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Question 1069050: Johnson's mother bought 25 kg of flour. She put the flour equally in to 8 small bags. She kept 3 of the bags of flour and gave rest to her friends
What is the mass of the flour Johnson mother kept? Write your answer as a mixed 0number in its simplrar form.
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Question 1069235: a fair die is thrown twice Wat is the probability of
a. a prime number from each throw
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Question 1069364: The governor of state A earns $55125 more than the governor of state B. If the total of their salaries is $300,455 , find the salaries of each.
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Question 1069302: A caterer is planning a large dinner party for
715715
guests. Each table must seat an equal number of guests, more than 1 guest and fewer than 20. Determine the number of possible table sizes. If the caterers use
55-person
tables, how many tables will they need?
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Question 1069511: [ 12:02:19 PM ] Guest : If I get paid 0.01875 cents per lb, how much money will I get for 588,245lbs?
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Question 1069511: [ 12:02:19 PM ] Guest : If I get paid 0.01875 cents per lb, how much money will I get for 588,245lbs?
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Question 1069509: [ 12:02:19 PM ] Guest : If I get paid 0.01875 cents per lb, how much money will I get for 588,245?
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Question 1069621: Adam bakes a cake that is 30 cm long 20 cm wide and 3 cm high if he cuts the cake into 40 equal size pieces and the height remains at 3 cm how can I determine the width and length of each piece of cake
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Question 1069966: john paid Rs 28.50 for a sandwich, a cup of tea and a samosa. sandwich cost Rs 11.50 more than a cup of tea and Rs 8 more than a samosa. what is the price of a sandwich?
please explain me that how i will explain and solve this question for grade 5. they have not studied equations and variables now.
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Question 1070037: 28 students from the fourth grade competed in a math competition.
Each student earned a different number of points. The number of
students who received more points than Tom's is two times smaller
than the number of students who had fewer points than Tom.
In which position did Tom finish that competition?
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Question 1070026: A conductor wanted to make a trio consisting of a fiddler, a pianist, and a drummer. He had to choose one of two fiddlers, one of two pianists, and one of two drummers. He decided to try each of the possible trios. How many attempts did he have to make?
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Question 1070075: I have 11 pieces of candy in each of three baskets. From each basket I take out one piece of candy in the following order: from the left, from the middle, from the right, from the middle, from the left, from the middle, from the right, and so on. What is the largest number of pieces of candy left in one of the baskets when the middle basket is empty?
Thank you.
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Question 1070111: Each year, the date of the Kangaroo competition is the third Thursday of March. What
is the latest possible date of the competition in any year?
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Question 1070118: The product of the month number and the day number of a student's
birthday is 170. What is the student's birthday?
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Question 1070142: In each of 2 baskets there were 12 apples. Ania took a certain number of apples from the first basket. Then Hania took from the second basket a number of apples equal to the number of apples remaining in the first basket. How many apples were left in both baskets together.
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Question 1069927: Jim invests $30,000 in two separate accounts. One pays 4% each year simple interest the other pays 6% his investment earns 4620 over the three year period how much did he deposit in each account
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Question 1070248: the Collins family and the Adams family each used their sprinklers last summer. The Collins family sprinklers was used for 15 hours. The Adams family sprinklers was used for 25 hours. There was a combined total output of 1475 L of water. What was the water output rate for each sprinkler if the sum of the two rates was 75 l per hour?
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Question 1070297: If 80% of a radioactive element remains radioactive after 200million years, then what percentage remains radioactive after 600million years? and also, what is the half life of this element?
I have the correct answers: 51% and 621 million years
(this is a quiz question that i failed but need to understand how to do it for the next attempt)

