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Question 121135: Why is this so hard for me to finish. I don't know why I am coming up with a negative answer....
Mr. Tiny firm has fixed costs of $50,000 variable costs per unit of $4, and a selling price per unit of $9. What is Mr. Tiny's breakeven level of sales (in units)?
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Question 121460: You invest $250 in your savings account at the end of each year and earn an avaerage of 6% per year in interest. How much will you have in your savings at the end of forty years?
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Question 121555: In addition to charging an hourly rate, a repairman charges a fixed fee for making a service call. If a 2 hour service call costs 88$ and a 4-hour service call costs $136, what are the repairman's (a)fixed fee and (b) hourly rate?
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Question 121813: Angus invested $18000, part at 3% and part at 5%. If the total interest at the end of the year is $660, how much did he invest at each rate?
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Question 121815: Sally bought three chocolate bars and a pack of gum and paid $1.75. Jake bought two chocolate bars and four packs of gum and paid $2.00. What's the cost of a chocolate bar and a pack of gum?
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Question 121814: A home-based company produces both hand-knitted scarves and sweaters. The scarves take 2 hours of labor to produce, and the sweaters take 14 hours. The labor available is limited to 40 hours per week, and the total production capacity is 5 items per week. How would I write a system of inequalities representing this situation, where x is the number of scarves and y is the number of sweaters, and graph the system of inequalities?
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Question 121902: Misty has $2.35 in dimes and nickles. She has one less nickel thsn dimes. How many of each coin does she have?
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Question 122002This question is from textbook algebra and trigonometry with analiytic geometry
: A city government built a $60 million sports arena. Some of the money was raised by selling bonds that pay simple interest at a rate of 13% annually. The remaining amount was obtained by borrowing money from an insurance company at a simple interest rate of 10%. How much was financed through the insurance company if the annual interest is $6.78 million?
Please round your answer to the nearest $million. This question is from textbook algebra and trigonometry with analiytic geometry

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Question 122266: Angus invested $18000, part at 3% and part at 5%. If the total interest at the end of the year is $660, how much did he invest at each rate?
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Question 122307:

Misty has $2.35 in dimes and nickels. She has one less nickel than dimes. How many of each coin does she have?
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Question 122512: Due to the abuse the pay phones in the school lobby are exposed to, some of them have a mind of their own and will only accept dimes and nickels. At the end of the day when they were emptied, one phone had 80 coins totaling $6.65. How many dimes had been deposited into that phone that day?
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Question 122506: Joanna decided to invest the $500 that she had received as graduation presents. She invested part in a 10% annual interest money market account and the rest in a 5% annual interest CD. How much did she invest in the money market account if she made $42.50 in interest during the first year?
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Question 122541: I stuck on this problem and have been for a while. I hope you can help me out!!
A quiz program gives a prize of $5 for teh first question answered correctly. The contestant's prize winnings are doubled for each question after the first. How many questions would you need to answer to exceed $1,000,000 in total prize money?

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Question 122555This question is from textbook prentice hall mathematics algebra 1
: You have $22 in your bank account and deposit $11.50 each week.At the same time your cousin has $218 but is withdrawing $13 each week.
a.When will your accounts have the same balance?
b.How much money will each of you have after 12 weeks?This question is from textbook prentice hall mathematics algebra 1

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Question 122552: An investor received $1400 interest per annum from a sum of money, with part of it invested at 10% and the remainder at 7% simple interest. This investor found that if she interchanged the amounts she had invested she could increase her return by $90 per annum. Calculate the total amount invested.
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Question 122652: An employee who produces x units per hour earns an hourly wage of y = 0.55x + 7 (in dollars). What is the hourly wage for an employee who produces 13 units per hour?
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Question 122968: Please help!!! I do not know if this is the correct section or not but I am stumped...
This is the word problem... Company A offers a 25% discount on every order. Company B offers a 35% discount on every dollar the customer spends over $50.00. Determine algebraically the actual price at which Company B offers you the same discount as Company A and determine the actual price at which company B will give you a greater discount than Company A.
I have done a chart and determined that a $200 order results in a $50.00 discount from Company A and a $52.50 discount from company B. I just do not know or understand how to figure out the rest of what they are asking for. Thanks for your help
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Question 122993:
susans two loans totaled $12,000. one of her loans was at 6% simple interestand the other at 9%. After one year, Susan owed $855 in iterest. What was the amount of each loan?
Thia is what I have so far 0.06X + 0.09Y= 855
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Question 123001: Mr. chase had 5 times as much money in the bank as he had in the office safe. After he had taken $225 from his safe and deposited it in the bank, he had 8 times as much in the bank as in his safe. How much money had he in each place first?
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Question 123050This question is from textbook prentice hall mathematics algebra
: Suppose you buy flour and cornmeal in bulk to make flour tortillas and corn tortillas.Flour costs $1.50/lb.Cornmeal costs $2.50/lb.You want to spend less than $9.50 on flour and cornmeal,and you need at least 4 lb altogether.
a.Write a system of inequalities that describes this situation.
b.Graph the system to show all possible solutions.This question is from textbook prentice hall mathematics algebra

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Question 123238: Anyone knows how to do CAPITAL GAINS questions???

