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Question 117071: Jessica is considering accepting a higher paying job. Her present salary is 40,000 per year. Her new salary will be 45,000 per year. If she accepts the new job what will be the percent increase in salary?
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Question 116600: Write the percent of the number.
40% of 5
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Question 117352: Find the percent of the number.
11. 25% of 60
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Question 117348: Find the percentage of the number.
10. 50% of 22

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Question 117347: Irene got a fridge for $300 while Andrew got one for $260. What is Andrew's percenage savings?
A)133.3%
B)1.3%
C)86.7%
D)13.3%
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Question 117482:
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You deposit $1,000 in an account offering an 8% yield, compounded semi-annually. At the end of one year, your total earned interest is?
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Question 118427: If one month there is an increase of 50% and the next there is a decrease of 25% how much was the increase or decrease.
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Question 117481: Please help me with this question:
Interest on a twelve-month installment loan is to be calculated using the discount nethod. If the purchase to be financed is $1,000 and the discount rate is 6%, then your monthly payment is what?
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Question 118457: Find the percent of the number.
11. 25% of 60
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Question 118458: Find the percent of the number.
You are one of 16 finalists on a game show. One finalists is randomly selected to answer a trivia question for a prize. What is the probability that you will be selected? Write your answer as a percent.
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Question 118455: Find the percent of the number.
50% of 22
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Question 118459: Find the percent of the number.
On a math test,you obtained a score of 66 points. This was 88% of the total number of points on the test.How many total points were on the test?
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Question 118479: Fred bought a new computer on sale for 30% off the original price. The store charged him 7% sales tax and his total cost was $749.00. What was the original price of the computer.
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Question 118575: Use a porportion or the percent equation to answer the question.
What percent of 50 is 45?
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Question 118574: Use a porportion or the percent equation to answer the question.

30. What percent 90 is 15?
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Question 118573: Use a porportion or the percent equation to answer the question.

29. 35 is 50% of what number
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Question 118571: Use a porportion or the percent equation to answer the question.
28. 26 is 40% of what number?
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Question 118611: Use a porportion or the percent equation to answer the question.
10. The formula y=0.394x converts a length x in centimeters to an approximate length y in inches. Find the approximate length in inches of an object that is 25 centimeters long.
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Question 118609: Use a porportion or the percent equation to answer the question.
In a town election, 5985 people voted.This is 63% of thetown's population who are registered to vote. How many people in the town are registered to vote?
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Question 118798: a softball player had 13 hits in 25 times at bat.what percent of her times at bat resulted in hits?
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Question 118787: on a test of 88 items,a student got 76 correct.what percent were correct?
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Question 118867:
Mr. Spoke is a salesman at Pop's Cycle Shop. Each month he earns $800 plus 7% of his total monthly sales. How much did he earn last month if his sales totaled $9,200?
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Question 118866: Mr. Spoke is a salesman at Pop's Cycle Shop. Each month he earns $800 plus 7% of his total monthly sales. How much did he earn last month if his sales totaled $9,200?
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Question 119336: Ratio of 5 to 25 = (?)%
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Question 119495: what percent increase is 271,000 dollars compared to $41,000?
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Question 119998: The length of a rectangle is 3 cm more than 5 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 62 cm^2, find the dimensions of the rectangle to the nearest thousandth.
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Question 120328: The radius of a circular mirror is 42 centimeters. Estimate the circumference of the mirror. C= 2pi r
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Question 121067:
how do I find the percent increase of these numbers from 100 to 101 and from 36 TO 100
How do I find the percent decrease of these numbers from 112 to 98 and from 73 to 70
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Question 121517: 78 students took a test. 2 students failed the test. What percent of the students passed the test? What percent of the students failed the test?
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Question 121994: I have a page size of 210mm X 297mm. I need to place a logo on the page which covers 7% of the total area of the page. How do I work out the dimensions of the logo?
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Question 122056: I know the sale price of something and the percentage, I want to find the original price......can you help?
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Question 122538: Student x and student y took different sections of an economics class and each section had a different final exam, student x scored 83 out of 100 and had a percentile rank in his class of 72, student y scored 85 out of 100 and his percentile rank in his class was 70. Who performed better with respect to the rest of the students in the class?
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Question 123226: how do i find out what is 2/5 of 5100 in percentage form
what is 30% of 5100
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Question 123386This question is from textbook Algebra: structure and method: Book 1
: For lunch, I had a sandwich and 2 glasses of milk for a total of 660 calories. The sandwich had 2.4 times as many calories as 1 glass of milk. How many calories are in my sandwich? PLEASE HELP! The answer is 360 calories, but I don't know how to get there.This question is from textbook Algebra: structure and method: Book 1

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Question 123384This question is from textbook Algebra: structure and method: Book 1
: In a nation of 221 million people, the urban pop. is 2.25 times more than the rural pop. Find each population number. PLEASE HELP! The answer is 68,000,000 rural and 158,000,000 urban, but I don't know how to get there.This question is from textbook Algebra: structure and method: Book 1

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Question 123698This question is from textbook Algebra: structure and method: Book 1
: I invested $2000 more in stocks than in bonds. The bonds paid 7.2% interest and stock paid 6%, yet the income from each was the same. How much annual interest did she recieve? PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!! The answer is 1440, but I do not know how to get there. I also need to make a principle x rate = interest chart, so if you could also give me the info, that would be great.This question is from textbook Algebra: structure and method: Book 1

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Question 124319: how can I calculate % for following chart from which I want to draw pie chart

year institute 1 institute 2
2005-2006 211 198
2004-2005 219 175
2003-2004 201 169
2002-2003 119 112
2001-2002 105 98

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Question 125236: WHat is 24%0f 24%?
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Question 125489: a store has prevoiosly sold a tv for 21 dollars but has been reduced to 17.43. The price reduction, rounded to the nearest whole percent
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Question 125830: 5. Business and finance: Under a new contract, the salary for a position increase from $31,000 to $33,635. What rate of increase does this represent?

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Question 125848This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method

: I have been having trouble figuring out this problem and I was wondering if anyone could help me? I would deeply appreciate it!!! Please and Thank You!!

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Randy walked at the rate of 5.2km/h in a straight path from his campsite to a ranch. He returned immediately on horseback at the rate of 7.8km/h. Upon his return, he found that he had been gone for no more than 3.5h. At most how far is it from his campsite to the ranch?This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method

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Question 125848This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method

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Question 125983This question is from textbook pre-algebra
: how do I find the cost of a large and small sandwich? ..the question is..the cost of a small sub sandwich is 60% of the cost of a large sandwich. If the cost of a small sandwich is 2.85 what is the total cost for 1 large and 1 small sandwich?
thanks for the help..HaleyThis question is from textbook pre-algebra

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Question 126099This question is from textbook Pre-Algebra

: find 5% of 10This question is from textbook Pre-Algebra

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