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Question 1056129: At fundraising event for a local kindergarten school, a total of $400 have been collected in three different types of denominations: $5 s, $10 bills and $20 bills. There were four more $10 bills than $20 bills, and there were twice as many $5 bills as $20 bills. Find the number of $5 bills , the number of $10 bills and the number of $20 bills
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Question 1056090: On the opening night of a play at a local theater, 992 tickets were sold for a total of $11,680. Adult tickets cost $14 each. Children's tickets cost $11 each, and senior citizen tickets cost $8 each. If the combined number of children and adult tickets exceeded twice the number of senior citizen tickets by 287, then how many tickets of each type were sold?

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Question 1056117: Maria paid $82.50 for a pair of boots at the Shoe Emporium's fall clearance sale, where everything was marked 40% off. What was the regular price of the boots?
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Question 1056143: Kayla paid $137.80, including 6% sales tax, for her graphing calculator. What was the price of the calculator?
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Question 1056139: The university just hired you with a beginning salary of $41,500. Each year you will receive a raise in the amount of 1700. How much will you make in 15 years? Use a formula.
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Question 1056309: A man sold a book by mistake at 120% of the marked price instead of discounting the marked price by 20%. If he sold the book for P14.40, what was the price for which he have sold the book?
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Question 1056383: A man sold a book by mistake at 120% of the marked price instead of discounting the marked price by 20%. If he sold the book for P14.40, what was the price for which he should have sold the book?
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Question 1056535: Larry spent half of his money on a camera and 1/8 of his money on the radio. The camera cost $120 more than the radio how much money did he have at first?
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Question 1056699: The profit of a retail store is y=2500+36x-0.2x^2 . Use the derivative if it would be profitable for the daily advertising budget to be increased if the daily advertising budget is
(a) $60
(b) $300
(c) what is the maximum value for x below which it is profitable to increase the advertising?
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Question 1056635: A person invested $5,200, part in bonds bearing 5.9% interest and the remainder in bonds bearing 7.6% interest. Both investments paid the same amount. How much, to the nearest dollar, was invested in each?
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Question 1056818: Joe has money in a savings a ccount.If he adds $50 a month for 6 months,he will have three times the amount he has now,
not counting interest.How much savings(s) does Joe have in his account now?
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Question 1056798: A manufacturer of telephones determines that the profit from producing and selling x telephones is P(x) = -.01x 2 + 6x � 500 dollars. a. How many telephones should be produced to maximize the profit? b. What is the maximum profit? (This is an application of derivatives)
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Question 1056826: David needs $25,000 in 8 years. He currently has $15,000. At what simple interest rate must he invest to get exactly $25.000?
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Question 1056824: The value of your stock investment in a certain company decreased
10% over the last year. If the value of your stock investment is $10,000
today, then what was the value of your stock investment a year ago? Round your answer to the nearest cent, if necessary.

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Question 1056875: Dave sold 40 tickets for a concert. He sold x tickets at $2 each. The rest of the tickets he sold for $3 each. If he collected $88, how much of each type of ticket did he sell?

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Question 1056836: An investor deposited some money at 1.5% annual interest and two equal but larger amounts a time 2.2% and 2.4%. The total amount invested was $25000 and the total annual interest earned was $535. How much was invested at each rate?
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Question 1056966: Jason had saved $60 and plans to save $20 a month, while Jacob had saved $45 and plans to save $40 a month. When will their savings be the same?
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Question 1056801: A manufacturer can sell headphones at a price of 140- .01x dollars each. It costs 40x + 15,000 dollars to produce all of them. How many headphones should be produced to maximize profit? (application of derivative)
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Question 1057008: An investment of Php 100 000 earned a net income of Php 3 450 in one year. Part of the investment was in bonds and earned an income at a rate of 8%. The rest of the investment was in stocks and lost money at a rate of 5%. How much was invested in bonds?

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Question 1057099: Larry had a total of $500 he spent 20% of his money on a book
.how much did the book cost

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Question 1057113: How much should you invest at 2.1% simple interest in order to earn $55 interest in 12 months?
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Question 1057261: Omar and Krystal have a new grandson. How much money should they invest now so that he will have $49,000 for his college education in 18 years? The money is invested at 3.7% compounded monthly.
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Question 1057257: How much should you invest at 4.4% simple interest in order to earn $85 interest in 11 months?
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Question 1057262: A woman invests a total of $20,000 in two accounts, one paying 2.5% and the other paying 9.5% simple interest per year. Her annual interest is $920. How much did she invest at each rate?

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Question 1057279: Some money is invested at 8% and twice as much at 5%. If the annual interest adds up to $720, how much is invested at each rate?
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Question 1057202: The annual interest $11,000.00 investment exceeds the interest earned on a $9000.00 investment by $184.00. The $11,000.00 investment is at a 0.4% higher rate than tha $9000.00 investment. What is the interest rate of each investment?
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Question 1057298: You have $50 in the bank and save $30 every month. How long will it take you to have $960 in the bank.
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Question 1057345: (1)find the limiting value of 7n+5 divided by 2n-3 (2)evaluate 3n^-14n+6 divided by n^+7n+2
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Question 1057372: Jamie bought a suit at macys for $330. The suit was discounted by 1/3 of the orignial price. What is the original price of the suit?
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Question 1057409: A company manufactures headphones for $35. They want to make 24% profit. How much do they need to charge to make their desired profit?
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Question 1057528: If P20,000 invested at interest compounded annually amounts to P21,218 in two years, what is the rate of interest?
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Question 1057621: There is a herd of 45 penguins. 15 penguins decide to migrate to another herd. What is the percent change of penguins?
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Question 1057645: Hello I have sales tax amount 1619.07 the rate is 6% would like to know the price of the item Thank you Tracy Dimon
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Question 1057656: Please solve this word problem for me. An online retailer currently offers a 40% discount on cameras. Write a function relating a camera"s purchase price,y,to the retail price,x. Give the domain of this function.
Thank you.
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Question 1057756: you deposit $12,500 in a simple interest account at 9% interest. You wish to make a graph of the value of the investment as it increases over time.What is the slope and what is the y-intercept of the graph?

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Question 1057820: Carols original investment of $2,000 has gained 25% in value after 2 years. What is the new value of her investments?
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Question 1057869: You own a portfolio that has $4,400 invested in stocks and $5,600 invested in bonds. What is the expected return of the portfolio if stocks and bonds are expected to yield a return of 9% and 5%, respectively? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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Question 1057896: A caterer charges a $45 set-up fee and $5 per person served the number of people served cannot exceed 200 what is a reasonable domain and range for the independent and dependent quantity in this situation?
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Question 1057788: As of 2012, the movies with the highest worldwide box-office sales are Avatar, Titanic, and The Avengers. The total box-office sales for all three movies were $6.5 billion. The box-office sales for Avatar were $0.2 billion less than twice the box-office sales for The Avengers. The box-office sales for the Titanic were $0.6 billion less than the box-office sales for Avatar. Determine the box-office sales for each of these movies.
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Question 1057999: Suppose that $2000 is invested in an account that pays interest compounded continuously. Find the amount of time that it would take for the account to grow to $4000 at 3.75 %.
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Question 1058069: On his Christmas Sale, a merchant marked a pair of slipper P180.00, which is 20% off the normal retail price. If the retail price is 50% higher than the whole sale price, what is the wholesale price of the slipper?
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