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Question 758666: Please help me to solve this equation 1.) x cubes y raised to 4 over xy squared. 2.) 3a raised to 5 b raised to 6 over a squared b cubes. 3.) 6y cubes over 12y raised to seven. 4.) p raised to -3 over p raised to -7. 5.) (a cubes b raised to -3 c raised to zero) raised to -3.
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Question 759035: Miguel bought 5 baseballs between $3 to $8. How much money could he have spent on baseballs altogether?
Thank you!
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Question 759030: a 480m pipe is cut into three pieces the second piece is three times as long as the first. the third piece is four times as long as the second how long is each piece?
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Question 759059: the owner of a peach orchard hired 3 watchmen to watch his orchard. A brigand gained access to the orchard, however, and purloined some peaches. He met each of the three watchmen on his way out. To each, he gave one-half of the peaches he had, plus 2 more besides. He got out of the orchard with only one peach. How many peaches did he pick and attempt to steal.
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Question 759085: Mr. Golden bought a shipment of paperweights for a total of $576. He will make a profit of 60% of that amount when he sells them. He priced each paperweight at $4.80. How many paperweights were there?
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Question 759115: I need help please.
The intensity I of light varies inversely w/ the square of the distance d from the source, expressed in the equation I=k/d^2. If the instensity is 1/2 of a candela 16ft from the source, what is the constant of proportionality?
Answer Options:
A. 2 candela-square-feet
B. 32 candela-square-feet
C. 256 candela-square-feet
D. 128 candela-square-feet
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Question 759291: an aquarium holding african cichilds is 3in higher than it is wide.its length is 27in and its volume 9180 cubic inches. what is its height and width
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Question 759554: A study of 800 prospective employers on whether experience, professional training or university degree was a necessary prerequisite for employment give the following results. From 230 require experience, 245 require professional training and 325 require university degree. 30 require all the three qualification. 70 require experience and university degree, 110 require experience only while 185 require university degree only. Required:
i. Present the above diagram in a Venn diagram
ii. Find
Number of employers who require professional training only
Number of employers who require experience and professional only
Number of employers who require none of the qualifications

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Question 759812: Mr. Edge needs 5 students, who will be arranged from tallest to shortest, for a demonstration. He has 21 students in his class. How many different combinations of students are possible for the demonstration?
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Question 759871: A total of 227 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 759872: A total of 237 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 760014: a goat is tied to one corner of a square plot of side 12m by a rope 7m long.find the area it can graze

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Question 760033: Can you please help me answer this question? The wheels of a car have a radius 11inches and are rotating at 600 revolution per minute. Find the speed of the car in mi/hr.
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Question 760034: At a certain day, the sun shone directly on a deep well in Syene. At the same time in Alexandria, 500 miles north , the rays of the sun shone at an angle of 7.2degrees to the zenith. find the radius and circumference of the earth.

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Question 760124: How many hours would you have to tutor at $2 an hour to equal the pay you would get for 4 hours at $10 an hour?
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Question 760153: The sum of three numbers is 82. The third number is 3 times the first. The second number is 7 more than the first. What are the numbers?
I know that 3 times the first would be like 3x
and 7 more would be x+_7.
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Question 760326: A 56-centimeter-long board is cut into 3 pieces. The longest piece is twice as long as the shortest piece. The other piece piece is 4 cm longer that the shortest piece. How long is each piece?
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Question 760518: Krista weighs eight times as much as her baby sister. When their weights are combined, they weigh 54 kg. How much does Krista weighs?
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Question 760519: Jane called her local chamber of commerce and finds that the population growth rate of her town is 5%. In addition according to the 1990 census the population is 500. Find the growth equation and draw a graph showing the population between the years 1990-2010
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Question 760995: A farmer needs to build a fence with 2 equal size pens to separate the sheep and pigs. The farmer will build a rectangular outer fence plus a dividing fence down the middle parallel to two sides. If she has a total of 200 feet of fencing, find the dimensions that will enclose the maximum total area.
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Question 760994: A closed rectangular box is to be constructed with a square base. The material for the top costs $2 per square foot whereas the material for the remaining sides costs $1 per square foot. If the total cost to construct each box is $36, express the volume of the box in terms of the width of the base.
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Question 761109: If I wanted to earn 80 bucks a week..I would get paid .30 for every 3000 keystrokes. How many keystrokes would it take to make that 80 bucks?
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Question 761151: two minor league baseball players got a total of 262 hits. washington had 18 more hits then sanchez. find the number of hits for each player.
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Question 761263: Question: The Business Club's thrice-yearly car wash serviced 398 cars this year. A total of 84 more cars participated in May than in November. A total of 43 fewer cars were washed in July than in November. How many cars were washed during each month?
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Question 761451: the distance that a free falling object falls is directly proportional to the square of the time it falls (before it hits the ground). If an object fell 63 feet in 8 seconds, how farr will it have fallen by the end of 10 seconds? ( leave the variation constant in fraction form or round to at least 2 decimal places. Round your final answer to the nearest foot.)
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Question 761522: The sum of two integers is 23. If the larger integer is one less than twice the smaller, then find the larger integer.
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Question 761604: The function f(x)=6.75 x +12 squared models the amount, F(x), in billions of dollars of new student loans x years after 1993. According to the model, in what year is the amount loaned expected to reach $32.25 billion?
Please show details. Thank you.
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Question 761603: if I wanted to make 80 bucks a week typing..and I get paid .30 per 3000 keystrokes..how many keystrokes would I have to do?
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Question 761674: The Inverse Square Law of Light states that the luminosity of a light source varies inversely to the square of the distance from the light source.

