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Question 743643: After an 8% discount from the list price,the sale price of a key chain was $18.40. What was the list price of the key chain
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Question 743624: Bobbi has nine stamps, some of which are 32-cent stamps and some of which are 23-cent stamps. The total value of all the stamps is $2.52 , how many of her stamps are worth 32-cents
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Question 743760: (2a-7)/4 = -(1/3)

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Question 743752: factor x^8-2^8
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Question 743869: how many foot pounds of torque will it take to achieve 8,820 pounds?

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Question 744333: A train ticket has an area of 192 square centimeter and a perimeter of 56 centimeters. What are the dimensions of the tickets.
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Question 744341: 80 units @ $1.42=
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Question 744504: If it cost$0.10 to make1 cut how much dordoes it cost to cut a log intro 5 peice
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Question 744547: Find the largest three-digit number which has ten factors. including 1 and itself
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Question 744623: How much pure acid should be mixed with gallons of a 50% acid solution in order to get a 80% acid solution
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Question 744942: A herd of 575 deer is introduced onto a small. island. At first the herd increases rapidly, but eventually food resources dwindle and the population declines. suppose that the number of deer after t years is given by the following formula
N(t)= -t^4 + 2t^2 + 575
please show a step by step on how you got your answer
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Question 744997: Juan's baseball card collection was worth $800. Over the last 5 years, the collection decreased $300 in value. What integer represents the average decrease in value each year?Do you divide 300 by 5?
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Question 745301: The element lawrencium has a half-life of 10 hours. What fraction of 1 ounce of lawrencium will remain after 4 days 4 hours?
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Question 745303: The element lawrencium has a half-life of 10 hours. What fraction of 1 ounce of lawrencium will remain after 4 days 4 hours?
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Question 745294: A population of 21 rabbits is introduced to a small island. The population increases at a rate of 61% per year.
(a) Find a function
f(t)
that represents the number of rabbits on the island after t years.
f(t) =
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Question 745421: If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?

Please help work out the steps. I'm at 5/12x=1, but I don't know where to go next. Thank you

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Question 745429: I forgot how to do this please help:
a drug contains 2 types of ingredients, compound A and compound B. for every 5 Milliliters of compund A there is 3 milliliters of compound B. the chemist wants to make 664 milliliters of the drug, how much of compound A is needed?
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Question 745587: A calf weighs 547 lbs and the vet prescribed 5.78 mg of zoxacillin for every 32 kg of body weight. The zoxacillin is blended in calf feed at the amount of 8 mg for every 5 ounces of calf feed. How many ounces of feed must be given to the calf. Note: 1kg=2.2046 pounds
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Question 745771: How do you solve the difference between two numbers is greater than 350. Could the two numbers be 862 and 496? How do you find out?
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Question 745820: A farmer has 42 feet of fence with which to make a corral. If he arranges it into a rectangle that is twice as long as it is wide, what are the dimensions?
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Question 745901: There are people walking their dogs at a park. there are 19 heads and 60 feet at the park.
a. write out the equation for this problem use P to stand for people and d to stand for dogs.
b. how many people are there at the park? how many dogs are there?
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Question 746051: Write an equation or inequality to solve this problem.
Scott has $30 to buy new baseball cards for his collection. He has chosen a Greg Maddux rookie card that costs $8. What is the most he can spend on other baseball cards?

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Question 746278: If the perimeter of a rectangular field is 60 meters. Its area is 200 square meters. Find its dimensions.
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Question 746426: Clare wants to buy a used wide-screen TV that sells for $2,000 cash. She will make a down payment of $1,000 and then six monthly payments of $200. What is the full installment price and the annual interest rate?

