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Question 881435: There are 80 students. 50 are engineering majors, 10 are accounting majors, 3 are both engineering & accounting, & 7 that are both accounting & chemistry, & 1 that is both engineering & chemistry. Draw a venn diagram
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Question 881433: Find the probability of rolling a fair die and getting an even number
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Question 881451: Find the equation in the form of y=mx+b through (3,-5) parallel to y=4x+3
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Question 881447: Find the equation in the form of y=mx+b through (-1,4), with undefined slope
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Question 881531: A grocery bag contains apples and oranges. There are 3 more apples than oranges. If 14 more fruit were added, the total number of fruit would be tripled. How many oranges were in the bag originally?
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Question 881441: Given a box with individual mittens as follows:
2 purple
6 red
9 green
what is the probability of randomly drawing a matched pair?
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Question 881449: Find the equation in the form of y=mx+b through (2,2), perpendicular to y=3x+4
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Question 20271: one number is 7 less than another number. if 5 times the smaller number is subtracted from twicw the large number, the result is -10. find the numbers.
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Question 123289: One number is twice another number. If the 12 subtracted from the larger number the result is 7 more than the smaller number. Find the numbers

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Question 881733: use the seuence of equations to find the unknown sum
1=1
1+3=4
1+3+5=9
1+3+5+....+1801=
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Question 881732: shannon is thinking of a number. Twice the number increased by 6 is 24 less than
four times the number. What is the number
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Question 881721: The probability that a car will need repairs the first six months is 0.29. A dealer sells 7 such cars. What is the probability that at least one of the cars will need repair in the first six months?
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Question 881718: The average 140-lb adult burns about 320 calories walking 4 mi at a moderate speed. How far should the average 140-lb adult walk in order to burn 100 calories?
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Question 881273: The Yellow Cab Company charges $4.25 for the first
half mile and then by the mile as shown in the table
below.
YELLOW CAB COMPANY
Miles (m)
(after the first half mile)
Total
Cost (t)
1 7.25
2 10.25
3 13.25
4 16.25
5 19.25

Which equation represents
c,
the cost per mile as a
function of
t
, the total cost, where
m
is the number of
miles driven after the first half mile?

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Question 881758: david went to the gas station and bought 13 gallons of gas for $20.00. determine the price of gas ,per gallon .(round to the nearest cent)
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Question 881786: How long would it take for a ball dropped from the top of a 225 foot building to hit the ground
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Question 881630: I'm trying to understand how I would solve for t, then f then p.

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Question 881833: The average selling price of a cup of coffee is $1.35 and the average variable expense per cup is $0.41. The average fixed expense per month is $1,600. How many cups of coffee would have to be sold to attain target profits of $3,700 per month?
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Question 882042: Which of the following statements is false?
A. Any two numbers, a and b, have a sum, equal to a+b
B. Any two numbers, a and b, have a product, equal to a*b
C. Any two numbers, a and b, have a difference, equal to a-b
D. Any two numbers, a and b, have a quotient, equal to a/b only
E. Any two numbers, a and b, have an average, equal to (a+b)/2
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Question 882159: Please help me solve this problem: Fred has 48m of fence. The area that can be enclosed by the fence is modeled by the function A(x)= -2x^2 +48x, where x is the width of the area in meters and A(x)is the area in square meters. What is the maximum area that can be enclosed?
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Question 882255: what is 357 (base 8) in words
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Question 40351: DIRECT VARIATION
Find an equation of variation where y varies directly as x and y=2 when x=10 find y when x = -25.
y=____
Thanks you very much

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Question 882513: please help me solve this word problem:
In the 2009-2010 school year in country A, there were 99000 foreign students from country B. This number is 23% more than the number of students from country C. How many foreign students were from country C?
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Question 40587: A worm is at the bottom of a 12 ft. wall. Every day it crawls up 3 ft., but at night it slips down 2 ft. How many days does it take the worm to get to the top of the wall? How do I solve this?
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Question 42198: Explain in complete sentenceswhy these two equqtions are equivalent.
A)x + 3 = 9

B)x - 3 = 3
Thanks for the help
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Question 44865: Recently, the Texas Junior College Teachers Association annual conference was held in Austin. At that time a taxi ride in Austin was $1.25 for the first 1/5 of a mile and $0.25 for each additional 1/5 mile. If the distance from one of the convention hotels to the airport is 7.5 miles, how much will it cost to take a taxi from that hotel to the airport?
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Question 882864: A school has 1600 feet of fencing available to enclose three playing fields, what is the dimensions tht will maximize the enclose area ?
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Question 882884: One bar or candy A and two bars of candy B have 775 calories. Two bars of candy A and one bar of candy B contain 779 calories. Find the caloric content of each candy bar.
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Question 882822: By what numbers should 3675, 605, 2880, 4056, 3468, and 7776 be multiplied by to be perfect squares?
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Question 883075: The remainder when an integer r is divided by 13 is 7. What is the remainder when 3r is divided by 13?
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Question 883097: The sum of two numbers is 20. The difference is 6
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Question 882967: To make an enclosure for chickens, a rectangular area will be fenced next to a house. Only 3 sides will need to be fenced. There is 160 ft of fencing material. What dimensions will maximize the area of the enclosure?
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Question 883195: What is the probability of drawing a queen OR a black card from a standard deck of playing cards?
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Question 50868: find a number that is 96 greater than its opposite.
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Question 883148: William says to Gracie, "If you give me $5.50, we will have an equal amount of money." Gracie responds, "That may be true, but if you give me $5.50 instead, I will have twice as much money as you." How much money did William and Gracie each have in the beginning?
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Question 883404: 13 inches of wire costs 52 cents. At the same rate, how much (in cents) will 9 inches of wire cost?
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Question 883395: the sum of two numbers is 46 and the difference between the numbers is 2?
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Question 883447: If molly and 2 friends go to a movie showing at 7 o'clock on Saturday night, how much do they have to pay out of pocket?
How much would they save by going to a 2 o'clock showing?
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Question 883446: Molly receives a $25 gift card to her favorite movie theater. It costs $6.50 for show times before 4 o'clock and $9.75 for shows after 4 o'clock. Write an equation that gives the balance remaining, b, on the gift card if molly sees m movies after 4 o'clock
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Question 883501: I don't really know what this question is called so Here it is "let the function h be defined by h(x)=14+(x^2/4). If h(2m)=9m, what is one possible value for m?

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Question 883646: A real estate salesperson bought promotional calendars and date books to give to her customers at the end of the year. The calendars cost $0.50 each and the date books cost $0.75 each. She ordered 400 promotional items and spent $225. How many of each item did she order?
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Question 883673: A man wishes to make a ladder which will reach the top of a wall 25m high when placed 7m from the base of the wall what will be the length of the ladder
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Question 883701: Find a number which is smaller then 100 that increases by 1 by 5th of its value when its digits are reversed
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