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Question 774421: John spent $201 shirts and pants for work. Shirts cost $27 and pants cost $22. If he bought a total of 8 articles of clothing, then how many of each kind did he buy? What is the linear equation to this question?
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Question 774240: solve these magic squares, all rows,columns and diagonals all line up to the same number:
-6 8 -2 ? ? 5 ? ? ?
? ? ? ? -12 ? ? -12 -16
? -8 ? ? -8 3 -10 ? ?

6 ? 4 -18
? ? -6 ?
? ? -8 10
12 ? ? -12
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Question 774509: 70 percent of the 100 students in a middle school class cafeteria bought their lunch. Some of the students that bought their lunch leave the cafeteria to attend an assembly. Now only 60 percent of the remaining students bought their lunch. How many students are remaining?
Thanks in advance for your help from a father trying to help his daughter.
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Question 774569: THE SPEED OF A MOVING WALKWAY IS TYPICALLY ABOUT 3.6 PER SECOND. WALKING ON SUCH A MOVING WALKWAY, IT TAKES KAREN A TOTAL OF 50 SECONDS TO TRAVEL 90 FEET WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE WALK AWAY AND THEN BACK AGAIN AGAINST THE MOVEMENT OF THE WALKAWAY. WHAT IS KAREN'S NORMAL WALKING SPEED?
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Question 775216: three guys check into a hotel, they are going to split the cost of the room. the room is $30.00. they each kick in $10.00 and head up to to their room. the manager gets wind of it and tells the clerk the room is $25.00. The clerk hands five $1.00 bills to the bell hop and tell him to refund the guys' money. On the way to the room the bellhop thinks to himself ,' No way can three guys split $5.00, so he puts $2.00 in his pocket. So now each guy paid $9.00. $9x3= $27.00 plus $2.00 bellhop stole = $29.00! where is the other dollar?
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Question 775305: moth+took=hmmmm
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Question 775353: Ram can do a piece of work in 8 days while shyam alone can do in 12 days. Ram starts doing the work and they work at it alternately for a day. In how many days will the work be finished?
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Question 775415: You have 100 stamps that have a total value of $31.02. Some of the stamps are worth 24 cents each and the others are worth 37 cents each. How many stamps of each type do you have?
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Question 775499: Hi, I'm in Algebra 2. And ever since I was little I always had problems with story problems. If someone can help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated!
The story problems starts as "Mary has grades of 98, 76, 86, and 92 on four tests. Within what range must her grade on a fifth test fall if she wishes an average between 80 and 90 on all five tests?"
I've tried to come up with an equation but I come up with none. I've asked my parents but they were left dumbfounded like me. Again I would appreciate all the help I could get! Thank you!
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Question 775527: The feed mill pays a farmer $6930.00 for the 1st delivery, $5475.00 for the 2nd delivery, and $8879.50 for the 3rd delivery. The table shows the number of bushels included in each delivery. Use the table to write and solve a system of equations to find the price per bushel that the farmer received for each crop.
1st delivery: corn- 900; wheat- 540; soybeans- 360
2nd delivery: corn- 1125; wheat; 150; soybeans- 225
3rd delivery: corn- 860; wheat; 645; soybeans- 645
I know how to do 3x3s and system of equations; but I've been stuck on this problem for over an hour and I can't figure out what variable to get rid of.
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Question 775668: Hi, I am having troubles with this word problem. I'm not entirely sure if I set the equation right. I don't think so because the equation I did. I have no clue on how to solve it.
The question goes as " A 10-ton truck and a 12-ton truck deliver sand to a concrete mixing plant. If the smaller truck makes 3 trips more than the larger truck, how many trips does each truck make to deliver 140 tons of sand?"
This is the equation I made: Let A= 10 ton trucks trips Let B= 12 ton trucks trip
10A+12B=140
A-3=B
I did a system of equations. I'm not sure if I set the equation correctly. And I am not sure how to solve it from this point. If anyone could help me I would appreciate it! Thanks!
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Question 775825: What is the rate percent per annum if a sum of money doubles itself in 17 years at compound interest?
Can you plz show how to do it without using calculator?
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Question 775962: the playing surface of a soccer field is 300 ft long and 160 ft wide. if a player runs from one corner of the field to the opposite corner, how many ft does he run?
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Question 775921: You, as a real estate agent, sell a property for $230,000. If you earn a 5% commission, what is your commission?
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Question 776047: A 55 ft long drainage pipe must be cut into two pieces before installation. one piece is two thirds as long as the other. find the length of each piece.
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Question 776167: For the tax system Y = a + bX find the marginal tax rate.
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Question 776772: If a typist types 25 words per minute how many words can she type in 2 days working eight hours in a day?
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Question 776972: Tom and Jerry are saving money to buy tickets to a concert. Their combined savings is $55. Tom has $15 more than Jerry. How much has each person saved?

