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Question 338664: A falcon, when diving, can travel five times as fast as a pheasant's top speed.If the total speeds for these two birds is 222 miles per hour, find the fastest speed of the falcon and the fastest speed of the pheasant.
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Question 338729: If x=-4, then -|-x|=-4
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Question 338674: A man is walking away from a lamppost with a light source 9 meters above the ground. The man is 1.95 meters tall. How long is the man's shadow when he is 11 meters from the lamppost?
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Question 338723: Persons A and B do the same job,but B takes longer.Who does the greater amount of work?Who is more "powerful"?
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Question 338797: Phillip used four pieces of masking tape, each 6 inches long, to put up each of his posters. Phillip had a 300-foot roll of masking tape when he started. If no tape was wasted, which of the following represents the number of feet of masking tape that was left on the roll after he put up n posters? (12 inches = 1 foot)
(A) 300 � 6n
(B) 300 � 2n
(C) 300 - n
(D) 300 � 1/2n
(E) 300 - 1/4n

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Question 338796: When Ms. Yun arrived at the grocery store, there were 5 packages of hot dog rolls left on the shelf. One package contained 12 rolls, and each of the others contained 8 rolls. If Ms. Yun bought all 5 packages, how many hot dog rolls did she purchase at the store?

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Question 338841: x and y are two different numbers selected from the first fifty counting numbers from 1 to 50 inclusive.
what is the largest value that x+y
___
x-y can have?
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Question 338975: At 7:00 a.m. a man started from a town A travelling towards a town B at th rate of 16 miles per hour. At 8:15, another man started from B, traveling toward A at the rate of 20 miles per hour. Find when and where the two men will meet if A and B are 40 miles apart.
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Question 339019: Paula mixed 2 cups of sunflower seeds and 3 cups of raisins to make a snack for a hike. She figured that the mixture would provide her with 2900 Calories of food energy. Find the number of Calories per cup of raisins if it is 400 less than the number of Calories per cup of sunflower seeds.
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Question 339027: Sarah's investment in stock grew 24% to $496. How much did she invest?
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Question 339026: a 140-second song is divided into three parts, the begining, the middle, and the end. the beginning is one-sixth as long as the end. the middle is one half as long as the end. find the length of each part
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Question 338976: Ben runs around a circular track in 50 seconds, and roy, in 40 seconds. Five five secons after ben starts, roy starts from the same place in the same direction. When will they be together?
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Question 339177: The length of a rectangle is twice the width. The area is 648yd^2 . Find the length and the width.

The length is __?__
The width is __?__
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Question 338846: in a group of 30 high school,8 take french, 12 take spanish and 3 take both languages.how many students of the group take neither french nor spanish?
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Question 339239: A basketball player has a 70% free throw shooting average, which can be interpreted to mean that the probability of his hitting any single free throw is 0.7 or 7/10. Assume that free throws are independent events, so that what happens on one free throw doesn't affect the outcome of the next.
What is the probability that in shooting five free throws he hist at least one?
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Question 339271: Three times the complement of an angle is 18 more than its supplement. Find the angle
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Question 339346: The product of 2 consecutive positive integers is 71 more than their sum. Find the integers.
I have been reviewing my text for a couple of hours now. I cannot figure this one out. Please, please, please help!!!!
Thank you!!
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Question 339370: Bessy has 6 times as much money as Bob, but when each earns $6, Bessy will have 3 times as much money as Bob. How much does each have before and after earning the $6?
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Question 339378: A and B together weigh 242 lbs.They balance when A is seated 5 feet from the fulcrum on one side of the lever, and B is seated 6 feet from the fulcrum on the other side . Find the weight of each.
Pls. answer.Thank you.
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Question 339385: The ten's digit of a number of two figures exceeds the unit's digit by 4. If the number, increased by 8, be divided by the sum of the digits increased by 2, the quotient is 7. Find the number.
Pls. answer.Thank you.
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Question 339347: A 26ft. long ladder rest against a wall. The distance from the base of the wall to the bottom of the ladder is x. The height at which the ladder rest against the wall is x + 14. Find the distance, x, from the base of the wall to the bottom of the ladder.
I have drawn out a figure and listed the information given and then I am stuck. I just can't seem to put this one together, maybe my brain is just too tired?
Thank you in advance for your help!!
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Question 339383: At 6:00 a.m. a man left a town A and travelled toward a town B 19 miles away. At 6:30 another man started from B and travelled toward A. The two men met on the road at 8:30 a.m. If the rate of the first traveller is 1/2 mile per hour less than that of the second,find the rate of each.
Pls. answer.Thank you.
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Question 339355: A man sold half an egg more than half of his eggs. He then sold half an egg more than half of his remaining eggs. He did the same the third time and then had 7 eggs left. How many eggs did he had at first?
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Question 339467: What is the probability of rolling double-sixes on any given roll?
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Question 339440: The ninth grade class has 17 more girls than boys. There are 431 students in all. How many boys are there? How many girls are there? Choices for the number of boys: 191, 202, 207
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Question 339556: Speed of Sound in Air
Two seconds after firing a rifle at a target, the shooter hears the impact of the bullet. Sound travels at 1100 feet per second and the bullet at 1865 feet per second. Determine the distance to the targe (to the nearest foot)
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Question 339564: A 310 second-song is divided into three parts, the beginning, the middle, and the end. The beginning is one-sixth as long as the end. The middle part is one-half as long as the end. Find the length of each part
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Question 339672: The class is 25% male. if there are 18 women in class, how many students are in the class? how do you set this problem up?
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Question 339654: The height of an object thrown upward with an initial velocity of 96 feet per second is given by the formula h = -16t2 + 96t, where t is the time in seconds. How long will it take the object to reach a height of 144 feet?