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Question 1070173: Could someone please help me with this maximization problem, specifically the inequalities. Thanks!
- Each Friday evening in August 2011, each episode of Family Guy was typically watched by 1.3 million viewers, while each episode of American Dad was typically watched by 0.9 million viewers. Your marketing services firm has been hired to promote Gauss Jordan Sneakers by buying at least 30 commercial spots during episodes of Family Guy and American Dad. You have been quoted a price of $2,000 per spot for Family Guy and $3,000 per spot for American Dad. Gauss Jordan Inc.�s advertising budget for TV commercials is $70,000, and it would like at least 75% of the total number of spots to appear on Family Guy. How many spots should you purchase on each show to maximize exposure?
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Question 1070385: The weight of a circular rod of a certain type is proportional to its length. A 15-foot circular rod of this type weighs 35 pounds. What is the weight, in pounds of a 21-foot circular rod of this type?
A.) 41
B.) 44
C.) 47
D.) 49
E.) 56
*
I tried to read through this one one to solve it but I think the wording confused me when I tried to, please and thank you for the help!
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Question 1070375: Ann has walked 8 km with a velocity of 4 km/h. Now she will jog for some time with a velocity of
8 km/h. How long does she have to jog in order to have an overall average velocity of 5 km/h?
(A) 15 min (B) 20 min (C) 30 min (D) 35 min (E) 40 min
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Question 1070373: A new kind of crocodile has been discovered in Africa. The length of his tail is a third of his entire
length. His head is 93 cm long and its length is a quarter of the crocodile`s length without his tail.
How long is this crocodile?
(A) 558 cm (B) 496 cm (C) 490 cm (D) 372 cm (E) 186 cm
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Question 1070423: Find the volume of air in a greenhouse. The length of the building is 40 ft. long, the width is 20 ft. long, and it is 8 ft from the ground to the gable. The triangular prism on top, the height of the triangle is 7 ft.
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Question 1070437: How would you differentiate between scalars & vectors?
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Question 1070441: A restaurant Bill comes to $34.60 including Text due to exceptional service you decide to leave a 23% tip for the waitress how much money do you leave for the tip?
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Question 1070448: During the summer, Heather has two part time jobs. SHE earns $7 an hour as a lifeguard and $10 an hour as a tutor. This week, Heather works a total of 35 hours. If Heather earns $290 in a week, how many hours does she work at each job?
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Question 1070445: On a 60 question test You got 54 correct What percent of the questions did you get right
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Question 1070449: You get a loan for $12,000 for a new car the interest rate on the loan is 8% what is the total amount of money you will end up paying for the loan
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Question 1070442: If a restaurant Bill comes to $34.60 including tax due to exceptional service you decide to leave the 23% tip for the waitress how much money do you leave for the tip is it going to be 7.958
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Question 1070471: In a certain city, the monthly cost of residential electric service is given by the function
C = 0.08n + 15,
where n is the number of kilowatt hours (kWh) used, 8� is the cost per kWh, and $15 is a fixed charge.
Find the monthly bill if 300 kWh were used.
can I get it step by step.
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Question 1070402: Bill wrote down several numbers using only the digits 0 and 1. the sum of these numbers is 2013. It turned out that it is impossible to get the same sum by adding up fewer numbers of this kind. How many numbers did Bill write?
Thank you.

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Question 1070559: The difference of the two numbers is 20 and the largr of the two is six times the smaller. Find the number.
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Question 1070547:
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Question 1070557: Separate 72 into two numbers so that the larger number will be 8 more than the smaller number.
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Question 1070788: Suppose you want to install a carpet in a room that measures 18 feet by 22 feet. The carpet you wants costs $28.50 per square yards and comes only in rolls that are 12 feet wide (and at least 100 feet long). If you allow only one seam (where two pieces of carpet meet), what is the most efficient way to lay the carpet and how much will the carpet cost?
I have been stumped on this question for 2 days now and I cant seem to grasp it. Can someone please help me solve this?
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Question 1070699: Jack has a piano lesson twice a week and Hannah has a piano lesson every other week. In a
given term, Jack has 15 more lessons than Hannah. How many weeks long is their term?
(A) 30 (B) 25 (C) 20 (D) 15 (E) 10
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Question 1070809: Hannah is riding her bicycle at 25 meters/second on level ground towards Bagley's Hill. If she coasts going up the hill, which is only 10 meters tall, what velocity will she still have at the top? Neglect all friction in this problem.You may assume a mass of 72.38489638547 kilograms if you want.
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Question 1070920: Johnson mother bought 25 kg of flour. She put the flour equally into 8 small bags. She kept 3 of the bags of flour and gave the rest to her friends. What is the mass of the flour johnson mother kept ? Write your answer as a mixed number in its simplest form.
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Question 1070987: If a customer pays for 2 books they get 1 book free. If Pat paid for a box of 16 books, how many books does he get for free? How many books does Pat have? Write division and addition equations to show how the quantities are related.
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Question 1071085: During a game 405 people were told to get into groups of 9 how many groups were made? How many people were left? What is the working?
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Question 1071279: On Saturday mean amount of money spend by customers at Cafe was �4.00 .On Sunday, there were only half of many customers on Saturday but average spend was up to �7. What was the average mean amount spend by the customers over these two days?

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