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Question 1023395: Dear Tutor,
I have to write an equation, that is initially expressed in words, in numbers and find the number/answer.
Three times the sum of six and a number is a negative nine. Find the number.
*is this correct?: 3(x+6)= -9 Then I solved for x and got: x= -9
So the equation is done. Is the answer -9? Did I set the equation up right?
Thank you in advance, tutor.
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Question 1023442: Two planes flying parallel to each other at the same altitude are one
mile apart. One plane increases its speed by 20 mph. After flying
2 hours, what is the straight line distance between the 2 planes?
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Question 1023423: If x and y vary inversely and josh gets 1000 points in 2 minutes how many will he get in 4 minutes

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Question 1023373: A can of soda at 80� F. is placed in a refrigerator that maintains a constant temperature of 36� F. The temperature T of the soda t minutes after it is placed in the refrigerator is given by
T(t) = 36 + 44 e � 0.058 t
F
ind the temperature of the soda 12 minutes after it is placed in the refrigerator. (Round to the
nearest degree.)
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Question 1023441: The total area of all U.S. territory is 3,805,943.26 square miles.
The total land area is 3,535,948.12 square miles. What percent
of the U.S. territories is covered with water? ----------------------- 47=______________%
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Question 1023466: Express the following in algebraic form
Tom's grandfather's age, if he is 9 time of what Tom will be 5 years from now? Tom age is expressed in terms of x.
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Question 1023514: If 1kg of silver has the same value as 1.6 kg of gold, & 1kg of gold has the same value as 1.25kg of platinum, how much platinum has the same value as 1 kg of silver?
Thanks
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Question 1023511: Alexandra has $15 to buy drinks for her friends at the baseball game. Soda costs $2.75 and bottled water costs $2.00. This relationship can be represented by the inequality . Three of Alexandra's friends asked for water. Which inequality represents the number of sodas she can buy?
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Question 1023548: Hi
10 cylinders are used as fishponds. Each cylinder is 1.5m high and has an internal diameter of 2m.
the inside of each cylinder is to be treated with paint.
find the total area that needs to be covered.
thank you
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Question 1023465: Express the following in algebraic form
-y is multiplied by -9 and result is added to 17?
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Question 1023689: Anne bought 20 pens and Jo bought 30 pens. Each pen costs the same amount, and the pens cost $75 altogether. How much did Jo pay for her pens?
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Question 1023708: coca-cola was recently named the most valuable global brand. it has a recognition value worth $43 billion more than Disney's. if the total value of these two global brands is $101 billion, find the value of each of the brands.
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Question 1023760: Suppose the price of a certain brand of drink dropped from $2.20 to $1.90 and at the same time, the quantity of the product reduced from 100ml to 75ml.
Calculate if this is a �good� change for the manufacturer? Why?
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Question 1023761: The price of a cucumbers has changed from 89 cents to $1.29 cents in the past 5 years and the price of plastic bags has changed from 8 cents to 5 cents. Find the index numbers that would represent the change in the respective prices over these 5 years and interpret their meaning
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Question 1023752: Hi
1/4 of kens stamps is equal to 2/9 of leroys stamps.leroy has 3 more stamps than ken.how many stamps does leroy have.

thanks
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Question 1023752: Hi
1/4 of kens stamps is equal to 2/9 of leroys stamps.leroy has 3 more stamps than ken.how many stamps does leroy have.

thanks
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Question 1023610: A rectangular pen is made with 100m of fencing on 3 sides. The 4th side is a stone wall. Find the greatest area possible for such an enclosure.
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Question 1023727: Elliot drove 175 miles yesterday and 132 miles today. He plans to drive about 300 miles over the next two days. Estimate the total number of miles he will have driven over the 4 days. Explain how you found your answer.
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Question 1023802: Erin is taking part in a play at the community theater. The cast and crew ordered T-shirts for all the volunteers. The cost of a T-shirt is $8, and the total delivery charge is $45 per order. If the center has no more than $325 to buy T-shirts, how many T-shirts can they buy?
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Question 1023834: A long distant runner does a first lap around a track in exactly 50 seconds. As she tires each subsequent lap takes
20% longer than the previous ones. How long does she take to run 3 laps.

