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01/11/17

Thomas has three times as many stickers as John
Thomas has three times as many stickers as john. How many stickers must Thomas give John so that they each will have 150 stickers.
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01/11/17

Blake are 101/4 packs of crackers in 5 and 1/2 days. How many packs of crackers did he eat in one day?
Word problem with fractions 
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Word Problems Pre Algerbra

01/09/17

What is the equation to solve this problem?
A tape costs $4 less than a CD. Oshkosh bought one CD and five tapes. If the total cost was $70, what was the price of the CD?
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01/09/17

Suppose a certain country has a ratio of approximately 115 men to 95 women. if the current population is 71,000 and every woman marries one man, how many men
Continued question every woman marries one man, how many men will be without spouses
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Word Problems Geometry Volume Mass

01/08/17

Geometry word problem
Which has more mass: A solid cylinder of gold with a height of 5 cm in a diameter of 6 cm or a solid cone of platinum with a high of 21 cm and a diameter of 8 cm? Prove your answer mathematically. 
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Word Problems

01/07/17

what was the total number of votes?
The residents of a city voted on whether to raise property taxes. The ratio of yes votes to no votes was 3 to 2. If there were 1062 no votes, 
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01/06/17

In a steel and titanium alloy, 360 grams of steel were required to make 1200 grams of the alloy. How much titanium was required to make 1600 grams of the alloy?
 Please help me out. Thank you
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01/05/17

Find the time when they meet
at 9:30am Andrew left Exeter for Portsmouth, cycling at 12 mi/h. At 10:00am Stacy left Portsmouth for Exeter, cycling at 16mi/h. The distance between Exeter and Portsmouth is 20 mi.
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01/05/17

how many minutes of calls will the costs of the two plans be equal
Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has an $8 monthly fee and charges an additional $0.18 for each minute of calls. The second... more
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01/03/17

500 people donate $500. There were men women and kids. Each man gave $5, each woman have $1, and each kid have $0.01. How many men women and kids donated?
500 people total $500 all together $5 each man $1 each woman $0.01each kid
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12/29/16

What is the expected number of greengreen balls in the​ sample
Suppose three balls are drawn (with replacement) from a bag that contains 4 red balls and 6 green balls. The number of green balls is counted. What is the expected number of greengreen balls in the... more
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12/27/16

Freakin out on this question. Need help
The volume V of a fixed amount of a gas varies directly as the temperature T and inversely as the pressure P. Suppose that V=120 cm^3 when T=260 Kelvin and P=13^kg/2/cm. Find the pressure when... more
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12/20/16

The perimeter of a rectangle is 76 cm. The length of the rectangle is 2 cm more than twice the width. Find the dimensions of the rectangle
I can't figure this out please help I would need work for it too. 
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12/18/16

Lana sold 35 necklaces a week at $15 each. 6 customers returned their necklaces for a full refund due to defective clasps. How much did Lana make
Last month had 4 weeks
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12/17/16

Word Problems
At a farm, there are two huge pits for storing hay. 90 tons of hay is stored in the first pit, 75 tons in the second pit. Then, three times as much hay was removed from the first pit as was removed... more
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12/16/16

Can someone help me solve this?
A boat travels 88 km upstream and 88 km back. The time for the round trip is 44 hrs. The speed of the stream is 44 km/hr. What is the speed of the boat in still water?
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12/15/16

shelly is 3 years older than michele. Four years ago the sum of their age was 67. Find ghe age of each person now
shelly is 3 years older than michele. Four years ago the sum of their age was 67. Find ghe age of each person now
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12/14/16

The legal maximum speed on UK motorways is 70 miles per hour. Work out the legal maximum speed on UK motorway in meters per second.
I need help because i can't figure out he answer to this question
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Word Problems Math Equations

12/13/16

Equations.
The earth is covered by approximately 360 mill km squared of water.  If the total surface area is 510 mill km squared, what percent is water?  Rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent . 
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12/12/16

7 home work
An airplane flying with the wind can cover 620 miles in 2 hours. The return trip against the wind takes 212 hours. What is the speed of the plane? The speed of the plane is ______miles per hour. ... more
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Word Problems Math Accounting Algebra

12/11/16

Selling cell phones
Suppose you are selling phones and want the price of each phone to be $159.00 including asales tax of 6%.   (a) Write an equation representing the statement above.  (b) How much should your... more
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Word Problems Math Algebra Word Problem

12/11/16

How fast were they traveling?
A group of people departs at 11:00AM. They travel 3.5 miles and reach their destination at1:00PM. How fast were they traveling?
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Word Problems

12/08/16

How many members were in the club? How much did each one contribute?
The members of a computer club each contributed an equal amount to buy a printer. If there had been three more members, each member would have contributed $10 less. If there had been two fewer... more
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12/08/16

Equation of vertical line
Find the equation of a vertical line passing through points (-9,10).
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12/07/16

Nachos recieved 12 more votes than chicken nuggets. If 50 people voted for chicken nuggests or nachos, how many people voted for nachos?
Im very lost on this question, plz help!!   
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