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Question 1027246: jack spent $22 on 4 rose bushes and 2 pots of ivy. Kim spent $22 on 1 rose bush and 6 pots of ivy. Whats the cost for one rose bush and one pot of ivy?
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Question 1027276: stephanie sold 9 apple pies and 10 pumpkin for 277 dollars. Krystal sold 2 apple and 5 pumpkin for 106 dollars. whats the cost of one apple pie and one pumpkin pie?
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Question 1027243: stephanie sold 9 apple pies and 10 pumpkin pies for $277. Krystal sold 2 apple pies and 5 pumpkin pies for $106. Whats the cost of one apple and one pumpkin pie?
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Question 1027253: The sum of 3 numbers is 3. Twice the first minus the second is 3 more than the third. The third is five less than the first. Find the numbers
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Question 1027334: Mrs smurr has 28 papers to correct Monday. 52 Wednesday And 87 on friday what is the average number of papers she grades each night
night?
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Question 1027459: The number of bacteria in a yeast culture grows at a rate which is proportional to the number present. If the population of a colony of yeast bacteria triples in one hour, find the number of bacteria which will be present at the end of 5 hours (with respect to the ordinary differential equations)
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Question 1027326: Ben and Carol own 112 shares of stock. Carol owns 4 more than 3 times the number of shares Ben owns. How many shares does Carol own?
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Question 1027455: Barney had a bag of cookies he ate 35 in the first 10 minutes
he ate 1/4 of the remaining cookies during the next 10 minutes.
The next day he ate 20, but then he made 10 more. His wife Louise,
ate 15 cookies while Barney was at work. When Barney got home from
work, he ate 1/2 of the remaining cookies.
Louise ate 5 more when he went out into the backyard.
Barney then ate 15 more and found that he had only 2 left.
How many cookies
did he start with?
How many did he eat?
How much weight did he gain if every 10 cookies translates
into 1 pound?
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Question 1027303: Of all the people applying for a certain job, 80% are qualified and 20% are not. The personnel manager claims that she approves qualified people 75% of the time; she approves unqualified people 20% of the time. Find the probability that a person is qualified if he or she was approved by the manager.
I did a tree diagram and multiplied .80 Q x .75 = .60 . However I don't think this is right way to do it.
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Question 1026896: A large tire company has 225 employees. There are 4 times as many mechanics as supervisors, and 15 more supervisors than accountants. How many mechanics, supervisors, and accountants work for the company?
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Question 1027302: Sheldon has a circular new train set with a radius of 2 feet. In the center of the track is the maintance shed for the track. If the engine moves from a position that is 2 feet due east of the shed for a distance of 4 feet and then breaks down, where does Sheldon send the crew to fix the train?
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Question 1027632: Ralph sold $300 worth of fundraiser items .he wants to sell 10% more next time .using a fraction , write an equation to determine how much more he will sell, s, next time

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Question 1027665: Hi
A blend of tea is made from 6kg of inferior tea and 3kg of a superior tea which costs $3 a kg. The total price for the mixture is $24. What is the price of the inferior tea.
thank u
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Question 1027694: there are 10x+5 chairs in the auditorium.if there are 2x+1 chairs in each row,how many rows are there?

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Question 1027722: number 1 have 2 1/4 coconuts and 12 1/2 lima beans and need to triple it how many coconuts and lima beans are need has to be as a mixed number
number 2 have 2/5 cups lima beans and 1 1/2 cups coconut flakes and 1/2 cup pond water that make two dozens but just want to make 8 cookies how much ingredients would be need
number 3 35% mashed lima beans and 65% slice coconut if recipe made 6 one-cup servings how many cups of lima beans were used and how many cups of slice coconut were used in mixed numbers
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Question 1027934: your paycheck before deductions varies directly as the number of hours you work. if your paycheck is 153.60 fot 16 hours, find your pay for 10 hours
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Question 1027981: You are given a population of four values for which the mode is 8, median is 7, and the smallest value is 4. The mean is:
a. 7
b. 8
c. 6.5
d. none of the above'
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Question 1027992: which of the following fractions is greater than 17/23? a. 1/2 b 13/16 c. 8/11 d. 5/8 e. 7/11
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Question 1027994: If 3 cocoos is equal to 4 daddas, and 5 daddas is equal to 6 mammas, then how many cocoos is equal to 8 mammas.
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Question 1027999: Adding twice the number to the difference of thrice the number and 4 is just like subtracting 10 from three times the product of half of the number and 4. find the number?
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Question 1027995: AZra can do a job in 4 hoursthat halycycon can do in 3 hours and silfer can do in 2 hours. If the three can work together, how many hours would they finish the job?
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Question 1028024: Darryl spent $90 on 11 rose bushes and 8 shrubs. Beth spent $45 on 4 rose bushes and 7 shrubs. Whats the cost of one rose bush and one shrub?
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Question 1028023: i have a table and it says. So i need to know how many calories for age 7
age calories
1 1100
2 1300
5 1800
8 2200
11 2500
14 2800
17 3000

