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Question 985349: Miss xyz is 16 years old. She is four times elder than her brother. If she is two times older than her brother what is her age?
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Question 985416: A worker is taking boxes of nails on an elevator. Each box weighs 54 lbs, and the worker weights 170 lb. The elevator has a weight limit of 2500 lb. What is the number of boxes that he can safely take on each trip?
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Question 985459: Kris read each day of her vacation the following is a list of how many pages she read each day 105 39 83 54 84 75 52 96 what is the mean number of pages she read each day and how do u know
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Question 985244: only male crickets chirp they chirp at different rates depending on their species and the temp, of their enviorment suppose a certain species is chirping
at a rate of 77 chips per min at this rate how many chirps occur in one hour? in one day? in one year 365?
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Question 985518: suppose that a merchant buys a patio set from the wholesaler for $180. At what price should the merchant mark the patio set so that it may be offered at a discount of 25% but still give the merchant a 40% profit on his $180 investment
Thank you
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Question 985544: There are two wells at a farm. Grandma comes to collect water from the left well every 24 days, while Grandpa comes to collect water from the right well every 18 days. Today they both come to collect water from the wells. How many days will have passed when they both come to collect water at the same time again?
A. 6
B. 36
C. 48
D. 72
E. 432
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Question 985547: To paint the gym for homecoming, Senate needs 25 gallons of lead pait and has $141 dollars budgeted for the project. If the blue lead paint costs $5 a gallon and the gold lead pain costs $7, how many gallons of each color of lead paint should they buy. Solve by using a system of equations, show all your work. Please help me with this, thank you :)
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Question 985545: Your younger brother is saving up to buy an ipad. He has a total of 25 coins, all nickels and quarters.The total value is $3.85. How many nickels does he have? How many quarters? Solve by using a system of equations and show all your work. Please help me with this, thank you :)
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Question 985567: Henry is thinking of a whole number. He multiplies the number by 5 but the result is less than 5. What number is Henry thinking about
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Question 985561: Andrew read a 320 page novel by reading the same number of pages each day for 5 days write and solve a multiplication equation to find out how many pages andrew read per day
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Question 984831: you own a hot dog stand and you need to find a combination of a meal that has 128 combinations and make a probability tree diagram
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Question 985696: What is the formula I should use:
If I can produce 144 burgers in 128.3 minutes, how many burgers can I produce in 60 minutes?
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Question 985696: What is the formula I should use:
If I can produce 144 burgers in 128.3 minutes, how many burgers can I produce in 60 minutes?
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Question 985785: A boy purchased a party length sandwich 61 inches long. He wants to cut into three pieces so that the middle piece is 5 inches longer than the shortest piece and the shortest piece is 8 inches shorter than the longest piece. How long should the three pieces be?
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Question 985814: Describe the difference between simple interest and compound interest
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Question 985864: PA
+PA
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YA
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Question 985998: 210x+550=10000
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Question 986005: Clara has a garden that is 7 feet wide and 4 feet long. She has 30 tomato plants to put in the garden. Each plant needs 1 square foot of space. How many leftover plants will clara have.
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Question 986039: Need help putting this into an equation. "you are a contractor and charge $45 for a site visit plus and additional $24 per hour for each hour you spend working at the site. write and solve an equation to determine how many total hours you have to work to earn $810 working at two separate work sights."
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Question 985974: during a match an average tennis player should be able to hit 2/5 of his or hers first service was in service line is Sam take 150 serves doing good match how many times did he hit with in the service line
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Question 985977: Famanda collects magazine that are printed monthly. each magazine is 5 millimeters thick, a shelf ,0.4 metres long is girl with the magazine
How many magazines are there?
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Question 985980: Famanda collects magazine that are printed monthly. each magazine is 5 millimeters thick, a shelf ,0.4 metres long, and filled with the magazines
How many magazines are there?
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Question 986014: The rental cost of a jet ski from the keys ski rental is $15 per 15 minutes, and the cost from zephyr jet ski is $25 per half hour. If you plan to rent the jet ski for 2 hours, which is the better deal, and by how much?
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Question 986159: Shirley has two containers of water for a camping trip. One container holds 2 times as much as the other. The total amount of water is 30 gallons. How much water is in each container?
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Question 986185: Greg bats in 7 cricket matches. In the 8th match he makes 9 runs and his average decreased by one. Let x be the average of seven matches, make an equation and find the value of x.
Thanks!
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Question 986166: A store sells tents, sleeping bags, and camp stools. A customer buys a tent, 3 sleeping bags, and 5 camp stools for $213. The price of the tent is 7 times the cost of a camp stool. The cost of a sleeping bag is $26 more than the cost of a camp stool. Find the cost of each item.
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Question 986227: can you show me how to do this step by step so i can use this as notes for future homework.
Dmitri needs 7 liters of a 24% solution of sulfuric acid for a research project in molecular biology. He has two supplies of sulfuric acid solution: one is an unlimited supply of the 21% solution and the other an unlimited supply of the 28% solution. How many liters of each solution should Dmitri use?
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Question 986232: A vendor sells hot dogs, bags of potato chips, and soft drinks. A customer buys 3 hot dogs, 4 bags of potato chips, and 5 soft drinks for $12.50. The price of a hot dog is $0.75 more than the price of a bag of potato chips. The cost of a soft drink is $2.00 less than the price of two hot dogs. Find the cost of each item.
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Question 986287: Two cars A and B take part in a race 700 km long.
Car A travels an average of 35 km per 12 minutes.
Whereas Car B travels at an average of 58.3 km per 20 minutes.
by what distance does the faster car beat the other car in the race?

