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Question 1196508: Please help me how to solve An alcoholic drink claims 12% alcohol b volume. Calculate the volume in ml of alcohol present in a 0.8L wine
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Question 1196558: Sandy Brondello scored 24 points in a recent basketball game without making any 3-point
shots. She scored 16 times, making several free throws worth 1 point each and several field
goals worth two points each. How many free throws did she make? How many 2-point
field goals did she make?
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Question 1196559: A textile company has specific dyeing and drying times for its different cloths. A roll of
Cloth A requires 55 minutes of dyeing time and 45 minutes of drying time. A roll of Cloth
B requires 60 minutes of dyeing time and 30 minutes of drying time. The production
division allocates 2280 minutes of dyeing time and 1560 minutes of drying time for the
week. How many rolls of each cloth can be dyed and dried?
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Question 1196561: Sandy Brondello scored 24 points in a recent basketball game without making any 3-point
shots. She scored 16 times, making several free throws worth 1 point each and several field
goals worth two points each. How many free throws did she make? How many 2-point
field goals did she make?

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Question 1196619: I have 160 oz. of mixture (M+B) where B =27% of the mix. how much M must I add per 16 oz. to get 12% B in each batch of 160 Oz. mixture?
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Question 1196730: The total number of medals won by athletes in each of the countries A, B, C, and D are four consecutive integers whose sum is 98. Find the number of medals for each country.
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Question 1197099: what is the value of 2 to the power of -3

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Question 1197099: what is the value of 2 to the power of -3

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Question 1197113: Baker and co- Who is Who and Who lives Where? Messrs Carpenter, Baker and Mason live in Baker, Carpenter and Mason Streets where they practice the trades of mason, baker and carpenter. None of these men follows the trade, nor lives in the street his name suggests. Imagine how the postman mixes up the mail! Several times each week, Mr Carpenter re-addresses letters to his friend the baker. Who is who and who lives where?
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Question 1197162: You need 1040 mL of a 20% alcohol solution. On hand, you have a 15% alcohol mixture. You also have a 95% alcohol mixture. How much of each mixture will you need to add to obtain the desired solution?

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Question 1197547: How many kilograms of nickel silver containing 15% zinc and how many kilograms of nickel silver containing 33% zinc must be melted together to produce 748 kg of a new nickel silver containing 28% zinc?
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Question 1197546: Two different mixtures of gasohol are available, one with 5% alcohol and the other containing 14% alcohol. How many gallons of the 14% mixture must be added to the 293 gal of the 5% mixture to produce a mixture containing 9% alcohol?
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Question 1197646: h(x)=2x^2+x-1 and g(x)=4x-5
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Question 1197686: A car license plate contains five letters, followed by two digits. How many different plates can be made if no two letters can be the same, if the letters I and O cannot be used, and if the first of the two digits cannot be the number 0?
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Question 1197806: A cleaning solution has 40% vinegar. What is the amount of vinegar in 32 ounces of the cleaning solution?
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Question 1197844: Two alcohol solutions consists of a 35 gallons of 35% alcohol and other solutions containing 50% alcohol. If the two solutions are combined together, they will have a mixture of 40% alcohol. How many gallons of the solutions containing 50% alcohol?
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Question 1197987: the sum of a and b is 28 the difference between a and 2b is 10
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Question 1198023: An electrician requires 250 energy saving light bulbs. He comes across four suppliers of these light bulbs.
Electra sells the light bulbs at R123.00 each, with a R350.00 delivery fee.
ZZZ Lighting sells the light bulbs at R140.00 with a 13% discount on the final amount, but with a R260.00 delivery fee.
Sparx sells the light bulbs at R255.00 each with a buy one, get one free offer & no delivery fee.
Finally, Brightex sells the light bulbs at R190.00 each with a third off the final amount and a delivery fee of R100.00
Which supplier offers the best deal for the electrician?
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Question 1198048: One 1700-pound load of feed mixture contains 25% corn, 40% bran, and roughage. How many pounds of corn should be added to a load of feed mixture to make the feed 40% corn?
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Question 1198083: Grapefruit costs 50 cents per 12 ounce can, and pineapple costs 85 cents per 12 ounce can. How many of each should she mix to obtain 84 ounces of a mixture that will cost 70 cents for every 12 ounces?
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Question 1198322: Find three consecutive numbers such that the sum of the first and twice the second is forty-six less than six times the third. The third number is
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Question 1198319: Find three consecutive numbers such that the sum of the first and twice the second is forty-six less than six times the third. The third number is
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Question 1198321: A teacher is manually checking her student's outputs. She opens the submission bins and encodes scores in her class record. She checks twice as many outputs in the next hour as compared to the previous hours she is working. How many outputs has the teacher checked if she was able to grade five outputs in her first hour of working and she was able to work for four hours?
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Question 1198320: If Ms. Sarmiento is investing Php 200,000.00 with a simple interest rate of 3.5% for 8 years, how much will the money of Ms. Sarmiento be after 8 years?
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Question 1198429: A person's website specializes in the sale of rare or unusual vegetable seeds. He sells packets of sweet-pepper seeds for $2.48 each and packets of hot-pepper seeds for $4.88 each. He also offers a 16-packet mixed pepper assortment combining packets of both types of seeds at $3.53 per packet How many packets of each type of seed are in the assortment?
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Question 1198435: Which of the following transformations changes f(x)=x^3 to g(x)=4(x+2)^3?
Answer one of the following. Which one?
A) the function f(x) is vertically stretched and shifted to the right 2 units.
B) the function f(x) is vertically compressed and shifted to the left 2 units
C) the function f(x) is vertically stretched and shifted to the left 2 units
D)the function f(x) is vertically stretched and shifted up 2 units
E) the function f(x) is vertically compressed and shifted to the right 2 units
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Question 1198483: A metallurgist has one alloy containing 28% titanium and another containing 45% titanium. How many pounds of each alloy must he use to make 43 pounds of a third alloy containing 31% titanium? (Round to two decimal places if necessary.)
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Question 1198933: A car sales representative receives a commission that is the greater of $250 or 8% of the selling price of a car. What dollar amounts (x) in the sale price of a car will make the commission offer more attractive than the $250 flat fee?
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Question 1199152: help a coffee shop manager to find the amount of a certain type of coffee that sells for $5 per kilogram which should be mixed with the 30kgs of another type of coffee which sells for $9 per kg in order to make a new flavor of coffee which she sells for $7 per kilogram
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Question 1199490: A nut store normally sells cashews for $90 per pound amd almonds for $3.50 per pound. But at the end of the month the almonds had not sold well, so in order to sell 60 pounds of almost, the manager decided to mix the 60 pounds of almonds with some cashews and sell the mixture for $7.50 per pound. How many pounds of cashews should be mixed with the almonds to ensure no change in the profit?

Again, this is wordy leading to confusion for me.
I seek the correct equation setup.

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Question 1199489: The manager of a store that specializes in selling tea decides to experiment with a new blend. She will mix some Earl Grey tea that sells for $5 per pound with some Orange Pekoe tea that sells for $3 per pound to get 100 pounds of the new blend. The selling price of the new blend is to be $4.50 per pound, and there is to be no difference in revenue from selling the new blend versus selling the other types. How many pounds of the Early Grey tea and Orange Pekoe tea are required?

Too many words here. I seek the correct equation setup.

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