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| One person works for 3 hours and another person works for 2 hours. They are given a total of $60.00. How should it be divided up so that each person receives a fair share? |
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| The sum of the reciprocals of the two numbers is 5/6 and the difference is 1/6. Find the numbers. |
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| If Sam scored 87% on his first exam, what score would he need on his second exam to bring his average up to 90%? |
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| M. McKinley is about 20,300 feet above sea level, and Death Valley is 280 feet below sea level. Find the vertical distance from the top of Mt.McKinley to the bottom of Death Valley. |
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| The depth of the ocean near the island of Mindanao is about 36,400 feet. The height of Mt.Everest is about 29,000 feet. Find the vertical distance from the top of Mt.Everest to the floor of the ocean near the island of Mindanao. |
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| A person is drawing a map and using a scale of 2 inches = 500 miles. How far apart on the map will two cities be located if they are 1,800 miles apart? |
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| Estimate the cost of Stuart's new wardrobe for his campus interview if a blazer costs $69.95, a new tie costs $32.54, and new pants cost $42.99 |
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Let A = {a, b, d, e, f}
B = {a, g, i, j, k}
C = {e,h,j}
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Let A = {a, b, d, e, f)
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| {a, b, d, e, f, g, i, j, k) |
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Let U = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k}
A = {a, b, d, e, f}
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| What is the negation of all men have goatees? |
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| What is the negation of Some students ride a bike to school? |
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| No students ride a bike to school |
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Let p = "It is warm."
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Write the statement using symbols
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Let p = "It is warm."
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| It is warm iff it is sunny |
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A person invested part of $3000
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Ava purchased two jump drives for $57
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| If you bike 2 miles in 12.5 minutes, how many hours will it take you to bike 210 miles without rest stops? |
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| The number of vibrations per second of a metal string varies directly with the square root of the tension when all other factors remain unchanged. Find the number of vibrations per second of a string under tension of 64 pounds when a string is under tension of 25 pounds makes per second. |
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| The number of hours it takes to do a certain job varies inversely with the number of people working on the job. If it takes 12 people 8 hours to build a front porch on a Habitat for Humanity house, how many hours will it take 8 people to build a porch? |
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| A board game is played on a rectangular board whose area is 96 square inches. If the length is 4 inches longer than the width, find its dimensions. |
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| A college algebra class of 57 students was divided into two sections. There were 5 more students in one section than in the other section. How many students were in each section? |
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| A newsstand sells a certain number of Daily News newspapers for $0.35 and Tribune newspapers for $0.50. The gross amount made on both papers was $38.70. If the stand would sell twice as many Tribunes and half as many Daily News papers, the gross amount made would be $44.85. Find the number of each paper sold. |
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| The wages per hour for three cooks and eight food servers is $66.50. The cooks receive $2 an hour more than the food servers. How much does each earn per hour? |
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| Find the compound interest on a $4,000 investment held for 5 years, if the rate is 8.5% compounded semiannually? |
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| A marathon is 26 miles. How many kilometers is a marathon? |
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| How many pounds does a 88-kg man weigh? |
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| The famous rotunda of the Capitol building has a floor area of about 7,238 square feet. A marble restoration company charges $40 per square yard for its services. How much would it cost to restore the entire floor in the rotunda? |
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It is about 353km from Toronto to Ottawa.
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| The warmest month if Aruba is September, with an average high of 32.8 degrees Celcius. The coolest month is January, with an average low of 24.4 C. What is the difference between these temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit? |
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| You create a masterpiece in your art studio and it is selected for the student art exhibition. Your paintind is 70 inches by 100 inches, and you choose framing that costs $4.35 per yard. Find the cost of the framing. |
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| During your chemistry lab, you fill a cone-shaped beaker that has a 1-inch diameter and a 2-inch height with lead, which weighs 0.41 pounds per cubic inch. Find the weight of the lead in the beaker. |
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| To install a satellite television transmitter, the technician digs a cylindrical hole that is 3 feet in diameter with a depth of 5 feet. How much dirt in pounds must be removed if 1 cubic foot of dirt weighs 98 pounds? |
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| A bank sets up a security camera on top of a building across the street from their entrance. The camera is controlled by a computer, and the head of security needs to input an angle of depression for proper aim. If the camera is at a height of 46 feet and the base of the building across the street is 70 feet from the bank entrance, what angle should the manager input? |
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| When 2 dice are rolled, find the probability of getting a sum less than 11 |
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| Find the area under the standard normal distribution between 0 and 1.50 (The A of z is .433) |
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| What is 2+5 on a 4-hour clock? |
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