10/28/15

a rectangle has a length of 4 feet and a perimeter of 14 feet. what is the perimeter of a similar rectangle with a width of 9 feet?
 are you only supposed to multiply length by height ?
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10/28/15

repeating decimal
How do you write 0.142857 in standard form? 
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10/28/15

how long it takes the apprentice working alone to do the job?
A roofer requires 12 h to shingle a roof. After the roofer and an apprentice work on a roof for 8 h, the roofer moves on to another job. The apprentice requires 14 more hours to finish the job. How... more
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10/26/15

The sum of one fifth of a number and three is equal to half the number. What is the number?
 The sum of one fifth of a number and three is equal to half the number. What is the number?
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10/26/15

find three consecutive odd integers such that five times the third is seven less than half the sum of the first and second
I can't figure this word problem out...
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10/26/15

Algebra Word Problem
A movie theater estimates that for each $0.50 increase in ticket price, the number of tickets sold decreases by 40. The current ticket price of $10.50 yields 1400 tickets sold. Set up and equation... more
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10/26/15

Rabbit Cage
Suppose you are enclosing a rectangular area to create a rabbit cage. You have 80ft of fence and want to build a pen with the largest possible area for your rabbit, so you build a cage using the... more
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10/26/15

How to find a percent
Please help! 2 people working together paint the outside of a house in 6 hours. Working alone but at the same rate the first person can paint the outside of a house in 14 hours. What percent of the... more
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10/24/15

TheAngleForALadderIs75DegreesFromGround.YouHaveA28FootLadder.HowFarFromTheHouseShouldYouPlaceTheBaseOfTheLadder?
This is a precalculus question involving right triangle trigonometry 
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10/24/15

Help with setting up this word problem
The Garden Center ordered 20 ounces of marigold seed and 15 ounces of carnation seed paying $280.75. They later ordered another 24 ounces of marigold seed and 19 ounces of carnation paying $345.87.... more
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10/24/15

Help with word problem.
A taxi charges a flat rate plus a certain charge per mile. A trip of 18 miles costs $23.6, while a trip of 22 miles costs $26.88. What is the flat rate? What is the charge per mile?
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10/23/15

how much money does each have?
Jane has $10 more than Bill, Bill has $17 more than Tricia, and Tricia has $21 more than Steve. If the total amount of all their money is $111, how much money does each have?
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10/22/15

Find an equation of the circle whose diameter has endpoints (-5-4) and (3-6)
Find an equation of the circle whose diameter has endpoints (−5−4) and (3−6)
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10/22/15

Solve the problem
Jamil traveled 210 miles, which is 70% of the total distance to his grandfather's house. How many more miles does he need to travel to reach his grandfather's house?
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10/22/15

1/169 an megative exponents
What is 1-divided by 169 and negative exponents form
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10/22/15

Rations and Proportion: Converting Rates - A runner runs 2 miles in 9.56 minutes. How many meters per second is this?
Honestly, I didn't understand how to set it up or how to calculate it. We've been working on Ratios and proportion and I already know how to convert rates, just this specific question confused me.
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10/22/15

A rancher wants to use 300 feet of fencing to enclose a rectangular area of 4400 square feet. What dimensions should the rectangle have?
The rectangles dimensions should be ___ feet 
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10/21/15

Please explain how to approach this word problem
If person A can finish a job in 9 days, and person B takes 14 days to finish same job. Say they decide to work together, how fast will it take for both to finish the same job??
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10/21/15

Two 6-sided cubes, each numbered 1 to 6, are rolled 504 times. Each time the sum of the number cubes is recorded. About how many times should a sum of 8 be
recorded? PLEASE HELP ME AND LOOK AT MY OTHER QUESTIONS TOO THANK YOU!
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10/21/15

If 5lb of pasta salad serves 14 people, how much pasta salad should you bring to a picnic with 49 people?
how to solve this
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10/21/15

WORD PROBLEM
A family has two cars. The first car has a fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon of gas and the second has a fuel efficiency of 25 miles per gallon of gas. During one particular week, the two cars... more
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10/21/15

Need help solving this- Katie is hanging some decorations on her wall using her ladder. If the ladder is placed 6ft on the wall and the top of the ladder rests
Need help solving this- Katie is hanging some decorations on her wall using her ladder. If the ladder is placed 6ft on the wall and the top of the ladder rests 8ft up on the wall how long is the... more
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10/21/15

True or False
Set A' is formed by taking all the elements of the universal set U that are not in set A   True or False
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10/21/15

Question on Sets
If set A = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} and set B = {a, b, c}, what would n(A X B)  be?   a. 8   b. 11   c. 15   d. none of the above
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10/21/15

Set of all counting numbers
Select the correct answer for the set of all counting numbers less than 6   a. { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}   b. {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}   c. {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}   d.  {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}  
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