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Question 1073080: What quantity of 75 percent acid solution mist be mixed with a 30 percent solution to produce 1080ml of a 50 percent solution?
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Question 1073223: Michael is making a recipe that requires 1 gallon of water all she has is a 1 pint measure how many times will she need to fill the one pipe measure explain your answer
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Question 1073260: An alcohol solution was made by mixing 12mL of a 85% alcohol solution and 8mL of a 25% solution. Find the concentration of the new mixture.
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Question 1073416: One solution of alcohol is 30% and a second is 60% alcohol. How much of each should be mixed in order to make 90 liters of a solution that is 50% alcohol?
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Question 1073421: Mixture of Chemicals
a) Solve using one variable. Petrochemicals worth $6/L are mixed with 40 L of another solution values at $9/L to produce a mixtures worth $7.20/L. How many liters of the petrochemicals are used?
b) Solve using two variables. Petrochemicals worth $6/L are mixed with other chemicals worth $9/L to produce 100 L of chemicals worth 47.65/L. How many liters of each are used?
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Question 1073644: Please help me with this problem.

Determine if the given polar coordinates represent the same point
(8,pi/6), (8,7pi/6)
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Question 1073640: Please help me solve this equation .
Replace the polar equation with an equivalent Cartesian equation.
3rcos Theta + 4r sin Theta= 1
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Question 1073676: Alice's grandfather uses brine solution to make pickles. He has 8 gallons of
5% brine solution (5% salt and 95% water). How much of this solution should
be poured out and replaced with water to result in a 3% brine solution?

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Question 1073641: Please help me solve this problem .
Find the Cartesian coordinates of the given point.
(√3,pi/6)
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Question 1074171: How much soil with 10% sand do you
need to add to 0.5 yd� of soil with 40%
sand in order to make a soil with 16%
sand?
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Question 1074195: find the selling price per ounce of a face cream mixture made from 70 oz of face cream that costs $4 per oz, and 30 oz of face cream that costs $15 per ounce

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Question 1074257: How many liters of a 11% salt solution must mixed with 10 liters of a 30% salt solution to obtain a 21% salt solution

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Question 1074257: How many liters of a 11% salt solution must mixed with 10 liters of a 30% salt solution to obtain a 21% salt solution

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Question 1074228: If there are 30 tickets and 1/3 were sold in the morning and 1/5 were sold in the evening. How many tickets are left on Tuesday?
8
14
15
16
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Question 1074385: A 17% acid solution is to be mixed with a 9% acid solution to produce 8 gallons
of a 10% acid solution. How much of each is needed?

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Question 1074426: Mary needs a 50% solution of alcohol
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Question 1074498: The sum of TWO NON IDENTICAL NUMBERS is 12.the difference of half of the first number and twice of the second number is 16
find the TWO NUMBERS
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Question 1074544: Find the selling price per ounce of a face cream mixture made from 70 oz of face cream that costs $4 per oz, and 30 oz of face cream that costs $15 per ounce.
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Question 1074551: A motorboat traveling with the current went 45 miles in 3 hours. Against the current, it took 4.5 hours to travel the same distance. Find the rate of the boat in calm water.
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Question 1074549: One solution contains 20% alcohol and another solution contains 60% alcohol. Some of each of the two solutions is mixed to produce 10 liters of a 50% solution. How many liters of the 60% solution should be used?
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Question 1074558: Please help me with that question .
Find the area of the region lies inside curve and outside the second curve . r=10sin theta; , r=5
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Question 1074548: A stamp collection consists of 5 cent, 8 cent, and 13 cent stamps. The number of 13 cent stamps is one more than twice the number of 5 cent stamps. The number of 13 cent stamps is six more than the number of 8 cent stamps. The total value of all the stamps is $5.37. Find the number of 5 cent stamps.
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Question 1074791: The company has 4048 giant chocolate cubes which they intend to package in boxes of eight how many boxes what they fill?
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Question 1074843: Hello, I have a few problems similar to the one below. How would I go about solving this?
A store is having a sale on jelly beans and almonds. For 3 pounds of jelly beans and 5 pounds of almonds, the total cost is $20. For 9 pounds of jelly beans and 7 pounds of almonds, the total cost is $46. Find the cost for each pound of jelly beans and each pound of almonds.
Thanks
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Question 1075105: A merchant wants to mix the peanuts with the cashews shown in the illustration to get 48 pounds of mixed nuts to sell at $4.00 per pound. How many pounds of each should the merchant use. Peanuts $3.00/lb. Cashews $6.00/lb.
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Question 1075277: Ashley wants to put a border around the perimeter of her birds cage. The cage is 22 inches long and has a perimeter of 72 inches. How wide is the cage?
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Question 1075403: Gabe Amodeo, a nuclear physicist, needs 60liters of a 40% acid solution. He currently has a 30% solution and a 60% solution. How many liters of each does he need to make the needed 60liters of 40% acid solution?
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Question 1075554: Find the area in the figure. The large figure is a square, and each one-fourth of a circle.
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Question 1075599: please help me solve this problem .
A ball is dropped from a height of 6 meters and returns to about 7/8 of its
previous height on each bounce. About how far will the ball travel before it
comes to rest?
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Question 1075598: Please help me solve this .

Determine whether the given series converges or diverges, and find the sum if it converges.
1/15+4/15+16/15+64/15+....
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Question 1075602: Find the limit of the sequence or determine that the limit does not exist.
an=(1+(-9/n))^n

Thank you .
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Question 1075601: Find the limit of the sequence or determine that the limit does not exist.
an=ln(7n+5)-ln(3n+2)
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Question 1075663: a boat took 1 hour 50 minutes to go 55 miles downstream and 3 hours 40 minutes to return. find the rate of the current.

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Question 1075678: In the lab, Raina has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. She uses 40 milliliters less of solution A than solution B. Solution S is 10% alcohol and solution B is 14% alcohol. How many milliliters of solution B does she use, if the resulting mixture has 176 milliliters of pure alcohol?
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Question 1075711: Two mixtures of water have 12% and 54% concentration of juice. If 12 liters of first mixture is mixed with 10 liters of the second mixture. What would be the New concentration of Juice Mixture.
A.29% B.31% C.27% D.35%
Please help me to solve this problem
Thank you.
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Question 1075977: Sally invested some money at 5% interest. sally also invested $66 more than three times that amount at 8%. how much is invested at each rate if so he receives $547.29 in interest after one year.
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Question 1076025: A basketball player scored 27

times during one game. He

scored a total of 49

points, two for each two-point shot and one for each free throw. How many two-point shots did he

make? How many free throws?
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Question 1076102: A goldsmith has two gold alloys. The first alloy is 30% gold; the second alloy is 80% gold. How many grams of each should be mixed to produce 50 grams of an alloy that is 68% gold?
amount of 30% gold _______grams
amount of 80% gold _______grams
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