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Question 339686: Hello The speed of train A is 20mph slower than train B. Train A travels 280 miles in the same time it takes train B to travel 180 miles, find the speed of each train. The speed of train A = The speed of train B = Thank You!
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Question 339685: Hello' The stopping distance d of a car after the brakes are applied varies directly as the square speed r? if a car traveling 70 mph can stop in 270 feet how many feet will it take the same car to stop when it is traveling 80 mph? Thank you
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Question 339650: A large rectangular movie screen in an Imax theater has an area of 10,146 square feet. Find the dimensions of the screen if it is 25 feet longer than it is wide.

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Question 339701: Total revenue is the total of money taken in by a business. An appliance firm determines that when it sells washing machines the total revenue R, in dollars is given by the polynomial R= 135.52x-0.3x^2. What is the total revenue from the sale of 193 washing machines?

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Question 339694: Total revenue is the total of money taken in by a business. An appliance firm determines that when it sells washing machines the total revenue R in dollars is given by the polynomial R= 135.52x0.3x to the 2 power. What is the total revenue from the sale of 193 washing machines?

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Question 339719: for the typical "one-hour" prime time television slot, the number of minutes of commercials is 3/7 of the number of minutes of the actual program. Determine how many minutes of the program are shown in that one hour.
How do i solve this...?
it says the answer is 42 mins but how do i get to that answer?
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Question 339778: Bobby receives $2 for each chore he does during the week, plus a weekly allowance of $10. If Bobby receives no other money, which of the following expressions represents the total dollar amount Bobby receives for a week in which he has done in n chores?
A. 10 + n
B. (10 + 2)n
C. 10n +2
D. 10 + 2n
E. (10 + n)2
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Question 339815: A side of beef lost 35 percent of its weight in processing. If the side of beef weighed 546 pounds after processing, how many pounds did it weigh before processing?
(A) 191
(B) 355
(C) 737
(D) 840
(E) 1560
Could pls kindly help me with the above problem.
Thanks

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Question 339828: Joe has a collection of nickels and dimes that is worth $3.50. if the number of dimes were doubled and the number of nickels were increased by 17, the value of the coin would be $6.45. how many dimes does he have?
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Question 339785: Helen has five stamps more than lionel. They have 45 stamps together. How many stamps does each have?
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Question 339904: A computer program randomly select a positive two-digit integer. If the integer selected is odd, twice that integer is printed. If the integer selected is even, the integer itself is printed. If the integer printed is 26, which of the following could have been the integer selected?
I. 13
II. 26
III. 52
A. I only
B. II only
C. I and II only
D. I and III only
E. I, II, and III
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Question 339906: It takes a girl 45 minutes to deliver the newspapers on her route; however, if her brother helps, it takes them only 20 minutes. How long would it take her brother to deliver the newspapers by himself?
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Question 339912: While it is said that trains opened up the American West to settlement, U.S. railroad miles have been on the decline for decades. On the other hand, the miles of roads in the U.S. highway system have been increasing.
The function y = -1379.4x + 150,604 represents the U.S. railroad miles, while the function y = 478.4x + 157,838 modles the number of U.S. highway miles, where x is the number of years of 1995.
Find the year in which it is estimated that the number of U.S. Railroad miles and the number of U.S. highway miles were the same.
Thank you for your help.
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