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Question 1182559:
How much interest will you have to pay for a credit card balance of $1,022 that is 1 month overdue, if an 18% annual rate is charged?
Round to two decimal places.

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Question 1182560: A loan of $15,280 was repaid at the end of 8 months. What size repayment check (principal and interest) was written, if an 11.7% annual rate of interest was charged?
Round to two decimal places.
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Question 1182558: Find the interest on the following loan. Round to the nearest cent as needed.
$1450 at 9.5% for 9 months
The interest is how much?
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Question 1182563: A radio commercial for a loan company states; "You only pay 26 cents a day for each $500 borrowed." If you borrow $1,289 for 223 days, what amount will you repay, and what annual interest rate is the company actually charging?
Assume a 360 day year, round to two decimal places.
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Question 1182605: What is the APY for money invested at each rate?
A 15% compounded quarterly
B 13% compounded continuously
APY is %?

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Question 1182604: What is the annual percentage yield (APY) for money invested at an annual rate of
A 4.87% compounded monthly?
B 4.88% compounded quarterly?

What is the annual percentage yield (APY) for money invested at an annual rate of 4.87% compounded monthly?
APY is %?
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Question 1182664: All the digits of the positive integer N are either 0 or 1. The remainder after dividing N by 37 is 18. What is the smallest number of times that the digit 1 can appear in N?
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Question 1182667: Nirmal Soul pvt Ltd is a manufacturer of bath towels. The company has to supply his customer
750 units of his product per year.
Any type of shortage is not acceptable.
The inventory carrying cost is is Rs 2.4 per unit per year
The set up cost per run is Rs 100
Compute
a. What should be the optimum order size and the optimum number of orders which should be
executed
b. Calculate the total cost for the optimum order size
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Question 1182732: Start with the number 1 and create the sequence:
1,2,4,8,16,22,24,28
where each number is the sum of the previous number and its final digit. How many numbers in the sequence are less than 1000?
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Question 1182731: My two dogs were running on the beach when I called them back. The faster dog was 100m away and the slower dog was 70m away. The faster dog runs twice as fast as the slower dog. How far away was the second dog when the first dog reached me?
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Question 1182753: A six-sided dice has the numbers 1,2,2,3,3 and 3 on its faces. Two such dice are rolled and a score is made by adding the numbers on the uppermost faces. The probability of rolling an odd score is?
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Question 1182756: In a regular hexagon, the midpoints of the sides are joined to form a shaded regular hexagon. What fraction of the larger hexagon is shaded?
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Question 1182754: If x^2=x+3, then x^3 equals
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Question 1182754: If x^2=x+3, then x^3 equals
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Question 1182754: If x^2=x+3, then x^3 equals
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Question 1182755: Dan and Jane each have a measuring tape of length 1m. Dan's tape got stuck in a door and was extended by 4cm. Jane left her tape in a pocket and it shrank by 5 cm after washing. However, the centimetre marks on both tapes remained evenly distributed.
Measuring the schoolyard, Dan noted the length as 23.75m. What length will Jane get measuring the same schoolyard with her tape?
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Question 1182760: In how many ways can the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 be arranged in a row so that the product of any 2 adjacent numbers is even?
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Question 1182760: In how many ways can the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 be arranged in a row so that the product of any 2 adjacent numbers is even?
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Question 1182795: How many positive integers n are there such that 2n+1 is a divisor of 8n+46?
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Question 1182795: How many positive integers n are there such that 2n+1 is a divisor of 8n+46?
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Question 1182797: When the price of an item was increased by sh.5, I bought 2 items fewer with sh.200.
what is the current price of the item? (It's a kcse question on 1994 pp1 no.16)

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Question 1182791: All triangles in the spiral below are right-angled. The spiral is continued anticlockwise.
Prove that X0^2+X1^2+X2^2+...+Xn^2=X0^2*X1^2*X2^2*...*Xn^2
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Question 1182798: The 4-digit number pqrs has the property that pqrs*4=srqp. If p=2, what is the value of the 3-digit number qrs?
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Question 1182798: The 4-digit number pqrs has the property that pqrs*4=srqp. If p=2, what is the value of the 3-digit number qrs?
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Question 1182800: How many pairs (a,b) of positive integers are there such that a and b are factors of 6^6 and a is a factor of b?
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Question 1182800: How many pairs (a,b) of positive integers are there such that a and b are factors of 6^6 and a is a factor of b?
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Question 1182800: How many pairs (a,b) of positive integers are there such that a and b are factors of 6^6 and a is a factor of b?
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Question 1182799: A hockey game between two teams is 'relatively close' if the number of goals scored by the two teams never differ by more than 2. In how many ways can the first 12 goals of a game be scored if the game is 'relatively close'?
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Question 1182823: Hi tutors, I have no idea how to solve this question:
A hockey game between two teams is 'relatively close' if the number of goals scored by the two teams never differ by more than 2. In how many ways can the first 12 goals of a game be scored if the game is 'relatively close'?
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Question 1182782: Find the amount necessary to fund the given withdrawals
Monthly withdrawals of $750 for 7 years; interest rate is 6.3% compounded monthly
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Question 1182820: All the digits of the positive integer N are either 0 or 1. The remainder after dividing N by 37 is 18. What is the smallest number of times that the digit 1 can appear in N?
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Question 1182821: A circular wheel of radius r rolls, without slipping, through half a revolution. The point X is on the horizontal diameter at the start.
The distance between the starting and finishing position of the point X is?
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Question 1182848: A clockmaker makes a 12-hour clock but with the hour and minute hands identical. An ambiguous time on this clock is one where you cannot tell what time it is, since the exact position of the two hands occurs twice in a 12-hour cycle.
For instance, the clock can show 7:23 pm and 4:37 pm so both of these times are ambiguous.
However, 12:00pm is not ambiguous, since both hands are together.
How many ambiguous times happen in the 12 hours from midday to midnight?
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Question 1182881: Three friends are packing sweets into gift boxes. They agree that each box should contain the same number of sweets, but they are each working in separate locations with their own pile of sweets so cannot share boxes.
Gwen has 286 sweets, Bill has 390 sweets and Zeta has 468 sweets. If they put the largest number of sweets into each box that they can and they use up all their sweets, how many boxes of sweets will they pack?
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Question 1182883: Let Tn be the nth triangular number, Qn be the nth square number and Pn be the nth pentagonal number.
(a) Show that 3 Pn= T 3n-1
(b) Show that Pn-Qn = Tn-1 and hence that P3n-3Pn= Q3n

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