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Question 1010446: A flat screen TV is 12 inches wider than it is tall. If the diagonal of the TV is 60 inches, find the dimensions of the TV. Label the picture, setup an equation and solve. Show step by step.
The picture is a horizontal rectangle with a diagonal line going from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.
Thanks in advance!
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Question 1010352: It cost $5 to get into the carnival grounds then it cost $2 for each light show the relationship between the number of carnival rides taken and the amount spent in a table
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Question 1010399: A bicyclist accelerates uniformly from a speed of 2.50 m/s forward to 5.55 m/s forward at a rate of +o.525 m/s^2. How far did the bicyclist move during this acceleration?
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Question 1010330: Draw a pair of horizontal parallel line segments. Make the lower segment longer than the upper segment. Connect the endpoints of the segments form a quadrilateral.

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Question 1010076: Luke left Lethbridge at 9:00 and drove toward Whitecourt at 90 km/h. Han left Whitecourt at the same time and drove toward Lethbridge at 80km/h. The distance from white court to Lethbridge is 680km.
How far from Lethbridge were they when they met?
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Question 1010468: The life expectancy of a typical lightbulb is normally distributed with a mean of 1,975 hours and a standard deviation of 25 hours. What is the probability that a lightbulb will last between 1,950 and 2,050 hours? (5 points)

0.84
0.77
0.82
0.89

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Question 1010487: A baseball player has already had 23 hits. They average 2 hits a game. Which equation best represents h, the total number of hits and g, the number of games ?
A) h=23g+2
B) h=23+2g
C) g=2h+23
D) g=2+23h
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Question 1010495: Five shirts and three pair of stacks cost $172. Three of the same shirts and four pair of the same stacks cost $156. How much does each shirt cost? How much does each pair of stacks cost?
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Question 1008843: the length of a rectangle is 5cm less than twice the width. The area is 75 square cm. Find the length and the width

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Question 1010519: A sum of money was shared among 3 brothers-Aaron, Ben, and Charles- in the ratio of 2 : 5 : 7. If Charles share was $1180 more than Aarons share, what was the original sum of money shared.
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Question 1010506: A random sample of 145 students is chosen from a population of 4,250 students. If the mean IQ in the sample is 130 with a standard deviation of 7, what is the 90% confidence interval for the students' mean IQ score?
98.98−101.02
109−112.
125−135
129.05−130.95

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Question 1010532:
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he total blood cholesterol levels in Americans are found to be normally distributed with a mean of 200 mg/dl and a standard deviation of 18 mg/dl. Determine the percentage of the population who have blood cholesterol levels less than 210 mg/dl. (Round to four decimal places.)
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Question 1010533:
The president of a small community college wishes to estimate the average distance commuting students travel to the campus. A SRS of 12 students yielded the following distances in miles: 27,35,33,30,39,25,38,22,27,37,33,40.
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Question 1010531: 20 high school seniors are athletes. Of the seniors, 12 play soccer, 5 run cross country and 2 play soccer and run cross county. If one senior is selected at random for an athletic scholarship, what is the probability that the student is either a soccer player or a cross country runner?

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Question 1010540: A band went to a recording studio and recored 4
songs in 3 h
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Question 1010574: Number of Days Absent per Student, Mr. Steven�s 6th grade class
7, 5, 12, 3, 0, 5, 13, 12, 5, 0, 6, 38, 11, 0, 1, 4, 9, 11, 2, 3, 6, 0, 1, 1
Determine the class width for 4 classes.
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Question 1010615: A block of flats with 18 unit was painted. Each unit required 5.5 L of paint. The paint cost $18 for a 20L can. What is the total cost of the paint?
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Question 1010534: To the nearest percent, calculate the percent discount on a bag of M&M's that normally retails for $2.89, but is on sale this week for $2.19.
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Question 1010616: There is an equal number of boys and girls. 1/4 of the boys have part time jobs. Twice as many of the girls have part time jobs. Altogether 30 are without part time jobs. Let x be the number of boys in the party. Express the total number of people without part time jobs in terms of x.
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Question 1010643: From a group of 5 people, how many ways can 3 be selected?
Please give clear working out and steps. Thanks!
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Question 1010650: Sharon is investing her money. She thinks that she should make $10 for every $150 she invests. How much she does expect to make on an investment of $5850?
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Question 1010656: 1/2 inch=3 miles; Jerry measured 3 1/8 inches between two towns
on the map; what is the distance in miles between the two towns?
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Question 1010658: Mariam borrowed a $1500 from her bank over a period of two years. If it earned $60 in simple interest, what was her rate of interest?
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Question 1010662: Renee has $70 saved and she decides to buy a shirt that costs $15. Later that week, she does some yard work and earns some money. If she now has a total of $85 saved, how much did she earn doing yard work?
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Question 1010659: The school band raised $160 for their fundraiser. They are selling Valentines for $3 each and need to raise a total of $400.How many Valentines do they need to sell to reach their goal

