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Question 1064065: 4 girls Marry, Jill, Ann and Susan participated in the concert. They sang songs. Every song was performed by three of the girls. Mary sang 8 songs, which was more than anybody. Susan sang 5 songs, which was the least of all the girls. How many different songs were performed at the concert?
(I think it's 9)
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Question 1064148: Tanner(at rest) fires a 4.00-kg gun that expels a bullet of mass .0140kg with a velocity of 181 m/s. Tanners mass is 60.0-kg, and holds the gun tightly against his shoulder so the recoil moves both the gun and him backwards together. What is his velocity after firing the gun?
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Question 1064262: If a word problem is asking "You have 9 days to complete a project, in 2 days you completed 1/4 and 1/3. how much has been completed in total? I know you need to figure out a common denominator. I can't figure out the rest of the problem. The answer is either 84, 89, 90, and I forgot the last number.
Please help me?
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Question 1064266: Ali has a rubber farm and needs to drive to his at 100km/h for 2 1/2 hours.For the next 1 1/2 hours,he increases his speed by 20%.
a.Calculate the total distance Ali travelled?
b.IF he drives home at 5:00pm,calculate the time that he will arrive at the destination with a normal speed of 100km/hours and 20% increasing of speed in 24 hours system.
c.Calculate the total hours he needs to drive by converting unit hours to unit seconds.
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Question 1064322: you burn about 600 calories per hour playin basketball. You played for 1 1/2 hours on Monday, 1 1/4 hours on Tuesday and 2/3 hour on Wednesday. How many total calories did you burn playing basketball on the three days?
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Question 1064335: Cadel Evans of Australia won the 2011 Tour de France bicycle race. The wheel of his bicycle had a 67cm diameter. His overall average linear speed during the race was 39.794km/h. What was his the angular speed of the wheel, in revolutions per hour.
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Question 1064454: .
Will someone please show me the solution to this word problem: The projected cost of a new high school is $20,066,340,of which $5,216,340 will be covered by available grants. Using data from the last census,the planning committee estimated the cost per town resident. However,new census data reveals that the population has increased by 2200 people,reducing the cost per town resident by $75. What is the current population of the town?
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Question 1064149: If 100,000 kg of water (in the upper meter) is stored behind a small hydroelectric dam 50m tall. How much energy is stored in the water(assuming the turbines are installed at the bottom of the dam)? If a turning could be made 100% effeicient, how much power can the turbine produce if the water slows from 12.0m/s to 8.0 m/s in the .5 second it is in contact with the turbine? How much force did the water place on the turbine?
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Question 1064472: Choose right sine wave from following graphs. Find the amplitude, period, and phase shift (period and phase shift - in degrees).
y= 5 sine x
(a) Right sine wave =
2
(b) Amplitude =
5
(c) Period =
o
(d) Phase shift =
o
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Question 1064517: Will someone please show me the complete solutions for this 4-part word problem: Eye color is determined by genetic combinations. Let R represent the gene for brown eyes and L represent the gene for blue eyes. Any gene combination including R results in brown eyes. Consider the offspring of a parent with a homozygous brown-eyed,RL,gene combination.
1) Show how you could use a polynomial to model the possible genetic combinations of the offspring.
2) What percent of the possible genetic combinations result in brown-eyed offspring.
3) What percent of the possible genetic combinations are carriers for the blue-eyed gene.
4) Show a Punnett square to model your conclusion.
I know this is asking for a lot of your time but I would greatly appreciate your help. Thank you.
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Question 1064647: Eye color is determined by genetic combinations. let R represent the gene for brown eyes and L represent the gene for blue eyes. Any gene combination including R results in brown eyes. Consider the offspring of a parent with a homozygous brown-eyed,RL,gene combination.
What percent of the possible genetic combinations result in brown-eyed offspring?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 1064648: Eye color is determined by genetic combinations..Let R represent the gene for brown eyes and L represent the gene for blue eyes. Any gene combination including R results in brown eyes. Consider the offspring of a parent with a homozygous brown-eyed,RL,gene combination.
What percent of the possible genetic combinations are carriers for the blue-eyed gene.
Thank you for your help.
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Question 1064679: I am trying to solve a system word problem by the using the elimination method.
Della has $160 and saves $7 per week. Cassie has $210 and saves $5 per week. After how many weeks will each person have saved the same amount of money?
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Question 1064777: Find the smallest number that when divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, it leaves a remainder of one but when divided by 7 has no remainder.
my work:
So I first I found the LCM of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 which is 60.
Then I added 1 to 60 which is 61.
Then I multiplied 61 by 7 repeatedly till it fulfilled the condition that remainder should be 1. I got the answer 146461 which seems to correct but not completely sure.
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Question 1064822: The average sale price for all houses at U Sell Mine Realty was estimated by using the average sale price of 35 randomly selected house sales at the realty. Based on this information,
identify:
⦁ A statistic
⦁ A variable
⦁ A data value
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Question 1064832: Beth is going to purchase cranberry juice and ginger ale for a new fruit punch recipe. The recipe calls for 2
times as many bottles of ginger ale as cranberry juice. If she has $20.00
, what is the most bottles of cranberry juice she can buy if cranberry juice costs
$3.20
per bottle and ginger ale costs
$0.90
per bottle?
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Question 1064885: Peter hired a cleaning company to clean his house.the cleaning company charges a fixed fee of $15 plus $17 per hour to clean a house.write an equation that cam be used to determine c,the total amount in dollars that the cleaning company charges to clean a house in h hours?
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Question 1065069: Edmund Halley, after whom Halley's comet was named, predicted that the comet would appear in 1758. The comet appears approximately every 76 years.
(a) Use a table to show the years of the next six sightings after 1758
(b) When will Halley's comet appear in your lifetime?
(c) Write an equation that can be used to predict the years when Hailey's comet will appear.
(d) When will we see Halley's comet again
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Question 1065067: A ball is dropped from a height of 2m. The ball rebounds to 2/3 of the height it was dropped from. Each subsequent rebound is 2/3 of the height of the previous one.
(a) Make a table of values for the first five rebound heights in the pattern
(b) what is the height of the fourth rebound bounce?
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Question 1064712: David bought a box of stickers for $375 he kept 20 stickers for himself and sold the rest. he made a profit of two dollars a sticker and sold the rest for a total of $585. create an equation and solve it to determine how many stickers were in the box.
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Question 1065165: An engieer is studying a busyintersection. In 1 hour, the number of cars going north-south was 3/4 of going east-west, and the total number of cars was 1400. Find the number of cars going north-south and east-west.
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Question 1065172: On a buying trip in Los Angeles, Rosaria Perez ordered 120 pieces of jewelry: a number of bracelets at $8 each and a number of necklaces at $11 each. She wrote a check for $1140 to pay for the order. How many bracelets and how many necklaces did Rosaria purchase?
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