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Question 333606: Mike bought a shirt and a package of socks. The shirt cost $17.50 more than the socks. Mike paid $30 total. How much did each cost?
Total= $30
shirt=x
socks=x
Thank you in advance!
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Question 333627: Bill swims at a speed of 6.7 mph in still water. The river he's in flows at a at speed of 3.6 mph. How long will it take Bill to swim 1.3 mi upstream?Round your
answer to the nearest tenth of an hour, if necessary.

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Question 333546: Darah wants to print a book she has written, and then sell it to the public. She has found two companies that she is comparing. Books R Us wants to charge an initial fee of $220, and will print as many books as she wants for $8 dollars each. Bountiful Books has no initial fee, but wants $12 per book printed. Obviously, Bountiful Books is the better deal if she is only printing a few, and Books R Us would be better if printing a lot of them. But what number of books would be the turning point (at what number of books would the two companies be the same price)?
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Question 333712: I really need help with my statistic homework . I do not understnd how to do this at all the question is in a family with 4 children the number of children with blue eyes is a binormial variable x with n= 4 and p =20
1. what is the probability that all 4 children will have blue eyes ?
2. what is the probability that exactly 3 children will have blue eyes?
3. ,,,,,,,,,,,,expected number of children with blue eyes E(X)?
4. what is the variarice for the number of children with blue eyes V(x)?

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Question 333742: Solve the quetion according to "Volume and Surface Area" formula
A rectangular tank measures 4m long,2m wide and 4.8m high.Intially it is half filled with water .Find the depth of water in the tank after 4000 liters more of water added to it .
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Question 333836: Please help:
There are approximately 2 lbs of muscle for every 7 lbs of body weight of a certain animal. For a 154 lb animal, how much of the weight is muscle?
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Question 333973: A certain positive integer is 8 more than 2 times a smaller positive integer. The sum of these integers is at most 20.
(I just need the equation)
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Question 333974: Write an expression in terms of given variables. Do not solve. The length and the width of a rectangle are consecutive odd integers, and the length is x cm. Find the perimeter of the rectangle.
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Question 334189: Eighty people are trapped in a ski lodge. They have enough food to last eight days. It takes five days to reach help (and five days for help to get back to the lodge). What is the fewest number of people to send for help (with sufficient food) so that those staying behind will be rescued before food runs out?
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Question 334210: A carpenter is building a rectangular room with a fixed perimeterof 112 ft.
What dementions would yeild the maximum area? What is the maximum area?
The lenght that would yeild the maximum are is __?__ft
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Question 334196: A person who is 5 feet tall is standing 80 feet from the base of a tree. The tree casts an 86-foot shadow. The person's shadow is 6 feet in length. What is the tree's height?
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Question 334315: 3. In 2002, Home Depot�s sales amounted to $58,200,000,000. In 2006, its sales were $90,800,000,000.
a. Write Home Depot�s 2002 sales and 2006 sales in scientific notation.
You can find the percent of growth in Home Depot�s sales from 2002 to 2006 by following these steps:
� Find the increase in sales from 2002 to 2006.
� Find what percent that increase is of the 2002 sales.
b. What was the percent growth in Home Depot�s sales from 2002 to 2006? Do all your work by using scientific notation.

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Question 334413: In the vicinity of a bonfire, the temperature T in degree celsius at a distance of x meters from the center of the fire was given by:
T=600000/(x^2+300)
At what range of distances from the fire's center was the temperature less than 500 degree celsius?
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Question 334394: According to the Old Farmers Almanac, the hours of daylight in Fairbanks, Alaska range from approximately 3.5 hours in mid-December to approximately 21 hours in mid-June. Write an absolute value inequality that represents the hours of daylight in Fairbanks.
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Question 334436: The product of two numbers is 10. One number is 3 more than the other number. What is the quadratic equation that models these numbers?
Solve the quadratic equation to find the pairs of numbers.
Any help would be greatly appreciated I'm really stuck!!!
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Question 334455: Suppose Rick has 40ft of fencing with which he can build a rectangular garden. Let X represent the length of the garden and let Y represent the width.
A. Please write an inequality representing the fact that the total perimeter of the garden is at most 40ft.
B. Please sketch part of the solution set for this inequality that represents all possible values for the length and width of the garden.
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Question 334501: Hakim and Chris began running a 50-yard race at the same time. When Hakim finished the race, Chris was 4 yards behind him. If Hakim ran the race in 7 seconds, what was the difference in their rates in yards per second for those 7 seconds?
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Question 334502: Yesterday Art earned $10.00 less than Bill, and today Art earned $7.50 more than Bill. Which of the following must b true about Art's total earnings for the two days compared Bill's?

