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Question 1013352: Community gym charges a $50 membership fee and a $55 monthly fee. without gym charges $200 membership fee and a $45 money fee. After how many months will the total amount of money paid to both gyms be the same? What will the amount be?
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Question 1013368: Ms. Alexander has a class of $17 students. She can spend $24 on each student to buy math supplies for the year. She first buys all of her students calculators, which costs a total of $125.36. After buying the calculators, how much does she have left to spend on each student
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Question 1013377: Three children put their money together to buy their parents a gift. They all together have 91 dollars. If the state sales tax is 4%, what is the maximum amount they can spend on the gift?
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Question 1013453: Jane spent N$ 42 for shoes. This was N$ 14 less than twice what she spent for a blouse. How much was the blouse?
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Question 1013472: What would be the yearly earnings for a person with 20000 in savings at an annual interest rate of 23.2%
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Question 1013491: Food bill before taxes $30 sales tax 6.8% tip 24%
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Question 1013491: Food bill before taxes $30 sales tax 6.8% tip 24%
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Question 1013532: If I have $3 dollars saved and I want to double the total amount of money I save every month, what equation can be made from this given information
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Question 1013664: after receiving a 5% pay cut, mario is now earning 10.45 an hour. find is old pay
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Question 1013731: Angela and Josh sell large HDTVs for Bust Buy. Over the past year they sold a combined total of 840 TVs. Assuming Angela sells 3 times as many as Josh, how many TVs did Josh sell?
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Question 1013781: Joe has $4.00 in his piggy bank. He earns $5.00 every week in allowance for washing dishes. How much money will he have in 5 weeks?
Create an equation, table and graph.
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Question 1013905: Damien spends one out of every $5 he earns on food if he earns $85 how much will go towards food

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Question 1013903: Damien spends one out of every $5 he earns on food if he earns $85 how much will go towards food

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Question 1013903: Damien spends one out of every $5 he earns on food if he earns $85 how much will go towards food

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Question 1014034: If you invest $10,000 annual rate of 7% how much interest will you earn after one year
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Question 1013972: When buying an item on hire purchase of an item being sold at $500 you are given to make a deposit of $150 and 12 monthly installments of $50. Calculate how much will you pay in hire purchas?

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Question 1013748: joe invested $5000 part at 11 annual interest and the rest at 13% annual interest if he receives $610 interest at the end of one year how much did he invest at each rate
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Question 1014071: Part of the proceeds from a garage sale was $460 worth of $10 and $20 bills. If there are 10 more $10 bills than $20 bills, find the number of each denomination.
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Question 1014066: A local Computer City sells batteries ($4) and small boxes of pens ($6). In August, total sales were $930. Customers bought 6 times as many batteries as boxes of pens. How many of each did Computer City sell?
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Question 1014134: a taylor sold suit for $8700 there by gaining 15% of the cost what was the cost of the suit?
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Question 1014163: You know that you will need $30,000 for a down payment on a house in 10 years. If your account earns 6% compounded monthly, how much would you need to deposit now to reach your goal?
Round your answer to the nearest cent.
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Question 1014197: if the number of worker that lives in the united states is 40%, what is total number of workers if the remaining number of workers is 150?
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Question 1014126: A T-bill is a type of bond that is sold at a discount over the face value. For example, suppose you buy a 26-week T-bill with a face value of $8,000 for $7,700. That means that in 26 weeks (half a year), the government will give you the face value, earning you $300. What annual interest rate have you earned?
Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.
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Question 1014256: You decide to invest some money in two different money markets. One account (a) pays 3% interest. The other account pays 2% but offers $20 bonus.write an expression for each account to determine interest and bonus you woul earn in two years. Use y to represent interest and bonus and x to represent the principle invested

Y=x(.03)(2)=6
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Question 1014196: if you spent 65% of your nature time reading how much time do you have if you spent 13hours reading
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Question 1014330: Jim Smith has two options in buying a DVD. He could pay cash of $225 or $30 down plus 15 monthly payments of $19. If he pays cash, how much does he save?

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Question 1014332: Shelly is shopping for laundry detergent,mustard,and canned tuna.She is trying to decide which of two products is the better buy. Using the following information, can you help Shelly?
Laundry detergent A $2.00 for 37 ounces
Laundry detergent B $2.37 for 38 ounces
Mustard A $.88 for 6 ounces
Mustard B $1.61 for 12 1/2 ounces
Canned tuna A $1.09 for 6 ounces
Canned tuna B $1.29 for 8 3/4 ounces
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Question 1014371: Word Problem:
A movie theater charges $7.50 admissions for and adult and $5 for a child. If 700 tickets are sold on a particular day and the total revenue received is $4500, how many tickets of each type are sold?
I need to make an equation and then solve it.
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Question 1014369: During a sale, the original price of a dress, P, was reduced by 20 percent. The sale price of the dress was then increased 10 percent to its current price. Which of the following expressions represents the current price of the dress?
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Question 1014533: Suppose you are looking to buy a $10,000 face value 13-week T-bill. If you want to earn at least 4% annual interest, what is the most you should pay for the bill?
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Question 1014534: A loan company charges $20 interest for a two-month loan of $325. Find the annual interest rate (APR) they are charging.
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Question 1014534: A loan company charges $20 interest for a two-month loan of $325. Find the annual interest rate (APR) they are charging.
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Question 1014532: You deposit $10,000 in an account earning 5% interest, compounded semi-monthly (twice a month). You plan to leave the account untouched for 25 years. How much interest will you earn over the 25 years?
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Question 1014573: Joshua bought a computer at a rent-to-own store. The computer costs 3,000 but Joshua will pay $150 a month for 24months. What is the interest rate per year? A) 4%. B)8%. C)10%. D)12%. E)13%
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Question 1014605: Alan has saved $75 and wants to use it to buy a stereo. The stereo he wants to buy sells for $399. Determine the least amounot Alan must still save.
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Question 1014647: if 3 boys have a total of $200 between them to go to a concert the tickets cost $30 each and each boy plans to buy a t shirt for t dollars. write 2 different expressions to represent the amount of money the 3 boys will have left over
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Question 1014739: At what rate of simplest interest will 1000 accumulate to 1420 in 2.5 years, money double itself in 8 years? 500 accumulate 10 interest in 2 years?

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Question 1014445: You borrow $200. You pay back $12 per week. Write and solve inequality to show when you will owe less than $60.
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Question 1014791: Jack collected 18 ten dollor Bill's well selling tickets for a show he gave 1/6 of bills to the theater and kept the rest how much money did he keep
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Question 1014840: a bank loaned out $12,000, part of it at the rate of 8% per year and the rest at 18% per year. if interest received totaled $1000, how much was loaned at 8%?
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Question 1014859: please help me to solve this equation------------------ How much must be placed in a five-month term deposit earning 4.5% simple interest in order to earn $510 interest? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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