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Question 120223: sam needs to get carpet for two rooms of his house. Estimate the number of square feet in the two rooms if one room measure 10 and 1/2 feet by 9 and 3/4 feet; and the other room measures 19 and 1/4 feet by 18 and 1/2 feet.
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Question 120258: a car uses 6 gallons of gasolonie on a trip of 126miles. at that rate, how much gasoline will a trip of 294 miles require?

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Question 120257: a 4-foot pole casts a shadow of 3 feet. how tall is a tree with a shadow of 6 feet.
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Question 120257: a 4-foot pole casts a shadow of 3 feet. how tall is a tree with a shadow of 6 feet.
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Question 120313: Here is the question in its exact words,
There are a different number of bicycles, tandem bicycles, and tricycles in the Wheel Shop. There are a total of 135 seats, 118 front handle bars (that steer the bike), and 269 wheels. How many are bicycles, tandem bicycles, and tricycles are there in the Wheel Shop? (Hint: A tandem bike has two seats. Bicycles and tricycles have one seat. All of the cycles have one set of front handle bars that steer the bike. A bicycle and tandem bike have two wheels. A tricycle has three wheels.).
Please try to solve this as soon as possible,
Thank You
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Question 120337: Sam needs to get carpet for two rooms of his house. Estimate the number of square feet (square footage) in the two rooms if one room measures 10 1/2 feet by 9 3/4 feet; and the other room measures 19 1/4 feet by 18 1/2 feet.
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Question 120338: Melissa wants to have concrete driveway in front of her house. The driveway will measure 62 1/3 feet long and 19 feet wide; and will be 2/3 foot thick. How many cubic yards of cement will be needed for the driveway? Round your answer to the nearest cubic yard. [1 cubic yd = 27 cubic feet]
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Question 120347: Bette drives at 60 mph for 2 1/2 hours and at 75 mph for 1 1/2 hours. What is her average rate of speed?
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Question 120339: Sam found a number of nickels, dimes, and quarters in his room. He found three more dimes than nickels but twice as many quarters as dimes. The total value of the coins was $5.05. How many coins of each type did Sam find?
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Question 120354: I am really struggling with this problem. Can anyone please help?
Melinda Bowen receives an annual income of $234.50 from investing one amount of money at 6% and another amount at 5%. If the investments were interchanged, her income would increase by $5.10. Find the amounts she invested.
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Question 120446: Jimmy puts $600 down on a new sports car. He made 54 payments of $267 and $782 in maintenance and repairs. Three years after paying off the car he sells it for $4450. What is his net? Is it profit or loss?
How do i find the net? someone help please thank you. Still waiting............
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Question 120498: The probability that San Francisco plays in the next Super Bowl is nine times the probability that they do not play in the next Super Bowl. The probability that San Francisco plays in the next Super Bowl plus the probability that they do not play is 1. What is the probability that San Francisco plays in the next Super Bowl?
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Question 120538: Mike invested $6000 for one year. He invested part of it at 9% and the rest at 11%. At the end of the year he earned $624 in interest. How much did he invest at each rate?
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Question 120537: A small area in front of a building is triangular in shape. The perimeter of the triangle is 37 meters. The second side is one-half of the first side in length. The third side is 3 meters less than the first side. Find the length in meters of each side of the triangular region.
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Question 120553: Driving down a mountain ,Tom finds that he has descended 1800 ft in elevation by the time he is 3.25 miles horizontally away from the top of the mountain. Find the slope of his descent to the nearest hundredth.
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Question 120616: A commuter fly. A passenger train left Austin, Texas, at 12:00pm bound for Dallas, exactly 210 miles away; it traveled at a steady 50 miles per hour. At the same instant, a freight train left Dallas headed for Austin on the same track, traveling at 20 miles per hour. At this same high noon, a fly leaped from the nose of the passenger train and flew along the track at 100 miles per hour. When th efly touched the nose of the oncoming freight train, she turned and flew back along the track at 100 miles perhour toward the passenger train. When she reached the nose of the passenger train, she instatly turned and flew back toward the freight train. She continued turning and flying until, you guessed it, she was squashed as the trains collided head on. How far had the fly flown before her untimely demise?
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Question 120632: I have been trying for two hours to get this, but I can't. Can someone PLEASE help???
A car and a bike set out at noon from the same point headed in the same direction. At 1:00 P.M., the car is 60 km ahead of the bike. Find how fast each travels, given that the car travels four times as fast as the bike.
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Question 120637: I have been trying for two hours to get this, but I can't. Can someone PLEASE help???

Solve by using three equations and variables.

I have 30 coins, all nickels, dimes, and quarters, worth $4.60. There are two more dimes than quarters. How many of each kind of coin do I have?
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Question 120712: how do you know when an equation has an infinite amount of solutions or no solution?
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Question 120752: Ronald wants to sell his car through a broker who charges a commission of 10% of the selling price. Ronald still owes $11,025 on the car. Ronald must get enough to at least to pay off the loan. what is the range of the selling price?

