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Question 196423: What is the decimal approximation of (*square root sign)20
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Question 196425: What is the decimal approximation of (*square root sign)39
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Question 196427: What is the decimal approximation of (*square root sign)57
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Question 196422: What is the decimal approximation of (*square root sign)12
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Question 196422: What is the decimal approximation of (*square root sign)12
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Question 196563: A magazine has 40 pages. If 16 of the 40 pages are advertising, what percentage of the magazine is advertising?
1. 2 over 5%
2. 16%
3. 24%
4. 40%
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Question 196854: If 75% of a number is 90, what is the number?
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Question 197461: An item which normally sells for $80 is on sale at a 20% discount. The sale price of the item is
1) $100
2) $16
3) $60
4) $64
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Question 197767: if 85% of a number is 97000, what is the number?
Let the number be x
85% of a number ==>
=97000
So
==>
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Question 197768: if 85% of a number is 97000, what is the number?
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Question 198024: If the yearly income from an investment is $35 and the annual interest rate is 5%, then the original investement is
1)$70
2)$350
3)$700
4)$175
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Question 198186: Purchase price of garment was $100.30 after a 15% discount; how much was the original price? The answer was $118.00 but what is the correct set-up?
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Question 198855: A pair of shoes is on sale for 30% off the original price. If the sale price is $45.50, what is the original price? The student claims that she must compute 30% of $45.50 and then add the result to $45.50 to find the original price. Is the student correct?

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Question 198898: If 12% of a number is 6, find the number.
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Question 198898: If 12% of a number is 6, find the number.
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Question 198955: I have tried to solve this percentage problem: The price if a magazine subscription rose 5% this year. If the subscription now cost $21.00, how much did it cost last year. I set up equation up like this:
x-0.5x= 21
I think that I suppose to add like terms but I am not sure.
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Question 199169: A suit is on sale for 33% off. The sale price is 536%. What is the original price?

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Question 199169: A suit is on sale for 33% off. The sale price is 536%. What is the original price?

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Question 199310: Pam has 1/5 of her portfolio in US stocks, 1/8 of portfolio in European stocks, and 1/10 of her portfolio in Japanese stocks. The remainder is invested in municipal bonds. What fraction of her portfolio is invested in municipal bonds? What percentage is invested in municipal bonds?
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Question 199770: The following pie chart shows the budget for a local company. The total budget is $520,000. Find the actual amount budgeted in the category of Taxes.

Research 10%
Production 40%
operating expense 25%
Taxes 15%
Miscellaneous 10%
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Question 200041: .015($385,900.00-$96,475.00)=
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Question 200284: An executive nearing retirement made two investments totaling $15,000. In one year, these investments yielded $1432 in simple interest. Part of the money was invested at 9% and the rest was invested at 10%. How much was invested at each rate?

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Question 200570: f(x)=-2x-4
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Question 200840: how do you change a decimal into a fraction, and a fraction into a decimal?
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Question 200840: how do you change a decimal into a fraction, and a fraction into a decimal?
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Question 200906: If a room is 16x20 I want to tile a 6x6 entry in the corner with a circle top using 3.14 how do I get the dimension. thank you
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Question 201735: If $8,000.00 is deposited in a bank that compounds interest anually at 5%, then what is the interest paid at the end of the second year?
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Question 201819: Hi,
I'm trying to figure this out. I know that fee 1 is $3,000 and is 18% of fee 2. How do I figure out how much fee 2 is?
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Question 202243: About how many students would you expect to prefer computers in a school of 650 students?
36% prefer computers
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Question 202566: six people called a radio talk show two lawyers, two doctors ,a vet and a accountant. What is the probability that a randomly selected caller is not a doctor?
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Question 203349: Jim is able to sell a hand-carved statue for $670 which was a 35% profit over his cost. How much did the statue originally cost him?
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Question 203618: A company gives raises once a year. Sally's current salary is 25,000. Her boss would like to increase it to 30,000. What percent of a raise is her boss giving her?
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Question 203616: rachel bought a flute for $265. sales tax was 5.8%. what is the total cost of the flute with tax?
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Question 203767: salesperson in a retail store and earns $66 per week plus 11% of her weekly sales. If Laura earned $209 one week, what were her sales that week?

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Question 203950: 4 is 40% of x
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Question 204112: Employees of a discount appliance store receive an additional 20% off of the lowest price on an item. If an employee purchases a dishwasher during a 15% off sale, how much will he pay if the dishwasher originally cost $450?
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Question 204958: A basket ball team has won 30 games of 40 played.How many of the remaining 30 games must it win to have a 80% win record for the season ?
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Question 205268: i need to know how to convert 19/20 into a percentage and decimal in algebra form
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Question 206227: x= (kyz)/p^2 what % change occurs in x, if y increases by 20%, z decreases by 20% and p is doubled
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Question 206378: Engineering Construction Company laid off 120 of its workers. If the number represented 16% of the total number of workers, how many were originally employed?
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Question 206380: ABC Bookstore sold 2,500 copies of Algebra books this second semester and 670 copies remained unsold. What percent of the total number of copies did the store sell?
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Question 206387: Jhobelen Suralbo bought a book at P180.50. After using it for one semester, she sold it at 60% of the purchase price. How much did she sell it?
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Question 206383: Cyril Altares, an employee of Prudential Bank, receives a net pay of P5,600 from her monthly salary of P6,800. What percent of her salary does she actually receive?
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Question 206652: If I make $2700.00 a month and my car payment is 236.95 what percentage of my income is my car payment?

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