# Randy

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1. ## Physics

Two horizontal forces, F1-> and F2-> , are acting on a box, but only F1->is shown in the drawing. F2-> can point either to the right or to the left. The box moves only along the x axis. There is no friction between the box and the surface. Suppose that

2. ## Physics

To move a large crate across a rough floor, you push on it with a force at an angle of 21 below the horizontal, as shown in the figure. Find the acceleration of the crate if the applied force is 400 , the mass of the crate is 32 and the coefficient of

3. ## physics

A jetliner can fly 5.57 hours on a full load of fuel. Without any wind it flies at a speed of 2.43 x 102 m/s. The plane is to make a round-trip by heading due west for a certain distance, turning around, and then heading due east for the return trip.

4. ## Physics

A space probe has two engines. Each generates the same amount of force when fired, and the directions of these forces can be independently adjusted. When the engines are fired simultaneously and each applies its force in the same direction, the probe,

5. ## Chemistry

A selenium atom (Se) would form its most stable ion by the 1. loss of 2 electrons. 2. gain of 1 electron. 3. loss of 1 electron. 4. loss of 7 electrons. 5. gain of 2 electrons. Help please and tell me how you got the answer. Thanks!

6. ## Math

sec 7pi/4 without a calculator Find the exact answer

7. ## geometry

The altitude of an equilateral triangle is 7 square root 3 units long. The length of one side of the triangle is ____ units. 7 14 14 square root 3 7 square root 3 over 2

8. ## chemistry

The conversion factor relating miles to meters is 1 mile= 1610m The speed of light is 3.00×10^8 m/s. How fast is this in miles per hour (miles/h \rm miles/h)?

9. ## chemistry

While in Europe, if you drive 105km per day, how much money would you spend on gas in one week if gas costs 1.10 euros per liter and your car's gas mileage is 22.0mi/gal? Assume that 1euro = 1.26 dollars.

10. ## physics

consider a pair of planets that find the distance between them is decreased by a factoer of 5. Show that the force between them becomes 25 times as strong?

11. ## Algebra II

if y varies directly as x, if y=80 when x=32, find x if y=100

12. ## Chemistry

What is the percent by mass of C in methyl acetate (C3H6O2)? The molecular weight of carbon is 12.0107 g/mol, of hydrogen 1.00794 g/mol, and of oxygen 15.9994 g/mol. Answer in units of %. Please work it out for me so I totally understand it. Thanks!

13. ## Chemistry

Help with lab report Need Help finishing my lab report.KNOWN VALUES ARE V OF HCL=50ML,M=2.188.V OF NAOH=55.3ML,M=2.088.INTIAL TEMP FOR HCL=22.5C,NAOH IS 23C.this is for part A: Mass of final NACL solution assuming that the density of a 1 M Nacl solution is

14. ## chemistry

Isotonic saline is 0.89% NaCl (w/v). Suppose you wanted to make 1.0 L of isotonic solution of NH4Cl. What mass of NH4Cl would you need? Question 23 options: 1.6 g 8.1 g 8.9 g 54 g

15. ## Pre-Calculous (Trig)

The Singapore Flyer, currently the world's largest Ferris wheel, completes one rotation every 37 minutes.1 Measuring 150 m in diameter, the Flyer is set atop a terminal building, with a total height of 165 m from the ground to the top of the wheel. When

16. ## PHYSICS! -need help!-

A potter is shaping a bowl on a a potter’s wheel. The wheel rotaes at a constant angular speed. The frictional force between her hands and the clay is 2.50 N. How large is the torque she produces on the wheel if the diameter of the bowl is 14 cm.

31. ## PHYSICS! -need help!-

A gymnast with a mass of 52 kg stands on the end of a uniform balance beam as shown in the figure. The beam is 5.50 m long and has a mass of 250 kg. Each support is 0.54m from the end of the beam. What is the force on the beam due to support 2?

32. ## Chemistry

What volume of carbon monoxide gas (at STP) is needed when 1.35 Moles of oxygen gas react completely in the following equation. 2CO + O2 > 2CO2 please show your work I'm having trouble with Gas Stoichiometry.

33. ## Algebra

I am so lost on these problems. Write a geometric sequence that starts with 3 and has a common ratio of 5. What is the 23rd term in the sequence. Write an arithmetic sequence that has a common difference of 4 and the eighth term is 13. What is the first

34. ## chemistry

The solubility of Na3(PO4) is 0.025 M. What is the Ksp of sodium phosphate?

