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Question 1195567: A web Music Store offers two versions of a popular song. The size of the standard version is 2.7 megabytes (MB). The size of the high-quality version is 4.3 MB. Yesterday, the high-quality version was downloaded four times as often as the standard version. The total size downloaded for the two versions was 5373 MB. How many downloads of the standard version were there.
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Question 1195577: At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.20 and adults admission is $9.90. On Thursday, 163 tickets were sold for a total sales of $1303.50. How many adult tickets were sold that day?
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Question 1195579: At the movie theatre, child admission is $5.20 and adult admission is $9.90. On Wednesday, 163 tickets were sold for a total of $1303.50. how many adults tickets were sold that day?
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Question 1195566: Fred’s coffee shop makes a blend that is a mixture of two types of coffee. Type A coffee cost Fred $4.60 per pound, and type B coffee costs $5.70 per pound. This month’s blend used twice as many pounds of type B as type A, for a total cost of $640.00. How many pounds of type A coffee were used?
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Question 1195591: Please help with the homework. Nice'n healthy is an event catering company entrusted with providing high quality hospitality services in and around the city of cape town. They are going to bake blueberry muffins for breakfast. They buy all the ingredients as indicated below to bake the required number of muffins for the guests. Each recipe makes a total of dozen muffins.
RECIPE:100g softened butter,140g Golden caster sugar,2 large eggs,140g Natural yogurt, 1 teaspoon milk,1 cup plain flour, 2 tsp baking powder,125g pack of blueberry. Preparation time is 15 minutes, total is 40 minutes, serving is 12 people.
1.1. Nice'n healthy uses 4 baking trays that holds 24 muffins each as shown above, they have two oven stoves each able to cook two trays simultaneously. If the cooking time is 25 minutes per serving determine how long it will take them to bake 252 muffins in hours.
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Question 1195534: A circle has radius 5 and centre (2, 4). The point (3,2) is the midpoint of a chord of this circle. Find the distance of the chord from the centre and the length of the chord.
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Question 1195726: A student who has not studied for a multiple-choice test decides to guess the answers for every
question. There are three questions, and three choices of answer (A, B and C) for each question. Given
that only one of the possible choices (A, B or C) is correct for each question, state the probability that
the student guesses:
a 1 correct answer b 2 correct answers c 3 correct answers d 0 correct answer
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Question 1195723: Mary has $3 more than Ben but $5 less than Jane. If Mary has $x, how much does Jane and Ben have altogether?
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Question 1195746: The customer has an
investment of $1000 earning
4% per year, compounded
annually. They are presented
with the following graph:
Approximate the following:
a) How much is the investment
worth after 5 years?
b) When will the investment be
worth around $1500?
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Question 1195745: An account with a balance of
$5000 is calculated to earn
2.5% of interest compounded
annually. What is the final
‘amount’ of the account
balance after 5 years?

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Question 1195747: Would opening an account using
simple interest benefit the
customer? Why or why not?
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Question 1195777: The total annual revenue for a product is given by R(x) = 10,000x-2x^2
dollars, where x is the number of units sold.
(a) To maximize revenue, how many units must be sold?
(b) Find the maximum possible annual revenue?
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Question 1195802: What are the three rightmost digits of the sum 1!+2!+3!+...+2020!?
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Question 1195802: What are the three rightmost digits of the sum 1!+2!+3!+...+2020!?
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Question 1195801: Let Angle XOY be an angle and PZ be an interval. Construct an arc with centre O meeting OX at A and OY at B. With the same radius, construct an arc with centre P, meeting PZ at F. With radius AB and centre F, construct an arc meeting the second arc at G.
(i) Prove that triangle AOB is congruent to triangle GPF.
(ii) Hence, prove that Angle AOB = Angle FPG.
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Question 1195807: The number 35 has the property that when its digits are both increased by 2, and then multiplied, the result is 5 times 7=35, equal to the original number.
Find the sum of all two-digit number such that when you increase both digits by 2, and then multiply these numbers, the product is equal to the original number.
