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Question 1196777: Alex is selling tickets. If she charges $100 she can sell 2000 tickets. For every $3 increase in price she sells 20 fewer tickets.
What should she charge to maximize her revenue?

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Question 1196789: a grocer bought some oranges at a cost of 8 for 96 cents and then 2/3 times as many at a cost of 6 for 1.02. In order to make a profit 50%, he must sell all of them at a price of a dozen for $m. Find the value of m in dollars.
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Question 1196837: A one-day pass to an amusement park costs $40. A round-trip bus ticket to the park costs $5. Write two equivalent expressions to find the total cost of a one-day pass and a bus ticket for 15 students.

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Question 1196852: A recipe that makes 24 cupcakes calls for 5 1/2 cups of flour. How much flour is needed to make 30 cupcakes?
A. 5 7/8 cups
B. 6 1/2 cups
C. 5 3/4 cups
D. 6 7/8 cups
Would D. 6 7/8 cups be correct?
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Question 1196871: A coat sells for $150. This is 10% of the original price. Find the original price.
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Question 1196875: Hi
Boxes A and B contained 150 marbles altogether. When 1/3 of the marbles in box A were transferred to box B and 12 marbles were taken out from B there were twice as many marbles in B than in A.
How many were in B in the beginning.
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Question 1196893: The radioactive isotope carbon 14 used to date fossils decays with an annual rate of about 0.000124. If a fossil is found which originally has 2 mg of carbon 14, and it now has 0.18 mg, how old is it?
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Question 1196892: Slowtown has a population of 3500 and is losing people at the rate of 150 per year. Boomtown has a population of 1500 and is growing 5% per year. In about how many years will the two towns have the same population?
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Question 1196931: in kindergarten,12% of the students are Malays and the rest are Chinese.50% of the Chinese and 12.5% of the Malays are boys.There are 912 more Chinese than Malay students.how many girls are there in kindergarten?
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Question 1196962: In 1982 the population density of a country was 64 people per square mile, and in 2002 it was 82 people per square mile. Use a linear function to estimate when the population density reached 89 people per square mile
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Question 1196965: Lookouts on two naval vessels, about 2 miles apart, spot a disabled boat off the port side. One lookout spots the boat at an angle of 42° with the line connecting the naval vessels. The other lookout spots the boat at an angle of 28° with the same line.
a. Which naval vessel is closer to the boat?
b. How much closer it?
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Question 1196983: Greg is participating in a 5 -day cross-country biking challenge. He biked for 49, ,57,50 and 51 miles on the first four days. How many miles does he need to bike on the last day so that his average (mean) is 51 miles per day?

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Question 1196963: Two forest ranger lookout stations are 50 miles apart. A ranger in one station spots a fire at an angle of 35° with the line connecting the two stations. The ranger in the other station spots a fire at an angle of 42° with the line connecting the two stations. How far is the fire from both stations?
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Question 1197005: The pilot of a jet transport brings the engines to full takeoff before releasing the brakes as the aircraft is standing on the runway. The jet thrust remains constant, and the aircraft has a near-constant acceleration of 0.4g. If the takeoff speed is 200 kph, calculate the distance s and time t from rest to takeoff.

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Question 1197027: A local Computer City sells batteries ($4) .
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Question 1197027: A local Computer City sells batteries ($4) .
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Question 1197004: A car and a truck leave the same place and travel in the same direction along a straight road. The car starting from rest speeds up to 24 kph with a constant acceleration of 1/6 * m / (s ^ 2) and then runs at this speed. The truck leaves 40 seconds after the car with a uniform acceleration of 1/3 * m / (s ^ 2) from rest to attain a speed of 48 kph and then travels at this speed. How soon after the car started will the truck overtake the car?
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Question 1197080: The ratio of the number of oranges to papayas in a basket is 3:5. After 1/4 of the orange and 1/2 of the papaya are eaten,there are 16 more papayas than oranges in the basket.how many of each type are there in a basket at first?
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Question 1197081: Mr Willis had some orange and pears.60% of them were orange.70% of the pears and 40% of the orange were sold.240 fruit were not sold.how many fruit did Mr Willis have at first?
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Question 1197076: A charity organization hosts a raffle drawing at a fund raising event. The organization sells 4000 tickets at a price of $4 each. Winning tickets are randomly selected, with 40 prizes of $50, 15 prizes of $400, and 1 grand prize of $2000.
Suppose you buy one ticket. Let the random variable X represent your net gain from playing the game once (remember that the net gain should include the cost of the ticket)

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Question 1197115: Hi
Bob was given some books. He sold all the books. Each book was sold at $ 8.90. For every 5 books sold a book was given free. 2/3 of the books were sold in sets of 5 books. He collected $1174.80 altogether. How many cups were there at first.
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Question 1197118: there were some apple pies and lemon pies pies in two boxes,A and B .box A had 40% of the total number of pies.box B had 12 apple pies.if 75% of the pies in box B were lemon pies,what was the total number of pies in both boxes?
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Question 1197116: Francis,Philip and Jamie had twenty-cent,fifty-cent and one-dollar coins respectively.Franci had five times as many coin as Jamie.Philip had half the number of coins that Jamie had.if Philip had 27 fewer coins than Francis,how much money did they have altogether?
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Question 1197151: Glenda ordered 3 times as many pounds of bacon as pounds of sausage for her restaurant. Bacon costs $3.82 per pound and sausage costs $2.67 per pound. Glenda's order totaled $211.95. How many pounds of bacon and how many pounds of sausage did she order?
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Question 1197187: Results of a survey of fifty students indicate that 30 like red jelly beans, 29 like green jelly beans, and 17 like both red and green jelly beans. How many of the students surveyed like no green jelly beans?
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Question 1197207: A table is rectangular and its length is twice its width. Find the dimensions of the table if it occupies 50 ft2 of floor space.
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Question 1197216: A physical education teacher plans to divide the seventh graders into teams of equal size for a year-ending mock Olympic event. He wants each team to have between 5 and 9 students, and all teams need to have the same number of students. The seventh grade consists of three classes: one with 24 students, one with 27, and one with 21. How many students should be on each team?
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Question 1197227: The nut shack hazelnuts for 7.00 per pound and peanuts for 4.50 per pound how much of each type should be used to make a 24 pound mixture that sells for 5.54 per pound round answers to the nearest pounds
Pounds of hazelnuts
Pounds of peanut nuts
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Question 1197226: You are offered two different furniture sales jobs the furniture barn offers you a job that pays straight commission of 8% of the sales the furniture warehouse offer you a job that pays a salary of 330 per week plus 3% of the sales how much would you have to sell in a week in order for the job at the furniture barn to pays as well as the job at the furniture warehouse round the answer to the nearest cent the furniture barn pays the same as the furniture warehouse if my sales are $
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Question 1197231: In this layout, the total area covered by the photos is
32 in.2. Ideally, the photo and text area should be the same here, and the overall layout must be a square. Determine the dimensions of the x value in this layout.

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Question 1197239: Determine the equation of the vertical line passing through the point (7,-2).
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