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Question 1122669: Hi
Henry and Cecilia had a sum of 240 dollars. Henry received one quarter of Cecilia s money. He then gave 3/8 of the money he had to Cecilia. Finally each of them had the same amount of money. Find the original amount of money that henry had.
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Question 1122626: Hi
2 similar containers P and Q were filled with rice and beans. The ratio of rice to beans in P and Q were 1:5 & 5:3 respective ly. Jug R contained 620g of beans when all the beans from P and Q were poured into R there were 1200g of beans altogether. How many grams of rice were in P.
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Question 1122705: Hi
jeffrey spent 187 dollars on a pair of shoes. He then spent 1/5 of his remaining money on a pen. He still has 1/4 of his money left.
How much did he spend on the pen
How much did he have at first
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Question 1122733: A rectangular lot whose perimeter is 270 ft is fenced along three sides. An expensive fencing along the lot's length cost $ 24 per foot. An inexpensive fencing along the two side widths costs only $ 4 per foot. The total cost of the fencing along the three sides comes to $ 2280. What are the lot's dimensions?
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Question 1122744: A radioactive substance follows the decay equation dA/dt = kA.
If 20% of the substance disappears in 10 years, what is its half-life?
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Question 1122763: Hi
On a bus there were 54 passengers. There were 4 more boys than girls on the bus. 1/5 of the adult passengers and 1/6 of the children passengers were equal to 10.
How many boys were on the bus.
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Question 1122788: Hi
joanne and dave each plucked a certain number of oranges in an orchard. Joanne gave 1/5 of her orange s to dave. Dave then gzve 1/6 of what he had back to her. Next joanne gave 1/3 back to dave. At the end joanne had 36 orange s and dave 88.
how many did easch of yhem pluck initially.
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Question 1122818: Laura, Chang, and Dale sent a total of text messages 144 during the weekend. Chang sent 4 times as many messages as Dale. Laura sent 6 fewer messages than Dale. How many messages did they each send?
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Question 1122814: Things did not go quite as planned. You invested $21, 360, part of it in a stock that paid 12% annual interest. However, the rest of the money suffered a 5% loss. If the total annual income from both investments was $1992, how much was invested at each rate?
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Question 1122935: How would u set up a equation to find the answer to this........a sausage machine produces 159 sausages per hour the machine operates 365 hours per month how many sausages does it produce per month
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Question 1122995: 10,483 people attended a rock festival. If there were 811 more boys than girls, and 2,481 fewer adults over 50 years of age than there were girls, how many of each group attended the festival?
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Question 1123020: Print the word GREYHOUND, and then follow the remaining instructions in order. Insert an S both before and after the sixth letter. Move the first two letters to the end. Reverse the order of the first four letters. Look for three consecutive letters that spell an abbreviation for a day of the week, and delete these three letters. Change the third letter to a J and move it to the end. Shift each letter back three positions in the alphabet. Move the first letter to a position fourth from the right and insert a space after it. Remove the first two letters. What is the result?
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Question 1123047: Ben wants to travel to his friend's house. He notices that on the map the scale says that inch is equal to 3 miles. On the map, he measures the distance to be 3.5 inches How far away is his friend's house in miles?
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Question 1123048: Write the corresponding algebraic expression or equation for the verbal statement. Let x represent the unknown number.
1 less than four times the sum of a number and 2

