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Question 1058049: Can you please give me examples of Simple Discount word Problems?
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Question 1058073: A shore sells 10 different sizes of shoes, each in both high-cut and low-cut variety, each either rubber or leather, and each with white or black color. How many different kinds of shoes does he sell?
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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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Question 1058006: A man has Php1,000,000 invested at 7.4%. How much can he invest at 5% in order tomake 6.6 percent on his total investment
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Question 1058140: I'm not sure if I'm setting it up correctly I know you use the P(t)=Pob^t
so is it P(3)= 1200(1-0.15)^t ?

a. The computer you want cost $1200 when it first came out on the market but after 3 months the price was reduced by 15%. What was was the price then?
b. If the price falls by another 15% next month, what will the price be then?
c. Did the price fall by the same amount each month? Why or why not

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Question 1058245: a family paid 25,350 as a down payment for a home. if this represents 13% of the price of the home, find the price of the home
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Question 1058431: Craig and four of his friends had a car wash to earn some extra money. They split the profits and
Craig got an extra $18 to repay his parents for the car wash supplies. If Craig got $32, how much
total money did they split among themselves?
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Question 1058533: A service staition storage tank needs refilling as there are only 1500 liters left in tanks. Petrol is pumped into the tank at the rate of 750 litersper minutes
A. How much petrol isin the tank at the start of the third minutes?
B. Write an expression for the amount of petrol in the tank, An , at the start of the nth minutes?
C. The tank hold 15000 liters. How long does it take to fillthe tank?
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Question 1058544: on two investments totaling $6000, kevin lost 3% on one and earned 6% on the other. if his net annual receipts were $288, how much was each investment? answer
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Question 1058399: an investor deposited some money at 1.5% annual interest, and two equal but larger amounts at 2.2% and 2.5%. The total amount invested was $25,000, and the total annual interest earned was $545. How much was invested at each rate?
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Question 1058590: Suppose you invest $1500 in equipment to put logos on coffee mugs. You buy each mug for $2. After you have placed the logo on the mugs, you sell them for $7 each. How many mugs must you sell to break even?
I had the idea to create an equation first but don't know where to start.
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Question 1058608: A cup of coffee is split on a carpet.it makes a stain that is 200cm^2 in atea. The stain contuinues to grow in size. In the first minute, the area of the stain grows by 40cm^2. In successive minutes it grows by 20 percent of the previous minute's growth. What is the final area of the stain?
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Question 1058411: The basic model of a particular car (2WD) with a power sunroof costs $27,485. When equipped with four-wheel drive (4WD) and a sunroof, the vehicle's price rose to $30,105. The cost of the basic model with 4WD was $29,405. Find the basic price, the cost of 4WD, and the cost of a sunroof.
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Question 1058704: What is the fraction halfway between 7/9 and 8/9?

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Question 1058703: Noel caught 3 fish from lake. The lengths of the three fish in inches are 10 1/3, 5 8/9, and 10 1/4. What is the average length of the three fish?

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Question 1058707: A bottle can hold 900 mL of liquid when it is 2/3 full. How many mL of liquid can the bottle hold if it is full?

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Question 1058706: Jerlyn and Mico have a stamp. Jerlyn has 1 2/3 of the number of Mico's stamps. If they have 120 stamps altogether, find the number of stamps that Mico has.

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Question 1058700: Pilar spent 3/8 of her salary and had Php 5,250.00 left. What is her monthly salary?

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Question 1058771: You put $10,000 in a simple interest account at a bank. You will earn $1,800 in just 4 years. What is the annual interest rate for the account?
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Question 1058838: You prepare juice from a 16 oz concentrate. You add the concentrate to 36 oz of water. How many 5 1/3 oz servings can you make?

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Question 1058843: You prepare juice from a 16 oz concentrate. You add the concentrate to 36 oz of water. How many 5 1/3 oz servings can you make? Please answer in division of fraction.

