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Question 1014886: find the corresponding y values in the equation y=x^2+6 when x={1,-3,2}.
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Question 1014939: 224 man-hours are required to complete a project. 4 men are employed at $7.50 per hour for the job. The normal working hours for the men are from 0900h to 1800h with a one-hour lunch break in between. As hourly-rated workers, they are not paid during the lunch hour.
(i) How much would each man be paid for completing the project?
(ii) Under the Labour Law, the workers are entitled to overtime pay of 1.5 times their hourly rate when they work beyond the normal working hours. The project became urgent and needs to be completed in 4 days. How much would the total labour cost be now?
(iii) What is the percentage increase in labour cost due to the early completion of the project?
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Question 1014964: A stamping press produces 4,000 parts, but 80 of them are bad. What percentage of the parts were bad?
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Question 1014793: A river raft holds at most 8 people . The guide and 2 people are already on board .How many more people can board the raft ? Its an inequality question to write and solve
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Question 1014985: Please help me solve this word problem:
A population of grasshoppers quadruples in twenty days. Assuming exponential growth, if the present population is 40 million, what will it be in fifty days? Answer the question by first finding the number y of grasshoppers as a function of time t(in days) in the form y=y0e^kt
Thank-you, your help is always appreciated!

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Question 1014988: Please help me answer this word problem:
The rate at which a radioactive isotope disintegrates is proportional to the amount present. If a 30g sample will contain only 20g after ten minutes, what is the half-life of this isotope, correct to the nearest tenth of a minute? Answer this question by first finding the amount y of this isotope as a function of time t(in minutes) in the form y=y0e^kt.
Thank-you, your help is always appreciated!
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Question 1015066: After m months you paid 25+10m for your computer. How much did you pay after 6 months?
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Question 1015068: Teaneck High had an enrollment of 10270 in 1988 and an enrollment of 13030 in year 1999. What is the predicted enrollment of Teaneck High in 2012 if we assume a linear model?
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Question 1015091: Marcus gets paid $29 for 4 hours of work. How much does Marcus get paid per hour.
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Question 1015090: Marcus gets paid $29 for 4 hours of work. How much does Marcus get paid per hour.
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Question 1015083: If a farmer is plowing a field 300 by 900 ft and he plows 50ft per min how long would it take him to plow the feild
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Question 1015112: The population of a town is 128000. It increases by 5% in the first year and 8% in the second year. What will be the population of the town after two years?
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Question 1015127: The price of an item was increased twice by the same percent. By what percent was the second increase if the item became 1.44 times more expensive?
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Question 1014963: An operation is rated at 2,500 pieces per hour, and it takes you five hours to make 2,500 pieces. What is your average number of pieces per hour?
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Question 1015126: During last year the number of students in a school increased by 100%. This year, the number of students increased by 150%. WHat percent of the number of students now was the number of student two years ago?
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Question 1015136: The volume of construction work was increased by 60% but the productivity of labor increased by only 25%. By what percent must the number of workers be increased?
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Question 1015181: If you are plowing 200 acres with a 17ft Paratiller that you can pull at 4 � miles/hour (round your answers to the nearest two decimals)
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Question 1015290: Rectangular plot of land was altered by increasing its length by X percent while decreasing it's a width by X percent. If the total area of the plot of land of was decreased by 4% what is the value of x.
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Question 1015349: A Chinese problem states that several people combined their money to buy a farm tool to share. If each person paid 8 coins, they had 3 too many. If each person paid 7 coins, there were 4 coins too short. How many people were there, and what was the price of the farm tool?
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Question 1015352: The longest runway at LA Airport has the shape of a rectangle and an area of 1,813,500 square fee. This runway is 150 feet wide. how long is the runway. May I have step by step instructions, please?
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Question 1015412: if the number divided by 3 between 14 and 55 ( both include) and the number with 3 at the unit place of them are removed than how many number will remain?

