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Question 306796: A straight fence 144 m long is built by putting a post at each end, and a post
every 6 m. How many posts are used building this fence?

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Question 306851: 20 people make 43 shoes in [ (3)^.5]/2HOURS. hOW MANY SHOES WILL THEY MAKE IN 8 HOURS
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Question 306765: The sum of the digits of a two digit counting number is 10. If the digits are reversed, the new number is two less than three times the original number. What is the original number?
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Question 306895: Watermelons bought for 200.00. Priced melons so made $1.50 profit per melon. When all but 30 had been sold, initial investment of 200.00 had been recovered. How many melons were bought initially.
I cannot figure out the formula without either the price the melons were sold for or the number of melons bought. Help please!
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Question 306783: The will of an eccentric millionaire reads as follows: "In the following order, i leave 4/17 of my estate to my son, then 7/13 of the remainder to my wife, then 2/3 of the remainder to my daughter, and the remaining $2 million to my dog." What was the total amount of the millionaire's estate?

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Question 306840: Plants, which get their carbon dioxide from the air, contain small amounts of carbon-14. Once a plant is cut it no longer forms Carbon-14 and in fact the amount present starts to decay. The half life for Carbon-14 is 5730 years. If a plant had 30 units of Carbon-14 in it when it was cut, find an equation that models the decay of Carbon-14 in this plant.
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Question 84872: Hello. I've tried this problem but came to no logical solution. Please help.
A monk has a very specific ritual for climbing up the steps to the temple. First he climbs up to the middle step and meditates for 1 minute. Then he climbs up 8 steps and faces east until he hears birds singing. Then he walks down 12 steps and picks up a pebble. He takes one step up and tosses the pebble over his left shoulder. Now, he walks up the remaining steps three at a time which only takes 9 paces. How many steps are there?
Thank you very much for your help.
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Question 307071: A circular clock has the numbers 1 through 24 evenly spaced around it. Which of the following answers include the numbers that is directly across from 7?
A 16 or 17 B 18 or 19 C 20 or 21 D 5 E 2

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Question 307062: According to Kepler's third law of motion, the ratio T^2/R3 has the same value of every planet in the solar system. T is the number of years it takes a planet to orbit the sun. R is the average radius of the orbit of the planet measured in astronomical units(AU). The question is, if the average radius of the orbit of Venus is 0.723 AU, then how many years does it take for Venus to complete one orbit of the sun?
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Question 307137: 2 boys can eat 2 slices of pizza in 3 minutes . in how many minutes can 178 boys eat 178 slices of pizza ?
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Question 307138: A certain type of chocolate is sold only in 10 ounce boxes, costing $1.5 per . box. How much will it cost to buy 2 pounds of this chocolate ? There are 16 ounces in one pound
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Question 306388: Combined there are 202 Asians, African, Europeans, and Americans in a village. The number of Asians exceeds the number of Africans and Europeans by 71. The difference between the number of Europeans and Americans is 16. If the number of Africans is doubled, their population exceeds the number of Europeans and Americans by 18. Determine the number of Asians, Africans, Europeans, and Americans in this village.
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Question 307132: People enter a room one at a time and are given a name tag in one of five possible colors. The colors are given out in this order: red, blue, white, green, and yellow. What is the color of the name tag that is given to the 93rd person who enters the room?

(A) red (B) blue (C) white (D) green (E) yellow

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Question 307072: Farmer Fred said to Farmer John: �If you sell me 45 hectares of land, I will
have twice as much land as you.� Then Farmer John said to Framer Fred: �If
you sell me 45 hectares of land, I will have just as much land as you.� How
many hectares of land does farmer Fred have?
(A)135 (B) 180 (C) 225 (D) 270 (E) 315

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Question 307206: A soccer ball is kicked straight up with an initial velocity of 32 ft. per second. Its height above the earth is given by s (t) = -16t^2 + 32t, where, �s� is the height in ft. at any time, �t� seconds.
a. What is the maximum height reached by the ball?
b. How long after it was thrown up the ball reaches its maximum height?

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Question 307092: The number of tickets sold each day for an upcoming performance of Handel's Messieah is given by N(x)=-0.4x^2+8.8x+11, 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?
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Question 307208: A cubic shipping container had a volume of v3 cubic meters. The height of the container was decreased by a whole number of meters and the width was increased by a whole number of meters so that the volume of the container is now v3 + 2v2 � 3v. Find out the following:
a. By how many meters the height was decreased?
b. By how many meters the width was increased?

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Question 307227: On a sunny day, a building and its shadow form the sides of a right triangle. If the hypotenuse is 34 m long and the shadow is 24 m, how tall is the building?
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Question 307272: Z W Y X
The sequence above may be changed in either of two ways . either two adjacent letters may be interchanged or the entire sequence may be reversed . what is the least number of such changes needed to put the letters into alphabetical order from left to right ?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6

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Question 307281: Fast food. If four out of five doctors prefer fast food,
then at a convention of 445 doctors, how many prefer fast
food?
For this problem I subtracted one from every five and received the answer 111.

