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Question 1097012: Ben was in charge of ordering 16 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 $10 each, and the supreme pizzas cost $12 each. He spent exactly twice as much on the pepperoni pizzas as he did on the cheese pizzas. If Ben spent a total of $156 on pizza, how many pizzas of each type did he buy?
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Question 1096996: Are 153 and 42 relatively prime? If not, what common factor do both numbers share?
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Question 1096996: Are 153 and 42 relatively prime? If not, what common factor do both numbers share?
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Question 1096997: The half-life of zulus is 14 days and they decay exponentially. If Angela begins with 20 zulus, how long will it take until only 5 remain?
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Question 1097163: The school party committee has $54 to buy ice cream. If each carton of ice cream costs $7, how much money will the committee have left over?
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Question 1097283: The pressure P of a gas varies directly as the temperature T and inversely as the volume V. When T=50 and V=275 cubic inches, P = 20 lb/min . FIND THE PRESSURE of a gas when T=60 and V = 250 cubic inches. [Make the answer very clear]
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Question 1097308: The Surf club at a college in California wants to charter a bus for a surf trip in Mexico. It costs $2600 to rent the bus and each student will pay $370 for lodging, meals, and surfboard rentals.

A) Let C(n) be the total cost for n students going on the trip. Find an equation for C: C(n)=
B) Let M(n) be the mean (or average) cost per student (in dollars per student) if n students go on the trip. Find an equation for M:
M(n)=
C) What is the mean cost if 6 students go? Mean cost =
D) The surf trip will be cancelled unless the mean cost per student is less than $453. What is the minimum number of students needed to go on the trip so it won't be cancelled? Your answer should be an integer.
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Question 1097319: A boat travels upstream for 12 miles in 3 hours and returns in 2 hours traveling downstream in a river. What is the rate of the boat in still water and the rate of the current?
The rate of the boat in still water is __________ miles per hour.
The rate of the current is ____________ miles per hour.

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Question 1097377: Artesia can do a piece of work in 10 days. After she has worked in two days, Fate came to help her and together they finished it in 3 days. In how many days could Fate do the work alone?
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Question 1097376: The sum of the digits of a two-digit number is 11. If the digits are interchanged, the new number is 27 larger than the original number.
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Question 1097379: Jancie has $180,000 to invest to obtain annual income. She wants some of it invested in safe Certificates of Deposit yielding The rest she wants to invest in AA bonds yielding per year. How much should she invest in each to realize exactly per year?
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Question 1097380: Jancie has $180,000 to invest to obtain annual income. She wants some of it invested in safe Certificates of Deposit yielding The rest she wants to invest in AA bonds yielding 5% per year. How much should she invest in each to realize exactly per year?
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Question 1097282: Hi
2/7 of the members in a country club are men.
1050 women in the club are below 50 years old.
If there are 960 more women than men in the club, how many women are above 50 years old.
thanks
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Question 1097378: Franks gym charges $30 to join and $12 pre training session. Complete the table and graph the relationship between numberof training session and total cost.
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Question 1097150: A local television station sends out questionnaires to determine if viewers would rather see a documentary, an interview show, or reruns of a game show. There were 300 responses with the following results:
90 were interested in a interview and documentary, but not reruns
12 were interested in an interview show and reruns, but not a documentary
42 were interested in reruns but not an interview show
72 were interested in an interview show but not a documentary
30 were interested in a documentary and reruns
18 were interested in an interview show and reruns
24 were interested in none of the three
How many are interested in exactly one kind of show?
Any help would be great. Thank you.

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Question 1097438: Answer the questions below. When you are finished, submit this assignment to your teacher by the due date for full credit.
Total score: ____ of 15 points
(Score for Question 1: ___ of 6 points)
1. A recipe calls for cups of flour, cup of white sugar, and cup of brown sugar. The recipe makes 6 servings.
(a) How many cups of flour are there per serving? Show your work.
(b) How many total cups of sugar (white and brown) are there per serving? Show your work.
(c) Suppose you modify the recipe so that it makes 9 servings. How much more flour do you need for the modified recipe than you need for the original recipe? Show your work.
Answer:

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Question 1097416: Jancie has $180,000 to invest to obtain annual income. She wants some of it invested in safe Certificates of Deposit yielding 5% The rest she wants to invest in AA bonds yielding 12% per year. How much should she invest in each to realize exactly $17,400 per year?