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Question 1023917: a student finishes the first half of an exam in 2/3 the time it takes him to finish the second half. If the entire exam takes him an hour, how many minutes does he spend on the first half of the exam?
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Question 1023896: In car front & rear wheel diameter is 21 &24 cm find no. Of revolution that the rear wheel makes to cover the distance which front wheel covers in 21 cm at a speed of 252km per hour
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Question 1023987: In a city of 48,000 people, there are 15,000 people under 25 years of age. What percent of the population is under 25 years of age?
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Question 1023996: A cubic yard of sand weighs about 1600 pounds. How many cubic yards of sand can you haul in your truck and still qualify as a passenger vehicle? Write your answer as a decimal. Do not round your answer.
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Question 1024051: the box of 18 chocolates has a gross mass of 310 grams.

that includes the weight of the box and any other packing materials used.

when 8 chocolates have been eaten, the box and the remaining chocolates and any other material used in packing them in the box have a combined mass of 210 grams.

the difference in the mass of the box and the chocolates is 310 - 210 = 100 grams.

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Question 1024063: In a certain month (of a year that is NOT a leap year), the 15th day fell on a Wednesday.
In the next month, on what day(s) of the week could the 15th fall?
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Question 1024061: Melina's typing speed is 36 wpm (words per minute). She finished a job in 5 hours. How long would the same job have taken her if she typed 48 wpm?

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Question 1024110: 8 people have 4 minutes to answer 200 phone calls how long should each person spend with each caller?

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Question 1024160: Mr.Moretti's wife out bowls him by 30 pins, if the couples total score is 290 pins. What were each of their scores ?
If you could show me the steps to how you got to your answer, that would be great.
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Question 1024175: With the current, you can row 9 miles in 2 hours. Against the current, your return trip takes 6 hours( also 9 miles). Find your average rowing rate in still water and the average rate of the current.
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Question 1024174: The jazz band sold tickets for a concert. Adults paid $10 apiece, students paid $5 apiece and seniors paid $6 apiece. A total of 1129 tickets were sold at the concert. If there was 1 more student than adults and seniors combined, and the total income for the concert is $8257, how many of each kind of ticket was sold at the concert ?
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Question 1024264: 2/3 STUDENTS ARE MAKING VEDIO AND 1/6 ARE MAKING POSTERS WHAT FRACTION OF STUDENTS ARE EITHER MAKING VEDIO OR POSTERS
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Question 1024227: Two numbers are in a ratio of 6 to 7. If the first is increased by 2 and the second is increased by 1, the resulting numbers are in the ratio of 4 to 5. Find the original numbers.
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Question 1024171: Susie takes out a student loan for $2500. After a year, Susie decides to pay off the interest which is 6.8% of $2500. How much will she pay ?
If you could show me the steps to answering the problem, that would be very helpful.
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Question 1024172: The basketball team recently scored a total of 92 points on a combination of 2-point field goals, 3-point field goals, and 1-point foul shots. Altogether, the team made 50 baskets and 19 more 2-pointers than foul shots. How many shots of each kind were made ?
If you could show me how to set the problem up, that would be great.
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Question 1024339: Chere can do 2 jobs in 3 days, and Stacey can do 5 jobs in 6 days. Chere works for 3 days, and then Stacey begins to help. How many days will it take them working together to do 74 jobs? -- Thank you for any support :)
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Question 1024341: Write the quadratic equation with a lead coefficient of 1 whose roots are 1+4i and 1-4i. -- I got part of it I believe, but got stuck. An explanation of how to completely solve would be great, thank you :)
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Question 1024480: The gym charges $180 for a yearly membership. There are currently 1000 members. For every $5 increase, the gym will lose 10 members. How much should the gym charge to maximuze its revenue?
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Question 1024421: I NEED TO BUILD A 5'X5' HEXADECAGON TABLE TOP HOW LONG IS OUTSIDE EDGE OF EACH PC. THANKS
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Question 1024564: Rewrite without absolute value for the given conditions:
y=|x−3|+|x+2|−|x−5|, if x<−2
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Question 1024605: The population of a Midwestern city decays exponentially. If the population decreased from 900,000 to 800,000 from 2003 to 2005, what will be the population in 2008?
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