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Question 1093406: The Royal Fruit Company produces two types of fruit drinks. The first type is
45%
pure fruit juice, and the second type is
70%
pure fruit juice. The company is attempting to produce a fruit drink that contains
60%
pure fruit juice. How many pints of each of the two existing types of drink must be used to make
140
pints of a mixture that is
60%
pure fruit juice?
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Question 1093427: A circular drop of oil has a radius of 10cm If this radius increases by 5 percent then by 10 percent and finally by 15 percent.Find the new area of the circle .
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Question 1093434: a train is traveling north at 95 km/hr. how long does it take to get to the station, if the station is 720 kilometers away?
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Question 1093451: You have a wall that is 5 ft 10.5 inches long and you want to hang up three hats that are each 12 inches long you want to hang them up equally distanced from each other how far do you put each hat?
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Question 1093465: Joseph wishes to have some flyers delivered for
his grocery business. Speedy Post charges a fee
of $200 plus 50 cents per flyer. Quick Send
charges a fee of $100 plus 80 cents per flyer. For
what number of flyers will the cost be the same
for either delivery company?
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Question 1093498: Any assistance with this one would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Newton�s universal law of gravitation states that every object in the Universe
attracts every other object with a force, F, that is directly proportional to the
product of their masses, 1 m and 2 m , and inversely proportional to the square of
the distance, d, that separates them. If the two objects each lose half of their
mass as the distance between them triples, how would the gravitational
attraction between them change?
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Question 1093558: A board that is 53 inches long is to be cut into three pieces. The second piece is twice as long as the first piece, and the third piece is 5 inches longer than three time the first piece. Find the length of the three pieces.
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Question 1093639: A rectangular auditorium seats 2714 people. The number of seats in each row exceeds the number of rows by 13. Find the number of seats in each row.
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Question 1093647: How long would it take for a ball dropped from the top of a
196-foot building to hit the ground? Round your answer to two decimal places.

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Question 1093467: George and Dale have been assigned the same number of math problems for homework. George has finished 22 problems, and Dale has finished 6 problems. If dale has three times as many problems remaining as George does, how many problems was George originally assigned?
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Question 1093662: Hello can I please get help for these problems:
Problem 1: Find the equation of the line containing the point (-2,-1) and parallel to the line 6x � 4y = 2.
Problem 2: How much money would you need to deposit today at 5% annual interest compounded monthly to have $20000 in the account after 9 years?
Problem 3: Solve: 1/4(𝑥 + 2) = 1/6 (5 − 𝑥).
THANK YOU!
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Question 1093659: Hello can I please get help for these problems:
Problem 1: Compute 𝑥^3 − 2𝑥^2 + 3 when x=-2.
Problem 2: Simplify the expression. Use positive exponent only:(4𝑥^−1)^2(2𝑥^3)^3
Problem 3: Find the number such that five times the sum of the number and 2 is the same as three time the number, increased by 18.
THANK YOU!
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Question 1093658: Hello can I please get help for these 3 problems:
Problem 1: The score S on a Math 012 test varies directly as the number of correct responses N. Jules answers 29 questions correctly and earns a score of 87. What would Jules� score have been if he had answered 25 questions correctly
Problem 2: Jules plans to put her graduation money into an account and leave it there for 4 years while he goes to college. He receives $1100 in graduation money that he puts it into an account that earns 3.75% interest compounded semi-annually. How much will be in Jules account at the end of four years?
Problem 3: The intensity of light (in foot-candle) varies inversely as the square of the distance (in feet) from the light source. The intensity of light 3 feet from the source is 72 foot-candles. How far away is the source if the intensity of light is 2 foot-candles
THANK YOU!
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Question 1093697: The car trip from Dallas to Florida is 1,162 miles one-way. The tire on the car is 28 inches in diameter. How many revolutions did the tire make on the round trip from Dallas to Florida and back?
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Question 1093809: A cat is stuck 24 feet up in a tree and the firefighters are going to place the bottom of the ladder 18 feet from the base of the tree. How long must the firefigers make the ladder?
Note that the ground is level and round your answer to the nearest whole number.
Can someone please help explain how to set this problem? Thanks!
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Question 1093840: Hi
if x:y=1:2 & x:z=3:5 what is y:z
thanks
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Question 1093832: Hi
the ratio of boys to girls in a class is 3:2.there are 12 boys in the class. Tommorow 2 new boys will be enrolled. What would the new ratio.
thanks
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Question 1093883: after being discounted 30%, a weather radio sells for $62.97 find the original price?

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Question 1093895: an executive invents $21,000, some at 7% and the rest at 4% annual interests. if he receives an annual return of $1,320, how much is invested at each rate?
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Question 1093888: an executive invests $21,000, some at 7% and the rest at 4% annual interests. If he receives an annual return of $1,320, how much is invested at each rate?