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Question 1195806: In a year 10 maths class, there are 30 students. Each student is either 15 or 16 years old, and either left or right-handed.
The ratio of right-handed students to left-handed students is 4:1, the ratio of 15-year-olds to 16-year-olds is 1:2 and the ratio of left-handed 15-year-olds to left-handed 16-year-olds is 1:5.
If the names of the students in this class are placed in a hat and one is selected at random, what is the probability that the student selected is 15 years old and right-handed?
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Question 1194789: An auditor claims that 10% of the invoices for a certain company are incorrect. To test this claim , a random sample of 200 invoices are checked and 24 are found to be incorrect. Test this at the 1% , significant level to see if the auditor's claim is supported by the sample evidence.
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Question 1195828: Please help me with the homework:
1.1.look at the following statement of a 6 months credit and answer the question that follow:
STATEMENT:For Period 01-29 February 2016
DATE DESCRIPTION DEBIT CREDIT BALANCE
O1-Feb Balance brought forward R101.25
06-Feb Cosmetics R123.15 R224.40
20-Feb. Ladies Sportswear R289.49 A
27-Feb. Payment -Thank you B
Total Owing C
Amount Due. R65.65
1.1.1 What was the balance of this account on 31 January?
1.1.2. calculate the value of A.
1.1.3. A payment of R120.00 was made on 27 February.would this amount appear in the debt or credit column?

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Question 1191366: Suppose that $2300 is invested at 4.7% annual interest rate, compounded monthly. How much money will be in the account in (A)8 MONTHS and (B)4 years? round to the nearest cent.
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Question 1195216: In return for a loan, with money worth 7% compounded semiannually, a man promises to pay $600 at the end of each 6 months for 8 years. (a) Find the sum which he borrows.
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Question 1195848: A stock lost value on both Monday and Tuesday. On Monday, it changed by -5.7 points and on Tuesday it changed by -3.8 points. On which day did it drop the least?
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Question 1195859: Please help with the homework:
1.A jar has 7 red marbles,4 black marbles and 1 white marble. Suppose each marble has an equal chance of being picked from the jar.
1.1. find the probability that a black marble is picked?
1.2. what is the probability of picking a red and a white marble?
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Question 1195858: A salesperson bought an item for Tk. X and marked it up 50%. However, he could not sell the item during the first quarter and thus decided to provide a discount of 20% on the marked price. As the item remained unsold in the second quarters as well, he started to charge 70% of the discount value. What is the latest sales price of the item in terms of its buying price?
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Question 1195860: If money is worth 12% per annum, compounded monthly, how long will it take the principal P to become four times the original value?
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Question 1195892: The insurance premium of a new bus is GHC 93.30 plus 15% of the insured value.
What is the insurance premium of a bus whose insured value is GHC250?
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Question 1195895: How do I do a simple function to solve for Profit = Revenue - Cost
Revenue = 1,954,264 and Cost = 882,740
Thank you!
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Question 1195895: How do I do a simple function to solve for Profit = Revenue - Cost
Revenue = 1,954,264 and Cost = 882,740
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Question 1195895: How do I do a simple function to solve for Profit = Revenue - Cost
Revenue = 1,954,264 and Cost = 882,740
Thank you!
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Question 1195896: How do I use this function P(x)= R(x) - C(x) to find the profit
Revenue 1,118, Cost 505, Variable cost 50
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Question 1195977: A 100m^2 factory flat roof feeds all the water collected to a rainwater tank. If there is 1mm of rainfall, how many litres of water go into the tank?
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Question 1196005: What is the opportunity cost (in civilian output) of a defense buildup that raises military spending from 3.2 to 3.4 percent of a $22 trillion economy?
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Question 1196008: fifteen members of a club are over 40 years. they form 0.6 of the whole membership . find the number of members in the club
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Question 1196017: The length of a rectangle is 5 m less than twice the width. If the area of a rectangle is 273 m², find the dimensions
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Question 1196016: If a simple discount rate of 11% is equivalent to a simple interest rate of 14.5%. Then what is the length of time under consideration?
