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Question 1050154: Last year, 5,744 AP exams were given in District 214. Of those exams, 4,423 received a score of 3 or better. Approximately what percent were scored with a 3 or better?
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Question 1050153: During a pie-eating contest, Kevin ate 5 and 1/3 pies and Danny ate 3 and 3/4 pies. How many pies did they eat altogether? (Answer as a simplified fraction.)
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Question 1050190: Here's the problem:
The thickness of the wing of an adult pixie is 4.5 x 10^-2. The wing of a newborn pixie is 1.5 x 10^-5 inches thick. How many times thicker is the is the adults wing than the newborns?
How much larger than the adults?
Is the thickness solution this?
4.5 x 10^-2 / 1.5 x 10^-5
4.5/1.5 x 1/10 ^-7
3 x 10^-7
how do I find how much larger is the adults?
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Question 1050211: A quantity of steel rods are used to produce 10,000 pins. Allow 1/16" for waste in cutting each pin.
Description of pins:
1/2" diameter.
2" in length.

Description of rods:
1/2" diameter.
12' in length.

Determine: Number and weight of rods.
Steel weighs .283 lbs./cu. ft.
My attempt:
The rods and pins are cylindrical.
3.1416 * .25 * .25 * 2.0625 = .404 cu. in. (volume of 1 pin).

3.1416 * .25 * .25 * 144 = 28.27 cu. in. (volume of 1 rod).
28.27 / .404 = 69.97 = 70 pins / rod.
10,000 / 70 = 142.85 = 143 rods.

28.27 * 143 = 4042.61 = 4043 cu. in. (total vol. of rods).
4043 * .283 = 1144.169 = 1144 lbs. (total wt. of rods).
Where am I correct?

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Question 1050385: The tail of a kite is 1.5ft plus twice the length of the kite. Together, the kite and the tail are 15 ft 6 in long.
a. Write an expression for the length of the kite and the tail together.
b. Write 15 ft 6 in. in terms of feet.
c. Write and solve an equation to find the length of the kite.
What I know is that the first part is 2k+1.5, and the second part is 15.5 ft. I am just having trouble with the third part. Thank you so much for your support!
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Question 1050401: Jane makes 2/3 a cent for every flier she hands out. She earns rate and a half for every flier after 1000, so how much did she make if she handed out 4000?
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Question 1050487: Hi
A cylindrical tank has a diameter of 2m and height of 3m. Using pi =3.14,
if 25mm of rain falls, what volume of water will flow into the tank.
thanks
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Question 1050574: I need help to write two different inequalities that you can solve by adding 2 to each side and then divide each side by 12
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Question 1050613: a restaurant had 3 pies, cut into eights.By noron 3/4 of all the pieces were sold. how many pieces of pie were sold by noon
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Question 1050643: The numbers 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8 are placed in boxes A, B, C, D, and E so that the resulting product of the 2- and 3-digit numbers below is between 23000 and 25000. What is the largest possible value of the 2-digit number AB?
AB x CDE
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Question 1050669: If a person walk at 14km/hr instead of 10km/hr,he would have walked 20km more .the actual distance travelled by him is
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Question 1050669: If a person walk at 14km/hr instead of 10km/hr,he would have walked 20km more .the actual distance travelled by him is
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Question 1050576: Tony's pizza shop ordered new 9 inch (diameter) pizza pans by mistake 10 inch pizza pans were sent tony makes 200 pizzas per day it costs tony 1.5 cents to make each square centimeter of pizza how much extra will it cost him to make the larger pizzas over a weeks time?
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Question 1050656: David had
60
fliers to post around town. Last week, he posted
13
of them. This week, he posted
34
of the remaining fliers. How many fliers has he still not posted?
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Question 1050402: Mike needs to earn a C and his intermediate algebra class. his current test scores are 65 70 78 87. in order to earn a C mikes average must be at least a 70 but less than 80 what range of scores can Mike receive on his last test to earn a C in the course? express the range of interval notation.
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Question 1050701: A blacksmith has a surplus of horseshoes. Bids were submitted from between 80 and 100 stables. The shoes are to be divided equally. Determine number of shoes each stable received and number of stables.
Number of shoes: 1078.
Not sure how to solve.
Non-homework question.
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Question 1050728: Hi
quick question what is the percentage increase from 24000 to 28000. I calculated 16.67 percent
the textbook says 20 percent.
thanks
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Question 1050744: Hi my son is having problems with this worksheet it says fractions and decimals on it but directions say'set-up and solve using Let. Statements and Eq. Statements solve by elemenating the fractions or the decimals. Write a word phrase and I can't seem to figure it out can u help us on the first on please.
The sum of 3.8 and twice a number is 12.4 . What's the number?
Can u show us how u did it for the other problems he has thank you Mrs.Bartlett
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Question 1050758: A bag of rare spice that weighs 3/4 pounds will be split equally among 24 people. How much will each person get?
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Question 1050769: How many pounds of nuts selling for $9 per lb and raisins selling for $3 per lb should a person combine to obtain 240 lb of a trail mix selling for $5 per lb?
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Question 1050794: The arc of a spider web is 1/4 of a circle and 20 in. in length. Calculate area of web in square in.