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Question 1093880: Jodi poured herself a cold soda that had an initial temperature of 41
degreesF and immediately went outside to sunbathe where the temperature was a steady 100degreesF. After 8 minutes the temperature of the soda was 44
degreesF. Jodi had to run back into the house to answer the phone. What is the expected temperature of the soda after an additional 5 minutes?
(Do not round until the final answer. Then round to the nearest tenth as needed.)
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Question 1093879: Estabon poured himself a hot beverage that had a temperature of 203
degreesF then set it on the kitchen table to cool. The temperature of the kitchen was a constant 68degreesF. If the drink cooled to 182degreesF in 3 minutes, how long will it take for the drink to cool to 104 degreesF?
(Do not round until the final answer. Then round to the nearest minute as needed.)
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Question 1094003: in 1963 if you purchased a book for 19 cents 52 years later the value of the book rose to 16,223.00. What was the interest rate earned if you brought the book in 1963 and sold it 52 years later?
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Question 1094027: Allison has a mobile phone. Its fully charged battery gives her 6 hours of talk time or 210 hours of stand-by time. When Alison boarded the train the phone was fully charged, but the moment she arrived at her destination, the battery ran out. How long did Alison travel on the train, if it is known that she was talking on the phone for exactly half her journey time?
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Question 1094060: Jill receives a weekly allowance according to the following formula. For each day that she remember to do her chores, she earns $1.50, and for each day that she doesn't remember to do her chores, she loses $.50. What amount of allowance would Jill receive for a week in which she remembers to do her chores on five days and forgets to do them on two days?
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Question 1094110: If one pair of opposite sides of a square is increased by 5cm, and the other pair is increased by 4cm, the area of the shape will be 101cm^2 more than the original area. What is the length of the square?
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Question 1094112: Use a Euler diagram to determine whether the syllogism is valid or invalid
All cats have whiskers .
All things with whiskers are dogs.
______________________________
All cats are dogs
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Question 1094128: A hose can fill a swimming pool in 12 hours. Another hose needs 6 more hours to fill the pool than the two hoses combined+How long would it take the second hose to fill the pool?
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Question 1094186: Danny's cell phone bill was $40 last month. It costs $0.20 per minute and flat rate of $10, what was the maximum amount of minutes that Danny used?

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Question 1094189: Please help me do this question.
George's page contains twice as many typed words as Bill's page contains 50 fewer words than Charlie's page.If each person can type 60 words per minute, after one minute, the difference between twice the number of words on Bill's page and the number of words on Charlie's page is 120. How many words did Bill's page contain initially? Use a table to organize the information.
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Question 1094314: A hockey team played a total of
142 games last season. The number of games they won was 12
more than four times of the number of games they lost.
How many games did theu win?
How many games did they lose?
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Question 1094426: An airplane encountered a head wind during a flight between Joppetown and Jawsburgh which took 4 hours and 36 minutes. The return flight took 4 hours. If the distance from Joppetown to Jawsburgh is 1400 miles, find the airspeed of the plane (the speed of the plane in still air) and the speed of the wind, assuming both remain constant.
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Question 1094425: On the opening night of a play at a local theatre, 990 tickets were sold for a total of $9858. Adult tickets cost $13 each. Children's tickets cost $9 each, and senior citizen tickets cost $5 each. If the combined number of children and adult tickets exceeded twice the number of senior citizen tickets by 222, then how many tickets of each type were sold?
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Question 1094424: The concession stand at a school basketball tournament sells hot dogs, hamburgers, and chicken sandwiches.
During one game, the stand sold 16 hot dogs, 14 hamburgers, and 8 chicken sandwiches for a total of $117.50. During a second game, the stand sold 10 hot dogs, 13 hamburgers, and 5 chicken sandwiches for a total of $87.25. During a third game, the stand sold 4 hot dogs, 7 hamburgers, and 7 chicken sandwiches for a total of $63.25. Determine the price of each product.
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Question 1094420: Ben was in charge of ordering 35 pizzas for the office party. He ordered three types of pizza: Cheese, Pepperoni, and Supreme. The cheese pizzas cost $8 each, the pepperoni pizzas cost $11 each, and the supreme pizzas cost $14 each. He spent exactly twice as much on the pepperoni pizzas as he did on the cheese pizzas. If Ben spent a total of $ 376 on pizza, how many pizzas of each type did he buy?
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Question 1094421: Joe's Tire shop sells three types of tires. High performance tires sell for $50/tire. Ultra performance tires sell for $60/tire. Extreme performance tires sell for $80/tire. Last week, the revenue generated by the sales of ultra performance tires exceeded the revenue from the sale of extreme performance tires by $1600. If the tire shop sold a total of 220 tires last week for a total revenue of $13,000, how many of each type of tire were sold?
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Question 1094496: The sum of the page numbers on the facing pages of a book is 81. The number on the left page is ? and the number on the right page is ?
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Question 1094560: The length of a rectangular garden is 8 feet longer than its width. If the garden's perimeter is 204 feet, what is the area of the garden in square feet?
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Question 1094575: Six hundred two fanatic fans wish to travel to the game on 25 buses. If the fans are divided as evenly as possible, how many fanatic fans will travel on each bus?
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Question 1094727: During one year, approximately 1,690,000 ounces of gold went into the manufacturing of electronic equipment in a country. This was 13% of all the gold mined in the country that year. How many ounces of gold were mined in the country that year?
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