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Question 915249: How would I translate this statement"after one hour they had two bird houses." into a linear equation? x represents the number of hours and y represents the number of bird houses. I think it translates into x= 2 but im not sure.
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Question 915316: how to solve : Jarod made $12.75 mowing lawns one week. He made 3 times as much the following week. How much did he make altogether between the two weeks
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Question 915514: A plane travels 920 miles in 2 hours. Determine a linear model that will predict the number of miles the plane can travel in a given interval of time. (Use t as your variable.)
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Question 915536: If I had a mol of cupcakes, how many times could I cover a 16in pepperoni pizza

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Question 915190: can you please help me solve this problem?:
A lighthouse is located on a small island 2 km away from the nearest point P on a straight shoreline and its light makes seven revolutions per minute. How fast is the beam of light moving along the shoreline when it is 1 km from P? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
thank you so much
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Question 915572: Garland put 2b + 3 dollars in the bank in the first week. The following week he doubled the first week's savings and put that in the bank. The next week he doubled what was in the bank and put that amount in the bank. If he now has $477 in the bank, how much did he put in the bank the first week.
I have got week DISABLED_event_one= 2b +3
I have got week two = 2 (2b+3)
I am stuck with the third week. Where am I going wrong? I thought maybe 8b+12 = 477 but that does not come out right.
Please help!
Eric
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Question 915523: I have 185.5 mg 0f sugar in a .85 oz piece of candy, what is the percentage of sugar per piece?
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Question 915379: the angle of depression of a boat,65.7m from the base of a cliff is 28.9 how high is the cliff[give your answer to 1 decimal place]

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Question 915817: The number N pf aluminum cans used each year varies directly as the number of people P using the cans. If 53 people use 14310 cans in one year, how many cans are used in a city which has a population of 1075000?
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Question 915820: The maximum number of grams of fat (F) should be in a diet varies directly as a persons weight (W). A person weighing 120 lb should have no more than 80 grams of fat per day .What is the daily fat intake maximum for a person weighing 120 lb?
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Question 915883: The speed of a stream is 4 mph. A boat travels 6 miles upstream in the same time it takes to travel 14 miles downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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Question 915916: Elijah spent 5.25 for lunch every day for 5 days. He spent 6.75 on Saturday. How much did he spend

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Question 915927: Charllet jogs 8 kilometers, 6 days a week how many meters does she cover in 1 year
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Question 915860: a rectangular pool measuring 10 meters by 20 meters is surrounded by a path of uniform width. If the area of the pool and path combined is 600 square meters, what is the width of the path?
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Question 916008: A photographer has enough liqud toner for fifty 5 inch by7 inch prints. How many 8 inch by 10 inch prints will this amount cover?

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Question 916230: The equation x^2+y^2=169 defines a circle with its center at the origin and a radius of 13. The line y=x-7 passes through the circle. Determine the circle and line line intersect.

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Question 916300: John purchased 1/4 lbs of hamburger for $0.75. How much did the hamburger cost per pound?
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Question 916323: Given that y is proportional to (16-x) and the constant of proportionality is equal to x. Find the value of x when y is 1.
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Question 916407: By increasing her usual speed by 25 kilometers per hour, a bus driver decreases the time on a 25-kilometer trip by 5 minutes. Find the usual speed.

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Question 916600: An internet caf� charges $5.00 for the first 15 minutes of use of the internet and $2.00 for each additional 15 minutes (or part of 15 minutes).
How much is owed to the caf� if a person used 47 minutes?

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Question 916613: The currency in a certain country is called sirktian. In this country�s tax system, a person pays 0 sirktians on the first 26,800 sirktians earned. They then pay a flat tax of 27% on everything over 26,800 sirktians..
How many sirktians in taxes are owed for an individual earning 29,200 sirktians?

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Question 916615: The postal service of a country charges $0.38 postage for a letter weighing up to 1 ounce, plus $0.23 for each additional ounce (or fraction of an ounce) up to 5 ounces. Letters weighing more than 5 ounces do not qualify for these rates.
How much does it cost to send a 2.9-ounce letter? Round to the nearest cent.

