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Question 1144218: Five-sixths of a number plus three-fourths of the same number is 2 more than four-thirds of the number. Find that number
A)-2
B)-4
C)-8
D)-12
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Question 1144216: A group of more than ten and fewer than thirty people all paid the same amount for
a ticket to a concert. If the total cost was 16,490$, how many people are there in
the group?
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Question 1144224: I have 80 students 2 buses that cost 960 a piece and lunch is 10 dollars per student. What is total cost per student in proper math formula?
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Question 1144214: The product of A and B are constant. If the value of A is decreased by 25% by how many percent must the value of B be increased?
A)-10%
B)-25%
C)-33 1/3%
D)-40%
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Question 1144234: Ref. Question 1144203
I get 22176 as answer. Where did I miscalculate?

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Question 1144203: Determine which is more:
A ton of pennies.
4 miles of pennies, placed end to end.
1 penny; .0875 oz.
1 penny; 0.75 in. in diameter.
.0875 = .000002734 tons.

0.75 = .000011837 mi.

4 mi. = 253440 in.
1 ton = 32000 oz.
Not sure of next steps. Non-homework.

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Question 1144235: Ref. Question 1144203:
4 * 5280 * 12 * 1 * 0.0875 * 1 = 22176

The mi., ft., in., and oz. cancel.
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Question 1144235: Ref. Question 1144203:
4 * 5280 * 12 * 1 * 0.0875 * 1 = 22176

The mi., ft., in., and oz. cancel.
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Question 1144252: A file cost $1.20 more than a notebook. A pen cost twice as much as the file. Te total cost of the three items was $11.60. What was the cost of the file?
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Question 1144283: Rosalyn worked 48 hr one week and earned a $1230 paycheck. She earns two times and a half (2.5 times her regular hourly wage) for the number of hours she works in excess of 40. What is Rosalyn?s regular hourly wage?
rosalyn's regular hourly wage is $
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Question 1144282: To finance her community college education, Sarah takes out a loan for $2000. After a year Sarah decides to pay off the interest, which is 5% of $2000. How much will she pay?
sarah will pay?

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Question 1144284: A truck enters a highway driving 60 mph. A car enters the highway at the same place 13 minutes later and drives 69 mph in the same direction. From the time the car enters the highway, how long will it take the car to pass the truck?
the car will pass the truck in ____minutes
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Question 1144295: There are 2 trees in a garden (tree "A" and "B") and on the both trees are some birds.If half of birds of tree A comes to tree B it will become equal to the birds on tree A and if half of birds of tree B comes to tree A it will become double of the birds on tree B.so, How many birds are on each tree?
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Question 1144304: To finance her community college education, Sarah takes out a loan for $2000. After a year Sarah decides to pay off the interest, which is 5% of $2000. How much will she pay?
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Question 1144301: To finance her community college education, Sarah takes out a loan for $2000. After a year Sarah decides to pay off the interest, which is 5% of $2000. How much will she pay?
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Question 1144332: Please help me solve this question:
nine people go to a show. Adult tickets cost $15 and children's tickets cost $7. The total cost was $87. Write an equation and use it to help you find the numbers of adults and children who went to the show.
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Question 1144376: At a cost of $4 per pound, how many ounces of coffee can be bought for $1.45?
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Question 1144379: I need help on this word problem below. I am terrible at word problems and I have no idea what I am doing. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Joe has 2500 feet of fencing available to enclose a rectangular field. One side of the field lies along a river (no fencing is needed here). For what value of x is the area the largest if you let x represent the length of the side parallel to the river?
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Question 1144424: Hi
express as a basic numeral 2.87 ×10^12 meters in kilometers.
thanks
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Question 1144431: A roofer and an assistant can repair a roof together in 3 hours. Working alone, the assistant can complete the repair in 17 hours. If both the roofer and the assistant work together for 2 hours and then the assistant is left alone to finish the job, how much longer should the assistant need to finish the repairs? (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
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Question 1144481: A acre field has 3 plants per hill. The rows are 3'6" in length, 3'6" apart.
Calculate total number of plants.
3'6' = 3.5 ft.
An acre = 43560 sq. ft.
Let p = plant number.
Not sure of next steps. Non-homework.
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Question 1144541: Find five consecutive integers such that:
“The sum of the first and 3 times the fourth is equal to 39 less than twice the sum of the second, third, and fifth.”
I came up with this formula:
x+3(x+3)=39-2(x+1)(x+2)(x+4)
I am sure that this is wrong though. Any help would be appreciated.
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Question 1144557: If amber has 10 problems and she finishes them with in 7 minutes how long will it take her to finish 35 problems
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Question 1144557: If amber has 10 problems and she finishes them with in 7 minutes how long will it take her to finish 35 problems
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Question 1144581: John gets scores of 88 and 78 on his first two tests. What score must he make to get an average grade of B, which is 80 points or greater?
I got 74.
Could someone please work this problem out so I could check my answer.
I'm unsure if I did everything correctly.
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Question 1143452: A cat breeder has the following amounts of cat food: 120 units of tuna, 110 units of liver, and 70 units of chicken.
To raise a Siamese cat, the breeder must use 2 units of tuna, 2 of liver and 3 of chicken, while raising a Persian cat requires
3, 2, and 1 units respectively per day.
If a Siamese cat sells for $14 and a Persian cat sells for $16, how many of each
should be raised in order to obtain maximum gross income?

