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Question 1030654: A long distance runner does a first lap around a track in
exactly 50 seconds. As she tires, each subsequent lap takes
20% longer than the previous one. How long does she take to
run 3 laps?

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Question 1030708: If a 22 inch rope is to be cut into two pieces so that one piece is 3 inches longer than twice the other, how long is each piece?
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Question 1030774: Hi
the area of a triangle is 72cm square. What are the possible length of the base and perpendicular height.
thank you
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Question 1030689: your sister is using your credit card to buy tickets for a two directions concert. she is buying the tickets online on ticket boss. she tells you that there is a $5 transaction fee per order and each ticket costs $55. your sister can't remember how many tickets she bought. you check your bank statement, which shows a $225 transaction for a single online purchase from ticket boss. how many tickets did your sister buy?
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Question 1030727: how do you work out lynne wants to raise $100 she is sponsored for $6.50 each lap what is the least amount of laps she must do?
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Question 1030790: Please help me understand how to solve these word problems. Not just get the answers but a better understanding.
Working together, Aaron and Rosa can mow the lawn around the local library in 3 hours. Working alone Aaron can mow the lawn in 5 hours. Write and solve an equation to determine how long it would take Rosa to mow by herself.
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Question 1030837: two pipes are used to pump a cement mixture out of a truck. the pipes work at the same rate. when pipe A works alone it can empty the truck in 45 minutes. when both pipes are used together they empty the truck in 2/3 of the time that it takes pipe B to empty the truck it works alone. suppose pipe B takes x hours to empty the truck when it works alone. which equation can be used to find x?
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Question 1030902: a pet store has a sale on cat toys for $4 each and cat toys for $1 each. Mario spent a total of $55 on 25 toys to donate to a shelter. how many dog toys did he buy?
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Question 1030887: An area 4/5 of the length and 1/4 of width is covered how much has been covered?
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Question 1030933: Wendy travelled 300km. She travelled part of the way (a distance of x km) by and bus and arrived at the train station just in time to complete her journey by train. The average speed of the bus was 40km per hour and on average the train travelled 20km per hour faster than the bus. The entire trip took 5 and 1/2 hours. Which equation can be used to solve for x?
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Question 1031046: I've been trying to help my daughter with this but my brain if frozen.
you want to make a rectangular prism out of cardboard. the base is 3 feet by 4 feet. the height is 2 feet. you have $5 and cardboard costs $0.10 per square foot. Do you have enough money? If not how much more do you need?
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Question 1031093: Hi
layla spent a total of $135 on a skirt and shoes.the price of the shoes was $18 less than twice what she paid for the skirt.find the cost of the shoes.
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Question 1031085: The number of kilograms of water in a human body varies directly to the mass of the body. A 96kg person contains 64kg of water. How many kilograms of water does a 60kg person have?
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Question 1031099: On the moon, the acceleration due to gravity is constant 1.6 , i.e. a(t) = -1.6. If a ball is thrown into the air with an initial velocity of 2 at an initial height of 1 meter, find the height as a function of time, h(t).
All I know is that derivative of velocity is acceleration and the anti-derivative is the position. I don't know how to tie the elements together though.
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Question 1031079: Can anyone help me solve this homework assignment?
For an engine displacement of 2.8L, the function d(n)= (0.75)sqrt 2.8n can be used to determine the diameter of the carburetor's opening. d(n) is measured in millimeters and n= the number of revolutions per minute at which engine achieves peak performance. If carb is open 81 mm, at what rpm will the engine reach peak performance?
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Question 1030934: There are x boys and y girls in a class (class A). The girls outnumber the boys by 4. They join up with another class (class B) in which there are twice as many boys as girls. Class B has 3 more boys and 5 less girls than class A. Which systems of equations can be used to solve for x and y?
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Question 1030957: Hi
a chemical solution was made by mixing acid with water in the ratio of 1:4.the solution was then mixed with water in the ratio of 1:3.if 120ml of water was added to make the final solution how much acid was used.
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Question 1031163: Hi
a glass vase is in the shape of a square prism.when 180ml of water poured the depth of the water is 5cm.it takes another 900ml to complete ly fill vase.what are the dimensions of the vase.
