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Question 346081: A salesperson's weekly paycheck is 10% less than her coworker's paycheck. The two paychecks total $660. Find the amount of each paycheck. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
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Question 346147: John's paycheck is for $x and y cents. When he cashes it the cashier accidentally gives him $y and x cents. As a result John ( who is not paying attention at all) has lost $95.04. How much was John's original check for. Find all the possible solutions.
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Question 346238: 8. The finance director purchases weight lifting equipment for the guards� exercise room. Shipping is calculated as 8% of the purchase price. If the finance director has $1500 to spend between the purchase price and the cost of shipping, how much can the finance director spend on equipment?
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Question 346352: a farm where you can pick your own strawberries, the cost of picked strawberries is calculated using only the weight of the strwberries. The total weight of a container of strawberries is 2.1 pounds. The cost of the strawberries is $4.68. The weight of the container is 0.3 pound. What is the cost per pound for strawberries?
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Question 346193: Oceanside Discounters marked down a $107 portable CD player to $85.
What is the dollar markdown?
what is the mark down %?
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Question 346516: I would like to how much money did I start out with if I took 1/5th from the total, 1/4th from that, 1/3rd from that and 1/2 from that. I end up with $12.00 remaining. X-1/5-1/4-1/3-1/2=$12.00.
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Question 346293: Part of $17,000 is invested at 9% annual interest, and the rest is invested at 6%. After one year, the accounts paid $1,290 in interest. How much was invested at the lower rate? (Give your answer correct to the nearest cent.)

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Question 346618: Part of $18,000 is invested at 8% annual interest, and the rest is invested at 6%. After one year, the accounts paid $1,220 in interest. How much was invested at the lower rate? (Give your answer correct to the nearest cent.)

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Question 346545: the selling price of a television of a television set is $125 more than twice the cost. Find the cost if the selling price is $325. how do i start?
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Question 346843: Barbara knows that she will need to buy a new car in 2 years. The car will cost $15000 by then. How much should she invest now at 6%, compounded quarterly, so that she will have enough to buy a new car? Round to the nearest cent. Please show equation and work.
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Question 346887: An inheritance of $40,000 is invested in two municipal bonds which pay 6% and 7% simple annual interest. If the annual interest from both bonds is 2,550 dollars how much is invested in each bond?
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Question 347094: Kevin invested part of his $10,000 bonus in a certificate of deposit that paid 6% interest, and the rest in a mutual fund that paid 11% anuual simple interest. If his total yearly interest from both account was #3600, how much was invested at 3%
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Question 347199: Debra invested her savings in two investment funds. The amount she invested in Fund A was 3 times as much as the amount she invested in Fund B. Fund A returned a 4% profit and Fund B returned a 5% profit. How much did she invest in Fund A, if the total profit from the two funds together was 2280?
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Question 347477: A sum of money at simple interest amounted to P7800 in 5 years and to P8840 in 9 years. Find the principal and the rate.
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Question 347647: a pharmacist wishes to prepare 200ml of 8% solution, but has only a 10% solution and a 2% solution to mix together. how much of each solution should she use ?
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Question 347475: A man made a profit of P 290 by selling 8 cows and 14 calves at a gain of 25% of what they cost him. Had he sold 14 cows and 8 calves instead at the same percentage of profit, he would have gained P400. Find the original cost of each cow and each calf?
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Question 348015: Kelly claims, "It is possible for 46 pennies and nickels to have a total value of a dollar." Is she right or wrong? Give a convincing argument to justify your answer.
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Question 348060: I have an item to sell. It costs me $158.14 to break even. The company that I work for will take 35% of my selling price. How much over that price will I have to sell it for to make my 158.14 back and what is the formula for figuring this?
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Question 348292: A telephone company charges a customer $33.50 for the first 100 calls a month and 25 cents per call in excess of 100 calls. If the total bill of a customer for a certain month is $55.25, Find the total number of calls made by the customers?
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Question 348414: 1. A vendor paid $175 for a basket of mangoes. He brought 10% of the mangoes and sold the remainder at $2.50 each for a profit of $5o. How many mangoes did he purchase?

