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Question 1013693: A garden table and a bench cost $900 combined. The garden table costs $50 less than the bench. What is the cost of the bench
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Question 1013769: There are 71 rows of seats in a,lecture hall.each row has,38 seats the girls take up 281 of the seats and the rest are boys. How many boys are in the lecture hall?
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Question 1013719: In a list of positive integers, the arithmetic mean is 5, and the number 16 is known to appear. If the 16 is removed, the mean drops to 4. What is the largest possible number that could occur in the original list?
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Question 1013718: We can arrange matches to make grid of squares 3 x 3 which requires 24 matches. How many matches are required to make a 304 x 385 grid of squares?
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Question 1013768: You are setting up for a Thanksgiving party.it's gping to be a huge party event.you need enough placemat squares for 1,904 people. Right now there are 33 squares on each red and white checkered tablecloth.and on 56 tablecloths?do your have enough? If not how many more do u need?
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Question 1013789: need to write an equation and solve
Nancy takes an hour and a half to rake the lawn, but it takes her only 40 minutes if her sister rakes, too. How long does it take her sister to rake the lawn alone?
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Question 1013788: need to write an equation and solve
The main engine of a rocket fired alone can burn all the fuel in 50 seconds. The secondary engine fired alone can burn all the fuel in 80 seconds. How long can both engines be fired together before all the fuel is consumed?
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Question 1013804: Solving Rational Inequalities; Suppose that a factory's cost (in dollars) for making x cars is c(x) = 8365x + 5940.
Then the average cost per car is C's(x) = 8365+ 5940/x
How many cars must the factory make each day to ensure the average cost per car is no more than $8475?
I am not sure I am solving this right. How do I solve and what steps am I missing
8365+5940=14,305
8475�14,305=592.45
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Question 1013818: A school bought red & blue pens in separate boxes.all boxes of red pens held the same number of pens.each box of blue pens held 70. The school bought 300 pens in total.which of these could not be the number of red pens in a box?
A) 32
B)36
C)45
D)46
How we have to solve this one please help me

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Question 1013679: . A local factory currently assembles 160 ovens per day. The factory can sell each oven for $300. Profit per oven is $40. The 15 workers are paid $14 per hour, one 8 hour shift per day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks per year. The factory is looking into buying new tools for $125,000 that will reduce the time it takes to assemble each oven by 5 minutes. The tools have a 2-year useful life.
1. How many man hours do 15 workers put together in one day? 120
2. On average, how many man-hours does it take to assemble one oven? .333 or 1/3 of an hour or 20 minutes.
3. Over the 2-year period, how much will be saved in labor costs to make the same number of ovens? Will the tools be worth the purchase?
4. What would be the earnings of one worker per year?

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Question 1013765: Jose paints a wall in 5 days. If Jose and Alfred works together fot at most 2 days, what must be the minimum rate of Alfred to complete the job ?
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Question 1013973: There where 196 students that participated and I clean up event at a nearby lake is one fourth of the entire student population right and solve an equation to find the number of students at the school
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Question 1014013: jon opened a package of candies and counted them . he found 80 candies in the 2.5 ounce package. write a proportion and solve for the number of candies in a 1-pound package (16 ounces)
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Question 1014025: Larry received test grades of 87, 85, 79, 74, 80 on his tests. If he had set a goal of achieving an average of 80 on his tests, did he meet his goal?
How far above or below his goal was he?
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Question 1014046: Hi
in 2002 the ratio of male teachers to female teachers was 4:5 in 2004 there were 2400 new teachers and the ratio of male to female became 8:9.how many teachers were there in 2002.
thanks
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Question 1013607: Paul wants to enclose part of his yard to make a rectangle dog run.
He will put up a fence on the three sides of the rectangle and use
the wall of the house as the fourth side of the rectangle. If he has
36 yd of fencing material, and wants the dog run to be the maximum
are possible, what length should make the dog run? Assume that the
length is longer than the width.
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Question 1014132: It takes 3 people 6 hours to clean a table. How long would it take five people to clean nine tables?
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Question 1014123: Amanda, Beth, and Sarah run three races. in each race, one of them earns 5 points, one of them earns 3 points, and one of them earns 1 point. After the three races Beth has the highest point total. What is the smallest total score that Beth can have?
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Question 1014143: I am a multiple of 5.
The sum of my 2 digits is 8.
What am I?
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Question 1014251: my question is "The sum of the masses of 2 girls is over 60 kg.write an equality to show this statement if the masses of the girls is x kg?" that is all please help me also i forgot to say you also have to use < or> nothing else thank you.

