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Question 849801: find the solution of the exponential equation, rounded to four decimal places
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Question 849916: The volume V of a fixed amount of a gas varies directly as the temperature T and inversely as the pressure P . Suppose that V=42cm^3 when T=84 kelvin and P=8 kg/cm^2 . Find the volume when T=185 kelvin and P=10 kg/cm^2 .
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Question 850007: Alex has a job delivering newspapers. He puts 20% of his earnings each week into his college savings account. Each week he puts $16 into the account. How much money does Alex earn each week?
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Question 850027: Bill and Marie create posters. They can complete a poster if Bill works for 24 minutes on it and Marie works 30 minutes on it. If Marie works 36 minutes and Bill works 20 minutes they can finish a poster. How long would it take Marie to finish a poster if she works alone?
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Question 850163: If 20 ladies lost 29 gloves - some lost one glove and some lost both gloves. how many lost one glove ?
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Question 849596: A play has two male roles, two female roles and two roles that can be either gender. Only a man can be assigned to a male role, and only a woman can be assigned to a female role. If five men and six women audition, in how many ways can the six roles be assigned?
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Question 850245: You have a rectangular garden 15ft longer than it is wide. If a 4ft sidewalk goes around the garden and the area of the sidewalk is 632 squared feet, what is the length and width of the garden? (Use 1 variable)
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Question 850241: On her way home from school Gloria Sol met a friend and gave her one half of all her candy. Next, she met another friend and gave her one third of all the candy she had left. Then, she met another friend and gave him one half of all the candy she had left. She then had 9 pieces left. How many pieces did she start with?
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Question 850424: The cost of an orange and an apple is 72 cents. The cost of an apple and a plum 36 cents. The cost of an orange and plum is 62 cents. What would the cost of 2 apples, 2 oranges, and 1 plum?

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Question 850479: A farmer is given 36 feet of fencing material. He wants to experiment with different size rectangles while using all 36 feet of the material. He is given the width and needs to figure out the length and area.
The widths he is provided with are as follows. He must figure out the length and areas that correspond with the given widths
Width: 1 Length: Area:
Width: 2 Length: Area:
Width: 3 Length: Area:
Width: 4 Length: Area:
Width: 5 Length: Area:
Width: 6 Length: Area:
Width: 7 Length: Area:
Width: 8 Length: Area:
Width: 9 Length: Area:
Width: 10 Length: Area:
After figuring out the length and area, we must write a function that could represent the relationship between the length and the width. Then we write an equation giving the length as a function of the width.
Then the farmer must write a function for the area of the rectangle as a function of the width.
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Question 850485: Mrs. Jacobs own 4/7 of the stock in a business. Mrs. Bryn owns the rest. Mrs. Smay wants 1/3 of the stock in exchange for $21,000. The $21,000 is to be divided between Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. Bryn so that all three will now have equal shares. How much of the $21,000 should Mrs. Jones receive?
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Question 850517: The local elementary school sells fancy chocolates as a school fundraiser. Five boxes of Peppermint Melt-Aways and three boxes of Almond Delights cost $49. While, two boxes of Peppermint Melt-Aways and four boxes of Almond Delights cost $42. Find the cost of one box of Peppermint Melt-Aways and one box of Almond Delights.
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Question 850488: There are 6 boxes --> 3 on the bottom, 2 in the middle, and 1 on the top(pyramid form). The top box weighs 72 lbs and the two middle boxes weigh 90 lbs and 80 lbs. If the weights are evenly distributed, how many lbs is the bottom middle box supporting?
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Question 850339: The cost of an orange and an apple is 72 cents. The cost of an apple and a plum 36 cents. The cost of an orange and plum is 62 cents. What would the cost of 2 apples, 2 oranges, and 1 plum?
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Question 850157: Alana is making fruit pies for a bake sale.
The recipe require 3/4 pounds of fruit per pie Alana brought 4 1/2 times the amount of fruit required by the recipe.
How many pounds of fruit did Alana buy?
When she finished preparing the pies Alana found that she had used 2/3 of the fruit she had brought. How many pounds of fruit did she have left?
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Question 849985: a number increased by 60 is equal to 570. find the number. x= 290

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Question 849781: solve the system of equation by substitution
y=6x-4 4=-4
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Question 849682: A board 186 cm long is cut into two pieces so that one piece is twice as long as the other. How long is each of the two pieces?
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Question 849497: A bus weighing 14000 lbs traveling at 25 mph, runs into the back of a stopped automobile weighing 2083, what is the force of impact to the 145 lbs driver in the car, wearing a seat belt?
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Question 850620: Two investments are made totaling $14,000. For a certain year these investments yield $1064 in simple interest. Part of the $14,000 is invested at 6% and the rest at 8%. How much is invested at 8%?
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Question 850667: If 20 workmen take 10 days to build a house, how long will 12 workmen take to build the same house?
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Question 850655: the heat loss of a glass window varies jointly as the window's area and the difference between the outside and the inside temperatures. a window 6 feet wide by 3 feet long loses 900 Btu per hour when the temperature outside is 15 degrees colder than the temperature inside. find the heat loss through a glass window that is 3 feet wide by 9 feet long when the temperature outside is 19 degrees colder than the temperature inside.
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Question 850691: For a three-year period the cost of living rose 25%, while in that same period Ms. Smith�s salary increased 30%. What was the % of increase in Ms. Smith�s salary, relative to the new cost of living?

