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Question 905930: Alan binds 20 books in 6 hours, when steve helps him they do 20 books in 4 hours. How long will it take for steve to bind 20 books?
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Question 905976: Hello,
Could you please explain what are zero exponents and misc. (in Algebra)?
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Question 905980: Hello,
What is a Misc. in Algebra?
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Question 905986: Hello,
What is a Miscellaneous is Algebra? Please give me easy examples.
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Question 905993: At 9:45am Margie threw a ball upwards while standing on a platform 65 ft above the ground. The trajectory after t seconds follows the equation: h(-0.7t^2 +56t+65.
A. What will be the maximum height of the ball?
B. How long will it take the ball to reach its maximum height?
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Question 905983: Hello,
What is a Miscellaneous is Algebra and please give me easy examples.
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Question 906014: A gardener has 270 feet of fencing and wants to fence in a rectangular garden and then divide it into two plots with a piece of fencing parallel to one pair of sides.
If the dividing fence is x feet long, and y is the length of the side perpendicular to the dividing fence, write an equation for the total amount of fencing used in terms of x and y.
Fencing =
Write the area A of the garden as a function of x.
A(x) =
What are the dimensions of the largest garden (in area) that the gardener can enclose?
Width =
Length =
Please provide inches or feet
Thank you
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Question 906010: box 1 contains 4 yellow balls and 2 green balls. box 2 contains 5 green balls and 3 yellow balls. a coin is tossed. if it lands heads up, box 1 is selected and a ball is drawn. if it lands tails up, box 2 is selected and a ball is drawn. find the probability of selecting a yellow ball
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Question 906012: If someone has 12 km of fencing available, what must dimensions be in order to obtain maximum area?
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Question 906039: The Ricky family drove 224 miles for a trip to the beach. At lunch they drove 17 miles to the nearest restaurant and later that night they drove 36 miles to their hotel. How many miles did they drive that day?

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Question 906158: The height of a ball that is thrown upward is given by
h(t) =
where t is in seconds and height is in feet. The maximum height the ball reaches is ____ feet, when t = ____ seconds.
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Question 906146: a light bulb consumes 9900 watt-hours in 5 days and 12 hours. How many watt hours does it consumer per day
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Question 906157: The effectiveness of a television commercial depends on how many times a viewer watches it. After some experiments an advertising agency found that if the effectiveness E is measured on a scale of 0 to 10, then
E(n) =
A beter view: http://i.imgur.com/kG6LIka.png
where n is the number of times a viewer watches a given commercial. For a commercial to have maximum effectiveness, how many times should a viewer watch it? ____ times
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Question 906174: An orchard contains 40 apple trees, each of which yields about 500 apples over the growing season. The owner plans to add more trees, but each new tree will reduce the average yield per tree by about 10 apples over the season. How many trees should be added to maximize the total yield of apples? What would be the maximum yield for the apple orchard for the season?
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Question 906229: A Web music store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is 2.9 megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is 4.4 MB. Yesterday, there were 1010 downloads of the song, for a total download size of 3424 MB. How many downloads of the high-quality version were there?
*Really need help on this problem. Tried it several times and could not get the answer. Please help. Thanks! :)
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Question 906319: When a certain drug is taken orally, the concentration of the drug in the patient's bloodstream after t minutes is given by:
C(t) = where
and the concentration is measured in mg/L.
When is the maximum serum concentration reached?
t = ____ min
What is the maximum concentration? ____ mg/L
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Question 906364: The wavelength of a radio wave varies inversely as its frequency. A wave with a frequency of 900 kilohertz has a length of 400 meters. What is the length of a wave with a frequency of 450 kilohertz?
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Question 906381: 150 question test, 2.75 hours to complete. How many minutes per question?
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Question 906381: 150 question test, 2.75 hours to complete. How many minutes per question?
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Question 906228: A Web music store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is 2.9 megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is 4.4 MB. Yesterday, there were 1010 downloads of the song, for a total download size of 3424 MB. How many downloads of the high-quality version were there?
* I tried this problem several times and could not get the answer. Need help!! Thanks :)
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Question 906414: For a car loan using simple interest at a given rate, the amount of interest charged varies jointly with the loan amount (also known as the principal) and the time of the loan (in years). If a $15,000 car loan earns $2,610 in simple interest over 6 years, how much interest will $32,000 car loan earn over 7 years?
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Question 906415: The intensity of light varies inversely a the square of the distance from the light source. If the intensity from a light source 5 feet away is 8 lumens, what is the intensity at a distance of 2 feet?
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Question 906412: A pressure of a gas container varies directly with its temperature and inversely with its volume. At a temperature of 70 Kelvin and a volume of 15 cubic meters, the pressure is 19.6 newtons per square meter. What is the pressure if the temperature is increased to 80 Kelvin and the volume is decreased to 12 cubic meters?
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Question 906409: The power produces by a windmill varies directly with the square of its diameter and the cube of the wind speed. A fan with a diameter of 2.5 meters produces 560 watts of power if the wind speed is 4 m/s. How much power would a similar fan produce if it had a diameter of 5 meters and the wind speed was 5 m/s?
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Question 906178: A health club currently charges its 2,000 clients monthly membership dues of $45. The board of directors decides to increase the monthly membership dues. Market research shows that each $1 increase in dues will result in the loss of 7 clients. How much should the club charge each month to optimize the revenue from monthly dues?
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Question 906505: If 8 men can built a house in 90 days,in how many days can 20 men working under the same conditions as the 8 men built the house?

