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Question 135390: The perimeter of a rectangular field is 140 yards. The land sells for $10/yd^2 and the total cost of the land is $12,000. What are the dimensions of the field?
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Question 135411: 80. Work. henry sold 120 magazine subscriptions in x+2 days. If he sold at the same rate for another week, then how many magazines did he sell in the extra week?
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Question 135389: The area of a rectangular field is 1200m^2. Two parallel sides are fenced with aluminum at $20/m. The remaining two sides are fenced with steel at $10/m. The total cost of the fencing is $2200. What is the length of each side fenced with aluminum and what is the length of each side fenced with steel?
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Question 135376: A textbook costs a bookstore $45, and the store sells it for $6o. Find the rate of profit based on the selling price.
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Question 135347: It takes Al 1 min,Betty 2 min,Carla 5 min and Dan 10 minutes to walk over a bridge at night. There is only one flashlight enough for two people to see when crossing. After each pair crosses someone has to get the light back to the others so they can cross. What is the fastest time to get all four of them across the bridge.
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Question 135595: the area of a rectangle has an area of 52cm^2 and its length is 1 cm more than 3 times its width find the perimiter of the rectangle
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Question 135638: If a bushel of coal weighs 80 pounds and coal sells for $24 per ton, the cost of a bushel of coal is?
I've tried dividing 2000 (pounds) by 80#, 2000 by $24, 80# by $24... nothing seems to work at all. What am I doing wrong? Is there an equation I can use to solve this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated! (I'm at my wit's end . . .AAHHH!)
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Question 135649: You throw a basketball up in the air.The basketball's height,in feet,is given by the function h= -16t2 + 30t + 4,where t is the time in seconds after the ball leaves your hand. Use a graphing calculator to find the greatest height the ball reaches.

Any straightfoward correct help would be much obliged :) Thanks
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Question 135734: What is the measure of the acute angle formed by the hands of a clock when the clock shows that the time is 12:15?
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Question 135733: Of 100 people people in a room, 70 play tennis and 50 play golf. At most, how many play only one of these sports?
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Question 135808: Each of eighteen students was given a different integer from 1 through 18, inclusive. When asked to select a dance partner, the sum of the numbers for each of the nine couples was a perfect square. Who was dancing with whom?
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Question 136005:
US is decreasing by 1 acre every 0.00876 hours as farmland is being converted to non-farm use. At what rate is acres per day is the farmland decreasing?
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Question 136102: A store wants to construct rectangular parking lot on land bordered on one side by a highway. It has 280 ft of fencing that is to be used to fence off the other three sides. What should be the dimensions of the lot if the enclosed area is to be a maximum?
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Question 136099: Working together, Carla and Elise can cut and split a cord of wood in 4 hours. Working alone, Carla takes 6 hours more than Elise. How long would it take ELise to do this job alone?
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Question 136177: Sam lives on a lot that he thought was a square, 157 feet by 157 feet. When he had it surveyed, he discovered that one side was actually 2 feet longer than he thought and the other was actually 2 feet shorter than he thought. How much less area does he have than he though he had?
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Question 136243: Hey the chapter im on is called rational functions. And i had this random word problem from it.
Chad can paint a room in 2 h(hours). Cassie can paint a room 3 h(hours). How long would it take them to paint a room working together?
thanks for helping
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Question 136241: A horse and a cow togather cost $800.the horse is sold a a profit of 10% and the cow t loss of 10%.If the total profit of 2.5% is made,what is the cost price of the horse?

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Question 136194: 1.Two airplanes leave Chicago at the same time and fly in opposite dirrections. If one travels at 450 miles per hour and the other at 550 miles per hour, how long will it take for them to be 4000 miles apart? (Solve in algebraic equations)
2.Bret started on a 70 mile bicycle ride at 20 miles per hour. After a time he became a little tired and slowed down to 12 miles per hour for the rest of the trip. The entire trip of 70 miles took 4 1/2 hours. How far had Bret ridden when he reduced his speed to 12 miles per hour?
3. Suppose that you have a supply of a 30% solution of alcohol and a 70% solution of alcohol. how many quarts of each should be mixed to produce 20 quarts that is 40% alcohol?
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Question 136295: Please help, it asks: x varies directly as the square of s and inversly as t. How does x change when s is doubled? When both s and t are doubled?
Please help me, thank You=)
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Question 136322: how do i solve this :

Find the area of a rectangle if three of its corners are (-0.1,-3.4), (-7.9,-3.4), and (-0.1,6.8).
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Question 136331: how would this be solved :
1)Find the area of a rectangle if three of its corners are (-0.1,-3.4), (-7.9,-3.4), and (-0.1,6.8).

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Question 136342: Find the area of a rectangle if three of its corners are (-0.1,-3.4), (-7.9,-3.4), and (-0.1,6.8).