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Question 1031155: Megan has a certain number of tiles. She takes 1/12 of the tiles and puts them in Box A. She takes 1/4 of the remaining tiles and puts them in Box B. The rest of the tiles are placed in Box C. There are 22 more tiles in Box C than Box B. How many tiles are in Box A?
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Question 1030936: 6f+e=23; 2e-f=7 - solve using straight line graph
Please explain to me in detail.
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Question 1030891: mrs. Nichol owns a skating rink. for each session, she charges $8.50 for admission and $3.50 for skate rental. the total cost to operate the skating rink is $120 per session.
write an equation that can be use to find Mrs. Nichol's profit, p, for each session
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Question 1031218: Sue can collect data from 5 more houses per hour than Joe. It took Sue 2 hours less to collect data from 120 houses than it took Joe to collect data from the same number of houses. What is Joe's rate of collecting data.
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Question 1031232: There's a circular field. At the edge of the field is stake. Tied to the stake is a goat What is the formula to figure how long the needs to be to allow the goat the eat exactly half the area of the field? Griffox24@aol.com
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Question 1031238: Six houses are located along the same road; the distances are shown. Where should the school bus stop to make the sum of distances from every house to the stop as small as possible?
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Question 1031288: The equation below expresses the approximate height,"h", in meters, of a coin "t" seconds after it is flipped vertically upward
from a height of 1.5 meters with an initial velocity of 1 meter per second. After how many seconds will the coin land on the ground ?
h=-4.9t^2+t+1.5
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Question 1031353: The Soho specialty candy store sells chocolate mints for 58 cents per ounce. How much would 5 and 1\2 pounds of these mints cost? Hint: 1 pound = 16 ounces!
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Question 1031528: If 24 cans of paint are needed to paint 120 stop signs, then how many stop signs can be painted using 13 cans?
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Question 1031612: 1. The value of a particular investment follows a pattern of exponential growth. In the year 2000, you invested money in a money market account. The value of your investment t years after 2000 is given by the exponential growth model A=7800e^0.056t. How much did you initially invest in the account?
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Question 1031558: Julie and Phil are at a garage sale, and they are both buying golf clubs for their collections. When they leave, Julie has twice as many clubs as Phil does. Then Julie picks up 3 more at another sale on the way home, so she has 13 all together. How many golf clubs did Phil buy?
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Question 1031662: The base of a triangle exceeds the height by 4 meters. If the area is 126 square meters, find the length of the base and the height of the triangle.
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Question 1031561: Find the value of k in the decay model P(t)=17250(1/2)^t/10 , where t denotes the number of years since 2000. Which of the following statements is true
A)the population is halved every 10 years
B)the population is the year 2000 was 8625
C)the population doubles every ten years
D) the population is growing by 50% every ten years
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Question 1031819: The length of a particular rectangle is 8 inches more than 2 times its width. A new rectangle is formed by tripling the width. The area is 30 square inches more than the area of original rectangle. Find the dimensions of the original rectangle.
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Question 1030680: Tyler has been saving his winning lottery tickets. He has 23 tickets that are worth a total of $175. If each ticket is worth either $5 or $10, how many of each does he have?
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Question 1031872: x+y / x-y = 5/8 . x/y ?
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Question 1031871: Ok people, let's have some fun with algebra! See if you can solve this fun question.
There are 65 people on an airplane. Out of those 65 people there are three times as many women as there are men, ten less girls than there are women and the amount of boys is only a quarter of the amount of girls.
How many men, women, girls and boys are on board the plane?
Have fun!
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Question 1031951: The volume of a container on board a C-5 is 405 cubic feet. The height of the container is 9 feet, and its length is 4 feet longer than the width. Starting with the equation Volume = Length x Width x Height, use the given information to set up and solve a quadratic equation to determine the length and width of the container.
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Question 1031977: what exactly is Digital Firm?
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Question 1031987: Cindy gets her hair cut once a month. In a year's time she spends a total of $312.00 on her hair cuts. Which equation could be used to find how much Cindy spends on each hair cut
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Question 1031996: Twin brothers andy and brian can mow their granfathers lawn together in 40 minutes. Brian can mow by himself in 18 minutes morew then it would take andy. How long would it take each person to mow the lawn alone?
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