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Question 1016057: Tiffany can type 280 words in 5 minutes
At this rate how long will it take her to type a 6 page essay with an average of 420 words per page.

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Question 1015905: 88 boths that rent for 1.40 per square foot. if 48 booths have 100ft squared and 40 booths have 110ft squared what is the total rental from the booths
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Question 1016047: The formula for volume of a sphere is v=4/3pir^3 , where r is the radius of the sphere. Find the inverse of the function and explain what purpose v^-1 (x) serves.
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Question 1016062: A car's speedometer is not always completely accurate. The error in this measurement is based on the number of miles per hour the car is traveling below or above 60mph. The error is measured by the function E(a)= [a-60], where a represents the actual speed of the car. Determine an appropriate domain and range for this function and graph on the set of axes.---This is absolute question but couldn't figure out how to make sign around number.

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Question 1016118: Three solid sphere of iron whose diameter are 2 cm, 12cm and 16 cm respectively are melted into single solid sphere find the radius of the single sphere
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Question 1016119: John had rs 4500.He spent 1/3 of his money on a table and the remaining on 5 chairs. how much did one chair cost?
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Question 1016163: What will the charge be per hour after 18 hours
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Question 1016211: Bill has a paper route it takes him 50min to deliver newspapers to his 40 customers how long will it take if he adds 20 more customers?
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Question 1016202: an online media store sells books for $5 each music downloads for $1 per song. you have $50 to spend.
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Question 1016227: If the denominator of
5/8 is increased by a number and the numerator is doubled, the result is 1. Find the number
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Question 1016308: A student works two part-time jobs. He earns $9 an hour for working at the college library and $14 an hour for construction work. To save time for study, he limits his work to 25 hours a week. If he enjoys the work at the library more, how many hours can he work at the library and still earn at least $285 a week?
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Question 1016297: If you're trying to feed 25 homeless people with 2lbs of beans needed per day for 2 weeks, how would you answer this problem?
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Question 1016292: seven students arrange a shelf in 4 hours, at the same rate, how long would the job take 2 students?
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Question 1016357: Two trains going in opposite directions leave at the same time. Train B travels 25 mph faster than train A. In 4 hours the trains are 460 miles apart. Find the speed of each.
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Question 1016355: Hi
jamie was given money to spend.she spent $5 less than 1/3 of her money on a top and $15 more than half of the original amount on a skirt.if she had $4 left what was the original amount.
thank u
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Question 1016424: A production line that produces fiber boards for home construction operates at eighty feet per minute. Each board produced is eight feet long. There are fifteen boards in a unit. Four units make a bundle.
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If the operator wants to produce at least 300 bundles per day, assuming continuous operation, how fast should the line operate (in feet per minute)?
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200
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Question 1016359: Two hikers, Alan and Ben, are 16 miles apart and walking towards each other. They meet in 4 hours. Find the rate of each hiker if Ben walks 0.4 mph faster than Alan.
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Question 1016523: Jill's current office is square.Her office office in the company's new building will be 2 feet shorter in one direction and 4 feet longer in the other. The area of her new office will be 10 ft square bigger. Determine the area of both offices.
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Question 1016531: benjamin threw a rock straight up from a cliff that was 24 ft above the water. If the height of the rock h, in feet, after t seconds is given by the equation h= -16t^2 +20t+24, how long will it take for the rock to hit the water
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Question 1016643: How do you change a decmile to a fraction!
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Question 1016553: Timmy is on a 2100 mile trip across the country. Over the last 12 hours of driving Timmy has traveled 720 miles.
If he continues traveling at the same rate, how many more hours will it take him to complete his trip
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Question 1016707: Balls are printed in a pattern. Every 18th ball has stripes, every 15th ball has polka dots, and every 30th ball has stars.
a) How many balls must be printed to get the first ball with stripes, polka dots, and stars?
b) How many balls have been printed at that point that have only two of the designs?
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Question 1016510: A bookstore sells paperback books for $5.95 each and hardcover books for $19.75 each. Last Tuesday, 86 books were sold for a total of $939.50. How many of each paperback and hardcover books were sold?
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Question 1016798: Find the dimensions of an American football field. The length is 200 ft more than the width, and the perimeter is 1,040 ft. Find the length and width. Use the perimeter formula
P = 2L + 2W.
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Question 1016981: 2/3 of the way through the basketball season, the player has an average of 18 pts per game. What must her point average be for the remaining games to average 22 points per game for the season?
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Question 1016982: Gonzales Construction contracted Kentwood High and Memorial Stadium for a total cost of $4.7 million. Because the construction was not completed on time, Gonzales paid 5% of the amount of the high school contract in penalties and 4% of the amount of the stadium contract in penalties. If the total penalty was $223,000, then what was the amount of each contract?
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Question 1017085: The difference between two numbers is 2. Their product is 84 greater than the square of the smaller number.
The sum of the number is
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Question 1017101: Please help me solve this equation :
The maximum number of passengers in a van (X) is 10
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Question 1017101: Please help me solve this equation :
The maximum number of passengers in a van (X) is 10
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Question 1017082: Hi
2cm of rain has fallen on a sq km of land.assuming that 50% of the rain has been collected and contained in a pool having a 100m by 10m base, by what level would the water level in the pool have
increased.
thanks
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Question 1017309: Two people start walking at the same time in the same direction. One person walks at 4 mph and the other person walks at 8 mph. In how many hours will they be 2 miles apart?

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Question 1017310: Diego and Whitney leave from the same restaurant and the same time, traveling in opposite directions. If Diego travels 10 mph and Whitney travels 6 mph, how long until they are 48 miles apart?

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Question 1017307: Your weekly paycheck is 10% less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 725. Find the amount of each paycheck.
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Question 1017306: Alfonso needs a total of $325 to buy a new bicycle. He has $40 saved. He earns $15 each week delivering newspapers. How many weeks will Alfonso have to deliver papers to have enough money to buy the bicycle
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Question 1017417: A rectangular game board's long side is 2 in. longer than the short side. The area of the board is 288 in^2
Find the dimensions of the game board.
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Question 1017404: emily wants to enclose a small garden next to her house. she plans to use a total of 24 feet of fencing for 3 sides of the rectangular garden and the house as the fourth side. if "x" represents the length of the sides perpendicular to the house,write an expression to describes the area of the garden in terms of "x"?
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Question 1017367: Greg has 55 blocks. He stacks up all the blocks so that each row has one less block than the row below. He wants to end up with one block on top. How many blocks should he put on the bottom row?

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Question 1017308: Samantha invests a total of $33,500 in two accounts paying 13% and 7% simple interest, respectively. How much was invested in each account if, after one year, the total interest was $3,455.00.

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Question 1017478: Kim is 15. Kim's fathers 39. ?And how many years will Kim's father be exactly twice as old as Kim will be
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Question 1017517: If Jill makes $25 per haircut and $120 per coloring job, what is her income from h haircut and c coloring jobs?
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Question 1017544: Hi
there are 187 goldfish and swordtails in a shop.2/5 the number of swordtails is equal to 1/3 the number of goldfish.how many of each fish are there.
thanks
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Question 1017469: Aliyah had some candy to give to her four children. She first took ten pieces for herself then divided the rest amount the children. Each child received two pieces. With how many pieces did she start?
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Question 1017568: A and B can do a piece of work in 45 and 40 days respectively. They began the work together but A leaves after some days and B fineshed the remaining work in 23 daays. After how many days did A leave?

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Question 1017628: Two angles are supplementary if their sum is 180 degrees. The larger angle measures of a smaller angle. If x represents the measure of the smaller angle and these two angles are supplementary, find the measure of each angle.
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