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Question 885514: the hcf of two numbers is 17 and their lcm is 1071.if one of the number is 17 find the other.

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Question 885477: Tia and Lamar are making a scale model of a lighthouse. The actual lighthouse is 175 feet high. The scale for the model is 4 feet : 1/2 inch. How tall should their scale model be?
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Question 885544: an auto shop has 98 cans of oil at the beginning of the day. 12 hours later, there are 10 cans remaining. how many cans were sold?
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Question 885598: if a water park charges six dollars for admission and $1.50 for each ticket and i have thirty six dollars how many tickets can i buy
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Question 885661: half of the deer in a group is sitting and 3/4 of nine is eating and ramaining 9 deers are standing, so how many deers in the group
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Question 885666: If you had a billion dollars in 100 dollar bills and you were to put that billion dollars into an empty house, how many square feet would that house have to be to be able to fit it into that house?

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Question 885715: This is a statistic problem so I hope I can get a little guidance.
The data value x=34 has a deviation (from the mean) value of 16. Explain the meaning of this and what the mean would be equal to.
Thank you.
Rae Henson
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Question 885187: A man earns rs 25 per hour. How much does he earns in x hours?
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Question 70253: Bobby and Ricky are in a 10 lap race on a 1-mile oval track. Bobby averaging 90mph, has completed 2 laps just as Ricky gets his car on the track. What speed does rick have to average to be even with Bobby at the end of the 10th lap.
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Question 885627: a person has certain no of cows &birds. they have 172eyes & 344 legs.how meny cows& birds does he have
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Question 885926: 2. Six electronic devices beep together and beep at intervals of 2, 4, 6,8 10,12 minutes respectively Find after how many minutes will these six devices beep together once again.
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Question 886046: A tank is filled in 9 hours and drained in 11 hours. How long will it take to fill the tank if the drain is left half open?
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Question 886092: There are 2 teachers with 60 children in total. Kathy has 1.5 times as many children as Jean, So How many children does each teacher have?
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Question 75805: If b and 7 are solutions to the equation x^2-4x=a. find the value of a+b.
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Question 886108: If July 12, 2003 fell on a Tuesday, on what day will July 12, 2005 fall?
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Question 886042: Olivia can type a report in 2 hours and john takes 3 hours. If the two of them work together, how long will it take to type up the report
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Question 885655: A community group bought 30 tickets to an amusement park at a total cost of $810. They bought x student tickets for $25 each and y adult tickets for $30 each.

The community group bought student tickets and adult tickets.
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Question 886200: If the cost of a certain kind of plastic sheet is Rs1395, then what it would cost to but 105m of such plastic sheet
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Question 886246: A survey of 568 students found that 367 students own used textbooks, 340 students own new textbooks, and 177 students own both new and used textbooks. Determine the number of students who don't own any textbooks.

thank you!
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Question 886381: A vessel contains 20% solution of acetic acid and another vessel contains 50% solution of acetic acid. Mang Luis needs 300cc of 30% acetic acid. How many cc of each solution must he mix?
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Question 240232: Veronica High School has 85 seniors, each of whom plays on at least one of the school�s three varsity sports teams: football, baseball, and lacrosse. It so happens that 74 are on the football team; 26 are on the baseball team; 17 are on both the football and lacrosse teams; 18 are on both the baseball and football teams; and 13 are on both the baseball and lacrosse teams. Compute the number of seniors playing all three sports, given that twice this number are members of the lacrosse team.

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Question 886399: A grocer mixed 50kilos of first class sugar and third class sugar which he sold at 2.90 a kilo.first class sugar sells at 3.50 a kilo and third class sugar at 2 a kilo. How many kilos of first and third class sugar did the grocer mix to produce second class sugar?

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Question 665318: A school has 14 seniors on the women's field hockey and volleyball teams. Of those who play only one sport, 4 are on the field hockey team and 5 are on the volleyball team. How many seniors are on both teams?
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Question 886451: A certain culture of the bacterium Streptococcus A initially has 9 bacteria and is observed to double every 1.5 hours.