Please help me solve this!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If a house cost $600,000 and you have to pay capital gains tax (Ontario, Canada). How much would you have to pay, with a yearly income of $65,000

This is the website for the Canadian Tax rate.
http://www.2ontario.com/welcome/bctx_606.asp
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Question 123325: A boy saved $10 in January. Supposed he saved twice as much the previous month, how much will he save at the end of the year?
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Question 123554This question is from textbook prentice hall mathematics
: Marcella and Rupert bought some party supplies.Marcella bought 3 packages of balloons and 4 packages of favors for $14.63.Rupert bought 2 packages of balloons and 5 packages of favors for $16.03.Find the price of a package of balloons.This question is from textbook prentice hall mathematics

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Question 123568: Suppose you invest $1500 in equipment to put pics on t-shirts.You buy each t-shirt for $3.After you have placed the pic on a shirt,you sell it for $20.How many t-shirts must you sell to break even?
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Question 123651This question is from textbook algebra and trigonometry with analiytic geometry
: When a popular brand of CD player is priced at $320 per unit, a store sells 12 units per week. Each time the price is reduced by $11, however, the sales increase by 2 per week. What selling price will result in weekly revenues of $5166?
Please enter your answer as a number without the units.This question is from textbook algebra and trigonometry with analiytic geometry

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Question 123702: Jill has $3.50 in nickels and dimes.If she has 50 coins ,how many of each type of coin does she have?
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Question 123794: Retail prices in a department store are obtained by marking up the wholesale price by 40%. That is, retail price is obtained by adding 40% of the wholesale price to the wholesale price.
A. What is the retail price of a suit if the wholesale price is $300
B. What is the wholesale price of a pair of jeans if the retail price is $77
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Question 123701: Hello! Please help me with this problem. Thank you very much! I appreciate your dedication and kindness!
An adult ticket cost $6. A student ticket cost $4. During the school concert, there was a total of 750 people who attended. The school made $3890 in total. How many adults attended the concert?
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Question 123864: An amusement park charges admission plus a fee for for each ride.
Admission plus 2 rides costs $10.Admission plus five rides cost $16.
What's the charge for admission?For each ride?
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Question 124117: You earn $15 an hour mowing lawns an $10 an hour washing windows.
You want to make $400 in one week. An Alkgebraic model for your earnings is
15x + 10y = 400. where x is the number of hours mowing lawns and y is the number of hours washing windows.
Solve the equation for y?
Sketch a grapg of the equation?
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Question 124250: Can someone help me I am stuck?
Joe was charged $782 interest for 1 month on a $4600 credit card balance. What was the monthly interest rate?
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Question 124107: Kim has $210 in $5 bills and $20 bills. She has a total of 24 bills. How many $5 bills and how many $20 bills does she have?
Please show me the step by step solution. Thanks!
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Question 124247This question is from textbook college algebra
: A total of $7500 is deposited into two simple interest accounts. On one account the annual simple interest rate of 5.5% and on the second account the annual simple interest rate is 7%. The amount of interest earned for 1 year was $405. How much was invested in each account.This question is from textbook college algebra

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Question 124862: In 2002, Home Depot’s sales amounted to $58,200,000,000. In 2006, its sales were $90,800,000,000.
Write Home Depot’s 2002 sales and 2006 sales in scientific notation.
my answer: 9.08 x 10^10 and 5.82 x 10^10
You can find the percent of growth in Home Depot’s sales from 2002 to 2006, follow these steps:
Find the increase in sales from 2002 to 2006.
What was the percent growth in Home Depot’s sales from 2002 to 2006? Do all your work by using scientific notation.

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Question 124885This question is from textbook
: Karen invested some money at 9% annual simple interest and $250 more than that amount at 10% interest. If her total yearly interest from both accounts was $101, how much was invested at each rateThis question is from textbook

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Question 125079: Cofee merchant has coffee beans that sell for $9 per pound and $12 per pound. The two types are to be mixed to create 100lb of a mixture that will sell for $11.25 per pound. How much of each type of bean should be used in the mixture?
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Question 125214: I dont understand this:
Kendra invested $850, part of it at 9% and part of it at 12%. If her interest for one year was $81 how much did she invest at each rate?
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Question 125283: Can you please solve this problem?
Anna, Jennifer, and Mia have certain sums of money. If Anna gives Jennifer $100, they will have the same amount; if Anna gives Mia $100, Mia will have twice as much as Anna; if Jennifer gives Mia $100, Mia will have 4 times as much as Jennifer. What sum has each?
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Question 125515: Invested $22,000, part at 8% and part at 7%. If the total interest at the end of the year is $1,710, how much did she invest at 8%?
Invested $20,000, part at 14% and part at 13%. If the total interest at the end of the year is 2,720, how much did he invest at 14%?
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Question 125689: Sally bought three choclate bars and a pack of gum and paid $1.75. Jake bought two choclate bars and four packs of gum and paid $2.00 Find the cost of a choclate bar and the cost of the gum.
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Question 125634: at the end of the model year, a car delear advertises that the list price on all of last year's models have been discounted by 20 percent. what was the original list price of a car that has a discounted price of $13600?
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Question 125772: How long will it take to double my money at 8% interest rate and continuous compounding?
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Question 125813: Can you please help me figure this one out.
If I invested $10,000, part at 15% and part at 14%.
If the total interest at the end of the year is $1430, how much did I invest at 15%?
Thanks for your help
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