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Question 190217: The sum of the squares of Maria's two kids is 289. If the boy is seven years older than the girl, then what are their ages ?
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Question 190217: The sum of the squares of Maria's two kids is 289. If the boy is seven years older than the girl, then what are their ages ?
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Question 190263: The sum of two numbers is 64. Two more than twice the larger number is five less than seven times the smaller. Find the numbers.
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Question 190282: A bookkeeper charges $25 per hour of work and rounds the actual work time up to the nearest hour. Write a function to represent the total cost for x hours of work. What type of step function is this function? Explain.
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Question 190342: you have 12 mp3 songs on your computer. 1/4 of them don't work. How many mp3's do you have to buy to replace the ones that don't work.
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Question 190341: you have 12 mp3 songs on your computer. 1/4 of them don't work. How many mp3's do you have to buy to replace the ones that don't work.
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Question 190340: you have 12 mp3 songs on your computer. 1/4 of them don't work. How many mp3's do you have to buy to replace the ones that don't work.
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Question 190229: Worker efficiency. In a study of worker efficiency at Wong
Laboratories it was found that the number of components
assembled per hour by the average worker t hours after
starting work could be modeled by the formula
N(t)=3t^3+ 23^t2 + 8t.
a) Rewrite the formula by factoring the right-hand side
completely.
b) Use the factored version of the formula to find N(3).

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Question 190464: use the fact that the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem is a true statement to determine if each triangle with sides of the given lengths is a right triangle.
10 cm, 24 cm, 26 cm
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Question 190463: use the following equivalents, along with dimensional analysis, to convert the given unit to the unit indicated. When necessary, round to two decimal places.
16 oz = 1 lb
2000 lb = 1 T
1 oz = 28 g
1 lb = 0.45 kg
1 T = 0.9 t
PROBLEM
26 oz to g

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Question 190551: The equation y= -1777x + 27,153 can be used to predict the number y of gun deaths in the United STates x years after 2000, that is, x=0 corresponds to 2000, x=3 corresponds to 2003, x=6 corresponds to 2006 and so on. Predict the number of gun deaths in 2006 and in 2009. In what year will the number of gun deaths be 7606?
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Question 190557: On three consecutive passes, a football team gains 9 yards, loses 30 yards, and gains 20 yards. What number represents the total net yardage?
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Question 190558: The function described by H (x) = 2.75x+ 71.48 can be used to predict the height, in centimeters, of a woman whose humerous (the bone from the elbow to the shoulder)is x cm long.

Predict the height of a woman whose humerous is 36 cm long.
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Question 190556: The width of a rectangle is fixed at 17cm. What lenghts will make the perimeter greater than 90cm?
The length must be graeter than ?? cm.
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Question 190549: I have a word problem that my professor wants me to use the straight line formula to do. I just can not figure out how to put the numbers in the right spot or what numbers to use!
The problem is Sales, given in thousands, for a particular compan in 1990 were at 140.5 and in 2000 at 180.5. Estimate the sales for theyears 1997 and 2003. Let x=0 correspond to 1990.
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Question 190459: use dimensional analysis to convert the quantity to the indicated unit, if necessary, round the answer to two decimal places.

21 in. to yd
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Question 190541: Gwen is planting red tulips in a rectangular flowerbed that is 2 feet longer than it is wide. She plans to surround the tulips with a border of daffodils that is 2 feet wide. If the total area is 224 square feet, and she plants 36 daffodils per square foot, then how many daffodils does she need?
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Question 190572: use an algebraic equation to determine each rectangles dimensions
a basketball court is a rectangle with a perimeter of 86 meters. The length is 13 meters more than the width . Find thw width and length of the basketball court.
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Question 190595: Suppose you want to cover the backyard with decorative rock and plant some trees as the first phase of the project. You need 30 tons of rock to cover the area. If each ton cost $60 and each tree is $84, what is the maximum number of trees you can buy with a budget for rock and trees of $2,500? Write an inequality that illustrates the problem and solve. Express your answer as an inequality and explain how you arrived at your answer.
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Question 190633: betty earns a salary of $14,000 per year plus a 8% commission on all of her sales. how much must her sales be if her annual income is to be no less than $15,600?
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Question 190670: In a town whose population is 3500, a disease creates an epidemic. The number of people N infected after t days after the disease has begun, is given by the function
N = 3500/1 + 19.9e^-0.6t
Find the number of people infected after 15 days.
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Question 190678: The height of a missile propelled upward at 48 feet/second is given by h (t) = -16t2 + 48t. What is the maximum height that the missile will reach?
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Question 190684: this is the last question for my homework and i need help please....Bob ate 10 carrots and 7 Hershey's kisses and the total calories were 263. Fred ate 4 carrots and 8 Hershey's kisses and the total calories were 230. how many calories are in a carrot and a hershey's kiss?(the answer is not a scientific truth,only made up numbers!!!) thanks
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Question 190696: The population P of a small town can be modeled by:
P=Ae^0.018t
where t represents the time in years and A = 4,303

