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Question 997394: The college is selling tickets for a show at the Capitol theater they have sold a total of 728 tickets each adult ticket cost $19 and each youth ticket cost eight dollars.if they have made $10,653 how many adult tickets and youth tickets did they sell
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Question 997417: The number √230 is approximately how many times√10 ? Explain your reasoning.

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Question 997554: A mixture of 98 kg of candy worth 155 cents/kg is to be made up by taking some worth 35 cents/kg and
some worth 175 cents/kg. How many kg of each should be taken?
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Question 997536: A college is selling tickets for a show at the Capitol theater they have sold a total of 728 tickets each adult ticket cost $19 and each yourh ticket cost eight dollars if they have made $10,653 how many adult tickets and youth tickets did they sell
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Question 997586: 1/2x+3/5y=-1
3/4x-7/10y=13/2
solve by any method
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Question 997585: elimination
3x-5y=3
2x-6y=-6

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Question 997598: Roman made $18.00 less than 4 times the amount this week. For 2 weeks Roman makes $262.00. What what the total amount Roman made?
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Question 997673: Can you please help me with this
Kelsey and David played a game and together they scored 30 points. Kelsey scored 2 times as many as David. How many points did Kelsey and David each score? Write an equation and sore
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Question 997699: Tricky exponential decay word problem:
Suppose a small quantity of radon gas, which has a half-life of 3.8 days, is accidentally released into the air in a laboratory. If the resulting radiation level is 10% above the safe level, how long should the laboratory remain vacated? (Hint: To start with, determine what fraction of the "resulting radiation level" is the maximum safe level.)
The laboratory should remain vacated for ____days
Thank you
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Question 997788: Can anybody help me with this i have no clue to figure this out use dimensional analysis to convert the quantity to the indicated units 32,070 ft to mi
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Question 997834: Two apples and four orange cost is $100, three apples and seven orange cost $164. so what is cost of one orange?
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Question 997877: there are four numbers such that each is the sum of the previous number and 4. Find the numbers if their sum is 64.
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Question 997899: Cut a board 20 ft long into three pieces so that the longest piece will be three times as long as each of the other two of equal lengths. Find the length of each piece.
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Question 997926: In a group of girls, 8 run for the track team, 13 are on the math team, and 6 are on both teams. How many of the girls are not on either team?

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Question 997921: Chuck receives loans totaling $12,000 from two banks. One bank charges 7.5% annual interest and the second bank charges 6% annual interest in one year. How much was loaned at each bank?
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Question 998072: According to consumers handbook a good oiled furniture finish contains 2 parts boiled linseed oil and one part turpentine. If you need a pint (16 fluid Oz) of this furniture finish, how many fluid Oz of turpentine are needed?
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Question 998081: Kate worked 10 h overtime. She earned $8 more than 1/3 the amount she earns for 40h of work at her usual rate. If her overtime rate is $2.40 per hour more than her usual rate, find her overtime rate.
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Question 998141: Casey answered 94 out of 100 of the questions correctly how many of percent of the questions did she answer correctly.

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Question 998240: What does B^(2t/C) mean here?
A culture contains 1200 bacteria initially and doubles every 30 minutes. Assuming that the rate of growth is proportional to the number of bacteria, find a function that models the number P(t) of bacteria after t minutes.
P(t) = A e^(kt) = B^(2t/C)
, where

A = 1200
k = 0.0231
B = ?
C = ?
I was able to figure out A and K fine. But where does B and C mean?
Thank you
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Question 998270: a.)A butcher wants to buy some cows and pigs. He has the sum of $9800 to spend, and the number of pigs bought must be less than the number of cows bought. He has space only for 12 animals. If the cost per cow is $900 and the cost per pig is $700, write down a set of in-equations to represent the conditions give above.
b.)draw a graph to represent the conditions give above.
c.)If the profit on a cow is $550 and the profit on a pig is $325, determine the butchers expected maximum profit.
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Question 998285:
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Question 998299: Tickets are $4 for students and $6 for adults. The council wants to raise $1600. If 100 adults attend, how many students must attend?

