479 Answered Questions for the topic PROBLEM SOLVING
09/13/20
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A friend has a 85% average before the final exam for a course. That score includes everything but the final, which counts for 15% of the course grade.What is the best course grade your friend can...
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09/13/20
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A store has clearance items that have been marked down by 60%. They are having a sale, advertising an additional 50% off clearance items. What percent of the original price do you end up...
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09/13/20
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The population of a town increased from 3450 in 2008 to 5500 in 2012. Find the absolute and relative (percent) increase.Absolute increase: Relative increase: %Give answers accurate to at least 1...
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09/13/20
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Janine is considering buying a water filter and a reusable water bottle rather than buying bottled water. Will doing so save her money?First, determine what information you need to answer this...
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09/13/20
You read online that a 15 ft by 20 ft brick patio would cost about $2,275 to have professionally installed. Estimate the cost of having a 25 by 27 ft brick patio installed.
You read online that a 15 ft by 20 ft brick patio would cost about $2,275 to have professionally installed. Estimate the cost of having a 25 by 27 ft brick patio installed.
09/13/20
Problem solving
Sound travels about 750 miles per hour. If you stand in a canyon and sound a horn, you will hear an echo.Suppose it takes about 4 seconds to hear the echo. How far away is the canyon wall, in...
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09/06/20
Two angles of a triangle have the same measure and the third one is 9 degrees greater than the measure of each of the two. Find the measure of the largest angle in the triangle
The area of a rectangular pool is 360m. If the length of the pool is 85m, what is its width? Width of the pool: ___ m
Find the width of the pool.
Problem Solving
03/20/20
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A garden table and a bench cost $859 combined. The garden table costs $41 less than the bench. What is the cost of the bench?
Problem Solving Math
02/08/20
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A rental car agency charges $190 per week plus $0.15 per mile to rent a car. How many miles can you travel in one week for $310?
Problem Solving Elementary Math
02/05/20
Problem Solving - Sharing Money
If Will gives Molly $9, he will have the same amount of money she has. If Molly gives Will $9, the ratio of the money she has to the money Will has will be 1:2. How much money does Will have in the...
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01/24/20
If I have 5863 apples and I sell 20 per day. How long will it take me to sell them all?
01/09/20
Change in operating expenses from year 1 to year 2
Question: Rank in order from highest (1) to lowest (5) in terms of the change in operating expensesKey: m = millionoperating expenses:A - year1=12.8m & year2=9.9mB - year1=25.1m &...
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12/18/19
teacher buys 30 compasses and 50 rulers for $95. another teacher bought 40 compasses and 40 rulers for $116. how much is each item
12/04/19
algebra 1 problem solving
Norman and Suzanne own 27 shares of a fast food restaurant stock and 61 shares of a toy company stock. At the close of the markets on a particular day in 2004, their stock portfolio consisting of...
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12/04/19
algebra 1 word problem
Determine the smallest area these figures can get
Of 400 cm steel wire, one should construct a square and a rectangle where the longer side of the rectangle is 20 cm longer than the shorter side of the same rectangle. Determine the smallest...
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11/27/19
Which of these two women is more likely to be the parent of two girls? Explain.
Professor Robertson and Professor Simpson are both mathematicians. Professor Robertson tells you that she has exactly two children, at least one of whom is a girl. Then Professor Simpson tells you...
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Five times the sum of a number and 2 is 35.Find the number ? And the Equation
Can you also answer the following questionsQuestion 2: Three times the sum of a number and -2 is -15 . And the EquationQuestion 3:Twelve subtracted from 3 times a number is 15.Find the number. And...
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11/12/19
The demand equation for a certain product is given by p=104-0.015x, where p is the unit price (in dollars) of the product and x is the number of units produced.
The total revenue obtained by producing and selling x units is given by R=xp. Determine prices (p) that would yield a revenue of $5670. What is the lowest price? What is the highest price?
11/12/19
A coin, thrown upward at time t=0 from an office in the Empire State Building, has height in feet above the ground t seconds later given by
h(t)=-16t^2+64t+960=-16(t-10)(t+6) at what time does the coin hit the ground?
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