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Question 220709: Points A(2,5) and B(10,5) are the end points of a diameter of a circle graphed in the coordinate plane. How many square units are in the area of the circle? Express your answer as a multiple of "pie"
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Question 220778: The sum of a 50 and a number.
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Question 220779: The difference of twice a number and 6 is 20.
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Question 220783: During a basketball game, the Robins scored 17 fewer points than the Cardinals. Together, both teams scored a total of 145 points. How many points did the Robins score during the game?
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Question 220789: Robin is having her yard landscaped. She obtained an estimate from two landscaping companies. Company A gave an estimate of $200 for material and equipmwnt rental plus $50 per hour for labor. Company B gave her an estimate of $250 for material and equipment rental plus $40 per hour for labor. Determine how many hours of labor will be required for the two companies to cost the same.
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Question 220786: A car rental charges $225 per week plus $.020 per mile to rent a car. How many miles can you travel in one week for $245?
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Question 220818: A college student earned $3600 during summer vacation working as a waiter in a popular restaurant. The student invested part of the money at 8% and the rest at 7%. If the student recieved a total of $479 in interest at the end of the year, how much was invested in each account? (Give two answers).
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Question 220828: I'm taking algebra but I have a hard time with word problems. Please help.
1) A certain granola mixture is 10% peanuts.
A) If a container has 20 lbs. of granola how many pounds of peanuts does it contain?
B) If a container has X lbs. of granola in it write an expression for the amount of peanuts it contains.

Thank you for any help!

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Question 220907: When the Johnson triplets were three weeks old, their sleep habits were remarkably consistent. John slept for 3 hours and was awake for 30 minutes. Joan slept for 2 hours and was awake for 30 minutes. Jane slept for 2 hours 20 minutes and was awake for 40 minutes. On October 13 at 8:00 P.M., they all went to sleep at the same time. When did this event occur again? Give both the date and time.

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Question 220958: Angle A and angle B are supplementary angles and angle A is 20 degrees less than four times angle B. Find the measure of angle A and Angle B.
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Question 220960: In an isosceles triangle, one angle is 42 degrees greater than the other two angles. Find the measure of all three angles.
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Question 220997: a pole that is 6 feet tall casts a shadow that is 4 feet long. At the same time a tree casts a shadow that is 24 feet long. How tall is the tree?
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Question 221001: Mr. Daniels and Mr. Griffith invested $120,000 in a business. They invested in a ration of 3 to 7. How much did each invest?

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Question 220999: Two long books containing a total of 2400 pages have a ratio of 3 pages to 5 pages. How many pages are in each book?

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Question 221000: Two long books containing a total of 2400 pages have a ratio of 3 pages to 5 pages. How many pages are in each book?

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Question 221000: Two long books containing a total of 2400 pages have a ratio of 3 pages to 5 pages. How many pages are in each book?

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Question 220998: A subway travels 23 kilometers in 18 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers will the subway travel in 1 1/2 hours
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Question 220998: A subway travels 23 kilometers in 18 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers will the subway travel in 1 1/2 hours
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Question 220998: A subway travels 23 kilometers in 18 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers will the subway travel in 1 1/2 hours
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Question 220996: Mr. Owens traveled 623 miles in 7 hours. At the same rate, how many miles will he travel in 9 hours?

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Question 220996: Mr. Owens traveled 623 miles in 7 hours. At the same rate, how many miles will he travel in 9 hours?

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Question 220995: Mr. Owens traveled 623 miles in 7 hours. At the same rate, how many miles will he travel in 9 hours?

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Question 220994: on a scale drawing 1/4 inch equals 1 ft. If the length of a room on a scale drawing is 5 1/4 inches, how long is the room?