Streptococcus A
(12,000 � magnification)
(a) Find an exponential model
n(t) = n02t/a
for the number of bacteria in the culture after t hours.
n(t) =
.
(b) Estimate the number of bacteria after 29 hours. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
. bacteria
(c) When will the bacteria count reach 10,000? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
t = h
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Question 886509: a 28 ft rope is cut into two sections with one section 3 times as long as the other section, how long is the shorter piece?
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Question 886520: - By taking a foreign language, students increased their vocabulary by 160 percent. If those who did not take a foreign language knew 3250 words, how many words did the foreign language students know?
- Ben drove the first part of his trip at an average speed of 40 mph. After his car broke down he finished his trip by bus at an average speed of 60 mph. If the total trip took 9 hours and covered 480 miles, how many miles did he travel by bus?

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Question 886544: I have combination word problem - 12 people are at a party and they all exchange handshakes. How many handshakes are exchanged?
Would this be 12! ? Or would that be overcounting and it need to be reduced?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 886551: In a game, a basket and 16 potatoes are placed in line at equal interval of 6 ft. How long will a player take to bring the potatoes one by one into the basket, if he starts from the basket and runs at an average speed of 12 feet a second?
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Question 886720: Tickets for a concert were priced at $8 for students and $10 for nonstudents. There were 1220 tickets sold for a total of $11,400. How many student tickets were sold?
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Question 886719: Sydney earns $2,800 a month. To qualify for a mortgage, her monthly payments must be less than 20% of her monthly income. Her monthly mortgage payments must be less than what amount in order to qualify for the mortgage?
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Question 886639: Terrel finds that if he takes a cruise in July it will cost $1200. This is 25% than if he took the same curise in December. What is the cost of takin the cruise in December?
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Question 886850: in an effort to control vegetation overgrowth, 75 rabbits are released in an isolated area free of predators. After 3 year, it is estimated that the rabbit population has increased to 760. Assuming exponential population growth, what will the population be after another 6 months? Round to the nearest rabbit.
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Question 886924: Mark works 'w' hours on Monday, 'x' hours on Tuesday, 'y' hours on Thursday, and 'z' hours on Friday. Write an equation that will find the average number of hours Mark worked on those four days. Thanks!
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Question 886938: The ratio of two numbers is 3/8. the second number is 12 less than three times the first number find both numbers.

Having a little bit of trouble with this problem.cant figure out a way to set it up or solve it.
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Question 887006: The cost of two baseball bats is $360. If the aluminum one costs $40 more than the wood one, find the cost of the aluminum bat
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Question 887041: A good train running at 36 km/hr. takes 20 sec. to pass a platform. then it takes 12 sec. to pass a cyclist travelling at 18 km/hr. in the opposite direction. find the length of the train and that of the platform.
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Question 887032: A certain sum amount to Rs 14400 at 4% simple interest in a period of time in which Rs 9000 amounts to Rs 12150 at 7%. find the sum.
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Question 887033: A man fixed the selling price of his goods at a profit of 10%. while selling his goods he by mistake gave some commission and there was a loss of 1%. what percent was the commission.
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Question 887120: A poll was taken of 100 students at a commuter campus to find out how they got to campus. The results were as follows:
38 said they drove alone.
37 rode in a carpool.
35 rode public transportation
6 used both carpools and public transportation
10 used both a carpool and sometimes their own cars
8 used buses as well as their own cars
5 used all three methods
How many used none of the above-mentioned means of transportation?
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Question 887211: Tina is training for a biathlon. To train for the running portion of the race, she runs 10 miles each day, over the same course. The first 4 miles of the course is on level ground, while the last 6 miles is downhill. She runs 4 miles per hour slower on level ground than she runs downhill. If the complete course takes 1 hour, how fast does she run on the downhill part of the course?
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Question 887226: a jet travels 380 miles in 38 minutes, how fast in mph was the jet going? Please show formula my brain is stuck...
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Question 887326: y varies inversely with x.
x = �1 when y = 4.
What is x when y = �7?
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