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Question 317472: The speed of a bicycle gear, in revolutions per minute, is inversely proportional to the number of teeth on the gear. If a gear with 60 teeth has a speed of 26 revolutions per minute, what will be the speed of a gear with 66 teeth? Round the answer to the nearest revolution per minute. Show or explain for me please.
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Question 317319: Albert and Zelda agreed to play a game. If heads appeared on the toss of an ordinary coin, Zelda had to double the amount of money that Albert had. If the
result was tails, then Albert had to pay Zelda $24. As it turned out, the coin came up heads, tails, heads, tails, heads, and tails. Then Albert was broke. How much money did Albert start with?

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Question 317558: You have a 5 foot long ladder, and you lean it against a wall such that the bottom of the ladder is 3 feet away from the wall. The top of the ladder touches the wall at a height of _____ feet?
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Question 317606: two pipes are used to fill a water storage tank. the first pipe takes 12 hours to fill and the two together takes 1 hour less than it takes the 2nd pipe to to fill the tank alone. how long will it take the 2nd pipe to fill the tank?
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Question 317722: Container A is half full of water. Container B will hold 9 cups of water. When the contents of container A is poured into container B, container B is 2/3 full. How much will container A hold?
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Question 317750: car is valued at 62,125 in excellant condition which is 1 3/4 times as much as a car in very nice condition. if you can find an owner willing to part with one for any price.What would be the value of the car in very nice condition?

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Question 317753: company sells batteries($3) and pens ($5). In August total sales were $960.00
customers bought 5 times as many batteries as boxes of pens. How many of each did company sell??
x+5x=960
6x=960
6 6
x=160X5=800-batteries sold
x=160X1=160-pens sold
I am a adult student who has never had alegbra and I have problems creating the equations.
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Question 317724: When Dave walks to school, he averages 90 steps per minute, each of his steps are 75 cm long. It takes him 16 minutes to get to school. His brother, Jack, going to school by the same route,averages 100 steps per minute, but his steps are only 60 cm long. How long does it take Jack to get to school?
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Question 317721: My yearly salary is $30,000, and it is increased by $3,000 a year. Your yearly salary is $20,000, and it will be increased by $5,000 a year. In how many years will we both have the same yearly salary?
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Question 317886: Gwen mixes 5 pounds of dried cranberries that sell for $4 per pound with some dried apples that sell for $3 per pound. If she wants the mix to be worth $3.25 per pound, then how many pounds of apples should she use?
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Question 317885: If the perimeter of a rectangular courtyard is 36 yd, and the length is 3 yd longer than twice the width, then what are the length and width?
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Question 317902: Pamela requires 3 hours to swim 15 miles downstream in the illinois river. The return trip upstream takes 5 hours. Find Pamela's average speed in still water. How fast is the current?( assume that Pamela's speed is the same in each direction)
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Question 318060: how I can simplify 82/87

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Question 318040: What is the momentum of a 100 kg football player who is moving at 7 m/s?

