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Question 1144968: The average of three unequal positive whole numbers is 10. What is the largest possible value that any of those numbers can have ?
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Question 1144963: If t^4 =9981, between which two integers does t lie?
A)9 and 10
B)10 and 11
C)99 and 100
D)100 and 101
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Question 1144972: There are 3 times more boys than girls in a math class. The average score of the boys on a science test is 90, and the average score of the girls on the same test is 86. What is the average score of the whole class on this test?
A)88
B)86.5
C)87
D)89
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Question 1144966: Line CD is 3 inches from one AB and CD and AB are parallel. Point K is in the line AB. How many points on the line CD are exactly 4 inches from poinT K
A)0
B)1
C)2
D)more than 3
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Question 1144965: What is the smallestcinyeger greater than -(29/4)
A)6
B)7
C)-6
D)-7
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Question 1144965: What is the smallestcinyeger greater than -(29/4)
A)6
B)7
C)-6
D)-7
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Question 1144973: When n is divided by 4, the remainder is 3. What is the remainder when (3n-1)) is divided by 4?
A)0
B)1
C)2
D)4
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Question 1144964: An office has 8 rooms, and it is necessary to connect every room to every other room with a forest wire connection . How many connections need to be installed ?
A)12
B)28
C)30
D)56
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Question 1144962: A square and a triangle cannot have _____ common points
A)7
B)6
C)5
D)3
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Question 1144961: If T and P are positive numbers which of the following statements is always false?
A) P-T>0
B)P+T=0
C)P+T =2P
D)P+T>P
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Question 1144956: A box contains 3 red marbles, 3 blue marbles. ,3 green marbles , 3 yellow and 3 purple marbles. What is the smallest number of marbles that we need to take out of the box to make sure we have 2 marbles of the same colour?
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Question 1144959: Amy is in a line to buy a ticket. There are twice as many people in front of Amy as there are behind her. How many people are there in the line, if Amy is the 7th person in it?
A)24
B)22
C)21
D)10
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Question 1144967: A regular hexagon is inscribed into a circle . The side of the hexagon is 10cm. Findthe diameter of the circle.
A)20
B)18
C)16
D)12
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Question 1145038: At the city museum, child admission is $5.30 and adult admission is $9.00. On Saturday, three times as many adult tickets as child tickets were sold, for a total sales of $710.60. How many child tickets were sold that day?
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Question 1145107: The sun of 3 sides of the square is 24 cm. What is the area of the square?
A) 16
B)32
C)36
D) 64
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Question 1145107: The sun of 3 sides of the square is 24 cm. What is the area of the square?
A) 16
B)32
C)36
D) 64
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Question 1145105: Two sides of an isosceles triangle are 23 and 11. What is the perimeter of the triangle?
A)44
B)45
C)57
D)58
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Question 1145108: The difference between 2 prime numbers cannot be
A)1
B)2
C) 3
D)7
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Question 1145108: The difference between 2 prime numbers cannot be
A)1
B)2
C) 3
D)7
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Question 1145106: If T (2,1), H(2,5) and R(-1.2) are the vertices ofbtrianhke THR. What is it’s area?
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Question 1145109: The average of the degree measure of all angles of a rectangle is how much less than the average of degree measure of all angles of a hexagon.
A)0
B)30
C)60
D)90
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Question 1145116: If 6a + 7b =42, what is 1/7 (a) + 1/6(b)
A)1
B)3
C)13
D)84
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Question 1145115: Today Peter is 20 years old and James is 6 years old. In how many years from today would Peter be 2 times older than James ?
A)18
B)12
C)8
D) non of these
My answer is D
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Question 1145127: A bank loaned out $14,500, part of it at the rate of 12% annual interest, and the rest at 5% annual interest. The total interest earned for both loans was $1,005.00. How much was loaned at each rate? show me explanation step by step
with solution
A bookcase is to have 4 shelves including the top as pictured below.
The width is to be 17 feet less than 4 times the height. Find the width and the height if the carpenter expects to use 22 feet of lumber to make it.

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Question 1145195: All pupils in a class took part in a test.
3 passed in English only
27 passed in Maths
26 passed in French
2 passed in both English and French
21 passed in both Maths and English
20 passed in both Maths and French
15 passed in all three subjects
7 failed in all three subjects
Questions:
1) Show all information on a venn diagram
2) Calculate the number of pupils in the class
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Question 1145196: A bag contains 9 balls, 4 of which are red and 5 are blue. Two balls are taken from the bag at random with replacement.
1) complete the tree diagram to show the probabilities of the possible outcome.
There's a tree diagram drawn but I cant seem to draw it here, it wont let me copy or paste also...
from red it is 4/9 and from blue it is 5/9
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Question 1145251: runs a promotion every 500th customer gets a free gift. every 800th customer gets a voucher 1200th customer gets a discount. which customer is to receive the free gift discount and voucher answer
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Question 1145265: Mike has saved 32 quarters from washing cars. How many cents does mike have?
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Question 1145289: If solution A contains 50% nitrogen and solution B contains 29% nitrogen. How much of each solution should be mixed in order to create 30 liters of a solution that contains 36% nitrogen
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Question 1145311: One mixture contains 20% sugar and 60% salt while another contains 50% sugar and 30% salt. How many cups of each mixture should you combine so that the result contains 8 cups of sugar and 6 cups of salt?
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Question 1145340: 8) Pat is mixing two sulfuric acid solutions, one 40% and one 10%. To get 15 liters of a solution that is 30%
sulfuric acid, how much of each must she use?
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Question 1145330: A man rowed up a river of 1 kilometer in 6hours and back in 4 hours. Find the rate of the current and his rate of rowing in still water.
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Question 1145459: The Newtown Telephone Company advertises that if you use their 10-10 service, you will always pay only 10 cents per minute, no matter where you call within the country. Its major rival, Tryus Telephone Company, charges only 5 cents per minute, but you must pay a 45 cents "connection fee" per call.
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Question 1145472: Sam invested $2400, some at 9.2% interest and the rest at 9.8%. How much did he invest at each rate if he received $225.60 in interest in one year?
Investment at 9.2% account = $

Investment in 9.8% account = $
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Question 1145487: A chemist mixed 30% acid and 80% acid solutions and produced 5 gallons of 50% solution. How many liters of each were combined to produce the resulting solution?
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Question 1145508: The Daytona 500 started in 1959 with an average speed of 135 mph but before they raced on the big speedway they would race up and down on the beach. In 1954 Lee Petty raced on the beach for a total 160 miles. As the 2 hour race developed Lee averaged 90 mph for the first part of the race but only 60 mph for last part. How long did he race at 90 mph and how long at 60 mph?
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Question 1145588: I’m not sure how to set up this problem:
Jimmy wants to make a 48% sugar solution. He has already poured 12 L of a 46% sugar solution into a beaker. How many liters of a 51% sugar solution must he add to this to create the desire mixture?
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Question 1145618: How many gallons of a 60% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 90 gallons of 25% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 50% antifreeze?
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Question 1145668:
1.Mix a solution that is 30% alcohol with a solution that is 80% alcohol to make 725 mL of a solution that is 60% alcohol. How much (in mL) of each solution should you use?
30% alcohol solution__ml
80% alcohol solution__ml.
2.A welder has 15 pieces of 4 ft steel angle and 18 pieces of 2 ft steel angle. What is the ratio of pieces of 4 ft steel angle to 2 ft steel angle? (Enter your answer in fraction form.)
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