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Question 921072: The amount of playing time varies inversely with the number of players. When a whole team of 16 players attends, each player has 18 minutes of playing time. How many players must be absent for each player tom play for 24 minutes?
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Question 921198: Ally and Tony had a total of $44.00. After Ally spent one-quarter of her money and Tony spent $5.00 of his money, Ally had half the amount that Tony had. How much money did Tony have at the beginning?
Please provide and Illustration, detailed solution and check for your answer.
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Question 921182: The path of a basketball can be described by the equation y = -16t2 + 18t + 7, where y is the height of the basketball and t is the time in seconds it is in the air. After the basketball is thrown, how much time passes before it passes through the basket, which is 10 feet off the ground? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a second.

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Question 921256: Two natural numbers differ by two units and the sum of thier sqaures is 580. What are these numbers?
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Question 921256: Two natural numbers differ by two units and the sum of thier sqaures is 580. What are these numbers?
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Question 921228: Write an algebraic expression for the given quantity. Let X represent the unknown value. four more than one-third of a number
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Question 921565: What is the cost per oz if I purchased a lb of beef jerky for $25?
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Question 921585: If a rectangle has an area of 24cm squared and a perimeter of 20cm, what are its dimensions?
Please answer this question, I will appreciate it. Thanks
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Question 921602: 1/ If varies inversely as the square of X, and y=16 when x=5, find y when x=2.
2/ Johnny can paint a car 5 hours. If Johnny works with Larry they can paint the car in 3 hours. How long does it take Larry to paint the car by himself?
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Question 921619: If y varies inversely as the square of X, and y=16 when x=5, find y when x=2.

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Question 921691: A woman can do a certain job in 10 hr and the younger daughter can do it in 12 hr. After the woman and her younger daughter have been working for 1 hr, the younger daughter got tired and decided to leave the woman doing the job alone. How long (in hours) did the woman finish the job after the younger daughter left her?

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Question 921729: A shop sells one chocolate for 1gh n u can exchange 3 wrappers for a chocolate. If u ve 15 gh how many chocolates can u get?
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Question 921759: I need help with finding the dimensions of a box with a volume of 720 cubic inches. I drew a rectangular box and labeled the sides with the info I got. The width is 3x its height and its length is 11 inches more than its height .i took 3 and multiplied it by 4 and took 4 and 4 added together and got 8. That is all I have done.
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Question 921789: Tim sold half of his comic books an then bought 7 more. He now has 16. how many did he begin with
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Question 921795: I DONT NEED HELP ANYMORE SO KEEP SCROLLIN!!!! lol
Find each regular price. Round to the nearest cent.
19. Sale Price: $13
Percent of Discount: 20%
21. Sale Price: $27.99
Percent of Discount: 45%

Please help me!! I need it as soon as possible!!!! My teacher didn't explain how to do regular price and I don't know how to do it!!! Please help soon!!! Thanks!! :D
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Question 921625: shown in the figure is a simple magnifier consisting of a convex lens. the object to be magnified is positioned so that its distance p from the lens than the focal length f. the linear magnification M is the ratio of the image size to the object size. it is shows in physics that M=f(f-p). if f=6 cm, how far should the object be placed from the lens so that its image appears at least three times as large?

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Question 921963: How to solve this? A school play sells adult and child tickets. On Friday they sold 55 child tickets and 20 adult tickets for $200. On Saturday they sold 72 child tickets and 36 adult tickets for $306. What is the cost of each individual ticket?
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Question 921986: the cost of a new car included a 4 % sales tax. if c represents the cost of the car before tax, write an expression for the total cost, including sales tax.