Unsure how to solve. Non-homework question.
Thanks.

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Question 1050816: Suppose a jar contains 5 red marbles and 33 blue marbles. If you reach in the jar and pull out 2 marbles at random, find the probability that both are red.

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Question 1050919: A physics student hangs a spring 2 meters above the floor, then attaches weights to it and measures the height of the weight from the floor. After careful experimentation the student determines a function that predicts the height of the weight about the floor, h in m, as a function of the mass attached, m in kg:
h=g(m)=2-1/5 m
a. The student only used masses between 0 kg and 1 kg. Over what domain and range can this function be trusted?
b. Determine the inverse function g^-1 (m)
c. State the domain and range of g^-1.
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Question 1050801: If you randomly select a card from a well-shuffled standard deck of 52 cards, what is the probability that the card you select is a spade or 6?
(Your answer must be in the form of a reduced fraction.)
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Question 1050960: To make slushies at chips ice cream shop a 50% sugar solution is needed. Chip has 10 gallons of 40% sugar solution and 2 gallons of sugar. How much sugar and how much 40% solution are needed to make 6 gallons of 50% solution?
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Question 1050956: A garden has an area of 320 square feet. It's length is 4 feet more than its width. What are the dimensions of the garden?
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Question 1050958: Two trains leave bluebird station at the same time traveling due west on parallel tracks. One train travels 35 mph while the other travels 40 mph. After how many hours are the trains 20 miles apart?
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Question 1050989: On a right triangle one leg is two more than twice the other. The hypotenuse is one more than the longer leg. Find the sides.

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Question 1050989: On a right triangle one leg is two more than twice the other. The hypotenuse is one more than the longer leg. Find the sides.

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Question 1050955: Sam is 12 years older than his brother James the product of their age is 133 how old is each brother?
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Question 1051004: Hi
this is a silly question what is 4% of 4% of 4. I worked it out to be 0.0064 the textbook says its
0.0000064.
thanks
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Question 1051007: Hi
enlarge the fraction 4/5 by 9.
I found it to be 36/5 textbook solution is 36/45.
Who is correct.
Thanks
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Question 1051007: Hi
enlarge the fraction 4/5 by 9.
I found it to be 36/5 textbook solution is 36/45.
Who is correct.
Thanks
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Question 1050987: A pressure of a gas container varies directly with its temperature and inversely with its volume. At a temperature of 70 Kelvin and a volume of 10 cubic meters, the pressure is 33.6 newtons per square meter. What is the pressure if the temperature is increased to 80 Kelvin and the volume is decreased to 6 cubic meters?
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Question 1051039: find two positive numbers whose sum is 324 and the sum of those squares is a minimum
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Question 1051058: together Tom and Jared sell 85 cups of hot chocolate at the football game. Jared sells 7 more cups than Tom. How many do they each sell?
Can you show work
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Question 1050902: Ann Carlyle is planning a and this trip for which she needs to rent a car. The car rental company charges $36 per day plus $.50 per mile over 100 miles. Suppose Carlyle rents the car for five days and drives 180 miles. Write an expression for how much it will cost Carlyle to rent the car.
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Question 1050994: A population of geese grow in such a way that each generation is simply 2.2 times the previous generation. There were 3 geese in the first generation, how many will there be by the 15th generation?
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Question 1051166: A man, having no measuring device, measured the length and width of a field by counting the revolutions made by a wheel. He discovered the measurements to be 60 and 22 revolutions, respectively. The wheel is 3 ft. 4 in. in diameter. Determine number of acres in the field.

Circumference = pi * diameter.
3.1416 * 3.33 = 10.46 ft.
Acre = 43,560 sq. ft.
How do I solve? Non-homework question.
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Question 1051248: The Adams family and the Evans family each used their sprinklers last summer. The Adams family sprinkler was used for 40 hours. The Evans family sprinkler was used for 25 hours. There was a combined total output of 1350 L of water. What was the water output rate for each sprinkler if the sum of the two rates was 45 L per hour?
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Question 1051255: A farmer has a horse pasture with a length of 4,600 feet and a width of 2,100 feet. How much fencing will be needed to enclose the pasture
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Question 1051332: Write a word problem that you can solve using the equation (+4)x(-8)

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