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Question 1036287: The product of three consecutive odd integers is 400. The second increased by ten equals the product of the first and third less ten. Write the equation.
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Question 1036286: Question from text book
The height of a triangle is nine less than three times its base. Its area is 500 m^? Write its equation.
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Question 1036344: If x^2-y^2=24, where x and y are positive integers (x>y), what is one possible value of x ?
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Question 1036423: Hi
a cylindrical tank is constructed in concrete with circular base of diameter 5.4 m.a plastic lid will be placed later.
the concrete base is 200mm thick
the walls are 150mm thick
What is the water tanks capacity and what is the volume of concrete required to make it.
could u please show workings out
thank u
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Question 1036431: If the room has a square area of 16 square meters and a rug is placed in the middle of the room.how much space would there be between each side of the rug and wall?
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Question 1036501: The value of a TV is $1500. Its value decreases by 14% each year. Write a function that represents the value y (in dollars) of the TV after t years?
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Question 1036562: Can you always find the x intercept (in slope intercept form) by using the formula -b/m ? and are there more formulas (in slope intercept form) to find other characterisitcs of the line ?
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Question 1036576: Mr. Dinkelspiel bought $32.56 worth of stamps. He bought 20 more 19-cent stamps than 50-cent stamps. He bought twice as many 32-cent stamps as 19-cent stamps. How many of each kind of stamp did he buy?
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Question 1036658: If it takes 5 people 12 hours to paint 3 identical houses, then how many hours will it take 4 people working at the same rate to paint 5 identical houses? (Assume they work at the same rate.)
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Question 1036660: In 5 years the ratio of Julie's age to Song's age will be 3:5. In 10 years the ratio of Julie's age to Songs's age will be 2:3. What is the sum of their current ages ?
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Question 1036738: five baskets contain coconuts. the first and second baskets together have a total of 52 coconuts. the second and third baskets have 43 coconuts. the third and fourth baskets have 34 coconuts. the fourth and fifth baskets have 30 coconuts. and the first and fifth baskets have 47 coconuts. How many coconuts are in each basket?

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Question 1036753: When the cost of a car is multiplied by 0.04 the result is $1720. Find the cost of the car.
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Question 1036756: Solve D = ABC for B
B= ?
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Question 1036758: Use the formula d = rt to find the value of the missing variable.
d = 145 feet, t = 29 seconds
r = ? ft/sec
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Question 1036759: d = 145 feet, t = 29 seconds
r = ? ft/sec
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Question 1036754: Use the formula d=rt to find the value of the missing variable.
d=145 feet, t= 29 seconds
r= ? ft/sec
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Question 1036789: Eric can wash 5 windows in 1/3 hour if he continues at the same,rate how many hours will eric wash 135 windows
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Question 1036787: Eric plans to wash his windows to earn money.he can wash 5 windows in 1/3 hour if he continues at the same rate,hiw many hours will it take will eric take to wash 135 windows?
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Question 1036816: There were 104,830 people who attended a rock festival. if there were 8110 more boys than girls,and 24,810 fewer adults over 50 years of age than there were girls, how many of each group attended the the festival.
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Question 1036882: A fisheries research team tagged 100fish in the lake.later they caughtb260fish and found that 13were tagged.Estimate the total number of fish in the lake.
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Question 1036931: Four pears and five apples cost $4.65. Three pears and four apples cost $3.60. Find the cost of a pear and the cost of an apple
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Question 1036931: Four pears and five apples cost $4.65. Three pears and four apples cost $3.60. Find the cost of a pear and the cost of an apple
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Question 1037063: If one side of a square is 15 feet less than the perimeter,find the length of a side of the square.
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Question 1037063: If one side of a square is 15 feet less than the perimeter,find the length of a side of the square.
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Question 1037144: A rectangular pool is 50% longer than it is wide. It is surrounded by a path 1m wide. If the area of the path is 44 square metres, then find the area of the pool in square metres.
How? thanks.
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Question 1037143: A tank is 80cm in length, 50cm in width and 60cm in height. It is half filled with water. A solid cylinder with base radius 20cm and height 50cm is fully immersed in water and no water is absorbed. Find the increase of the depth of the water (pi=3.14) to 1dp.
How do I do this, thanks.
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Question 1037169: An elementary school buys tickets for a field trip to the zoo. The number of children going on the field trip is 8 times the number of adults. Tickets for the children cost $9 each and tickets for the adults cost $14 each. The total cost of all the tickets is $1290, how many tickets of each type did the school purchase?
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Question 1037281: The company had 7 dozen fish and sold them for $8.50 per half-dozen how much money did they make in total?
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Question 1037301: A super ball is dropped from 100 feet and rebounds half the distance it falls each time it bounces. How many feet will the ball have traveled when it hits the ground the fourth time?
Answer 275 ft (How?)
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Question 1037377: I'm having a party and the band cost $750. If the caterer charges me $2.25 per person, how many people, p, Would need to attend in order to keep the cost between $2.75 and $3.25 per person?
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Question 1037429: A manufacturing engineer determines that the cost per unit for a soprano recorder is $10 and that the fixed cost is $20,358. The selling price for the recorder is $49. Find the break-even point.
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Question 1037450: Q1) Write an algebraic expression. Then write an equation for the variable indicated for the last sentence.
Let b be Bonnie's age now.
a) What was her age 6 years ago?
b) If Clyde is 1 year younger than Bonnie, represent his age now.
c) What was Clyde's age 6 years ago?
d) If 6 years ago the sum of their ages was 35, write an equation to represent
this.
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Question 1037413: how many feet of fencing is needed for a pool 25 ft by 20 ft with 4 ft from poolside?

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Question 1037566: Jill is 16. Her brother John, is a quarter of her age. How old will John be, when he is half Jill's age?
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Question 761513: After a dilation with a center of (0, 0), a point was mapped as (1, 4) → (4, y). A student determined y to be 16. Evaluate the student's answer.
A.
The student is correct.
B.
The student incorrectly calculated the scale factor to be 4.
C.
The student incorrectly multiplied by the scale factor instead of adding it.
D.
The student incorrectly added the scale factor instead of multiplying by it.

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Question 1037597: the soccer league has 18 players on a team. in one game two teams drank a total of 1152 oz. how much water did each player drink per game if each player drank the same amount?
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Question 1037543: We ordered 96ft of 2" x 2" steel tubing at a cost of $2.50/ft. We received 3 lengths of steel, each 24 ft in length. What the total qty ordered?
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Question 1037850: A cyclist travels 35km on a bearing of 062 degrees. Calculate how far east (to the nearest tenth of a kilometre) she is from her original position.

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Question 1037887: john can load his truck with peaches in 20 hours. his friend peter takes thrice as long to load John's truck with peaches. how long will it take them two working together to load the truck with peaches?
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Question 1037888: it takes a computer 30 mins to process and print payroll checks, when a second computer is used and the two computers work together the checks can be processed and printed in 21 minutes. how long would it take the second computer by itself to process and print the payroll checks?
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