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Question 1098513: A car license plate contains four letters followed by three digits. How many different plates can be made if no two adjacent letters can be the same, if the letter I cannot be one of the letters, and if the first of the three digits cannot be the number 0
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Question 1098484: 3 clocks, hour hands are missing, have minute hands running fast.
Clock P, Q, R gain 2, 6, 12 mins per hour respectively.
They start at midday - pointing to 12.
Find the number of hours later when all 3 hands show the same number of minutes.
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Question 1098544: Come up with a situation that you can model with this equation. Describe the situation, and tell us what v and h are. Fill in the values so that you have a quadratic equation. If you do research to find initial velocities, include the links to the websites where you found that information. If you would like to make up your own numbers as well, you can (be creative)!
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Question 1098541: Lifetime fitness charges a $30 one time membership fee, and then charges $ 2 for each visit to the gym.
Write a function that models the cost of a membership for lifetime gym
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Question 1098590: The number of sheep is 8/3 rd the number of kangaroos. Together they total 88,000. How many kangaroos are there? I need to write a formula and solve the problem. Thank you for any help! ( Desperate mom that never took algebra)
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Question 1098613: A chemist needs to prepare 36 ounces of a 13% hydroelectric acid solution. Find the amount of 18% solution and the amount of 9% solution he should mix to get this solution.
How many ounces of the 18% acid solution should be in the mixture?

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Question 1098612: A parking meter contains quarters and dimes worth $12.80. There are 77 coins in all. Find how many of each there are.
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Question 1098615: A teacher is four times as old as a student. In 16 years, the student's age will be half of the teacher's age. How old are they now?
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Question 1098614: A printer knows that a page of print contains 1465 words if large type is used and 1715 words if small type is used. A document containing 26528 words fills exactly 16 pages. Find how many pages are in each type.
How many pages are in the large type?
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Question 1098574: The base and height of a triangle is four more than four times the its base. What�s the base?
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Question 1098676: Michael gave Jenny half of his coins. Jenny gave Luke half of the coins she received from Michael. Luke kept 8 of those coins and gave the remaining 10 to Missy. How many coins did Michael give Jenny?
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Question 1098682: Hi
the total number of pears and oranges in a basket was 980.after 1/3 of the pears and 230 oranges were sold, the ratio of pears to oranges left was 2:3. What was the ratio of pears to oranges at first.
thanks
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Question 1098705: ali runs 4 times a week. his route is 2 1/4 miles long.how many miles does he run each week
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Question 1098751: A parking meter contains quarters and dimes worth $12.80. There are 77 coins in all. Find how many of each there are?
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Question 1098751: A parking meter contains quarters and dimes worth $12.80. There are 77 coins in all. Find how many of each there are?
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Question 1098755: A teacher is four times as old as a student. In 26 years, the student's age will be half of the teacher's age. How old are they now?
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Question 1098773: Find the measure of angle whose supplement is three times it's measure.
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Question 1098774: A husky running a thousand mile race burns 5 3/8 calories in exertion for every 1 calorie burned for thermoregulation.It burns 11,200 calories per day. How many calories are burned from exertion and how many for thermoregulation (regulating body temperature)? Round to nearest whole number.
I need a formula please. I was thinking X + 5 3/8 = 11,200
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Question 1098794: A chemist needs to prepare 36 ounces of a 15% hydroelectric acid solution. Find the amount of 18% solution and the amount of 9% solution he should mix to get this solution.
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Question 1098753: A printer knows that a page of print contains 1476 words if large type is used and 1876 words if small type is used. A document containing 21883 words fills exactly 14 pages. Find how many pages are in each type?
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Question 1098775: i am choosing between two health clubs. Club A offers membership for a fee of $24 plus a monthly fee of $26. Club B offers membership for a fee of $12 plus a monthly fee of $29. After how many months will the total cost of each health club be the same? What will be the total cost for each club?
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Question 1098817: If 4 is added to twice a number and this sum is multiplied by 2, the result is the same as if the number is multiplied by 3 and 4 is added to the product. What is the number?
I need a formula please, I tried ...x*2 + 4*(2) = x*3 + 4
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Question 1098811: I don�t know how to solve this.
candice and pam walked to town in 9 hours. The next day, they walked to town in 3 hours. How fast did they jog if they jogged 4 miles per hour faster than they walked?
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Question 1098815: In a class of 90 students, there were three choices of subjects to be selected; agricultural, biology and chemistry. 38 0f them chose chemistry, 17 of them chose only agricultural, 13 chose only biology and 15 chose only chemistry. If 22 of them chose none of the three subjects.1.find those who chose only agricultural and biology . 2. Agric and chemistry but not biology or biology and chemistry but not agricultural
3. All the three subjects
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Question 1098820: Hi
a florist arranges orchids in bunches of 20 and roses in bunches of 10.she sells each orchid bunch for $25 and each rose bunch for $30 .she earnes a total of $390 if she sells 4 times as many orchid bunches as roses bunch es how many flowers did sell altogether.
Thanks
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Question 1098750: A student has a number of $30 and $60 savings bonds to use for part of her college expenses. The total value of the bonds is $900. There are 66 more $30 bonds than $60 bonds. How many of each type of bond does she have?