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Question 1027103: A pipe is 27 feet long. If you cut it into two pieces ,one piece 5 feet longer than the other , how long will the shorter piece be?
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Question 1028062: Imagine you are planning a pizza party for the Little League team and need to feed 12 people: 8 children and 4 adults. Develop and explain a mathematical formula you could use to determine cost, and estimate how many pizzas should be ordered. Create your equation using only variables, and then substitute values for the variables to solve for your answer.

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Question 1028083: How am I supposed to writedo this
Write a formula that will help Ted determine
how much money his group will receive
for the cans.
Let's let
t = total amount they'll receive
n = number of kilograms of cans
a = amount the center pays per kilogram

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Question 1028091: Write a formula that will help Juan determine how much he will earn in one week.
Let's let
a = total amount earned
h = hours worked in one week
b = number of cards sold in one week
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Question 1028103: If n represents a whole number, what is the next larger whole number?
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Question 1028175: Jules and Lea collect marbles. If they gather what they have, the number of marbles will be 4 times higher than the number of marbles Lea has. In addition, if Lea takes 21 of Jules' marbles, she will have the same number of marbles that Jules is left with.
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Question 1028178: Translate this situation into a system of equation of the first degree in two clear variables: One third of one number plus one quarter of another number equals 28. One ninth of this sum equals 11.
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Question 1028176: Paula belongs to a music club. When she buys 7 compact disks and 2 cassettes, she spends $119. If she buys 5 compact disks and 4 cassettes, she spends $103. What is the cost of each item?
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Question 1028154: One day, Jack planted a magic beanstalk. (Let's call this day, "Day 1"). The next day (day 2), Jack notices that the beanstalk's height had increased by 1/2. On day 3, the beanstalk's height had increased by 1/3 of what it was on the previous day (day 2). One day 4, the beanstalk's height had increased by 1/4 of what it was on the previous day (day 3). Suppose the beanstalk continues to grow in this manner.
On what day will the beanstalk be 1000 times the height it was on the day Jack planted it?
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Question 1028181: Translate this situation into a system of equation of the first degree in two clear variables: To complete a team project, Yvon spent only 3/4 of the time that Peter spent on the project. The difference between the number of hours each of them worked is 20.
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Question 1028230: Lizzy has a cake that is 10 inches in diameter. lizzy expects 12 people to share it so she can cut it into 12 equal slices. find the area of each slice of cake
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Question 1028285: Please help with getting the total price. A square room has 18 ft. sides with one side having a 4 ft. doorway. How much will it cost if each foot is $2.03 and sell at 8 ft. long?
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Question 1028207: Six workers can paint 4 houses in 8 days. ahow many additional workers are neededi if the job of painting 8 houses must be finish in 4 days?
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Question 1028307: You are the manager at the town pool. You need to build a fence around the new's children's pool area. The pool is 5 feet wide by 8 feet long. You want the fence to be the same distance x from all sides of the pool, except you need to put a lifeguard chair at one end of the length, so the fence should be twice as far away on that side.
a. sketch a diagram of the situation described.
b. write a polynomial expression that represents the area enclosed by the fence.
c. IF the total area within the fence needs to be 442 square feet, how far away should the fence be from the pool on three of the sides?
d How much fencing must you buy?
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Question 1028404: In an arabic school, English and French are offered as foreign languages. Each student must study AT LEAST one foreign language. If 41 students study English and 357 students study French, find the number of students in the school.
The answer is 997 students but I don't see how that happens.
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Question 1028369: Roger has four times as much money as Edwin. If Roger has $120 more than Edwin, how much money do they have in all?
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Question 1028422: the weight of a body above sea level varies inversely with the square of distance from the center of the earth if a woman weighs 138 pounds when she is at sea level 3690 miles from the center of the earth how much will she weigh when she is at the top of a mountain 4.2 miles above sea level
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Question 1028438: What is the value of A in the following equation: ABC+CAB=1,215?
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Question 1028492: Carnations cost $3 and roses cost $5. You spend $45. Write an equation to show this. I came up with 3c + 5r = 45. Then, it says to write an equation showing that you bought ten items. I'm not sure how to do that. Can you help? Thanks!
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Question 1028551: Hi
A and B are in line with the foot of a building and on the same side of it.B is 80m from the base of the building and the angle of elevation of the top of the building from B is 35 degrees.the angle of elevation from A is 47 degrees.how far is A from the base of the building.
Thanks
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