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Question 807032: determine vern's gross pay if his minimum monthly salary is $2,250, and his commission rate is 6.25% for the $32,000 worth of sales he had this month.
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Question 807020: a man spent $12.00 out of $48.00 he had in his pocket, what percent of his money did he spend?
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Question 807545: Suppose you deposit 181 dollars in a savings
account that pays an annual rate of 5%.
Interest = (Deposit)(rate)(time)
,
where the rate is a decimal and time is in
years.
How much interest would you earn in
10 months?
Answer in units of dollar
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Question 807662: Dave and Becky have $28,000 to invest. They invest part of it at 3.5%, one-fourth of this amount at 5%, and the rest of the money at 6%. The total annual interest income is $1460. Find the amount invested at each rate.
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Question 807659: The first showing of Avatar at the local movie theatre sold a total of 650 tickets. A ticket for th 3D movie costs $11.50 and a ticket for the non-3D movie costs $8.50. The total ticket sales for this showing of Avatar were $6,725. How many of each time of ticket were sold?
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Question 807754: In a city of 37,000 people, there are 14,000 people under 25 years of age. What percent of the population is under 25 years of age? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

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Question 807762: 10=5x-9y
12-2x=3y
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Question 807848: If i sell two cars, one at a gain of 10% and the other at a loss of 10%. What is the net result of my total sales?
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Question 807922: Find the final amount if $750 is invested at 5% interest compounded semiannually for 20 years.
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Question 807937: Max found a pair of jeans on sale for 40 percent off. He used a coupon for an additional 20 percent off. If the original price of the pair of jeans was $68, what is the final price of the pair of jeans before taxes?

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Question 807963: If I make 5 cents a week then it doubles every week thereafter how much money would I make in a year
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Question 808090: How much money will you have to invest at 10% compounded semiannually so that the total investment has a value of $2,100 after one year?
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Question 808095: If you put $4,000 in a savings account that pays interest at the rate of 4%, compounded annually, how much will you have in 5 years? (Hint, use the future value formula.) How much interest will you earn during the 5 years? If you put %4,000 each year into a savings account that pays interest at the rate of 4% a year, how much would you have after 5 years?
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Question 808098: How much money will there be in an account at the end of 5 years if $11000 is deposited at a 3.5% annual rate that is compounded continuously?
The amount after 5 years will be?

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Question 808093: In 2006, the population of a certain city was 18,836. If the relative growth rate has been 6.1% since 1988, what was the population of the city in 1988?
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Question 808049: Taylor put $200 into a CD that pays 6% interest, compounded quarterly. According to the rule of 72, approximately how long will it take for his money to double?
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Question 808146: An investor received $1000 from money invested at 3%.What is the total amount invested?
Please help...
Sarah
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Question 808089: How much money will you have in 10 years if you invest $2000 at a 4.5% annual rate of interest compounded quarterly? How much will you have if it is compounded monthly?
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Question 808211: Find how long it takes for $900 to double if it is invested at 4% interest compounded monthly.
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Question 808481: a dye is injected into the pancreas during a certain medical procedure. a physician injects 0.3 grams of the dye, and a healthy pancreas will secrete 4% of the dye each minute. predict the amount of dye remaining, to the nearest hundredth of a gram, in a healthy pancreas 30 minutes of the injection
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Question 808739: The average yearly salary of Americans whose final degree is a doctorate is 49 thousand less than twice that of an American whose final degree is a bachelors. Combined two people each with one of these educational attainments earn 116 thousand on average. Find the average yearly salary of Americans with each of these final degrees.
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Question 808842: how much money would u get at the end of the 3 days?
i invested $1,000 in Amazon and apple each.
The first day for apple
512.49
second day - apple
520.56
third day - apple
520.56
first day for amazon
343.56
second day - amazon
350.31
third day - amazon
350.31

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Question 808856: The cost for a movie ticket is $7 . The cost is reduced to $5 for groups for 5 or more. How many people must be in a group for them to save a total of $20
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Question 808857: John wants to make 600 weekly....his salary is $250 and a 10% commission. How much must he sale
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Question 808868: A jacket is on sale for 25% off. The original price was $40.00 . What is the sale price? What is the amount of the discount? How will the jacket cost on sale after a 10% sales tax
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Question 808877: What is the monthly payment for $2,000 for 36 months at 14% interest?
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Question 808943: tickets for a play cost $2 for students and $5 for adults. if a total of 500 tickets are sold and the generated revenue is $1300, how many student and adult tickets are sold.
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Question 809064: A man left legacies to his three sons and to a hospital, amounting in all to $1,320.00. If he had left the hospital legacy also to his first son, that son would have received as much as the other two sons together. If he had left it to his second son, he would have received twice as much as the other two sons
together. If he had left the hospital legacy to his third son, he would have received then thrice as much as the first son and second son together. Find the amount of each legacy.
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Question 809063: A man left legacies to his three sons and to a hospital, amounting in all to $1,320.00. If he had left the hospital legacy also to his first son, that son would have received as much as the other two sons together. If he had left it to his second son, he would have received twice as much as the other two sons
together. If he had left the hospital legacy to his third son, he would have received then thrice as much as the first son and second son together. Find the amount of each legacy.
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Question 809203: Heather is paid 3.5% commission on all sales. if she sold $12,000 worth of merchandise last week what is the commission?
Am Having some trouble with these types of questions~
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Question 809276: Terry earns 425 a week for 40 hours and earns 20 an hour for each hour over 40. How many hours did Terry work if he earned 485 in one week
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Question 809278: A testator directed his trustees that ,in arranging his affairs, should set apart such sums for each of his three sons that each might receive the same amount when he came of age (25 years of age). When he died, his estate was worth �150,000, and the ages of his sons were 8, 12, and 17 respectively. Find the sum set apart for each, reckoning 4% compound interest for accumulations.
Can someone please help me by explaining this math problem step by step in thorough detail. I know that when you subtract the age to their current ages you get a certain amount of years before they each receive a certain amount. I am not sure how to fill in the rest. Be advised this is very old English that was told to me. Thank you
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Question 809281: a woman makes $2000 a month and she spends $360 on food. what percent of her monthly income is spent on food ?
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Question 809361: Joe�s salary was increased by 3%. If his previous salary was $58,000, what is his new salary?
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Question 809391: Two technicians where paid a total of $20 for a job. If technician A makes 20 times more than technician B. What will each technician be paid.
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Question 809461: John invested $10,000, part at 5% and the rest at 6.5% interest. How much did he invest at each rate if the total annual interest earned was $530?
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Question 809514: A total of Rs 12000 is invested in two funds paying 9% and 11% simple interest. If the interest for the first year is Rs 1180, How much of the Rs 12000, is invested at 9%?
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Question 809561: at a sale price of the washing machine was reduced by 12% to $440.what was the original price of the washing machine?
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Question 809537: Fifteen carpenters can complete building a house in 45 days . How many extra men will be required if the job is to be completed in 25 days ?
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Question 809564: basit receives 400kg of guavas, for which he pays $0.75 per kg. on average 8% of them will spoil. find the selling price per kg to abtain a 75%profit on cost.
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