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Question 1010655: The waiting time to ride a roller coaster is 20 minutes when 150 people are in line. At this rate, how long is the waiting time when 240 people are in line?
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Question 1010640: Darren sold apples for 25 c and oranges for 15c .he collected 3.40$ in total .find the number of apples sold.
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Question 1010636: Theres a pie eating contest. Henry eats 4 less than twice the amount James does. James ate 2 less than Henry. How many pies did each eat ?
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Question 1010577:
A gumball machine contains 10 blue, 5 pink, 5 orange, 16 yellow and 14 white gumballs. What is the probability that a child receives a yellow followed by a white? (No replacement)
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Question 1010567: A gumball machine contains 10 blue, 5 pink, 5 orange, 16 yellow and 14 white gumballs. What is the probability that a child receives a yellow followed by a white? (No replacement)
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Question 1010685:
A gumball machine contains 10 blue, 5 pink, 5 orange, 16 yellow and 14 white gumballs. What is the probability that a child receives a yellow followed by a white? (No replacement)
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Question 1010775: girls are occupying exactly 2/5 of the sea in a cafeteria and boys I can find exactly 3/7 of the seats in the same cafeteria what is the minimum number of seats in the cafeteria?
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Question 1010838: a box contains 74 green 86 blue and 40 red coloured wires. from the above box 3 wires are drawn at random.from the box without replacement.determine the probability that all wires are steel washers
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Question 1010837: a box contains 74 green 86 blue and 40 red coloured wires. from the above box 3 wires are drawn at random.from the box without replacement.determine the probability that all wires are steel washers
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Question 1010759:
Each bottle of fruit juice from a small manufacturing plant is supposed to contain exactly 12 fluid ounces of juice. Susan is in charge of quality control and decided to test this claim by gathering a SRS of 30 bottles. She will recalibrate the machinery if the average amount of juice per bottle differs from 12 fluid ounces at the 1% level of significance. Her sample of 30 bottles has an average of 11.92 fluid ounces and a sample standard deviation of 0.26 fluid ounces. Conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the machinery needs recalibrated.
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Question 1010884: A hiker drops a stone from a 53.5 meter tall cliff. How long does it take the stone to reach the base of the cliff?
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Question 1010899: A city's state park is a rectangle 100 ft long by 50 ft wide. The city wants to triple the area of the skate park by adding the same distance (x) to the length and width. Write and solve an equation to find the value of x. What are the new dimensions of the skate park?
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Question 1010913: Wilhelm loads boxes at a department store. He loads 150 boxes a week. Each box weighs 50 lbs. How many boxes does he load in 36 weeks?
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Question 1010917: Sally is raising money for the senior class by selling books and magazines. The number of books she sold was four times the number of magazines sold. The profit received for each book sold was $3.25 and the profit for each magazine sold was two dollars. If she made a total profit of $135, how many books did she sell? How many magazines did she sell
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Question 1010964: Hi
if the radii of 2 spheres are in the ratio of 1:4 what will be the ratio of their volumes.
thanks
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Question 1010919: A young woman wants to make at least $400 a week and can work no more than 40 hours a week. She works at the library for $8 an hour and babysits for $6 an hour. What 4 system of inequalities show this situation?

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Question 1010968: Hi
the sides of a rectangular park are in the ratio of 3:2and its area is 3750m^2.what is the cost of
fencing it at $50 a metre.
thank u
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