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Question 878751: GRE Question: NY is 3000 miles from LA, S leaves NY heading towards LA at the same time, R leaves LA heading towards NY. If S is moving at 200 mph and R is moving at 400 mph, how soon will one pass another?
Can u tell me what is constant here, the time cannot be constant, the distance is constant, the speed is not constant. Forgotten how to solve this!
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Question 878905: activity
for brushing,bathing no.of hours [percentage]of a day
getting ready for school 1hr
in school 11hrs
at home 8hrs
for sleeping 7hrs

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Question 879021: margaretta high school has t-shirts that come in three styles, four colors, and six sizes. a student wants to buy a medium or large t-shirt. how many choices does the student have?
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Question 879091: a bakery sells single-layer mini-cakes that are 3 inches in diameter for $4 each. They also have a cake with a 9-inch diameter for $15. If both cakes are the same thickness, which option gives you more cake for your money, nine mini-cakes or one 9-inch cake?
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Question 879033: Organizers for a high school graduation have set up chairs in two sections. They put 126 chairs for the graduates in the front section and 588 chairs for guests in the back section. If all rows have the same number of chairs, what is the greatest number of chairs possible for a row?
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Question 879181: Hello,
Can you please help me with this question?
Anne went on vacation and the round trip flight to New York cost
her 1/4 the amount she had to spend on the hotel. If she spent a total
amount of $1750, what was the cost of her round trip flight?
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Question 879180: Hello,
Can you please help me with this question?
1. Solve the following parallel process word problem:
Rusty can wash a horse in 1 hour. Gary can wash a horse in 2 hours.
How long would it take Rusty and Gary to wash a horse if they
worked together?
2. Solve the following parallel process word problem:
Jessica can wash a horse in 1 hour. If she assists with Rusty and
and Gary (from Problem #1 above), how long will it take the three
of them working together to wash a horse.
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Question 879174: Boyle's Law says that the volume of a gas varies inversely with the pressure. When the volume of a certain gas is 2L, the pressure is 575 kPa(kilopascals). What is the volume when the pressure is 230 kPa?

the answer will be in L
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Question 879092: a circle is inscribed in a square which is circumscribed by another circle. If the diagonal of the square is 2x, find the ratio of the area of the large circle to the area of the small circle?
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Question 879353: State any limitations on the possible solutions to the equation
3/4x+1 + 7/x+9 = 13/10x. Then solve.
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Question 879352: Jane brought some muffins for $4. She ate three herself, and resold the rest at a profit of 20 cents per muffin. If Jane sold the muffins for a total of $3.50, how much did she charge for each muffin?
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Question 879350: Darryl needs to put up a fence up around his rectangular backyard for his new golden retriever. Find the amount of fence he should buy.
Lenght: (7/2x) feet
Width: (3x/x-4) feet
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Question 879399: How do I set this problem and solve it? I think I am missing a step.
The floor of a shed has an area of 117 square feet. The floor is in the shape of a rectangle whose length is 5 feet less than twice the width. Find the length and the width of the floor of the shed.
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Question 879583: Jessica was computing the volume of a rectangular prism where v=lwh. For her, the width was the same as the height. After multiplying the length and the width she said that she made the width 1/3 larger than it should have been. Since the width was the same as the height, she lowered the third number by 1/3 of itself and continued to multiply to get the final answer. Justin, who did the same problem with correct number, showed that Jessica was off by 12 cubic yards. What is the correct volume of the prism?
I submitted a question like this before but that version had some typos.
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Question 879519: Timmy can get 10 toys for $15. How much does one toy cost
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Question 879643: How much water should be added to 24ml of 18% alcohol solution to reduce the concentration to 12%?

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Question 879792: If it was 1:50 what time would it be 45 minutes later?