Please include
-varaible(s)
-an equation
-and explain the steps to solve it
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Question 777088: I just need to translate it but I don't understand it. Can you help me understand it?
if twice a number is decreased by 5 and that result is multiplied by 4, the result is 36
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Question 777133: How many different 3-man teams can be made from a group of 5 students?
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Question 777446: i need help on how to simplify an expression
10w^2-4w+3w^2+18w

8(s-t)+16(t-s)
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Question 777467: If 5280ft = 1 Mile. How many feet is .0016mi
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Question 777456: a 10 board is to be cut into three pieces, two equal length ones and the third 3 in. shorter than each of the other two. if the cutting does not result in any length being lost, how long are the pieces?

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Question 777745: Candy bakes 700 cookies each. She sells them in packages of 24 cookies each. How much money does candy earn if she sells each package for $5?
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Question 778058: A math teacher drove past a farmyard full of chickens and pigs. The teacher noticed that there were a total of 30 heads and 100 legs. How many pigs were there?
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Question 778370: The teacher baked a batch of muffins. There are 16 in a batch. She ate 1/4 of the batch. She baked two more batches. How many muffins does she have now?
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Question 778487: An architect is designing a half-spherical dome above a circular fountain and path. The architect wants the dome to be only over the fountain and path. The total diameter of the fountain with surrounding path is 45 feet.
What is the height of the dome cover
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Question 778549: Please help me solve this word problem: find three consecutive even integers such that the largest is three times the smallest
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Question 778577: Hi, if 50m is 54yards, how would we find how many meters are in 1 yar and how many yards are in a meter?
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Question 778812: For homework I got given a sheet of data.
In this sheet of data, there were two surveys that were completed by a group of year 8 students. Of these students, 84 of these students completed the first survey, while 81 of the same students completed the second.
How do I find how many students completed both surveys?
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Question 779006: Hi I wasn't sure how to set it up correctly. I've been trying but I'm not getting the correct answer. In a two-candidate election 1401 votes were cast. If 30 voters had switched their votes from the winner to the loser, the loser would have won by 5 votes. How many votes did each candidate actually receive?
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Question 778994: In a mixture of concrete there are four pounds of cement mix for each pound of gravel. If the mixture contains 145 pounds of these two ingredients how many pounds of gravel are there?
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Question 779051: A straight line makes an angle of 30 degree with the positive x axis and cuts the y axis at y=5. Find the equation of the straight line
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Question 779082: a building in a city has a rectangular base. the length of the base measures 65 ft less than thrice the width. the perimeter of this base is 910 ft. what are the dimensions of the base?
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Question 779089: Smith engineering is in the process of reviewing the salaries of their surveyors. During the review, the company found that an experienced surveyor can survey a roadbed in 6 hours. An apprentice surveyor needs 8 hours. If the two work together, find how long it takes them to complete the job.
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Question 779042: You are a prisoner in a very sporting jail. The jailer decides to give you and two other prisoners the chance to go free. He shows all three of you that he has three white hats and two black hats in a box.
Each prisoner is then blindfolded with one of the five hats placed on your head. The jailer tells the group that when the blindfold is removed you will be able to see the hats that the other two prisoners are wearing but not your own and not the two remaining in the box.
The prisoner who gives the correct answer following the removal of his blindfold will be free to go, the two who answer incorrectly will be locked away.
The jailer removes all three blindfolds together allowing you to see the other two prisoners are wearing white hats. After a few moments you give your answer to the jailer.
What is your answer?

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Question 779268: This is my word problem. A lady has a number of eggs which when she groups them in groups of 2,3,4,5,6 she always has one left over but when she groups them in 7 she never has any left over. I thought the number was 91 because it works with the equation with all of the numbers except for the number 4. I have tried all kinds of numbers ending in 1 but have had no success. Is this a solvable equation or am i just killing my brain. PLEASE WHAT IS THE ANSWER ????
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Question 779615: a first bell ring at every 6 minutes, a second bell rings every 7 minutes and a third bell rings every 1 hour, if all the bells start ringing at 12 noon today when the next day will all ring at the same time
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Question 779709: whitney has 20 candies and eats 2 each minute. how many candies will she have in 10 minutes?

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Question 779750: paul's banana bread recipe calls for 11 1/4 cups of bananas to make 5 loaves, but he only needs to mak 1 loaf. how many cups of bananas does he need?
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Question 779739: A pen cost Y$. The ruler cost 2$ more than the pen and the geometry set 5 times as much as the pen. If the total cost of the three items is 23$. What is the cost of the pen?
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Question 779751: in a bag of frozen vegatables there are 2 cucumbers for every 5 carrots. if there are 35 vegatables in a bag, how many are carrots?
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