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  1. Mixtures

    Here is a problem for you algebra lovers.:D Background Information: Orange juice is 100% pure orange juice. In contrast, orange drink often has...

    Started by Mary P, 09-01-2009 11:10 AM
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  2. Saving and Spending

    Aaron, Bruce, Cathy, and Doris earned the same amount of money per month. Aaron spent three times as much as Bruce. Doris spent eight times as...

    Started by Unregistered, 07-21-2009 09:02 AM
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  3. Too much water...

    A cubical holding tank with a base area of 225m^2 is filled with water. A closed pipe is attached to the tank 1/5th of the way down the side,...

    Started by lady.grae, 07-08-2009 02:05 PM
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  4. Roll the dice.

    A game is played with three unbiases six-sided dice. The dice are distinguishable from each other by color: red, blue, and green. How many ways...

    Started by Mary P, 06-15-2009 05:40 PM
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    06-27-2009 01:42 PM Go to last post
  5. Train speeds the algebra way

    Show your algebraic solution for this problem. Two trains left the same station at the same time. One train traveled north and the other...

    Started by Mary P, 05-19-2009 07:49 PM
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    05-26-2009 05:09 PM Go to last post
  6. Counting chicks

    A chicken farm has some baby chicks. If the chicks are divided into groups of two, one chick is left over. If the chicks are divided into groups of...

    Started by Mary P, 04-07-2009 02:06 PM
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  7. Arched Doorway

    An arched doorway is in the shape of circular arc centered on top of a rectangle four feet wide and eight feet high. The doorway, is 4 feet wide the...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-15-2009 11:58 PM
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  8. Wink Find the number of sides

    The angles of a regular n-gon all equal to 128.571 degrees. What does n equal? (how many sides does this regular n-gon have)?

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-24-2009 12:21 PM
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  9. How Far Apart are the Buildings?

    Two buildings, A and B stand next to each other forming an alleyway between them. Two ladders in the alley cross each other touching at the point...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-17-2009 09:42 AM
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  10. Smile Determine Size of the Earth

    A sensor is able to determine the exact time of sunset. (defined here as that time when the upper edge of the sun disapears beneath the horizon, from...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-17-2009 09:25 AM
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  11. Talking Areas of Parallelograms

    Prove .. the midpoints of the sides of any parallelogram are the vertices of a quadrilateral that has half the area of the the parallelogram. ...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-15-2009 11:34 PM
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  12. Cool The Parabola As An Unexpected Vice

    Line L has a normal or home position of x=0. It is constrained to lie on the origin (0,0), but is free to rotate about the origin assuming nothing is...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-12-2009 03:30 PM
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  13. Cool Area of Triangles

    Given a triangle MQR with S being the midpoint of MQ and T being the midpoint of RQ. The median RS and the median MT intersect at P. Prove that the...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-15-2009 01:59 PM
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  14. Post All Parabolas are Similar

    If two geometrical objects have the same shape, but not necessarily the same size, then they are said to be similar. Triangles that have the same...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-12-2009 03:37 PM
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  15. Prove (show) Segment is Trisected

    A square has 3 segments in its interior. S1 is from the lower right corner to the midpoint of the left side. S2 is from midpoint of the right...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 03-05-2009 08:44 AM
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  16. Area of triangle

    What is the area of a triangle with sides 17, 25 and 26 units? Answers welcome, but please delay worked solutions until 24h from now. Thanks.

    Started by Sonia, 03-03-2009 11:35 AM
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  17. Determine Size of Plates

    Two plates are the same size. 3 disks of the same size are placed along the entire diameter of one of the plates, and 4 identical disks of the...

    Started by curtis_blanco, 02-25-2009 06:55 AM
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  18. Deceptive sequences

    Given the following sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, ... (a) - What are the next five terms of this sequence? (b) - Does this sequence...

    Started by lady.grae, 02-28-2009 03:53 PM
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