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Question 141595: $900 deposited at an interest rate of 3% for 5 years
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Question 141941This question is from textbook PREALGEBRA

: A pound is equal to 16oz. What fractional part of a pound is 6 oz?This question is from textbook PREALGEBRA

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Question 143146: Mrs. Martinez is buying a sweater that is on sale for 25% off of the original price. She has a coupon that gives her an additional 20% off of the sale price. Her final purchase price is what percent of the original price?
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Question 143093: Mrs. Martinez is buying a sweater that is on sale for 25% off the original price. She has a coupon that gives her an additional 20% off of the sale price. Her final purchase price is what percent of the original price?

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Question 143406: What is 75% of 200?
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Question 143410: Can you please help me solve this problem: "A saving account earns 4.5% simple interest per year. If $650.00 is deposited and no withdrawals or deposits are made during one year, how musch interests will be earned after one year?"
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Question 144004: Northwest Airlines passes out peanuts to customers who want them. On several recent flights to Boston, 72% of passengers who were asked accepted the peanuts, and 23% rejected the peanuts. A total of 36 passengers were asleep and not asked. How many passengers were on these flights?

How do I go about setting this problem up in order to figure the number of passengers?
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Question 144257: What is the percentage increase or decrease if there were 65 students and now there are 71 students?
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Question 144310: I have not used this stuff in over 30 years, but I need to calculate x for:
x - y% = z, where z=100 and y% = 8.8% or .088. I know it is simple, but this old brain cannot seem to recall it.
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Question 145047: The selling price of an article is $30. If the markup is 22%of the cost, what is the cost of the article?
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Question 145194: A real estate agent received a 3.5% commission on the sale of a home. If the home sold for $61,000, how much was his commission?
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Question 145248: brett took a loan of $12,000 and paid back a sum of $14,000 after 2 years what is the interest he had to pay.
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Question 145423: In a survey of 2.000 people, it was discovered that 47 subscribe to the Sunday paper. What percent subscribe to the Sunday paper?

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Question 145428: Jon begins a new job with an annual salary of $42,000 for his first year of employment, a guarantee of a 5% increase each for his second, third and fourth year and a guarantee fo a 20% for his fifth and sixth year. What will be his salary during his sixth year of employment?
This seemed easy enough but not getting the correct answer.
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Question 145509: WHAT IS 15% PROFIT IF A BOAT WAS SOLD FOR 15,000

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Question 146026This question is from textbook Elementary and Intermediate Algebra
: What was the MSRP for a Hummer H1 that sold for $107,272 after an 8% discountThis question is from textbook Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

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Question 146170: Write 0.038 as a percent
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Question 146292: All of the following are ways to write 20 percent of N except:
0.2 N, 20/100N, 1/5N, 20N
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Question 146968: If you can please help me I wish to learn how to work with Percentages like working out the percentage of one number of another. I;am 76yrs of age and unfotunatly I have forgotten how to work with percentages so if you can help I would appreciate you kind efforts. thanking you kindest Rgards Les
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Question 147212: Please help me setting this equation correctly. Highly appreciated.
A woman buys three pairs of jeans for $99.84, including tax. If each pair of jeans cost $32, what was the sales tax rate?
x= sales tax rate
x= 99.84-32(3)
x= 99.84-96
x= 3.84 % ????
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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Question 147236This question is from textbook introductory algebra
: A company recently downsized its number of employees by 35%. if there are still 78 employees, how many employees wre there prior to the layoffs?This question is from textbook introductory algebra

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Question 147857: from point a to point b elevation drops 2.6 feet. total distance from a to b is 560 feet.at what percent does this flow.
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Question 147997: the last week of a month a car dealer sold 12 cars. a new sales promotion came out the first week of thee month and sold 19 cars the week. What was the percent increase in sales from the last week of the previous month compared to week of the next month?
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Question 148684: Employees of a discount appliance store receive an additional 20% off of the lowest price on an item. If an employee purchases a dishwasher during a 15% off sale, how much will he pay if the dishwasher originally cost $450.00?
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Question 148952: Hello to the person reading this the topic I picked was the closest one to the actual. My question is a word problem. Here it is "Alisha bought a shirt with a marked price of $25.99. If the sales tax was 7%, what was the total price Alisha paid for the shirt?" I need to know how I get the total price. please answer this as soon as possible.
Sincerely, Taylor Cohron
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Question 149265: if there is a multiple choice test which consist of 80 questions, what is the percentage if 54 of those questions were correct?
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Question 149505: How would you convert .00035 into a percent and a fraction. Percent should be 35%, I'm not sure about the decimal. would it be 35/1000?
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Question 149506: How do you convert .72 1/3 into a percent and a decimal. I think it is in fraction form. But I did not consider the decimal in front of 72.
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Question 149612: A baseball player gets 12 hits in 40 at bats. What percent are hits and what percents of nonhits.

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Question 149610: b=8c, for c
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Question 149611: Principle Rate Time
$400 14% 1yr
Please find the simple interest and simplify
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Question 149933: Hello, I'm Taylor Cohron and I can't figure ou the following math problem:
A store sells a bike for 67.50. The profit is 35% of the cost. How much is the cost?
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Question 150103: A student claims that if a price is now 220% more than it was before, then it is 320% of what it was before, and what it was before is 31.25% of what it is now. Do you agree? Explain your answer.

Im sorry, but i really don't get this question. =[
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Question 150230: plz help me out and explain this equation to me

Employees of a discount appliance store receive an additional 20% off of the lowest price on an item. If an employee purchases a dishwasher during a 15% off sale, how much will he pay if the dishwasher originally cost $450?
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Question 150516: What is 33 1/3 % of 18.
The answer is 5.994
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Question 150615: For the 20 test scores shown, find the percentile rank for a score of 86.
75
63
92
74
86
50
77
82
98
65
71
89
75
66
87
59
70
83
91
73
Help!
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Question 151285: OK I didn't do well in Algebra and maybe someone can help... I feel like a retard.
I need a formula for MS Excel that can calculate a percentage based on cost vs sale.
Example:
Cost = $1478.00 --- Sale = $1950.00 --- Profit = $472.00
I need an formula that I can have MS Excel to compute what the % of profit was made.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Question 151284: If i perform 1,214 glucoses for a month. I review 289 glucoses of the 1,214 and found 12 errors. What is my percentage of error?
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Question 151527: what percent of 400 is 320
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Question 151585: How do i represent the query below as a sum?
if 60 is = to 60% of ?, then 40% is = 40
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Question 151690: I tried to set this up numerous ways and was not coming up with anything I could use.
How many milliliters of a 50% saline solution must be mixed with 60 milliliters of a 15% saline solution to obtain a 40% saline solution?
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Question 151723This question is from textbook elementary and intermediate algebra concepts and applications
: Here is what I came up with for an answer I was just wondering if I did it right?
$32.00 x 3=$96.00
$99.84 - $96.00 = $3.84/3 = $1.28 per pair
8. A woman buys three pairs of jeans for $99.84, including tax. If each pair of jeans cost $32, what was the sales tax rate? This question is from textbook elementary and intermediate algebra concepts and applications

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