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Question 1036558: If a car is sold for Rs 50000 the profit is 17 percent;what would be profit percentage if sold for Rs 47000?
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Question 1036809: What percent did Sarah score incorrectly if her score was 48 out of 64?
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Question 1037017: If your net income was $1850 and you decide you want to spend 25% of your monthly net income on an apartment. What is your monthly budget for housing?
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Question 1037018: Your yearly income is $33,000, and you net income is $2350 and if you decided to support your favorite charity by donating $50 a month. What percentage of your new net income is this?
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Question 1037015: If you made $3,000 a year in contributions to your retirement account starting at the age of 25, making an average of 8% annual return, how much will you have at the age 65?
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Question 1037038: Your baby is born, and you want to make monthly payments into a college fund over the next 18 years. Your goal is to have $85,000 in the fund in 18 years. Assuming an APR of 5%, calculate how much you should deposit monthly?
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Question 1037036: Your net income is $2350 and you donate $50 a month to charity, with the new net income, you want to take dance lessons, but you don't want to spend no more than 2% of the monthly budget on the dance lessons. How much can you afford to spend?
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Question 1037193: My question is Juan buys a ticket to the Seahawks game for $98, which is a 20% off the regular price. What is the regular price of this ticket?
Thanks for your help!
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Question 1037204: 25% of men in a population are married and 30% of females are married. What percentage of the population is married?
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Question 1037361: if you have 575 apples, and have eaten 228, how many apples do you have to add, and eat, to make it 50% eaten? (not just 1/2 of 575). I think you start it as:
228 +x / 575 +x = 50%. Solve for x. But, I might be wrong.
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Question 1037447: X times 15% = 40.10
What is X
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Question 1037553: If I owe $115 and I get charged 50% late fee hiw much is my balance
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Question 1037663: during a sale a pair of jeans is being sold for 624 pesos. The current price is 20% below the original price. What is the original price of the jeans
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Question 1037666: A Grade 11 class in a certain national high school is made up of 49 students., 4/7 of which are females. How many students in the class are males?
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Question 1037720: What percent of 75 is 30 ?
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Question 1037723: Find the total cost of the wire needed to fence the field if the cost of fencing is $4.05 per meter. one side is 7m and the other side is 120m
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Question 1037721: Mrs smith earns $1,600 per month and saves $400. what percentage of her monthly income does she save ?
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Question 1037721: Mrs smith earns $1,600 per month and saves $400. what percentage of her monthly income does she save ?
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Question 1037941: There is a 20% sale. A boy pays �160 for a tablet in the sale. What was the original price for the tablet?
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Question 1037989: I have a hundred percent then I subtract 8% I then multiply that number by 20% what percentage is that 20% of the hundred so basically what percentage is the 20% from the 98%
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Question 1038073: kimberly bought a bag at dicount of 20%. if the original price of the bag was $150, how much did kimberly pay?
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Question 1038276: I have three questions:
1.The amount of money in a savings account decreases from $340 to $220. Find the percent decrease rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent.
2.Acme Manufacturing's daily production of widgets is 140% of its competition's. If the competition produces 1230 units per day, how much does Acme produce?
3. Grace has 85% of total points possible in her science class. If there are 350 points possible, how many points does Grace have?
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Question 1038325: suraj collections of stamp is 20% less than santa collection.then by what percent is santa collections of stamps is more than suraj?
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Question 1038471: If 3000 is 49%, what number is the remaining 51%? AND what does the equation look like, so that I can use other numbers in the future? Thanks in advance!
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Question 1038423: If you are at 43%, and hand in something worth 65 marks, what would the final percentage be?
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Question 1038811: Amy paid $73.26 for a pair of running shoes during a 20%-off sale. What was the regular price?
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Question 1038868: At a conference, the organizer determined that 32% of the attendees were between the ages of 18 and 29. Since there were 216 attendees in this age range, there were how many
total attendees at the conference.
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Question 1039085: A swimming pool can be filled by 5 pumps working for 2 hrs each. If one of the pumps is non-functional, how much extra time would be required to fill the pool?
a) 20% b) 50% c) 25% d) 100%

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Question 1039461: An insurance agent is paid a salary of 200 and a commission of 3% on all sales over 2000 per month. If his totaly income in a particular month was 550, what was the amount of his salary for the month?
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Question 1039644: The population of a country has been decreasing for several decades. In 1990, the population was about
167167
million people. In 2010, the population was about
159159
million people. Determine the percent decrease in the country's population during this time period.
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Question 1039651: Cecilia wants to know what percent of the seventh-grade students at her school are bilingual. She surveyed a random sample of seventh and eighth grade students at her school. Which of the following best explains why this sample is or is not a representative of the population Cecilia wants to study?
A. The sample is representative, because it is a random sample.
B. The sample is not representative because it is a random sample.
C. The sample is not representative because it included eight grade students.
D. The sample isn't represtative, because it does not include every seventh grade student in the school.
A: I think the answer is A.
B. It's not b because random samples are representative.
C. The eighth grade students dont interfere with her survey.
D. I think it can be D, however I am more confident in A.
Am I correct? If so why not
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Question 1040113: Layla has $30 in a savings account. The interest rate is 5%, compounded annually.
To the nearest cent, how much interest will she earn in 2 years?
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Question 1040306: Jon paid $204 for a coat that was on sale at 15 percent off. What was the original price of the coat?
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Question 1040697: Renee, Susan and Martha will share the cost to rent a vacation house for a week. Renee will pay 40% of the cost. Susan will pay 0.35 of the cost. Martha will pay the remainder of the cost. If the cost to rent the vacation house is $800, how much will each person pay?
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Question 1040815: Tom purchased an electric drill for $280 and later sold it for $350. What percentage profit did he make?
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Question 1040815: Tom purchased an electric drill for $280 and later sold it for $350. What percentage profit did he make?
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Question 1040815: Tom purchased an electric drill for $280 and later sold it for $350. What percentage profit did he make?
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Question 1040867: What is 20% off of $145 and how do I go about solving it on my own in the future.
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Question 1040901: If sam is % richer than Gohar then Gohar is what percent poorer than sam?
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Question 1040902: If 30% of all male students attended the basketball game and 50% of the student population is male, then what percent of the student population are males who attended the basketball game?
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