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Question 250841: find 14% of 40. please explain if you can in steps
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Question 250941: I am having a lot of problems with percentages. please help. 12 is 60% of what number.
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Question 251434: Amy paid 65.21 for a pair of running shoes during a 25% off sale. What was the regular price?
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Question 251300: A man gets a rise of 10% in salary at the end of his first year of service, and further rise of 20% and 25 % at the end of the second and third years respectively, the rise in each case being calculated on his salary at the beginning of the year. To what annual percentage increase is this equivalent?
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Question 251896: explain weather a 150% increase or a 150% decrease is possible.
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Question 251896: explain weather a 150% increase or a 150% decrease is possible.
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Question 251976: What percent of 320 is 180
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Question 252032: Mrs.Jones paid $55.73 over regular price for some clothes because of financing them at 19% for 8 months. How much was the regular price of the clothes?
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Question 252134: I'm trying to figure out the steps of this equation?
9 is what percent of 45
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Question 252302: A survey showed that the ratio of telephones to people in the world was 1 : 8 .of the worlds telephones 0.012% were in Ethiopia . In Ethiopia 0.2 % of the population had telephones . At the time of the survey there were 4000 million people in the world. What was the population of Ethiopia?
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Question 252404: An instrument store gives a 10% discount to all students off the original cost of an instrument. During a back to school sale an additional 15% is taken off the discounted price. Julie , a student at the local high school, purchases a flute for $306. How much dit it originally cost?
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Question 252589: How many year's wold you have to keep an inrtial desposit of
10,000 in a bank account earring 6.25% simple intert to have20,000 at the end of that perioid of timm
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Question 250730: A Sporting goods store a pair of skates for 102. The skates cost the store 68. What percent of increase was this of the original cost?
Choices 50 percent or "33 1/3" percent
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Question 252701: 2/3%of ?=33.3
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Question 252715: what is the total cost in dollars of a $45 shirt with 5% sales tax?
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Question 252715: what is the total cost in dollars of a $45 shirt with 5% sales tax?
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Question 252905: 1. An instrument store gives a 10% discount to all students off the original cost of an instrument. During a back to school sale an additional 15% is taken off the discounted price. Julie, a student at the local high school, purchases a flute for $306. How much did it originally cost?

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Question 252923: Aaron works part time as a salesperson for an electronics store. He earns $6.25 per hour plus a percent commission on all of his sales. Last week Aaron worked 15 hours and earned a gross income of $280.63. Find Aaron�s percent commission if his total sales for the week were $3,250. If necessary, round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a percent.
I am trying to help my daughter catch up on work after being sick and out of school. So please show steps or explain how to solve. This way I can show her how to solve the other similar problems.
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Question 253523: out of 25 students who took a math course only 21 students passed. What was the percentage of the students who passed?
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Question 253514: A television is on sale for 20 percent off If the sale price is 800 what was the original price?
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Question 253682: the sale price of a stove is $600.00. it is 25% off the original price. What is the original price?
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Question 254263: what is .13 as a percent and a fraction
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Question 254577: 2. A customer pays $1,100 in state taxes on a newly purchased car. What is the value of the car if state taxes are 8.9% of the value?
A. $9.765.45
B. $10,876.90
C. $12,359.55
D. $14,345.48
E. $15,745.45
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Question 254818: Blank tapes are selling at 3.50 and are reduced at $1. What is the rate of discount?
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Question 255673: What is the equation of the line that contains the points with (x,y) coordinates (�3,7) and (5,�1) ?
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Question 255673: What is the equation of the line that contains the points with (x,y) coordinates (�3,7) and (5,�1) ?
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Question 255708: The mean of the times it takes a commuter to get to work in Baltimore is 29.7 minutes. If the standard deviation is 6 minutes, within what liits would you expect approximately 68% of the times to fall? Assume the distribution is approximately bell-shaped.
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Question 256017: Luis borrowed $125,700.00 in stafford and plus loans for his 3 years at USc Law school. During the 3 years of school, the loan amount rose to $132,110.70. The annual interest rate is 2.3 % once he has graduated from law school. Luis is required to pay back the loans within 10 years. What is the minimum monthly payment that luis must make ? I'm having problems coming out with the correct answer... Thanks
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Question 256128: I have a budget of �2500 to spend on a holiday. I have done out a list of expenditures but am not sure how to make them into a percentage so that I can draw a pie chart to reflect the amounts. Can you help?
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Question 256198: a package of poster board usually sells for $8.40. This week the package is on sale for $6.30. What is the percent of discount?
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Question 256497: Find the tax on an item if it cost $30 and the tax rate is 8%
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Question 256528: Is there a formula for finding the percent markup.
For example in this problem what would the formula be:
Jane sold a scarf for $24. Her wholesale cost was $10. What
was the percent markup? You can round to the nearest
tenth,if needed.
[what would the formula be for this type of problem]
also, a formula for percent discount would be nice too.
thanks!
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Question 257703: Estimate 39% of 415.
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Question 257698: A retail store has items such that they fall under the categories of clothes, housewares, jewelry, and other. . If the floor space allocated to housewares is 24,450 square feet with a 32.6%.What space is allocated to jewlery with a 18.4%.
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Question 257590: they only give me 1,114,00 and say that its only 1 percent of the whole, and they ask if its 1 percent then how much of that percent would 10,000 be?
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Question 258145: Samantha earned $86.00 after school each week before taxes were taken out. Her employer took 16% of her wages out for tax and social security deductions. How much money was her take-home pay?
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Question 258451: estimate 8% of 62
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Question 258451: estimate 8% of 62
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Question 258644: chris has a basket of apples,40%red, and the rest green apples. there are six red apples ,how many green apples does it contain?
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Question 258757: If Brooke is given a 4% raise which makes her salary &754 a week, what was her salary before the increase?
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Question 258673: Operation MGNT:
Suppose that a company produce 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcaes this week using six workers. In which period was productivity higher?
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Question 259296: Mr. Hernandez had to interview a total of 63
households in his assignment. He has already
finished 28. What percentage of the households
in his assignments has he finished? (Round
your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.)
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