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Question 831954: "Penelope spent all but a nickel of her $10 allowance on chocolate and bubblegum. She bought a total of 4.5 pounds of candy with chocolate costing 3.50/pound and bubblegum costing .60/pound. How much chocolate and bubblegum did she buy?"
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Question 832043: Kim started a lawn mowing business. He charges $5 for each lawn.he bought a lawn mower for $200 and now, after 2 months,has a profit of $100. How many lawns has he mowed so far?

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Question 832172: The cost to produce one compact disc is $1.75 plus a one-time fixed cost of $2500. The revenue received from selling one compact disc is $12.
Write a formula that gives the cost C of producing x compact discs. Be sure to include the fixed cost.
Write a formula that gives the revenue R from selling x compact discs.

PROFITABILITY occurs when Revenue is greater than Cost. Write an inequality representing the point at which PROFITABILITY is achieved.
Solve the inequality from part �c� to find how many compact discs must be sold to reach PROFITABILITY.
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Question 832107: I need help setting up a problem.
Jill added gas to her gas tank when it was half full. 2 days later she added more gas when it was 3/4 full. She added 181/2 gallons all together. How large is her gas tank? I tried this: 1/4X + 1/2X =181/2 solve for x then plug into the equation. 1/4X + 1/2X=37/2 ; 3/4x=37/2; X=242/3 divide this by 2 and 4. Then add the results plus 1/4 more so 61/2+61/2+121/3 =245/3
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Question 832356: becky has a board that is 2(3/4)feet long. she needs to cut the board into 11 peices of equal length. how long should each piece be?
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Question 832369: "A boat travels upstream 24 miles in 12 hours and downstream in 16 hours. What is the rate of the boat in still water, and what is the rate of the current?"
Thank you in advance! :)
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Question 832647: The drama club is selling candles .they pay $22 for the advertising brochures and 3.25 for each candle . If they sell each candle for 6.50 hihow many candles must they sell to break even ?
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Question 833063: A inch board is cut into two pieces. If one piece has a length of x inches, what is the length, in inches, of the other piece?
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Question 833187: a total of 550 people attended a concert. floor tickets cost 2,000 each while balcony tickets cost 1,400 each. if a total of of 1,040,000 was collected. how many of each type of ticket were sold?
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Question 832703: Find three consecutive integers whose sum is 156.
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Question 833361: what is the answer to the equation:
1g/cm3 x (1cm x 10cm/m x 1000m/km x 100 km) x (1cm x 10cm/m x 1000m/km x 100 km) x 1 cm
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Question 833422: Encik gave 2/5 of his money to his wife and spent 1/2 of the reminder. If he had $300 left, how much money did he have at first?
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Question 833437: The first plane has 117 more seats than the 2nd plane. The third plane has 18 fewer seats than the the second plane. The total number of seats is 405.Find the the number of seats for each plane.
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Question 833487: A developer is building 13 townhouses at one time. Each roof measures 45.7 feet by 68.55.
1. What is the total square feet per roof?

2. What is the total square feet for the entire project?

3. If the roofing company charges $4.15 per square feet what is the total cost of the roofs?
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Question 833489: A particular dress requires 3 1/4 yards of fabric for manufacturing. If the matching jacket requires 5/6 yards less fabric, how much fabric is needed for both pieces?
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Question 833504: A dress requires 3 1/4 yards of fabric for manufacturing. The matching jacket requires 5/6 yards less fabric. how much fabric is needed for both pieces?
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Question 833526: find two numbers whose sum is 64 if one of the numbers is 1/7 the other. I put x plus 1 over 7 x equals 64. My mom checked the answer book and the correct answers are 8 and 56. The explanation is showing to multiply7 times X instead of dividing by 7.. We are confused..
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Question 833531: At a games tournament, 1,008 people are divided into teams of 6. How many teams will play in the first round?
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Question 833485: Jane, Bob and Mary compared their salaries for a particular week. They found that their average salary was $631.50. If Bob made $562.25 and Jane made $640.55, What was Mary's salary for that week?
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Question 834014: Marley is repairing the post on her mailbox. She wanted the post to be perpendicular to the ground, but her protractor showed that the post was a 78 degree angle with the ground. She incorrectly concluded that she needed to increase the angle by 22 degrees. What should Marley have concluded?
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Question 834279: Amy purchased a prepaid phone card for $30.00 . Long distance calls cost 17 cents a minute using this card. Amy used her card only once to make a long distance call. If the remaining credit on her card is ,$27.11 how many minutes did her call last?
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Question 834312: a new cruise ship line has just launched 3 new ships: the pacific paradise, the Caribbean paradise, and the Mediterranean paradise. The Caribbean paradise has 37 more deluxe staterooms than the pacific paradise. The Mediterranean paradise has 38 fewer deluxe staterooms than four times the number of deluxe staterooms on the pacific paradise. find the number of the deluxe staterooms for each of the ships if the total number of deluxe staterooms for all three ships is845
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Question 834415: A. High tech computer can do 1,000 equations in 4.5 times ten to the sixth power seconds. How many operations can be done by this computer in one hour?
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Question 834398: 5 people share 2 pizzas equally. 8 people share 3 pizzas equally. 12 people share 5 pizzas equally. Is this fair? Explain using numbers, words or diagrams.
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Question 834446: Karl recieves $40 for working a full day doing inventory at a book store. How much will he receive for working 3/4 of the day?

