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Question 241094: A salesman sold $300 more than the rest of the sales staff combined. If the sales total for the day was $2500, then how much did the rest of the sales staff sell?

x+300=2500
x=2200
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Question 240906: okay my problem reads " find the annual interest from a saving account containing $148 and bearing 6% simple interest." whats the answers..
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Question 240845: A total of 14000 dollars is invested in two simple interest baring accounts. One acccount has an interest rate of 8% and the other a rte of 5.5%. The amount of interest earned for 1 year was 982.50. How much was invested in each account?
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Question 240846: One week a business sold 40 scarves. White ones cost $4.95, and printed ones cost $7.95. In all,$282 worth of scarves were sold. How many of each kind were sold?
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Question 240847: you inherit $13000.00 and decide to invest the money in two different investments; one paying 10% and the other 14%. a year later they earn $1580. how much do you originally invewst in each account.
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Question 240600: ms. Jones invested 18,000 in two accounts. One account pays 6 % simple interest and the other pays 8%. Her total interest for the year was $1,290. How much did she have in each account

can anyone help me find the answer with a full break down
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Question 240567: Ms. Kork sold her car for $8,700.
This was $100 more than two fifths
of what she had paid for the car
originally. How much had Ms. Kork
paid for the car?
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Question 240411: A cashier has only five-dollar and twenty-dollar bills in her register. If the register contains 19 bills worth $215, how many five-dollar bills does she have?
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Question 239478:
Scientific notation for 2002 sales of $58,200,000,000 and 2006 sales of
$90,800,000,000 and percentage of growth?
thank you, Helen
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Question 239280: Little Johnny invested $10,000. He put part of it in a bank at 5 percent interest. He put the remainder in bonds which pay a 9 percent annual return. How much did he invest in each method (savings bank and bond) if his annual income from the two investments was $660?
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Question 239116: A bank charges its customers a general fee of $6 per month plus an additional fee of 10 cents per check written from a checking account. Over the past nine months, a customer was charged $62 in service fees. How many checks did the customer write during that period?
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Question 239006: SEED MIXTURE: a nursery has one kind of grass seed selling at 75 cents per pound and another kind of grass seed selling at $1.10 per pound. How many pounds of each kind should be mixed to produce 50 pounds of a mixture of seed that will sell for 90 cents a pound. I cannot figure out how to work this problem your help would be much appreciated.
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Question 238992: a bank offers two checking plans. The anywhere plan charges 30 cents per check. Th Accucheck plan costs $1.12 a month, plus 22 cents per check. For what number of checks will the Accucheck plan costs less than the Anywhere plan?
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Question 238927: Find a counterexample to the statement: The square of a number added to the sum of twice the number and 8 is a prime number.
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Question 238851: A vending machine accepts nickles, dimes and quarters. When the coins are emptied, the total value of the coins is found to be $24.15. Find the number of coins of each kind in the box, if there are twice as many nickles as quarters and 5 more dimes than nickels.
when solved can u show me the formula and the exact steps you took to solve it.. THANKS.
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Question 238853: An employee's new annual salary is 36,516, which include a 5% pay raise and a 2.4% cost-of-living allowance. What was the employee's orginal salary?
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Question 238414: A candy storesells boxes of candy containing caramels and
crèmes. Each box sells for $12.50 & holds 30
pieces of candy (all pieces are same size). If
caramels cost $0.25 to produce & crèmes cost
$0.45 to produce, how many of each should be
in a box to make a profit of $3?
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Question 238405: A pharmacist mixed some 10%-saline solution with with some 15%-saline solution to obtain 100ml of a 12%-saline solution. How ,uch of the 10%-saline did the pharmacist use in the mixture? .10x+.15y=.12 x+y=100
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Question 238477: How much would $140 invested at 6% interest compounded annually be worth after 15 years?
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Question 238484: .10x+.15y=.12
x+y=100
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Question 238259: if jake had 5,000 to invest and he put part of it an a cd paying 5% interest and the rest in a bond paying 8% interest. After 1 year, he earned $140 more from the bond than from the cd. how much did he put in each investment
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Question 238264: a triangle has a perimeter of 54 inches. find the length of the three sides if one side is 10 inches longer than the smallest and the third side is twice the smallest.
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Question 238081: I can't do two questions.
First is "Finance. Find the tripling time (To the next whole year) for money invested at 15% compounded annually."
Second is "Finance. Find the doubling time (to two decimal places) for money invested at 10% compounded continuously."
I very need help with this problem.
Thank alot.
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Question 238107: After what time will the interest on a certain sum of money at 10% per annum be half of the initial amount?
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Question 237065: lizzie bought several apples at 20 cents each, ate 2 of them and sold the rest for 30 cents each. She made a profit of 2.20. How many did she buy
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Question 237755: A PERSON WINS A $60 MILLLION LOTTERY, THEY RECEIVE $1 MILLION FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS PLUS AN ADDITIONAL LUMP SUM PAYMENT OF $10 MILLION AFTER 50 YEARS. THE DISCOUNT RATE IS 10%. WHAT IS THE CURRENT VALUE OF THE WINNINGS?
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Question 237186: solve the following equation
4/y-5 = 5/2y

