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Question 316208: Use 9.8 m/s2 for the acceleration due to gravity. For Newton's Law calculations, mass must be expressed in kg and velocity must be expressed in m/s.
What net force is required to accelerate a 20 kg object to 10 m/s2?
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Question 315953: Follow the 5 steps below to complete this problem.
Step 1:
Pick a friend or family member to be the character of your word problem. This friend or family member may do one of the following:
Drive a boat or Drive a jet ski
Step 2:
Select a current speed of the water in mph.
Step 3:
Select the number of hours (be reasonable please) that your friend or family member drove the boat or jets ski against the current speed you chose in step 2.
Step 4:
Select the number of hours that your friend or family member made the same trip with the current (this should be a smaller number, as your friend or family member will be traveling with the current).
Step 5:
Write out the word problem you created and calculate how fast your friend or family member was traveling in still water. Round your answer to the nearest mph.
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Question 316320: last year you spent $120 PER month for gas for your car. This year the price of gas is expected to average %45 higher than last year. What do you expect your monthly gas bill to be this year?
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Question 316317: a flat screen television is on sale for $460 following a 30% reduction of its original price. what was its original price
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Question 316346: 2 angles are supplementary. the measure of one angle is 16 degrees less than 3 times the measure of the other angle. find the measure of each angle.
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Question 316375: Will you show me how to solve this equation please 2x+x+2x+x=630
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Question 316402: The height of a box is 4 inches more than the width and the length is 1 inch more than the width. If the volume of the box is 630 inches cubed, what are the dimensions of the box?
Very confused as to how to set it up and solve....PLEASE help!!
Thank you
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Question 316440: Writing equations. The value of d dimes and d - 3 quarters is $6.75.
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Question 316442: A dad is now three times as old as his son, but in eleven years the dad will be only two times as old as his son is then. How old will the dad be next year?
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Question 316550: A digital clock shows either 3 digits or 4 digits at a time . at what time do the digits on a digital clock have the greatest sum ?
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Question 316548: A ball is droppped 256 feet from the roof of a building . suppose that with each bounce the ball goes up exactly half its previous height . a man is sitting at his desk on the second floor . how many times will he see the ball if his eye level is 15 feet above ground ?

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Question 316694: A raffle has a first prize of $400, two second prizes of $ 75 eac, and ten third prizes of $20 each. One thousand tickets are sold at $1 a piece. Find the expected winnings of a person buying a ticket.
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Question 316696: Consider the followinglist of test scores:
98,70,32,48,71,80,85,50,46,71. For this data, find each of the following. Round to nearest tenth when necessary.
(a) the mean
(b) The median
(c) The mode
(d) The range
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Question 316837: The Tops-For-All Store sells T-shirts: regular for $4, and deluxe for $5. Last month they sold 344 T-shirts. In addition, a third of the regular shirts and half of the deluxe shirts were imprinted, for $2 extra. Total gross reciepts were $1752. How many regular shirts were sold?
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Question 316887: Jenny has bought a new condo. The closing date has been set for 45 days from today. The builder estimates that the remaining work on the condo will take about 750 hours to complete. Write a formula that will determine the number of people the builder must hire to complete the job in 45 days if each worker can work no more than 40 hours each week.
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Question 316920: The length of the Serumore Hotels lobby exceeds its width by 4 feet. A rug covers the floor of the lobby except for a border 2 feet wide all around it. If the area of this border of exposed floor is 68 square feet, what is the are of the rug?
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Question 316799: At a toy factory, each worker assembles one toy at a time and can assemble a total of 48 toys in 2 hours. At that rate, how many toys can 4 workers assemble in 3 hours?
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Question 316847: Mr. Sourplum has 11 quarts of punch that is 16% lemonade. He wants to make some punch containing 52% lemonade. How much lemonade should he add?
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Question 316907: So what I really need is the formula to use here. I can figure out the answer but would like the formula for different numbers.
I have $150,000,000 and planning on purchasing an item that costs $200,000. I can only buy one at a time and every time I purchase this item the price increases by $1,800. How many times can I purchase this item?
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Question 316909: So what I really need is the formula to use here. I can figure out the answer but would like the formula for different numbers.
I have $150,000,000 and planning on purchasing an item that costs $200,000. I can only buy one at a time and every time I purchase this item the price increases by $1,800. How many times can I purchase this item?
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Question 317030: rebekah recipe for 4 1/2 dozen cookies calls for 6 cups of sugar. how many cups of sugar are needed to make 8 dozen cookies?
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Question 317030: rebekah recipe for 4 1/2 dozen cookies calls for 6 cups of sugar. how many cups of sugar are needed to make 8 dozen cookies?
