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Question 986767: Painter A charges $376 plus $12 per hour and Painter B charges $280 plus $15 per hour. In how many hours will they cost the same?
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Question 986872: You invest $1 in a mutual fun every eight years your money doubles if you don't add more money which expression shows how much your investment is worth after 48 years 1 to the power of 48,b.1�2�2�2�2�2 c.1+2+2+2+2+2+2 d.1�2�2�2�2�2�2
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Question 986879: helen earns $45 per hour and she works 37.50 hours per week.how much does she earn per year?
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Question 986812: 15% of customers order hot fudge sundaes. 40% of those want whipped cream. What percentage of customers ordered hot fudge sundaes without whipped cream?
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Question 987007: A Johnson motorboat goes 5 miles upstream in the same time it requires to go 7 miles downstream. If the river flows at 2mph, find the speed of the boat in still water.

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Question 987086: An account is opened with an initial deposit of $6500 and earns 3.6% interest compounded semi-annually. What will the account be worth in 20 years?
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Question 987080: Place a half-dollar, a quarter, and a nickel in position A. Try to move these coins, one at a time, to position C. At no time may a larger coin be placed on a smaller coin. Coins may be placed in position B.
a. How many moves does it take to get them to position C?
b. Now add a penny to the pile and see how many moves are required. This is a simple case of the famous Tower of Hanoi problem, in which ancient Brahman priests were required to move a pile of 64 disks of decreasing size, after which the world would end. How long did it take at a rate of one move per second.
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Question 987075: during the first week of going-out-of-business sale, a store reduces all prices by 20%. The second week of the sale, it reduces all items by an additional $9. If a calculator was bought for $7.00 during the second week of the sale, find the original price of the calculator.
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Question 987153: if you wanted to spend 25% of your monthly salary on entertainment and 56% of the salary on rent, could those amounts be $500 and $950? why or why not?
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Question 987190: The heat required to raise the temperature of a large cup of water(for coffee ) from room temperature to boiling in approximately 100 kj. Express this quantity of heat in kilocalorues. Show your calculations.
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Question 987198: A basketball is inflated to 9.0 psi above atmospheric pressure of 14.7 psi. The diameter of basketball is 10 inches.
A. What is pressure of the air in the basketball, expressed in atmospheres?
B.what is volume(in liters) of basketball? The volume if sphere= 4/3 pie r^3
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Question 987189: A mother wants to invest 1300.00 she invested a portion of the money in a bank which earns 4% the remainder of the savings earns 7% if after one year the interest is 780.00 how much money was invested total
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Question 987177: Help im having trouble. Write a Mathematical model for the problem and solve. A salesperson's weekely paycheck is 15% less than a second salesperson paycheck. The Two paychecks total $1125. Find the amount of each paycheck.

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Question 987236: john pays 30% of his wages in rent. if he earns $660 per week, how much does he pay in rent?