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Question 237159: an investment advisor invested 12000 into two accounts. one investment earned 7 % annual simple interest and the other investment earned 6.5% annual simple interest. the amount of interest for 1 year was 820. How much was invested at 6.5 %
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Question 237175: a wool siut iscounted by 30% for clearance sale has a price of 399 whats the suit original price?
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Question 237175: a wool siut iscounted by 30% for clearance sale has a price of 399 whats the suit original price?
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Question 237157: an invested 12000 i two accounts. one investment earned 7 % annual simple interest and the other investment earned 6.5% annual simple interest. the amount of interest for 1 year was 820. How much was invested at 6.5 %
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Question 237142: a doughnut shop has a fixed cost of $124 per day and a variable cost of $.12 per doughnut. Find the daily cost of producing x doughnuts? how many dougnuts can be produced for a total daily cost of $250?
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Question 237067:
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Question 236488: if i invest $25,000 for 6 years at 7% how much will i earn quartly, annuall, simi annualy, and continual
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Question 236157: Layoffs looming. American Products plans to layoff 10% of its employees in its aerospace division and 15% of its employees in its agricultural division. If altogether 12% of the 3000 employees in these two divisions will be laid off, then how many employees are in each division?
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Question 236200: Doris invested some money at 7% and some at 8%. She invested $6000 more at 8% then at 7%. Her total yearly interest from both investments was $1080, how much did she invest at each rate?
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Question 236060: You are selling cookies in school souvenir mugs to raise money for your school. You are taking orders so that you know how many mugs you will need to buy. There will be 6 cookies in a mug that will sell for $3.95 per order. You spent $50 on the ingredients to make the cookies plus you will need to pay $1.45 per mug. At least how many orders do you have to take so that you make more than what you spend?
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Question 235929: A commonly asked question is, “How long will it take to double my money?” At 7% interest rate and continuous compounding, what is the answer? Round your answer to the hundredth's place.
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Question 235395: Mary, Megan, and Molly sold magazine subscriptions to raise money for playground equipment/ Megan sold 9 more subscriptions than Mary. Molly sold 3 less than twice as many subscribtions as mary. If together they sold a total of 66 magazine subscriptions, how many subscriptions did each girl sell?
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Question 235795: The audio outlet purchased 60 cassette recorders, gave away three in a contest, and sold the rest of at twice their purchase price. If the store's total profit was $1188, how much did the store sell each recorder for
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Question 235722: a blend of coffee has 60% of grade A and 40% of grade B, and is sold at 78 cents a pound. If the blend was 40% grade A and 60% grade B, the price would be 62 cents a pound. find the price of grade A per pound
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Question 235053: This problem is stumping me. I have tried to figure out how they come up with the answer with no luck. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Find the amount that results from the given investment.
$10 invested at 10% compounded continously after a period of 2 years. Round to the nearest cent.
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Question 234976: juanita and borrowed $4800 at a simple interest rate of 11% for a period of 2 years. what is the interest?
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Question 234985: if three cans of corn cost you $8.00 how much will one gross cost you?
what dose gross mean?
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