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10/17/17
A roller coaster can hold 48 people. There are 46 people on the ride. Younger adults fill 1/3 of the seats. Senior citizens fill 1/4 of the seats.
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10/17/17
Unsure how to solve this word problem and how to get the answer.
A square and a triangle have the same area. The base of the triangle is 3 feet more than the side length of the square. The height of the triangle is 1 foot less than the base of the triangle....
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Word Problems Linear Equations
10/17/17
Your friend is a half mile in front of you and paddling 3 miles per hour. You are paddling 3.4 MPH. How long will it take you to catch up to your friend?
You are 8.5 miles from the finish line.You guys are in a canoe race
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10/17/17
a roll of insulation is 450 square ft total.it is 6 feet wide. how long is it?
450 sq ft total. 6 ft wide. how long is
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10/16/17
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A bleach is 6.75% sodium and a swimming pool shock treatment is 9.5% sodium. How much of each item must be mixed to get 8 cups of a mixture that is 8.4% sodium?
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10/15/17
How do I know for sure which fraction to divide into which in a mixed fraction word problem?
when doing mixed fraction word problems, I get mixed up about which fraction to divide into which.
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Word Problems
10/15/17
How much cloch had she left?
Madam lee had a bale of cloth measuring 150m in her shop, a customer asked her to sew 10 cusion covers eachmeasuring 3m of cloth. Another customer bought 21m of the same cloth. Ho much cloch had...
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10/14/17
not sure how to write this equation and if it's one or two equations to get both answers!
A 50-ft-long piece of crime scene tape is cut into two pieces so that one piece is two-thirds as long as the other. How long is each piece?
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Word Problems Word
10/13/17
Exercise word problem need guidance and simple step by step solution
A traffic enforcer is chasing a passenger car that is speeding at 110 kph. The traffic enforcer is traveling at 120 kph and is 4 km behind the passenger car. How long will it take the police car to...
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10/11/17
inequalities word problem
The length of a rectangle is 7 inches longer than the width. The perimeter is between 30 and 41 inches. Write the perimeter as a compound inequality, and then graph the result.
Word Problems Word Problem Help
10/11/17
There are 3 pizza boxes on the table. If each box contains 5/8 of a pizza how much pizza is there?
How to solve
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10/11/17
The measure of one side of a rectangular dorm room is two feet shorter than the measure of the other. If the dorm room has a total perimeter of 52 feet, find th
What are the measures of the two sides of the rectangle in the dorm in the word problem above?
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Word Problems
10/10/17
Sari has 3 times as many pencil erasers as Sam. Together the have 28 erasers. How many erasers does Sari have?
Sari has 3 times as many pencil erasers as Sam. Together, they have 28 erasers. How many erasers does Sari have?
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10/09/17
two gardens measurements
Leo's garden, which is 6 m wide, has the same area as Jen's garden, which is 8 m wide. Find the lengths of the two rectangular gardens if Leo's garden is 3 m longer than Jen's garden.
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10/09/17
Ammar hikes 2 3/4 miles of nature trail in 1 hour and 15 minutes .
How many miles of trail does Ammar Hike per hour ?
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10/08/17
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Davids bowling score is 5 less than 3 times Aaron's score. The sum of their score is 215. Find the score of each student.
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10/08/17
The largest angle of a triangle is three times the smallest. And the smallest is half of the middle angle. Find the measure of each angle in this Triangle
The largest angle of a triangle is three times the smallest and the smallest his half of the middle angle find the measure of each angle in this triangle
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10/07/17
Linear Programing word problem with three variables
A company makes three types of candy and packages them in three assortments. Assortment I contains 4 sour, 4 lemon, and 12 lime candies, and sells for $9.40. Assortment II contains 12 sour, 4...
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Four times the sum of twice a number, x, and two is eight.
Doing beginning algebra, need some help, could you please explain the process
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10/05/17
When one third of a number is subtracted from twice the number, the answer is 15. Find the number.
When one third of a number is subtracted from twice the number, the answer is 15. Find the number.
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10/05/17
4 hr upstream then 2 hr downstream. speed upstream was 12 mph slower than his speed downstream. If traveled a total of 48 mi how fast was traveled downstream?
I am in math 065 and have tried figuring out this problem for days. Please help. The assignment is due tomorrow.
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Word Problems
10/04/17
one positive number is 5 times another number, the difference between the 2 numbers is 444, find the numbers
i just need help finding the equation and how did you figure out the equation
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10/04/17
Estimate the number of batches you need to make so that each person gets one cookie.
There are 546 people attending a charity event. You are baking cookies to give away. Each batch makes 48 cookies. Estimate the number of batches you need to make so that each person gets one cookie.
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10/03/17
How to solve and what's the answer to the problem?
Colombian coffee beans cost $5.50 per pound, while Peruvian coffee beans cost $4.25 per pound. We want to mix the beans together so as to produce a 40 pound bag, costing $4.60 per pound. How many...
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Word Problems Trigonometry
10/02/17
The propeller of a 90-horsepower outboard motor rotates at exactly 5000revolutions per min. Find the angular speed of the propeller in radians per sec.
ANSWER: 523.6 radians per sec
Please explain how to solve this problem step by step. Thank you!
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