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Question 309452: the sales price of a car is, which is 20% off the original price. what is the original price?
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Question 309518: how many milliliters of a 20% solution should be added to a 50 milliliters of 40% solution to obtain 25% solution?
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Question 309572: What is the product of the numerators when 4/8 and 8/10 are written in lowest
terms?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 16 (E) 32
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Question 309581: A company produced 300 appliances in the first week of the month. Because it received additional machinery, its production increased 50% from the first week to the second week. How many appliances did the company produce the second week ?

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Question 309758: The price of a telephone was first increased by 10% and then the new price was decreased by 25%. The final price was what percent of the initial price
A 78% B 80% C 82.5% D 85% E 87.5%

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Question 309765: Luis had exactly $7 before Bryan paid him a $26 debt. After the debt was paid, Bryan had 1/3 of Luis’s new total. How much did Bryan have before the debt was paid?
(A)$33 (B) $35 (C) $36 (D) $37 (E) $47

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Question 309821: Helen paid 27,000 for a chrysler sebring and got a 15% disconut on the new car what is the original price of the new car to the nearnest dollar?
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Question 310006: The grand prize for winning a contest is $10,000. after 28% of the prize is deducted for taxes , the winner receives the balance of the prize in annual payouts of equal amounts over a 3-year period . how many dollars will the prize winner receive each year of the 3 years ?
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Question 310020: i have $20 and i spent $12 what fraction of the money did i spend and what fraction of the money do i still have?
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Question 310018: if 6 out of 35 students received A's, what percentage of the class did not receive A's?
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Question 309991: A salesman monthly gross pat consists of $1,200 plus 20% of the dollar amount of his sales. If his gross pay for one month was $2,500, what was the dollar amount of his sales for that month ?

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Question 310334: if 30% of 40% of a positive number is equal to 20% of w percent of the same number , what is the value of w ?
A 80 B 60 C 50 D 15 E 10
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Question 310400: Amy paid $52.25 for a pair of running shoes during a 20%-off sale. What was the regular price?
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Question 310402: A 1 month old infant drinks 3 1/2 ounces of formula every four hours. How many ounces will the infant drink in 1 week on this schedule?
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Question 310401: Find two numbers whose sum is 160 and that have the ratio 5:3.
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Question 310579: john and joe collect used golf ball they find when they play golf. they gave away 1/4 of what they had to friends and still had 11,462 left. how many did they start with?
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Question 310584: A car radiator has a 6-liter capacity. If the liquid in the radiators 40% antifreeze, how much liquid must be replaced with pure antifreeze to bring the mixture up to a 50% solutions? If I told you the answer is 1 liter, in your own words, using complete sentences explain how you would solve this problem.
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Question 310837: Latice has a collection of coins. one half of coins are pennies and one sixth is dimes. what pat of coins are pennies or dimes.
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Question 310839: Anne & Nancy use a metal alloy that is 23.371% copper to make jewelry. How many ounces of a 10% alloy must be mixed with a 28% alloy to form 105 ounces of the desired alloy?
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Question 311270: Your car averages 18 miles per gallon on the highway. If gas costs $1.85 per gallon, how much does it cost in dollars per miles to drive your car on the highway?
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Question 311869: Thomas has a log that is 73 3/8 feet long. If he cut the log into pieces that are 7/8 feet each how many pieces does he have? My email is morgansturgill@gmail.com
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Question 312002: A printer prints 8192 character per min and printer B prints 13862 character per min four
character are equal to one word. Printer
A starts at 7:15 am while Printer B starts at 7:29 am then at what time both will have same no
of words printed
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Question 312207: A couple had 3 son, each of whom had 3 daugheter. if each daughter gave birth to 3 sons, what fractional part of the couple's descendants is female?
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Question 312218: A transformer has a primary voltage of 480 volts and a secondary voltage of 120 volts. If the primary windings have 700 turns, how many turns are in the secondary windings? (Voltage and number of turns are directly proportional.)
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Question 312225: John spent 30 minutes developing an estimate for a job. The job itself took 2 hours, 45 minutes to complete. What is the ratio of the time spent on the job estimate to the total time spent (including the time spent calculating the estimate) on this job? show as a ratio
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Question 312406: A class has 28 students. The ratio of girls to boys is 4:3. How many girls are in the class?
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Question 312405: In a school election with three candidates, Joe recieved 120 votes, Mary recieved 50 votes, and George recieved 30 votes.
What percentage of the total number of votes did Joe recieve?
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Question 312901: A box contains apples and pears. An equal number of apples and pears are
rotten. 2/3 of the all the apples are rotten and 3/4 of all the pears are rotten.
What fraction of the total number of pieces of fruit in the box is rotten?
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Question 312875: Sue has $400 in her savings account. If the bank pays her 6 1/2% interest, how much interest will Sue earn?
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Question 312870: What is the ratio of 24 volts to 3 volts?
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Question 312948: a shop sells compact discs for $15 per piece. If each disk costs $12 to the shop owner how much profit per cent does ths shop owner earn?
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Question 313150: A filing cabinet contains 200 standard files. When 50 files have been stored in the cabinet, what percent of the filing cabinet is being used?
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Question 313053: Two numbers have a ratio of 2:5. If you add six to each number they have a ration of 1:2. What are the numbers that have a ratio of 2:5?
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Question 313224: at what rate must a car move for 3 and 1/2 hours to travel 175 miles?
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Question 313237: A chemist needs a saline solution that is 20% sodium chloride but only has solutions that are 15% and 40% sodium chloride. If the chemist measures 150 mL of the 15% solution, how many mililiters of the 40% solution should she add to make 20% solution?
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Question 313236: A chemistry student mixes together 12mL of a 10% chlorine solution, 5 mL of 80% chlorine solution and 20mL of a 45% solution. About what percent chlorine is the final solution?
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Question 313341: Fred has test scores of 79,78,82 and 86. What is the lowest score he can get on his 5th test to still average 80%?
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Question 313599: All of the customers at a fruit store purchased some apples or some bananas. If 75% of the customers purchased apples and 40% of them purchased bananas, while 9 customers bought both, how many customers did the store have?
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Question 313616: I'm not sure how to make an equation for this word problem can anyone help me? Any help would be appreciated!
Al gives 1/2 of his marbles to Bev, Bev gives 1/3 of his marbles to Carl, Carl gives 1/4 of his marbles to Danny. If Danny was given 4 marbles, how many did Al have originally?
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Question 313730: a person brings 4/5 of money to school/ He spends 3/8 of it, what faction of his total money did he spend
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Question 314191: Gasoline accounts for 85% of the motor fuel consumed in the United States every day. If 8,882 thousand barrels of motor fuel are consumed each day, how much gasoline is consumed each day in the United States?
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Question 314470: The price of a book increases by 25%. How much would the price now have to decrease to be the same as it was before?
(A) 20% (B) 25% (C) 40% (D) 50% (E) Not enough information

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Question 314616: A class has 21 students.The ratio of girls to boys is 4:3.How many girls are there in the class?

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