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Question 236234: I've forgotton how to do this. Could you tell me how to figure this out: if an item costs $21.69 ( a sale price) where the sale price is 73% of the original price, how to calculate the original price?
Can't believe I can't remember (oh yes I do!), after carrying a 4.0 in math for sll of Sr. H.S.!
Jar that memory! Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thank you,
Ruth
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Question 236074: Convert the decimal number to the given base.
68 to base eight

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Question 236335: 2.) Determine the future values if $5,000 is invested in each of the following situations:

a.) 5 percent for ten years
Begin with $100 - - - > 5 percent for 1 year - - > 105
then with each $1 - - - > 105/100 = 1.05 after 1 year
Then for $5,000 it would be 5,000 * 1.05 after 1 year
and then 5,000 * 1.05 * 1.05 after 2 year
for 10 year investment
it would be 5,000 * (1.05)^10 = $8144.475 Ans
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Question 236903: 5.) Determine the present value if $15,000 is to be received at the end of eight years and the discount rate is 9 percent. How would your answer
change if you had to wait six years to receive the$15,000?

13.) a.) what would be the future value of $7,455 invested annually for nine years beginning one year from now if the annual interest rate in 9 percent

6.) assume you are planning to invest $5,000 each year for six years and will earn 10 percent per year. Determine the future valuye of this annuity if your first $5,000 is invested at end of this year.

7.)what is the present value of a loan that calls for the payment of $500 per year for six years if the discount rate is 10 percent and the first payment will be made one year from no? how would your answer change if the $500 per year occurred for ten years?

8.) determine the annual payment on a $500,000, 12 percent business loan from a commercial bank that is to be amortized over a 5 year period.

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Question 237554: another question for y'all
suppose you invest $5000 into an interest-bearing account which compounds at 3% every month. How much will you have in your account at the end of 7 years? I have to use this formula>> S=P(1+r/n)nt-th power. please help and need back asap and if you could show the steps it would be greatly appreciated
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Question 237841: Aplication Problem:
If I have $70,000 to invest. I want to receive an income of $5,000 per year. I have to invest in two accounts:
The first account have a 6% rate and the other at 8.5%. How much I have to invest in each account to earn $5,000 per year?
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Question 237951: I have $200 in the bank it gained 8% how much will it gain in three years?
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Question 238352: how do you find time for simple interest

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Question 239049: 4. The line y=0.15x + 0.79

represents an estimate of the average cost of gasoline for each year. The line
0.11x-y= -0.85
estimates the price of gasoline in January of each year (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2006).
a) Do you expect the lines to be intersecting, parallel, or perpendicular? Explain your reasoning.
b) Use the equations of the lines to determine if they are parallel. What did you find?
c) Did your answer to part b confirm your expectation in part a?

