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Question 893349: Write and solve an equation for the following:
(2 answers)
Mary saved $450 over the summer.
When school started she began taking tennis lessons at $40 dollars per lesson.
How many tennis lessons can Mary take before she does not have enough money for a lesson.
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Question 893394: Please answer this word problem: "The length of a rectangle is one more meter longer than its width. Its diagonal is 29 meters. Find the dimensions of the rectangle."
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Question 893435: What is the solution to the equation 1/3(x-2)=1/5(x+4)+2
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Question 893542: Hi can you please help me with this question?
You can patch 108 boxes in 45 minutes. At this rate, how many boxes can you pack in 2 hours?
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Question 893451: Antoni, and Tom want to buy the same PS4 game. Antoni has 0.75 of the money needed to buy the game, and Tom has half of the money needed to buy the game. If the game was 15$ cheaper, then together they would have exactly enough money to buy two copies of the game. What is the original price of this game?
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Question 893544: Michael has a paper route. He earns .15� for each daily paper and .35� for each Sunday paper he delivers. Michael delivers twice as many daily papers each week as Sunday papers. How many of each type of paper does he deliver if he earns 13.00$ each week.
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Question 893650: two angles are supplementary if they add to 180 degrees. two supplementary angles are such that one angle is 15 degrees less than twice the other angle. what are the two angles?
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Question 893781: a welder earns $20 per hour for the first 40 hours she works in a week and $30 per hour or each hour over 40 hours. Write a peicewise function f(x) that can be used t to determine the welders earnings when she works for x hours in a week
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Question 893853:
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Question 893791: 12 FOR X IN 8/5 (15X) RESULTS IN 8/5 (15*12).
10 FOR X IN 8/5 (15X) RESULTS IN 8/5 (15*10).
15 FOR X IN 8/5 (15X) RESULTS IN 8/5 (15*15).
I need help with these problems. Thank you!
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Question 893858: You earn $7 a week mowing lawns. After five weeks you decide to buy sunglasses for $19 and a shirt for $19. How much money do you have left
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Question 893800: A softball player's batting average is .220. If she had 50 at bats, how many hits did she get?
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Question 893885: A car travels at an average speed of
56
miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in
4
hours and
15
minutes?
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Question 894029: If you typed 70 words per minute and typed for 6 hours. How many words would you have typed?
( There is 60 minutes in a hour X 6 hours = 360 minutes total)
(360 minutes X 70 words pre minute= 25,200 in 6 hours)
Is this right?
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Question 894031: Write a word problem with a difference of 420? I need HELP for my child. Please help me write it out ASAP. THANKS!

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Question 894031: Write a word problem with a difference of 420? I need HELP for my child. Please help me write it out ASAP. THANKS!

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Question 894001: Monica won 7 of the 16 science competitions she entered. To the nearest thousandth, find her winning average. Justify your answer.
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Question 726852: Jason bought a bag of mixed cookies and a gallon of milk. The bag of cookies contained 18 chocolate chip cookies and 20 oatmeal cookies. Which of these shows the ratio of chocolate chip cookies to oatmeal cookies in the simplest form?
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Question 894290: tickets to a local movie were sold at 5.00 for adults and 3.00 for students if 51 tickets were sold for 213.00, how many adult and student tickets were sold
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Question 894221: A college bookstore adds 25% to the publisher's price before selling a textbook to students. If a student pays $80 for a College Algebra text, how much did the bookstore pay for the book?

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Question 894301: Hello, my name is Jake. I'm in need of a little help on this question: "It takes you 10 hours to paint your garage and it will take your brother 15 hours to paint your garage. How long will it take if the two of you work together." If you can tell me how to solve the problem I will greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
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Question 894292: If you have 174 hits, how do you figure out many bats you have?
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Question 894359: Jack and Jill have a magic pail of beans. The number of beans in the pail doubles after every second. If the pail is full after 10 seconds, when was the pail half full? Explain your answer.
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Question 894365: What is the angle formed between the hour hand and the minute hand when the clock face shows
quarter past one?
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Question 140908: Perimeter of a rectangle.
A backyard is 6x+6 yards. If the width is x yards find a binomial that represents the length.
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Question 894228: If a person's eye level is "h" meters above sea level and he can see "d" kilometers to the horizon, then "d"=3.57sqrt"h". Suppose the person's eye level is 11.56 meters above sea level. How far can he see to the horizon?
Round your answer to the nearest tenth.
The answer is in kilometers. I put the quotation marks around the variable to prevent any confusion with the setup.
Please help. :)
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Question 894391: Lets say I kicked the ball and it went 5 miles per hour in the air, but when landing it comes down at 3 miles per hour and a distance of 2 feet away, what would be the solution to this problem.

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Question 894291: 4800 vehicles use the tollway for free. After the first month it is estimated that for each dollar increase in the toll, 800 fewer vehicles will use the tollway. At what price do you think the company should set the tolls in orders to make the most money? Why?
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Question 894594: A doctor prescribes 1.5g of a drug, daily for a patent. The pharmacist has only 750-mg tablets available. How many tablets will the patient take daily?
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Question 894595: I will give it another shot. Gold's Gym charges $300 per year for new members to join, they get 1000 members. The gym can expect to lose about 5 members for the $2.00 increase in price. How much should the gym charge to maximize its revenue? What is Gold's Gym maximum revenue?
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Question 894715: During 24 hours, a patient is to receive three 60-mg doses phenobarbital. How many milligrams of phenobarbital does the patient receive altogether in 24 hours? How many pills does the patient take in 24 hours?
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Question 894688: bri has a square with dimensions 6cm by 6cm. If bri triples the dimensions of her square, by what factor does she increase the area of her square?
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Question 894712: A railroad freight car can hold 2035 bu of corn. How many freight cars are needed to haul the expected 12,000,000 bu from a local gain elevator?
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Question 894900: Ali,Ben and charles shared teh cost of a present. The ratio of the amount paid by ali to the total amount paid of Ben adn charles was 2: 3 while Ben's share was 20% o fthe total amount paid by ali and charles. Given that charles paid 84 more then Ben, How much did the present cost.?
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Question 894956: Nina earns $15 for each yard she mows
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Question 893838: Josephine and Kelly collected some stickers. If Josephine and Kelly gave away 50 and 25 stickers each day respectively, Josephine would still have 1371 stickers left when Kelly had given away all hers. If Josephine and Kelly gave away 25 and 50 stickers each day respectively, Josephine would have 4221 when Kelly had given away all hers. Find the number of stickers each collected?
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Question 895004: Shamir can paint 25 helmets in 6 minutes at this rate how many helmets can he paint in 20 minutes
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