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Question 1185248: If an apple is dropped from an air balloon at 1350 m, (a) what velocity does the apple strike the earth? (b) how long does it take the apple to fall?
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Question 1185282: Hi
An amoeba population triples every 10 minutes. If A Petri dish is completely filled after 7 hours. How long did it take for the Petri dish to be a third filled.
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Question 1185293: An archer shoots an arrow straight up at 76.7 m/s. (a) How high does the arrow rise? (b) How much time is the arrow in the air? (c) What is the arrow's velocity when it reaches the same height that it was shot from?
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Question 1185334: An extrasolar planet is observed at a distance of 4.2×10^9 kilometers away. A group of scientists has designed a spaceship that can travel at the speed of 7×10^8 kilometers per year.
How many years will the spaceship take to reach the extrasolar planet?
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Question 1185335: (5.2×10^−2)−(8.3×10^−3)
Simplify the expression and write answer in scientific notation.
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Question 1185335: (5.2×10^−2)−(8.3×10^−3)
Simplify the expression and write answer in scientific notation.
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Question 1185335: (5.2×10^−2)−(8.3×10^−3)
Simplify the expression and write answer in scientific notation.
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Question 1185251: An airplane is moving at 350 km/hr. If a bomb is dropped from the airplane at 1.5 km, (a) with what velocity does the bomb strike the earth? (b) what is the bomb's range?
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Question 1185404: Three times a number is equal to two times the sum of the number and.1 what is the number
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Question 1185412: In 2008, a school's enrollment was 400 students. In 2012, the school's enrollment was 640 students. Which linear model represents the school's enrollment, s, as a function of t, the number of years after 2005?
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Question 1185441: Fred bought some books that each cost $16. He spent $80 altogether. How many books did he buy? with logical solution
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Question 1185442: When Leonardo turns 9, his height is 1.20 m. His height increases by 0.06 m a year during the next 5 years. What will Leonardo’s height be when Leonardo turns 14? with logical solution
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Question 1185447: Hi
At a seminar 2/5 of the audience were students. 3/10 of them were retirees the rest were professionals. There were 18 more students than professionals.
How many were at the seminar.
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Question 1185467: Please help me with this function notation word problem!
"Use function notation to rewrite the following phrases below.
A ball is thrown straight up with a certain speed, then its height above the ground (measured in meters) after t seconds is given by the following equation:
h(t) = −4.9t2+30t
1. The height of the ball 1 second after being thrown
2. The height of the ball 2 seconds after being thrown
3. The height of the ball t seconds after being thrown
4. The change in height of the ball between 1 and 2 seconds
5. The change in height of the ball between 1.5 and 2.5 seconds
6. The change in height of the ball between a and b seconds"

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Question 1185463: A total of 801 tickets were sold for the school play. They were either adult tickets or student tickets. There were 51 more student tickets sold than adult tickets. How many adult tickets were sold?
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Question 1185481: Hi
After Jenny had given Melissa 16 stickers both had the same number of stickers. Linda then gave 24 stickers to Jenny and the ratio of the number of stickers Jenny had to the original number of Melissa's stickers became 5 to 1.
How many did Jenny have at first.
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Question 1185489: Hi
Arthur and Sam shared some cards. If Arthur gave 20 to Sam they would have the same number of cards.
If Sam gave Arthur 10 cards the ratio of cards Arthur had to Sam is 2 to 1. How many cards did Arthur have at the end.
My sons answer is 110 the textbook is 120.
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Question 1185541: Hi
Cindy left A at 4.20pm travelling to B which was 600km away at 108km per hour.
Claire left A at 5pm travelling at 124km per hour.
How long did Claire take to catch up with Cindy.
How far away from B were they when Claire caught up with Cindy.
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Question 1185561: The current in a river moves at 2mph. A boat travels 15 mph upstream and back in 4 hours. What is the speed of the boat in still water?

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Question 1185644: Hi
Becky walks to the stadium which is 580m way from her house for 20min . She walks back to her house using the same route at a speed of 20m per minute.
What is her average speed.
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Question 1185645: Hi
The distance round a field is 540m . Ruth runs around the field for 8 times in 30 min. What is her average speed.
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Question 1185674: a varies inversely with b. when a is 0.25, b is 4. find the value of b when a is 5
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Question 1185661: A factory manufactures chairs and tables, each requiring the use of three operations: Cutting, Assembly, and Finishing. The first operation can be used at most 39 hours; the second at most 42 hours; and the third at most 23 hours. A chair requires 1 hour of cutting, 2 hours of assembly, and 1 hour of finishing; a table needs 2 hours of cutting, 1 hour of assembly, and 1 hour of finishing. If the profit is $20 per unit for a chair and $30 for a table, how many units of each should be manufactured to maximize profit?
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Question 1185716: Sage’s team needs to buy at least 75 cans, but they only have $50 to spend. Use the information Sage collected to find another option that would work.
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Question 1185723: You are offered two different sales jobs. The first company offers a straight commission of 7% of the sales. The second company offers a salary of $ 200 per week plus 3% of the sales. How much would you have to sell in a week in order for the straight commission offer to be at least as good?

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Question 1185724: A movie theater charges $ 10 for adults and $ 7 for seniors. On a particular day when 346 people paid an admission, the total receipts were $ 2504. Round your answers to the nearest integers.
How many who paid were adults?
How many who paid were seniors?
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Question 1185837: The number of combinations of n items taken 2 together is 6 larger than the number of combinations of n - 1 items taken 2 together.
Determine n.
Not sure how to solve.

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Question 1185841: Hi
Jerry wendy and Alice were given some tickets to sell. Each one sold for $5. Jerry sold 3/7 of the tickets. Wendy sold 1/3 of what Alice sold. If wendy sold 60 fewer tickets than Jerry, how much money did they collect.
My son had difficulty with this question since we are not told what fraction of the tickets Alice sold
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Question 1185875: Hi
Lorraine bought some stationery. The ratio of pens to to pencils to erasers is 6 to 13 to 4 . She then gave away some pencils and pens. The ratio of pens; pencils ; erasers left was 4 to 17 to 7. If she had 91 pencils at first how many pens and pencils did she give away.
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Question 1185894: 12. a) what is the gravitational attraction of the sun on the earth? b) of the earth on the sun?
13. a) what is the gravitational attraction of the earth on the moon? b) of the moon on the earth?
14. what is the gravitational force between two people, each 60.0 kg, if they are standing 1.00 m apart?
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Question 1185981: Hi
George set off at noon driving at 80km per hour and reached his destination at 10pm. Calvin set off at noon as well and reached the same destination at 8pm.
How far was George from his destination when he and Calvin were 120km apart.
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Question 1185986: Determine the function, f(x), in factored form, with integral coefficients, such that is has the following properties: 1) Third differences are equal to -18 2) The point (1/2, 0) is an x-intercept 3) The remainder is -60 when f(x) is divided by (x+2) 4) The y-intercept is -18. Show your work
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