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Question 1147406: PLEASE HELP ME SOLVETHIS: If A Trader Gains 15% by Selling An Article For $1560.00, What Is The Cost Price
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Question 1147408: Kevin has just inherited $50000. He is going to invest it and use the interest he earns to pay for private schooling for his children. It costs $4300 per year to send his children to the local Christian school. Kevin has found two investment accounts that he likes, one pays an annual interest of 5.4% and the other pays 12.2%. How much should Kevin invest(to the nearest penny) in each account so he earns as close to $4300 per year as possible?
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Question 1147521: Ryan, Dylan, and Jordan got paid $240 for mowing neighborhood lawns. They split the money in the ratio 5:9:10. how much less did ryan make from Dylan
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Question 1147579: What is 60% of 90
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Question 1147579: What is 60% of 90
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Question 1147807: There are 3 milliliter of compound A used for every 4 milliliter of compound B. If a chemist wants to make 644 milliliter of drugs how many milliliter of compound A are needed
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Question 1147880: In a class of 25 pupils , 3/5 are boys. How many girls are there ?

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Question 1147880: In a class of 25 pupils , 3/5 are boys. How many girls are there ?

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Question 1148005: The denominator of the fraction is 2 more than the numerator. If 1 is subtracted
from the numerator and 2 is added to the denominator the numerator becomes half
of the denominator find the fraction.
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Question 1148007: Distribute Rs 210 between two persons such that one sixth of one person is 2 more than the one fifth of the second person. Find the share of each person
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Question 1148009: At a football match,there were 250 more men than women.The number of children was twice the number of women,and the number of men was twice the number of women and children combined.How many people were at the match?
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Question 1148008: There are 5 more pigeons than twice the parrots in a cage of 50 pets.if 5 birds of each are adopted then pigeons becomes double than the parrots. Find the numbers of pigeons and parrots in the cage.
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Question 1148010: there are 5 more pigeons than twice the parrots in a cage of 50 pets if 5 birds of each are adopted then pigeons becomes double than the parrots find the number of pigeons and parrots in the cage
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Question 1148041: The ratio of kids to adult at a school festival is 11:7. Suppose there are a total of 810 kids and adults at the festival. How many adults are at the festival?

I tried doing it this way
11/7 = 810/×
I then get 5670/11
My final answer is 515.45
It's wrong please help me find my error
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Question 1148071: The denominator of a fraction is three more than twice the numerator. If both numerator and denominator are decreased by five, the simplified result is 25. Find the original fraction. (Do NOT simplify.)
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Question 1148162: In a park, the ratio of adults to children is 15 to 7. If there are 374 people in the park, how many children are there?
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Question 1148162: In a park, the ratio of adults to children is 15 to 7. If there are 374 people in the park, how many children are there?
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Question 1148168: Jessie recently drove to visit her parents who live 552 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 20 miles per hour faster than on her way home (she ran into some bad weather). If Jessie spent a total of 23 hours driving, find the two rates.
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Question 1148281: If a certain recipe takes 1 and one third
c of flour and 5 c of milk, how much milk should be added if the cook only has 1 c of flour?
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Question 1148684: a vendor brought pineapples Rs.35 each , 1/5th of them were spoiled,1/4th were donated while the rest were sold.
Q1)fraction of pineapples donated from the whole stock?
Q2)fraction of pineapples sold from the whole stock?
Q3)if by bringing pineapples each Rs.70 he obtained a total of Rs.1470 ,how many pineapples did he bring?
Q4)what profit did he obtain from the above business?
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Question 1148762: Find a fraction such that if 3 is added to both numerator and denominator is equal to 2/3. But if 7 is added to both its numerator and denominator, the fraction is equal to 3/4. (use x and y variables and show full solutions please, thanksss!)
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Question 1148757: Find a fractin such that if 3 is added to both numerator and denominator is equal to 2/3. But if 7 is added to both its numerator and denominator, the fraction is equal to 3/4. (use x and y variable and show a full solution please?, thanksss!!)
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Question 1148782: Matthew manages the packaging department of his company. Yesterday, the department operated for only 4 hours due to a company picnic, and they only completed 112 packages. Today, his department will complete 43 packages per hour. If Matthew wants to complete packages at an average rate of at least 39 packages per hour, then what is the minimum number of hours that the department must operate today to compensate for yesterday's company picnic?

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Question 1148844: The ratio of Mona's savings to Timmy's savings is 4:7. If Mona has PhP 640.00, how much money do they have altogether?
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Question 1148844: The ratio of Mona's savings to Timmy's savings is 4:7. If Mona has PhP 640.00, how much money do they have altogether?
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Question 1148905: A pancake recipe calls for milk to flour to sugar in a ratio of 3:2:1. Pancakes are being made for a large group and there is 7 cups of flour available, houw many cups of sugar and milk are need to follow the recipe and use all the flour?
Thank you
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Question 1148985: Is 3/5 less than 60%?
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Question 1148986: A local pizzeria is offering two deals:
1)buy one pizza for $24.99 and get the second
Pizza for 40% off.
2) buy two pizza for $18.00 each.
a) which is the better deal?

b)calculate the final bill for the better
Deal,with taxes.(5%GST AND 8%PST)
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Question 1149002: The price of a flight was increased by 2% to £700. What was the price before the increase?
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Question 1149169: how many litres of a 68% alcohol solution must be added to 54 litres of a 38% alcohol solution to produce a 53% alcohol solution?
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Question 1149169: how many litres of a 68% alcohol solution must be added to 54 litres of a 38% alcohol solution to produce a 53% alcohol solution?
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Question 1149273: Assume that you are rolling two fair dice. What is the probability that the total showing is greater than 10? Leave as a reduced fraction.
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Question 1149398: The admission fee at an amusement park is $4.00 for children and $7.20 for adults. On a certain day, 298 people entered the park, and the admission fees collected totaled $1544. How many children and how many adults were admitted?
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Question 1149399: The numerator of a fraction is larger than its denominator by 4. If we add 1 to its denominator, the fraction becomes 3/2 find the fraction

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Question 1149412:
There are 1400 students in a school. 49.5% of them are male. How many are female?
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Question 1149441: Q.) A, B and C bought apples in the ratio 5:3:2. If the difference
of apples between A and C is 60, find the difference between B
and C.
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Question 1149452: Ravi is 19 years older than his cousin.after 5 years,their ages will be in ratio 2:3. Find their present ages
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Question 1149452: Ravi is 19 years older than his cousin.after 5 years,their ages will be in ratio 2:3. Find their present ages
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Question 1149657: Out of a total of 400 students in a school, 245 of them wear glasses. What percent of the students in the school wear glasses?
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Question 1149657: Out of a total of 400 students in a school, 245 of them wear glasses. What percent of the students in the school wear glasses?
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