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Question 1167366: Hi
An adult concert ticket cost 25 dollars . A child ticket 18 dollars . The concert tickets cost 176 dollars in total. How many children went to the concert.
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Question 1167407: Hi
Bob had to arrange chairs in a fixed number of rows. He estimated that there would be more than 30 but less than 70 chairs. If he puts 8 chairs in one row there would be 7chairs short . If he put 7 in a row there would be 2 left.how many chairs are there.
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Question 1167413: Hi
Alan and Joe had the same amount of money. Alan spent 0.7 of his money while joe spent 0.2 . Joe bought 4 pens for $36 and found that he had twice as much money as Alan had left . How much money did they have altogether.
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Question 1167443: Determine the minimum number of pieces that need to be combined with set B to obtain set A for the given base. Then write numerals in positional numeration for sets A and B and the numeral for their difference in the given base.
In Base‐eight Set A: 4 flats, 3 longs, and 2 units Set B: 2 flats, 7 longs, and 6 units

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Question 1167496: Hi
X and y complete a job in 12 and 16 days respectively. Both work for 3 days after which x leaves . In how many days will y complete the remaining work.

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Question 1167503: Six less than the product of and Jenny's age
Use the variable to represent Jenny's age.

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Question 1167525: Cole went fishing with his brother. His brother caught 12 times as many pounds of fish than Cole. The combined weight of the catch was 273 lbs. What was the total weight of Cole's brother’s catch?
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Question 1167544: Hi
2/7 of the members are men. If there are 960 more women members than men how many women are there.
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Question 1167583: A certain computer algorithm executes twice as many operations when it is run with an input of size k as when it is run with an input of
size k − 1(where k is an integer that is greater than 1). When the algorithm is run with an input of size 1, it executes seven operations. How many operations does it execute when it is run with an input of size 22?
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Question 1167566: A rectangular box is to have a square base and a volume of 36 feet cubed. If the material for the base costs $.18/square foot, the material for the sides costs $.12/square foot, and the material for the top costs $.14/square foot, determine the dimensions of the box that can be constructed at minimun cost.

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Question 1167594: A person borrows $1,950 on a bank credit card at a nominal rate of 18% per year, which is actually charged at a rate of 1.5% per month.
(a)
What is the annual percentage yield (APY) for the card? (Round your answer to one decimal place.) I got 19.56 percent
b)
Assume that the person does not place any additional charges on the card and pays the bank $150 each month to pay off the loan. Let
Bn be the balance owed on the card after n months. Find an explicit formula for
Bn. ok so I got 1,950(1.015)^n-150n however the website where i do my homework says its wrong and i need the answer to part b so that i can solve part c,
so what did i do wrong in part b?
c How many months will be required to pay off the debt? (Round your answer up to the nearest whole number.)

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Question 1167731: On an electric bill:
Service costs @9.343cents/kwhr = 165.37
Customer charge = 10.00
City Taxes = 15.48
Amount Due = 190.85
Service Period is from 06/02 to 07/01
Current average kwhr/day for service period = 59
Yr ago current average kwhr/day for service period = 57
Question: If the electric service rates, customer charge, and the city taxes were the same the previous year, how much was their electric bill for the same service period last year?

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Question 1167743: A rock thrown vertically upwards from the surface of the moon at a velocity of
6 m/sec reaches a height of s = 6t - 0.25t^2 meters in t seconds.
a) Find the rock’s velocity (instantaneous velocity) at time t.
b) How long does it take the rock to reach its highest point?
c) Find the rock’s acceleration at time t. What is the rock’s acceleration at
the time found in part b)
d) How high does the rock go?

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Question 1167756: mary has geese and sheep in one pen with a total of 25 legs in the pen. if mary has one more sheep than geese, how many sheep does she have

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Question 1167764: A rectangular swimming pool is 3 times as long as it is wide. It is surrounded by a cement walk 1 ft wide. The area of the walk is 36 ft2. Find the dimensions of the pool.
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Question 1167752: The monthly payment p on a mortgage varies directly with the amount B. You
decide to borrow $130,000. You are told that your payment is $813. Write a\
linear function that relates the monthly payment p to the amount borrowed b for
a mortgage with the same terms.