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Question 220813: Linda and Dave leave simultaneously from the same starting point biking in opposite directions. Linda bikes at 5 miles per hour and Dave bikes at 9 miles per hour. How long will it be until they ar 28 miles apart from each other?
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Question 220981: While finding the amount of seed needed to plant his three square wheat fields, Hank observed that the side of one field was 1 kilometer longer than the side of the smallest field and that the side of the largest field was 3 kilometers longer than the side of the smallest field. If the total area of the three fields is 38 square kilometers, then what is the area of each field?
I understand x^2 , x+1, x+3, however, when I write the equation to separate I cannot get to area of each field if total is 38. Thank you, Brett
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Question 221153: A projectile is thrown upward at the rate of 42 feet per second from a platform 150 feet high. How long does it take to hit ground?
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Question 221193: The perimeter of a rectangular room is 164 feet. Find the length and width of the room if the length is 4 feet longer than twice the width.
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Question 221194: There were 360 people at a play. The admission price was $3 for adults and $1 for children. The admission receipts totaled $740. How many adults and how many children attended?
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Question 221201: Determine the measure of the vertical angles indicated. 2x + 46 and 3x + 10.
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Question 221198: A rectangular counter is being built for the customer service department of a store. Designers have determined that the outside perimeter of the counter needs to exceed 30 feet. Determine the acceptable values for X.
(X+5)FT
X FT
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Question 221197: An architect needs to design a triangular-shaped bathroom window that has an area no greater than 100 in (2). If the base of the window must be 16 inches long, what window heights will meet this condition?
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Question 221212: A picture 16 inches by 25 inches is to be mounted on a piece of matboard so that there is an even amount of mat all around the picture. How wide will the border be if the area of the mounted picture is 792 square inches?
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Question 221196: A car manufacturer produces three models in equal quanties. One model has an economy rating of 17 miles per gallon and the second model is rated for 19 mpg. If government regulations require the manufacturer to have a fleet average that exceeds 21 mpg, what ecomony rating is required for the third model?
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Question 221273:
A company offers gourmet coffee beans for $14 per pound and regular coffee beans for $6 per pound. Jimmy is creating a meduim-price product that will sell for $8 per pound. The first thing to go into the mixing bin was 12 pounds of the gourmet beans. How many pounds of the less expensive regular beans should be added?
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Question 221270: At a gourmet nut shop, nuts are sold in bulk. Peanuts sell for $1.30 per pound and macademia nuts sell for $8.50 per pound. Lee wishes to purchase 5 pounds of mixed nuts by mixing 3.5 pounds of peanuts and 1.5 pounds of macademia nuts. What will be the price per pound of the mixture?
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Question 221281: Find how many qrts of 6% butterfat milk and 2% butterfat milk should be mixed to yield 120 qrts of 5% butterfat milk
I think it is 90 of the 6% and 30 of the 2%
Is this correct
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Question 221272: Paul and Andy share in the profits of a pet supplies store. If the total profit is $80,000 and p is the amount of profit Paul recieves, write an expression for the amount Andy recieves.
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Question 221405: There were 6 more women on a committee than men. If the committee was made up of 30 people, how many men were on the committee?
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Question 221397: Joseph mixes a certain amount of 10% isopropyl mixture with 60 gallons of a 20% isopropyl solution, and the resulting mixture is 16% isopropyl. How much of the 10% isopropyl did he add? To earn credit, you MUST construct an algebraic equation with a variable and solve using algebra steps.
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Question 221589: A tree grows 1/2 inch per year. The tree is currently 50 feet tall; how long will it take to grow to 60 feet? Answers must be shown as a one variable algebraic equation with 'x' equaling the same value on each side of the equation. I believe the correct answer is 240 years, but I don't know how to show the work in the proper way.
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Question 221465: It takes a train 7 seconds to pass by a stationary observer and 26 seconds to travel the length of a station 380 meters long. What is the speed of the train and its length?

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Question 221798: Please help me solve this problem...I dont know how to start solving this..
A 10-quart container is filled with water. One quart of water is drained out and replaced with alcohol. After mixing, a quart of the soluti0n is drained out and replaced with alcohol. This process continued until 5quarts of alcohol have been put into the container. The solution in the container is then what percent of alcohol?
Thank you in advance..
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Question 221891: Write the following statement in symbols, letting y represent the number:
"Three times a certain number is less than the square of the number."
I need help with this problem. I obviously know that the first part is 3y (or ) but I dont know how to write out the rest of it. Please help.
Thank you
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Question 221894: Is 2.1 a rational number?_________
Why or why not?_________________________
I'm having trouble with this. I'm actually having trouble understanding what a rational number really is. I've read about it in my textbook over and over again but I'm just not getting it, so if someone could explain this it would really help.
Thank you
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Question 221990: A _____ circuit results when the connecting wires of an electric circuit accidentally touch each other or are joined by a stray conductor.
A. random, B. Hot, C. Live, d. Short
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