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Question 1032110: A boy receives three times as much allowance as his sister. Together they receive $240. The girl's share is?
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Question 1032098: If i rent a concession stand for $180 and pay .25 for cans of soda but sell them for $1.15, how many cans must I sell to break even?
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Question 1032201: The position of a object traveling in a straight line is given by the function s(t)=2t-3t. When s(t) represents the distance traveled and t represents the time the object has been in motion, how long will it take the object to move 17 meters?
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Question 1032200: A tank is filled in 9 hours and drained in 11 hours. How long will it take to fill the tank if the nozzle is left 1/2 open?
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Question 1032287: Hi
a rectangular swimming pool with uniform depth is 30m long 8m wide and 2.8m deep.what is the cost of tiling it at 53 dollars square meter.
Thank you
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Question 572856: A car travels 400 miles on level terrain in the same amount of time it travels 160 miles on mountainous terrain. If the rate of the car is 30 miles per hour less in the mountains than on level ground, find its rate in the mountains.
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Question 574197: Soybean meal is 18% protein; cornmeal is 9% protein. How many pounds of each should be mixed together in order to get 360-lb mixture that is 11% proten?
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Question 1032117: The OfficeJet printer can copy Maria's dissertation in 12 min. The LaserJet printer can copy the same document in 8 min. If the two machines work together, how long would they take to copy the dissertation?
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Question 1032061: Briana spent 2 3/4 hours on her science project. Jackson worked 1 1/3 times as long on his science project as Briana worked. For how many hours did Jackson work on his science project?
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Question 1031349: Members of a club were given a choice to vote on either Monday or Tuesday. 60% of the members who did not vote on Monday voted on Tuesday. If there are 90 people in the club, how many didn't vote at all?
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Question 1031441: the manager of a football team requires 500 soccer balls for training purposes and donatiuons to disadvantaged communities. he comes across four suppliers fifa, uefa, cosafa and jaffer that sells these soccer balls. fifa sells balls at R140.00 each, while uefa sells the balls aT r180.00 each with a 20% discount on the total cost. Cosafa have a buy one get one free special on the balls, with the cost of each ball being R300.00, while JAFFER sells each ball at R220.00 with the third off the total cost. Which supplier offers the best deal? Show all calculations in detail.
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Question 1031347: at the beginning of a particular year, a factory had 600 workers. how many workers remained at the end of the year if 9% of them left during the year?
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Question 1032301: At t seconds a projectile is at height h meters were h= 70t - 9?8t^2
1.what time does it take to reach the greatest night
2. what is the greatest height?
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Question 1030663: John buys 100 shares of stock at $100 per share. The price goes up by 10% and he sells 50 shares. Then, prices drop by 10% and he sells his remaining 50 shares. How much did he get for the last 50?
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Question 1030659: 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 1030342: Twice the square of a number minus twice the number equals negative thirteen. What is the number?
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Question 1030642: A lunch caterer left the cafeteria in a large, multi-story office building, went up 2 floors to deliver pizza, then went down 4 floors to deliver the sub sandwiches, then proceeded up 7 floors to drop off the salads, then went down 3 floors to deliver the tacos, then traveled up 5 floors to fill the food order for sandwiches, and finally went down 10 floors to the first floor to deliver the diet lunch. On what floor number is the cafeteria located?
Answer: 4th floor. (How?)
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Question 1032212: Bethany�s credit card bill in December was 1.5 times her food bill. Her apartment rent was 5 times her utility bill. Her phone bill was $17 less than half of her food bill. Her phone bill was also $18 less than twice her utilities bill. The total of the five bills was $751. What was the amount of each bill?
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Question 1032470: Differentciate with respected to x
y=e^6x 3

y= e^x 1/2x
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Question 1032570: In a single throw of a fair die , find the probability an even number appears
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Question 1032572: In a single throw of a fair die , find the probability an odd number appears
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Question 1032539: The Hayes family recently purchased a home. They borrowed $330,000 at 8.99% for 30 years (360 payments). Their monthly payment (excluding insurance and taxes) is $2,652.88. How much of their first payment is applied to principal?
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Question 1032647: Anita can clean a typical pool in 8 hours. Chao can clean a typical pool in 6 hours. How long should it take Anita and Chao working together to clean a typical pool? Leave your final answer as an integer or reduced fraction.
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Question 1032646: My uncle is 3 times as old as I am. What is the ratio of my age to my uncle's age?
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Question 1032664: Chaz is using a rope tied to his tractor to remove an old tree stump from a field. Which method given below, a or b, will result in the greatest force applied to the stump? Assume that the tractor will exert the same amount of force using either method.
Explain your answer by showing an example using real numbers. Note that the length of the rope does not change between each scenario.
a. Tie the rope to the stump and pull.

b. Tie one end to the stump and the other end to a nearby pole. Then, pull on the rope perpendicular to it at a point about halfway between the two.
(p.s.)I do school online and its hard to get help from anyone. I know that i have to do something with the geometric/algebraic Vectors but im not sure what to do from there. Anything would helpful :)
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Question 1032723: Joan is 10 years older than Fiona. They decide to share $400 in the ratio of their ages.

