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Question 1039400: you borrow $1400 from a friend and promise to pay back $2000 in two years. What simple interest rate, to the nearest tenth of a percent, will you pay?
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Question 1039400: you borrow $1400 from a friend and promise to pay back $2000 in two years. What simple interest rate, to the nearest tenth of a percent, will you pay?
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Question 1039404: joe was working out his budget and he found he spent one third of the total on food and two fifths on rent. he spent $220 on just food and rent. write an equation and solve it to work out the total amount of how's budget.
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Question 1039410: michael saved 50 php in january. suppose he saved twice the amount he saved the previous month. how much would he save at the end of one year ? Use the geometric series technique
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Question 1039611: A man give equal shares of one-fourth of his property to his daughter and son and the rest to his wife.His wife give one-third of her share to donation,one third of her share equals to 10000.Find the mans total value of his property,and the amount each person gets.
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Question 1039606: Suppose that at age 25 you decide to save for retirement by depositing $50 at the end of each month in an IRA that pays 5.5% compound monthly.
A How much will you have from the IRA when you retire at age 65?
B Find the interest.

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Question 1039606: Suppose that at age 25 you decide to save for retirement by depositing $50 at the end of each month in an IRA that pays 5.5% compound monthly.
A How much will you have from the IRA when you retire at age 65?
B Find the interest.

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Question 1039604: suppose that you earned a bachelor's degree and now you're teaching high school. the school district offers teachers the opportunity to take a year off to earn a masters degree. To achieve this goal, you deposit $2000 at the end of each year into an annuity that pays 7.5% compounded annually.
A.how much will you have saved at the end of 5 years?
b. Find the interest.

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Question 1039298: Bell metal which is a for of bronze is used for casting bells.it is an alloy of copper and tin.to manufacture bell metal requires 17 parts of copper to every 3 parts of tin.
1) express the requirement ratio ?
2) express the amount of tin required as a percentage of the total?

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Question 1039673: If $380 is invested for one year at 12% simple interest how much interest is earned
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Question 1039664: How do you calculate the value of an account
whose interest is compounded continuously? And how to use natural logarithms to
find the time at which the account will have a specified value in the answer.
Section for reference: https://i.imgsafe.org/40343a832c.png

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Question 1039695: How would you find the percent decrease in the value of this car each year? And how do you find the value of a car for any given year when the rate of depreciation is known?
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Question 1039798: You buy a commemorative coin for $20. The value of the coin increases at a rate of 3.5% per year.
How much will the coin be worth in 15 years??
After how many years will the coin have doubled in value??

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Question 1039797: You buy a commemorative coin for $20. The value of the coin increases at a rate of 3.5% per year.
How much will the coin be worth in 15 years?
After how many years will the coin have doubled in value?

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Question 1039797: You buy a commemorative coin for $20. The value of the coin increases at a rate of 3.5% per year.
How much will the coin be worth in 15 years?
After how many years will the coin have doubled in value?

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Question 1039898: 1. What annual interest rate, to the nearest tenth, will produce $5760 if $3500 is left at interest compounded annually for 10yr?
2. Suppose the inflation rate is 4%. Use the formula for continuous compounding to find the number of years, to the nearest tenth, for $1 item to cost $2.

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Question 1040211: If $5400 is invested in an account earning 7% annual interest, compounded continuously, the number of years it takes for the amount to grow to $10,800 is n+=+log2%2F0.07. Find the number of years it takes for $5400 to double in this situation.
What steps do I need to take to solve this?