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Question 1097413: In a certain city the local water utility company
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Question 1097499: Hi
a farmer sold some eggs in the morning. He then packed the remaining eggs into 15 cartons with 25 eggs each.if the number he sold was 3/5 of the number of eggs he packed, how many eggs did he have initially.
My solution was 625 eggs textbook 600 eggs. Who is correct?
Thanks
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Question 1097563: An airplane hanger is 100 ft long 50 ft wide and 10 feet high estimate the cost of heating it at the rate of $25 per 100 cubic feet per season
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Question 1097507: A shoe store bought 225 pairs of shoes for $15750. Twenty five pairs were sold at markup of 150% of cost and 175 pairs at markup of 75% of cost; 10 pairs were sold during a clearance sale for $80 each and the remaining shoes were disposed of at 20% below cost. Assume all pairs of shoes had the same cost. What is the cost of shoes?
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Question 1097307: In a certain city the local water utility company charges each customer a flat fee of $4.73 per month plus $2.18 per 1,000 gallons of water used during the month. If the company has 65,000 customers, find the following where x is the total number of gallons used measured in thousands.

A)Find the monthly revenue r for water utility company in terms of x. (use the proper variables and enter as an equation)

B) Find the monthly revene when the average monthly usage per customer is 3,800 gallons of water. Monthly revenue =
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Question 1097643: The sum of two numbers is 21. 3/4 of one of the numbers added to 2/3 of the other gives a sum of 15. Find the number.
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Question 1097676: the sum of two numbers is 21.3/4 of one of the numbers added to 2/3 of the other gives a sum of 15. Find the two numbers.

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Question 1097676: the sum of two numbers is 21.3/4 of one of the numbers added to 2/3 of the other gives a sum of 15. Find the two numbers.

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Question 1097708: What is the lowest number n that when divided by 3 leaves a remainder of 1, when divided by 4 leaves a remainder of 3, and when divided by 5 leaves a remainder of 3?
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Question 1097687: A $50 baseball card is worth $400 in 5 year time. What is the rate of appreciation?
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Question 1097715: after spending 3/5 of his money,Larry received a cash gift of $250 from his Uncle. At this time, the amount of money which he had was 1/2 of the amount which he had at first. How much money did he have at first?
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Question 1097684: Nancy goes to the candy store. She sees bins of candy. One bin costs $1 per pound and the other bin costs $4 per pound. Nancy looks in her wallet and finds she has $15. So Nancy decides to create her own mixture of a 5 pound bag of candy which will cost $3 per pound. How much should she mix of each candy to create her 5 pound bag? Note: She can part of a pound.
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Question 1097683: In a purse Misty has 1.91, including one more nickel than quarters. She also has twice as many dimes as nickels. But, she also has eight more pennies than dimes. How many of each of the four coins does Misty have?
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So what I did was use the formula: Quantity X Value = Subtotal.
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Question 1097742: A one-cup serving of pineapple juice has 9 more than three times as many calories as a one-cup of serving of tomato juice. If Jan combines a serving of each of the two juices and it totals 173 calories, how many calories are in a serving of each type of juice?
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Question 1097744: gwen weighs 142 lb. this is 54 lb more than what her daughter weighs. how much does Gwen's daughter weigh ?
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Question 1097743: Lebron is taking Calculus for Management, a class in which four tests are given. To get an A, he must average at least a 90 on the four tests. He got scores 89, 93, and 87 on the first three tests. What is the least he could score on the last test to earn an A in the class? (Express your answer as an inequality)
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Question 1097787: This is for my statistics class not sure if you could help me figure this our or not please let me know
2. The Willow Run Outlet Mall has two Haggar Outlet Stores, one located on Peach Street and the other on Plum Street. The two stores are laid out differently, but both store managers claim their layout maximizes the amounts customers will purchase on impulse. A sample of 10 customers at the Peach Street store revealed they spent the following amounts more than planned: $17.58, $19.73, $12.61, $17.79, $16.22, $15.82, $15.40, $15.86, $11.82, $15.85. A sample of 14 customers at the Plum Street store revealed they spent the following amounts more than they planned when they entered the store: $18.19, $20.22, $17.38, $17.96, $23.92, $15.87, $16.47, $15.96, $16.79, $16.74, $21.40, $20.57, $19.79, $14.83. For data analysis, a t test: two-sample assuming unequal variances was used.
At the .01 significance level, is there a difference in the mean amount purchased on an impulse at the two stores? Explain these results to a person who knows about the t test for a single sample but who is unfamiliar with the t test for independent means.

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Question 1097807: With each stroke, a pump removes 1/4 of the air in a container. After 5 strokes, what is the fraction of the original amount of air in the container that is left?
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Question 1097806: A boat travels 14 km/h in still water.If this boat goes upstream in a river flowing at a rate of 4 km/h, for 3 km, and then returns back downstream to its starting point, what is the average speed for the whole trip in km/h?
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Question 1097835: What quantity of 73% chlorine solution must be mixed with a 30% chlorine solution to produce 399.12 mL of 69% solution?

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Question 1097885: I add 12 to a number and then double their sum. The result is one and half times what i get when i double the original number and add 12. find the number.
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