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Question 1014280: When 30% of a number is added to the number, the result is
169?
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Question 1014285: Jessica sells T-shirts from her small kiosk in the shopping mall. On average, she sells 30 T-shirts per day at a price of $19.00 each. She estimates that she will sell 3 additional shirts each day for every $1 reduction in the price per T-shirt.
Find a quadratic function modeling Jessica's daily revenue as related to reduction in price and the range of prices which would allow her to maintain or increase her current revenue.
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Question 1014279: Hello, could you please help me with this word problem: Pirates are attacking the Caribbean Island of Nevis! Soliders manning a coastal fortress rush to their cannons their cannons and prepare to defend the port by sinking the pirate ship. Geoger and Edward are manning a cannon that sits 50 feet above the water in a fortress tower. They load, aim, and fire their cannon. The cannon ball has an initial vertical velocity of 72 feet per second and hits the pirate ship ten feet above the water line exactly 5.0 seconds later.
Create a quadratic function describing the height of the cannonball above the water with respect to time T. After how many seconds will the cannonball reach its maximum height?
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Question 1014295: Two airline passengers have baggage totaling 190lbs. A passenger is charged a fixed number of dollars per pound if his or her baggage weight is over a certain maximum value. One passenger is charged $8. The other passenger is charged $2. If all the baggage belonged to one passenger, that person would have been charged $24. Find the charge per pound for extra weight and the maximum weight allowed per person without penalty.
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Question 1014395: A rectangular garden is 8 ft longer than it is wide. Its area is 560 ft2. What are its dimensions?

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Question 1014424: To produce x units of a religious medal costs C(x)=13x+119. The revenue is R(x)=30x. Both cost and revenue are in dollars.
a. Find the break-even quantity.
b. Find the profit from 560 units.
c. Find the number of units that must be produced for a profit of $170.
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Question 1014427: harry drove for 3 hours on the freeway then decreased his speed by 20 miles per hours, and then drove 4 more hours on a country road. If his total trip was 291 miles then what was his speed on the freeway?

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Question 1014293: It cost $520 to plant 4 acres of corn.how much would it cost to plant 3/5 acres of corn?
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Question 1014545: A fruit juice company mixes pineapple juice that sells for $5.50 per gallon with 100 gallons of orange juice that sells for $3 per gallon. how much pineapple juice is used to make a pineapple-orange juice drink selling for $3.50 per gallon?
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Question 1014586: Hi
a pool is rectangular in shape with dimensions a meters by b meters.surrounding the pool is a paved
area d meters wide.what is the area of the paved section.could u please show the working out.
thank u
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Question 1014626: Katia had one more than five times the number of wristbands than Shelly has.
Rae had three more than twice the number that Shelly has.
What word expression would show how many more wristbands Katia has than Rae?
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Question 1014648: Lois rented a car for $74.00 a week plus #0.15 for each mile the car is driven. what is the greatest number of miles Lois can drive the car if she wishes to spend at most $180.00? only an algebraic solution will be accepted
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Question 1014671: An old bucket has a small leak. Fifty-five millilitres of water leaks out in 1 hour. Use integers to find out how much water leaks out in 6 hours

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Question 1014697: Over a three week period, the price of an gram of gold increased by 25% in the first week, decreased by 20% in the following week, and increased by 5% in the third week. if the price of gold was G dollars per gram at the beginning of the three weeks, what was the price in terms of G at the end of the three weeks?
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Question 1014778: Billy goes to the store. He has $90. He wants to purchase a jacket for $45, a hat for $10, and the rest on jeans. Each pair of jeans costs $35. Write an inequality for the number of jeans he can purchase. If you are able to solve the problem, show your steps and solution as there are two steps to your solution. Use numbers and/or words in complete well-written sentences to explain your solution.
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Question 1014857: I have fewer than 25 acrons. I have more than 21 acrons how many more acrons could I have ?
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Question 1014856: The Tip Top Tennis Balls manufacturing company makes and sells tennis balls. The revenue (in dollars) that the company receives in selling x cases (12 cans per case, three balls per can) of tennis balls in one week is given by
The cost (in dollars) is given by
All of the following questions refer to a one-week period, and only full cases of balls are sold.
Write an equation for the profit P the company makes in producing and selling x cases. (Remember the profit = revenue � cost.)
How many tennis balls need to produced and sold for the profit to be greater than zero
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Question 1014815: Matt, Rosa, and Kathy are cousins. If you combine their ages, they would be 40 years old. Matt is one-third of rosa's age. Kathy is five years older than rosa. How old are the three cousins ?

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Question 1014878: A machine requires four hours to make a unit of product A and nine hours to make a unit of product B, Last month the machine operated for 333 hours, producing a total of 47 units. How many units of product A and product B were produced.
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Question 1014848: You are putting cans of food into boxes for a food drive. One box holds 30 cans of food. Write a linear function using function notation that represents the number of cans of food that will ﬁt in x boxes. Is the domain discrete or continuous?
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