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Question 983041: WHAT KIND OF SPECIAL PRODUCT IS (A+B-C)(A-B+C)
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Question 983084: A building contractor is to dig a foundation 40 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 14 feet deep. The contractor pays $12 per load for trucks to remove the dirt. Each truckload holds 8 cubic yards. What is the cost to the contractor to have all the dirt hauled away?

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Question 983074: You have 400 tasks to complete, each task takes 45 mins to complete. How many people is needed to complete in 7 hours?
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Question 983137: two pipes 2 can fill a tank in 61 minutes if both are turned on. if only one is used, it would take 57 minutes longer for the smaller pipe to fill the tank than the larger pipe. how long will it take for the smaller pipe to fill the tank?(round off theanswer to the nearest tenth.
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Question 983190: A long distance phone company charges $4.95 a month plus an additional $.10 per minute.
a. Define a variable and write a formula to find the cost per month for long distance service.
b. Use this formula to find the long-distance charges for 120 minutes of call in one month.
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Question 983248: a water tank is leaking at a rate of 1200 mL per hour. How much water is lost after 6.75 hours
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Question 983352: It took Andrew 40 seconds to burn 1/2 a cd, what is the burning rate per minute?
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Question 983291: Find the mean score of 100 students if 10 scored 40%, 30 scored 50% and the rest scored 60%
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Question 983292: The mean of five numbers is 10.
i) What is the total of the numbers?
ii) If 4 is added to the group what is the total of the six numbers?
iii) What is the mean of these six numbers?
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Question 983419: A group of friends hire a bus for the day for $480 agreeing to share the cost equally. At the last minute two more people decide to get on the bus and as a result each person pays eight dollars less how many people were on the bus?
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Question 983464: A quantity of identical plastic blockd weighs 10.98kg. If each block weighs 54.9g,how many block are there?
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Question 983465: In a school,0.6 of the total number of children have had chickenpox,while 162 children have not had chickenpox. What is the enrolment of the school?
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Question 983467: if jacob can draw 4 caricatures in 52 min, how long would it take to draw 84
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Question 983467: if jacob can draw 4 caricatures in 52 min, how long would it take to draw 84
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Question 983463: During one year in a school,0.625 of the student has measles, 0.5 had chickenpox. and 0.125 had neither.what fraction of the school had both measles and chikenpox?
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Question 983512: jesse receives $180 for every garage he paints. he wants to save a least $1620 for 1st semester tuition. how many garages should jesse paint?
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Question 983560: A trader made a loss of 10% on a bicycle he sold for #54000.if he had sold it for #57600, what would have been his percentage loss?
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Question 983551: Hi there
there were 250 kids in a room.2/5 of the girls and 1/10 of the boys wore glasses.
If the same number of boys and girls did not wear glasses
how many boys wore glasses
how many girls wore glasses
thank you
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Question 983553: During one year in a school,0.625 of the student had measles,0.5 had chickenpox and 0.125 had neither. What fraction of the school had both measles and chickenpox?
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Question 983700: What is the remainder when 3^10 is divided by 5? (Hint: Solve some simpler problems first and look for a pattern)
Thanks if you choose to help me with this!
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Question 983703: Here's my question:
Students in a group dancing class are spaced evenly around a circle and are then counted off consecutively from number 1. Student 20 is directly opposite student 53. How many students are there in the group?
Please explain your answer and thank you so much! :)
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Question 983702: Here's my question:
If the minute hand of a big clock is 1.12m long, find the rate at which its tip is moving in centimetres per minute. Take pi=22/7. (2dps)
Thanks in advance! :)
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Question 983748: You work as a grounds keeper for a small local elementary school and must fertilize the grass on the entire campus. You know that 4 containers cover 60 square yards. If the campus has 2,000 square yards of grass area, how many containers of fertilizer will you need?
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Question 983764: A toy company is going to start producing a new line of stuffed bears. The cost of producing the bears is $2 per bear plus $3000 in start up costs. They are going to sell the bears for $16 each. How many bears must be sold before the company starts making a profit? (Your answer must be a whole number.) A toy company is going to start producing a new line of stuffed bears. The cost of producing the bears is $2 per bear plus $3000 in start up costs. They are going to sell the bears for $16 each. How many bears must be sold before the company starts making a profit?
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Question 983795: Steven is the 12th highest and 12th lowest in the class. How many students are there?
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Question 983930: a basketball team has home games on friday and saturday. The two games together earn $3946.00 for the team. Friday's game generates $774.00 less than Saturdays game. How much money was taken in at each game?
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Question 984099: Using the 2.5 area space each person occupies, estimate how many people would fill 2miles. They are 5ft deep on both sides of the road.
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Question 984100: Using the 2.5 area space each person occupies, estimate how many people would fill 2miles. They are 5ft deep on both sides of the road.
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Question 984119: How many gallons of water can be stored in a 6in. Diameter, cylindrical pipe that is 30 feet long?
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Question 984119: How many gallons of water can be stored in a 6in. Diameter, cylindrical pipe that is 30 feet long?
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Question 984224: please help me solve this miscellaneous word problem:Find two consecutive integers whose product is 506.
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Question 984231: If tickets at a concert cost 9 $ each, how many tickets can you buy if you have 135 $? write an equation and solve by guess-and-check
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Question 984270: A passenger bus starts out and travel at 65 kilometer per hour.3 hours later, a car starts out from out the same place ang over take the bus is 18 hours and 40 minutes , What is the rate of the car?
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Question 984297: Evaluate 2x^2-5(x-2y)+5 when x=1 and y=-2
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Question 984308: please help me solve this domain and ranger equation During one school day, the temperature in Ms. Senior's classroom between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. could be modeled by the equation:
T = 60 + 2h
where T is the temperature in degrees and h is the number of hours since 8 a.m.
Determine the best representation of a reasonable domain and range

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Question 984331: The sum of 2 numbers is 64. When 8 is added to thrice one of the number, the result is seven times the other number. Find the number
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Question 984019: At first two different pipes will fill a tank in 20/3 minutes, the rate that water runs though each of these pipes is changed. If one pipe, running alone, take 1 minutes less to fill the tank at the new rate, and the other pipe takes 2 minutes more to fill in the tank at the new rate, then the 2 pipes running together will fill the tank in 7 minutes. Find how much time the tank will be filled by each pipe running alone at new rates.
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Question 984338: during a sale,one kilogram of fish was sold for $4.95.estimate how many kilograms of fish you could buy with $20
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Question 984415: A city park is opening a new swimming pool. You can pay a daily entrance fee of $3 or purchase a membership for the 12-week summer season for $82 and pay only $1 per day to swim. How many days would you have to swim to make the membership worthwhile?
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Question 984425: A bottle holds 350 litres of a fluid. If Ashok filled the bottle with water and
kept pouring it out in a big bowl 13 times, how much of water would have
been poured into the bowl?

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Question 984427: A bottle holds 350 litres of a fluid. If Ashok filled the bottle with water and
kept pouring it out in a big bowl 13 times, how much of water would have
been poured into the bowl?

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Question 984557: your class is taking a trip. you can travel in small and large cans. a small van holds 6 people and a large van holds 12. your class could fill 1 small van and 3 large vans. write an equation in standard form that models the possible combinations of small vans and large vans that your class could fill
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