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Question 800835: a juice company sells apple juice for 13 cents an ounce and apple drink for 4 cents an ounce. they wish to market and sell for 10 cents an ounce cans of juice drink that are part juice and part drink. how many ounces of each will be used if the juice drink is to be sold in 8 ounce cans?
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Question 800850: James earns $5.20 per hour for his basic 40-hour week. When he works overtime he is paid his basic rate plus $0.80. One week he works 'y' hours and receives $298.00. How many hours overtime did he work?
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Question 801027: An arrow is shot upward from a platform of 20ft high with an initial velocity of 184 ft per second. Its height(h)in ft after t seconds is given by: h= 16t squared +184+20. Where will the arrow be 50 ft above the ground?
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Question 801027: An arrow is shot upward from a platform of 20ft high with an initial velocity of 184 ft per second. Its height(h)in ft after t seconds is given by: h= 16t squared +184+20. Where will the arrow be 50 ft above the ground?
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Question 801645: Nate invests $1000 in a mutual fund. The first year, the value of the fund increases by 10%. The second year, the value of the fund decreases by 10%.
Determine the value of the fund at the end of the second year
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Question 801650: Use inductive reasoning to predict the next three numbers in the pattern:
a. 0,1,1,2,3,5,8___,____,_____
b.-12,-7,-2,3,8,____,______,_____
c. 1/5,1/3,3/7,1/2,5/9,_____,______,_______
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Question 801870: Eduardo started a business selling sporting goods. He spent $7500 to obtain his merchandise, and it costs him $300 per week for general expenses. He earned $850 per week in sales. What is the minimum number of weeks it will take for Eduardo to make a profit? Solve the problem.
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Question 801962: Five less than three times a certain number is the same as four more than one third of the number. What is the number?
What I tried:
certain number = X
3x-5 = x/3 + 4
3x-9 = x/3
3x-9 -x/3 = 0
3x -x/3 = 9
(9x-x)/3= 9
8x = 27
x = 27/8
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Question 802153: A financial planner wants toinvest 8000 some in stocks earning 15% annually and the rest in bonds earning 6% annually. How much should be invested at each rate to get a return of 930$ annually from the two investments?
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Question 802153: A financial planner wants toinvest 8000 some in stocks earning 15% annually and the rest in bonds earning 6% annually. How much should be invested at each rate to get a return of 930$ annually from the two investments?
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Question 802468: a professor has two types of problems to use in putting together a test: multiple choice questions worth 1 point each and short answer questions worth 8 points each. If the professor wants to create a 130 point test using a total of 74 questions, then how many question of each type should she use?
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Question 802469: The Scott's family plays baseball together on 2 days. On the first day Helen Scott gets 1 hit 4 times at bat,So her batting average is 0.25 so far. On the 2nd day her overall batting average rises to 0.400.how many hits and bats did she have on the second day to produce that overall batting.
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Question 802789: Amy spends 45 percent of her monthly income on food and rent, 10 percent on entertainment, and 20 percent on taxes and miscellaneous expenses. In addition, she gives 15 percent to charity and then saves the remainder. If she saves $200 each month, what is her total monthly income?
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Question 802903: On Saturday, Harold worked three less hours than on friday. If he worked 10 hours in the two days, how many hours did he work on friday?
this is for my daughter who is having trouble figuring out to write and figure this equation.
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Question 803016: Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, and Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800 how much less does X receive if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?
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Question 803016: Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, and Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800 how much less does X receive if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?
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Question 803143: Newton's Law of Gravitation says that two objects with masses m_1 and m_2 attract each other with a force F that is jointly proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance r between the objects. Newton discovered the constant of proportionality is 6.67 xx 10^(-11).
In a small laboratory experiment, two 300 kg masses are separated by 0.2 meters. What would the gravitational force between the objects be?
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Question 803663: Starting from the same point at the same time Samuel and Heather rode their mini-bikes in the same direction. Samuel traveled 3 Km/h faster than Heather. After 3.5 hours Samuel stopped for a half-hour break, but Heather kept going. At the end of Samuel’s break, Heather was 8 km ahead of him. How fast was each going?
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Question 803665: Leslie and Marnie live in two different cities that are 826 km apart. One day they both left at the same time and drove towards each other, Leslie goes 18 km/h faster than Marnie. If they met after 7 hours, how fast was each going?
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Question 803721: A real estate firm invests $100,000 in two ways. The first portion is invested with an annual return of 8%. The rest is invested for an annual return of 5%. The firm wants an annual income of $6800 from the investments. How much should be put into each investment.
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Question 803856: How do I solve this??
The drama club sold 1500 tickets for the end-of-year performance. Admission prices were $12 for adults and $6 for students. The total amount collected at the box office was $16,200. How many students attended the play?
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Question 804193: My son who is in 3rd grade got a math question from his school.
A movie theater on first day has 299 seats filled and on third day 100 seats filled.
How many were occupied on second day.
How do we solve this math.
Help is appreciated.
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Question 804488: garland put 2b + 3 dollars in the bank in the first week. the following week he doubled the first week's savings and put the amount in the bank. the next week he doubled what was in the bank and put that amount in the bank, how much did he put in the bank the first week?
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Question 804741: vince spent half of his weekly allowance at the movies to earn more money his parents let him clean the windows in the house for four dollars what is his weekly allowance if he ended with twelve dollars
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