I tried solving but I can't get the representations correct.
I was able to get the no. of mangoes of the remainder but after that I couldn't get the right representations.
I really need your help. Thank you!
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Question 348495: Joe sold his house. After he paid his real estate agent 4.5% interest he was left with $114,600. What was the selling price of his house?
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Question 348154: A house sold for $35,000. This sale represents a loss of 15% off original price. What was the original price of the home? round to the nearest dollar.
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Question 348559: Suppose that on the first part a 225-mile trip you averaged 55 mph. On the last part of the trip, due to traffic congestion, you only average 48 mph. If the total trip took 4 hours and 15 minutes, find the amount of time you spent traveling at each speed.
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Question 348563: A jogger leaves a given point on a fitness trail running at a rate of 4 miles per hour. Ten minutes later a second jogger leaves the same location running at 5 miles per hour. How long will it take the second jogger to overtake the first and how far will they both have traveled at that point?
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Question 348564: The cooling system in a truck contains 4 gallons of coolant that is 30% antifreeze. How much must be drained and replaced with 100% antifreeze to bring the coolant in the system to 50% antifreeze?
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Question 348565: if a sphere's radius is tripled, how many times greater is the new volume?
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Question 348621: A wallet contains $460 in $5, $10, and $20 bills. The number of $5 bills exceeds twice the number of $10 bills by 4, and the number of $20 bills is 6 fewer than the number of $10 bills.
How many $5 bills?
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Question 348558: You purchase a lawn tractor for $3750 and one year later you notice that the cost has increased to $3900. Determine the inflation rate for the tractor.
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Question 348794: $1250 invested iwith compound interest at a rate of 5%per year for 4 years
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Question 349125: James deposited $1,500 in a credit union paying 4% simple interest annually. How many years will the money have to be left on deposit to earn $300 in interest?
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Question 349192: Carlos can be paid in one of two ways. Plan A is a salary of $500 per month, plus a commission of 8% of sales. Plan B is a salary of $653 per month, plus a commission of 5% of sales. For what amount of sales is Carlos better off selecting Plan A?
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Question 349362: An office has some 20 cent stamps and some 28 cent stamps. Altogether the office has 140 stamps for a total value of $31.20. How many of each type of stamp does the office have?
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Question 349127: Sally wants to sell her camera and make a profit of $50. If she spends $7 in advertisements, how much must she sell her camera for to make her goal?
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Question 349991: A company charges $200 for each box of tools on orders of 150 or fewer boxes. If a customer orders x boxes in excess of 150, the cost of each box ordered is reduced by x dollars. If a customer's bill came to $30,625, how many boxes were ordered?
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Question 350115: give in :angle ABC ac=4x,bc=6x-6,ab=5x-8 and angle a= angle b . find the perimeter of angle abc

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Question 350069: A book loaned out $250,000, part of it at the rate of 8% annual mortgage interest and the rest at the rate of 18% annual credit card interest. The interest recieved on both loans totaled $23,000. How much was loaned at each rate?
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Question 350131: How long will it take P dollars to triple itself at 14% simple interest?
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Question 350131: How long will it take P dollars to triple itself at 14% simple interest?
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Question 350066: How many ounces of a 15% alcohol solution must be mixed with 4 ounces of a 20% alcohol solution to make a 17% alcohol solution?
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Question 350065: A book loaned out #250,000, part of it at the rate of 8% annual mortgage interest and the rest at the rate of 18% annual credit card interest. The interest received on both loans totaled $23,000. How much was loaned at each rate?
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Question 350295: A company plans to produce a CD by a popular rapper. The fixed cost is $500,000 and the variable cost is $0.50 per CD. The company sells each CD for $5. Let x represent the number of CD's produced and sold.How many disks must be sold for the company to break even and how many CD's must be sold for the company to make a profit of $750,000?

So far i have 500,000+(.5x) but Im not sure what to do next please help
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Question 350482: You want to buy a condo 5 years from now, and you plan to save $3.000 per year, beginning one year from today . Yoy will deposit the money in an account that pays 6% interest. How much will you have just after you make the 5th deposit, 5 years from now
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Question 350518: Including 6% sales percent tax a car sold for $15370. What is the pretax cost of the car?
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