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Question 1002725: A landscaper ordered 6 cubic yards of soil. So far she has used 90 cubic feet of soil. How many cubic feet of soil are left? Hint:How many cubic feet are in a yard?
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Question 1002728: A rectangular sand pit is 2m longer than it is wide. If it occupies an area of 48m^2, determine the dimensions of the sandpit by solving a suitable equation.
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Question 1002729: pick only one of the method of overtime from the main portion of the assignment. randomly pick a regular rate of pay and hours work for the week, the hours should be greater than 40 hours, illustrate a method with all the calculation for all steps.
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Question 1002737: The Great Wall of China is about 1500 miles long if there are about 8 towers distributed along each mile about how many towers are on the Great Wall of china?
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Question 1002779: The value of a number of dimes and quarters is $2.02. If the quarters were replaced by nickels, the value would be $1.05. Find the number of eachcoin
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Question 1002805: My rectangular house measures 75 feet by 60 feet. Find how much it would cost to install gutter around the whole house if the gutters costed $2.52 per foot.
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Question 1002780: The value of a number of dimes and quarters is $2.05. If the quarters were replaced by nickels, the value would be $1.05. Find the number of eachcoin
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Question 1002862: Hi
a type of concrete is made of 7 parts sand,3 parts cement and 1 part lime.a batch of concrete is madethat requires 35kg of cement.find the mass of the sand to 1 decimal place.
Thank u
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Question 1002921: use the formula N=Ie^kt where n is the number of organisms in terms of initial population 'I' at t and k is the growth constant equal to the percent of growth per unit of time . How long will it take for the population of a certain country to double, is its annua growth rate is 8.3%. Round to the nearest year. t=_________.
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Question 1002942: What is the area of the sketch after she removed the triangles and square? Emily sketched an octagonal window on a 27 inch square piece of paper. First she cut 4 identical isosceles triangles from the corners of the paper. Then she cut a square from the center of the octagon. Each leg of a cut-off triangle is 1/3 the length of the paper. The side length of the cut-out square is also 1/3 length of paper.
729-144=585
The correct answer is 486 please show me how?
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Question 1002995: Mike bought 8 chocolate bars and paid $5 with his credit card and
the rest with cash. His friend bought 4 chocolate bars and $7 in
candy. If both of them paid the same amount of money in cash, how
much does one chocolate bar cost?
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Question 1003078: The length of the top of the table is 2 m greater than the width. The area is 80m^2. Find the dinensions of the table.

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Question 1003121: Hi
if x:y = 1:2 find the value of (2x + 3y):(x + 4y).the text book solution is hard to understand.
Thank you

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Question 1003130: Hi
the decimal ratio of the number of share price rises to falls is 2.7.
if 5000 share prices of companies have fallen, find
the number of share prices which have risen
the total number of listed companies.
thanks
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Question 1003118: The pendulum of a certain clock has time period 2.04seconds.How fast or slow does the clock run during 12 hour
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Question 1003210: Can someone please help me with this excercises:
1. A car left skid marks 16 m long when the driver brought it to a quick stop as he was traveling east. Assuming the brakes decelerated the car at -15 m/s^2, how fast was the car traveling when its brakes were first applied?
2. A car is capable of accelerating at a rate of 3.20 m/s^2. If it is going 11.0 m/s when it leaves the curved portion of the entrance ramp to an expressway, how much straightaway does it need to obtain 35.0 m/s before merging with the traffic ?
3. A driver in a car moving at 32 m/s sees a cow sitting on the road 71 m ahead. Can the driver stop in time to avoid hitting the cow if his rate of deceleration is -7.6 m/s^2.

