. Phillip has a 300-foot roll of masking tape when he started. If no tape was wasted, which of the following represents the number of feet of masking tape that was left on the role after he put up (n) posters?
(A) 300- 6n
(B) 300- 2n
(C) 300- n
(D) 300- n/2
(E) 300- n/4
Could you please provide an explanation with it? Thanks a lot.
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Question 722768: If 35 % of a machine is aluminum and there are 105 kilograms of aluminum in the machine, what is the mass of the machine?
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Question 722676: If a person can copy 38 invoices in 22 minutes how many minutes or hours will it take them to copy 500 invoices?
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Question 723026: thank you for your help!
Going on a plane ride and each bag loaded weighs 12, 18, or 22 pounds. If the jet is carrying EXACTLY 1000 pounds of bags, what is the largest number of bags the plane could be carrying?
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Question 723053: Luke is running a fundraising raffle for the local football club. He decides the first prize is $50 more than the second prize, and the third prize half of the second prize. If there is a total of $200 to be used for the prize money, find:
How much each prize winner will recieve.
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Question 723056: At present, Micheal's age is 7 times that of his son Brody. If Micheal was 36 when Brody was born, how old are they now?
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Question 723030:
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Question 723152: Assume x and p are both functions of t. Determine dp/dt for p^2=x^3-200 x, given that dx/dt=3, x=5, and p=3
A)4.17
B)-62.5
C)-92.5
D)62.5
E)None of the above
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Question 723266: Trying to help my daughter so I need to understand. Her problem is: Toni is thinking of a number. n stands for that number. Write an expression to represent the sum of Toni's number and 8. PLEASE HELP ME!

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Question 723269:

ms X bought 24 apples and 18 oranges for a party. how do i get the ratio of the number of apples to the total number of fruits she bought

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Question 723104: the number of bacteria in a culture is doubling every 3.75 hours. how long will it take for the number of bacteria to increase from 30 000 to 7680000?
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Question 723535:

50kg of sweet can be served for 200 people . how much sweet is required for 200 peaple ?

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Question 723693: A Web music store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is 2.2 megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is 4.4MB. Yesterday, there were 1370 downloads of the song, for a total download size of 4136MB. How many downloads of the standard version were there?

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Question 723700:
the sum of two numbers is 58. the smaller number is 18 less then the larger number. what are the numbers?
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Question 723700:
the sum of two numbers is 58. the smaller number is 18 less then the larger number. what are the numbers?
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Question 723718: How to translate the following problem into a equation?
Taryn drove 158 mile of a 275 mile trip. Ben drove the remainder of the trip. How far did Ben drive?
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Question 723726: Comingled recyclables are to be collected on both sides of a 1200 ft long street. The homes are 40 ft apart and there is a one-person crew. It takes 25 seconds to empty each green container into the truck. The typical set-out amount is 8 kg. Approximately how long does it take to walk, collect, and sort the materials?
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Question 723721: The manager of an Internet cafe is having new counters custom-made. She wants to put 8 PCs on each counter with 3 feet between the PCs and 2 feet on each end. The PCs measure 18 inches wide and 24 inches high. What length of counters should the Internet cafe have made?
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Question 723742: I have 2 products. One worth $49.95 and the other $18.95.There is a combined total of 105 pieces. Their total value is $3849.75. How many of each are there.
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Question 723783: The sum of two numbers is 46 and the difference is 8 what are the numbers
large number=
small number=
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Question 723803: A Spanish class has a total of 40 students. The number of males is 4 more than the number of females. How many males and how many females are in the class?
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Question 723816:

Find the number which when decreased by three-fourths of itself equals 28.
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Question 724030: Madam Ling was 28 years old when her son was born. If the product of their ages now is 480,how old is her son now?
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Question 724086: What is the maximum product of two numbers that add to 18? What numbers yield this product?
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Question 724082: Jen is baking Valentine's Day treats. (Which would actually never happen because she can't cook.) She made 32 brownies, and even bought speical Valentine's plates to put them on. (Which would also never happen because she is also lazy.) Each plate holds 6 brownies. If she wants to bring all of the brownies to school, how mnay plates would she need?
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Question 724159: In some year, the number of active users using a social media website was 15 million fewer than double the number of active users using a newspaper website. If the two sites had a total of 255 million users, how many people used each of the websites?
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Question 724084: Kate goes to the gym every second evening, while Ian goes every third evening.
a How many days will it be before both attend the gym again on the same evening?
b Explain how this answer relates to the multiples of 2 and 3.
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