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Question 229141: An athelete whose event is the shot put releases a shot. Whtne the shot whose path is shown by the graph is releases at an angle of 65 degrees, its height, f(x), in feet, can be modeled by f(x)=0.03x^2+2.1x+6.2, where x is the shots horizontal distance, in feet, from its point of release. Use this model to solve part a through C and verify answers using a graph

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Question 228828: Anyone have any idea of how to solve this:
The volume of a cube with the side length x is V(x)=x^3. Find the rate of change of volume with respect to the side length if the surface area is 54cm^2.
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Question 229252: Hi My Name is Raven and i wanted to know what objects equal up to a Kiloliter?
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Question 229240: carry out the indicated operation and give your answer with 2 significant digits 274.23/.087. What is 274.23/.087 with two significant digits? answer in integer or decimal
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Question 229219: When 30% of a number is added to the number, the result is 54.6. What is the number?
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Question 229219: When 30% of a number is added to the number, the result is 54.6. What is the number?
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Question 229360: Rebekah's recipe for 4 1/2 dozen cookies calls for 6 cups of sugar. How many cups of sugar are needed to make 8 dozen cookies?
Please help
Thanks
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Question 229405: using the digits 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9 once to form two different factors, find the largest possible product.
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Question 229405: using the digits 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9 once to form two different factors, find the largest possible product.
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Question 229480: Sam has twice as much money as Mary, who has $175 less than Larry. But Larry has as much money as Sam and Mary have together. How much money does each person have?
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Question 229490: A box of books weighs 8 2/3 lbs. How much do 4 1/2 boxes weigh?
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Question 229559: If a ball bounces 2/3 of its previous height each time it bounces, how high will the ball bounce after the fifth bounce if the ball is dropped from 20 feet?
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Question 229684: Please Help!!! I can figure out a) but not b). Can you please explain this to me? Thanks soooo much!
Use 3 and 4 as the first two terms of a Fibonacci-type sequence.
a)Find the next five terms
3,4 (are given)7,11,18,29,47 is what I came up with for the remaining 5 terms.
b) Write a symbolic description for this Fibonacci-type sequence using variables t n-1 and t n+2 as terms of the sequence.
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Question 229709: a rain gutter is made from sheets of aluminum that are 27 inches wide. The edges are turned up to form right angles. Determine the depth of the gutter that will alow a cross-sectional area of 58 inches. There are 2 solutions to this problem.
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Question 229935: jay writes a different number on a t-shirt for each person on the math team. Jay's number is 4. each of the other numbers has a 4 or 9 in the ones place. what number did jay count by to choose the numbers?
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Question 229970: A wire 10 cm long is cut into 2 pieces, one of length x and the other of length 10-x. Each piece is bent into the shape of a square.
a) Find a function that models the total area enclosed by the two squares.
Would the function be A(x)=-(x+5)�+25?
b) Find the value of x that minimizes the total area of two squares.

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Question 229914: A pet shop buys a litter of puppies for $160. They sell all but four of the puppies. They make $160 off the puppies they sell, and sell each puppy for $20 more than they bought them for. How many puppies were in the litter that the store bought?
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Question 229899: what is the equation for twice the sum of a number and 5 increased by seven is twenty one
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Question 229998: Postage rates. The maximum size envelope that can be mailed with a large envelope rate is 3 inches longer than it is wide. The are is 180in^2. Find the length and width.
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Question 230014: A lot is in the shape of a right triangle. The shorter leg measures 60 meters. The hypotenuse is 20 meters longer than the length of the longer leg. How long is the longer leg?
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Question 230031: The sum of a number and 49 times its reciprocal is -14. Find the number.
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Question 230120: Weight of jack is 3kg more than that of Jill. The weight of both is 16kg less than 213kg.Find the weight of each.
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Question 230147: A circular dart board has a series of rings around a solid center, called the bullseye. To find the area of the outer white ring, we can use the formula below.
A = πR 2 - πr 2
Factor the expression on the right-hand side of the equation.
r = 1 R = 5
Please help.
Thank you,
Albert
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Question 230221: Please help me solve this problem. I'm not sure if the steps I used are correct so I would need the steps so I can understand it better. I think the answer is 320< x <480, but I'm not positive. Thanks in advance for your help. The problem is the following: Assume that the mathematical model C(x) = 16x + 130 represents the cost C, in hundreds of dollars, for a certain manufacturer to produce x items. How many items x can be manufactured while keeping costs between $525,000 and $781,000?
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Question 230282: A box with an open top is to be constructed from a rectangular piece of cardboard with dimensions 12 in. by 20 in. by cutting out equal squares of side x at each corner and then folding up the sides.
a)Find a function that models the volume of the box
i got the answer V(x)=4x�-64x�+240x