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Question 986333: word problems Lynn is traking the process of her plant's growth . Today the plant is 4.8 cm high . the plant grows 1.6 cm per day
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Question 986338: You want too make a 65 angle by marking an arc on the perimeter of a 14-in diameter disk and drawing lines from the ends of the arc to the disks center. How long should the arc be?
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Question 986389: Nathan giving all of his cookies to each of his three sisters. To the oldest he gives half of the cookies and 1/2 of a cookie. He then gives half of what is left and a 1/2 of a cookie to his second sister. Finally,he gives half of what is now left and 1/2 of a cookie to his youngest sister. At no time is a cookie broken or cut. How many cookies did Nathan have to begin with? There is more than one correct answer and Nathan gave all his cookies so you must use all cookies.......need help ASAP please

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Question 986432: Write 16 as a binary number
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Question 986427: Two buses leave a depot at the same time, one traveling north and the other south. The speed of the northbound bus is 15 mph greater then the speed of the southbound bus. After 3 hours on the road, the buses are 255 miles apart. What are their speeds?
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Question 986417: A square cake measures 6 units by 6 units by 4units. The cake falls into vat of frosting and comes out frosted on all 6 faces. The cake is then cut up into cubes each measuring one unit on an edge. how many of these cubes will have exactly one face frosted?

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Question 986527: Want to know solutions to
The sum of two numbers is 36
a) If one number is x, write an expression for that other number.
b) Find the value of x for which their product is a maximum.
c) Find the maximum value of their product.
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Question 986535: the resultant of two force is 73lb find the angle between it and each of the forces if they are 45 and 51 lb
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Question 986429: A square cake measures 6 unit by 6 units by 4units. The cake falls vat of frosting and comes out frosted on all 6 faces. The cake is then cut up into cubes each measuring one unit on an egde how many of these cubes will have exactly one face frosted need help quick please

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Question 986550: Michael has a job transporting soft drinks by truck. His truck is filled with cans that weigh
14
ounces each and bottles that weigh
70
ounces each. There is a combined total of
910
cans and bottles in his truck.
Let
x
be the number of
14
-ounce cans in his truck. Write an expression for the combined total weight (in ounces) of the cans and bottles in his truck.
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Question 986553: The seat R Us factory produces chairs with four legs and stools with three legs. The style of seats and legs are all the same this year. If all the leftover legs were put with the leftover seats to make chairs, one seat would be left over without any legs. However if all the leftover legs were put on the leftover seats to make stools, one leg would be left. Hoe many more legs than seats are in the leftover inventory?
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Question 986487: A minor league baseball team had a total attendance one evening of 1175, the tickets for adults and children sold for 5.00 and 3.50 respectively , the ticket revenue that night was 5087.50 . create a system of linear equations to find the numbers of adults A and children C at the game, and solve your system of equations by elimination or by substitution . explain your choice m use the intersact feature or the zoom and trace features of a graphice utility to solve your syetem
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Question 986613: Two sides of a triangle have the same length. The third side measures 3 m less than twice that length. The perimeter of the triangle is 13 m. Find the lengths of the three sides.
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Question 986612: The longest side of a triangle is 5 inches longer than the shortest side. The medium side is 4 inches longer than the shortest side. If the perimeter of the triangle is 27 inches, what are the lengths of the three sides?
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Question 986676: In a series of 30 racquetball games played to date, larry has won 10 giving him a winning average of 33.3% if he continues to play what interval describes the number of games he must now win in a row to have an overall winning average greater than 50 %
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