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Question 998323: Tyler jogs less than 2 miles each day.After 12 days, he has jogged n miles. Which inequality can be used to find the number of miles he might have jogged?
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Question 998329: How do I find all points having an x-coordinate of 6 whose distance from the point (3,2) is 5
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Question 998361:
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Question 998290: Here's my question:
A train leaves Newcastle for Sydney at 7:45am while another train leaves from Sydney for Newcastle at 8:15am. The first train arrives in Sydney 40 minutes after the trains pass each other while the train to Newcastle arrives 1 hour 40 minutes after they pass. Assume that the trains travel at a constant speed, let t be the time, in mins, that takes the first train to meet the second train. Find the time that takes the second train to meet the first train in terms of t. Find the value of t.
Thank you in advance! :D
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Question 998477: Deanna and Jim can bike at a pace of 15 3/4 miles per hour. How long will it take them to travel 50 2/5 miles?
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Question 998475: If exactly 194 people sign up for a charter flight, Leisure World Travel Agency charges $286/person. However, if more than 194 people sign up for the flight (assume this is the case), then every fare is reduced by $1 times the number of passengers above 194. Determine how many passengers will result in a maximum revenue for the travel agency. Hint: Let x denote the number of passengers above 194. Show that the revenue function R is given by
R(x) = (194 + x)(286 − x).

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Question 998503: If you make a cardboard box that is twice as wide, twice as tall, and twice as long as a cardboard box that you already have, how will the volume of the larger box compare with the volume of the original box? (Will the larger box be twice as big, 3 times as big, 4 times as big, etc.?)
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Question 998562: The admission to the museum increased $2.25 to 8.50. Let p be the original price. Write an equation and find the original price.
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Question 998574: Daniel has to decide whether to sell lemonade or coffee. He's calculated that if he sells lemonade there is a 20% chance of getting $100 and an 80% chance of losing $20. If he sells coffee, there is a 40% chance of getting $80 and a 60% chance of losing $5. Investment costs are already included. Which should he sell?
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Question 998527: The student council of XYZ School needed P225,000 for an annual trip. If five more members joined the group, each member would then save P5000. How many students planned to make the trip?
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Question 998558: Tickets for the father-and-son breakfast were $5.00 for fathers and $3.50 for sons. If a total of 75 tickets were sold for $307.50, how many fathers and how many sons attended the breakfast?
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Question 998623: Mrs. Stewart takes her dog Carly for a hair cut. She pays $65! Dogs are expensive! If she wants to leave a 22% tip, how much money is that?
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Question 998669: Hi
a rectangular shaped swimming pool has a length of 8m and a width of 4m.the depth of the pool
at one end is 1.4m and at the other end 2.2m.what is the capacity in kilolitres.
thank you
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Question 998946: The manager of the store that specializes in selling T decides to experiment with a new blend she will make some Earl Grey tea that sells for four dollars per pound with some orange tea that sells for two dollars per pound to get 100 pounds of the new blend the selling price of the new plan is to be $2.50 per pound and there's to be no difference and revenue from selling the new brand versus selling the other types how many pounds of the Earl Grey tea and orange tea are required
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Question 998967: Jim entered a quiz show.he got 5 points for every correct answer and losses 3 points for every wrong answers. He answered 30 questions.if he ended with 95 pointa then how many questions he answered correctly?
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Question 998970: Karen runs a print shop that makes posters for large companies. It is a very competitive business. The market price is currently $1.00 per poster. She has fixed costs of $500.00. Her variable costs are $1,500 for the first thousand posters, $1,200 for the second thousand, and then $800 for each additional thousand posters.What is her ATC per poster if she prints 1,000?
What is her ATC per poster if she prints 2,000?
What is her ATC per poster if she prints 10,000?
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Question 999078: alfonso gets paid $15 for each lawn he mows. he has already mowed 4 lawns this week but wants to earn a total of $150. he will need to mow more lawns to reach his goal.
A.) write an equation to represent the total amount he earns for mowing lawns to reach his goal.
B.) how many lawns will he need to mow to get his goal?
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Question 999089: Bob makes $4/hr more than Al, but only half of what Fred makes. Bob and Al work together for
10 hours and still make $12 less than Fred makes in 9 hours. What does Fred make per hour?
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Question 999135: 2 printers can print 4 reams of paper in 30 min. If you had 3 printers and 5 reams to print, how
many minutes would it take?
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Question 999140: Two printers can print 10000 pages in 3 hours. If they get a third printer and have 20,000 pages
to print, how long will it take? (Assume all printers print at the same speed.)
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Question 999139: . Bob takes 3 hours to mow a lawn. Al takes 4 hours. If they work together how long will it take?
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