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Question 231321: the booster club is creating buttons for sale at games. The machine to make the buttons cost $45. The material to make each button is .20. The buttons will be sold for $1 each. How many buttons must be sold to make a profit of at least $100.
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Question 231428: An automobile manufacturer can produce up to 300 cars per day. The profit made from the sale of these vehicles can be modeled by the function Where P(x) is the profit in dollars and x is the number of automobiles made and sold. How many cars should be made and sold to maximize profits.
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Question 231458: Twenty-seven congruent cubes are glued together to form a larger cube. All six faces of the larger cube are painted pink. What is the product of the number of small cubes that have a single pink face and the number of small cubes that have three pink faces?
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Question 231484: 6.8 #17
Can someone please walk me through this?
Before a football game, a coin toss is used to determine which team will kick off. The height h (in feet) of a coin above the ground t seconds after being flipped up into the air is given by the following equation.
h = -16t2 + 22t + 20.
How long does a team captain have to call heads or tails if it must be done while the coin is in the air?
____ seconds
Thank you,
Alan
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Question 231484: 6.8 #17
Can someone please walk me through this?
Before a football game, a coin toss is used to determine which team will kick off. The height h (in feet) of a coin above the ground t seconds after being flipped up into the air is given by the following equation.
h = -16t2 + 22t + 20.
How long does a team captain have to call heads or tails if it must be done while the coin is in the air?
____ seconds
Thank you,
Alan
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Question 231486: 7.2 #20
I know this seems simple but I just cannot get this to come out right.
Use the information that follows to determine the miles per fluid ounce of gasoline for city and for highway driving for the Dodge Dakota Pickup. (Hint: 1 gallon = 128 fluid ounces.)
2007 Dodge Dakota Pickup
Fuel Economy
Fuel Type Regular
MPG (city) 16
MPG (highway) 20
_____mile per ounce (City)
_____mile per ounce (Highway)
Please walk me through it.
Thank you,
Alan
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Question 231501: an engine pulls a train 140 miles. then a second engine, whose average rate is 5 miles per hour faster than the first engine, takes over and pulls the train 200 miles. The total time required for both engines is 9 hours. Find the average rate of each engine.
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Question 231483: 6.8 #5
Can someone please help me with this problem?
Suppose you are an elementary school teacher. You want to order a rectangular bulletin board to mount on a classroom wall that has an area of 40 square feet. Fire code requirements allow for no more than 30% of a classroom wall to be covered by a bulletin board. If the length of the board to be three times as long as the width, what are the dimensions of the largest bulletin board that meets fire code?
width =
length =
Thank you,
Alan
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Question 231955: Two friends rent an apartment for $975 per month. Since one bedroom is 60 square feet larger than the other bedroom, each person’s rent contribution is based on bedroom size. Each person agrees to pay $3.25 per square foot of bedroom area. What is the size of the larger bedroom
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Question 232044: A 25-inch piece of string is to be cut in two pieces so that the longer piece is four times the shorter piece. Find the length of each piece.
I want to know how to write and equation for this type of problem so that it will be easier to solve. Please help. Thanks ♥
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Question 232259: Mark had a board 25 1/2 inches long which he cut into 10 pieces. How long would the board be if it had 17 pieces of the same thickness?
a. 42 7/20 inches
b. 43 7/20 inches
c. 45 7/20 inches
d. 41 7/20 inches
I worked this one also and came up with Letter "A"
Please help...
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Question 232261: Thank you in advance for your help and your time. I have tried this and it does work out, but I cannot figure out why! Can you explain?
Think of a number.
Add 7.
Double the result.
Subtract 8.
Double the result.
Add 12.
Divide by 4.
Subtract 6.
Your answer will be the original number. Explain how this trick works.
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Question 232261: Thank you in advance for your help and your time. I have tried this and it does work out, but I cannot figure out why! Can you explain?
Think of a number.
Add 7.
Double the result.
Subtract 8.
Double the result.
Add 12.
Divide by 4.
Subtract 6.
Your answer will be the original number. Explain how this trick works.
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Question 232325: Robin just graduated from college and has taken her first job. She is working for a computer sales company. Her earnings consist of a monthly salary of $1300.00, plus 6% of all her sales. To meet her monthly obligations she wants to earn at least $2800.00 per month. What is the amount of sales she must make monthly to meet her goal? I must solve this using an inequality. Thank you so much!
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Question 232385: It's been estimated that if you consume an extra 3500 calories, you will gain 1 pound of a fat. One can of soda contains 40 grams of sugar. Sugar has 4 calories per gram.If a person drinks a six-pack of soda everyday, how many pounds will he or she gain?
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Question 232623: A fourth grade class decides to enclose a rectangular garden using the side of the school as one side of the rectangle. Suppose they have 32 feet of fence to enclose the garden. Express the are of the garden as a function of x. What should the dimensions of the garden be in order to maximize the area?