How much do they each get?
[Hint: if Joan = x, then Fiona = x �10.]
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Question 1032890: A ball is thrown into the air with an upward velocity of 48ft/s it's high eight in feet after T seconds is given by the function h=-16t^2+48x+6. How long does it take the ball to reach its maximum height ? What is the balls maximum height ? Round to the nearest hundredth of necessary
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Question 1032918: Antonio's parents want to install new marble tiles for their rectangular bathroom which measures 7 feet by 12.5 feet.The home improvement store offers special pricing. f the customer makes a down payment of 20% the store will include free installation, which is currently 15% of the total cost of the tiles. How much will Antonio's parents save by making the down payment
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Question 1032888: A ball is thrown into the air with an upward velocity of 48ft/s it's high eight in feet after T seconds is given by the function h=-16t^2+48x+6. How long does it take the ball to reach its maximum height ? What is the balls maximum height ? Round to the nearest hundredth of necessary
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Question 1032884: Chaz is using a rope tied to his tractor to remove an old tree stump from a field. Which method given below, a or b, will result in the greatest force applied to the stump? Assume that the tractor will exert the same amount of force using either method.
Explain your answer by showing an example using real numbers. Note that the length of the rope does not change between each scenario.
a. Tie the rope to the stump and pull.

Tractor<-----------Stump

b. Tie one end to the stump and the other end to a nearby pole. Then, pull on the rope perpendicular to it at a point about halfway between the two.
Stump
|
|__90
|__|______Pole
Tractor
(The tractor is pulling <--- way)

I know this has to do with algebraic and geometric vectors but i'm not sure what to do to even start.
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Question 1032993: if x and y are prime numbers then which one of the following cannot equal x-y?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 13
D. 14
E. 20
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Question 1033039: A swimming pool can be filled in 18 hours if water enters through a pipe alone, or in 25 hours if water enters through a hose alone. If water is entering through both pipe and hose, how long will it take to fill the pool 5/6 full?
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Question 1033089: Can you help me solve this? A doctor prescribes 500mg of drug "P" for a little boy. The boy is 36 months old, weighs 33 pounds and is 33 inches tall. Using this formula what is the dose? BSA= {(inches* pounds) divided by 3131}* 1/2.
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Question 1033131: A chemistry experiment requires that a vacuum be created in a chamber. A small vacuum pump requires 30 seconds to evacuate the chamber. The large vacuum pump requires 20 seconds to evacuate. Find the time required for both pumps working together to evacuate the chamber.
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Question 1033132: A chemistry experiment requires that a vacuum be created in a chamber. A small vacuum pump requires 15 seconds to evacuate the chamber. Working together, the chamber can be evacuated in 4 sec. Find the time required for the larger vacuum pump working alone to evacuate the chamber.
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Question 1033159: If a door opens 55 times in 4 hours, how many times did it open each minute
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Question 1033189: An election ballot ask voters to select 6 commissioners from a group of 19 how many ways can it be done
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Question 1033182: Kathy is doing a charity bake sale. She bakes two types of pies; sweet potato and milk pie. The pies sell for $12 and $15 respectively. Kathy has only 16 hours of time available and 10 cups of sugar. The baking time for sweet potato pies is 2 hrs. and milk pie is 3 hrs. Each sweet potato pies uses 3 cups of sugar and the milk pie uses 1 cup of sugar. What combination should she make to maximize profits?
I started off with:
R(X)= 12x + 15y
2x + 3y is less than or equal to 16
3x + y is less than or equal to 10
This is where I get stuck, can you please help?
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Question 1033224: A bathtub can be filled by the cold water faucet in 13 minutes and by the hot water faucet in 14 minutes. How long does it take to fill the tub if both faucets are open?
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Question 1033272: A Web music store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is
2.7
megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is
4.5
MB. Yesterday, there were
800
downloads of the song, for a total download size of
2700
MB. How many downloads of the high-quality version were there?

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