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Question 937100: In five days, a store took in sales of $320, $280, $285, $375 and $345. What is the average sales for the days listed.

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Question 937100: In five days, a store took in sales of $320, $280, $285, $375 and $345. What is the average sales for the days listed.

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Question 937118: How long would it take me to earn 139.50 of interest at a 6% interest rate if I started with 930.00
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Question 937052: Find the present value of the ordinary annuity.
Payments of $2800 made annually for 25 years at 7% compounded annually
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Question 937162: $ 2000 was deposited into an account that pays simple interest at a rate of 3% per year. how much interest will be paied in the first 2 years. please help me figure this out.
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Question 937213: If I were to deposit $4500 a year (for 49 years) into a savings account with an interest rate of 5%. How much would I have saved after 49 years?
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Question 937225: An investment of $2500 is made at an annual simple interest rate of 5.5%. How much additional money must be invested at an annual simple interest rate of 8% so that the total interest earned is 7% of the total investment?
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Question 937247: A woman has $5,000 invested at 8% annual interest. At what rate must she invest an additional $10,000 so that her annual income from both investments is 9% of her total investment?
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Question 937408: A shop offers a discount of 5� in the $1 how much discount will be allowed on a washing machine costing $850
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Question 937442: If y-intercept of the equation y=3x-2 is changed to -5, which statement best describes how the graph will be affected
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Question 937442: If y-intercept of the equation y=3x-2 is changed to -5, which statement best describes how the graph will be affected
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Question 937405: you put $1500.00 in a simple interest savings account. Two years later the total account balance is $1665.00. What will be the total amount of money in the account after 8 years

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Question 937481: Suppose that you and 3 friends bought equal shares of an investment for a total of $32,000 and then sold it later for only $31,480. How much did each person lose?
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Question 937485: If 3/4 lb. of candy cost $20.50, how much would 1 lb. of candy cost.
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Question 937484: If 3/4 ib. of candy cost $20.50, how much would 1lb. of candy cost.
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Question 937516: Carl bought a backpack with a $82 gift card. The backpack was $x off and the sales tax added $4 to the cost (C). The original price of the backpack was $20.

C = (20 - x) + 4
Remaining money on gift card = 82 - C

Determine how much money Carl has left on the gift card in terms of x.
how do i figure out x?
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Question 937602: Joshua is one-third as old as his father who is three years older than his mother. When Joshua was born the sum of the ages of his father and mother was 53. How old is Joshua now?
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Question 937606: Joshua is one-third as old as his father who is three years older than his mother. When Joshua was born the sum of the ages of his father and mother was 53. How old is Joshua now? ( answer is 14 - show your solution )
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Question 937616: Gold coin is usually 90% gold and 10% copper. How many ounces of pure gold (24K) must be added to 24 ounces of a 14 carat (58.33% pure), gold ring to make an alloy of gold coin?
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Question 937620: Gold coin is usually 90% gold and 10% copper. How many ounces of pure gold (24K) must be added to 24 ounces of a 14 carat gold ring to make an alloy of gold coin? ( answer is 76 - show your solution )
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Question 937623: If Larry rents a compact car for five days at $16.00 per day and travels 1,200 miles at $0.12 per mile, find his total rental cost.
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Question 937623: If Larry rents a compact car for five days at $16.00 per day and travels 1,200 miles at $0.12 per mile, find his total rental cost.
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Question 937682: A car salesperson is paid a base salary of $1000 per month plus an additional amount of money for each car she sells. she sold four cars last month and received an additional $600. what is the algebraic expression to the problem?
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Question 937736: Nadia has a summer job in an electronics store. She is paid $400 per week, plus 5% commission on the total value of her sales.
Nadia's average earnings are $780 per week. What is the average value of her weekly sales?
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Question 937760: Calculate the�amount of interest�on�$4,000.00�for�1 year, compounding�daily�at�4.5 %�APR.
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Question 937878: I have $480.00 in ones, tens and fives. I have the same amount of each bill. How many dollar bills do I have?
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Question 937996: A loan of $40,000 is made at 4.75% interest , compounded annually after how many years will the amount due reach 80,000
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Question 938090: How much money will there be in an account at the end of 7 years if $3,000 is deposited at 6% compounded quarterly?
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Question 938082: compute the amount earned on $100,000 invested at 3.26% APR in one year if compounding is taking place daily
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Question 938120: Sales total is $132.39; customer pays $25 with a gift card and gives you seven $20 bills. How much is their change?
If you have 9 pennies, 20 nickels, 100 dimes and 15 quarters? How much money do you have?
Your sale comes to $59.99 and the customer pays you $100.00. How much change do you return to the customer?
Customer Purchases 3 pairs of socks at 9.99(29.97) and pays with 2 $20�s what is their change?
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Question 938383: Members of the senior class held a car wash to raise funds for their prom. They charged 5 dollars to wash a car and 5 dollars to wash a pick up truck. If they earned 441 dollars by washing 75 vehicles how many of each type of car did they wash?
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Question 938351: A deposit of 9000 euros is put into an account earning interest at the annual rate of 8% a) with
interest paid quarterly; b) with interest compounded continuously. How much will there be in the account
after 9 years?
Thank you
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Question 938432: Find the net price of a ring that lists for $316.50 if a discount rate of 15% applies.

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Question 938481: Suppose you recieve an inheritance of 5000 and invest it at 5% interest, compounded continuously. The equation C(x) = 5000e^0.05x can be used to model this investment, where x is the number of years your money is invested and C(x) represents the amount of money you have
A. How much Will you have in 5 years
B. How long Will it take for your money to double

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Question 938542: How long to pay a debt off of 8100.00 at 451.00 a month?
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Question 938653: Violet knows that her subscription rate for cable increased from $18.20 to $19.50 at some point during the calendar year. She paid a total of $230.10 for the year to the cable company. Determine the month of the rate increase.
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Question 938730: Please help me to answer this problem. Thank you so much.
Problem:
Mr. Santos won P150,000.00 from the lottery. He distributed 27% to his three children, he will use P50,000 as downpayment for his new car and the remaining he deposited to the bank.
Here are the following questions:
a. How much did each of children get?
b. How much went to his savings? What percent of the total went to his savings?
c. What percent went to his new car?
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Question 938738: When a number is decreased by 30% of itself, the result is 126. What is the number?
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Question 938744: he can only spend $300, what is the inequality of the amount of the money,m, that he can spend
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Question 938820: Robert deposited $2,300 into an empty bank account at an interest rate of 3.25% per year.
How much simple interest will Robert earn after 4 years?
a $707.69
b $299.00
c $313.89
d $74.75
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Question 938819: Holy brought several shirts and pants from H&M. The number of shirts bought was 2 more than the number of pants she bought. Shirts cost $12 each, and pants cost $20 each. The total cost of all the clothes was $98. How many shirts and pants did Holy buy? ( create let statements and two equations to solve for each variable)
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Question 939028: A cleaning company charges a fixed amount for a house call and a second amount for each room it cleans. The total cost to clean 6 rooms is $250 and the total cost to clean 8 rooms is $320. How much would this company charge to clean two rooms?
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Question 939027: The zoo sold tickets at a special rate on Mother�s Day weekend. 8,400 tickets were sold over the course of Saturday and Sunday. Adult tickets were reduced to $6.00 and children�s tickets to $4.00. Ticket sales for the weekend totaled $40,000. How many adult tickets and children�s tickets were sold over the weekend?

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