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Question 1144625: I have six billiard balls, one of which weighs less than the other five. Otherwise, they all look exactly the same. How can I identify the one that weighs less on a balance scale with only two weighings?
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Question 1143453: A cat breeder has the following amounts of cat food: 120 units of tuna, 110 units of liver, and 70 units of chicken.
To raise a Siamese cat, the breeder must use 2 units of tuna, 2 of liver and 3 of chicken, while raising a Persian cat requires
3, 2, and 1 units respectively per day.
If a Siamese cat sells for $14 and a Persian cat sells for $16, how many of each
should be raised in order to obtain maximum gross income?
Set up the system of equations and initial simplex tableau.

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Question 1144633: Hi, please help me if you can.
What is the difference in energy between a star’s material glowing red and an object glowing red when exposed to UV light? (assume 1 oC of heat = 1.9 kJ of energy)
Thank you!
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Question 1144666: Suppose that there are two types of tickets to a show. Advance and same day. The combined cost of one advance ticket and one same ticket is $55. For one performance 20 advance and 25 same day tickets were sold. The amount paid for the tickets was $1175. What was the price of each kind of ticket
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Question 1144667: Ref. Question 1144481:

An acre field has 3 plants per hill. The rows are 3'6" apart, with hills 3'6" apart. **
Calculate total number of plants.
3'6" = 3.5 ft.
An acre = 43560 ft.
p = number of plants.
** Information about the hills was excluded in original post.

Not sure how to solve. Non-homework.

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Question 1144639: A farmer planted a trial poppy crop in a rectangular plot 40 metres long and 35 metres wide. The trial was successful, so the next year the farmer decides to increase the poppy plot by a further 1000 square metres. To do this the farmer increases the width of the plot by x metres and the length of the plot by 4x metres.
a) Draw a diagram with the following information
b) What is the total area (in m^2) of the larger poppy plot?
c) Write an equation, in standard quadratic form, to describe the area of the larger poppy plot in terms of x.
d) Using your equation in part c), apply algebraic techniques to find the dimensions (length and width) of the larger poppy plot.
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Question 1144676: The current in the winding of a transformer is inversely proportional to the number of turns. A
transformer has 200 turns in its primary winding and 50 turns in its secondary winding. If the
current in the secondary circuit is 0.3 A, what is the current in the primary circuit?
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Question 1144733: There are about 8,337,000 people living in New York City. There are about 3,858,000 people living in Los Angeles. How many times greater is the place value of the 8 in the New York City population than the 8s in the Los Angeles population?
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Question 1144737: 1. Which pair of numbers has 5 in places in which the value of one of the 5s is 10 times greater than in the other number?
A. 105 and 501
B. 6,450 and 3,952
C. 785 and 253
D. 534 and 195
2. At birth, a human baby has a total of 270 bones. This number decreases to 207 in some adults. How many times greater is the value of the 7 in 270 than in 207?
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Question 1144818: Let f(x)=5x -1 and g(x)=x^2+5
find (f o g) (6)

then (f o g)(6)=_______

please help I don't understand.
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Question 1144912: The product of 2 numbers is 18. if 1 number is y, what's the other number?
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