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Question 378521: 70% of girls want to go to prom and 40% of boys want to go to prom. Is it possible that only 50% of the students wanted to go to prom?
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Question 378521: 70% of girls want to go to prom and 40% of boys want to go to prom. Is it possible that only 50% of the students wanted to go to prom?
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Question 378606: An airline estimates that 94% of people booked on their flights actually show up. If the airline books 77 people on the flight for which the maximum number is 75, what is the probability that the number of people who show up will exceed the capacity of the plane?
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Question 378490: The population of a certain geographic region is approximately 101 million and grows continuously at a relative growth rate of 1.67%. What will the population be in 6 years?
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Question 378719: Hello, I am trying to help my son with a fraction word problem. Here goes:
A school band has 480 boxes of popcrn to deliver. THe booster club has offered to deliver 1/3 of the boxes. The cheerleaders will deliver 1/4 of the boxes. What fractions of the boxes will the members of the band deliver? The book states the answer is 5/12. However I have tried and tried and continue to get 7/12. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Question 379121: find the x- and y-intercepts: 10x + 4y = 20
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Question 379121: find the x- and y-intercepts: 10x + 4y = 20
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Question 379127: Please set-up equation and solve.
If an item is sold at a 12% discount for $176, what is the pre-sale price?
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Question 379118: What is the answer to this word problem with work shown?
To pass a course, a student must have an average on four exams of at least 70. If a student scores 40, 78, and 88 on the first three tests, what must he earn on the fourth exam to pass the course?
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Question 379617: a collage has about 6 sophomores for every 7 freshman. there are 1131 students. how many more freshman are there then sophomores?
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Question 379699: 3√-27y^36/100
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Question 379719: A man left $72,000 to his wife and son. The ratio of the wife's share to the son's was 5:3. How much did his wife receive?
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Question 379776: Hello there, just a small question for my homework. Here it is: Why does it make sense to round a mixed number to the nearest whole number before adding or subtracting? Could you round to the nearest 1/2 instead? That was the question, PLEASE HELPPP! Thank you , Melanie
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Question 379976: 7 IS WHAT PERCENT OF 35? ROUND TO THE NEAREST TENTH OF A PERCENT
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Question 379976: 7 IS WHAT PERCENT OF 35? ROUND TO THE NEAREST TENTH OF A PERCENT
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Question 380286: Lynn Damme's group of preschool children includes eight girls and five boys. If Lynn randomly selects one child to be first in line, with E being the event that the one selected is a girl, give each of the following:
(d) the probability of event E

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Question 380406: 1. convert 22/125 to a percent.
2What is 441% of 612?
3. 44.144 is 71.2% of what number?
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Question 380405: 1. convert to a fraction in lowest term 38.2%

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Question 381429: in a club, the ratio of boys to girls is 7 : 8. The ratio of one less than the number of girls to the total number of members is 1 : 2. How many boys and how many girls are in the club?
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Question 381717: If you sold one half of your tickets and gave away one quarter of the rest. It would equal 3,600 tickets. How many did you have in the beginning?
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Question 381753: what is the percent discount on a jacket marked down from $120 to $100
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Question 381753: what is the percent discount on a jacket marked down from $120 to $100
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Question 381753: what is the percent discount on a jacket marked down from $120 to $100
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Question 379887: what is 4/5 times 10/9?
in a fraction.
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Question 381809: The sales price of a car is $12,590, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price?
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Question 381949: a quart of vodka is about 40% alcohol. how much vodka should be mixed with orange juice to make 2 gallons of screwdriver mix with an alcohol content of 10%
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Question 381942: i need 100 cookies for a party. for every bacth that i make, only 80% of the cookies are good (i eat some, some are burned, and some fall on the floor not necessarily in that order) how many cookies should i make to end up with 100 cookies for the party?
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Question 382313: 10cm^3 human blood contains 1.2g of hemo how many grams does 39cm^3 contain
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Question 382403: a car dealer buys a luxury car for $45,800, and sells it for $61,830. Find the percent of change.
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Question 382875: of a toatal of 718,000 workers,26,925 worked in mines. what was the profit? (the base is the buying price) I TRIED EVERYTHING I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP
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Question 383333: Darian’s IRA has fallen 12.6% since the beginning of the year to $142,500.49. What was the value of her IRA at the beginning of the year?
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Question 383550: Write the ratio as a fraction in lowest terms. Compare in hours.
55 hours to 2 days
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Question 384233: One box of crackers contains 25% more than the other box. together the boxes weigh 54 oz, how much does each box weigh?

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Question 384351: The perimeter of a rectangle is 56 cm. If the length were halved and the width doubled, the perimeter would be 58 cm. How long is the original rectangle?
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Question 384350: Last year Joe Raintree invested $300 more in a stock paying a 6% dividend than he did in a stock paying a 5% dividend. That year he earned $43 more in dividends from the stock paying the higher dividend. How much did he invest in each stock?
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Question 384478: If Harry can do a job in 2 days, and Sally can do the job in 4 days, and Henry can do the job in 6 days how long it will take to do the job if they all work on it at the same time?
How would you set up the equation to solve this problem?
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Question 384794: In your school there are 8 girls for every 10 boys. What is the ratio of total students to boys? Write your answer as a ratio in lowest terms using fractional form.
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Question 385398: If $500 is deposited in an account paying 8.6% annual interest, compounded continuously, how long will it take for the account to increase to $825?
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Question 385512: the ratio of cats to dogs seen by a vet in one day is 2 to 5. if a vet saw 40 dogs in one day how many cats did he see?
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Question 385765: Gwen bought a new Toyota Corolla. The
selling price plus the 8% state sales tax was $15,714. What
was the selling price?

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Question 385766: Of the $50,000 that Natasha pocketed
on her last real estate deal, $20,000 went to charity. She
invested part of the remainder in Dreyfus New Leaders Fund
with an annual yield of 16% and the rest in Templeton
Growth Fund with an annual yield of 25%. If she made
$6060 on these investments in 1 year, then how much did she
invest in each fund?

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Question 385857: 30 is 20% of 30% of the number?
75% of 60% of the number is 36?
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Question 386356: a student scores 75 and 85 on 2 exams each of which count for 40% of the couse grade. the final exam counts for 20% of the course grade. what score must she get in order to have a average grade of 78%
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