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Question 10651: What number is 16% of 70?
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Question 10824: £45.25 -17.5%
(45.25)(0.175)
=L7.92
*try to solve it using a calculator

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Question 10821: £50 - 17.5%
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Question 10822: £240. -17.5%
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Question 10823: £1700 -17.5%
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Question 11188: The number of barber jobs in 1998 is 54,000. In 2008 it is 50,000. The change is -4. What is th percent of the decrease?
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Question 11263: how do you change a decimal into a percent
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Question 11420: Gold Sale. At 25% off, a jeweler is selling a gold chain for $465. What was the list price. I have been trying to resolve it and I am getting $581. When I try to do 25% of it I am not getting back the $465. Can you please help?
Thanks
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Question 11419: Gold sale. At 25% off, a jeweler is selling a gold chain for $465. What ws the list price?
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Question 11430: What is 35% of £86 and can u show me the workin out for the answer please?
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Question 11593: how do u turn a decimal into a percentage?
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Question 11853:
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Question 12006: I have to use R x B = A
So Help me on how I use that for these, please
What number is 40% of 200?
15% of what number is 48?
133 is 35% of what number?
What percent of 357.5 is 71.5?
0.32 is what percent of 4?
Some of it I get, but then when I go to the next problem I'm lost. Thank You.
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Question 12359: a publisher printed 56 million pages in its production last year. If this represents a 112% over the number of pages printed the previous year, how many pages were printed the previous year?
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Question 12579: What is 26 as a percentage of 100? is it 26? im confused :)
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Question 12576: It's been a long time since I had to use this stuff. I want to know how to calculate shipping and handling percentages and tax percentages. Here's an example:
$256.50.....with a 40% discount, then
$102.60.....with a 6% shipping and
then I need to figure out a state tax percentage 7.0%
and I need the answer, the whole total and how it was calculated.
thanks
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Question 12887: Hello
I'm trying to study for a test tomorrow, and i had a question.
Here is the question.
The sales-tax rate in new York City is 8%. How much tax would be charged on a purchase of $428.86? How much will the total cost of the purchase be?
thanks in advance
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Question 13179: reduce the ratio and find the percentage
5 out of 10
2/6
6:36
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Question 13375: i dont get this problem. instructions: set up an equation and solve. 1. sara went to lunch with her friends. the sandwich she bought cost $4.95. if the tax rate was 7.5%, what was the total cost of the sandwich? [i asked my teacher but it still didn't make any sense to me]
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Question 13430: if i had a projected amount of money to make on a specific day of say 91,500 but actually made 119,000 what is my + percentage?
thank you, Don
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Question 13833: I am not sure how to solve percentages I' have read the section and tried yet I just do not understand.
Example: What percent of 180 is 36
this is as far as I got x.180=36
how do I solve this I know the answer is 20% but I don't know how to get there
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Question 14029: When constructing a circle ("pie") graph, how do you find the number of degrees the central angle should be which represents a certain percent of the total?
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Question 14236: I had this problem:
Turn 48% to a fraction
How do I do that?
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Question 14248: if 35% of a school was 8th graders and there are 252 8th graders, what is the total school population?
thanks for the help
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Question 14344: what is 48% of 150
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Question 14344: what is 48% of 150
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Question 14993: You have a markdown of 8% and the total sales price is 5.50 then what is the cost?
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Question 15809: WRITE IN DECIMAL FORM
0.8%=?
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Question 16165: how do u work out percentages?
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Question 16623: A survey of 2,000 people showed 1,620 favored the construction of a new fire station. What percent of the people surveyed did not favor the construction of the fire station?
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Question 16776: After two months diet John lost 12lb which is 6% of his weight before he started the diet. John's weight two months ago was how many lbs?
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Question 16908: The population increased from 40 thousand over a ten year period. What was the percent of the increase?
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Question 17087: Denise did 7/8 of the problems on the quiz correctly and 5 incorrectly. She did all the problems. How many problems were there?
I get 7/8 is 87.5%, but I can't figure up how to set up the problem.
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Question 17323: I am having trouble its about find the simple interest please help here is the problem. The principal is $200.00 rate of interest is 8% and in time it is 1yr and I need to find the interest.
please help
amy kessler

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Question 17371: How do I find the percentage of two numbers?
Example: 500,000 of 6,000,000
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Question 17371: How do I find the percentage of two numbers?
Example: 500,000 of 6,000,000
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Question 17468: what is 68 out of 81 in percentage
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Question 17599: how do ypu turn percentages into decimals
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Question 17880: What is the formula to figure the percentage one number represent over another? For example if I sold $1,613 last year, and will sell $1,804 this year, what is the % increase?
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Question 18337: Dear Tutors,
I feel so stupid but I just don't understand percentages at all.
For example, I may get a question like: There were 150 people at a concert. 60 of the people there were female. What percentage were female. I know that you have to make a fraction with the two numbers 150/60 the divide then times by hundred. It's the times by a 100 bit I don't understand which bit are you supposed to times the numerator or the denominator???
I am 13 very confused and this is causing me to lose marks in my tests. When I ask my tutor she just says times by a hundred!! It is driving me crazy,
please help me I am desperate
Carly (13)
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Question 18405: what is 40% of 80
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Question 18571: 12 is what % of 80?
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Question 18601: 7 2/5% of x is equal to 74. Solve for x.

48% of x=60. Solve for x.
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Question 18745: Percent of Change is what we are doing at this time. I do not understand this at all.
State whether each percent of change is a percent of increase or a percent of
decrease. Then find each percent of change. Round to the nearest whole percent.
problem 1. original: 50
New: 70 Please explain this to me.
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Question 18955: Please,if you dont mind help me make this problem a percentage:7/10
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