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Question 943522: Umaima works at a nearby electronics store. She makes a commission of 14% on everything she sells. If she sells a computer for $422.00 , how much money does umami a make in commission
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Question 943506: The combined blood supply for an average man and woman is 9liters. The average man has 2.4liters more blood than the average woman. How much blood does an average man have? ( answer is 5.7liters - show your solution )
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Question 943573: Shane returned from a trip to Las Vegas with $289.00, which was 70% more money than he had at the beginning of the trip. How much money did Shane have at the beginning of his trip?
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Question 943567: wendy has a part-time job each month,wendy deposited 0.1 of her check in a savings account. after six deposits,she placed an additional $150 in this account. if she now has $900 in saving, how much does wendy usually deposit each month
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Question 943601: After inheriting some money, a woman wants to invest enough to have an annual income of $5,000. If she can invest $20,000 at 9% annual interest, how much more would she have to invest at 7% to achieve her goal?
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Question 943606: Jane saved $3200 in two separate accounts. One account earns 4% annual interest and the other earns 5.2% in annual interest. If her total interest for the year was $140 , then how much was in each account
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Question 943504: Part of a 6,000 investment made a 12% profit. The other part made an 8% loss. The net gain was 400. How much of the investment gained profit? ( answer is 4400 - show your solution )
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Question 943665: During one rating period in 2002,it was estimated that 5.5 million people watched the TV-series-A. If the number of people watching TV-series-A was 25 percent more than the number of viewers watching TV-series-B, how many viewers did TV-series-B have?
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Question 943630: Suppose you are going to need $14,000 in 8 years. If you can get an average of 6.8% APR compounded weekly over that time, how much would you need to deposit now in order to meet your goal?
$ (Round to the nearest dollar and do not use commas.)

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Question 943674: Tp be able to afford the house of their dreams, dave and leslie must clear $128,000 from the sale of their first home. If they pay $780 in closing costs, and 6% of the selling price for the sales commission, then what is the minimum selling price of their first home for which they will get $128,000?
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Question 943695: Eun Kyung and Vy have $35 between them. If Vy has 4 times as much as Eun Kyung, how much does each girl have?
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Question 944106: Paul�s Grocery received 1,000 pounds of onions at $0.11 per pound. On the average, 5% of the onions will spoil before selling. Find the selling price per pound to obtain a markup rate of 200% based on cost
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Question 944074: If today you put $10,000 into an account paying 10% annually, how much will there be in the account after 5 years?

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Question 944243: A student invested 60% of her savings in the stock market. If she invested $3,690, what are her total savings?
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Question 944308: Kelly Smith deposited $8,500 in an account which pays interest at the rate of 8% compounded quarterly. At the end of 3 years, Smith will have?
I know the answer is $10,780.05 , but I don't know how to get to the answer.
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Question 944378: A salesperson's weekly paycheck is 25% less than a second salesperson's paycheck. The two paychecks total $1625. Find the amount of each paycheck. (Round your answers to the nearest cent.)
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Question 944367: if elana has 5 times more money than lina and the total amount they have is $42.00 how do you write this equation out? How much money does elana have and how much does lina have?

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Question 944365: Which coupon should and her used to save the most money on a toy rocket originally priced at $68? Save $25 on an item or take 50% off any item?
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Question 944352: can someone help me please?
Question : If you have a job or allowance, how much do you take home per week?
I put that I make $85.00 a week just from Allowance and my half job.
So the question is : how many weeks would you have to work to pay for Gary's $1200 mistake?
[calculate $1200 � your take home pay amount = answer in weeks]
Weeks for Laptop:
how many weeks would you have to work to pay for your little mistake with the $13 bounced check? You know, that $4300 messup? Weeks for pizza :
Help please thanks

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Question 944526: The sum of two numbers is 18. Express the
product of the numbers as a function of the
smaller number.
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Question 944522: a company pays its sales employees a base rate of $450 a week plus a 4% commission on any sales the employee make. if an.employee makes $1,020 in sales one week , what will be his total paycheck
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Question 944614: if a person invested half of her money at 12% and half at 9% and received 210 interestˏ find the total amount of money invested?
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Question 944592: A bank account starts out with $10. Every month the amount in the bank account is tripled.
Can you help, I need to know the function and how to work it out.
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Question 944869: Sydney this pay 5 percent commission selling furniture her goal is 4000 how much furniture does she need to sale per month

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Question 944872: A company that manufactures bicycles has a fixed cost of $100000. It cost $100 to produce each bicycle. The selling price is $300 pre bike.
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Question 944765: If $6000 is invested at an interest rate of 5% compounded continously determine the balance in rhe account after 2 years. Use the formula A=Pe^rt
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Question 944935: An investment pays 8% simple interest per year. If the investment earns $84 interest in the first year then how much money was originally invested?
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Question 944921: How do I solve a problem that says "If Sonias Skis are $25 less than 3 times her bindings , and she spent $335 in total. How much were the skis
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Question 944936: Dmitri's two student loans total $9000. One loan is at 4.5% simple interest and the other is at 5.5% simple interest. At the end of 1 year, Dmitri owes $447 in interest. What is the amount of each loan.
Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated as I don't know how to solve this problem.
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Question 944964: At the end of the day, mike found that the total cash register receipts at the motel where he works amounted to $2725. This included the 9% sales tax charged. Find the amount of the sales tax.
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Question 945107: suppose your job pays $7.50 an hour. each year, you will be offered a 1.5% raise. how much will you be paid in 3 years?

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Question 945175: 3900 dollars is placed in an account with an annual interest rate of 8.5%. How much will be in the account after 18 years, to the nearest cent?
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Question 945223: Solve for L. P=2L+2W

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Question 945207: How many months are required for $1500 to grow to $1770 at 12% simple interest
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Question 945199: If the sales tax is 3% and the purchase price is 271, what is the amount of tax?
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Question 945267: find the amount in a continuously compounded account where the principal is $1500 at an annual interest rate of 4.5% for 4 years.
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Question 945216: The annual interest on a $9000 investment exceeds the interest earned on an $8000 investment by $103. The $9000 is invested at a 0.7% higher rate of interest than the $8000. What s the interest rate of each investment?

I've done simple interest question but I honesty have no idea what to do with this one.
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Question 945398: A jazz group on tour has been drawing average crowds of 400 people. It is projected that for every $1 increase in the $15 ticket price, the average attendance will decrease by 50. At what ticket price will nightly receipts be $3,000?

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Question 945258: A bank note will be worth $86,500 when it matures in 6 years. If the note pays 3.98% per year compounded continuously, determine how much an individual must pay now for the note. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 945412: a person who is 6 feet tall walks away from a 50 foot tower toward the tip of the towers shadow. at a distance of 32 feet from the tower the persons shadow begins to emerge beyond the towers shadow.. How much farther must the person walk to be completely out of the towers window.?
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Question 945410: you invested a total of $25000 at 3% and 4 1/2% simple interest. During one year, the two accounts earned $9000 . How much did you invest in each account?
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Question 945255: Randy has invested $2400 in a savings account which pays annual interest at 4.03% compounded quarterly. How long will it take for the account to double in value?
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