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Question 307435: Write and solve two mathmatical sentences for the following problem:
The length of a crayon box base is 2 more than 3 times its width. If the perimeter of the base of the crayon box is 14 centimeters, find the length and width.
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Question 307448: If the area of square PQRS is 500 square feet, the length of each side is in between which two numbers?
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Question 307463: The cardinal number of the set {triangle, rectangle, square, trapezoid, octagon, rhombus, circle, ellipse, pentagon} is _________.
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Question 307465: Without writing them all out, what is the number of subsets of set A ={king, queen, knight, prince, princess, duke}?
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Question 307551: At 2pm in Anchorage, Alaska the temperature is 11 degrees fahrenheit, at 9pm the temperature was -10 degrees fahrenheit. What was the average temperature change per hour.
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Question 307495: A clock loses 2 seconds every minute. How much time , in hours, must pass before this clock displays the correct time again ?
a 30 b 60 c 700 d 720 e 120

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Question 307675: The number of bacteria present in a culture after t minutes is given as B=10e^kt. If there are 6703 bacteria present after 5 minutes, kind k.
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Question 307694: How many miles would a map distance of 5/8 inch represent if 1 inch = 240 miles?
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Question 307719: The formula for the surface area of a sphere is A=4nr2. A square sticker of side x if placed on a ball of radius 3x. What is the surface area of a sphere not covered by the sticker? We must answer in a factored form. Thank you.
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Question 307913: Can the word "ANTLERS" be played from the letters A, E, O, N, R, S, T as the first move in a Scrabble game? Explain your answer
Thank you
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Question 307959: In the last election, Tara received 45% of the votes cast. Her only opponent, Kimberly,received 3861 votes. How many people voted for Tara in the election.
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Question 308170: Michael took a test which consisted of 60 problems. He got 12 wrong. what percent did Michael get on the test?
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Question 308170: Michael took a test which consisted of 60 problems. He got 12 wrong. what percent did Michael get on the test?
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Question 307966: A rocket burns up at the rate of 2.5 tons/minute after falling out of orbit into the atmosphere. If the rocket weighed 6000 tons before reentry, express its weight w as a function of the time t, in minutes of reentry.

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Question 308102: Norman can collect all grocery carts in the parking lot in 12 minutes. Charles can collect all carts in 18 minutes. How long will it take to collect all carts if Norman and Charles work together?
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Question 308198: the ratio of the weight of an object on mars to its weight on earth is 9 to 25. if a person weighs 120 pounds on earth, how much would the person weigh on mars.

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Question 308306: Ziggy bought x cans of red goo for y dollars a can, and z cans of blue goo for 3y dollars a can. If he bought twice as much blue goo as red goo, then in terms of y, what was the average cost, in dollars, per can of goo?
a) 3y/2 b) 7y/3 c) 3y � y d) 2y e) 6y
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Question 308337: I need to find out the number of foxes and rabbits. Thanks
Foxes and rabbits. The ratio of foxes to rabbits in the Deerfield Forest Preserve is 2 to 9. If there are 35 fewer foxes than rabbits, then how many of each are there?
Let x=rabbits
Let x-35=foxes

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Question 308361: Two cars leave an intersection. One car travels north; the other east. When the car traveling north had gone 12 miles, the distance between the cars was 4 miles more than the distance traveled by the car heading east. How far had the eastbound car traveled?
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Question 308506: 200 TICKETS SOLD, ADULTS = X = $8, CHILDREN = 200-X = 5$, TOTAL = 1441, HOW MANY CHILDREN?
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Question 308512: A. This year, I seeded both peppers and tomatoes, using a total of 84 seeds. Write an equation to show this.
P+t=84
Above is the question. its been two years since ive been in any algebra class. im not sure if the equation i have is correct. and if it is im not sure how to solve it. can you help me figure out whether or not this is the right equation to use? thank you.
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Question 308535: Two race cars are speeding around the racetrack at different speeds. One goes around the track in 2 minutes; the other goes around the track in 1� minutes. How often does the faster car pass the slower car?
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Question 308608: The population of the world in 1995 was 5.7 billion people. The observes population growth rate was 3% per year. Assuming the growth rate doesn't change, what will the population be in the year 2034? In what year will the world's population have tripled? The predicted sustainable population of the earth is 22.5 billion people. When will Earth have too many people?
I don't if you need a formula of some type so I'm a little stumped.
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Question 308692: Solve using a Venn Diagram.
Of the 154 student musicians, 72 are in marching band, 35 are in the jazz band, and 20 are in both.
A)Draw a Venn Diagram

B)How many are in neither?
C)How many play the jazz band, but not the marching band?
D)How many play only in the marching band?
E)What is a Venn Diagram?
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