35. ## physics

A ball is thrown straight upward and returns to the thrower's hand after 2.75 s in the air. A second ball thrown at an angle of 34.0° with the horizontal reaches the same maximum height as the first ball. (a) At what speed was the first ball thrown? ____

36. ## math

the absolute value of an integer is always greater than the integer. True or False?

37. ## chemistry

How many moles of Cu are needed to react with 3.50 moles of AgNO3?

38. ## chemistry

A sprinter set a high school record in track and field, running 200.0 m in 20.9s . What is the average speed of the sprinter in kilometers per hour

39. ## physics

Show that for 1 kg of pure gold the volume of water displaced is 51.8 cm^3 I know that the density of pure gold is 19.32 gm/cm^3 so 1 kg/19.32 gm/cm^3= 0.05175 ? I have come along way with this problem and feel like I am close, but now I need help. How do

Can someone please help me with the following questions? thanks a lot 1. The cranberry market is perfectly competitive. Reports that consuming cranberries can lead to improved health result in a permanent increase in the demand for cranberries and an

41. ## Math Trig

A kite flier wondered how high her kite was flying. She used a protractor to measure an angle of 40 degrees from level ground to the kite string. If she used a full 120-yard spool of string, how high, in feet, was the kite? (Disregard the string sag and

42. ## physics

Meteorites from Mars Several meteorites found in Antarctica are believed to have come from Mars, including the famous ALH84001 meteorite that some believe contains fossils of ancient life on Mars. Meteorites from Mars are thought to get to Earth by being

43. ## Physics! NEED HELP!

A 40 kg girl runs up a flight of stairs that is 34 m high. How much work does this require?

44. ## physics

A golfer hits a shot to a green that is elevated 3.0 m above the point where the ball is struck. The ball leaves the club at a speed of 16.8 m/s at an angle of 30.0¢ª above the horizontal. It rises to its maximum height and then falls down to the green.

45. ## Physics! Need help!

A 60 kg block slides along the top of a 100 kg block. The lighter block has an acceleration of 3.4 m/s2 when a horizontal force F= 370 N is applied. Assuming there is no friction between the bottom 100 kg block and the horizontal frictionless surface but

46. ## math

Which characteristic is correct for the function f(x)=−2x3+3x ? neither even nor odd even both even and odd odd

47. ## Trig / Calc

What angle (in degrees) corresponds to 18.96 rotations around the unit circle? Enter the exact decimal answer.

48. ## chemistry

the heat of fusion water is335 J/g. The heat of evaporization of water is 2.26 kJ/g, the specific heat of ice is 2.05 J/Deg/g, the specific heat of steam is 2.08 J/deg/g and the specific heat of liquid water is 4.184 J/deg/g. How much heat would be needed

49. ## Physics!

A 40 kg girl runs up a flight of stairs that is 34 m high. How much work does this require?

50. ## Math

True or false and if false write a true statement 1. A right triangle has three right angles. 2. A triangle that has three sides of the same length is an equilateral triangle. 3. An obtuse triangle has two angles that are acute. 4. In a right triangle the

51. ## math

a car weighing 15000N rounds a curve of 60m. radius banked at angle of 30 degrees.find the frictional force acting on the tires when the car is travelling at 100kph.The coefficient of friction between the tires and the road is 0.90.

52. ## physics

The angular speed of a rotor in a centrifuge increases from 428 to 1400 rad/s in a time of 6.26 s. (a) Obtain the angle through which the rotor turns. (b) What is the magnitude of the angular acceleration?

53. ## Math

1) what is the length of the diagonal of a square whose sides are 3 inches long. A. 9 inches B. 3 square root 2 inches**** C. 6 inches D. 18 inches 2) which set of measure could be the side lengths of a right triangle? A. 0.9 cm, 1.2 cm, 1.5 cm B. 4 in, 4

54. ## Statistics

A box contains five numbered balls (1,2,2,3 and 4). We will randomly select two balls from the box (without replacement). (a) The outcome of interest is the number on each of the two balls we select. List the complete sample space of outcomes. (b) What is

55. ## Science

Nathaniel is driving his sports car down a four lane highway at 40m/s. He comes up behind a slow moving dumptruck and decides to pass it in the left hand lane. If Nathaniel can accelerate at 5m/s^2, how long will it take for him to reach the speed of

56. ## Word Problem

Assume that the mathematical model C(x) = 16x + 130 represents the cost C, in hundreds of dollars, for a certain manufacturer to produce x items. How many items x can be manufactured while keeping costs between $525,000 and$781,000? Thanks in advance!