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Question 1040250: If 90 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $2.25 while tickets for children cost $1.5 and total receipts for the concert was $163.5, how many of each went to the concert?
Ngoc invests a total of $22,000 in two accounts paying 8% and 11% annual interest, respectively. How much was invested in each account if, after one year, the total interest was $1,835.00.
$ was invested at 8% and
$ was invested at 11%.
Jolene invests her savings in two bank accounts, one paying 4 percent and the other paying 10 percent simple interest per year. She puts twice as much in the lower-yielding account because it is less risky. Her annual interest is 7164 dollars. How much did she invest at each rate?
Amount invested at 4 percent interest is $
Amount invested at 10 percent interest is $
If 78 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $3.75 while tickets for children cost $3 and total receipts for the concert was $267, how many of each went to the concert?
adults
children

If 90 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $2.25 while tickets for children cost $1.5 and total receipts for the concert was $163.5, how many of each went to the concert?
adults
children

Alan invests $10700 in two different accounts. The first account paid 10 %, the second account paid 6 % in interest. At the end of the first year he had earned $858 in interest. How much was in each account?
$ at 10 %
$ at 6 %

Scott invests $9100 in two different accounts. The first account paid 12 %, the second account paid 10 % in interest. At the end of the first year he had earned $1028 in interest. How much was in each account?
$ at 12 %
$ at 10 %

Guadalupe invests $1100 in one account and $2500 in an account paying 1 % higher interest. At the end of one year she had earned $277 in interest. At what rates did she invest?
$1100 invested at %
$2500 invested at %


Your help i greatly appreciated.
Thank you

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Question 1040250: If 90 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $2.25 while tickets for children cost $1.5 and total receipts for the concert was $163.5, how many of each went to the concert?
Ngoc invests a total of $22,000 in two accounts paying 8% and 11% annual interest, respectively. How much was invested in each account if, after one year, the total interest was $1,835.00.
$ was invested at 8% and
$ was invested at 11%.
Jolene invests her savings in two bank accounts, one paying 4 percent and the other paying 10 percent simple interest per year. She puts twice as much in the lower-yielding account because it is less risky. Her annual interest is 7164 dollars. How much did she invest at each rate?
Amount invested at 4 percent interest is $
Amount invested at 10 percent interest is $
If 78 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $3.75 while tickets for children cost $3 and total receipts for the concert was $267, how many of each went to the concert?
adults
children

If 90 people attend a concert and tickets for adults cost $2.25 while tickets for children cost $1.5 and total receipts for the concert was $163.5, how many of each went to the concert?
adults
children

Alan invests $10700 in two different accounts. The first account paid 10 %, the second account paid 6 % in interest. At the end of the first year he had earned $858 in interest. How much was in each account?
$ at 10 %
$ at 6 %

Scott invests $9100 in two different accounts. The first account paid 12 %, the second account paid 10 % in interest. At the end of the first year he had earned $1028 in interest. How much was in each account?
$ at 12 %
$ at 10 %

Guadalupe invests $1100 in one account and $2500 in an account paying 1 % higher interest. At the end of one year she had earned $277 in interest. At what rates did she invest?
$1100 invested at %
$2500 invested at %


Your help i greatly appreciated.
Thank you

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Question 1040283: A sum of ₹2460 was borrowed at 5% p.a. compound interest. The loan was paid in 2 equal installments in 2 years. Find the value of each installment.

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Question 1040316: Here's my problem:
Rosalinda invested some of her $15,000 in bonds that made a 6% profit and the rest in bonds that made a 10% profit. If the profit on the 10% bonds was $1,000 more than the profit on the 6% bonds, how much did Rosalinda invest in the 6% bonds?

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Question 1040328: Here's my question:
Anne-Sophie invested some of her $20,000 in bonds that made an 8% profit and the rest in bonds that made a 7% profit. If the profit on the 8% bonds was $700 more than the profit on the 7% bonds, how much did Anne-Sophie invest in the 7% bonds?

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Question 1040364: Using the formula A=Pe to the power of rt - If 14 million people are on disability and it doubles every 15 years, what is the annual rate of growth? Show your work
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Question 1040511: Ralph, a resident of Metropolis, pays Metropolis an annual tax of $60 plus 1.8% of his
annual income. If Ralph paid $1,032 in tax, what was Ralph’s income? Show work.