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Question 1196015: Three years ago Malcolm borrowed R7500 from Sarah on condition that he would repay her back in five years time. Interest is calculated at 13,5% every Three months.Nine months ago he also borrowed R2500 from her at an interest of 15,7% per year compounded monthly payable in two years from now. What will be the total amount that Malcolm owes Sarah two years from now?
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Question 1196025: Please help with the homework:
After what period of time will R2500 double if interest is calculated half yearly at 11% compound interest rate?
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Question 1196028: Accounting
Find the important issues/concerns that you see, define what those are, why you feel they are the most important, analyze those problems, and make specific recommendations to solve those problems.
Situation:
Married couple with one child and one on the way. Bob age 31, Sally age 30, son age 3, son due in November
Combined income 83k per year gross
•Bob- 401k with 18K, company match dollar for dollar up to 4%, currently contributing 8%
•Sally- 403B with 13K, company match .50 per dollar up to 6%, currently contributing 4%
•Bob started Roth IRA 5 years ago, 8k balance with no current contributions
•Purchased home 2 years ago, value 245k, owe 192k, payment $982 for principle and interest, total payment $1340 with tax and insurance, current interest rate 4.0%
•Bob has 1x salary life insurance via work (55K) and Sally has 75k 10 year term she bought before marriage (4 years to expiration)
•Bob has disability through work for 60% of salary, Sally has none
•Together, excluding home, they have 36k in debt (25k student debt at 5%, 6k on auto loan at 6.5%, and 5k in credit card debt at 12%)
•After normal bills (mortgage, payments, food, utilities, and necessities) they have a monthly cash flow of positive $900 per month and have cash reserves of $2,200 that is in a joint savings account earning .25% interest
•Payments on auto loan- $250, student loan- $250, and credit card- $50. All are minimum payments.
•Neither have completed any estate planning
•For the sake of making it somewhat easy- this is the list of funds within both 401k and 403B
Target Retirement 2025 VTTVX
Target Retirement 2030 VTHRX
Target Retirement 2035 VTTHX
Target Retirement 2040 VFORX
Target Retirement 2045 VTIVX
Target Retirement 2050 VFIFX
Target Retirement 2055 VFFVX
Target Retirement 2060 VTTSX
Target Retirement Income VTINX
Columbia Contrarian LCCAX
Columbia Global Equity IEVAX
Vanguard S&P index ETF VOO
Pimco Total Return PTTRX
Leader Capital Total Return LCTIX
T Rowe Midcap Growth RPMGX
T Rowe Global Multi Sector RPGMX
Wells Fargo Smallcap Value SCOVX
Wells Fargo International WIEVX
•Roth IRA is in a brokerage account with access to any stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs.

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Question 1196014: The simple interest rate of 12% corresponds to a discount rate on a loan of R100 for one Year equaling:
A) 13.64%
B) 10.71%
C) 12.00%
D) 13.44%
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Question 1196024: Please help with the homework
1. If the simple interest rate of 12% corresponds to a discount rate on a loan of R100. For one year equaling to what?

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Question 1196009: Refer to the graphs. Assume that pizza is measured in slices and beer in pints. In which of the graphs is the opportunity cost of a pint of beer the lowest? There are four graphs. Graph A has points (0,8) and (5, 0). Graph B has points (0, 5) and (8,0), graph C has points (0, 1.25) and (2.00, 0), and graph d (0, 10) and (10,0). The "x" axis represents beer and the "y" axis represents pizza.
My work: I tried to add extra points on the graph to figure it out. Then I tried to compare the graphs and select a graph where there wasn't a wide distrance between the points on the x axis and y axis.
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Question 1196033: Please help me with the homework:
1. Determine the amount or future value of annuity after five payments of R600, each paid annually, at an interest rate of 10% compound annually.
2. Mr Jones decided to save for his son 's higher education, and every year, from the child's first birthday, he deposits R1200,if he receives 11% interest annually from this account, what will be the sum accrued after the child's 18 birthday
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