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Question 176406: A piece of fishing line is 100 m long and was cut into 2 pieces so that the longest piece was 40 times the length of the shorter piece. How long are the two pieces?
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Question 176422: about how many pounds of butterfat are there in 608 pounds of milk if the butterfat content is 1 1/2% ?
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Question 176422: about how many pounds of butterfat are there in 608 pounds of milk if the butterfat content is 1 1/2% ?
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Question 176420: Mr.McKay can save 2% of his fuel bill if he pays within 10 days. About how much would he save on a fuel bill of 119.75 ?
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Question 176450: a truck is 26 feet long. Find the length on a scale model if 1 inch represents 5 1/2 feet. Round to the nearest tenth if necessary.
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Question 176590: If r= 5x, then how many tenths does 1/2 of x have?
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Question 176618: If 140 million sq.mi. or 70.98% of the earth's surface is covered in water, what is the total surface area of the earth?
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Question 176645: How many pounds of hamburger that costs $1.60 per pound must be mixed with 70 pounds of hamburger that costs $2.10 per pound to make a mixture that costs $1.70 per pound.
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Question 176673: Melissa wants to have a concrete driveway in the front of her house. The driveway will measure 62 1/3 feet long and 19 feet wide; and will be 2/3 foot thick. How many cubic yards of the cement will be needed for the driveway? Round your answer to the nearest cubic yard. [1 cubic yd = 27 cubic feet] Help!!!
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Question 176526: a number multipied by 8 and added by 4 is 7 more than a number
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Question 176695: Sandra drove for 234.8 miles and used 12.6 gallons of gas. Estimate the number of miles Sandra�s car gets per gallon. Can you help me please??
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Question 176716: AT&T's fee is 100$ per month and 5 cents per minute. Verizon costs 50$ but 10 cents per minute. Until how long will Verizon be cheaper. Can you please tell me the equation and solution and answer.
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Question 176698: Use inductive reasoning to determine the next three numbers in the pattern: 3, 12, 26, 45,.......
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Question 176818: Coach Rourke has a measuring wheel that records the distance the wheel is rolled along the ground. The circumference of the wheel is one yard. If the wheel is pushed half a mile, how many times will the wheel go around?
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Question 176771: A rectangle has a perimeter of 46 cm. Its length is 2 cm more than twice its width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle.
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Question 165668: A laser printer can print a page in 15 s. If a 16-page document is split between this printer and an older model, the two printers take 50 s to print the document, working together. How many seconds does it take the older model to print a page?
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Question 177077: Use inductive reasoning to determine the next three numbers in the pattern: 2, 9, 20, 35, �. Can you please help...<0>
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Question 177093: The minute hand of a clock is 7cm long. to the nearest tenth of a centimeter, how far does the tip of the minute hand move in 25 minutes ?
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Question 177072: 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 177073: 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 177099: Filling a tank. A water tank has an inlet pipe and a drain
pipe. A full tank can be emptied in 30 minutes if the drain
is opened and an empty tank can be filled in 45 minutes
with the inlet pipe opened. If both pipes are accidentally
opened when the tank is full, then how long will it take to
empty the tank?
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Question 177098: 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. Thanks for your help!
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Question 177096: 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 177097: 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 177071: 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 177118: to estimate the size of the bear population on the Keweenaw Peninsula,conservationist captured,tagged and released 50 bears. One year later,a random sample of 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears.What is the conservationist's estimate of the size of the bear population.
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Question 177146: Estimate: 25.78 + 240.22 + 800.36 + 4.322 + 0.9142 ??
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Question 177149: A six pack of soda costs $1.93. A carton of 24 cans cost $6.70. How much will be saved by purchasing the carton rather than 4 individual six packs?
how do I write this in an algebraic equation...the answer that I have is that I save 4 cents a can on the 24 pack or 96 cents...help
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Question 177207: Dawn's SUV gets 16 miles per gallon(mpg) in city driving and 24 mpg in highway driving. The SUV is driven 390 miles on 18 gallons of gasoline. How many miles were driven in the city and how many were driven on the highway.
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Question 176849: I took out a lease on $2000.00 worth of equipment for tow years. I am being charged5.25% interest annually. What is the interest paid and total amount I paid on the lease.
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Question 176848: A doctor discounts a client $294.00 when they pay in cash within 10 days. If the discount is 1.5% how much would the client pay if they did not have a discount?
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Question 176820: The firm currently uses 50,000 workers to produce 200,000 units of output per day. The daily wage (per worker) is $80, and the price of the firm�s output is $25. The cost of other variable inputs is $400,000 per day. Although you don�t know the firm�s fixed cost, you know that it is high enough that the firm�s total costs exceed its total revenue.
So far I have come up with the TVC being $800,000. Quantiy sold is 500,000, but i am still having trouble any suggestions. All help is appreciated.
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Question 177245: Why is the set of natural numbers an infinite set, but the set of blades of grass outside your residence a finite set? Explain.
Thanks for your help...

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Question 177322: 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 177392: Need help setting up the equation to solve problem.
Your cousin works at a dog kennel and uses 8lb of dog food to feed four dogs for 3 days. At the same rate, how many pounds of dog food will your cousin need to feed 12 dogs for one week?
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Question 177399: State whether set A and B are equal, equivalent, both, or neither.
A = {9, 8, 10} B = {8, 9, 10}
I would answer equal would this be correct? Thanks for your help...
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Question 177401: Express the following in set-builder notation: M = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}
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Question 177397: Without writing them down what are the number of subsets of the set A = {a, b, c, d, e, f}? Of set B = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j}? huh?? I don't understand
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Question 177413: I need help setting up an equation to solve this problem. Using a calender, I quickly determined the answer was Saturday, however, I am having problems writing an equation to solve this problem.
What day would yesterday be if Friday was four days before the day after tommorrow?
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Question 177411: I am resubmitting this problem...the previous answer provided by a tutor was incorrect. The answer is 56lb, however, I need help setting up the equation.
Your cousin works at a dog kennel and uses 8lb of dog food to feed four dogs for 3 days. At the same rate, how many pounds of dog food will your cousin need to feed 12 dogs for one week?

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Question 177428: I've tried different ways to write an equation but am having no luck. Can anyone help?
A tennis ball dropped onto a hard surface rebounds exactly 2/3 the height from which it falls. How far will it rebound after hitting the surface for the third time if it is dropped from an initial height of 18 feet?
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Question 177439: A person computer regularly sells for $2,350 but is on sale at 10% off at computer center. good buys sells the same computer for $2,600 but it is on sale at 1/5 off. at which store is the computer less expensive and by how much?
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