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Question 19283: Please help....
I posted this question 19239 because I'm helping my daughter. Sally paint a garge in 8 hours and Susan can paint the garage in 6 hours. If they paint together how long will it take. I have 1 hour and 15 minutes is this correct.
Thanks very much.
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Question 19188: In how many ways can Abby, Bonnie, Chuck, Dennis, Ed and Fred line up at the water fountain so that the two girls are not beside each other? ____________ ways
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Question 18554: 3) A rectangle with an area of 108 is divided into 3 equal squares. What is the perimeter of the rectangle?
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Question 19391: I really appreciate your help. I am having a hard time solving this problem.
The function f(x) =70 square root x models the number of calories per day, f(x), a person needs to maintain life in terms of the person's weight, x, in kilograms.
How many calories does a person who weighs 51 kilograms (approxmiately 112.3 pounds) need to maintain life?
Round to the nearest whole number.
Thanks for your help.

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Question 19462: the height of the eiffel tower is 974 ft, which is about 669 ft higher than the statue of liberty. what is the height of the statue of liberty?
i wrote (974ft-669ft=305ft)
E-S=H
is there a better way of writing this? thanks
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Question 19580: Good Evening:
First I would like to thank you for your help.
the number of inquires at the local representative's office the first week was 15. the number of inquiries the 4th week was 79. find the average rate of change (the slope) in number of inquiries from the 1st week to the 4th week.
I think the might be 79-15 =64 divide by 2 which is 32.
Could you please let me know if I am doing the problem correctly?
Thanks again
sweetlhlady@comcast.net
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Question 19700: Two numers with a sum of 6
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Question 19763: A flagpole 20 feet high casts a shadow of 5 feet. At the same time, a nearby building casts a 20-foot shadow. How many feet high is the building? (Note: The ground is level and both the building and the flagpole are perpendicular to the ground.)

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Question 19765: If the length of a living room is 22 feet, what will that length measure in inches on a blueprint whose scale is 1/4 inch to the foot?
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Question 19799: This just does not make sense and I have been racking my brain trying to figure it out. I know that x=num. of books produced and divide that by total? total cost % books made can only be positive...
C=.02xto the third +5x. for what num. of books is the average cost per brick equal to $5.25?
Any input is highful appreciated!! Thank you in advance!!
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Question 19791: Hi:
I have been studying this problem for hours and cannot figure out how to set it up. I will be grateful to anyone willing to explain the whys and hows to resolving this question. Thanks in advance.
Two teams had to set 560 fence posts. One of the teams only set 3/4 as many posts as the other, how many posts did the faster team set.
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Question 19789: You are in line at a ticket window. There are two more people ahead of you than there are behind you. In the entire line, there are three times as many people as there are behind you. How many people are ahead of you in line?
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Question 19826: My son and I have been working on word problems for 2 days. Can you please help us with this question? The width of a rectangle is one-fourth the length. The perimeter of the rectangle is one hundred thirty fee. What is the width of the rectangle? We can up with 13 feet, is this correct?
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Question 19903: If 2,874 people own bikes in a community and that is 74% of the town how many people are in the town. What equation do you use?
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Question 19918: Lynn has $8.58 in quarters and pennies. If she has eight times as many pennies as quarters, how many of each does she have?
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Question 20229: I need this answer quickly please:
You have 2 hourglasses-a 4 min. hourglass and a 7 min. hourglass. You want to measure 9 min. How do you do it?
Thanks
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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 20375: I needed to send you another email address in case previous one does not work.
"Two boats are traveling toward each other, one at 15 mph and the other at 10mph. At 8:00 am they are 75 miles apart. When will they meet?"
Thank you.

