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Question 290455: If a clock strikes the proper number of chimes each hour on the hour, how many times will it chime in a month of 30 days?
(a) 360 (b) 720 (c) 2340 (d) 4680 (e) 4836

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Question 290506: The number of tickets sold each day for an upcoming performance of Handels Messieah is given by N(x)=-0.5^2+11x+13, where x is the number of days since the concert was first announced, When will daily ticket sales peak and how many tickets will be sold that day? Ticket sales will peak __ days after the concert was first announced. The number of tickets sold on that day will be __
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Question 290604: China and the United States are playing each other in the championship match of the 1999 Women's world Cup soccer tournament. Brandi Chastain of the U.S. team is about to take a penalty kick against the Chinese team's goalkeeper, Gao Hong, Chastain will kick the ball from 18 yards away from the goal at 120 miles per hour. How many seconds does the goalkeeper have to react, dive, and reach the ball before it crosses the goal line? Thank you so much for any help!
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Question 290603: Consider these statistics from the National Transportation Sagety Board: In 1996, 319 people were killed in U.S. commercial airline accidents. Of course this is bad, but how does it compare to the 42,065 people killed in automobile accidents? Is it fair to compare cars and airplanes? A way to even out the statistics to get a better feel for the relative safety of these modes of transportation is to use the ratio deaths per passenger-mile. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, during 1996 the commercial airlines accounted for approximately 445.2 billion passenger-miles (445,200,000,000), whereas automobiles accounted for 3,630 billion passenger-miles. How do the death statistics compare now? 1. Write ratios showing deaths per billion passenger-miles for each form of transportation. 2. How many deaths per year would occur if cars had the same death rate per billion passenger-miles as airplanes? what does this say about the safety of driving versus flying? Sorry this is so long!

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Question 290584: A farmer ordered 100 animals for 100 dollars from a local mill. he knew he ordered some pigs, calves and chicks but he lost his receipt and forgot how many of each he orderd, he knew pigs were $3 each calves $10 each and chicks $.50 each. using this information determine what the farmers order was.
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Question 290697: how much water needs to be added to 3 quarts of 96% alcohol to produce a mixture that is 75% alcohol? (concentration of alcohol in water is 0%)

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Question 290570: If I have a hexagon building that is 1200 square feet in area, what would be the length of each of the sides?
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Question 290676: Please help with this.
There are two cities, A and B, on the opposite sides of a big lake. Two motorboats leave at exactly the same time: one leaves A going directly to B, while the other leaves B going directly to A. They each travel at constant speed(s).
The boats meet for the first time 500 meters from A. After each boat reaches its destination it immediately turns around and travels directly back to its starting point. Their second meeting takes place 300 meters from B.
How wide is the lake between A and B? What is the ratio between the speeds of the two boats?

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Question 290742: I need help setting up the equation on this word problem. Thank you.
A softball players batting average is the ration of hits made to the number of times at bat. If Sylvia's batting average is 0.40 how many hits did she get in 25 times at bat?
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Question 290764: Please answer this question: The four bases of a baseball diamond form a square 90 feet on a side. The shortstop,S, is in a position that is 50 feet from second bases and forms a 15 degree angle with the base path as shown. Find the distance between the shortstop and first base to the nearest foot
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Question 290746: If the ratio of freshmen to sophomores it 4:5 and there are 120 freshmen how many sophomores are there?
I believe you set it up like 4/5 = 12/X . Would you then cross multiply then divide by 4 to get x?
thank you for the help.
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Question 290795: 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 290809: Sharon has 30 nickels and dimes having having a total value of $2.35. How many of each kind does she have? I have a chart to fill in, find the equation then solve.
Number of coins x value per coin = total value
Nickels would be x for number of coins times value would be 5 equals total value 5x
Dimes would be 30-X as number of coins times value would be 10 so I"m not sure what total value would be ? Maybe 10(30-x) is that right?
I know we have 30 total coins with a total value of 235. How do I properly set up this equation to solve this. Thank you very much.
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Question 290808: if emma pays one-fourth of her salary for taxes,one-eigth for a car loan,one-fifth for savings. how muh of her retirement is left?

write the 100 percent as a fraction?
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Question 290972: Susan can sort the office mail in 15 minutes but if Kathy helps, they can sort the mail in 8 minutes. How long would it take Kathy to sort the mail alone?
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Question 291052: Mary is going to have a party for 95 guests. Hot dogs are sold in packages of eight and buns are sold in packages of ten. If she purchases the minimum number of packages of each to guarantee at least one hot dog and one bun for each guest, how many more buns than hot dogs does she have to buy?
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Question 291049: Ahc�ne, Nabil and Paul play each other in a tournament. Each game has a winner and a loser. The winner of the tournament is the first to win 10 games and the tournament ends when a winner is found. They play each other in the order: Ahc�ne vs. Nabil, Ahc�ne vs. Paul, and Nabil vs. Paul, repeating this order until the tournament ends. What is the smallest possible number of games in the tournament?
(A) 10 (B) 13 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 20

