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Question 3117: what is 20% of 11.75
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Question 3183: I need to find out what number times 15% is $2,764.78 and how you arrived at your answer.
Thanks!
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Question 3295: need to know how to work this question out: if the average time taken to answer calls in the first six months was 20.2 mins and in the next six months was 15.425 than was the %age change greater than 20%?
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Question 3306: What is the total cost of a lunch if the check is for $11.65 and I want to leave a 15% tip?
How do you figure this type of problem out?
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Question 3347: 22 is 80% of what?/ 32 is whatt percent of 56?/ and if x is 8 when y is 18, and x and y vary directly, what is the value of y when x is 10?
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Question 3382: How do I solve for x? 2.45% x X = 1,027.
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Question 3433: what percent would 23 out of 35 be?
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Question 3355: how do you find the percent of increase or decrease when the difference or change is a negative number?
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Question 3455: Please give me the formula on how to answer this question.
What percent of 50 is 210?
I don't want the answer, I want to find it myself. But I just can't grasp how to put it on paper to work the problem out.
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Question 3546: express 7/8 as a percent?
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Question 3544: 50% of what number is 47?
.6 is 15% of what number?
33 1/3 of what numcer is 26?
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Question 3588: 62.5% of x is 5
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Question 3655: The cost C of manufacturing a certain product can be estimated by the formula C = 0.03rst2, where r and s are the amounts, in pounds, of the two major ingredients and t is the production time in hours. If r is increased by 50 percent, s is increased by 20 percent, and t is decreased by 30 percent, by approximately what percent will the estimated cost of manufacturing the product change?
(A) 40% increase
(B) 12% increase
(C) 4% increase
(D) 12% decrease
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Question 3857: I have 10 students - 8 are put forward for accreditation - I need to work out what percentage has been accredited.
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Question 3892: i need to know the following?
65,000 is 60 % of what number. Please help!!!
PJ
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Question 3920: A certain clock marks every hour by striking a number of times equal to the hour and the time required for a stroke is exactly equal to the time interval between strokes. At 6:00 the time lapse between n the beginning of the first stroke and the end of the last stroke is 22 seconds. At 12:00, how many seconds elapse between the beginning of the first stroke and the end of the last stroke?
(A) 72
(B) 50
(C) 48
(D) 46
(E) 44

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Question 3919: . In 1985, 45 percent of a document storage facility’s 60 customers were banks, and in 1987. 25 percent of its 144 customers were banks. What was the percent increase from 1985 to 1987 in the number of bank customers the facility had?
(A) 10.7%
(B) 20%
(C) 25%
(D) 33.3%
(E) 58.3
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Question 3948: What is 10% of $35.00 and What is 10% of $30.00? Also what is 10% of $15.00?
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Question 3962: What number is 60% of 80?
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Question 3924: 1.5% + 13.70

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Question 3924: 1.5% + 13.70

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Question 4022: If you have a 100% Purebred Arabian horse and bred it to one that is 90.625% what persentage would the offspring (baby) be
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Question 4019: alex went on a vacation with his friends. he took $300 for expenses.he spent 16 percent OF HIS vacation money on food. how much money did he spend on food?
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Question 4065: please explain to me.. how to do percentages.. i still don't understand how it works... its to complicated for me.
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Question 4127: Im having problems trying to figure this out: 50% of what # is 30. Please if you can explain it to me step by step it will be better. I need it for the pharmacy tech. exam. Thank you!
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Question 4124: Im having problems trying to figure this out: 50% of what # is 30. Please if you can explain it to me step by step it will be better. I need it for the pharmacy tech. exam. Thank you!
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Question 4281: 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 208: Can a percentage be more than 100?yes it can
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Question 4600: I need the answer for this one as soon as possible please.
The price of a product increase 17%. The increase brought the price up to $1000. How much did the product originally sell for?
If possible, can you show the working as well. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you
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Question 4641: Please show work and explain:
A pair of jeans sells for $36 after a 25% discount. What is the original price of the jeans?
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Question 4639: Solve this equation please (Also explain and show work):
A skirt's price was increased from $20 to $25. Find the percent of the increase.
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Question 4645: Please explain and say not to look at other lessons because I don't know what you're talking about and it's not helping me. Just explain and work it out in middle school mode on here (not in college terms):
A pair of jeans sells for $36 after a 25% discount. What is the original price of the jeans?
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Question 4719: what the need of x
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Question 4640: Please show work and explain:
The price of a half-gallon of ice cream plus 5% tax is $3.15. What is the original price of the ice cream?
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Question 4720: im really dumb and i have looked at the percentages and deciamls to percentages etc and stil cant figure any of it out. i need this explained to me like im a toddler
thanks
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Question 4724: I would like to know the formula please for figuring out what % a number is of a total number. Example: What % is $4340 of the total cost of $14,979? I would like the formula please so I can figure out the other two numbers myself (what percentage are $4103 and $6536 of the total $14,979.
Thanks!

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Question 4699: . Q: I sold $100,393.38 worth of stuff and my quota was $45,000. What percent above quota did I sell?
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Question 4755: Solve this equation please (Also explain and show work):
A skirt's price was increased from $20 to $25. Find the percent of the increase. One guy explained it but it didn't make any sense, he put some information that I don't even think I needed. Please put it in lamest terms (middle school).
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Question 4774: hi guys could you please tell me the anstwers and how to you work out these questions
1) 25% of 50
2) 100% of 150
3)200% of 300
4)500%of 20
5) 890% of 1000
6) 56%of 12
ps please get back to me as soon as possible
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Question 4779: what is 140 as a percentage????
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Question 4782: if a shrimp's heart rate is 140 beats per minute, wot is that as a percentage??
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Question 4804: how do I figure out this type of problem 4 is what percent of 5?
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