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Question 200704: TAB2 need help on word problem
1.Investing her bonus. Donna invested her $33,000 bonus and received a total of $970 in interest after one year. If part of the money returned 4% and the reminder 2.25% then how much did she invest at each rate?
2.Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824 and twice as many adults tickets as students tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold?
please show work
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Question 200554: 96. Amount of an Investment
The amount of an investment of P dollars for t years at simple interest rate r is given by A = P + prt
a) Rewrite this formula by factoring out the greatest common factor on the right-hand side.
b) Find A if $8300 is invested for 3 years at a simple interest rate of 15%.
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Question 200709: The money that we earn from the tickets is not supposed to to be more that 120% of 484013,92$.
Their are 2000 seats for the concert.These seats are divides in 3 categories:A,B,C.
In the categorie B,there are 600 more seats than in the categorie A.
The nomber of seats in the categorie C is the double of the nomber of seats in the categorie A.
The consert is for 7 days and new poeple come every day.
Each day,a ticket is ready to be sold for each seat.
We see that only 3/5 of the tickets for each categorie will be sold.
The minimum price of a ticket is 20$.
The price of a ticket in the categorie B is 15$ more than the ticket for the categorie C.
The ticket for the categorie B has to be equal to the half of a ticket of the categorie A.
How much money do we earn from the sold tickets?
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Question 200703: TAB2 need help on word problem
1.Investing her bonus. Donna invested her $33,000 bonus and received a total of $970 in interest after one year. If part of the money returned 4% and the reminder 2.25% then how much did she invest at each rate?
2.Tickets for a concert were sold to adults for $3 and to students for $2. If the total receipts were $824 and twice as many adults tickets as students tickets were sold, then how many of each were sold?
please show work
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Question 201205: I need help finding the formula to solve this word problem. The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to find five more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2000. How many members are currently in the club?
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Question 201205: I need help finding the formula to solve this word problem. The members of a flying club plan to share equally the cost of a $200,000 airplane. The members want to find five more people to join the club so that the cost per person will decrease by $2000. How many members are currently in the club?
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Question 201266: Suppose you invest $3000 in an account that pays 5.9% interest compounded continuously; After 7 years the account will be worth?
To the nearest tenth of a year, it will take ______ years for the money in the account to double.
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Question 201467: If Javier has a handful of of coins consisting of dimes,nickles and pennies making a total of 2.63 how much of each coin does he have.. so far what I have is n= nickles p=pennies and d=dimes. The amount of nickles is 1 less than twice of pennies= 2p-1 and the amount of dimes is 3 more the amount of nickles= 2p-1+3d I don't know how to start its..I've tried writing it out like this: .05x(2 (2(.01)x)-1+.10x 2(.01x)-1+3(.10)=2.63
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Question 201569: I need help with this word problem - A bank rober holds upa bank and tells the teller to hand over all her $100 bills and $500 bills. THe teller gave him 8 more $100 bills than $500 bills. If he gets away with $6,200, how many of each bill did the teller give him?
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Question 201585: Use the compound interest models A=P(1+r/n)^nt and A=Pe^rt to answer this question. Suppose you want to invest $5000. What investment yields the greater return over 5 years: 4.5% compound quarterly or 4% compound continuously? How much more, to the nearest dollar, is yielded by the better investment? PLEASE HELP.
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Question 201786: Ali deposites $1750.00 in a registered account on march 1st 1988 at 10% compounded quarterly.Subsequently the interest rate was changed to 12% compounded monthly on september 1st,1990 and to 11% compunded semi-annually on june 1st,1992.What will the value of the deposit be on december 1st,1998,if no further changes in interest rates are changed?
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Question 202002: Brianna had $800 to invest last year She invested some in a garanteed 8% intrest account she put the rest in a riskier account and lost 4% on the investment if by the end of the year she had made $28 as a result of both investments how much did she invest in each account
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Question 202761: I'm having trouble with this problem and I need a little help with it:
Investing $1000 in two investments yielding you a one-year return of $75. If one of the investments was a bond fund with a guranteed 4% rate of return, and you invested an equal amount in both, what was the rate of return in the second investment?
Here are the answers I have to choose from:
11%
10.5%
3.5%
12%
and I'v been trying to solve it with this formula :1000(1+r)=?
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Question 202761: I'm having trouble with this problem and I need a little help with it:
Investing $1000 in two investments yielding you a one-year return of $75. If one of the investments was a bond fund with a guranteed 4% rate of return, and you invested an equal amount in both, what was the rate of return in the second investment?
