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Question 204342: In the equation A=be^-(t/RC) if we could have units of measerement for the exponant and t is measured in seconds what would RC be measured with?
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Question 204062: An independent television station airs a movie-of-the-day every Tuesday and Thursday. Their market research shows that their suspense movies are viewed by an average of 3500 people, their comedies are viewed by 4500 people, and their dramas are viewed by 6000 people. The station buys a package of 100 movies, consisting of 15 suspense movies, 40 comedies, and 45 dramas. The movies will be shown two per week for 50 weeks. Find the expected number of viewers on a given movie.
A. 4667 B. 479 C. 140 D. 5025 E. 1400

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Question 204061: 1000 raffle tickets are sold at $3 each. One grand prize of $100 and two consolation prizes of $75 will be awarded. Find Jake�s expectation if he purchases one ticket.
A) -$2.75 B) -$3.00 C) $0.24 D) $2.75 E) $3.00

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Question 204388: The weight of an object varies inversely with the square of it's distance from the center of the earth. If an object 8000 miles from the center of the earth weighs 90 pounds, find it's weight when it is 12000 miles from the center of the earth.
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Question 204389: The number of long distance calls between two cities in a certain time period varies jointly with the populations of the cities and inversely with the distance between them. If 25,000 calls are made between two cities 200 miles apart with populations of 50,000 and 20,000, how many calls are made between cities of 75,000 and 40,000 that are 400 miles apart?
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Question 204460: 500 tickets for prizes are sold for $2 each. Five prizes will be awarded � one for $300, one for $200, and three for $50. Steven purchases one of the tickets.
a) Find the expected value
b) Find the fair price of the ticket.

Not very good at these Word Problem things, but I am really trying to learn... If you don't mind showing me exactly how to do it I would really appreciate it. I really hate not getting things right the first time, but I am having alot of trouble with these word problems...
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Question 204675: If you have a group of 8 people, how many 3 person groups can you make?
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Question 204598: The height of a rectangular window is 1.5 times its width. The window is 2400 square inches. Find the dimensions of the window.
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Question 204744: The product of two consecutive even integers is 224. Find the integers.
Ok so I think it's something like this.
x = a number
x+2 = another number
x(x+2) = 224
x^2+2x-224=0
And then you factor that? I have no clue.
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Question 204753: A candy shop mixes nuts worth $1.10 per pound with another variety worth $0.80 per pound in order to make 42 lb of a mixture worth $0.90 per pound. How many pounds of each kind of nut should be used?
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Question 204751: Three-fifths of the automobiles entering Dalton each morning will fill the city parking lots. THere are 3654 such parking spaces. How many cars enter Dalton each morning?
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Question 204754: The length of a rectangle is 7 m more than the width. The length of a diagonal is 13 m. Find the length.
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Question 204808: The amount of background noise is important to tv news reporters. One station developed the formula N=-t squared +12t+54 showing the noise level in decibels(N) as it relates to the time after the speaker stops talking in seconds(t).How many seconds after the speaker stops will the noise level be the greatest? Write and tell how decided.
I would appreciate your help on this word problem.
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Question 204859: I have a plate of WHOLE cookies; I gave Jodie half of what was on the plate, plus half of a cookie. I gave Beth half of what was left on the plate, plus half of a cookie; I gave Michelle half of what was left on the plate, plus half of a cookie. There are no cookies left, and I didn�t break any in half. How many cookies were on the plate to begin with?
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Question 204913: In his pocket, a boy has 3 red marbles, 4 blue marbles, and 4 green marbles. How many wil he have to take out of his pocket to ensure that he has taken out at least one of each color?
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Question 204917: Question 204841: Jack and Bob are farmers. Jack grows apples, Bob grows oranges. On May 9th, Jack has harvested 5000 apples, and Bob has harvested 300 oranges. However, Jack will harvest apples at a rate of 5/hr, and Bob will harvest oranges at a rate of 30/�hr. If Jack and Bob eventually end up with the exact same number of fruits, Jack agreed to eat 100 apples, and both will stop harvesting. If Jack and Bob never end up with the exact same number of fruits, both will stop harvesting on the hour that Bob has more fruit than Jack.
What is the mathematical equation used to solve this problem?
Will Jack have to eat 100 apples?
How many apples does Jack have at the end? How many oranges does Bob have at the end?

