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Question 280206: Mr. Smith purchased $125.00 worth of spices and herbs. Because this was such a large order, the supplier charged Mr. Smith only $95.00. What percent discount did Mr. smith recieve?
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Question 280266: Two fifths of a circle is what percent of a circle?
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Question 280722: Is there a website I can get a printed chart with the specific calculation of retail prices for 70% off from $1.00 -$100.00
Thanks,C.L.
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Question 280850: find the percentage increase from 17 to 28.
please explain the step
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Question 281034: If 40% of x is equal to 30% of y, what % is x of y?
A. 50%
B. 75%
C. 175%
D. 20%
E. 40%
Hello and please I'm not looking for an answer just a Helpful explanation how can I SOLVE the problem
Thank you,
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Question 281155: how many questions would you need correct on a 37 questions test (all questions equal) to get a 75? a 96? to pass? to get a b?
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Question 281156: The manufacturer’s price for a tent is $28.50. A camping store that Bought the tents sell them for $40.76. Approximately what was the percent of increase in the price of the tents?
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Question 281488: After a 75% reduction, you purchase a new sofa on sale for $195. What was the original price of the sofa?
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Question 281523: how do u draw a pie chart! im confuzzled.
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Question 281523: how do u draw a pie chart! im confuzzled.
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Question 281565: If I have a 10" laptop screen and move up to a 12" screen size, what is the percentage of increase in size? Is there a formula that I can easily use to apply this to any size screen?
Thank you.
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Question 281692: 8 is increased by 60%

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Question 283003: 93 is increased by 17% how do you solve this problem
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Question 282928: 25cm to 36 cm in a percent of change
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Question 283092: You have 63 clients to interview and you only finished 28. Round answer to nearest tenth and tell how much percentage have been finished. I need to see the problem worked out. Thank you.
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Question 283522: a restaurant offers the possibility of 168 three course dinners. Each dinner has an appetizer, an entree' and a dessert. If the number of appetizers decreases from 7 to 5, find how many fewer possible three-course dinners the restaurant offers.
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Question 284120: earths total land area is 57,900,000 square miles. Antarctica is almost 10% of the total area. what is the approximate land area of Antarctica in square miles?
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Question 284104: Six is what percent of 12?
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Question 284339: What is the total cost of a pair of jeans that are priced $50.00 if there is 7% sales tax?
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Question 284339: What is the total cost of a pair of jeans that are priced $50.00 if there is 7% sales tax?
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Question 285007: how do you express 16and 2/3% as a fraction
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Question 285109: find last years salary if after a 3% pay raise, this years salary is %55,620
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Question 285087: you invest $1500 for three years. find the amount of simple interest you earn at an annual rate of 8.25%.
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Question 285239: what is the percentage is 1800 out of 3000
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Question 285305: jake has 3/4 of a dollar. maxwell has 1/10 of a dollar. do they have more or less than 1.00 in all
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Question 285595: I am selling a house for $200,000
I want 2 people to get 1/8th of $200,000 if I die
I want others to get 1/16th of the $200,000 if I die.
How many people will receive 1/16th of a percent?
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Question 285944: joanna's parents loans her 5,000 for 5 years at 5% simple interest. how much will joanna pay in interest to her parents?
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Question 286118: linda bought a pair of trainers when there was 20% off the normal price. she paid £18.00 for them. what was the normal price for the trainers?
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Question 286138: What is the base number that when added to 6% of it gets 5141.70?
(I miss typed the amount in the previous question.)
Please show the formula.
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Question 286204: How many questions can I miss if there are 68 questions on my test and the test counts for 80% of my grade.
Note: My GPA in the class is 88.9%. Anything below an 80 is failing (nursing course)
***I want to know how many questions i can miss to keep an 80% average for my class.***
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Question 286409: Jenny got an 81 on a test. By taking a retest in the lab, she increased here score by 15%. What was here new score?
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Question 286644: in my math book it says to let x represent the wholesale price
retail price =wholesale price * (100% + Markup percent )
The problem I'm having trouble with is
wholesale price $13;Markup percent 110%
the answer in the back of the book is 27.30

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Question 286697: Carlos has homework in Spanish English and math. How many different ways can he choose the order in which to do his homework?

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Question 287054: what is the percent decrease from 21 to 17.43
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Question 287092: Gloria received a 9% raise and is making $23980, what was her salary before the raise?
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Question 287132: what percent of 65 is 40 ?

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Question 287461: change this percentage into a decimal
70%
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Question 287634: product normally retails for $40.00 and we give you a $6.00 discount. what precentage discount are we giving you?
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Question 288346: You buy a big-screen tv for $2,040, which is 15% off the original price. What was the original price?
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Question 288482: what is the percent of the first ten letters of the alphabet are vowels
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Question 288898: i am 63 yrs old,many years out of school,can you give me a basic formula for calculating percentages,i have a test on wednesday,remember i am old,have not kept up with math
thanks
example 23% of 513
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Question 288884: Recently, Henry took a very difficult math test. He worried about his score. On his last Algebra test, he had seven times as many correct answers as incorrect ones. there were 120 items on the test. Evaluate the facts and determine the number of questions he scored correctly. Determine his score in terms of percent.
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Question 289026: a dress was sold for 1500 after a discount of 25%. what was the original price of the dress?
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Question 289165: estimate 17% of 316
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