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The people of the ancient Near East believed that the Earth's dry land first appeared when the Creator separated the "water above" from the "water below", and that there is another ocean in the sky, above the firmament.
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What is the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of$$ 25x^{2} and 16y^{4}$$?
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Those who maintain that technology is negatively rewiring our brains have several common targets: GPS devices eroding our ability to conceptualize space, the many hyperlinks of the Internet driving us to distraction, and with our smartphones our working memory is impaired when doing something as fundamental as recalling a string of digits.
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At the moment there are 54,210 tagged birds in a certain wildlife refuge. If exactly 20 percent of all birds in the refuge are tagged, what percent of the untagged birds must be tagged so that half of all birds in the refuge are tagged?
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In the U.S. Presidential election of 1876, Democrat Samuel Tilden clearly won the popular vote, but after party leaders resolved disputes about electoral votes in four states, they declared Republican Rutherford B. Hayes the winner, Tilden's supporters acquiescing in exchange for the withdrawal of Federal troops from the South.
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If $$x \neq$$ 2.5 and 2x = |15 - 4x|, then x =
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The state of California contains 58 counties, of which some of them have a population less than 10,000.
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If x is a number such that $$x^2 + 2x - 24 = 0 and x^{2} + 5x - 6 = 0$$, then x =
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In the middle of the 19th century, mathematician turned computer scientist Ada Lovelace aided Charles Babbage by developing the first computer algorithm, a breakthrough that ushered in the computer age, leading to machines capable of executing functions far more rapidly than could any possible human and resulting in every subsequent development in the field, from the development of the very first personal computer nearly a century later to the programs that today sequence genomes.
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How many three-digit numbers are there such that all three digits are different and the first digit is not zero?
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The times and amplitude of neap tides, the low amplitude tides that occur during first and third quarters of the lunar month, are due to not only the cancellation of the tidal forces of the Sun and the Moon but also a host of factors—amphidromic systems, the shape of coastline, and near-shore bathymetry—any of which can lead to significant fluctuations in the time and amplitude of neap tides only miles apart.
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A certain restaurant offers 8 different salads, 5 different main courses, 6 different desserts. If customers choose one salad, one main course and two different desserts for their meal, how many different meals are possible?
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Proponents of the school of thought positing that the Americas were peopled more than 15,000 years ago by a group forced to traverse thousands of miles of ice fields have themselves had to overcome obstacles in trying to account for such an improbable journey, yet those who argue that such a trek was indeed impossible and thus the first peopling of the Americas happened much later have had to account for the presence of artifacts in southern Chile that indicate that the New World was inhabited over 15,000 years ago.
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David drove to work at an average (arithmetic mean) speed of 45 miles per hour. After work, David drove home at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. If David spent a total of 2 hours commuting to and from work, how many miles does David drive to work?
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If medical researchers are correct, then the human microbiome, made up of the microorganisms in our body, may hold the cure to diseases that have long plagued humanity, amounting to a major oversight in Western medicine that has, until recently, all but ignored any such role of the microbiome.
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Given$$f(x)= {{x}\over{x+1}}$$, for what value k does $$f(f(k))=\frac{2}{3}?$$
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One of Hannibal's successful battle techniques was charging wild elephants directly at the Roman armies, trampling infantry and inducing disarray in the ranks, but Scipio's successful counterstrategy was to command that his men should part, creating channels that allowed the elephants simply to pass through, with them killing the elephants behind his ranks.
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In the figure above, JKLMN is a regular pentagon. Find the measure of ∠KQL.
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A newly released study on the tectonic plates forming the Pacific basin indicates that by the time they had shifted even a few miles, a vast percentage of the coastline which is currently home to major world cities, because of global warming, will have already become entirely submerged.
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If ABCD is a rectangle, BC = x and AB = 2x, then the circumference of the circle, in terms of x, is
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