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Question 571722: What percent of 320 is 140
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Question 571135: If the population of a town is 25000, an increase of 70% from its population 5 years ago, what was its polulation 5 years ago?
How do you figure this out?
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Question 571132: what is the percentage discount if you take 10 dollars from 40 dollars
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Question 569811: If a number is reduced by 15% of itself, the result is 29.1465, find the number
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Question 569350: What percent of 145 is 29 ?
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Question 569350: What percent of 145 is 29 ?
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Question 569037: a fund drive announce that is has raised $3,348 which is 60% of its goal
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Question 568226: how do u change 0.03 to a percent
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Question 567677: A desk is on sale for $220.80 , which is 76% less than the regular price.
What is the regular price?

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Question 566527: Hank has some 60% maple syrup and some 100% maple syrup in his restaurant. How many ounces of EACH should he use to make 100 ounces of 85% maple syrup
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Question 564757: The price of a suit was $540. This included a 15% discount. What was the original price?
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Question 563977: how much does .370 equal on a pie chart
plaese can you use a visual to explain the answer
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Question 563925: find the slope-intercept equation for the line with the indicated slope and y-intercept slope 5/7; y-intercept (0,4)
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Question 563926: simplify. please show all of your work. x^2-2x+5x-(-x^2+7x)
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Question 563922: find the slope and the y intercept y=-3/8x+4
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Question 563921: solve. please show all of your work.
during one year, the mccarthy's real estate bill included $527 for miscellaneous services. of this amoutn,18% went to the animal shelter fund. how much money did the animal shelter receive?
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Question 562453: Please help me solve this problem.if 5percent of a number is 25 .what is that number?
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Question 562445: Find 140% of 82?
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Question 562427: THE AMOUNT $180.00 IS WHAT PERCENT GREATER THAN $135.00?
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Question 561215: 16% of 121 is what number?
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Question 560720: how do I turn 19,400 into a percent?

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Question 560079: Eileen earned 45.00 in annual interest from a savings account with a 3.5% annual interest rate. Assuming she made no deposits or withdrawals during the year, what is the balance in the account?
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Question 559956: Attendance at a cinema decreased by 12 %. How many percent should the price of
the movie ticket be raised so that the revenue would only decrease by 5 %?
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Question 559842: 12.5 is what percent of 1250
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Question 559389: What percent of 111 is 80? How do you get that answer?
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Question 559628: A local radio station is drawing to win tickets to see a rock group. The winners will be driven in a limousine that holds 8 passengers. Concert tickets cost $22 for adults and $19 for students. after renting a limousine the radio station has $167 left in their give away budget to buy the 8 tickets. how many adults and student tickets can the station buy?
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Question 559069: in a class election 82% of the voters chose hilburn for presdient. if 350 students voted, how many votes did hilburn receive?
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Question 558832: An 80% decrease followed by a 100% increase is the same as a 50% decrease followed by what other percent decrease?Please explain
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Question 558811: 99 is 180% of what number?

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Question 558329: 35.752 is 43.6% of what number
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Question 558321: convert 0.8% to a decimal
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Question 558320: to get the right answer for this problem you got too look at both problems. #41 to get the answer for #42 please show all of your work.
#42 two angles are complementary (see exericse 41) the measure of one angle is 1 1/2 times the measure of the other. find the measure of each angle.
#41 the sum of the measure of two complementary angles is 90% if one angle measure 15% more than twice the measure of its complement, find the measure of each angle.
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Question 558322: convert 37/40 to a percent
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Question 558313: use the five steps for problem solving to answer the following question. please show all of your work.
the average of two test scores is 79 if one test score is eleven less than the other, what are the two test scores?
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Question 558284: John paid $4760 for a washing machine after a discount of 15%. What was the original price. I am convinced that I am not adding 15% to 4760 as that would not be the discount from the original price, but I cannot see how to figure out the original price.....help me please
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Question 557205: convert to a percent
0.00763
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Question 557383: A woman buys three pairs of jeans for $116.55, including tax. If each pair of jeans cost $37, what was the sales tax rate?

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Question 557301: convert to a percent
0.00763
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Question 557290: i took a basic life support class 60% of my grade was demonstration 20% is quizzes and 20% is final. i got a 92 in my finals and 73.4 in quizzes then the other 60% where it stands and how do i calculate my final grade with this information.
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Question 557129: convert to a fraction in lowest terms
28.6%
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Question 557136: what is 45% of 34
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Question 557155: what number is 35% of 240
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Question 557156: convert to percent notation

what percent of 40 is 9
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Question 557141: 12 is 60% of what
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