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Question 746471: It costs a shoe company $20.67 to produce one pair of running shoes. The
company sells each pair of shoes for $75.07 in stores. If the company sells 145 pairs
of running shoes in the month of March, what is the company's approximate profit
from running shoes in March?
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Question 746571: if expenses for a fundraiser are $210 and tickets cost $5 each, how many tickets must be sold to raise $500 more than the expenses?
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Question 746604: Brian has 96 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular space in his
yard for his dog. He wants the rectangle to be twice as long as it
is wide.
Write and solve an equation to find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 746910: a rock 80m up the face of a cliff breaks loose about how long does it take the rock to fall to the ground?
the formula is
-5t2+vot+c=h
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Question 746913: the product of a number and four
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Question 746987: A certain forest covers an area of 2000 km^2 . Suppose that each year this area decreases by 4.25%. What will the area be after 6 years?

it asks for the answer in ^2km.
What I think i should do is order of operations
2000^2 *4.25% *6
2000^2�425�6
4000000�425�6
1700000000�6
10200000000
I feel like this is wrong because it ask for the answer in ^2 km
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Question 747352: Lisa,an experienced shipping clerk, can fill a certain order in 6 hours. Felipe, a new clerk, needs 11 hours to do the same job. Working together, how long will it take them to fill the order?
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Question 747380: The value of Vc is 3.20 m/s and the value of Vd is 5.30 m/s. Calculate the distance traveled by the car from a time of 1.20 to 5.20 seconds.
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Question 747495: Sarah is 2 metres tall. Her brother is 50 centimetres smaller than her. How tall is Sarah's brother? Give you answer in cm and m

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Question 747721: A total of 330 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold was two times the number of adult tickets sold . How many adult tickets were sold?
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Question 747032: A students needs 12 minutes to solve an algebra problem. How many minutes does the student need to solve 6 problems?
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Question 747757: 1) A customer deposits Php 8000 in one simple interest account and Php 2000 in a second simple interest account. The interest rate on the Php 8000 account is 2% more than the rate on the Php 2000 account. If the total amount of interest on the two accounts is Php 578, find the interest rate on the Php 8000 account.
2) A man has Php 34,000 to invest. He invests some at 17% and the balance at 20%. His total annual interest income is Php 6245. Find the amount invested at the 17% interest rate.
3)
A woman can do a certain job in 10 hr and the younger daughter can do it in 12 hr. After the woman and her younger daughter have been working for 1 hr, the younger daughter got tired and decided to leave the woman doing the job alone. How long did the woman finish the job after the younger daughter left her?
If x is the number of hours that the woman did the job alone, which of the following equations should be used to answer the problem?
4)
A woman can do a certain job in 10 hr and the younger daughter can do it in 12 hr. After the woman and her younger daughter have been working for 1 hr, the younger daughter got tired and decided to leave the woman doing the job alone. How long (in hours) did the woman finish the job after the younger daughter left her?

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Question 747746: Problem 2: The cost to send a telegram is $2.50 for the first 10 words or less and $.15 for each additional word. Write a program to calculate the cost of sending a telegram under these conditions.
Input � number of words
Process � calculate the cost of the telegram under the above conditions.
Output � the cost of the telegram
Test:
Try your programs on the following:
7 words - $2.50
15 words - $3.25
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Question 747744: Write a program to carry out the following chain of
calculations: Begin by entering a number. Multiply it by 5, add
6 to the product, multiply by 4, add 9, multiply by 5. Now,
cancel the last two digits of the final number, and subtract 1
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Question 747868: An experienced accountant can prepare a tax return in 16 hours. A novice account can do the job in 23 hours. How long will it take them to do the job working together?
A: 1/368 hr
B: 1/39 hr
C: 368/7 hr
D: 368/39 hr
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Question 747866: 9+7z for z+3
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Question 748095: A 72-inch board is cut into 3 pieces. The second piece is twice the first and the third is 8 inches shorter than the first. Find the numbers.
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Question 748100: A farmer can plow a field in 4 days by using a tractor. His hired hand can plow the same field in 6days by using a smaller tractor. How many days will be required for the plowing if they work together?
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Question 748301: Find three sets of values for x and y to make x miles over y minutes = 4 miles over 32 minutes a proportion.
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