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Election in Angletown 2001-06-07
From Zoe:
At the last school election in Angletown 4620 votes were cast. Candidate Acute received 236 more votes than Candidate Obtuse. Candidate Right received 698 votes more than Candidate Acute. Candidate Straight received 256 votes less than Candidate Right. How many votes did each receive?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Buying a car 2001-06-06
From Steph:
How do you figure a percent. Say you want to buy a car listed for 21,500. You tell the dealer you want to pay 19,600. The dealer says they'll sell it to you for 20,450. how do you figure what the percent is between 20,450 & 19,600?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Danging couples 2001-06-06
From Danielle:
How many boy-girl dancing couples could be formed if 85 boys and 102 girls attend a school dance?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Exponential form 2001-06-06
From A student:
Hello can u please answer my question what is the exponent form of 8x8x8x8
Answered by Penny Nom.
Securing a plank in four dimensions 2001-06-06
From Becca:
If it takes two nails to secure a plank from rotating on a wall in the third spatial dimension, how many nails would it take if you were attempting to secure the board from rotating in the fourth spatial dimension?
Answered by Walter Whiteley.
Mutually exclusive 2001-06-05
From Marje:
What does the mathmatical term "mutually exclusive" mean. Pleas diagram if possible.
Answered by Penny Nom.
The shortest distance from a point to a line 2001-06-05
From Kat:
Find the shortest distance from the given line. Round to the nearest tenth. (-2,-1) and x+5y+20=0
Answered by Penny Nom.
Where is the other $1? 2001-06-05
From Samantha:
3 people go to a motel. The room is $30. They split it $10 each. While in the room the Mgr. tells the clerk the room was only $25, so he gives her $5 to take back to the 3 people. On the way she cant decide how to split the $5 between the three people so she puts $2 in her pocket and gives them $1 each.....Therefore, the room now only cost the three people $9 each, which is $27 plus the $2 the clerk pocketed,making a total of $29.....Where is the other $1?
Answered by Leeanne Boehm.
Two jugs 2001-06-04
From Heather:
One goes to a source of water with two jugs and only two jugs. One jug had a capacity of exactly three pints and the other five pints. Both jugs are opaque (you canít see inside them) and irregularly shaped. How can you use the two jugs and only the two jugs to measure exactly four pints of water?
Answered by Harley Weston.
Conservation, consumption and population growth 2001-06-04
From Steve:
I'm trying to quantify the relation between conservation/consumption and population growth. For instance let's consider California:

The 2000 census states that California's population grew from 29,760* in 4-1990 to 33,871 in 4-2000. I want to find r or rate of growth per year. Based on the exponential growth formula for population growth:
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Answered by Penny Nom.
Common solution 2001-06-02
From Samantha:
  1. Solve for common solution: x+y=6 2x-3y=2

  2. Solve for y in terms of x: 3x-y=4

Answered by Penny Nom.
Four digit numbers from 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 2001-05-31
From Katie:
Okay.......here's my question...how many different ways can you form a four digit number out of these digits..1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8? This is how my teacher said to do this.... 8*8, 7*7,6*6,5*5,4*4,3*3,2*2,1*1. then she said to add up the products and to multiply by 7. is this correct, and if not how can you figure this out.
Answered by Penny Nom and Claude Tardif.
Chickens and sheep 2001-05-31
From Monica:
Farmer Bob of the Martian Colony counted his sheep and chickens in an unusual way. When he finished, he reported that he had counted 86 feet and 26 heads. Use a guess and check table to find how many sheep and chickens are owned by the famer.
Answered by Paul Betts and Penny Nom.
Three goldfish 2001-05-30
From Nathan:
A man has three goldfish. When the youngest goldfish was born, the oldest fish was three times the middle fish's age. Nine years ago the oldest fish's age was the sum of the two other fish's ages. How old are the three goldfish?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Multiplication 2001-05-30
From Lindsay:
Who came up with multipling? its so easy
Answered by Claude Tardif and Penny Nom.
 
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