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Question 1150427: Question 9: A rancher has 600 feet of fencing to put around a rectangular field and then subdivide the field into 3 identical smaller rectangular plots by placing two fences parallel to one of the field's shorter sides. Find the dimensions that maximize the enclosed area. Write your answers as fractions reduced to lowest terms.
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Question 1150522: James has 16 more game cards than Felix. If they have 48 game cards altogether, find the number of game cards James has.
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Question 1150557: The sale is 1 fourth off the marked price,How much will you pay for this soccer ball including a tax of 5 cents per dollar?
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Question 1150596: micheal and sarah both want a new bill that costs 525. they are competing to see who will buy the bike first. micheal has $10 in his savings account and he will make $96 a week babysitting. sarah has $38 in her savings account and will make $75 each week walking her neighbor's dog.
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Question 1150642: Copper-production increased at a rate of about 4.9% per year between 1988 and 1993. In 1993, copper-production was approximately 1.801 billion kilograms.
If this trend continued, what equation will best model the copper-production (P), in billions of kilograms, since 1993.
(Let t = 0 for 1993.)
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Question 1150665: Mark volunteers a local pet store. He made took some notes about the animals in the store one week. 2/5 are birds 3/8 are bunnies. The rest are other pets, such as fish, snakes,and mice.
What fraction of the animals in the store are birds and bunnies.
What fraction of the in the store are not birds and bunnies.
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Question 1150671: please help me solve this question. a dog trainer has 108 ft of fencing that will be used to create a rectangular work area for dogs. If the trainer wants to enclose an area of 608ft what will be the dimensions of the work area
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Question 1150668: Casey likes to build.
Casey made 5 chicken coops in 4 hours. What fraction of an hour did it take him to make one chicken coop?
The next week Casey made 4 nightstands in 3 hours. Did it take more or less time to make one nightstand than chicken coop.
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Question 1150667: Tim, James, and Kim own a landscaping company. They shared work mowing 7 lawns last week that were the same size. They each mowed exactly the same area.
How many lawns did James and Kim do together, in lowest terms.
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Question 1150734: If 118 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $4 while tickets for children cost $1.5 and total receipts for the concert was $334.5, how many of each went to the concert?