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Question 879905: lindsay wants to me a 20% saline solution with a 12% saline solution to make 60 ounces of a solution that is 15% saline. how many ounces of the 12% saline solution will she need
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Question 880430: Algebra 101 Statistics Word Problem
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Question 880423: STATISTICS 101 WORD PROBLEM
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Question 880441: An office building has the following office spaces for lease.
1000 sq ft. or less Between 1000 and 2000 sq. ft. 3000 sq. ft. or more Total
1st floor 1 2 2 5
2nd floor 2 2 2 6
3rd floor 1 4 1 6
Total 6 7 5 17
If an apartment is selected at random, what is the probability that it is not an apartment between 1000 and 2000 sq. ft. on the 2nd floor?

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Question 880215: Mike needs at least a 75% average to pass his math course. The class contains 5 exams that are equally weighted. If he scored a 64%, 86%, 71%, and 90% on the first 4 tests, what score does he need on the final test to earn at least a 75% in the class. Write and solve an inequality.
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Question 880610: katie is going to america and then france. she will need to buy dollars and then euros for her trip. at katies bank, she can buy 1.10 euros for �1 , and 1.50 dollars for �1.
calculate how many in pounds katie must pay for 300 dollars?
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Question 880774: Benches are placed 4.5 m apart along a straight path, including one at the start and one at the end of the path. The length of each bench is 1.5 m.
(a) What is the length of the path with 17 benches?
(b) How many benches are there along a straight path of 163.5 m?

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Question 880856: A number x is decreased by m% and a number y is increased by m%.If both the results are equal find m in terms of x and y
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Question 880932: Solve.

The equation V=-2000t+23,000 describes the value in dollars of a certain model of car after it is t years old. If a car is worth $7,000, find the age of the car.

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Question 880571: How do we solve this : a fourth of p is 20
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Question 880908: A circular tank with a diameter of 30 feet and a horizontal bottom contains about 127,000 gallons of water. Find the depth of water in the tank. On cubic foot contains approximately 7.5 gallons of water.
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Question 881168: Adult tickets for a sport even cost $5.00 and children's tickets cost $20.00. The total receipt for 1720 tickets was $59,800.00. What is the number of adult tickets sold?
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Question 881242: Kate received a z score of 1 on a reading test. What do we know about Kate�s performance, assuming that the reading test scores are distributed normally?
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Question 881232: The sum of two numbers is 32. One of the numbers is 4 less than 5 times the other. Find the two numbers?
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Question 881233: If tickets for a show cost$2.00 for adults and $1.50 for children, how many of each kind of ticket were sold if a total of 300 tickets were sold for $525?
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Question 881229: The larger of two numbers is 5 more than twice the smaller. If the smaller is subtracted from the larger, the result is 12. Find the two numbers?
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Question 881282: c
arpet sells for $5 per square foot and will cost you $780 to recarpet your room. If your room is 12 feet long, how many feet wide is it?
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Question 881193: A copier was purchased by a company for $7,500. After 5 years it is estimated that the value of the copier will be $4,500. If the value in dollars V and the time the copier has been in use t are related by a linear equation, find the equation that relates V and t.
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Question 881423: Tickets for a music concert were purchased at the rate of 500 tickets would have been purchased in minutes
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Question 881434: Find the probability of drawing a card from a 52 card deck & getting a heart.
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Question 881445: Find the slope of a line passing through the points (2,4) and (-1,-2)
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Question 881432: Find the probability of rolling a fair die and gettinga number >4
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Question 881459: "The width of a rectangular room is 10 feet less than its length. The area of the room is 375 square feet. Find the width and length of the room."

I started out with 2L+2(L-10)=357
2L+2L-20=357
4L=377
4L/4=377/4
L=94.25 square feet.
I don't feel like this is the right answer. I appreciate the help! Thanks!

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Question 881452: Solve by any method you choose.
x-y+3z=13
4x+y+2z=17
3x+2y+2z=1
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Question 881453: Find the inverse of the following matrix:
1 0 1
2 -2 1
3 0 0
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Question 881454: Solve the matrix equation AX=B for X using

A= 2 -3 B=4
1 5 2
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