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Question 1005137: If I took a test and got 20 questions correct, getting 80%. What's the amount of questions on the test?
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Question 1005021: Kasey earns 17% commission on her sales. If Kasey sold $550 worth of shoes, how much money does she earn?

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Question 1005011: if james ran 3 5/12 of a lap and randy ran 1 1/6 of a lap and manny ran a different race and double the laps the other two guys ran. how far did manny run?
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Question 1005000: if mary had 14 1/2 reams of paper and dan used 4 8/10 reams and sue used 6 3/5. how much is left over?
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Question 1005000: if mary had 14 1/2 reams of paper and dan used 4 8/10 reams and sue used 6 3/5. how much is left over?
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Question 1005190: In how much time will the simple interest on a certain sum be 168rupees if it produces 21rupees as interest in 4 months at half the rate
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Question 1005280: A field is 108m by 72m.find the ratio of the length of the field to its width.
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Question 1005470: The window price of a radio is $180. It is sold for $144.Calculate what percentage discount was given
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Question 1005470: The window price of a radio is $180. It is sold for $144.Calculate what percentage discount was given
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Question 1005488: Hi,
I need help with a math problem:
The ratio between the ages of John and David is 6:5. In 7 years time the ratio between their ages will be 7:6. How old are they today?
Thanks for the help.
- E.S.
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Question 1005487: Hi,
I need help with a math problem:
The ratio between the ages of John and David is 6:5. In 7 years time the ratio between their ages will be 7:6. How old are they today?
Thanks for the help.
- E.S.
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Question 1005624: Two thousand people live in business village of which 55% were male. The male population earned 5% and the female population earned 8% on an investment of rs. 50 each. Find the change in the % profit of the village if the ratio of male to female gets reversed the next year and the population remains the same.

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Question 1005751: Joshua decided to make a chocolate shake after school yesterday.He used 2/3 cups of ice cream and1/5 cups of milk .what will the common denominator become.

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Question 1005755: Fracttalier how much more ice cream did joshua use
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Question 1005752: How much more ice cream than milk did joshua use
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Question 1005824: 21/5 + 7/10=
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Question 1005480: There is approximately 1300 students attending McGrath high school and 750 of the students are girls. Calculate the amount of boys attending the school
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Question 1005919: Anne plays tennis for her school. In April, she won 12/20 matches and calculated her winning percentage by dividing the total of wins over the total number of games. Her winning percentage is therefore 60%. In the next 2.5 months she played many more games, winning every single one. Her winning percentage improved to 90%. Her goal was to end the season with a winning percentage of 75% to beat the current school record. How many matches can she now lose in a row and still achieve her goal?
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Question 1006067: The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 3:4.I f there are 42 pupils in class, how many are girls?
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Question 1006076: The mean of marks scored by 30 girls of a class is 44%. The mean for boys is 42%. The mean for the whole class is ?
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Question 1006129: John and Barry divide �720 between them. Barry takes �240. How much does John get and what ratio was the money divided in?
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Question 1006130: A juice is made with water and orange juice in the ratio 5:2. If the total of the juice was 2.1L how much water and how much orange was used
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Question 1006146: The diameter of a circular reservoir is 840 feet .To walk around the reservoir you would walk approximately how far?(Use pi=22/7)
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Question 1006168: 1. A house was bought in 2005 for 153,000. In 2012, it was valued at 128,000. Find the percent decrease in value of the house.
round to the nearest whole number
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Question 1006165: 1. in 2011, a company had 374 franchises in china. this number is to increase to 700 by 2015. What is the percent increase?
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Question 1006166: 1. Last year, the postal service implemented a postage increase for all mail classes. The cost to mail a postcard increased from 23 cents to 37 cents. What is the percent increase?
Round to the nearest tenth
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Question 1006217: the 9/10 students of class 5 was absent and only 3 were present . How many total students are there in class 5
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Question 1006258: A class of 18 students took a math test. Seven students had an average of 90. The other students had an average of 82.
What is the average for the whole class? Round to the nearest whole percent
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Question 1006307: What the ratio of 31 total of 20% use two quantities of the ratio form with solution

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Question 1006311: $ 144 is divided between Jean, Alice and Kevin. Jean gets half as much as Alice and one third as much as Kevin. how much does each of them get
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Question 1006403: Mark had 14 problems wrong on his test. His score was 72% correct. How many problems were on the test?
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Question 1006435: 1. Jayla switches from drinking regular soda to drinking diet soda. If her regular soda contains 125 mg of sodium per bottle and the diet soda contains 75 mg of sodium, find her percent decrease in sodium by switching from regular to diet soda.
Type a integer or decimal
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Question 1006491: four children A,B,C and D divide a bag of sweets. A takes 1/3 of them, B 2/3 th of the reminder and the rest is equally shared between C and D. what fraction of the sweets did C or D get?
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Question 1006520: 1.Holly orders a 12" pizza, but decides that is to much food and changes it to a medium 8" pizza. If the area of the large pizza is 36 square inches and the area of the medium pizza is 16" square inches, what is the percent decrease in the area?
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Question 1006438: 1. in 2011, a company had 472 franchises in china. this number is to increase to 800 by 2015. What is the percent increase?

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Question 1006628: Mr. Cruz had 360 pesos. He spent 1/3 of his money in buying movie ticket. How much money was left?
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Question 1006869: Fred is four times as old as his son,Emeka. If the product of their age is one hundred and forty-four years,how old is fred
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Question 1006966: You have won 3 out of 17 games how many games will you have to win in a row to improve your winning percentage to 90%? The answer is 123 but I don't know how to work the problem out please help .
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Question 1006954: A dealer has �regular� gas worth $1.28 per litre and �supreme� worth $1.44 per L. How much of each must be mine to produce 1500 L

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Question 1006982: The length of a rectangle is increased by 10% and the width is increased by 10%. find the percentage change in area.
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Question 1006865: wahid purchase 8 textbook each costing rs 12 and 4 story books each costing rs 9 find ratio of the amount he spend on two types of books

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Question 1006952: How many litres each of 60% ammonia and 80% ammonia must be mixed to obtain 20 litres of 75% ammonia ?
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Question 1006970: A metal alley is a metal made by blending two or more types of metal. A jeweler has supplies of two metal alloys. One metal alloy is 30% gold and the other is 10% gold. How much of each alloy should the jeweler combine to create 4 kilograms of an alloy containing 15% gold?
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Question 1007045: What percent of 29 is 3
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Question 1007100: If Cynna won 80% of the games and had played 16 winning games, how many total games had she played?
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