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Question 1058972: on november 20,2014 Georgia O'Keeffes paintings, "Jimson Weed/white flower No.1 sold at sothebys auction in new york city for $44.4 million a record price for any female artist sold. The painting had previously sold for 1 million in 1994 assuming that the value A of the paintings has grown exponentionally
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Question 1058998: If Jeannie invests $7,250 at a rate of 12%, compounded weekly, find the value of the investment after 10 years.
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Question 1059015: how long would it take for an initial investment to quadruple at 6% compounded annually

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Question 1058997: How much should a couple invest at the time their son is born to provide him with $50,000 for his college tuition. If the interest is 3.5% compounded quarterly(Assume he is 18 when he goes to college)
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Question 1059057: Use the draw a diagram strategy to solve.
After spending 36$ on movie tickets, Juanita still has 3/5 of the total amount of money she brought with her. How much does she still have?
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Question 1059216: Graduation is 3 years away and you want to have $850 available for a trip. If your bank is offering a 3-year CD (certificate of deposit) paying 2.8% simple interest, how much do you need to put in this CD to have the money for your trip?
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Question 1059560: 3) Which is the better choice: $1000 deposited for a year at a rate of 5.5% compounded 3) quarterly or at a rate of 5.4% compounded monthly
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Question 1059598: You deposit $5,900 in an account earning 7.5% interest compounded quarterly. How much will you have in the account after 5 years?

Use n=12 for monthly compounding,n=4 for quarterly compounding, n=2 for semiannual compounding, and n=1 for annual compounding.)
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Question 1059613: IS MY ANSWER CORRECT TUTORS ?
You deposit $4000 in an account earning 5% interest compounded monthly. How much will you have in the account in 5 years?
Use n=12 for monthly compounding,n=4 for quarterly compounding,n=2 for semiannual compounding, and n=1 for annual compounding.)

4000 * [1 + (.05 / 12)]^(5 * 12)
=5133.434714
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Question 1059647: How much should be invested today at 6.15% compounded monthly to have $12,000 in 7 years?
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Question 1059525: Stuart deposited $650 into his savings account. He then deposited $45 per month. What is an equation which shows "a", the amount in his savings account after " t" months?
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Question 1060016: A gym decides to discount a 4-session trainer package, normally priced at $232.00, by 60%.
If the cost to provide the service is $175.00, what is the loss, rounded to the nearest penny?
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Question 1060065: A movie theater charges $7 for adults, $5 for school-age children, and $3 for babies. A group of people went to the theater. There were the same number of school-age children as babies and the number of adults was the same as school-age children and babies combined. If the group paid $1562, how many babies were in the group?
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Question 1060102: Two bond funds pay interest at rates that differ by 4%. Money invested for one year in the first fund earns $660 interest. The same amount invested in the other fund earns $880. Find the lower rate of interest.
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Question 1060163: How much must you deposit every six months at 10% compounded semiannually if you want to $310,000 at
the end of 8 years? Do not round in intermediate steps. Then round UP to the nearest dollar. Then find the
interest
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Question 1060291: Kermit has agreed to paint Miss Piggy's house for $640.00. Unfortunately, it took Kermit 20 hours longer to paint the house than he had planned and he earned $1.60 per hour less than he had previously calculated. How much was Kermit's anticipated hourly wage to paint Miss Piggy's house?
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Question 1060308: a man under estimated his experiences by 6.5% but actually spent 400$
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Question 1060225: Tyler has two savings accounts that his grandparents opened for him. One of the accounts pay 7% annual interest, whereas the other pays 9% annual interest. If you have $300 more invested at 9% than you invested at 7%, how much do you have invested in each account if the total amount of interest you earn in a year is $107?

Perform the following additions and/or subtractions:
(5q3−8q2−1)−(−5q3+8q2+1)
Please help me. im so confused with these problems :(
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Question 1060307: The Jurassic Zoo charges $15 for each adult admission and $3 for each child. The total bill for the 75 people from a school trip was $477. How many adults and how many children went to the zoo?
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Question 1060220: A party supply store charges a set-up fee of $80 plus 0.35 per balloon to make a balloon arch. A business has $150 to spend on decorations for their grand opening. How many balloons can they have in the arch?
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Question 1060498: WHAT DOES 9 YEARS AND 3 MONTHS EQUAL??
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Question 1060504: Colin invests �1500 into a savings account. The bank gives 4% compound interest for the first 3 years and 5% thereafter. How much will Colin have after 4 years to the nearest pound?

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