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Question 1143765: The manager of a theater wants to know whether the majority of its patrons are adults or children. One day, 5300 tickets were sold and the receipts totaled $38,794. The adult admission is $8.50, and the children's admission is $6.50. How many adult patrons were there?
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Going into the final exam, which will count as two tests, Amelia has test scores of 75,80,70,65, and 92. What score does Amelia need on the final in order to have an average score of 80?
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Question 1143959: A pie chart shows the reading habist of students in a university as shown: more than 8hours daily, up to 6hours daily and 6-8hours daily. What percentage of the students read for over 8hours daily.
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Question 1143958: A pie chart shows the reading habit of student in a university as shown: more than 8hours daily, up to 6hours daily and 6-8hours daily. What percentage of the students read for over 8hours daily.
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Question 1144144: Over the past week, 34 baby boys were born at the hospital. This was 54% of all babies born. How many girls were born over the past week? (Enter numeric value only. If rounding is necessary, round to the nearest whole number.)
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Question 1144175: Two hundred customers came in to the store today and only one hundred of them made a purchase. What percentage of the customers made a purchase today?
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Question 1144432: The price of a pair of trousers was decreased by 22% to $30. What was the original price of the trousers?
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Question 1144792: Find last year salary if after a 3% raise this year salary is 3080
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Question 1144847: Use the information about where I spend my 168 hours in a week to complete the table and to create a pie chart. Round
to the nearest tenth of a percent and then to the nearest whole degree.
Activity Number Percent Degrees
Teaching Class 15
Grading & Office Hours 20
Preparing for Class 10
Sleep 56
Other 67
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Question 1144849: about where I spend my 168 hours in a week to complete the table and to create a pie chart. Round
to the nearest tenth of a percent and then to the nearest whole degree.
Activity Number Percent Degrees
Teaching Class 15

Grading & Office Hours 20

Preparing for Class 10
Sleep 56
Other 67
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Question 1144855: how do i find a degree of something
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Question 1145561: IN a survey, each of 300 students was found to
Own a Car,a Bike,or Both. If 200 of these students
Own cars and 200 Own bikes, how many students
Own Both a Car and a Bike?
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Question 1145604: A ‘team project’ group formed in a college leadership course designed, fabricated and sold dolls of which about 6.5 % were male dolls. During the semester they sold 150 dolls. How many were male (round up to whole number)?

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Question 1145771: 5.1 = radius and diameter ?

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Question 1145771: 5.1 = radius and diameter ?

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Question 1146043: The volume of a sphere is increased by 72.8%. What is the percentage increase in the radius?
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Question 1146548: a cellphone distributor earns a yearly salary of $28,000 plus 17.5% commission on sales, find the total earnings for a year when the sales are $38,000.
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Question 1146971: 5 is what percent of 4?
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Question 1147000: Suppose you work for a large coffee distributor that has a secret coffee blend it sells to local stores. You mix the Tanzanian blend with the Kenya blend, but always in the same proportion. Yesterday, you mixed 90 pounds of the Tanzanian blend with 27 pounds of the Kenya blend. Today, there is 60 pounds of the Tanzanian coffee left in stock. How many pounds of the Kenya coffee should you mix with it to get your secret blend?
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Question 1147002: Sierra needs to rent a car while on vacation. The rental company charges $18.95, plus 17 cents for each mile driven. If Sierra only has $40 to spend on the car rental, what is the maximum number of miles she can drive?
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Question 1147003: A shirt was originally priced at $50. The store is having a 30% off sale.
How much will you pay for the shirt after the discount (not including tax)
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Question 1147685: If you drive 105 miles and use 7 gallons of gas, what is your rate of gas consumption?
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Question 1147688: On Jerry's text messaging phone plan, she paid $0.50 for every 20 messages she sent.
What is the her cost per message? dollars
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Question 1147916: A website sells a dress at £50 and shoes at £43.
The website has an offer:
Buy a dress and shoes together and get
1
3
off the price.
There is also a shipping and handling charge of £7 added at the end, after any discount.
If Ruth buys both a dress and shoes, how much will she actually pay?
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Question 1148011: How much money, invested at an interest rate of r % per year compounded continuously, will amount to A dollars after t years? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
A = 15,000, r = 4.9, t = 4
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Question 1148819: Of the 50 tables in a restaurant, 40% seat 2 people.
The remaining tables seat 4 people.
How many seats are there in the restaurant?

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Question 1149383: By drying tea leaves you can get 4.2% of its weight as tea. What weight of fresh tea leaves do you need to get 46.2 lb of tea?
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Question 1150392: Mrs. Martinez mixes a 90% sugar cinnamon flavored solution with a 95% sugar cherry-flavored solution to make 15 gallons of a new product. The new product is 92% sugar. How much of the cherry-flavored solution did she use?
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Question 1150856: Shop keeper M sells some goods to N makes a profit of 15%. N resells to P at loss of 5%. If P pays dollar 13.11 how much did M pay for the good?
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Question 1151178: Generate a frequency histogram for the variable rent. How many students reported rent in the [500,750) bin (between $500 and $750)? To see the frequency counts for each bin, place your mouse cursor over the bin and StatCrunch will show information about that bin.
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Question 1151308: Emily scored 50% higher than Jack on a test. This means that he scored..
I am guessing if she got a 100, he got a 50. I don't know how to figure out the percentage
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Question 1151735: in 1900 4% of the us population was made up of individuals who were 65 or older while in 2010 this same age group made up about 13% of the population. the proportion of the us population that is 65 years or older increased by what percent from 1900 to 2010
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Question 1151801: My homework is word problems so this is a cut and paste of what it says:
The population of a town increased from 8350 in 2006 to 9950 in 2010,
Find the absolute and relative percent increase.
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Question 1151805: Please help, so confused on how to solve)):
Word problem: On a map, 1.5cm represents 50 miles. If the distance between the two cities on the map is 45cm, how many miles separate is the cites?
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Question 1151795: The sale price of a swimming pool after a 19.5% discount is $1078.70. Find the original list price of the pool.

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Question 1151885: A friend has a 78% average before the final exam for a course. That score includes everything but the final, which counts for 15% of the course grade.
What is the best course grade your friend can earn?
What is the minimum score would your friend would need on the final to earn a 75% for the course?
%

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Question 1152039: A worker's salary was reduced by m%. What is the percent by which the new salary would have to be raised to bring it back to the original amount?
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Question 1152160: Ali is riding on a bike course that is miles long. So far, he has ridden miles of the course. What percentage of the course has Ali ridden so far?

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Question 1152738: In 2014, a country's civilian labor force consisted of 271,011,000 persons. Of this total, 13,117,000 were unemployed. What percent of the country's civilian labor force was unemployed?
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Question 1152791: In 2009 the federal minimum wage increased from $6.55 per hour to $7.25 per hour. By what percentage did the minimum wage increase?
7.55-6.25=$0.7/7.55=0.096*100=9.6%
7.55-6.25=0.7/6.25=0.106*100=10.6%
Are either of these solutions correct? Where am I going wrong?
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Question 1152794: According to the report “Population Distribution and Change: 2000 to 2010” from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. population increased by 27.3 million people from 2000 to 2010. This was a 9.7% increase. According to these figures, what was the U.S. population in the years 2000 and 2010?
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