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Question 1109564: Sally is traveling 65 mph and Mark is traveling 50 mph. how long will it take Mark to catch up is Sally had a two hour Head start
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Question 1109565: A family drove from home to Truckee at 55 mph and returned the same route at 40 mph due to a snowstorm. The total travel time was 4.75 hours. Determine the distance between their home and Truckee
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Question 1109586: The length of Kendra's rectangular living room is 3 meters and the distance between opposite corners is 5 meters. What is the width of Kendra's living room?
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Question 1109599: You have been asked to find the area of a thin strip of cloth which goes around a mat. The strip is 24 feet long but only half an inch wide. 1. Calculate the area in both square feet and square inches.
2. Which unit seems most appropriate to use in this situation? Explain your reasoning.

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Question 1109626: Kit bought a soft drink and a sandwich for $9 what was the price of each if the sandwich cost 3.5 times more than the soft drink

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Question 1109626: Kit bought a soft drink and a sandwich for $9 what was the price of each if the sandwich cost 3.5 times more than the soft drink

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Question 1109630: Janice has $14.00 for he carnival this Friday night. She had to buy one ticket at $9.50 and each game is $0.50. How many games can Janice play?
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Question 1109637: �320 is divided between Colin, Dan & David so that Colin gets twice as much as Dan, and Dan gets three times as much as David. How much does Dan get

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Question 1109648: The stew company is losing money. They need to save on materials and believe the problem lies in the shape of their can. Determine the dimensions of a can that will use the least amount of aluminum but still hold 500ml of stew. State the height and radius in cm3
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Question 1109671: a bag has 40 grams of seed. Charmaine is carrying 8 of these bags. what is the total mass of the seeds she is carrying.
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Question 1109774: The roots of (x-1)(x-2)=p are equal. Find p.
The answer is p=1/4, how do they get that?
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Question 1109774: The roots of (x-1)(x-2)=p are equal. Find p.
The answer is p=1/4, how do they get that?
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Question 1109775: 5 * 7.7 / (x) = 13.6 + 5 - x / (x) The 5 * 7.7 is divided by x and the 5 - x is divided by x.

Solve for x.

Not sure how to solve. Non-homework.

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Question 1109775: 5 * 7.7 / (x) = 13.6 + 5 - x / (x) The 5 * 7.7 is divided by x and the 5 - x is divided by x.

Solve for x.

Not sure how to solve. Non-homework.

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Question 1109775: 5 * 7.7 / (x) = 13.6 + 5 - x / (x) The 5 * 7.7 is divided by x and the 5 - x is divided by x.

Solve for x.

Not sure how to solve. Non-homework.

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Question 1109812: when a number is divided by 10 and that quotient is decreased by 9, the result is greater than -2
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Question 1109802: Hi
tony hamid and helen had 48 dollars altogether. Tony had 10 dollars more than hamid and 14 dollars more than helen. When tony gave 2 dollar s to hamid and 6 dollars to helen, each of them had the same amount of money left.
how much did tony have at first.
Thanks
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Question 1109811: when a number is multiplied by -6 and that product is increased by 4 the result is less than or equal to -8
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Question 1109801: Hi
jack alan and sam had the same amount of money at first. Jack spent 32 dollars, alan 8 dollars and sam 24 dollars. The amount alan had left was 4 times the amount jack had left and twice the amountthat sam had left. How much did the 3 of them have left.
Thanks
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Question 1109796: Hi
steve and andrew had $540 altogether. Steve gave 1/7 of his money to andrew. In return andrew gave 1/4 of the total amount he had to steve. Then they had both an equal amount of money. How much did steve have at first.
thanks
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Question 1109753: A A point p divides a straight line ab in the golden ratio if AB:AP =AP:PB. Draw a diagram letting AB=x an AP =1 and form a quadratic equation for the Golden Ratio, x. Show that solution is x=(sqrt(5)+1)/2.
I'm very confused
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Question 1109934: The length of a rectangular sign is 4 feet longer than the width. If the sign's area is 480 square feet, find its length and width.
Thank you!!!!!!
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Question 1109974: Mark has $24. His brother has$8more than Mark has. How much do they have in all?
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Question 1109977: A woman bought a pack of 250 envelopes.after using 67 and giving away 32 how many did she have left?
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Question 1109975: There were 28 children in a classroom.3 children were off sick and 9 children had to see the school nurse.How many children were left in the classroom
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Question 1109972: if you remove 7 gallons per day from a 65 gallon water tank how many days will it take to empty the tank
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Question 1109972: if you remove 7 gallons per day from a 65 gallon water tank how many days will it take to empty the tank
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Question 1109667: Hi
sam had 2/3 of the amount of money bob had. David had twice as much money as sam. Sam spent half his money. If sam spent $48 less than david, both of them had the same amount of money left.
how much did sam spend.
how much did the 3 of them have at first.
Thanks
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Question 1109765: A circuit with two impedances Z1=10-j2 and Z2=5+j2 in parallel has an approximate admittance of?
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Question 1110028: The numbers 1 through 13 are written in separate slips of paper, and the slips are placed into a box. Then, 4 of these slips are drawn at random.
What is the probability that the drawn slips are "1", "2", "3", and "4", in that order?
0.0336
0.0014
0.000058
0.001392
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Question 1110045: A cube has an edge length of 4 inches. The cube is painted red all over and then cut into 64 cubes of edge length 1 inch. How many of these cubes have exactly one face painted red?

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Question 1110154: You are assigned to load bar stock into a machine to make a part. Each part is 7/8" long. You have to allow an extra 1/8" for each part for the machine to cut off the part. How many feet of bar stock will you need to make 240 parts?
The machine that will make the part can only hold bars that are 4 feet long. How many bars will you have to put in the machine to make all 240 parts.
If you can only answer one of these answer the last one please.
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Question 1110149: The parcks department has started building a new playground at Canyonside Park. The shapbof the playground is show below. The supervisor needs to purches wood chips to cover the ground in the playground area. If wood chips are sold in bags cost $8.00 apiece,how much will it cost to cover the entire area of the playground with woid chips?

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Question 1110152: You are assigned to load bar stock into a machine to make a part. Each part is 7/8" long. You have to allow an extra 1/8" for each part for the machine to cut off the part. How many feet of bar stock will you need to make 240 parts?
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Question 1110300: Heidi left a
14
14% tip of $
4.34
4.34 on a meal. What was the cost of the meal before the tip? What was the total cost of the meal including the tip?

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Question 1110301: Heidi left a
14
14% tip of $
4.34
4.34 on a meal. What was the cost of the meal before the tip? What was the total cost of the meal including the tip?

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Question 1110312: In a diagram, if PQ = 45mm and the ratio of TQ: PQ is 2: 3, calculate PT and TQ.
P-T-Q

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Question 1110330: A food manufacturing plant can fill 9,750 cans of soup in 30 minutes. At that rate, how many cans of soup can be filled in one minute?
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Question 1110351: How many gallons of gasoline that is 5% ethanol must be added to 2,000 gallons of gasoline with no ethanol to get a mixture that is 3% ethanol?

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Question 1110313: Hi
tom buys a house for 210,000 dollars pays a 60,000 deposit and then pays off the balance at 950 dollars per month 25 years.
find the yearly interest paid and the interest rate charged
thanks
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Question 1110417: Find the equation of the line which passes through the point (-3,5) and is perpendicular to the line 4x+3y=6. Express your answer in slope intercept form.
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