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Question 30055: A school sent up 80 candidates for a certain examination and our result was 60% pass. What would be the number of students detained so that the result be 75% pass?
A. 20
B. 13
C. 26
D. 25
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Question 30232: 12 of 184%
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Question 30259: I have 77 patients. 2 of the 77 patients were treated poorly. If my Threshold is 100% excellent treatment, what is my compliance expressed in %? I am getting myself lost. I did p/100=2/77 then I did 77/77p=200/77 then I did p=2.59740 or round to 2.59 but that does not make sense. Can you help me?
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Question 30263: how do i find the answer to 460 - 130%?
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Question 30527: What percent increase is the distance between $5 million and %5.7 million?

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Question 30592: What is pi(not pi/4) if we take the first 5 terms in this series?
pi/4=1-1/3+1/5-1/7+....
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Question 30647: xy-1= (factoring)

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Question 30851: Brand X costs $1.65 for 11 ounces. Brand Y cost $. 2 more per ounce what is the cost of 15 ounces of Brand Y
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Question 30423: find the estimated percentage.
57 out of 176
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Question 28953: Hi,
I need help with a problem. I can figure it out, but need to set it up in an algebra equation. Here it is: Irving School, Hoover School, and West School participated in a clean-up campaign to collect scrap aluminum. Irving School collected 40% more scrap aluminum than Hoover School. Hoover School collected 25% more than West School. If the total collected by the 3 schools was 560 kg, how much did Irving School collect?
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Question 31625: Hi, I have a question on how to set up this problem:
A salesperson makes a weekly salary of $150 and a 7.5% commission on all sales over $100. How much must the salesperson sell in order to receive a weekle income of $500?
Thanks for your help
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Question 31800: Someone asked this question earlier and the answer is given I just want to know how u got .75?
A pair of jeans sells for $36 after a 25% discount. What is the original price of the jeans?
x-0.25x=36
0.75x = 36
x = 36/0.75
x = 48
So, the answer is $48. How dod uget the .75 What do u do to get that? Thank You

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Question 31978: You are at a shoe store. There is a pair of shoes for $100. The manager takes 50% off $100.Then he takes 30% off the new price. Finally he takes 20% of the last price. What is the total discount as a percent of the original price. THank You, your help will be appreciated, robert
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Question 32270: the number of women under the jurisdiction of Federal or State prison authorities is 97,491, while the number of men is 1,343,164.
Using this data, find the percentage of the total people that were
a. women
b. men
please explain this very well because I dont know anything about math, thank you so much

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Question 32269: the number of women under the jurisdiction of Federal or State prison authorities is 97,491, while the number of men is 1,343,164.
Using this data, find the percentage of the total people that were
a. women
b. men

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Question 32324: On December 31, 1995, there were an estimated 411 prison inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. This number rose to an estimated 476 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents by December 31, 2002.
a. What percentage of the U.S. population were prison inmates at the end of 1995?
b. What percentage of the U.S. population were prison inmates at the end of 2001?

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Question 32388: 1990 population 23,365
1995 population 24,226
2000 population 24,226
a. the percent increase from 1990 to 1995.
b. the percent increase from 1995 to 2000.
c. the percent increase from 1990 to 2000.

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Question 32524: The number of people at this year's walkathon was 12% higher than last year. If 1344 people walked this year, how many people walked last year?
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Question 32344: 23,364 in 1990
23,226 in 1995
25,088 in 2000
What is:
a. the percent increase from 1990 to 1995.
b. the percent increase from 1995 to 2000.
c. the percent increase from 1990 to 2000.
please explain how you get the answer is very simple terms, thank you.

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Question 32783: how do I solve? 6x – 0.37 = 5(x – 0.28)
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Question 33324: John surveyed a group of people about their knowledge of rats. To the nearest tenth of a percent, he found that 86.8% of the people surveyed thought rats
carried diseases. Of the people who thought rats carried diseases,45.7% said that rats frequently carried rabies. Since rats do not frequently carry rabies these 21 people were mistaken. HOw many total people did john survey?
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Question 33327: a Employees new salary is $26,355 after getting a 5% raise, what was the employees salary before the raise?
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Question 33337: Solve for the indicated letter.
f=6g
solve for g
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Question 33346: My 2006 budget is 172,588.52 and my 2005 was 165,458.32. The difference is 7,130.20. What is the percentage increaseover 2005 budget? Thanks Maria Perez
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Question 33395: JIM SELLS A STATUE FOR 670$ WHICH IS 35% PROFIT OVER HIS COST. HOW MUCH DID THE STATUE ORIGINALLY COST?
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Question 33650: If the total bill at a restaurant, including a 15% tip, is
$65.32, what was the cost of the meal alone?

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Question 33652: Graph the following inequality -
x > 4
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Question 33787: what is 16percent of 40
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Question 33884: 26 is what percent of 45, and how do you solve it?
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Question 34329: I have to solve a kind of word problem. this is exactly what is says:
Sahar began work on a 52 KB text file at noon. By dinnertime, the file had increased to 472 KB. What was the percent of increase in her file? round to the nearest percent.
A 111%
B 89%
C 808%
D 420%
THE TEACHER SAID THAT THE ANSWER WAS C BUT I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW HE GOT THAT ANSWER. I HOPE YOU CAN HELP. (I'M IN 7TH GRADE)
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Question 34687: (1) write each percent as a fraction or mixed numder in the simplest form.

320%.
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Question 34684: (1) A sales tax of $6.18 is added to a purchase of $95. Find the tax rate.

(2) Bob receives 3.5% commission on his sales job. Find the commission if his sales total $685.

(3) Louis earned $2375 on a sale of $95,000. Find his commission rate.

(4) A computer is on sale for 15% off the regular price of $2800. Find the discount and the sale price.
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Question 34873: Find the percentage of increase or decrease for the following:
2 to 15
20 to 13
Thank you very much!
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Question 34873: Find the percentage of increase or decrease for the following:
2 to 15
20 to 13
Thank you very much!
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Question 34933: During a sale, the price of a book is reduced by 25%. The sale price is then further reduced by 40%. The cost of the book as a percentage of the original price is?
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Question 35320: my question is how would I solve this equation 34% of 250 =
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Question 35693: what is 66.86% rounded to the nearest hundredth?
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Question 35925: one fith of eight chariots lost wheels in the chase. what percent of the chariots lost wheels?
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Question 34780: During a sale,the price of a book is reduced by 25%. The sale price is then further reduced by 40%. The cost of the book as a percentage of the original price is?
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Question 36278: If I bought a bicycle that cost $385.89..and I paid 7% sales tax..What will the total amount paid for the bike be?
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Question 36281: Willie answered 92% of a 25 question test correctly.How many questions did he answer correctly??

At John's party,18 friends attended but 6 friends could not come.What % of the people invited could come to the party?
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Question 38036: At two o'clock the hands of a clock form an acute angle of
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Question 38204: Please help find out hoe do get the answer.
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Question 38376: A coconut costs the merchant .15 and is marked up 75%. Find the selling price.
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