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Question 862558: A truck load with ??? kilograms of items came to your warehouse. It takes 5 people 2 hours to unload the items from the truck. How many hours are needed for 10 people to unload the items from the same truck
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Question 862577: marcus has 4 ties, 5 shirts, 3 pair of pants. How many outfits can he wear?
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Question 862657: Jim Smith is a word processor. He is paid $3.50 a page. A normal job has 500 pages and requires about 250 words per page, Jim types at 80 words per minute. How much will Jim get paid for his work?
How many hours will it take Jim to complete the job?
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Question 862701: if it takes 100 chicken 16 days to eat a sock of corn. how much days will it take 80 chicken to eat a sock of corn.

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Question 862701: if it takes 100 chicken 16 days to eat a sock of corn. how much days will it take 80 chicken to eat a sock of corn.

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Question 862747: if you get paid 7.50 an hour for 40 hours a week and get 1.50 times your regular pay if you work over time how much would you get in 42 hours?
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Question 862745: How long does it take for your investment to double in value if it is invested at 4% interest compounded monthly? Compounded continuously?
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Question 862841: When an object falls, it gains speed. Thus the number of feet "d" the object has fallen is not linearly related to the number of seconds "t" spend falling. In fact, for objects falling near the surface of the Earth, with negligible resistance from the air, d=16t ^2 (16x t x t).
How many seconds would it take for a canon ball to reach the ground if it were dropped from the top of the Eiffel Tower, which is 984 feet tall? How many seconds would it take for the cannonball to reach the ground if it were dropped from a point that is halfway to the top?
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Question 862905: An observer's eye is 6ft above the floor. The bottom of the mural is at floor level. The observer looks down 13 degrees to see the bottom and up 17 degrees to see the top. How tall is the mural?
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Question 862945: At the beginning of a walk, Roberto and Juanita are 4.4 miles apart. If they leave at the same time and walk in the same direction, Roberto overtakes Juanita in 11 hours. If they walk towards each other, they meet in hour. What are their speeds?
Roberto's speed is __ mph.
Juanita's speed is __ mph.
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Question 863001: A company paid $13,659.50 for a copier, giving the copier a five year life, how much is the monthly depreciation?
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Question 863016: Helping with homework and this one has us stumped, any help is appreciated.
The square of a number plus the number is 6. What is the number?
Many thanks,

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Question 862840: Jess is running around a circular track, one lap every 40 seconds. Cameron is also running at a constant speed around the same track, but in the opposite direction. They meet every 15 seconds. How many seconds does it take Cameron to do one lap?
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Question 863002: contractors generally include sales tax of 6.5% on all their contracts on existing construction in the state of Kansas. Company prepared a landscaping proposal for Mr. Jones for a total of $45,000. How much is the sales tax amount?
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Question 862943: Lewiston and Vernonville are 208 apart. A car leaves Lewiston traveling towards Vernonville, and another car leaves Vernonville at the same time, traveling towards Lewiston. The car leaving Lewiston average 10 miles per hour more than the other, and they meet after 1 hour and 36 minutes. What are average speeds of the cars?
The car leaving Lewiston averages __ mph.
The care leaving Vernonville averages __ mph.
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Question 863062: Kristen has to dig a pool in the yard. The pool will be a rectangular prism and be 14 yards long, 20 ft wide, and 5 ft deep. The company will dig the pool for $4.25 per cubic yard. How much will it cost her to have her pool dug?
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Question 863050: In Kendrick's dream home, he is now putting a sidewalk that goes from his driveway to his front porch. He is pouring 4 inches deep. The height is 10 ft, and the length is 12 ft. The concrete will cost him $85 per cubic yard. How much will it cost to pour the sidewalk? Thank you for helping me.
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Question 862978: Christine and Peter earn a combined annual income of $290,500. If Christine earns $20,500 per year more than Peter, what are their individual annual salaries?
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Question 863099: Jinfa, upon receiving his paycheck, spent two-thirds of it on car repairs and then bought a $40 gift for his mother. He had $64 left. How much was his paycheck?
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Question 863186: A sludge pool is filled by two inlet pipes. One pipe can fill the pool in 15 days, and the other can fill it in 21 days. However, if no sewage is added, continuous waste removal will empty the pool in 36 days. How long will it take the two inlet pipes to fill an empty sludge pool.
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Question 863306: Why do we not use the unit dozen to count the number of atoms or molecules in a sample?