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Question 1123044: one hundred people in your neighborhood always drive to work between 7:30 and 8:00am and arrive 30 minutes later. Why must two people always arrive at work at the same time within a minute?
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Question 1123163: A rock is thrown upward with a velocity of 18 meters per second from the top of a 36 meter high cliff, and it misses the cliff on the way back down. When will the rock be 4 meters from the water, below? Round your answer to two decimal places.
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Question 1123162: Cameron bought 3 boxes of candy. After buying them he had $7.50 left over. His 2 friends
each bought 4 boxes of candy and had $1 left. When they walked in the store, Cameron
had the same amount of money as both of his friends combined. Write an equation to find
how much they spent on each box of candy?
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Question 1123189: carry out the indicated operation of -7 + 4
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Question 1123249: a merchant mixes tea that sells for $7.20/kg and tea that sells for $9.20/kg to make 100 kg of tea that he sells for $8.80/kg. How many kilograms of each type of tea did he mix?
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Question 1123296: The numbers 1,6,11,16... are written in order in a book, 50 to a page, beginning on page 1. The number 12346 will be written on page...
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Question 1123309: A total of 315 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. The number of student tickets sold were two times the number of adult tickets sold. how many adult tickets were sold.

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Question 1123306: Find all sum of all possible 4 digit numbers that can be formed using th digits 2,4,5,6,7 and 8, with no repeated digits.
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Question 1123295: The exponent of the greatest power of 40 that will divide into 80! with no remainder is
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Question 1123342: The sum of the first n terms of a series is 5n^2-2n. The r-th term is...
a) 6r+3 b) 10r-7 c) 4r^2-r d) r(5r-2) e)3r
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Question 1123408: I need help with this particular question, thank you for your help in advance!
Determine the 2005 income for a particular company for each quarter from the data in the graph when S = 375, a = 15, b = 7, and c = 7. $a million more than first quarter, $b million less than twice the first quarter, and $c million more than four times first quarter, S is the net income/ $S million
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Question 1123481: The difference between one fifth of a number and 4 is 16
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Question 1123514: Points A and B are both on the line segment PQ on the same side of its midpoint. A divides PQ in the ratio 4:5, and B divides PQ in the ratio of 3:7. If AB=65, then what is the length of PQ?
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Question 1123553: If Bradford bought a pack of 36 candy bars that cost him $9, then how much will it cost the school store to purchase 252 candy bars?
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Question 1123518: An analysis of the old man's statements showed that 0.653 were prophetic. if he spoke 3000 times during the period in question, how many statements were not prophetic?
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Question 1123579: I am struggling to understand how to work this problem. It is a function word problem for the volume of water.
Water flowing into a conical drinking cup with an altitude of 4 inches and a radius of 2 inches. write the volume V of the water as a function of its depth h.
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Question 1123585: Daniel spent half of his weekly allowance on clothes. to earn more money his parents let him clean the windows in the house for $8.80. What is his weekly allowance if he ended with $14.40?
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Question 1123668: a standard deck of cards contains 52 cards. one card is selected from the deck.
a) compute the probability of randomly selecting a six or five
b) compute the probability of randomly selecting a six or five or two
c) compute the probability of randomly selecting a six or heart
I'm not quite grasping the concept of this problem I started setting up the problem for A) number of 6's and 5's/52 = 8/52 = 2/13 = 0.1538
b) number of 6, 5, 2 = 12/52 = 3/13 = 0.2307
I'm not sure how to set up c) ?
Am I setting this equation up correctly? how do I determine six or a heart? for letter c?
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Question 1123750: kofi is four times as old as kobby and kofi is 36years older than kobby. how old is kofi?
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Question 1123778: Mike spent half of his allowance going to the movies.he washed the family car and earned 7 dollars.what is his weekly allowance if he ended up with 17 dollars?
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Question 1123798: janet's parents said they would give her at most $25 per month for her phone bill. She has chosen a plan that charges $19.95 per month for unlimited calls and $0.05 for each text. What is the maximum number of texts she can send each month?
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Question 1123807: A rectangular portrait measures 50cm by 70cm. It is surrounded by a rectangular frame of uniform width. If the area of the frame is the same as the area of the portrait, what is the approximate width of the frame.

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Question 1123799: You are choosing between two health clubs. Club A offers membership for a fee of $ 12 plus a monthly fee of $ 24. Club B offers membership for a fee of $ 28 plus a monthly fee of $ 20. 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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