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Question 1098864: Find the value of z Subscript alpha.
subscript alpha = 0.33
The value of z subscript 0.33 is?
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Question 1098934: If someone can run 3 laps in 9 minutes and someone else can run 2 laps in 7 minutes who runs faster or do they run the same?
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Question 1098973: Sean, Erin and Kelly are participating in a free throw contest for charity. Erin made 4 times as many points as Sean. Kelly made 22 points more than Erin. Together they made a total of 112. Draw a picture and then create the equation and solve.
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Question 1098982: A and B are two taps require to fill one tank in 15 hour.these two taps are kept open for 12 hours then tap B is closed then tank required more 8 hours to fill then find the time that tap require to fill the tank seperately
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Question 1099016: express 850 g as a fraction of 2 kg.850 g is ..... of 2 kg
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Question 1099035: two numbers are in the ratio 2 to 7 and their product is 126. what is the larger number?

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Question 1099035: two numbers are in the ratio 2 to 7 and their product is 126. what is the larger number?

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Question 1099035: two numbers are in the ratio 2 to 7 and their product is 126. what is the larger number?

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Question 1099049: Joe delivers 5 newspapers in the same time Matt delivers 4 newspapers. If they have a total of 54 papers, how many did Joe deliver? How many did Matt deliver?
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Question 1099059: Floor tile costs $11 per square yard. How much will it cost to tile a bathroom that is 90 square feet?
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Question 1098855: The number of chocolate chips in an 18-ounce bag of chocolate chip cookies is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 1252 chips and standard deviation 129 chips.
(a) What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains between 1000
and 1500 chocolate chips, inclusive?
(b) What is the probability that a randomly selected bag contains fewer than 1050
chocolate chips?
(c) What proportion of bags contains more than 1175
chocolate chips?
(d) What is the percentile rank of a bag that contains 1450
chocolate chips?
I am so confused. Please help me :(
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Question 1099023: ** Possibly solve using guess and check strategy?**
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Question 1099112: On a weekend outing, Carlos rents a motorboat for 10 hours to travel down the river and back. The rental operator tells him to go for 4 hours downstream, leaving 6 hours to return upstream.
If the river current flows at a speed of 5 mph, how fast must Carlos travel in order to return in 10 hours?
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Question 1099109: Alvin paddled for 5 hours with a 3-km/h current to reach a campsite. The return trip against the same current took 8 hours.
What is the speed of the boat in still water?

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Question 1099113: A toddler takes off running down the sidewalk at 210 ft/min. One minute later, a worried mother runs after the child at 470 ft/min. After how many minutes will the mother overtake the toddler?
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Question 1099111: It takes a passenger train 5 hr less time than it takes a freight train to make the trip from Paradise to Rockville. The passenger train averages 63 km/h, while the freight train averages 42 km/h. Find the distance from Paradise to
Rockville.
How far is it from Paradise to Rockville?

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