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Question 164585: please answer my question:
Suppose you have 10 kg of cement, 5 kg of gravel, and 5 kg of sand for making concrete. Your concrete should contain 25% water by mass. How much water should you add?
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Question 164709: A batter in a baseball game drops a bunt down the first-base line. It rolls 42ft at an angle of 36 degrees with the base path. The pitcher's mound is 60.5ft from home plate: How far must the pitcher travel to pick up the ball? Answer to the nearest foot. Note a baseball field is a square.
I drew the field and the triangle within the square, but i dont think my picture is correct. i came up with 36.23 ft; that xoesnt seem correct to me. Please help
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Question 164738: The fruit fly population doubles everyday. If on the morning on June 1 you start with 2, then you will have 4 on the morning of June 2, 8 on June 3, etc. If on the morning of June 15 you have 32,000 fruit flies, how many escaped on the morning on June 10th?
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Question 164826: A picture 8 inches long and 6 inches wide is to be enlarged so that its length will be 12 inches. What is the width in inches, of the enlarged picture?
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Question 164828: In the right triangle, the ratio of the measures of the two acute angles is 4:1. What is the measure in degrees, of the larger acute angle?
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Question 164831: A boat travels due East for a distance of 15 miles. It then travels due North for a distance 0f 20 miles, at which point it drops anchor. How many miles is the boat from its starting point?
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Question 164832: Joan and Maria earn money by babysitting. If Joan earns twice as much as Maria, and the two girls earn a total of $40, how much does Maria earn?
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Question 164830: If 18 feet, 10 inches is cut from wire that is 25 feet, 8 inches long, what is the length of the wire that is left?
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Question 164827: A solution for the inequality 3x-1< is?
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Question 164871: Brandon gets a 40% discount on loose diamonds where he works. The cost of the setting is $250. If he plans to spend at most $1450, then what is the price range of the diamonds that he can affors.
The question can be found in
Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, 3e
ISBN number 9780073533490
page 168 number 21

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Question 164874: In a large class, 80 students took a test. When the test papers were rated, it was found that 10% of the students had A papers, 23% had B papers, 30% had C papers, 15% had D papers, and the rest failed. How many students failed the test?
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Question 164903: A WIRE 10 IN. LONG IS CUT INTO TWO PIECES. THE TOTAL OF THREE TIMES THE LENGTH OF THE SHORTER PIECE AND ONE IS EQUAL TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWICE THE LENGTH OF THE LONGER PIECE AND FOUR. FIND THE LENGHT OF THE LONGER PIECE.
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Question 164921: given a gold bar that can be cut exactly twice and a contractor that must be paid one seventh of a gold bar everyday for seven days how should the bar be cut?
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Question 165009: A ladder is leaning against a wall. The distance from the bottom of the ladder to the wall is 3 feet less than the length of the ladder. Find the length of the ladder, if the distance of its top to the ground is 4 feet less than the length of the ladder.

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Question 165041: Two numbers are mirror numbers if one can be obtained from the other by reversing the order of the digits, for example, 275 and 572. Find two mirror numbers whose product is 53,703.
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Question 165044: A man bought two different television sets, but later decided to sell them. He sold them each for $600, making a 20% profit on one and a 20% loss on the other. What was the percent profit or loss on the entire transaction?
Please help!! I am really lost because my teacher told us it was not the obvious answer. Help!!!!
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Question 165043: Two candles are the same length but are made of different waxes. One will burn down in four hours, and the other in five. If they are lighted at the same time, in how many hours will one be three times as long as the other? (Hint: chose a length for the two candles.)
Please help me!!!
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Question 165046: A square in the coordinate plane has a perimeter of 36 and its lower left vertex at (-1,4). Write an equation for the line through each one of the sides of the square if each side is parallel to one of the two coordinate axes.
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Question 165045: How many minutes is it before 12 noon if fifty minutes ago it was four times as many minutes past 9 a.m.?
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Question 165102: Planets A, B, and C orbit a specific star once every 3, 7, and 18 months. If they are all lined up now in the same stright line, what is the smallest number of months that must pass before they line up again?
I took 3, 7, and 18 and found out they were all divisible by 72, yet now I don't know how to figure what the smallest number of months will be when A B and C can all line uip again.
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Question 165040: Anthony, Lewis, Molly, Sam, and Polly attend the same school. They each have a favorite subject but it does not begin with the same first letter as their name. Figure out which student likes which subject if:
A) The favorite subjects are art, biology, math, social studies, and math.
B) Lewis and the person whose favorite subject is social studies have lunch together.
C) Polly and Sam both dislike the experiments in science class.
D) Molly is a very talented athlete and is on the track and volleyball teams.
E) Sam jokingly says," I can't draw a straight line with a ruler."

