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Question 515205: a crew consists of 1 apprentice. the crew recieves a check for $8050 for a job they just finished. a journeyman makes 300% of what an apprentice makes and a master makes 250% of what a journeyman makes. how much does each person on the crew earn?
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Question 515211: A crew consists of one apprentice. The crew recieves a check for $8050 for a job they just finished.A journeyman makes 300% of what an apprentice makes and a master makes 250% of what a journeyman makes. How much does each person on the crew earn.
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Question 515609: 20% of what number is 10?
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Question 517449: An issue of Business World featured an article titled �Discovering Hidden Pricing Power.� Sharper Image Company asked for and received a discount from its suppliers. The discount was in the form of a $750 rebate. If Sharper Image Company placed an order of $7,650, what percent discount did they receive
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Question 517461: John earned $85 per week. This was 45% of what he had in the bank. How much did he have in the bank?
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Question 517458: A company estimates that 98.5% of its living grass pugs survive during shipping. If a customer orders 2200 plugs, how many should be shipped?
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Question 517982: 2.8 million,2.1 million,2.75 million, 5.25 million, 3.7 5million find percentage with 360 because i have to graph it in a pie graph
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Question 518251: A lawn bench price at $523.89 was just discounted 10%. Then an additional 4% discount is added for paying cash.If you pay with cash, what will the bench cost you after the discounts are applied? B. If there was a 20% mark-up from the wholesale cost to get the price of $523.89, what was the wholesale cost or the cost to the dealer?
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Question 518456: Sixty percent of 190 cats had litters of 4 kittens. 60 cats only had two kittens and the rest had a litter of three. (10 pts)
A. How many cats had a litter of 4 kittens?

B. What percent of the cats had a litter of two kittens?

C. How many cats had a litter of three kittens?

D. What was the total number of kittens born?

E. Calculate the average kittens per cat.

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Question 518337: i have 87 grams , 43 grams, and 35 grams. i am tring to recalculate each of those numbers into a percentage to total 100 percent.
thanks for trying to help
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Question 518666: 68 is what percent of 98.2?
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Question 518989: What percent discount would you have gotten if the actual price of an item was $16.95 and you paid $15.96?
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Question 518989: What percent discount would you have gotten if the actual price of an item was $16.95 and you paid $15.96?
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Question 519293: COLORADO HAS A SALES TAX RATE OF 5%. AFTER TAX, I PAID 140.25 FOR A COAT. HOW MUCH TAX DID I PAY?
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Question 519371: add 98/10+2/10
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Question 519677: A dvd player usually sells for $225 but is discounted 20 % . What is the sale price ?

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Question 519841: 1.5 is 6% of what number???
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Question 520197: A jewelry store is having 30% off regular price sale. Find the sale price of a ring priced at $1350
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Question 521171: twenty-four students were asked to name their favorite pizza topping. of those 24, six said "sausage". if a circle graph were to be made of their responses, how many degrees would be in the part marked "sausage"?
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Question 521548: 40 pounds is what percent of 20 pounds
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Question 521887: Alma is shopping for a T-Shirt at a store that advertised "15% off on everything in the store."The regular price of the T-shirt was $16.00. It was on sale for $14.00.Was the sale price correct?
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Question 522056: How do you work out percentages in reverse? For example I have an amount of 5000 which is 60% percent of the total figure... how do I determine the 100% figure?
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Question 522309: Well Hello,
Mr. or Ms. well hey my Names Dayanne i am in 8 th grade trying to learn algebra. Tryijnng to Improve my grades. Can you please help me by showing me some problems and solutions that i Can understand it?
Thankyou. for reading this as well.. if you dont respond its ok i guess just trying to find help..
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Question 522876: if Rs750 amounts to rs 885 in three years at simple interest, what will be rs.1200 amount to in 3 1/2 years? (the rate is the same in both cases)
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Question 522883: if a certain amounts to rs.44,000 at 5% p.a over 2 years, how much will it amount to be ub 3 years at the same rate?
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Question 522878: the simple interest on a certain sum for 3 1/2 years at 7% p.a is rs.225 more that the simple interest on the same sum for 4 years at 5% p.a find the sum
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Question 522879: a certain sum of money doubles itself at simple interest in 8 years. in how many years will it be three times at the same rate?
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Question 523023: shanta got 215 marks in an examination. If she had got 10 marks more, she would have scored 60% of the total marks. What are the maximum marks for the examination
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Question 523020: a broker takes 2% as commission for the sale of property of value upto Rs.3,00,000. if the sale price is more that this, the broker charges 1.5% for the remaining amount. If a property was sold for rs.4,50,000, what was the broker's commission?
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Question 523238: Two table were sold at rs.990 each, one at a profit of 10%. What are the cost prices of each of the tables? In this sale, did the seller make a profit or loss? What is the percentage of profit or loss? ( Hint: In the first case, 110% of cost price is 90% of cost price is 990)
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Question 523239: By selling a watch for rs.1275, javed lost 15%. At what price should he sell to kae a profit of 10%
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Question 523239: By selling a watch for rs.1275, javed lost 15%. At what price should he sell to kae a profit of 10%
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Question 523237: A shopkeeper increased the price of a cycle by 15%. The increased price was Rs. 1, 610. What was the original price
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Question 523236: The cost of transistor decreases from Rs.400 to rs.380. What is the percentage of decrease
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Question 523235: The price of 5 kg of sweets was rs.180. The price has gone up such that the price of 4 kgs of sweet is now rs.180. What is the percentage increase in price?
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Question 523662: 43.2 is what percent of 108
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Question 523670: At a sale, a suit is being sold for 33% of the regular price. The sale price is $184.80 .
What is the regular price?

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Question 523727: i have to put data into excel and make a pie using percentage on how many hours spent a week using the online classes, phone, email, chat, social networking a
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Question 524008: A sweater cost a dealer $32.00. At what price should he mark the sweater so he can give a discount of 25% and still make a mark-up profit of 20%? What is the final price if there is a 5% sales tax?
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Question 524270: ok I have this word problem that I have been struggling on forever, Its in a college math book for teachers. Here it is: The total value of any sum of money that earns interest at 9% doubles every 8 years. What amount of money invested now at 9% per year will accumulate to about $120000 in about 40 years?
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Question 524333: Elena's daughter sold 69 boxes Girl Scout cookies. She was told that this amount represented 23% of the troop's sale. How many boxes did the troop sell?
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Question 524890: By selling a pen for rs.165, mukti gains 10%. If she had sold it for rs.157.50, what percentage would she have lost or gained?
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Question 525992: 126 is 15% of what number?
31 is what percent of 248?
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Question 526609: what is the original price of a pair of shoes if the sale price is 24$ after a 20% discount
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