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Question 97855: Two cross country runners are 440 yards apart and are running toward each other, one at 8mph and the other at 10 mph. In how many seconds will they meet?
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Question 97872: Three people check into a hotel. They find out that if one more person checked in with them, the check in price will be reduced by $50. How much is the Check in price?
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Question 97749: The first 100 copies of a poster cost x cents each;after the first 100 copies have been made ,extra copies cost x/4 cents each.how many cents will it cost to make 300 copies of the poster?
Have option
A)100x B)150x C)200x D)300x E)400x
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Question 98031: The graph of any quadratic function is called?
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Question 98080: Could someone please help me with this word problem I am unsure how to write the equation or solve it for that matter.Science and medicine. Find the time required for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400 ft high. Use the formula
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Question 98090: Ann is two and a half inches taller than Tara. There is a four and one fourth inches difference between Tara and Peter. Jamilla is taller than Ann but three fourths inches shoter than Peter. X represents Tara's height - write and simplify in expression involving Jamilla's height.
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Question 98222: Need help, I cant remenber where to start and how to make the formula work.
A piece of wire 83 centimeters long must be into 3 pieces. Two pieces will be the same length, and the the third will be 7 centimeters less than twicw the others. Find the length of each wire.
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Question 98245: I am struggling with putting word problems into the right format. Here's another that I cant seem to figure out.
Michael has $10 to spend for pizza. The local pizza place charges $6 for a plain cheese pizza, plus $1.50 for each additional topping. What is the greatest number of toppings he can order?
Thank you in advance.
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Question 98265: In a jelly bean store, the owner asked the clerk to package the jelly beans so that any weight could be given to the customersusing the least number of packages, up to the largest size package, which was 32oz. (But, not making a different package for each weight) The owner wanted to make it so the customer would not have to carry so many packages. For instance, if they sold 1,2, or 3 oz. packages, the customer would be able to buy any weight, but would have a lot of packages to carry. What is the least # of pkgs. she could make and still be able to get all of the different weights from 1 to 31 ozs.?
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Question 98127: Could you please help me solve this word problem?
Crafts. A solar collector is 2.5 m long by 2.0 m wide. It is held in place by a frame of uniform width around its outside edge. If the exposed collector is 4m^2, what is the width of the frame to the nearest tenth of a centimeter?
Thank you
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Question 98312: How many four-digit numberal codes can be created if no digit may be repeted?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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Question 98317: Which describes the number and type of roots of the equation x(squared)-625=0?
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Question 98314: Find the standard deviation of the data set to the nearest tenth.
21,13,18,16,13,35,12,8,15
I know the mean is 16.8
and the sum of the data is 151 but I could get no further than that. Sorry.
Thank you.
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Question 98304: When x number of units are sold, the price of each unit (in dollars) is given by p= -x/2+75. Find the unit price when the following quantities are sold: 2, 7, 9, 11.
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Question 98303: Celsius temperature readings can be converted to Fahrenheit readings using the formula F=9/5C+32. What is the Fahrenheit temperature that corresponds to each of the following Celsius temperatures: -10, 0, 15, 100?
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Question 98313: Find the exact value of sin 165.
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Question 98346: The will of the late Orlando Terranova stated that his brother Felipe would receive one-third the value of the estate, his sister Anna one-fourth the estate, his wife Anita two-fifths of the estate, and his son Jason the remaining $15,000. How much money did each recipient get?

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Question 98419: A home purchased for $300,000 depreciated 8% over a 1-year period. What was the value of the home after at the end of the year?
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Question 98419: A home purchased for $300,000 depreciated 8% over a 1-year period. What was the value of the home after at the end of the year?
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Question 98415: Another word problem Im having trouble with.
Using R for revenue, C for cost, and P for profit, write an expression for selling x thousand items if the the following is true.
Item price: $8.00
Fixed Costs $71,174
Varaible Costs $3816x
Thank you
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Question 98198: A car is traveling on a road that is perpendicular to a railroad track. When the car is 30 meters from the crossing, the car's new collision detector warns the driver that there is a train 50 meters from the car and heading toward the same crossing. How far is the train from the crossing?
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Question 98430: Please help me with this question. I've been trying to solve this question for days but I still couldn't figure this out. We will have to submit this one on September 11. Thanks........
A freight train makes a regular run of 1300 km according to its present schedule. The train dispatchers want to schedule this run for less than one hour, but the average speed will have to be increased by 2 km per hour. What average speed will be required to make the run on the new schedule?
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Question 98207: While finding the amount of seed needed to plant his three square wheat fields, Hank observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer than the side of the smallest field and that the side of the largest field was 3 kilometers longer than the side of the smallest field. If the total area of the three fields is 38 square kilometers, then what is the area of each field?
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Question 98472: Here's a word problem that I don't understand how to set up an equation for.
There is only one freshman in the cast of the high school musical. There are 6 sophomores and 11 juniors. One third of the cast are seniors. How many seniors are in the musical?
I don't understand what equation you would use to solve that. It's very confusing to me. Could you please help me out?
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Question 98482: Please help :0
The length of a rectangle is 2 in. more than twice its width. If the perimeter of the rectangle is 46 in., find the width of the rectangle.
Thanks!!