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Question 916644: THe product of 3 and a number is 12 more than the sum of the number and 26.. what is the number

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Question 916691: Larry invested part of his 17,000 advance at 6% annual simple interest and the rest at 9% if his total yearly interest from both accounts was $1320 find the amount invested at each rate
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Question 916859: Beth is 4 years older than Jane. Sally is twice as old as Jane. Bill is twice as old as Sally. If the sum of their ages is 84 how old is each person?
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Question 916890: Suppose a major league baseball player has hit 7 home runs in the first 16 games, and he keeps up this pace throughout the 162-game season.
(a) Express the number y of home runs in terms of the number x of games played.
(b) How many home runs will the player hit for the season? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)
I have (a) as y=7x/16 but I'm not for sure how to figure out part B

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Question 916966: If 90% of James compact discs cost $15 each and if 10% if his compact discs cost 12$ each, what is the average arithmetic mean cost per disc?
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Question 900699: A pair of damp jeans are in the middle of a clothesline to dry. Find x, the angle that the clothesline make with the horizontal. x the angle 158
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Question 917154: At school, there are three bells. The first bell rings every 20 minutes, the second rings every 30 minutes, and the third rings every 45 minutes. All three bells rang at exactly 10 a.m. At what other times will the three bells will ring at the same time? Select all that apply.

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Question 917393: Tom, Dick & Harry each have a lawn mower and decide to mow a 5900 square foot lawn.
Tom mows 70 square feet per minute, Dick 50 and Harry 40.
Dick and Harry start mowing the lawn at the same time.
Something is wrong with Toms mower and is delayed for 30 mins.
All 3 of them stop mowing at the same time.
How long does Tom mow?
I know the answer is 20, but the route I took to get the answer was a long way. Is there anyway to work this out but in a short way?
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Question 917595: A carpet store charges a flat fee for installation of carpet that is priced by the square yard. Susan had 12 square yards of carpet installed for a cost of $400. The equation y � 400 = 25(x � 12) models the revenue of the carpet store, where x is the number of square yards purchased and y is the total cost to the customer. Which function models the cost of buying x square yards of carpet if the customer also pays for installation?

f(x) = 25x � 388
f(x) = 25x � 700
f(x) = 25x + 100
f(x) = 25x � 412
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Question 918103: A circle with a circumference of 16 pie is inscribed in a square. What is the area of the square?
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Question 918133: Hector needs 84 feet of fencing to enclose his rectangular garden. The length of his garden is 12 feet less than twice its width. What is the width of his garden?
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Question 918214: Sally and Adam work at different jobs. Sally earns $5 per hour and Adam earns $4 per hour. They each earn the same amount per week but Adam works 2 more hours. How many hours a week does Adam work?
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Question 917828: The mass of a tumor t days after treatment follows the model t/t^2+1. The average rate of change of M from t=1 to t=4 is what?
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Question 918335: Kate and Jean paint a house together in 6 days. If they work alone, Kate takes 5 fewer days than Jean would take to do the same job. Which equation represents the time it takes Kate to paint the house by herself?
1) X^2-17x+30= 0
2) x^2-5x-6= 0
3) 2x-1= 0
4) (X^2-5x)/6= 0
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Question 918440: A Norman window has the shape of a rectangle surmounted by a semicircle. If the perimeter of the window is 36.900 ft. give the area A of the window in square feet when the width is 7.500 ft. Give the answer to two decimal places.
I'm stuck and I need this one to finish my homework! Even my dad can't help me and I got no results from google and my math book only uses rectangular examples!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!
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Question 918661: On Thursday, a local hamburger shop sold a combined total of
450
hamburgers and cheeseburgers. The number of cheeseburgers sold was two times the number of hamburgers sold. How many hamburgers were sold on Thursday?
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Question 918742: Jess B. Simple wanted to know how tall Ida B. Smart was so she said, "I am less than 6 feet tall but more than 2 feet tall. My height in inches is a multiple of 7 and is also 2 inches more than a multiple of 6. How tall is Ida B. Smart?
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Question 918761: Algerba question. Tabitha paid $47.75 in taxi far from the hotel to the airport. The cab charged $2.25 for the first mile plus $3.50 for each additional mile. How many miles was it from the hotel to the airport?
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Question 918847: Find the equation of the line passing through the given points: 0,5 and 3,4
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Question 918933: HOW MANY DIFFERENT WAYS CAN 5 CANDIATES BE SELECTED FROM A GROUP OF 16?
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