When a light meter is 8 feet away from a light source, it measures the luminosity to have a lux of 180. What should the meter register the luminosity to be at a distance of 6 feet?

If necessary, round your answer at the hundredths place.
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Question 761643: an item was sold for 810 and gave 10% loss. at what price should it have been sold to give profit of 20%?
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Question 761836: If I give my sister 17 dollars, then we will have the same amount of money. If instead she gives me 23 dollars, then I'll have three times as much money as she has. How much money does she currently have (in dollars)?
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Question 761838: Use the equation y=10.7x+133.6 to find the expected median sale price of a single-family home in the year 2007 (12 years after 1995) where x is the number of years since 1995 and y is the median sale price of a single-family in thousands of dollars.
The expected median sale price of a single-family home in the year 2007 is $_____
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Question 761966: Suppose you had a long stretch of fencing with which to make a nice big playpen for your new puppy. If you wanted to give your puppy the biggest possible area to roam around in, what shape should the fence be? Support your answer with sufficient data
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Question 761962: Please help me on this problem: Suppose "k" is some positive interger. Consider numbers of the form √n) where "n" is a positive interger. In terms of "k," how many numbers of this form differ from "k" bh less than 1? Explain why your answer works in general. (Hint: for this question it may help to try some small values of "k" and search for a pattern in the results. For example, if k= 2 there are 7 numbers of the desired form that differ from "k" by less than one since √2), √3), √4), √5), √6), √7), and √8) are the only such numbers that differ from 2 by less than 1. Now, try k=3 and so forth. After you find a formula think about why your formula works in general.)
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Question 761980: Sanpierre can wash the storefront in 5 hours. Boulange takes 8 hours. Boulange starts the job but quits after 3 hours. Sanpierre is hired to finish the job. How long does Sanpierre take?
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Question 761981: A barrel contains 125 gallons of paint and is being filled at a constant rate of 11 gallons per day. Write an equation that models the number of gallons,g, after t days.
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Question 761997: Jenny's favorite positive integer has two digits. If she reverses the digits, the new number is 27 less than her favorite number. If she instead halves the tens digit and triples the units digit of her favorite number, the new number she forms is 18 less than her favorite number. What is Jenny's favorite number?
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Question 762076: One canned juice drink 30% orange juice, another is 5% orange juice. How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 25L that is 20% orange juice.
How many liters of the 30% orange juice should be in the mixture? _L
How many liters of the 5% orange juice should be in the mixture?_L
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Question 762203: Word problem:
Whitney and Kim are in a bicycle race on a circular track. They start at the same place and travel in the same direction. Whitney completes a revolution every 40 seconds and Kim completes a revolution every 48 seconds. How long will it take them before they reach the starting point again simultaneously?

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Question 762139: Please help me solve:In a birthday party,out of 53 children,8 children have neither an ice cream not a cold drink.If 30 children have ice cream and 23 children have cold drink,find:
i]how many children have only ice cream
ii]how many children have only cold drinks
iii]how many children have both cold drinks and ice cream
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Word problems
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Question 762205: PLEASE HELP! This is my question;
You are about to take a test that contains computation problems worth 6 points each and word problems worth 10 points each. You can do a computation problem in 2 minutes and a word problem in 4 minutes. You have 40 minutes to take the test and may answer no more than 12 problems.
What is the range for the feasible region?
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Question 762242: If each session is 50 minutes long, and we had 21 sessions, how many total hours did we spend with the student.
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Question 762293: Jerome's score on four tests are 89,71, 87 and 75. What must his score on the next test be so that his average will be 82?
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