(A)Art earned 3/4 of what Bill earned.
(B) Art earned $17.50 more than Bill.
(C) Art earned $2.50 more than Bill.
(D) Art earned $2.50 less than Bill.
(E) Art earned $17.50 less than Bill.
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Question 334495: Kerry has a cordless telephone receiver that can operate within a range of 1,000 feet from the telephone's base. Kerry takes the receiver from the base and walks 800 feet due north. From that point she walks due east and stops at the maximum range of the receiver. In which of the following directions can Kerry walk and still be within the range of the receiver?
I. Due north
II. Due south
III. Due west
(A) II only
(B) III only
(C) I and II
(D) I and III
(E) II and III
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Question 334519: an 800 seat multiplex is divided into 3 theaters. theater 1 is the smallest. theater 2 has 180 more seats than theater 1. theater 3 has 60 seats fewer than twice the number in theater one. how larger is each theater
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Question 334546: George is thinking of a number between 70 and 90. The sum of the digits is less than 12. The product of the digits is greater than 25. What is Georges number
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Question 334661: AKI's Bicycle Shop designs has determined that when x hundred bicycles are built,the average cost per bicycle is given by c(x)=0.1x^2-0.4x+3.315 where
C(x) is in hundreds of dollars. How many bicycles should the shop build to minimize the average cost per bicycle.
The shop should build__?__bicyles
Thank you
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Question 334694: You are building a poolside deck and need to know how many fifty-pound bags of quickset concrete to buy. There are eleven support piers(4x4 posts that are 6 ft tall). Each diameter support post will partially be put in a hole dug to the required dimensions(6 inch diameter and 1 yard deep). The cement should fill the rest of the hole. Each bag of cement is equal to 1 cubic foot.
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Question 334697: You are building a poolside deck and need to know how many fifty-pound bags of quickset concrete to buy. There are eleven support piers(4x4 posts that are 6 ft tall). Each diameter support post will partially be put in a hole dug to the required dimensions(6 inch diameter and 1 yard deep). The cement should fill the rest of the hole. Each bag of cement is equal to 1 cubic foot.
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Question 334361: Juan's model racer is designed to travel at two-thirds the speed of Raul's racer. If the cars start in the same place, but travel in opposite directions, they are 75 cm apart after 5 seconds. What is the rate of each racer?
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Question 334705: Penny had a bag of marbles. She gave one-third of them to Reta, and then one-fourth of the remaining to John. Penny then had 24 marbles left in the bag. How many marbles were in the bag to start with?
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Question 334818: I have 8 color towel how many ways can I arrange them on a long shelf
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Question 334812: A snowman is built with three spheres made of packed snow. The top sphere has half the diameter of the middle sphere. The middle sphere has half the diameter of the bottom sphere. The top sphere weighs 5 pounds. What is the total weight of the snowman?
a. 30 pounds
b. 65 pounds
c. 125 pounds
d. 250 pounds
e. 365 pounds
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Question 334819: For the following scores, find the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) sum of squared
deviations, (d) variance, and (e) standard deviation:
1.112; 1.245; 1.361; 1.372; 1.472

HELP PLEASE!!
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Question 334811: Each penny contains 2.4375 grams of zinc. How many pennies could be made from a
kilogram of zinc and how many milligrams zinc would be left over (to the nearest
milligram)?
a. 405 pennies with 268 milligrams left over
b. 410 pennies with 256 milligrams left over
c. 410 pennies with 26 milligrams left over
d. 405 pennies with 27 milligrams left over
e. 410 pennies with 625 milligrams left over
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Question 334867: As a bouncer, your annual salary is $32,000. How much will your gross earnings be per month?

Your new modeling career has a starting salary of $35,900. How much will your gross earnings be per month?

W = HR, H = 32.5, R = $7.00; find W.

Julious Sanchez earns an average of $425.50 per week. What are his annual earnings to the nearest cent? Use A = 52W, where W = average weekly earnings and A are the annual earnings.

Mabel Deerwood earns an average of $345.72 per week. What are her annual earnings to the nearest cent? Use A = 52W, where W = average weekly earnings and A are the annual earnings.
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Question 334858: rachel bought a flute for $265. sales tax was 5.8%. what is the total cost of the flute with the tax?
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Question 334888: A man is pedaling his bike across a narrow bridge when he hears a train approaching from behind at 60 mph. if he is 3/8 of the way across the bridge and able to just reach either end of the bridge at the same time as the train, how fast can he pedal his bike?
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Question 334975: my number has double the number of ones as tens.
the sum of the digits is 3.
my number is?
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Question 334966: A machine is used to fill each of several bags with 16 ounces of sugar. After the bags are filled, another machine weighs them. If the bag weighs 0.3 ounces more or less than the desired weight, the bag is rejected. Wright an equation to find the heaviest and the lightest bag the machine will approve.
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Question 335016: I'm a 5th grader stuck on a question. This is the problem. The product of .4 and another decimal is greater than .3 but less than .4. What are the least and greatest decimal to the nearest hundreth for the other factor? Please help. Thanks.
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Question 335021: Asuming 86.3 heartbeats/minutes, estimate the total number of times the heart of a human beats in an average lifetime of 87.3 years. Assume 365.25 days per year. Your answer must be within + or - 5.0%
Please help me with this problem! Thank you!
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Question 335035: are there two integers with a product of -12 and a sum of -3?
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Question 334738: Assume 6,200 children go to disneyland today. It raises the cost of admissions from $34 to $59 and lowers the age limit for adults from 11 years old to 10 years old. How much additional revenue will Disneyland recieve per child? Per Day?
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Question 335049: the Fibonacci sequence consists of the pattern 1,1,2,3,5,8,13
List the first eight terms of the sequence formed by finding the differences of successive terms in the Fibonacci sequence?
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Question 335123: Cory has 3000 bananas. Cory has a camel that can carry 1000 bananas at a time. Cory's camel eats 1 banana every mile he travels. How many bananas can Cory get to the market?
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Question 335127: Alan, Ben and Cal are seated as shown with their eyes closed. A B C ....Cal is sitting in the front, behind him, Cal, and behind him Alan (in train style). Diane places a hat on each of their heads from a box they know contains 3 red and 2 blue hats. They all open their eyes and look forward.
Alan is sitting behind Ben, who is sitting behind Cal. Alan says; "I cannot deduce what color hat I'm wearing" Hearing that, Ben says, "I cannot deduce what color I'm wearing either." Cal then says, "I know what color I'm wearing!"
How does Cal know the color of his hat?
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Question 335200: the perimeter of a rectangle is 184inches . The length exceeds the width by 70 inches. Find the length and the width
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