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Question 1189766: How many pounds of a chicken feed that is 45% corn must be mixed with 480 lb of a feed that is 80% corn to make a chicken feed that is 75% corn?
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Question 1189787: If it is 3 added to twice a number and this sum is multiplied by 2, the result is the same as if the number is multiplied by 3 and 4 is added to the product. What is the number?
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Question 1189786: how much pure acid is in 600 liters of a 34% alcohol solution?
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Question 1189786: how much pure acid is in 600 liters of a 34% alcohol solution?
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Question 1189902: 5. At $1.40 per pound, the daily supply of tobacco is 1075 pounds, and the daily
demand is 580 pounds. When the price falls to $1.20 per pound, the daily
supply decreases to 575 pounds and the daily demand increases to 980 pounds.
Assume that the supply and demand equations are linear.
a) Find the supply equations.
b) Find the demand equations.
c) Find the equilibrium price and quantity.
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Question 1189901: 7. The top two dolls that a toy manufacturer makes are called Baby Wiggles and
Sleepy Baby. To make a case of Baby Wiggles takes 10 units of raw material
and I unit of time to assemble. To make a case of Sleepy Baby takes 6 units of
raw material and 2 units of time to assemble. On a given day the manufacturer
has at most 300 units of raw material and 44 units of time. If the manufacturer
makes a profit of $170 on each case of Baby Wiggles and $140 on each case
of Sleepy Baby, how many cases of each type of doll should the manufacturer
make in order to maximize profit?
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Question 1190166: When salt and water are combined they form a saline solution, How much water must be added to a 150 mL of an 80% saline solution to produce a 30% saline solution?
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Question 1190205: Bags of coffee worth $90 a bag must be mixed with coffee worth $75 a bag to get 50 bags worth $87 a bag. How many bags of each are needed?
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Question 1190311: How much water should be mixed with a 10% plant fertilizer solution to make a half gallon of a 4% plant fertilizer solution
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Question 1190412: a person buys 20 units of a product for RS 950 in total this includes discount of 5% which is applicable if more than 10 units are purchased compute cost per unit if 5 units are purchased
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Question 1190411: a father gives his son certain amount of pocket money every week son saves 30% of amount and spends the rest with spending on saturday and sunday being twice than what is spent on oher days of the week if total saving in the week are 420 how much is spent in each saturday

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Question 1190410: a restaurant sells fries for RS 120 each.burger for RS 200 each and sandwitches for RS 250 each if the profit on fries is 1/3 of its selling price ,profit on burgers is RS 60 more than the profit on fries and profit on sandwiches is 125% of profit on burgers what will be the total profit for the sale of 5 fries 10 burgers and 15 sandwitches
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Question 1189900: 7. The top two dolls that a toy manufacturer makes are called Baby Wiggles and
Sleepy Baby. To make a case of Baby Wiggles takes 10 units of raw material
and I unit of time to assemble. To make a case of Sleepy Baby takes 6 units of
raw material and 2 units of time to assemble. On a given day the manufacturer
has at most 300 units of raw material and 44 units of time. If the manufacturer
makes a profit of $170 on each case of Baby Wiggles and $140 on each case
of Sleepy Baby, how many cases of each type of doll should the manufacturer
make in order to maximize profit?
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Question 1190517: the student measures the pressure inside a bicycle tyre using a pressure gauge he has constructed. the piston and rod move along the smooth cylindrical tube.the change in length of the spring is proportional to the force applied to the spring. a force of 2.8 n.the student connects the pressure gauge to the tyre.air from the tyre exerts a force on the piston as the piston moves the spring is compressed the piston moves 10cm to the right and then stop.calculate the force exerted on the piston by the spring
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Question 1190855: A 30% antifreeze solution is to be mixed with a 90% antifreeze solution to get 18 liters of a 40% solution. How many liters of the 30% and how many liters of the 90% solutions will be used?
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Question 1191279: Eleri has 97 cents credit on her mobile phone. It costs her 6 cents to send a text message.How many text messages can Eleri send?
Explain how you worked out your answer?
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Question 1191280: Mrs Gupta has 250 sweets to share among her class of 32 children. Each child gets the same number of sweets. Mrs Gupta keeps the sweets that are left over.How many sweets does Mrs Gupta keep?Use an inverse operation to check your answer.
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Question 1191297: Find the least whole number that must be added 1122 to get the perfect square number.
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Question 1191297: Find the least whole number that must be added 1122 to get the perfect square number.
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Question 1191306: 3. A chemist mixed a solution that was 34% acid with another solution that was 18% acid to produce a 30 ounce solution that was 28% acid. How much of the 34% acid solution did he use?