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Question 1040512: Donut Delights, Inc. has determined that when x donuts are made daily, the profit P, in dollars, is given by
P(x) = –0.002 x2 + 4.1x – 1600
(a) What is the company’s profit if 700 donuts are made daily? answer___
(b) How many donuts should be made daily in order to maximize the company’s profit? Show work

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Question 1040512: Donut Delights, Inc. has determined that when x donuts are made daily, the profit P, in dollars, is given by
P(x) = –0.002 x2 + 4.1x – 1600
(a) What is the company’s profit if 700 donuts are made daily? answer___
(b) How many donuts should be made daily in order to maximize the company’s profit? Show work

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Question 1040593: Two groups of people went into the shop. The first group bought four hotdogs and six juices and paid 71 dollars. The second group bought three hotdogs and seven juices and paid 67 dollars. What were the prices for the hotdogs and juices?
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Question 1040693: Jon just received a job offer that will pay him 16% more than what he makes at his current job. If the salary at the new job is $75,000, what is his current salary?
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Question 1040718: Nico is saving money for his college education. He invests some money at 8​%, and ​$1900 less than that amount at 5%. The investments produced a total of ​$230 interest in 1 yr. How much did he invest at each​ rate?
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Question 1040758: If I have 43000 and I invest part of it on bonds paying 4% interest Annual and some to life inc paying 8% interest annual. And the total interest from this investment after 1year is 2880 how much did I invest in bonds
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Question 1040795: Plan A: $0.25 per domestic text with no plan
Plan B: Any 200 domestic texts for $10 per month with an additional costs of $0.15 per text over 200
For what number of texts do the two plans cost the same per month ?

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Question 1040841: a person saves 8% of his salary every month. if he saves 2880 rupees every month.what is his original salary


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Question 1040841: a person saves 8% of his salary every month. if he saves 2880 rupees every month.what is his original salary


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Question 1040865: What is the sale price of an item that costs $75.00 and is discounted 30%?
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Question 1041133: math problem solve a person invested 20,000 in stocks and bonds. Her investment in bonds is 2,000 more than half her investment in stocks. How much did she invest in stocks? how much did she invest in bonds?
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Question 1041157: An actor invests some money at 9% and $22000 more than four times the amount at 12%. The total annual interest earned from the investment is $44820. How much did he invest at each amount.

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Question 1041100: abram invest 17000 compound quarterly how much will he get after 10 years at 15 p.a interest rate
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Question 1041099: abram invest 15000 compound monthly how much will he get after 10 years at 15 p.a interest rate
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Question 1041246: How much do you make in interest in a year if I have $55,000 in a savings account that pays 2% interest per year
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Question 1041363: Timmy sold 487 fruits this week.This was 76 less than less than last week.How many fruits did she sell last week?

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Question 1041339: Ron Smith has cumulative earnings of 77,800 dollars. This week he grossed 2,000 dollars. Assuming an FICA rate of Social Security 6.2 percent on 113,700 dollars and a Medicare rate of 1.45 percent, what is the amount of Social Security and Medicare taken out of Ron’s earnings this week?
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Question 1041415: Jill wants to save to buy a car. She decides to open a banking account that is offering a simple interest rate of 4.5% annually. How much will Jill have in her account after 5 years if she deposits $7,000 today?

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Question 1041423: Jill wants to save to buy a car. She decides to open a banking account that is offering an interest rate of 4.5% compounded annually. How much will Jill have in her account after 5 years if she deposits $7,000 today?
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Question 1041416: Jill wants to save to buy a car. She decides to open a banking account that is offering an interest rate of 4.5% compounded annually. How much will Jill have in her account after 5 years if she deposits $7,000 today?

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Question 1041437: Last year, Sung opened an investment account with $5600.At the end of the year, the amount in the account had increased by 6.5%. How much is this increase in dollars? How much money was in his account at the end of last year?
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