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Question 795813: I invest $1,400.00 and in 1year I receive $4,800.00 what is my rate of return or %.
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Question 796096: Twelve is what percent of eighty six?
Translate into a linear equation and solve.
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Question 796316: Mohini spends 30% of her salary on house rent,25% on education and 40% on food.Find her salary if she saves Rs 1470 per month
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Question 796415: Pablo needs to make a total of deliveries this week. So far he has completed of them. What percentage of his total deliveries
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Question 796769: 50% of ?=18
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Question 797046: Due to increased mailing costs, the new rate will cost publishers $60 million; this is 13.5% more than they paid the previous year. How much did it cost publishers last year?
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Question 797196: a jacket costs $150 but there is a 20% off sale
a. how much is the discount on the jacket?
b. how much does the jacket cost now?
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Question 797275: Solve for x. 1000 = x + 1/5x. I have tried deducting 20% from 1000 but the math doesn't work out. 1000-200=800. But 20% of 800 = 160 and 800+160=960. In other words if 1000 is say a total that includes a 20% tip, what is the break down of the total prior to the tip and the tip itself?
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Question 797299: there are 12 girls and 15 boys in a classroom. what fraction of the students are boys and I need to know how to find the answer
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Question 797438: In a cafeteria, the ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys was 1:2. When 24 girls
entered the cafeteria, the new ratio of the number of girls to the number of boys became 2:1.
How many pupils were in the auditorium at first?
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Question 797513: In a gym class, the ratio of girls to the total number of students is 3:8 . There are 10 boys in the gym class. How many students are in the gym?
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Question 797516: Calculate what $900 would grow to at 7.5% per year compounded daily for 7 years. (Please use only the following provided
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Question 797969: the ratio of 3 to a number
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Question 798116: 7545 kids visited the the museum. 8/15 is boys how many girls visited the museum?

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Question 798307: � of a class are girls. 5 class members are boys. How many children are there in the class?
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Question 798307: � of a class are girls. 5 class members are boys. How many children are there in the class?
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Question 798418: Calculate what $900 would grow to at 7.5% per year compounded daily for 7 years. (Please use only the following provided Table)
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Question 798454: here is the problem that I am having trouble with

One of the students in your class was absent the day of the test. The teacher announced that the class average for the 24 students who took the test was 75%. After the other student returned and took the test, the teacher announced that the class average had increased to 76%. Explain how you can calculate what the absentee student got on her test.

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Question 798532: 1)how much will 50,000 amount to in 1year and 8 months at 9%pa compounded annually
2)a sum of money was lent for 2 years at 20% compounded annually.if interest is compounded half yearly find the sum (take sum as 100 and find the interest
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Question 798732: Gordon Rosel went to his bank to find out how long it will take for $1,800 to amount to $2,310 at 7.75% simple interest.

Please solve Gordon�s problem.
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Question 798917: Please help me solve this problem.
In a school, 3 out of 7 students are males. If there are 63 students in a class, how many of them are female?
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Question 798960: you invested money in two funds. last year, the first fund paid a dividend of 9% and the second a dividend of 3, and you received a total of $942. this year, the first fund paid a 10% dividend and the second only 1%, and you received a total of $846. how much money did you invest in each total fund?
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Question 799294: There are 65 children in the sixth grade. There are 15 more boys than girls.
How many girls are there in the class?

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Question 799305: Given
Percentage of boys in a class= 70%
number of girls= 540
find the number of boys
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Question 799611: There are 35 students. 8 are wearing green. What percent are wearing green?
Thank you for your help.
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Question 799694: Two inlet pipes can fill an empty swimming pool in 3 days and 6 days, respectively. A pump can empty a full pool in 4 days. How long will it take to fill the empty pool if both pipes are open and the pump is on?
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Question 799765: The final exam in Mr. Matthew's science class has 50 questions. Of these, 14 are true-false, 20 short answer, and 16 multiple choice. What percent of the questions are true-false questions?
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Question 799764: A jacket costs $60.00. The sales tax on the jacket amounts to $5.10. What is the sales-tax percentage rate?
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Question 799762: The price of a $48 sweater is reduced to $45. What is the percent of discount?
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Question 799759: 20% of the students in Ms. Wise's class made an A on the last test. If 5 students made an A, how many students are in the class?
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Question 799767: The Smiths spend 32% of their gross monthly income on rent. If they pay $510 in rent each month, what is the Smiths' gross monthly income?
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Question 799818: "dan's car will go 50 miles on 7 tanks. dan wants to know how fuel efficient the car is. please help by computing the ratio. (round to 2 decimal place)"
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Question 799691: Ed can do a job in 4 days. When Ed and Maymay work together, it would take them 2 1/3 days. How long would the job take Maymay to do the job alone?
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Question 800438: If a fuel storage tank is 35 percent full when there are 280 gallons in it how many gallons can be held when the tank is full?
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Question 800502: Rupesh secures 495 marks out of 750 in his annual examination.find the percentage of marks obtained by him.
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Question 800732: which is grater than in 3/6 and 5/6
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Question 800900: John has thirty-two feet of chain link fence to enclose a play area for his dog. He wants the area in the shape of a rectangle with length two feet more than the width. What should be the length and width of the enclosure? BE CAREFUL; this is not a ratio problem.
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Question 800898: Sue is replacing the wood frame around the rectangular window in her kitchen. The width of her window is eight less than three times the height. The total amount of wood needed to go around the window frame is 272 inches. What is the width and height of the window?
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Question 800206: The product of three numbers is 96. Two of the numbers are 8 and 3. What is the other number?

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Question 801001: Keisha has completed deliveries so far this week. She needs to make deliveries for the week. What percentage of her deliveries has Keisha completed?

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Question 801574: How many possible denominations of $20 and $50 sum up to $510?
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Question 801753: A chocolate chip cookie recipe asks for four and one half times as much flour as chocolate chips. If one and one half cups of flour is used, what quantity of chocolate chips would then be needed, according to the recipe?
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Question 801878: you pour 200ml of water into a litre jug. what percentage of the jug is empty?
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Question 801885: oceanside discounters marked down a $66 wool sweater to $38 what is the markdown percent
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