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Question 255164: In 1995, Sweden and Norway had more women members of parliament (MPs) than any other democratic countries. Combined, the two countries had 206 women in parliaments. Taking double the number of women MPs in Sweden and adding this to triple the number of women MPs in Norway results in 477.
a. How many women MPs are there in each country?
b. The total MPs in Sweden is 349 and in Norway the number is 165. What percent (to the nearest whole percent) of the total MPs are women for each of the two countries?
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Question 255264: If m and n are whole numbers, 49 < n < 101 and 19 < m < 51, then what is the greatest value for (n + m) / n?
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Question 255272: For his art class, Bryce bought 2 kg of dark clay and 3 kg of light clay, paying $22 for the clay. He later needed 1 kg of dark clay and 2 kg of light clay,costing $13 altogether. How much more per kg does the the dark clay cost than the light clay, in dollars

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Question 255259: What is the largest positive integer k so that 5k divides 26!?

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Question 255259: What is the largest positive integer k so that 5k divides 26!?

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Question 255273: A staircase has 5 steps. You can walk up the staircase by taking one or two steps at a time. How many different ways can you walk up the staircase?

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Question 255271: A man buys some shirts and some ties. The shirts cost $7 each and the ties cost $3 each. If the man spends exactly $81 and buys the maximum number of shirts possible under these conditions, what is the total number of items he bought?

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Question 255260: From a group of green monkeys, 10 females leave. At this point there are 3 males for every female. Then 25 males leave, at which point there are two males for every female. How many females were there originally?

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Question 255308: Pedro can paint a fence 50% faster than Juan and 20% faster than Pilar. Together they can paint a given fence in 4 hr. How long would it take Pedro paint the same fence if he had work alone?
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Question 255460: toni has a collection of dimes & quarters with a face value of $25.30. She has 27 more quarters than dimes. How many of each coin does she have?
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Question 255422: Two angles are complementary. The sum of the measure of the first angle and one-forth the second angle is 64.5 degree. Find the measures of the angles.
What is the measure of the smaller angle?
What is the measure of the other angle?
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Question 255491: Carol, Debbie and Frieda practice the piano for a total of 23 hours per week. Carol practices twice as much as Frieda, and Debbie practices 3 hours more than Frieda every week. How many hours does each woman practice?
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Question 255496: In a recent survey of television shows, Prime Events was watched by 48% of households polled. If there were 240 households watching this show, how many households were surveyed?
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Question 255497: After a firm installed new equipment, its cost of producing a business letter dropped from $24 to $20. What percent decrease does this represent?
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Question 255495: A homeowner paid $112 for 1,400 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity. At this rate, how much would, 850 KWh of electricity cost?
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Question 255529: A stone is thrown horizontally off a cliff with a velocity of 10 m/s. If it takes 5 seconds for the stone to hit the ground, how his is the cliff?
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Question 255527: You are driving 15 m/s in your car and drop a ball out the window. 5 seconds later you drop another ball out the window. How far apart on the road are the balls?
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Question 255510: Electricity cost for a restaurant amount to 16 2/3 % of its monthly expenses. If monthly expenses total $8,700, how much does electricity cost?
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Question 255555: According to Bruce Harrell, CPA, the
federal income tax for a class C corporation is found by
solving a linear equation. The reason for the equation is that
the amount x of federal tax is deducted before the state tax
is figured, and the amount of state tax is deducted before
the federal tax is figured. To find the amount of federal tax
for a corporation with a taxable income of $200,000, for
which the federal tax rate is 25% and the state tax rate is
10%, Bruce must solve
x=0.25[200,000-0.10(200,000-x)]
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Question 255594: If the repeating decimal .36 is expressed as a rational number a/b with a and b integers in reduced form, then a + b is
(1) 15 (2) 16 (3) 17 (4) 18 (5) None of the above

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Question 255592: In November, 2% more new cars were sold than in October, but 2% fewer new cars were sold in December than in November. If 250,000 new cars were sold in October, how many were sold in December?
(1) 250,000 (2) 249,900 (3) 248,000 (4) 247,750

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Question 255590: When getting into shape by exercising, the subject�s maximum recommended number
of heartbeats per minute (h) can be determined by subtracting the subject�s age from 220, and then taking 75% of that value. This relation is expressed by which of the following formulas?
A. h = .75(220 � a)
B. h = .75(220) � a
C. h = 220 � .75a
D. .75h = 220 � a
E. 220 = .75(h � a)

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Question 255607: Two candles of equal length start burning at the same time. One will last 4 hours
and the other 6 hours. How many hours will they burn before one candle is twice
the length of the other?
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Question 255611: The inital height a ball is thrown in the air is 80 feet, velocity 64 ft. per sec. and g is 32 feet/sec squared. I am supposed to figure out when it will hit the ground in 2 different ways.
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Question 255606: The average of seven different non-negative integers is 7. What is the largest
possible value of any of these numbers?
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Question 255606: The average of seven different non-negative integers is 7. What is the largest
possible value of any of these numbers?
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Question 255627: Simplify completely:
(1997-1904)(1997-1905)(1997-1906)......(1997-2003).
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Question 255626: If a * b = (a^2 - b^2) / (a � b), determine the value of
(a * b) * c where a = 3, b = 4, and c = 5.
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Question 255623: How many spokes are there in the wheel of a sports car if any two spokes form an angle of 15�?
(A) 12 (B) 15 (C) 22 (D) 24 (E) None of the above.
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Question 255625: The sum of the first n odd positive integers is 9409. What is the value of n ?
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Question 255591: The sum of a certain number of positive integers is 31. What is the biggest their product can be?
(1) 55296 (2) 78732 (3) 118098 (4) 49152 (5) None of the above
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Question 255657: Stacy has a collection of coins from 5 diffrent countries. Half of the coins are from England, 1/6 are from Mexico, 1/6 are from India, 1/12 are from Italy, and 7 are from Spain. How many coins are in the collection, and how many are from each country?
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Question 255435: In the sequence 3,8,13,18, what term of the series is the number 2218?
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Question 255435: In the sequence 3,8,13,18, what term of the series is the number 2218?
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Question 255766: At a given time of day, the ratio of the height of an object to the length of its shadow is the same for all objects. If a 5ft post casts a shadow of 1.2ft find the length of the shadow for a 17ft post?
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Question 255820: There are (FILL IN BLANK) micrograms in 1 gram.

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Question 255820: There are (FILL IN BLANK) micrograms in 1 gram.

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Question 255827: If the quantity {x} is inverserly proportional to {y}, how is that written?
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Question 255837: A rectangle is 6cm long and 5 cm wide. When each dimension is increased by x cm, the area is tripled. Find the value of x.
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Question 255837: A rectangle is 6cm long and 5 cm wide. When each dimension is increased by x cm, the area is tripled. Find the value of x.
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Question 255888: A farmer has 1000 feet of fence. He wants to enclose a pasture bordering on long straight river where no fence is needed. Find the area of the largest such enclosure.
Thank you for help.
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