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Question 1106081: i am a four-digit number with 6 hundreds and 5 ones. the sum of all my digits is 15. what are two possible numbers i could be
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Question 1106085: A computer prints of 1000 characters every 3 seconds if there are approximately 3300 characters on the page how many seconds will it take to print 5 pages
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Question 1106099: How many ounces of a 2% acid solution should be mixed with a 4% acid solution to produce 20 ounces of a 36% acid solution.
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Question 1106088: The area of one field is 16 acres, and the area of the second field is 1 1 4 times bigger. A barn of wheat on the first field makes up 37 1 2 thousands of pounds per acre, and on the second 1 2 15 times as much per acre. How much more wheat was gathered from the second field than from the first?
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Question 1106089: The area of one field is 16 acres, and the area of the second field is 1 1/4 times bigger. A barn of wheat on the first field makes up 37 1/2 thousands of pounds per acre, and on the second 1 2/15 times as much per acre. How much more wheat was gathered from the second field than from the first?
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Question 1106122: Hi
find the inverse function for the following
f(x) = x^2+2x where x is greater than or equal to 0
thanks
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Question 1106148: A determined gardener has 100 ft of deer-resistant fence. She wants to enclose a rectangular vegetable garden in her backyard, and she wants the area that is enclosed to be at least 600 ft2. What range of values (in ft) is possible for the length of her garden? (Enter your answer using interval notation.)

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Question 1106190: Hi
andrew and carol had 160 dollars altogether. Andrew gave 1/3 of his money to carol. Then carol gave 1/5 of the amount she had back to andrew. Finally both had 80 dollars each. How much did andrew have at first.
Thanks
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Question 1106251: Hi
Andrew spent $682 on a pendent. He spent 1/10 of the remaining money on a ring. If he still had 3/7 of his money left, how much did he have at first.
thanks
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Question 1106270: you have 60 magazines that you would like to store on the shelf below.if each magazine is 3/8 inches wide, is three enough room on the shelf for all the magazine?
|_____| <- Shelf
<- 24 inches ->
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Question 1106274: A inch of rainfall on an acre of land weighs x lbs. Determine weight.
An acre = 43560 sq. ft.
A gal. of water weighs 8.35 lbs.
A cu. ft. of water weighs 62.4 lbs.
Unsure how to solve. Non-homework.
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Question 1106297: If length and width are given of a rectangle and cutted four corners by triangular shape than how we can find the remaining area of rectangle?

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Question 1106366: A 150mg tablet of antacid is dissolved in water, yielding a 250mL solution. What is the percentage of antacid (w/v) in this solution?
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Question 1106367: How many mL of a 8% dextrose w/v solution can be made by using 36 g of dextrose?
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Question 1106367: How many mL of a 8% dextrose w/v solution can be made by using 36 g of dextrose?
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Question 1106365: A 20% v/v solution of HCl is diluted by a ratio of 1:2, and then by a ratio of 1:4. Find the concentration of the resulting HCl solution.

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Question 1106363: A chemist has two alloys, one of which is 10% gold and 25% lead and the other which is 40% gold and 50% lead. How many grams of each of the two alloys should be used to make an alloy that contains 67 g of gold and 142.5 g of lead?
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Question 1106360: The cooking club made some pies to sell during lunch to raise money for an end of the year banquet. The cafeteria contributed three pies to the club each pie was the cut into five pieces and sold. There were a total of 65 prices to sell. How many pies did the club make?
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Question 1106369: A piece of land is 20 miles in circumference. Three persons, A, B, and C, start from the same place and travel the same way. A travels 3 mph, B 7 mph, and C 11 mph. In what time will they be together again?
Not sure how to solve. Non-homework.
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Question 1106392: the sum of three consecutive odd integers is 93. Find the integers.
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Question 1106389: The sum of four consecutive integers is 222. Find the integers.
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Question 1106393: Kelly, Laura, and Tia sold boxes of cookies for a fundraiser. Kelly sold 15 boxes less than Laura. Tia sold twice as many boxes as Kelly. If they sold 83 boxes of cookies in total, how many boxes did each girl sell?
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Question 1106390: Find three consecutive even integers such that the sum of the smallest integer and twice the median integer is 20 more than the largest integer.
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Question 1106402: A piece of land is 20 miles in circumference. Three persons, A, B, and C, start from the same place and travel the same way. A travels 3 mph, B 7 mph, and C 11 mph. In what time will they be together again?
Unsure how to solve. Non-homework.