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Question 20570: Taylor is 3 years older than Nova. In 5 years, twice the sum of their ages will equal 5 times Nova's age today. How old are Taylor and Nova today? show all work
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Question 20745: A ladder 13 ft long leans against a wall. The bottom of the ladder is 5 ft from the wall. How much would the lower end of the ladder have to be pulled away so that the top end would be pulled down by 2 ft?
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Question 20743: Trains A and B leave the same city at the same time, headed West and south respectively. Train A travels 14 km/h faster than train B. After 5 hours they are 130 km. apart. Find the speed of each train.
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Question 20966: A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many five's as ten's and the total amount of money in the cash register is 660 dollars. How many ten's are in the cash register?
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Question 20994: A total of 600 tickets were sold for a concert. Twice as many tickets were sold in advance than at the door. If the tickets sold in advance were $25 each and the tickets sold at the door were $32 each, how much money was collected for the concert?
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Question 21176: If the length of a living room is 22 feet, what will that length measure in inches on a blueprint whose scale is 1/4 inches? The answer I came up with is 5 and 1/2. Im not sure about my answer.
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Question 21175: I got 6 and 1/8 for this problem but Im not sure about my answer. So can someone PLEASE HELP!!!!
A piece of cloth measures 2 yards, 1 foot, and 8 inches in length. What is its length in feet?
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Question 21308: Please help me Im not sure I did this right.
A carpenter has a piece of lumber measuring 7 feet 6 and 3/4 inches long. How much must the carpenter saw off to be left with a piece 5 feet 11 and 5/16 inches long? I used common denominators of 16 and then subtracted and I came up with 1 feet 7 and 7/16 inches
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Question 21305: I am tutoring a grade seven math student. He came with a homework question that involved octupi, nonupi, and decupi ( octupi with 8, 9 or 10 arms) the question was:
In a community of 377 octupi, nonupi, and decupi, with the total number of arms being 3364 how many of each type is there?
Is this just a guess and check or what?
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Question 21318: the randolphs use 12 more gallons of oil in oct than in sept. and twice as much in nov as in sept. if they used 132 gallons for 3 months, how much was used during each month?
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Question 21528: using the nubers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 in order to equal 100 using the signs(+,-,*,/)
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Question 21643: OK i totally dont get this questiona dn it is bugging the heck out of me i just dont get it and it would mean the world to me if u answered it!!
OK bob is 52 years olnd adn his mother is 77 how old was bobs mother when she gave birt to him. The bob had a son and he is 38. how old would bob be and how old would bobs mother be wen this new child was born. Use a guess adn check table.
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Question 21721: please help me with this
Adam is 3 times as old as cynthia and Fred is 16 years younger than Adam. One year ago, Adams age was twice the sum of cynthia and freds ages find their present age.
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Question 21729: On a trip, Debbie spent as much time on the train as she did on the bus. The train averaged 50 mph the bus averaged 35 mph if she went 105 miles more on the train how far did she go all together
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Question 21723: please help me with this
there are 2 numbers whose sum is 50. Three times the first is five more than twice the second what are the numbers
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Question 21727: The mass of the great pyramid is 557t greater than that of the leaning tower of pisa. Stone Henge has a mass of 2695t, which is 95t less than the leaning tower of pisa, there once was a greater pyramid which had the mass twice that of the great pyramid. what was the mass of the greater pyramid?
Thankyou

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Question 21772: A piece of cloth measures 2 yards, 1 foot, and 4 inches in length. What is its length in feet?
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Question 21914: y varies directly as the square of x. When y is 36, x is 2. Find y when x is 3.
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Question 21953: The sum of three consecutive integers is 42.
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Question 21958: Cathy's yard is in the shape of a rectangle. The length is 5 m. more than three times the width of the rectangle. The area of the rectangle is 350 sq.m. Find the length and width of the rectangle.
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Question 21954: The sum of three consecutive odd integers is 27.
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Question 21952: Ten percent of a number.
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Question 21951: Five divided by some number.
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Question 22203: How many committees of 4 students cant be formed from a class of 15 students?

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Question 22226: Help!!!
Can you please help me with this word problem?
Covert the volume 300 cc (cubic centimeters) to cubic inches. (Note that one inch equals 2.54 cm.)
Thanks in advance.
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