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Question 232743: I am currently without a book and some of these are still questionable to me. Anyone disagree? I makred my answers with the x. I have seen a similar test but nothing was solved that I found
1. The terms of a loan indicate how often interest is compounded. (Points: 2)
xTrue
False
2. A compound interest table shows the compounded amount per dollar of principal. (Points: 2)
True
xFalse
3. To compound daily means to compound 360 times a year. (Points: 2)
True
xFalse
4. The number of compounding periods for $6,600.00 at 12% compounded quarterly for 15 years is 30 periods. (Points: 2)
True
xFalse
5. The effective rate of a transaction can be calculated by dividing the interest for one year by the principal. (Points: 2)
xTrue
False
6. The term "nominal rate" means the same as "true rate." (Points: 2)
True
xFalse
7. The interest on $4,200.00 at 8% compounded semiannually for 10 years is $6,292.40. (Points: 2)
True
xFalse
8. The effective rate is: (Points: 2)
the stated rate
the nominal rate
the true semiannual rate
the true annual rate
x none of the above
9. $15,000.00 for 10 years compounded at 10% quarterly results in how many periods? (Points: 2)
120
20
10
x40
none of the above
10. In a loan of 8% compounded quarterly, what is the periodic interest (Points: 2)
x 2.5%
6%
2%
4%
11. $25,000.00 for 15 years compounded at 10% quarterly results in a periodic interest rate of: (Points: 2)
10%
x7%
5%
2.5%
none of the above
12. The effective rate is: (Points: 2)
xthe interest for one year divided by the principal
the interest for one year divided by the principal for three years
the interest for one year divided by the annual rate
never related to the compound table
none of the above
13. Josh is having difficulty deciding whether to put his savings in the Mercantile Bank or the Boatmen's Bank. Mercantile offers a 10% rate compounded quarterly while Boatmen's offers 12% compounded semiannually. Josh has $40,000.00 to invest and expects to withdraw the money at the end of 5 years. (Use Table 10-1 from the textbook.) The best deal is: (Points: 2)
xMercantile Bank
Mercantile Bank for the last two years
Boatmen's Bank for the first two years
Boatmen's Bank
none of the above
14. Don deposited $27,500.00 in Trader's Bank at an interest rate of 12% compounded quarterly. (Use Table 10-1 from the textbook.) The effective rate was: (Points: 2)
12.55%
12%
x13%
14.0%
none of the above
15. Lisa wants to attend the University of Colorado. She will need to have $80,000.00 five years from today. Lisa is wondering what she will have to put in the bank today so she will have $80,000.00 in five years. Her bank pays 10% compounded quarterly. By using Table 10-3 in the textbook, the amount Lisa will need to deposit is: (Points: 2)
$48,281.68
$49,113.60
$48,821.60
x$49,113.06
none of the above
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Question 232916: For every 1 hour parked or part of, there is a 1.00 charge for parking or any part of an hour. There is a $5.00 daily Maximum
1. Customer arrives at 9:15 am Total time parked hrs mins
Customer departs at 11:30 am Total parking charge
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Question 232916: For every 1 hour parked or part of, there is a 1.00 charge for parking or any part of an hour. There is a $5.00 daily Maximum
1. Customer arrives at 9:15 am Total time parked hrs mins
Customer departs at 11:30 am Total parking charge
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Question 233246: Hi. I can across this question in the practice Accuplacer test, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to work it.
2. If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours, and John can paint the same house in 6 hour, how long will it take for both of them to paint the house together?
A. 2 hours and 24 minutes
B. 3 hours and 12 minutes
C. 3 hours and 44 minutes
D. 4 hours and 10 minutes
E. 4 hours and 33 minutes
I know that the answer is A, however I do not know how. Your help is greatly appreciated.
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Question 233309: Can you assist me in solving this word problem?
An object's altitude in meters is given by the polynomial h + vt - 9.8t^2, where h is the height in meters from which the rocket is airborne. A pebble is shot upward from the top of a building 200 meters tall. If the initial speed is 30 meters per second, how high above the ground will the pebble be after 4 seconds? (Round results to the nearest tenth of a meter)
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Question 233310: Can you assist me in solving this word problem?
A 4-ft by 7-ft picnic table is placed on an outdoor patio measuring x-ft by (x + 3)ft. find a polynomial for the remaining open space on the patio (in square inches).
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Question 233343: The amount of gold jewelry and other products is measured in karats (K), where 24K represents pure gold. The mark 14K on a chain indicates that the ratio between the mass of the gold in the chain and the mass of the chain is 14:24. If a gold ring is marked 18K and it weighs 0.4 oz, what is the value of the gold in the ring if pure gold is valued at $300 per oz?
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Question 233390: t the opening night of the phantom of the opera, two different types of souvenirs were sold. posters sold for $20 each and t-shirts sold for $25 each. onw thousand souvenirs were sold in all for a total cost of $22,000. how many posters and t-shirts were sold?
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Question 233503: regular milk has 4% butterfat. how many litres of regular milk must be mixed with 40L of milk with 1% butterfat to have milk with 2% butterfat?
Does someone know how to turn this into an equation? I would really appreciate it. thank you
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Question 233457: Your friend works as a waitress at a local restaurant. Her income consists of an hourly wage plus tips. On Wednesday, your friend earned $25 in tips over a 5 hour period. On Friday, your friend earned $30.76 in tips over a 3 hour period. How much is your friend's hourly wage if your friend earned the same amount of money on Wednesday as on Friday?
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Question 233671: An internet service offers internet access for $29.95 per month with a $15.75 initial charge for the hookup. If Glenda spent a total of $187.45 on her Internet access, how many months did she pay for?
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