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Question 1106448: Andy reads 56 more pages of his book on Monday than on Tuesday. He reads 125 pages on Monday. How many pages in all does he read on Monday and Tuesday?
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Question 1106464: A chemist has two alloys, one of which is 20% gold and 15% lead and the other which is 40% gold and 50% lead. How many grams of each of the two alloys should be used to make an alloy that contains 104 g of gold and 84 g of lead?
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Question 1106462: A pharmaceutical company is creating an over-the-counter pain-reliever in the form of a coated tablet. If the amount of active drug in the tablet needs to be 90 mg, and it's determined that 24% is a safe percent w/w, determine the total weight of the tablet.
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Question 1106461: A 2L IV line is running at a rate of 30 gtt/min. If the drop factor is 30 gtt/mL, determine the amount of solution that will be infused over a 3-hour period, rounded to the nearest mL.
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Question 1106439: Hi
Jenny saved 360 dollars of her monthly income and spent 1/6 of the rest on food. After spending 240 dollars on clothes, she still hsd 1/3 of her income left.
what was her monthly income.
thanks
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Question 1106493: A chemist has two alloys, one of which is 15% gold and 20% lead and the other which is 40% gold and 30% lead. How many grams of each of the two alloys should be used to make an alloy that contains 101.5 g of gold and 119 g of lead?
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Question 1106609: S = n/2[2a +(n - 1)d].
Solve for a.
Not sure how to solve. Non-homework.

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Question 1106641: Cameron is making 4 shirts.She needs 1 2/3 yards of fabric for each shirt.How much fabric does she need in all?
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Question 1106697: A wooden plaque, square in shape, has a bronze inlay, square in shape, in the center. A wooden strip of uniform width surrounds the bronze square. The ratio of the bronze area to the wooden area is 25 to 39. Calculate width of the wooden strip.
Let x = length of side of plaque.
Let y = length of side of inlay.
Let w = width of wooden strip.

Area of square = s^2.
Area of plaque = x^2.
Area of inlay = y^2.
Not sure how to continue. Non-homework.
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Question 1106810: Hi
susie and dominic had the same amount of money. She spent 0.7 of her money while he spent .2 of his. Dominic the bought 3 pens for 36 dollars and found that he had twice as much money left as the amount of money that susie had left. How much did they have altogether.
Thanks
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Question 1106811: The maximum load of a horizontal beam that is supported at both ends vari of the height and inversely as the length between the supports. A beam 6 m long, 0.1 m wide, and 0.06 m high
supports a load of 360 kg. What is the maximum load supported by a beam 16 m long, 0.2 m wide, and 0.08 m high?
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Question 1106847: The capacities of two trucks are 3 tons and 4 tons. If the larger truck makes 3 more trips than the smaller, its total haul is 20 more tons than the smaller one. How many trips does each truck make?
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Question 1106868: I need help with writing equations in slope intercept form for lines.
Use the following graph.
Graph: https://imgur.com/sDzZmuS
Write an equation in slope-intercept form for each line.
1. For the line in red.

2. For the line in blue.

3. For the line in green.

4. Perpendicular to the blue line and through (-1, 6).

5. Parallel to the red line and containing (7, 0).
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Question 1106882: A piggy bank containing only quarters has a mass of 850 grams when empty and 7822 when filled. If a quarter weighs 5.6 grams,about how many coins will be inside the piggy bank?
b)How much money will be inside the piggy bank?
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Question 1106911: A model rocket is launched from the ground with an inital velocity of 68 m/s. The function h = -4.9t + 68t models the height of the rocket in metres after t seconds. At what time is the rocket above 72 m above the ground?
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