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Question 863366: The perimeter of an isosceles triangle is 120 centimeters. If the nonequal side is 30 centimeters shorter than each of the two equal sides, find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 863355:
You have two saltwater solutions. One consists of 20% salt, and the other consists of 15% salt. If you wanted to make 5 gallons of a 19% solution, what volume of each solution should you add?
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Question 863402: The revenue R from selling x number of phone widgets is given by R=17 x, and the cost C of producing those widgets is given by C=10 x + 931. Find the number of widgets it requires to break even.
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Question 863389: 10. Jen and Jacob want to put a cement deck around their pool. Use the figure below to calculate the area of the deck. If cement costs $4.75 per square foot, how much is the cost of the deck? Round to the nearest hundredth.

pool is width x+3 length is 3x-4
deck is width 3x-2 length is 2x+6

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Question 863443: simplify the trigonometric expression.
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Question 863443: simplify the trigonometric expression.
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Question 863445: verify the identity.
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Question 863463: For Thanksgiving, Mrs. Smith needs to bake 7 pies for her family's meal.
Which equation can be used to determine the number of ways in which she can bake the pies?
1. p = 7!
2. p = 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1
3. p = 7 � 6
4. p = 7 to the 7th power
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Question 863303: How does using the mole as a counting unit for atoms compare to using a dozen for counting nails?

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Question 434122: In the standard (x,y) coordinate plain, a right triangle has vertices at (-3,4), (3,-4). What is the length, in coordinate units, of the hypotenuse of this triangle?
a)3
b)4
c)6
d)8
e)10
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Question 863863: If you pile oranges in a pyramid that has 1 orange in the top layer, 4 in the next layer nine in the third layer, and 16 in the fourth layer, how many oranges will you need to make a pile with 10th layer?
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Question 863880: Use the elimination method to solve the given system of equations. Please show all work
�2x + 3y = 7
4x � 6y = 8
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Question 863876: What is the first step in solving the system of equations using the elimination method?
3x + 4y = 8;
5x - 2y = 2
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Question 863937: linear inequalities- suppose you are responsible for recycling you have metal cans and plastic bottles, how many of each type can you send to the recycling center if the truck holds no more than 9 bags?
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Question 863896: Write a system of equations to model the problem and solve. Please show all work
Theo flies from Atlanta to San Francisco. It takes 5.6 hours to travel 2100 miles against the head wind. At the same time, Della flies from San Francisco to Atlanta. Her plane travels with the same avergae air speed. but with the tail wind. it only takes her 4.8 hours. Find the air speed and the wind speed.
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Question 863972: You are building a right-angled triangular flower garden along a stream as shown in the figure. The fencing of the left border costs $5 per foot, while the fencing of the lower border costs $1 per foot. (No fencing is required along the river.) You want to spend $80 and enclose as much area as possible. What are the dimensions of your garden, and what area does it enclose? HINT [The area of a right-triangle is given by A = xy/2.]
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Question 864095: Fruit drink A consists of 6% pure fruit juice and drink B consists of 15% pure fruit juice. How much of each kind of drink should you mix together to get 4 liters of a 10% concentration of fruit juice?
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Question 864278: There are 11 cookies on a plate. During one day several were eaten. 12 cookies were added to the plate which now has 17 cookies on it. How many cookies were eaten?
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Question 864296: Use the elimination method to solve the given system of equations. Please show all work
2a - 4b = 9;
3a + 4b = 1
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Question 864295: Use the elimination method to solve the given system of equations. Please show all work
8x + 11y = 20
5x - 11y = -59
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Question 864295: Use the elimination method to solve the given system of equations. Please show all work
8x + 11y = 20
5x - 11y = -59
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Question 864305: Use the elimination method to solve the given system of equations. Please show all work
7x + 2y = 10
-7x + y = -16
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