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Question 239008: The Future Teacheers of America Club at Paint Branch High School is making a healthy trail mix to sell to students during lunch. The mix will have three times the number of pounds of raisins as sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds cost $4.00 and raisins cost $1.50 per pound. If the group has $34.00 on the raisins and sunflower seeds, how many pounds of each should they buy?
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Question 239748: you invest $350 that pays a yearly interest rate of 6%
write a formula for an exponential function giving the balance of the account (B) , in dollars , as a function of the time (t) , in years, since initial investment
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Question 240405: a collection of 81 coins consists of nickels and dinmes only and has a value of $5.80 find the number of nickels and dimes in the collection
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Question 240396: suppose $14000 is invested in 2 different funds. Part of it at 4% apr and the remaining portion at 6%apr. the total annual interest earned on the two investments is $720 Find the amount invested at 4% and at 6%?
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Question 240975: A 67,500 estate is to be split amoung four children and a grandchildren. Each children gets the same amount and the grandchild gets half the amount. How much will each recevie?
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Question 241251: i do not understant how to answer this question could i get help please. i need to determine how many years it will take for the two accounts to reach the same balance. 1000 investment with a rate of 5.25% compounded continuously and 800 investment with a rate of 6.25% compounded continously. i got this far
1000e^.0525=800e^.0625
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Question 241276: The present value of an account earning 8 percent interest compounded monthly is $2400. An investor needs the account to be worth $4800 two years from now. How much must he contribute monthly?
i have worked on it and every time i get a wrong answer this is how i set up my problem: FV=PV(1+i)^M
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Question 241422: The amount of land in the US farms may be modeled by F(t)= 115.1(0.9352)^t + 900 million acres. According to the model in what year will the amount of land in the US drop bellow 910 million acres. Could i please get help do not understand how to solve this problem.
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Question 241512: Part of $20,000 is invested at 12% interest. The rest is invested at 8% interest. The total interest fro the two accounts is $1,800. How much money was invested at each rate?
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Question 241645: There were 6 more women on a committee than men. If the committee was made up of 30 people, how many men were on the committee?
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Question 242353: if A's income is 20% more than B's income, how much percent is B's income less than A's income
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Question 242771: 1/3 (3x-6) - 1/5/(x+2) = 12 what is the value of x?
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Question 243840: A car rents for $40 per day plus 22cents per mile. You are on a daily budget of $84. What milage will allow you to stay within your budget?
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Question 244539: What is the profit margin of a product bought for $145.85 and sold for $214.85?
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Question 244865: Ron and Kathy are ticket-sellers at their class play, Ron handling student tickets that sell for $2.00 each and Kathy selling adult tickets for $5.50 each. If their total income for 30 tickets was $105.50, how many did Ron sell ANSWER CHOICES: a. 18 tickets b. 13 tickets c. 19 tickets d. 17 tickets
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Question 244906: John borrows $100. He pays back $6 per week for 25 weeks and $5 in week 26.
What is the interest rate and the APR of this loan?
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Question 245642: n times p equls185 n is a two digit number p is a one digit number. what numbers do and p represent
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Question 246189: ok i need a little help, I just need the equation if possible, that is where I am having the most trouble, once I have the equation I can usually take it from there.
You invested $4000 in two accounts. In the first part of the investment you earned 4% simple interest. on the second part of the investment, you lost 3%. Combining earnings and losses, the annual incomes from these investments was $55. How much was invest at each rate?
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Question 246257:
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Question 246287: If you could please show me the formula, I think I could solve it myself. A teacher has the choice of two investment plans, one at 11% and the other at 13%. If the same amount invested at 13% yields 150.00 more per year, how much does she have to invest?
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Question 246718: When asked, "Do kids regularly carry weapons in your school?" 14,256
students said yes, and 115,336 students said no. With a 95% level of
confidence, find the margin of error (MOE) associated with the sample
proportions. (Give the answer to one decimal place, if needed.)
I have been working on these types problems for two days and cannot get them
to come out right. Sure would appreciate any help you could give in that
area. My problem is with figuring the square root. I see how it is done in the book, but do not know how to enter it into the calculator. Thank you so much.
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Question 246775: your father deposited $2,700 into his savings account when he was 18, and your father is now 50. the intrest rate on his savings account is 6.2 percent. no money has been withdrawn from the account. what is the total amount in your fathers account at this time?
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Question 247779: Suppose that the New England Colonials baseball team is equally likely to win a game as not to win it. If 5 Colonials games are chosen at random, what is the probability that exactly 2 of those games are won by the Colonials?
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Question 247929: Find the amount of money in an account after 8 years if $4800 is deposited at 6% annual interest

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Question 248446: question # 1 : this is for pre-algebra and its front-end estimation
1) 4.60 + 5.53
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Question 248445: this is pre-algerbra I couldnt find it on here but it's front-end estimation
here we go
question # 1:
1) 345 + 682
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Question 248445: this is pre-algerbra I couldnt find it on here but it's front-end estimation
here we go
question # 1:
1) 345 + 682
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Question 248512: A is the set of all the letters of the alphabet and B is the set of vowels. What kind of relationship exists between the two sets? Also, if C is the set of consonants what is the relationship between B and C?
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Question 248511: Use the distributive property of multiplication over addition to rewrite the sum as a product of two factors, where one of the factors is a sum.
2yz - 12y
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Question 248509: Mr. Rivera opened a package of 150 drinking cups for his restaurant. During the day, 47 cups were
used. What fraction of the package of cups was used? Express the result using a simple, convenient
fraction that is close in value to the exact answer.
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Question 248699: A child's coin bank contains $1.52 in pennies and nickels. If the number of pennies is 32 less than 3 times the number of nickels, how many pennies are in the bank?
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Question 248700: The fuel for a gas snowblower consists of 1.3 parts oil to 24.7 parts gas. Determine the ratio of oil to gas in simplest form.
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Question 248728: Find A U B, given A = {5, 11, 2} and B = {11, 2, 100}.
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Question 248802: A child's coin bank contains $1.52 in pennies and nickels. If the number of pennies is 32 less than 3
times the number of nickels, how many pennies are in the bank?
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Question 248729: List all the subsets of S.
S = {0, 1, 2, 3}
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