Here are the answers I have to choose from:
11%
10.5%
3.5%
12%
and I'v been trying to solve it with this formula :1000(1+r)=?
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Question 203103: Debbie plans on investing enough money so that she will have $2000 at the end of two years. How much money wll she have to invest now if her money will grow according to the followning formula: 2000=P(1.025)^4?
When I work this problem I seem to come up with 0=0
2000=P(1.025)^4
1.025^4=1.103812891
I don't understand.
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Question 203151: I need help finding the formula and how to work this problem. The members of a traveling club plan to share equally the cost of $150,000 motor homw. If they can find 10 more people to join and share the cost, then the cost per person will decrease by 1,250. How many members are ther initially in the club? I know c=150,000/x or c=150,000/x+10 I think. Thanks
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Question 203211: Mario collects a commission for bringing in advertisers to his magazine company. He receives 8% on $450 full page ads and 5% for $300 half page ads. If he sells twice as many half page as full page ads and his commission was $5610, how many of each type did he bring in?
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Question 203346: 41,000 people attended a ballgame at a stadium that offers two kinds of seats: general admission and reserved. The day's receipts were $340,000. How many people paid $14.00 for reserved seats, and how many paid $5.00 for general admission?
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Question 203359: Hollis is paying off two student loans. One loan charges 7% interest per year. The other loan charges 9% interest per year. He owes $1500 more on the 7% loan than he does on the other. Last year he paid a total of $617 interest. How much does he owe on each loan?
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Question 203407: Sara just has just rented her first apartment starting December 1 before beginning college in January. The apartment has washer and dryer hook-ups so sara wanted to buy the appliances to avoid trips to the laundomat. The saturday newspaper had an advertisement for a local appliance store offering 90 days same as cash financing sara asked how the financing worked and learned that she could pay for the washer and dryer anytime during the first 90 days for the purchase price plus sales tax,If she waited longer she would have to pay the purchse price, plus sales tax plus 26.8% annual simple interest for the first 90 days plus 2% simple interest per month on the unpaid balance after 90 days, with the minimum payments of 50.00 per month after the 90 day period. Together the washer and dryer cost 699plus the 8.25% sale tax. Sara knew that her tax refund from the IRS would be 1,000 so she bought the washer and dryer confident that she could pay off the balance within the 90 days.
1. If Sara pays off the balance within 90 days how much will she pay?
2. If sara bought the washer and dryer on December 15 using the exact interest, what is her deadline for paying no interest in a non leap year. in a leap year? Is finance company likely to use exact or ordinary interest and why?
3. If sara irs refund does not come until April 1 what is her pay off amount ( Assume ordinary interest and in a non leap year?
4. How much did it cost her to pay off this loan 17 days late ? What annual simple interest rate does this amount to?
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Question 203420: Deon Brown purchases a municiple bond for $2000. The bond earns an annual simple interest rate of 6.4%. How much must Deon invest in an account theat earns 8% annual simple interest so that both investments will earn the same amount of interst in a year?
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Question 203682: Gary invested one-third of his insurance settlement in a CD that yielded 12%. He also invested one-third in Tara's computer business. Tara paid Gary 15% on his investment. IF Gary's total income from these investments was $10,800 for one year, then what was the amount of his insurance settlement
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Question 203682: Gary invested one-third of his insurance settlement in a CD that yielded 12%. He also invested one-third in Tara's computer business. Tara paid Gary 15% on his investment. IF Gary's total income from these investments was $10,800 for one year, then what was the amount of his insurance settlement
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Question 204176: The amount Estella invested in a 6% savings is $3500 less than the amount she invested in a 10% savings account. At the end of the year,she received $75o in simple interest. Find the amount invested in each account?
I think you set the probelm up like this .06(x-3500).10+x=1500?
Can anyone confirm this?
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Question 204208: The profit function for a computer company is given by P(x) = -x^2+ 25x - 24 where x is the number of units produced (in thousands) and the profit is in thousand of dollars.
a) Determine how many (thousands of) units must be produced to yield maximum profit. Determine the maximum profit.
(thousands of) units =?
maximum profit = ? thousand dollars
b) Determine how many units should be produced for a profit of at least 40 thousand.
more than ?(thousands of) units
less than ?(thousands of) units
(the question marks are where I need answers)
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Question 204343: can you help me solve this word problem; 1) A piece of cardboard has a length of 60cm and a width of 40cm. In order to make the cardboard into an open box, a box with no lid), a piece of length x must be cut out of each corner.
-Write an equation to represent each dimension of the box.
-Using the dimensions from part a), find the S.A and Volume of the box. (Remember that it is an open box with no lid.)
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