Elementary Algebra for College Students, 6/e

Chapter 1: Real Numbers

True-or-False

1. Jamie's salary was $125.00 and was increased by 10%. His new salary is now $135.00.  
 
2. In the set of numbers: {2, 3, 5, 12, 19, 97, 625}, the mean is larger than the median.  
 
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5. ?? wK?oot long piece of pine lumber is to be cut into sections which are ch1tf5q.gif feet long. The number of sections that can be cut from the twelve foot piece is nine.  
 
6. The natural numbers are represented by the set {...-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3...}.  
 
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11. –92 = 81  
 
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13. 3(x+y)=3x+y  
 
 




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