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Question 1150733: The admission fee at an amusement park is $1.50 for children and $5.60 for adults. On a certain day, 309 people entered the park, and the admission fees collected totaled 976 dollars. How many children and how many adults were admitted?
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Question 1150753: Hi
Chocolate bars are made in the shape of a triangular prism. The base of the bar is a right angled isosceles triangle with 2 sides 3cm each. The chocolate to produce the bars is melted from a block with volume of 3600cm cubic. If chocolate from the block can make 400 bars what is the depth of each bar.
Thanks
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Question 1150764: The admission fee at an amusement park is $3.75 for children and $5.40 for adults. On a certain day, 316 people entered the park, and the admission fees collected totaled 1482 dollars. How many children and how many adults were admitted?
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Question 1150829: the number of orders that a bakery receives in a month for birthday cakes is approximately normally distributed with mean number of order equal to 500 and standard deviation of 30 orders. find the probability that the number of orders received in a month.
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Question 1150826: (a) In how many ways can the 10 kids in my class be seated in a circle if Aubrey and Fred insist on
being seated diametrically opposite each other? (As usual, two seatings which are rotations of
each other are considered the same.)
(b) What if Betty and Guang also insist on being diametrically opposite each other?
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Question 1150421: In the Keynesian-cross model, if the MPC equals 0.75, then a $3 billion decrease in taxes increases planned expenditures by ______ and increases the equilibrium level of income by _________
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Question 1150869: Hi
Could you please solve the following
4 to the power of x plus 6 to the power of x equals 9 to the power of x.
What is the value of x.
Thanks
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Question 1150881: A plush toy is a scale model of a horse in which 1 cm represents 3 cm.
The head on the model is 15 cm long.
How long is the head of the real horse?
a) 15 cm
b) 45 cm
c) 30 cm
d) 60 cm
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Question 1151012: If Alicia is three times as old as Amy will be when Alex is as old as Alicia is now and Alex's age is a square number, who is the second oldest? Can you give their ages now?
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Question 1151041: Question: A motor car is three times as old as its tires were when it was as old as the tires are now. When its tires are as old as the car is now, the car will be a year older than the tires are now. What are the present ages of car and tires?
Answer:The car is 18 months old the tires are a year old
What is the math formula for the answer?
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Question 1151052: Hi
When rounded to the nearest 1000 there were 15000 people at a concert.
What is the smallest possible number of people at the concert.
What is the largest possible number of people at the concert.
Thanks
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Question 1151117: If you randomize a list of ten values 10,000 times, what are the chances that value #7 will show up first in order after one randomization?
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Question 1151114: If you randomize a list of ten values 10,000 times, what are the chances that any one of those values will show up first in order after one randomization?
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Question 1148366: A payday loan company charges a $95 fee for a $350 payday loan that will be repaid in 19 days.
Treating the fee as interest paid, what is the equivalent annual interest rate?
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Question 1151277: When the two-digit number 5n is rounded to the nearest tens, it is equal 50. What is the largest value of n?
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Question 1151280: What is the largest number less than 800 that can be formed using the digits 7,9,2, and 8, without repeating the digits?
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Question 1151280: What is the largest number less than 800 that can be formed using the digits 7,9,2, and 8, without repeating the digits?
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Question 1151278: The ratio of three numbers is 2:3:7. If the sum of the numbers is 360, what is the difference between the largest and the smallest numbers?
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Question 1151281: Mario has a string of certain length. When 6 meters of string were taken from it, it became three-fourths its original length. How long was the string at first, in meters?
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Question 1151275: What is the largest whole number that can be rounded to 890?

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Question 1151275: What is the largest whole number that can be rounded to 890?

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Question 1151307: While assembling the sports car, the supervisor observed that it took ten men to assemble 2 sports cars in 3 days. The supervisor added 5 more men to do the job. How many days did it take them to assemble 9 sports cars?
Please solve thanks!
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Question 1151304: To celebrate his birth, Damien's parents planted a tree in their yard. The tree's growth each year, in feet, can be modeled by the equation f(x)=2.5x+4. The tree is expected to reach full height when Damien is 18 years old. Interpret the values in the function to answer the given questions.
What was the height of the tree in feet when it was planted?
How tall will with tree be in feet when Damien is 18 years old?
What is the domain for the function?
What is the range for the function?
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Question 1151338: Give, in interval notation, the unknown numbers in the following description.
When 2 is added to twice a number, the result is greater than or equal to 14.
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Question 1151345: A hollow steel tube is 30 ft. in length, 18 in. in diameter. Determine volume.
Volume = pi * height * (R^2 - r^2) R = larger radius r = smaller radius
V = 3.1416 * 30 * .75 * .75 * r smaller radius not given.
V = 53.0145 cu. ft.
Not sure of my calculations.

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Question 1151446: Assuming that Earth is a sphere of radius 6378 kilometers, what is the difference in the latitudes of Syracuse, New York and Annapolis, Maryland, where Syracuse is about 450 kilometers due north of Annapolis? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
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Question 1151447: The circular blade on a saw has a diameter of 8.25 inches and rotates at 4300 revolutions per minute.
(a) Find the angular speed of the blade in radians per minute. (Round your answer to three decimal places.)
radians/min
(b) Find the linear speed of the saw teeth (in inches per minute) as they contact the wood being cut. (Round your answer to one decimal place.)
in/min
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Question 1151448: A voltmeter's pointer is 6 centimeters in length (see figure). Find the number of degrees through which it rotates when it moves 2.6 centimeters on the scale. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
°
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