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Question 818474: The earnings of two employees are given below:
Employee A: 6% commission on all sales
Employee B: 4% commission on the first $80,000 and 8% on anything over $80,000
How much more does a straight commission employee make than the graduated commission employee for sales of $100,000?

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Question 818463: a company borrows 81000 for 5 years at a simple interest rate of 7.5%. find the interest paid on the loan and the total amount paid.
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Question 818570: l have 2/3 of the total amount it costs to buy a laptop.how much is the laptop if l'm only $250 short?
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Question 818574: Sally made $10 more than Brenda. Brenda doubled what Kristen made. I did this: S=10+B
B=K2
K=K
Please show me how to solve this. Thank u.
We were given English to math problem like this for our next test. :/
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Question 818665: Brandy earns $400 per week plus a commission of 8% on her total sales. last week, she had a total sales of $4,350. how much did brandy earn last week?
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Question 818698: Your 3% raise added $96 to your monthly income. What was your salary before the raise and what is it now?
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Question 818698: Your 3% raise added $96 to your monthly income. What was your salary before the raise and what is it now?
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Question 818698: Your 3% raise added $96 to your monthly income. What was your salary before the raise and what is it now?
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Question 817843: 3000 is invested at 7.5% interested monthly how long does it take to triple round to nearest year
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Question 818781: The simple interest on an investment of $4000 for one year is $140.
What is the interest rate?
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Question 773665: Assume the car can be purchased for 0% down for 60 months (in lieu of rebate).
A car with a sticker price of $42,050 with factory and dealer rebates of $5,100 a) Find the monthly payment if financed for 60 months at 0% APR. (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
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Question 819019: How long will it take $500 to double if it is invested at 8% compounded quarterly? I don't know which equation to use. If I use the standard equation:
$1000=$500 (1 + .08/4) 4
1000=500 (1.0200)
500 (1.0824)= $541.20
would I take $541.20 divided by $1000?
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Question 819271: [ Write the quadratic equation whose roots are 2 and -5 , and whose "a" coefficient in the standard form is 2 ]
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Question 819268: A suit is on sale for $201, which is 33% less than the regular price. What is the regular price?
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Question 819264: in how many years a sum of many will be double at a rate of 12% per annum

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Question 819253: In a show the adult tickets is sold as 1$ for 1 ticket, and child ticket cost for 0.75 cents , total 150 tickets were sold and 140$ were recieved, how many tickets were sold to adult and children? Find each with complete solution
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Question 819279: Last year, Ali had $30,000 to invest. He invested some of it in an account that paid 10% simple interest per year, and he invested the rest in an account that paid 6% simple interest per year. After one year, he received a total of $2920 in interest. How much did he invest in each account?
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Question 819355: Veronica earns an annual salary of $30,572 plus commission. She receives a 5% commission on sales of $3,675. What is her gross annual pay?
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Question 819356: Alan, Fred, and Mark are going to buy a computer that cost $540. If Alan pays $40 more than Fred and Fred pays twice as much as Mark, then how much does Mark pay?
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Question 819395: The sale price of a sweater is 66.30. If that is 22% off the regular price what is the regular price
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Question 819394: Harry invested some money at 7% annual simple interest. He invested 200$ less then that at 5% annual simple interest. In one year the total interest from both accounts was 212$. How much was invested at 5%
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Question 819473: For a school play, Rocco bought 3 adult tickets and 5 child tickets for $40. Sasha bought 1 adult
ticket and 5 child tickets for $25. Find the cost of an adult ticket and the cost of a child ticket.
Then find how much Julia will pay for 5 adult tickets and 3 child tickets
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Question 819475: For a school play,
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Question 819478: Kim and Leon exercise a total of 20 hours each week. Leon exercises 2 hours less than 3 times
the number of hours Kim exercises. How many hours does each exercise?

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Question 819735: Fred has $40,500 invested in property. He lost 50% of it in one year. From this new level, how much does he have to make up in terms of percentage gain in order to get back to where he started?
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Question 819758: When Courtney collected her change she realized that she had five times as many dimes as quarters. Her dimes and quarters totaled $5.25. How many quarters did she have?
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Question 819904: Find the amount of money in account after 6 years if $4500 is deposited at 7% annual interest compounded quarterly.
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Question 819910: 59,981 invested for 3 years at 6% compounded 2peryeat
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Question 819989: An initial investment of $3,000 earns 8% interest compounded continuously. What will the investment be worth in 16 years? (Round your answer to the nearest cent.)
$
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Question 820051: I'm Sorry in advance, These are one of those 3 part problems, you make take my daily question away, thank you if your able to help me (i answered one i think, the others im having trouble with the formula):
A(t)= a(1+r)^t

26.)suppose you deposit $2000 in a savings account that pays interest at an annual rate of 4%. If no money is added or withdrawn from the account, answer the following questions
a)How much will be in the account after 3 years (i got 2249.728)
b)How much will be in the account after 18 years
c)How many years will it take for the account to contain $2500
d)How many years will it take for the account to contain $3000
This counts as my four questions i guess
Thanks in advance :D
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Question 820090: What annual rate of interest would you have to earn on an investment of 37000 dollars to ensure receiving 2590 dollars interest after one year?
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Question 820175: how long does it take for a deposit of $900 to double at 10% compounded continuously
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Question 820252: The UPS delivery man is delivering Christmas presents. The combined weight of the packages is 90 lb. He has 2 fewer 15 lb packages than 5 lb and twice as many 10 lb packages as 5 lb packages. How many of each weight package does he have?
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Question 820298: If 10000 pesos is invested at 10% compounded quarterly , when will the amount of investment be doubled? tripled?
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Question 820452: A store reduced the price of a computer by 20% and sold it for $1360. how much did the computer originally sell for?
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Question 820451: Can you please show me how to figure this out:
Les Hinckle made a deposit in the bank on January 1, 2005. The bank pays interest at the rate of 8% compounded annually. On January 1, 2012, the deposit has accumulated to $ 30,000. How much money did Les originally deposit on January 1, 2005?
(the formula in my book has me confused)
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Question 820457: Your optimal exercise heart rate for cardiovscular benefits is calculated as follows: Subtract your age from 220 and then find 80% of the difference.
a) Find the optimal heart rate for a 54-year-old.
b) Find the optimal heart rate for a 15-year-old.
c) The optimal rate for a 15-year-old is what percent greater than the 54-year-old?
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Question 820648: A plumber charges $50 per visit to a house and $40 per hour. What would be an equation with a variable?
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Question 820699: [ Brayden and Ayaan together have 265 dollars. Brayden has 25 dollars more than three times as much as Ayaan. how much money does each boy have? ]
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Question 820681: Joe invests $6000, part at 5% interest and the rest at 7%. If his annual interest income is $372, how much did he invest at each rate?
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Question 820870: james earns 500$ salary per week and 2% of his sales. how much does he has to sell in order to earn 650$ per week
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Question 820855: P= $2500, r=7%, t= 10, compounded semiannually
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Question 820857: how much money will you have in 2 1/2 years if you deposit $2,000 into a savings account with a simple interest rate of 4%?
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Question 820932: Becky invested $30,000 at 4%, compounded annually for 50 years. (3,1=4K)
A) what will her investment be worth after 50 years?
P= ________
i= _______
n= _________
B) how much interest will have been earned?
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Question 820910: The sales tax rate is 7.4%
a. Find the tax paid for a pair of shoes with a list price of $93.
b. What is the total cost of the pair of shoes?
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