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Question 204963: The edge of a sugar cube is about 1cm . Roughly how many sugar cubes could you put in a dry, empty swimming pool which measures 25m by 10m by 5m ?
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Question 204957: a snail climbs all the way up a pole 12m high. it climbs 3m each day but slides down 2m each night. How long will it take the snail to reach the top of the pole?
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Question 204960: Mary buys 100 candies for $7.00 . if yips cost 5 cents each. gups 6 cents each and pips 7 cents each, How many more pips than yips did mary buy ?
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Question 204956: it costs $3 for a car and $10 for a bus to park in a parking lot. there are 102 vehicles in the lot and altogether they paid $418 to park. how many cars are there in the lot ?
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Question 204981: Melissa plans to ship a computer in a cubic box that measures x inches on a side. She later determines that her shipping cost will be less if she uses a rectangular box that is 3 inches shorter and 5 inches longer than the cubic box. Write an equation V(x) for the volume of the new box and match your result to the correct answer below.
A) V(x) = x3 � 15x in3
B) V(x) = x3 + 2x � 15 in3
C) V(x) = x3 � 2x2 � 15x in3
D) V(x) = x3 + 2x2 � 15x in3
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Question 204973: A painting canvas has a length 8 inches longer than its width. If the area is 84 in^(2), what are the dimensions of the canvas?
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Question 205023: A box contains 24 identical cubes. How many cubes can be placed in another box each of whose dimensions is double that of the original box?
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Question 205022: In the high school auditorium the number of rows of seats is double the number of seats in each row.If there are the same number of seats in each row and 1352 seats in total,how many rows are there?
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Question 205089: How many rectangular pieces of wood of size 20 cm by 45 cm can be cut from a plywood sheet of 120 cm by 240 cm?
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Question 205100: A bottle of wine costs $10. If the wine is worth $9 more than the bottle, what is the value of the bottle?
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Question 205124: Find the mean, median, and mode for the following set of data which shows the number of pages per article in a random sample of magazine articles.
6 7 5 4 7 5 5 7
8 5 3 6 8 9 5

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Question 205101: When I am as old as my father is now, I shall be five times as old as my son is now. By then, my son will be eight years older than I am now. The combined ages of my father and myself are 100 years. How old is my son?
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Question 205171: When Three Times A Number is added to the sum of twice the number and 1, the result is 11. Find the number.
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Question 205181: In her dorm room, Erica wants to string small white lights across one diagonal of the ceiling. (Assume there is an electrical outlet in the upper corner of the room.) How many feet of lights does Erica need if her room is 14 ft by 10 ft? Round up to the nearest foot to guarantee she will have enough.
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Question 205238: Martin purchases 2 apples and 4 oranges. Michelle purchases 8 apples and 2 oranges. If Michelle pays twice as much as Martin. How many apples can be purchased for the price of 9 oranges?
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Question 205278: To increase state tax revenues, the Governor of California has proposed an additional sales tax on all automobiles deemed to be exotic in nature; that is, two door coupes and convertibles with a dealer sticker price of at least $100,000. Comment on the validity of this proposed tax.

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Question 205346: A bottleneck due to an accident on a highway produces two lines of cars each having a length of 720 meters. If the average distance between cars is 2.50 meters and the average length of a car is 3.50 meters, how many cars are there?
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Question 205397: A box with a square bottom and no top must contain 108 cubic inches. What dimensions will minimize the surface area?
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Question 205486: Find three consecutive odd numbers such that 1/7 of the first plus 1/3 of the second plus 1/5 of the third is 63.
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Question 205487: Find three consecutive odd numbers such that 1/7 of the first plus 1/3 of the second plus 1/5 of the third is 63.
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Question 205483: the equation of a straight line is 3x+ 2y =5. Given that the point (k,4) lies on the line, find the value of k.
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Question 205468: solve the equation by eliminating fractions
A) x/2+x/3=20

b) 3m/4+m/2= -5
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Question 205509: Hi,
Pretty sure this is a conditional probability problem or Bayes' Formula problem; can anyone help me figure this out? Thank you so much!
Suppose that a pair of 8-sided dice are rolled (the sides are numbered 1-8).
a) What is the probability that the sum of the dice is 7?
b) What is the probability that the sum of the dice is at least 13?
c) What is the probability that the sum is odd?
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Question 205518: The total cost, $c, of manufacturing n units of biscuit boxes is given by the formula c =an+b, where a and b are constants. When 200 units of biscuit boxes are manufactured, the total cost is $ 55000 and when 500 units of biscuit boxes are manufactured, the total cost is $62500. Find
a)the value of a and b
b) the total cost of producing (i) 420 units (ii) 1250 units of biscuit boxes
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Question 205482: The ratio of two sums of money is 4:3. If the larger sum of money is increased by 40$, the ratio becomes 2:1. Find the sum of the money.
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Question 205505: Can anyone help me with this? not sure if it's Conditional Probability, Independent Event or using the Bayes' formula problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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A 8-character password consists of three letters (from A to Z) followed by five numbers (from 1 to 9).
a) How many different passwords can be formed?
b) How many different passwords have no repeated number or letters?
Thanks so much
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Question 205626: A ball bounces 2/3 of the distance through which it falls. If the second rebound is 72 cm, the height,in cm,through which the ball originally dropped was
(A)32 (B)48 (C)108 (D)162 (E) None of these
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