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Question 987257: You have just won $150,000 from a lottery. If you invest all this amount in a tax-free money market fund earning 6% compounded weekly, how long do you have to wait to become a millionaire?
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Question 987266: I have 40000 invested in two accounts, one earns 2.5 simple interest and the other 4 simple interest. The total earned interest is 1330 after one year. How much is invested in the two accounts.
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Question 987343: chris lynch plans to invest $200 into a money market account. Find the interest rate that is needed for the money to grow $1,400 in 18 years if the interest is compounded quarterly.
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Question 987371: Swore 360 inches long is cut into two pieces. One piece is formed into a square and the other into circle. If the two figures have the same area, What are the lengths of the two pieces of wire ?
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Question 987368: 18kg of apples cost $108. How many kilograms of apples can you get with $234?
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Question 987404: Joe Levi bought a home in Arlington Texas, for $140,000. He put down 20% and obtained a mortgage for 30 years at 51/2% What is Joe's monthly payment? What is the total interest cost of the loan? Please work this problem all the way out. Thanks
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Question 987324: The basic hourly rate for a weekly paid worker is $8 and any hours above 40 are paid at $12. tax is paid at a rate of 25% on any earnings above $80 a week. assuming hours worked per week(H) exceed 40,write an expression for net weekly wage in terms of H and then simplify it.
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Question 987418: Linda and Juan went shopping. Linda spent $18 less than Juan.
If we let y represent how much Juan spent, write an algebraic expression for how much Linda spent
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Question 987521: glenn works as a computer salesman earns $400 weekly plus 8% commission on his weekly sales. if he wants to make at least $750 in a week how much his sales be?
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Question 987552: At Garcia's Bike Rentals, it costs $11 to rent a bike for 3
hours. How many hours of bike use does a customer get per dollar?
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It takes 16 pounds of seed to completely plant a 3
-acre field. How many pounds of seed are needed per acre?
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Question 986536: What is the Algebraic Expression for: "the percent change in sales from one month to the next if the monthly sales are s1 and s2 respectively."
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Question 987595: A mixture containing 8% salt is added to be mixed with 4 ounces of a mixture that is 20% salt, in order to obtain a solution that is 12% salt. How much of the first solution must be used?
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Question 987593: Find how much interest $25,000 earns in 4 years in a certificate of deposit paying 4.5% interest compounded quarterly.
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Question 987524: sandra wants to deposit $80 each year for her son.IF she places her deposits in a savings account that pays 6% per year what amount will be in the account in 21 years?
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Question 987712: A cash register contains only 10 dollars and fifty dollars. It contains five times as many as many 10 dollar bills as fifty dollar bills and the total amount is 1800. How many fifty dollar bills are in the cash register?

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Question 987714: The standard width between rails on North American and most European railroads is 4 ft 6 in. Calculate distance in...
a. Centimeters
b. Meters
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Question 987713: a. Convert 4.76 picometre(pm) to �m
b. Convert 25.0 mL to cL (centiliter)
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Question 987716: A concrete pile from a waterfront pier was pulled from the harbor water at Port hueneme,California. It's dimensions were 14 in. � 14 in. � 15 in. (1 in.= 2.54 cm)
a. What is the surface area, expressed in square feet, of a single face of the pile? Exclude the ends of the pile.
b. Determine the total surface area, expressed in square meters, of the pile, including the ends of the pile.
c. How many cubic meters of concrete were used to make the pile?
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Question 987840: An actor invests some money at 6%, and $35000 more than three times three times the amount at 7%. The total annual interest earned from the investment is $38090. How much did he invest at each amount? Use the six-step method.
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Question 987904: You bought a new car for $24,500 in 2005, and the value of the car depreciates by $400 each year. Find a formula for V, the value of the car, in terms of t, the number of years since 2005.
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Question 987913: An account executive deposited $36,000 into two simple interest accounts. On the tax-free account the annual simple interest rate is 2.5%, and on the money market fund the annual simple interest rate is 3.5%. How much should be invested in each account so that both accounts earn the same annual interest?
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Question 988049: A professor wants to supplement her pension with investment interest. If she invests $28,000 at 6% interest, how much more would she have to invest at 9% to achieve a goal of $2,670 per year in supplemental income?

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Question 988058: Chris invested $4,100 into two money market accounts. One account has an interest rate of 3% and the other has a rate of 7%. Total interest earned at the end of the year was $191. How much was invested in each account?
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Question 988183: if the interest charged on $370 for one year is $65, how much interest is charged on $1500 for one year
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Question 988139: Tina purchased 200 beads for $48.00. If she needs to buy 25 more beads, how much will she pay if she is charged the same rate? This needs to be put in a graph form such as
200 ? 25
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48 ? ?
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Question 988160: My loan has a maturity value of $8236.00 and a rate of 2% I invested 7100.00 how long did he leave his money invested?
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Question 988298: Solve the inequality. Express the solution in interval notation.

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Question 988300: A company starts with a customer base of 15 and every month it increase its customer base by 6 new customers without losing any customer, Find the number of customers the company has at the end of one year.
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Question 988296: solve the equation
1/2x-1/3x+5=1/4x
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