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Question 44: What is the formula to figure out the percentage? Example 75=?% of 98..
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Question 64: my quota is 3000 cases and last year I sold 1887 cases what percentage of
increase is 3000 cases?
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Question 84: How do you convert percentages to degrees to make a pie chart?
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Question 204: what percent of 1800 is 400?
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Question 205: I would like to know how to convert percentages to degrees in order to make a pie chart. So what i would like to know is how to show my working out fully. It would be great if you could show me an example.
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Question 207: If there are 2,347,690 employees this year and it is a 43.7 percent increase from the previous year. What was the former number of employees?
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Question 208: Can a percentage be more than 100?yes it can
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Question 258: How do you do persentages?
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Question 275: 43,000 is 80% of what number? How do you figure this problem type?

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Question 275: 43,000 is 80% of what number? How do you figure this problem type?

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Question 264: In the question find the % of one state w/ the total U.S. population. total US population 248,710,000 poplution of the state is 799,000. How do I set up this problem
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Question 277: what percent is 30 out of 40?
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Question 293: What is the number of degrees in the central angle of a sector that makes up 42% of a pie chart?
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Question 590: How would you solve the following:
A bicycle was sold for 30% more than what was originally paid for it. It was sold for $104. How was the bike originally bought for?
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Question 724: Mark paid $26 for a CD player that was listed for $40. What rate of discount did he recieve?

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Question 831: A swimmer takes 100seconds to swim 50m. In 1 years time he has increased it's speed by 25%. Wat is the time he took to swim 50m now.
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Question 909: Haveing trouble with this
what is 35% of a number if 12 is 15 % of a number
How do i do this type of equation, and what is it called?
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Question 1409: How do I convert 5.5% to a decimal to figure out sale tax on items purchased?
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Question 1522: Janie sold her diamond necklace for $560, which was 12% more than what she originally paid for it. How much was the original price?
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Question 1603: If one scores 26.5 out of 30 on a test what is it out of 100, and if one gets 23 out of 35 what is it out of 100 and if one gets 23 out of 40 what is it out of 100?
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Question 1730: need 2 know formula 4 working out percentage on sale ie: $150 is the cost, i won't to make a profit of 25 % on the sale of the item
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Question 1730: need 2 know formula 4 working out percentage on sale ie: $150 is the cost, i won't to make a profit of 25 % on the sale of the item
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Question 1800: how do you convert percentage to degree for pie chart
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Question 1801: chris has invested $2,300 in two small businesses. last year, the greeting card business made a 14% profit on her investment in the business, while the bicycle repair business showed a 6% loss. if chris' net profit from the two businesses was $102, her investment in the greeting card business was $____?
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Question 1913: what persent is 20%out of 576.00?
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Question 2094: 30 PERCENT OF 12
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Question 2170: 1) Solve for N in the following n/3=6/9
2)Express 37.5% as a common fraction
3)Solve for x : 50 is 20% of x
4)7 2/5% of x is equal to 74. solve for x.
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Question 2187: Express 37.5% as a common fraction.
Please show all steps.
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Question 2264: 6 is what percent of 24?
Please show all steps to the solution.
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Question 2345: I need to figure out the basis of a percentage amount. Example:
394,019.13 x 4% = 15,760.76 What do I need to do to do it the opposite way.
As in, if I start out with the 15,760.76 what do I need to do to get to the basis which is 394,019.13?
Thanks
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Question 2267: 4 1/4% of (?) = 8.5
Please show all steps to the solution.
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Question 2537: how do u work out a pecentage of a number such as 5% of 80 or 25& of 100
i already know the easy ones like 50& and 25% but what are the other ones?
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Question 2640: what is 20% off of $7.49
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Question 2651: Having trouble with concept of percents as rates.
What percent of 400 is 0.8

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Question 2670: what is 70% of 65,963.58
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Question 2725: 10% of ___________ = $881.00
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Question 2710: how to figure percentages of a number?

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Question 2768: harriet ears $530.00 per month. 155 is deducted from her check for federal income tax, 4% for state tax, and 3% for health insurance. How much are her total deductions and what is her take-home pay?
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Question 2813: What is the increase of percentage in 40.5 to 46.9
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Question 2674: I need help with these questions:
________ is 24% of 400
________ is 9.5% of 1600
300 is _________% of 1500
7 is 5% of __________
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Question 2734: How do I figure out a percentage? Is it the larger number divided by the smaller number or the smaller number divided by the larger number times 10?
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Question 2883: How do you work out the percentage increase/decrease between two figures?
Example. What is the percent increase/decrease from 41210 to 38853?
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Question 2946: what is 5.40% of 83 and how can i work out the percentage of a number on my own in the future?
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Question 3021: What is the percentage of 272.81?
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