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Question 647624: Classify the following variable as nominal, ordinal, discrete, or continuous and state why it is such a variable:
(Religious Affiliation)

Thanks in advance!
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Question 647627: Another one. Sorry, I just don't have the hang of it yet!
Classify the following as an example of a nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio level of measurment, and please state why it represents this level:
(Temperature in 25 US Cities)

Again, Thanks in advance, for your help!
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Question 647639: Solution A has 16% acid. Solution B has 9% acid. How many liters of each should be mix together to get 35 liters than its 12% ACID?
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Question 647653: A mechanic has 343 gallons of gasoline and 18 gallons of oil to make gas/oil mixtures. He wants one mixture to be 6% oil and the other mixture to be 2.5% oil. If he wants to use all of the gas and oil, how many gallons of gas and oil are in each of the resulting mixtures?
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Question 647960: Isari's recipe for strawberry smoothies requires 1/2 cup of sliced strawberries per drink, How many smoothies can she make using 8 cups
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Question 648054: hi tutor,,please help me again for this question...2.how much pure alcohol must be added to a 12L of a 20% alcohol sulotion to make a solution that is 60% alcohol?
thank you..
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Question 648067: A car radiator contains 10 liters of a 30% antifreeze solution. How many liters will have to be replaced with pure antifreeze if the resulting solution is to be 50% antifreeze?
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Question 648111: Trying to help my daughter...
kali mixes together 9 gal of brand a fruit drink and 6 gal of brand b fruit drink which contains 5% fruit juice. find the percent of fruit juice in brand a if the mixture contained 11% fruit juice.
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Question 648119: How many quarts of pure antifreeze must be added to 7 quarts of a 50% antifreeze solution to obtain a 60% antifreeze solution?
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Question 648118: A chemist is mixing a 40% salt solution with a 20% salt solution to make 50 L of a new solution that will contain 25% salt. How much of the 40% solution should the chemist use?
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Question 648125: A pharmacist wishes to mix a solution that is 7% Minoxidil. She has on hand 90 ml of a 5% solution and wishes to add some 9% solution to obtain the desired 7% solution. How much 9% solution should she add?
Thanks!
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Question 648376: i need to prepare 180g of 10%cream using 30% stock cream and a cream base? how much is needed of each
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Question 648378: How many liters of a 30% alcohol solution must be mixed with 80 liters of a 90% solution to get a 40% solution?
Here is the equation that I tried to make out of it.
.3x times .9(80)= .40
It seems so simple but I keep screwing it up.
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Question 648497: To create a breakfast beverage, pineapple juice in two concentrations, 18% and 50%, must be combined into a solution that will be mixed with another type of juice to produce the beverage. If 30 gallons of 18% juice is used, how many gallons of the 50% juice must be used to obtain a 40% pineapple juice solution?
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Question 649609: A Biologist mixes a 15% salt solution with a 35% salt solution to create 20 mL of a 22% salt solution.Which equation can you use to find the amount of 15% salt solution that is used?
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Question 649630: What quantity of a 80% acid solution must be mixed with a 40% solution to produce 600 mL of a 55% solution?
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Question 649654: Tamara paid $3.00 for cartons of milk. Teo paid $3.75 for a different number of cartons of milk at the same store.
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Question 649654: Tamara paid $3.00 for cartons of milk. Teo paid $3.75 for a different number of cartons of milk at the same store.
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Question 649910: i kneed to know what kind of ingredient and the amount needed to stabilize 75 gallons of gassoline for 1 yesr.
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Question 650538: Solution A is 30% alcohol and solution B is 60% alcohol. How much of each is needed to make 80 liters of a solution that is 45% alcohol?
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Question 650551: How many ounces of water should a chemist remove from 20 ounces of a 20% sulfuric acid solution to increase it to a 40% sulfuric acid solution?
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Question 650593: Liquid oxygen weighs about 9.5 lbs per gallon.
About how many ounces per gallon is the weight of liquid oxygen.