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Question 834451: You are offered three plots of land. Plot 1 sells for $1300 for 1.5 ha. Plot 2 is worth $750 for 2 acres, and plot 3 sells for $93 for 1000 m2. Which plot is the lowest cost per square area?
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Question 834459: 5 people share 2 pizzas equally. 8 people share 3 pizzas equally. 12 people share 5 pizzas equally. Is this an equal amount of pizza for all people? Explain using words, numbers, or diagrams.
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Question 834477: Lauren bought a new pack of graph paper for math class three classmates ask her for some. She gave Andy a quarter is the pack. Alex got one fourth of wat was left. Then lily took one third of the remainder. That left lauren with 36 sheets left. How many sheets were in the pack?
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Question 834534: The team baked 84 cup cakes for the bake sale . 18 can fit into each box. The team ate the leftovers how many cup cakes did the team eat?.
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Question 834369: Nina charges $5 for each day of pet sitting. Write an equation relating the cost of pet sitting to the number of days.
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Question 834858: Sara played the piano 3 days in a row. Each day she played twice as long as the previous day. If she played 24 minutes on the last day, how long did she play on the first?
I know the answer is 6, I just can't figure how to show the work.
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Question 834973: Eva planted 1/2 of her garden with eggplant.how many tenths of garden are planted with eggplant?
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Question 834971: A box is to be made out of a piece of cardboard that measures 22 by 34 inches. Squared. x inches on a side, will be cut from each corner, and then the ends and sides will be folded up. Find all values of x that will result in a box with a volume of 700 cubic inches.
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Question 835334: A machine in a factory capped 14 bottles in 84 seconds. How many would this same machine cap in 2 minutes working at the same rate?
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Question 835362: A store mixes Brazilian coffee worth $11per kilogram and Turkish coffee with $14 per kilogram the mixture is to sell for $13 per kilogram find how much of each should be used to make a 600 kilogram mixture? How many kilogram of Brazilian coffee should be in the mixture?

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Question 835361: The sum of twice a number and thrice the number is 100. find the number
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Question 835437: Differentiate ln(sqrt((x)(x)+1)-x) with respect to x.
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Question 835606: You're part of a high school committee whose purpose is to organize an upcoming school dance. The dance is to include a band and there are 2 currently available. Band A charges $300 plus $1.75 for every ticket sold. Band B charges $300 per hour. To encourage attendance the ticket price should be as low as possible, so if the dance will last 2 hours and have an attendance of 200 students, which is the least expensive band?
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Question 835736: Joan saved 25% by buying her gym suit on sale. If she saved $2.50, what was the regular price of the gym suit ?

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Question 835807: How would I write this question out and find the number for this?
Question: Three times the sum of five and a number is 48. find the number
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Question 835702: A 32" board is to be cut into 2 pieces such that one piece is 3 times as long as the other. What are the lengths of the 2 sections?
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Question 835972: Dan works on commission and earns 4% on all of his sales. In month 1, he sold $25,000; month 2 was $17,000; and month 3 was $34,000. 18% of his total earnings are taken out for taxes. Calculate the total net (after taxes) pay Dan earned over the 3 months. Write and simplify an expression that represents this scenario.
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