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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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Question 126364: 15 is 20% of what number
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Question 126364: 15 is 20% of what number
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Question 126598This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method
: 0.21x= 1.2-0.15x. what does x equalThis question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method

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Question 126939: Cost of living went up 11%, but Alice got an 11% raise in her salary, she is now earning 27340. How much did she make last year?
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Question 126953: The sales price of a car is $12,590, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price? need help,thanks
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Question 126953: The sales price of a car is $12,590, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price? need help,thanks
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Question 126965: The city council has decided to add a 0.3% tax on motel and hotel rooms. If a traveler spends the night in a motel room that costs $55 before taxes, how much will the city receive in taxes from him?
I got 16.5 but that was not the right answer.
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Question 126961: Jim is able to sell a hand-carved statue for $670 which was a 35% profit over his cost. How much did the statue originally cost him? need some help on this, thanks
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Question 127579: An instrument store gives a 10% discount to all students off the original cost of an instrument. During a back to school sale an additional 15% is taken off the discounted price. Julie, a student at the local high school, purchases a flute for $306. How much did it originally cost?

I really need some help on this one.

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Question 127981: What percent of 55 is 22?
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Question 128199: Sales tax is 4.225%. What is the maximun price that can be spent on a desk if the toeal cost is $650 including tax
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Question 128397: Mary purchased a CD for $15.99. If the sales tax rate is 7%, how much sales tax did she pay?
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Question 128966: Please help me. I have looked at this for an hour and I quit! Amy paid $76.49 for a pair of running shoes during a 15% off sale. What was the regular price? Thank you for any help give.
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Question 129114: Tom, Ted, Tony, and Terry worked together on a job. The Job paid$500. Each boy was paid according to the amount of work he contributed to the job. Ted and Tony earned $280 together. Ted and Tom earned $260 together. Ted and Terry got $220 together. What percent of the job did each boy do?

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Question 127559: 312 is 15% less of what number?
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Question 127548: How do I find increses of numbers by percents? For example; Increase 120 by 70%? How would I do that? Thank you!
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Question 116610: Write the decimal as a percent or the percent as a decimal.
15. 0.5%
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Question 116365: Find the percent of the number
11. 25% of 60
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Question 116361: Find the percent of the number
10. 50% of 22
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Question 116360: Find the percent of the number
9. 40% of 5
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Question 115951: What percent of 650 is 61.75?
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Question 115949: what is 43% of 1400?
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Question 129803: what is percentage?
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Question 129948: If there is a total of 260 marbles in a bag and 50 are brown, 200 are gray and 10 are red then what is the percentage of red marbles in the bag.
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Question 130001: what percentage of workers walk to work?
Drive alone 7,862,418
carpool 1,120,982
take public transit 144,959
walk 138,496
other 149,641
work at home 346,626

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Question 130273: An employee's new salary is $119,110 after getting a 5% raise. What was the salary before the increase in pay?
Last year's salary was $
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Question 130411: how can you find a missing percent on a circle graph?

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Question 130395: Last month a factory produced 800 television sets. This month, The same factory produced 1,064 television sets. The increase in production from last month to this month is?
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Question 130414: how can i find a measure of a piece on a circle graph?
for example:what is the measure of the central angle for the banana cream sector
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Question 130748:
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Jerry earned $18,500 one year and then received a 10.5% raise. What is his new yearly salary?
Yi Chen made a $6,400 investment at the beginning of a year. By the end of the year, the value of the investment had decreased by 8.2%. What was its value at the end of the year?
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Question 130876This question is from textbook prentice hall

: i dont get what to do after you subtract the 27 from the 72. after i do this, i get 45/27. what do i do now? This question is from textbook prentice hall

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Question 131748: A piechart represents the results of an election on an alien planet. The candidate, Hum, won the election, receiving five times as many votes as Yab. Pip received 30% of all votes. What percentage of votes did Hum receive?
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Question 131742: Given the circumference of the circle as 50 pi find the radius of the circle.

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Question 131923: 120 is _______% of 40.
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Question 132334This question is from textbook Saxon Math
: What percent of 40 is 25This question is from textbook Saxon Math

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Question 132568: Joe earns $9.50 an hour, but he will get a 12% raise next week. What will be his hourly wage next week?
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Question 132663: An instrument store gives a 10% discount to all students off the original cost of an instrument. During a back to school sale an additional 15% is taken off the discounted price. a student purchases a flute for $306.
I need to find the original price,but i don't know where to start, please help me thanks.

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Question 133231: This year, 75% of the graduating class of Harriet Tubman HS had taken at least 8 math courses. Of the remaining class members, 60% had taken 6 or 7 math courses. What percent of the graduating class had taken fewer than 6 math courses?
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Question 133230: This year, 75% of the graduating class of Harriet Tubman HS had taken at least 8 math courses. Of the remaining class members, 60% had taken 6 or 7 math courses. What percent of the graduating class had taken fewer than 6 math courses?
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Question 133392: what is 75% off of 24$????
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Question 133466: on a math test, 12 students earned an A. This number is exactly 30% of the total number of students. How many students are in the class?
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Question 133792: What number increased by 30% equals 260
Take your percent and multiply by 2 take off the percent and subtract it from your number so... 200 increased by 30% = 260
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