b) Find the values of x for which the volume is greater than 200 in�.
c) Find the largest volume that such a box can have.
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Question 230554: Cupcakes are $l.68 per dozen. How much will 14 cost?
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Question 230561: An apartment building contains 200 apartments. Some apartments have only one bedroom and rent for $435 per month. The rest have two bedrooms and rent for $575 per month. When all the units are rented, the total monthly income is $97,500. How many two-bedroom apartments are there?
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Question 230550: A number of girls are standing in a circle. They are evenly spaced and are numbered beginning with 1. Number 5 is opposite Number 16. How many girls are in the circle?
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Question 230586: The difference of two numbers is 16. the larger number is 4 less than 3 times the smaller. Find the two numbers
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Question 230434: The profits of a company that produces auto parts can be represented by a linear function. If the company sells 25 parts its profits are $80 and if the company sells 40 parts its profits are $125. Find the number of parts sold if the profits were $305. If the profits were $905.
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Question 230609: To estimate the size of the bear population, conservationists, captured, tagged and released 50 bears. One year later a random sample of the 100 bears included only 2 tagged bears. What is the conversationist's estiamte of the size of the bear population?
I love ratio questions but I am stumped on this one. I only have the follwing:
2/100=
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Question 230794: A semicircular window of radius 16 inchesis to be laminated with a sunblock coating that costs $0.65 per square inch to apply. What is the total cost of coating the window, to the nearest cent? (Use the Area of a Circle and Pi = 3.14)
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Question 230793: A computer can do one calculation in 1.4 X 10^-7 seconds. How long would it take the computer to do a trillion (10^12) calculations? (Round to one decimal point)Express answer in scientific notation.
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Question 230795: The area of a circle is 35 square meters. What is its circumference? (Use Pi = 3.14 and the Area of a Circle & the Circumference of a Circle)
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Question 230772: Beth scored 78 on a test that had 4 seven-point short answer and 24 three-point
multiple-choice questions. She had one wrong short answer. How many multiple choice questions did she get right?
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Question 230796: For a holiday party, Marcus is making a 5 layer torte, which consists of 5 9-inch diameter cale layers with a cream topping on each layer. He knows that one recipe of cream will cover 60 square inches of cake. How many batches of the topping must he make to complete his torte? (Use Pi = 3.14 as an approximate value)
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Question 230920: The length of a new rectangular playing field is 2 yards longer than double the width. if the perimeter of the rectangular playing field is 268 yards, what are it dimensions?
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Question 231056: Hello,
I always have trouble with word problems and I just want to make sure that I am doing this one correctly:
Eight horses are entered into a race. In how many ways can they cross the finish line, if ties are not allowed?
is it: 8*8*8*8*8*8*8*8 (8^8)
thank you for your help,
Peter
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Question 231055: Hello,
Can you please help me figure out the following problem:
A total of 37,451 Ph.D.�s were awarded in 1991. Out of the 1164 Ph.D.�s in business and management, 292 were earned by women. Women earned 13,782 Ph.D.�s. How many men earned Ph. D�s in business and management?
I think the answer is 872. But I might be wrong. I have been up all night working on math and I'm getting a little fuzzy:)
Thank you,
Peter
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Question 231087: factoring
N(t) = -3t^3 + 23t^2 + 8t

and

V(s) = s^3 -13s^2 + 54s - 72
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Question 231135: how far from the base of the building must a 26 foot ladder be placed so that it reaches 10 feet up the wall
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Question 231172: a group of friends went out to dinner and had a bill that totaled $288. WHen it came time to split the total cost of the bill equally, each person who was left (2 people left early) had to pay an extra $4.80 on top of their own part to cover the price of the two missing people. How many people were in the original dinner group?
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Question 231207: How many pounds of Coffee beans selling for $5 a pound should be mixed with 6 pounds of Coffee beans selling for $8 a pound to get a mix selling at $6.80 a pound?
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