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Question 1003218: A driver in a car moving at 32 m/s sees a cow sitting on the road 71 m ahead. Can the driver stop in time to avoid hitting the cow if his rate of deceleration is -7.6 m/s^2.
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Question 1003217: A car is capable of accelerating at a rate of 3.20 m/s^2. If it is going 11.0 m/s when it leaves the curved portion of the entrance ramp to an expressway, how much straightaway does it need to obtain 35.0 m/s before merging with the traffic ?
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Question 1003307: Please help me to understand how to solve this word problem.
200 ice cream cones were sold. Double scoops sold for $1.25 and single scoops sold for $1.00. If the total sales for the day was $221.75, how many of each cone were sold.
Thank you
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Question 1003280: a grocer makes a display of canned tomatoes that are on sale there are 24 cans in the first layer and , after the first each layer contains three fewer cans than in the layer below there are three cans in the top layer how many layers of cans are in the display show work
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Question 1373: 1) Sue is both the 50th best & the 50th worst student at her school. How many
students attend her school ?
2) In a race from point X to point Y & back, Jack averages 30 miles per hour to
point Y & 10 miles per hour back to point X. Sandy averages 20 miles per
hour in both directions. Between Jack & Sandy, who finished first ?
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Question 1003426: A park is showing a movie on the lawn. The top of the screen is 28 feet from the ground. Find the angle of elevation to the top of the screen from 100 feet away
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Question 1003430: The side of a triangle is twice the length of the shortest side and the middle length side is 9 inches longer than the shortest side. If the perimeter is 65 inches what are the lenths of the 3 sides?
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Question 1003558: Find the volume of a spherical shell which has an inner radius of 7 cm and an outer radius of 8cm.
What does this question mean and how do you solve it? Thanks in advance!
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Question 1003563: A small cruising ship that can hold up to 64 people provides three-day excursions to groups of 40 or more. If the group contains 40 people, each person pays $76. The cost per person for all members of the party is reduced by $1 for each person in excess of 40. Find the size of the group that maximizes income for the owners of the ship.
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Question 1003560: A coin is tossed n times where n>1. Find the probability of obtaining n tails.
Thank you! Please explain why!
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Question 1003576: Hi
to make a certain colour of paint blue paint and red paint are mixed in the ratio of 3:4.how much
blue paint is needed to mix with 240ml of red paint to make the colour.
thank u
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Question 1003607: Ali,s cat had a litter of kittens. She sold half the litter to a pet store. She gave half of the rest to a neighbor and half of what was then left to her best friend. Ali kept one kitten for herself. How many kittens were in the original litter?
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Question 1003692: Nancy had 97 dollars to spend on 8 books. After buying them she had 17 dollars. How much did each book cost?
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Question 1003740: A vending machine has three buttons, labeled A, B, and C. The cost is the same for all three buttons. If you press A, you get a pound of fertilizer. If you press B, you get a pet rat. If you press C, you randomly get either fertilizer or a pet rat. Which button do you think will be used the least, and why?
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Question 1003790: The mean age of a group of eight girls was 15. One more girl joins the group and the mean age became 14. How old is the ninth girl?
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Question 1003834: At a concession stand five hot dogs and four hamburgers cost $11.00; four hot dogs and five hamburgers cost $11.50. Find the cost of one hot dog and the cost of one hamburger.

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Question 1003896: How much time will be needed for $24,000 to grow to $24,974.50 if deposited at 4% compound quaterly?
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Question 1003894: from a car wash a service club made $108 that will be divided between the boy scouts and the girl scouts. there were twice as many girls as boys so a decision was made to give the girls twice as much money. how much did each group recieve?
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Question 1003811: School calculators are sold by one company in packages of 11 and 15. What is the largest number of calculators it is not possible to purchase without opening a package?
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Question 1003994: PLEAE SHOW Y AS A FUNCTION OF X
-12x + 3y=15
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Question 1003979: Algebra 1

A scale drawing of a new city library shows a rectangular children's reading room with a length of 5/1/4 inches and a width of 31/2 inches. the scale on the drawings is 1 inch : 4 feet. what will be the actual length and width of the room when the library is built?
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Question 1003998: Find the accumulated value on an investment of $15,000.00 for 9 years at an interest rate of 11% if the money is compounded
a) Semi- annually
b) Quarterly
c) Monthly
d) Continuously
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Question 1004038: The perimeter of a rectangle varies jointly with its length and width. If the perimeter of a rectangle is 24 inches with a length of 5 and a width of 7, what is a rectangle�s width with a perimeter of 32 inches and a length of 5?
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Question 1004071: The perimeter of a rectangle is 30 inches, and its area is 54 square inches. Find the length of the longest side of the rectangle.
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Question 1004060: Find the value and interest of $80 deposited at the end of each month at 4.5% compounded monthly for 25 years
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Question 1004107: The Edwards family and the Powell family each used their sprinklers last summer. The water output rate for the Edwards family's sprinkler was
25L
per hour. The water output rate for the Powell family's sprinkler was
20L
per hour. The families used their sprinklers for a combined total of
55
hours, resulting in a total water output of
1300L
. How long was each sprinkler used?
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