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UkoKoshka [18]

If the gum costs 75 cents today, which is 3 cents less than three times what the pack cost 20 years ago, we just need to arrange what we know into an equation.
We know that the price of gum today is 75 cents, so we can leave that on one side of the equation as a constant. Also, since we are dealing only with cents and not dollars, there is no need to shift the decimal point to the left.

? = 75

Now, we can work the equation.

The problem tells us that 75 is 3 cents less than three times the old cost. So, if x is the old cost, we can work out the equation based on that.
It says that it's 3 cents less than 3 times x. The question is basically the equation in word form.

3x - 3 = 75

'3x' being the "three times the old cost" part, '- 3' being the "3 cents less" part, and '75' of course being the current price of a pack of gum.
Option C is your correct answer.

BTW if we were to solve this, we would see that the old price of a pack of gum is:

3x - 3 = 75
+ 3 + 3

3x = 78
/3 /3

x = 26

20 years ago, a 75-cent pack of gum cost 26 cents.
Hope that helped! =)

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3 years ago

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Order the following from smallest to largest. .84, 2.83, .065

Paladinen [302]

Answer:

.065, .84, 2.83

Step-by-step explanation:

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3 years ago

The management of an electronics firm has determined that the profit the company earns is a function of thenumber of employees i

ruslelena [56]

we have the function

$P(x)=\ln\left|4x+1\right|+3x-x^2$

For x=2

substitute

$\begin{gathered} P(x)=\operatorname{\ln}\lvert4(2)+1\rvert+3(2)-(2)^2 \\ P(x)=\operatorname{\ln}\lvert9\rvert+2 \\ P(x)=4.20\text{ millions of dollars} \end{gathered}$

therefore

<h2>the answer is 4.20 million dollars</h2>

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1 year ago

Lee watches TV for 2 hours per day. During that time, the TV consumes 250 watts per hour. Electricity costs (10 cents)/(1 kilowa

vladimir1956 [14]

Answer:

$1.5

Step-by-step explanation:

Lets us first calculate energy consumed by TV in 30 days.

Energy consumed by TV in one hour : 250 watts.

TV operated 2 hours a day

so energy consumer by TV in a day = 250 * 2 watts = 500 watts hour

Energy consumed by TV in 30 day = energy consumer by TV in a day * 30

= 500*30 watts = 15,000 watt-hour

Convert total energy consumed in kilo watt hour

we know that one kilowatt hour = 1000 watt-hour

Thus, 15,000 watt-hour = 15,000/1000 kilowatt-hour = 15 kilowatt-hour

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cost of electricity = 10 cents per kilowatt-hour

cost of electricity for 15 kilowatt-hour = 15* cost of electricity for one kilowatt-hour( which is 10 cents)

=>15*10 = 150 cents

As $1 = 100 cents

hence 150 cents = $150/100 = $1.5 .

Thus, it cost $1.5 to to operate for a month of 30 days.

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3 years ago

A tortoise is walking in the desert. It walks for 62.5 meters at a speed of 5 meters per minute.for how many minutes does it wal

iren2701 [21]

divide 62.5 by 5

62.5/5 = 12.5 minutes

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