Each student in a cooking class of 50 students is assigned to create a dessert, an appetizer, or both. The total number of students creating an appetizer is seven more than the number of students...
A candy shop manager mixes M&M's worth $2.00 per pound with trail mix worth $1.50 per pound to make 50 pounds of party mix worth $1.80 per pound. How many pounds of each she should use?
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The blue container holds 4/3 of the amount red container can hold. Maggie measures out 80 cubic inches of sand by filling the blue container once and the red container twice. What is the volume in...
Can you find the regular price of the snowboard if the snowboard at the left is on sale for $12.74. The snowboard is on sale for 60% off? I need to know the steps in how to solve this problem...
angel has 5% alcohol soulution and 20% alcohol solution. She needs 30 liters of a 10% alcohol solution. How many liters of each should she mix to get 30 liters?
On Saturday night, the manager of a shoe store evaluates the receipts of the previous week's sales. Two hundred fifty pairs of two different styles of running shoes were sold. One style sold for $75...
If a bank compounds continuously, then the formula used is A = Pe rt where e is a constant and equals approximately 2.7183. Calculate A with continuous compounding. Round your answer to the nearest...
Consumers in a certain state choose between three long distance telephone services. GTT, NCJ, and Dash. Aggressive marketing by all three companies results in a continual shift of customers among...
Henry has $15,000 to invest. He invests x dollars at 4% and the rest at 3.5%. Suppose at the end of the year Henry has $15,575. How much money did he start with in each account?
A coffee distributor needs to mix a(n) Kenya coffee blend that normally sells for $11.60 per pound with a Queen City coffee blend that normally sells for $14.30 per pound to create 70 pounds of a...
john owns a hot dog stand. his profit in dollars is given by the equation P(x)=P=-x^2+14x+54, where x is the number of hot dogs sold. what is the most he can earn?