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Question 906505: If 8 men can built a house in 90 days,in how many days can 20 men working under the same conditions as the 8 men built the house?

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Question 906514: It takes Ralph 6 hours to paint a fence alone. Lisa can do the same job in 9 hours. If Ralph paints alone for 45 minutes before Lisa begins helping, how long must they work together to finish painting the fence? Give your answer as a simplified fraction.
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Question 906474: A conical paper cup is to have a height of 3 inches. Find the radius r of the cone that will result in a surface area of 6πin^2
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Question 906752: You hate when rabbits run into your yard and eat your garden. To prevent this, you can rent a ferocious wolf to scare the rabbits out of your yard! At Wolf "Em Up, they will deliver a live wolf to your door for 17.50 and you can keep the lively fellow for 2.25 per day. At Fangs R Us they will deliver a vicious pal for you for 24.25 and you can keep him for just 1.50 a day. ( At both businesses they will prorate a rental fee for partial days.
a. On what day number will be number of days rented and the cost of renting a wolf be at both businesses
b. What will the be on that day?
I am confused on how to start this problem I know that I must compare the businesses but I do not know where to start. I am a step by step person.
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Question 906850: A slice of pie with a scoop of ice cream has 850 calories. The calories in the pie alone are 100 more than twice the calories in the ice cream alone. how many calories are in each food.
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Question 907244: Lisa spent $16.18 for some cans of dog food costing 79 cents each and some cans of dog changed to cat food costing 69 cents each. She bought two more cans of cat food than dog food. How many cans of each did she buy?

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Question 907331: A company has 5 large buses and 6 smaller ones. A large bus holds 11 more people than the smaller one. If the capacity of all the buses is 495, how many people does each size bus hold ?
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Question 906966: How long will it take for an investment to triple if it is compounded continuously at 4%?
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Question 906548: A pizza take-away sells a �Four Seasons� pizza which has 800 calories.
The menu suggests that this is of the recommended daily calorie intake.
How many calories is the recommended daily intake?

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Question 906467: For a given voltage, the resistance of a circuit is inversely related to its current. If a circuit has a resistance of 5 ohms and a current of 12 amps, what is the resistance if the current is 20 amps?
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Question 906530: bobby ran 5 miles more than jane ran. The sum of their distances is 19 miles.
How far did jane run? The domain of the solution is {0, 5, 7, 14}.how would this be written in an algebraic expression

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Question 907381: The plans for a shed call for a rectangular floor with a perimeter of 222 feet. The length is two times the width . Find the length and width.
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Question 907387: A student is taking a computer course in which there will be four tests each worth 100 points . The student has scores of 100,88 and 89 on the first three tests. The student must make a total of 360 in order to get an A. What scores on the last test will give the student an A.
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Question 907474: if you drive 1075 miles and buy 12.25 gallonof gas. gas cost $3.22 per gallon. how much would gas cost per mile.
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Question 907706: A health club currently charges its 1,700 clients monthly membership dues of $44. The board of directors decides to increase the monthly membership dues. Market research shows that each $1 increase in dues will result in the loss of 7 clients. How much should the club charge each month to optimize the revenue from monthly dues?
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Question 907766: Jessica works as a tutor for $12 an hour and as a waitress for $9 an hour. This month, she worked a combined total of 102 hours at her two jobs.
Let t be the number of hours Jessica worked as a tutor this month. Write an expression for the combined total dollar amount she earned this month.
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Question 907783: How many years will it take for an investment to triple if it is compounded continuously at 11%?
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