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Question 922039: You can mow your neighbor�s lawn in 2 hours. Your friend needs 3 hours to mow the neighbor�s lawn. If you agree to work together, how long will it take you both working together to mow the neighbor�s lawn?
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Question 922231: Please help me with this word problem:
A faucet can fill a sink in 8 minutes. If the sink is full, the faucet is on, and the drain is open, the sink takes 25 minutes to drain. How many minutes does it take the drain to empty a full sink?
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Question 922365: Cindy and Mary owns a landscaping company. Cindy can complete a certain garden planting in 3 hours, while mary takes 4 hours to complete the same job. If both of them work together, how long will it take to plant the garden?
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Question 922507: Josh's parents are planting grass in an area of their backyard.The area is 8 feet long and 6 feet wide.One bag of grass seed will cover 12 square feet. How many bags of grass seed do they need to cover the entire area of their backyard?
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Question 483275: A company manufactures three types of t.vs A,B and C. The company manufactures four less type B than twice A, and one more type B than the sum of types A and type C. If the total number of t.vs manufactured per week is 51. How many of each type of t.v are manufactured.
Can someone please help this question has me in a twist!
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Question 81573: The length of a rectangle is eight inches more than its width. If four inches are taken off from both width's and twelve inches are removed from both lengths the figure becomes a square with the area of 225 square inches. What are the dimensions of the original figure?
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Question 922675: The weight of an object varies directly with the square of its length. It weights 60 lbs when its length is 5 ft. How much does it weigh when it is 6 feet long?

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Question 922716: Write the numbers below in order from smallest to largest. Please justify
your answer.
2^100, 2^99 + 2^99 + 2, 2^3(2^97 � 2)
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Question 922845: Hello, I'm not sure where this problem is supposed to go so I just put it here.
Use synthetic division to show that x=7 is a root of the equation x^3-9x^2-1x+105=0.
Then, use the result to factor the polynomial completely into the form (x+A)(x+B)(x+C).
thank you in advance!
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Question 922933: Nathan mixed x quarts of milk containing 2% fat with y quarts of milk
containing 4% fat. The total amount of the mixture was 9 quarts, and it
contained a total of 0.24 quart of fat. This situation is represented by the
systems of equations shown below.
x + y = 9
0.02x + 0.04y = 0.24
Which statement is true?
A. Nathan used twice as much 2% milk as 4% milk.
B. Nathan used twice as much 4% milk as 2% milk.
C. Nathan used 2 quarts more 2% milk than 4% milk.
D. Nathan used 2 quarts more 4% milk than 2% milk.
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Question 923065: Working 8 hours a day a dressmaker takes 18 days to make a number of dresses. How long would it take her to make the same number of dresses if she worked 9 hours a day?
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Question 923126: Hank can wash and wax the car in 2 hours, Sally can do it in 1 hour, 30 minutes, and Hank, Sally, and Lena can
do it in 40 minutes working together. How long would it take Lena, working alone, to wash and wax the car?
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Question 923233: A chemist mixes 12L of a solution that is 45% acid with 8L of a solution that is 70% acid. What is the percent of acid of the mixture?
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Question 923312: Carrington is paid at the same rate each time he baby sits. The graph shows the rates he is paid for different times.

Which equation represents the situation?

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Question 923349: I am supposed to write down an equation or system of equations that would help me determine how many cups of tea and how many cups of coffee were sold.
The concessions stand at the hockey tournament sold 92 beverages one Saturday. Their total revenue was $192. Coffee sells for $2.20 per cup; tea sells for $1.80 per cup.
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Question 923348: How do I write this?
Nicola sold 20 fewer discount cards in the fundraiser than her brother Cameron. Together, they sold 184 cards.
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Question 923348: How do I write this?
Nicola sold 20 fewer discount cards in the fundraiser than her brother Cameron. Together, they sold 184 cards.
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Question 923526: if 45 students have a stock of food for 2 months, then how many days the same food will last if 18 students leave ??? ..... answer
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Question 923397: For a board game there is 3 kinds of bills. There are 11 more $2 bills than $1 dollar bills. There are 18 fewer $3 dollar bills than $1 bills. The total for the bill is $100. How many $1 bills are used?
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Question 923593: Carol is painting a four square game court on a school playground. The four small squares are all the same size. If the total area of the four small squares is 256 ft2, what is the side length of each small square?
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Question 923724: My dog is half as old as me.
How old might I be and how old is the dog.
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Question 923734: Two candles of the same height are lit at the same time. One burns down in 5 hours while the other burns down in 3 hours. After how many hours will the first candle be three times the height of the second?
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