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Question 98550: THE SUM OF BOTH DIGITS, OF EITHER OF TWO TWO-DIGET NUMBERS, IN WHATEVER ORDER THE DIGETS ARE WRITTEN, IS 9. THE SQUARE OF EITHER OF THE DIGETS OF EITHER NUMBER, MINUS THE PRODUCT OF BOTH DIGITS, PLUS THE SQUARE OF THE OTHER DIGIT IS THE NUMBER 21. THE NUMBERS ARE:
A)36,63
B)81,18
C)27,72
D)45,54
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Question 98560: Please help! Can you give me a step by step solution?

"A community theater sold 900 tickets to a play. Floor seats cost 12$ each, and balcony seats cost 10$. The total receipts were 9780$. How many of each type of ticket were sold?"

Thank you very much!
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Question 98534: This word problem has to do with quadratic equations.
The difference of two integers is 12.Their product is 493.Find the integers.
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Question 98727: In the 2005 Major League Baseball season, the Chicago White Sox won 27 fewer than twice as many games as they lost. They played 162 regular season games. How many wins and losses did the team have?
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Question 98754: Mrs. Morris has 84 dance students. If she has five times as many teenage students as adult students, how many adult students does she have?
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Question 98759: Number 8: Number theory from Mixed Problem Solving
Find 2 numbers whose sum is 56 and whose product is 783.
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Question 98997: in the example:
'' Employess of First Functions Inc. (FFI) design functions and relations. They earn $7.80 a week per hour plus 'time and a half' for any time over 40 which they work in a week.''
i am supposed to transform this into an equation
but i donot understand the 'time and a half'
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Question 99117: I'm not sure what type of word problem it is but, I'm in Algebra. Here is the question. "It is estimated that the earth is losing 4000 species of plants and animals every year, If "S" represents the number of species living last year, how many species are on earth this year?
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Question 99119: "Suppose the temperature outside is dropping at a constant rate. At noon, the temperature is 70 degrees f and it drops to 58 degrees at 5:00 p.m. How much did the temperature change each hour?
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Question 99118: I have never been good at word problems. I have been trying these problems since Sunday. It's due today. Here is the question "Kinetic energy of a particle of mass (m) is found by taking one-half of the product of the mass (m) and the square of the velocity (v). Write an expression for the kinetic energy of a particle.
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Question 99126: The simple interest "I" on a principal of "P" dollars at interest rate "r" for time "t", in years, is given by I = Prt. Find the simple interest on a principal of $6000 at 3% for 2 years. (Hint: 3%=0.03)
Thank you
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Question 99127: On four consecutive running plays, Duce Staley of the Philadelphia Eagles gained 23 years, lost 5 yards, gained 15 yards, and lost 10 yards. What was his net yardage change for the series of plays?
Thanks
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Question 99132: Find the time required for an object to fall to the ground from a building that is 1400 ft high
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Question 99222: I have this word problem here that is really confusing to me. I feel like I know how to do it but I just cant seem to figure it out.
The number of minutes a freights train takes to pass an intersection varies directly with the number of cars in the train. A 150-car train passes in 3 min. How long will a 210-car train take to pass?
I can't seem to get an equation or anything to start out with. Would you please help me ?
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Question 99279: a set of childrens clocks contains three shapes: longs, flats, and cubes. there are 3 times as many longs as cubes, and 30 fewer flats than longs. if there are 600 blocks in all, how many longs are there?
how do i set up this equation?
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