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Question 1176170: If $ 500 is decompressed in an account paying 8.5% annual interest, compounded semiannually, how long willit take for the account to increase to $ 1000? How long will it take for the account to increase to $ 41000 if compounded continuously?
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Question 1176206: Asanji and Ndiba each improved their yards by planting rose bushes and ornamental grass, They bought their supplies from the same store. Asanji spent $11 on 1 rose bush and 2 bunches of ornamental grass. Ndiba spent $23 on 5 rose bushes and 2 bunches of ornamental grass. Find the cost of one rose bush and the cost of one bunch of oranamental grass.

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Question 1176272: A chemical company makes two brands of antifreeze. The first brand is 70% pure antifreeze and the second brand is 95% pure antifreeze. In order to obtain 60 gallons of a mixture that contains 85% pure antifreeze, how many gallons of each brand of antifreeze must be used?
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Question 1176647: Solve the equation for x. Show your work and give your answer in the simplest form.
-x-2+x^2/2
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Question 1176702: Ryan has some bananas. The amount of bananas she has is two more than twice the amount of apples she has. If she has 29 bananas and apples total, how many of each does she have?
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Question 1176985: how many ounces of vegetable oil containing 10% of saturated fats must be added to 20 ounces containing 22% saturated fats to make a salad dressing containing 16% saturated fats?
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Question 1176983: how many ounces of pure corn oil must be mixed with the 24 ounces of solution containing 90% olive oil to blend a salad dressing that is 54% olive oil
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Question 1176984: a store keeper has cashew nuts that sell for $130 per kilo gram and peanuts that sell for $60 per kilogram. he wishes to make a mixture of 50 kg of the two kinds of nuts so that he can sell it for $78 per kg. how many kgs of each kind of nuts does he need to put in the mixture?
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Question 1177323: How many liters of a 20% acid solution must be mixed with 15 liters of a 60% solution to create 40 liters of a 35% solution?
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Question 1177591: The Thrust SCC could travel a distance of 5280 feet (one mile) in 4.72 seconds. Calculate the Thrust SSC’s speed in feet per second.
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Question 1177753: q1) Together dien and jane eat 2/3 a pizza in 4 seconds. how long would it take each of them to eat the whole pizza alone if jane can eat a pizza 5 seconds faster than dien?
and
q2) Baba Yaga lost her broom somewhere between her hut and Bald Mountain, and wants to get it back. She calculates that with a tailwind of 2 km/ h, she can fly from her hut to Bald Mountain in 6 hours. Baba Yaga starts her trip, finds her broom 40 km before Bald Mountain, and turns around and flies home. The entire journey takes 9 hours. Find the speed Baba Yaga flies in quiet weather (with no tailwind or headwind).
Can someone explain step by step approach to solving this problem?
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Question 1177756: Baba Yaga lost her broom somewhere between her hut and Bald Mountain, and wants to get it back. She calculates that with a tailwind of 2 km/ h, she can fly from her hut to Bald Mountain in 6 hours. Baba Yaga starts her trip, finds her broom 40 km before Bald Mountain, and turns around and flies home. The entire journey takes 9 hours. Find the speed Baba Yaga flies in quiet weather (with no tailwind or headwind).
Can someone explain step by step approach to solving this problem?
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Question 1177976: Air is pumped into a spherical balloon at the rate of 20 cm s-1 When the radius of the balloon is 10 cm, calculate
(a) The rate of change of the radius
(b) The rate of change of the surface area