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Question 291254: A bag of marbles has twice as many blue marbles as green marbles, and the bag has at least 33 marbles in it. At least how many green marbles does it have?
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Question 291252: The difference between two positive integers is 36. One integer is three times as great as the other. Find the integers
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Question 291250: A triangular lake-front lot has a perimeter of 1900 feet. One side is 200 feet longer than the shortest side, while the third side is 500 feet longer than the shortest side. Find the lengths of all three sides.
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Question 291248: A bike road race starts at an elevation of 870 feet and passes through 5 stages where the elevation changes by -684 feet, 17 feet, -236 feet, -440 feet, and 286 feet. At what elevation does the race end?
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Question 291359: Find two numbers whose product is 22 such that one of the numbers is five more than eight times the other number.
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Question 291467: If you had one liter of fuel at 10 degrees Celsius and the fuel was heated to 30 degrees Celsius, would you have more, less or the same volume amount of fuel?
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Question 291466: If you have a cylinder that is 2 inch's in diameter and a cylinder 10 inch's in diameter and both have 4 feet of water, which cylinder would have more pressure at the bottom?
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Question 291464: If you had an empty cylinder 10 inches in diameter and 20 inches long and applied 10 psi of air pressure to the inside, what would the force be on one of the ends of the cylinder?
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Question 291405: In an office building, a room contains 90 chairs. The number of chairs per row is three less than three times the number of rows. Find the number of rows and the number of chairs per row.

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Question 291575: How many animals do I have if all but two are dogs, All but two are cats and all but two are hamsters ?
A 3 b 4 c 5 d 6 e 7

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Question 291592: In a class room which has 30 students, 16 of the students are boys , 23 are ten years old and 6 are girls who are not 10 years old. How many students in the class are ten-year old boys ?
A 8 b 10 c 12 d 15 e 16

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Question 291594: A store sells juice in two sizes of bottles: small and large. A large bottle costs three times as much as a small one . jack bought 10 small bottles and 6 large bottles . with the same amount of money , Lise bought 24 bottles . how many little bottles did Lise buy ?
A 16 b 18 c 20 d 22 e not enough information

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Question 291587: Find the value of this product of 98 numbers
(1 - 2/3) (1 - 2/4)(1 - 2/5).....(1 - 2/98) (1 - 2/99)(1 - 2/100)
a 1/10 b 98/100 c 1/6 d 1/582120 e 1/4950

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Question 291597: Four children Alice, Brad, Cathy and Dan are arranged in a line. If Brad and Cathy cannot be next to each other, in how many ways can the kids be arranged?
A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 16 (E) 24
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Question 291553: 1. if you drive 350 miles in 4 � hours, what is your average speed? your solution

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Question 291552: I need you help solving this problem please:
A number leaves a remainder 13 when divided by 16. What is the remainder when the number is divided by 8?
Thank you.
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Question 291649: the volume of a paper cup, shaped like a circular cone, is 28pi cubic centimeters. The radius of top of the cup is 3 cm. What is the height of the cup if
V = 1/3pi r^2h ?
answer in units of cm.
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Question 291667: An office has some .20 stamps and some .28 stamps. All together the office has 140 stamps for a total value of $31.20. How many of each type of stamp does the office have? Using only x
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Question 291674: Find the critical values of the function and determine the relative max and relative min.
y=x^3-3x^2+6x+1
(I dont understand once you get the derivative how to factor it out...)
Thanks!
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Question 291640: You Are planning to rebuild your garage, which currently measure 20 feet by 30 feet. You want the new garage to be larger than the existing one, but in the same proportions as the original. If you increase the width by x feet, you will have to increase the length by (3/2)*x feet. Write the floor area of the new garage in terms of the variable x.
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Question 291657: How do you write this statement if algebracic form: 3 times a number is decreased by 5 and this difference is doubled, the result is 14 less than twice the number
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Question 291713: How many liters each of a 3% chlorine solution and 5% chlorine solution must be mixed toghether to produce 500L of a 4.4% chlorine solution?
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Question 291710: A professor has two types of problems to use in putting together a test: multiple choice questions worth 1 point each and short answer questions worth 8 point each. If the professor wants to create a 130 point test using a total of 74 questions, then how many questions of each type should she use?
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