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Word Problem

05/07/17

How fast would Austin swim with no current
Austin swam 4 kilometers against the current in the same amount of time it took him to swim 16 kilometers with the current. The rate of the current was 3 kilometers per hour. How fast would Austin... more
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Word Problem

05/07/17

A credit union pays 7.9% annual interest compounded daily. What deposit today (present value) would amount to $6595 in 3 years and 11 months?
Please help I tried working it out, but don't understand and I'm afraid it will be on my final tomorrow. 
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Word Problem

05/07/17

Tim drove 430 miles in 7 hours what is his average speed?
Agabaric word problem
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Word Problem

05/07/17

Word Problem with Equal Lengths
Paul has three pieces of rope with lengths of 140cm, 168cm and 210cm.  He wishes to cut the three pieces of rope into smaller pieces of equal length with no remainders.  (a) What is the greatest... more
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Word Problem

05/07/17

Word Problem recreational math rate and volume
A barrel contains 360 gallons of gasoline.  A tap drains out the gasoline at a constant rate of 1.5 gallons per second.  How many minutes will it take to empty the barrel?
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Word Problem

05/06/17

Word Problems
Find the lengths of the sides of the rectangle if it is known that one of them is 14 cm bigger than the other, and the diagonal of the rectangle is 34 cm. Find the lengths of the sides of the... more
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Word Problem

05/06/17

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Find the lengths of the legs of a right triangle, if it is known that the sum of the lengths is 23 cm, and the area of the triangle is 60 cm². Find the lengths of the legs of a right triangle, if... more
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Word Problem

05/04/17

Word Problems
The perimeter of a rectangle is 62m. Find the length of its sides if it is known that the area of the rectangle is 1980000 cm². The perimeter of a rectangle is 62m. Find the length of its sides if... more
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Word Problem

05/04/17

how do I solve the problem listed below (Description)?
  In a bowl, there are 16 chocolate chip cookies and 23 grape cookies. How many cookies to grapes must be removed so that 80% of the new contents of the bowl are chocolate chip cookies?
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Word Problem

05/03/17

On monday adam bought some apples he bought twice as many on tuesday and on wednesday bought 5 more than monday. He bought 21 apples in all
How many apples did he buy on tuesday
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Word Problem

05/03/17

A train travels 20 feet in 1\5 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in 3 seconds?
A train travels 20 feet in 1\5 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in 3 seconds?
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Word Problem Expressions

05/03/17

A company charges $55 to rent a booth plus $20 for each hour of rental. Write an expression for the cost of renting the dunking booth for h hours.
I am not sure how to find the expression.
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Word Problem

05/03/17

area of a rectangular wall is 171 square feet. Its length is 8 feet shorter than three times its width. Find the length and width of the wall .
please help
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05/03/17

What is the least perimeter you can make by joining 4 rectangles side to side if each length is 6 cm and each width is 3.5 cm? What is the greatest perimeter?
I don’t know how to answer this problem and I am really confused.
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Word Problem

05/03/17

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Jodi earned 22.75 for working 3 1/2 hours. what was her hourly wage?  I could not figure this out I turned the 22.75 into a fraction as 22/75 and the 3 1/2 as 7/2 thus 22/75 divided by 7/2 but its... more
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Word Problem

05/03/17

how long will it take them to clean the house
Liberty can clean the house in 4 hours. Her husband Darrell can do the same job in 6 hours. If the two work together, how long will it take them to clean the house
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Word Problem

05/03/17

what is the answer
Two new cars (A and B) have the same list price of $21,000. Car A is available with an 8% discount and $900 rebate. Car B is advertised for 15% off. Which car is the better buy and by how much?
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Word Problem

05/03/17

Kevin is 4 times as old as Daniel and is also 6 years older than Daniel. How old is Kevin?
how do i set it up and find the answer
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Word Problem

05/02/17

Michael is 12 years older than Brandon. Seventeen years ago, Michael was 4 times as old as Brandon. How is Brandon now?
i dont know how to find the answer. 
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05/02/17

Determine the balance in this account on the child's 24th birthday.
On the day of a child's birth, a parent deposits $35,000 in a trust fund that pays 6% interest, compounded continuously. Determine the balance in this account on the child's 24th birthday. (Round... more
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05/02/17

How many bacteria will there be after 6 hours?
The number of bacteria in a culture is increasing according to the law of exponential growth. After 3 hours, there are 400 bacteria, and after 5 hours, there are 1600 bacteria. How many bacteria... more
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05/02/17

Drill Sergeant Jones can scare one new recruit every 16 seconds. Drill Sergeant Smith can scare one every 22 seconds. Together, how many seconds will it take -
to scare 38 new recruit? Please help me!!
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05/02/17

At her latest concert, she was Bitsy was only able to sell 910 tickets for a total of $15,620 (barely enough to pay her agent). If regular seats cost $18.50 -
And mezzanine seats (the only other option) cost $16.25, how many mezzanine tickets were sold?
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Word Problem

05/02/17

Amy, Shen, and Ryan have a total of $68 in their wallets. Shen has $8 more than Amy. Ryan has 2 times what Shen has. How much do they have in their wallets?
Don't know how to put into and equation in order to solve?
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Word Problem

05/02/17

the cost for natural gas is 15000 per cubic feet at a cost of 1.02ccf how much would a customer pay if they used 15000 cubic feet of gas per billing cycle
calculate the cost of gas bill.  Residential $7.95 First 5,000 Cubic Feet $1.26 per CCFNext 15,000 Cubic Feet $1.02 per CCFOver 20,000 Cubic Feet $0.99 per CCF on a house that is 1,124 square... more
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