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Question 165217: The measures of the angles of a certain triangle are consecutive even integers. Find the measures.
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Question 165232: the product of -27 and the sum of a number and 25

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Question 165232: the product of -27 and the sum of a number and 25

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Question 165328: Professor Counts his midterms as 2/3 of the grade and his final as 1/3of the grade. If Wendy scored 48 on the midterm, What range of scores on the final exam would put Wendy�s average between 70-79 inclusive?
Not from a book or ISBN#

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Question 165320: Two trains started fromt he same station at the same time and traveled in opposite directions. After traveling 10 hours, they were 1,400 miles apart. The rate of the fast train exceeded the rate if the slow train by 5 miles per hour. Find the rate of each train.
Can you please help me solve this equation? Thank you.
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Question 165327: Professor Counts his midterms as 2/3 of the grade and his final as 1/3of the grade. If Wendy scored 48 on the midterm, What range of scores on the final exam would put Wendy�s average between 70-79 inclusive?

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Question 165382: The perimeter of a triangle is 57.The first side is twice the length of the second side.The third side is seven more than the second side.What is the length of each side?
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Question 165526: Case Eastern Junior College awarded 26 varsity letters in
crew, 15 in swimming, and 16 in soccer. If awards went
to 46 students and only 2 lettered in all sports, how many
students lettered in two of the three sports?
please help me, I am all confused!

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Question 165550: Soybean meal is 12% protein; cornmeal is 6% protein. How many pounds of each should be mixed together in order to get 240-lb mixture that is 10% protein?
How many pounds of cornmeal should be in the mixture?
How many pounds of soybean meal should be in the mixture?

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Question 165582: Bernice has scored a total of 78 points in the past 6 basketball games. There are 2 games remaining and she wishes to average at least 16 points per game for the season. Write an inequality that describes this situation using p for the total points she must score in the next 2 games.
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Question 165632: If two people working together can do a job in 3 hours, how long will it take the slower person to do the same job if one of them is 3 times as fast as the other?
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Question 165641: The office picnic was off to a bad start.
The original cost was $3.00 a person, but a flu epidemic bought eight cancellations.
So the cost went up to $5.00 a person for the same total cost.
How many people were originally going to attend the party?
Please show understandable work if possible, thank you!
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Question 165654: The width of a rectangular room is 5 feet longer than the width. Write and algebraic expression for the perimeter of a room with width x feet.
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Question 165658: Solve for P: A=P+PRT
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Question 165657: The price of a new car including a 6% sales tax is 17,362.80 What was the price of the car before the sales tax was added?
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Question 165667: justin earns scores of 75,83,77,and 81 on his first four exams in math class. the final exam is worth twice a regular exam(twice the weight). he wants to earn a B, so he needs at least an 80 average. solve the following equation to find the lowest score he can earn and still get his B!
(75+83+77+81+2x) /6 =80

I must show my work and i don't know how ???? please help me !!!!!
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Question 165665: karen is five years younger than susan. three years ago, the sum of their ages was 11. how old are they now?

I must show my work and i don't know how ???? please help me !!!!!
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Question 165674: x/3+ x = 8
and
4/x +3 = 1/x

I must show my work and i don't know how ???? please help me !!!!!
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Question 165653: The handicap, H, for the bowler with an average score,A, of less than 200 is determined using the formula H=.8(200-A) Find the bowlers average score if his handicap is 64
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Question 165581: The shortest side of a triangle is one half the length of the middle side, plus 2 cm. The longest side of the triangle is one and one-half times the length of the middle side, less 2 cm. The perimeter of the triangle is 60 cm. How long are each of the sides?

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