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Question 317066: Four oranges and five apples cost 3.56$. Three oranges and four apples cost 2.76$. Find the cost of an orange and of an apple
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Question 317204: A bicycle has 26-inch wheels. If the wheels revolved two times after the brakes were applied, the stopping distance is approximately_________.
A 37.68 ft B 3.14 ft C 163.3 ft D 13.6 ft
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Question 317257: As a restaurant owner there are many decisions that you need to make on a daily basis, such as where to keep inventory levels. You wish to replenish your stock of dishes by purchasing 250 sets for your restaurant. You have two dish design from which to choose. One design costs $20 per set and the other $45 per set. If you only have $6,800 to spend, how many of each design should you order?
Hint:
Let x = the number of sets of $20 dishes and y = the number of sets of $45 dishes.
�Solve the equations for the different dish designs to be ordered with the desired technique: graphing, substitution, elimination, matrix.
�Explain how to check your solution for both equations.
PLEASE HELP.... I NEED TO ANASWER THIS TODAY AND IAM STUCK AND SWAMPED WITH OTHER WORK>>> THANK YOU!!!
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Question 317209: What is the area of the region enclosed by the graphs of y = 2│x − 3│ − 2
and y = 4 − 2│x − 2│?
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Question 317209: What is the area of the region enclosed by the graphs of y = 2│x − 3│ − 2
and y = 4 − 2│x − 2│?
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Question 317207: movie theater seats 100 patrons. The theater is full for the 5:00 pm Saturday movie. Adult tickets sell for $9.00 each and children�s tickets sell for $5.00 each. If the theater collected $640 in ticket sales for the 5:00 pm Saturday show, how many children�s tickets were sold?
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Question 317199: The length of a rectanglar garden is 4 m greater than the width. The area of the garden is 96 cm.sq. Find the length and width.
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Question 317123: The length of the Serumore Hotel's lobby exceeds its width by 4 feet. A rug covers the floor of the lobby except for a border 2 feet wide all around. If the area of this border of exposed floor is 68 square feet, what is the area of the rug?
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Question 317382: I got an answer but want to know if I am right!
me answer was 24 fluid ounces.
here is the problem.The amount of juice in a grapefruit is directly proportional to the cube of its diameter. A grapefruit with a 3 inch diameter contains 3 fluid ounces of juice. How much juice is contained in a grapefruit with a 6 inch diameter. Round to the nearest tenth of a fluid ounce.
thanks
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Question 317202: Archeologist have discovered that the 18th century garden of the Charles Carol House in Anapolis, MD. was a right triangle. One leg of the triangle was formed by a 400 ft. long sea wall. The hypotenuse of the triangle was 200 ft. longer than the other leg. What were the dimensions of garden?
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Question 317439: Fifty numerical data points have a mean of 20. If each data point is doubled and combined with the original data points to form 100 data points, what is the numerical average of the combined data?
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Question 317429: determine whether (1,6) is a solution of 2x-8y=-5 is (1,6) a solution to the equation?
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Question 317427: On three consecutive passses, a football team gains 8 yeards, lose 15 yards and gains 50 yards
The total net yardage is yards.
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Question 317426: Soybean meal is 16% protein; cornmeal is 8% protein. How many pounds of each should be mixed together in order to get 320 lb mixture that is 10% protein?
How many pounds of the cornmeal should be in the mixture?

How many pounds of the soybean meal should be in mixture?
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Question 317435: If there is one birth in Mathagoni every six seconds, how many births are there in Mathagoni in a 2-hour period?
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Question 317428: 9x-4y=-16
4y-9x=16
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Question 317425: find the indicated output for f(x)=2 smal 2 =3x
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Question 317483: The range of a projectile is directly proportional to the square of its velocity. If a motorcyclist can make a jump of 247.0 feet by coming off a ramp at 71 mph, find the distance the motorcyclist could expect to jump if the speed coming off the ramp were increased to 76 mph. Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
please help me solve! explain this to me please.
thanks
cz
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Question 317481: Hooke's Law states that the distance a spring strethes varies directly as the weight on the spring. A weight of 67 pounds stretches a spring 6 inches. How far will a weight of 81 pounds stretch the spring? Round to the nearest tenth of an inch. Please show me how to work this!
thank you in advance
cz
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Question 317487: A ball loses half of its energy every time it hits a surface. After each bounce, it rises to half the height from which it fell. After how many bounces will it rise to a height of less than 1 metre, if the ball initially falls from a height of l00 metres?
A)5 B)6 C)7 D)8 E)9
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