57. ## math

Ray OX bisects angle AOC and angle AOX =42 degrees, angle AOC is: 42 degrees 84 degrees 21 degrees 68 degrees

58. ## physics

a boy of mass 40kg and a girl of 30kg play on a see saw of negligible weight.if the boy sits 270cm from the pivot of the see-saw where must the girl sit to make it balance

59. ## Physics

A rocket blasts off from rest and attains a speed of 30.4 m/s in 10.3 s. An astronaut has a mass of 60.1 kg. What is the astronaut's apparent weight during takeoff?

60. ## Statistics

*Give all probabilities to two decimal places. Three daily newspapers are published in a large city. Suppose we have the following facts about the people in the city: 60% read Newspaper A. 34% read Newspaper C. 72% read Newspaper A or Newspaper B. 18% read

61. ## math

1. find the lateral area of a right prism whose altitude measures 20 cm and whose base is a square with a width 7 cm long. 2. the volume of a rectangular solid is 5376 cubic meters, and the base is 24 meters by 16 meters. find the height of the solid. 3. a

62. ## physics

A bat at rest sends out ultrasonic sound waves at 51.1 and receives them returned from an object moving directly away from it at 22.3 .

63. ## math

How many thousands of people live in Boston ma.if population is 617,594

64. ## Physics

A bicyclist rides 2.78 km due east, while the resistive force from the air has a magnitude of 6.52 N and points due west. The rider then turns around and rides 2.78 km due west, back to her starting point. The resistive force from the air on the return

65. ## Statistics

How do frequency tables, relative frequencies, and histograms showing relative frequencies help us understand sampling distributions? A. They help us to measure or estimate of the likelihood of a certain statistic falling within the class bounds. B. They

66. ## geometry

The altitude of an equilateral triangle is 7 square root 3 units long. The length of one side of the triangle is ____ units. 7 14 14 square root 3 7 square root 3 over 2

67. ## Biology

the biome with the fewest seasonal changes is?

68. ## physics

if two carts, one twice as massive as the other, fly apart when a compressed spring that joins them is released. How fast does the heavier cart roll compared to the lighter cart?

The number with the most digits is always greatest. Do you agree? Explain. Explain how you use a hundred chart to subtract 12 from 46.

70. ## chemistry

the heat of fusion of water is 335 J/g. How much heat would be required to melt 97.8 g of ice

71. ## Physics

When you push a 1.82-kg book resting on a tabletop, it takes 2.30 N to start the book sliding. Once it is sliding, however, it takes only 1.46 N to keep the book moving with constant speed. Q1. What is the coefficient of static friction between the book

72. ## chemistry

Suppose that the microwave radiation has a wavelength of 10.8 cm. How many photons are required to heat 225 mL of coffee from 25.0*C to 62.0*C ? Assume that the coffee has the same density, 0.997 g/mL , and specific heat capacity, 4.184 J/(gK), as water

73. ## English

Which of the following is unimportant for an introduction in formal or academic writing? 1.Entertaining the audience. 2.Establishing the key point the piece of writing will make 3.Discussing your opinion on the topic for at least three sentences.

74. ## ECON 4346

4-The three fundamental economic questions of what, how, and for whom: a-exist because of scarcity. b-are much more serious in a socialist system. c-are not serious in a capitalistic system. d-are not relevant in the industrialized world of today. 5-When

75. ## chemistry

the heat of vaporization of water is 2.26kJ/g. how much heat is needed to change 2.55 g of water to steam?

76. ## ALGEBRA

Select all statements that are true. (log_b$$A$$)/(log_b$$B$$)=log_b$$A-B$$ (If ) log_1.5$$8$$=x, text( then ) x**(1.5) =8. log$$500$$ text( is the exponent on ) 10 text( that gives ) 500. text (In )log_b$$N$$, text( the exponent is )N. text( If )

77. ## math - integers

4. The temperature is falling 3 degrees per hour. How many degrees has it fallen altogether from 12 noon to 12 midnight?

78. ## -!!Physics!!- Really need help with this!

Three carts are moving on a frictionless horizontal track as shown in the figure. The 4.00 kg cart is moving to the right with a speed of 7.0 m/s, the 10.0 kg cart is also moving to the right with a speed of 6.0 m/s while the 3.00 kg cart moves to the left

79. ## math

If pump A and pump B work together, they can fill a pool in 4 hours. Pump A, working alone, takes 6 hours to fill the pool. How long would it take pump B, working alone, to fill the pool?