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Question 1167771: The Tie Shop sells its ties for $41 each. The shop has weekly fixed costs of $546 and each tie costs $22 to make. Let x stand for the number of ties.
Write the revenue function.
R(x) =
b) Write the cost function.
C(x) =
c) Write the profit function. Simplify if possible.
P(x) =
d) Find the break-even point.

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Question 1167790: The Tie Shop sells its ties for $41 each. The shop has weekly fixed costs of $546 and each tie costs $22 to make. Let x stand for the number of ties.
The Tie Shop will break even when _______ ties are sold.
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Question 1167796: Hi
During a sale betty bought a watch at 3/5 its normal price. She then had 220 dollars left. If she bought it at its normal price she would be 10 dollars short.
What was the normal price.
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Question 1167775: Write the Converse, inverse, and contra positive for the following conditional statement:
If I am in Florida, I am in the south.
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Question 1167789: . The Tie Shop sells its ties for $41 each. The shop has weekly fixed costs of $546 and each tie costs $22 to make. Let x stand for the number of ties.
Find the break-even point.
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Question 1167791: The Spirit Shop had a sale on records, books, and T-shirts. A cashier observed
the purchases of 38 people and found that:
16 bought records
15 bought books
19 bought T-shirts
5 bought books and records
7 bought books and T-shirts
4 bought records and T-shirts
2 bought all three
Draw a Venn diagram with the number of people in each area to represent this
information and answer the questions. [Hint: Start at the bottom of the
list.]
a) How many bought T-shirts and records but not books?
b) How many bought only books?
c) How many people did not buy anything?
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Question 1167861: Explain the Central Limit Theorem and the Law of Large Numbers. There are 3 key points. Include the formula for the standard error.

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Question 1167866: Hi
A boat can cover 42km in 63 minutes. If the speed of the current is 3/7 of the boat in still water how much distance can the boat travel in 42 minutes.
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Question 1167892: Hi
Elaine had some sweets. When she ate 2/7 of them and gave 36 to her brother she had 2/7 left. How many did she have at first.
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Question 1167914: Hi
Bill and Ben had some sweets. After giving away 5/7 of his sweets, Bill had 2/3 as many sweets as Ben. After Ben gave 120 sweets away he now had 1/4 as much as Bill.
How many sweets did each have at the start?
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Question 1167944: 8 less than twice a number is twelve
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Question 1167979: P pounds of a mixture of nuts is 1/4 pecans. Q pounds of almonds are added to mixture. Determine portion (fractional) of new mixture is pecans.
Not sure how to solve.
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Question 1168001: Bob had enough money to buy 25 chocolate cookies. Each chocolate cookie cost as much as 2 butter cookies. He borrowed another 6 dollars to buy 20 chocolate and 20 butter cookies.
How much money did he have at first?

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Question 1168020: Mariana averaged on her first three history exams. The first score was 79. The second score was 6 less than the third score. What did she score on the second and third exams?
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Question 1168058: A = rs / (r + s)
Solve for r.
Unsure how to proceed.
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Question 1168057: Hi
For every book bob sells he will make 12 dollars. He will. Get another 5 dollars for every set of 10 books he sells. If he sells 100 books he will get a 50 dollar bonus . How many books did he sell to make 1372 dollars.
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Question 1168045: A tinsmith wants to make a small windowsill planter from a 28cm×21cm sheet of copper. She’ll form it by cutting equally sized squares from each of the four corners of the sheet, folding up the resulting flaps to form the sides of the planter, and then soldering the four vertical edges. If she wants the ratio of the planter’s length to height to be 2, what will be the ratio of its length to width? Write the exact answer. Do not round.
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Question 1168070: Hi
Bob created a 15% solution by mixing 700g of a 13% solution with some quantity of a 17% solution in grams.
How many grams of a 17% solution was mixed and how many grams of a 15% solution he created.
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Question 1168104: Leroy bought 25 watermelons at $20 each. He sold 15 of the watermelons at $18
each. At what price must he sell the remaining watermelons to make an overall
profit of $200?

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Question 1168133: Two sisters like to compete on their bike rides. Autumn can go 4 mph faster than her sister, Jacqueline. If it takes Jacqueline one hour longer than Autumn to go 24 miles, how fast can Jacqueline ride her bike?
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