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Question 1184255: Hi
6 men do a job in 8 days. After 3 days 2 of the men are taken off the job. Find the time it takes for the job to be completed from start to finish.
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Question 1184254: Hi
There was enough food for 72 men to last 24 days. After 4 days another 8 men join them. For how many days will the remaining food last.
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Question 1184253: Hi
In a castle there is enough food for 72 soldiers to last 24 days. After 4 days another 8 soldiers join them. How many days will the remaining food last.
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Question 1184269: Five times a number is four more than the number. Find the number
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Question 1184323: The Eiffel Tower in Paris is 984 ft. in height and weighs approx. 8,000 tons. Determine weight of a scale model 1 ft. in height.
Not sure how to solve.
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Question 1184350: Gile’s numbers are multiples of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10.

What is the smallest of Giles’s numbers?
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Question 1184385: M is a whole number whose units digit is a 4. When the 4 is moved from the units digit to the left side of the number, a new number, p is formed. P is equal to 4 x M and has the same digits as M. What is the smallest possible value of M?
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Question 1184474: 1. Frank was going on a trip. He filled his car with 14 gallons of gas. He then drove to his destination and used 14 gallons of gas.
2.Bryar gathered 10 eggs from the chickens. When he got to the house, he discovered all of the eggs were broken.
How can expressions be used?
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Question 1184475: 1. Shawn gathered 10 eggs from the chickens. When he got to the house, he discovered all of them were broken.
2. Kelli was going on a trip. She put 14 gallons of gas into the car. Then drove to the destination and used the 14 gallons of gas.
How can expression be used?
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Question 1184481: Find an interval for b that equation has at least 1 real solution
x^2 + bx +64 = 0
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Question 1184481: Find an interval for b that equation has at least 1 real solution
x^2 + bx +64 = 0
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Question 1184481: Find an interval for b that equation has at least 1 real solution
x^2 + bx +64 = 0
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Question 1184520: Hi
In a 100m race the winning time was 9.95 seconds. If the second place had a time of 10.04 seconds how far behind the winner was the second place when the winner crossed the finish line.
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Question 1184517: Hi
If A ran 20m per second and B ran 3 metres per second, how long until A catches B if A starts 339m behind B.
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Question 1184591: Use POLYA'S FOUR STEP PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGY to solve the following problem. Make sure you specify each of the Polya's steps in your solution.

The number of chickens and cows in a farm totals 123. The total number of legs among them is 390. Determine how many chickens and cows are in the farm.
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Question 1184607: A discount of 15% is offered on an item which previously cost $1.80. What is the discounted price?

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Question 1184685: A train moving at 12 m/s accelerates to 36 m/s over a distance of 8.0 km.
(A) what is the train's acceleration?
(B) how much time does it take the train to reach 36 m/s?
(C) what is the average velocity of the train?

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Question 1184741: what distance in meters does an object fall in 0.50 s, 1.0 s, 2.0 s, 5.0 s, and 12 s?
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Question 1184740: what velocity in m/s does a falling object acquire after falling for 0.50 s, 1.0 vs, 2.0 s, 5.0 s, and 12 s?
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Question 1184744: someone thinks he can shoot an arrow as high as the Willis Tower in Chicago (443 m high). (a) at what velocity would the arrow have to be released at ground level? (b) how long would the ascent take?
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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 1184822: Average movie prices in the United States are, in general, lower than in other countries. It would cost $80.55 to buy three tickets in Japan plus two tickets in Switzerland. Three tickets in Switzerland plus two tickets in Japan would cost $75.95. How much does an average movie ticket cost in each of these countries?
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Question 1184841: You must decide whether to buy a new car for $20,000 or less the same car over a three-year. Under the terms of the lease you can down make a down payment of $3,000 and have monthly payments of $200 at the end of the three years the lease car has a residual value that's the amount you pay if you choose to buy the car at the end of the lease. Of $12,000 assume you can sell the new car at the end of the three years at the same residual value what is the cost for buying the car and selling it after 3 years.$

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Question 1184902: Hi
A post office sold twice as many 30 cent stamps as 60 cent. The number of 5 cent stamps was 6 more than the number of 60 cents stamps. If the value of the stamps was $8.85 how many 5 cent stamps were sold.
Textbook solution was 9 my solution was 6.84 which does not make sense.
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Question 1184903: Hi
A teacher was driving at 40km per hour. One third of the way he ran out of petrol. If he ran the rest of the way at 10km per hour what was the average speed.
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Question 1184944: what is the resultant of a 100. unit vector and a 50.0 unit vector when they are separated by 90 degrees? indicate the direction with respect to the direction of the 100. unit vector.
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Question 1184982: Hi
Luke can canoe at a speed of 3km per hour on a still lake. Luke took a canoe down a river at 2km per hour.
He then returned upstream to his starting point.
What was his average speed for the trip.
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Question 1185016: A robot manufacturer must produce a total of 1260 robots in one week, including both building robots and destroying robots. The number of building robots needs to be 3.5 times the number of destroying robots. How many of each should they make?
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Question 1185050: In a survey, a researcher has interviewed a number of online shoppers.
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Question 1185060: Hi
Arthur was riding his bike to school at 12km per hour. When he was 2/3 of the w ay he got a flat tyre. His dad drove him the rest of the way at 48km per hour. What was his average speed.
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Question 1185028: Suppose a railroad rail is 2 kilometers and it expands on a hot day by 12centimeters in length. Approximately how many meters would the center of the rail rise above the ground?
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Question 1185093: A swimming pool is to be drained. The pool is shaped like a rectangular prism with length 45 ft, width 20 ft, and depth 5 ft. Suppose water is pumped out of the pool at a rate of 250 ft^(3) per hour. If the pool starts completely full, how many hours does it take to empty the pool?
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Question 1185092: In the coordinate plane, the point X(-2, 3) is translated to the point X'(1, 6). Under the same translation, the points Y(0, -1) and Z(1, 1) are translated to Y' and Z', respectively. What are the coordinates of Y' and Z'?
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Question 1185139: Nick L is training to be a financial wizard. His first lesson is in diversity. he knows that one must never invest all of one's money in the same place, so here is what he does. He puts one half of his money in a CD at 5%, and he puts one third of it in the municipal bonds at 6%, and then he puts the rest in the stock market at 12%. At the end of the year, he earns $57.85. How much money did he invest altogether?
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Question 1185207: Two groups of students on a fieldtrip is getting food in a fast food restaurant. The first group bought 7 burgers and 5 soft drinks for $28.50. The second group bought 6 burgers and 4 soft drinks for $23.98. How much does one burger cost?
A. $2.45 per burger
B. $2.95 per burger
C. $1.57 per burger
D. $2.07 per burger

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Question 1185011: An ocean liner heading west at 25 km/hr comes into a current of 15.0 km/hr directed 30 degrees north of east. Find the new velocity of the liner.
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