Professor Williamson counts his medterm as 2/3 of the grade and his final as 1/3 of the grade. Wendy scored only 48 on the midterm. what range of scores on the final exam would put Wendy's average between 70 and 79 inclusive?
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Question 120749: After getting a 15% discount on the price of a new Chrysler Sebring convertible, Helen paid $27,000. what was the original price of the convertible?

Gwen bought a new Toyota Corolla. the selling price plus the 8% state sales tax was $15,714. what was the selling price?
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Question 120748: 1. The rate, given that the distance is 200 feet and the time is x+3 seconds.

2. The perimeter of a rectangle, given that the length is x yards and the width is 10 yards shorter.

3. gwen sold her car on consignment for x dollars. the saleswoman's commission was 10% of the selling price and Gwen received $6570.

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Question 120796: Car rental agency A will rent a compact car for $35 per day and an additional charge of $0.24 per mile. Car rental agency B will charge only $0.16 per mile but charges $41 per day. If Adam wanted to rent a car for three days, how many miles would Adam have to drive to make car rental agency B a better bargain?
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Question 120635: Find a counterexample to the statement �The square of a number added to the sum of the number and five is a prime number�
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Question 120820: Yvonne biked for 1 1/4 hours and traveled 12 1/2 miles. How many miles per hour did she average?
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Question 120636: I have been trying for two hours to get this, but I can't. Can someone PLEASE help???
One number is 16 more than another. If the smaller number is subtracted from two thirds of the larger number, the result is one fourth of the sum of the two numbers. Find the numbers.

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Question 120819:
Yvonne biked for 1 1/4 hours and traveled 12 1/2 miles. How many miles per hour did she average?
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Question 120867: Hello and good morning.
I am completely bamboozled with the following problem, and have therefore no idea as to how to go about solving it. Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
The frequency of vibration of a stretched wire when plucked varies inversely as its length and directly as the square root of its tension. If a wire that is 1.40 m long vibrates with a frequency of 376 per second (376 Hz), when its tension is 125 N:
A/ What will be its frenquency if its length is increased to 2.20 m and its tension increased to 234 N?
Thank you so very much.
Cheers
D

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Question 120876: I have worked this problem and I'm not sure if I have done it correctly. Could someone please solve, so I can compare my work?

Solve by using either the substitution method or the addition-or-subtraction method.
5a over 6 - b over 3 = 6
a + 2b = 0
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Question 120871: Find the counterexample to show that the following statement is incorrect: "The sum of any two odd numbers is divisible by 4"
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Question 120908: Suppose you have a Venn diagram showing three sets. Call the sets A, B, and C. How many regions of the Venn diagram correspond to elements that are part of set A? Why so many?

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Question 120958:
Find an equation in slope-intercept form passing through the points (7.2,3.8) and (9.1,9.1).
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Question 120954: A furniture company sells 3000 chairs per week at a price of $150 apiece; when the price is lowered to $125, the company sells 3500 chairs per week. If the company wishes to liquidate its entire remaining inventory of 4250 chairs in the next week, what price should they seek?
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Question 121009: How do you solve this problem? is there a formula A student has completed 32 credits with a GPA of 2.65 how many credits must he now complete with a grade of 3.5 in order to raise his GPA to 3.0 or higher it must be a whole number of credits.
This is what I have but I don't know if it is even set up correctly to answer the question
let c= additional credits GPA/credits 2.65 + 3.5/32c+c = 3.00
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Question 121088: I am horrible at word problems and could really use some help. My problem reads: Sally bought three chocolate bars and a pack of gum and paid $1.75. Jake bought two chocolate bars and four packs of gum and paid $2.00. Find the cost of a chocolate bar and the cost of a pack of gum. Thanks!
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Question 120494: The function S=5000 +200x and D=9500-100x express the supply S and the demand D, respectively, for a popular compact disc brand as a function of its price x (in dollars).
a) Graph the functions on the same coordinate system.
b) What happens to the supply as the price increase?
c) What happens to the demand as the price increases?
d) The price at which supply and demand are equal is caled the equilibrium price. What is the equilibrium price?
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Question 121095: Jill and Jack play basketball. In the first game, Jill had a foul shot average of 0.60 (she made 12 of 20 shots), and Jack had a foul shot average of 0.50 ( he made 5 of 10 shots). In the second game Jill had a foul shot average of 0.80 (she made 8 of 10 shots), and Jack had a foul shot average of 0.75 (he made 15 out of 20 shots). Now, who do you think has the better overall average? Compute the averages for both games based on 30 shots for each player.
Compare the results for the two individual games to the overall average and discuss how this is possible.
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