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Think of a mathematical function that represents something from your own life. For example, suppose the number of beers you drink depends on the number of football games you watch. If you drink five beers during every football game, the function would be Number of Beers (B)=5 times Number of Football Games (F), or B=5F.

Write a brief describing this function that comes from your own life. It could be something about the amount of money you spend, the number of hours you spend on the phone, etc...

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just read the upload. i need this asap!! the evaluation is of the problem...1 pg. minimum including all steps.

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Im trying to make a schedule. This schedule would be made up of a group of 1) 7 items placed on schedule used 2)7 different times never using the same item twice but
3)grouping the items so they never are grouped the same each of 7 times they are used. Then making a chart of this data. I have made a chart of 2 dimentions (items 1 & 2 above)but cannot create item 3 of grouping them so they do not repeat the order.

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Pizza Hut made a claim that their Big Foot pizza (2ft. by 1ft.) was 25% bigger than Little Cesar's 12in. diameter round pizza. Is this claim true or false and how is it worked? What is the area for both pizza's?

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area of Big Foot: 2*1 = 2 square ft
The radius of round pizza is 1/2 ft. So the area of round pizza is: pi*(1/2)^2 = pi/4.
So the Big Foot is biggger that round pizza:
(2 - pi/4)/(pi/4) = 8/pi - 1 = 155%
should be 155% bigger.

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to buy a new plasma tv that costs $3,000, you pay $600 down and finance the remainong $2,400 for 12 months. Find the interest rate (J12) the store charges you if your monthly payment is $207.86?

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If you have a string of Christmas lights that is 100 feet long, and, you want to hang it in the form of a rectangle that its length is twice its width or more; what is the range of the width? [Hint: This means that we need the lowest and highest values that the width can be.]

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8. One phone company offers a plan costing $4 per month and 10 cents per minute and another company offers a plan costing $7 per month and 7 cents per minute. When do the plans have the same cost and what is the cost?

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Solve as inequality:


A professor scores all tests with a maximum of 100 points. To earn an A grade in this course, a student in this class must have an average of 92 on four tests. A student's grades on the first three tests were 89, 86, and 90. Can this student earn an A grade?

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you are the estimator for a concrete contractor and must prepare abid for the job. The following is given:
1.the village code requires driveways to be 6 inches thick and sidewalks to be 4 in thick.
2.delivered concrete costs $50.00 a cubic yard.
3.Excavation and removal costs $25.00 a cubic yard.
4.Forms and their installation are $0.60 a foot and must frame the perimeter of the project.
5. puddling costs $30.00 an hour and requires about five minutes for every square yard of surface.
6. Finishing(putting the final smooth surface on concrete) is $0.10 a square foot of surface
7. once you have computed the cost of the job add in a profit margin which is %15.

the driveway is 50 ft by 20 ft
the walkway is 20 ft by 30 ft and is 1 yard wide

I'm not sure where to start. It would be great to show me a step by step process to this project. Thank you

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