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Question 850840: there are five times as many chickens as ducks. if there are 640 chickens more than ducks how many chickens and ducks are there in all?
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Question 850838: Suppose that the number of cars manufactured at an automobile plant varies jointly as the number of workers and the time they work. If 160 workers can produce 32 cars in 2 hours, find the number of cars that 220 workers can produce in 3 hours.
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Question 850842: Find the equilibrium point for the demand and supply functions for
D(p)=133-10p
S(p)=65+7p

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Question 850842: Find the equilibrium point for the demand and supply functions for
D(p)=133-10p
S(p)=65+7p

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Question 850948: Mr. True word cut a paper into 9 pieces. Each piece was 3 1/3 meters long. How long was the roll of paper?
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Question 851138: Mike lived for 63 years from 18xy to 18yx. The sum of xy and yx is 11. In what year was Mike born?
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Question 851246: 15 men take 21 days of 8 hrs. each to do a piece of work.How manydays of 6 hrs. each would it take
for 21 women if 3 women do as much work as 2 men?
(a) 30
(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) 29

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Question 851244: A man buys 12 lts of liquid which contains 20% of the SUBSTANCE and the rest is water. He then mixes it with
10 lts of another mixture with 30% of SUBSTANCE.What is the % of water in the new mixture?

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Question 851339: Billy weighs 140 pounds more than his sister Nancy. Their combined weight is 160 pounds. How many pounds does Billy weigh?
**HINT**...sister is a baby
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Question 851389: The half-life of a radioactive substance is the time it takes for half of the material to decay. Phosphorus-32 is used to study a plant's use of fertilizer. It has a half-life of 14.3 days. How many milligrams of phosphorus-32 remain after 92 days from a 100 milligram sample? Express the answer to the nearest whole milligram.
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Question 851436: Shomika was helping her family pick oranges. She took some oranges home to share with three friends. She gave three more than half to Jennifer. Angela got half of the remainder and three more. She gave Josie half of the remainder plus three. When she got home, she only had 10 left. How many did she have when she left the grove?
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Question 851486: It takes richard semmler 3 hours to prepare a little league baseball field. it takes larry gilligan 10 hours to prepare the same field. how long will it take richard and larry working together to prepare a little league baseball field?
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Question 851458: in a class of 18, the class average is an 87. if the highest grade is a 92, what is the mean for the rest of the class?
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Question 851489: A pool can be filled by one pipe in 4 hours and by a second pipe in 12 hours.how long will it take using both pipes to fill the pool?
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Question 851507: Olga Palmieri can clean the gutters on 27 houses in 3.5 days. her co-worker, Jien Ping, can clean the same gutters in 4.5 days. How long will it take them working together to clean the gutters on the 27 houses?
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Question 851388: You made a square card to a friend. The card did not fit in the envelope so you had to trim the card. You trimmed 4 inches from the length and 5 inches from the width. The area of the resulting card is 20 square inches. What were the original dimensions of the card?
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Question 851528: 30 teachers work at hayes school
4 drivers bring 3 other teacher in their cars.
8 teachers walk to school, 4 ride bicycles.
the rest take a bus
only 9 teacher speak spanish
write 3 different numerical expression about the teachers
tell why each expression fits the facts
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Question 851154: What number am i thinking of.
It is even and less than 50
It is divisible by 3
The unit digit is a 2
It is not divisible by 4

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Question 851519: You go to the doctor and he gives you 15 milligrams of radioactive dye. After 12 minutes, 4.75 milligrams of dye remain in your system. To leave the doctor's office, you must pass through a radiation detector without sounding the alarm. If the detector will sound the alarm if more than 2 milligrams of the dye are in your system, how long will your visit to the doctor take, assuming you were given the dye as soon as you arrived? Give your answer to the nearest minute.
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Question 851676: Trent can buy two half-gallon containers on ice cream on sale for $5.99. Each container regularly sells for $3.99. How much Trent save off regular price if he buys 4 containers of Ice cream?
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Question 851668: I have before me three numeric palindromes (numbers which read the same backwards and forwards, like 838). The first number is two digits long; the second is three digits, and when we add those two numbers together we get the third number, which is four digits long. What are the three numbers?
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