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Question 1178068: A chemist needs 8 liters of a 25% acid solution. The solution is to be mixed from three solutions whose concentrations are 10%, 20%, and 50%. How many liters of each solution will satisfy each condition?
a. Use as little as possible of the 50% solution
b. Use as much as possible of the 50% solution.
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Question 1178099: explain how interval notation set notation and inequality notation are all related
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Question 1178099: explain how interval notation set notation and inequality notation are all related
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Question 1178109: An object moving vertically is at the given heights at the specified times. Find the position equation s =1/2at^2 + v0t + s0 for the object.
At
t = 1 second, s = 156 feet
At
t = 2 seconds, s = 108 feet
At
t = 3 seconds, s = 28 feet
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Question 1178300: A storage tank contains 150 liters of fuel which is 3% oil (and 97% gasoline). How many liters of oil should be added for use in an engine that requires a 15% oil mixture
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Question 1178425: In the lab, Abdul has two solutions that contain alcohol and is mixing them with each other. He uses 400 milliliters less of Solution A than Solution B. Solution A is 16% alcohol and Solution B is 20% alcohol. How many milliliters of Solution B does he use, if the resulting mixture has 152 milliliters of pure alcohol?

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Question 1178503: The pharmacist needs 70 liters of a 55% saline
solution. The warehouse has barrels of 10% and 80%
saline solutions. How much of each must she mix to
fulfill her request?
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Question 1178550: A pharmacist adds pure alcohol to a 25% alcohol solution to obtain 6 quarts of a 45% solution of alcohol. How much of the 25% solution and how much pure alcohol did she use?
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Question 1178938: How much of Brand A fruit punch (55%
fruit juice) must be mixed with 2 L of
Brand B fruit punch (40% fruit juice) to
create a mixture containing 50% fruit
juice?
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Question 1179017: Write the equation given information:
Hole when x=-2
Horizontal asymptote y=0
Vertical asymptote x=0, x=-5
x-intercept (3,0)
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Question 1179369: seller has 80kgs of peanuts worth $1.50/kg and 50 kg of cashews worth $4.50/kg. he wants to make a 100 kgs mixture to sell at $2.61/kg . find the number of kgs of cashews and peanuts sold. how many cashews are left over at the end?
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Question 1179764: needs a mix of a 10% solution with a 60% acid solution to create 200 milliliters of a 15% solution. how many milliliters of each solution must be use
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Question 1179766: A coffee distributor needs to mix a(n) Costa Rican coffee blend that normally sells for $9.70 per pound with a Breakfast coffee blend that normally sells for $13.20 per pound to create 30 pounds of a coffee that can sell for $9.82 per pound. How many pounds of each kind of coffee should they mix?
Answer: They must mix
pounds of the Costa Rican Blend
pounds of the Breakfast Blend.
Round your answers to the nearest whole number of pounds.
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Question 1179767: A chef is going to use a mixture of two brands of Italian dressing. The first brand contains 7% vinegar, and the second brand contains 12% vinegar. The chef wants to make 350 milliliters of a dressing that is 8% vinegar. How much of each brand should she use?
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Question 1179790: A grocer is mixing 40 cent per lb. coffee with 60 cent per lb. coffee to make a mixture worth 54 cents per lb. How much of each kind of coffee should be used to make 70 lb. of the mixture?
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Question 1179881: A kettle requires 153 kWh of electrical energy to produce 60 kWh of sound energy and 93 kWh of heat energy. How efficient is the kettle at boiling water? Round your answer to the nearest whole percentage (i.e. no decimals). Use the % sign with no space after the number.

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Question 1179986: Kira’s coffee shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Kira $4.20 per pound, and Type B coffee costs $5.95 per pound. This month Kira made 144 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $697.55. How many pounds of type A coffee did she use?
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Question 1180341: Given that -2,4,-5 are solutions to the polynomial equation, what are the factors?
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Question 1180489: A certain amount of water was added to a 50 ml solution of 25% acid in water. If the resulting mixture has concentration
of 10% acid, form an equation representing the concentration of the new mixture.
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Question 1180566: A gasoline refinery mixes different types of gasoline. How many gallons of grade A worth 17.60 per gallon must be mixed with grade B worth 19.20 per gallon and grade C at 22.40 per gallon to produce 10 gallons of gas that will sell for 19.52 per gallon if equal amount of grade A and C are mixed?

Please help me🙏 this is for my final project. Thank you so much🙏😇
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Question 1180842: 1600 tickets sold, 30 for seat and 15 for lawn, how much of each tickets was sold

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