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Question 1015476: Does the square root of a plus the square root of b equal the sum of the square root of a+b? Why or why not?
Thank you for any help in answering this question.
Daniel H. Jack
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Question 1015478: One number is 8 less than another. Let x represent the larger number and use a rational expression to represent the sum of the two numbers.
Thank you for your help in solving this problem.
Daniel H. Jack
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Question 1015586: Divide 80 into two parts such that 3 times the greater is equal to 2 times the leasser and their sum is 180. Find the number
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Question 1015612: If a laundry dry-cleans shirts for $.75 each and blouses for $.90 each, which of the following expressions would represent the total cost of dry-cleaning serveral shirts (S) and several blouses (B)?
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Question 1015644: Singer A and Singer B had the two top-grossing concert tours for a certain year, together generating $413 million in ticket sales. If Singer B took in $23 million less than Singer A, how much did each tour generate?
I'm using x(x-23)=413, but thats giving me a lot of decimals
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Question 1015500: A boy bought y balls at 500 each. This number of balls was four more than if the cost was 700 each. Find y
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Question 1015699: Josh had $36 to spend on 6 apps that he wanted to download on his phone after purchasing the apps he had $12 left what was the cost of each app assuming they where att the same price
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Question 1015704: Your family starts a bed and breakfast. It spend $600 fixing up a bedroom to rent. The cost for food snd utilities is $10 per night. Your family charge $60 per night. How many nights your famuly needs to rent the room bbefore recovering the cost fir fixing up the bedroom. Show break-even point
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Question 1015718: The length of a rectangle is 5 cm greater than twice the width. The area is 33 cm squared. find the dimensions
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Question 1015752: At the northside assembly plant, 5% of the workers were classified as minority, while at the southside assembly plant, 80% of the workers were classified as minority. when northside and southside were closed, all workers transferred to the new eastside plant to make up its entireworkforce. if 50% of the 1500 employees at eastside are minority, then how many employees did northside and southside have originally?
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Question 1015794: The high soccer team can have no more than 26 players write and solve an inequality to determine how many more players can make the team if the coach has already chosen 17 players
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Question 1014278: Using gap equation you came up with to estimate the Gpa of a student who studies for 30 hours a week
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Question 1015809:
Printer A makes 325 copies in 4 min. Printer B makes 15% more copies in 7 min. Which printer is faster?
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Question 1015649: A small airplane can carry less than 800 pounds of luggage and mail. The mail for the day weighs 560 pounds. If each passenger brings 40 pounds of luggage, what is the greatest possible number of passengers that can be taken?
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Question 1015855: The cost of a chair and a table is Rs.2000 .The cost of 5 chairs and some tables is 16200, if number of table and chair are interchanged and 5% discount is allowed .I have to pay Rs.11210.Find number of tables I initially purchase? Find the total cost of seven chairs and six tables?
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Question 1015939: a printing machine that costs $25000 is expected to print 10,000,000 labels during its useful life. if the scrap value of the machine is $1,000 , find the depreciation for printing 1,250,000 labels.
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Question 1015848: Lindiwe put 22 boxes in a storage unit each box weighed 5kg how can she use distributive propertyto write an expression to find the total weigh in the storage unit
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Question 1016006: Suppose you go to a concert and purchase 3 identical T-shirts and a hat. The hat costs $21 and you spend $60 in all. How much does each T-shirt cost?

I need the equation for this. We've been working on distributive property and I may sound stupid for this because it's probably really simple, but I can't figure out the equation and I need help. I know how to do the work, all I need is the equation. Please try to respond as soon as possible.
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Question 1016054: The wind speed s in miles per hour can be modeled by the formula s=150 sqrt (p/a) , where a is the area of a sale in square feet and p is the pressure of the wind on the sale in pounds per square feet. Determine the area of a sail if the wind speed is 75 mph and the pressure is 20 pounds per square feet.
So far I have 75= 150 sqrt (20/a)
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