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Question 1143273: There is a frog stuck in a 19 meter well. How many days will it take the frog
to get out if every day he jumps ten feet up, but falls back 5 meters?
A)3
B)4
C)5
D)7
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Question 1143276: A newly cleared tract of land has been designated for reforestation. The commission responsible for the project decided to plant 30 trees. 12 of the trees will be oak trees, one-fifth of the trees will be pine trees, 3 are weeping willows and the rest of the trees will be fruit bearing trees of various types. What is the ratio of weeping-Willow to fruit bearing trees?
A) 1:3
B)1:2
C)3:1
D)3:12
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Question 1143277: What is the largest number of digits which the product of a 3 digit number and a
2 digit number can have?
A)4
B)5
C)6
D)7
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Question 1143301: What is the absolute value of the difference between the number of integers between zero and five inclusive a number of integers between one and six exclusive?
A)0
B)1
C)2
D)3
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Question 1143300: What is the square of a number that when added to any number does not chanhe that numbers value?
A)0
B)0.5
C)1
D)undefined
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Question 1143293: A fair coin is flipped 10 times. If the first 9 flips results in heads, what is the chance the tenth flip will results in heads?
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Question 1143292: A fair coin is flipped 10 times. If the first 9 flips results in heads, what is the chance the tenth flip will results in heads?
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Question 1143303: How many non zero numbers are between 3 and 5?
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Question 1143303: How many non zero numbers are between 3 and 5?
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Question 1143302: Corey is walking on a path. Every three steps he takes, he makes a 39 degree rotation to counterclockwise. If he took is steps in total, how any full revolutions was he able to make all together?
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Question 1143294: A construction crane has a boom which extends 50ft from the base. If the crane is stationed 30ft from a building, how high up the building wall can the crane reach?
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Question 1143314: A wooden artifact from an ancient tomb contains 35 percent of the carbon-14 that is present in living trees. How long ago, to the nearest year, was the artifact made? (The half-life of carbon-14 is 5730 years.)
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Question 1143353: The half life of a substance is the time it takes a substance to decrease to half its initial amount. John has a pile of goo that decreases in amount at a constant rate. if John initially had 100 pounds of goo, and ten days later, he only had 25 pounds of goo, what Is the half life of the goo?
A)10
B) 5
C)7.5
D)20
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Question 1143346: if a drink contains 67% juice concentrate and drink b contains 7%. how much of a solution should be mixed in order to create 150 liters of a solution that contains 47% juice concentrate.
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Question 1143363: A cumulative product of a set (a,b,c,....) is the sequence, a, an, abc,... what is the mean of the terms in the cumulative product if (1,2,3,0)
A)0
B)2
C)2.25
D)3.5
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Question 1143378: What is Least integer greater than 52/3?
A)16
B)17
C)18
D)19

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Question 1143382: What is The difference Between the largest and Lowest integer in the sequence of consecutive all integers who sum is 15?

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Question 1143382: What is The difference Between the largest and Lowest integer in the sequence of consecutive all integers who sum is 15?

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Question 1143388: If (x-2)(x+2)=ax^2 + bx + c, what is the aim of a,b and c?
A)-4
B)-3
C)0
D)1
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Question 1143388: If (x-2)(x+2)=ax^2 + bx + c, what is the aim of a,b and c?
A)-4
B)-3
C)0
D)1
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Question 1143389: In the formula V=r^2h, if h is doubled and r triples, then V multiplied by?
A)6
B)9
C)12
D)18
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Question 1143387: SAMMY has a faulty clock. Every 15 degrees that one of the hands moved, 5 minutes passes. If a hand is initially 5:35pm, in how long will the hand be at the same position?
A)65 min
B)2 hour
C)1hour
D)45 min
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Question 1143386: Given that 0 < x < 1, and set A = (x, x^2, x^3,x^4), what is the smallest value in set A?
A) x^2
B)x^3
C)x^4
D) cannot be determined
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Question 1143384: A circle and an octagon share the same perimeter (circumference for the circle). If the side length of the octagon is, a, and the radius of the circle is, r, then what is the radius in terms of the side length of the octagon?

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Question 1143385: If F =-kx and greater than 0, then what happens to the value of k if F triples in value and x remains constant
A)increase
B)doubles
C)decreases
D) cannot be determined
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Question 1143383: If a= 35, what is, (-6)^2 (-6)(-6)+6(-6) in terms of a?
A) a+1
B) a^2
C) a^2+1
D)a^2 +a
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Question 1143354: Jackie fills a jug with water continuously. It takes her 2 minutes to fill up 50% of the empty space in the jug with water. After every 2 minutes, she puts a penny into a jar to celebrate. How many pennies will she have in the jar at the instant the jug had less than 30 % empty Space left?
A)0
B)1
C)2
D)3
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Question 1143393: What is the least integer greater than the greatest integer less than 1.5?
A)2
B)1.5
C)0.4
D)1
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Question 1143402: i have 25 kg nickel metal and in 25 kg nickel metal of 100% i should get 100
now my question is what will be the total volume when this 25 kg nickel is
dissolved in 35% HCl and how much water should be added to make that full
solution to 40%.
so what will the the total weight of this 40% solution including water, HCl
and nickel metal.?
regards,

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Question 1143465: Please kindly help me solve this.
A store owner wants to develop a new snack mix by mixing chocolate and trail mix. How many pounds of chocolate costing $20.80 per pound should be mixed with 10 pounds of trail mix costing $3.00 per pound to create a mixture worth $13.38 per pound.

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Question 1143511: A rectangular tank 6m wide 12m long and 18m high is 2/3 full water. If 120m^3 of water is added, how much (in percent) is the tank filled with water?
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Question 1143512: A symmetrical cross of thickness 12cm is to be cut out from a piece of cardboard
of radius 20cm. what percent of the area of the cardboard is considered as waste?
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Question 1143585: A car travels for 3 hours at a speed of 55 miles per hour and then for the next 2 hours travels at a speed of 65 miles per hour. Find the average speed of the car for the entire journey.
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Question 1143584: Bob is making mini fondant cakes for the next bake sale, each cake cost bob $1.80 to make. If he sells the cake for $3.00 each, how many will he have to sell to make a profit of exactly $36.00?
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Question 1143586: John is stacking boxes directly upon each other. He stacks at 1 box per minute initially and every minute after that, his stacking rate increases by 1 box per minute. If each box is 5 inches tall , in how many minutes will the stack be 30 inches tall?
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Question 1143589: A substance length doubles every hour. At 2pm it was 3meters. What was the length at 11am at that same day?
A) 0.375
B)0.5
C)0.75
D)1meter
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Question 1143588: Jesse goes to the store. He buys a magazine for $8. Then he sells it for $10 and buys it back again for $11. He finally sells it for $12. What was his profit?
A) $-1
B) $0
C)$2
D$3
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Question 1143591: Which is true about A and B?
A= √65 —9
B= √50 —8
A)A=B
B)A>B
C)A>1
D)B>A
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Question 1143592: Which is true about A and B?
A= √65 -9
B= √50 -8
A)A=B
B)A>B
C)A>1
D)B>A
(Root 65)
(Root 50)
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