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Question 318090: at a bicycle store there were a bunch of bicycles and tricycles. If there were 32 seats and 72 wheels, how many bicycles and how many tricycles were there
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Question 318224: In a college there are 13 times as many students as professors. If together the students and professors number 28,000, how many students are there in the college
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Question 318241: you are given 8 identical coins and a balance scale. seven of the coins weight the same, but the eighth is lighter. you many use the balcne three times to determine which coin is lighter. show how you do this.
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Question 318466: A coffee distributor needs to mix a Ethiopian coffee blend that normally sells for $8.80 per pound with a Arabian Mocha coffee blend that normally sells for $14.30 per pound to create 10 pounds of a coffee that can sell for $9.35 per pound. How many pounds of each kind of coffee should they mix?
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Question 318502: A 17-ft pipe is cut into two pieces. The shorter piece is 8 ft shorter that the longer piece. What is the length of the longer piece?
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Question 318495: How many seconds will it take for a train 300 meters long travelling at 100 km/hr to pass a man jogging at 10 km/hr in the same direction?
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Question 318539: Solution "A" is 50% acid and solution "B" is 20% acid. How many liters of each should be combined to make 300 Liters of solution that is 40% acid?
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Question 318563: What is the length and width of a room that is 185 square feet?
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Question 318563: What is the length and width of a room that is 185 square feet?
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Question 318558: A city council decided to levy a 10�-per-cup tax on fancy coffee drinks sold there. They estimated the tax would gross about $6 million per year. About how many fancy coffee drinks are sold per year in that city?
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Question 318693: A triangular board has a height two thirds as tall as the base. If the area of the board is 75sq cm, what is the length of the base and height?
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Question 318841: what is the length of a rectangular lot that has a perimeter of 300m and a width of 50m?
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Question 318879: Television sets: What does it mean to refer to a 20 inch TV set or a 25 inch TV set? Such units refer to diagonal of the screen. A 15 inches TV set also has a width of 12 inches. What is the height of a 15 inch TV in inches?
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Question 318045: What is the momentum of a 35 kg shell fired from a cannon with a velocity of 500 m/s?

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Question 319134: For arectanglar garden, the length is 12 ft and the width is 7 feet. Find the length of the diagonal. Round to the nearest tenth of a foot.
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Question 319089: On the first day of Jack's exercise program, he jogged1/8 mile. Every day after that, he increases the distance he jogs by 1/8 mile. If he has jogged a total of 3 1/2miles so far, how far must he jog tomorrow?
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Question 319052: Gwen bought a new toyota corolla. The selling price plus the 8% state sales tax was $15,714 what was the selling price?
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Question 319135: If a PENDULUM HAS A PERIOD OF 2 seconds, find its length, rounded to nearest tenth of a foot. Use formula T= 2II Squared L/32
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Question 319197: Perimeter of a rectangle.The width of a rectangular playground is 2x -5 feet, and the length is 3x + 9 feet. Write a polynomial P(x) that represents the perimeter and then evaluate this perimeter polynomial if x is 4 feet.
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Question 319253: Find a counterexample to the statment: The square of a number aded to the sum of three times the number and 7 is a prime number.
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Question 319320: please help me find this. A rectangle has an area of 12 square inches and a perimeter of 16 square inches. Find the length and width of the rectangle. Show your work.
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Question 319336: Let's say that a certain force exerts a pressure of 26 Pascals on a square area. If the force is slowly increased until the pressure is 160% of the original pressure, what is the new pressure?
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Question 319337: 52.02Attendance is up at the local minor league stadium this year. Last year there was an average of 2,918 fans per game. This year the average has been 4,436. What percent increase has occurred? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a percent.
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Question 319388: The price of a product after a 15% discount is $255. What was the original price of the product?

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Question 319468: Janie has $317 saved. She plans to save $55 every week so that she can have enough money for new hardwood floors in her kitchen. She needs to save a total of $998, which includes installation. How many weeks will she need to save to be able to have the new floor installed? Show step by step work and include units in your answer.
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Question 319469: Tom scored 75, 78, 87, 81 and 76 on five exams. What grade must Tom obtain on his sixth exam to have an average of 80?
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Question 319469: Tom scored 75, 78, 87, 81 and 76 on five exams. What grade must Tom obtain on his sixth exam to have an average of 80?
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Question 319470: Adam wants to place a marble door on his entrance way. The marble door will be shaped like a rectangular solid and will measure 78 3/4 inches long and 42 1/3 inches wide; and will be 1 3/4 inch thick. How many cubic inches of marble will be needed for the door? Give solution exactly as a mixed number.
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Question 319477: If a ⊗ b = ab + 1 and a ⊕ b = a + b, find the value of 4 ⊗ [(6 ⊕ 8) ⊕ (3 ⊗ 5)].
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Question 319445: twelve people purchased supplies for a ten-day camping trip with the understanding that each of the twelve will get equal daily shares .they are then joined by three more people , but make no further purchases . how long will the supplies then last if the original daily share for each person is not changed ?
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