Please and thank you.
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Question 650682: how many gallons of an 80% antifreeze solution must be mixed with 100 gallons of 10% antifreeze to get a mixture that is 70% antifreeze?
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Question 650687: a chemist has 100 mL of 20% ammonia solution. how many milliliters of water must she add to reduce the ammonia concentration to 8%?
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Question 650791: Two airplanes leave the same airport at 6:00am traveling in opposite directions. The northbound plane is traveling at 450 mph(relative ground speed) and the southbound plane is traveling 350 mph (relative ground speed). At what time will the two planes be 2400 miles apart?
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Question 650788: With the old combine, Nikitas entire wheat crop can be harvested in 60 hours, but a new combine can do the same job in 20 hours. How many hours would it take to harvest the crop with both combines operating?

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Question 650807: What quantity of 75 percent acid solution must be mixed with a 30 percent solution to produce 135 mL of a 50 percent solution?
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Question 650872: 1.A phramacist needs to obtain a 60% alcohol solution. How many ounces of a 30% alcohol solution must be mixed with 50 ounces of an 80% alcohol solution to obtain a 60% alcohol solution?

2.A tank can be filled in 2 hours. The same tank can be emptied in 6 hours. If the faucet is turned on and the drain is left open, when will the tank overflow?
3.Tom Kline mixed 60lbs of sunflower seeds at $3.00 per lb with 40lbs of daisy seeds at $2.00 per pound to produce a wild flower mix. What is the unit price of the mix?
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Question 650949: One canned juice drink is 15% orange juice;another is 10% orange juice.How many liters of each should be mixed together in order to get 5L that is 12% orange juice?
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Question 650945: You need to prepare 65 mL of a 60% soda/syrup "prescription". To do this, yu can use the 80% soda solution and the syrup solution (0% strength). How many mL of each solution do you need to create this final solution?

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Question 651004:
A certain metal is 40% copper. How many kilograms of this metal must be mixed with 60 kilograms of a metal that is 70% copper to get a metal that is 50% copper?
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Question 651185: How much of an alloy that is 40% copper should be mixed with 300 ounces of an alloy that is 60% copper in order to get an alloy that is 50% copper?
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Question 651340: Johns test scores are 95,90,83. What must he score on his next test to have an average test score of 90 on the four test?
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Question 651702: A hairdresser mixes a 30% peroxide solution with a 10% peroxide solution to get 4 cups of20% peroxide solution. How much of the 10% peroxide solution did she use?
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Question 651716: How much of a 50% acid solution must be mixed with 50 gallons of a 12% acid solution to obtain a solution that is 40% acid?
I tried to do 0.5X + 50(0.12)= 0.4, but I got a negative answer.
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Question 651736: a pharmacist wishes to mix a solution that is 4% of minoxidil. She has on hand 90 ml of 2% solution and she wishes to add some 6% solution to obtain the desired 4% solution. How much 6% should she add?
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Question 651725: A chemist needs 18 liters of a 30% acid solution. How much of a 20% solution should be mixed with a 40% solution to get that (round your answer to the nearest liter)?
anyone who can show me how to do this great :) i was stuck on it.
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Question 651748: For a party, adult tickets were sold at $15 and child tickets were sold at $10. there were 140 tickets sold for a total value of $1600. How many of each type of ticket were sold?

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Question 651797: Bill and Joe each have a certain number of marbles. If Bill gives Joe five marbles, Bill and Joe will have exactly the same number of marbles. If Joe gives Bill five marbles, then Bill will have twice as many marbles as Joe. How many marbles does each boy have?
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Question 651843: For her chemistry experiment, Marisol needs 2 liters of a 50% alcohol solution. The lab has two containers, one with 40% alcohol solution and the other with 80% alcohol solution.
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Question 651999: Jar A contains 1.3 liters of water with 23% of sugar. Jar B contains water with 34% of sugar. How much liquid from jar B should be poured into jar A to form a 27% sugar solution? :)
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Question 652410: Tickets for a school play sold for $7.50 for each adult and $3 for each child. The total reciepts for 113 tickets sold were $663. Find the number of adult tickets sold!
Please get back to me as soon as you can! Thank you!
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Question 652559: A 20% solution of fertilizer is to be mixed with a 80% solution of fertilizer in order to get 120 gallons of a 60% solution. How many gallons of the 20% solution and 80% solution should be mixed?
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