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Question 1191590: Justin's Coffee Shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee costs Justin $4.10 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.85 per pound. This month, Justin made 150 pounds of the blend, for a total cost of $774.25. How many pounds of type B coffee did he use?
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Question 1191606: A manufacturer produces a business calculator and a graphing calculator. each calculator is assembled in two sets of operations, where each operation is in production 8 hours during each day. the average time required for a business calculatorin the first operation is 3 minutes, and 6 minutes is required in the second operation. the graphing calculator averages 6 minutes in the first operation and 4 minutes in the second operation. all calculators can be sold the profit for business calculator is 8$ and the profit for a graphing calculatoris $10. how many of each type of calculator should be made each day in order to maximize profit.
I know that one equation will include X= the business calculator and y= the graphing calculator.
x+y<=8 hours?
9x+10y<=?
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Question 1191657: What is the sum of the largest prime less than 100 and the smallest prime greater than 100?
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Question 1191711: A chemist is using 381 milliliters of a solution of acid and water. If 17.4% of the solution is acid, how many milliliters of acid are there? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

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Question 1191719: 12. An aquarium can be filled by two inlets in 0.4 h and 0.25 h,
respectively, and emptied by an outlet in 0.5 h. How long would it
take to fill the aquarium if the inlets and outlet were operating
simultaneously?
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Question 1191958: One evening 1400 concert tickets were sold for the Fairmont summer jazz festival tickets cost $30 for covered pavilion seats and $15 for lawn seats total receipts were 33,000 how many tickets of each type are sold

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Question 1192590: Show the linear program setup: Identify the variables; give the objective function and the constraints. Then use Solver (excel) and write the answer along with the value of the optimal objective function.
#4 A lawn and garden store sells 3 different potting mixes sold in 20 pound bags.
Mix A has 12 lbs peat, 5 lbs perlite, 3 lbs organic material. It earns a profit of $3 per bag
Mix B has 10 lbs peat, 6 lbs perlite, 4 lbs organic material. It earns a profit of $5 per bag
Mix C has 8 lbs peat, 8 lbs perlite, 4 lbs organic material. It earns a profit of $6 per bag.
There are 1200 lbs peat, 800 lbs perlite, 600 lbs organic material available.
How many 20 pound bags of each mix should be made to maximize profit?

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Question 1192741: A 2 kg bag of walnuts is mixed with 3 kg of pecans, 4 kg of hazelnuts, and 1 kg of brazil nuts to make a 10 kg bag of mixed nuts. What percentage of the 10 kg bag of nuts are pecans and hazelnuts?
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Question 1192740: Two liters of juice cocktail are combined with 6 liters of a different juice cocktail to make 8 liters of juice cocktail containing 50% juice. If the 6 liters of juice cocktail contains 33% fruit juice, what percentage of fruit juice is the 2 liters of juice cocktail?
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Question 1192773: How many liters of pure alcohol must be added to a 4-liter 50% solution to make 70% solution? Solve using algebra.
Note: Pure Alcohol = 100% solution
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Question 1193148: Suppose that there are two types of tickets to a show: advance and same-day. The combined cost of one advance ticket and one same-day ticket is $55 . For one 20 performance,40 advance tickets and same-day tickets were sold. The total amount paid for the tickets was $1500 . What was the price of each kind of ticket?
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Question 1193214: A trough is 75cm long and its ends in the form of an isosceles triangle have an altitude of 20cm and a base of 30cm. Water is flowing into the trough at the rate of 100cm3/sec. Find the rate at which water level is rising when the water is 10cm deep?
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Question 1193497: Car A left town C for Town Y at 6:00am and travelled at an average speed of 80km/h. At 7.30am car B left town X for town Y. If car B travels at an average speed of 100km/h, at what time will it catch car A.
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