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Question 988871: If you have 1600 hundred drivers and you ran all of there MVR report except 45 what percentage are you done.

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Question 988533: during the first semester the ratio of the number of students in art class to the number of students in gym class was 2:7, however the art classes were really small and the gym classes were so large so the principal changed students classes for second semester in second semester the ratio of the numbers of students in art class to the number of students in gym class was 5:4 if 75 students were in in art class second semester how many were in art class and gym class first semester

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Question 988738: Imagine yourself as a manager of a local movie theater clearly you are interested in both feeling your movie theater in reaching a certain level of the revenue Full priced ticket sale for nine dollars each, and discounted tickets so for four dollars each. your goal as a manager of this movie theater is to make $6000 and sell out 800 seat theater how many full price tickets must be sold and how many discount tickets must be sold in order for you movie theater to make $6000 and fill out 800 seats
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Question 989097: My daughter got this question wrong and asked me to see why. When I tried to work the problem out myself, my answer of $719.90 was not listed as correct either. I tried 2/3 + 1/8 = 19/24, convert to .792 then .792 * 3461.04 = 2741.14 and subtract from $3461.04. The correct answer was listed as $721.05. I guess my question is what is the correct way to write out this problem and solve (rounded to the nearest cent per directions).
Patti's monthly pay is $3461.04. Each month she uses 2/3 of her pay for her household expenses and 1/8 for entertainment. She deposits the rest into her savings account. How much does Patti deposit into her savings account each month?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sol'n
3461.04*(1-(2/3)-(1/8))
$721.05
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Question 989156: when 6 new boys were admitted and 6 girls left from the class, the percentage of girls decreased from 68% to 56%. find the original number of boys and girls in the class
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Question 989211: A survey shows that 59% students like hockey whereas 81% likcricket.if x% of the students like both then x can't be
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Question 989246: sophia used 1/3 of an ounce of cheese to make 1/12 of a pound of pizza dough.How many ounces of cheese are needed to make a pound of pizza dough?
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Question 989351: a college of exactly 3000 students, exactly 65 % are male. What is the number of female students?
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Question 989402: 8% of a certain number is 20 the numberis?
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Question 989570: if 7 notepads cost $3.15, what is the unit price of the notepads?
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Question 989579: A 15-pound bag of wildflower seed covers 40 square feet. How many pounds of seed does it take to cover 1 square foot?
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Question 989577: if fabric costs $5.64 per yard, how much would it cost for 1 foot of the fabric?
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Question 989627: a 2/3 foot piece of wood is cut to 7/16 of its original size, what is the size of the new piece of wood?
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Question 989676: In a particular class of 31 students, 9 are men. What fraction of the students in the class are men?
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Question 989762: I plant a mixture of blue plants and red plants in the ratio 3:1 in 20,000sqm bed. Red plants require 900cm2 of ground and blue plants 2100cm2 of ground. How manybof each plant will I require?
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Question 989689: Jack paid $899.10. The regular price was $990. What was the percentage of the discount jack received?
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Question 989866:
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Question 989865: There are 72 boy's and 28 girls what percent are the girls

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Question 990062: In 1980 every student at South High School to exactly 1 of 3 science courses chemistry biology or physics at all but 250 students to chemistry exactly one-half of all the students took biology and exactly 72 physics how many students attended South High School. Year
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Question 990125: The ratio of red jelly beans to yellow jelly beans in a dish is 3:4. If Greg eats 3 red jelly beans and 6 yellow ones,the ratio is 4:5. How many yellow jelly brans were orginally in the dish?

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Question 990181: On a recent exam, 9/10 of the class received 70% or higher. Of the students receiving 70% or higher, 1/4 received 90%. What fraction of all students received 90% or higher.
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Question 990187: 25% of all students in the seventh grade have pets and there are 40 students with pets, How many total students are in the seventh grade?
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Question 990385: 25/15 equals x/54?? Thank you.
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Question 990413: Tom bought 2 5/16 pounds of peanuts and 2.45 pounds of cashews. Which did he buy more of?
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Question 990413: Tom bought 2 5/16 pounds of peanuts and 2.45 pounds of cashews. Which did he buy more of?
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Question 990437: what is seven billion two hundred fifty-four thousand round off to nearest hundred thousands
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Question 990436: dr. bradley paid $21583 for a new car. mr welch paid 694$ dollars less than dr.bradley for his new car how much did mr.welches new car cost

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Question 990434: mrs.holler paid $30 for 6 gallons of milk what was the cost per gallon

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Question 990462: When I know that something costs $1.60 per 1/4. Let's say it's yogurt. How do I write an equation that would calculate the price when someone purchases yogurt with different weight amounts. Thank you for your help
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Question 990732: If a circle's area increases in the ratio 81:49, wthat ratio has the radius increased by?
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Question 990670: on a map with scale 1:100000, the distance between Ipswich and Colchester is 20
cm. What is the actual distance between Ipswich and Colchester?
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Question 990838: The pep club agreed to raise $150. The club actually raised $200. What was their goal?
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Question 990888: A sample of people consists of 45% females. If there are 450 females in the sample how many are males?
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Question 990960: Jalene dropped her bag of marbles. One fourth rolled under her dresser, one sixth rolled under the bed, one third stayed in the bag and 6 rolled out the door. How many marbles did she have?

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Question 991054: Ahmed buys 3/4 kg of sweets. He eats 1/3 of them. What fraction of a kg of sweets has he eaten?
Val buys 8metres of ribbon. She cuts it into 1/4m lengths. How many lengths does she have?
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Question 991093: The body has been divided into three parts. Each part is then expressed as a fraction of the total body height. For example, the torso is 4/15 of the body height and below the waist is 3/5 of the body height. What fraction of the body height is the head?
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Question 991096: If i have 45 children and 9 have red shirts,1 has a brown shirt, 1 has blue, 17 has green and 17 has orange what are the percentages?
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Question 991075: Manish purchased an item for Rs.6500 and sold it at a loss of 30 %. From that amount he purchased another item and sold it at profit of 25%.what is his overall gain or loss.?
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Question 991205: The mystery number is a fraction whose value is less than one. The product of the numerator and denominator is a number cubed, and the sum of the numerator and denominator is a number squared. The difference between the numerator and denominator is a prime number. What is the mystery number?
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Question 991223: Of the 17 students in class 8 play in the band. What fraction of the total number of students in class are in the band
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