Use this model to find the population P when t = 7 years.
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Question 190709: A woman buys four CD�s for $52.92, including 8% sales tax. How much did each cost?
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Question 190686: A small area in front of a building is rectangle in shape. The perimeter of the triangle is 49 meters. The second side is 1/4 of the first side in length. The third side is 4 meters more than the first side. Find the length in metes of each side of the rectangle region
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Question 190687:
Car rental agency A will rent a compact car for $40 per day and an additional charge of $.20 per mile. Car rental agency B will be charged only $.16 per mile but charges $51 per day. If Adam wanted to rent a car for four days, how many miles would Adam have to drive to make rental agency B better bargain?
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Question 190747: One of the strongest recorded earthquakes to date was in Colombia in 1906 with a Richter scale reading of 9.5. On March 2, 1933, an earthquake with a magnitude 8.9 on the Richter scale struck Japan. How many times more intense was the Colombia earthquake than the Japan earthquake?
Round-off your answer to the nearest unit.

Every time I tried doing this question I came up ith a decimal which I rounded up to 1. It just seems wrong.
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Question 190924: a piggy bank contains $5.85 in nickels and quarters. if there are 65 coins in all, how many of each type coin is there?
please help me
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Question 190949: Jim has 4 more quarters than dimes. If he has $5.20 in quarters and dimes, how many of each type coin does he have?

please help me, i am desparate
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Question 191006: How would I solve this type of problem? If sam can paint a house in 5 hours and Jill can paint a house in 3 hours, how long will it take for both of them to paint a house?
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Question 191004: If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hours, how long will it take both of them to paint the house together?
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Question 191142: On March 2, 1933, an earthquake of magnitude 8.9 on the Ritcher scale struck Japan. In October 1989, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 on the Ritcher scale struck San Francisco, California. How many times more intense was the Japan earthquake than the San Francisco earthquake?
Round-off your answer to the nearest unit.
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Question 191310: 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 191290: Bear population. To estimate the size of the bear population, conservationists 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 191353: Ralph leaves all of his property split equally between his six children. One of daughters then splits her portion equally between her four children. What is the percentage of Ralph's property that one of these four grandchildren will receive?
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Question 191591: Please help me with this. The difference in cost between a large bag of chips and a small bag of chips was 90 cents. Alicia bought 5 large bags and 3 small bags of chips for her party and spent $17.22. what was the cost of a small bag of chips?
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Question 191606: Problem: A company has 5 large buses and 6 small buses. A large bus holds 11 more people than the smaller one. If the capacity of all the uses is 495, how much does each size of bus hold?
I think that the equation is
I figured out that y = 40 so the small bus holds 40 people, which means that the large bus holds 51 people.
I just don't know how I made it work.
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Question 191492: Anne buys a plant whose height is 6 cm. The plant is growing at a rate of 2/3 cm per week. When will its height exceed 10 2/3 cm?
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Question 191499: A digital clock displays the hour and minute of a day. Unfortunately, whenever it is supposed to display a 1, it mistakenly displays a 9. What fraction of the day will the clock show the correct time?

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Question 190231: Throwing a wrench. An angry construction worker throws
his wrench downward from a height of 128 feet with an
initial velocity of 32 feet per second. The height of the
wrench above the ground after t seconds is given
by S(t)=-16t^2- 32t+ 128.
a) What is the height of the wrench after 1 second?
b) How long does it take for the wrench to reach the
ground?

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Question 191874: I am taking my first online algebra course and it scares the heck out of me. Can someone please help me with a few problems I missed on a quiz. I am lost! Here is the first one:
In a survey of 100 consumers, 33 indicated that they were going to buy a new car, 18 said they were going to buy a new refrigerator, and 34 said they were going to buy a new washer. Of these, 7 were going to buy both a car and a refrigerator, 15 were going to buy a car and a washer, and 9 were going to buy a washer and a refrigerator. Three consumers indicated that they were going to buy all three items. And she wants a diagram too! Help me please.
Construct a Venn diagram, label your diagram clearly.
Use your diagram to answer the following questions:
(a) How many were going to buy only a car?
(b) How many were going to buy only a washer?
(c) How many were going to buy only a refrigerator
(d) How many were going to buy a car and a washer but not a refrigerator?
(e) How many were going to buy none of these items?

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Question 191985: Using the numbers 5,8,6,and 10, I need to create an equation using addition, subtraction,multiplication, and division. The equation has to equal 0.8, 0.3, or 1.9 and all of the numbers have to be used.
I have tried equations such as 10-6*3/8, however the equation ends up getting very close but never to the exact answer.
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