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Question 1154992: A fax machine that regularly sells for $203.13 is on sale for 33 1/3% off the regular price. Find the sale price.
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Question 1154992: A fax machine that regularly sells for $203.13 is on sale for 33 1/3% off the regular price. Find the sale price.
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Question 1154992: A fax machine that regularly sells for $203.13 is on sale for 33 1/3% off the regular price. Find the sale price.
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Question 1154969: There were 240 passengers on the plane 3/8 were women and 4/8 were men how many children were there on the plane
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Question 1154975: Read the table. Write all the ordered pairs of cost to pounds. Then
write the ordered pairs of pounds to cost.
Cost $4.50 $7.50 $10.50 $13.50 $16.50
Pounds of Oranges 3 5 7 9 11

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Question 1155131: Eighty senators voted on a bill to allow unattended pets to enter supermarkets and shop for their own food. The bill passed by a ratio of 7 to 3.
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Question 1155250: There is an 8% tax in the town where the store is located. What is miguel’s total cost after sales tax has been added?

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Question 1155271: If 135:42:y=3:5 evaluate y. Amadou is 12 years old and maimuna is 15 years old. Express amadou's age in ratio form and simplify your answer
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Question 1155526: A person borrows $10,000 at a 10% simple interest rate for 1/2 year. How much simple interest / in dollars is owed on the loan at the end of 1/2 year?
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Question 1155528: Don Glover borrowed $18,000 for 210 days and paid $702.80 in simple interest on the loan. What annual simple interest rate did Don paid on the loan? (Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a percent)
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Question 1155529: Capital City Bank approves a home-improvement loan application for $13,000 at an annual simple rate of 9.25% for 240 day. What is the maturity value of the loan?
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Question 1155532: Hector Elizondo took out a 65-day loan of $7500 at an annual interest rate of 5.5%. Find the simple interest due on the loan. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 1155533: Kristi Yang borrowed $18,000. The term of the loan was 60 days, and the annual simple interest rate was 7.1%. Find the simple interest due on the loan. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 1155673: Barbara works for Real Realtors. Monthly she receives a commission of 3% of her total sales. Last month she sold two properties and her commission was $9600. The first property sold for $40,000 less than twice the second. What was the sale price of each property?
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Question 1156010: There are 225 candies in a box. The candies are hershies, goya and munchers in terms of brands. If 20% of the candies are hershies, 1/15 of the candies are goya. How many candies are munchers?
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Question 1156067: A recipe for fruit punch calls for juice to soda water ratio of 3:2
the ratio of fruit juices is 1:3:2 for grape to apple to raspberry.
if diana starts with 4 Litres of raspberry juice, how many litres of grape juice and apple juice and soda water should she add?
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Question 1156115: A bag contain 100,50,and 40 currency note.the 100 and 50 currency note are in 2:5 ratio and the 50 and 10 currency note are in the ratio 4:9.if the total amount is 11250. Find the number of currency note of each type
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Question 1156331: The number of supporters of two teams at a football match are in the ratio of 5:3. Calculate the number of supporters of the smaller team as a percentage of the number of supporters of the larger team.

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Question 1156348: A recipe uses 6 cups of flour to 1 1/10 cups of milk if you have 2 cups of flour how much milk should you use
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Question 1156483: In a zoo, the ratio of adults to children is 3 to 9. If there are 96 people in the zoo, how many children are there?

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Question 1156483: In a zoo, the ratio of adults to children is 3 to 9. If there are 96 people in the zoo, how many children are there?

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Question 1156511: 180 chocolates are shared by Anna and Sara in the ratio 2:3. How much chocolate does each girl receive?
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Question 1156580: In a church choir the ratio of males to females is 2:3. On one Sunday service ten male members were absent and six new female members joined the choir as guests for the day. If on this day the ratio of males to females was 1:3, how many regular choir members does the choir have?
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Question 1156593: For every pound a company spends on advertising, it spends £0.49 on its website. Express the amount spent on advertising to its website as a ratio in its simplest form.
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Question 1156689: A club has money for a trip
The expenses for the trip are shown below
Lunches ¼
Tickets ⅖
Snacks 0.12
Transportation 20%
What fraction of the money is left over show your work

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Question 1156799: A rectangular fuel tank whose dimensions are 60 inches long, 30 inches wide, and 12 inches deep contains___ cubic inches, ___ cubic feet, and will hold ___ U.S. gallons.
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Question 1156780: 2043000.0 rounded to whole person

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Question 1156804: A 4-cylinder aircraft engine has a bore of 3.78 inches and a stroke of 4.5 inches. Its total piston displacement is ___ cubic inches.
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Question 1156803: A brake master cylinder having a base of 1.5 inches and a stroke of 4 inches displaces___ cubic inches of fluid when the piston travels its full stroke.
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Question 1156795: Mr. B invested $250,000 in two different auto companies. the first earned a 5% profit and the second earned a 10% profit. If Mr. B made 3 times as much profit from the 10% investment as he did from the 5% investment how much did he invest in the company that made 5%?
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Question 1156864: after a 70% reduction you purchase a dryer on sale for $240. what was the original price of the dryer
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Question 1156864: after a 70% reduction you purchase a dryer on sale for $240. what was the original price of the dryer
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Question 1156982: When a number is increased by 2.8%, the result is 56. What is the original number to the nearest tenth?
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Question 1157117: Jessie recently drove to visit her parents who live 552 miles away. On her way there her average speed was 14 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 1157109: National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) statistics show that for every 75,000 high school seniors playing basketball, about 2250 play college basketball as first-year students. Write the ratio of the number of first year students playing college basketball to the number of high school seniors playing basketball
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Question 1157207: A crew of 2 could put siding on a house in 30 hours. Another crew of 3 could do the same job in 24 hours. How long would it take all 5 people working together?
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