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Question 136337: Find the area of a rectangle if three of its corners are (-0.1,-3.4), (-7.9,-3.4), and (-0.1,6.8).

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Question 136215: The number of automobiles in the United States in 1900 was around 8000. In the year 2000, the number of automobiles in the United States reached 200 million. Find an exponential model for the data and use the model to predict the number of automobiles in the United Sates in 2010. Use t=0 to represent the year 1900. Round to the nearest hundred thousand automobiles.
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Question 136412: Please help me solve this word problem:
Garrett and Chris have a summer job washing cars at a car dealership. Chris can get the cars washed 3 hours quicker than Garrett can. Together, they can wash the cars in 5 hours. How long would it take Chris to do it alone? (Round your answer to the nearest tenth of an hour).
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Question 136470: A cake has three circular tiers; each is 8 cm high. The tiers have diameters 60 cm, 48 cm, and 36 cm. What is the surface area to be covered by frosting? There is not frosting between layers.
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Question 136469: A regular drinking cup has a circular lower base 8 cm in diameter, a top lip 12 cm in diameter, and a height of 10 cm. What is its volume?
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Question 136563: Can you help me solve this? I get lost when it comes to putting word problems together.
A general building contractor estimates that the cost to build a new home is $30,000 plus $85 for each square foot of floor space in the house. Determine a linear function that gives the cost of building a house that contains x square feet of floor space. Use this model to determine the cost to build a house that contains 1800 square feet of floor space.
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Question 136628: Out of their first 40 games the Williamsbury Wildwings had a record of 18 wins and 22 losses. Assuming no ties, how many of their next 50 games must they win if their record is to show twice as many wins as losses?
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Question 136699: Please help me solve this word problem:
A ball is projected from the ground. Its distance in feet from the ground in t seconds is given by the equation s(t)=-16t+128t. At what times will the ball be 100 feet from the ground?
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Question 136735: The distance d, in miles, a forest fire ranger can see from an observation tower is a function of the height h, in feet, of the tower above level ground and is given by d(h)=1.5√h.
a. Find the distance a ranger can see whose eye level is 20 feet above level ground. Round to the nearest tenth of a mile.
b. Find the distance a ranger can see whose eye level is 35 feet above level ground. Round to the nearest tenth of a mile.
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Question 136758: Someone help me please. Thank you
I need to post a 50 word response to this question:
How can you determine if two lines are perpendicular?

Any help would be appreciated.
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Question 136812: Will someone PLEASE help me with this. I asked earlier. Thank you
I need a 50 word response to this question: How can you determine if two lines are perpendicular?
Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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Question 136863: PROBLEM:
THE FORREST THEATER CAN SEAT A TOTAL OF 360 PEOPLE. THEY TAKE IN $15,150 WHEN EVERY SEAT IS SOLD FOR A PERFORMANCE. IF THE ORCHESTRA SECTION TICKETS COST $45 AND THE BALCONY TICKETS COST $35, FIND THE NUMBER OF SEATS IN AVAILABLE IN EACH SECTION.
PLEASE HELP I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN??? THANKS
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Question 136883: Pipe A can fill a tank in 8 hours. When both A and pipe B are used th tank is filled in 5 hours. How long,in hours,would it take pipe B alone to fill the tank?
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Question 136881: Jack and Jill sat at the ends of an 18 foot long seesaw where the fulcrum was placed in the middle of the board. By placing a 20 pound weight 3 feet in front of Jill,they were in balance.If Jack weighs 140 pounds,which equation could be used to determine Jill's weight(x)in pounds?
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Question 136909: A number between 300 and 400 is forty times the sum of its digits. The tens digit is 6 more than the units digit. Find the number.
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Question 136945: The force needed to keep a car from skidding on a curve varies jointly as the weight of the car and the square of the car's speed, and inversely as the radius of the curve. If a force of 3600 pounds is needed to keep an 1800 pound car traveling at 20 mph from skidding on a curve of radius 600 feet what force would be required to keep the same car from skidding on a curve of radius 570 feet at 50 mph? Round your answer to the nearest pound of force?
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Question 136940: let x represent an integer. Express each of the following in terms of x
a.ten more than the integer
b.six less than the integer
c four times the integer
d.two-thirds of the integer
e the integer increased by seven
f.the integer decreased by three

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Question 137145: The problem states, Of all possible quotients of the numbers 10, -1/2, -5, and 1/5, which two produce the largest quotient? Which two produce the smallest quotient?
I am not exactly sure how to figure this out.
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Question 137195: Jude's IQ score is more than 15 points away from Sherry's. If Sherry's scored 110, than in what range is Jude's score?
Can you please help me and solve this equation please by showing detailed solution?
Thank you.
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Question 137365: In the town of bayland their are 2 times as many spanish-speaking people as their are french-speaking people and 5 times as many english-speaking people as thier are spanish and french speaking. If the town of bayland has a total population of 2250. How many english speaking people are there ?
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