80. ## ALGEBRA

The product of two consecutive positive even numbers is 528. What are the numbers? (Enter solutions from smallest to largest.) and

81. ## physics

An automobile starts from rest and accelerates to a final velocity in two stages along a straight road. Each stage occupies the same amount of time. In stage 1, the magnitude of the car's acceleration is 2.03 m/s2. The magnitude of the car's velocity at

82. ## Chemistry

If 5.27 mol of ethane (C2H6) undergo combus-tion according to the unbalanced equation C2H6 + O2 −! CO2 + H2O, how much oxygen is required? Answer in units of mol. Thanks!

83. ## physics

Object A, which has mass m and a velocity Voi,collides with the Object B,which has mass 2m and a velocity 1/2Voj.Following the collision ,object B has a velocity of 1/4Voi.(a) Determine the velocity of object A after the collision.(b) Is the collision

84. ## chemistry

Question:A solution of AgNO3 (45 mL/0.45 M) was mixed with solution of NaCl (85 mL/1.35 x 10-2 M) a) Calculate the ion product of the potential precipitate. My answer: mol AgNO3 = M x L = 0.45 M x 0.045 M = 0.02025 mol NaCl = M x L = 0.0135 M x 0.085 L =

85. ## physics

consider a massless cord attached at both ends to hooks in a ceiling. A 20 kg mass is then suspended from the first cord by a second cors. The angles made by the cord with the ceiling are 40 degrees (left angle) and 25 degrees (right angle). Find the

86. ## physics!

A taut massless string connects two boxes as shown in the figure. The boxes are placed on an incline plane at θ = 31.00. What is the acceleration of boxes as they move down the incline, given m2 = 1.6 kg, m1 = 7.6 kg, μ2 = 0.10 and μ1 = 0.20. Please

87. ## calculus

When an oil well burns, sediment is carried up into the air by the flames and is eventually deposited on the ground. Less sediment is deposited further away from the well. Experimental evidence indicates that the density (in tons per square mile) at a

88. ## Physics

The drawing shows a skateboarder moving at 5.40 m/s along a horizontal section of a track that is slanted upward by 48.9 ° above the horizontal at its end, which is 0.582 m above the ground. When she leaves the track, she follows the characteristic path

89. ## Physics

At an instant when a soccer ball is in contact with the foot of the player kicking it, the horizontal or x component of the ball's acceleration is 940 m/s2 and the vertical or y component of its acceleration is 710 m/s2. The ball's mass is 0.35 kg. What is

90. ## Chemistry

A 27.4 g sample of metal X requires 131 calories of energy to heat it from 10.0◦C to 90.0◦C. Calculate the specific heat of metal X. Answer in units of J/g ·◦ C. Any help would be greatly appreciated

91. ## PHYSICS! -need help!-

A combination of an applied force and a frictional force produce a constant total torque of 38 N-m on a wheel rotating about a fixed axis. This combined force acts for 8 s, during which the wheel’s angular speed increases from 0 to 12 rad/s. Find the

92. ## ALGEBRA

Let U = {17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23}, B = {17, 20, 21, 23}, and C = {19, 20, 22, 23}. List all the members of the sets. (Enter solutions from smallest to largest. If there are any unused answer boxes, enter NONE in the last boxes.) B = C =

93. ## physics

A ball is thrown upward at a speed v0 at an angle of 59.0¢ª above the horizontal. It reaches a maximum height of 8.7 m. How high would this ball go if it were thrown straight upward at speed v0?

94. ## physics

Find the minimum kinetic energy needed for a 3.7×104-kg rocket to escape the Moon.

95. ## physics

When you take your 1000-kg car out for a spin, you go around a corner of radius 57 m with a speed of 11 m/s. The coefficient of static friction between the car and the road is 0.88. Assuming your car doesn't skid, what is the force exerted on it by static

96. ## statistics

A USU today survey found that of the gun owners surveyed 275 favor stricter gun laws. Test the claim that the majority (more than 50%) of gun owners favor stricter gun laws. Use a .05 significance level.

97. ## physics

A force is given by Fx=Ax^-3, where A=8.0 N*m^3.(a) For positive values of x,does the potential energy associated with this force increase or decrease with increasing x?(You can determine the answer to this question by imagining what happens to a particle

98. ## physics

A force of 30 N pulls a mass left at 30 degrees to the horizontal and one of 100 N pulls right at 120 degrees. If the mass of the mass which is 50 kg, find the acceletation if coeffcient of sliding is .01? What would be the equation of this problem? If you

99. ## Physics

The concepts in this problem are similar to those in Multiple-Concept Example 4, except that the force doing the work in this problem is the tension in the cable. A rescue helicopter lifts a 72.4-kg person straight up by means of a cable. The person has an